Thoughts & Commentary on the Obama Administration

[Crazed Rabbit]

Fascinating. So many people in one place with so little idea how world politics work. They are aware that for a free market economy to not collapse business's have to be kept afloat?

Says one school of thought that has, oddly enough, been proven wrong again and again. The huge spending bill passed in the US is bad even for a keynesian bill, because it will take years for all that money to be spent and then it won't help (keep in mind this is according to keynesian theory). But business certainly don't need to be 'kept afloat' by the government. The weaker ones should be left to go out of business (I'm not saying we shouldn't give some banks more money to lend, however).

What's fascinating is that you haven't even heard of other economic schools of thought, especially since one said school has dominated most governments' policies since the second world war.

Also, I got really peeved at how the various news articles said 'tens of thousands of protesters" when they should have said hundreds of thousands.

CR

[Lemur]

Also, I got really peeved at how the various news articles said 'tens of thousands of protesters" when they should have said hundreds of thousands.

According to Malkin et al. the number should be millions. According to the socialist Washington D.C. fire dept, it was around 70,000, still a respectable number.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

^^ Looks like "the zoo has an african lion and the white house has a lyin african"

Also, I got really peeved at how the various news articles said 'tens of thousands of protesters" when they should have said hundreds of thousands.

CR

I think they quit doing official tallies ever since the million man march was estimated at 400,000.

[Meneldil]

Holy crap, I can't believe the POTUS is allowed to make such a speech in front of american children.

USSR of Americanistan, I salute you

[gaelic cowboy]

Holy crap, I can't believe the POTUS is allowed to make such a speech in front of american children.

USSR of Americanistan, I salute you

[Beskar]

^^ Looks like "the zoo has an african lion and the white house has a lyin african"

I completely disagree, why?

Look closely at the picture of the Lion, it is lying down. So it is a lying African. It makes no mention of any people, just lions.

I think it is talking about Obama's den of Lions where he sends holier than thou' republicans who attempt to prove that God will keep them safe, but tragically, fail.

[Louis VI the Fat]

That picture is so racist, it's painful to watch. Is there much doubt she thinks Obama doesn't belong in the White House but in a zoo? And she's not alone.

At any rate, considering the continuity and similiarity between what was said about Obama, Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaing (2005-2008), Bill Clinton, and even Carter, race can not be deemed the deciding factor in Republican animosity.

Moreover, race and political preference are not mutually exclusive. Animosity can awaken dormant racism, can be expressed in racist terms by the less eloquent, and lingering racism can attribute to (the vehemence of) anti-Obamamania. Racist or politically motivated - that is not a matter of either / or.



I think Obama gave the right answer. As so often over the past few months, I admire Obama for his calmness of tone. He's a great diplomat. Composed, reflexive, accepting of his political opponents.

In general, the ball has been firmly in the court of the GOP. Obama has at every opportunity showed a willingness to co-operate. In healthcare in particular, Obama and the Democrats have been extending their hand to the GOP for months. The Republicans, in turn, have gone into a reflexive war-mode. Fine, they are under no obligation to work constuctively with the opposition. It does show that it is the GOP that is the party of polarization and extreme partizanship.

[Xiahou]

Is the Obama Administration politicizing the National Endowment for the Arts? Sure sounds like it.

[Lemur]

Is the Obama Administration politicizing the National Endowment for the Arts? Sure sounds like it.

It's too late—the damage is done.

[Xiahou]

What does everyone think Obama's going to do about Afghanistan? Apparently the military is getting impatient waiting for Obama to make a decision and it's rumored that McChrystal will resign if not given more troops.

Adding to the frustration, according to officials in Kabul and Washington, are White House and Pentagon directives made over the last six weeks that Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, not submit his request for as many as 45,000 additional troops because the administration isn't ready for it.

In Kabul, some members of McChrystal's staff said they don't understand why Obama called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" but still hasn't given them the resources they need to turn things around quickly.