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So I was commenting over at Loring's on his excellent Clown Time post saying that back in the days of W, columnists were wistful for nuanced political conversations. Politics had become binary, and wouldn't it be nice to some day get back to the subtleties of politics again. But now in these days of Rush Limbaugh's top entertainment dollar, I was saying, we might be glad to have Mr. Obama's intelligence in the White House, but look at the Republican Party, getting less nuanced than ever, trying to paint the President as a socialist.
Today the New York Times has this article about Mr. Obama wanting to reach out to the moderate elements of the Taliban.
Asked if the United States was winning in Afghanistan, a war he effectively adopted as his own last month by ordering an additional 17,000 troops sent there, Mr. Obama replied flatly, “No.”Mr. Obama said on the campaign trail last year that the possibility of breaking away some elements of the Taliban “should be explored,” an idea also considered by some military leaders. But now he has started a review of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan intended to find a new strategy, and he signaled that reconciliation could emerge as an important initiative, mirroring the strategy used by Gen. David H. Patraeus in Iraq.
That's a "NO!" I can live with. What? We're not winning a war? Mr. Obama may someday think we're winning that war, we know it's expedient to talk in terms like that when you're trying to reassure the American public. There's no winning in war, but at least I don't think he'll fly in Marine One to a carrier's deck and declare "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED."
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Everytime I see Limbaugh's fat doughy face or hear his nasty little voice I just want to slap the living daylights out of him! I simply can't believe my brother looks to him as the "voice of reason". I think he's a disgusting pig. Whew! I feel much better now! What was that about nuanced discussion?...
Oh yes, I love the fact that President Obama listens attentively to all sides of an issue and then has the intelligence to filter that information and rely on his own brain to make informed decisions about this country and its welfare. We might not agree with everything he is doing, but I think we have to trust that he will do his best to make it come out right. I would hate to be wearing his shoes right now.
I don't call this huffing for nuttin! :)
I heard Dan Schorr on Weekend Edition yesterday say he himself said several weeks ago that Mr. Obama had too much on his plate with the economic downturn to do much to address health care, Iraq, Afghanistan, et. al., then he said that we didn't know then what we know now, that Obama can keep four balls in the air.
I hope you got a chance to see Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update sketch with Kenan Thompson portraying Michael Steele, who just had an electrode implanted in his brain by Rush Limbaugh. He'd keep trying to say things like "Republican Party controlled by rich white men.... oops I mean concerned with the poor....oops I mean poor, burdened CEOs needing tax breaks." A hoot!
Then the update went even more over the top with Andy Samberg in drag as the comic-strip character Cathy, and Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel making unannounced cameo appearances as Irving and Jessica Rabbit, respectively. Sometimes their character-based sketches fall flat, and sometimes they just knock home runs out of the ballpark.
And thanks for the prop!
What really irks me is that the people that cry the most over the socialism are the people that work the least and make the most money. How hard is it to put on a suit and tie and spout the same old ideas every day, " We love Reagan", "Let the poor die", "Arrest the Mexicans","Fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them here", and many others. Let Sean Hannity grab a shovel and put a sewer main in the street, so that he can live in his mansion, and then talk to me about hard working Americans. I make about 50,000 a year, and if I could save someones life by paying a few extra bucks so that they could go to the doctor when they are sick, then call me a socialist. At least I'm not a narrow minded heartless scumbag like most of the right wing pundits. How is that for huffing!
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