Eugene Tobinson is a joke. Slobbering love affair indeed...

Is Eugene an idiot or is he just a propaganda mouthpiece?

Obama gives away $787 billion to special interest groups that have created almost no jobs and he, "Saved the Economy"? How dense do you have to be? How about 7,870,000 loans of $100K at 4% interest to small businesses for every three jobs you create? That would be more than 20 million jobs and the money would be paid back instead of wasted.

How about regulating CDS's on Wall Street rather than making Goldman and JP Morgan the dominant investment banks? Who wants to bet that Obama isn't worth $100 million dollars within ten years of leaving office? The guy is stealing our country blind and stupid liberals are still quivering everytime he talks.

This sounds like a nomination for another Nobel Prize - all these things he hasn't accomplished, but would really, really like to do.

Eugene Robinson left out of few things you should know about Obama's "Record We Can Believe In" 1. Obama promised gay men and women to end don't ask don't tell? He's betrayed them...he is still our Discriminator in Chief sending "The Gays" to the back of the bus! 2. Obama promised to end corrupt earmarks? He signed 9000 into law! 3. Obama promised to post bills on the internet for all to read before they were passed? Obama rushes everything through so nobody has time to read anything! 4. Obama promised to end special treatment for special interests? Obama passed the corrupt stimulous bill, which contained AIG Bonus Guarantees, and has filled the pockets of all the Democratic special interests that ever existed! 5. Obama promised if we passed the corrupt stimulous bill UNEMPLOYMENT would stay under 8%? UNEMPLOYMENT is 9.8% and still going up! 6. Obama promised to look forward not back? Obama is persecuting the heroes that kept us safe after 9/11 And when Obama isn't breaking promises and running the country in the Chicago Way he and the Democrats are attacking anybody who dissents, anybody who challenges the Government with being UNAMERICAN, EVIL MONGERS, POLITICAL TERRORISTS, AND of course, RACISTS! And I still don't know if Obama would really give that 100 year old Grandmother a pain pill instead of a lifesaving pacemaker, but that's what he seems to have said, and now he wants all of us on Obamacare whether we like it or not! Yep Obama bringing Change alright. Its the only promise he's kept...but its a doozy!!!!

Eugene. You have to admit you HOMER piece is, as is becoming evident of your Messiah, unrealistic and unsustainable. His candidacy for President was much more impressive than his actions, hence why the average American won't trust him going forward. I think your own personal dissatisfaction with Republican obstructionism is actually what the Obama administration actively promotes--how else can you explain the "playbook" of David Axelrod, Rham Emanuel, et al who push their Chicago Party Machine politics. Wake up and be an objective REPORTER, not just another mouthpiece of this administration.

Mr. Robinson:

You are delusional.

Aside from celebrating the joke of a Nobel Prize for a president who has done nothing to earn it, you are apparently incapable of recognizing that this president is the most divisive and partisan chief executive in the past half century -- which is a fact quite evident to this 60 year old American. This president acts every day as if he represents only those who agree 100% with his radical agenda, and he demonizes all who have the gall to differ with -- and criticize -- that agenda. He is oblifious to the fact that his "favorability" polls are in stark contrast to the plummeting polls for his performance and his goals. Yet, you join the president in laying blame elsewhere than were it truly belongs -- on him; thus, you make this utterly ignorant claim:

"One thing the new administration clearly did not anticipate was that Republicans in Congress would be so consistently and unanimously obstructionist . . . ."

You might reflect on the fact that the president is not the only person who "won" an election and sits in the District of Columbia to represent Americans. Every one of th ose Republicans in Congress also speak for the people who elected them to office.

When you and the president blame those Republicans for standing up for what they and their constituents believe to be best, you (and the president) demonstrate "exceptional" arrogance by blaming a very large segment of the population in America for having views differing greatly from those of the president. A very large portion of the popultation, at least half and probably more, simple do not agree with the president's performance, the president's agenda, or the president's "style" of attack, demean, and dismiss. He has such a wonderful time repeating over and over that line of his -- "I don't want to hear anything from the folks that made the mess that I'm having to clean up, so shut up or grab a mop" -- that he simply doesn't hear how he sounds to great numbers of Americans. He sounds arrogant and divisive, and that's exactly what he is.

As bad as the president is at being the president of even a substantial number of Americans, at least he is so obviously terrible that his true character and lack of leadership will render him less and less popular. His time in office will result in less damage as people speak out more and more to criticize him and his policies.

You should settle back, take a deep breath, try to detach your mind from your obvious biases favoring this president regardless of the truth, and then try to write an article that lets that truth show through.

Maybe coming from you, a strong supporter, the truth might one day help this president to reflect upon how divisive and non-presidential his words and actions have been -- and then, just maybe, he might become a president who actually earns and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Oh Please...as a Democrat, I am sick of hearing how O saved us from a Great Depression.

Truth would be nice.

In December 2008, the stock market had stabilized at 10,000 points. All economists predicted the end of the recession in April. Then Obama and Emmanuel took a calculated risk. Figured they could repay their supporters through a stimulus bill. Unfortunately, with all the doom and gloom rhetoric coming from the White House, it tanked the market and prolonged the recession.

Passage of Health Care and Cap and Trade will just sink even more businesses. Even the Cap and Trade bill provides unemployment insurance for the estimated 2.5 million job losses.

By the way, Obama was NOT elected to "change the world" he was elected President of the United States.

Eugene,Let's look at the real record

1. World hated Bush and the would love us with Obama " not happening" Iran, Pakistan China, Russia and N Korea more of a threat than ever. Or haven't you been reading the news lately?
2. If we don't enact his emmergency stimulus ,unemployment could reach 8% Well it's at 10% and climbing. It seems that all the jobs created were in the public sector whic means we go deeper in debt. Saved jobs , yes he saved GM and Chrysler jobs, He federlized them. Another noose around working peoples necks
3. bi partisanship " not happening" didn't even allow simple plans offered by the opposition to become part of major bills, such as health insurance portabilit or tort reform.
4. Has become inept in making a decision on the war in Afghanistan, the war he said was the right war and the war of neccisity. He was handed a stable Iraq so he could withdraw the troops. But that was handled before he was president thankfully.
5. On the torture issue that practice was ended long before he took office. If you want to go back to right after 9/11 yes some things were done that were questionable, but under the circustance and givin the practice was ended before Obama took office it is absurd to even bring it up
6. Have you ever seen a cabinet so full of tax cheats and radicals . Where's the intellegent person of change we thought we were voting for
7.I don't want to blame Obama for all our problems, but I sure as hell don't wan't to give him credit for something he hasn't done either. The reality is that he has done little to improve our situation, and there is evidence that he has done great harm. We all need this president to succeed. We are in tough times. He needs to man up, quit playing golf and going to broadway plays until this country is in better shape. He wanted this job. Now do it

Mr. Robinson,

I urge you to summon whatever objective neuron is left in your sick liberal mind to start an electrical impulse.

It is the sign of a real man to admit a mistake, now and then. Or do you not have the courage to ignore your race and simply look at our founding documents, our magnificent history, and then look at Obama?

I disagree. The vast majority of Americans voted for Obama because a) he wasn't George Bush and b) his campaign rhetoric sounded good to liberalsl moderates and Independents alike. Now that he is in office and his agenda has begun to emerge from the rhetoric of the campaign trail, many moderates and independents find they don't agree with his agenda:

Big government involvment in health care
Cap and Trade
Card Check - making it easy for Unions to organize

The problem is not that we want this "super hero" to get reform completed faster, we simply do not want his version of reform at all.

Eugene, I have been reading your articles for some time now and pushing that "send" button has got to be getting harder and harder. With all aspects of a functioning WH looking worse than anything since the end of the Carter term that voice in your head must be saying:

"So, Eugene, where is your Messiah now?"

It's so hard to take anything written like this seriously! Does Mr. Robinson actually believe what he is writing? When will Obama and his administration be held accountable for what they actually DO vs. what they try/hope/propose to do? The American people want action and not all this hopey/changey gooey stuff! I find it interesting that Repubs are "obstructionists". They are in the minority, they have NO power, and yet, funny thing, Dems still cannot get anything pushed through congress! Isn't it the JOB of the opposing party to keep the other in check? Since when is that being obstructionists?
Pull up your big girl panties, Mr. Robinson; the Dems have all the power and none of what's inside of their panties!!

Eugene, I'll give you this.....You are consistent...Wrong as heck, but can always counted on to sing your messiah's praise. Question for you.. can you ever imagine the messiah doing ANYTHING wrong? I thought not.

Mr. Robinson is being the ever dutiful liberal.

The gentleman just can't get over the fact that his man Obama is fundamentally incompetent due to inexperience and being ideologically flawed. It is no accident that Obama's poll ratings have fallen drastically, and that his Party is beginning to disintegrate. Some of his "achievements and change" to date represent nothing more than the commencing decline of prosperity and influence of the United States of America.

For example...

• He has betrayed allies in Europe.
  
• He lied to Americans by supporting earmarks in the stimulus package.
  
• He has advanced policies that will eliminate the American middle class.
  
• He has divided America along Class and Economic lines.
  
• He is pursuing fiscal policies that if continued will bankrupt America.
  
• He has appointed powerful "Czars" that represent radical leftist and often communist ideologies.
  

And Obama has only been in office for 10 months... he is fond of telling us, "that he is just getting started".

