"If only Obama could synthesize and articulate as well as his predecessor."

Bush?

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Obama does seem to suffer from an inability to articulate the places where he has been successful, but it may also be the that the right-wing noise machine is just doing a better job of spewing out their propaganda. Or it may be that certain people in this country are more willing to believe that a black man can't possibly be successful.

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" ... you can’t be authentic unless you’ve got a single-digit I.Q.” Nah, that's not mean-spirited.

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LOVES when truth-telling is called "mean-spirited." SO right-wing.

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Also loves when my late night DC insiders, sober or otherwise, nail it. As did one of my old reliables in the wee hours post-Thanksgiving, addressing the right-wing Elmer Gantry GOP vs Obama, which I shared here:

"Why do you think zombies and vampires have become such mass entertainment staples over the past few years?" asked one Beltway intimate, rhetorically. "It's the dead against the living."

Because here's New Hampshire's "Union Leader" Editor today calling Mitt Romney the perfect President for the 19th Century.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/27/m…

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"As well as his DEMOCRATIC predecessor," Doc.

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I guess you have to be one to know one, but I'll never understand why Dale Bumpers & David Pryor have been so silent since the year 2000. When they retired, did they also retire from loving & helping their country? Or maybe it's because they sit on too many boards to be running their mouths and screw up those sweet deals? How about some help, boys?

In the heat of battle it's not possible to stop and look at the score. Obama has disappointed me, but I bet 10 years from now when the history books are written he'll be hailed as one of our best presidents because he took over in a bad crisis and at least kept our hair out of the toilet. And while we've been busy with each days shocking outrage, Obama has passed more than a few miracles.

Though I'm built the same way, Obama should have done a better job of tooting his own horn. If Bush successfully wiped himself each morning, his handlers made sure we knew about it. Obama just fixes the problem and moves on to the next problem....like most of us do each day at work. Did any of you get a ticker tape parade for doing something excellent at work last week? I thought not.

Yes, I had super high hopes that election night at the Rumba party in LR. After all those insanely miserable Bush years, I saw a black FDR heading our way. I imagined train loads of Bush felons heading for the poky, wars ending before the next 4th of July. An economy that would rebound itself just because Bush wasn't in the White House any more. I imagined old racists coming around, the end of the Texas gun wielding mentality, Republicans being tamped down like tent pegs because their ideas had proven to be bad bad bad. A real 21 century President who would stand alone rather than rub elbows with the bad guys. What a beautiful fantasy!

And of course it was a fantasy because politics and DC don't work that way. Fox News has brainwashed half the population and that half will never be OK with a black man sleeping in the aptly named White House. Obama was forced to go to war with the Congress he had, not the Congress he wished to have. In a country with 310 million people, I forgot that a new President only has a tiny pool of fish to pick from when he's building a new cabinet. We're still living with Carter & Clinton retreads who have no idea how to do things differently. Obama took in the worst of the Wall Street criminals, thinking, or pretending to think they'd be better people once they were working with him. Hah!

But the bottom line is this......will we be better off with someone other than Obama in the White House for the next 4 years? Hell no! So far there's no adult to run against him. Beebe likes Huntsman! And I can at least say that Huntsman is the only person half way resembling an adult in the GOPissers line up. But, I have a better chance of getting the GOP nomination than Huntsman. It will be Romney vs Obama and Obama will beat the magic underwear off Mormon Mitt next November....not even Fox News can get the Fundies to vote for a Mormon, even one much less flawed than Position of the Day Romney.

The big question mark is how much will the Occupy movement change the landscape between now and next November? I think they'll change a whole lot of things. If the tools of the 1% start shooting real bullets, we'll be in a revolution by next November. Guess we'll be voting in tents, huh? If the tools of the 1% don't become deadly, Occupy will keep hammering home that the government of the US is totally corrupt which will hurt the GOPissers a lot more than Democrats. More Obama win....though Occupy isn't about Republicans or Democrats.

Whoever wins next November better start learning how to lead honestly. The Occupy movement is opening eyes to the insanity of modern American life. Why is shopping the only reason most Americans get out of bed each day? We're in sad shape if the only thing that brings us joy is a pile of cheap Chinese junk. Don't poorly paid employees deserve some time at home with their families during the holidays? Do you need stores to be open 24-7? Are you willing to pay a little more for American products so everyone will have a job that pays enough for a decent life? If not...why not?

America is changing, but it's too early to tell if it's for the better or the worse. I predict we'll see a time when working folks decide if we all can't have decent health care...no one will have it. If we can't all have decent jobs....no one will have a job. If we can't produce an honest Congress...we'll have no Congress. If the Middle Class dies there will be a war on the rich and they'll be nothing class-y about it.

We've only got one life and I for one am tired of having mine wasted by people who don't understand the meaning of ENOUGH is ENOUGH. I've had it with lies. I've had it with inequality. I've had it with haters. No man or woman is an island. We will live together in equality and peace or we'll spend the rest of our lives dodging bullets.

It's not just about the next election...it's about waking up and shedding outmoded 19th & 20th century beliefs that segregate us into groups that it's OK to neglect or abuse. It's about killing the idea that for me to prosper, someone else has to live on next to nothing. It's about murdering For Profit politics. Punishing crooks & liars and being damn careful who we vote for.

It's up to us to change America. If we're too lazy to change for the better....a whole lot worse is coming our way. Invent your own global initiative starting today. Be better, be smarter, feel less and think more, be less greedy, be more compassionate, try to understand people not like yourself, and for God's sake, turn off Fox News!

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I'll be saying this until 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6, but Arkies to the left of Obama should VOTE GREEN.

Because of the Electoral College, a vote for Obama in a bright-red state CANNOT contribute to electing him!

In Arkansas, a vote for Obama is a vote for no one.

The only power we hold is to demonstrate to him that N% of the American electorate is very unhappy, and wants him to move way, way, way to the left.

In Arkansas, we can vote our conscience with no worries that it could put a Repuke in the White House (a la Naderites in FL, 2000).

Do it!! VOTE GREEN!!!

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"Obama has disappointed me, but I bet 10 years from now when the history books are written he'll be hailed as one of our best presidents because he took over in a bad crisis and at least kept our hair out of the toilet. And while we've been busy with each days shocking outrage, Obama has passed more than a few miracles."

Just as the Clinton-haters (liberal ones, too) are now praising his once-trashed Presidency. One of the greatest ironies of Obama's Presidency is it's turned so many of those loud Clinton haters into Clinton lovers...which has to turn Bill/Hillary's stomachs to hear those hateful witchhunters now remember his Presidency in glowing terms as they rewrite their attempts to impeach a President for an extramarital affair.

Speaking of rewriting...I wonder how Dubya's Presidential library team are managing to to rewrite his horrid Presidency into something palatable?

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Wow Norma, I really did miss that!

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Don't worry about it, Doc. President Obama missed it too, since he's been adamantly determined to be Bush-lite.

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"Doc": the comment was recent DEMOCATIC predecessor.......

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Actually Norma, Dott, Jim, it turns out that I didn't miss that. It wasn't there in the original post, as my first comment was a copy & paste from there. At the time, I considered that Max might have meant that if Obama could be as articulate as Bush, he might gain some votes from those who prefer single-digit IQs.

Max, could you 'fess-up and verify that the post was edited after my first comment?

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