President Obama Wins Oscar Nomination - Best Performance SOTUS and After Party

[theFrankFactor]

President Obama Wins Oscar Nomination - Best Performance State Of The Union Speech and After Show

Looking at the responses among some Democratic websites and blogs, President Obama gave another great performance on stage in the the Hope and Change Show and the audience was moved to tears of hope for change. Not so much for the last year but... maybe... later. Tomorrow! There's always tomorrow!

State of the Union Speeches are pep rallies and there's nothing wrong with that as long as you know what it really is. George W. Bush had cheerleaders for his glistening, tele prompted oratory too. And to what effect? Well, he got everything he wanted. But still...

It's a shame that so many Democrats are so quick to fall in love with fairy tales and heroes. Words and actions are different things. If the Bush v. Gore debacle, the Bush years and this Presidency have taught me anything so far it's that, if you base your judgments on reality and results, the Democrats come up short... very, very short.

Democrats are quick to make excuses for their own failures and actions and rely on the never failing boogie man of the Republican party to blame for their troubles. Majority in the Senate? Check! Majority in the House? Check! Charismatic, great communicator, clear headed, grass roots supported Democratic President? Check! A commensurate performance in enacting Progressive policy? Fail! Reforming health care and the financial industry? Fail! Reinstatement of crucial banking and finance regulations? Fail! Investment in infrastructure and public works? Fail! Attacking NSA spying and the Military Commissions Act? Fail!

Surrounding himself with industry hacks and insiders? Check! Letting corporations write the health care bill? Check! Mismanagement of billions and billions of tax dollars given to business that failed to act responsibly? Check! Ending the majority vote for passage of legislation? Check!

Not that our great historic, Nobel prize winning President can't take some credit. There has been a lot of Reaching out, Reinvigorating, Re-engaging, Presenting, Inaugurating, Setting, Moving to, Refocusing and Returning to, goin' on. Stem cell research got a bump. Lilly Leadbetter act, that's good. Yeah, some nice things squeaked through to be sure. But realistically, we are supposed to believe that with majorities in both houses and this dynamic, charismatic leader of a President this is acceptable? These are the results of conscientious, dedicated and responsive leaders and leadership? In a pig's eye! Or maybe an ass' eye!

What are the great cry baby excuses for this? He's only had a year. He's just the President. It's Congress' fault. Is that what you believe? I don't. Try to wrap your mind around this. George Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court. George Bush couldn't talk. George Bush was on vacation all the time. George Bush was illiterate. George Bush and the Republican MINORITY got every damn thing their shriveled little hearts desired!

There is no plausible excuse for this incompetency, this impotency! None! Either Democrats are just so dog gone "diverse" that they can't support a cohesive progressive policy, they are incompetent or they are not really playing to win.

My pick is the latter. They were failures as a minority and they are failures as a majority because they are supposed to be. Because they don't represent Progressive policy, or you, or me. They are installed and bought by money and power in the form of corporate interests and their lobbyists.

When the curtain is pulled back as it has been by the sweeping electoral victories of Democrats in the last election cycles and they still can't squeeze out one tenth the productivity for their party that the Republicans did, and still can as a minority, it is time to take a serious look at what 's behind that curtain. This has to stop. It is wrong. It looks, smells, tastes and acts wrong! This nation's majority views are suppressed. This nation's majority views do not favor unlimited and invasive corporate power no matter what Sean Hannity says!

This has to stop! In light of the Supreme Court's allowance of unlimited corporate electioneering we as citizens are on a course for our own destruction. Barack Obama, the Blue Dogs and the rest of the fake and poseur Democrats are not going to find their souls and correct their courses on their own if at all. The work that has to be done must be done out here. We need Civil Rights and anti-Viet Nam caliber tactics. We need to examine the tactics that we can legally use to fight back against this usurpation of our nation's government by hacks and shills.

