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07.07.2008 11:18 am

This country needs an elitist

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In 1932, a truly elitist man was sworn in as President of the United States. His lineage was from a well off family whose cousin was President. When he came into office – he was in agreement with the previous President that the economy needed to correct itself. With in months – this elitist President began anew and understood that change was needed, drastic change.

 

He understood that things like the status-quo must change and change is what he did. Because of this elitist we have Social Security, energy and work projects like the Hoover Dam, and so many other elements of our society and current way of life. We now need another elitist to guide us again.

 

Washington can help by not accepting politics as usual.

 

We need to get out of our messes by not allowing “politics and compromises” to slow us. We need an energy plan that mixes all cures not just more oil. We need to allow Social Security to be fixed without people being scared of the change. We need the medical care industry to be tackled by new laws that prohibit doctors from doing their job. We need new roads to help with gas mileage and expand the economy and repair our old infrastructure. We need to get out of the middle east – as the only reason we are there is that we need oil. We need to make food affordable by not allowing energy to take all of our gains.

 

We need an elitist.

 

Sal Easterley

St. Louis

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Hey Sal

Is Mr. Obama the elitist, that your speaking of. If so, we don’t need him, and his welfare type programs.

He is:

Anti-American
Racist
Proven liar
Rev. Wright
Weather Underground William Ayres
Weather Underground Berardine Dorn
Michele not a proud American
Voted present 70% of the time in Il.
Wants a bigger Nanny State
Higher taxes on all
Midwesterners Clings to guns
Midwesterners Clings to religion
Wants Universal Health
Tony Rezko
Far left wing
Flip Flop on campaign finance
Flip Flop lapel pin
Will not salute our flag
Will not drill for oil
No nuke power
Anti Military
Against handguns before he was for it
Piss poor judgement
Unfettered abortions
Most liberal voting record in the US Senate
He was against FISA before he was for FISA
Unable to speak without a teleprompter
Wants Windfall profits tax
Return to Jimmy Carters FAILED policys
Sweetheart real estate deals
Wants income distribution
Wants open borders
Flip flop on Iraq
Admitted drug use
Lacks meaningful expierence

It’s not exactly a newsflash that Obama is veering ridiculously to the center in a rather shameless attempt to reinvent himself, and his wife.

— JD
12:17 pm July 7th, 2008

Way to cut and paste a response Jefferson Davis! However, I don’t consider Obama an elitist. His background and upbringing is not on the same level as the Roosevelts, Kennedys, or Bushes. I would consider him confident, idealistic and intelligent. Just think, John McSame is just like W, the dumb as rocks son of a great man who got where they are on the coat-tails of their daddies. Now that’s elitism.

— Buddy
1:13 pm July 7th, 2008

Obamamessiah is most certainly an elitist. He went to a private school in hawaii, a private school reserved for the super-rich children of the ultra-elite. Same type of school Jimmy Carter and Al Gore sent their children to, and where Obamamessiah sent his children, when he wasn’t indoctrinating them with jerimiah wright’s racist hatred. He’s a millionaire, and really thinks he is The Messiah. He gets special breaks in land deals and mortgages, breaks that if any evil CEO got would start congressional investigations. Just listen to his condescending speech, he thinks he’s king!! And talk about dumb- Obamamessiah thinks there are 57 states in the US!

— tim jones
4:06 pm July 7th, 2008

Boy, Messrs. JD and Jones -
You certainly get a lot of mileage from your lists and pejoratives.
Anything new?
Ohhh - maybe this? “He caused his airplane to develop a glitch so he could avoid North Carolina and then spend a day in STL and pretend he was endangered, thereby engendering sympathy?”
YEAHHH ! ! !

— Thomas F. Maher
4:46 pm July 7th, 2008

“Just listen to his condescending speech, he thinks he’s king!! And talk about dumb- Obamamessiah thinks there are 57 states in the US!”

Man, I sure hope you did’nt vote for Bush after to listening to any one of his speeches.

JD. Buddy, what is this list you keep posting? Are these supposed to be negatives? Will not salute our flag? Really? You mean like ever? Or are you talking about then the National Anthem was being performed and he didn’t put his hand over his heart, which is not at all required? Just about everything on your list you can attribute to most if not all polititcians, and half of them would be an improvement on most things. Get real dude. He’s gonna be your next president. So you better figure a way to deal with that. I have no clue how anyone much less him plans to fix this train wreck we are apart of now but I’d much rather give him a shot than JM.

— JimmyRussell
5:42 pm July 7th, 2008

JD- Thanks, you’re truly a grating American-S. Hannity

— slamfist
7:55 pm July 7th, 2008

Sal,

You seem to want a lot of things, but hope to find someone else to get them for you. Turning everything over to an “elitist” doesn’t guarantee “change” will be for the better.

Much of FDR’s New Deal plans were overturned as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. In response, Roosevelt tried to pack the Court to get his way. He also interned loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry in prison camps during WWII out of fear they would be a fifth column.

Social Security was a sound idea when the average life expectancy for people in the US was lower than the age for full retirement benefits (65). Today, this vaunted program is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the so-called “trust fund” contains nothing but IOUs.

What realy turned the US economy around in the 1940s was our entry into the Second World War and the masssive amount of military-related spending needed to ensure victory over our enemies. By the end of the war in 1945, much of the industrialized world lay in ruins, and American industry faced little to no serious competition for decades.

Today, the candidate who is the so-called “agent of change” is surrounding himself with retread political supporters, special interest groups, and rich donors. He also changes his position on issues every time someone criticizes him.

Funny how with politics, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

— MercMan
10:25 pm July 7th, 2008

“…and the so-called “trust fund” contains nothing but IOUs.”

now this is what amuses me. Right before 911, the big fight was over the ‘lockbox’. The ’surplus’ was in the ‘lockbox’ with debate about the best way in, or the best way to keep it closed. It was I.O.U.’s then… and they were computed with the same sort of math that elevated Enron’s books. Any doubt that the projected future earnings that resulted in a ’surplus’ would not have held up? The dollar now, vs. the Euro, is half what it was in Jan. 2000.
We seem to have paid insurance for a fire in an empty warehouse…but there are lots and lots of ‘receipts’.

— CHUCKtheFED
11:21 pm July 7th, 2008

Thomas F. Maher , slamfist

If you libs weren’t missing so many brain cells you would be funny, but I was taught at an early age not to laugh at the mentally challenged and ignorance. You guys win the big prize.

— JD
6:13 am July 8th, 2008

I love that in the absence of being able to provide a legitimate refutation, JD has resorted to ad hominem attacks to other posts on this letter to the editor.

Several of the things that you list are extremely hypocritical, McCain is just as much as a flip-flopper as Obama, just are almost all politicians in general. Don’t even get started on Obama not being able to read a tele-prompter lest McCain’s problems reading the simple phrase “Lexington Project” be brought up. “Pisspoor judgement” (aside from being misspelled) is just an opinion and not a fact, good luck quantifying that one. If you’re going to bring up Rev. Wright you might as well bring up Hagee too.

I guess my main point is that one candidate is just as bad as the other. I probably won’t be voting for either one of them in November.

— andrew
6:47 am July 8th, 2008

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