Comments on: Pop Politico: “So Long to the C- Student” http://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/ your daily dose of pop culture Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tedhttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-53674 Ted Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:20:01 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-53674 Of course Obama is concerned about his public image. What elected official isn't? The difference is that Obama is a guy who has shown himself to be engaged in the day-to-day of governing, while Bush has demonstrated the opposite. <br><br>Right now, the dead enders of the Bush cult are pushing the line: "Well, he kept the country safe after 9/11." Okay, but wasn't that his job before we were attacked? The country is attacked on his watch, thousands die, our country gets mired in two wars, civil liberties are eroded, and on and on and on, yet Bush gets a mulligan? Of course Obama is concerned about his public image. What elected official isn't? The difference is that Obama is a guy who has shown himself to be engaged in the day-to-day of governing, while Bush has demonstrated the opposite.

Right now, the dead enders of the Bush cult are pushing the line: “Well, he kept the country safe after 9/11.” Okay, but wasn't that his job before we were attacked? The country is attacked on his watch, thousands die, our country gets mired in two wars, civil liberties are eroded, and on and on and on, yet Bush gets a mulligan?

]]> By: Tedhttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-42555 Ted Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:20:01 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-42555 Of course Obama is concerned about his public image. What elected official isn't? The difference is that Obama is a guy who has shown himself to be engaged in the day-to-day of governing, while Bush has demonstrated the opposite. <br><br>Right now, the dead enders of the Bush cult are pushing the line: "Well, he kept the country safe after 9/11." Okay, but wasn't that his job before we were attacked? The country is attacked on his watch, thousands die, our country gets mired in two wars, civil liberties are eroded, and on and on and on, yet Bush gets a mulligan? Of course Obama is concerned about his public image. What elected official isn't? The difference is that Obama is a guy who has shown himself to be engaged in the day-to-day of governing, while Bush has demonstrated the opposite.

Right now, the dead enders of the Bush cult are pushing the line: “Well, he kept the country safe after 9/11.” Okay, but wasn't that his job before we were attacked? The country is attacked on his watch, thousands die, our country gets mired in two wars, civil liberties are eroded, and on and on and on, yet Bush gets a mulligan?

]]> By: Tedhttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-19702 Ted Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:01 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-19702 Of course Obama is concerned about his public image. What elected official isn't? The difference is that Obama is a guy who has shown himself to be engaged in the day-to-day of governing, while Bush has demonstrated the opposite. <br><br>Right now, the dead enders of the Bush cult are pushing the line: "Well, he kept the country safe after 9/11." Okay, but wasn't that his job before we were attacked? The country is attacked on his watch, thousands die, our country gets mired in two wars, civil liberties are eroded, and on and on and on, yet Bush gets a mulligan? Of course Obama is concerned about his public image. What elected official isn't? The difference is that Obama is a guy who has shown himself to be engaged in the day-to-day of governing, while Bush has demonstrated the opposite.

Right now, the dead enders of the Bush cult are pushing the line: “Well, he kept the country safe after 9/11.” Okay, but wasn't that his job before we were attacked? The country is attacked on his watch, thousands die, our country gets mired in two wars, civil liberties are eroded, and on and on and on, yet Bush gets a mulligan?

]]> By: d Sheahttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-19701 d Shea Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:46:29 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-19701 What's your next headline: Welcome to the A Student?, Welcome to the B Student, C+ ??? Ooops, that will require some research, college records don't seem to be available. You do realize that Obama's public image concerns him don't you? What's your next headline: Welcome to the A Student?, Welcome to the B Student, C+ ??? Ooops, that will require some research, college records don't seem to be available. You do realize that Obama's public image concerns him don't you?

]]> By: standing_damagedhttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-19699 standing_damaged Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:55:32 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-19699 I have never understood the absolute Republican rage against Clinton, their most effective moderate Republican President since Eisenhower....<br><br>Unless of coure it is the fatc that he made Poppys procorporate greed is good lies palatable to people that LOATHED poppy himself. And it's obvious that to all the BFEE 'image' was their drive.<br><br>As for being unrepentant about voting for him - more power to yah. It is a hard thing to admit one was fooled by a complete idiot. I mean look where that reflects back :P<br><br>As for Obama? Hell us natives lives were shit before, they will be shit now, things don't change for peasants. The best one can say about bein ampong the invisibles is we have learned to live IN the cracks since falling thru happened so damn long ago.<br><br>SD I have never understood the absolute Republican rage against Clinton, their most effective moderate Republican President since Eisenhower….

Unless of coure it is the fatc that he made Poppys procorporate greed is good lies palatable to people that LOATHED poppy himself. And it's obvious that to all the BFEE 'image' was their drive.

