The "Sort of God" and the Politician
Barack Obama was going to be different. At least that was the storyline.
Sure he was a politician, but only technically. He was so much more than that, according to the narrative. In Barack Obama we had a candidate who was smart and charismatic and wasn’t going to behave like any old time politician who came before him. No, he was not just different; he was better. He was the future. Here was a man who was selling “hope” and “change” to a nation that could use a little hope and change after George W. Bush. So America rallied behind this man of vision. And in the eyes of many Americans, he was much more than a mere man; he was a messiah.
It all sure sounded good, especially since the message was coming from a candidate who could actually speak coherently – unlike his predecessor – and one who flashed that million dollar smile that made his fans, including many slobbering journalists, swoon. Evan Thomas, the thinker in residence at Newsweek, once said Obama was a “sort of God.”
So how’s all that hope and change stuff working out for us?
Well, let’s take the president’s single most important hope and change idea: healthcare. While silly Americans were worried about small things, like their jobs, President Obama was concerned with much bigger things, like transforming America. So Old Healthcare had to go and New ObamaCare had to take its place. There was just one problem. The American people didn’t share his vision. And neither did all the Democrats in the U.S. Senate. So what did our “sort of God” do? He did exactly what every hack politician who came before him has done: he bought votes with taxpayer money. A few hundred million for the Democrat senator from Louisiana. A few hundred million more for the Democratic senator from Nebraska. “A million here and a million there, pretty soon it adds up to real money,” as the late Republican senator from Illinois, Everett Dirsken used to say.
But even old-fashioned bribes weren’t enough to insure passage of the bill. So the president again showed us how different he was from all those old politicians. This time he brought a bunch of his union pals into the White House, closed the doors, pulled the shades, turned down the lights, and cut them a special deal: union members would avoid taxes, at least for a few years, on their Cadillac medical insurance plans – but you would have to pay up right away.
You think some old-time pol would do something like that? Never mind.
The whole thing might have actually worked except for one thing: Scott Brown won the senate seat Teddy Kennedy used to hold in the bluest of blue states, Massachusetts — and the Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority in the senate.
How about race? Now that America had turned its back on its ugly racial history and elected a black man as president, all the bickering over race – everyone hoped – would finally be over. Dream on! Criticize the president’s policies and there’s a good chance that some liberal yahoo will call you a racist.
Think I’m exaggerating? Well, consider this. Just the other day, Sarah Palin, speaking to the first national Tea Party Convention in Nashville, called the President of the United States, who used to teach law, a terrible name. She said he was … a professor. Gasp! “They know we’re at war, and to win that war we need a commander in chief,” Ms. Palin said, “not a professor of law standing at the lectern.”
And that prompted Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, who has known Barack Obama since he was a law student at Harvard, to say that Palin was pretty much a bigot.
The professor label is a thinly veiled attack on Obama’s race, according to Ogletree. Calling him the “professor,” Ogletree says, comes dangerously close to calling him “uppity” –a term with nasty racial implications.
So in post-racial Obama America, professor = uppity = you’re a racist. And Ogletree isn’t some lone pinhead on the subject. Thomas L. Haskell, a professor emeritus of history at Rice University, also sees racism at work.
“For me and a lot of other academic types, we identify with Obama precisely because he is an intellectual,” Haskell said. “But what does that mean to John Q. Public? I don’t know. John Q. Public may be frightened of these people, especially because this particular intellectual is a black man.”
Get it? John Q. Public – that’s you – is a bigot who doesn’t appreciate Barack Obama’s intellect because all you John Q. Publics out there can see is the color of the president’s skin.
One more thing: Old style pols are always telling the voters whatever they have to just to get elected, right? Not Obama. Remember, he was different. And you may also remember that during the campaign candidate Obama repeatedly said he would not raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year. But just the other day, he told reporters from Bloomberg BusinessWeek that he was “agnostic” on the issue. A bi-partisan presidential commission is going to try to figure out ways to reduce the gigantic federal deficit – and everything is on the table, Obama said. Everything! Translation: The president is no longer 100 percent against tax increases on the middle-class. He’s agnostic.