Let us hope that he is just as wrong in this statement as he is in his policies.

I must agree in part to something Eugene Robinson said.
The president has indeed brought us to the brink much faster than anyone could have imagined one year ago.

:-o

No one is still buying the "Change We Can Believe In" t-shirts at the NBC gift shop.
Well almost no one.

:-)

You're an embarrassment to journalism.

You're supposed to be objective, and if you can't be (which you've already shown), then your byline should read

Eugene Robinson, In the tank for Obama

About the only thing Obama has done right is to wake up Americans how much they will lose if they choose to hand over their individual freedom for a mess of collectivist porridge.

Gee, Eugene...

All of that, plus ACORN ChicagoLand Pay to Play Corruption / Soros, Marxists, Maoists in the White House and Reckless 10+ Trillion Obamanomics 10% Unemployment and warnings of Collapse of the US Dollar...

- Vote the 5% Radical Leftists ** Out **.... starting Today !!!!

"Most economists believe the stimulus was absolutely necessary?" most, of course, is a very broad and over-used term from the left...I would agree that many economists believed a stimulus, in some form was necessary but many also disagree vehemently on the manner in which the funds have been spent...more could have been done with less if the "pork" would have been cut as promised.

He bailed out American auto companies and strapped the taxpayers with underperforming albatrosses that have seen their best days in the rearview mirror. Ford seems to be doing quite well without taxpayer assistance.

GDP has indeed grown modestly but the % of debt to GDP has grown, in his first nine months, at an alarming rate...rapid inflation is the 500lb gorilla in the corner of the room Eugene...can't blame that one on Bush.

On national security, where do we start and end? we have Kim Jong testing nuclear missiles, Ahmadinejad is flexing his nuclear muscles, we turn our backs on NATO allies to align with the Kremlin and slap Israel in the face while nuzzling up next to the Palestinians.

Obama knew the proper direction on Afghanistan during the campaign but as usual he is now sitting on the sidelines, as troop casualties increase and is attempting to vote present as he has done so many times during his brief, undistinguished senate career.

Health care reform? How about giving social security, medicare and medicaid a shot before we dip our toes in the vast depth of yet another "underestimated" government spending program.

Quite a record in is first 287 days indeed Eugenius. I only assume that you schmucks would have been stroking the feathers of Marx, Castro and Chavez as well since Obama seems to have been cast from the same mold. Losers all and God bless America.

mmm mmm mmm

- Tingle, Tingle, Tingle !!!!

MadDon_13 Wrote:
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> Obama is not a Messiah, that's baloney of course,
> but I agree with Mr. Robinson that he has the
> potential to be a successful president. The
> reasons for that were stated by Mr. Robinson.

At some point, potential has to become action. But of course, we (not me) elected someone who had NO real record so that only leaves hope and potential.

>
> As soon as the Democrats realize (and I think that
> time is now) that Republican obstructionism can
> only affect the minds of people (which it
> currently is doing), but that they don't have real
> power to stop anything the Democratic bandwagon
> will start to move big time.

Actually, it seems to me the Democratic bandwagon is being slowed more by the more adult members of their own party, who recognize the sink hole their "leaders" are pushing them toward.

>
> Americans are reluctant to change things, they
> always fear a change will be for the worse. But as
> soon as they see that these changes are for the
> better Obama's popularity will rise again. You
> will see, the health care bill will be a huge
> success.

A huge success for whom? A growing number of Americans are becoming convinced that the kind of changes being pushed will definitely be for the worse - that is, except for the chosen groups that the statists will choose.

>
> Because of the enormous amount of things to fix,
> some of the things Obama has already achieved are
> not being recognized sufficiently. There is the
> dramatic turnaround in the way which the U.S. is
> seen internationally (way, way better).

So Obama has gone here and there, telling our "betters" in other countries how wonderful they are and how terrible the bad Americans have been, and how have they repaid us? Also, there are several countries who probably feel pretty abandoned (eastern Europe, Israel, etc).

>And that
> Mr. Ahmadinejad, who came to and consolidated his
> power as an antagonist to a "tough" Bush
> administration got his first kick in the a$$ (by
> his own people) under a supposedly "weak" Obama
> administration is no coincidence.

And our glorious leader couldn't make up his mind for some time how to respond as the demonstrators were beaten and killed.

I must say, Eugene never fails to consistently confuse his wish list and reality.

I see that the Tribune newspapers are going to try and publish news for a week without resorting to AP. Given their performance I suppose that spending money with a fact gathering organization would get in the way of the apparent function of the MSM as a sycophantic cypher of dim aspiration.

In addition newspapers get thinner and thinner as advertisers withdraw their advertising. Even this morning Warren Buffet who just bid to buy the outstanding shares of a 150 years old company [Burlington Northern] said the newspapers were a terrible business.

Finally there is ongoing talk about a Federal bailout of the newspaper business.

Putting these thoughts together, it seems that Eugene's future is assured. But at the same time the newspaper business will become owned by the Federal government, to save costs will eschewed the inconvenience of factual news and will simply publish ad nauseum the product of diminutive writers like Eugene.

I wonder if this will be counted as a job saved.

The funniest thing about Obama's supporters is the length they go to defend him as successful. He is exactly what everybody thought he was before the press made him into a saviour. He is an typical of the "progressive" left. He knows everything, but has done nothing.

Dossevi Trenou Wrote:
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> Dear Mr. Robinson
> Thanks for a very thoughtful article providing a
> very thorough assessment of the Obama presidency
> at this critical juncture for our country.
> Enlightened minds will indeed prevail and when we
> look back a few years from now, we will realize
> how farsighted the President was and how momentous
> the changes he is bringing were.
> Thanks for reminding us of what has been
> accomplished and of why, as a country, we should
> keep the faith.

I can't tell if Dossevie is serious or not...If he is serious, may I adopt it for a comedy routine?

Eugene is this years Tickle Me Elmo . Get one while supplies last..

"One of President Barack Obama’s top funders, Code Pink’s Jodie Evans, is encouraging the kidnapping of former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura, according to new statements issued this week by Jodie Evans and Code Pink." [biggovernment.com]

I wonder whether the list of homegrown terrorists will be augmented with a few more names.

Joe Wilson was vilified and censured for being correct. But Rangel, Grayson, et al remain part of the dim team. It seems there is something moderately unbalanced in all of this.

Have a Nice Day Wrote:
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> Robinson calls it exactly right – Congress moves
> like cold molasses – no administration gets a
> magic wand they can wave and command “CHANGE!” to
> the way Congress works. Given the state of the
> union handed off by the previous admin, (two
> sinking sand wars, systemic bank and corporate
> failures, a barely breathing economy), you have to
> give credit where credit is due. Be as pessimistic
> as you like, but whether you acknowledge it or
> not, slowly but surely this administration is
> making progress:
>
> Stem cell order reversed.
> National science foundation funding boosted.
> SCHIP passed and signed into law
> Ledbetter bill passed and signed into law.
> Major green energy initiatives underway.
> Largest ever electric grid infrastructure
> investment (3.4 made (jobs!)
> EPA rules revised to address climate change.
> Climate change legislation underway
> Executive order signed to protect large areas from
> drilling.
> Car emission standards revised.
> Stimulus bill passed, helping revive the economy.
> Financial system reform plan implemented.
> Gitmo closing ordered.
> Torture banned.
> Iraq troop withdrawal ordered.
> Afghanistan approach revised.
> Negotiations with Syria in progress.
> Negotiations with Iran in progress.
> Disarmament talks with Russia re-started.
> Weapons systems acquisitions reform signed into
> law
> Travel restrictions lifted and normalization of
> relations with Cuba on the table.
> Credit card reform act signed into law (no more
> fees, fees, fees and secret rate hikes)
> Healthcare legislation, America’s Affordable
> Health Choices Act, near completion
> Greater funding for veterans health care
> Hate crimes bill signed into law.
> Limits/bans put in place to reduce special
> interest (lobbyists) influence
>
> And yes, there’s more, but you’re going to have
> to read to keep up with it – don’t wait for Faux
> News or any other media for that matter – to tell
> you about it. See Thomas.gov.

A great post!
You add to the things that Mr. Robinson already mentioned. This administration really is making progress. A presidential term (or two like in this case) is like a marathon run. The results will be seen at the end. It just doesn't happen over night. I wouldn't be surprised if, at the end of his presidency, Obama overtakes the current rankings leader in approval at the end of their presidency - Bill Clinton.

