O’Bama Revisited (January 17, 2011)
. . .
F “Cold day on the Mall two years ago. Can’t say that things will be much warmer this week.”
G “It’s still cold and is getting colder. The day will live in infamy. Neville Chamberlin O’Bama.”
F “Not going to throw in Hussein for good measure.”
G “That’s silly. His first name was Arthur. He gets a C-.”
F “Arthur?”
G “Neville C. O’Bama. After the tax sell-out, I called the White House and the delegation and told them that I have had it. I unsubscribed from seven political e-mail lists. My contributions are too miniscule to matter, yet I told them that I am not making any more contributions. No bumper stickers, no canvassing, no money, no more.”
F “No one subscribes to my political views, so I can’t even unsubscribe from e-mail lists. We confronted a Hobson’s choice in 2008. O’Bama was and is a centrist. He’s the better we could do.”
G “He hasn’t challenged the massive continuing transfer of wealth to a small elite who do not contribute to the economy. It is almost as if he got into office and discovered that there are certain unwritten overriding rules that cannot be undermined or even challenged by anyone in the office. The cabal of trolls in the basement of the White House call the shots.”
F “He hasn’t. And you may be right. The economic fundamentals are worse than they were in September, 2008. The poison is still flowing in the financial system. The banksters know that they will be bailed out by both the Republicans and the Democrats and will never need to make bail for their crimes. The recent bailouts have been detailed and delegated to the Fed.”
G “When is someone going to realize that the aggregation of wealth in the hands of a very small group is actually an impediment to economic growth?”
F “When the Nobel Prize Committee signals that it will give a Nobel in Economics for the conclusion.”
G “The expenditures employ yacht builders and polo saddle makers, but not ordinary unemployed butchers, bakers and brick makers.”
F “Yacht builders and polo saddle makers need jobs. Politics is about compromise. Compromise is not pretty.”
G “Compromise is different than capitulation. He has capitulated. Someone said that the country may need a war to pull us out of the economic depression. He and we have two of them going that have not done much positive.”
F “Is the third war a charm.”
G “Just watch. America can be broken.”
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[President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his “Military-Industrial Complex” farewell speech/warning 50 years ago about the “unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex.”]
[MLK Day]
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Hope (I hope, hopefully)
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