posted by perkiset on Jul 27

Here’s an interesting post at American Thinker, having to do with their notion of Obama’s intelligence: Just How Smart is Obama?

Now it is true that virtually the entire nation was on GWB for his lack of gray-matter horsepower, but American Thinker did not seem to be too flustered by his nukular vocambulary. They are, however, convinced that Obama is a rank idiot and give plenty examples as to exactly why. I think this is funny because first off, everyone makes a mistake and I am CERTAINLY not one to throw stones, given a rather fragile glass house of my own. But the examples they site are *really* persnickety. It’s funny to me, just how hard they have to work to try to prove that assertion. In fact, I doubt that the tiniest percentage of people would even be able to tell there are errors in there - some of them are just downright silly.

I am so very glad that we have a president that is human, makes his share of blunders like the rest of us, but when it’s meaningful will fess up - like with the Gates issue. To pursue this line of attack is actually comical IMO, and makes clear how few *real arguments* the right wing has.

Have a great one!

posted by perkiset on Jul 16

The latest discussion over healthcare (which has recently moved into free speech) is a perfect example of where blogs are not the right medium for what I am trying to accomplish here.

I am considering converting my blog into a forum so that discussions can be had on all manner of political hot button. I think it would greatly help times like this. I would, however, limit who can post new topics. Commenting would be open at is now, but new discussion topics would be limited to a select group.

Thoughts?

posted by perkiset on Jul 4

Do you know why we celebrate today?

I’ll bet you think it’s because we became independent of England. That would be a common misconception. We celebrate July 4th because it is the day we adopted the Declaration of Independence, which officially made us a nation at war with England. The revolutionary war was not over until 1783, when we actually were free of the Brits.

I bring this up today, because of Obama being elected and our misconceptions about what he will do for us. It would be easy to think that, having done our job by electing him, healthcare, the economy, international issues, the auto industry, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea etc etc ad nauseum, would now be his issues - off our plate and all on his. That would be a horrible mistake indeed.

Obama said it in his inaugural speech: his election does not signal that change has happened: it signals that we have an opportunity to effect change. In fact, the real work, the hard and ugly work, is still yet to be done. For example: for us to actually effect change regarding healthcare, we will need to have a pretty massive uprising of pissed off people - enough for the elected officials to hear what we have to say, louder than they hear the KaChing that drops in their pockets from lobbyists. Obama will simply make what might be more possible, But he cannot actually make it happen on his own.

Just as the first continental army and navy went to war on the announcement and declaration of a profound, impactful and soaring document, yet had to fight on for several more years to lay in place our independence, so must we now continue to support, challenge, and at times yell loudly at our government and President Barack Obama - loudly enough that they get what we have to say, and do not forget who put them in office.

For it is the doom of man that we forget.

Have a safe, healthy and happy 4th.