Hedonist88's Comments (54)

“until H1NI came along ....”

“What part of Commander-in-Chief didn't you get?”

“yeah but Palin and co believe the universe is just a couple of years old. They seriously do take the God created everything in 7 days to be "gospel" truth ;-)”

“Nothing wrong with religion per se.
The problem is with the nitwits who kill, steal, seduce, con and otherwise manipulate in the name of religion.

The televangelists preaching their "magic" through the tube (for a fee in form of donations / tithe) and the crazed fanatics willing to blow themselves and innocents up while eying a reward of 70 virgins in paradise (so morally wrong on so many levels let me not even go there..) both do great dis-service to religion and the role of belief systems in the human pysche.”

“That's bcoz you'll assume the presidency of the USA is all powerful.
There are too many other opposing interests with a powerful Republican bloc that just can't be run rod shod over.

However I do concede that the president needs to take a definite stand on certain KEY issues. Health care reform has been one. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict another one where he needs to be more forceful in making the hardliners in Israel stop illegal colony expansion”

“No principles?

That must be dumbest accusation against the president I have ever seen!”

“chill with the labels dude”

“Beg to differ there. Sarah Palin attacked herself.
SNL merely acted out her words to the T. That woman is her very own worst enemy”

“Excellent summary !

The issue at hand is that the Geithner-Bernanke-Summers team are guided by the over-riding notion that they are the knights in shining armour riding in to rescue the STOCK MARKET. I repeat the stock market, because American's pensions and savings are invested there. A noble venture if any, but naive to say the least. Secondly they propose this half-assed plan precisely to rescue the bondholders (again the pension schemes).

When government puts on its nanny gown and tries to manipulate the stock / financial markets - all it does is produce a temporary euphoria (aka bear market rally) and actually worsens the situation. In this case a worst case scenario of the FDIC being bankrupted and a total loss of confidence and collpase of the entire American banking system.

President Obama should urgently organise a round table with dissenting views and opinions - and a consensus should be reached, rather than going all-in with Geithner. It's one thing for the President to say the buck stops with him to deflect criticism of his Treasury Secretary, but the words should also hold water, and the President should ensure that he is getting all the input required.”

“It was disappointing that the Obama administration allowed itself to be beaten into submission by the Israel lobby / AIPAC and their supporters regarding the nomination of Chas Freeman. He would have been an honest and very valuable asset in his role.

Today the hardliners in Israel are that country's (and by default the USA's) own worst enemies and they should realise global opinion has turned against them in their treatment of defenceless civilians.

Like a parent to errant and rebellious children, the USA needs to be firm, in equal measure to both protagonists, the Israelis and Palestinians, to achieve peace in the Middle East and for the USA.

Seize this chance President Obama !”

“Fake or not fake is besides the point.

The ideas / suggestions espoused are great, especially for having a debate where differing points of view are taken into consideration are not only necessary, I hope it is already happening.

good work”

“Well maybe if Israel could be so kind to return some, just some, of the land, it has forcefully appropriated from the Palestinians, the latter would quieten down.

Hamas are called terrorists by one side, and freedom fighters by another......

Israel today bombed a UN shelter killing scores of innocent children. Collateral damage? Yeah right”

“These far right clowns are going to turn a lot of people away from religion and Jesus.
It's already began to happen”

“This is true. Democracy came out a big winner. I had begun to completely lose faith in the ideals of democracy seeing how gullible and unqualified to vote the average Joe was.

Joe is still out there with his warped ideas, but thankfully the enlightened voters have risen to overcome the biases and manipulative political leaders.”

“Alaska and Arizona - you can do it!!!

Obama-Biden”

“Tracy Carol's vote was influenced by how many less email alerts she received from a candidate??
Some people should really not be allowed to vote...”

“I agree. I too worry about these so called independents.

I fear they are just racists but not brave to admit they won't vote for someone who looks differetnfrom them despite agreeing with what he stands for. That's the stupidity of America today.”

“Good job Bill !

Megan thinks she's smart but got out gamed ....”

“Republicans can't steal this if it's a landslide.

VOTE! Every single vote counts now”

“While it's too early to write off mccain I know, the fact is he is losing this race, because he made his campaign all about Obama, and petty politics well short on ideas.”

“It's absolutely mind boggling that Senator John McCain, the greatest American war "hero"", would vote AGAINST armour protection for our troops.

Is this true? Why isn't it getting more attention?”

“America will only be saved once the smart Americans outnumber the really dumb, racist types.”

“The real Sarah Palin stands up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmt0rLtgmK0&feature=related”

“...then watch the rabid racists in the mccain-palin group turn on him too...

finanly the world can see these scum for what they really are.....they keep hiding behind that Obama is a muslim / arab crap - time to shine a light on these bigots”

“Call it what it is. RACISM.

These people will use any ridiculous claim against Obama to justify their position but very few have the courage to just say they are so prejudiced they will not vote for anyone who is of not their same skin colour.”