Margaret, please tell Howard that I love him because he loves you. But that is about all the reaching across the aisle that I can handle. A few years back, millions of people across this nation and across the globe marched for peace. George Bush ignored us and we had to endure his lazy ass being in the White House for eight years.
So now a black man named Barack Obama, elected by the will of the people, has decided to fight for the poor, and work for world peace… and a bunch of white guys who think Fox really is News just can’t stand it.
Well, they can kiss my ass because I am tired of their belly aching.
This is exactly how our political system works. Sometimes your party is in and sometimes it is out. Your party is currently out. So shut the hell up and deal with it.
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m all for a group of disgruntled citizens banding together to form a third political party because they don’t feel represented by the other two. But let’s be honest - this bunch of idiots doesn’t like that a black man is the most powerful man on the globe. I wonder if they know that, while 78% of the world is not white, only 13% of the United States is black. So they can relax. Barack and Michelle most likely will not be buying the house next door.
Tea Party members should listen up. As long as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are your torchbearers, you don’t have much credibility with me. One echoes between the ears and the other is 12 shy of a dozen. You honestly want me to think that your biggest issue is the cost of healthcare reform? You sat idly by while Bush squandered billions on a failed war, but all children having health insurance is too much to handle? That’s your beef? You realize, of course, that some of those children are white, don’t you?
Please. You might not be wearing hoods, but your misspelled signs are one step shy of a burning cross. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Trust me. It’s going to be eight long years for you Tea Party members. But we survived Bush and you’ll survive Obama. I mean it. Really.
Why don’t Republicans go down to the local soup kitchen and *volunteer* some time to asnistisg the homeless and the needy during the Thanksgiving rush With your vast knowledge base .. you believe this to be true? Obama knows what is affecting Americans the most Wow I think it is time for some serious reflection you are just grasping at straws with half truths and baseless accusations
By: Gagan on December 16, 2012
at 2:04 PM
This blog was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I have found something that helped me. Cheers!
By: Anonymous on May 8, 2012
at 10:11 PM
I ran across this while searching for something else and I wholeheartedly agree. This country is ideologically split down the middle (although it shouldn’t be because the wealth isn’t). Maybe there would be more jobs here if the corporations who have their headquarters here, thus making them “American” companies, actually produced their products here. American-made products are so scarce that my 6 yr old asked me if all things were made in China. My response? “Pretty much.”
Keep up the good work ladies!
By: Anonymous on August 22, 2011
at 11:16 PM
Yes, we will survive Obama but I must pose the question, is that all we should expect? I believed in and had an expectation that Obama would be fundamentally different than Bush. That he would end our seemingly endless commitment to waging war instead of continuing to feed the beast, our military industrial complex. That he would fight for universal health care for all Americans. Instead of the health insurance industry. And that after embracing the phony Wall Street bailout rhetoric he would at least restore proper regulation on the industry and prosecute those responsible for the scam, but no. He has absolutely no plan for creating jobs because like those before him he embraces the myth of free trade and globalization. I’m not saying any of those on the right are any different, they’re not, and that is the point. Obama is a smart guy who gives a great speech but he’s not one of us, he’s one of them, a politician. I’m afraid I won’t support Obama again. We so desperately need better… We need what Obama stood for before he got elected. I say draft Bernie Sanders.
By: Patrick on July 26, 2011
at 12:05 PM
N Pelosi has became to turn out to be one of the particular almost all liberal politicians inside the particular land. It’s onerous for myself to believe exactly how folks can easily reelect her within their own proper brain.
By: Margret Shaak on July 24, 2011
at 9:10 PM
We might survive obama but it will be much harder to survive with obama’s idiots….
By: Randy on May 5, 2011
at 11:41 AM
I’ve never seen so much STUPID in one place as I see here….
By: Randy on May 5, 2011
at 9:34 AM
Hey guys, nice to be here! I love margaretandhelen.wordpress.com!
By: ocameredesupraveghere on March 22, 2011
at 11:56 AM
well said
By: nagic on February 16, 2011
at 8:19 AM
A PRETTY SPEECH DOES NOT A PLAN MAKE
I gotta tell ya, the president has that speech thing down cold. He’s got it all covered; the body language, tone, timing and message were spot on. Obama should have his picture in the Wikipedia under motivational speaking. But for a concerned population facing some daunting issues will realize what was missing from the state of the union was substance. What’s still missing, what’s been missing for the last 2 years is any resemblance of a plan. That’s the difference between a real sputnik moment and a copy of one from 1961.
