Conservatives Angry Because Obama's Team Is Too Far Left? Not Really
| Fri Jan. 2, 2009 9:19 AM PST
Hmm. New story out today in the Washington Post about how conservatives are supposedly worried that Obama's appointees and transition team are too far to the left. That's a wild departure from all previous grumbling, which came from progressives worried Obama's people are too far to the right.
You could easily take this as an example of two grand truths: (1) Presidents, especially new presidents, just can't win. Washington simply has too many people with too many different agendas. Every time a new man or woman takes the White House, his or her moves are bound to disappoint somebody. (2) If you look hard enough when you are writing a newspaper article, you can always find someone willing to complain. This is true on almost any topic.
But before we use this as a teachable moment, let's take a closer look at the Post article. Only one conservative is on the record as complaining about Obama's confidantes being too liberal, a man named Roger Clegg. The executive director of the Northwest Mining Association does pop up briefly at the end to whine about a former Clinton staffer who is on the transition team advising Obama on Interior, but that same mining official is said to be "comforted" by the fact that Sen. Ken Salazar, a Democrat from Colorado with friends in the oil and mining industries, was picked by Obama to head Interior. Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth here, folks. You've got the big fish on your side and you're complaining about the little fish? (Two animal metaphors in two sentences = bonus points.)
The article mentions just four people close to Obama who raise the ire of conservatives (or would possibly draw the ire of conservatives, if anyone had bothered to go on the record). All four are advising the transition team; not one has been appointed to anything. No complaints are made by anyone, named or unnamed, about Obama's actual appointees. A Harvard professor is cited in the article as believing "an ultra-left takeover by Obama advisers and nominees are manufactured hyperbole." That seems about right. And this Post article fits that bill.
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Well, Lee, if you go by what Bill Ayers says today in HuffPost, then:
"So I would have picked Darling-Hammond [for Sec. of Education], but then again I would have picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for Attorney General, Bill Fletcher for commerce, James Thindwa for labor, Barbara Ransby for human services, Paul Krugman for treasury, and Amy Goodman for press secretary. So what do I know?" ? B. Ayers
All sounds good to me ...
Notes on the 2008 downturn. This writer would like to thank the following for the downturn we have before us. Stand up and take a bow you God @#@# %$%$# 'ing
mother @%$%$#'ers.
1. Bernard Madoff and all the rest in US history who got their rocks off setting up scams to bilk the dolts out there who failed to heed the age old adage "if it sounds too good to be true it's usually not". Also thanks for fortifying all those slurs about Jews. Who needs the Klan and Nazis and Hammas. We got you mother %$%$#'er.
2. To all of you bilious, frustrated bitch whores calling themselves feminists who duped other women in to believing that fathers have no value and that women can do it all, the American Psychiatric Industry thanks you for the increased client load as does the "if it bleeds it leads" sadistic sickos in American TV newsrooms as your offspring wreak havoc and mayhem the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Dark Ages, the holocaust, the old Jim Crow South, every African basket case that used slaughter to brighten up an otherwise dull afternoon, China during the Cultural Revolution, Cambodia under Pol Pot, etc, etc, etc.
3. Nice shot American liberals for wars where soldiers go and "drive around" in Hummers waiting to get blown up or walk through jungles so enemy cadre can use them for target practice. Vietnam had dikes that could have flooded North Vietnam if blown up. The Arabs have their sacred Mecca and we had nuclear weapons drawing dust after 9-11.
4. Way to go animal rights whackos who, like the Nazi's, put animals before human beings as you urge women to not have kids and pursue careers instead. Nice shot douche-bags as women flock to get diplomas only to stand there like deer's in the headlights after they realize they have nobody to buy their goods and/or services BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GIVE BIRTH TO CUSTOMERS AND/OR THEY ABORTED THEM ? EXCEPT FOR PROFESSIONAL WELFARE BREEDERS AND ILLEGAL MEXICANS. YEAH---THEY'LL BE MOTIVATED TO EXCEL AND CONSUME---YOU %^%$%$#$ MORONS!
5. To the doctor Frankenstein's in the teacher's unions who gave us a bunch a kids who know a lot about HEATHER HAVING TWO MOMMIES, the RAIN FOREST and SLAVERY but can't balance a checkbook and have the economic erudition of a cockroach, stand up and take a bow you worthless $%$%$#@#$. .
6. Lawyers, stand up and take a bow. Thanks for those BIG judgments that drove up healthcare so high that you've been relegated to the status of a PAGAN GOD by the good folks at VISA, Master Card and Discover which Americans had no choice but to use to see a doctor for something as innocuous as a @#$%^&*'ing hangnail.
