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Harvey Milk Day :Laughable

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 8:16 am  
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When there is the debate of health-care, the Californian terrible debt, Californian fires that caused many misplaces, Van Jones quitting, Afghanistan, what to the Democrats in California want? They want to honor Harvey Milk with a Harvey Milk Day..

Are you kidding me? This is why Democrats are not going to win elections. They suck at politics! Who cares about having a Harvey Milk Day now? Who does? If I were gay, I would rather have a job and health-care rather than having a Harvey Milk day!

Look, it is not that I do not like gay people. I think that they should have the right to get married; I definitely think that they should have the right to serve in the armed forces; when it comes to adoption, I think that it should be a case by case basis like everybody else. I am not a gay basher at all.

But I just do not see what is the big deal about having a day to celebrate a gay San Fransisco supervisor. Did he fight for gay rights? Was he a Martin Luther King of the gay community. Come on! He was just a supervisor that was gay. That is it.

Why are the Democrats going for this now? It just stuns me. If they had a Democratic governor, at least we can make the judgment that they are trying to divert their problems away. But they are doing it now at a time when the Republican Governor has lots on his plate and already vetoed this once already!

I think that the Democrats should be punished in some manner for wasting people’s time with such a ridiculous request. What are they doing for California? They should be coming up with proposals and solutions. Not horse-crap like this.

My goodness! When is America going to wake up? When are we going to go past the partisan battles and come to our senses on what is going on? I think that the Democrats and Republicans should have their heads knocked against each other for all this mess.

I really am glad that I am an Independent thanks to stories like these!

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Obama AFL CIO speech : A Waste

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 9:24 am  
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He came up firing with his rhetoric. He played defense on the economy and counter attacked the right wing critics on health-care. Yet, on the same day, the Senate came out saying that the public option would be removed from the bill. So is this just an attempt to cajole the left wing? I say yes.

Unions have always been a base for the Democrats. They are by far the most loyal Democrats there can be out there. From the moment we know President Obama, you always knew that he was a big union guy. Yesterday (September 7th), he turned to them, to what I feel is going to be his make or break week of his first term Presidency.

The crowd was friendly and they were having a picnic. He delivered a fiery speech. However, I felt that bar a few punches here and there, this speech lacked a lot of substance and had a lot of just rhetoric. I am comparing this to the speech President Obama made in Cairo or the famous “VP Cheney vs President Obama” torture “debate”. This speech was no where near those standards. In fact the President showed nerves in the beginning.

While his stories are good to listen to for the fun of it, I am not bothered how an old lady got him “fired up” and “ready to go.” Neither am I bothered about what the Unions and union leaders did for America. Those kinds of feel-good messages dominated this speech.

The 2 points that really shone would be the President talking about the stimulus package and his challenge to the Republicans when it comes to health care. On the stimulus package he mentions that his recovery plan is working. I bet you a million bucks that this would be coming up in the GOP ads in the future.

In my opinion, the wheels of the economy are turning, but not at a pace that is going down well with the American people. To be fair though, President Obama is looking at it from a right angle: manufacturing. That is the key long term goal that would pop America up again. Is he doing well enough? Let me put it this way, with all the depressing lack of spine from the Democrats, President Obama’s biggest chance of winning the next election is to ensure that the unemployment figure never does beyond 10% and and would be around 6% in 2012.

His counter attack on the Republicans on health care is a rather interesting one. To some it up the President asked the Republicans : “What are you gonna do? What’s your answer? What’s your solution? And you know what? They (Republicans) don’t have one! Their answer is to do nothing.” That is a sharp line that could back fire on the President if he does not play it well.

However, there was nothing where he stressed that the Public option would stay. There was nothing where he gave a substantive arguments. Nothing. Should the President want to get any kind of health reform on Wednesday, he better be getting a better speech that this.

I do not think that his goal of quieting down the wing nuts of his party is also met, yet. The firing of Van Jones, which I as an Independent is also furious about, and the Senate’s move to take the public option out is going to make them mad more than this speech can make them happy.

In all I think that this was basically a waste of time, just like his speech to the school kids. Nice to hear, but it is not going to make an impact on anybody or anything.

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Shame on Obama!

Sunday, September 6th, 2009 at 5:54 pm  
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Minutes of our last post, Van Jones was fired. Perhaps I should not have said that he would not last the month and said that he should not have last the day instead. But this debacle is really a shame to President Obama and a loud wake up call to his followers.

