tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post4877229509317244593..comments2023-08-10T05:01:45.872-07:00Comments on Blog of Myself: a.k.a. "Joe"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09297686120651846304noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-48511387410004909442009-09-09T16:10:26.752-07:002009-09-09T16:10:26.752-07:00yeah, I kind of felt sorry for all the people who ...yeah, I kind of felt sorry for all the people who thought Barry O. was going to end the wars. "read more history" I thought. <br /><br />I actually think the health care crisis is non unrelated to the processes that NAFTA, GATT, WTO, etc., are part of. The more dangerous parts of those "agreements" are legal points that put most people to sleep. It's an awfully good legal-political club for corpos to beat everyone else over the head with. Luckily the US & G-8 aren't abiding by them, so the third world govt's are resisting.a.k.a. "Joe"https://www.blogger.com/profile/09297686120651846304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-66060798707321807342009-09-06T10:27:24.373-07:002009-09-06T10:27:24.373-07:00I've not soured on O himself, but more than su...I've not soured on O himself, but more than suspect the system is broken from bottom to top. Krugman had a good piece on this recently. Let's see what happens with health care. I'm opposed to the Afghan adventure but, like so many things, it was handed to us on a platter by Mr. Bush.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934944559857117395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5978975285518561941.post-43311504499635667582009-09-05T18:23:00.720-07:002009-09-05T18:23:00.720-07:00Let's not forget that Obama's in an "...Let's not forget that Obama's in an "unpopular war," too—one getting worse by the day. He's contemplating committing as many as 38,000 more troops to it. Everyone wonders: To what end? I have to say that it's not like he didn't call Afghanistan "the right war" in his campaign, so this shouldn't be a surprise. But that war on top of a failure to reform our unequal heath care system (a shift in the daily lives of Americans that I think is in no way comparable to NAFTA and GATT), and rampant coddling of greedy bankers, and genuflections before the same old lobbyists, he may well be looking at a single term. I worked for Obama, and I admire him; my disgust is less with him than with the Democrats at large, who once again are proving themselves gutless, bought-off hypocrites who talk big and do very little. In this they resemble no one so much as—Republicans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com