Obama had something for everyone. I understood that the US army wants more gays to be shot dead in Iraq and Afganistan.

_{--Sell Texas to China!}

..I don't think we can help him out of....

He's got the soul of an activist, but the political machinery of the Center-Right 'Chicago Machine', and they seem to be doing a pretty good job of keeping him free from any of the Process we the Citizenry would consider important.

Whether Finance/Wall Street reform, home mortgage reform, healthcare reform (really!), or (now) LGBT issues, he's allowed to go out and make his customary stirring speeches, but it's becoming clear that what we'd hoped would be a 'hands-on Presidency' is becoming a 'Figurehead Black President' administration.

I have no doubts as to the capability of Obama's Cabinet...they're all experts in their respective fields. My doubts lay in trying to determine for whom they really work, and for whose benefit they're operating. It's already clear Tim Geithner is deep in the pockets of the Wall Street Investment Banks, Gates is owned by the Military-Industrial complex, and Vilsack might as well be working for Monsanto. I have my doubts about Sibelius, but not enough has reached the news sites I read to settle me one way or the other.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this....maybe not enough, but presently I'm feeling that I see a man who wants to do something (big...or bigger than has been done so far), but is being told that for whatever-or-other reason that it's just no possible, and that he's gonna have to settle for half-measures.

Maybe it's time for a 'Straight-talk Express'-style bus tour, and see all the people Rahm would like him to think aren't there, or don't really matter. Then, replace the Chief of Staff with somebody who's more go-get-'em for the President's agenda (as opposed to his own), and turn the VP loose on the Senate to light fires and crack heads.

Gotta get out of the bubble, see the people who voted him into office, and start dislocating shoulders for twisting arms in his Party and Cabinet, to make good on his Campaign promises---they aren't impossible dreams, just coloured that way by people who are supposed to be working for him.....

-5.75,-4.05
"God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." -- Robin Williams

like the candidate, does it? Maybe after all that talk, all he was was talk. This could be partly why Chicago lost the Olympics, yet Obama won the Nobel. Somebody sending a message?
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Good times for Smiley! :-D

Change you can believe in.

I had a friend in ZA, a Belgian, who's name was Adolf (Pobular when he was born in 1938). Who said once, "in Belgium I'm a facist, in South Africa I'm a communist, and I've not changed."

A person on the left in the US, is probaly on the right in Europe. We know Europe is a pit of taxation, bad health care, short lives and low productivity. Pity the European Moneyed Class - their left have experience with pitchforks.

He doesn't seem to know who he is to himself.

presidental material.

http://tv.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live/show/194/news/tv.tvguide.com/latenight-comedians-turning-obama-20091011

Is what the president hears that he cannot talk about. The reasons for the conflict may not be of a nature that can be spoken of. Candidate Obama would not have such access. It just makes me wonder