David Corn: "Can right-wing blowhards get away with such absurd hyperbole? The answer, alas, is yes."
President Obama pauses while making a statement after being briefed on the BP oil spill response efforts, 06/04/10. (photo: AP)
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Nothing changes.
In the meantime the nonthinking ad libbers spout off with foxnoisenewsbit es and turn them into The Gospel of The Teabag Party.
I predict;
IT WILL GET WORSE
No matter what President Obama does.
Stupidity carries weight in this country.
Oh you already knew that?
Mea culpa.
The media and the Republicans were out to destroy him, and they succeeded. They were the same group who mocked him for trying to save energy. Remember? The MOCKED him. yet years later, it seems clear that had we listened, we would not be in these wars nor would we be trying to clean up this oil mess.
Don't trust your memory. In those days, before the internet, less information was available to the public.
I did, however, campaigned, voted and donated to President Obama's because I believed in what he said about change. He, however, betrayed those who voted for him and now the entire Democratic party is in doubt. I have a 9 year old great-grand son that could've told Obama that "partisan" is a dirty word for Republicans. Those hound dogs won't hunt!
One amusing thing about Carter I observed, while he was preaching in the "Rose Garden", his mom "lily" was attending KKK rallies because she thought "they are interesting" and Reagan was making deals with the nation's enemy, the Iranians to him ousted!
Carter has been a stellar former President and would have been a good second term president given the chance. I didn't vote for him the first time, but I did the second and would again even at his age.
Obama may have been able to do better than he has, but I shudder to think what a McCain/Palin regime would have been like. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek !
Carter became one of the greatest humanitarians after his Presidency. He was always a nice man, but was a bit thin at foreign policy at the time, perhaps confused by his church ties. Once he consolidated these issues with himself he has gone on to be one of our greatest diplomats all time.
Carter was--and is, a great man.
I've said before that it was with his administration that the repubs started their dirty business that has now become their trademark. This was done in preparation to get Regan in office. Like you said, 'don't trust your memory' Read up on it folks, do your homework.
By the way, when you're doing your homework about Carter, google Obamas executive orders and check that out if you think he hasn't done anything and that he's a wimp. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to see all he's done. These are things he can do without the approval of Congress. He has reversed many things G.W. (Great Waste) did.
As Santyana said, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
NOTHING controls a population more than past protocols and their mental images of ideals and heroes past... i.e. heritage.
Those who don't know it, may as well be leaves in the wind.
We have a culture that permits legislation to be bought and sold. That will hang this nation.
In this poisonous atmosphere, Obama needs loyalty. The truth is that there is no one out there as smart, competent and capable as this president. Name one single person who anyone would rather deal with the mess (figuratively and literally) of our modern times. There is no-one, and we need to be careful that we don't end up ridding ourselves of the only leader of any stature able to guide this ship.
Right wingers apoplectic.
Big surprise.
What irks me badly is those "liberal" writers, like this Corn chap, who cannot do without reading the rightwing tosh and worse, commenting on it so as to give it currency and also so that liberal readers can read it and feel the rightwing pressure?
Does the rightwing go about regurgitating the views of the left?
Be sensible, chaps.
In reality, the 2 sides are the ELITE (politically correct/scripted 'Left' and 'Right' factions thereof) vs. the MAJORITY (of ordinary, common-sense, unscripited, un-bought-and-paid-for).
Its been that way since the time of the pyramids. Don't be fooled by the 'Left-Right' pantomime. They're all on more-or-less the same payroll these days.
Attacking Obama is a preemptive tactic. They know that if they make such noises the discussion will move to being about Obama and his response, not about the causes of the disaster in the first place. That's what they want. Don't give the right wing the courtesy of regarding what they say as a thought or even as an opinion. It's all the product of a tactic. Find the articles that tell how a BP official ordered the platform operators to perform an operation the operators knew was dangerous. Report that. This was preventable - responsible people tried to prevent it. BP ordered them to go ahead with an unsafe operation. That's the news.
G*d has given us (in addition to backbones) many gifts of judgment and discernment. Use them!
Obama cannot simply waive a magic wand and have the immoral structure built up for eight years under Bush plus advances by predecessors for the corporate elites simply go away. He is just one man fighting the fight any way he can. he stands for America and Americans this time at least, unlike the war criminals we have had to endure for 8 long years before.
Just because the paymasters give you a FALSE DICHOTOMY, doesn't mean that's the be all, end all.
Expect too much? He has already accomplished more than the last 4 Presidents combined. He far exceeds my wildest expectations, particularly knowing the corporate stranglehold our structure faces. He is the BEST President of our lifetime. YOU HAVE NO ARGUMENT just emotional rhetoric ROB HOOD. If you accept the oligarchy is in place, you must also accept Obama's work is ground breaking.
"Our political leadership won't come to grips with the fact that we have enemies."
Shouldn't this read, "Our political leadership won't come to grips with the fact that we ARE enemies?"
That would actually be much closer to the truth and the real source of the problem. Bipartisanship has gotten Obama precisely nowhere...except alienating his base. Incompetent, no. Foolish, perhaps. Blinded by traitors within his own cabinet? Certainly.
And it was Republicans who expanded the off shore drilling. Every Democratic President has had higher standards than their GOP counterparts. This is "drill, baby, drill" mentality that took us here. Had we got Gore in 100% certain no spill and we would be in a far better place. There is zero doubt, even with government ties to corporate elites in place. They barter with a Demo Prez, while they just take everything they can under the laissez-faire Republican.
Will society still, for example, value things like property rights, privacy, freedom of speech, the 2nd amendment (or any of the Bill of Rights for that matter)?
same paymasters; same policies; different color face/rhetoric...
Welcome to Globalism, Illuminati style.
When will you people ever wake up!?
When media was , true journalism, you had the David Brinkleys and the Dan Rathers. They sat at a desk every night and gave the news, just plain facts and news. Now the news networks, newspapers and even news magazines give only the news they want you to have with their own slant. And then there is the internet. People no longer get objective news coverage, they listen to, read and research the net to find the news that only tells them what they want to know. If a Tea Partier runs across news that isn't spewing Palin, Beck, Limbaugh or any other nut without brains, they just simply go to the news coverage that they know they will hear what they want. Hence, they never HAVE to hear 'just the news' in any objective format at all.
Need we mention the Jesuit fathers?
One team; two factions; lots of shadow boxing in the daylight hours.
Do they really have time to decide anything of substance, when mountains of memos and talking points have already been written to the contrary?
Obama is doing his job. Whereas the Republican party is doing a smear-job on him.
Why are these obstructionists blaming Obama for all the things that the Republican-controlled Congress set into motion?
Carter's advisers during the Iranian hostage crisis were the best military minds of the day. He consulted with admirals and generals who collectively wore more stars than are visible in the biggest Montana sky.
They all agreed on one thing: any rescue attempt was futile.
The best scenario he was offered provided less than a 20% chance of success and most offered 0 chance. He tried anyway, mainly because of the pounding he was taking from the right (through the press) for "doing nothing" when he was, in fact, working virtually 24/7 on a diplomatic solution, even to the point of ignoring his own re-election campaign. And don't forget that Carter's diplomacy failed because the Republicans offered the Iranians a better deal.
Carter once said that history would be kind to him, but it's taking longer than I expected for the public's mind to reflect reality.
We can still rebuild, the wiser for having survived three decades of their 'globalization' turbulence.
Is obama a black george bush? Does the third term of george bush reak of torture, war, out of control spending and illegal immigrants??
The right and the left don't give a damn for our country-When will people get that one?
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