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An insightful, some what frustrated, pessimistic, impatient article by Professor Dave Green, outta Noo Yawk.
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He is of course quite right that Obama is in danger of being the night watchman, during whose reign the Second Great Depression is ushered in, and thus his administration becomes a motionless dud presidency "fixed"policy wise by economic decline, and he leaves office with an unnoticeable legislative whimper; a one term wonder, all smiles or maybe not later, filled with cross-party compromise/surrender; the uniqueness/novelty of being a black presidency, with a Nobel Peace prize; with on-going wars and not much else. Then a rabid mother of all right wing government comes into power in 2012, under Chilling moose Sarah Palin..........and civilization as we know it ends.......Jesus does a second coming ......read the book.........seen the play.......and the movie.
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But realistically he has only been in power for just over 8 months, so lets give him a few more months to up his game for America and the world, which presumably the Nobel Peace Prize was trying to nudge him to do for the international community.
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In understanding American politics, or Western politics generally, one must grasp Israeli politics first, which has shifted markedly to the extreme right lead by the Likud Party. Jewish intellectual thinking especially in Western countries lead by this particular tribal urge from Israel, and the Likud Party, with its fronts and Think Tanks in the West, have made an aggressive assault on the fundamental political thinking of Western societies through various ideological vehicles such as Monetarism, Reagan economics, Neocons........and so forth, dominated all by Jewish intellectuals.
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You can have good governments both from the center-left and the center-right, it does not matter, as long as the leaders of such parties surrounded by good team players have the right mix of policies which are implemented judiciously, through the national legislature, purely with the interests of the country in which they serve in mind.
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The problem starts when you have pseudo-Fascists junta's installed at Israel's/Likud's behest in sophisticated Western societies; then what you have is the inevitable disconnect.......the peculiar bizzare BS from the figurehead Israeli card board cut out fronts trying to fit the Israeli centric policies into the domestic square pegs..........Bush II America; Silvio Berlesconi Italy; José Maria Aznar/ Spain; Sarkozy/France. In many respects NOT REAL political leaders of sophisticated Western countries, but circus clowns with the ensuing theatrics.
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But why is Israel Fascist/Nazi orientated, aren't they supposed to be kosher Jews given sanctuary on Palestinian land to appease "Western guilt"?
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The reason is simple. In many societies it is the extremist/zealot who is more vociferous and assertive, and consequently it is their agenda which dominates the political plain. In the case of Israel perhaps only 30% of Israelis are true Likudniks, but their aggressive political campaigning means that invariably it is their agenda which usually dominates the political discourse in Israel. It is more than likely that the majority of Israelis want PEACE and ENGAGEMENT with the Palestinians (70%). Israelis like all humans are normal people who enjoy going to beaches for a party, or at home enjoying the intimate company of friends and family, over dinner, the simple basic pleasures of life.
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HOWEVER, the Likud minority do not wish this. They dream of Eretz Israel; an Israel which is ethnically/racially jackboot pure; an Israel which is a superpower, surrounded by dismembered Arab states, which fear Israel and bow to it. Whilst the Israeli military reminds them continually who is master in the region, frequently,viciously with impunity. These Likudnik "FANTASY DREAMS" cannot be achieved through traditional "Kibbutzim Socialism", and so Israel's fundamental ideological base must be redefined, markedly to the right....far xenophobic rabid right....which then absolves you of genocide, mass murder, colonialism, continued illegal wars.......at least to yourself, and your conscience. After that all you do is go to your local Synagogue and the Rabbi blesses you...and its ALL back to normal.
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This long process started during the 1970's in Israel, and the UK and USA in the 1980's, consequentially linked a little later. Sir Keith Joseph the ideological mentor of Thatcher in Britain in the Conservative party, and in America numerous Jewish intellectuals, such as Milton Friedman, under the Ronald Reagan administration,starting preaching from the early eighties. The Neocons changed their political colors from a Jewish Trotskyite group based in America into a hardline Israeli Likud linked front more recently.