The plan of action isn't written in a book or on a web page... yet. We have to do it. We have to make it happen out here in the real world. MSNBC, CNN, CBS and the rest of the corporate media will only give us so much information and visibility. The Internet is our new pamphlet hand out and you can be sure if our efforts rise to a significant level the corporations that allow us to use the publicly funded invention of the Internet will come for that too.

Don't be glamored by nice words and fiery sermons. Don't let shiny objects distract you. This nation's government is sick and the mask it wears hides a very, ugly disfiguration of the People's Government. We need to join together to create nothing short of a revolution in the way our government represents us. How long will you wait?

[theFrankFactor]

1. Too Soon?

I sincerely hope that a year from now I am found to be utterly and completely wrong.

[tom_paine]

8. I hope you're wrong, too, but you're not.

In fact, Don Poppy Bush Corleone and Sonny Jeb "coincidentally" visited the WH for a "private social call" which Don Poppy later called "a good meeting".

After all the 1970s Soviet-style stuff that has occurred in this nation for the last 10, really 40, years is it REALLY a stretch to consider that The Don of Americcca's visit was to remind Obama of his place, not to make too good a show for the Plebs and not to get confused with what he was there for and start thinking he REALLY WAS there to clean up corruption and make systemic change.

Is it too much of a stretch to think that maybe Don Poppy is there with with Sonny Jeb in tow, so Sonny Jeb learns how the REAL governance of the Empire works and how to properly handle the "opposition", especially when they get to forgetting why they are there, and thinking their job in BushMerica REALLY IS opposition?

As I have said before, people who watch and believe the ever-more-nonsensical Propaganda Show put on by the RW Lie Machine and the "me-too" Corporate M$M are forever puzzled, which is why Kremlinology is the only way to analyze the Bush Empire and it's machinations properly.

As in "sure Bin Laden is worried about Global Warming and SURE he, a fundamentalist Wahhabist, is quoting Liberal Jews like Choamsky in the tapes."

My God, how much more laughably obvious and nonsensicaldoes it have to get before anything more than the tiniest 0.05% of us start asking common sense questions and understanding that what comes out of our Corporate-State-Controlled-Media is as unreliable as anything that came out of the 1970s Soviet Union?

Apparently, the answer is "much much MUCH more transparnently and laughably obvious".

I hope you're wrong, too, but you're not.

[ihavenobias]

2. I'm not a fan of SOTUs generally speaking, regardless of the president.

I mean, they're entertaining sure, but on the substance I personally find them to be lacking. Then again it would take several hours to get into more detail on all of the various topics.

[xchrom]

3. Recommend

[Andronex]

4. I really don't believe he deserves an Oscar...

His performance is weak as the good cop, all talk and no action, the characters are all wrong and not believable, I mean the bad guys are like caricatures, really not credible, we need to walk out of this corporate movie and demand our money back.

[SergeStorms]

5. The "un-reccers" have done a job on you.......

You must be negative 20 in recommends. ;) The giddiness of the past few days since Obama found his nut-sack humors me. These are the same people who drank gallons of the kool-aid in the primaries. They soured a bit after the election when Obama wasn't making beautiful speeches each week - keeping them full of that old fashioned political religion - but now that he's speechifying again they've rekindled their Obama-mania. Suckers.

I REALLY hope I'm proven wrong, and that he comes out swinging and KEEPS on swinging, but I expect the return to a kinder, gentler Obama: the Obama that wants everyone to like him and doesn't want to upset anyone (but his base).

We shall see. I'm very happy that he's started to fight like the Obama of the primaries and Presidential election, but whether he continues that course is the big question. Does he have the stomach for a constant street-brawl with the GOP? Because that's exactly what he's going to have to do if he wants to get his agenda through. :shrug: Only time will tell.

[pokercat999]

6. Start to fight? Hell if he just threw out the neo-cons in his

administration it'd be a start. But even that is too much to ask. Obama is getting his agenda through, it's a corporate agenda, he's doing what he is told to do......nothing more. He is a puppet like Bush.

