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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Obama tapped Rahm. How'd that work out? We don't know.
Obama might (gasp!) offer Hillary a position worthy of a top-notch individual. How might that work out? We don't know.
Obama didn't demand-from-above that Joe Schmo must go. How'd that work out? We don't know.
Juliebird had a fine post earlier (IMO) about the Senate seats about to be vacated. Time and energy put toward advocating good people being appointed to those seats seem better spent than baiting and feeding trolls here.
Opting out of voting altogether, never ever again, or denouncing a party affiliation forever and ever, well, it seems a bit extreme to me. Who's giving Joe all the power in that scenario?
Yes, I understand the past repeats itself. Yes, I understand paying attention to the tide AND doing something about it. I don't only WANT to hear/read different opinions than mine; I NEED to hear/read that! Political discussions, arguments, whatnot, are like disco-balls...multi-faceted.
I'm simply not ready to judge or dismiss or "be disappointed by" (whine) the next administration after two weeks and cast Obama into the dungeon. And I need to add: this will be the ONLY time I will type "OS" in terms of Obama. He's not that to me, and I suspect I'm not alone.
GG is a journalist who informs me and from whom I have learned much, I'd say particularly about FISA. And how'd that work out in the new administration (not yet in place)? We don't know.
So, IF the Obama administration turns out, after the next four or even eight years, to be basically business as usual,
I was very much in agreement with your post, except for one quibble. Do you really think we can go on for the next four years in the same pattern? I don't think we can. Can we go on fighting the War on Iraq and the War on Afghanistan? Can we go on with the present economic mess? Oh I'm sure a few people would like to go on as we are. For a small number of people, things are working out.
But I'm pretty sure we are at a point where much change will occur, whether we like it or not.
Apart from that, yes, the tension is almost unbearable. I find myself going back and forth between "Give the man some time, he hasn't even been sworn in", and "we've been really, really shafted", and then back to "Jeez, he must know what he's doing, did he really work that hard and subject himself to the danger, just to fail at resolving anything?".
I mean, unlike Bush or McCain, Obama could get a high-paying job in many fields. He doesn't have to do this... And round and round we go. This is a time of pure "shmendricity".
I concur. In fact, the time to recognize the Dems for what they are has already been "now" for many, many years. My question was in fact for others (Dem apologists) and not for me, since I've been Green for years.
and it captured you 100%..
I am going to enjoy observing white liberals/progressives not be able to handle a Black man of Obama's depth and iconic status ... They have no idea about the true being of the nature of a person like Obama as such it troubles them and as a result we get these petty attacks by the chatter class icons who have zero clout outside of their chat forums...
Glenn is no match on any level with Obama..He should deal with that truth ..I am sure it will make him sleep better at nite..
Oh yeah...lol,lol,lol
~IMO.
blood clot in a spleen, slouched at a keyboard,
scathing mad dog, foul mouth, half-some-other-kind,
of hound-pole-cat, half-skunk, but seems a 30 lb. weasel.
floppy, half-chewed, lice-ridden, beagle-ears, mushroom like,
protruding gonads, dragging low-scabby, red shiny, mass-gang-green,
goo-nose dripping. A tough rubber popped with holes, the nasty is ta ta. ugh.
Perforations cover the jackal. O, plays to pretend he/she is gutsy, growl doggie,
all bodily holes have seepage, knees shaking, very fragile, ruptured heart, liver, puffed bloated.
Mesentery. Miserable. I'd no touch, too mangy, rotten internals, no belly muscle wall. Terminal.
Internal viscera decaying, and don't let the sickness spread. Ignore. Give pentobarbital. Stupor.
Whatever will happen when the Greens win an election? It'll kill 'em, won't it! Being Green is actually, quite easy. Since they will never compromise their positions, they will never get elected, and since they never get elected, they will never be compromised. Perfect! And since the Greens are an real political party, you can't accuse a Greenie of non-involvement.
It's like the "Producers" of politics. As long as they never succeed, they will be successful!
So what happens when the Greens win a couple of Senate or House seats? That'll screw them up entirely.
Now of course, if the Greens win an overwhelming electoral victory, based on their uncompromising positions, they will enact their agenda, uncompromisingly. And that'll happen.
Isn't that always how political parties gain a leading role in American politics? First, they take uncompromising positions based on their principles, and refuse to dilute them. And then all of a sudden, they win the Presidency and a majority of seats in both houses, so there is no need to compromise. Isn't that how it always happens?
Got to admit, being Green is easier than Kermit makes it out.
For God's sake, GC, if your health is getting worse again, take care of yourself. I, and I'm sure lots of others here, fervently hoped your trip to DC would be the end of serious health troubles for you for a while. If that is not so, I'm very sad to hear it, and I hope you can do something about it.
Very troubling to hear you talk that way. I hope it's all allegorical or metaphorical, but if it's not, please take care of yourself.
I agree with your quibble, but my circling mind possesses perhaps more nuttiness than does yours. Among my nuttier thoughts are concerns about the very veracity of our elections, whether our votes really count at all, and the possibility that the entire play of politics is merely a public theater front for a process of back room corporate selections, a secret financial fascism in democratic drag.
I leave my MOST nutty thoughts for my fiction writing.
Part of what keeps me sane is the placing of these various speculations onto a spectrum ranging from hard fact to lunacy, but it's a system that's as flawed as my mind. So, the much greater part of what keeps me sane is matters of the heart and my fascination with the unknown which eternity and infinity supplies.
Kooky, eh?
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