On rapid transit and high speed rail the president is correct, it’s absolutely necessary that the U.S. make the investment in high speed rail to compete with the rest of the planet. It’s common sense really. However there’s no plan on the table for building a high-speed rail network here. Then there’s the 600 pound gorilla in the room, who’s going to pay for it. Should have thought about that before you wasted all that cash on that mini stimulus and the latest tax cuts for the top 1%. Be that as it may. If he’s for real Obama needs to find himself a Robert Moses clone to have any chance of making this dream a reality.
Obama was again correct that other countries are leading the way in developing and installing clean renewable sources of energy. We continue to be dazed and confused in a fossil fuel fog of our own making. This is most evident when the president refers to clean coal as a viable part of our energy solution. Clean coal is pure fantasyland BS. Coal never has been or ever will be clean. It’s a 19th century solution for our 21st century problem. It’s the coal lobby speaking through Obama’s mouth. And does he really want to go down the nuclear road again? We tried that already. Besides, you make a mistake with nuclear you end up in a wasteland the size of Nevada. Even if you’re very careful and very lucky, you’ve still got highly radioactive waste piling up right in your backyard, forever. No thanks. So based on the speech we’re still nowhere on a plan for a viable renewable energy future.
The dialog about the factory jobs going offshore and competition was simply untrue. The US will never be competitive with countries who’s population are paid third world wages without benefits and the government subsidize the manufacturing to get access to the technology. He knows that, every politician knows it. It’s a free trade fairy tale. Except for Bernie Sanders up in Vermont politicians are used to treating the population like mushrooms when discussing outsourcing. They may be partially right on that count. For more please review my post @ http://www.thedailygruel.com on January 18th concerning green jobs to China.
Offering education and job training as a solution to the job creation is a distraction from the real issue. Of course it’s important to have an educated population but it had nothing to do with factory jobs going to China, India, Vietnam or Russia. Manufacturing made us the greatest most prosperous country on the planet. Corporations in search of greater profits just shipped it all away. Now it’s IT and accounting going away. Just look at what out technology and jobs are doing for China. Besides, we can’t even manage a full population with high school diploma’s let alone produce world-class engineers. Fair trade, no more free trade.
All that macho war talk makes me ill. That’s Obama tossing out red meat for the demented right. The wars are morally wrong and fiscally insane. Yet they just go on and on and on. We might have to go totally broke before our population wakes up and forces an end to these needless protracted wars. I’ll supply some figures on the war in a future post on my blog about the Republican response to the state of the union by Paul Ryan.
Don’t get me wrong Obama gave a great State of the Union speech but it’s just a speech. Bold ideas require bold plans and real leadership if they have any chance of becoming reality. The speech was the easy part and he nailed it, he talked the talk. Now he’s got to walk the walk and make it happen. But based on his performance the last two years I got a dollar sez he sits back and waits/hopes for someone else to step up and make something happen. I like Obama. I voted for him and support him. But he’s not leading here, he’s campaigning. I hope he knows the difference. Thanks much, Patrick.
By: Patrick on January 27, 2011
at 10:45 AM
did it work
By: Noah on January 27, 2011
at 12:25 AM
alrighty
By: Noah on January 27, 2011
at 12:23 AM
ok
By: michigannoah on January 27, 2011
at 12:21 AM
test
By: michigannoah on January 27, 2011
at 12:18 AM
Right on Helen!
By: Tina on December 24, 2010
at 10:13 AM
OMG, this is my first time here and I just wanted to let you know that you are WONDERFUL.
By: Patsy on December 14, 2010
at 7:16 AM
I need to get a new link to your surviving Bush and surviving Obama. I want to keep it and Iit keeps racing thru all the comments and I can’t get to it’s home page to download it. Can you help? Thanks, Carole in Oregon
By: Anonymous on October 10, 2010
at 5:53 PM
I can’t believe I just found this blog. Helen is my hero!!!
By: TresID on September 10, 2010
at 10:00 PM
It’s Helen’s blog fool!
By: Whatevia on September 6, 2010
at 4:48 PM