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Give Me Liberty
…Or give me a new president. Looking for jobs in the right places. George W. is no excuse, Obama. Plus more.
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Doo, doo, doo, Hope for Change in just FOUR!
Let’s send him back to Illinois, Land of Lincoln, oh boy!
Don’t you know it’s always darkest, just before the dawn.
Where was the objection, when he bought the election?
Doo, doo, doo, Hope for Change in just FOUR!
— Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas
THE WRONG KIND
Re: G. Tracy Mehan, III’s: Has Obama Killed
Carbon Cap and Trade?
If you really and truly think that Mr. Obama and the tax-and-spend Congressional leadership (in BOTH parties) will let any carbon tax be “revenue neutral,” I have a single question for you.
What kind of drugs are you on ?
— Mark Schaeber
Syracuse, New York
WHERE DID THAT DREAM GO?
Here you were pirouetting down the primrose path,
So proud of yourself for your vote.
Didn’t you show everyone how liberal you are?
Hadn’t you sipped the Kool Aid “en rote”?
Now, though, you’re looking beyond yourself.
You have focused on your Country at last.
The heady days of “I’m such a good person”
Are irretrievably in the past.
That rosy glow has faded fast
As your dream into a nightmare scenario is cast.
— Mimi Evans Winship
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Stuart Koehl| 3.17.09 @ 6:45AM
Obama a gifted rhetorician? That's a bit over the top. Perhaps better to say he is an excellent reader, with a great future recording Books on Tape once he returns to private life (may the day come soon!). Of course, the studio will need a teleprompter, but still, why let such talent go to waste?
Stuart Koehl| 3.17.09 @ 6:53AM
On Angelo Codevilla's assessment that Osama bin Laden is dead, and why the intelligence community refuses to admit it: I think the case remains unproven, but Codevilla is right--the U.S. government would rather have an outlaw individual as the focus of its animus than an outlaw state (or states). The pattern was established in the 1970s, when it was becoming obvious that a wide array of terrorist organizations--Marxist, Palestinian, Anarchist, Nihilist, Islamist--were all working together and showed a remarkable homogeneity of tactics, training, and equipment, at levels far higher than could be acquired given their organic resources.
Courageous journalists like the late Claire Sterling soon realized that they were all receiving financial, logistic, technical and intelligence support from the Soviet Union through the KGB and its satellite services in Eastern Europe. Yet the Intelligence Community refused to acknowledge this while the USSR still lived, and expended much effort to debunking Sterling and others who pointed to Soviet complicity in terrorism.
The reason was perfectly clear: If the Soviet Union was indeed directing international terrorism against the West, the West would have to do something about it. Admittedly, the thought of taking on the fully-armed USSR was a far more daunting prospect than taking on Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, but still, if Osama is really dead, Codevilla has pegged the reason we won't bury him.
frost| 3.17.09 @ 12:04PM
Oooooh, Mike sure ain't in Mimi's league! Ouch even....
And, on another topic, briefly, I sure can't argue about those stupid AIG bonuses. Sad judgment, to say the least. Now, if they'd been based on performance, merit and overall corporate PROFITS, that might be different.
But, and this is a biggy, I do NOT want the stupid Government Bureaucracy telling you (or ME!) what I can make - - that's a terrible precedent! Bad as some company decisions may be, I TRUST THE GOVERNMENT LESS. Period.
Here’s the whole crux of the AIG/Government problem, really: We can choose NOT to do business with AIG - - but we're Forced to "do business" with our lousy, corrupt government.
Just look at the gross stupidity/ineptitude of DMV, ICE, the God-forsaken EPA, INS, AmTrak (which was supposed to be “self-sustaining 40+ years ago), SBA, Global Warming clown Jim Hansen’s NASA; the horribly inept SEC, FTC, TSB, USPS, FCC, CIA, CDC, FDA, DOE, IRS, FFA, DOT; the idiots at FEMA etc… The inefficiency is appalling, nothing less! And now we find out that the horrible FannieMae/FreddieMac are supposed to “investigate THEMSELVES”?!? Thanks to a flock of rotten people in congress, we have a huge problem!! Remember this quotation: “We’re going to push through health care, regardless of the views of the American people." - Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). And, lest we forget, sanctimonious Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, augmented by Barney Frank, David Obey, Susan Collins, Fortney “Pete” Stark, Maxine Waters, Robert Wexler (who makes my skin crawl), Bernie Sanders, Arlen Spector, Barbara Lee, Chuck Schumer, Jim Clyburn, Dick Durban, Alcee Hastings (who was a convicted judge before being removed from office to become a congressman?!?), Maurice Hinchey, Barbara Boxer, Jerry Nadler, Chris Dodd, John Kerry, John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Jim McDermott, Olympia Snowe, Joe Biden, Teddy Kennedy, Charlie Rangell, et al., and there are others who also chose to payoff their backers.
Alan Brooks| 3.18.09 @ 12:13AM
Stu, Obama is going to be re-elected. question is who will run in 2016, but that's seven years down the bumpy-- very bumpy-- road.
btw I'm starting to dislike Jindal more than anyone, he is a demagogue in the mold of Huey Long.
USA needs CHANGE to Believe in| 3.18.09 @ 10:17AM
Breaking news, the FED has been raided by the FBI and the CIA.
Evidence has emerged that they have had a huge counterfieting opperation going on for several years.
The FBI has announced Printing Fake money cannot save America from Global recession and it's an illegal opperation, all involved will be arrested, including Obama and the former President of America.
Go to Youtube: Printing Fake Money Saves America Not.
Change is coming to America. Long live America!