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In addition Israel is a tiny country of little over 5 million Jews, and there is only so much it can do, surviving on American largess, and significant donations from global Jewry. For it to realize its Likudnik "DREAMS and FANTASY" of empire, it has to exert control over, domination and direction of key Western nations acting as its proxies.........USA/UK being foremost......France, Germany, Spain, Holland and so forth.....this means dominating the political/ideological debate in those countries so that they do the bidding of Likud Israel.
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This is significantly assisted by the fake narrative of "al-Qaeda" and the open ended GWOT,which is purely a Israeli manufactured fake war.........and a civilisational conflict with Islam......."Israel's enemies are the Wests enemies"........which is of course not the reality; The rulers and elites of the 57 Muslim majority countries are allies and usually always puppets of the West, and not life threatening enemies........Libya and Iran are installed puppet regimes which have been in power unmolested mostly for 40/30 years respectfully...allowed to exist as boogie boogie scarecrow regimes.
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Finally the Zionist media in the West, with channels such as "FUCK THE NEWS", Washington Post, NY Times, CBS, ABC and CNN setting the debate and agenda of Israel...........Israel would like to buy the British run Al-Jazeera, just to make sure its message is also beamed to the docile Arab people.
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In such a scenario Professor David Green........evolving over 30 years by Jews with power, patronage, money, criminal intent, greed, the male ego.....militarism..........thoughts of "survival through expansion" ....for Israel to "survive" it must wage perpetual war...........Obama surrounded by Jews from Israel or otherwise (Axelrod/Immanuel)....has his work cut out facing and opposing the extremist right-wing "surge" from Israel which has been on-going for well over 30 years, AND in addition the strength of the Israeli lobby which follows Israel's dictates, AND finally and decisively the Zionist media in America.
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You need to be a unique individual, and an unique administration to go against such a trend, and thus:
- EITHER, Obama's administration is a card board cut out non-government for 4 years..."Oh look everybody he is black, with a Muslim name as President of America".......Global audience.."Aaaaaawwwwwwww....shucks.....how marvelous............AND, AND , AND", a time filler administration which becomes the fall guy for the next American depression starting in 2010 (a general recession is not inevitable in the USA).........gracefully/obediently ushering in a rabid right-wing government after him in 2012.
- OR, Obama institutes comprehensive policies in both the domestic and foreign policy arena which serves/saves America exclusively, against the dictates of Likud Israel from the background, and which allow's him to serve a second term.
It goes without saying that courage and imagination is required to achieve the second option.
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"Barry In The Bush With Smiles"
By David Michael Green. October 09, 2009 "Information Clearing House"
-- It takes a real artist to render a crushing majority into a hapless political object.
(After being nominated as the Democrat presidential candidate in 2008, presumably the entire party has accepted him as unquestioned dear leader, and that he has attempted to reinforce this with employment for Hilary in key policy posts....amongst others....so he has no worries about his party supporting his policy agenda's as their dear leader. So why this need to reach out to Republicans?.......Is this a style thang?....Is it bearing fruit? )
And Barack Obama is a real artist.
He’s had quite an impressive week. At least for an anvil.
Here’s one New York Times headline, regarding the Olympics debacle: “Chicago Is Rejected in First Round of Voting”. Impressive.
(Not a big deal, unless you are a real Obama hater, out to nitpick.....High time South America was given a chance to stage the Olympics........and the corrupt prone Olympic Committee decided as much. NOT a snub against Obama....just cus an American President makes a presentation/pitch to the IOC that should not automatically entitle America hosting the Olympics)
Here’s another: “Jobless Report Is Worse Than Expected; Rate Rises to 9.8%”. Can you say “Bye-bye, Barack”?
(Cut him some slack dude..........he has been in power for little over 8 months. It would be more accurate to say that the current dismal employment figures are the result of the mismanagement and criminality of Bush II, over 8 years)
Ah, but he was actually just warming up. David Paterson, the governor of New York, bitch-slapped the president for being stupid enough to lean on Paterson to get out of the 2010 race. Paterson is a disaster as governor, and Obama is worried that he’ll drag down the Democratic ticket, lowering the president’s majorities in Congress.
