Tuesday Open Thread
What’s on your minds today?
Here’s something that’s worthy of a longer piece, but is interesting enough to mention in passing here, to see if you have similiar experiences out there wherever you live.
Last night, we went to Sidetrack’s here in Boystown for Showtunes night because our good friend Lionel was feeling up to going out for a little fun. Lionel has been battling prostate cancer and has already had two operations. He’s lost a good 60 pounds and is at the skinniest we have ever seen him. Normally, in Boystown, that’s something people celebrate, but Lionel wasn’t very big to begin with, so needless to say seeing the toll his illness is taking on him is very, very hard. But, we know so many of you out there have been praying for him and we believe that is working. Lionel’s spirit is the same: so vivacious, so positive, so full of sunshine. The disconnect is just with his body, which continues to fail him. But, yet, he soldiers on.
Lionel’s partner is named Todd and he’s a school teacher here in Chicago, in the public school system. If you look up liberal irrational moonbat in the dictionary, chances are you will find a photo of Todd. This is one of those instances in life where we have a friend we love so much he’s family (like Abbey back in Cleveland too), but we don’t especially like whoever they are with (like Abbey’s Byron back in Cleveland too, who at the end of the day we don’t much care for in a mutual feeling sort of way).
Well, Todd was an Obot during the primaries, with the sole reason or voting for him being that Dr. Utopia is black. Lionel’s black too, and Lionel was not only on Team Hillary with us, but he also helped with Democrats for McCain as much as he could before he got sick. There’s a weird dynamic with Todd and Lionel where Todd, who’s from a liberal family and, to us at least, tends to draw attention to his interracial relationship and any involvement he has with the black community (“Oh, last week I attended a reading of the works of Langston Hughes in Bronzeville and even though it is early, I also suggested we begin organizing for our Kwanzaa celebration this year because I intend to make it the best Kwanzaa we’ve ever had”). We’ve seen Todd wear a dashiki and one of those red, green, and black beanie caps if tha completes the picture for you (and Todd is so white every year the first mildly warm sunny day turns him as red as a lobster, once the sun gets its first crack at his paler than a vampire skin).
So, needless to say, between the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democrats for McCain, we have not had much to talk with Todd about in agreement for around two years now. So, we avoid engaging him in anything that’s not Lionel-related, limiting our conversation to what Lionel’s doing, or sometimes how things are going in the school system in Chicago under new superintendent Ron Huberman (another Sidetrack’s regular who never even taught a class, knows nothing about running a school, but was put in charge of the school system because he is “dynamic”, “charismatic”, and multi-racial…sound familiar?).
Well, last night a nother friend of ours was there last night named Panda (don’t ask) who didn’t know Todd knew all of us, so Panda introduced him and then said to Todd, “Oh, these are Hillary guys, but I don’t know if they are Democrats or Republicans anymore because they also helped McCain and they don’t think Obama does a good job. They call him Dr. Unicorn.”
Close. Dr. Utopia, but Panda had the gist of it.
And here’s where the SCHOCKER came in. Honestly, Robby was drinking a pilsner and snarfed it out his nose when Todd said this, it was so shocking.
Todd said, “He hasn’t kept a single one of his G**-damned promises. I supported him from day one, and all he has done is screwed over everyone who believed in him. Not a G**-damned thing for Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell. Not a G**-damn thing for healthcare, and I know he doesn’t give a damn what people like Lionel are going through. All he wants to do is fly around on that damn plane and scare the absolute s*** out of people in New York and then laugh about it like an ass. He should be ashamed of himself. He’s just another slimeball lying politician and he conned me real good.”
Honestly, it was like hearing Oprah say, “No, I would not like another cake”, words we never thought we’d hear spoken by someone we’d never think would ever say them.
Now, we don’t know what sort of drugs Todd was on for the last two years, particularly in regards to LGBTQ issues, because we remind you that Dr. Utopia is the only major Illinois politician who has never marched in a pride parade, let alone done a damn thing for LGBTQ rights. Last pride, we told you that Dr. Utopia refused to march in our June 29th pride parade, despite being in Chicago that day; instead, he played basketball and got his hair cut on the Southside. So, Todd’s a fool for expecting anything more from Dr. Utopia than he has ever shown in the past.
Hillary Clinton wakes up early every day and goes to 15 different events, many of them LGBTQ supportive; she was the FIRST First Lady to march in a pride parade and has marched almost every year since. She’s consistently been there for the LGBTQ community, but on Showtunes Night at Sidetrack, where everyone is having a great time drinking and singing along to the music up on the screens, people don’t think about who has done what for the community and who really deserves our support in return.
Todd was always one of those low-information voters who supported Dr. Utopia because he is black, and Todd wanted to support a black candidate. Todd won’t admit this, but does admit he knew absolutely nothing about Dr. Utopia, never looked into his record on LGBTQ issues or healthcare, yet supported Dr. Utopia anyway (despite LGBTQ issues and healthcare being the two most important things to Todd) because he is “inspirational”.
We have little sympathy for people like Todd who are waking up to reality.
And just so you know, part of what’s so shocking about what Todd said was how salty his language was, and how man G**-damns he worked into the conversation. Another thing Todd always likes to do when someone is talking is correct either their English (because he’s a teacher) or admonish their blasphemy (because, we think, he believes that mimics some in the black community). If you slip a g**-dammit! into anything, Todd will say, “Don’t blaspheme in my presence” or something to that effect.