MadDon_13 Wrote:
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> Have a Nice Day Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Robinson calls it exactly right – Congress
> moves
> > like cold molasses – no administration gets a
> > magic wand they can wave and command “CHANGE!”
> to
> > the way Congress works. Given the state of the
> > union handed off by the previous admin, (two
> > sinking sand wars, systemic bank and corporate
> > failures, a barely breathing economy), you have
> to
> > give credit where credit is due. Be as
> pessimistic
> > as you like, but whether you acknowledge it or
> > not, slowly but surely this administration is
> > making progress:
> >
> > Stem cell order reversed.
> > National science foundation funding boosted.
> > SCHIP passed and signed into law
> > Ledbetter bill passed and signed into law.
> > Major green energy initiatives underway.
> > Largest ever electric grid infrastructure
> > investment (3.4 made (jobs!)
> > EPA rules revised to address climate change.
> > Climate change legislation underway
> > Executive order signed to protect large areas
> from
> > drilling.
> > Car emission standards revised.
> > Stimulus bill passed, helping revive the
> economy.
> > Financial system reform plan implemented.
> > Gitmo closing ordered.
> > Torture banned.
> > Iraq troop withdrawal ordered.
> > Afghanistan approach revised.
> > Negotiations with Syria in progress.
> > Negotiations with Iran in progress.
> > Disarmament talks with Russia re-started.
> > Weapons systems acquisitions reform signed into
> > law
> > Travel restrictions lifted and normalization of
> > relations with Cuba on the table.
> > Credit card reform act signed into law (no more
> > fees, fees, fees and secret rate hikes)
> > Healthcare legislation, America’s Affordable
> > Health Choices Act, near completion
> > Greater funding for veterans health care
> > Hate crimes bill signed into law.
> > Limits/bans put in place to reduce special
> > interest (lobbyists) influence
> >
> > And yes, there’s more, but you’re going to
> have
> > to read to keep up with it – don’t wait for
> Faux
> > News or any other media for that matter – to
> tell
> > you about it. See Thomas.gov.
>
> A great post!
> You add to the things that Mr. Robinson already
> mentioned. This administration really is making
> progress. A presidential term (or two like in this
> case) is like a marathon run. The results will be
> seen at the end. It just doesn't happen over
> night. I wouldn't be surprised if, at the end of
> his presidency, Obama overtakes the current
> rankings leader in approval at the end of their
> presidency - Bill Clinton.
---------------

MadDon_13 ,
I think you’ll be surprised!!

Mr. Robinson - Wow, I haven't seen logic like this since Wiley Coyote

Just stating the obvious Wrote:
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> Is Eugene an idiot or is he just a propaganda
> mouthpiece?
>

He is an idiot.

What would you expect from this man on Obama.

Funny my kids school was having an open debate on Obama and his policies and actions to date. Many of the "white" kids that liked Obama last November have begun to turn. But when this discussion went slightly negative, the black kids took it as racist? My point, Mr. Obama was voted in by whites, as well as blacks and hispanics. Although I saw him as a socialist, not an African American which is why I did not vote for him.... although McCain McNasty McLiberal was barely better himself, he was merely a lesser of two bad evils.

So African Americans, stop looking at Obama as the "black president". He is a man...forget color, who's agenda along with many far left closet socialists disquising themselves as socialist is to transform america away from capitalism to socialism. Stop saying "you whites had the chance, let a black man have a crack". that is racism on YOUR end and it's a realy stupid argumant, okay!

It's no secret Obama and his "czars" are socialists and liberal radicals to the max. It's no secret he and many members of congress adore the values of socialism. It's no secret too, I may add that the fat cats of capitalism are ruining the American way.

What is the problem here? Several. First our party system is terrible. If you do not follow that statement you probably should not be blogging or reading political editorials.

Secondly, Capitalism worked because of morality. Yes, there was a time that people did the right thing morally, because they had a conscious. Why is BOA's chairman or JPMC or any coporate fat cat live large on OUR money. Sure they deserve a good salary....30 million, 40 million...please. They take raises while laying off 50K workers. You would not have had that in the past.... But that is a just a part.

I could go on forever, but here is what I think is needed. Pelosi, Reid, Czars and Mr. Obama, claim yourself to be what you are! Socialist. If that's what you believe, then that is your right as an American. But do not hide behind the old Democrat values and platform you truly do not believe in. Liberate (hmmmm) yourselves and profess to what you are. There are probably 15-25% of America that agrees with you.

Democrats like Hilary, Bill and Evan Bayh, claim your party back form God's sake. You cannot really agree with where your party leaders are going, can you? Resign Hilary and send a message. god i cannot believe we would definitely have been better off with you as President, but it is true!

Screw republicans too, the same thing on their side. TRUE conservatives need to rise up. Libertarians too! We do not need just two parties like fat cat lawyers playing a game in the courtroom deciding our fate like it's a game, okay.

Media, be ashamed, very ashamed at all you do. Thank God, one news outlet, which is very disliked, gives us the news. NBC, love those strings attached to Obama's hands...CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS all in the same boat.

Mr. Soros, if you want to control a country, go to Russia or China or Venezuela okay and leave OUR country alone. You are an idiot who has swindled enough money to control the white House and your little puppet president, who owes you and your cronies the electon.

Finally, America, it's time we take control again, and soon. National healthcare bill that is far from what we want, with billions in there that are not for healthcare reform but other socialist earmarks. Access to our bank accounts!!! Uh-oh, read it people... a stimulus package that has laid a financial burden on our kids and us like no other and socialist foreign entities gobling up Aamerican assets ..... we are pratically owned by China and other countries abroad.

ARGHHHH....I gotta stop before kick the computer.

The scary thing about the Eugene Robinson's, Chuck Todd's and MSNBC spin cabal is their unabashed comfort in telling the people that down is actually up, green is more like yellow and that the table over there is really a chair. Success is no longer achieving the desired result, it's about the degree to which you sincerely hoped for that desired result. It's the salesman who is trying to convince you that he was actually successful in missing the sales goal by 50% because without his skill, anyone else would have missed it by 70%.

That salesman is a failure, Obama, to date is a failure at best and causing irreperable economic and social harm to the country at worst. Eugene Robinson is an Obama sycophant, and that's calling it for exactly what it is.

A Nobel Peace prize too! In fact, lets put Obama on the currency right now....well, this is a column one would expect from a chimpanzee like Robinson. One of many reasons why it took 230+ years for this country to elect a black man President, and why it'll be a 1,000 before we elect another one.

Usually I can make it through at least 3 paragraphs of Eugene Robinson's columns before I double over in laughter -- today only two. Talk about delusional -- socialism and, better yet statism at it's best ladies and gentlemen.

I read the first line of the article - "It's been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world. Which is precisely what he's doing."

I could read no more

Just keep making things up. Just keep saying things are true that are not. WE ARE NOT THAT DUMB. But you and the president and the administration keep speaking truth to power - most of us are sitting on the side scratching our heads.

Fire Chuck "I am too big to fail" Schumer and the rest

Rod...

I am at work, and running fast - election day here in Michigan.

You are spot on. I am concerned about the intention of Obama, and his Czars & close advisors, to adhere to the US Constitution. We know from direct & recent experience that he is a habitual liar in public speech. We simply can not believe him on day-to-day talk. And we know that his arrogance, elitism, and "Progressive Values" will trend him down the road to dictatorship & totalitarism.

We MUST be ever vigilante.
HB


Rod Wrote:
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> Historybuff Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Mr. Robinson is being the ever dutiful liberal.
> >
> > The gentleman just can't get over the fact that
> > his man Obama is fundamentally incompetent due
> to
> > inexperience and being ideologically flawed.
> It
> > is no accident that Obama's poll ratings have
> > fallen drastically, and that his Party is
> > beginning to disintegrate. Some of his
> > "achievements and change" to date represent
> > nothing more than the commencing decline of
> > prosperity and influence of the United States
> of
> > America.
> >
> > For example...
> >
> > He has betrayed allies in Europe.
> > He lied to Americans by supporting earmarks in
> > the stimulus package.
> > He has advanced policies that will eliminate
> the
> > American middle class.
> > He has divided America along Class and
> Economic
> > lines.
> > He is pursuing fiscal policies that if
> continued
> > will bankrupt America.
> > He has appointed powerful "Czars" that
> represent
> > radical leftist and often communist ideologies.
> >
> >
> > And Obama has only been in office for 10
> months...
> > he is fond of telling us, "that he is just
> getting
> > started".
> >
> > Let us hope that he is just as wrong in this
> > statement as he is in his policies.
>
> Recall that he said, in only five more days we
> will begin to fundamentally transform the United
> States of America. Then on Oct 2 in San
> Francisco, he said, I have only just begun . But
> what about his oath to defend the constitution?
> Recall he said, the constitution is a flawed
> document of negative rights. Does this president
> value the constitution and does he believe his
> role is to operate within the limits it places on
> the executive, or does he think he has blanket
> authority to do whatever he pleases?

This is the cold manure I have come to expect from mr Robinson
blind loyalty
total glossover of fact

Eugene Robinson said, "Most of my frustration is really with the process of getting anything done in Washington, which is not something Obama can unilaterally change, nimbly circumvent or blithely ignore. One thing the new administration clearly did not anticipate was that Republicans in Congress would be so consistently and unanimously obstructionist -- or that Democrats would have to be introduced to the alien concept of party discipline. "

First, Robinsion's frustration might be due to impatience or ignorance of Constituitional Republic, meant to keep in check the impulses and imperfections of human nature's hubris.

Second, the Democrats hold both branches of state, and both houses of Congress. The Republicans cannot do anything because of the numbers. Democrats blame Limbaugh and Fox to overlook the divisions within their party. The Democratic Left is 'consistently and unanimously obstructionist.'

Unbelievable:

"Step back for a moment, though, and look at Obama's record so far. His biggest accomplishment has been keeping the worst financial and economic crisis in decades from turning into another Great Depression. "

All he did was continue the policies Bush had already put in place - nothing more, nothing less, with regard to the bailouts. Re: the stimulus package - only $150B has been spent! Its impact, by definition, was miniscule. Robinson also misses the point entirely when he says it should've been larger, as the issue is not its size, but rather that it consisted of so much deferred spending (over $600B hasn't even been spent yet!)