I ask again: How’s that hope and change working out for you?
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Obama should quit being a politician and become an actor. Or comedian..
This is for Wil. I believe the passing of time will show that Obama expanded the mistakes that Bush made in the end of his term with the bailouts. Although Bush was wrong, Obama has abandoned every poll of public opinion and spent money with utter abandon. He will go down in history as the one that tried to destroy our country by pitching us down the hole of utter bankruptcy. We have been in debt for many years, but by his incompetence we will soon be unable to pay the interest on our debt. I hope we can somehow stop this madman, but he will have the legacy of being histories worst, worst, worst president.
As I tell my customers, hope is not a strategy and change is inevitable even when doing nothing. Any individual that lives in hope that the economy will come back to correct their current conditions, lives in fantasyland. We have experienced a complete economic reset compliments of an over inflated housing market. And it won’t reverse itself in the near future. Ignore hope as it doesn’t work. Change isn’t just a word it’s action. Mr. President, call Steve Jobs and ask him what you can do to convince him to build half his products in the U.S. and then apply that same philosophy to all medium and large businesses. Give small construction businesses that employ skilled plumbers, electricians, carpenters tax incentives so that they can compete with companies that employ illegal immigrants. Trust me; they’ll pass it on to their customers!
That’s my two cents on hope and change!
Thank you, Bernie, for telling the truth. It feels like President Obama is always trying to woo the jury. Hopefully, the jury is out. What the American people need is someone with some integrity. Please.
Every time I read Obamacare it reminds me of the song by Ray Stevens which fits appropriately in the thick of things. every body should have that song on their computer and once in a while listen to it. It does give different prospective to obamacare.
I’ve never understood why Barack Obama is considered an “intellectual”. Aren’t intellectuals people who have demonstrated some originality of thought and cogent analysis in some field of study? Has Obama demonstrated these two qualities? Has he said anything that could be considered particularly profound? Has he written a serious scholarly treatise of any kind? Has he completed a significant research project during the course of his academic career?
Moreover, how does an adjunct lecturer/instructor in constitutional law come to be regarded as a “professor”?
George Washington Carver (black man) was a true “Intellect” Too bad Barack Obama isn’t half the man GWC was.
What? You mean to tell me that “The Audacity of Hope” wasn’t the most inspiring, iltellectually profound piece of literature you have ever read? You must be a tea bagging fear mongering racist. No, you must have read the review via Fox News, or did you hear Rush Limbaugh repeat his talking points? What ever it was, you sure are a bigoted moron if you can’t see how important that book is to history.
Please, accept my sarcasm.
It is amazing how liberals find racism in any and all criticism of Obama. It says a lot about their intellectual inabilities doesn’t it?
Indeed. Unfortunately there are conservative who are just as intellectually retarded. Oops, am I not supposed to say that?
I saw an article on Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-williams/sarah-palin-plays-chess_b_457196.html) the other day that I thought was a little off kilter. No, not because it was bashing Sarah, but because it was praising Sarah in a strange way. The writer asserted that Sarah Palin had written on her hand ON PURPOSE so as to provoke the lamestream media into talking about her and the key points she wanted to make in her speech. A blogger named Marion also pointed out that the liberal New York Magazine had made a similar assertion (http://marionsword.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1B80DAF0A76159D5!1890.entry).
“Ah, you’re nuts,” I thought to myself until I heard the interview with Sarah Palin on the Bob and Mark Show. When asked if she was amazed at how easy it is for her to get under the skin of the other side, Palin responded (http://palintv.com/2010/02/12/bob-and-mark-wish-governor-palin-happy-birthday/):
“You could just kind of count on whatever it is that I do or wear or scribble on the palm of my hand or anything else, you know it’s gonna get somebody wee-wee’d up. So, you guys, in a kind of perverted way I guess it’s sort of fun because it’s like okay if I want to get a message out there about tax cuts and lifting the American spirit and energy, let me write it on my hand and the (inaudible) picks it up and look what happens! But, ya know, it’s a bazaar, bazaar thing and, um, I’m just gonna keep plugging away though. I’m not going to let ‘em tell me or anyone of us to sit down and shut up. We’ll keep forging ahead with this message.”
