swoosie1's Comments (290)

“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?”

“Now I know what Lucy and Ethel were up to....”

“Why??? Why is this President doing these photo ops? When is he going to decide to be President?
This entire thing is just riduculous and I am now long past wondering about the competency of this entire White House. Get on with it Obama, and do something.”

“Obama was never interested in Hillary. Bottom line, they were angry that she would challenge him in her historic bid. With Obama, there is no room for anybody else on stage. The ego lives! And the entire Obama White House is a hotbed of frat-boy thinking and she is still an outsider. I really see this Obama team as bunch of kids who are out of college, are learning on the job and haven't a clue about anything other than, sports, Washington DC bars and dining and who's who in the in crowd--somewhat like Obama himself. The entire country feels this lack of gravitas. It's no wonder they didn't see the value of having Hillary on board.”

“Just another Obama photo op constructed by his handlers to help "mainstream" the guy.”

“There is really something working here....ma­nipulation of all the non-thinking people that might believe it is ok to suppress free speech. They are hooked on the enemy's list strategy and it appears to be very easy to achieve this manipulation of emotion. It scares me to believe that most of those posting do not see that this suppression of Fox News is really a suppression of free speech. We have become so polarized as a country, that we cannont see clearly that the very framework from which we derive our freedoms is in danger of being dismantled by a bunch of thugs from Chicago. We are not even concerned except that we want our "side" to win. I for one want the 1st ammendment to prevail. I have to also say that my dissapointment in Obama runs deep right now. I knew he was inexperienced when I voted him in, but I can see not that he does not have the strength or ability, or the team around him to help get him into the presidential seat that he should be commanding from. Instead, there are a bunch of freshmen--or kids running the White House and they have no substanative experience either. They continue to run the place like a Frat Hous. It;s very difficult to see this when we really wanted someone with vision in there. Its not been a satisfying situation and I am losing faith.”

“Uh--actually it's probably right to bring corp. and lobbyists into this fight whenever Barney Frank is involved. He's the biggest shill for the big money that there probably is. Let's not fool ourselves, Barney is in it for himself and he is no longer any type of spokesperson for the gay constituency at all. He is just another politician running interference for the Obama machine.”

“Barney should realize that why he sits around mouthing off about gays and their fundamental rights to march for equality, he is being viewed as a coward and a clown. Both are something to be ashamed of when there are lives at stake. If not now, then when Barney? Is it that Obama ONLY does speeches that are supposed to placate the gay political interests when the heat is on to look like he is doing something? Seems like he has done this before and then sits back until the next public relations problem with his gay constituency. I'm tired of the entire Obama marketing team and their fundamental lack of interest in anything that might make Obama take a stand.”

“Oh please--the kool aid you are drinking must be plentiful...he is not cutting it. It is as simple as that and you can continue to make excuses, but we know better.”

“Why do we make excuses all the time for Obama? He hasn't been able to accomplish anything this first year--the year we were counting on from him. He's made a huge number of "boneheaded" mistakes and we give him a big fat pass on all of them, because he's Obama--the new guy. I have no tolerance for his blatant lies and continued bigotry regarding the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that he continues to endorse. And yes, he continues to endorse it as policy until he repeals it. He has manipulated so many of us and we have to believe now that Hillary would have been the better choice in terms of expertise, strategic vision. Obama is flat out failing.”

“I hope you aren't actually being serious with this statment.”

“It is time for us to really look at sexual abuse of women and children and also how we, as a society do very little to control the predators once they have been identified, convicted, and sent out again on parole. We allow them to roam the cities freely, knowing that they look for opportunity to hurt women and children. They are predators and once a predator of women and children then always a predator of women and children. We need to take a systematic approach to the incarceration of these predators. They need to be segregated from others in prison, maybe special prisons are in order and they must be held for much longer than we do currently. If we also look at our current media and entertainment, about 70% of the drama is now focused on the murder and CSI-related activies around women and children, often with a sexual content. The Showtime TV show Dexter has some of the most pornographically, sexually deviant rape and killings that we can film and it is a hit show. Please let us realize that this type of programming does nothing but break down and desensitize the human emotions around crime. We need to look at this and how we degrade women and children and start to heal this madness. Elizabeth Smart is a blessing for us all to look at as a survivor. She is a hero. May she know that we admire and pray for her everyday.”

“I can only assume that the hammer is going to come down on these companies for exporting jobs. Or I would hope so. As a 12 year veteran of one of these corporations, I can see that the overall operational mode is to haul a__ to India as quickly as possible, to find reasons to cut anyone over 50, and to generally dismantle the US operations so that there are no additional job hires. Is it any wonder that the companies want to buy some time before the Obama administration finally gets its act together to fight the offshoring of the American job? I think anybody who thinks this is a cooperative move by big business has to be very naive. After all, in the big corporation, iit is always about "give to get." No more, no less.”

“No. Not at all. I think you are being naive.”

“Don't be naive. Do you really think that the journalism majors get ahead these days without connections? Also, why do we think she is unqualified? She is as good as any of the so-called journalists who are just Obama shills these days anyway. The new journalism is simply blogging personified. That is about it.”

“Kennedy was a leader of sorts, but really he, like so many others called for separate but equal status for gays this country. He, like all the others in the Senate never pushed for gay rights, they just sort of stood there when they had to do something. Separate but equal, on a state-by-state level being the norm. Obama has no courage when it comes to social justice. He talks a big game, but he is weak and also manipulative, which is a very dangerous thing. He has shown zero leadership when it comes to gay rights. A sad day for all of us when we realized that he was to be all talk and no action. Should have voted for Hillary because she has more guts.”

“Oh sure...separate but equal...just as he would have experienced if there were no leaders in the 50s who had a backbone...Obama is weak and manipulative--a very dangerous combination for a leader. Too bad.”

“Always interesting to be in the top percentile or one of the top and to hear how great it is for us. Well, we made 124k last year. After basic taxes on my home (small--1800 sf), paying for food and all the other items needed for my family of 5, making the car payment (min-van 3 years old), taking care of my mother's care, paying for health care though my job for my family, etc. I have absolutely nothing left each month. Nothing. We commute for hours work overtime, live on Costo and WalMart, work 60 hour weeks in fear of losing our jobs to India. We get nothing from the government--- killing ourselves to keep our daily relentless, aimless, pressure-inducing, soul-killing Silicon Valley jobs because of a crappy mortgage that we can barely afford. We can't find a way out to go anywhere else. Let me work in a small town--to send my kids to a normal school and maybe see them once in awhile. I represent a HUGE number of the poor smucks that are being taxed to death to pay for the 60% of the poor people who don't work, can't work, don't want to work, are getting the $200 per child award on their welfare cards to buy stuff, the food products, the subsidies, the whatever....I am burnt out. Many of us are. We are in a hell hole. There has to be a middle...somewhere. Meet us halfway.”

“Hillary was the one that got away...all due to the blatant commercialism of the Obama candidacy. Ah, what a great president she would hve been.”