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"But you all think that Obama and his cronies are "above it all"?"
Um, no dude. That is where you have you're particular ideological blinders on. You seem to think we're a bunch of Obama fans here. I don't think that is true at all, but you seem to think so. In fact you seem to come in all hopped up on tea bagger adreneline, all guns blazing curses everyday on cue, and it's fucking tiresome.
Am I glad that Bush is gone? Fuck yeah. Does Obama on some levels - as America's first black president represent some sort of fundamental change in our society? Yup. Is his rhetoric on hope and community a nice counter tonic to the selfishness of the neo-con crap we've been living with since the Reagan years? Yup. But at this point it's nice rhetoric. No one man is going to change a trillion dollar government of 250 million people in a hundred days. Not. Going. To. Happen.
I could say that Obama has deeply disappointed me, in regards to his failure to take the financial industry to task, with his seeming insistence on transparency, but adds no justice to that transparency, to his rollback on Afghanistan and torture investigation.
I COULD say I was disappointed, but I'm not, because I never expected this from him. He's one man, well-intentioned or not, and the System rules here. The last man who tried to truly buck the system from that office ended up with a bullet in his brain on a Dallas street.
It's still early. Kennedy changed after being burnt by the Bay of Pigs and . Will Obama? Don't know. We'll see.
I don't think anyone here has any belief in "Obama as the One", but you seem convinced that there is some weird mystical cloud of these people out there, because that's the story the right wing propaganda machine feeds you and you eat that shit up.
You don't even know the definition of fucking "socialism" but you employ the word every chance you get. You think these "tea baggers" were some sort of independent "rising up" when it was manufactured straight up out of a rightwing populist think tank. You're blind baby, you're blind.
I know I'm definitely NOT a democrat and certainly NOT a republican. I see out system as fucked, but you have two choices drop out, or try to change it. But you have to face up to it for what it is. And the corporate / lobby media forces the either/or dichotomy down everyone's throats and frames the debate - Left vs. Right, Conservative vs. Liberal, Acorn vs. Teabaggers..whatever. It's all bullshit. You GR have clearly bought hook line and sinker one side of that debate
- Well said and good to know (minus your suggestion that i'm a hook-n-sinker guy). I am nobody's fool.********
- Well said and good to know (minus your suggestion that i'm a hook-n-sinker guy). I am nobody's fool.