Comments on: What ever happened to Obama? http://mycrazydream.net/wp/2010/02/what-ever-happened-to-obama/ c o d e  p o e t r y  a n d  h i g h  c r a z i n e s s Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:55:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mcd http://mycrazydream.net/wp/2010/02/what-ever-happened-to-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-1426 mcd Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:53:56 +0000 http://mycrazydream.net/wp/?p=424#comment-1426 So we are to let history be the judge, a la Georgie Porgy? OK, so maybe critiquing the president by way of a children's limerick isn't my finest hour, so let me see if I can ratchet down MY fear and talk about this plainly. I haven't lost all faith in Obama - I expected the world of him, and of course, reality being what it is, he is falling short of those expectations. I'm fairly sure that he is a principled person, insomuch as a politician can be, but the renewal of the Patriot Act really gets me down. I have no idea what his reasoning for renewing it might be, unless he really thinks it is necessary to "protect" us from all the nasty bogeymen. I love to hear the man speak, and he has single-handedly turned our reputation abroad around. And he even won a Nobel Peace Prize! Not sure what for, but no one is. Let's just say that the Europeans love him and leave it at that. So do you think he will get a chance at a second term? Just how big is the Tea Party movement? Is it really a joke like I perceive it to be? Have you heard that there is now a Coffee Party movement? Politics are hilarious. So we are to let history be the judge, a la Georgie Porgy? OK, so maybe critiquing the president by way of a children’s limerick isn’t my finest hour, so let me see if I can ratchet down MY fear and talk about this plainly. I haven’t lost all faith in Obama – I expected the world of him, and of course, reality being what it is, he is falling short of those expectations. I’m fairly sure that he is a principled person, insomuch as a politician can be, but the renewal of the Patriot Act really gets me down. I have no idea what his reasoning for renewing it might be, unless he really thinks it is necessary to “protect” us from all the nasty bogeymen. I love to hear the man speak, and he has single-handedly turned our reputation abroad around. And he even won a Nobel Peace Prize! Not sure what for, but no one is. Let’s just say that the Europeans love him and leave it at that.

So do you think he will get a chance at a second term? Just how big is the Tea Party movement? Is it really a joke like I perceive it to be? Have you heard that there is now a Coffee Party movement? Politics are hilarious.

]]> By: Steve http://mycrazydream.net/wp/2010/02/what-ever-happened-to-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-1425 Steve Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:27:28 +0000 http://mycrazydream.net/wp/?p=424#comment-1425 Replace WAR with SPACE PROGRAM and all of those defense contractors would be doing fine. It wouldn't be hard to re-tool almost any of the weapons manufacturers into civilian use. Hell If we decided to go Nuclear most of the companies making ICBM and Missiles could just remove the explosives and start firing our nuclear waste into the sun. It is not war that is really necessary but fear. You ratchet down the fear on terror and ratchet up the fear on Climate Change, we don't need to invade but innovate, the lobby groups buy politicians for making whatever bullshit technology won't really help, congress will still be affectionately inept and corrupt, and most importantly the corporations that drive the economy remain virtually unaffected. As for Obama, my opinion is that he will be the best "former President" we've ever had. The trend has recently emerged that Presidents simply accomplish a tremendous amount of good in the world after they leave office. Jimmy Carter is the prime example. Obama is young enough, and a good enough speaker and leader that he will likely be making more headlines every year for the 30 after his presidency then he will during his last two years in office. The same way Bill Clinton is doing far more good a job at foreign relations than his wife is. Replace WAR with SPACE PROGRAM and all of those defense contractors would be doing fine. It wouldn’t be hard to re-tool almost any of the weapons manufacturers into civilian use. Hell If we decided to go Nuclear most of the companies making ICBM and Missiles could just remove the explosives and start firing our nuclear waste into the sun. It is not war that is really necessary but fear. You ratchet down the fear on terror and ratchet up the fear on Climate Change, we don’t need to invade but innovate, the lobby groups buy politicians for making whatever bullshit technology won’t really help, congress will still be affectionately inept and corrupt, and most importantly the corporations that drive the economy remain virtually unaffected.

As for Obama, my opinion is that he will be the best “former President” we’ve ever had. The trend has recently emerged that Presidents simply accomplish a tremendous amount of good in the world after they leave office. Jimmy Carter is the prime example. Obama is young enough, and a good enough speaker and leader that he will likely be making more headlines every year for the 30 after his presidency then he will during his last two years in office. The same way Bill Clinton is doing far more good a job at foreign relations than his wife is.

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