Links and Traps

How distasteful. My first thought was that Obama was better at image/message control than this, but then I remembered that he was voted into office to get rid of scenes like this. That I supported him doesn’t give him a free pass.

I think I’m seeing a transitional rather than a transformational President.

What’s been lost over time is a sense of basic sportsmanship. It’s no longer that people play competitive games to pass the time and enjoy themselves, it’s become all about victory. We see this triumphalism everywhere, even in the health care debate. The Romans said, Vae Victis – woe to the vanquished. There’s no sympathy at all for losers, who after all, are just losers.
Instead we’re looking at this face everywhere – a wide open mouth, a closed fist, and a somewhat angry expression. This particular player is the Cardinals’ pitcher Adam Wainright who just became baseball’s first 15-game winner. Just looking at that face makes me dislike him. Big deal, he’s making a lot of money as a baseball player, but does he have to be so ungracious about it?

He’s a player. If people who voted for him didn’t figure that out from his Chicago days, they have no one to blame but themselves.

It’s not an attempt to counter the socialist charge, though they should take up that line to explain it! good one. This administration is just crawling with lobbyists. Did you see the WaPo article about Heather Podesta, who said business has never been as jumping as it is now. The prez needs, badly, to walk the walk. Stop lecturing, and use this vacation to reflect.

if he were lobbyist owned, he wouldn’t even bother with reforms. did you complain about lobbyists when bush was in power? do you know how much of our budget is eaten up by military industrial complex? do you know how much of the deficit was created by numerous tax cuts?

but anti-reform ads are being run, via 3rd party cut outs. i look forward to seeing the consequence they’ll pay for their double-cross.