“Get rid of the politics of the old and get things done,” was a message that won a lot of Independents over. Yet, a simple swift-boat attack on the person best qualified for the job and he has fallen right into the Republicans’ trap. This is one of the most disappointed I have been in a President in a long time.

Perhaps, it is that I have personally went and heard talks from Van Jones that I know that he is not a racist or anti-capitalist. Or it maybe the fact that I have studied green technology enough, that this quitting has really made me angry.

However, it is the sheer lack of fight that is in President Obama that has disappointed me. He has lived up to his party’s mantle; the spineless Democrats. There was not even a hint of support coming from the White House over this issue. That has really got to be a disgrace!

It is going to be very difficult to find somebody that is going to be as qualified as Van Jones when it comes to shaping a green economy. And you threw it all away coming from a party where half the base think that global warming is a hoax.

The sad thing is that the President has a lot of good ideas that are going to waste if he does not stand up for it. Liberals wanting a public option can forget about it entirely! You have to wonder what other promises is he going to back down due to Republican opposition.

It is sad that America has a President that is missing something over the last 9 years. Be it the brains and competency in the President Bush (43) administration or the guts in the current one. Neither would have the ability to get anything done.

Letting Van Jones go because of the accusations is like letting Albert Einstein go because he looks idiotic with fuzzy hair, firing Steve Jobs from Apple because he is Buddhist or rejecting Alan Turing into the British army because he was gay! It is that absurd a choice.

I reiterate again, I would rather have Jesse Ventura as a Senator now rather than Norm Coleman or Al Franken despite him being a 9/11 “truther”. When is saying what you feel, bad in America? Hey, what about Governor’s Parry talk of secession? Should he be tried for treason? How far can you play this puck?

This is really a sad day for me. President has lost a lot of respect for not fighting for his nominee. Liberals have yet to learn, Conservatives have yet to change their political game.

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Van Jones vindication by ST

Sunday, September 6th, 2009 at 7:27 am  
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This is going to seem even more Right-Wing bashing and a slap to their face. But I feel that President Obama’s green job “czar” should keep his job. Because at the end of the day, he is the subject matter expert in that field and should stay there. There are many charges laid on him and we would go through them one by one.

The first charge is that he signed a statement asking for investigations into the events that led up to 9/11. I think that he has got no defense to this and he should stop dancing on the facts. At best he should say that “ Yes, I was wrong to sign it;” Rather than beat around the bush and making excuses.

That being said, I think that this alone should not disqualify him for the position. I would never fire a competent writer who thinks that the sky is falling on his head or that the Earth is 6000 years old. In fact, I fully endorse another 9/11 truther, should he want to run for the position of Senator : former Governor Jesse Ventura. I myself, categorize the 9/11 conspiracy theory as nonsense, but that would not stop me from liking Governor Ventura. I would apply the same standards for Van Jones.

The second charge is that he was a communist and is against capitalism. This charge is half true. He was a communist. This is also what he had mentioned before especially after the racial riots in the 90s. However, he did change. He became the father of eco-capitalism. That is a fact that no one can deny.

This is the quote that many people refer too in this charge : “… We want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to eco-capitalism…. No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the system of exploitation and oppression altogether….” What he is saying here is not that he is against he eco-capitalism which was more or less his creation, but he is saying that having a laissez-faire approach to solving environmental problems is not the way and there need to be intervention. Therefore, I dismiss this charge.

The third charge is that he said President Bush acted as is he was on crack and that Republicans are a-holes at separate events. Again, why is this such a controversy? How many Republicans believed that President Clinton was the moral decay and the shame of America? Should they be removed from office for saying that? Since when was speaking your mind a crime in America? In fact, on the a-hole statement I think that he was right. He called himself one too. Though, I would replace the words a-hole with aggressive and “Democrats are not” with “Democrats are spineless.”

The fourth and most confrontational charge is that Van Jones is a race baiter and a racist. This is based on a speech he gave where he said that “polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities because they don’t have a racial justice frame.”

Wrong choice of words but essentially, the meaning resonates sense. Nearly all environmental activists are white. By going into Black communities and arguing being aggressive with them, you would get people going against you. That was the gist of the interview and the message that he is saying. He is not racist by any means at all. If this is the standard of racism that he is going by, then Glenn Beck should be fired by FOX a long time ago!

I am very disappointed that Van Jones would be all but gone within this month. He is clearly the man for the job. He is to environment capitalism as was what Einstein was to the nuclear bomb. Without him, it would just not have happened. I think that the Right has won again and the Left’s lack of guts disgust me.

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