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Paul Krugman: "If Obama came out for motherhood, the GOP would declare motherhood un-American."

Portrait, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, 06/15/09. (photo: Fred R. Conrad/NYT)

The Real Story

Paul Krugman, The New York Times

03 September 10

Next week, President Obama is scheduled to propose new measures to boost the economy. I hope they're bold and substantive, since the Republicans will oppose him regardless - if he came out for motherhood, the G.O.P. would declare motherhood un-American. So he should put them on the spot for standing in the way of real action.

But let's put politics aside and talk about what we've actually learned about economic policy over the past 20 months.

When Mr. Obama first proposed $800 billion in fiscal stimulus, there were two groups of critics. Both argued that unemployment would stay high - but for very different reasons.

One group - the group that got almost all the attention - declared that the stimulus was much too large, and would lead to disaster. If you were, say, reading The Wall Street Journal's opinion pages in early 2009, you would have been repeatedly informed that the Obama plan would lead to skyrocketing interest rates and soaring inflation.

Comments

+79 # Guest 2010-09-03 09:55

It is truly amazing that so many are so frightened over one skinny Black man. I am shocked at how racist this country REALLY is, they are crawling out of the woodwork. The Repugs hate America. They only care about their big donors and do NOTHING to help America thrive. I am ashamed of this country and the people who support these thugs and the racists amongst us.

+25 # Guest 2010-09-03 10:21

There is a reason that Nixon's Southern Strategy was so successful and not just in the South either.

+40 # Guest 2010-09-03 10:22

Mary, you said the very thing I've been stunned by since the election. Thank you.

+40 # bubbiesue 2010-09-03 10:27

"It's truly amazing that so many are so frightened ..." of one skinny Black man--that about says it! Nothing else could explain the fear mongering that's been done in the name of patriotism. How shallow we've become! And yes, we should definitely be ashamed of ourselves.

I (white) don't know what my kids are telling my three Black grandchildren, and I worry about what the world will hold for them.

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 18:29

The truth is, your analysis is off. The reason so many people are attacking Obama is because they are being fear-mongered by the Republican big wigs who don't dare say the things they are funding people to say and fear through the Tea Party movement.

+7 # Guest 2010-09-05 16:41

Sally: Your comment interests me--because I too feel there is a kind of three-cornered thing going on. Obama is neither a Muslim nor a socialist. But if the oligarchy of corporations that seems to be taking over our democracy can keep Obama and friends busy dealing with all this nonsense, then it becomes something between hard and impossible to do what he was elected to do--which includes reigning in these corporations.

+1 # Guest 2010-09-07 02:52

It hasn't been repugs keeping things from getting done...it has been conservative dems and the conservatism of the Obama administration themselves that's been the problem. I'm just amazed that so little has been said about the accumulated anger in this country which threatens to explode in some very dangerous way...

+2 # Guest 2010-09-03 10:45

Sadly, the ranks of those who agree with you expands daily.

+26 # Guest 2010-09-03 14:53

I totally agree with this and how sad it is for our country. Just like the Community Center controversy makes me sad - we are creating more enemies due to our fears. Does anyone think that terrorist plots couldn't be planned in an apartment or a fast food restaurant? Give me a break - as Roosevelt so famously said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself".

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 13:32

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself".

FDR was right, but just saying it does not stop the fearmongers. They are just as powerful as they have always been and their tactics just as effective as ever. Why have we so few countermeasures ? Instead, we come back with other fear tactics which are not effective. Humans fear change and loss of what they have no matter how bad it is and how little they have to lose. The more they lose, the more fearful they become.

How do we counter these inborn and natural fears?

+3 # Guest 2010-09-05 08:31

How to counter? I don't know. I fear there are no silver bullet answers to that question.

I can only submit that dogged endurance, determination and calm reserve in the face of shrill hysteria promise the best hope in the long run.

-77 # Guest 2010-09-03 10:08

If Obama came out for motherhood, the Republicans would probably question his sincerity - which is it, does he support abortion or motherhood? As one who would have gladly voted for Condi Rice or JC Watts, I find it laughable that people who support Obama's unpopular agenda cannot think of any other way to discuss this than by hurling the "racist" label.