(Exercising his power and authority within his party....and signaling to others in the party that such behavior/standards will not be tolerated)
The first problem with that calculus is that there are fifty states in the union, notwithstanding the natural arrogance of New Yorkers who tend to think they own the planet. The Democratic Party’s problems are far bigger than New York. They begin on one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, and end on the other. As usual, most voters will be using the mid-term elections as a gut-check on their feelings about the current government. If the inept, cowardly and inert Mr. Obama needs someone to resign in order to save the party, that dude in the mirror with the big ol’ grin would be the most efficacious choice. Charlie Cook is now giving the Democrats only a fifty-fifty chance of retaining their majority in the House, which is now a whopping 79 seats. Man, you have to really work at it to blow something that badly in nine months time.
(Rather harsh......lets see what Obama does in the key domestic and foreign policy issues over the next few months, BEFORE the mid-term elections in 2010.......ONLY by then if he loses badly, and he hasn't made any fundamental policy changes which are clearly distinct from the BUSH II junta (where we know he could have made a difference, and had the capacity to do so, but deliberately stalled) can we begin to call him a dud presidency.......just another Jew front........blah blah blah.......a night watchman......before the Jew institutes a real fascist state in America in 2012 for Israel, under a loony right wing fruit cake.)
The second problem with asking Paterson to step out of the race to save Democratic majorities in Congress is that Obama has them already, in lopsided amounts, and he’s not doing a damn thing with them. Instead of kicking some butt to line his own caucuses up and forcing them to pass some real serious legislation that the president demands (see Bush, George W, for illustration. Also, Reagan, Ronald W.; Johnson, Lyndon B.; and Roosevelt, Franklin R.), this fool is doing deals with Republicans who are trying to destroy him, and the very predatory industries that are precisely the problem with American healthcare. I guess he must think that the GOP is just kidding. You know, like they were with Clinton. In any case, why worry about maintaining your majority if you have no intention of ever actually using it?
(In total agreement prof............could be to do with his age, inexperience...his feeling his way around in his new job, his racial background, dare I say it too dazed and grateful for being in the Whitehouse as a black guy. He really needs to implement his programs quickly, soon is not soon enough.......reverse the tax cuts to the rich; health care reform; Education reform and investment; Reform of the financial market; reform of the Byzantine American local and federal tax system; Immigration reform; pull troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan; get a grip on the REAL security budget of America, and cut it; Reform fundamentally the open free trade system of America....do you have something crap and third rate to sell? Then why not sell it to America?; Provides incentives for industry; reform the American media which is now effectively controlled by a few highly biased oligarchies linked to Jews; roll back the security police state instituted under Bush II....)
And the last reason that Obama is idiotic for meddling in state and local politics is because he was sent to Washington to save the country from the sixteen or so serious crises his predecessor bequeathed him, and about all he has going for him is the good will of the public who gave him the job. Spending your time dicking around with who should be the Democratic Party’s nominee for municipal dog-catcher is not exactly what people had in mind when they gave him this mandate. By going to Europe to beg for the Olympics, or by immersing himself in local politics, this chump is spending his political capital at a furious pace. It wouldn’t even be worth the effort if he was getting what he was asking for. But of course it’s far worse that both Paterson and the IOC slammed the door in his face, as publicly and as emphatically as imaginable. If Obama taped a “kick me” sign to his back, he could hardly signal any better his ineptitude and his willingness to get rolled at every conceivable opportunity.
(inexperience and his team?)
There’s more, of course. Another headline reports that “Panel Finishes Work on Health Bill Amendments”. The public option, already a weak sister to any real reform of the predatory wealth extraction system masquerading as national healthcare, was of course voted down by the Senate Finance Committee referred to in the title. Obama has yet to seriously weigh in on any preferences he might have. Apparently he is going to wait until the end of the legislation process. Assuming that he actually has any preferences – and I don’t, unless you count carrying water for corporate power and Wall Street – how astonishingly stupid is that as a strategy? After all the grief and months of effort Congress has gone through to maybe produce a bill, is it conceivable that they’d want to entertain some major new change at the last minute?
