100+ Days Into Obama's Presidency
SadnessI've been listening to a lot of hyperbole about all the horrible things we can expect as Barack Obama spends more time in office, but have yet to see a single one come to fruition. Conservative wing-nuts have predicted everything from renewed terrorists attacks on U.S. soil to the government rounding up firearms, to America becoming a Socialist state.
As with ALL of the predictions of the past administration (the war in Iraq will be a "slam dunk" to the capture of Osama Bin Laden, to the war in Iraq paying for itself when the oil starts flowing, to the notion that "WE DO NOT TORTURE," none of these laughable predictions has come true.
Of course, right now the hottest subject (other than the media hype surrounding swine flu) is the economy and how horribly it's doing. I believe it was the policies of the past administration (as well as those of the Clinton administration) that set the stage for the ruined economy which has unfortunately affected the entire world economy. In all fairness, this is no longer a partisan issue, but an American issue and I am sick to death of those conservative media figures (Rush "Pumpkinhead" Limbaugh, Bill "Sexual Harassment" O'Reilly and others) who are encouraging others to HOPE that Obama's administration fails. What they don't seem intelligent enough to realize is that the U.S. is at a point that if Obama fails, we ALL fail!
I've lately been involved in several discussions which inevitably begin with, "If John McCain had only won . . . ," which seem about as counterproductive as wishing one were born a millionaire. It's got no roots in reality, no way, no how! What these die hard McCain supporters (or die hard conservatives) just don't realize is that there is NOTHING now that will put John McCain in office. They are crying over spilled milk, and as it was popular to say to Democrats after George W. Bush won the Supreme Court's favor in the Florida voting debacle in 2000, "get over it!"
There are two reasons that Barack Obama won the election:
1. He won the majority of American votes, and
2. People were tired of the political dynasties formed by the Bush and Clinton families.
Now, to the reason behind my header (Why I'm Glad John McCain Didn't Win). He was just as hawkish as George W. Bush and was willing not only to keep us in Iraq for 100 years (again mistaking Al Qaeda's presence in Iraq) [link] to his willingness to start an even NEWER war in Iran (where many of my dA friends currently live or were born) [link] and to LAUGH while saying it, to his completely unbelievable (and repeated) loss of touch with reality regarding our failing economy [link]
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=92CB400CF835CAEC&index=2I think most Americans share a healthy distrust of our politicians and should Barack Obama make HALF of the mistakes that George W. Bush made or should he disregard the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights as did the Bush administration, I will be among those screaming the loudest, but until that time comes, I would like to urge those crybaby conservatives who insist on living in the past to imagine how much better a John McCain presidency would be, or to those malevolent miscreants stupid enough to hope that Obama fails, I say crawl back under your rock until the next election - maybe Sarah Palin will choose Carrie Prejean (Miss California) as a running mate and you'll get two bubble-headed bimbos for the price of one!
I hope things get better for you and your family! I'm glad you're back 
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Seriously, I've seen more maturity and less pig-pigheadedness in grade school then some of these conservative nuts show.
You make a VERY good point *Decarabia69.
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Seriously, how stupid are these people. I too am so sick of people hoping he will fail that only hurt all of us if he does. Do they need to be right that bad, that they would rather suffer and see others suffer just to be right? That is just so ignorant and childish.
It's the lobbyist behind the scenes that have been the real puppetmasters. The old addage that "Money Talks" has never been truer than it was in th last administration. Oil Lobbyist bought Dubya the election along with the Karl Rove school of scare tactics and smear campaigning. Any surprse then that Oil companies enjoyed record setting profits duing those years. Ever wonder why it became illegal to buy cheaper drugs from Canada or anywhere else?
Sadly, I think the entire government is corrupt beyond all reasonable hopes of repair. Democrat, or Republicans, it's all the same, they all lie, they all take the lobbyist dollar and then make you and I think they are doing what is in our best interest.
Keep shoveling taxpayer cash down the gullets of the banks is like stoking a steam locomotive with coal. Meantime, the car companies have to go bankrupt, reorganize etc. as thousands lose their jobs, their homes and much more. The difference? Money and Lobbyists.
I say give Obama a chance, unlike the last administraion at least Obama is pretending to care and at least talks about what is wrong. Remember Bush when a reporter asked him about the decline of the economy and he had that typical deer in headlights semi-simian expression on his face and he said that was the first he heard of that? My state was already in a recession at that point....