Trying to convince people the media is biased while dissing Palin is like Florida trying to convince people about their climate while dissing the sun.
As I said to Frank Rich this past Sunday…
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As for the writing on the palm, we can dismiss that one “out of hand,” so to speak, by thinking back to World War II.
Perhaps you’d care to publish a link to: “The War in the Air,” by Gene Gurney, Major, USAF, Bonanza Books, New York, copyright 1962, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 6211809.
Check out the USAF photo on Page 140: “Fighter pilot, with mission data inked on his hand, relaxes after safe return.”
If writing on one’s hand is good enough for a WWII combat pilot, it’s for damn sure good enough for Palin. And in point of fact, I’d sooner trust my life to Palin than I would to Obama, since “The President Who Would Be King” delights in regularly throwing friends under the bus.
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Not likely that Rich will publish that link. No surprise there.
Hello Mr. Goldberg,
I am a very loyal Fox watcher and I have a burning desire to do something and have no idea on how or what to do,so I am starting with e-mails that hopefully will not fall in deaf ears.
I am middle aged man,who is so angry at Washington and I see no end in sight. I am for the most part Independent person and a registered Independent,having said that, I am in the middle but lean towards the right a little.
Here is what I do not understand,I know that the Dem’s are screwing up so bad and its very clear they do not care at all !
But the Republicans are not helping us out either,they think if they sit back and allow the Dem’s to dig a bigger hole that they can not get out of, the republicans will take more seats and the Republicans are looking at 2012 for the presidency and if and when that happens we well be talking about how bad the Republicans are screwing up. It will be another 4 years and another 4 years it will go back and fourth ” its nuts” at our expense.
I do not see any end to this MADNESS and we are not moving forward at all we are in trouble and all I see is so many SELFISH members of Washington and they have the “GUTS” to charge us money (taxes) so they can play games and all we can do is watch.
Our fathers and brothers did not sacrifice on battlefields,railroads,Indians and so on. So I have a few thoughts,if the extremes on the left do not want to give a inch and the extremes on the right do not want to give a inch,the right is NO BETTER and no good for all of us looking in.”its like DRAMA or a bad marriage going back in fourth like the “WAR OF THE ROSES” the movie.
So in closing here, I see these parties arguing for years to come at the people expense. I l would like to open a serious dialog on opening a third party(the Tea Party was a real disappointment) and then and only then will these two parties will not be so incline to think that they are superior to the people and maybe keep Washington in check and maybe cut back on all this selfishness and maybe just maybe we can keep some of the attorneys out of Washington.
Thank you for your time and keep up the good work,
Frank Romanowski
Frank,
I’m in the same boat you are. I’m not a registered anything, but have voted dependably Republican for the last 18 years. I, too, see both parties as part of the problem, not the solution.
One third party alternative I’ve been looking at is the Libertarian Party. However, their platform is not perfect, either. They believe in smaller government, lower taxes, and an emphasis on personal responsibility. They also believe in no government involvement in personal lives, but this includes things like drug use and abortion, two areas about which I am in disagreement with the LP platform. I don’t believe decriminalizing drug use will lead to lower crime, although the medicinal use of marijuana in places like California and Washington state has seemed to slightly decrease the rate of marijuana-related crimes. I don’t believe, though, that allowing women to make the ultimate decision about whether to carry their baby to term or not would decrease the number of back-room abortions, dead women as a result, or increase the number of live births or adoptions. Is legislation the answer? I do not know, and do not want to be the one to make that decision. However, my position is always in favor of life.
One caveat about a third-party – it can fracture the vote to a point where an unpopular candidate can actually capture enough votes to be elected. So third parties may not be the answer. But I agree with you that something must be done, and it’s up to us to get our government back under control based on the Constitution.
Here is another take, maybe you’ve heard it before:
The ONLY reason I might have voted for Obama is because he is black.
