So far, Obama’s greatest crime is that he is acting like a Democrat, and actually following through on at least a few of the promises that enticed liberals to vote for him. If he’s incompetent at anything, it’s hiding or refusing to acknowledge the criminal misfeasance of his appointees and cronies, something at which Bush/Cheney excelled. Very few people in DC can survive much scrutiny, so the whole “transparency” thing could backfire on him…but I’d prefer a few high-profile embarrassments to another 8 years of Wolfowitzes, Perles and Libbys.
As near as I can tell, “race” isn’t even a factor. Certainly, once I saw McCain and Palin running together, the only “white guilt” I felt was my shame at being part of a tribe that could produce such a preposterous pair of self-serving, uneducated bumpkins. Conservatives need to drop the excuses and come to grips with the fact that their candidates were scary idiots who gave a majority of American voters the heebie-jeebies.
And please, take the “Socialism” BS and go scare your grandparents. There hasn’t been any “pure capitalism” on this planet since the Indians stopped bartering sea shells for furs…and if there HAD been, Americans would be enjoying the same living standard as the average inhabitant of Latvia or Bangalore, India. I mean, we’ll get there within a few years, now that we’ve permitted our corporations (and our debt) to “go global” — but it would have happened 30 years ago if banks and businesses hadn’t been limited by the few feeble regulations that Reagan left intact.
Be grateful we have a President who looks good and hasn’t pissed off the entire world yet. America was “over” before 9/11, but Bush & Co. managed to keep the illusion going until they were safely out of office. Now, we have to deal with the hard realities that were obscured by the fake “War on Terror.” The wheels have come off the international Ponzi scheme of high-finance, and Americans can no longer count on making $90,000 a year for a job that can be done in Africa for $100 a week. Sorry, but that’s capitalism. America is no longer necessary.
