THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

IN SERIOUS SITUATIONS THERE IS NO ROOM FOR GAMES | 2003-04-12

This year Iraqis watched while we went to the United Nations and played that pathetic game with them. They watched while we courted Cameroon's UN vote while letting our diplomacy with Turkey lapse. They watched while our soldiers later ended up floating around outside Istanbul.

South Iraq hated Saddam, but they weren't about to rise up against Saddam when the son of the wimp Bush Senior, who had just spent months being a wimp himself, sent troops in.

This all happened because Colin Powell wanted to appease the liberals. To appease Powell Bush Junior went the UN route while opposition grew.

Colin Powell represents both blacks and liberals, so the Bush Administration had to humor him. Powell keeps demanding that Bush abandon conservative blacks and deal only with liberal black "leaders."

This was the moderate "balancing act" that made us fight in the first Iraqi War and ask the Shiites and Kurds to rebel and then abandon them. Bush Senior appeased the conservatives by fighting, then he appeased the liberals by pulling out, as practically the entire Democratic Party demanded.

I wonder why no blacks trust Bush!

Moderation in our domestic affairs is a disaster. Bush Senior went from 90% approval in 1991 to defeat in the election the very next year. But we survive moderation because we don't have a Saddam in power.

We all know that America will always play this "balancing act" game. That means Saddam's crowd, which does not play games like that, will probably be back. And, unlike conservatives who keep dribbling back into the "balancing act", Saddam's crowd has a memory.

FOR LIBERALS AND THE MEDIA, KENNEDY WAS THE LAST AMERICAN PRESIDENT | 2003-11-22

One thing young people today don't remember is that the successor to Saint John the Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, kept insisting that his native state of Texas was not in the hated South. He said Texas was in the West and had nothing to do with the despised Southern states.

For the media, it was tragic and horrible to go from the young John Kennedy, with his lack of any accent at all -- from the media point of view -- to Lyndon Johnson, with his gross Southern speech.

Kennedy had been born and raised not only on the East Coast, but in Boston itself. Boston is actually north of most of even Canada's population. Kennedy graduated from Harvard. His Cabinet was carefully selected to be from the Northeasterners the media looked upon as The Only True Intellectuals.

For people whose minds are proudly stuck in the 1960s, Johnson was bad, but things got worse. Since Kennedy, every single president has been either 1) a Republican; or 2) a Southerner. Now we have the ultimate nightmare, a Republican president who CLAIMS to be a Southerner!

Every time the Democrats nominate what the hippies and the media would consider a real American for president, a Northern liberal, he gets trounced at the polls: Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis (the guy from Massachusetts in 1988), they all got trounced. Only Carter of Georgia and Clinton of Arkansas were elected by the Democrats.

So no matter how much dirt comes out on St. John the Kennedy, he will be missed until the present media and the Old Hippies all die out.

THE BOOK IS OUT AND I'M SCARED HALF TO DEATH | 2004-02-28

My book can also be ordered at any book store.

"Why Johnny Can't Think" is now ready. I need BUYERS and I need promotion, and need them BAD!

Please contact your local talk show and ask if I can get an interview. I have done dozens of these on the phone.

Yes, Old Bob has stage fright. Humiliation scares me more than death does. I know one man who worked hard writing a good book and sold SEVEN copies!

I know you're busy. This book is dedicated "to the readers of WhitakerOnline.ORG.". The people who like Whitakeronline are busy and productive people who have lives of their own. Most of you are already doing your part in the fight. But I need your help anyway.

To give you an example of how busy the people are who help me, there are two men who started WhitakerOnline and who did the work on this book.

One is Rick Rowland, our webmaster and a highly successful businessman who is on duty 24-7 (I know, I've called him) and has a young family. The other is in security work day and night and is now being sent abroad and can't even afford to have his name mentioned here.

I am proud of our group, but it is times like this that I wish we were like leftists and neoconservatives. They are geniuses at getting grants and full-time jobs that pay them to push their causes full time. Every reader I have has a perfectly good reason for NOT helping me out on this book.

BUSH, JUNIOR, HAS IT WON! | 1999-03-13

No other nonliberal is going to mention this, so I will

The press is saying that Bush, Junior, has it WON! In polls, a matchup between Bush, Jr. and Al Gore has Bush, the Republican moderate, winning hands down.

Back in 1992, right up until the Republican Convention, the media were announcing that polls showed that George Bush, Senior, would beat any Democratic candidate hands down. As soon as the nomination was over, Bush's popularity began to collapse.

In 1996, right up until the Republican Convention, the press was announcing poll after poll that showed that the moderate Robert Dole had it won against Clinton.

So here we go again. Once again, the press tells us that each moderate will have the Democrat beat in all the polls.

Until the Convention.

Come November, the moderate will lose like he always does. Same thing will happen in 2004. The same thing will happen in 2008. Respectable conservatives have no memory at all. That's what makes them respectable.

This will keep happening until even Republicans get tired of losing.