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Obama’s Panama Canal

What infrastructure achievement has the shovel-ready administration managed to achieve?
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Graffiti on a water tower at Alcatraz in a 1975 photo. The National Park Service recently cleaned and restored the graffiti.

Graffiti on a water tower at Alcatraz in a 1975 photo. The National Park Service recently cleaned and restored the graffiti.
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Why not make America just like every decrepit urban center choking on debt while worrying about Global Warming? Why not make it like CNN, a formerly innovative news network, now in third place, but determined to put a good face on it by pretending nothing is wrong? The obvious answer is because it won’t work, but how do you explain that to people who have already failed and who are trying to cover it up? How do you explain it to people who have destroyed the American economy but hope that if they yell loudly enough about all sorts of things, no one will realize it?

So what’s the worst that could happen?  President Piers Morgan?

Originally published at Sultan Knish under the title, “Where’s Our Panama Canal,” February 12, 2013.

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About the Author: Daniel Greenfield is an Israeli born blogger and columnist, and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His work covers American, European and Israeli politics as well as the War on Terror. His writing can be found at http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/. The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of The Jewish Press.


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