Unsilent Barack

We really need to put George F. Will on "mute." First of all, there's his complaint about "card checks herding workers into unions." Will forgets that it was Solidarity, a Polish labor union, that brought about the fall of the USSR. As a union member myself. American workers needs unions to protect them. The Bush Administration gave corporations a green light on abandoning safety measures resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries. That's an inconvenient truth that Will forgets.
I will also point out that during the Bush regime, Democrats did not have much power over anything. In the House, they were not even permitted to speak, another inconvenient truth.
The third inconvenient truth is medical care. Barbara Bush recently had surgery paid for by the government. Senators enjoy government-sponsored health care. The common man should have the right to buy into a government program like Medicare, which involves a 2% overhead, rather than watching his health care dollar go to profits for Wall Street, and bribery for lobbyists and Senators.
As for the "rich resources" of the Senate, and the GOP Senators desire to shut down government, Will's words prove once again the ignorance and fanaticism of the GOP, which does not even believe in global warming. The Senate is NOT a democratic institution. For decades the Senate stifled Civil Rights leigislation, with Will's blessing. I hope Obama is willing to resort to reconciliation and the nuclear option whenever the Senate decides to obstruct what this country and the planet need.

Why don't we wait and see, George, before we use big words to define a man's time in office after only a little over three months. After all, he could hold the office for close to eight more years.

I guess Dick Cheney thinks losing focus on the "war on terror" and pursuing non-existent "weapons of mass destruction" as well as committing heinous POW atrocities in the likes of Abu Ghraib were an excellent use of taxpayer monies and bolstered the reputation of the USA around the world. None of these objectives saved any American lives, and actually resulted in the senseless loss of both American and Iraqi lives in a war that still has no legitimate reason for having ever been waged...

For former VP Cheney to be hitting the airwaves and trying to justify the unjustifiable only secures his and Bush 43's legacy as incompetent leaders who led our great nation into a major economic decline domestically and a meaningless war abroad. Americans wanted change and have no interest in looking back at the last 8 years of American decline.
God Bless President Obama and VP Biden on their mission of setting America back on track., and working on a health
care plan for America's 46 million uninsured citizens.

... how does George Will still have a job? He is one of the most biased and partisan people you could ever read. How does he get the back page so often? He should stick to baseball.
The highlight (which comes up all the time) "his budge calls for doubling the national debt in 5 years"
Okay how about Bush... he managed to take a balanced budge and, without including the cost of the wars, bring it back into the red. God damn... please stop with the hypocrisy. Every article! If he could just read his own stuff...

There must be something wrong with me and most of my friends. We are not getting tired of hearing Barack Obama. Why? Because he is saying something worth hearing and he says it well! Contrary to the view of media pundits, all Americans do not have the attention span of a gnat. GWB could have gifted America with no voice because we were do disenfranchised that we knew that what the People wanted and needed was irrelevant. He did what he wanted to do and that was nothing for the masses of us. So, now we have someone who appears to care enough to tell us how he is going to undo this mess that he has inherited. Guess what...we are listening...hanging on to every word!

Barack HUSSEIN Obama is the biggest joke of a President there ever was. Can't believe there are so many stupid gullible Americans who allow themselves to be walked over by Obama and the rest of this Comedy of Errors government. The world knows Obama is a joke except for the dumb Americans who still believe this phoney. This is why the rest of the world mocks and hates the USA. You guys can never get your act straight and each successive President is worse than the previous one. Can't you dummies break this cycle ?

Ammendment to my post of 05/09/2009 8:33:09 am

It was erroneous to state that "There is no nyperliberal base in play". Of course there is a margin of the party that is hyperliberal. The point should have been that this margin now represents just a fraction of the broad base of support that our President has. I voted for Bush in 2000 having deluded myself into thinking that (1) Gore's sighs in the debates were diminishing and (2) despite his vacuous nature, W would be fine with what seemd at the time a group of seasoned reasoned professionals to bring him along and guide him. How wrong I was. They turned out to be a cabal of incompetent ninnies, and that's the impression left on a massive young voting block of well-educated people who actually were upset enough to get motivated to oust the rascals. That's the face of conservatism not Reagan to these people. By the time the election of 2008 comes, many of them have studied Reagan and found that, relative to their own times the Gipper presided over realtively untroubled times and was largely inconsequential (the USSR having now been well documented to be on the road to implosion regardless of any reagan bully pronouncements) and his inane fiscal policies having driven us into a serious recession. Bush's stewradship being even worse, what with the first invasion of a foreign sovereign country without provocation, rampant moral and other types of corruption among congressional GOP members it doesn't take a genius like Will to see why the GOP has also imploded. The face of conservatism is an ugly anathema to most young voters and many older types who formerly believed what the GOP was selling. With Reagan marginalized to being no better than an average president, Bush's debacle of an administration, it's not surprising that Obama has a very broad and loyal base at the moment, especially among a massive young voting block. Some old hyperliberals remain but they are not the driving constituency. One of the biggest nails in the coffin for radical right-wing conservatism is that it is orders of magnitude easier to establish a young well-educated base of supporters than it is to convert them. Convert them with what? There are no fresh ideas, a virtual dearth of talent. No atrractive constructive ideas and no atrractive candidates. It's going to be another long hard slog for the GOP and fossilized pseudo-intellectuals like George Will,

Obama's "Hyperliberal" base? Did you note how many independents (like me and many of my collegues) and Democrat moderates and young people voted for Obama and now continue to fully support him? There is no hyperliberal base in play. You are part of a fossilized ideology that doesn't seem to get the political sea change that has occured in the USA. Reagan is a ghost or at best an average president to most young people. Your GOP hyperconservative base friends seem to want to keep suckling that teet but it's gone dry or never existed for most young Americans.

I think that George Wills is unfortunately, refusing to be objective about President Obama It is likely that history won't remember George Will's column in 300 years either; but will that be a reflection of the future or the past, will that be an advantage or a disadvantage?