Yet, Todd was so worked up about Dr. Utopia’s broken promises that HE was the one blaspheming. Part of us wanted to call him on it, but we were too stunned. Normally, people like Todd who like to correct people should be corrected themselves, with relish, at every available opportunity, but instead we just relished the fact that Todd has seen the forrest for the gump when it comes to Dr. Utopia’s charmed road to Washington, where everything was about marketing and stagecraft without anything being what it seemed to those caught up in the “inspirational magic”.
Have you seen anything like this in your own circles?
Do you know a passionate Obot who, like Todd, now feels betrayed?
It would be interesting to hear if this is happening elsewhere. To be completely honest, we don’t really speak to many Obots. Todd is partnered to our dear friend Lionel, or else we wouldn’t talk to him.
Do you know any Obots you can report the status of? We’d love to hear from you.
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Governor Palin interview in Eagle, Alaska in regards to the flood damage.
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10342108
sadly, the same thing is on my mind that has been on my mind since January 20-
obama sucks. Obama sucks bad. He is an awful, awful, awful piece of crap. He hates the country he purportedly serves, and is a complete fool.
Sorry for the lack of eloquence and insight, just had to vent a bit.
Lol. I feel the same way. The news everyday gets a little worse, and MSM continues to cover for him.
These two articles are interesting takes on the latest. In regards to the Nevada ACORN fraud, this blogger contends that ACORN turned Nevada blue during the election due to the revelation from their Democratic (but apparently not Soros’ Moveon.org backed) Secretary of State. SoS Ross Miller has indicated over half of the Vegas votes may be fraudulent.
http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2009/05/acorn-fraud-in-nevada-sec-of-state.html
Now one of the commenters contends that a fraudulent registration cannot be turned into a vote, but I have read that corrupt poll workers can turn the registrations into votes at the end of the day just by filling them out themselves (hence the heavy protest when citizens request to observe the voting process in certain voting stations, especially inner city). Plus, in Ohio registration by mail and vote at the same time was allowed.
Our Secretary of State in Ohio is one of Soros’ minions. Hence, there will be no significant investigations here, unless public pressure forces it. She covered for ACORN left and right and forced all sorts of bogus registrations to stand, with one of the major lawsuits being thrown out on a technicality by the Supreme Court, if I remember correctly, after the Ohio Supreme Court had said the bogus registrations had to be removed. She (SoS J Brunner) has announced her run for governor in 2010, horrors.
The other interesting story at the blog site involves MSM being mum on what Wanda Sykes REALLY said at the WHCD this weekend. They scrubbed the story clean, lest average Americans click on YouTube and see our Prez guffawing at jokes about 9/11 and wishing kidney failure on Limbaugh.
http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2009/05/msm-missing-point-on-wanda-sykes.html
This is true…my husband and I worked the polls for the Hillary Campaign during the Indiana Primary. Now, I wouldn’t say there were any Acorn people in our neighborhood (at least I didn’t see any)…but, we would go at certain times of the day and get the numbers to turn into the campaign headquarters. The last time we checked the numbers, at the close of the polls, my husband came out and said to me (and you have to keep in mind that this was near the end of the primaries when Obama was ahead..and we never liked him) “You know, there really is nothing stopping them from changing vote numbers along the way during the day when no one is there and business is slow…there would be no way to prove that the numbers were changed.”..This is true..
Exactly. Or if they know they have a big margin of phony registrations, at the end of the day they can just add votes to the column of their candidate – as many as necessary.
I misquoted in my message. I should have said half of the Vegas voter REGISTRATIONS, not votes. Obviously, a big difference, but still shocking.
Oops. I still have it misquoted, so here it is
“over “half of [new registrant] 90,000 Clark County votes,” were likely fraudulent.”
Here’s an eye-opener. A real must read.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
California Granny,
Alan West ran for congress in Broward County Florida. I voted for him but he lost to a progressive loser good for nothing.
I think that many of the Obots are still waiting for their free TVs and cars or are grading Dr. Utopia on a curve because he’s black.
Exacatly, and that’s a form of racism, one of the worst—the racism of low expectations and condescension. Maobama is truly our first “affirmative action president” and it’s becoming more and more clear to more and more people that the bar was deliberately lowered for him, and he can’t do the job.
He has done absolutely NOTHING to strengthen or help this country in any way. Everything he has done has been either for his own self-aggrandizement, or to break down America and make it weaker both domestically and internationally.
Someday, this piper is going to have to be paid and the bill is likely to run to thousands, perhaps tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of American lives.
I mentioned in my rant post yesterday that I haven’t been hearing my Barry addicts say anything about what’s going on. I have friends who basically gave up their lives (and a few put marriages in jeopardy) to campaign for the Miracle that would be President Obama. I have yet to hear one of them voice any disapproval – but I’m also not hearing the gushing love-fest that I heard prior to the inauguration which may be telling. My guess is that they are still holding out hope that putting our country in gabillions of dollars of debt will prove to be the miracle our country has been waiting for.
I sure wish the MSM would get a clue the way, apparently, Todd did.
Glad to read that your friend Lionel felt like going and having some fun. He remains in my prayers.
I do not know any obots. But this does not surprise me. He has done anything except bankrupt us and ruin the future of my 3 year old nephew (who has a black seed donor and a white mommy). It is hard to know that this people exist since since the liberal media still violate the first commandment when they talk about him. But I fear that Todd is in the minority since the approval rating is still 65%.
Speaking of health care, Hill, did you see Kathleen Sebielius on Morning Joe and Fox and Friends. He was dull as are most people in Utopia’s cabinet.
