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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Come on, lads, its amazing what you americans will believe. "Change you can believe in" sounded so good, even the far left here in Europe (of wich I am a member) got sucked in. But it was only an advertizing slogan, just like "propably the worlds best vodka", a memetic trick of the light, because it means absolutely nothing. Due to the cheerleading structure of US elections, none of the candidates had to make any binding detailed promises. Take for example Obamas statement that the "US does not torture": All this means is that he will have to step up the rendition flights to Marocco and Egypt and let them do it. Its the same with corruption in the administration and in Iraq: WHo wants to bet me a dollar that no criminal charges will be raised against any Bush official by the incoming admin? Face it: Obama is going to be Clinton 2. Nothing will change, and the people of Gaza are screwed beyond hope.
He is clearly not as insane as GWB, so there is that for the positive side, but this is going to be another 4 years with Clinton style politics and more to the wealthy. And then, when he has lost the "liberal" base he will loose to Sarah Palin in 2012. And then the rapture will commence. Argh, such a shame, for a second there he had the nimbus of Mandela. Turns out he is just another pol.
Madden hates Hillary Clinton and he hates Bill Clinton. End of story. When you start talking about Clintonites (sounds like a rock formation) you're a fanatic in the grip of a fantasy of disaster - and there's no cure for that. Lieberman's a disease and they haven't found a cure for that yet either. If you want disaster go to the White House and check out the current occupant of the oval office. The time to panic was when HE got elected, not Obama. The time to panic was when Cheney loomed in the doorway like decades old dirty laundry or when Condi popped out to Fifth Avenue to buy shoes while people were drowning in their homes after Katrina. Or when Cheney went on 'Meet the Press' and started babbling about going to the 'dark side' with that glassy Strangelove stare. Panicking now, when you actually have a decent human being as your President seems just plain mad to me. What are you afraid of? That he might actually KEEP HIS ELECTION PROMISES? 90% of American voters are in the centre, so I wouldn't lower the lifeboats just yet if Obama chooses to join them there.
@Chaumont
If one is allowed to mention it, in Europe as well the tendency for Presidents such as centre-conservativet Sarkozy in France is to compose a government in picking the best and the brighest also from the opposition party, the socialists.
2 things :
- Sarkozy is far from being a center-conservative. In fact he is one of the few remaining admirers of GW Bush and has said so multiple times. His policies would make GWB look moderate on some points, even if he start from a much more nanny state where many reforms are indeed needed.
Kouchner and the few other left guys in his cabinet are in fact centrists, or non-political. It was a smart move though.
- What is the center is very different on the 2 sides of the pond. Heck, we have 2 political organisations here on the left of the communist party !
But I agree that M. Obama picks seem to be very smart ones.
Nothing matters more than what is ACCOMPLISHED. If Obama is able to achieve (in large measure) what he states he will do by 2011, then he's golden in my book. I have no doubt he wants us out of Iraq and will get us there. I have no doubt he will ram through a huge stimulus plan tied to jobs and energy and infrastructure investment. I am resigned that he will most likely toss the GOP a bone and let the Bush tax cuts die a natural death. So let's balance that out with a need to get revenge on Lieberman and handing the GOP a talking point on taxes. Does it really make sense to arm your enemies? Obama is making smart moves.
They're too busy watching their heads explode.
Are some of you so damned determined to continuously gripe about your pet interests--and I'm especially talking to that raving pothead Silenced and the amazingly overzealous Glenn Greenwald--that you're willing to torpedo this incoming administration before Obama is even sworn in?
To be honest, fixing this economic disaster (thank you, George W. and special thanks to you, Ralph Nader) has got to take top priority over any of our pet interests. Only when this has been done should we be calling for our issues to be addressed.
Perspective, people. Have you heard of it?
If progressives are not panicking, it must be because they are heavily medicated.
Invest in big pHARMa, the next four years will be a boom.
Obama Obummer and the Clinton Camp Too
OK, the stench is rising from the Obama white house and he is not even residing there yet. But no matter because it is the smell of decades past. It is the stench of too many Clinton's. From Rahm Emanuel to Robert Rubin to Hilary to oh so many more. Obama appears to be in the back seat before he has even entered the automobile.
Clinton was no Democrat he was a middle of the road scoundrel who could not keep his pecker in his pants. What the country does not need is more Clintons. Hell, team Clinton is almost as culpable as team Bush when it comes to the dismantling of the regulatory apparatus put in place by the Democrats and FDR in the 1930's.
And who is one of Obummer's main advisers, Robert Rubin, ouch and vomit!
Now if you think we must protest bailing out the auto industry look what these scoundrels Rubin and Weil and team Citi bank were about. Read this article on Citibank/Citigroup and you will get the picture
It does not matter which party: In New York and Washington everywhere there were shiny shoes. There still are. Have you seen any rags on the big news leaders lately?
It is time to get some real new leaders in the Obama operation... not just some recycled clowns from the past. The problems are too great, the abys too deep, the fire too raging.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
