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How can we make BP pay for the damged it has caused, when the damage it has caused is beyond monetary value?
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THOM:
P-R-E-Y not p-r-a-y . . .
@Maxrot We found out that Mrs. Wilson was ther one with the balls.
Obama wants us to pray, so here's my prayer:
Oh lord please deliver our country from inadequate leadership. Please send us someone who will shepherd your flock in good faith, instead of someone who desires to be the lead lemming.
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Enough with the prayer we need action now.. Get rid of Rahm get rid of Rahm... This speech had his hand all over it.
@rladlof, get out of my mind, I was just thinking about the Wilson - Obama similarities yesterday. Both were too damned Professorial for our country's own good. So convinced that they knew better than everyone else.
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I would settle for President Obama to even show the limp backbone that the namby-pamby Woodrow Wilson showed.
Oh yeah, FDR did have Japanese interment camps... hmmm well I might be ok with Corporate Executive interment camps. Not bad, thank you caller for mentioning it.
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@harry ashburn: New bubbly math says that 1000 * 0 = 2000
re: Green Party and getting involved: Here's a call to action for anyone who can get to local beaches on June 26 at 12:00pm (local time). (Made aware of this by both my fellow Greens and Change.org).
http://environment.change.org/blog/view/join_hands_at_the_beach_in_a_nat...
I hereby invite all bloggers here to join in this demostration.
Thank you,
Nels
re: #5 and #10: 1000x 0 is still 0.
GWB Flashback
Really sad speech. At a time when the country needs serious leadership we got a cross between Pat Robertson and Gerald Ford. Mediocrity at its finest. Maybe he should take action and fire Rotten Rahm or prepare his LBJ speech and say he is not seeking re-election for 2012.
@mstaggerlee:
Obama is acting like a ship with propellers pointed in all directions, powered by engines that run on money. If he would consider the people of the United States and their needs, he could be successful.
Wanting to be in power should disqualify anybody who wants the office.
Thom,
Amazing how many of your listerners & bloggers have been deeply disappointed by that speech, including myself.
I like Obama a great deal and I certainly respect his intelligence & maturity, but ...
He just doesn't know he's in a knife fight or he doesn't know how to fight in the back alley (which is absolutely all of what politics comes down to); he just doesn't get it: he's President of the United States for crying out loud! He needs to grow a pair. Can you imagine Johnson or Kennedy or Nixon or Reagan or either Bush treading so lightly. Only Jimmy Carter comes to mind. Another terrific human being, but also no president.
Re: Ann Coulter "and God said so"
No, Ann, a middle eastern tribal people said so aprox 6000 years ago
@Maxrot : Kennedy and Johnson were also forceful and effective in many ways. The point I focus on is that Obama will not succeed by trying to please everybody, especially the 8th graders (Boehner, et al).
@Gene, re: #11 -
In other words ... "Forget about a 2nd term!"
Maybe not such a bad idea - we haven't had an incumbent decide against a re-election campaign since LBJ in '68, and I believe he did some of his most important work while Hubert Humphrey campaigned.
Of course, that also gave us Nixon ... the Lawd giveth with the left hand, and taketh away with the right!
Support Obama?!? WTF is he doing to support?
Thom I started showing up at my local Green Party meeting, because of you... Thank you and you're welcome.
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@rladlof, AGREED, INDEED!!!
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Note that for health and life, the King is prayed for more than anyone else, but it appears that he isn't any healtier than anyone else.
@Gene, I don't think Truman was the last President with balls, just the last Democratic one with a set. The Republican't Presidents have more than enough nuts to do whatever they want.
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My father used to say, "Truman was the last president with balls." Unfortunately, after his veto of Taft-Hartley was overridden, Truman used the power that he had railed against as an "attempt to bring back slavery."
I don't know what Obama could to other than forget who owns the politicians and act like every day is his last day. Sing as if nobody was listening and dance as if nobody was watching.
@MAXROT:
Being 1000 times better than Baby Bush and McInsane and yada-yada is NOT a ringing endorsement . . . AND President Obama is to the right of Willy Clinton.
YAY Thom! Love the passionate tough talk today!
ENOUGH of placating the Repubs!
President Obama could learn something from you! He's repeating the same mistakes that Al Gore made.