I find it sad that...
...so many people want to see him, and they will want to use their cell phones so much, many people will find that they can't use them at the inauguration ceremony, unless the cell phone companies help out with technology. (Think about many people trying to use the same internet connection.)
...Franklin Dell Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are two people he strives to be like.
...he wants to help people, but the policies he is planning to implement will do the opposite.
...people are blindly rallying behind Obama.
...some Democrats accuse me of posting conspiricy theories when I deliver the bad news of the implications of Government policies.
Schools are labour camps.
post Obama supporters are geniunly good people, but are either economically illiterate or taught to hail to statism. Honestly I hope I am wrong and his policies work, even though they wont...lol
It will take people a while to realize that Obama is just regurgitating failed Keynesian policy. They will eventually realize that it won't work any better for Obama than it did for FDR. Trouble is, Obama will be able to cast the blame on the previous administration for quite a while. Probably has a year or so before people start to point the finger at Obama himself.
Than again, the Bush administration was also regurgitating Keynesianism.
There comes a time when a dose of apathy is necessary to put everything in perspective. The government's programs won't work, alas they might be more weight on an already encumbere economy, and everybody looking towards Washington DC as a savior will find only ruin in the future. Energy is best spent on other endevours than caring about the intricacies of the inauguration.
I am becoming a Burkean Whig.
- F.A. Hayek
When I Iooked back to the 1930s with the popularity of Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler I thought "Wow, everyone must have been crazy back then. Maybe I cant unterstand because it was a different time".
But when I see Obama in Spiderman comics and his wife in fashion magazines, I still cant understand it.
thebob: When I Iooked back to the 1930s with the popularity of Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler I thought "Wow, everyone must have been crazy back then. Maybe I cant unterstand because it was a different time". But when I see Obama in Spiderman comics and his wife in fashion magazines, I still cant understand it.
Godwin's law never fails.
Where I come from, the women don't glow, but the men definitely plunder.
revolutionist: thebob: When I Iooked back to the 1930s with the popularity of Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler I thought "Wow, everyone must have been crazy back then. Maybe I cant unterstand because it was a different time". But when I see Obama in Spiderman comics and his wife in fashion magazines, I still cant understand it. Godwin's law never fails.
lmao, you dumb
do we get free cheezeburger in socielism?
I apologize, it wasn't meant like "ZOMG, Obama is OsamaHitler!!" . I just wanted to say I cant connect to this personality admiration of a politican.
That said, here is what I hope for the next years:
Guantanamo will be closed
The stimulus packages won't go trough
Troops will leave Iraq AND Afghanistan
No National Service/Draft
thebob: That said, here is what I hope for the next years: Guantanamo will be closed The stimulus packages won't go trough Troops will leave Iraq AND Afghanistan No National Service/Draft
Someone's in for a disappointment.
I doubt he will close Guantanamo.
The stimulus package will go through. Obama is too popular for anyone to oppose him and get away with it.
Troops MIGHT leave Iraq, but he will still maintain a few permanent bases there. The war in Afghanistan is going to EXPAND.
Obama seems to want to implement a National Service plan. On his website, he said that it would be mandatory when he first put it up, but then he changed it to voluntary with a tax credit. I think Barack made a Freudian slip.
As far as a draft, I honestly don't know. If the United States government decides to get hostile with Pakistan or Iran, there could be a desperate need for more troops. I cannot predict the future, but I think Obama would be less hesitant to reinstate the draft considering his emphasis on "National Service."
There won't be a draft. The benefits to government of a volunteer, professional military are immense, as are the disadvantages of an army of conscripts. If those were draftees in Iraq right now, all the platoon commanders would be told to go on their own f***ing patrols, and everybody at the Pentagon knows it.
Most people here are too young to know about the 1970's but that's where we're headed: full-throttled cultural Marxism, crappy goods, stagnant economy.
Raimondo has a great rant today:
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14097
laminustacitus: There comes a time when a dose of apathy is necessary to put everything in perspective. The government's programs won't work, alas they might be more weight on an already encumbere economy, and everybody looking towards Washington DC as a savior will find only ruin in the future. Energy is best spent on other endevours than caring about the intricacies of the inauguration.
This is a great statement. May I please use it on my facebook? I will give you credit for it!!!
Sometimes "majority" simply means that all the fools are on the same side
I'm trying to get through the day without discussing the God Emperor Baracktrack Hussein of House Obama.
If you find something evil that wobbles, push it. - Gary North
Are you kidding? I've been prostrate in front of CNN for four hours now.
He just walked on the water of the reflecting pool. Now we're getting to the part where he does that thing with the five loaves and two fishes.
Byzantine:Most people here are too young to know about the 1970's but that's where we're headed: full-throttled cultural Marxism, crappy goods, stagnant economy.
I daresay some people here won't be too unhappy about one part of that.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Bob Dylan
Byzantine: Are you kidding? I've been prostrate in front of CNN for four hours now. He just walked on the water of the reflecting pool. Now we're getting to the part where he does that thing with the five loaves and two fishes.
Pure gold.
I, too, find it sad that people still revert to man-worship these days. When was the last time I've seen anyone worship a brick layer, a car mechanic, a medical doctor, a structural enginer, a physicist, a mathematician, an inventor, a working mother or father, a baker, an investor, a teacher, or even a philosopher? To my knowledge, hardly anyone does and for a good reason: such people are still people; mortal, limited, and self-sustained (generally). Such traits are not to be seen as bad, but rather to remind everyone of the fact that even a jackass like Obama is just another human being and the man-worship is unjustified regardless the premise it is set upon. And only those that succumb to such a vice are the weakest of the weak (not by misfortune, but by choice), and such people should be loathed and shunned.
"The power of liberty going forward is in decentralization. Not in leaders, but in decentralized activism. In a market process." -- liberty student
It's not just man worshiping. It is a celebration of the state.
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