I was amazed Obama carried PA in the last election. PA is not progressive or liberal territory by any means. Especially not now after Obama portrayed PA people are Bible thumping, gun toting rubes. Thats the way to go Bamy, insult the people who voted for you, what a genius! PA will go back to red again, not because they love Santorum or whoever, but because they despise Obama. The Democrats are doing what the Republicans did that almost destroyed them, support a bad candidate. They only voted for Obama because they were disgusted with Bush policies, then surprise, surprise Obama also supports Bush policies! While progressives act like children, dissing Republicans Congress and the President have just signed into law yet another violation of the Bill of Rights, a law making protesting a crime with prison time attached. But hey what’s really important is to continue obsessing about how evil Republicans are. Obama detests democracy as much or more than most Republicans. He’s not your friend.

Actually Ron Paul might beat Obama according to current polls, or Mitt or Santroum. See it’s about people feeling rage against Obama, not the qualities of the Republican candidates. They are not him. That is the key point. They will have a Romney/Santorum ticket and they will win the same way Bush won by carrying all the red and purple states. It is a vote against Obama not for them. And progressives are behaving the way they always do bickering about Republican candidates eternally, oh look how bad they are, instead of pushing for another Democratic candidate. Believe me Obama’s re-election will not make progressives happy. He just signed into law another Bill of Rights violation as law, now it’s prison time for protesting. Why isn’t that the major topic here? Forget the sold out candidates from either side, while partisan bickering takes the headlines, they are making us slaves and creating the Fourth Reich, led by Obama, who clearly thinks democracy is a problem not an opportunity.

Excellent, thank you. I assume you understand that what he is saying applies to all, not just conservatives. What is really frustrating to me is the self-righteousness of progressives. We know conservative utopians are in need of serious psychiatric care, but the blindness of utopian progressives who do not see that they suffer from the same delusionary illness amazes me. So convinced of the absolute rightness of their beliefs, they can’t imagine they might be part of the problem.

Well said. Who gets to decide what is God’s plan after all, or any other absolutes about the human condition. That is the problem. Humility is what I wish more Americans would learn to practice. More learning, less arrogant conviction. The more you learn the more you realize that you don’t know much, as one of my favorite teachers said.

Agreed. I would like progressives to appreciate that they also want to force their brand of social engineering on everyone. And since they now accept Obama’s NDA and refusal to rescind the Patriot Act as much as conservatives do, as well as the myth of ‘humanitarian’ wars, where is the difference? Both want a totalitarian society that restricts the other guy’s freedom. And pushes social agendas. This is the reason I can’t fully endorse progressivism anymore. Nor can I fully endorse conservatism. I think ‘isms’ in general are a problem. Because they reflect a utopian philosophy that says the world as it is isn’t good enough, it must be perfect. They sound crazy because they are crazy, demanding everyone conform to some idealistic worldview that is impossible to attain. Since it’s impossible they must adopt increasingly draconian methods to attain these ideal ends. They must force the unenlightened into conformity or else. Utopian thinking made into politics and law is the source of all evil on this planet. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, all utopians, all nuts.

Whatever their motives, someone needs to stop the Fourth Reich, otherwise known as the USA, from it’s ceaseless military aggression. So Syria has a murderous dictator some in that country are fighting to eject. It’s their business, not ours. Once again the Israel lobby pushes our country to the brink of extinction by insisting on insane militaristic policies in the MidEast. As we rage against Iran about acquiring one nuclear weapon, when Israel has 300+, in violation of nuclear nonproliferation treaties, refuses inspection, etc. We are starting the Cold War again with our ceaseless aggression along Russia’s southern borders. Missiles in Poland. Pointing at Russia. We are starting WWIII with Iran. Does our insane government actually think other countries will allow us to do that without deciding we are the greater menace. Yes, I’m afraid so.

I believe it’s also Obama who is working hard to deny important screening tests to people on Medicare. “Needless’ testing is one of the things he is determined to cut , and one of those ‘needless’ tests is breast cancer screening, along with prostate cancer screening and other important test seniors and the poor can’t afford on their own. All so he can cut more billions from Medicare and Medicaid in an effort to show he’s as vicious and uncaring as Republicans. So go ahead with your fantasy that it’s all the republicans’ fault, re-elect Obama and watch him go to town cutting vital medical services to the elderly and poor. It’s a cornerstone of Obamacare to do this. “Needless” testing and treatment decided by government bureaucrats instead of you and your doctor. Next it will be everyone.

And Obama achieves his final sellout of the American people , forcing a settlement that gets the banks off scott free and a piddling amount of fines. Liberal commentators have their heads in a dark place as usual hoping Obama will be our savior. Despite all evidence to the contrary. My guess is the ‘enforcement’ will be managed by someone like Geithner or some other bank stooge. That is Obama’s MO. Put the foxes in charge of protecting the henhouse.

It’s really about the end of our empire, collapsing under the weight of terrible decisions by inept people and the rise of China who is beating the West like a mule forming the new empire that will dominate after we implode. Our ruling class is very deluded and not very bright, never having taken the trouble to understand the world outside the USA. They either can’t or won’t see that the West is in decline and that our game is over, we are broke, devaluing our currency as a way to make pretend we are still a viable economy. The ruling class seems to think it’s still the 1950′s, and that every war we fight will end like WWII with a victory, but times have changed. What is likely is that these deluded fools will start WWIII with mindless aggression in the Middle East that will blossom into an alliance by other countries against the USA and a major ass whipping by the Iranian people, where every housewife knows how to use an AK47 and can’t wait to use it on us. As we go completely bankrupt and can’t recover economically. They are taking us down to ruin. Yeeha!

Well it just shows you how mentally defective our government is. And the many citizens in this country who still think that we are fulfilling a mission from God to civilize the world’s savages (any brown or yellow people) and perform a ‘humanitarian’ mission by doing this. Many more than you might wish still view perpetual war as a good thing, like a game. In fact our economy having collapsed some time ago, war is probably our major industry now, so the government can’t figure out how to back out of it, even if they wanted to, because they figure it would cause massive unemployment and revolution by those in the military who would not be able to find jobs if we quit being the Fourth Reich and minded our own business. Things really don’t change. There was the British Empire, then the American Empire and I guess when we have finally destroyed ourselves, the Chinese Empire. Freedom and democracy may linger on as a resistance. If there were world wide overthrow of despotic governments, what would follow? The historical record is not good when it comes to the new boss becoming the same as the old boss.

Just wait until we see what war with Iran will cost us. That’s all the drawdown in Afghanistan is about, getting ready to take on Iran. The militarism of this country will be our undoing. Already is. The wars with Iraq and Afghanistan have bankrupted the USA. Now our mentally defective government will take away Medicare, Social Security, heath care, our homes, our life savings to fund more war until they achieve the Gotterdamerung they seem determined to accomplish.

I love it because I am planning a write in candidate named “None of the Above”. But I do see a number of third parties evolving, so perhaps I can pick one of those candidates to vote for.

Oh I think that’s already happened, Israel demanding that we nuke Iran. But Obama had to find a czar, set up a committee to study the problem and they can’t decide what to do. Meanwhile Obama goes on TV, tells Israel to go back to it’s 1967 borders and negotiate with the Palestinians like he does so successfully with the republicans, you know offer the farm and then beg for some chickens back. And Netty tells him to blow it out his ass. Wow, what leadership skills. Then later, Obama is all for Israel. You can see how much trouble this committee is having trying to figure out what the pres wants them to do. Ineptitude does have it’s value, while they dither we avoid WWIII, for a while anyway.