I'm....almost speechless at this stupidity masquarading as reasoned analysis.

Mr. Robinson,

When are you going over to the white house to give Obama a foot massage?

Eugene: Truly, I am worried. You need to see a doctor!

Joe M Wrote:
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> Hi Daley, long time since we kicked the debate
> around, friend!
>
> Obama was apparently elected President of the
> Democratic Party and assumes that "it is their
> country now." (To paraphrase that anonymous quote
> from the Clinton inauguration)
>
> The One demonstrates his narrow focus on this
> minority constituency with his every action. He
> is most certainly not governing as the President
> of the United States. Attacking FNC was as
> telling as it was foolish; he needs to have
> patience before he starts dictating message to the
> media---first, he must absolutely control it and
> he jumped his own gun here. And, Pelosi is his
> enabler in this leftward march. Healthcare is not
> reformed nor is that the plan---but we there are
> measures on the table to simply take the current
> mess under the wing of government which serves
> only to create subjects from citizens (while the
> cost of healthcare is left alone for future
> address by rationing, denials and dictate on
> lifestyle choices), cardcheck seeks to destroy the
> secret ballot and exposes those with contrary
> views to those who would bend those views back to
> group think (you can just smell the freedom here,
> eh?), he nationalized GM and Chrysler by
> subverting the rule of law and utterly ignoring
> those negative rights issued to government...hey
> Barry, people have the rights--we allow government
> certain roles by consent. No man is supposed to
> assume away our consent---you are brewing more
> problems here than you realize:-)) He leaves
> Poland high and dry---Friends they can believe in,
> eh? Here's the initial Russian response to his
> unilateral largesse:
>
> [www.telegraph.co.uk]
> oland/6480227/Russia-simulates-nuclear-attack-on-P
> oland.html
>
> Well, at least the Euroleft is starting to like us
> again. Barry would do well to understand that
> international "respect" should be our goal---not
> fickle feelings of like. Commitment to Poland
> with our troops stationed in their borders
> (whether with a dubious ABM system or just a
> reverse osmosis water trailer matters not)---sends
> the message to Russia that our friendship has
> meaning as they seek to expand their influence on
> their near frontier. This is something that the
> Poles are concerned about, and Barry kicked them
> to the curb. Yeah--that will earn us some friends
> abroad. And Georgia is getting nervous about new
> threats against their territory....Obama, you are
> a disaster.
>
> His greatest accomplishment is already a done
> deal: He has tipped the world on its ear (where
> France is to our right on international issues of
> concern!), set the dollar on a path to destruction
> and laid the groundwork for enough regional
> conflict to make it to the WWIII status. All in
> less than nine calendar months....
>
> and by ignoring the wants and needs of the
> majority of his so-called fellow countrymen.
>
> But he is dam'ned if does, dam'ned if he doesn't
> push like gangbusters with his true agenda--that
> would be the one "us nutjobs" warned you all
> about: Socialized America, command economy and
> all. If he doesn't grab the brass ring right out
> of the gate--the country will react and the
> opportunity will be lost for generations. I
> imagine he is utterly amazed at the resiliency of
> the dollar right now. Despite the best
> efforts--the dang thing stubbornly clings to value
> overseas. The deepening crisis for cover hasn't
> materialized yet (thank God), and the blue dogs
> held a fine blue line just long enough...
>
> Now we are witnessing America's realization to
> what some of us knew all along, and the country is
> turning against this guy more every day.
>
> The only people really surprised are the hard
> left, who thought they had a mandate and majority.
> News to lefties: The mandate was "not Bush;" and
> the majority occurs only within your small circle
> of friends. Both are illusionary.
>
> America is center right---and we do not like
> anyone to tell us what is best for us. We may
> even foolishly ignore sound advice when presented
> that way---but guess what--we cherish the freedom
> we have that allows us our mistakes as much as we
> cherish the freedom that allows us our
> exceptionalism. In our gut, we know that one
> implies the other and we will ultimately defend
> both. And the left just cannot understand
> this---yes, lefty--we act in our best interests
> some of the time, and not so much other times--but
> freedom means that is just how it is. That is why
> we reject you and your ideas time and again, and
> it underlies what it is you fail to grasp:
> Freedom trumps your idea of what is "best for the
> other guy." It takes awhile sometimes, but that
> has been our default position since our inception.
> And to your utter amazement--you are witnessing
> this desire to protect freedom emerge before your
> very eyes. It is all around you, and you simply
> lash out at it even as you fail to grasp what it
> is.
>
> Haha.
>
> But the damage is done, at least as far as Poland
> and the Dollar goes. Hopefully, we can get some
> adults to DC in time to try to fix this...or it
> will suck for all of us, and the left worse still.
> Being a scapegoat for angry, hungry mobs is not
> fun.

President Obama is embarked on a detailed transformation that must reach into every nook and craney of the mechanics of the economy. He must manage the society at its roots level. He must manage our lives. Hence Obamacare. This breathtaking federal reach, utterly in violation of constitutional authority, is necessary to install socialist control. It is what happens when freedom is suppressed and centralized collectivized control is substituted.

Freedom cannot be tolerated in a socialist society because freedom and comprehensive centralized on down control are incompatiable. The reason the Constitution is only 4 pages long and the House healthcare bill is 1990 pages long, is that once freedom is invoked, freedom allows all people to take part in management. It insures the direction of society will be the one that is best for everyone. A 1990 page bill attempts to preempt free choice and manage every detail. Then the people, who are told government is doing what is good for them, forever twist under the tyranny of misguided and inept federal power.

Have a Nice Day Wrote:
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> Robinson calls it exactly right – Congress moves
> like cold molasses – no administration gets a
> magic wand they can wave and command “CHANGE!” to
> the way Congress works.

Given the majority is his own party---you just have to wonder
how far left his agenda truly is that his own team is balking.


Given the state of the
> union handed off by the previous admin, (two
> sinking sand wars, systemic bank and corporate
> failures, a barely breathing economy), you have to
> give credit where credit is due.

His response to this "mess" leaves much to be desired, unless you are cheering the deepening of this crisis for more nefarious purposes.


Be as pessimistic
> as you like, but whether you acknowledge it or
> not, slowly but surely this administration is
> making progress:
>
> Stem cell order reversed.

That enabled federal dollars to flow to universities. That is an expense we did not need right this minute.

> National science foundation funding boosted.

Yea! More spending!!!! Whooo-hoooo! Our children's children might be evil rich kids after all, so we may as well tax them now and be done with it, eh?

> SCHIP passed and signed into law

Making my kids elligible. But according to tax law, I am in the evil rich category. SCHIP is a stealth program and not designed to be what it purports.


> Ledbetter bill passed and signed into law.


And Lilly is still out $360K, and this POS legislation is too broadly written to achieve its intent. Civil courts are likely to be overrun now with frivelous claims while those with cases will wait years for justice. Nice example.

> Major green energy initiatives underway.

More cost to the people---regressive costs at that. You libs are whacky. Drive up the cost of being poor, then go back to the bottomless trough of rich people's money to "remedy" your mess. We need jobs, not bunnies.


> Largest ever electric grid infrastructure
> investment (3.4 made (jobs!)

Do you realize the scope of this problem? What is going on with this will not address the one fundemental flaw---EMP vulnerability. And, the grid itself doesn't matter much if there is nothing to hook it up to, eh?


> EPA rules revised to address climate change.

And unemployment increases. Brilliant. Let me know how EPA regs taste when salted and deep fried.

> Climate change legislation underway

As Barry said himself, "....costs will necessarily skyrocket."

> Executive order signed to protect large areas from
> drilling.

And the tankers roll the oceans as our dollars flow back the other way.


> Car emission standards revised.

Domestically, we are not as well positioned for this one as our overseas competitors. With nationalized car companies--the next step will provoke a trae war if you do the natural math to the last decimal.

> Stimulus bill passed, helping revive the economy.

We call that government spending where I am from. It is part of the GDP, but it comes out of the pockets of those poor bass turds that had to let go another ten of our fellow citizens--you know, the job creators that provide the real product in the gross? Oh well, the wad is shot, now what?

> Financial system reform plan implemented.

Really? Take a closer look, dumbo. Business as usual, and Frank wants to re-up 12CFR203 again:-))

> Gitmo closing ordered.

And, uh, well, there's problems, the legal apsect of...and....states balk...

> Torture banned.

Until it is needed.

> Iraq troop withdrawal ordered.

Timeline established under that hated fellow, Bush, by treaty.

> Afghanistan approach revised.

Revised? Is that what you call indecision?

> Negotiations with Syria in progress.

To what end?

> Negotiations with Iran in progress.

Ha. Haha. Hahahahahaa!

> Disarmament talks with Russia re-started.

As they practice "nuking Poland" on the anniversery of their invasion of said nation, Georgia is told yesterday that "military action" will result if they do not bend to the demands, and help with Iran? Nyet.

> Weapons systems acquisitions reform signed into
> law

Someone forgot to tell Murtha. Or maybe you should look more closely at "reform."


> Travel restrictions lifted and normalization of
> relations with Cuba on the table.

Thank God! I've been jonesing for a good Romeo Y Juliet Churchill.

