I want to zero in on this because I keep hearing complaints about inflation, especially from Ron Paul supporters. Do you realise that you can’t find a three and a half year period during the previous (Bush) administration with lower inflation than has occurred during the Obama presidency?
And I don’t buy your line that this is why you’re not voting to re-elect Obama. I don’t believe you voted for him in 2008, or that he ever really had a chance to earn your vote. Which is fine, by the way: I voted in my first presidential election in 1988, and I have yet to vote any way but Democratic and can’t imagine that will ever change, even if there’s a Republican president running for reelection in a booming economy or whatever. But just own it, and don’t try to play that disingenuous game, please.
I would actually agree with that, though I will never understand why so many people are so resistant to the idea of being “socialized” that we do have to take those baby steps. If I thought it was politically feasible, I’d be all for going straight to a system like Sweden’s or Norway’s, ASAP, no hesitation whatsoever. But you’re right: too many Americans are ridiculously suspicious of going in that direction, so we have to be careful not to get them riled up. We’ll get there eventually though!
Ha–as Gyrate noted, it’s pretty ironic to accuse him of being “elitist” because his speeches use simpler vocabulary. The guy can’t win with you no matter which way he goes.
Sure, from a journalistic POV, I agree. But getting to the truth about the president should be more important than The Trial of Dan Rather in the Court of Public Opinion or whatever. And that’s what I mean: once conservatives had blood in the water, they managed to get all the focus on those documents. The fact that you never heard about what the secretary said is exactly the point: the GOP got really lucky that Rather and the fake documents became the story, instead of Bush’s Guard service. I mean, I hope you’d agree that if Bush is actually guilty of what he is charged with in those documents, any malfeasance by Rather or CBS doesn’t actually make Bush magically innocent!
Yet I’m the only one I’ve ever met who remembers this important aspect of the story.
Anyway, here’s an article about it: