Pop Politico: “A Question For You”

Can I please keep my shoes on when I want to fly somewhere? And bring a bottle of water into the waiting area?

Frankly, I was shocked to discover that Alan Keyes is on the ballot in California. (I guess he wasn't discouraged by his LAST electoral encounter with Obama.) I was disappointed that I couldn't just walk out of the polling place and tell everybody, “I voted for the black guy.”

On Jan. 20, I'd like President Obama to stand on the Capitol steps and, in a magisterial tone, declare, “When I snap my fingers, everything George Bush and the Republicans have done for the past eight years will be undone, and we'll start from there. Ready…set…SNAP!”

Beyond that, I would simply like for Obama and the Democrats who'll be swamping the Capitol in January to do such a good job, to serve the people so well and so cleanly and with such success, that the next few elections become an afterthought. Is that too much to ask?

Do you realize how many al'Qaida are still trying – in every conceivable way – to kill me, you, and every “infidel” every day? Ever been to Pakistan? How soon Americans forget.

Or….

Are you saying that you feel the Bush administration has done a good job of diminishing AQ that we can relax things? If you blame Bush for the economy, then be fair and notice we haven't been attacked in the US in 7 years.

Or do you just want to get there faster and you're willing to take the risk?

My particular polling place is a school and just outside of the parking lot, two skater kids were calling to people driving in, “Obama?” When I drove in, they shouted out, I gave the thumbs up, they high-fived each other. Can you dig it?

I'm not disagreeing with you Jon, I'm just saying it's not a matter of “if I earn enough to qualify for them”, but based on your 'snap and it's all gone' scenario, you would owe thousands back to Uncle Sam instantly. Yes, you would 'qualify', as we all would, since we all enjoyed tax cuts over the past 8 years.

I agree that a Republican President with a Republican Congress (as in the first part of the Bush years) was a disaster, as the Repubs showed their true colors – they'll spend like drunks s much as the Dems – all the while cutting taxes. Ludicrous.

BUT…

I didn't hear many Dems (non on this blog) complaining about their two rebate checks. If you talk the talk, then walk it. – send your rebate check back. I double-dog dare you. Hell, when Hillary was still running and gas prices were the only topic in America she pushed in her campaign for a “gas rebate” – only a few months after the second of the Bush tax rebates (the $600 dollar one). She kept slamming Bush, but was offering the same thing he just actually gave Americans – money to buy gas!! No wonder she lost, she's a dolt….

So, under your snap scenario, would you really pay the thousands back to Uncle Sam that you received as a result of the Bush years? Really?

Steve, I couldn't afford to send my rebates back. I needed them to pay bills. Why? Because the crap Bush economic policies have forced me to live paycheck-to-paycheck. The figures reveal most Americans used those rebates for overdue bills or socked away the cash rather than spending frivolously as Bush hoped.

Rather than putting into play something that would markedly alleviate the financial miseries of Americans, the President cut a hush money check. By your account, if I might elaborate, Joe Average should have thanked his lucky stars and treated himself to something nice to spur the economy versus trying to keep the electricity paid and going through the hot, dry summer.

A starving man gets a sandwich, but not a long-term change in the circumstances that keep him starving. He should eat the sandwich and not complain when it's digested, excreted and he's left hungry again? Come on. If we are so blind to the complexities of human suffering that we reduce it all to “whining” and “negativity”, we deserve to be wiped off the face of the earth like the gutless, soulless germs we would rightly be.

I agree with you, I read about that and it's cool technology. But I still really don't mind security lines at airports as I know that terrorists are striving to kill me.

And as for Olbermann, he's no-doubt pleasuring himself to pictures of Bill Oreilly right now (during commercial breaks), all the while wondering why he can't touch him in the ratings…..

So you're saying that Apple is out-right lying about selling 6 million IPhones last quarter? Just blatantly lying?

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We'll see. But let's be clear, Apple didn't report a good profit – they missed expectations. They just reported 6 million IPhone sales. They can sell 6 million phones and still lose money.

But I still standby my opinion that most fault lies at the feet of the American consumer, who refuses to save any money and will gladly go in debt to constantly have a higher standard of living every month.

I have absolutely enjoyed coming here and rading the political writings, when Jefito tanked I was saddened but the changed site has been a blast even tho as a dialup user I can no longer give new music a listen

And I have just one wish but Jon already spoke it. So I will just set here at 11:15 pn eastern watching hundreds of thousands of people in Chicago celebrate the begining of the end of the Reagan redneck messiah revolution.
Maybe there might be some change after all…
I wish you me and all life on the planet – godspeed.
Cya in a few days

I like how you're debating my fantasy scenario. I can't/won't really answer your “pay back Uncle Sam” question. It reminds me of a ludicrous argument that Republicans used against Kerry supporters in '04 when Kerry talked about tax cuts that the rich “didn't ask for and didn't need.” I got several comments from GOP friends saying, “If Kerry didn't want his tax cut, why doesn't he just donate that money back to the government?” It was a stupid suggestion then, and it's pointless now.

However, if the nation could go back to January 2001, with an awareness of what Bush's tax policies would do to the country, would those policies get support? I doubt it. As for the rebate of 2001, I know that those $600 checks (as well as the more recent ones, for however much they were for) did some people some short-term good, but if we had been given the choice of that $600 or a stable economy & solvent government over the subsequent seven years, I imagine most of us would have picked the solvency. I know I would have.

Then again, I thought the rebate checks were pointless and idiotic at the time.

You woudn't happen to be my friend Steve from Virginia who just adopted a child, would you?

You woudn't happen to be my friend Steve from Virginia who just adopted a child, would you?