Trying to be patient

First of all let me say, I am not really involved with the economy the way most people are. My wife and I are both retired so we tend to see the economy philosophically. Well all except the rising prices. Even those haven't really started yet but I know it is on the way. That is unless Odrama has a direct link with God so the he changes the laws of supply and demand for him.

In the meantime jobs are still going to china and we are still spending like a drunken sailor. My bike is being beat to death on the crappy roads that were supposed to be repaired. I still have to carry a supplemental insurance policy for the medicare insurance which I never use. Universal health care based on that system won't really be the end all people hope.

The economic numbers are not any better if anything they are worse now. The messiah isn't performing the miracles he promised. The people are beginning to see that most of the campaign promises were lies. The man who wouldn't lie isn't president. The one who lied to us all is.

A different kind of politics. Yes it is. React not to right and wrong but to politically expedient is now the order of the day. What happened in Iran was wrong. It was wrong on day one, but since the polls hadn't come out Odrama voted present. He only got outraged when people began holding his feet to the fire. Even now he thinks he can talk the Iranian government out of building a nuke. What planet is this guy from.

What he does about the Korean freighter with the possible arms cargo is going to be a test for him,. One I hope for the safety of the world he can pass. If not every country that can raise the price will have a Nuke one day.

it ain't principle

Seems Obama's suddenly getting it was a lot more politics than principle. Principle would have been on day one. On day ten or whatever it is now, it is just trying to catch the wave. I wonder if those who expected change,were expecting odrama to do more than be a watered down Bill Clinton. If they did they are in for an even bigger surprise down the road.

I'm so smart but then everyone else is to. I mean the lost weekend of the governor from SC. If you DIDN'T think there was a woman involved you surely voted democratic because you can be fooled by anyone.

Thoughts on the iranian unrest

As is usually the case, Odrama's actions and his words are far apart. Iran may or may not actually change because of what's happening now, but America should have stood with the people of Iran. This yahoo wants to please everyone so he doesn't make a statement at all. Is he afraid of that clown who is the so called president of a third rate nation. Probably,

If Odrama had any balls, he would have just said we stand with the Iranian people and those who legitimately represent them. If the government shuts down the free access of information it is for a reason. Pure and simple that, if nothing else, puts the election in question as far as I am concerned. Do an open investigation or no more contact with them period.

So Odrama how about it do you have the balls to take a stand on this that isn't appeasement.

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thoughts on the iranian election

Wouldn't it be nice to have a democratic uprising in Iran. Not likely yet but GW sowed the seeds for it. We will have to wait and see if anything sprouts.

two things of interest

The first is there is a lot of talk going around on the net about the war in iraq going on longer than world war two. Even saying iraq is smaller than any of the countries we fought in ww2....

The comparison is bogus because I also just read that the casualty count is 4300. Now even one death is too many, but Iraq is hardly in the same league as ww2 or even Vietnam. So get a grip folks. Iraq is unique just like all the other wars. If you try to compare it to any other American war, then you are comparing balloons to hand grenades.

Odrama at the death camp

Odrama visited one of the infamous death camps. How many sides of an issue can he come down on. Yesterday it was Muslims who thought he was all on their side. Today it is Jews he is courting. Is there a chance that someday he will take a real stand on something. I think he has studied double speak from Bill Clinton. He talks about confronting evil, and does nothing substantive about N Korea. N Korea and Iran are the ultimate evil regimes in this world.

I know everyone is looking to Afghanistan as his showplace but that is going to be a pie in the face for him. That is a country that will never change no matter how much the Democrats say it was the good war. Bush didn't go balls to the wall there because it can not be won. Now that Iraq is winding down, the nuts of the middle east will be in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban. This ain't a movie like Charlie Wilson's war. It is real life and I don't know if the American people have the stomach for it any more than they had for Iraq.

In Vietnam there were 50,000 plus casualties compared to 4,000 in Iraq and the war in Iraq sealed John MeCain's fate. Wait till the bodies pile up in Afghanistan. You can't put much spin on the body count.