Bobzmcishl's Comments (1457)

“Woods has been very protective of his image so this is all the more shocking if the reports are true and they sound like they could be unless he had an early morning flight somewhere. It didn't make sense that you could have an accident while still in your driveway unless he was distracted. Goes to show that fame, fortune, and world wide adulation still aren't enough for some people. Part of Tiger's problem is not his doing but our doing and the media. We are living in the cult of celebrity in the U.S. and media accentuates that aura of worship. When Tiger is on the course the announcers talk about him as if he is God himself playing. I don't blame Woods for this. He has done wonders for golf and is truly one of the all time greats if not the greatest golfer of all time.”

“I don't think America wants two fruitcakes as presents in 2012.”

“I hope these two publicity seeker get prosecuted. And the head of the SecretService should be fired. The incompetence is staggering. It shows we still haven't gotten our act together even after 9/11 and all of the threats against Obama.”

“This incident sounds bizarre.”

“The right wing will be whining about Obama for the next 7 years. What is sad is the ugliness of the attacks. And this from a group that for the most part enjoys the good life. But I guess they want to make sure their club remains white only.”

“Heads should roll on this screwup. This could have been tragic!”

“We had state dinners during the great depression. Life goes on. The U.S. is the greatest power on Earth. We can afford an expensive dinner once in awhile. Besides we may need to borrow some more money from India.”

“Her book is selling very poorly here on the West Coast and I suspect in the East Coast as well. From the reviews her book is light on content but high in vindictiveness. She sure bit the hand that fed her and continues to feed her. If her goal is to make her party a permanent minority party she is doing a great job.”

“We are paying the lowest FIT in our lifetimes, and what did our government do but blow on surplus by giving the wealthy tax breaks they didn't need and paying for two wars by borrowing from the Chinese. A total waste of taxpayer money. We need to let the Bush tax breaks expire and start paying down our deficit. We should escalate getting out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush should fire his Treasury Secretary who is just a shill for Wall Street. In short we need to realign our priorities with what the American people voted for last November - Change. All we are getting are lukewarm versions of former Bush policies and some of the same bad actors like Geithner.”

“The Afghanistan war has turned out to be a real loser - Bush had the chance to end it and just let it atrophy while he went on his Iraq adventure. Now the Afghan people want us out of there. They view us a foreign invaders just like the Brits and the Russians before us. We literally cannot afford this war and pay for all of the initiatives that would make our lives better here at home. Dennis Kuchinich on Chris Matthews today gave a great summary of why we should be bringing our troops home. Our economy has not recovered and we have millions out of work. Obama is going down the wrong track on this one.”

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“It's kind of pointless. The White House already knows what is in the proposals and knows what they will be prepared to accept and have communicated that to Pelosi and Reid. They aren't operating in a vaccum. If the Republican's hadn't been so obstinate all these years we would have had all of this nonsense behind us by now and our health care costs would be more in line with what others countries pay. This is an issue that should have been dealt with in 1946 and except for the GOP would have been dealt with. After sixty three years you would think we would have gotten a good handle of health care reform.”

“The irony is that with the generous subsidies provided to families making under 100,000 a year, Stanford is less expensive that going to a U.C. school - Stanford has a huge endowment which lets them be this generous. The fee increases on the UC campuses are out of sight and no wonder the students are protesting. The booing of Tiger Woods was good natured, just part of the Stanford-Cal Big Game rivalry. These are both elitist schools and are ranked academically in the top five in U.S. and difficult to get into.”

“Sounds more like a Raiders fan!”

“No more Wall Street types! WTF- this isn't why we campaigned for Obama. we may have well voted for McCain.”

“Fuc-A. No more Wall Street idiots. We need to ut a real person in charge at Treasury!”

“Agree. I supported both PC and MACs and MACS are built to a high standard for commercial and consumer side whereas that is not the case for Windows-based machines. It caused problems for us since our customers were always complaining that they could buy a PC at their local store cheaper than we sold them to employees and we had to remind them the local store products were of inferior quality. Now that I'm no longer in the workforce I only use Macs and feel the premium is worth it, and I get the HP employee discount. The only PC product I would consider is a high end Sony Vaio multi-media machine which has a lot of Mac like qualities.”

“Watching that hostile crowd heckle that woman made me ashamed to be an American. They don't represent the America I live in. I bet many of people would call themselves "Christians" but they don't have any idea that they could be one of those victims described by this courageous lady who had the guts to get up in front of this crowd and relate her personal tragedy. The comment about her story being an isolated incident is totally stupid. These stories are being recounted thousands of times each year in our emergency rooms as desperate people try to get health care when it is already too late for them. What kind of a selfish country is this, that we would let that happen. No wonder other countries look at us with amusement when we call ourselves the "greatest country on earth". They look at the way we treat each other and they have good reason to be skeptical of that claim.”

“I agree with Krugman. Our deficit is half of what it was at the end of WWII adjusted for inflation. The only issue is that we are borrowing from the Chinese rather than from our own citizens. Kudos to Wall Street for creating the problem and then throwing cold water on attempts to resolve the problem. U.S. corporations aren't doing much to resolve our recession. They are sitting on hordes of cash and continuing to lay off workers. There is one way to start cutting our deficit: quit this nonsense of continous wars that are sapping the military and consuming huge amounts of cash. Can we really afford to drop another 6 trillion dollars on defense spending over the next ten years while whining about spending 1/6 that amount on health care reform? Let's have a real debate about how this country is spending its money and not making topics like defense spending off limits. And do we really need to throw 5-10 billion a year at Israel when they are relatively speaking in better financial shape than we are. And quit giving Pakistan aid - they hate our guts over there and will never find Osama Bin Laden.”

“Gee it has only taken 100 years to get to this point. The U.S. will be kicking and screaming into a health care process the other industrialized nations adopted half a century ago.”

“Way too much of the three cable networks is devoted to cheaping the news to make it of entertainmnent value to what is a limited audience in the first place. They need to get rid of all the political rethreads like Buchanan, Gingrich, and bring on fresh faces that aren't connected to think tanks. Possibly that's an impossible task. If so it shows the paucity of real political talent in this country.”

“Naomi Klein would be brilliant on MSNBC but she would not put up with the superficial side of politics which is a big part of what the cable networks cover. It would be great to have more serious discussion of the issues with heavyweights like Klein. Maybe she should take over from Bill Moyers. That might be a more suitable venue for her.”

“It is kind of ridiculous for McConnell to be quoting a columnist as a so callled "expert" on health care. The GOP really is getting desperate. Next they will be quoting Glenn Beck.”

“Personally, I may have sold Reid short. He seems to know how to count votes after all.”