I am a Republican, I don’t beleive in a lot of social spending programs. I believe in small government. I don’t believe in a nanny state. BUT, I’d like for us to put the racial BS behind us, and I like Obama as a person, so I thought about voting for him. In the end, I voted for McCain, because he was, in fact, more qualified.
I guess I’m still a racist, huh?
(Of course, those who voted for him and are now opposed to him are also racists, right? When will it end?)
Bernie–
Totally agree with you. Agnostic, now theres a word that just about sums up our president.
I really wanted to believe, but the miracles just ain’t happening, and it’s not walking on water thats happening, its flailing thinly disquised as treading.
Bernie, Something is wrong when we celebrate mental mediocrity like yours under the misapprehension that competence or, God forbid, intelligence, makes a person one of those
“elites” — that’s a curse word now — lacking authenticity, compassion and common sense.
LEONARD PITTS Jr.
http://www.miamiherald.com/leonard_pitts/
You’re comparing Bernie to Leonard Pitts? Leonard Pitts is an ignorant racist mule!
Comparing Bernard Goldberg to Leonard Pitts? Not only isn’t Leonard Pitts in the game, he’s not even in the ballpark. And after reading some of his columns, it’s still an open question as to what PLANET he’s on.
Wil,
Why are you this way?
Your had it comming, Bernie.
How dare you call Ogletree and Haskell ‘Professors’?
anti-elitism is not anti-intellectualism as Joe Klein would like us to believe. “Smartness” or intelligence is not the ability to point to your IQ or educational pedigree to designate yourself a leader, but rather it’s the ability to motivate those above and below your IQ or educational pedigree to follow you. The smartest guy in the room is the one who recognizes he’s not the smartest guy in the room.
Willy, maybe this will help you out…..blame the failure of “the sort of God” Obama on the white half of him. there doesn’t that make you feel better.
Black, White, Green or polka-dotted doen’t alter the plain unalterable fact that Barack Obama is a proven unmitigated liar. In the past, when we didn’t have the (so-called) benefit of 24 hr cable with its penchant for taping any and everything , a president’s abandonment of his stated policies and intentions both during his campaign as well as his active office term were not easily proven. Obama’s out and out lies however are when videos of his numerous past glowing promises are shown alongside his present contradictory statements. Now, among his many proclaimed attributes is a superior intelligence which is clearly refuted by the simple fact that he has to know of his past promises when he breaks them and yet he publicly does so with full knowlege of video proof being made of his perfidy. He evidently counts on the criminally complicit lame-stream media to withold the broadcasting of his deceit but he foolishly ignores the simple fact that all any future opponent has to do to beat his brains out in an election is to show the public the contradictory tapes in their tv campaigns which will be broadcast just as long as the dishonestly biased networks are paid to do so.So, unless he does an absolute 180, he’s one-termer for sure and, more importantly, for the better.
Buz, Why aren’t you in church, praying that Obama and America will fail? A year ago, Obama comes into office facing a global economic meltdown. Half a million jobs were vanishing each month. Millions of Americans were losing their homes to foreclosure;
millions more are on the chopping block. Things are finally starting to turn around, so stop your nonsense and start loving your country!
Wil, why aren’t you in church?
Because the lightweght didn’t have a clue he made the economic situation much worse and spent us into fiscal ruin. Don’t worry though, the first job is always the hardest. Plenty of teachable moments.
Wil, I love my country very much and that is why I am having so much difficulty with Obama’s persistant contradictions of his prior public statements which denegrates his, hence America’s, credibility-to say the least. I did not in any way diminish the magnatude of the problems he faced upon assuming office or the tragic difficulties that many of our citizens are facing because of them. However I fail to see how Obama’s continual utterances of false policies ranging from intended tax relief to terrorist prosecution with numerous stops in between is at all helpful and how you can consider my concern over them as nonsense. Based upon his foolish,easily documentable lies, I believe him to be incompetent and you to be star struck by him and suffering from a severe case of Bushmania that you share with the lamestream media.
The Bush administration gave us some of the darkest years in the history of the country. Historians will look back on the last Bush eight years as a horrific nightmare and freak show of the most grotesque kind. Obama is trying to correct our country’s present situation. With or without help from you naysayers. Get on board or get the hell out of the way!
