Willy spouts off on Obama before SOTU...

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WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-27-10 04:19 PM
Original message
Feelin' Alright 
 Edited on Wed Jan-27-10 04:29 PM by WilliamPitt
Audio version of this essay can be found here: http://www.truthout.org/feelin-alright56429
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(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: labguest, lepiaf.geo)

Feelin' Alright
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Seems I've got to have a change of scene
'Cause every night I have the strangest dream
Imprisoned by the way it could've been
Left here on my own
So it seems
I've got to leave before I start to scream
But someone locked the door and took the key ...

- Traffic best part of the whole thing...

Calling the second half of January a catastrophe for the president, the Democrats and the country at large sells the word "catastrophe" short. A health care "reform" process that was already trailing smoke suddenly lost cabin pressure and spiraled into the sea when the single most unpoachable Senate seat in the history of the universe, held for 46 years by the late Ted Kennedy, flipped into Republican hands because Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley thought she could win without actually running a campaign. yet, I recall you said 'Bank It' about Marsha winning, right Willy? Before the screaming had a chance to die down after that debacle, the Supreme Court came swooping in and dropped a gigantic dung bomb on the entire body politic, delivering our democratic processes into the hands of corporations which already exert far too much influence over every facet of our lives.

President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress emerged from the smoke and ash of this twin-bill disaster with little more than a perplexed look on their faces, further cementing the emerging public consensus that the 2008 elections put into power a group of well-meaning incompetents who, despite having the virtually unfettered ability to accomplish just about whatever they want, cannot seem to get out of their own way. (see run-on sentence) A 41-seat minority in the Senate somehow translated into total power and complete victory for the GOP, and every pundit with the ability to draw breath began predicting an imminent Democratic bloodbath in the upcoming 2010 Congressional midterm elections.

Boy you sure took me for one big ride
Even now I sit and I wonder why
When I think of you I stop myself from crying
I just can't waste my time
I must get by
Got to stop believing in all your lies
'Cause there's too much to do before I die ... second best part of the article.

On Wednesday night, President Obama will have the unenviable task of explaining to the American people that he, his administration and his Democratic allies in Congress are not, in fact, worthless. The American people overwhelmingly elected him because he promised to change the nature of politics, promised to right the ship after eight years of Bushian mayhem, promised to fix health care, create jobs, save the environment, rebuild the economy, bring the troops home from Iraq and defend the nation from terrorism, but after what may have been the fastest year on record, the glass remains definitively less than half full. I hope Willy isn't being paid by the sentence.
(snip)

Of course, it has only been a year. The mess left behind by the previous administration - indeed, by the last ten administrations - has translated into a series of seemingly insurmountable dilemmas that would challenge the wits and will of King Solomon himself. Combine that with a Republican Party far removed from its Linconian roots and in the thrall of a base whose hatred and desire to simply destroy rather than create is all consuming, and the task before Obama and his people becomes even more daunting. Last ten Administrations? Who was the 34th President?

Dwight David Eisenhower 34th Republican and war vet.
J.F.K. 35th Democrat and war vet
Johnson, Lyndon type, 1 EA 36th Democrat
Tricky Dick 37th Republican
Jerry Ford 38th Republican
Carter 39th Democrat
Reagan 40th Demi-gawd and Republican
Bush (41) Republican and war vet
Clinton 42nd Democrat
Bush (W)(43) Republican
Obumbels (44th) Democrat

But he wanted the job. He wanted it so badly, in fact, that he spent nearly a thousand days trying to get it. Now it's his, warts and all. The American people, well-trained in the art of short-term memory loss, have come to the conclusion that everything happening now is Obama's fault, and the polls reflect this without dispute. One speech on Wednesday night won't fix all that ails us, but if Mr. Obama doesn't hit precisely the right notes in the delivery, his second year could come to make his first year seem like a Cape Cod clambake by comparison.

Is he up to it? Are we?

Feelin' alright
I'm not feeling too good myself ...

The rest: http://www.truthout.org/feelin-alright56429 

Will spills out more crap that the sewer at a BBQ cookoff in Bavaria in October.

Robb  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-27-10 04:31 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. But if he doesn't nail it, we're all screwed?
 I don't follow the logic. Will's, not yours.

What? You question the Pitt?

asdjrocky (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-27-10 04:34 PM
Response to Original message
4. How do you fail this badly?
 Without it being on purpose?

Who? Obama or Willster?

timeforpeace (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-27-10 04:37 PM
Response to Original message
7. Coakley will definitely win.

Bank It.

[crockspot]

They do so love to beat on little willy over there.

[JohnnyReb]

He promised change.....and boy has he delivered....communism here we come.
He offered hope....and people got it...they hope to survive 3 more years of his crap.

[The Village Idiot]

I hope someone is recording and manipulating these audio clips. heh.

[GOBUCKS]

hope Willy isn't being paid by the sentence.

I would  be astounded if that "truthout" blog pays anyone for anything.
At any rate, they surely pay less than what we get for unrecs at the DUmp.

[franksolich]

What is this "America overwhelmingly elected" il Duce Bo comment?

The vote was 52-48%, against the weakest candidate the Republicans had put up since 1940, which of course is a majority vote, but hardly a landslide.

