sweet jeebus, something i'm actually interested
in on that board! i haven't been sniffing around about that darkstar
rig, but i did wonder about where to get one el-cheepo at the time, and
now it looks like there's quite a few of 'em bobbing around out there.
e-bay schmee-bay. drop shipped from china just like a macbook air.
slashing the defense budget. restoring civil liberties protection.
standing up for science and the scientific method. protecting and
encouraging the right to organize. modernization of infrastructure.
atrios's superduper trains. protecting and encouraging the free and
creative expression. living wage. universal health care.
lots of possibilities that we as a society pretend don't exist just
because barack obama and pete peterson don't want to talk about them.
has he recently been banned by joe 'dead intern' scarborough and msnbc?
he pretty much said the president's plan last night was not any good
and all about obama's job and not anybody else's. jesus.
at least
someone is paying attention. it must be so much more pleasant to be fat and happy like
john cole, not a care in the world.
i understand that establishment tools
like chait, and lesser establishment tools like lemieux, have one and
only one function: cheerleading toady. that's fine, but when they take
on soft targets like drew weston
just because that target might not be sufficiently deferential to their
leader, that's pretty bush league. weston's kind of a dope, but
lemieux and chait's thesis is pretty fucking lame: because obama failed
to be a leader, presidents have not ever been leaders and are incapable
of being leaders, so obama is really cool--and shut up!
as i commented over at
rortybomb:
is it really possible that the whitehouse didn’t understand the
severity of the situation from day one? or was it that they simply
didn’t listen and didn’t _want_ to understand because it didn’t fit
with preconceived notions and policy positions? that sort of thinking
explains the failure to stake out better positions on so many issues at
the outset. as has been stated over and over again, his vague
rhetoric during the campaign may have sounded sorta liberal and
activist, but the concrete policy ideas and administration personnel
were anything but.
not just the usual bj-style fluffers
got a chubby over the speech last night and completely forgot just who
barack obama really is, but also reality-based smart asses like the lee papa and the krugman and frequently pissed-off whiny bloggers on the digby
rejoiced in the twinge of renewed hope they got from a mildly
adversarial speech a little about jobs but mostly about cutting social
programs. this pivot to jobs and challenge to republicans to embrace
their own goals is all about obama's reelection, and any benefit to
actual americans beyond election day in 2012 who are not barack obama is
purely coincidental.
as much as krugman et al were happy with the size of the program and the
stimulative fragments in the speech, it does not erase the facts of
what the obama presidency has stood for every day before 8 september
2011. i guess that the fact that he can still inspire a krugman chubby
just illustrates how much obama has failed and just how much was indeed
possible if obama had been a man of ideas and principles.
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