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What We Should Expect From Our President

Posted: Aug 11, 2011

A friend of mine posted this on facebook this morning.

It gets very interesting at about 3 minutes in to the show.

I agree with the speaker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z1XOBDbIy0

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I agree with the analysis 100% - with regard to

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defining the problem, but to say Obama has not addressed the extraction of money from the country by trade, banking and taxes is simply not true. He has proposed reform in all three arenas. Guess what happened to those proposals?

Somehow, I think we should leave the impassioned speeches to the Dylan Ratigans in media, which serve the very useful purpose of sparking national dialog. When Obama makes them, he just gets ridiculed by the haters and senstionalized by their media taskmasters. I do believe Obama could try "taking it to the people," and suspect we will see him doing just that in the months leading up to the election next year. He is a good trailblazer, but I am afraid he has inherited his father's curse, who in Africa attempted to become a great compromiser while putting himself up against some truly crazy, entrenched, pig-headed intransigents. It broke his spirit, ruined his career and turned him into an empty shell of his former self.

Whether any of this ever translates into concrete policy change (which would require a tectonic shift in Congress) is, unfortuntely, exceedingly dubious, though I do think it certainly would appeal to his base supporters and many independents who are feeling beyond frustrated with status quo in Washington. Ultimately, I do not think it is practical to assign this burden to any one single individual, nor do I think it is realistic to think for a moment any party in congress will take this initiative on their own. I think the issue is larger than that. The only entity powerful enough to deliver this message is the voters, who must make their voices heard (hopefully as eloquently as Ratigan did yesterday), engage whole-heartedly in the process, hold the leadership accountable, show up at the election and CLEAN HOUSE.

As a side note, does anyone have any idea where Dylan Ratigan is today? The substitute host said he would be filling in "for the remainder of the week." Hopefully we will not see another articulate and outspoken MSNBC host go the way of KO and Cenk Uygur or get shuffled to a 3 AM time slot at the hands of Comcast execs, who seem determined to homogenize the network into a CNN-esque clone.

I wrote the same reply, but due to a keyboard slip - sm

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my message disappeared. I would add that I believe President Obama has already given this speech. However, the media would rather cover the latest picture of M. Bachmann, or the latest gyration of the Wall Street, or the latest celebrity checking into rehab, rather than to cover anything our President has to say on the important matters affecting our country. You have to listen closely. Did Fox cover the speech this afternoon?

Yes they did, saw it live. (nm) - Zville MT

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