...Churchill’s oft-quoted distinction between socialism and liberalism: “Socialism seeks to pull down wealth. Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests—Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference.”
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Now this is something we can use!
Use this quote, Obama administration!
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Yes, but Obama would feel it necessary to add a we-have-to-consider, two on-the-other-hand's, at least three bipartisan's and a sprinkling of move-forward's. I am sorry: Winston Churchill was a decisive leader; Obama is indecisive and too easily influenced, and if his behavior so far is leadership, he's certainly concealed it well from me. </crabby_mode>
/hangs head
/shuffles feet
I'm not ready to wash my hands of President Obama. I still think he's slooooowwly shifting the bus back to the center, slowly because a sharp hard turn to the left would just overturn and roll the bus.
Only time will tell.
And yes, Obama is still too wishy-washy for my taste. I want a few bodies from the Bush administration that we can hang from the lamp posts....
All in good time. War crimes and perjury don't have an expiration date...
ellroon, it's not just that Obama has been weak in pursuit of the goals announced by his campaign. No, most of the time, he has turned around and headed exactly in the opposite direction from his campaign rhetoric. If the man we elected was Obama, the man mysteriously substituted in office is almost the anti-Obama. The apparent original is simply not there.
The thing that grieves me the most is that he appears to instruct his congressional leadership to concede everything of importance in the first 10 words of negotiation. Often, the resulting bill looks so much like the GOP wish list that they may as well not even have tried. Yes, he's been that bad.
The only way I'd vote for Obama for a second term is if he ran against someone like Cheney or Palin. Otherwise, he's just. not. worth. it.
For the first time in my life, I expect to live to see the demise of the United States of America. And the death will be perpetrated by an allegedly Democratic president. Enough! If necessary, I'll stay home on Election Day. If nothing we do at those levers and punch cards and touch screens and such has any effect on the far end of the process, I may as well have a pleasant cup of hot chocolate at home instead.
I hear you. I don't want to, but I understand your perspective. My husband agrees with your point of view, but ... I'm just not ready to.
I still have hope. I'm going to cling on to it for a while longer, even while I watch like a hawk at the doings of Capitol Hill.
ellroon, I hope you're right and I'm wrong. We seem right now to have Co-Presidents Emanuel (R), LIEberman (R) and Geithner (R). Maybe we can arrange one grand impeachment...
[The CAPTCHA text has "doom" in the middle of it. I'm not kidding!]
Ack! ... Quick, doom spelled backwards is mood! It's just a bad mood!
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