Meet the new boss...same as the old boss
That old song written by Pete Townsend is a cliche now, but like so many cliches, it continues to be relevant.
Obama has re-appointed Bernanke to a second term as head of the Federal Reserve Board. This is so disgusting that I can't even describe how angry I am at this moment.
Obama proves once again, as he has with his folded tent approach to health insurance reform, that he is simply Bill Clinton with a better marriage. Bernanke was the presiding overseer of the most massive giveaway of public funds for private financiers in the past two centuries. Heck, Ronald Wilson Reagan (Mr. 666) would have applauded Obama's supply-side economics applied to a direct bailout of the wealthiest economic elite. Just as Reagan (and Bush II) gave money to the most wealthy people with the promise they'd invest in American industry and businesses--which they didn't--Obama gave a trillion dollars to bankers and financiers with the promise that they'd lend the money to small businesses and even other large businesses--which they didn't, again. The only direct bailout was Cash for Clunkers, and that worked in saving car dealerships and car companies at least for now...
And as for those moronic nutjobs who continue to think Obama is some Commie-Kenyan-Muslim, let me say in my anger and despair that if you really want to do something good for our country, take those guns you bring to the health insurance forums and blow your own god-damned brains out--and save our nation from degenerating into a complete state of stupid.
Obama is what I saw in him almost three years ago: A smart banker, at least compared to McCain, Bush and the rest of the Republican leaders, who are stupid bankers.*
* I actually had some hope last fall that Obama the smart banker would find his inner FDR. He hasn't. He just found his inner Clinton.
posted by Mitchell J. Freedman @ 10:20 PM
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Obama's first priority right now is not health care, but getting the US out of Iraq & Afghanistan. If he can do that - single payer will be a breeze. I hope the Lincoln comparisons hold up - that even in a time of crisis he is thinking 3 steps ahead.
Mitch as usual you are full of it. but i miss your ass. Yes Paul Simon is ridiculously underrated. You missed Hazy shade of winter, in pointing out his magnificent opus. However, you also failed to mention that Simon ended up in a creative wasteland writing songs like 50 ways to leave your lover. You also loose credibility by over playing your anti Dylan argument. More balance is in order. However, i will take Paul simon, in the early years over Dylan. I frankly don't know how he could write with the wisdom of someone three times his age at the time.
Coop
Coop man, I miss you too, and it is nice to hear from you!
I am overplaying the Dylan argument as my attack is on the Dylan Cult. They needed to be hit with the rhetorical version of a 2 X 4.
I definitely left out lots from the Simon opus. And you are spot on about the silly era of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. Simon definitely got caught up in the stupid part of the 1970s music scene. He is only human--but he did make a lot more money than we ever made from that one ridiculous song...:-)
I appreciate that you actually agreed with me on the issue of Dylan v. Simon in the 1960s, though. Again, nice to hear from you!
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