Comments on: The two most frightening things Obama said yesterday

By: Edward Mckoan

Edward Mckoan — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:38:04 +0000

Hey there just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The text in your post seem to be running off the screen in Firefox. I’m not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do with internet browser compatibility but I thought I’d post to let you know. The style and design look great though! Hope you get the issue solved soon. Kudos

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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:26:58 +0000

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Steynian 333 « Free Canuckistan! — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:22:22 +0000

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By: Alan MacDonald

Alan MacDonald — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:48:29 +0000

Roger, you seem to be committed to pontificating and enflaming fear (of Obama) through ethereal and vaguely philosophical devices which would indict Obama as a socialist (and by your unreasoned extension, a communist tyrant, or czar of an empire).

But if we talk rationally about the history of nations since the end of WWII (the second war of modern empires, and the first imperial oil-war) all former empire nations (in Europe and Japan) which expunged empire, and empire-thinking, and successfully developed as anything close to representative democracies, and progressed toward genuinely serving the interests of their people, with equitable GINI coefficients, ‘universal’ health care, absence of willful wars, and a dozen other characteristics that the vast, vast majority of average Americans pray for, took the very same (and only proven) path out of empire —- ‘social democracy’.

Why, pray tell, would you not consider Obama’s helmsmanship of the American political economy quite pragmatic, and defensible as being pragmatic (rather than the ideological bent that you ascribe) given purely the evidence and this existence proof that only ‘social democracies’ have proven to be a successful model to exit the state of unsustainable empire and enter the state of ‘free world’ democracies?

Perhaps, you would not mind dealing in such mundane terms as what ‘social democracies’ have been able to do for their citizens in the real world, and I would be glad to take the reverse role of showing what this ruling-elite ‘corporate financial Empire’ controlling our country behind the facade of its two-party, ‘Vichy’ sham of democracy has been able to do for our people over the last three decades — wherein we could have a rational discourse and public debate, rather than what passes here for discussion, eh?

By: Geofizz

Geofizz — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:39:53 +0000

Maybe I’m reading Roger’s sentence wrong… but I’m not seeing any sign anywhere that Obama “means well” and seeks “to boost all mankind up to their own plane of enlightenment.” Rather, it appears to be more like all of us are going to be crammed down to the lowest common denominator, with the exception of those Enlightened Ones “ruling” us. Obama has all the appearances of a narcissist, who displays NO empathy for anyone. All this while he and his fellow politicians live the high life enjoying all the perks of office — free rides on Marine One, skipping out on their taxes, spending (taxpayer?) money on cocktail parties and celebrity entertainment, eating wagyu beef in excessively heated rooms, while expecting the rest of us unwashed masses to be “patriotic” via working hard and sacrificing (as we all listen to the sucking sound of our retirements/portfolios being flushed away). There’s no helping the little people in any of this. With healthcare and cap’n'trade, in particular — it’s all about Control. If they wanted to really help with the environment via government aid, why don’t they start with something like subsidizing recycling and waste minimization??

Yo Comrade Kostragh! Here’s to growing potatoes in our backyards!

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Obama’s Dangerous Incompetence « Cliftonchadwick’s Blog — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:42:45 +0000

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By: Kostagh

Kostagh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:08:16 +0000

Sorry for you guys. I live in Eastern Europe and that’s how it all started back there too… Good luck… comrades?!

By: Linguist

Linguist — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:19:06 +0000

There is so much of the worst of human history being demonstrated by this administration it IS truly frightening. We really need to return to the basics, but I fear government has grown so large it has rather taken on a life of its own. And like some slumbering monster it is now being awakened by the ignorant and will swallow them whole.

I only hope the rest of us aren’t swallowed up with them.

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By: SCOTT

SCOTT — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:51:13 +0000

L.C,

I was just concerned that Mr Kimball might be drinking Lysol, as one commmenator in another post accused him of; didn’t think he should miss out on a good Bordeaux, that, dollar to donuts, probably tastes much better than Lysol.

…and no Kimball, I don’t think you drink Lysol, and if you do then stop immediately.