swoosie1's Comments (468)

“Cult of personality? This was how Obama was elected. Come on---we all know this.”

“Yes!~ Every single point in this editorial is right on the money. However, why is the Obama presidency and his general incompetence and lack of leadership a surprise? My god, it was so obvious from the beginning that he was unqualified to be president, that he had a great ghost writer for his book (ok, he says not, but come on, it is obvious as well...) and of course the campaign speeches which were written by genius marketing gurus, and he never held a real job in any deep or committed capacity and oh don't forget how he voted "Present" more than any other senator because he didn't want to get down into the mud or the fight. He has no credentials to be doing this job and we elected him anyway. What a shame. We could have had Hillary. She would have kicked butt and we all know now that we really missed the boat on that one. Instead, it appears that we voted for a defacto president...his name is David Axelrod. What a shame.”

“Need a slice of pie to go with that knife?”

“Why are we surprised at Obama's lack of interest or leadership regarding gay rights when he went to the Saddleback Church to win over Rick Warren and his following by throwing gays under the bus during his campaign? It was clear to me that when he started his answer about gay rights in that interview by saying "I believe marriage should be between a man and and a woman" and he did it in that forum to get the votes, he capitulated on gay rights. He has no interest in gays or civil rights.”

“Unions are not the problem or the solution. It is simply the goal of all corporations to employ the cheapest labor they can get. Globalization has led us to a point where there is no longer a need to hire here in the US when there are so many cheaper solutions abroad. The added fuel for doing this is that as you boost these huge burgeoning economies with jobs, cheap ones at that, you are effectively creating mega middle classes to sell product to. Our economy is overspent and jobless because of this. All our corporate giants want to get a hold of the India and China markets and embed as quickly as possible. Why should they care about the US--we buy at walmart and they have it sewed up. In the meantime our jobs are drying up and we are a dustbowl economy. Someday soon, little Jimmy will come home from college or tech school and say, Mom, Dad! I just got a job in Vietnam!!!”

“This has always been the Obama method--say what they want to hear--throw them a bone, then do turn around and do and say whatever you want and ignore the fallout. This is evidenced exactly by the idea that he was NOT going to be a war president, but he does this. He said he was closing gitmo, but then he really did not, but it made a nice headline. He says he cares about gay rights, but then he does not eliminate DADT. He says he is going to help the little guy, but he packs his administration with the crooks and he bails out Wall Street. It goes on and on. He used this ploy over and over and over in his campaign and it worked so many times. He started his presidency out with these great headlines and got great media play and then zip---no action and no explanation and on to the next lie. And so those of us who have been seeing this for what it is, know that he just went back to the old, trusty playbook, but gee whiz, it doesn't work anymore. There are two sayings that come to mind here: "A leopard doesn't change it's spots" and "The bigger they are, the harder they fall." We will see him decline in stature and just wait for a Republican moderate to win the next election. What a shame.”

“Who cares if he was someone she knew, she had to protect herself. He was going to make her a statistic, but she prevented it. Good job!”

“You are totally correct. The police can only do so must to be there to help. She would have been a statistic like so many who are not equipped with home-defense shotguns. So many of the predators that have been convicted of rape and other crimes state that they were under the influence of drugs and alcohol etc. So it is likely that do these bold crimes in sloppy ways, like throwing tables through plate glass, because they are hell-bent on victimizing. We have to realize that these are precisely the events that warrent shooting an intruder. Actually any intruder should expect to die. That is what women need to do to start ending the trend of violent crimes against them. Get a home-defense shotgun and keep it handy.”

“When somebody throws a picnic table through the glass door to get into the home and he is also a stranger, I say shoot and ask questions later. What can a woman do? Also, does it strike you that she had no choice in this matter because she was on the phone for 10 minutes and nobody came to help her. I think that there are more and more bold actions being taken by predators of women these days that make it imperitve for women to be equipped with shotguns for home defense. We can almost be sure of what the outcome would have been if this woman did not shoot this guy. She would have been another grim statistic and a story line for CSI TV.”

