kart0624's Comments (15)

“The complete blame should be placed on the feet of wonderful regime of the Bush administration. The media and people in general have short memories, Bush ignored Afgahnistan and no idea about the people, culture and their thought process. What people don't understand is the fact that, people of Afghanistan and the Taliban are pretty much one and the same. maybe the general populace does not accept everything the Taliban does, but they are in agreement in a strict form of Islam. So, the only way to see any kind of progress is to broker a deal that allows Afghanis to decide their form of governance (which I agree is not good in so many other aspects of democracy like rights for women), and that they SHOULD NOT provide a base for fundamentalists who wish to attack United States and other countries. Positive changes that lasts for centuries happen from within the nation/country, anything induced from outside using PHONIES like Karzai the so-called western educated "intellectual" WILL NEVER WORK, it has to be an homegrown solution. The right-wing in this country don't want anybody to "interfere" in their personal lives, well that right is just not for Americans but that encompases the entire world.”

“But, people are supposed to understand nuanced positions just like the world is not Black or White like Republicans would have you believe. How can a Democracy survive if people don't see this complex world for the way it is, and that fact is most of things are in the Grey area and not this simple Good vs Evil concept. I strongly feel in the long run the people and that democracy will fail, if they fail to understand this basic concept.”

“That would mean there would be no Repubican Party.....”

“What you have mentioned is completely true. I think this is the basic point though, the majority of this country whether that is 60 - 40 or 55 - 45 are tilted to the right. People tried to make this election as though this somehow supposed to be "ideological shift" to the left, the fact of the matter is people were so fed and completely disgusted with Bush administration and I feel that pretty much the sole reason that the so-called "Independents" voted for Obama and not because this country has changed. There is a huge problem in this country, one part views this world from a narrow neo-con perspective actively aided by Fox News and Hate Radio, and like it or not that's the actual majority. I guess that's what happens when you live in a cocoon called the United States, this country might have the most most modern communications and access to information in an instant, but the fact is that it's still a fish bowl and ther is huge barrier erected between this country and the rest of the world very much for nefarious deisgns. These people (supposed grass roots right-wing) live in their own parallel universe, they assign these rosy pictures to the US and pretty much condemn anybody who want to point to the real world and what's going on whether that's foreign policies, domestic issues etc.. I don't see any hope at all except to say one thing, that there are two Americas..­..........­..”

“The right is trying to repeat the same thing as they did with Pres.Carte­r, a great man of principles primarily reduced to what happened because he did want to do what the Republicans did. Remember people if Obama fails, then the Republicans are going to have another 12 -16 years of messing this country and the world along with it. Here is the small window to get things right and push back real hard against these racist mobs or face disaster in the long run. One part of this country will never learn, and they honestly beleive it's not racism and when infact over the years it's been buried deep in the psyhces by the "intellectuals" of the conservative persuasion. There is clear difference between people like Ron Paul where you can have clear policy debate then you have the rest in the Repuke party. If we don't do something soon, it's going to be as someone else said in here 'Carter 2.0' all over again, it's really upto us.”

“"Does the president yet recognize that his domestic enemies are implacable? They cannot be bargained with. They must be fought with words as well as laws. And the rest of the American people must be -- indeed deserve to be -- reasoned with; given a clear explanation of the path of policy, whether the economy or health care is in question; and not merely assured that the establishment is with the president.­"

This is the truth, and I have been saying this for a long time on this site and others I don't know maybe the short window has gone to forcefully refute and have MSNBC or some other News organization just like Fox News is doing EVERY SINGLE DAY to destroy this administration. All I have to say is this, THE RIGHT IS LOADING UP ON GUNS AND AMMUNITION, I THINK TALK RADIO AND FOX NEWS have lit the fire and to me the question when the violence is going to begin and not if. This is dangerous stuff, and I think most people in this country are ablivious to the whole situation, and let Fox News and Hate Radio to continue unabated without any strong repurcussi­ons.......­..........­.dangerous indeed....­........”

“I agree with the analysis that News Papers should indeed remain very relevant and should not be allowed to go out of business. They one of the threads that keep a democracy in it's seam. Television journalism has often been to sensationalize news rather than getting to the truth.”

“averygard:

Did you notice nomdplume did specifically note Obama's comments on other issues and specifically staying away from this? That's the issue here, if he hadn't commented or said anything about other issues that would have been different.”

“Do you have any doubt”

“Do you have any doubt ?”

“Here are the first signs of problems, Obama starting to hire the Clinton machine to govern the nation.Peo­ple have very short memories, it's true that much of the problems that the United States and world faces were started by pseudo-con­servatives in the Republican partyover the past two deacades. But, what were the Democrats doing? They stood by while illegal wars were waged, and habeus-corpus was suspended and so many other blantant violations. If Obama is truly going to be the leader who has great vision he would have people like Kucinich or Ron Paul in his administration, not a slight variation of the Clinton machine which is part of the larger problem that we are all facing. I say throw Emanuel out and people with any ties to the Clition machine, and start with people who have real progressive records. Anybody who ever supported the Iraq war should not be allowed to go anywhere near this administration.”

“You are right it's lose/lose situation for Obama. They have cornered exactly where they like him to be, if fires back with the same venom then he is "just another politician", but if doesn't then he is not talking about it that's because it's must be true. If you watch Hannity this is exactly what he is doing, the most effective mouth piece for the Republican party in the media.”

“This presidential contest is very much rooted in race, and that is exactly the reason why the election is so close after 8 years of disastrous president. There is still a large section of the whites in these rural communities who hold a disdain that is anything different from themselves, they are not voting for John McCain, they voting against Barack Obama. The right-wing media in this country headed by Fox News has pushed this notion that it's not about race, and that's all about who Barack Obama is, and it's working because there actually lots of white folks in this country who have been poisned with lies about anything that is different from themselves. These people don't want to hear any criticism of the US on the world stage. These are the people who are called "Reagan-Democrats" who hate welfare for minorities and civil rights legislations. Once again I think Republicans have managed convince those in "Middle-America" to vote against their own interests especially in terms of the economy. Well then you reap what you sow.”

“I don't think there is an end to this, and from my perspective for any REAL CHANGE to occur, this country needs to elect three more right-wing Presidents and Congress and have to go suffer through it , and then people will be read for a fundamental change. These people don't want to crtically examine either themseleves or their candidates or this country, all they want to be lost is in "America is great", "America can never make a mistake", " Hail the warrior troops" kind of empty slogans, and if you had the guts to call-out these empty statements, YOU WILL NEVER BE ELECTED. It's a vicious cycle that super-powers and it's populace gets sucked in, and usually change comes in when they no-longer are super-powers because they themselves have destroyed it because of all the arrongance on display. I am talking about US now, but this goes to Russia, China, India and the rest as well”

“I commented on this before, it's a fundamental human nature and it's being played out in these elections. We are asking people to vote against their own basic human instinct of race, identity etc, and I don't think it's going to happen. For all that's being said, this country is still very much a white majority, and unfortunately most(atleast a slim majority of the country) don't like to hear anything against the economics, foreign policy or social policies that have been fundamentally wrong. Some of these so-called "Independents" were looking for a reason to vote against Obama, and now they found something from the same old Republican play book of "war-on-terror", "socialist" etc.”