Wil, are you and I living on the same planet? What u just came up with is absolutely ludicrous. The nightmare and freak show is happening right now. If we get out of Obama’s way and let him have unfettered power to change everything that we have worked to achieve, we will be in real trouble. And you want all of us to get on board a sinking ship that even the smart Democrats are slowly but surely jumping off. They see the writing on the wall. Obama will fall flat on his face and they don’t want to get buried in the avalanche. Take away his teleprompter and he’s just another empty suit.
Jeff, Graze peacefully.
they were good years
We’re standing in the way of a cliff. If you insist, by all means, jump away!
We were standing on that cliff Jan. 20, 2009. Obama save our country from going over that cliff.
Are you kidding? He took the first leap over. Get informed!
I just have to quote your fellow commie rad Al Franken(stein) “YOU’RE AN IDIOT”
Wil, you make me laugh
Wil,
Again, your response bears no relevance to the post in question. And please cite your evidence that things are “finally starting to turn around.” Half a million jobs are still vanishing – in the private sector. Many of the jobs being “created” are government jobs. Millions of people are losing their homes to foreclosure not because of the previous administration, but because of the financial sector’s reckless misuse of investment funds. And, by the way, the same thing is still happening under the current administration. Loving your president (for no apparent reason) is not the same as loving your country. You need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
Buz,
I tried to encourage people to learn more about BHO…..no, no. no….the electorate was mesmerized by this Chicago trained thurgery brand of politics and all hype. By the way I am black and I would have NEVER voted for him. It had nothing to do with him being black, just secretive, liar by omission, hip, slick and cool and I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL HE IS OUT OF OFFICE.
Other then calling our President names, what are your real reasons for hating Obama. Is it because he’s only half black?
Why do you like Obama so much to the point you see no wrong in him. Get informed, Wil, get informed!
You obviously didn’t read Dr. Gilmore’s post. You know, the part where she said, “It had nothing to do with him being black”? And I don’t believe she ever mentioned she “hated” the man. Those are your words. My belief is that this is a classic case of projection brought on by self-loathing.
Thanks Bernie! ‘ll be passing this along.
No change, no hope. Only the faces change in this comedy show we call politics.
A while ago I read a comment from a man who called himself ‘Bob’ on the American Spectator website that I can’t stop repeating in my head. He said, “A tillion here and a tillion there, pretty soon it adds up to fake money.”
Don’t judge a man by the color of his teleprompter………..judge him by his words. His words have lied so many times, he can’t keep up with them.
Dear Professor G., Finally got around to reading your book,”A Slobbering Love Affair”. My wife and I feel you should have posted a warning: Reading segments of this book, while drinking a beverage, may cause snorfelling. Continue at your owne risk! Thanks for the trip down ,rip-n-read, memory lane.
Hey Bernie, Obama inherits the Bush depression, where the DOW has fallen 50% by the time of inauguration, where unemployment is accelerating, where the banking system is in tatters thanks to unregulated credit default swaps, where virtually every major Wall Street house has gone upside down, where some of the largest mortgage lenders are upside down, and the prescription to stabilize the economy – as FDR did – is Keynesian stimulus. Which required debt.
Incidentally, Obama is putting all the costs “on budget”, so they’re out there for everyone to see. Bush kept running things (like his unsuccessful wars) “off budget”, so folks like you wouldn’t focus on them. But they still cost money. Billions and trillions, actually. Did you think those were free?
The Republicans figured out long ago as Bush was planting the seeds of the economic nightmare we’re “enjoying” now that they wanted no part of running the executive when the crap hit the fan. I can’t think of any other reason for them to include such an unqualified disaster as McCain & Sarah Palin on their ticket, unless they purposely intended to loose the election.
Bernie, You have to admit that the Republicans are performing the OBSTRUCTIONIST role quite well!. They got it down to a science. They want Obama to fail and they do not care if the country fails too!
“Tell me a story, Daddy.”
“Sure, son. I’ll tell you about Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, the Community Reinvestment Act and of course ACORN, which strong-armed local banks into making bad loans to unqualified borrowers…which led to the mortage mess we’re in.
