Posted on 09/04/2009 2:13:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On my last and final job, the new CEO on his first day wanted to change my schedule effective immediately, and let my sons find another way to get home that day. That was a telltale. His insistence on my instant obedience told me clearly that I was soon to be unemployed. I was.
When I walked into Doré’s apartment in 1976, I saw a sea of stuff from where I stood in the doorway to the farthest wall—lone boots, rolls of toilet paper, stacks of magazines, dirty clothes and dishes, canned goods, a set of wrenches, a basket of knitting, pillows, ashtrays, and more. That was a telltale, and I knew then she was as crazy as her décor. There were compensations, though, that made it seem like a good deal, and she was the first in a series of crazy women that stretched for years into the future. I’m a lucky guy.
Then there was Daunta, whose place looked like a model apartment. There was nothing on her kitchen counters, not a cup or plate, not a scrap of food, not a toaster, not a fork, nothing. There was nothing on her kitchen table. There was nothing in her living room but furniture. That apartment was a telltale, and she was as neurotic as advertised.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, when neither Ralph Nader nor Cynthia McKinney got to debate on national television, but Barack Obama did, it dawned on me that Obama had been approved by the power elite. I tried not to think of that as a telltale, except that he had a real chance to win.
When I read about him stumping Congress last year for the bailout bill, and as soon as possible handing out pretty much with his eyes closed bazillions of my tax dollars to rich bankers and the rest of them, I tried not thinking of that as a telltale that he wanted to please the insurance and finance industry more than he wanted things to change.
And although his administration has always resisted even the idea of universal single-payer health care—clearly the most civilized system, though not so hot for AIG and the rest of the insurance racket—maybe that’s not a telltale, and he’s not gonna settle for his lifelong no-limit health care for him and his family while the rest of us sit in the waiting room with the sticky floor and the unfortunate odor.
Barack Obama is not a knight in shining armor, although that was his brand. He’s a millionaire lawyer, and many thought he was progressive because they think they would be if they were black, and he didn’t say for sure that he wasn’t. Pretty funny.
Barack Obama is a suit, of course, and a good one. As for health care, he may deal with the odor, but we may as well get used to the sticky floor, especially over there by the cashier.
You're right, it wasn't a telltale - it was the entire house burning down with screaming sirens all around you, you stupid moron.
obama pretends hes not responsible for the bank bailout and the the first $1trillion deficit. He voted for them and deny responsibility for them and blamed it on bush
Don’t stop laughing or you might start screaming, instead.
The author misses the point. Obama is this way BECAUSE he is a progressive.
That turd has ben stinking all along. The left’s just now starting to smell it.
Clueless.
Millionaire, yes, but his handlers and puppeteers wrote the book and ran the PR machine and wrote the speeches and provided the teleprompter that made him so.
Lawyer, no. His law license 'expired,' or some such nonsense, years ago. He never practiced much law for all the money that was spent on him.
40% of the 09 federal budget is borrowed and the same for next year. That fact alone should be highlighted every day. We are so screwed.
Signs that Barack Obama is not a knight in shining armor (Left realizing he's out for himself)
Much has been made lately abouut the right trying to provoke some crazy into shooting the president, but it is the left Obozo ought to worry about. Even the most amoral, purely strategic reasoner on the right sees that a live bungling Obama beats a dead deified Obama anyday The left on the other hand....
...get rid of this one and bring us another dictator!—How the Left thinks.
McKinney has a reputation for doing the aforementioned
What the heck? Obama is completely for single-payer health care. The author is whacked.
......Obama is this way BECAUSE he is a progressive......
Oh come now. We musn’t use the word progressive. Liberal is the correct term in truthful society.
Besides that, Obama is a Marxist. The revelations this week from Berkley prove it beyond any shadow of a doubt.
Are you sure?
“The author misses the point. Obama is this way BECAUSE he is a progressive.”
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It ain’t easy to realize your own stupidity after decades of patting yourself on the back for your imagined brilliance and superiority. I know, I have done it 80)
The author imagines a distinction between Obama and the Obama administration. Officially his “administration” has claimed NOT to want single payer. The author probably is unaware of all the talking Obama did in favor of single payer BEFORE his election as president.
For someone who was never fooled by the pretender it is hard to comprehend how some people bought into the myth so completely. I still cannot comprehend Bill Clinton’s rise even though he was far more of a political master than Obama. I spotted Clinton as a fraud from the first time I saw him on the tube.
...”Lawyer, no. His law license ‘expired,’ or some such nonsense, years ago.”...
You might want to check that out. I also read somewhere that Michelle Obama had her Illinois law license revoked in 1993. I wonder what happened with both of them?
obammy and the klingon both expired. I can’t believe that / sar
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