After bailouts, health care, stimulus programs, cap and tax, etc., etc. the only change we have is the small change in our pockets. I think it’s about time to rise up and take our country back.
Richard, the majority of Americans voted this administration in. You need to broaden your base, there’s a whole world out there. I’ll bet you and Aryalover think Bush was wonderful don’t you?
I voted for President Obama (that’s his name!) and I believe he’s doing a much better job than any of his recent predecessors. I think my local representative (Eshoo) is honest, thoughtful, caring, and one of the best in Congress. One of my senators is great (Boxer) and the other is pretty good (Feinstein).
I love these people who talk about the “founding fathers and minimal government”, and “take our country back”. There weren’t 305 million people (Est. 2009) in the USA back then. Things were a little simpler. Now we have highways and streets, garbage service, autos, computers, airlines, electrical and natural gas interties, etc., etc., and 305 million people to consider. If you really want minimal government you had better invent a time machine, because you’ll never get it now. And “take our country back” basically means “take YOUR country” back, make it over in your own white supremacist fantasies. . Most of us haven’t lost our country - it’s still here. We might get upset with various administrations from time to time (which is why THIS one was voted in) but this is STILL our country - right-wing ranters don’t get to have it for their very own, thank God.
This is about as well-defined as the “change you can believe in” that Mr. Obama campaigned on.
Those of you who voted for him, did so because you just filled in the blanks with whatever change you wanted him to make. Usually some kind of social agenda that you wanted the government to force upon the rest of us.
@somebodyshort; precisely. “If you never do anything, you’ll never make a mistake” was Mr. Show’s way of expressing “Get off the !@#$% dime!” to HS juniors.
So yes, “doing nothing” is a way of staying in your cave and not chancing rejection or a put-down, but usually a mistake.
As for current events, it’s our job now, as with FDR, to make enough noise and make President Obama (title, name - for life) do the right things. The unregulated greed and machismo of the past thirty years have d@mn near ruined us.
So far, he’s a centrist with an olive branch in hand, and the disloyal opposition so far have greeted it with a Zippo. Shame! I say; shame!
pbarn, I hardly consider what President Obama espouses as centrist, any more than i consider what the previous President did as Conservative. I find it amazing that the so-called liberals rant about Bush spending away the mythical surplus that Clinton left, and then go on to support President Obama spending twice as much. Just goes to show that most folks aren’t thinking when it comes to policy and politics, but rather just parroting what their favorite agenda-based news outlet spews. The information you need in order to make good decisions is out there, you just won’t get it in a 2 minute sound byte.
Yukoner over 14 years ago
The French have a saying (translated), “The more things change, the more things stay the same.”
ben_david over 14 years ago
And “the only constant is change.” What we need is backward change - back to what the founding fathers envisioned: minimal government.
lfanterickson over 14 years ago
AMEN, ben_david!!!
jrbj over 14 years ago
After bailouts, health care, stimulus programs, cap and tax, etc., etc. the only change we have is the small change in our pockets. I think it’s about time to rise up and take our country back.
pearlandpeach over 14 years ago
Norman, you are so right.
wicky over 14 years ago
I cannot find a soul who voted for the present admin… . . so, who voted them in?
rshive over 14 years ago
Give a politician an opening and he’ll steer the talk around to what he wanted to talk about anyway.
CogentModality over 14 years ago
As I’ve said before, most people think “everybody’s representatives but mine are crooks”.
Aryalover over 14 years ago
@ Richard: My stupid sister voted for him. My apologies.
tcolkett over 14 years ago
Richard, the majority of Americans voted this administration in. You need to broaden your base, there’s a whole world out there. I’ll bet you and Aryalover think Bush was wonderful don’t you?
lewisbower over 14 years ago
In Ct one senator’s a crook, the other a traitor. Will we vote them out?.
jpozenel over 14 years ago
Richard said:
I cannot find a soul who voted for the present admin… . . so, who voted them in?
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Who did you vote for?
benbrilling over 14 years ago
I voted for President Obama (that’s his name!) and I believe he’s doing a much better job than any of his recent predecessors. I think my local representative (Eshoo) is honest, thoughtful, caring, and one of the best in Congress. One of my senators is great (Boxer) and the other is pretty good (Feinstein).
Ushindi over 14 years ago
I love these people who talk about the “founding fathers and minimal government”, and “take our country back”. There weren’t 305 million people (Est. 2009) in the USA back then. Things were a little simpler. Now we have highways and streets, garbage service, autos, computers, airlines, electrical and natural gas interties, etc., etc., and 305 million people to consider. If you really want minimal government you had better invent a time machine, because you’ll never get it now. And “take our country back” basically means “take YOUR country” back, make it over in your own white supremacist fantasies. . Most of us haven’t lost our country - it’s still here. We might get upset with various administrations from time to time (which is why THIS one was voted in) but this is STILL our country - right-wing ranters don’t get to have it for their very own, thank God.
theR0nin over 14 years ago
This is about as well-defined as the “change you can believe in” that Mr. Obama campaigned on.
Those of you who voted for him, did so because you just filled in the blanks with whatever change you wanted him to make. Usually some kind of social agenda that you wanted the government to force upon the rest of us.
Thanks for nothing.
mervyn64 over 14 years ago
Alast, for all thoes that I cared for have left thee…….very well then, let them eat cake!!!
pbarnrob over 14 years ago
@somebodyshort; precisely. “If you never do anything, you’ll never make a mistake” was Mr. Show’s way of expressing “Get off the !@#$% dime!” to HS juniors.
So yes, “doing nothing” is a way of staying in your cave and not chancing rejection or a put-down, but usually a mistake.
As for current events, it’s our job now, as with FDR, to make enough noise and make President Obama (title, name - for life) do the right things. The unregulated greed and machismo of the past thirty years have d@mn near ruined us.
So far, he’s a centrist with an olive branch in hand, and the disloyal opposition so far have greeted it with a Zippo. Shame! I say; shame!
artisanx over 14 years ago
All those in favor of returning to Bush/Cheny to office: say,”Aye.” All those opposed: Say,”Thank GOD that’s not going to happen!”
MisngNOLA over 14 years ago
pbarn, I hardly consider what President Obama espouses as centrist, any more than i consider what the previous President did as Conservative. I find it amazing that the so-called liberals rant about Bush spending away the mythical surplus that Clinton left, and then go on to support President Obama spending twice as much. Just goes to show that most folks aren’t thinking when it comes to policy and politics, but rather just parroting what their favorite agenda-based news outlet spews. The information you need in order to make good decisions is out there, you just won’t get it in a 2 minute sound byte.