+53 # Guest 2010-09-03 10:41

The President's agenda is not unpopular as you state. But it has consistently been opposed by Republicans accompanied by numerous falsehoods. Birthers continue to doubt his citizenship, A significant percentage believe he is a practicing muslim despite the criticism of his association with Rev. Wright and his progressive Chicago inner city church. Palin with one 'tweet' re: death panels scared her followers from supporting the health care bill. The issue is seriously not race, but with the influence of extreme wealth on our politics. Few Republicans or Democrats are unaffected and uncorrupted by the need for large campaign donors. BTW, why is it you would support Ms. Rice who was so wrong about the Iraq war and who was asleep at the wheel when warned about the impending 9/11 attacks?

+33 # Guest 2010-09-03 13:31

Obama can support motherhood AND abortion. I certainly do. I've experienced both successfully and regret neither.

Motherhood is wonderful when it arrives at a time that two committed parents are able to provide for and nurture the child for a minimum of 20 years.

Motherhood is a disaster for both the mother and the child when parents are not ready or financially able to provide for the child. Have you ever been a mother, Rock?

+4 # Guest 2010-09-03 14:58

No, but I've been called that a few times.

+1 # Guest 2010-09-03 21:20

I'll bet you have. And the person who said it was probably restraining him or herself.

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 00:21

Quoting

No, but I've been called that a few times.

I'm quite sure of that.

-1 # Guest 2010-09-04 06:45

Dan, we all realize that you are quite about EVERYTHING.

0 # dwcoffey 2010-09-06 11:26

Quoting

Dan, we all realize that you are quite about EVERYTHING.

Rock, you say "you are quite about ...". This doesn't make sense, which is consistent which your other writings. I guess you mean "you are quite SURE about ...". I believe Dan has good reason to be sure of it.

-1 # Guest 2010-09-07 06:36

Sorry, Coffey . . . that was just a little too subtle for you, wasn't it?

0 # Guest 2010-09-05 14:45

PHWAHAHAHAHAHAH AH! Great sense of wry humor you have there!

+7 # Guest 2010-09-04 23:37

The racism is just a tool being used by the GOP to win the support of there far right base.It's just one more way the GOP gets people to vote against their own best interest.

As far as the abortion issue the 1st thing the GOP will cut is any social programs in place that could help someone considering abortion to choose life. With nothing in place the # of abortions will rise. To quote "the GOP love the fetus and hate the baby."

+72 # angelfish 2010-09-03 10:13

The man could literally,WALK on water but the regressives would say." Oh, yes, he can walk on water, BUT, can he dance!" The World has gone mad and we've ALL gone through the looking glass. Up is down, Black is White, Stop means Go, Ignorance is to be championed and intelligence is a "Socialist Plot", according to Beck and Palin. WHEN will sanity return to America?

+11 # Guest 2010-09-03 16:38

AMEN! When will we see the light?
I can't believe the STUPIDITY out there!
Heaven help us. (Is there a Heaven?)

+5 # Guest 2010-09-03 18:15

Yes. Unconditional love is Heaven.

+5 # Guest 2010-09-04 00:22

Quoting

Yes. Unconditional love is Heaven.

...and unconditional hate is hell...kind of like the Rethug-lie-cons.

+13 # Guest 2010-09-03 22:38

Sanity might return when we have a FAIRNESS DOCTRINE in Media again and the Stranglehold just a very few GLOBAL Corporations have on almost all Media Enterprises in America is broken up into hundreds of bits and pieces and sold off to hundreds of separate, diverse, different, non-aligned entities.

Why do we allow the current Media system to exist as it does?

Where is the FREE PRESS..?

Where is FREEDOM OF SPEECH when most of the pipelines for it are Global Corporate owned and used however THEY want to use them..?

We are allowing the non-debated, singular views of 'Wealthy MEDIA Talking Heads of Deliberate National Division for Fame, Profit and Power' to divide Americans apart from each other with lies and then pit us against each other

FOR WHAT REASON...?

Can I yell Fire in a Crowded Theater..?

Do you think the Right Wing would put up with this situation for even one day if Almost all Media was owned by Liberals...?

