Got the embed figured out, thanks izoneguy.
Chris Christie for President!
I’m not kidding. Did you see the look on the people’s faces? Even those who you KNOW would normally disagree?
This guy has an ability to connect at a visceral level, and speak truths that no one can deny, no matter their political persuasion. I don’t care if he’s fat. He gets the job done, and that’s always been the criteria, hasn’t it? Compare this to last night’s Oval Office speech.
Yes, I’m a fan. I’ve seen the man work.
UPDATE: From Ed Morrisey at Hotair, who has been doing this much longer and better than I (and for filthy lucre – is there a correlation?):
One of the questions that often comes up in analysis is whether the American electorate is really prepared for the kind of tough budget cuts that are necessary to get the country back on the right track of fiscal responsibility. Christie is making New Jersey into a test case. Its electorate tilts towards the Democrats, but they elected Christie handily to reject the Leftward policies that ran the state aground. Christie has publicly and explicitly challenged the public-sector unions, has already enacted significant cuts to the budget and some services, and offers this kind of defense of conservative policies on a regular basis. If New Jersey voters wind up rewarding Christie for his clear-eyed and honest work, it should serve as a lesson that voters really do understand that there is no free lunch, and that they’re prepared to reward fiscal responsibility over pork-barrel politics.
Says it better than I. Could be why I’m a dilettante and he’s a professional, methinks.
Crossposted (With “sentence enhancers!”) at effingconservatives
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Chris Christie for President!
izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 1:55PM EST (link)Here is your embed…..
Great video
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Maybe you can put me some information
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 2:50PM EST (link)But I couldn’t embed that video in the post, and you can in a comment? If you can tell me how to do it, I’ll update and improve.
Thanks for the embed. You are a scholar and gentleman.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
EMBED CODE
izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 3:55PM EST (link)Just copy the embed code from YouTube, paste it in your diary.
Then add
before the EMBED CODE and
after the code.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
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Jeff Weimer (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 3:58PM EST (link)Add what? blanks?
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
Ah, as I was...
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 4:07PM EST (link)Change from “visual” to “HTML” and then paste the embed. Got it.
Post updated. Thank you all for your patience.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
Yes, that is it - just
izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 4:30PM EST (link)be sure to change the size of the video….
For Redstate I use 500px wide and 400 oix tall….
That way the YouTube logo will be in the black space
on widescreen videos.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Roger, roger.
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 6:10PM EST (link)Three yea\rs here and I’m still a noob!
I’ll get it together one of these days.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
wow.
vmo335 (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 4:45PM EST (link)No teleprompter. looking the audience in the eye. confident. i saw a room full of New Jerseyans at the end of that speech. not dems, repubs, and independents. That is the type of leadership this nation needs, desperately.
true
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 5:52PM EST (link)Isn’t THAT amazing?
Can’t we do that for the rest of the country?
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
Counterpoint his townhalls
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 9:09PM EST (link)To last years with Democrat officials over Obamacare.
He simply isn’t afraid.
If they weren’t, maybe things would have turned out different, not that I like it. But it shows they weren’t confident or sure about it enough to speak any sort of truth about it then.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
It's sad that truth and common sense are refreshing
Common_Cents (Diary) Wednesday, June 16th at 9:37PM EST (link)but I’ll take it! Christie rocks. Every Republican and conservative should be taking notes.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
jd crooked
klarissa Friday, June 18th at 1:25AM EST (link)If you compare JD Hayworth to McCain, McCain could not be any more straight. All JD has is a sign on a corner that says consistent, he does not have any history to prove he is consistent in any other area then corruption.
Term limits would create more Christie
jennytheproudconservative (Diary) Friday, June 18th at 2:37AM EST (link)Thanks for the video. We need more politicians like this guy. Term limits would give us more politicians like him because politicians wouldn’t make decisions based on whether they would get re-elected or not, just like Christie.
In addition, politicians would be more likely to come in from the private sector and would therefore vote more favorably for the private sector, rather than voting favorably for government.
They have the most stringent term limits in the US
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, June 19th at 5:34PM EST (link)in California. Your argument doesn’t hold water there.
If I'm still living in NJ...
TheSophist (Diary) Saturday, June 19th at 9:10AM EST (link)in 2012, you can bet dollars to donuts that it will be because of Chris Christie.
But, everybody relax about this whole Christie for President 2012 business.
1. NJ needs him right now.
2. Let Christie prove something beyond some great speeches.
3. Others can lead in 2012. Christie will still be there in 2016 or 2020. He’s a young man still.
-TS
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” – Ronald Reagan
"Let Christie prove something beyond some great speeches."
Flagstaff (Diary) Saturday, June 19th at 5:30PM EST (link)A good and necessary idea. If we can get some new examples of how conservative principles work where liberal ones don’t, more people will be convinced. He needs to stay where he is and finish the job.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
What I like about this
SteveLA (Diary) Saturday, June 19th at 11:40AM EST (link)Governor Christie obviously cares about his state and what sort of state he is going to leave behind for his kids, but there’s so much more to like about what he’s doing.
1) He’s telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth on fiscal matters.
2) He’s not afraid of telling the truth.
3) He’s not running for the next office, or it appears a second term in office by not telling people the cold hard facts of the truth of the fiscal conditions his state is in.
4) He’s talking to the people in his state like adults and not pandering.
5) He’s taking responsibility for his actions and making hard decisions, because that’s what people elected him to do. WHAT A CONCEPT
Dang, I’d vote for this guy for just about any Federal office.
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More than a speech, NJ dems. make concession on Christie budget
katesmith (Diary) Saturday, June 19th at 6:20PM EST (link)June 17, Human Events. “Democrats Surrender to Christie in NJ Budget Battle.” Democrat state assembly publicly conceded Christie’s budget would pass ‘largely intact with democrat support.’