And Debsweb has listened.

nailhead <<< hammer

"But, Mo-om! He is sposeta SAVE us!

"Slave, honey. Slave."

That must be some sort of record: presidential administration set in stone as authoritarian regime 24 hours prior to beginning.

I'm as realistic as anyone, and will concede immediately that your prediction for this administration, DW, may well be accurate. However, it is only a prediction, and one based on some pretty strained tea-leaf reading. It is also possible that a popular alternative interpretation is correct, that Obama is softening resistance on the right in preparation of implementing his policies.

As for Obama's being a 'right winger,' well, only in comparison with the world polity can that be defended. The entire American spectrum of politics is to the right of most of the world. Within the American spectrum, he is a centrist and a moderate by most measures.

Good evening, nightshift.

Although on a global scale I am a publisher of phenomenally little patience when it comes to suffering the likes of the Right-wingers, the Men in Black, and the insane Leftists at some sites, here I anticipate a lively level of agreement, disagreement, and qualifiers on what I write and publish.

That is certainly the case with this article and all the others I will post condemning the Obama Administration. It never hurts me to get some flak (especially when I'm just asking for it).

Not that it will change my mind, but it will certainly keep me from having my ego swell to galactic proportions. (Yeah. Right.)

My disdain for Obama has not been a one-step journey: the proverbial "last straw" has been a descending bale. From his association with Zionists to his lack of grasp of just how much of the economic crisis can be traced right back to the Federal Reserve from which he has drawn his Treasury Secretary, the litany has been grim. Arne Duncan, his choice for Education Secretary, hit a really, really raw nerve that was already throbbing. The man's tenure as Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools has been nothing short of an outrage to teachers, students, and just about everyone else but the politicians and the parents upon whom he refuses to lay the blame for what is precisely their years and years of failures. He is an administrative thug without a clue about education, given that he is nothing but a lawyer and a political flak, himself.

Every time I saw a good choice Obama made, someone like Daschle or Richardson, I thought about something like "balance." I just cannot see that anymore, though. Far too many of his choices are just plain ugly.

Then I recall that I know enough about Obama on a close professional level to understand that these choices are not aberrations or exceptions; they are reflections of the Barack Obama with whom I became familiar in his early political days, back when he was hustling up the ladder and shunning every last person who was of no use to him on his way up that ladder.

This is not a man of hope and change; this is, instead, a very typical Chicago political hand, a fellow who sees what he wants to see because he shoves everything else out of the way — a man who says what he needs to say to get where he wants to get.

He is, quite succinctly, a true American success story.

I know how this story ends, just like I knew how the Bush Administration story would end.

Keep after me, though, nightshift; otherwise, I might have nothing to keep me from overdosing on bad coffee and antacids.

The Dark Wraith just remembered that he hasn't made a fresh pot of brew in almost an hour.

Good Evening, Dark Wraith,
I see my Facebook pal nightshift has arrived, and expressing some opinions of which I share.

I will go out on a limb here and say I hope you are wrong. But I fear you are not. I have long suspected that there is a higher power than the preznit who dictates things. I used that rationale to explain some of the Bullshit from the Bullshit administration, and with the arrival of Clinton 2.0 I'm even more convinced.

Still, I am willing to give the guy his honeymoon plus a month or so. But time's a wastin'.

Geez, konagod, you mean there's a honeymoon?

And no one told me to pack the large suitcase?!

If this is one of those Love Boat cruises to the islands, I am so going ashore at the first port of call to do some shopping.

Cripe.

A honeymoon, and I didn't even make a try for the bouquet.



The Dark Wraith is such a sentimentalist at heart.

The Dark Wraith sees the cloud looming behind the silver lining.

I'm glad somebody does.

I respectfully have one disagreement in your evaluation of George W. Bush. He's no imbecile. Look at the crimes he's gotten away with.

May I offer one final suggestion for those who doubt Mr. Obama's true color, so to speak. Today was the Martin Luther King national holiday. Anyone familiar with events since 1968 might recall hearing how Dr. King's family no longer accepts that James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. King.

Perhaps it is time for a new President to re-open the investigation.

But I wouldn't bet on it.

Unlike the prayerful, the caretakers of a cemetery are anxious for nothing other than the soil to settle.

That is the essential difference between those who keep faith and those who keep watch.

my faith died at dong ap bai, hue, khe sanh and the a shau. what slim little slivers of hope i had left sorta vanished with the bulk of my wealth in a very short time.

now, i hear obama talking about how it is much more important to "move forward rather than looking back" which means that fucking torturing bastards, soulless criminal fucks will walk free because they claim to have satisfied their twisted sadistic natures under the color of national security.

i picked a fine time to quit shooting heroin didn't i?

Minstrel Boy, Shirley it's reasonable that if there has been a bank robbery (scratch that, for paulson), a murder, then the police should focus helping the victim heal, rather than look back at the evidence and seek to apprehend the perpetrator. Right?

I hate the phrase, 'That won't bring back the dead.' Like, 'Assigning blame in this disaster won't bring back the dead, we should focus on healing.'

I always want to scream, "How will that stop you from resurrecting the dead?"

We cannot bring back the dead, Weaseldog, but that does not mean we cannot dig up their corpses, stuff them, and put them on display for all to see.

If we're going to live on bread, then we can at least have a circus with a decent freak show.

That's how the Dark Wraith sees it, anyway.

DW, you're The Man.

Of all the many challenges that bring opportunity for this president to truly unite the country, Obama proceeds nonetheless with the appointment of tax-cheat Tim Geithner to serve as our IRS role model. He is slated to be sworn in tomorrow while the champagne corks are still popping.

I thought or ehm, had hoped that the Office of the President would, upon Bush's departure, be restored by Obama to uphold old-school values like truth and honesty, but this ludicrous appointment of Geithner shatters the whole illusion of a trustworthy Secretary of the Treasury and speaks volumes about Obama's commitment to such pansy-ass virtues.

Whew! Glad to know I've got a place to stop by when I get my fill of the overblown rhetoric in favor of President Obama (and sincerely, it is far over the top in many cases).

I don't put as much weight into Obama's pro-Israeli ties as you do, Dark Wraith, because it is my opinion that there is no other side in American politics. At least, none with any political possibilities whatsoever. In short, I take it as a given that any successful U.S. pol will be pro-Israeli.

I know literally nothing about Obama's choice as Sec. of Education; I consider the post to be little more than window dressing, to be honest. Thus, I am not in a position to argue for or against the man.

The holdovers Obama is keeping at Defense and in the Treasury give me the most concern as an observer. However, I'm not ready to pronounce judgement on an administration now in its 9th hour of existence.

Oh, and DW, I do appreciate your tolerance and expectation of honest dissent and vigorous debate. I've long been a proponent of the ancient, perhaps archaic, notion that true knowledge comes only from the honest, open clash of ideas.

No, no, no, the Oborg promised Hope and Change and mostly Unity.

Assimilation into the Collective for the good of the Collective. All of the old political differences of the past are gone!

What, you still remember them? You must be a cynic.

Same here.