+46 # Guest 2010-09-03 11:02

If Obama could create true peace in the world, the GOP would spin it as a socialist, job-killing plan to destroy the defense industry

+25 # Guest 2010-09-03 11:15

I was on a chat line earlier this year when I sensed one of the chatters was trying to say something but was reluctant to do so. At one point he indicated he was a retired teacher in the mid-West. I asked him a number of questions and then the conversation became a debate which others then entered. Then it came out...he had no time for blacks which he considered to be worse than the excrement he sometimes steps in (and excrement was not his word). That showed me two things. Firstly, how racist much of America still is despite public protestations otherwise. Secondly, it will take generations to overcome the prejudices and divisiveness passed through teachers, coaches, supervisors, etc.

+32 # Guest 2010-09-03 11:21

Repugs is an excellent description Mary.
As my newest bumper sticker says: my species disappoints me.
If we don't get out the vote in Nov, the Repugs will try to undo everything Obama has accomplished.
We can't let that happen.

+17 # Guest 2010-09-03 13:18

You are absolutely right. I live in California and the vitriol and lies have really gotten scary. Of course, that's not unusual in politics. We have a local Tea Party chapter who regularly write letters to the editor with amazing so-called "facts" about Obama and his policies.

+3 # Guest 2010-09-04 12:51

Why do newspaper not institute a fact-checking policy and not publish letters with blatant lies. Opinions differ and everyone is entitled to express his or her opinion. But propaganda disguised as opinion should be discouraged. So should opinions based on nothing but lies and propaganda. We have got to have civil discourse based on reason and verifiable facts.

+30 # Guest 2010-09-03 11:42

'When will sanity return to America?' Never, as long as the Cheneys, Bushes, Becks and all of their ilk are around. Sanity causes people to think, it makes them say 'hey! something is wrong here' That is definitely not what the republicans want. They appeal to the masses who don't think for themselves because if they did they wouldn't vote against their own self interests. Oh, don't misunderstand, they are racist but mostly they will not stop with the lies, the tricks, the propaganda or whatever else they have to do to get back into power. This they will do so that they may take the rest away from the citizens they didn't get the last 8 yrs. They raped this country and its people and still it wasn't enough. It reminds me of the Roman Empire centuries ago. It fell.

+31 # Guest 2010-09-03 13:52

Media Enterprises in America 30 years ago were owned by hundreds of separate, diverse and different entities. They also had to operate under a FAIRNESS DOCTRINE, which was done away with under Reagan.

30 years of obsessive deregulation schemes in order to reduce the power of OUR Government for the sake of Big Business.., kind of like a Conservative scheme to trade in so-called 'Big Government' of the People for a new 'Big Business of the Wealthy Few' Government, has led to a very few GLOBAL Corporations owning almost all Media Enterprises in America. It is this INSANE, HUGE, REPUBLIC-KILLING, DISPROPORTIONAT E MEGAPHONE which allows for the Beck's, et al to put their BS out there above every other possible point of view and flim flam millions into acting against their own interests.

What does a Free Press mean when it's all owned by a few GLOBAL Corporations?

What does Freedom of Speech mean when almost all the pipelines for it are owned by just a few GLOBAL Corporations?

+19 # Guest 2010-09-03 11:49

EXACTLY... And if they did indeed come out against Motherhood, the GOP, Conservatives, Wall Street and all of the Global Corporate Wealthy Class can easily succeed in convincing the 'Easily Manipulated' among us that Motherhood is as UNAMERICAN as a 'Commie Bastard' and Mother's Day an Abomination, simply because 30 years of obsessive-compulsive 'LESS GOVERNMENT' Deregulation Schemes has allowed for the extreme consolidation of almost all Media Enterprises in America. Media is now owned and controlled by just a very few GLOBAL Corporations, a HUGE Portion of which is Wingnut CONservative and the rest mostly Conservative-Business oriented for profit and power. The WINGNUT MESSAGE is so disproportionat e to Social reality and so all pervasive all the time, EVERYWHERE, just as if it is the 'Simple Truth Direct From God'.., that there is no way it can fail to move millions of hard working Americans to literally vote against their own best interests.
Crazy..!!!

+27 # Guest 2010-09-03 12:21

For those who support Obama, the best thing we can do right now is to GET OUT TO VOTE! and vote for those who support his agenda and to tell others to do the same. Remember, not voting is a "no" vote and the Republicans will win!

+35 # Guest 2010-09-03 12:34

I cannot believe that after getting us into 2 wars which were not paid for and the corruption that went with them causing this country to be suffering a recession Obama is trying like hell to get us out of, there are people who would still vote to put the GOP back in power.