“But it’s not a story you’ll read in lamestream media, son, because they don’t have a word to say about the Johnnies Appleseed of this scandal…unless they can somehow pin it on Republicans.
“Sleep well, son.”
The CRA requirements were relaxed during the Bush administration. What’s more, George W. Bush was a major proponent of the kind of mortgages that banks had started making under the CRA. Bush urged low-to-no doc mortgages and the elimination of down payments, just like the CRA regulators had long done. “We certainly don’t want there to be a fine print preventing people from owning their home,” the President said in a 2002 speech. “We can change the print, and we’ve got to.”
You forgot to mention ACORN, and the Clinton administration’s involvement. By the way, you are taking President Bush’s words out of context. You need to get informed!
Clinton didn’t start 2 wars, kill 4300 soldiers, empty the Treasury and set the Middle East on fire.
More died under Clinton than under Bush, and Bush didn’t personally kill anyone, stop making it sound like he is personally responsible for anyone’s death. Just like a liberal. Look to the past and blame, blame, blame. By the way, the economic crisis started under Clinton, and last time I checked, the middle east isn’t a mirror so it wasn’t set on fire. Inform yourself!
You are lying! Clinton never sent a man into battle who didn’t come home alive.
Check the records Wil, soldiers died under Clinton. More than under Bush. Get informed!
http://www.ecospeakers.com/speakers/burnsw.html
Is this you Wil?
no he just sat behind the “desk” with his cigars and well…. you know who else.
Another non sequitur. “Your facts are uncoordinated.” – Nomad, “The Changeling,” Star Trek
And who pushed the relaxation of the CRA requirements the hardest? Can you say Barney Frank? The same Barney Frank who it has been proven has benefited from the housing bubble burst, and is now throwing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the bus, now that their usefulness (to him) has ended?
“Open your eyes, and see the world that stands before you now.” – John Wetton, Asia, “Open Your Eyes”
Stop blaming this solely on Bush. Inform yourself. Get over your BDS, and freaking inform yourself.
Me, you and a lot of other conservatives saw this coming. We knew his wife was a newfound American patriot during his campaign, and he had an anti-American minister. But none of that mattered. McCain had quite a few things held against him too. Sixty million people voted for Obama, not because he was black (or politically correctly speaking, African-American…laughter inserted here), but because they thought that Obama had a better sense of economics than McCain. And of course, they wanted ‘change’. I’m not saying this was bad or good, and I didn’t vote for Obama. But I’m glad to see that 45% of the people who believed in him no longer do. Even though its just his second year in office, I hope he utilizes his extra time to be more partisan, especially if his party’s future will turn bleak in November.
On a side note, Bernie, I know a great website you might like. You might have already heard of it too. This website has been tracking over 500 of Obama’s campaign promises from day one. It shows what he kept, and what he broke. Checkitout: http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
Actually I meant bi-partisan. Not partisan. Whoops!
No, I think you were right the first time. Let him be more partisan and throw more gasoline on the fire. He’s not only fiddling while the Titanic sinks, he’s drilling more holes in the hull!
November 6, 2012. In the immortal words of Bart Simpson, “Are we there yet?”
Bernie, are you sure you’re not being to hard on Obama? Here are some of the WONDERFUL things he’s accomplished in just over a year in office. My caveat? This is ONLY a partial list.
A stimulus package he vowed would keep unemployment from going higher than 8 percent
Giving up a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, and getting nothing from the Russians in return
Working to put a missile shield in Romania, just so he can have his name on it
Bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York to stand trial
Dithering…YES, DITHERING…on Afghanistan
Screwing the Chrysler bondholders
An abominable health-care bill opposed by a MAJORITY of Americans
Hiring Janet “The System Works” Napolitano
Hiring Eric “Mr. Pardon” Holder
Failing to follow through on Black Panthers intimidating voters on Election Day
“Carbonhagen,” aka “Hopenhagen”
Failed outreach to Iran
Failed outreach to Muslims
Apologizing for America tours
Van Jones
Obama owns every item above, NOT ONE of which he can blame on Bush or the Republicans. So there are EXCELLENT reasons for Obama’s anemic presidency. Borrowing from “Seven Days in May,” Obama is not just a weak sister. He’s a criminally weak sister.