Most of the Obama supporters I know are still waiting at their mailboxes. Obama said the “checks are in the mail” and many people don’t seem to realize this was just a figure of speech. They seem to honestly believe that Obama is going to send them a big check, grant them universal healthcare, create peace in the middle east, authorize gay marriage, end DADT, fix the economy, end global warming, etc etc.
One of my brothers is Chairman of our county’s Democrat Party. He supported Hillary in the primaries, but immediately switched his support to Obama. I don’t know if he qualifies as a died-in-the-wool Obot, but he was euphoric when Obama won. Really enjoyed rubbing it in my face. He’s not doing much rubbing these days. For some reason he’s gone strangely silent about politics in general, and Obama in particular.
That’s what I’ve noticed about my husband and his family, the silence is deafening. But they still HATE Fox!!!
“Can’t see the forest for the gump” -Loved that line!!!
It is nice to hear some folks are having L’OBOTimies. There is a glimmer of hope.I am still waiting for my dear son to get his. So if you guys are ever hanging out in a Bucktown bar, and see a good looking twenty something, tell him his mom sent you to talk some sense into him. I am getting no where. But then again, he may be just not willing to admit that mother knows best.
I still wish I could understand how they come up with nominees for the Chi super of schools? It is such a big deal in the burbs, with the public invited to weigh in. When we pay someone a couple of hundred g’s a year, it seems they should at least have a background in education. The black hole that is the Chicago Public Schools continues to suck Illinois dry with no accountability. Meanwhile, the guys who had a hand in one of the worst school systems in the country are now messing it up in DC. They could of at least hired a kindergarten teacher. At least a kindergarten teacher knows how to make everyone play nice at recess. And these guys are always at recess!
“L’OBOTimies”.
Sorry. Still wiping the coffee from the screen of my laptop.
Love it.
HB – I love to read your postings. You paint a picture with words and I can appreciate that. My two sisters are Obots. Yet, they have been strangely quiet over these last few months. I doubt they would let loose on him because they’re not the type to do that. But, their silence on the issue is deafening. I will always maintain to the supporters of Dr. Utopia that they have voted for him and they will get what they deserve. This idea of identity politics has to stop! People make all kinds of claims and attacks Sarah Palin because they believe she has no experience, but they are willing to let Dr. Utopia do his thing without seeing his credentials because he’s (a) black, (b) appears to be smart, (c) speaks well, and (d) black. What a POC argument!
Oh, I forgot to add the most important part: Lionel, so good to see you are out and about. Don’t give up the ship. Cancer is beatable, no matter what doctors tell you! Get juicing, walk everyday, and take lots of antioxidants. You can do it! To your health!
I wish some of the Obots I know would admit their mistakes, but none have. But to be honest, the people I feel sorry for are us, the Hillary supporters and others who knew from day one he was a fraud. It’s because of these stupid, ignorant people, that we are stuck with this horrible person as our president, who cares nothing for Americans, America, our Constitution, Israel, Gays, Blacks, Whites, or anyone but muslims and countries that have dictators like Chavez, Castro, the Saudi King and others like them.
I am waiting for my brother to admit his mistake (supported Hillary at first but after went whole hog for Obama) and others at work who are Obama-zealots. Some of my friends who are african americans are still in la-la land because a man who has “dark skin” is president, as if that means anything at all. One in particular thinks because he is multi-cultural that makes him special. NEWS FLASH: Everyone in America is multi-cultural in some way or another. Todd is right, he was conned BIG TIME.
Here in San Francisco, especially in the Castro (where I work in a retail store) the O-Love Fest continues strong. I’ve not heard one person voice the tiniest bit of disappointment, not family, not friends, not customers, not clients.
As Yul Brynner said to Deborah Kerr, “It’s a puzzlement!”
SF,
We were at Yosemite this weekend and met a couple from SF who told us they were “so proud” of Obama because he was “doing everything he promised he would do”.
They still honestly believe he’s going to “fix” everything AND it will all be “free”.
There isn’t too much you can discuss with people like that.
You know it occurs to me that the natural original source of kool-aid may well be SF.
I love NorCal. Too bad about the moonbats.
I only know one Obot, and we only talk baseball. And sometimes music. I was at an Indians game w/ him once and he ACTUALLY BROUGHT UP POLITICS. Keep in mind, we met in college in a politics class, and the teacher used us an example of complete and utter polar opposites. I was like–”Dude…No. Just no.” And then I proceeded to shift the conversation about how badly I want to carry Grady Sizemore’s babies, since we were sitting right behind that sweet, sweet piece of man meat.
Oops. I digress.
As bad as the Indians stink this year, a conversation about politics might be less painful.
There are several liberals I follow on Twitter–not too much praise for him now. What little there is has nothing to do with policy.
Why do you think the left is falling so quickly back to the “everything Republican is Evil and is the source of all problems?”
Like my mother said: If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
And they’re not saying anything at all about 0.
“As bad as the Indians stink this year, a conversation about politics might be less painful.”
HAHA! They’ve been terrible so far. (God, I hope they turn it around). But political conversation w/ this guy is terrible, too. He acts like a rabid dog; he might be next to the word moonbat in the dictionary.
But lavish praise for Mechelle’s motherly arms.
My sisters are both Obots. They, who think I’m nuts for my unapologetic love and support of Sarah Palin.
Neither of them bring up politics these days. The closest they get is talking about how scary things are getting these days. I say nothing. Let them reach their own conclusion.
