Hey Don

How about enlightning us on ” I do believe President Obama is doing some wonderful things here and abroad and he certainly deserves the space and time to implement changes.”

Is it the apology tours he has been on?

The take over of auto companies?

The take over of the banking industry?

Wanting to increase our taxes with the Cap and Tax bill?

The 9.5% unemployment rate, and still growing?

Shutting down missile defense?

Socialized medicine?

Socializing the country?

Intrest rates going up?

Hyper-inflation in our future?

Please expound on what he has successfully accomplished.

Donald: If you believe President Obama is doing some wonderful things here and abroad, you live in a distant land of oz. If his performance on the domestic front was not so utterly inept, he would like be impeached as a traitor for his foreign policy. The republicans should just sit back and let the country watch this buffoon lead you big government loving children to the edge of the cliff until sanity reigns.

Donald Nations:

“Was Ms. Palin not paying attention when her gubernatorial colleague in South Carolina, Mark Sanford, spoke about his reasons for not quitting? He said something the effect, “If I quit now what kind of message would I be sending to my boys?” I believe he implied that quitting under fire or pressure from the media would be dishonorable and cowardly.”

Sanford had it pegged! I felt exactly that way when Obama tucked his tail between his legs to slink away from Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s “hate white America” harangues, using language in church that would have muleskinners fainting and falling from the pews. What kind of message did that send to the Obama girls, quitting the church under fire or pressure from the media, a dishonorable and cowardly act after only 20 years of dancing a confirming Boogaloo to Wright’s hammer and sickle jingle?

You make a good point, Donald. A loyal opposition is essential to a health democracy. Unfortunately, sometimes what you get is the looney opposition, like Palin, and her supporters on this board like doubtingthomas and the racist Iconoclastic sage.

As someone firmly on the left side of the aisle, I would really like to see some intelligent conservatives. The country needs them. Liberals need them for constructive criticism.

The problem is that the current mood in the right wing is severely anti-intellectual. Not only do they not value education, but they mock it, calling well-educated people “elitist” and “ivory-tower intellectuals.” That’s why Rush is more popular than George Will, and that’s why the republican party is sunk.

Though Pres. Obama was not my first choice, I do like much of what he’s done/is doing:

-discarded the hubris of the previous administration by explaining to the world that we know we’re not perfect. This allays hatred.

-attempting to save many people’s livelihoods by stepping as partial owner at GM. If he hadn’t done it, countless working class people would have lost their jobs and a way to feed their families.

-trying to save a crumbling financial sector (and again millions of jobs) by assisting there.

-making advances toward helping the environment in an albeit imperfect bill(after 8 years of environmental neglect and rollback by Bush).

-keeping the unemployment rate as low as possible, given the financial craziness the Republicans left us with.

-discarding outdated cold war weapons systems that kill civilians in “collateral damage” and thereby create more terrorists

-helping poor adults and kids afford health care, and making it easier for all of us to get it, even if we’ve lost our job.

-rescuing the country after 8 years of neglect by shoring up some of the economy’s most important pillars.

-letting interest rates get to a reasonable level, which not only cools off excessive borrowing that sets the stage for defaults, but helps seniors and others who live on fixed income investments get a little more each month.

Only an idiot would expect perfection after six months. And not all of his plans may work, but at least with this guy I get a feeling that he’s doing something proactive rather than fighting his daddy’s war and throwing cash to Haliburton. He’s got an impossible situation. I certainly wouldn’t want that job. And he’s got critics who attack him not just because he’s liberal, but because of his race (like iconoclastic sage.)

id, you infer that you are “educated,” I say you are indoctrinated. By calling sage a racist is nothing but a tool to shut him up. You know he’s right.

Did you call out the Rev. Wright for his racism?????? Screw you and your’s political correctness……….bunch of phony, opportunistic, pansies.

my id:

“And he’s got critics who attack him not just because he’s liberal, but because of his race (like iconoclastic sage.)”

I have recognized his race as he has but if you think that’s my only objection to Obama, you have been educated far beyond your intelligence. I am not a Socialist, he is.

Every Democrat in Ohio developed rectal aneurysms when Obama let that fact slip to Joe the plumber and not once did he say, “Hey, he’s right, the cat is out of the bag.” Every liberal in that state searched every record to discredit Joe. Must I accept that craven dishonesty because of the amount of his epidermal melanin?

Donald,
Conservagtives don’t need a front runner. The liberal acts in congress will make anybody put up on a 2012 conservative ticket a sure thing.

Some people forget that the Republicans did such a poor job that they are the minority in all levels of government now. If you people hate the direction this country is going, then why don’t you just move?

Donald, I’m a veteran too….30 years Army, two combat tours. Son in Iraq right now, second tour. Stepson wounded in Afghanistan. Being in the service doesn’t give us more credentials than our fellow Americans. Not sure what you have done…maybe you’re a Medal of Honor recepient, maybe, you did six months as a National Guard latrine repairman who was discharged for suddenly developing flat feet…I do thank your for your service. But I must say, if Governor Palin resigned her post, for whatever reason, it’s none of your damned business, nor is it mine, unless we live in Alaska.

Now see what you’ve all done?!! The letter writer submits an innocent letter of appreciation regarding a somewhat amusing (in a pedestrian sort of way) editorial on Governor Palin, and now “this guy’s a socialist” and “that guy’s a racist” and “why don’t you leave my country!” Obviously, Governor Palin is indeed a polarizing figure.

To my conservative counterparts: don’t be so hasty to anoint the next new and improved all-knowing fearless leader of the holy crusade. These things take time and cannot be forced, as Ms. Palin was forced into a situation she was not ready for. Take it from a liberal who has just returned after eight years in the wilderness. I, too, sympathize with conservatives for the dearth in Republican leadership. But take heart and remember that when George W. Bush was first elected, no one had ever heard of Barak Obama. Successful leaders have their own ways of breaking out of the pack.

You will recognize your new spokesperson by the new ideas he/she brings to the table. New ideas about individual responsibility and American potential, rather than tired Reagan-era bromides about the faults and failures of government. That person will proudly stand behind their conservative principles, rather than blame the opposition for their shortcomings. After all, it was Sarah Palin who let you down, not Barak Obama. Let her mercifully fade into history along with Michael Jackson, and Joe the Plumber; there are more important matters to discuss.