7. Way to go liberals and conservatives that got a jolly jerking off employees who showed up and produced and brought a profit only to be shafted when they came up for a raise. Look around @#% holes at the #@$#'ing Bangladesh you helped create right here as you sought out cheap skirts and shafted MEN WITH WIVES AND KIDS because you wanted to get a $%$#$'ing WOODY at work. Oh, and thank you LIBERALS for taxing businesses so high they had no choice but seek out those CHEAP SKIRTS TO PAY THE #@$#$&^% TAXES!
8. Way to go AFL-CIO! Take a $%$#$'ing bow for that wonderful attitude that said "HEY HIGH SCHOOL KID! The boss has a boat, you should have a boat too" and driving up the cost of a car so much that we had no choice but to buy RICE ROCKETS! You WANT A BOAT? GO TO $%$#$% COLLEGE AND GET A $%$#$% MBA or drink less beer and buy more lotto tickets YOU LOSERS!
9. To all of you who like to pig out, snort, puff, gulp, engage in the kinds of SEX that would have made Emperor Caligula envious, drive a car to walk the $%$%$# dog with the leash hanging out the window (I actually saw that, honest to God), drive while talking to YO GIRLFRIEND and jacking up insurance and health after you BUTT %$%$# someone ahead of you, welfare breeders who dump their litter on the streets to GANGBANG THEIR ASS OFF and YOU %$%$#$ YUPPIES who gave your worthless kids a four wheel drive KILLING MACHINE, thanks for packing the hospital ER's and driving up the cost for auto and health insurance so high that people with innocuous ailments like a $%$%%$#@# kidney stone need to contemplate being a Bonnie and/or Clyde to PAY FOR IT! Thanks a %^%$%$ LOT!
10. And to all the men out there that played TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH with your $%$#$ PENIS LOAD you dropped in some %$%$%#@# SKANK in the office and then dumped good women who would have been sensational mothers because you bought the Madison Avenue BULL $%$#$ that the ORGASM will be in the $#%$#@# stratosphere IF YOU DO THAT BUBBLE HEAD, thanks for not bringing in a future which caused this $@!#@ $#$#@ ^%^%$%'ING DOWNTURN. .
This and other conservative sentiments appear in Boomer-ramma on Heartsonfirebooks.com under humor by the author Michael Riles
In an interview with CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, conservative Pat Robertson said he was "remarkably pleased" with President-elect Barack Obama. Not so for President Bush, who he blames for the economic crisis and gave a grade of C-.
ROBERTSON:" I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him. But so help me, he's come in forcefully, intelligently. He's picked a middle of the road cabinet. And so far, if he continues down this course, he has the makings of a great president.
So, I'm very pleased so far."
Obama is a tool of the Capitalists chosen to continue with the Bush plan of exploiting the working class.
Well, Lee, if you go by what Bill Ayers says today in HuffPost, then:
"So I would have picked Darling-Hammond [for Sec. of Education], but then again I would have picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for Attorney General, Bill Fletcher for commerce, James Thindwa for labor, Barbara Ransby for human services, Paul Krugman for treasury, and Amy Goodman for press secretary. So what do I know?" B. Ayers
All sounds good to me ...
Notes on the 2008 downturn. This writer would like to thank the following for the downturn we have before us. Stand up and take a bow you God @#@# %$%$# 'ing
mother @%$%$#'ers.
1. Bernard Madoff and all the rest in US history who got their rocks off setting up scams to bilk the dolts out there who failed to heed the age old adage "if it sounds too good to be true it's usually not". Also thanks for fortifying all those slurs about Jews. Who needs the Klan and Nazis and Hammas. We got you mother %$%$#'er.
2. To all of you bilious, frustrated bitch whores calling themselves feminists who duped other women in to believing that fathers have no value and that women can do it all, the American Psychiatric Industry thanks you for the increased client load as does the "if it bleeds it leads" sadistic sickos in American TV newsrooms as your offspring wreak havoc and mayhem the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Dark Ages, the holocaust, the old Jim Crow South, every African basket case that used slaughter to brighten up an otherwise dull afternoon, China during the Cultural Revolution, Cambodia under Pol Pot, etc, etc, etc.
3. Nice shot American liberals for wars where soldiers go and "drive around" in Hummers waiting to get blown up or walk through jungles so enemy cadre can use them for target practice. Vietnam had dikes that could have flooded North Vietnam if blown up. The Arabs have their sacred Mecca and we had nuclear weapons drawing dust after 9-11.