I work as a scientist for a pharmaceutical company in the Bay Area. Let’s just say, we will be greatly affected by O’s health care initiative. (Europeans wait months for our therapies. Sometimes they are denied our drugs only to receive them when they are really sick at which they may not be as effective.) Anyway, I’m a big Hillary and Sarah girl. During the election, I tried not to talk politics with my co-workers; however, this being the Bay Area, you just can’t. I recall telling one my colleagues that O will be bad for our business. He said he knew, but believed that we needed to have a better reputation in the world. (How well has that worked out for us!?!) About a month ago, he and another Obot told he that they don’t like Obama anymore. I just about fell out of my chair!!! I even asked them to repeat what they said. It turns out they were concerned that he was going to raise their taxes, didn’t believe the $250k cut off was realistic, and were upset that he was giving all our money away to people who don’t work hard, etc. If only they had their eyes and ears open six months ago… Now he’s opening all of our wallets!
My sister is a nurse in a large hospital here in MI. We are located approximately 20 minutes from the border to Windsor Canada. She has many co workers that live in Canada born and bred. Our health care by far is the best, and many canadians come here for care. To say they are a little nervous about what is coming down the pike is an understatement. The uninsured in this country have the best care should they be hospitalized. They are privilege to the same technology and treatment the rest of us have. No one is turned away, it is against the law. It is a bold face lie to suggest people are turned away at a hospital.
The hospital just performed surgery on a woman with breast cancer. She is from Canada and was on a waiting list for treatment. She was diagnosed, treated, and operated on here before her initial appointment was scheduled in Canada… I just hope people are researching and paying attention. This could be the most distructive legislation we ever experience.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I primarily work on cancer therapies. One of the things I love most about my job is that I am helping patients feel better and maybe go into remission. My fear is that the development of these drugs will be so expensive, with little return on investment due to government cost controls, that companies will no longer pursue them. Sure, universities will pursue the science, but they don’t have the experience or means to take these therapies to market. By the way, most pharmaceutical companies have programs that will pay for some or most of their drugs for patients that cannot afford them. When is the last time you heard the MSM report that?
Yep. My dad was on a waiting list for TEN YEARS for a stent because the bureaucrats (not his doctor) decided it wasn’t “bad enough”. Until he had a massive heart attack, was DOA on arrival at the ER, and required emergency triple bypass surgery and stents.
Given that my parents are in about a 55% tax bracket, it wasn’t “free” either.
They haven’t had a family doctor for three years now, since theirs moved to the US, no one has replaced him, and the other practices are “closed” and refusing to take new patients.
It’s official
Gov. Charlie Chist announced his run for the US Senate.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-charlie-crist-senate-run-update-051209,0,82924.story
Do Republicans really want another Arlen Specter?
Republicans need to bring the Green Iguana out in the Senate race….lest the Dems do it…if not in 2010, then if the GOP is stupid enough to run Crist for anything national. The spray-on orange tan should be an issue as well, because of its inherent creepiness.
I feel so ignorant.
Who is “The Green Iguana”? Sorry I’m so dense.
My husband is a registered FL voter so I try and keep up with the local politics.
Based on past HB postings, I think it’s a gay bar down there that Crist has been seen at.
Where to begin?
When he ran for governor he was basically the Democrats pick for the Republicans. The Democrats knew what they were doing and they campaigned for him.
When Obama was trying to build support for he stimulus package Gov. Crist invited him down to Florida and campaigned with him for the stimulus package. He is every bit as responsible for passage of the stimulus package as Specter and those two from Maine.
On the day before the Florida Primary he came out and supported McCain and after that the Republican Primary was over.
He is a hypocrite. There has long been talk from those who work in Tallahassee and from members of the gay community that Crist leads a double life. No real surprise there since he tries to be both a Republican and a Democrat.
Anyway, I wouldn’t care one bit about what he does in his private life, except that he was very vocal in his support for an Amendment to define marriage.
There is a new documentary due to open today called Outrage. This film outs several politicians who lead secret gay lives and then vote against gay issues. There is supposed to be some sort of proof in the film. I do not doubt that Dem. strategists wanted this to stay quiet until just the right moment. They would love for Crist to look like a shoe-in and then release the details.
Crist will try to define himself as independent, but everything he does is calculated to be for the advancement of Crist. This is what everybody I know in Tallahassee says. They can’t stand the man.
I think we need to make it crystal clear that there is a huge difference in talking like a Dem. when it is politically expedient and talking like a Repub when it suits an agenda
Big difference in that
and
Being Independent.
Thanks for filling me in! I saw photos of Crist with Obama and thought, “What’s up with that?”.
Please give Lionel a hug from us and let him know that a bunch of right-wing Christians are praying for his recovery.
Cancer is cruel to the body. When my father was in the final stages of lung cancer he was so thin, and he had always been thin. It is a horrible thing to watch, but having good friends like you to be there for him is a true blessing.
Really, when it comes right down to it, life can be so uncertain. Everything changes. The unconditional love we can offer to one another, this is the one thing we have the power to offer that can’t be damaged by illness.
FLMom,
Agreed. Our heartfelt prayers to your friend Lionel. I lost a very dear Uncle to prostate cancer, and it is a rough, rough road.
Glad to hear that he is staying positive.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop about Lionel.
I am proud of Miss California and Trump for the way they have handled this mess…He told the press “you should be ashamed of yourselves!” Trump should be President because he could probably fix everything…I would probably follow him as “Messiah”…jk..but he is very good. She says “I am not an activist for or against gay marriage…”
Anyhow..glad it worked out for her. However, I somewhat fear for her safety. I hope they send her out with protection. Seriously.
