Narz
keeping it real
Even the "liberal media" (MSNBC) is getting tired of him.
http://firedoglake.com/2010/06/15/l...ents-remarks-on-the-bp-oil-disaster/#comments
Some remarks from a liberal blog site :
What should the left do? Who should they try to get voted in in 2012. Or should they just stick with Obama, hoping the Republican candidates are once again so bad that people will choose the lesser of two evils?
He mentioned peak oil finally but without any plan whatsoever to solve/mitigate it (an American politican will never, ever use the word mitigation anyway for any problem of global scale because that implies that certain problems cannot be fully solved which would shatter the American Disneyland hope n' change n' prayer worldview). Nothing much appears to be happening in regards to climate change. The government's census hiring made a small dent in the unemployment situation but obviously it's not a long-term solution.
Does anyone in the US (or abroad) still have faith in a two-party system & in national politics in general? Is the sweeping change necessary even possible?
I can understand why people just say "f-it" & flip the channel to some mindless & soothing sitcom. I can see why people gravitate to extreme candidates & worldviews like Libertarianism & Communism. I guess many people have been seeing politicians lie & fail to solve global problems for decades now (I only started really paying attention maybe eight years ago) & it seems like it's just something you have to accept. But that strikes me as a very depressing way to think/respond. Or people see it as bad but as acceptably bad not unacceptably bad. It could be worse. We could be in OMG Somalia! We've been fairly safe (from immediate killers like war, pestilence, etc.) for many decades & it's easy to just /shrug® & accept it as the price of a cushy life. But goddamn it sure doesn't feel good.
Any ideas?
http://firedoglake.com/2010/06/15/l...ents-remarks-on-the-bp-oil-disaster/#comments
Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said:
Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."
Matthews compared Obama to Carter.
Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said."
Matthews: "No direction."
Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."
Olbermann: "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."
Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief."
Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."
Matthews: "A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk."
Matthews: "I don't sense executive command."
Some remarks from a liberal blog site :
I feel as though I am listening to a child.
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he keeps talking about the “spill” as if it’s in the past tense. gah. unbelievable.
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He’s campaigning again, but after governing for a while, I don’t think anybody’s buying what he’s selling.
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I wanted to hear a plan. “This is what we’re going to do…..by this time next year….within 5 years….by the time I leave office….”
Instead, I heard nothing.
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Empty words….empty speech…..the man is empty all the way through
I am so tired of the feigned concerned and crocodile tears out of Washington, D.C. as the U.S. crumbles in more ways than one.
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Obama won’t stand for inaction. Except his own. No specifics, no calls to action, no consequences for anyone involved. I campaigned for him. I contributed money. I voted for him. His election was, I thought, a thorough repudiation of the previous eight years. And now this. He’s a disaster.
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So his answer is to pray.
What should the left do? Who should they try to get voted in in 2012. Or should they just stick with Obama, hoping the Republican candidates are once again so bad that people will choose the lesser of two evils?
He mentioned peak oil finally but without any plan whatsoever to solve/mitigate it (an American politican will never, ever use the word mitigation anyway for any problem of global scale because that implies that certain problems cannot be fully solved which would shatter the American Disneyland hope n' change n' prayer worldview). Nothing much appears to be happening in regards to climate change. The government's census hiring made a small dent in the unemployment situation but obviously it's not a long-term solution.
Does anyone in the US (or abroad) still have faith in a two-party system & in national politics in general? Is the sweeping change necessary even possible?
I can understand why people just say "f-it" & flip the channel to some mindless & soothing sitcom. I can see why people gravitate to extreme candidates & worldviews like Libertarianism & Communism. I guess many people have been seeing politicians lie & fail to solve global problems for decades now (I only started really paying attention maybe eight years ago) & it seems like it's just something you have to accept. But that strikes me as a very depressing way to think/respond. Or people see it as bad but as acceptably bad not unacceptably bad. It could be worse. We could be in OMG Somalia! We've been fairly safe (from immediate killers like war, pestilence, etc.) for many decades & it's easy to just /shrug® & accept it as the price of a cushy life. But goddamn it sure doesn't feel good.
Any ideas?