> Credit card reform act signed into law (no more
> fees, fees, fees and secret rate hikes)

Hahaha! But plenty of cancelled lines of credit already, and the rate hikes lately will serve them just fine over the next few years. Guess what numbnuts? Credit just tightened and became more expensive for everyone. Who will suffer the most? Why, that would be the poor. Nice job, eh?

> Healthcare legislation, America’s Affordable
> Health Choices Act, near completion

And healthcare itself remains intact as-is with all cost structures--changing only the taxpayer's role. Reform? Hardly.

> Greater funding for veterans health care

The wait lists continue while the bureaucracy grew by 17%. Wow.

> Hate crimes bill signed into law.

Thought police? Three cheers for Orwell!

> Limits/bans put in place to reduce special
> interest (lobbyists) influence

By appointing them to the administration?

>
> And yes, there’s more, but you’re going to have
> to read to keep up with it – don’t wait for Faux
> News or any other media for that matter – to tell
> you about it. See Thomas.gov.


What you describe is all debt driven special interest stuff caged as populism. The assault on the dollar continues, and you have no idea what awaits you.

Hey Eugene, did Obama's teleprompter write this article for you?

This would be funny if it were April 1st! The pathetic thing is that this guy is serious.

Socialism and communism both require strong government support to survive, through high taxes on individuals and corporations. Both despise the free enterprise system. Both pretend to be something (progressives) other than they are (socialized communism). Both require ever increasing and strong control over the general population by taking away and limiting peoples individual rights of choice and freedoms...

Have a Nice Day: "And yes, there’s more, but you’re going to have to read to keep up with it – don’t wait for Faux News or any other media for that matter – to tell you about it. See Thomas.gov."

Faux News? That is so clever. I've never heard that before. Ha, ha, ha, dolt.

I can hardly stop laughing long enough to type this. Eugene Robinson is a stereotypical delusional leftist bootlicker. Seriously, the artical reads almost like a tongue-in-cheek parody of the less than zero accomplishments of the teleprompter-in-chief.

QWE Wrote:
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> "Going to Egypt and speaking directly to the
> Muslim world about cooperation rather than
> conflict."
>
> Oh, you're referring to the world apology tour?
> Yeah, I'm sure Mubarek and the rest of those thugs
> are doing everything in their power to help us now
> that BHO is in the house.


That was that verbal souffle that Lowry was talking about....

a" warm-and-fuzzy exercise in global understanding" will keep all our enemies smiling! Now let's all hold hands- lol!

Eugene Robinson gushed that: "It's been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world."

Yes, Eugene, you may now genuflect, depart from the altar and leave the sanctuary: Your check from the DNC has been cleared may now be cashed at the People's Bank. Well done, good and faithful servant!---BO

It looks like I have the day off. Thank goodness for Eugene.
And I thought I might not have anything humorous to contribute.

:-)

Again, Mr. Robinson engages either in wishful thinking or blatant propaganda, not journalism even of the "opinion" type. He claims that President Obama was elected to "change the world" when, in fact, polls indicate that he was elected to get rid of President Bush. He claims that the President tried to work with Republicans, but this flies in the face of observable fact. Obama has come up with legislation that he knows no Republican can back. When they don't cave in to his opinions, he calls them obstructionists.
I'm a Democrat who campaigned for McGovern and a variety of liberal Senate and House candidates, and I can't stomach most of Obama's proposals. Mr. Robinson points to the stimulus bill as a great accomplishment. He is correct that it reassured the markets, but he conveniently avoids the question of how the money was spent. The goal of assuring the markets could have been achieved by various types of spending, but Mr. Robinson doesn't even try to justify the wasteful, non-stimulating spending which President Obama is engaged in. Rather than spending on projects to steer funds into established, proven businesses which will hire people, Obama spent the money to expand government, bribe his union supporters and fund unproven businesses and technologies which are acceptible to his ideology. The real story of the stimulus is its waste and corruption.

I found Mr. Robinson's reference to "party discipline" distasteful in the off-handed nature of its Stalinsim.
Democrats from Conservative or moderate districts have a duty to reflect their voters. Mr. Robinson appears to believe that they should support "the party" regardless of what their constituents believe. This is not only a morally repugnant position, but one that is politically stupid for someone of Mr. Robinsons opinions.

Through his writings, Mr. Robinson continues to show that "progressives" either do have a grasp of today's reality or that they realize they are a minority and are now determined to force their views on the country as quickly as possible because they won't have that power for long. So long as they are so dense, there is hope that the adults can retake the Democrat Party.

Mixed Bag makes a good point.
Apparently change is coming.

:-)

Gracias senorita.

:-)

Uncle Sam Wrote:
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> Gracias senorita.
>
> :-)


De nada. :-)

I was trying to read the other articles....and thanks to your humorous observations , you have provoked a storm of laughter that I can't seem to contain!

Sam...you crack me up!

Eugene Robinson = Keith Olbermann = Nuts

Yeah. Check this out:
“I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,” Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa.

“I really thought there would be immediate change,” she said. “Sometimes the Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. But it’s politics as usual, and that’s what I voted against.”

If Obama couldn't deliver immediate change, he shouldn't have run.

DeadMediaWalking Wrote:
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> Read
> today's NYT article on the the skepticism and
> sense of betrayal Iowans now feel after having
> bought-in lock, stock and barrel to the "Hopey
> Changey" sham.
>
>

"It took the White House too long to realize that bipartisanship is a tango and that there's no point in dancing alone."



Duh!!!! We all know it takes two to tango.....

jlmatt Wrote:
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> I love the way he talks about a "quick recovery"
> for an economy that was teetering on becoming the
> "next Depression".
>
> Well, which is it? It can't be both. Any economy
> that can be "quickly recovered" can't have been
> all that bad to begin with -- and any economy that
> was entering a depression, means, by very
> definition, that it was in a prolonged slump,
> obviating any claims of "quick recovery".


I mean the private sector only shrank by 10% last quarter. From their actions though it is hard to figure if that is their intentions. That isn't good.

Eugene,

You can't be serious.

Uncle Sam Wrote:
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> Oh you guys.
> I do have to leave for a bit but plan to return
> soon for more in-depth analysis.
>
> :-)


:-)
Me too ....I am trying to catch up......

WC Wrote:
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> Eugene, remember when candidate Obama said, many
> times, how he looked forward to "reaching across
> the aisle"? Just when is that going to happen?


He looked forward to the beatings he wanted to give them. He looked forward to labeling them as dishonest fearmongers while he called for civility. He looked forward to mistating their opposition as strawmen that made his ideas seem more reasonable. ....................................................

RCP: A Record You Can ** Not ** Believe In - By Eugene Robinson

Dandy Wrote:
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> As I returned to RCPLAND after my accident last
> year , I found the warm welcome I received to be
> one of those treasure's to stash away to help me
> in those times that I need fond memories to lean
> on .
>
> This is one of those times as I prepare to return
> to the hospital for what I hope is my last surgery
> towards my recovery . Tommorow I will be having my
> right shoulder replaced and expect to be out of
> commission again for a couple of weeks .
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to let you
> all know how much I appreciate your concerns . It
> is friends like you that make it easy to overcome
> such odds .
>
> A special note to my Indian Relative "Tell Like It
> Is" . While the Yankees have a 3-2 lead , remember
> the wise words of an old yankee himself .
>
> It Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Sings .

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I am new here and didn't know about your accident. I've enjoyed reading your posts the last few weeks, though. I will be one of the many sending good wishes and prayers your way tomorrow.

Let's keep in mind, BO described the economic crisis as "worst since the great depression"...so he defines the problem and comes up with the stimulus to "pull us from the brink".....please.....

Since the stimulus has had little or any effect on the economy it proves it was not only unnecessary but it also proves the "crisis" was not as he described.....the economy recovers in spite of what the government has done, not because of it.....the government was complicit in the banking/financial bubble......eugene lives in that liberal dreamworld where they don't appear to be impacted by reality....

I note that Mr. Robinson did not mention transparency and racial healing in the list of accomplishments. The fact that he had to list the government backing GM warranties as an accomplishment tells you all you need to know about what President Obama has really accomplished. Of course we will be called racist for not agreeing with Mr. Robinson and shouting from the roof top the positive impact the President has had in just a short years time.

Message to Mr. Robinson: check out the approval ratings before you write your column.

St. Barry the Naif, POTUS Wrote:
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> Eugene, most readers think that you are an idiot,
> but I, for one, appreciate your loyalty.

I nominate ER for the Nobel Prize for Journalism. This article is almost as well researched as our fearless leaders' foreign policies

We will take a collection here on RCP and hire that mysterious Fat Lady to assist you in a swift recovery .

You know I had to take a parting jab at tell it , I was reading yesterday's post and noticed he hinted that I was Hiding .

"but most economists believe it was absolutely necessary -- and some believe it should have been even bigger"


"Most and Some" -Eugene has nothing but strawmen. Eugene is a sick, sick man

Dandy,
I just wanted to be included in the well wishes of our beloved RCP community. May your recovery go smoothly.

Unlike the current economic one.

:-o

A record you can believe in?
Perhaps someone tell Eugene that's a broken record.

Yet he keeps playing it...


:-)

If we could get the WH out of the way our economic recovery could begin . I think tonight might be the 1st shots fired back . A 3-0 sweep would put them on notice .