I thought the press was very rude to her. It’s so painfully obvious who they choose to hate. There will be no objectivity anymore, I guess. I understand asking tough questions of people, but it’s just the tone that’s so obvious and nasty.
Yes, that was true too..this country has become (or is just more outright) hateful now..since the takeover.
I don’t think this country has become “more” hateful….throughout all of this, I have connected with many wonderful people that I wouldn’t have otherwise…
I think what is different now is that the haters have been empowered and emboldened to shout down any opposition. Apparently “dissent is patriotic” only if you agree with THEM.
It’s time we pushed back and demanded a return to civility and polite public discourse. We don’t have to accept this as behavior in the public square.
I don’t watch MSNBC or CNN anymore, haven’t picked up a copy of the Sunday NY Times in years, and I bring the double standards to attention when I see them.
Skin color has nothing to do with competence. Part of the reason however that the MSM is fiercely obfuscating the ‘real’ Obama is that now that they’ve manipulated the election of ‘this’ black man, they cannot allow him to fail. Fail he will. But what is sad is that his failure will end up demoralizing many in the black community who were uplifted by his election.
You know he may be the first black president but he is *only* the *first.*
It is all onward and upward from here. Our next black president I am confident will be great!
Perries,
President Steele will be great.
In another dimension, where things worked out differently, our SECOND female president, PRESIDENT STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES, will also be great. In that alternative universe, the brain aneurysm she had last summer never happened…and of course, while we are at it, 2008 worked out differently in many other ways too.
But, Steel is a real possibility in a few years. He’s a good man and we’d all be very lucky to have him as Pres. or VP.
J.C. Watts is supposedly considering a run for Governor. Successful businessman, entrepreneur and former member of the House of Representatives. From what I know he’s conservative … of course, that could’ve changed since his last foray into politics. Hannity’s fond of him, if that means anything. Seems like a sensible guy AND … he was a damn good football player!
Duh … J.C. Watts for Governor of Oklahoma. Sorry for the omission. But he is one smart. Wish J.C. were in the WH instead of BO.
At the moment, we’re living deep in Obama territory — this district went 87% for Teh One.
We live in military housing, and things got so heated during the campaign that we were specifically directed that we could not display any political yard signs or in our windows, etc and were “discouraged” from displaying bumper stickers.
Unless of course you were an Obot. The few Obama supporters on post had signs, bumper stickers and the day after the election, wore their Obama T-shirts to work and put up pictures of “the First Family” on their desks….no mind that the Bush family was still living at 1600, and Obama hadn’t been inaugurated yet. They were very, very, very obnoxious to be around.
I have had a few people open up and rant…when I was at the grocery store with the Pookie, I told her she could keep the change that came out of the automatic change dispenser when I paid for the groceries to buy a treat for herself. I said something like, “Because, after Obama’s done with us, all we’ll have left is change, so you might as well enjoy being able to have a treat while you can”, and the cashier jumped right on it and went on a rant about how I was right, he was bankrupting us, we were so screwed, etc….
but that is the exception to the rule.
It seemed that every other car here sported the “O” sticker, and immediately after the election, there was a rash of defiant, “Yes we DID” bumper stickers that could be seen everywhere. Even local stores displayed the “Yes we DID” signs. The local Democratic field office stayed open because people were “so energized” by Hopium, that there was going to be sunshine and rainbows and everyone was going to fix everything.
In an area where people STILL proudly sport their Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers (please, people get OVER it), I notice that people are quietly scraping off their “O” and “Yes We DID” stickers…I see fewer and fewer on the road and almost NONE in the parking lot of my daughter’s school. On many of the Volvos and Prius’, you can still see the sticky glue where the stickers once were.
My husband, has turned into a complete imp with this new era of disquiet and discomfort that has descended here.
He’ll be standing quietly in line somewhere, and someone will complain loudly about the lack of service, or how prices are going up, etc. And he’ll say very quietly, with a completely straight face:
“I think they’re in the back redistributing your ______”, or,
“I agree completely. This isn’t the Change I was looking for!”
But my favorite is the response to those Obots who told us how Obama was going to fix everything, he was so magical and so perfect.
When we first got here, we shopped in the local stores and always try to support small businesses if we can. For example, we’ll go to the very small independent hardware store over the Home Depot if possible. You get the idea.
Anyways, during the campaign, many of these same shop owners really, really, REALLY offended me with their Hillary-bashing (Hilary nutcrackers? Not funny), Palin-bashing and pro-Obama stance.
Hey, if you’re a small business owner and you choose to make a strong political statement and offend your customers, that’s your choice.
And it’s my choice to not patronize your store anymore.
So I didn’t. This Christmas we spent more than we usually do, because we have two of our children who graduated college and were moving out on their own, so we bought stuff for first apartments, car accessories, you name it. I think we spent about $6,000 this Christmas.
And not a SINGLE penny of it locally in the Obot stores. I shopped online, usually through Amazon or sometimes the military exchange stores — no tax, no shipping. And I passed along what I was doing as a silent protest to the local Obots to my friends, WHO DID THE SAME THING.
No one shopped locally. In fact, I have one friend who was so mad, she would only buy something online if it was produced in a state that voted McCain-Palin. (I didn’t have enough time to do THAT much investigation).
One of the proprietors of these stores has a student in our youngest daughter’s class. She stopped us at the Post Office and mentioned that she hadn’t seen us in the store lately (we used to shop there quite a bit before she went all-out Obama).
