If some pollster finds that 56% want us to reach out, certainly 0bama will make reaching out noises.

If some pollster finds that 61% are angry at bailouts and bonuses, certainly we should not expect 0bama to come up with something thoughtful to say. Instead he will incite more anger with his rhetoric, and fan the flames of envy.

0bama's speechifying isn't really about Iran or Israel, it is all about 0BAMA, posing as a very nice and righteous and reasonable guy.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, people who really watch and listen are noticing that Mister Nice Guy is really smug and arrogant and brittle. They are noticing that it is Amateur Hour in Washington.

A real leader would address Moslem women and tell them, while forced marriages and clitorectimies have no place in a civilized world, neither do the west's abuse of women and children in the sex trade, that all societies need to have more respect for women.

A true leader would say we shouldn't be pointing fingers because most all of us have been living beyond our means (remember, how he could(n't) afford his Hyde Park mansion?). A real leader would identify and thank the great people in the business world who create wealth, rather than destroying wealth by subtly and not so subtly tearing down business in general, using rhetoric which implies that most business people are greedy crooks.

Probably AIG should have been allowed to go bankrupt along with Lehman.

Now, these bonuses, and the resulting popular anger, are being used by leftoids like Glennn, to prove their case against business, and to fortify their case for a wonderfully benevolent central government full of selfless public servants who will come up with just the right amount of income caps and regulations to usher in a truly fair and egalitarian society.

Fairy tales require both heros and villains. Glenn and his fellow leftoids promote the fairy tale of socialism, so they need to make virtuous heros out of corrupt politicians like Dodd, Frank, and Rangell as they stoke the fires of populist envy. These overweight slobs are bursting out of their size 50 suits, as they puff away and sit in judgement and indulge in dramatic displays of faux outrage. They chair star chamber hearings and bloviate about greed. Each of these clowns has serious credibility issues of his own. Each is an entitled and arrogant politician living high on the hog at the public trough.

If Glennn wants more anger, I wonder if he has considered the backlash which naturally results from this kind of rubbish. Is the voting public as dumb as smug liberalz think they are? Can they not see trough the entrenched phonies in Congress?

Do we really want to make a federal case against undeserved wealth? If we really do, don't we have to look at far more than annual income? Wouldn't we also want to take a very hard look at inherited wealth which trust attorneys are able to shield from the clutches of the tax man? Do we really want to go after the many layers of Kennedy and Rockefeller and Kohl and Sultzberger Trusts which their lawyers have created for them?

And, speaking of lawyers, do we want to put a cap on how much lawyers can make?

Why don't we do that?

So, other than being the self appointed score keeper and referee here, are there any convictions you hold dear, dear?

Otherwise, it seems sophomoric: your always being so fair either is a ruse to mask your real convictions, or perhaps you are 19, not old enough to have any convictions quite yet?

In China, they may over value experience, here we seem to worship youth.

Have you lived long enough and done enough things and engaged enough real people (not simply virtual ciphers) in conversation, discussion and debate to find some real truths, some real conviction?

Are all cultures of equal value? Are all opinions?

Is there a bottom line? Can you separate truth from falsehood? Or, is there no such thing as truth, and no such thing as falsehood? Is everything just relative?

Some of us have come to understand why moral relativism is folly. There is a difference between good and evil. There is too much evil and not enough good in the world.

If everything were simply subject to endless, limitless argument, how could anyone ever act with any degree of conviction?

Much of what you post here seems like endless rhetorical masturbation. Just because you think something, does that make it true? Should it also stand the test of time and experience?

Nobel Laureate Friedrich von Hayek (Economics) wrote a seminal, life changing short book titled "The Road to Serfdom." In it, he warned of a 'fatal conceit.' Do you think you might want to familiarize yourself with his line of reasoning?

Humility is a good thing. Some people have a natural sense of humility. Others learn humility the hard way, when reality beats the crap out of them and they tire of making the same mistakes. Some never learn it at all. They possess a "fatal conceit," which can not only get them beat down and killed long before their time, it can also get the rest of us beat down and killed long before our time as well.