Y’know, with GE stock at under 10 bucks a share, I’d LOVE to be a fly on the wall when NBC meets with their corporate Masters…

Again, the people who caused this depression and who put millions of people out of work around the world and closed down businesses are the following: JIMMY CARTER who established and put into law the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to force banks to give mortgage loans to people (primarily minorities) who could not afford to make payments and some who were unemployed and on welfare but because of the law, were approved for the loans; BILL CLINTON who resurrected and expanded the CRA in 1995; ALAN GREENSPAN who kept interest rates in dangerously low levels which caused an over-abundance of money and credit to be available; and, BARNEY FRANK and CHRIS DODD who both refused to fix the quasi-Governmental Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae housing programs.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, LIBERAL ELITISTS, messiah-WANNA-BE AND HIS POMPOUS ADMINISTRATION: STOP CHANGING HISTORY AND BLAMING BUSH ON THIS ONE. YOU GUYS ARE COVERING UP FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED IRRESPONSIBLE CRIMINALS WHO WRECKED THE ECONOMIES OF THE WESTERN WORLD. SHAME ON ALL OF YOU.

But it is also a truth that how the message is delivered impacts its receipt. Examples, logic, and a modicum of respect for your listener go a long way. To simply call names does nothing but cause the other to put up more blocks, out of instinctive self-defense.

By nature, people want to hope that this mess will get better. But they want to see it in simple, black and white terms that are easy to understand and, therefore, easy to fix. The problem is that this mess is not simple, nor will it be simple to find our way out of it. The danger is that a cool, charismatic speaker like Obama gives folks an “easy out”. He tells them what they so desperately want to believe. It’s hard to try to understand the real dynamics that underlie this mess, and even harder to do so without pointing fingers. So even there, his lip-service to bipartisanship is heard before the reality of his actions (and the actions of those with whom he surrounds himself) are seen and rather like first-come, first-served, people take that easy way out. They listen and go about their business like the obedient little herd animal they are.

It’s frightening to contemplate the day when the average Obama supporter wakes up to the reality of his lack of experience and they see exactly where all this “hope and change” is taking this great nation. While in some ways his election is a triumphant example of hard-won American freedoms and something of which we should be proud, at the same time he is the wrong man for the job, for he represents the worst things our society has embraced. Respect for mere book learning has replaced respect for hands-on experience, entitlement has replaced hard work, instant gratification has replaced the fact that there’s no way any of us will ever take any of it with us when we die. When name-calling at the highest levels of our government is seen as “dialogue”, it’s time to stock the shelves, load the Sig and hunker down.

Jack, do the honorable thing and try to beat gate 78, don’t dodge it.
Jack, I said that “many people see a Kenyan goatkeeper’s son personal fulfillment transcending the interests of the larger group, group that has to pick up the tab for this absurd 1960-s tai-chi revival that the 2008 presidential election was. [...]”

And this is, unfortunately, very true – and while you claim that my mentioning that person’s compelling ascendence is unseemly and counterproductive, I say that mentioning Obama’s (or Soetoro’s) ascendence is mighty legitimate because the most important propelling force in his being elected (on the background of a cultural implosion and public anxiety about the economy of this country) was his “redeeming” exoticism, not his (inexistent) experience or (equally inexistent) competence.

Can you trump my description of Obama’s exoticism as chief propelling force in his election with some examples illustrating his towering competence and assuring experience?

I’ll help you here: since, after triggering the current bolshevick legislation, he’s now ready to blaze through the foreign affairs jungle, please start quoting from his Columbia U, international affairs thesis about NATO-Soviet Union nuclear disarmament – from that we sure can glean his future moves in the field.
Another approach would be to quote from his Columbia U international affairs thesis about the post-colonial, North-South relationship – from this we can glean his future moves in this field as well, you will agree.

Great opportunity to show everyone that the Kenyan goatherder’s son is not a fraud, but he’s always been a man of great academic dedication, and his years and work at Columbia in the 80-s now will help this nation greatly.
Quote Jack, go ahead, I need enlightenment.
Best regards – confused in Los angeles