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WELL DONE!!Just...well done!!

Richard Day — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:29:22 +0000

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WELL DONE!!

Just...well done!!

The comparison is a good

oleeb — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:33:18 +0000

In reply to Rep. Paul Ryan: King Herbert Hoover II

The comparison is a good one. The problem, sadly, is how little difference there is between the philosophical posturing of Ryan/Hoover and Obama/Hoover. There is little substantive difference between them. Ryan/Hoover is a corporate Republican. Obama/Hoover is a corporate Democrat. Both offer remedies not to the central problem facing the nation (unemployment) but instead to deal with what right wingers view as the problem: social spending aka: New Deal programs that work. The approach of both Ryan/Hoover and Obama/Hoover lead to the same result: a deepening of the economic depression we are in accompanied by years of outrageously high unemployment for workers in the US while the rich predator class grows even fatter and more greedy. All of the basic premises set out by Ryan/Hoover have been fully accepted as the truth by Obama/Hoover and the approaches acceptable to Ryan/Hoover are essentially the same approaches acceptable to Obama/Hoover.

It's cold comfort to think that Obama is a marginal improvement over the idiot Ryan. Both fail to address the needs of the nation and both pursue policies that only add to the annhiliation of the American middle class.

In fact I've never seen

Oxy Mora — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:49:24 +0000

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In fact I've never seen anyone who looked less Presidential than that guy Ryan. He tried to double down on Obama's comments about Gabby Giffords and it sounded completely contrived. As for the Bachmann zombie, I could bring myself to watch for only about three seconds until I could get the sound turned down. But we have not heard the last time from Mommy Dearest.

Genghis, what a great

Oxy Mora — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:39:05 +0000

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Genghis, what a great comparison!

Sometimes I think that there are just great divides of genetic endowment that shake down into liberal versus conservative political views.

There are apparently some brain scans, though a small sample, showing differences in brain constructs, with conservatives being more attuned to "fear" than liberals.

And then there are the other observable great divides. It seems to me that in every couple, one person wants to cut the bougainvillea back to the roots and the other one is concerned about trimming back too far. Me, I always came back from the circus with empty pockets. My sister wouldn't spend a nickle. My sister was one of those who waited for everyone else to finish their pie. Then she would eat hers slowly--well today she is living in one of those Florida, Republican enclaves.

Jes spitballin'. Well, indeed, there are those for whom spitballin' is grotesque.

At least THAT guy's not our

erica20 — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:15:27 +0000

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At least THAT guy's not our president.