A few days ago, after President Obama went to Dover Air Force Base to pay his respects to 18 deceased American Soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan.
I wrote that he showed a great deal of dignity and, again, respect for the Soldiers and their families.
I also wrote that surely the Right wing, Fox "News" and Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc., wouldn't dare speak out against this, that it would just be beyond the pale.
As it says above, this is my year for being wrong (you have no idea).
A quote, just now, from the Associated Press and Yahoo! News covering yesterday's Sunday morning news programs:
"Limbaugh belittled Obama's surprise, middle-of-the-night trip last week to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to observe the return of 18 flag-covered cases holding the remains of Americans killed in Afghanistan. 'It was a photo op' designed to 'create the impression that he has all of this great concern,' he contended."
It's been a banner year for me, I'll tell you.
Link to full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_limbaugh_obama
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Dear Mr. Kevin: I, too, was quite saddened by Rush Limbaugh's attacking the President's motives in visiting Dover to pay his respects to the returning caskets of dead US soliders. Rush et al used to tell a joke during the Bush years: "If George Bush walked on water to save a drowning child in the Potomac, the lead story on CBS would be "George Bush can't swim." " There was all-too-much truth in that joke--and Rush et al should remember a painful fact: As the line in Pogo said: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
Ernest,
The big differences between this administration, however, and the last, is that a) so little in the last one went right (e.g., Hurricane Katrina, etc., etc.) and b) that so little was done for working man and woman on the street.
Those are big, big differences, to be sure.
In response to PFLOW Why does the government have a special responsibility to the working man? What about the small business owner who risks financially to provide that job to the working man. What about the corporation that asks the public to believe in it by offering it's self for investment by the public? It's a symbiotic relationship.
Oh, and being an emergency responder. The state of Louisiana didn't ask for help from the federal government until the Hurricane had already hit. Also, what about the personal responsibility of the people who knew it was coming and yet expected the .gov to rescue them.
Wait, Top of the Chain, don't tell me--you're a white guy, aren't you?
Anyway, "symbiotic relationship"?
I have news for you, pal. The corporations are making away with all the tax breaks while the small business owner (read: working man) and the rest of the working men and women DO pay all the taxes. But the small business person (yes, men and women) and the working class don't have anyone out there slugging for them.
Symbiotic my ass.
We turn so much of this nation over to corporations, it's obscene.
You need to read more about this "Top". If and when you do, you'll find out you and I are getiing screwed (unless you're one of the corporate people or wealthy) and we're getting screwed by the corporations, the wealthy 1 percent and all their lobbyists.
I am not white, actually my skin is kind of pinkish. with some freckles. but... WAIT.... what does my genetic lineage have anything to do with this?
By the way, there are more progressive wealthy people in this country than there are conservatives. Who has controlled the Congress for the last eight years? It hasn't been the republicans. Hmmm, I wonder who all those evil capitalists had to go to to get their tax breaks?
Yes, symbiotic I trade my time an efort for an income. My boss and her company trade her profit for my time and effort.
Again, you ask for tighter controls over everything. People chafe against this and work to avoid and overcome this. When laws and regulations get in their way, they're labeled evil and criminal.
If the corporations didn't have to spend so much lobbying congress for tax breaks, maybe they might plow more of that money into wages capital improvements than countering an ever more oppressive regulatory maze of laws and regulation.
TofC,
what does the color of your skin have to do with any of this?
It tells how and where you got your opinions and points of view.
"Who has controlled Congress the last 8 years?"? Are you kidding me? Since this is still 2009, I guess I have to remind you that, for most the last 8 years (that would take us back to 2001, since you apparently can't do the math) that it's been the Republicans and Conservatives. That's why we're in the huge, screwed-up, previously unregulated and unholy mess we're in.
Your quote: "Again, you ask for tighter controls over everything."
Top, I have never, ever asked for "tighter controls over everything." I have, in fact, railed over the creation of the stupid Homeland Security agency and now, for the new department that's supposed to protect consumers from financial fraud. I said both functions should be done by existing agencies. Do you really read me and this blog?
And I love this sentence: "If the corporations didn't have to spend so much lobbying congress for tax breaks..."
I'll stop you right there, Top. I can tell you, there is nowhere you can go with that sentence to save yourself. The corporations are extremely happy to pay, for example, a mere $50,000.00 to a Senator--or some Senators--for campaign support because they can then get, frequently, in return, millions of dollars of tax deductions in return. Don't be naive--the corporations make out like bandits with this program, keep all the money themselves and take benefits and pay away from their employees. Not always, but too frequently to support a comfortable middle class.
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