We didn’t reassure her, we didn’t say, “Oh we’ll be in to buy something”, we made no comment about her blatant appeal for our patronage.
Instead, my husband turned to her and with a completely straight face and without a hint of sarcasm in his voice (I don’t know how he pulled it off!) said:
“Not to worry. Obama will provide. Praise be unto Obama”.
And then we left.
So Michelle keeps talking about military families being her special project. Do you have any idea what exactly she is doing for military families, other than saying it’s her ’cause’?
Well, we live in an extremely high-cost living area, and the COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) was cancelled, which means our most junior military families are really struggling financially. Most leave this duty station in debt.
Anyways, we did alot of research and wrote a white paper outlining why COLA needs to be restored and at a level consistent with LA or the SF Bay area (both of which still get COLA).
Our paper was ignored and I was told “back channel” that it was a political decision, because they are keeping the true cost of running these posts low to avoid them being skylined for BRAC. So our jr personnel pay the price.
I haven’t seen/heard MO support any of the well established charities for military families:
NMFA which runs “Camp Purple” for the children of deployed servicemembers, “Semper Fi Fund” for our wounded, NMCRS ….I could go on and on but you get the drift.
There are all kinds of things she could do to highlight support for military families….we’re trying to get some momentum on alternative education for kids that move so much and get stuck in the gaps between differing state standards, for example, or more support for spouses to have easily transferable and portable skills….there’s a whole laundry list, but “Arms of Steel” has been too busy in her Victory Garden.
Ironically, I haven’t even seen her ceremoniously stuff a troop support package for the cameras since the campaign. I guess since Teh One ascended to the throne, there is no more need to show tangible support to our forward deployed, since Iraq-Afghanistan is “fixed”.
The campaign is over; he “won” as he likes to remind people, so the need for military families as political props is over.
Next!
The other day in that article where she said everybody should have a chief of staff and a couple of assistants she mentioned her hard work on behalf of military families. I live in an area with a high number of military families. I haven’t heard of any help. As far as I can tell her help consists of saying she is helping.
In that article she also mentioned that she is also going to focus on working families as well as community services. All in all it just seems to be speeches or photo ops for her. Since she has stated these three things as her focus we need to keep track of what she does.
I haven’t heard anything about her support of the military since her visit to that base in NC.
FLMom:
Yep.
Laura Bush did alot for military families, quietly. She didn’t seek out the press. I miss her.
Great post!! I enjoyed reading your story. I live in Michigan, and our oldest son moved to Texas in 95 for work, and has been there ever since. He tells me all the time that TX is totally a red state. He is not too much into politics like I am, until this last year. He likes living in a red state, says the governing is much better. He said the Obots did not do too well there… I talked to him this morning and he told me a funny story… He was in the grocery store yesterday behind an elderly man who had a middle aged man in front of him at the checkout. The gentleman told the older man his family had just moved there from CA for work… The elderly man said ” glad to have you here son, I hope you had the sense to leave your political leanings back in CA”…
AMEN. No truer words were ever spoken!
I enjoyed your post. My husband and I recently took great delight in purchasing a couch made in Texarkana, TX. A chair we bought was made in NC, but we figure the only reason NC went to Dear Leader is because of voter fraud. I recently bought a bicycle made in Oregon and the packaging said the company name is Green something or other, so I figure I just supported a bunch of Obots, but it’s a little bit better than supporting the Chinese government that is stealing from the people they’re enslaving.
Without Bob Barr’s 3% or so of the vote, NC would have been McCain.
aka Ross Perot syndrome. Sadly, a third party movement would do nothing but skew the voting—probably just narrowing the victor’s margin.
USMC Wife- Believe I’d like to buy your husband a drink (if he drinks), or at the very least shake his hand.
Stealth sarcasm is a fine thing, and it sounds like your husband is a skilled practitioner of the art.
Well done, and thanks also for his service.
hope. change. shiny objects.
USMCWife,
Semper fi!!! My son is a Marine lifer currently stationed in Arlen Specter country (don’t ask, it’s a long story!)
I tried to elicit a comment from my son before the election, but all he would say was “Mom, it doesn’t make any difference who the Commander in Chief is, it is who it is.”
Sunday he called for Mother’s Day and I flatly said, “We have an imposter in the White House.” Discussed stockpiling of my pantry and the garden we’re tending, anticipating shortages/inflation in the coming months. His only comment was, “That’s a really good idea.”
Your hubby is awesome! Loved his ‘Praise to Obama’ line.
great news about Lionel..that he wants to go out & have a night on the town…attitude helps…
as for the obots…I still wear my “team Hillary” shirt and they see it and look down now instead of the “ha-ha” smirk I got before…
The O-bots I know aren’t budging, at least not yet.
I work in the field of Int’l Freight Forwarding (Not quite, but I’ll just leave it at that. My job involves a great deal of Gov’t interaction so I don’t want to say more,) and the other night I was talking with one of my Deadhead, Oblahblah-worshiping cousins, and I mentioned in casual passing that the new administration has done more in 4 months to make Int’l imports harder on our ALLIES than Bush did in 7 years.
This conversation was just boring Trade Policy-wonk stuff but my O-Zombie cousin only heard the name “Bush” and immediately shouted “BUSH was a F—in’ MORON!”
So much for reasonable debate!