As for being unrepentant about voting for him – more power to yah. It is a hard thing to admit one was fooled by a complete idiot. I mean look where that reflects back :P

As for Obama? Hell us natives lives were shit before, they will be shit now, things don't change for peasants. The best one can say about bein ampong the invisibles is we have learned to live IN the cracks since falling thru happened so damn long ago.

SD

]]> By: DwDunphyhttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-19698 DwDunphy Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:33:39 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-19698 The salient point is that if the Clinton era was so warped, why didn't George W. Bush in his eight years attempt to straighten it out, rather than going for the shingles that were still somewhat straight?<br><br>Bringing this back to Clinton doesn't excuse Bush's actions of the past two terms. It just doesn't. The salient point is that if the Clinton era was so warped, why didn't George W. Bush in his eight years attempt to straighten it out, rather than going for the shingles that were still somewhat straight?

Bringing this back to Clinton doesn't excuse Bush's actions of the past two terms. It just doesn't.

]]> By: Tedhttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-19697 Ted Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:20:56 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-19697 Good to have you back in the fray! <br><br>Perhaps Obama has studied the more libertarian economists of the Austrian School but found they don't address the kind of policy prescriptions that need to be enacted for the economy to recover from the mess we're in. <br><br>And I'm not sure what polices Bill Clinton supported that has a correlation to what we're going through now. It's almost like you forget who was the president for the last eight years. Good to have you back in the fray!

Perhaps Obama has studied the more libertarian economists of the Austrian School but found they don't address the kind of policy prescriptions that need to be enacted for the economy to recover from the mess we're in.

And I'm not sure what polices Bill Clinton supported that has a correlation to what we're going through now. It's almost like you forget who was the president for the last eight years.

]]> By: Lance Berryhttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-19700 Lance Berry Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:36:05 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-19700 It was actually the Bush administration that brought us to the current economic and socio-political crisis we find ourselves in...the last 8 years of self-serving politics which did this to the country we all love. To try to blame Clinton's administration--an administration that managed to eliminate our national debt for the first time in decades--is retroactively writing history. It's also too early into Obama's victory to begin criticizing him for not looking into the Austrian school of economics, when he has no rightful say in running the country until later this month. In other words, "there can only be one President at a time." It was actually the Bush administration that brought us to the current economic and socio-political crisis we find ourselves in…the last 8 years of self-serving politics which did this to the country we all love. To try to blame Clinton's administration–an administration that managed to eliminate our national debt for the first time in decades–is retroactively writing history. It's also too early into Obama's victory to begin criticizing him for not looking into the Austrian school of economics, when he has no rightful say in running the country until later this month. In other words, “there can only be one President at a time.”

]]> By: autodidacthttp://popdose.com/pop-politico-%e2%80%9cso-long-to-the-c-student%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-19696 autodidact Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:59:30 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=10304#comment-19696 When Bush arrived, I was full of hope, because it was a "change" from the prevaricator-in-chief who preceded him. I see now the foolishness of that hope. He was a politician. His lips were moving. Enough said. I'd still take him over Gore or Kerry any day of the week, in any crisis. In that, I am unrepentant. I am angry most of all at the political machines who serve up to us such poor choices. However, at least the newly reconstituted Clinton administration (under its new African-American figurehead) can claim a lot of experience. Experience in passing much of the legislation and regulation that brought us to the economic fiasco we now find ourselves in. So, like everyone else, I can only hope they do better. But if Obama were really "intellectually curious," he'd be asking questions about the Austrian school of economics. Right now it seems to be a battle between the dim-bulb monetarists and the dim-bulb Keynesians, both of whom failed to anticipate financial implosion. And honestly now, don't you find Obama "mostly vague" too? He's so vague, I agree with half of what he says! When Bush arrived, I was full of hope, because it was a “change” from the prevaricator-in-chief who preceded him. I see now the foolishness of that hope. He was a politician. His lips were moving. Enough said. I'd still take him over Gore or Kerry any day of the week, in any crisis. In that, I am unrepentant. I am angry most of all at the political machines who serve up to us such poor choices. However, at least the newly reconstituted Clinton administration (under its new African-American figurehead) can claim a lot of experience. Experience in passing much of the legislation and regulation that brought us to the economic fiasco we now find ourselves in. So, like everyone else, I can only hope they do better. But if Obama were really “intellectually curious,” he'd be asking questions about the Austrian school of economics. Right now it seems to be a battle between the dim-bulb monetarists and the dim-bulb Keynesians, both of whom failed to anticipate financial implosion. And honestly now, don't you find Obama “mostly vague” too? He's so vague, I agree with half of what he says!

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