PSALM 2008-2012
FIRST BOOK OF DEMOCRAT
OBAMA IS MY SHEPHERD,
I SHALL NOT WANT.
HE LEADETH ME BESIDE STILL FACTORIES.
HE RESTORETH MY FAITH IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
HE GUIDETH ME IN THE PATH OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGHT THE VALLEY OF THE BREAD LINE,
I SHALL NOT GO HUNGRY.
OBAMA HAS ANOINTED MY INCOME WITH TAXES,
MY EXPENSES RUNNETH OVER MY INCOME,
SURELY, POVERTY AND HARD LIVING WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.
THE DEMOCRATS AND I WILL LIVE FOREVER
IN A RENTED HOME.
BUT I AM GLAD I AM AN AMERICAN,
I AM GLAD THAT I AM FREE.
BUT I WISH I WAS A DOG
AND OBAMA A TREE.
FIRST BOOK OF DEMOCRAT
OBAMA IS MY SHEPHERD,
I SHALL NOT WANT.
HE LEADETH ME BESIDE STILL FACTORIES.
HE RESTORETH MY FAITH IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
HE GUIDETH ME IN THE PATH OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGHT THE VALLEY OF THE BREAD LINE,
I SHALL NOT GO HUNGRY.
OBAMA HAS ANOINTED MY INCOME WITH TAXES,
MY EXPENSES RUNNETH OVER MY INCOME,
SURELY, POVERTY AND HARD LIVING WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.
THE DEMOCRATS AND I WILL LIVE FOREVER
IN A RENTED HOME.
BUT I AM GLAD I AM AN AMERICAN,
I AM GLAD THAT I AM FREE.
BUT I WISH I WAS A DOG
AND OBAMA A TREE.
10 comments:
Despite my aversion to Obama, this post is truly offensive.
You're consistant, Joe, I'll give you that.
You should consider some mild sedatives to get you through the next four or eight years, my Friend.
If this was written four or eight years from now it might make sense.
Mr. Obama hasn't even taken office yet so it is abjectly insane to lay responsibility for our current disasters at his feet.
It seems that the rich in this country, friends of Cheney, Bush and of legislators on both sides of the isle have robbed this country blind. Billion dollar bailouts for banking criminals and incompetent industries? Where is that money going to come from? Form your children and their children. I fear the rich have robbed the country and sent our manufacturing base to countries with almost slave worker conditions to the point that there is no real wealth or future left for America, just a shell of the economic house it used to be.
It seems unlikely that Mr. Obama or anyone can undo the disasterous results of the greed of our rich and powerful citizens. It seems state of the art crazy to blame Mr. Obama for ANY of this mess. We scream, "he's going to give all the money to the poor." Good! better that than the rich robbing us of one more penny!
Polly Markis
Taxes, what did he say in the election? What is he saying now? This guy is so far out of his leauge its reidiculous. We dont have to do anything, hell fall flat on his face all by himself, Problem is hes going to take us with him. Time will Tell.
America has become the worlds flee-market.
Hugo Chavez.
11:19...get a grip on reality1
Didn't Bush/Cheney already "lead" us to the worst economic hell since the 1920's?
I know, Bush says it was Clinton's fault. That might have been believable 6 years ago. But you can't have the economic world collapse in the final year of your 8 year administration, then blame it on your predecessor! Bush/Cheney had 8 years to fix the economy; it got progressively worse under their "leadership!" (Well, worse for everyone but their super, top 10%, rich buddies. Our economic foundation was removed and the average person's ability to make a decent living did begin to crumble under Clinton with the signing of NAFTA and other traitorous trade agreements. But Bush and the Republicans supported cutting the throats of American workers and destroying America's economy just as strongly as Clinton & the Democrats.
What's the unemployment figure, 10 million? How many illegal MEXICAN immigrants have the Republicans & Democrats allowed to remain in the USA, 10 million?......Hmmmmmmmm
Don't blame the Mexicans for coming illegally! Blame our government for encouraging them to come and allowing them to stay!!!
Too many Americans can't pay for homes or afford new cars. Clinton and Bush & Republican & Democratic legeslatures allowed super rich traitors to ship our manufacturing jobs over-seas to avoid paying American workers a living wage. The rich, with total cooperation from our Government in both political parties, Have sold our nation, our future and our children's future so the top 10% of the population could become even more obscenely rich! What used to be the "blue collar working class" can now work at Wal*Mart, Lowes or places like McDonalds or KFC for $7.50 an hour. Try buying a house & car & supporting a family on that. To all those who supported sending our manufacturing jobs over-seas, F*** YOU, for you have surely f***** the nation! If our government, that is supposed to represent us, assists traitors in selling the wealth and workers of our nation just to line their own pockets, are those presidents, congressmen & senators any less guilty of being traitors? I think not! They are even more traitorous because they were supposed to represnt all Americans, not just the richest 10%!
