I will still appear to be a reasonable person when I agree with you, I think, and will appear unreasonable to you when I do not. But I think reasonable people are able to read the handwriting on the wall when an administration forges full steam ahead with policy and initiatives that most reasonable people see as folly and that most of the American people don't want or disapprove of. Reasonable people can see that any who even question, much less oppose, the current policy and initiatives are targeted in most unpleasant ways by this administration. There's you first clue Sherlock. Show me any prominent or high ranking person in the Obama administration who are openly pro-American, unashamedly patriotic, and who applaud their country at every opportunity. I think you might have difficulty in identifying even one. And the clues keep piling up.
So now all members of his adminisration should come out daily and do a patriotic pep rally or something? I would ask YOU to prove to me when and where any of them, including Obama, have shown that they are UNAmerican. The fact that he has tried to mend fences abroad is seen as a
good thing, to all but the most rabid anti-Obama/pro-Bush people.
As for the policies dealing with the economy, there is no doubt that the fixes put in place at the top were necessary. Could more have been done at the lower level to save more jobs? If so, how would YOU have accomplished that?
I was responding to your diatribe, which was one part conjecture and three parts rant over your conjecture. Stuff like that means nothing when you offer no examples of what you're talking about.
I can assure you that many people who see this administration as unAmerican are not rabid anti-Obama/pro Bush people at all, much less the most so.
For evidence, I show you (again) a healthcare bill being pushed by this administration that will further damage our economy while delivering almost none of the 'fixes' they promise and they have to know that. I show you a cap and trade bill that will be extremely damaging to the US economy and private industry and commerce while enormously benefitting others elsewhere. There is no way to sell that as pro-American.
The CBO analysis estimates that the legislation will cost the richest U.S. households $245 a year, and the poorest will see gains of $40 a year. Hardly an economic disaster.
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/06/23/cbo-cap-and-trade-to-cost-175-per-household/
However, I don't like cap and trade for a different reason: I see a program ripe for all kinds of loopholes that manufacturers responsible for spewing their garbage into the air will use and it would be ripe for fraud. However, I seriously doubt an energy package is going to pass with cap and trade in it, so that's one less thing to keep you awake nights.
I show you a President who has been apologizing for America to every foreign entity he has addressed and accepting responsibility for everything short of hangnails.
That is such an over-generalization constantly made by the right. There are many things the United States has done over the past 60 years that SHOULD be the subject of an apology. Whenever Obama did say anything about the US taking responsibility for some of its own actions, he never ever did it in the form of a groveling apology, and to imply that is a giant lie. Go back and read his speeches, like the one in Germany which started all this wildeyed exaggeration, and you'll see that I'm correct.
I will show you an administration stacked with czars and others who have been anti-American and/or anti-American values in their rhetoric and/or writings for all or most of their public lives and who are operating outside of Congress or anybody's rules other than Obama's and his handlers.
Again, a grand exaggeration. How many "czars" have used anti-American rhetoric? Two? And the term "czar" is hardly new. In fact it goes back to Richard Nixon, and was a term developed by the media. So that spitball is something else that is benign in reality, yet promoted by the right as something evil that only the Obama administration does. "Czars" are nothing more than third-fourth-fifth tier assistants or aides with a fancy title.
We have seen unprecedented takeovers of financial institutions, the auto industry, and soon the U.S. healthcare system. We are seeing dissent stifled or threatened in quite unAmerican ways.
The Obama Administration did not 'TAKE OVER' the financial institutions, nor the auto industry. The actions taken assured that both of those entities would be able to remain operational within the free market system.
I would have created more jobs by lowering taxes, cutting spending, and initiating regulation and policy that would encourage and help the private sector to heal itself.
[Pardon me Boooooooooooooooshies--->] That is precisely what the Bush Administration did, and how'd that work out? The recession BEGAN in 2007, not January 2009, and it came about by tax cuts that NEVER 'trickled down' and further reduced an already depleted Treasury because of revenue lost; existing regulation of financial institutions were ignored which allowed the derivatives game; two wars were being fought and expected to continue for God knows how long; along with all the other expenses of running a government which obviously can't be turned off like tap water.
I believe had the administration done that, we would be out of the recession by now or well on our way out of it. They knew that too. And they have all but admitted they have no intention of making anything significantly better before the election year and then will use the rest of the stimulus money to make the job situation look better and ensure they will retain power.
When did anyone say that? The last I heard, the administration was considering using most of the balance of the stimulus funds for more transportation projects which seems to be where the best job opportunities are.
That tells me they don't give a damn about the people but are looking only to their own power and fortunes. And to me, that is unAmerican.
In the future, please spare me from your brilliant analysis.