Then there’s Afghanistan, where the president has his own general running around painting him into a policy corner with only one option. Any military guy who tried that under Bush got summarily cashiered, even though they were actually telling the truth. You know, like maybe 160,000 GIs weren’t gonna be sufficient to occupy a country of 25 million pissed-off Iraqis. Say that and your career was over, Shinseki-style.
(Yes he needs to be more assertive with the military, and not be overawed by them. Either he cuts the military ops in Afghanistan and Iraq, which gives him loose change to finance his domestic programs....which avoids a recession.....which gives him a chance to be reelected in 2012, and not do badly in 2010......OR.....he substantively or wholly continues with BUSH II policies with marginal teflon tinkering on the periphery...with outlandish public debates dominated by "FUCK THE NEWS".....to give the impression he is actually doing something, when he actually is NOT)
Is anyone else sensing a pattern here?
(The "pattern' will be more patently obvious after the mid-term election results in 2010, and legislatively what he has actually achieved by then)
Obama would make a great nineteenth century president. You know, all those guys with names you can never remember, because they pretty much didn’t really do anything? Back in those days, Congress was king, and presidents – except during wartime – were essentially glorified clerks, executing the Congressional will, as per their Constitutional duty. That’s certainly one way to do it. It’s just that it pretty much isn’t what people have come to want and expect for the last century or so. And it sure as hell isn’t what Obama promised in the election.
(he would look out of place as a "nigger".........Seriously prof. the "decline" in the American constitutional set-up...over 100 years...distinctly beginning with Crypto-Jew Teddy Roosevelt embarking on the American quest for empire from 1898, and the subsequent inevitable road to imperial presidencies can't be blamed on Obama surely. Obama can chip away against that in his little way by disengaging from Afghanistan and Iraq, which he has the authority and choice to do)
But he has really specialized in being an acted-upon object, rather than a political protagonist, despite possessing the most powerful position in the world, commanding majorities in Congress, an initially adoring public wishing him tons of good will, and all manner of crises to warrant if not demand bold action. In his reticence he is not only carrying forward a fine Democratic Party tradition of recent decades, but in fact refining it into an art form. The pattern works like this: Republicans charge like bulls through china shops and grab the mantle of power, proceeding then to ram their program through, no matter the casualties. When they reach levels of greed, corruption and failure so excessive that even comatose Americans can no longer stand it, some effete Democratic stooge named Carter or Clinton or Obama is called in to hold down the fort long enough for the regressives to regroup and start the cycle again. But Obama in action – better rendered as ‘Obama’s inaction’ – makes Clinton look like a litter full of Mike Tysons crammed into an overheated pressure chamber by comparison.
(Beautiful......Democrats Presidents are angels hey? Carter.......Toppled the Shah of Iran 1979, and what the human cost for Iran has been since; began funding Islamic fundies in Afghanistan via Pakistan from July 1979; Toppled the democratically elected Bhutto regime in Pakistan 1977; sanctioned mass slaughter in South Korea in 1980, under/through military rule; South America I'm sure he did some nasty unsavory things there too..........Clinton.....Iraq/sanctions 500,000 children dead; Kosovo.......)
It’s astonishing how Democrats can never seem to block anything the hard-right wants to do, even when they have majorities, while the GOP kills everything the Democrats supposedly want, even with minuscule minorities in Congress. Gee, one could almost get the impression that Democrats don’t really want anything much different from Republicans, but just have to adopt a different alt-persona to hide their intentions from the public. Republicans use guns, god, gays and Gaddafi as distractions from corporate looting. Democrats strap on their cardigan sweaters and try really, really hard to do something, but gosh-darned it, just never seem to get anywhere.
(Reduced to its basic terms the two American parties are run by Jews which are used to ridicule and fool gentile Americans into thinking that they have a real choice, and a measure of say in the running of their country........which is not the case. In that sense the right/left political paradigm over which the professor is fuming about is non existent/fake/pied piper bullshit......is illusion....the only political paradigm which matters in America is the Jewish one, and the needs of Israel....when that reality hits gentile Americans, there will be revolution, and hence the instituting of the American security police state under Bush.......which Obama has not touched, or talked about rolling back/addressing....not one Congress sub-committee has touched that very important area....simple question you know, do Americans want to live in a Jew run security police state or not?)