The scary thing is they would also turn us into a theocracy. Just listen to their rhetoric. Not good.

+6 # Guest 2010-09-03 17:21

Missy - Yes, President Cheney and Puppet Boy got us into Iraq based on lies, but let's be fair: Obama COULD have gotten us out of Afghanistan; instead Obama signed legislation authorizing the LARGEST ever (yes, EVER) military budget, a gargantuan $680 billion for the Pentagon, including $130 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also signed a spending bill funneling another $44 billion into the Department of Homeland Security, to strengthen the apparatus of state repression within the United States. And that was just in 2009. In Obama's fiscal 2011 budget proposal, he has requested an INCREASE in outlays for military spending to support overseas war efforts. So, to you I say: Obama is not not NOT doing a thing to get us out of our wars, much less trying like hell! It always comes down to the same thing: voting for the lesser of two EVILS.

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 13:07

First, we have to get rid of the "Support our Troops" mentality. Neither Obama nor the Democrats in Congress could stand to vote against 'supporting our troops' and making sure they are protected from all harm possible once they have been deployed. They justifiably feared the consequences of being seen as not patriotic if they lacked the courage of Barbara Lee and Dennis Kucinich and a handful of others. The war profiteers know this and count on it. Easy to provoke an invasion based on lies. Easy to profit from it. Hard to cut off the spigot. Impossible to cut the losses once Johnny comes marching home ....or what's left of him. That's where the profits stop for the instigators and we, the people, pick up the whole tab for generations.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-04 12:59

Democrats are still the majority but do not have voting power equal to the conservative minority. Nothing will get better until there is a change in this imbalance. It's the Red State Super Minority that is holding the Senate and the rest of the country hostage.

We should really be talking about how to get rid of the Super Minority voting power.

+28 # Guest 2010-09-03 13:50

The Conservative plan to fix our ailing economy is by deregulating business and cutting taxes for everyone. Let's see how well that worked in the recent past. Reagan's deregulation of the S&Ls led to the meltdown of the Savings and Loan industry and cost millions of average Americans their life savings. It took nearly a decade for the RTF to straighten out the mess. In 1999, the Republican controlled congress, led by Newt Gingrich, passed a bill to repeal the Glass-Steagall act and Clinton, to his everlasting shame, signed it. This lack of regulation led directly to the explosion of such things as derivative trading (mortgage backed securities) and the financial meltdown in 2007. Couple these two events with tax cuts for the very wealthy and two wars kept off the budget and you have a good look at Conservative economic policy.

+16 # Guest 2010-09-03 19:09

You left out Reagan's most serious deregulation act. He eliminated the fairness doctrine for the airwaves, which opened up the airwaves for the hate mongers -- Limbaugh, Hannity, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, all of the FOX Fraudcasting staff, and a host of others. The country has been reeling from their hate-sermons ever since. If these fact-twisters had to answer to someone who knew something, they would be off the air in months, and we would be a united country again.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-04 00:35

AB, it isn't just Conservative economic policy...it is suicide for all that we most hold dear. I smell revolt, even civil war in the air and fear for our progeny. What our government is becoming probably won't deserve to survive. I don't hope for such violent chaos, but it seems somehow inevitable. I can even imagine the possibility of a coalition of other governments deciding that they've become sufficiently weary of our crap that all out war will become justifiable. All I can say is that if I were a third world victim of American tyranny, of which there are plenty, I'd be looking for a fight. When the 98% of us that are so threatened by the elites that we are pauperized to a third world standard of living, will we then rebel also? Is this what it takes to turn this evil around?

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 13:15

Having a third world standard of living has not stopped very many countries from declaring war on their neighbors. Look at how much many of them spend on defense while their populations are destitute.

Americans are not a peace-loving people as a whole if you look at our short history. Why do we need hundreds upon hundreds of military bases overseas? What price are our people paying for being able to claim the greatest number fighters, war planes, war ships, bases, missiles, spy satellites? Is it worth it?

+12 # Guest 2010-09-03 16:55

If you do not think race plays a role in all the hatred of our President, then you have not been paying attention. As the lone woman at a luncheon of plumbers and small business owners after the Presidential election, I had to endure vulgar racist comments. The "N" word has also been bantered around my place of work and I live in Iowa. I am shocked that racism is alive and well in my state.

