I guess that the elections are really just a formality after all

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WCGreen  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Tue Mar-10-09 11:40 PM
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I guess that the elections are really just a formality after all..
   
Edited on Tue Mar-10-09 11:44 PM by WCGreen
I mean the tone has changed slightly, after all, people in DC are actually paying lip-service to our issues instead of our crazy opposition.

But when you really get down to it, the old adage that money talks and bull shit walks is pretty accurate. When have the people in DC ever really cared all that much what we have to say. Well unless it gets so bad they have to do something.

I guess some might say that, at the very least, it is better than the old days, but that is just an excuse because at least now we have a load of information about what goes on in front of closed doors. You know in front of the doors marked private, you have no access you have to trust us because we can't trust you...

So along came Obama, no one's favorite guy except the people out beyond the collective (purposeful communistic word) beltways of New York and Washington DC. And we rallied behind him, gave him power and money and wow, we got him elected. That glorious day in Chicago really was a great public moment in US history.

But then the real power brokers, those safely ensconced inside the beltways, said enough from the rabble and started wearing down Obama, setting up false arguments and spreading innuendo and rumors with the furious pace of 12 year old girls texting each other in Algebra Class,

And now, 50 days in, we are left, as it was at the beginning, with Jon Stewart, Kieth, Stephan and Rachel. The rest of the country, well they are angry, of course, but some are angry at Obama that Gul Darn Commie, some are angry at bankers and others are just too shell shocked to know which was is up.

In 1933 we only had fear to fear...

Now we have thousands of talking heads on radio and cable tv telling us what we have to fear is everything but the fear of being afraid.

All we can do is hang tough and hope.

Now that Mr. Obama is in Washington things can only get better.

That can't get any worse, can they?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5227552

Care to wager something on that DUmmie ?

If you have anything of value that is.

960  (122 posts) Tue Mar-10-09 11:44 PM
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1. What if Obama was never really a grass roots outsider?
   
What if the beltway insiders created him and supported him to keep real change from coming?

Heh. Now here's a conspiracy theory I can dig. Pity it obviously comes form a Lousy Freeper Troll.

morgan2  (1000+ posts)    Tue Mar-10-09 11:47 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. since when was obama an outsider?
   
he was being groomed to be president for a long time. Its not a secret he was chosen to speak at Kerry's nomination in 2004. At that point everyone knew he would run for the president one day, the only question was what year.

If I understand correctly, this means the whole "primaries" thing with the HilldoBeast was all for show. Someone should have told Hillary this.

960  (122 posts) Wed Mar-11-09 12:07 AM
Response to Reply #18
20. I got your point. I disagree with it.
   
I think that Obama is part of the entrenched interests. He always was. A sort of manchurian candidate.
He's bringing plenty of change compared to Bush, but was never meant to and never intended to revolutionize politics.

mahina  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-11-09 12:25 AM
Response to Reply #20
31. Manchurian candidate?
   
OK, that's it. Alerted.

Help !!! A Lousy Freeper Troll !!! 

WCGreen  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Tue Mar-10-09 11:48 PM
Response to Reply #2
7. He is fighting an up hill battle against the folks all ready in power...
   
Why else would anyone take seriously the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Boehner and the rest of them...

Maybe because they are right ?

KittyWampus  (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-10-09 11:56 PM
Response to Reply #1
13. Really, just vote for Nader or write in Kucinich

Please do. Any vote taken from the democrats is beneficial to conservatives.

[Carl]

You got to love these imbeciles.....for 8 years all they could do is spew invective and insults at President Bush and now they can`t grasp that their man can be viewed the same way?

[miskie]

sewing the seeds for the eventual 'Obama is part of the VRWC' once his numbers tank.

And they will - Lets examine Obama V1.0 - Deval Patrick.

Patrick's Job Approval Rating Crashes

Reporting
Jon Keller
BOSTON (WBZ) ―

How would you rate Deval Patrick's job performance?
Budget cuts and tax hikes dominate the headlines these days.

It's a tough time to be in charge - just ask Gov. Deval Patrick.

Some new poll numbers on his performance look pretty bad.

"WORST I'VE EVER SEEN"

These are some of the worst job approval numbers I've ever seen for a governor of Massachusetts, and this is horrible news for Patrick at a key moment in his term.

"The average driver would pay the equivalent of about one large cup of coffee per week."

That was the governor's sales pitch thirteen days ago for his 19-cent a gallon gas tax hike, and judging from a survey taken in the following days, it's a flop.

69% DISAPPROVE

The Survey USA poll of 600 adults found only 28-percent approving of Patrick's performance in office, while 69-percent disapprove.

Among the state's most important voting block, independents, the news is even worse, with only 18 percent approval and a whopping 78-percent disapproving.

BUSH-LIKE NUMBERS

For perspective, look at it this way.

When Gov. Patrick took the oath of office 26 months ago, his job approval rating was over 60 percent, about where President Obama is right now.

Today, Patrick's approval rating has collapsed to about where President George W. Bush was in his final days in office.

WHAT HAPPENED?

What pulled the rug out from under Deval Patrick?

No need to look much further than the imploding economy.

Candidate Patrick's core promises were property tax relief and a better-run state government.

But the tax relief never came, much of his agenda has stalled, and service cuts have outpaced reforms.

Read the rest at the link above.

[USA4ME]

Primitives, primitives, primitives.  If you wake up every afternoon looking to DC to somehow make your worthless existance better, then you're always going to say stupid things like "I guess that the elections are really just a formality after all."

Yes, I fully realize what I said went WHOOOOOOOSH!!!!! right over your head.

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[Vagabond]

Primitives, primitives, primitives.  If you wake up every afternoon looking to DC to somehow make your worthless existance better, then you're always going to say stupid things like "I guess that the elections are really just a formality after all."

Yes, I fully realize what I said went WHOOOOOOOSH!!!!! right over your head.

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I resemble that remark, For at least one year of my total of my adult life, I've woke up in the afternoon. 

















I had night shift.