right? In just eight months President Obama has taken us from looking like crazed, bible distributing (in Arabic no less) war mongering, macho, family killing raping and torturing nation that we WERE into a nation of peace seeking. Are you kidding me? You think that's easy... try getting two people who don't like each other to change... just two. He has turned the outlook of the whole world from one where everyone was worried about WW3 or WMD or Nukes, or mounting terrorism into a world of hope. Imagine if McCain had won. He was talking about WINNING in IRAN not some peace prize. If this General had asked McCain or Bush for troops we would have sent them THAT DAY.
There are people who are calling for him to turn it down. I think President Obama will say that this is where we all need to start and he will tell us where we should go from here. This gives him so much clout on the world stage. How can you turn down MORE clout to get more PEACE accomplished? And hopefully it will help with the world's crappiest Senate.
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They have robbed us of our good name like Bush and friends robbed our banks (on purpose to send money to fundamentalist robber barons). You have no idea how much. I've been trying to trace how much went into the coffers of the people who would dissolve separation of church and state. Do you know how many heads of corporations are fundamentalists? They've done everything but promise them 70 virgins if they help the Republicans
It seems that every night Rachel Maddow has another head of a large company who was a "hidden" fundamentalist. Wonder who made off with all the money? This is what the President is fighting... about 1000 huge corporations, a lousy Senate, half of the Bush administration and he's done a lot of good, gotten no credit and someone thinks he should turn this down?
I understand why people want more. I want more but I just don't think he was given the Senate we think he was.
And there is so much people don't know about all the damage that Bush is doing right now. At one point Karl Rove was said to have been telling people to run as whatever would win. If a Democrat was more likely to win then run as one and just keep being part of "the Family". Bush's "Family" is still all over our government. Do you think any Democrats who belong to the C Street "Family" will vote with Obama? They've been promised so much from the Family that it makes Insurance look tame. Baucus keeps taking his stupid health care bill to "the Family" for approval. Reference to the Family is from the book "The Family" by Jeff Sharlet.
But we have had so much stolen from us that it breaks my heart. We have had no celebration of our new status in the world. If John McCain had won we'd be fighting a BIG war and the world would hate us forever.
Yesterday I was sitting with two environmental lobbyists at a meeting. They are from Raleigh NC. In their local school board election 4 Democrats have lost their seats to 4 fundamentalist republicans. We are going backwards. They have already voted for segregation in the form of Charter schools. (I don't really understand Charter schools) but the people I was with were really upset about it. We should have been writing our heads off about how racism is a horrific thing. At the rate we're going we'll be fighting Brown vs Board of Education again.
We should have been writing against them at every turn. Instead the Bush truck is just rolling over America again.. We are back to a KKK nation. We cannot kid ourselves, the KKK has been 10 times louder than we were because we are not together. The Washington Post and NY Times are now looking at Fox News to cover the right wing side. So they have gone to hell news wise.
We could have been wildly happy. We could have booed the right wing nut jobs into embarrassment. instead we have ignored them while saying how much this President hasn't done for us. To me it is a bigger story that Virginia is almost sure to elect a Governor who will put women in their place. That Bush truck just keeps right on rolling. President Clinton said he couldn't get anything done because no one would acknowledge anything he ever did as good. They just went on to fuss at him about the next thing.
I absolutely think that it is a bigger story that the KKK is alive and well and growing (and not just in the South) than it is that some idiot got a bonus. Speaking of which, it could hurt a second stimulus that people are so mad about that and people still need jobs. How can the President fix this when we have made people so mad about the bonuses? Those bonuses were 1/1000 of what we will pay in unemployment insurance. I recognize the injustice. But the man did just change the course of the world as far as war, and he did while people were screaming their "needs" at him from every side. Bush couldn't send troops and chew gum.
