It has nearly been a year since Obama took power. It was not a fingernail result like when Gore won and then apparently didn't win back in 2000 - yes b4 9/11. Obama won in style, even in some "red" states. (insert your own insult here about red states). But today, in Mass the so-called democratic stronghold, a republican nobody (well he has a truck) won Ted Kennedy's seat that he only held for 47 years. (Mini-series movie idea - Kennedy campaigned most of his life for health care reform and because of his death and a republican win - it appears as if the bill will be even worse then it is now, if anything at all).
Which brings us back to Obama. If you read the news and I hope you do, unless you are happy then I would recommend not reading the news - it gets in the way - you may have noticed that whatever Obama does is critically examined, questioned, and analyzed more then any other president in history.
Message to American brothers and sisters - what the fuck is going on in your country. It is like everyone in the country has forgotten eight years - yes eight years of republican policy, two wars and a financial crisis. Do you really believe a new president elected a year ago is expected to come in and end two wars and bring the country out of debt in a year? What planet are you guys on - the planet of microwave change - instant policy oatmeal, twittered national solutions. Give the guy some time for God's sake.
Sure the health care bill sucks - but hey why not thank Liebermann for that- look closely he looks remarkably like a weasel. Remember the public option would have been in the senate bill and would have passed if it werent for him. Do not forget this. Obama could push more, but then again, he does not have absolute power - which is a myth that many Americans forget - perhaps because it did not seem that way during the "good old years" of Bush Cheney or should I say Cheney Bush.
However questions need to be asked. Where is Obama - the hope Obama - the Obama who said things were going to change - did they get to you - did they threaten your family - because you have changed and are playing a different game - if your going to lose anyway why not go full force?
Obama you need to accept this Brown guy's challenge to a basketball game and kick his ass, then Liebermanns, Wall Street and the insurance companies and all of those other corrupt bastards that are shackling you from real progressive agenda that you have to harbour inside if you truly understand what compassion is. Then we will then again have hope for your hope - instead of a 2012 looking like another bad dream of despair.
P.S. The really scary thing is GW Bush also had a truck and so does Sarah Palin.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
Let's hope we get our shit together in 2010
We should be thinking about 2009 as a year that accomplished the unthinkable - a president of the united states who didnt fit the mold. The orator who still seems to smart to be president. (Side note to Pres. Obama - Just what exactly are you thinking. It seems lately that you are reading words from papers that are not your own and you are not convincing) However, even in a time of "greatness" it becomes more apparent how screwed we really are:
1) China is the worlds superpower. When China's premier sulked out of the Copenhagen meeting it became evident that coupled with the US dependence on paying back the trillions to China and capitalist obsession with cheap useless items, that one of the oldest countries in the world is no longer third world, but our world.
2) Americans simply dont care that millions of other Americans will die. It's true. Of course it is not every American, but this so called health care reform is exactly the type of thing that citizens should get their right to bare arms and hands to give the finger to the insurance companies who control who lives and who dies.
3) Anti-social networking. Somehow we are becoming creatures who instead of communicating with real people, we need devices to communicate with real people. A strange species who spends their time looking into little rectangles.
2010 can be a new start. It wont change the three things that became painfully obvious in 2009, but what it does mean is that if we dont get our shit together we are going to lose the so-called freedoms that we hold onto. It is not news to say that corporations control governments. But what should be a concern is that our governments are being controlled by corporations to control us. For 2010, we need to learn Mandarin, get rid of Liebermann and other slime democrats, and talk to each other in person.
1) China is the worlds superpower. When China's premier sulked out of the Copenhagen meeting it became evident that coupled with the US dependence on paying back the trillions to China and capitalist obsession with cheap useless items, that one of the oldest countries in the world is no longer third world, but our world.
2) Americans simply dont care that millions of other Americans will die. It's true. Of course it is not every American, but this so called health care reform is exactly the type of thing that citizens should get their right to bare arms and hands to give the finger to the insurance companies who control who lives and who dies.
3) Anti-social networking. Somehow we are becoming creatures who instead of communicating with real people, we need devices to communicate with real people. A strange species who spends their time looking into little rectangles.
2010 can be a new start. It wont change the three things that became painfully obvious in 2009, but what it does mean is that if we dont get our shit together we are going to lose the so-called freedoms that we hold onto. It is not news to say that corporations control governments. But what should be a concern is that our governments are being controlled by corporations to control us. For 2010, we need to learn Mandarin, get rid of Liebermann and other slime democrats, and talk to each other in person.
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