“Oh please, now are we selling a division between contributing states? Is this the new thing to divide people? Is it not enough to have the country hacked into red, blue, liberal and conservative? Let's not do this. Let's be grown ups when we disagree on policy or maybe you should take a time out ya big baby.”

“What a bunch of horsepoop this is. The deal is that we are under crushing, unrelenting debt and printing money like there is no tomorrow. It's clear to me that the spin is on and that the administration has a new string of media puppets on the line. Get real. There was a good reason that Clinton made this country economically sound with zero deficit and it was a great boon to this country's wealth stability and power. But now, we are simply on the economic precipice about to go over and we have baffoons out there pretending everything is fine. Its' bull, plain and simple.”

“Should have elected the only one that would have had the b_lls to do the job and that would have been Hillary. No I am not a cougar for Hillary or anything, but surely we can see that she was the better one for this job. Everything she said about him during her campaign was right on, down to the letter. Obama is just not cut out for a real job. This is very clear and now we are going into a quagmire of war that we will never get out of. As Hillary said, it took eight years for the Bushes to wreck this country and it will take a Clinton to clean it up.”

“right on!”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, is what I say after witnessing what this "change" president has done in the course of his first year in office. He will capitulate on yet another promise--one after another he does this sort of flip-flop. I could name them, the flip flops, but why bother? I know that I will just be hammered with Obama protectors on this blog. Mr. Moore should realize by now that we were sold on a guy that had no intention of changing the status quo. He just got a piece of the action for a new group of politicos who wanted instant skin in this big game. I can see that you expected something different Mr. Moore. But what you got is what you accepted--a guy with ZERO experience or leadership experience, that came OUT OF NOWHERE, and was SWEPT into office because he was an ATTRACTIVE man with a great SCRIPTWRITER. He mezmerized us all. Well, I wish I had thought twice about what Hillary said about him and the red phone. I think she was right.”

“I have been wondering how the friends of Obama would spin this racheting up of the war into something intellectual and studied. Afterall, this is the man they want to see, rather than the man he really is, which is that of a mediocre leader at best. I have seen the speeches and how he "knew" that Iraq was the wrong vote. I knew he would have been right there with them on voting for the war if he had been in an actual position to have to vote, or maybe he would have voted "present". But now that the rubber is meeting the proverbial road, he is studied and is called the "thinking man's president" a man of great courage that he worries and frets about making decisions. Well, it takes courage to end a war that cannot be won and to say no to the support of another Vietnam. He will just move forward with this and dither and fret and blame his predessor rather than making the right call, which would be to let the region go, protect our borders, cut taxes to business, make alt. energy a priority, and meanwhile, drill baby drill. He will do more of the same and we will be there for another 20 years wasting our time, money, and lives.”

“Oh please. This woman had zero career and never worked a day in her life. She took care of Mom's charity work by attending a few honorary dinners each year and had her name on a few symphony boards. She was clearly out of her league and never even deserved a first look. It was ridiculous in the first place.”

“It was clear to most folks that Caroline was as dumb as mud. She opened her mouth and all the stupid just flowed out. I am sure that it took very little for anybody to see this if they were being honest about her prospects. She was not qualified in the least and proved it.”

“We must allow business to prosper by cutting taxes. Let's start with the smaller zones of industry--the mom and pop areas of business and shore these up with tax incentives and tax cuts. We need to create jobs and job stability in the vast areas of this country where we have no industry. For government, we need to engage in a discussion about having a tiered system of funding. Perhaps a three-tiered system of funding high=priority services, such as fire safety, security safety, military, energy, water, medical, agricultural, and education. We fund these as top-tier priorities. The second tier would be less critical need focus areas and then the third tier would be for the less critical need areas of focus. When the economy is flush with money, all three tiers are funded, when it is not flush with money, we fund the top first, then the second and lastly the third. I am tired of all the spreading around of money to unimportant and frivolous things. We need a new plan that looks at the funding in a critical way, by need, and we go from there. If state governments did this too, we'd probably find that we are in better shape with a more realistic method for moving this economy forward.”

