How can it be that people like CNN’s Glenn Beck and Fox brainwave Sean Hannity can land high paying spots on cable television? It obviously not because they are scholars. These professional 8th graders may have a grasp on something, but it’s sure not high level thinking. Aren’t they embarrassed? I’ll bet their mothers are. Obama a socialist? WTF?? Fascist?? WTF?? Have they bothered to look up the definition of these words?
Fascist: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control <early instances of army fascism and brutality (from Merriam Webster).
Socialism: 1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done (from Merriam Webster).
The very notion that Obama is a fascist or a socialist is barking mad. If anybody was a fascist, it was Dick Cheney and his band of goons. Nobody has the political power to convert this nation of unruly curs into a socialist country. The notion that anybody, even the most irate left wingers, could undo centuries of private property ownership in favor of socialist wetdreams is absurd on its face. The 20th century’s big socialism experiment failed. Who wants to try that again. Obama is no socialist.
I’m sure these curs and mental halflings on cable clearly understand that they are spouting nonsense. It is all a put-on to get America’s legions of low information voters (LIV) out of the pews and into the community centers for some old fashioned swift-boating. Republicans know that if you hurl enough shit, some of it is bound to stick to something and the LIV’s will pick up on it.
What lit my fire this day? See the HuffPo article.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
Hah! Who are you Mr. know it all!
Fortune and fame is a curious game. Where’s your Wiki entry? Joe the Plumber is now chronicled by an entry larger than most historical figures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber
(out of character)- I wonder how historians will chronicle this crap 200 years from now. 🙂
I’m certainly not in the middle of the bell curve. I’ll let others decide which end of which curve I’m on.
It is hard to say how these times will be summarized. I have always admired the Federation of Planets model devised by Gene Roddenberry. That is the world I want to live in.
Uncle Al is a Fascist Libertarian: minimum government, then good and hard. There is nothing so expensive as that which government gives to you for free. Charity is begged not demanded – and certainly not State-mandated. In the whole history of the world, the only effective social engineering was lubricated with blood; as were ineffective versions. There is no administration so onerous as one that will award you freedom… tomorrow. The worst known tyranny is a Housing Association – for your own good. Support evolution; shoot back.
Obama is a lawyer. He is perfectly unskilled in mathematics and the hard sciences. Pray that he knows something practical about lying, cheating, and swindling; greed, corruption, and reprisal, so that he might communicate with Congress.
Pff! You just have authority issues like the rest of us. Libertarianism indeed.
Well, I never looked up your name on wiki, but you got a good place in my heart.
What I do not understand (help, anybody?) is what happened to the moderate and to the progressive republicans?
It is like what we call Republicans nowadays is a bunch of idiot extremists. Where are the real Republicans???? Where is the reasonable respectable opposition?
Anybody?
I think there may be a whole nest of ’em in Florida living at a retirement home- Del Boca Vista.
Those guys and gals are on TV because they say outlandish things. You don’t ever stand a chance getting such a job because you are way too rational and much too concerned with long-term self-consistency. (“Long-term” in this case meaning any time period exceeding the current news cycle – roughly 8 hours.)
It’s entertainment merely disguised as “news” and “analysis”. That’s why it’s called the Sean Hannity “SHOW”.