Barack Obama is THE WORST president EVER inflicted on the United States.
So I guess this post makes me a “racist.” Whoops!
You forgot the most important of all. He appointed Tim Geithner the Secretary of the Treasury.
Thanks, Stephen! Consider Geithner added to the list!
“Sure, son. I’ll tell you about Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, the Community Reinvestment Act and of course ACORN, which strong-armed local banks into making bad loans to unqualified borrowers…which led to the mortage mess we’re in.>>
But, but, Wasn’t Bush in complete charge of the federal government, when all mortage mess came down! Get real! And, It was guess who – privatization loving Republicans – who felt they would function better as quasi-private entities with a corporate board and less government oversight.
Nobody at Freddie or Fannie told Countrywide or the other creeps to issue mortgages to people they knew couldn’t repay them back. Freddie and Fannie collapsed because of the Ponzi get-rich games private mortgage lenders were engaging in. And the Bush administration let it happen!
Wil,
Your selective memory makes you an arrogant imbecile. I believe the Bush administration went before congress in 2002 or 2003 warning of the bad situation Fannie and Freddie were in and asking for more regulation of such. I believe the Dems in the Senate successfully blocked any new regulations to correct this. Did you see Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, et all assuring the public that the banking system was sound? They did just that. Now close your pie hole and go play with yourself!
Your selective memory makes you an arrogant imbecile.>>
Really, what regulations did Bush want that put restraints on the financial sector, that the democrats blocked? Waiting…?
Wil, the Democrats are the fools that allowed the investment banks to merge with the commercial banks. Clinton is the one who passed legislation that put lower restrictions on lending. Under the Democrats it become legal for banks to lend based off of derivatives. Unfortunately Bush didn’t really care, and neither does Obama. What is Obama doing to make things better? I know its hard for you to believe that your Messiah is nothing more than a demagogic swindler. It’s OK though, I’m sure treatment for it will be covered under his healthcare plan. Instead of creating a straw man by blaming everything on the Bush administration, get informed!
Steve, Have you forgotten, that government continued and was accelerated from 2000 – 2006, a period which was not controlled by “progressives” but rather controlled by Republicans.
I see you couldn’t answer the question, but instead create another straw man. Get informed, Wil, get informed!
Again, Wil, non sequitur.
you are funny. I mean it, FUNNY! deep down inside your charcoal filled heart you know that it’s not about GDB or BHO or Rep and Dems it’s that you were never held as a child and that you are just a pathetic lost soul looking for love. You found out that the liberals and Dems are not capable of love so you have to spend your time responding to Bernie and his readers. Your funny.
I’m sorry I upset you Dave, but you people are hurting America and need to hear the truth. Bernie, Rush, Hannity, Beck and O’Reilly etc. are lying to you people. Also, have you noticed those same people never found the time to enter the military and served our country!
Did you serve in the military? What lies are they telling us? Get informed, Wil, get informed!
Again, Wil, non sequitur. Also, if you want to talk about the military service (or lack of) by the likes of Mr. Goldberg, Mr. Hannity, Mr. Beck, Mr. Limbaugh, et.al., then let’s talk about the military service (or lack of same) of your “chosen one,” Barack Obama.
Oh, wait, he never enlisted.
Stick to the subject, please, and stop looking like such a left-wing loon.
Let’s face facts. America got hoodwinked in 2008. Mr Obama was. Never a professor; he was a part time lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Anyone from Chicago knew he accomplished very little as a “public servant”. His strong suit? Getting elected. To quote Hillary, “he gave a speech”. My “hope” is that the next couple of years go by quickly so Mr Obama can return to academia where he belongs.
And his attendance at Columbia University has never been formally confirmed…even though there is a comment from a “classmate” who says he “remembers” Barry, and Columbia “embraces” him as an alumnus.
The man is the Manchurian Candidate.
