tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post5292043460990596544..comments2024-02-25T09:45:48.931-05:00Comments on Lally's Alley: LEST WE FORGET [PART TWO]Lallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-25347556321858104932010-02-14T17:43:12.019-05:002010-02-14T17:43:12.019-05:00TP,
Yeah, the Dems have a ways to go in the learni...TP,<br />Yeah, the Dems have a ways to go in the learning how to win the propaganda wars. For one thing the rightwing Republicans are totally at ease with "the big lie" tactics of the Communists and Nazis etc. As in "death panels" "Obama is a socialist/communist/facist" "Republicans support the troops and Dems don't" (that's the one that bugs me the most being a veteran) et-endlessly-cetera.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-72912377596421405952010-02-14T12:04:51.015-05:002010-02-14T12:04:51.015-05:00Dear M:
Great post. But what's really frustra...Dear M:<br />Great post. But what's really frustrating about your lucid, persuasive, reality- and fact-based summation of the often criminal & anti-American republican-corporatist conspiracy is the inability of the Democrats to frame the political debates accordingly. Maybe Obama will fire Rahm & hire Howard Dean. <br />TPWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-90231067113824788012010-02-14T11:45:03.601-05:002010-02-14T11:45:03.601-05:00Robert,
You have a wisdom about you. I believe thi...Robert,<br />You have a wisdom about you. I believe this is a critical year for America. We are having a national debate on what course our democratic republic will follow. We have history of strength and economic growth through individual freedon and equal opportunity. There have been bumps along the way, but there is no country in history that has offered as much equal opportunity to immigrant and natural born citizens. I and many others believe that has been put at risk by the expansion of big government to the detriment of free enterprise. The expansion of the national debt and the annual deficit puts our debt rating and whole system at risk. In fact we are increasingly influenced and dominated by our creditors, the most dangerous of which are China and mid east regimes. Socialists and free marketeers can disagree on the best economic system, but if we are bankrupt both will fail. The upcoming election will hopefully go a long way to sorting things out. We live in perilous times but also incredably interesting times.JImhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13795849285955713444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-45959811803139290822010-02-14T10:34:00.427-05:002010-02-14T10:34:00.427-05:00Jim,
Going tit for tat with Michael is not going ...Jim,<br /><br />Going tit for tat with Michael is not going to change his thinking, nor is his writing likely to change yours. But there comes a time, if we're lucky, when we have to face the truth in ourselves. Often this occurs if we are lucky enough to experience in life our own mortality and survive. In the early '90s on one of the morning talk shows a middle aged woman was being interviewed. She came from an old-money, blue-blood aristocratic WASP background and had spent her whole life looking down with disdain on anyone who wasn't a member of her set. Then in the '80s she had been in the hospital for a blood transfusion and became HIV positive as a result. Now, her entire perspective had changed - she was now a gay activist, an advocate for the underprivileged and more.<br /><br />It's interesting, don't you think, how some of the most vocal opponents and detractors of our President's economic stimulus package so ardently embraced and reveled once the funds came their way.<br /><br />I can't stand hypocrites, my pet peeve, like Henry Hyde and his 'youthful indescretion', or morons who have American flags or PBA decals on their cars but toss lit cigarette butts and litter out their windows when they drive.<br /><br />You ongoing commentary here reminds me of my Father, of blessed memory -- he was an Orthodox Jew, and a hardcore Republican who subscribed to and read the New York Times everyday for the sole reason that it pissed him off. He believed literally in the story of the Old Testament, yet, at the same time, he also belived that the mothership landed way back when in the Himalayan Mountains and populated the planet. He also taught me to respect those I don't agree with, and to always stop at stop signs.<br /><br />Peace and security in the world will only come when hate stops and hate will stop, or at least decrease, when exploitation, greed and self-righeousness give way to an understanding of the bigger, deeper picture, and when people realize the it's not "us and them" but all "us".Robert G. Zuckermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450306458083217831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-48610273643014359882010-02-14T04:59:39.470-05:002010-02-14T04:59:39.470-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.オテモヤンhttp://e-nixi.com/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-14075283330135233232010-02-13T23:11:23.279-05:002010-02-13T23:11:23.279-05:00George W. took over in the midst of a recession. B...George W. took over in the midst of a recession. Being a student of history he looked at FDR, JFK and Reagan. FDR greatly expanded the government control of the economy and increased taxes and tariffs. The Depression took a double dip as a result. George W. looked to JFK and Reagan who decreased taxes. Unfortunately he did not cut spending or even make a half hearted effort to limit it. George W. is not a Tea Party hero on spending. However, the economy quickly rallied until the mortgage and real estate collapse. There are many villains in the collapse. Carter initiated it with a government program encouraging home ownership amongst folks who could not afford to buy. It was expanded under Clinton. George W. and Allen Greenspan tried to rein in the 100 to one leverage of the GSE's but was defeated by Democrats(Dodd,Frank and Obama)and some Republicans(Most notably Bennet of Utah who is facing a Tea Party primary challenge).<br />The world loved the idea of Obama as president. But since his election countries that he extended a hand of friendship to(Iran Korea and Russia) have told him to pound sand. Our allies(France and Israel) either mock him or distrust him or both. The British Prime Minister, a liberal, attempted to play up to Obama and is likely to be voted out of office in May. In his first year in office Obama/Pelosi/Reid have carried out a war against American business and jobs. He has threatened increased taxes, rules and regulations. Employers do not know what government will do to them so they do not hire or expand. We have a real unemployment of about 16%. Idiology prevents Obama from become economically friendly which means it is unlikely the employment picture will improve before the 2010 election. Thus, our prospects are actually looking up. Within in a year we may have a congress controlled by conservatives which might limit the damage that this liberal/socialist/Marxist president can do.JImhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13795849285955713444noreply@blogger.com