[theFrankFactor]

7. The "un-reccers" and the Cult of Personality

Thank you all for the comments and support. One thing for sure, I'm not trying to win in a popularity contest. This is disappointment and common sense talking. I'm a Liberal and a Progressive first and a Democrat last. This administration smells rotten because it is and all cologne you dump on it won't change what it is.

I am only sorry so many Democrats are such dupes and so weak. It has costs lives and rights and will continue to do so as long as shiny objects distract from the stink of reality.

[theFrankFactor]

9. And look at all the well reasoned rebuttals!

My my, I must say besides flipping me off and running all I hear are crickets and the sound of Congressional Democrats loosing seats.

[sce56]

10. I agree with most of what you say and sorry to say my rec went nowhere as I have no Idea how many

un-recs your post has a lot I suppose!

I'll give you another possible reason the Democrats fail maybe they are being blackmailed look at how Jane Harmon was wire tapped nothing came of that now did it! In this country the odds are stacked against the people by the minority that hold the true power in DC the Bankers and rich families that have been running this country into the ground for their profit and be dammed with the little people they are not worth worrying about since "they never had it so good before" from the mouth of Barbara Bush!

I would also recommend you read this book

from DownWithTyranny http://downwithtyranny.bl...all-your-worst-fears.html/
Chapter 5: Oswald’s Friend

In 1976, a letter arrives for CIA director George H. W. Bush. His aides assume it is from a crackpot-- the writer claims that some kind of net is closing in on him, and attributes this to his having been indiscreet in talking about Lee Harvey Oswald.

Bush acknowledges to his perplexed staff that he actually knows the man, who is an anti-communist Russian émigré named George de Mohrenschildt. Poppy Bush confirms in an internal memo that de Mohrenschildt did indeed have some connection to Oswald-- but says he cannot recall the details of the Oswald connection. This is strange, stranger still for the head of the US spy agency.

Bush writes back to de Mohrenschildt that he has nothing to fear. Yet within a year the man is dead from a shotgun blast to the head. The official verdict is suicide. Baker begins a lengthy exploration of de Mohrenschildt’s ties to the Bush family, and to oil interests generally, dating back many decades. And he details the previously unknown military-oil-intelligence pipeline that brought anti-communist Russians out of the Soviet Union and settled them in Dallas, where they were plugged into business and society at the highest level.

We learn of de Mohrenschildt’s involvement with lucrative oil investment schemes in Cuba that were upset by Fidel Castro’s revolution, and his ties to what is described as a “private CIA” serving the interests of wealthy Americans abroad. Also revealed are De Mohrenschildt’s links to many figures identified in one way or another with the JFK assassination story-- from Abe Zapruder, whose footage of the assassination became a crucial piece of the conventional narrative of that day, to the leader of a military intelligence unit whose members included many members of the Dallas police department, and whose associate forced himself into the pilot car of Kennedy’s motorcade.

I have made it through 300 of the 500+ pages in that book quite a spy thriller in true life! Read more at http://www.familyofsecrets.com/

[bertman]

12. I'm right behind you at page 233, sce56. This book is a great read but the detail is daunting.

What is so fricking amazing is how these corporations and our intelligence agencies AND our government are all intertwined.

The Big Government haters on the right have plenty in common with those of us on the left who hate the influence of the Elites on our government. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get this wagon hitched to the same team of horses?

Thanks for promoting "Family of Secrets".

[sce56]

13. Another way to share this is to join the group on face book!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3181606&id=545668995#/group.php?gid=27527503210&ref=nf

[bertman]

11. Absolutely PERFECT, Frank!! Thank you for not pulling punches. I love Barack Obama and think

he COULD BE one of our greatest Presidents ever, but not given the trajectory he is currently on.

You are right that our government is no longer serving anything but the interests of the corporations.

HALLELUJAH for what you wrote.

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[avaistheone1]

14. Amen.

Really well written. I am with you.

[theFrankFactor]

15. Great posts and info. Thank you!

I looking for quality here not necessarily quality and I'm getting it. I appreciate the support and will check out the book and join the Facebook group.