“Uh--logic says that if they are "facts" as I have said, then they are "facts". Right? So if they are facts, they are truth. If they are not facts then they are false. I say that the factual content of his shows cannot be disputed because they ARE facts. If there is other content that is non-factual then you are correct. That content is crap. But if you were the least bit objective and did not have your deluded head up your own orifice, you would get what I am saying. Obama has to be careful to clean his house of his radical team members or they will continue to drag him down into the mud on shows like Becks. Because the facts are the facts dimwit.”

“I find it interesting how Huff Post expends so much column time for stuff about Glen Beck and company. I have to believe that Glen Beck is somewhat of a bonefide political threat. Probably because he does alot of research. There is no issue with the facts that he presents and so it is with great regret that I say he has a point or two and it threatens the Obama political machinery enough to warrant a full frontal assault on Beck's program as well as his network. He resonates with conservatives, moderates, and independents, both democrat and republican, as well as middle road moderate independents, libertarians because he does not fabricate the content of his shows, which consist of videotaped archived content that has not been altered Why else have so many of the victims of his factual expose's been left to resign? They made their own beds and Obama could not keep them around when they were exposed via tape. Could not alter the facts of their own speeches when they were seen speaking them. Wake up and do your homework folks.”

“Well I certainly won't go into the the deal about the tyranny of the majority and voting history with you, because I think you wouldn't understand it at all, but there is the small fact of the matter that Obama made some very specific campaign promises that involve this subject matter. The promises he made during his historic campaign should be something that he keeps or he will be known as a political hack. That is the deal. And BTW, you are really an idot.”

“Who really cares what she thinks or any of those in the current White House. The only thing that matters is some sort of action that moves us forward. Obama and crew continue to be the the arbitrators of phoney messaging and it happens so often that it is really meaningless at this point. Most of us who are gay wish we had never vested ourselves in another phoney, two-faced candidate that wants only to use us. Obama will feel the gay voter backlash in 2010. All of the incumbants are out. We need to start again. Whatever that may bring to the table. I can be no worse for us at this point. We need change we can believe in. Eh?”

“The bigger they are the harder they fall...and so it goes. Obama was just a symptom of a Bush legacy. We were looking for something as far from a Bush legacy as we could find and there Obama was. Whether or not he would be enough to do anything for us, it really did not matter. He was simply a figurehead of something we wanted to believe in. Now in retrospect, we can see that a more moderate persona with greater experience and power in Washington might very well have been the better choice for moving the critical focus areas along. I believe that we missed the boat on Clinton this time around and that it would have been a far greater thing to have her in office. The one thing I recall Obama saying in the debate was something about not being detail oriented in terms of the way he would run his White House. His version of exectutive expression was big picture and not hands on. I recall Hillary saying that her executive style would be entirely different. She was a roll up your sleeves, hands on exectutive. I think we need a more hands on exectutive approach from our President, but I don't believe he is capable and because he is delegating policy as well as decision-making to Rahm and others, he is like a boat without a sail. It's all very predictable as to what happens to boats without sails in the ocean...”

“I agree! He has been totally lame in leveraging and persuading and marrying the two! I agree too that this is very clearly a team that has an arrogance around the agenda and very little finesse. The entire team has a fraternity team feel. Not good. And very reactive personalities that antagonize rather than engage. The feel of this is that of the big back-room deal. Nothing open or transparent as we maybe thought we'd have. I'd call this White House the team that governs from the BLOG, which is vast and shallow. They don't do the deep work but think that fancy blog/media blitzing is enough when it comes to policymaking. Very diappointing.”

“You say: "...I do not forget that if the election had gone the other way, we'd right now have a barter economy and be at war with Honduras." Well, I say, for all of us who are un or under-employed with no prospects, this is an economy of bartering. We are there Bill, regardless of what you think or say on your little show. We are there already and we have no prospects for any way out. Oh, and by the way, have you heard about that little escalating war over in Afghanistan? Who needs Honduras?”