[Carl]

What is this "America overwhelmingly elected" il Duce Bo comment?

The vote was 52-48%, against the weakest candidate the Republicans had put up since 1940, which of course is a majority vote, but hardly a landslide.

Yet they claim a 5 point win in Mass means absolutely nothing.

[franksolich]

Yet they claim a 5 point win in Mass means absolutely nothing.

il Duce Bo never even came close to the margins racked up by Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and Bush in 1988.

If the Bostonian Drunkard's going to claim il Duce Bo was "overwhelmingly elected" with a 52-48% margin, the Bostonian Drunkard might recall then that George Bush in 2004 was "overwhelmingly" re-elected, with about the same margin.

The Bostonian Drunkard's so full of himself that when he takes a dump, he saves it.

[kenth]

asdjrocky  (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-27-10 04:34 PM
Response to Original message
4. How do you fail this badly?
   
Without it being on purpose?
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." Hunter S Thompson


HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-27-10 07:15 PM
Response to Reply #4
18. Booze.
   
Or were you talking about Obama?

   ba-zing!

[The Village Idiot]

  ba-zing!

self-PWNED??

[jukin]

The only accomplishments in this unpresidential administration has been increasing the government budget by 24% and quadrupling the yearly budget deficit.

[Specbid]

Feelin' Alright

Great song...hope the pittster doesn't ruin it...

[The Village Idiot]

Great song...hope the pittster doesn't ruin it...

do not click the TruthOut link then.

[Specbid]

do not click the TruthOut link then.

Ha...Trust me...I wouldn't give his site the hit.

[diesel driver]

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-27-10 04:19 PM
Original message
Feelin' Alright
 Edited on Wed Jan-27-10 04:29 PM by WilliamPitt

... The American people, well-trained in the art of short-term memory loss, have come to the conclusion that everything happening now is Obama's fault, and the polls reflect this without dispute...

GWB was blamed for the economy from 11/08/2000 til 01/20/2009, but Zero gets a pass after a year in the White House....

Sorry, little Willie, but whatever you're selling, I ain't buying....

However, I do know an organic farmer nearby that could use some fertilizer come spring....

[The Village Idiot]

GWB was being blamed for the economy from 11/08/2000 til 01/20/2009, but Zero gets a pass after a year in the White House....

Sorry, little Willie, but whatever you're selling, I ain't buying....

However, I do know an organic farmer nearby that could use some fertilizer come spring....

did you miss it? They have blamed GWB pre-emptively for the bad economy in 2010!!

[Karin]

Before the screaming cheering had a chance to die down after that debacle

Fixor8ed.

Mess left behind by the last 10 administrations?  Gee, Will, could you be a little more specific?  Part of good essay writing is supporting your argument with facts and examples.  Of course, I learned this in the 8th grade. 

[USA4ME]

If he's gonna quote Traffic and could have found a way to fit in "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," it would have been a better read.  As it stands, it's the standard non-sense.

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[DumbAss Tanker]

It's good to see someone put so much old-school craftsmanship, time, and care into their work, even if that job is village idiot and it's purely volunteer, i.e. unpaid.

 

[diesel driver]

did you miss it? They have blamed GWB pre-emptively for the bad economy in 2010!!

No, and I realized after I posted it (like 5 hours later) that I should have said they have blamed GWB for the economy since 11/08/2000....   

Even if (and God forbid) if Lord Zero is in office for 8 years, it would STILL be GWB's fault....

Hell, they're still blaming Reagan for the deficit....

[Ralph Wiggum]

Wee Willie, while never actually relevant outside of the echo chamber to begin with, is now down at the bottom of the dung heap at DU.  I love it.

[Oceander]

did you miss it? They have blamed GWB pre-emptively for the bad economy in 2010!!

Course, that means that they already know it's gonna be a bad economy in 2010 - which is a pretty presumptuous position to take unless either (a) you're clairvoyant, or can otherwise tell the future - in which case you wouldn't be wasting your time on DU, or the Democrat Party, you'd be saving peoples' lives and making yourself filthy stinking rich on the stock markets - or (b) you know in your heart of hearts that the economic policies being implemented by the current group of thugs in power will, in fact, hurt the economy, and you need to find some plausible scapegoat to try and make the cognitive dissonance go away before it makes your little pinhead skull explode.

[AllosaursRus]

il Duce Bo never even came close to the margins racked up by Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and Bush in 1988.

If the Bostonian Drunkard's going to claim il Duce Bo was "overwhelmingly elected" with a 52-48% margin, the Bostonian Drunkard might recall then that George Bush in 2004 was "overwhelmingly" re-elected, with about the same margin.

The Bostonian Drunkard's so full of himself that when he takes a dump, he saves it.

I figured he was a shit eatin' dog! LOL!

[The Village Idiot]

(b) you know in your heart of hearts that the economic policies being implemented by the current group of thugs in power will, in fact, hurt the economy, and you need to find some plausible scapegoat to try and make the cognitive dissonance go away before it makes your little pinhead skull explode.

ding ding... winnah

[BlueStateSaint]

It's good to see someone put so much old-school craftsmanship, time, and care into their work, even if that job is village idiot and it's purely volunteer, i.e. unpaid.

 

 

Good one, DAT!