""Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment."
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Mark Morford, Yogi and resident idiot with a column, June 6th, 2008, in the
The San Francisco Chronicle.
"Hope met reality in Obama's first year
Skepticism has crept into [the] vast majority of Americans in the middle,...The upshot is clear: President Obama is not a miracle worker."
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The San Francisco Chronicle, January 20th, 2010.
I didn't think Obama could clean up the mess his predecessor left behind - certainly not in one year. But I admire him for trying.
ReplyDeleteYea, I know. You forget that Bush had to assume the presidency after 8 months (9/11) while Obama's supporters will gladly give him four years to get comfortable. Why, if the man farts in your face - which, metaphorically, he has - your kind will still support him.
ReplyDeleteAs Bill Clinton said during the election, when Obama lied that he had a long and strong anti-war record, when he really had no record what-so-ever:
It's "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
Speaking of Clinton, what mess did he leave for Bush?
ReplyDeleteAnd, even allowing for the notion that 9/11 was unpreventable, did that necessitate the full level of expenditure that caused massive deficit spending and the recession, or was there a smarter way of doing things?
I can see no evidence - apart from welfare cuts - that Bush was doing anything to prevent financial strife. Perhaps you can enlighten us in future postings instead of carrying on with the usual nonconstructive Obama-bashing.
If you really want your kind of change, you have the difficult job of convincing wavering voters that a return to the GOP will ensure economic growth and a move to full employment. I saw none of that under the Bush administrator nor even an effort from conservative commentators to convince me that the loss of jobs overseas and the widening gap between the have's and have-not's was illusory, or being addressed for that matter.
Clinton just recently - finally - admitted he could've caught bin Laden in 1996. I'd say that's about as big a "mess" as he left on Monica's dress.
ReplyDeleteAnd the job of convincing voters to go my way seems to be getting easier by the day. As I've written before, the best cure for Liberal Rule is actually allowing Liberal rule.
As they say in Texas, y'all's "all hat no cattle".