I receive many unsolicited "hate" political emails from conservatives despite my protests. I delete most of them. But when they slandered our First Lady, I had to rebuke it. The email had a copy of Mrs. Obama's elegant restaurant recipe with the implication that how dare this uppity black woman think that she deserves to eat there.

-3 # Guest 2010-09-03 23:21

I think you are deceiving yourself with this "racist" stuff.

When Obama took office, his approval ratings were 68%. Now that must have included around 60% of white people.

Now that it is around 42%, are you saying that suddenly about half of the whites who approved of him last year have suddenly woken up and realized he is black?

+8 # Guest 2010-09-03 18:27

We need to expose the GOP for what it is, and to do so we need to use simple, easy to repeat terms, just like they do. I suggest:
- "The party of 'no!'"
- "The party of no good ideas"
- "The party of no-good ideas"
- "RepubliCANTS!"
- "The part of cut-and-run"
- "All for one? Nah... ALL for the rich"
- "Rupugnants!"
- "Regressives"
- "If you're afraid, vote GOP!"
- "If you're not afraid, you should be since Obama is a liberal, socialist, atheist, fascist, communist Muslim who wants to take your guns!"
- "Regressive public thieves"
- "Fearmongers 'r Us"

+4 # Guest 2010-09-03 18:37

It is not exactly that the greedkings are racists. They are fearful of anything that does not make money. If people of color turned dollars in a major sort of way, the greedkings would be right there on their knees, believe me.

+5 # Guest 2010-09-03 19:04

Here is a great source for wealth inequality in the US

http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4#now-read-16

0 # Guest 2010-09-04 13:41

This is GREAT!!!!!!!

Note the correction to your link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4

+14 # Guest 2010-09-04 07:37

After a lifetime of not really paying attention to politics, the Clinton impeachment got my attention. I watched intensely during the the Great American Coup of 2000, and have been actively involved ever since. I am absolutely convinced that there are only two kinds of Republicans in America - those who lie, deceive, and manipulate in order to give to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and the poor, and those who believe the lies and are manipulated.
If all Americans actually knew what Republicans are trying to do, no Republicans would be elected, so they must resort to lies, fear-mongering, and race-baiting to get elected. They are successful, in part, because there is no such thing as journalism in the mass media (with the exception of MSNBC and others like them), just repeating of what is said without evaluating the truth of the statements. If "truth in advertising" could be applied to political ads, this country would be a lot better off.

+3 # Guest 2010-09-04 13:22

If a 'truth test' could be applied across the board, everything would be different. Stop the Crossfire style of discourse and opinionating without facts or evidence. Get rid of opinionators and replace them with real journalists who have done their homework and do not have to rely on a large corporate sponsor for their paycheck.

+8 # Guest 2010-09-04 08:12

I have recently returned from a three week trip in Europe and was amazed at the number of individuals there who asked me essentially the same question. What is going on with America? What is this nonsense with this "tea party" thing? Why have you lost your leadership role due to your infighting? We were not aware that your country was so racist. Etc.

I was at a loss for words to really explain the situation as there was not a good defense to be made.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-04 10:52

My wife and I have been visiting various places in Europe and the UK for years and have had similar experiences. After Bush's re-election in 2004, the UK Guardian ran a headline that asked the question; "How Can 57 Million People Be So Stupid." Most Europeans we have talked to are certain that the Iraq war was about control of oil, and they find it hard to believe that any significant percentage of the US populace listens to or believes televangelists

+6 # Guest 2010-09-04 08:24

I am an expat... thanks to the way in which corporate greed and corruption destroyed my life, health, and career. I pity those ignorant americans who dont see that the kleptocrat rulers are not representing the citizens. dj

-11 # Guest 2010-09-04 08:43

Mr. Krugman, when you make statements such as, "Next week, President Obama is scheduled to propose new measures to boost the economy. I hope they're bold and substantive, since the Republicans will oppose him regardless - if he came out for motherhood, the G.O.P. would declare motherhood un-American. So he should put them on the spot for standing in the way of real action." you betray a soul-devouring fear of whatever threatens your understanding of life. None of that statement is true except that Pres. Obama is supposed to announce a plan. The rest is a fiction based on who-knows-what fantasies that haunt your fear dominated mind. Look under your bed. The monster you think is there really isn't. Hate speech wrapped in the disguise of journalism is still hate speech. The worst kind is hate speech that condemns imagined threats to one's fantasies. May God bless and heal you.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-04 11:17

John Henry, Paul Krugman's comment about the GOP declaring motherhood un-American was simply a hyperbolic comment--humor--used to point out a fairly obvious dynamic of the current political right wing. The fact that a public figure says something with which you don't agree does not make that statement "hate speech."