Uncle Sam Wrote:
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> Dandy,
> I just wanted to be included in the well wishes of
> our beloved RCP community. May your recovery go
> smoothly.
>
> Unlike the current economic one.
>
> :-o

Wow, U had time to write this, with your nose so far up his butt? Of course u r waiting for the bailout so u can keep your job. How reporting on all of the socialists that he has aligned himself with? Andy Stern so we could have the worlds biggest union? Jeff Immelt C'monGE having the big green contracts and healthcare records contracts. Acorn using taxpayer funding for commiting voter fraud? Come on Eugene, U can do some real reporting or opining. I am now less intelligent by reading this, because that is what they want.

marino Wrote:
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> The teleprompters rasmussen approval has been -13
> for the last 2 days. More significantly he has
> had double digit negative figure now for every day
> bar 2 from 16th October.
>
> But most significantly, even though 49% still
> blame GW for the economic woes, 45% now blame the
> teleprompter. This is the highest number he has
> garnered on this
> metric.[www.rasmussenreports.com]
> ent/politics/obama_administration/october_2009/49_
> blame_bush_for_economy_45_blame_obama
>
> "Just a month ago, 55% pointed the finger at Bush,
> while only 37% said the policies Obama has put in
> place since taking office were at fault. These
> findings had remained largely unchanged since May.
"

Yes, and if you pull this data apart and look at his shrinkage of support, even some Dem's are beginning to disavow.

> So in just 1 month the spread has gone from 18%
> more blaming GW to just 4%. Of course statistical
> variations need to be considered.

This opinion swing is being solidified by performance; GM (Obama Auto) needs more money, Ford made a profit. Even the AFLCIO is beginning to realize that it might be riding the wrong horse. How the contract negotiations with Ford finish will help tell this tale.

> This Friday we get the October unemployment
> figures. I am predicting that as soon as the
> headline unemployment number exceeds 10% the
> spread will go the other way.
>
> If that happens, the next time the teleprompter
> blames GW for all the problems, it will no longer
> play particularly well. If he remains in campaign
> mode, the dirigible will continue crashing to
> earth. And I have no reason the believe that the
> teleprompter will change.
>
> From there we will have a whitehouse which will
> adopt a total siege mentality. Particularly if
> today's election results startle some of the more
> moderate dims. From there the next headline will
> be a popularity number below 50% at which point
> the teleprompter becomes a liability.
>
> At some point he will have to make a decision on
> Afghanistan and that will polarize even more
> people. Any more troops and his left wing will
> start to revolt publicly. If at the same time the
> health bill gets sliced and diced further to get
> the CBO figures below the advertised threshold and
> the unions step up opposition to taxing Cadillac
> plans, the language from the left will make some
> of the comments to date, seem mild.

Proof once again that leading and campaigning are my times diametrically opposed. Too bad he didn't learn how to do the former, and that he American electorate couldn't see through the later.

> There are going to be some interesting
> advertisements next year in the election cycle
> juxtaposing various statements and positions and
> the actual outcome. Lets start with the promise
> that a swift passage of the stimulus was necessary
> to keep unemployment below 8%.

The list is in production. There are now many "sound bite libraries". Interesting new marketing profession for some.

> This morning on
> squawk box Warren Buffet and Ed Rendell agreed
> that the stimulus should have had 4 -5 times as
> much devoted to infrastructure spending.

> Its just a matter of time now.

Yes, interesting race. Will the country's path be irrevocably turned into universal government control of many facets previously untouched by its unfeeling grip, or will this turning be avoided by the sane?

My experience suggests that the greatest possibility to avert immediate calamity rests in the least likely places:
- Blue Dog Democrats
- Ford Motor Company
- Frustrated progressives
- The international community

It is my hope that Obama has spawned his own demise;

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth, it is to have a thankless child!"
King Lear, Act I, Scene IV

Throne Wrote:
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> Maybe the throne inside the Lincoln Memorial was
> built for Obama. Remove Lincoln, so that Obama can
> take his seat.


I don't think that would work out.

I think Obama's head is too big.

LPM :

This opinion swing is being solidified by performance; GM (Obama Auto) needs more money, Ford made a profit. Even the AFLCIO is beginning to realize that it might be riding the wrong horse. How the contract negotiations with Ford finish will help tell this tale.

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A lot of truth here , especially the Ford part , My largest Automotive customer makes parts for Ford . My business has just received what may be our saving grace order from this customer .

They need my parts because Ford needs their parts . Interesting to say the least .

Eugene waxes nostalgic for those heady days of the campaign when, as he states, Barack Obama was able to summon rhetorical magic to speak compellingly to the better angels of our nature.

Apparently those angels have gone seeking more fertile ground.

:-o

Great to hear for your sake Dandy, and nice to see the "capitalist way" outshine the "Obama way", and so quickly. Ford's performance could be a bigger lift for us all; far more than we realize.

Dandy Wrote:
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> LPM :
>
> This opinion swing is being solidified by
> performance; GM (Obama Auto) needs more money,
> Ford made a profit. Even the AFLCIO is beginning
> to realize that it might be riding the wrong
> horse. How the contract negotiations with Ford
> finish will help tell this tale.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------
>
> A lot of truth here , especially the Ford part ,
> My largest Automotive customer makes parts for
> Ford . My business has just received what may be
> our saving grace order from this customer .
>
> They need my parts because Ford needs their parts
> . Interesting to say the least .

"It was pride that changed angels into devils"
Saint Augustine

Uncle Sam Wrote:
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> Eugene waxes nostalgic for those heady days of the
> campaign when, as he states, Barack Obama was able
> to summon rhetorical magic to speak compellingly
> to the better angels of our nature.
>
> Apparently those angels have gone seeking more
> fertile ground.
>
> :-o

Eugene,

You should buy a pair of kneepads. Your pants are showing wear.

Uncle Sam Wrote:
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> Hear about the trick-or-treater who dressed up
> like the president?
> A scary costume it was too, that of a job killer.
>
> :-0


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Uncle,
I tried to take some candy from my youngest daughter. I told her I was just redistributing the wealth. She didn’t fall for it.. I believe she will be a Conservative. :-)

libluv,
Sounds like your daughter is not easily tricked.
Probably stays away from the Kool-Aid too.

:-)

I was a big GM man myself and use to say Ford was Fix or repair Daily but my next car will be a Ford .

Dandy, The girls and I will give you honorable mention tonight at diner and bedtime--you made our thoughts and prayers list.

And my desire to test drive the three pony cars ended where it started--the Mustang. I already gave my money to the other two car makers against my will, so Ford gets the voluntary contributions from now on. I own five Ford trucks, but unfortunately I will not be buying another for quite some time. The last one was a now-eight year old diesel (9 model years) that I can realistcally expect to last another ten--easy. It pre-dates the EPA's ruinous dabbling in diesels--so it is a keeper:-)) I don't care how green you are---a 8500# truck that gets an honest 26mpg on the highway beats the snot out of a "clean" one that gets 13mpg. Heheh. Older is better---the carbon footprint of doubling the fuel requirement to operate has its downsides hidden, eh? Leftists are morons. My F150 is 23 years old, and flawless inside and out. I recently converted it to 4x4 with a rusty 89 parts truck (number 5)--and next up is a 6.9 restoration in an 87 florida X-cab body. No rust, just needs a fuel pump. Ford trucks have their flaws--but they are easily fixed and prolific as heck.

But it is nice to hear that my Ford fetish benefits you directly as my prayers come indirectly. It is yet one more reason to celebrate the Blue Oval...

your are a blithering idiot!

Gene Robinson is the unofficial Apologist Czar for this Administration.

Bi-partisanship is a two-way street, something that requires both sides to give. You unfairly blame the Republican congress for lack of bi-partisanship; Obama has given in not one bit. He is the man who ran as a "unifier" - his version of unity is apparently "my way or the highway." It's only unity to Obama if everyone (media fawners included) line up lockstep behind him.

Why anyone ever thought this guy would be a "bi-partisan", unifying leader given his record of extreme left-wing policies and politics, I'll never understand.

Dandy Wrote:
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> I was a big GM man myself and use to say Ford was
> Fix or repair Daily but my next car will be a Ford
> .


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Dandy,
That was my line growing up too. But you’ve got to give them credit for weathering the storm that sank two ships. The GM bailout was bad enough but the last straw was retiring my favorite nameplate.

Yeah, but I have a feeling that the fix is in in NJ. There has been numerous accounts of fraud in the months leading up to the election in regard to the mailed in ballots and numerous arrests because of it. In some places they already have more mailed in ballots than during last years election. For an off year election that should send up GIGANTIC red flags. There are also reports of ACORN moving in from NY and PA.

Dandy Wrote:
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> If we could get the WH out of the way our economic
> recovery could begin . I think tonight might be
> the 1st shots fired back . A 3-0 sweep would put
> them on notice .
>
>
> Uncle Sam Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Dandy,
> > I just wanted to be included in the well wishes
> of
> > our beloved RCP community. May your recovery
> go
> > smoothly.
> >
> > Unlike the current economic one.
> >
> > :-o

AustinG Wrote:
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> Yeah, but I have a feeling that the fix is in in
> NJ. There has been numerous accounts of fraud in
> the months leading up to the election in regard to
> the mailed in ballots and numerous arrests because
> of it. In some places they already have more
> mailed in ballots than during last years election.
> For an off year election that should send up
> GIGANTIC red flags. There are also reports of
> ACORN moving in from NY and PA.
>
> Dandy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If we could get the WH out of the way our
> economic
> > recovery could begin . I think tonight might be
> > the 1st shots fired back . A 3-0 sweep would
> put
> > them on notice .
> >
> >
> > Uncle Sam Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Dandy,
> > > I just wanted to be included in the well
> wishes
> > of
> > > our beloved RCP community. May your recovery
> > go
> > > smoothly.
> > >
> > > Unlike the current economic one.
> > >
> > > :-o
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Austin,
I agree with you, NJ is too close and any deficit of votes will be made up fraudulently. It is the Liberal way.. Still, 2 out of 3 works for me!