There are truly things that people don't know about jobs that, if they did, it would change their whole outlook. Bush and gang caused a lot of jobs to go away because it made them more money. That is all I can say about it. Sorry. And the Republicans have people terrified about the deficit. That is nuts. Clinton paid off a huge deficit in no time. There are a thousand ways to do it. It will not cost our children one dime and not one story has been written about why. Ask Peter Orszag or find his writing on the subject. Deficits are projections 10 years into the future. They are worst case guesses. We should be pounding the Republicans with this. Ask Paul Krugman... force people to see what he says about deficits. You don't want a deficit forever but right now it's honestly costing us more money NOT to have a deficit.
We had better stop the wing nuts soon or we will lose the Senate in 2010 then everything comes to a two year stand still. If they win again they will win the White House in 2012 (because it will look like Democrats can't get anything done... and in truth we can't). Surely we can put aside our priorities long enough to stop the damn KKK from rolling all over the country. Look at what a great job we've done with Beck. He is beginning to be seen by advertisers as the fool he is.
Someone told me that Limbaugh was caught with someone's Viagra (prescription no his own, flying off to a place where child prostitution is the worst. Is that true? If it is, we should be writing about that. I haven't even seen a story. Can't we tell the President what we want AND fight the other side into the ground? Please could we have some FUN with getting rid of all the bad people in the Senate. And the Limbaugh story, they are trying to pin that kind of crap on someone the President appointed that supports gay people. For God's sake, can someone gay not write a thousand stories debunking that myth at least. Equate it to cheaters being interested in little girls instead of women... as there is some evidence of that.
Right now, I'm worried about getting out the vote. I want a progressive America. The President said 1000 times he wanted a public option. It was an embarrassment when he couldn't get it. But he TRIED for US. It cost him and we didn't say anything but what a lousy job he did on healthcare. You know how we get a progressive America. The same way the fundamentalists almost destroyed America... about 4 elections.
And now, if we let this stand the way it is, we will leave them STRONGER. They are happy to let President Obama take the blame for everything Bush the destroyer did.
There were stories at the end of the Bush administration about how the fundamentalists were dying, even among young evangelicals. They were rejecting this hate, mean, revenge filled God. Now they're not only back, they're telling Nancy Pelosi to go home and learn to cook again.
Nobel Peace Prize. You bet your ass I'd take it if I were him. Right now if he hadn't picked the right people this country would have lost about 50% of it's jobs. We'd be speaking Chinese in a few years. Not ONE story have I seen about that. Not one. That was the biggest Progressive victory in history. Claim the damn thing.
I'm sick to death of Progressive as victim shit. I'm a progressive and I hate losing. In the name of Progressives everywhere, and my precious nephew who died because he was gay, I claim victory for saving us from another Great Depression! I love you Noah. I know you would have fought this tooth and nail. If you're looking down, could you help us get rid of the new KKK? This kid lived in a viscous little red neck southern town. They threw food at him for being gay. He was beautiful and smart and kind and they made his life miserable. He was killed at 16.
Well, Progressives lets start writing about who the fools are and they are Fox. Can you say sociopath? Jane Hamsher can show you how to kick some ass. Let's do it to the KKK too. Let's make the Virginia Governors race, maybe too late to save it, the last loss for decent people everywhere.
Now, I KNOW this diary covers a lot. But I really have one thing to say. Use your talents for exposing them for what they are. Make them eat dirt and hate it. I am taking about Fox news. I think Huffington Post had a thing about "tell on your company" how about "tell on a fundamentalist preacher" or "tell on a republican". It's time we made them look like the dumbed down, fools they are. We just lost Raleigh which may mean NC and Virginia will be teaching creationism soon. We cannot let them get stronger.
America voted for CHANGE. Well so far he CHANGED the course of the world in eight months. Now are we supposed to give up on CHANGE just because we haven't gotten it al yet. CHANGE to creationism and anti-feminism, oh yeah, and Alito and no separation of church and state is not exactly the change any of us meant.