+1 # Guest 2010-09-04 13:46

Mr. Henry,

Certainly you jest.

That you seem to be entirely unaware of the GOP's "SOD" ("Spontaneous Oppositional Disorder") renders the remainder of your comments and insights entirely non-credible.

-PO

PS Check this link. Do you really want to support GOP policies with your vote?
http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4

0 # Guest 2010-09-04 09:33

Actually Rock, only 40% of whites voted for Obama. Nobody on this thread is saying that all whites are too racist to voted for a black (actually mixed-race) candidate. Just that a significant number are.

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 15:04

It always comes as a shock to people who believe in fair play and justice that other people do not. They believe in equality as long as they are more equal that everyone else. People who play by the rules are at a disadvantage when playing against people who don't care about rules...only coming out on top.

I agree with those who say the country would be better off if the Obama administration stopped fearing inevitable criticism from the Super Minority and just do the right thing boldly and confidently. There is still time. However, be prepared for the next October surprise whichever month it comes in. Wouldn't you like to know what's on Rove's drawing board?

-1 # dwcoffey 2010-09-06 15:10

bjw, Thank you for your post.

I'm confused by one thing: you say, "... people who believe in fair play and justice that other people do not. They believe in equality as long as they are more equal that everyone else." I hope I'm correct in assuming "they" is the other people who do not believe in fair play and justice.

Thank you for saying "the country would be better off if the Obama administration stopped fearing inevitable criticism from the Super Minority and just do the right thing boldly and confidently." So very true.

+2 # Guest 2010-09-05 07:43

Because a very large number of so-called adults never read again after leaving high school, we have people who have opinions in place of thought, rather than as a result of it. They are helpless against the schemes of whoever has the biggest megaphone and uses it to hook their emotions, i.e., the corpo-plutocrats and their Faux News spokespeople. These people are interested only in the well-being of themselves and their corpo friends, and have no compunction about manipulating others, through fear, into going against their own interests to support the kleptocrats.

Hence, the "Tea Party." Those of us who read and can still see clearly need to get together soon to create a counterweight movement. How about a "We" party, as in We The People.?

+2 # Guest 2010-09-05 08:56

I'm interested in how many picked up on "If Obama came out for motherhood..." And of course, Paul's right. But I hope we're not overlooking the bulk of the article. Right now, in California, both Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina are courting voters by promising never to spend another penny of public money. If we in California follow these Pied Pipers, California is going to sink into the sea. Less metaphorically, it's liable to go into receivership (over its lack of revenue, and inability to maintain public services--say to houses that are on fire); and the rest of the nation is going to be mad as hell at us; and we are going to be miserable. Hamilton set the premise for Krugman's prescription; Hamilton said: "That government that can't tax, can't govern." Bitter medicine though some find this, this is the way out of the mess. That is, add to the deficit with the intention to pay it off in better times with taxes. We better listen.

+1 # Guest 2010-09-05 20:07

Ms Fiorina cites her business acumen as the major asset she will bring to a senate position. If one looks closely at Ms Fiorina's time at HP, laying off a significant segment of the talented work force and seeing the value of HP's stock plunge by more than 50%, perhaps her business sense is not what California needs or wants. Meg Whitman seems more of a hard read. She is very wealthy and ready to spend a bundle to win the governorship of CA, but does her track record in business (1) make her qualified to govern a state, (2) suggest that she would advance policies that would benefit CA residents and the state in general?

+1 # Guest 2010-09-07 09:25

A "We The People" party just might work, if the folks (of whom I'd be one) would be willing to work their arses off for it, would stick to it with all their hearts, minds and souls. Oh, if this country, this land of ours ISN'T taken from the haters, the greedy and the racists, WE'RE DOOMED!!!!! Ah, we MUST, we've GOTTA, we HAVE to:

"FIGHT TEAM, FIGHT!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!"

for what we believe in, for what we stand for. Or, folks, it'll DISAPPEAR into the abyss.

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