See you later, Bionic Man...

:-)

Mr. Robinson,
You are a liberal, not a progressive.

Rod,

I believe you're asking about William Jefferson. He's been convicted and he was supposed to be sentenced 10/30/09, but it was delayed until November 13th. I believe he's free on bail until then.

Rod Wrote:
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> Whatever happened to Robinson, the congressman who
> stole millions and put it in his freezer then
> commandeered a national guard helocopter during
> the Katrina rescue operation to recover his stash?

Randy,
There would likely be Kool-Aid at the party.
Just sayin'...

:-)

Utter and complete nonsense. RCP ought to drop him. there is nothing real or clear about his writing.

How can you give any credibility to anything Eugene Robinson writes after he sold his soul for his black skin? After Hillary beat BO in NH, he became BO's frontman and commenced to spread the tale of the BRADLEY EFFECT, and then painted anything the Clintons said as racist! Just another misogynist that infects the MSM.

He can stick his nobel prize in the garbage along with the one they gave Kissenger after he killed millions of Cambodians! Michael Cusumano

Ah yes Mr. Robinson.

And he has also prevented global extinction by personally warding off enormous comets.
We know it must be true - because there has been no massive impact.

I must say, your articles are the epitome of "consistant."

If I could predict the market as well as one can predict the tone of your articles - heathcare would not be a problem for anyone. I could finance it all myself.

Will anyone give me odds against the next column being another Obamagasm?

ACORN Aims to Tip New Jersey Election in Corzine's Favor

Indeed,
It continues despite my best efforts.

:-)

Gene has really cranked up the ol' "blow smoke and sunshine up their butts" machine with this article. He sounds like the former Iraqi press secretary during the Iraq invasion, who kept insisting until the very end that Saddam's forces were winning.

Eugene is an intelligent and earnest person who does not seem to have an axe to grind. His assessment is fair and his criticisms ring true, for me at least. I believe that President Obama is one of the most compelling and capable men in politics today (perhaps in the last half century) and I continue to have a great deal of confidence in his government. I think things are moving along remarkably well, all things considered. It is a thankless job and leaders rarely get credit for the catastrophes that didn't happen - that's just the way it is. I am profoundly distressed by the vitriolic, negative, fearful, narrow-minded and shrill noise from the far-right minority in this country. That sort of juvenile attention seeking is interesting in the same way a car wreck on the highway is - just because we look doesn't mean we think your attractive, important or relevant. FYI - half the people who watch Fox news do it for amusement, so don't get the idea that the ratings mean those extreme right-wing, paranoiac sentiments are either popular or reflective of the mood of the nation. The "conservative resurgence" is merely an angle used to sell more news and it will become boring soon. By Christmas, the story will be "Obama's resurgence and the rise of the modern progressive movement in America". Just watch ;-)

Uncle Sam Wrote:
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> Indeed,
> It continues despite my best efforts.
>
> :-)


LOL!

Mike almost had me.

:-)

Shorefront: I was suprised yesterday. You slipped a reference of "husband." I stopped, and thought...huh? I think I may add sexist to my racist label the left gave me...I assumed something along he lines of my "wife served in Vietnam..."

And then I put my finger on it-- your logic and construct of reason in debate. I may be a sexist if that alone gave me a certain impression.

Lesson learned.

Mike Palmeter Wrote:
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> Eugene is an intelligent and earnest person who
> does not seem to have an axe to grind.
> His assessment is fair and his criticisms ring true,
> for me at least.

He writes great sonnets.

> It is a thankless job and leaders rarely get credit
> for the catastrophes that didn't happen - that's
> just the way it is.

Perhaps, but you have to admit that taking credit for all of the things that 'didn't happen' has become a routine crutch for this administration. I find myself wondering just how one should tally the number of "Jobs Saved" as we wait for Friday's unemployment figures.

> I am profoundly distressed by
> the vitriolic, negative, fearful, narrow-minded
> and shrill noise from the far-right minority in
> this country. That sort of juvenile attention
> seeking is interesting in the same way a car
> wreck on the highway is - just because we look
> doesn't mean we think your attractive, important
> or relevant. FYI - half the people who watch Fox
> news do it for amusement, so don't get the idea
> that the ratings mean those extreme right-wing,
> paranoiac sentiments are either popular or
> reflective of the mood of the nation. The
> "conservative resurgence" is merely an angle used
> to sell more news and it will become boring soon.
> By Christmas, the story will be "Obama's
> resurgence and the rise of the modern progressive
> movement in America". Just watch ;-)

Oops! I believe I detect a note of sarcastic wit here.

If so - you got me. Well done!

Where is this alleged consensus of economists that believe the stimulus was necessary? Other than that wack job that writes for the New York Times, I don't think anyone thinks it's working or that it should have been bigger.

How much evidence are we going to have to amass before everyone realizes that the Keynsian multiplier just doesn't exist? Our third quarter GDP growth was worth $150 billion. The government pumped in $170 trillion into the economy. That's some multiplier.

Marco Rubio is using a photograph of Charlie Crist with Pres. Obama to score points in the Florida gubernatorial race.

George Bush could not be reached for comment.
He was however heard chuckling to himself.

:-)

Joe M Wrote:
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> Uncle: Is Flyfisher out and about? I owe him an
> opinion on Barrets:-))

You rang?

Kevin,
Sounds like Eugene is overstimulated as it is.

:-)

OK Eugene now we understand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flyfisher: My experience with Barret (semis and singles) is the accuracy was disappointing for the price by a wide margin. I would not go there myself. I did check out tha shop you mentioned; but I am loyal to George Gardner's GAP customs. That said, that FAL thing was kinda cool:-)) ARs, I just do my own.

For reference, I used MacBros TAC systems for extended LR accuracy---seriously spoiled advice is what you get, perhaps even snobbish.

Soros is so proud !!!

===============

Joe M Wrote:
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> Gold hit a new record of $1,085 today, on a
> purchase of the same by India as they diversify
> away from their FOREX holdings.
>
> Any bets on whose denomination got dumped out of
> their vaults?
>
> That accounts for roughly half of the IMF's
> planned dumps of gold. They sell off gold
> reserves, and the price went up relative to the
> dollar.
>
> Anyone listening?

Hi Uncle Sam... you lead the fray !!!

- The day we start to take Our Country Back !!!!

==============

Uncle Sam Wrote:
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> Hello there ReaganIndie.
> Glad I could join the fray.
>
> :-)

ReaganIndie,
Thank you for such a high honor my friend.
I must admit that I have not read HR3962 in its entirety.
Although I see on opencongress.org that opposition is running 4:1.

:-o

Mike Palmeter Wrote:
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> Eugene is an intelligent and earnest person who
> does not seem to have an axe to grind. His
> assessment is fair and his criticisms ring true,
> for me at least. I believe that President Obama
> is one of the most compelling and capable men in
> politics today (perhaps in the last half century)
> and I continue to have a great deal of confidence
> in his government. I think things are moving
> along remarkably well, all things considered. It
> is a thankless job and leaders rarely get credit
> for the catastrophes that didn't happen - that's
> just the way it is. I am profoundly distressed by
> the vitriolic, negative, fearful, narrow-minded
> and shrill noise from the far-right minority in
> this country. That sort of juvenile attention
> seeking is interesting in the same way a car
> wreck on the highway is - just because we look
> doesn't mean we think your attractive, important
> or relevant. FYI - half the people who watch Fox
> news do it for amusement, so don't get the idea
> that the ratings mean those extreme right-wing,
> paranoiac sentiments are either popular or
> reflective of the mood of the nation. The
> "conservative resurgence" is merely an angle used
> to sell more news and it will become boring soon.
> By Christmas, the story will be "Obama's
> resurgence and the rise of the modern progressive
> movement in America". Just watch ;-)

Is this a put-on?

"Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy.""


ABC may be onto something.

[www.chicagotribune.com]

I wonder if Obama likes Steak Tartare .