4. Way to go animal rights whackos who, like the Nazi's, put animals before human beings as you urge women to not have kids and pursue careers instead. Nice shot douche-bags as women flock to get diplomas only to stand there like deer's in the headlights after they realize they have nobody to buy their goods and/or services BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GIVE BIRTH TO CUSTOMERS AND/OR THEY ABORTED THEM EXCEPT FOR PROFESSIONAL WELFARE BREEDERS AND ILLEGAL MEXICANS. YEAH---THEY'LL BE MOTIVATED TO EXCEL AND CONSUME---YOU %^%$%$#$ MORONS!
5. To the doctor Frankenstein's in the teacher's unions who gave us a bunch a kids who know a lot about HEATHER HAVING TWO MOMMIES, the RAIN FOREST and SLAVERY but can't balance a checkbook and have the economic erudition of a cockroach, stand up and take a bow you worthless $%$%$#@#$. .
6. Lawyers, stand up and take a bow. Thanks for those BIG judgments that drove up healthcare so high that you've been relegated to the status of a PAGAN GOD by the good folks at VISA, Master Card and Discover which Americans had no choice but to use to see a doctor for something as innocuous as a @#$%^&*'ing hangnail.
7. Way to go liberals and conservatives that got a jolly jerking off employees who showed up and produced and brought a profit only to be shafted when they came up for a raise. Look around @#% holes at the #@$#'ing Bangladesh you helped create right here as you sought out cheap skirts and shafted MEN WITH WIVES AND KIDS because you wanted to get a $%$#$'ing WOODY at work. Oh, and thank you LIBERALS for taxing businesses so high they had no choice but seek out those CHEAP SKIRTS TO PAY THE #@$#$&^% TAXES!
8. Way to go AFL-CIO! Take a $%$#$'ing bow for that wonderful attitude that said "HEY HIGH SCHOOL KID! The boss has a boat, you should have a boat too" and driving up the cost of a car so much that we had no choice but to buy RICE ROCKETS! You WANT A BOAT? GO TO $%$#$% COLLEGE AND GET A $%$#$% MBA or drink less beer and buy more lotto tickets YOU LOSERS!
9. To all of you who like to pig out, snort, puff, gulp, engage in the kinds of SEX that would have made Emperor Caligula envious, drive a car to walk the $%$%$# dog with the leash hanging out the window (I actually saw that, honest to God), drive while talking to YO GIRLFRIEND and jacking up insurance and health after you BUTT %$%$# someone ahead of you, welfare breeders who dump their litter on the streets to GANGBANG THEIR ASS OFF and YOU %$%$#$ YUPPIES who gave your worthless kids a four wheel drive KILLING MACHINE, thanks for packing the hospital ER's and driving up the cost for auto and health insurance so high that people with innocuous ailments like a $%$%%$#@# kidney stone need to contemplate being a Bonnie and/or Clyde to PAY FOR IT! Thanks a %^%$%$ LOT!
10. And to all the men out there that played TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH with your $%$#$ PENIS LOAD you dropped in some %$%$%#@# SKANK in the office and then dumped good women who would have been sensational mothers because you bought the Madison Avenue BULL $%$#$ that the ORGASM will be in the $#%$#@# stratosphere IF YOU DO THAT BUBBLE HEAD, thanks for not bringing in a future which caused this $@!#@ $#$#@ ^%^%$%'ING DOWNTURN. .
This and other conservative sentiments appear in Boomer-ramma on Heartsonfirebooks.com under humor by the author Michael Riles
All I can really say to the above is that if you consider yourself an author, the school system must have failed way before the days of "HEATHER HAVING TWO MOMMIES"
OK, no. Two things: "and we had nuclear weapons drawing dust after 9-11." They must not have taught you anything in history either or you would know that a nuclear strike in Iraq would cause nuclear fallout that would affect the US (albeit in a small way). I would mention the much more serious fallout to Europe and Israel, but you seem like you would consider them beneath you (I'm already operating on the tacit assumption that you think there is nothing in the Middle East besides Israel which is even worth considering the value of). You might also know that India and Pakistan both have the bomb, and I doubt that either would be too happy about a nuclear strike so close to their countries.
Anyway, I know you won't listen to reason. That's OK, but I do seriously hope you get on blood pressure medication or up the dose if you are already taking some. Just because I think you're seriously mistaken about a lot of the opinions that you hold dear doesn't mean that I want you to die.
PPS - There's a good chance the original organic versions of the synthetic compounds in your BP medicine were found in plants in the "RAINFOREST" that we are wasting time teaching our children to save. http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/fieldcourses03/PapersCostaRicaArticles/F...
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