Both my sisters and their husbands along with my boyfriends sister and her husband voted for The “ONE”. My older sister and her husband pretty much just repeatws crap they hear on their liberal news stations and NPR during the election. my boyfriends sister, on christmas eve, said something againist Palin and i lost it. i have come to realize that liberals will destroy whoever is opposed to what they believe and will destroy you if you are a threat. I was a proud supporter of McCain/Palin and was so sad that they lost. Now we are stuck with Obama and it gets scarier and scarier everyday. Needless to say, my liberal family members are oddly QUIET FINALLY. Love you guys at Hillbuzz!!
O/T –
My Studmuffin refers to NPR as
“National Palestinian Radio”.
Although lately, I’ve renamed it “National Psychotic Radio”, since every.single.time we have listened to it in the last eight months, I swear, the topic has been how ALL OIF vets are traumatized psychotic killers who could go OFF AT ANY MOMENT on a mass killing spree. ANY MOMENT. ALL of them.
Maybe Joe Biden’s writing their material now.
Love your posts……..and your husband;-)
God bless you both for your service
Here is a totally off-topic question but I would be interested in knowing what you think.
A couple of friends and I are thinking about starting a blog network for Florida bloggers. We are trying to find ways to network as the 2010 political season heats up. But it would also be for people who want to blog about other topic of interest to Floridians.
We could set up a blog network using he software they use on WordPress.com WordPress-MU where anybody can start their own blog. We already have the technological assistance to do it. The other idea would be to simply link blogs. I haven’t really looked into how Facebook and Twitter could be incorporated, but the goal is networking.
We are still in the ‘just thinking about it’ stage and would appreciate thoughts and suggestions.
FLMom,
I’m not tech-savvy, so I can’t comment on the mechanics.
But I wholeheartedly support the idea of networking, brainstorming, building the ground for the 2010 election cycle NOW. We’re already behind the power curve, since it’s pretty obvious that the vote fraud is only going to INCREASE now that the O team has complete control.
I’d like to see an online forum/town hall develop where people talk about ALTERNATIVE policy viewpoints on key issues.
We also need to seek out and support more TRUE Independent candidates, who will reflect the needs of their districts and NOT the needs of either big party machine. The time to find them, and encourage and support such individuals in now.
The only way to chip away at Democratic or Republican hegemony is to build a strong block of moderate Independents who are crucial to getting anything through.
Esp. in the Senate.
I’m not giving any $$$ to either party, strictly to individual candidates that I support, on a case-by-case basis, from ALL parties.
I am tech savy. And while the day job (more of the same) will dominate, it doesn’t mean I can’t at least provide some ideas and advice.
Nothing as obvious as your story, but I have seen some hints.
One of my very liberal school teacher relatives had Obama stuff all over her Facebook during the campaign and during the first part of the Obama presidency. Now, there seems to be nothing. Also, this relative’s sister has previously used Facebook to rail against Bush and his economic policies, but now that Obama is in charge, there has been nothing, besides them facing the same economic conditions or worse in their personal lives.
I have another very liberal relative who supported Obama in the primaries. Then the stimulus money started coming through. Her organization was in a position to benefit from the stimulus, and she actually admitted that although she was going to take the money, she disagreed with it in principle.
I think Obama is making some moves that really shock a lot of people who voted for him. BUT, since they voted for him, they don’t want to believe that this was Obama’s plan all along. They rationalize his actions so THEY don’t look foolish by admitting they were bamboozled. Yet they have a hard time becoming outspoken in their support because they know it doesn’t feel right.
Eventually his personal approval ratings are going to catch up to his policy approval ratings, and then we’re going to see some real change.
I hope those Obama Supporters wake up and realize that this guy is nothing but a celebrity and has no idea what he is doing. He will run this country into the ground and MSN and CNN and all those liberals will continue to defend him. Some people will continue to defend him for his whole term cause its the “history” factor. all i say is forget history and do your job. Dont sit there and laugh at some stupid comedians kidney failure joke and OMG stop flying AF1 around to sign your bills. Stay in Washington and do your job. We can all HOPE that people will see who this guy really is or isnt!
EricP says:
“I think Obama is making some moves that really shock a lot of people who voted for him. BUT, since they voted for him, they don’t want to believe that this was Obama’s plan all along. They rationalize his actions so THEY don’t look foolish by admitting they were bamboozled. Yet they have a hard time becoming outspoken in their support because they know it doesn’t feel right.”
My sentiments EXACTLY!!!!
The BO folks I know are educated, intelligent, peeps, who, for the most part, are not political. But they have become Green meanies……they bought a Prius. It has become their religion. To admit their high priest is fraud, will take an act of God!
I keep prayin’
Ya they preach global warming and keep telling us how bad the economy is but yet Obama is flying in AF1 like its his car, costing taxpayers money everytime he gets in that plane to sign a bill or to scare the crap out of New Yorkers! Any guesses as to how long BO will continue to blame Bush for the economy (even though he what, tripled the defecit in his first 100 days).
From Obama’s inaugural address:
“On this day we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics. In the words of Scripture, “The time has come to set aside childish things.”
H.L. Mencken, great quote: “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars. The men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
And there’s another good quote, from George Bernard Shaw: “The powers of astute observation are often mistaken as cynicism by those who do not possess powers of astute observation.”
Everyone in my family voted for McCain/Palin except for my sister who became hateful and vile toward those of us who didn’t buy into her snake oil salesman. Lately, she also has been suspiciously silent. I even tried to get a dialogue started with her by asking how that $12.00 a week is working out for her, and yes, I am still waiting for a reply.
Ain’t Big Government Grand?
