tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770452401660077325.post808190520737735293..comments2023-06-29T06:17:55.565-04:00Comments on Rudely Stamped: Post-Election AnalysisMichael Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16130407408359782469noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770452401660077325.post-43136561125162083212009-01-23T01:09:00.000-05:002009-01-23T01:09:00.000-05:00KanickaPow:I am highly skeptical of Obama, as some...KanickaPow:<BR/><BR/>I am highly skeptical of Obama, as some earlier posts demonstrate explicitly.<BR/><BR/>The new president is clearly aligned with big capital and the military-industrial complex; I don't see a readiness to attack our nation's problems at their root.<BR/><BR/>But what else should one expect from America's self-serving, venal and stagnant political duopoly?!!<BR/><BR/>MBMichael Blainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130407408359782469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770452401660077325.post-477731166683687492008-11-20T20:27:00.000-05:002008-11-20T20:27:00.000-05:00Louis:I see more of a distinction between the Repu...Louis:<BR/><BR/>I see more of a distinction between the Repubs and the Dems:<BR/><BR/>For example, the former lie when they promise to make gay marriage unconstitutional; the latter lie when they promise to make college affordable for everyone.<BR/><BR/>It's a question of tone and focus.Michael Blainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130407408359782469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770452401660077325.post-80780154261302542592008-11-20T20:22:00.000-05:002008-11-20T20:22:00.000-05:00Michael, you're right I guess. The bottom line is...Michael, you're right I guess. The bottom line is that what he did worked. It just creeps me out a little that he's using the same strategy as the outgoing admin, any lie is justifiable if you need to tell it to achieve your ends.<BR/><BR/>Then again, I guess that's government for you. Maybe I'm more of an idealist than I want to admit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770452401660077325.post-27802983652751284872008-11-16T19:39:00.000-05:002008-11-16T19:39:00.000-05:00Louis, Obama may not lower income taxes on the mid...Louis, Obama may not lower income taxes on the middle class, but he almost certainly will raise them on the top 1%.<BR/><BR/>As for the lying, I don't think <BR/>Obama relished it, but he certainly did say what he calculated he needed to in order to win the election.<BR/><BR/>Give this to him: he was successful!Michael Blainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130407408359782469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770452401660077325.post-3705436232721506702008-11-16T18:08:00.000-05:002008-11-16T18:08:00.000-05:00Michael, why don't you just tell us how you really...Michael, why don't you just tell us how you <I>really</I> feel? j/k<BR/>I've been waiting for you to post about this and you didn't disappoint!<BR/><BR/>I went at this election like I was voting for either dumb or dumber. I doubt I'm alone in my frustration that every four years we have only two choices. We were getting either the same ol' same ol' OR we were getting a fencepost in a suit who happens to have a gift for public speaking. I think having a fencepost in there will yield more favorable results than planting an itchy trigger finger in the Oval Office, though. At least this way our downward spiral will look a lot different in its execution.<BR/><BR/>The one thing that seems business as usual to me, though, is the lying. Obama spent over 20 years in that church, called the pastor his mentor, supported him with his time, money and friendship. Then when he ran for high office he played it as though he hardly knew the man and couldn't buy into what the guy was saying. Wright was saying the same thing for 20 years, but it only bothered Obama's tender conscience when he decided to run in the primary? Obama lives and breathes that man's message yet threw the guy under the bus when the heat came down. That's called deceit in the real world.<BR/><BR/>And relegating his close friendship to Ayers to the status of "just a guy from the neighborhood"? These two have been pals for years and years. Ayers even opened his home to Obama, who held his first political meeting in the guy's living room. Just a guy from the neighborhood?<BR/><BR/>And telling us all through the campaign that he's about cutting taxes on the middle class? That won't happen, either, and it was never going to happen, and he knew it.<BR/><BR/>The thing is, he didn't have to lie, he'd have gotten elected running with integrity and, besides, nobody was holding that stuff against him anyway...well, no one but that shrinking minority formerly known as the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, the scourge of Hillary Clinton. <BR/><BR/>It was all a bunch of packaged lies. That sounds suspiciously to me like the outgoing administration. I can't buy into the euphoric utopian dream that has so many peoples' heads swimming. We have NO idea about this man. He has never governed anything in his life...city, state or anything else. He's never done any kind of official budget. Ever. And now he's in the Oval Office? All we know about the guy is that he can speak well, really, and that he can lie very smoothly and get people to believe him. <BR/><BR/>I agree: we are better off than with the alternative. What scares me is that he's completely green, he's inherited a mess and there's nothing in his background that tells us he has any idea what to do. I can't bear to look...<BR/><BR/>And I'm an optimist!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com