Important Message About Sarah Palin

[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by Sean

For me, I wonder how much of this sentiment is accurate, and how much is the result of anti-Obama rhetoric. I don't personally buy into the claims of Obama and Bush being the same. Yes, Obama is clearly more of a centerist and pragmatist than leftists and progressives would have liked, but to compare, say, Libya to either Iraq or Afghanistan (and don't get me wrong - I didn't want us to get involved in Libya), or the approaches to taxes, or the whole health care issue, or Don't Ask Don't Tell, etc. reveals pretty significant differences.

I just heard a piece on NPR about gay activists being frustrated that yes, there have been positive developments for them under Obama, but not as much as they want, so they're upset with him. I'm far more sick of people expecting that they should be getting everything they want instead of accepting that this is a nation of vastly differing views and beliefs, and that the compromise this necessitates means progress will always be slow. When one group is getting everything they want, then other groups are invariably getting nothing that they want. That's selfish and untenable to me.

I totally see what you're saying about being able to compromise and accept that change has to happen on its own time.

I'm coming from the perspective that we are

* 4th from the bottom in inequality of wealth between rich and poor
* experiencing a drop in life expectancy, the first time in our history
* about to surpass our GDP with our Dept, and soon the interest servicing will absorb all of our GDP
* below places like sweden, canada, in terms of social mobility.

blah blah blah.

it's endless and for me its clear from just this that we have a leadership crisis, because I don't for a minute believe the american people aren't capable of doing better for themselves.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

I totally see what you're saying about being able to compromise and accept that change has to happen on its own time.

I'm coming from the perspective that we are

* 4th from the bottom in inequality of wealth between rich and poor
* experiencing a drop in life expectancy, the first time in our history
* about to surpass our GDP with our Dept, and soon the interest servicing will absorb all of our GDP
* below places like sweden, canada, in terms of social mobility.

blah blah blah.

it's endless and for me its clear from just this that we have a leadership crisis, because I don't for a minute believe the american people aren't capable of doing better for themselves.

That's fair enough. I agree on all those points.

[Strangelet]

hey Sean, where is your photo stream these days. you always take interesting pictures.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

hey Sean, where is your photo stream these days. you always take interesting pictures.

Thanks man! Great to hear that you enjoy them.

You can browse through all the collections here: http://www.tabblo.com/studio/view/tabblos/grandbrother/

But here's the direct link to the latest - some shots I got in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in India a month or so back. Most of them were taken in and around a network of 2000 year old man made caves that served as buddhist temples and homes: http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1823130/

My understanding is that the caves were all cut out of the side of the hills using nothing more than hammers and chisels - and there are over 100 of them! Absolutely amazing. Enjoy, and thanks again!

[Deckard]

Romney and Bachmann are neck and neck in a new poll.

[bryantm3]

i don't agree with bachmann on a lot, but at least she's not an idiot.

[Strangelet]

I was all keen on giving her a chance, because she's actually politically adept one of the more talented candidates in terms of presidential qualities.

Then she said the reason why she's doing so well is just God's way of validating the feeling He gave her to run for president.

I don't have a problem that she feels God prompted her to run. I do have a serious problem that she remarked as much to the media. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think even Sarah Palin or Huckabee came out and asserted their campaign is by directive from God.

It smells a lot more like politics than it does religious ferver. It's a wink wink, nudge nudge to the christian right: I'm your gal. If God wants me to run then God wants you to vote for me. You don't want to piss off God, do you?

extremely dangerous and completely inappropriate. I hope she tempers that shit quickly.