Obama Faux Pamas

[squigglequill]

Article on the front page of...was it the Seattle Times or the Post Intelligencer?...detailing the little faux pas of the Obama(nation) Administration trying to backpedal on the unsavory semantics concerning the health care package: ie socializing health care and including euthanasia for the elderly. Oops! Word got out about Mr. Ezekiel Emanual and

Comments

[zephret]

What I don't get is, ok, say this national health care comes into place and these infirm and disabled people don't get free healthcare: what is different? Don't these people still need to pay for healthcare now under the current system?

[sculptruth]

They were supposed to build a few new towers, one of them a tall building as part memorial. It's been hung up in a lot of red tape, and I for one am *very* tired of that hole in the ground. Weary, run down, hopeless; it's the perfect metaphor for our political climate. Whatever last leap of brief and admittedly misguided hope - maybe not faith - was lost by the time March rolled around. I voted for Obama after being highly suspicious the entire time, and while I don't feel like an idiot, I am definitely saddened that it felt like there was a chance and there simply never was. He's a figurehead. But the Presidency is a sham.

I finally remembered something I had long forgotten - it isn't the President who runs our country. It never has been. They just happen to be the perfect face on which to direct all of our hate and blame. Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent; it doesn't matter. Our politics are run by a group of people who are likely to never be up for public election.

[squigglequill]

Yeah, this is why I used the term "noisy heads" instead of "stupid people". My view these days is that people are so saturated with bad news and conflicting news everywhere that it's EXTREMELY difficult to focus and be objective and figure out what caused the problem in the first place, what complicates it, what various solutions CAN work (regardless of what people think is needed...if it won't work, it won't work. We gotta find another way), and what obstacles are in the way of those solutions

[sculptruth]

Thank you for being so respectful, I really appreciate it. I absolutely was skeptical of the entire Presidential campaign, the entire thing, all parties, all players; it all felt like some kind of slapstick comedy. Towards the end, something happened and even I started to wonder if it was possible to have an old time politician. After all, politicians in the past have given us hope. Why not now

[travvvv]

I was under the impression the site of the twin towers was turned into a memorial park. Can you point me in the direction of the lack of construction/building plans information?

[squigglequill]

Penn & Teller did a whole episode of Bullshit! on it. You can find it there under Season 4.

[yami]

"And after chanting "We will never forget!" in regards to 9/11, the only people who remember are the..."

9/11 truthers who even previous to 9/11 were able to predict not only the events of 9/11 but the subsequent events, this election, this President and the events that have taken place since and offer some pretty good theories as to why things are going the way they are.

Its okay to be angry, its like one of those dreams where you are fighting and hitting as hard as you can but it feels like your arms are in water or weighed down with bricks. There is nothing you can do and it seems all of your effort is wasted. I think you're allowed to be more than a little angry and scornful at that.

[squigglequill]

I'm really not looking at it from the standpoint of my right to be angry and scornful, but more along the lines of "what does this accomplish and what am I getting out of hating these people who basically don't know any better