From WBAL TV
10,000 Dead People Receive Stimulus Checks
Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president’s stimulus plan — including an Anne Arundel woman who died more than 40 years ago.
Of the about 52 million checks that have been mailed out, about 10,000 of those have been sent to people who are deceased.
The agency blames the error on the strict mid-June deadline of mailing out all of the checks, which didn’t leave officials much time to clean up all of their records.
Social Security officials said they aren’t expecting to lose too much money to fraud. They’re reminding the public that it’s a federal offense to cash someone else’s Social Security check.
Math: $250 X 10,000 = $2.5 million mistake. I suppose that is nothing to this administration.
Well, you can’t say he doesn’t reward his voters. I wonder if they voted “early” and “often”.
It’s shiit like this–and giving money and benefits to illegals and noncitizens–that depletes the system for THOSE WHO LEGITIMATELY NEED A SAFETY NET!!!
Sarahcuda would rid the bureaucracy of graft, corruption, and incompetence. Is it 2011 yet?
Those 10,000 dead people who rec’d those checks were probably registered to vote by ACORN this past election :0)
That’s funny – but like all good jokes, there is probably an element of truth behind it!
Yes thats very true! sometimes you need to laugh so you dont go crazy!
ACORN…. not sure if you guys canceled your cable yet… Whatever your thoughts are on Glen Beck, he is on to ACORN and connecting dots….. SEIU, ACORN, and some bogus address in New Orleans where money is going to over 200 organizations connected to ACORN.. The bogus address in New Orleans is a funeral home out of operation……… yikes.. He will be covering this all week.
Sharon,
We turned our cable boxes in last week…so no more TV for us. We’re taking the step early, as we believe TV and computers are going to merge in the next few years, so we’ve just accelerated that. But, we’re going to be saving a lot of money by not giving it to Comcast. Though we didn’t do this with austerity in mind, we’re liking the new Spartan vibe at Buzzquarters. AND it forces us to get out in the world for more adventures, which we can share on HB, so it all works well together. No more cable ever.
Good for you on removing the idiot box… I am hoping they have a TV at sidecar so you can at least watch the blackhawks and wings in the playoff for the stanley cup huh?
Folks, the hard core Obama supporters will not easily give up their support for The One. They’ve made an emotional investment and “in for a penny, in for a pound” rules.
Look in your own lives for examples. Sebastian has been bold and brave enough to tell us of his experience with David (?) and David’s mother, Cruella deVille. I’ve done silly things with a number of women I became involved with. Thankfully, none of them are still in my life.
It’s really hard to let go when you think you just have to be a little more patient. The view from the outside, or hindsight after the emotions have settled.
The Obots will be no different in their relationship with The One. Don’t expect a sudden disillusionment to occur. Each one will have different breaking points. Lionel’s Todd has reached his. Some will definitely be in a “til death do us part” mode.
The view from the outside, or hindsight after the emotions have settled.
…tends to be a hell of a lot clearer.
Duh.
From Dick Morris’ site:
“RESISTING O’S WORLD: STICK TO YOUR GUNS, REPUBLICANS!”
“Our nation will be unrecognizable well before the 2010 elections.
“Business will march to a beat drummed in Washington.
“The top producers will be hounded by confiscatory taxation.
“A majority will pay nothing or receive government welfare.
“Our health-care system will be destroyed.
“Illegal immigrants will be well on their way to citizenship.
“Obama’s brave new world will be the subject of the 2010 elections. We believe that his Congress will be swept from power as a result.
“We think that inflation will join a lingering recession — giving us recess-flation — and that high unemployment will continue. Voters will recognize the damage to their health care as bureaucrats weigh in to prevent them from getting the care they need. Our security and defense failures may well have cost us Pakistan, and the nightmare of a nuclear-armed terrorist state may have already come true (even before Iran).
“All America will be watching the Obama fallout, and Republicans must be seen as a clear alternative — a strong voice for reversal of the harm the president will have inflicted — if they are to benefit from this catastrophe.
“If the GOP is seen as a moderate force, a party just looking to split the difference, voters will cynically conclude that there is no distinction between the parties. . . ”
Dick is usually very prescient, even though many posters here don’t care for him. Let’s hope his predictions are accurate!
link to entire article:
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/05/09/580/#more-580
I got this in an email. Just thought I’d post it here.
‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.’- Ronald Reagan
‘The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S.. Was too strong.’
- Ronald Reagan
‘I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress..’ – Ronald Reagan
‘The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.’
- Ronald Reagan
‘Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.’
- Ronald Reagan
‘The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first..’
- Ronald Reagan
‘Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.’ – Ronald Reagan
‘Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.’
- Ronald Reagan
‘No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.’- Ronald Reagan
‘If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation goneunder.’ – Ronald Reagan
he was a smart man!
I’m so happy that Lionel was up to a night out! Feed him good, clean food and picture him as he was when his health was at its optimal level. Please try not to dwell on how thin he’s gotten. Thoughts become things
(yeah, yeah, I know, ‘new age moonbat,’ but…).
He CAN get well again. Yes, yes he can! (Now there’s a good and legitimate use for that phrase!)
His bf reminds me of some people here in my community. I like to stare at them with no discernable expression on my face, then when they’re about to look away, I give them the slightest smile. Really freaks them out!
I know I have a ton of work to do on my spiritual evolution, but while I’m still an unholy misfit, I’ll take this opportunity to ask, Why is it that sweethearts like Lionel get sick, but [fill in blank] like Todd appear to go unscathed?
Just wondering…