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Vern November 18th, 2009 10:24 am
At least with Mitch McConnell we wouldn't be bullied to believe he was anything other than what he is. The danger with Obama and he can talk a good game and posture as something other than what he is and despite the growing body of evidence some will be dredging up the same hollow excuses and apologies giving him a pass while the rug is being pulled out.
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Exactly. It's much better for the town to know there really is a dangerous and ravenous wolf around than to think the wolf is really a relatively tame dog who would never attack one of the children. Everyone would know that Mitch McConnell is a wolf, including Mitch McConnell, laugh out loud. Whereas there are many millions who do not understand that Obama is a wolf, also.
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waiguoren November 18th, 2009 2:06 pm
The boy who cried "ravenous wolf!"
That's how you want to characterize Obama?
We'll be curious to know what you'll say when real ravenous wolves are at your door
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I don't know exactly what you mean, but I'm in a writing mood, so...
About the only reason I am participating and trying to help the non-right wing with my writing and research is that, roughly speaking, the ravenous wolves are at my door already. If I need an old fashioned job, I most likely can't get one now given the economic disaster. I can't get health care at a reasonable price. I can't do much of anything without being subject to being tricked and scammed down the river by some corporate trick. And so on and so forth.
Society has more or less collapsed and the wolves are at or at least very close to the door, my friend.
It's not at all about "crying wolf". Obama is actually a right-wing wolf, there is absolutely no exaggeration in that and there is absolutely no doubt about that. So no one on this site is crying anything that isn't true.
The country would be essentially in the exact same condition now and in the next 5-20 years if Mitch McConnell were the President. True, there would be some minor differences. For example, some teachers, some firefighters, and possibly even some police officers would be unemployed if Mitch were President, but there would be roughly an equal number of corporate employees, together with a small number of small business owners and employees, who would still be employed if Mitch McConnell were President, who have already or will soon lose their jobs, with no chance of re-employment, under the minute details of Obama's measures.
The question of Mitch McConnell versus Barack Obama really amounts to where you want to place the deck chairs on the Titanic, and, at this point in the collapse of the economy, who exactly gets on what life boat.
But as I said, everyone would know that Mitch McConnell represents the wealthy and elitists, and so everyone who is not a right winger would be arranging their own affairs as best as they could to minimize the negative effects to themselves of Mitch McConnell being the President. Whereas now, there are many millions who have been fooled and who are not being as careful to avoid societal traps and scams as they would be if Mitch McConnell were president.
For example, the average opinion (on sites other than Common Dreams, where very few are fooled) about Obama's mandate to buy grossly overpriced health insurance is characterized by annoyance and dismay, whereas if the mandate came down from Mitch McConnell, there would be many more people serious about avoiding it so as to avoid eventual economic disaster to themselves resulting from huge payments for health insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-payments.
I mean, with Bush, eventually the military was having difficulty recruiting for Iraq, and eventually, many people learned their lesson about not automatically trusting contracts that seem too good to be true, such as sub-prime mortgage contracts with interest rate kickers. There are people alive right now who would have been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan were it not for the backlash against Bush. There are people who would have been bankrupt and/or living under a bridge were it not for becoming, as a result of the backlash against Bush, very cautious about signing right wing contracts.
But with Obama, too many have gone back to not being careful and defensive about right wing policies and contracts. So Obama has not only followed most of Bush’s policies, he has actually infused them with a big shot in the arm due to there being little backlash against himself, because most do not see Obama as a wolf.
You get the wolf thing now? I hope so, because that is all I’m going to do to get you to get it.
AND ON A LIGHTER NOTE
bgcd November 18th, 2009 1:29 pm
He's black and a community organizer! Cool man! He looks and talks like Malcolm X! Really cool man! He's hip, he's cool, he's black! I mean hey! He's cooool!
Laugh out loud!
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