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I DO remember the Canadian drug debacle and Dick Cheney warning American NOT to buy drugs over the border as their safety couldn't be assured. I saw a documentary around that time that proved a good many of Canada's drugs are actually shipped there by American Pharmaceutical companies who sell there for less.
BTW - I loved the, "semi-simian expression" as it describes the previous moron perfectly!
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You ain't so bad your self.
I see a resemblace of H.R. Giger as well as R.S Connett
Peter S Sibrin
Of course empathy, or the ability to comprehend what another person feels is bad news to the political party that starts a war, sends the sons and daughters of the middle class to fight that war and gives themselves huge tax breaks, thus making the middle class Americans PAY (in money as well as blood) for the war they started.
A judge with empathy might actually rule that a pre-emptive war like that would be illegal and might actually rule against suspending the Bill of Rights for a Presidential administration to spy on innocent people!
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You ain't so bad your self.
I see a resemblace of H.R. Giger as well as R.S Connett
Peter S Sibrin
Though I have no first hand experience of the american scene for the first 100 days of the new president, I can imagine th 'sour grapes' cons still in denial about the trouncing they deservedly received.
In a way, though, I would say that the ones who are explicitly hoping Obama to fail are a preferred lot than the REAL power-wielders who must be working overtime in subterranean regions to thwart the agenda. They are the real insiduous lot. And we underestimate them at our own peril.What worries me is they are alrady on the crawling back trail. It is not quite discernible as of the moment but one can sense the slight pull-back of this administration from its gut reactions and election-promises.
Be it helping big business like auto-makers, bailing the bankers out or deploying more troops in Afghanistan.
Problem I think is inherent in a democracy with so much at stake as at this point of time in history. You can not BOTH wait and watch the situation and THEN take a course of action consensually. You got to act HERE and NOW.
You got to be both decisive and SEEN as decisive and in the interests of the electorate while safe-guarding your own financiers and money-string-pullers.
With Republicans at least the equation was clear - say, for example, oil was dictating the policy , so Halliburton had to get reconstrucion cake in Iraq.
Now thing are not that clear. Who do you save? Predominantly blacks and single mothers who are losing their only dwelling because of repossessions, howsoever foolish they were in swallowing the carrots the mortgage-lenders dangled or the very back-bone of your party's and nation's treasury - a cerain bank facing bankruptcy because of house-lending gone sour?
Do you alienate China because of its poor health-and-hygiene standards in exporting harmful-but-cheap products when China is financing your country? And so on and on...
As England says above, Money talks, yes but wealth whispers, which is more dangerous.And no administraton ever ran on good-will of people, even if 100 percent voted it in power.
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For the longest time the Democrats have been so ineffective that they could kick a sponge and it wouldn't move, but I still think that's infinitely a LOT better than raping the country and calling it a date. I also can't understand how or why conservatives can't see their favorite shills for the hypocrites they are. For years Rush Limbaugh railed away against drug addicts only for us to find out that he's one himself (AND he used his Mexican maid to procure his fix for him). Catholic Bill O'Reilly hawked Republican "family values" and insisted that liberals were waging a "war against Christmas," then we find out he sexually harassed a female intern and made obscene phone calls to her home late at night.
Of course we can't leave out Ted Haggard, the born again Christian conservative who spoke out vehemently against homosexuals only to have a male prostitute expose his long term affair with Haggard, and Mark Foley the Republican congressman who was appointed to a special committee fighting internet sexual predators only to have his sexually explicit emails to male White House pages revealed. Of course we can't leave out Larry Craig who foot-tapped his way into hypocrisy in the stall of an airport restroom. Oh, and what about Jeff Gannon - the fake journalist who got Secret Service clearance to sit in the White House Press Corps in order to ask Dubya ridiculously easy questions regarding his policies? It turned out later that he was a well-known gay prostitute who was allowed into the White House after hours and kept no less than TWO websites featuring gay pornography.
To coin a quote from the Kevin Smith movie "Clerks," Barack Obama would almost have to anally rape my mother while pouring sugar into my gas tank to top anything the Bush administration did in their eight years in power!
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You ain't so bad your self.
I see a resemblace of H.R. Giger as well as R.S Connett
Peter S Sibrin
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Thanks for commenting Fang.
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You ain't so bad your self.
I see a resemblace of H.R. Giger as well as R.S Connett
Peter S Sibrin
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