i was hoping to be less pissed off by this today

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... but, of course, that was dreaming.

I keep hearing all those harpies screeching about Obama being incompetent, in lalaland, not up for it, and hating that this was correct, and also hating that these rabid Clinton supporters feel vindicated, when everyone knows Hillary wouldn't even have mentioned settlement freezing to begin with. So many people are so quick to make me agree that whatever we've got, it's far better than McCain/Palin. I have to because I think we would be in WWIII already had we been forced to experience that, but not because we'd be in any worse shape domestically. Fuck you. Obama is Bush's third term domestically. We'd also be in WWIII right now if Hillary had made it, and as messed up at home. The only positive thing I might be able to almost think is that Obama is "dithering" long enough to let the -- lets call it the Eastern Bloc -- gently make WWIII fiscally impossible for us. Even if this is what he's doing, he's slaughtering innocents to do it this way rather than get assassinated for using his political capital to shout down the war machine. He can justify this in his own head, weighing the relative loss of life, the relative damages, and believing staunchly, as he surely must, that getting himself killed would only assure WWIII, when maybe he can stall them out of it.

Maybe he can.

Even if he succeeds, purposefully or accidentally, I still think he's a dickless rat who's selling us out in the midst of the greatest challenge to the amazing effectiveness of his charm and suavity he's ever faced. His eyelashes can't quite bat this one into shape. This "healthcare reform" fiasco is so appalling I'm very nearly speechless, except to bark at the party hacks excusing this load of crap. He has completely caved to every strong lobby in DC, completely sold us down the river, maybe in furtherance of this muddled goal, but more probably in furtherance of his pathological need to have bigwigs think well of him, be one of them. He's so much like every charm offensive wrapped in a skinbag I've ever met that I wish I could just lop that head off and let him gape at the reality he forces into abjection with his weakling theatrics, doing president, where performance should be.

AND I AIN'T JUST WHISTLING DIXIE HERE....

Please keep this straight.

[Sometime later... as though I have ESP or something... I go from posting this to end up listening to people on these very subjects. Here, Peter B and Sibel talking with Mel Goodman go at them from every angle. Over the last few days I've come across a bunch of people yipping about how on earth can the thoroughly-discredited neocons be having such a resurgence in power all of a sudden, and they come close to saying precisely this, this bit of psychedelia, also, in this discussion. Sibel, near the end, also brings up her dissatisfaction with how even all of us so hot to restore the Constitution STILL couch everything in terms of the need for "national security"... this bogus twisting of the oath of office from faithfully upholding laws and defending the Constitution to making "national security" the priority. This is a crucial point that never gets made, except by maniacs like me... and Sibel... and Glenn Greenwald... and Peter B. In this Boiling Frogs podcast, they articulate well the folly of excusing Obama on many egregious shortfalls and bad judgment calls, even Goodman who still wants to be as charitable as possible toward him. So. I know you have lives and don't have the time to listen to all this vital stuff... but... it's vital. The press of your domesticity and professions should not turn you from it.]