As for our friend Mr. Obama, he seems busy unlearning every lesson of the last three decades. He doesn’t appear worried that the right will challenge his legitimacy as president ‘cause, of course, they never did that to Carter or Clinton. He doesn’t seem worried that they’ll happily destroy the country if necessary in order to wreck his presidency because, of course, there’s little precedent for that. He doesn’t much care to use the bully pulpit and strong-arm Congress to get what he wants because, of course, that never got Reagan or Bush anywhere.
(Jews operating in the Republican and Democratic party, in Wall Street, in the media could wreck the USA if they are allowed to..........They almost destroyed the $ in August/September 2008 before the emergency team in the BUSH II administration stepped in..........not many Americans are aware of this episode.The Democrats also play a vital enabler role to so called Republican bad guys.....its a elaborate Jew run double act/vaudeville )
I can’t believe I’d ever say this, but the question Obama should be asking right about now, is “What would Bush do?”
I’ll tell ya what. He’d jam his legislation down the throats of the other party, putting the fear of god in them if they dared to oppose the emperor. He’s rip people’s lungs out and stuff them back through their eye sockets if they looked at him cross-eyed. He’d lie to members of his own party and carpet bomb their entire home neighborhoods if they dared vote against him. If any media talking head didn’t tell the lies they were programmed to speak, he’d kidnap their kids and send them to Gitmo, treating them a good waterboarding for every one of their birthdays. And, he’d call in Rove to stomp some people good, the nice Republican way.
(Surely professor you are not seriously suggesting that the Barack Obama administration adopt the style and fashion of the criminally inept administration of Bush II;Katrina and all that; one of the worst in American history...........Having pure political convictions which have evolved over years of meditation and self learning, AND the requisite personal zeal to implement them onto the nation is one thing; working through the correct legal channels, and constitutional channels....HOWEVER using FALSE FLAG OPS IN AMERICA, and Mafia style MO in all areas to institute ones fundamental political objectives in the service of Likud Israel must be deemed ultimately as political "failure" and a moral "failure")
What would that look like? Here’s journalist Ron Suskind relating an inside taste of what he observed while waiting outside the Ol’ Karl’s office for an interview, back when he was running the White House political operation: “Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. ‘We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!’ As a reporter, you get around—curse words, anger, passionate intensity are not notable events—but the ferocity, the bellicosity, the violent imputations were, well, shocking. This went on without a break for a minute or two. Then the aide slipped out looking a bit ashen, and Rove, his face ruddy from the exertions of the past few moments, looked at me and smiled a gentle, Clarence-the-Angel smile. ‘Come on in.’ And I did. And we had the most amiable chat for a half hour.”
(Yes I think American popular culture has glorified the MAFIA somewhat. When you are running a vast sophisticated 21st century modern country, working through the accepted channels is the best and only option...........if the actions of the Bush administration is exposed as criminal, then Rove would be termed a failure, and not an object lesson on how to get things done.)
Why won’t Obama do this? Why won’t he unleash all the powers at his disposal, knock heads together, and smash political opponents to smithereens in order to get his way? Two reasons. First, he wasn’t a complete personal screw-up for the last half century, acknowledged even by his own parents to be a total embarrassment. He therefore doesn’t have the burning need to show the world they’ve been wrong about him his whole life, like a certain other fellow recently seen roaming the halls of the West Wing.
The other reason is that Obama doesn’t actually appear to be doing anything that requires any particular toughness. He’s not trying to sell a bullshit war or dismantle Social Security, like Bush. He’s not trying to end legal and institutional racism in a country where it was as pervasive as bibles in ‘Bama, like Lyndon Johnson did. He’s not attempting to bring the country kicking and screaming into the twentieth century, even after it was already one-third over, like FDR was.
