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This is President Elected Barack Hussein Obama "The saviour" as many of us saw him in January of 2009. Are you curious as to how we're going to see him in 2010? Stay tuned... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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IS IT YOSEMITE SAM, or is it SANTA CLAUS? You decide. ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOURS... HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
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But what does it mean? From time to time I have asked my conservative friends, especially when they start to make disgruntled noises (moaning), to qualify (quantify) what does being a conservative mean? What is it? Like, in concrete terms what is it? I get the standard answer: less government, less taxes, right to bear arms, etc and that’s about it, nothing specific, applicable or tangible…
Well, after this whole healthcare debacle I finally got it. I was looking for symptoms and issues rather than looking at the core (the affliction), and now it all make sense. Given my “liberally mavericky” ways of daring to have a social conscience I’ve dared to have an expectation of at least basic fairness and common practical sense (never mind social justice) in healthcare reform and of course it was a disappointment. I was sitting there thinking, 'how can things be this way?' Is there any social conscience of any kind? Is it just about money and power… me and screw you?
It kind of works this way - imagine the Wild West, two cowboys traveling in the desert, a rattlesnake bites one of the cowboy's horse and (through no fault of his own) the horse tosses him over and he breaks his neck. Both are sitting there (horse and the cowboy) in pain, unable to do anything and asking for help. So this is the deal, the other guy friend, if he’s a conservative, will simply say, “tough luck, it could have happened to me… but it didn’t.” If he’s a “compassionate conservative” he will shoot the horse (to put it out its misery) but most likely take all his friend’s stuff get on his way and leave his friend to die (and if he's very very compassionate shoot his friend as well). Basically (and I’m serious) the moment you get sick and ask for help at that moment –no matter how responsible or how much of a contributor to society you have been- you’re not an American anymore. You are not a good American, you’re unpatriotic, and you do not love your country (I'm serious still). If you simply try to “think ahead” and make it equitable, compassionate or even just practical and civilized then you’re a socialist and that's it, nothing in between (and that’s what they are saying, at the top of their lungs). I thought that they were crazy but they are not, they are just cowboys, they want to live –and die- in the Wild West. It’s simple, if you have a social conscience you’re a social-ist, if you have no conscience then you’re a conservative.
The avarice never ends! "I want golf clubs. I want diamonds. I want a pony so I can ride it twice, get bored and sell it to make glue."
Why is it that I can so easily see a scene from the godfather (or any other mobster movie) where the wise guys meet with the “elected official” and work out a deal?
Okay "lover boy" (Lieberman means lover man in German), you do this for us, and we will make it all worthwhile for you, your family and every Lieberman generation there after. We know that you’ll piss “the people” off; and that you will never get reelected no matter how much money we through into your campaign (this time) but not to worry we'll take good care of you afterwards. Heck just with the extra money we’re going to make it’s no bother... So what do you say? Oh, and we’ll through in a guarantied life-long health insurance policy... Free of charge of course. No bother there either the taxpayers are going to be paying for it anyway. Hmm, so what do you think he’s going to do?
Like, let me see, Lieberman is from Connecticut, the health insurance industry capital of the world, and he is sitting at the epicenter of the biggest gain or loss that the health insurance industry has ever seen; a jackpot of thermonuclear proportions...hmm, let me think? Furthermore he’s not a democrat but rather a well know hypocrite (the other big party in Washington); and is not like he has not been telegraphing his punches; “HELLO!!” He ran against his own party ticket for God's sake!!
So what did we expect? The one “political flaw” that may be beginning to emerge with Obama is that he may be too politically naive because -unlike president Clinton- he expects for people (politicians) to have a conscience and to do the right think; and of course they don’t. Clinton was a better politician perhaps in the regard that he expected for politicians to do the wrong thing; and they did. Not sure if it is time to leave our collective consciences at home (hard call), but maybe we need to stop being naive and play hardball (while we can).
What's that stench? It's fantastic. It’s green eggs and ham… I guess. Now don’t get sick.
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