Comments on: The Handmaidens Are Furiously At It. Again

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:21:00 +0000

The knuckle-dragger is now posting from IP addy 76.203.211.158 (Cleburne, TX.)

Obviously it is time to start paying attention again.

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:17:51 +0000

Well I’ll be damned. He FINALLY got me again.

Time to do some work. *sigh*

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:45:45 +0000

Helen, I thought that too but then decided screw em. They don’t get to do this to me. You have to just stand up and shout louder is all. There are more of us than the bottom feeders and we fight intelligently to get things done.

By: HelenWheels

HelenWheels — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:26:31 +0000

Jolly – that was not me posting, above. I guess our troll is back with a new IP. Guess he still doesn’t have a life or anything better to do.

But thanks for the ROCKIN’ post and responding to me as well. I couldn’t agree more that Obama seems to be squandering his mandate trying to please everyone – or for whatever other reasons he has. I am of the opinion, however, that he IS beholden to the corporate masters that his predecessors were, at least back to Carter. I simply don’t think our presidents have all that much power any more. Re: the media, I blame them about 90% for this country going to hell in a handbasket, for all the reasons you state.

Can’t wait to read Cole tear apart Todd, thanks for the link, ascap scab.

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:21:42 +0000

Helen, I completely disagree. Out of the ashes, we will re-create a true progressive movement. We have room for some ideas thought to be traditionally Republican, and we also know that investing in ourselves will produce the best possible outcome for society.

I never believed in the dems, and I never believed in the President (and a quick check of my 2008 posts should be enough to convince any skeptics that I saw the President as the least noxious of the remaining field. I’m disappointed, but I’m not surprised.

I think giving this President a chance was the right thing to do-he seems to share a lot of our views on was, and human rights for gay American citizens. As you can see by a post I wrote in 2007 called “Barack is Written off” (http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/?p=489) I didn’t have a huge amout of confidence in him.

I thought maybe I was wrong early in 2009. I no longer believe I was. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to quit pushing for REAL change, though.

By: Bee

Bee — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:11:22 +0000

Whenever I see the numbers coming out of virginia, about how Obama’s approval rating is at 40% or less, I think “Hmm…they didn’t call my ethnically mixed neighborhood. According to other friends and acquaintances who live in ethnically mixed neighborhoods, they didn’t get called either.” Why? Because we tend overwhelmingly to be democrat. That’s why I don’t take the poll numbers all that seriously.

By: Tom Harper

Tom Harper — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:09:31 +0000

I never used to agree with the extremists (left and right) who thought the 2-party system was totally staged; “a 2-headed monster pretending to argue with itself” as one person described it. But I’m starting to agree with that theory.

This is absurd, with the mandate Obama had, to be dithering away like this. If the New York Yankees were getting trounced by a little league team, or if Mike Tyson was getting the shit beat out of him by a 98-pound weakling who limped — everyone would suspect it was rigged. And it’s getting harder not to think the same thing about all these Republican-Democrat theatrics.

By: TomCat

TomCat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:17:08 +0000

Unless the competition between the parties is close, the MSM loses the drama they exploit to sell their advertisers’ products. They want to avoid the expense of a GOP meltdown.