Ahhh, the bickering continues. We as a society love to throw stones in a glass house and when our walls start shattering around us we all blame the people in power. There is one thing that is very important to remember here; WE are the ones in power. There are just too many of us that either abuse that power or don’t use it at all. The bottom line is that the politicians care not about what is good for us but how they can usurp our power from us. Here is my proposal.
Instead of spending millions on pet projects like launching missiles at the moon or bailing out the entertainment industries, why don’t went spend some of that TARP money on useful projects; like developing more powerful magnets to increase energy production. Also, we should look further into more advanced lubrication for longer and more efficient engine life. Hydrogen could be the next major fuel source for the world so I think it is extremely important that we stay on the cutting edge so as to not be left behind.
Now that GM is owned by the Fed, we are about to see some major changes in the type of automobiles that they produce. Barrack Obama is pushing for more Hybrid cars and is phasing out traditional internal combustion engines. The problem is that these cars on average get only 5-6 mpg more than their predecessors, they cost an average of $6,000.00 more, and are much more difficult to maintain. Its almost as if hybrid cars are the byproduct of corporate procrastination.
As far as universal healthcare goes, I do see people suffering all over the place in this country. But their suffering is but a fraction of what the people of China must endure in many aspects of their lives. Yet, we are borrowing billions if not trillions of dollars off of the backs of these hard working, and prosperity deprived people. What do you think is going to happen when we cant pay them back? I guess our kids will have to figure that mess out too.
Instead of injecting steroids in Medicare, (a non-healthy metaphor) why don’t we take a step back and try harder to figure out what exactly the problem is? There are millions of people who abuse the system so that they don’t have to work as hard as they should to pull their own weight. If for every 5 people you help with welfare who deserve it you get one schmuck who is abusing the system then we have a serious problem.
Obviously the answer isn't that we should just shut the system down so that nobody can take advantage of the system. Yet, simply throwing more money at the problem isn’t going to fix anything either. It will just make things worse. How about using some of the bailout money to make it harder for people to abuse the system by evaluating each individual case better. One idea up for serious debate is mandatory drug testing for those who are on welfare. I don’t think this should extend to people who are on welfare who are Children, Mentally disabled, physically disabled, and maybe a few other cases. People that are on welfare because they lost their jobs or continuously have children and cant afford them should definitely have to pass drug test to get government money. If we keep paying them to sit around and get high they will never get a job and be able to take care of themselves or their children.
Although I could go on for quite some time on these subjects and more, I would like to touch base on the missile defense program that Barrack Obama is or already has scrapped in Middle Eastern Europe. The supposed reasons for scrapping this program is that it cost a lot of money, its pissing off other countries in that region, and the effectiveness of it is only around 75%. This is a very serious problem that needs to be dealt with very carefully because its putting a lot lives in jeopardy.
We should be questioning why other countries are getting mad at us over a missile DEFENSE silo. This isn't a form of intimidation from the United States or nationalism. Its defense! It's not like we're mining for more uranium in these countries so that we can build more nukes. We’re trying to make it so that if some nut bag tries to launch a nuke at his enemies we will have some way to stop it before it kills millions of lives and potentially starts a holocaust. Oh and for those of you who are getting totally wrapped up in this global warming bid (not that there's anything wrong with that) how much climate change occurs when a thermo nuclear missile detonates? About the same as 557,000 Hummers running for about 3 years?
I do think that the cost to these projects is so immense that we should do our best to form a collaborated effort from more countries around the world, but the defense against nukes should be paramount to all other budgeting. If one of the main arguments against this program and others like it is that it isn’t effective enough in hitting its targets, shouldn't the appropriate measure be to make more silos so as to increase the likeliness of stopping a nuke from reaching its target?
Scrapping this program is like dealing with bed bugs with Hot Shot bombs and realizing that one bomb is only effective 50% of the time and saying "well these bombs are $5 a piece but don’t work very well so I'm just going to hold off of bombing for now and maybe the problem will go away". Instead of buying more bombs and spraying over and over again.
Another issue that we are hearing a lot about is off shore drilling and whether or not we should build more nuclear power plants. I can feel it in my gut that something is seriously wrong with our planet as a result of the industrial revolution. I’m not saying that I’m going to jump on the bandwagon with Gore or anything like that but I’m not going to ignore the signs that are all over the place. However, I think that we should drill off shore and put the drums of oil that we get in the international waters into a reserve so that if a severe crisis occurred we would have something to fall back on. It could also be used to stabilize fuel cost. I don’t think that the oil should be used to make fuel prices lower than $2.50 a gallon because we would burn through it too fast if that were the case and we would be worse off than if we had just left it alone.
This would also give us more time and economic resources needed to come up with better alternatives to fossil fuel. This country is on the verge of an economic melt down and the mammoth changes that this new administration is bringing to it may very well send the system into shock. If any or most of the social programs are to work then they need to be responsibly placed into our infrastructure. What they are doing is tearing everything down and rebuilding it from the ground up. If we were to curb our appetite for foreign oil by a significant margin we might have to the strength to implement some of these social programs. Yet more debt and higher taxation without representation will only tear us apart more in the long run.
So far, I agree with Barrack Obama on his stance of not building more nuclear power plants. Our corporations have proved to us time and time again that many of them cannot be trusted. Many lakes and streams have been irreversibly damaged by overly frugal business owners trying to cut corners by saving money on waste disposal. What do you think would happen if they started cutting corners with radioactive waste? Not to mention what would happen if a terrorist got a hold of it and used it in a dirty bomb which could kill off an entire neighborhood.
It is very unfortunate that we cannot use this form of energy production due to lack of trust of our fellow man. It is a very efficient way to create energy and if controlled properly, would be much better on the environment. Yet, until we come up with a totally comprehensive plan for controlling the waste, I think we should focus our attention on other energy sources.
I have heard many rumors on what Nicholas Tesla discovered in the early part of last century. He was able to draw energy right out of the ionosphere in the form of lighting bolts that could power generators. This energy is essentially “free” energy and was never adopted by the major investors of the time like J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller due to lack of profitability. Until people, in masse, start to cry out against this corruption we are never going to see the changes necessary to seriously fix our problems.
Tesla towers are just an example what kind of possibilities there are for alternative energy. There is also Hydrogen production which I mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, with the technology that we have right now, the efficiency and cost of turning water into useable hydrogen doesn’t make it very economically feasible, yet. On the plus side, we as a species are very innovative. I have come up with a few ideas that may or may not work and I’m sure there are plenty of other people out there that are much more brilliant than I am who might have the answer to this dilemma.
I don’t believe that government isn’t needed at all because I’m far from an anarchist. I agree with a lot of what the Federalist party stands for. Our founding fathers where primarily Federalist and, while they believed in having government in our lives to protect us and to help provide us with the highest quality of life possible, they also believed in moderation. To only have government where it is needed. Right now we have so many programs that aren’t needed that 50 cents of every dollar the average American earns is handed over in the form of some tax or another. The fact of the matter is that we as a society need to start thinking for ourselves. The democrats like to control what we do whereas the Republicans like to control what we think. The more we think for ourselves the less we will need either side. Which is why I propose this new plan, PLOW, Put Legislators Out of Work.

shorefront property in Tucson Wrote:
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> Joe M Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Shorefront: I was suprised yesterday. You
> > slipped a reference of "husband." I stopped,
> and
> > thought...huh? I think I may add sexist to my
> > racist label the left gave me...I assumed
> > something along he lines of my "wife served in
> > Vietnam..."
> >
> > And then I put my finger on it-- your logic and
> > construct of reason in debate. I may be a
> sexist
> > if that alone gave me a certain impression.
> >
> > Lesson learned.
> ============================
> lol.... never been accused of logic, much less
> construct...more like Miro on both scores, lol.
>
> I is safe to say I will not pass the dna exam for
> the boyz gym... and there's a mercy...sigh, the
> older I get the more i realize gravity ain't my
> friend.
>
> :-o
Gravity is not Flyfishers friend either.:-O

my biggest fear this election is the alas, inevitability of the endless hanging chad charade we will no doubt face no matter who wins.
=====================
joe,
About gold....okay....in waay over my head. I assume they (India) dumped dollars. Reason I ask is that traditionally....unfortunately we can count on no such thing anymore....the dollar and Euro converge between Dec-Feb. I am hoping this will be the case since I'm trying to get my dollars into Euros asap....not that I don't TOTALLY TRUST THE GOV'T HERE YOU UNDERSTAND.

What's your best guess. I check every day and could kick myself for not doing it this Aug when it was only $1.38. Now it's bouncing from $1.46-1.50 OWWWWW.

The good news, such as it is, is that Credite Agricole is paying a whopping 5% on new accounts under 100K straight savings! So that eases some of the strain of conversion, plus you're earning in Euros.

I'm hedging with GLD. Any suggestions? Not tryin to pin you down but seriously trying to figure out what's the smart move....if there are any to be made and whether to wait or just take the hickie and get it all out now. Our partner in Paris isn't too lathered....said to wait but he can't appreciate the situation here quite the same way.

B

SeekingRationalThought Wrote:
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> I'm disappointed to see people in this discussion
> descending to charges of racism. I don't see Mr.
> Robinson as a racist, just perpetually obtuse and
> wrong. Or as a propagandist rather than a
> journalist. Or so out of touch with reality that
> he can't be accurate about facts, let alone
> correct in their interpretation. The point is,
> Mr. Robinson is so obtuse and out of touch that
> there is no point to calling him racist. You can
> tear his articles apart simply by comparing them
> to daily life and by pointing out his internal
> inconsistancies and factual errors. Charges of
> racism are serious and should be used only against
> those who are blatent and competent. Mr. Robinson
> is neither. He is wrong, not a racist.


I agree. Charges of racism are attempts at finding a motive. Frankly I don't care why he writes such drivel. I am not sure how old he is, but he looks like he could be old enough to have been around during Segregation and the civil rights movements. Growing up under such circumstances it is almost understandable to have a strong emotional link to the first "black" President. The Presidency of Obama clearly means much more to individuals in those circumstances than is healthy, especially one who is supposed to be commenting on such things.