Clinton/Gore - Bush/Cheney - Democratic & Republican legelators: All traitors who sold out the majority of Americans to pimp for the richest segment of our society.
Will Mr. Obama be any better or just another representative of the rich? Let's give him a chance before we say he's as bad as the others.
I wish him the best and will pray for his safety. As Jesus, Lincoln,
Bobby Kennedy, Martin L. King and thousands of others through history have evinced, taking a stand against the rich and powerful poses significant risks.
Polly Markis
Give Obama a chance, please...Polly pull your head out of your "tukkis" because he's one of the rich...unless you consider $4.1 million last year alone-middle class...someone who wrote his memoirs (before he was someone to boot) and lives off the royalties while his wife makes six figures because of the pork he sent to her employer-a hospital. If you really think he's going to stand up against the rich upper classes - I've got a bridge to sell you.
I'm not anti-obama-YET -but please he's another politician and he's gonna have to prove himself. Period. Give him a chance to succeed or fail, but stop drinking the kool-aid and face reality.
4:30,
You are quite vulgar, but if I could put my head in my "tukkis",
which I can't, I would never have to go out on another date!
About our newly elected president,
You may very well be right. But I can't be wrong to wait and see before passing judgement. Pre-judging is what fools substitute for their lack of reasoning ability.
Polly Markis
This just sucks, Joe.
Even many Republicans are giving him his due right now.
This doesn't just show disrespect for Obama, who hasn't even taken office yet and who spent years helping people who lost their jobs when factories closed.
It is disrespectful to the majority of American who voted for him.
Or if you prefer, it's bad sportsmanship. Even I pass on to my kids not to say bad things about election winners that aren't their choice because it just makes them sore losers.
Bigger Than Bush
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: January 1, 2009
As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners.
Some of the whining almost defies belief. Did Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, really say, “I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror”? Did Rush Limbaugh really suggest that the financial crisis was the result of a conspiracy, masterminded by that evil genius Chuck Schumer?
But most of the whining takes the form of claims that the Bush administration’s failure was simply a matter of bad luck — either the bad luck of President Bush himself, who just happened to have disasters happen on his watch, or the bad luck of the G.O.P., which just happened to send the wrong man to the White House.
The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision.
If the Bush administration became a byword for policy bungles, for government by the unqualified, well, it was just following the advice of leading conservative think tanks: after the 2000 election the Heritage Foundation specifically urged the new team to “make appointments based on loyalty first and expertise second.”
Contempt for expertise, in turn, rested on contempt for government in general. “Government is not the solution to our problem,” declared Ronald Reagan. “Government is the problem.” So why worry about governing well?
Where did this hostility to government come from? In 1981 Lee Atwater, the famed Republican political consultant, explained the evolution of the G.O.P.’s “Southern strategy,” which originally focused on opposition to the Voting Rights Act but eventually took a more coded form: “You’re getting so abstract now you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.” In other words, government is the problem because it takes your money and gives it to Those People.
Oh, and the racial element isn’t all that abstract, even now: Chip Saltsman, currently a candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, sent committee members a CD including a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro” — and according to some reports, the controversy over his action has actually helped his chances.
So the reign of George W. Bush, the first true Southern Republican president since Reconstruction, was the culmination of a long process. And despite the claims of some on the right that Mr. Bush betrayed conservatism, the truth is that he faithfully carried out both his party’s divisive tactics — long before Sarah Palin, Mr. Bush declared that he visited his ranch to “stay in touch with real Americans” — and its governing philosophy.
That’s why the soon-to-be-gone administration’s failure is bigger than Mr. Bush himself: it represents the end of the line for a political strategy that dominated the scene for more than a generation.
The reality of this strategy’s collapse has not, I believe, fully sunk in with some observers. Thus, some commentators warning President-elect Barack Obama against bold action have held up Bill Clinton’s political failures in his first two years as a cautionary tale.
But America in 1993 was a very different country — not just a country that had yet to see what happens when conservatives control all three branches of government, but also a country in which Democratic control of Congress depended on the votes of Southern conservatives. Today, Republicans have taken away almost all those Southern votes — and lost the rest of the country. It was a grand ride for a while, but in the end the Southern strategy led the G.O.P. into a cul-de-sac.
Mr. Obama therefore has room to be bold. If Republicans try a 1993-style strategy of attacking him for promoting big government, they’ll learn two things: not only has the financial crisis discredited their economic theories, the racial subtext of anti-government rhetoric doesn’t play the way it used to.
Will the Republicans eventually stage a comeback? Yes, of course. But barring some huge missteps by Mr. Obama, that will not happen until they stop whining and look at what really went wrong. And when they do, they will discover that they need to get in touch with the real “real America,” a country that is more diverse, more tolerant, and more demanding of effective government than is dreamt of in their political philosophy.
(Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics.)
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