What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.
And it was sugar coated, consumed hook, line and sinker.
I can barely stand anymore from the weight of all this "irony"....
We should be in full revolt, and we so aren't. The best I have heard is that people are starting to wake up to it at last, but the best they can say about it is that it's almost certainly a one-term presidency.
They don't have to try to bump people off the voting rolls after this. We will drop ourselves off in spectacular numbers.
Whatever it is then will be the same as it is now... only probably not so smoothly packaged. DOESN'T MATTER. It's moot. This is WORSE than Dubya and maybe the next will be worse still or maybe it will be just as bad... doesn't matter anymore... doesn't bear on the problem anymore... because it's ALREADY WAAAAAAAY WORSE THAN IT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO GET. In fact, it may actually be that worse even than this will be the only thing that finally induces us to STOP them.
Well judging from all the bloggers that say they are done with the democrats or the ones that say they are done voting(which makes no sense, why not at least vote for Nader or Kucinich or something). If old flappy ears keeps this shit up we will have one big old fragmented democratic party and of course there is already a serious rift in the Republican party. The crazy stupid sheeple always hang tight and will become the majority. So at this point Im thinkin Palin or Glen Beck...Maybe Rush will throughhis hat into the ring...
Of course then again since odds are no one will do anything about the electronic voting machines and the fact that one company owns most of them etc etc...whoever is pulling the strings will probably put into office whoever the fuck they want.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. —John F. Kennedy
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so. —Ronald Reagan
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. —Martin Luther King
We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department is fucked. It's the biggest cock-up ever. We're all completely fucked. —not uttered by anyone in charge lately
Anyone calling Obama a leftist, liberal, or progressive needs to have the stupid beat out of them. —Old Uncle Dave
As for the Taliban ... their stated grievance is the same as Gen. Washington’s in our war with the British: If you want this war to end, get out of our country. —Pat Buchanan
Obama-era drone warfare ... in general looks like Bush-era drone warfare on steroids. —Scott Horton
There has to be altruism in the universe. —Frank Drake
The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome. —Paul Craig Roberts
I am a child of the South. Janet Napolitano tells me I need to be afraid of people who are labeled white supremacists but I was raised around white supremacists. I am not afraid of white supremacists. I am concerned about my own government. The Patriot Act did not come from the white supremacists, it came from the White House and Congress. Citizens United did not come from white supremacists, it came from the Supreme Court. —Cynthia McKinney
No one has to "marry" anyone else politically; no one has to embrace every tenet or belief that an anti-imperialist ally might hold. You simply have to say: "All of us, regardless of our other views, believe this truth to be self-evident: dismantling the empire will bring immediate and enormous benefits to our nation and to the world." —Chris Floyd
The power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. —Howard Zinn
...the government only starts listening to its voters once the more corrupt option turns out to be untenable. —Matt Taibbi
· One out of seven American homeowners will probably lose their homes by the end of 2010.
· Only 4.7 percent of distressed homeowners who enrolled in the modification plan have gotten any help.
· Out of Obama's $75 billion program, only $2.3 million has been spent—or 0.03 percent.
Obama's performance on the foreclosure crisis—along with unemployment, the biggest problem America faces—makes Bush's laissez faire approach to Hurricane Katrina look caring and loving in comparison. If ever there were a cause for impeachment, look no further. —Ted Rall
As self-appointed champions of civilisation against barbarism, they fail to see that a certain barbarism is the flipside of civilisation itself, inseparable from its smooth operation. For every cathedral, a pit of bones; for every artistic masterpiece, human wretchedness and back-breaking toil. —Terry Eagleton
Here at home and throughout the world people are fighting back against the forces of wealth, privilege, and militarism — some because they have no choice, others because they would choose no other course but the one that leads to peace and justice. —Michael Parenti
I've found that culture, however useful and important, is neither the foundation nor the ceiling of human experience, even if it is commonly used for walls. —Thomas Cleary
I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States. —Hillary Clinton
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What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was sugar coated, consumed hook, line and sinker.
Then he was elected!
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ReplyDeleteOMFG
I can barely stand anymore from the weight of all this "irony"....
We should be in full revolt, and we so aren't. The best I have heard is that people are starting to wake up to it at last, but the best they can say about it is that it's almost certainly a one-term presidency.
They don't have to try to bump people off the voting rolls after this. We will drop ourselves off in spectacular numbers.
it's almost certainly a one-term presidency.
ReplyDeleteI'm fearful of "What Then".
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Whatever it is then will be the same as it is now... only probably not so smoothly packaged. DOESN'T MATTER. It's moot. This is WORSE than Dubya and maybe the next will be worse still or maybe it will be just as bad... doesn't matter anymore... doesn't bear on the problem anymore... because it's ALREADY WAAAAAAAY WORSE THAN IT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO GET. In fact, it may actually be that worse even than this will be the only thing that finally induces us to STOP them.
ReplyDeleteI'm fearful of "What Then".
ReplyDeleteWell judging from all the bloggers that say they are done with the democrats or the ones that say they are done voting(which makes no sense, why not at least vote for Nader or Kucinich or something). If old flappy ears keeps this shit up we will have one big old fragmented democratic party and of course there is already a serious rift in the Republican party. The crazy stupid sheeple always hang tight and will become the majority. So at this point Im thinkin Palin or Glen Beck...Maybe Rush will throughhis hat into the ring...
Of course then again since odds are no one will do anything about the electronic voting machines and the fact that one company owns most of them etc etc...whoever is pulling the strings will probably put into office whoever the fuck they want.
ReplyDeleteBingo, Doug, dear. EVEN WITH HAND-COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS.
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