In fact, he doesn’t really appear to be doing much of anything, including producing the much-vaunted ‘change’ we heard endlessly about during last year’s campaign. Unless, of course, you count the nice demeanor with which he continues the predatory policies of Reagan, Clinton, and the Bushes. This is essentially George W. Bush’s third term. It’s Barry in the Bush with Smiles.
Obama more or less just seems to want to hang for a while, passively swaying in whatever winds happen to be blowing through at the moment. That might have worked in the 1950s, or even the 1970s, but not today. The brownshirts of the American right have been playing for keeps for some time now. And, while it’s true that they can be their own worst enemy in normal times, these are hardly normal times. Failing to address the real economic pain people are feeling, failing to provide remotely meaningful healthcare reform, failing to clean-up the corporate predators slamming the public with bad mortgages, sky-high credit card interest rates and bailouts of the already rich – all of these are an invitation for some change Obama can believe in, especially in 2012. If he insists on being a political object, the right will gladly turn him into one. It will be a freakin’ anvil too, not the fifth face on Mount Rushmore.
This is not kid’s stuff. These mobsters are possessed of insatiable greed, and they are clever beyond belief at mobilizing the anxieties and inadequacies of a public already dumbed-down to a level of political immaturity that can barely keep pace with the amped-up fires of their personal rage to which it’s dangerously coupled. How many re-run episodes of this mini-series do we need to see before we get clear on how it turns out?
The right is wrong on nearly everything, of course – the elites because they lie, and the shock troops because they’re frightened of their own shadows and therefore find blessed relief in every possible palliative from the pope to Palin. But they are correct about Obama being a complete patsy. They like to bring that up in the foreign policy context, because it’s good for scaring voters, and because it doesn’t remind moderates of just who is actually rolling this punk here at home (a very fine example of which was provided by the cheers that went up from our nice super-patriots when America lost the Olympics bid). But the truth is that a movement that should have been discredited to the point of annihilation by its very own actions is now instead setting the agenda in Washington, and the guy who won the landslide seems busy trying to push the mud back up the hill so that he can be buried by it himself, instead of the people who pretty much literally want to kill him.
(Yes, agreed Obama will need to make his choices soon, and quickly..........being a passive night watchman, who achieved very little, where he could have otherwise with executive ease, will be an inglorious legacy for him which will haunt him for the rest of his life. He simply cannot run America with defacto 4 more years of BUSH II policies. Either he challenges these policies FUNDAMENTALLY, as a Democrat with radical political roots, or he faces the consequences from 2010....and then into 2012 .)
I really don’t know what to say or think about this dude anymore. The way democracy is supposed to work is that his desire to hold office and the public’s preference for certain policies should reinforce each other and impel us toward a mutually satisfying presidency. Instead, though, he trucks along seemingly oblivious to the fact that the exact opposite is occurring.
This country is sinking in every way imaginable, and he will be held to blame in 2010 and 2012.
And so he should be.
It’s just that that will also mean the return of the monster set, absolutely foaming at the mouth after four years in the wilderness not holding the presidency to which they believe they’re fully entitled to own.
And then Obama will join Clinton, running around the world making speeches and writing books. Maybe they’ll even do joint appearances.
Errrum no! Clinton despite the Jewish organized blowjob, ran a two term presidency, where the economy did very well, with good employment rates........Barack Hussain Obama on the other hand, if the economy tanks during his watch, serving just one term will not be forgiven by the majority of American public, with large numbers unemployed................then he will be reminded of his Muslim name, birth certificate, and racial background in very nasty unkind terms......he will disappear from the limelight naturally, into Chicago maybe if they have him back, or Hawaii, or Indonesia, or Kenya.............exceptionally high hopes have been raised in the American public, and he must deliver....or else......The security acts passed under Bush weren't instituted to fight "al-Qaeda" prof. if you know what I mean......The security legislation instituted in America by Bush II aren't being used against "al-Qaeda" on a adaily basis)
Thanks for that, Barack. You’re a real patriot.
Oh well. At least you got the important stuff right.
You won’t have ruffled any feathers while being president.
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David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions to his articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. More of his work can be found at his website, www.regressiveantidote.net.