This may sound daring, but I believe it’s not white America that not ready for a “Black President” (as opposed to a president who is black) rather it’s black America that’s not ready for a Black President or a president who is black. The reason I say this is because if every time a white politician or a white commentator or even a white person in general, voices a negative opinion or simply disagrees with President Obama and his policies, there are black commentators and politicians who automatically conclude that it’s a racist statement and/or is motivated by racism.
Every word, such as Palin’s remark, for example, about not needing a “Professor” as President, is misconstrued, misinterpreted, and deliberately labeled as racist, and that calling Obama a “Professor” inherently implied racism. What? How crazy, warped, and over the top is that? I’m suggesting there are many black Americans who can’t take the heat. They’re not yet prepared to cope with honest criticism of a black president. They’re too sensitive and insecure about accepting the fact that a black president can make mistakes, become unpopular, and may even end up being a poor president (and may not be re-elected), as many white presidents are. If white America doesn’t view the newly elected black president as infallible, then black America sees whites as being racist. Of course there are some black Americans who don’t support Obama but that’s another discussion and, in my opinion, these black Americans are very brave – in today’s political climate.
There’s no room for argument, dissension, or disapproval of this president who happens to be black and who won election with 53% of Americans supporting him. That in itself says the majority of white Americans are ready for a black president, or a president who happens to be black. However, perhaps it is black Americans who are not ready for a president who happens to be black.
Of course.
Look at this
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/dallas-county-meeting-turns-ra.html
and this
http://www.allaboutall.info/article/Niggardly
Unfortunately for President Obama, he will find out what the definition of “Real Change” is in 2012.
When I heard that Ogletree dropped the race card I almost fell off my couch. The sad part is foolish comments like that play really well in Cambridge, which pretty much sums up the cluelessness of your average liberal. I’m waiting for the first “Don’t blame me I voted for McCain” bumper stickers to appear.
Eddie, that’s a million dollar idea.
Obama is no Jesus and he is supposed to follow the folks not the opposite. The President needs to adjust the course to match the expectations of the “we the people”. People are sheep the Jesus, but dogs to Obama. The electorate is watching and ready to push the flock of politicians in DC into direction of the real change: cut the debt, cut the deficits, cut the crap.
Ellie, Bush/Cheney failed us on 9/11 and everyday after that. Republicans had about 8 to 12 years of unfettered rule in this country. We have an 11 trillion dollar deficit because of 1) The Bush-Cheney regime, and 2) the ex Reagan-Bush regime. And just what do the Republicans have to show for it? A better country— or a sick disaster of unbridled greed, selfishness and out & out contempt for their fellow man? Go back to that, I say HELL NO!
Will Burns, how about Bush/Cheney 2012 as in Jeb/Liz 2012?
Palin/Beck 2012? Yeah, That’s the ticket!
“Palin/Beck 2012? Yeah, That’s the ticket!”
Actually, that’s not a bad idea…
Non sequitur. Your facts remain uncoordinated.
Can you even have a structured conversation with someone without straying off into la-la land?
I was never impressed by the telepromter reader..Call me low class, uneducated since I only went to college 2 yrs without any degree, but I heard the words he was speaking. I am one to judge a man by his character (another flaw). I researched the internet and listened to many interviews he had given on radio over the years on his way up from State Senate. Funnier still I saw the company he kept. Silly me I even checked out his voting record in both senates..Hummm call me bad American when I checked out Michelle Obamas records interviews, and college Thesis. I guess that finally makes me a minority.
Bellez, Obama given great speeches without it… see the Republican Retreat one after the SOTU? He kicked a$$…
but you didn’t watch it, so don’t even make a comment about it…
The State of the Union was the biggest sham I have ever watched. What is the state of our union? All I heard was a campaign speech.
Obama’s hope and change will work for no one because the heart of America is not socialist. A good beginning for Obama would be to look the American people in the face when he talks to us instead of scowling and pointing his finger like we are school children. But then, he’s not going to listen to anything we say is he? He can’t start over because he doesn’t want to change his ideology, he is what he is, to the core.
How do they spin the opinion of 2008 color-blind Obama voters with buyer’s remorse?