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Obama hopes to bring the dead to life. All of the old American cities from the industrial period left barren and empty, but surrounded by prosperous rings. They were never really cities. Most of them â€" long dead â€" were ad hoc industrial zones. He wants to kill the prosperous rings that have grown around them in the past 30 years and awaken the dead centers. His plan to rebuild 150,000 miles of roads, “enough to circle the world six times,” is the Keynes/Marx hybrid on steroids. It is preposterous. Rhetoric as tall and empty as those absurd, towering statues of Kim Jong-il. The strategy today is that if the approach failed in the first two years, pitch it again, only louder. This president has no experience whatsoever outside the hallowed halls of academia and on the basketball court. He has no judgment whatsoever and has left America today dangerously vulnerable. And Sarah Palin could probably challenge him on the basketball court, one on one.

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