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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
It's about the people who voted for him. As someone who voted for Barack Obama, I am offended by David Sirota's article.
Let us look at how Sirota has characterized me and every other person who voted for Obama. I voted for Obama because I was angry at Bush and I am celebrity obsessed. I have blind faith in Barack Obama's decision making ability. I am a part of a grassroots movement that would support a national sales tax if Obama sent me an email telling me to.
I hate to break it to David Sirota, but none of this is true about me. Neither is it true of anyone else that I know who voted for Obama. A lot of us are hoping that our lives and the lives of our neighbors will get better under President Obama and we will let him know if they do not.
There is a strong elitism in the left that is disguised as populism and we ought to be more careful about noticing it and putting an end to it. We can't claim to be for the people and then lecture them like little children. I think that it is a good idea for us not to put all of our faith in Barack Obama, but it's time that "populists" put a little more faith in the American people.
It sounds like his ACTUAL Presidency is going to be quite a letdown for some of you. What? No solar powered Unicorns? No slave free sentient tofu trees? Daaaaaammmmmnnn.
Hillary did NOT support Bush's foreign policy. She spoke out repeatedly against invading Iraq, as did Bill.
Bill did not open up China. That was Nixon. Clinton, sort of, opened up Vietnam with the help of McCain and Kerry.
I agree with you that Mr. Obama is intelligent enough to be president. Like him, I finished near the top of a first tier law school (not quite Harvard, but not bad). Also did well in a challenging undergraduate program. It would be fun, for me, to match up my GPA's to Mr. Obama's in both programs, along with SAT/LSAT scores.
I take it that you are arranging a brain transplant for Sarah Palin. The exchange should work out well. She needs a brain and you are just dying to get inside that body.
you say in a few words what I couldn't say in two long, rambling posts. Hilarious. You have my respect, as ever.
I am sorry to hear that you are ill. I am also sorry to hear about your job problems.
I hope you get well soon and I hope Readerreader gets well before the transplant. These immune system things can be so tricky in such a situation.
Perhaps I shouldn't pick on him but I couldn't resist. I rarely have much sympathy for the lovelorn.
Allow me commence with the most ignored point of American politic, the electrodes. In the recent election, little over sixty percent of eligible voting population voted (a record of sort!) with mccain getting around 46% and obama around 52% of the votes. In relation to total eligible votes, obama received around 31% and mccain around 28%. Well, a whopping 41% of the population of this nation did not vote for either candidate. To insinuate that any president in the recent history is elected by majority is utterly false. Now the question is why this majority did not vote and do they have any power to wield? Time will tell but from where I am standing the great majority will be heard soon enough thanks to current financial debacles and eventual fall of capitalism. It has been irrelevant for the past four decade or so who is in the white house, the occupants have all been selected, promoted, and installed by the same group that brought us the federal reserve. Now these so call pundits will be more believable if they start telling the public the true essence of washington dealings and inform us of the true powers that rule obama and likes. Stop the shenanigan and pretended concern over the appointments made by the puppets of the big money when you know good and well that they are doing the biddings of their masters.
You two are pretty tough. Evidently, you didn't get my jokes about Mr. Obama's academic record. As for Gov. Palin, any catechism student could tell you there are different kinds of "love" in the original Greek, including the non-modern connotation. I think you can admire someone who happens to make a nice appearance without violating the principle of young Don Corleone in Godfather II.
I'll let you get back to high fiving each other rather than exert energy on more detailed responses. :) Have a good week.
President Elect Obama was certainly honest about one thing -- he said that he seemed to provide a Roscharch blot for those who wanted to see whatever they wanted to see in him. Then he proceeded to shift left and right and all around so that he could indeed be all things to all people.
Unfortunately, at some point reality intrudes and actual decisions have to be made and someone or other is going to be unhappy. We'll see if the President Elect has the leadership skills required to overcome all of the potential disillusionment that lurks on the horizon. But be forewarned, most Gods have revealed their feet to be of clay and Michelle did tell us that hubby's were in fact, a bit smelly.
I just finished a New York Times piece on Larry Summers who will be one of Obama's chief financial advisers. Even if liberals can live with someone who argues for the redistribution of wealth , as Mr. Summers does, the American people cannot.
In the article the reader is redirected to the paper's website to read how Summers was pushed out of Harvard due to sexism. Women and science controversy. The article is dated Nov 26. The section on Inequality between the middle class and wealthy is astonishing and actually terrifying. Advocating that people who earn over 1.6 million dollars give 800,000 away in 10,000 dollar increments to those of us who earn less than 120,000 thousand dollars a year is beyond centrist, it is positively left wing Socialism.
He argues that the middle class has made the least amount of gains in the last decade. I disagree. In fact I believe one of the largest voting blocks beyond the 18-25 year old was the over 100, 000 a year earners, voted for Obama. It has substantially increased over the last decade.
Where are the feminist now with this newest appointment of Larry Summers?
Couldn't we have funded a health care program twice over with what we are throwing at these combined bail outs...?
I am not a mathematician but a lot of this does not make any sense financially. Are there any Democrats who are willing to say no to Obama or Pelosi to these trillions of dollars that we are printing to throw at Citi Bank, etc. Where will they ever get the money for health care?
No I can't trust this Administration so far, I hope we can recover as a country eventually.
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"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
