Apparantly I am a Troll and don't know how to do this well so here goes again:
As a person who has not been registered as a Democrat but has been a life long democrat voter, who voted a straight republican ticket this time, I am stunned that people can't see that BHO is just a continuation of GWB.
Rendition - continue
Torture - he says he won't torture, so did Bush
Deficit Spending - continue
Taxing the poor - continue, i.e. raising the cigarette tax
Hubris - CONTINUE - Last night was disgusting. How is making fun of your opponents being bipartisan?
BHO's statement that when you are heading for a cliff you should change direction is great. I think it shows his stupidity. I would think the first thing one should do in that case is STOP, than assess the situation, than change direction.
Also, more spending does not equal stimulus. Especially in this case. This is just a continuation of the pork and bail outs started under Bush. Deficit spending will not stimulate the economy. It will raise long term interest rates and cause a negative stimulus.
How about a better idea for stimulating the economy. If you are going to deficit spend, how about creating a program which creates the Federal equivelant of a contract worker staffing agency. The Federal government hires us unemployed workers and makes us available to corporations at no charge. The corporations use our labor to generate new projects, etc. If and when these projects create expansion, the corporations are encouraged to hire the workers directly. This means any deficit spending goes directly into paychecks for unemployed workers.
Again, I am just waiting for people to wake up and see that BHO is not change. He is just another corporatist. Also, when are we going to talk about the de-stimulating, cost excessive wars? BHO is a Hawk and he will escalate Afghanistan and create another quagmire just like his democratic predocessor Lyndon Johnson.
I am a supporter of Progressive ideals and I believe the Democratic Party hasn't stood up for them. I am disallusioned with politicans in general. I am also stunned that the comments to my original diary focused on my spelling error and lack of knowledge about how to properly blog. Doesn't anyone have any comments on my thoughts? I guess I am stupid and unworthy. Thank you for confirming what I suspected; that DailyKos is intolerant of others viewpoints and that the partipants here would prefer to take down people with other points of view with personal insults rather than address the issue that Obama is mostly continuing the same policies of Bush. Just because he has made some kinder and gentler gestures doesn't mean he isn't going to shift troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. It doesn't mean he didn't say that it was unwise to not Buy American during the campaign and criticize his opponenets for suggesting this and than turn around and support pulling Buy American from the so called Stimulus Bill. It doesn't mean that he didn't say he would fillibuster any bill that contained Telecomm immunity and then turn around and vote for it as a Senator. It doesn't mean that he justified this by saying he would overturn it as President and then have Eric Holder say that the Obama administration would vigorously uphold it. I am just trying to point out that if the DailyKos readers are Progressives first and Democrats second, they should at least pay attention to the fact that they are getting mostly more of the same corporate bull from Obama.
I am going to sign off and let all of you have your fun. I will check back tomorrow and see if anyone has done DailyKos proud and wants to comment on the issues. Until than, have fun insulting me and poking fun at me. It just shows you are absent of any real ideas. Or, prove me wrong and comment on my ideas rather than insulting me. Or censure me in the democratic way by ignoring me.