Wonderful Interview on Charlie Rose...

[SkyDaddy7]

The interview is with Atul Gawande, The New Yorker...I think all the Obama Haters should watch this video. However, it based on the reality that the current health care bill is a very good start despite the fact it does not include everything we wanted. So, it would not support their "ideology or bust" mentality. I will never understand those who want the President to simply QUIT and scrap all the reform because they are not getting everything they want. American government does not work that way.

Very good interview...


http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10792

[dcsmart]

1. thanks a lot for this...great info

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[Cha]

2. Well, thank you, SkyDaddy...

and welcome to the BOG!

That Letterman interview with Rachel Maddow was really supporting the President, too..did you see it?

[SkyDaddy7]

3. YES!!!

I did see it and I was very impressed! I have had a very rude awakening over the past few months that we on the left have a faction just as irrational as TEA BAGGERS! I hate to say that but it is true! I can't figure out what all these Obama Haters actually think Obama is suppose to do? SNAP his fingers and create a LIBERAL AMERICA over night? It will take time to repair the damage to this country and to the American mindset...The GOP has had 30 years to mislead and corrupt the thinking in this country that all government is bad despite the track record to the contrary...I laugh when the right says the government does nothing correct but they sure do like the military...What about NASA, Police, Fireman, Medicare (Which the GOP all of sudden is acting like they support) Social Security, etc. Nothing is perfect but our government has done many things beyond correct and it will take time to point this out to a population that has been lied to for 3 decades.

My brother asked me the other day if Obama had signed any new gun or ammo legislation because some of the guys he works with said Obama has limited ammo sales...I told him NO NO NO these ignorant knuckle heads are being used as tools by the NRA! I told him to look at the Stock Prices for Ruger & Smith & Wesson Jan-Feb 2009 when the NRA started their scare campaign as Obama took office...The Stock Prices for these gun companies doubled & tripled in just a month or two! Exactly what the NRA wanted to happen! I also told him that the ammo shortage is because all these knuckle heads have run out and spent their rent money on ammo to the point there is none left! LOL! Exactly what the NRA wanted! Anyone with a brain knows Obama is not coming to get anyone's gun and on top of that it would be political suicide to start a push for more gun control laws. Plus, I doubt there are the votes for more gun control laws even within the Democratic Party. It just goes to show how ignorant and foolish many people are in this country and especially how good the GOP is at exploiting this ignorance to their advantage! SAD!!! Religion & Guns have won the GOP many elections over the past 3 decades and hopefully those days are coming to an end. HOPEFULLY!!

Have you read this NYT Op-Ed?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/opinion/09blow.html?hp

I hope he is correct!

[Cha]

4. I personally know the gun companies have done

a land slide business since Obama became president. A couple of my friends were run ragged by all the overtime at Remington Arms and we talked about ..exactly why. They're saying it's calmed down now.

"The Stock Prices for these gun companies doubled & tripled in just a month or two! Exactly what the NRA wanted to happen! I also told him that the ammo shortage is because all these knuckle heads have run out and spent their rent money on ammo to the point there is none left! LOL! Exactly what the NRA wanted.."

Thanks for that article..I enjoyed reading his outlook.. "The attack on the Republican establishment by the tea party folks grabs the gaze like a really bad horror flick — some version of “Hee Haw” meets “28 Days Later.”..he's funny.

They're definelty not "conservative" anymore, afaic..it's Teabaggers all the way.

He calls them "on the wrong side of history"..I should hope that lying racist hysterical bigots aren't calling the shots now after 8 years of doing just that with a tragic, disasterous ending.

[SkyDaddy7]

5. Yes, the buying has slowed but...

All it takes is the NRA sending out the emails and propaganda to reignite the gun rush...I am not shy at all to drop what ever money I can on Gun Stocks to earn a little extra savings off these idiots...I could use some extra help being on Social Security Disability and not able to work. And to know it was dumb ignorant Tea Baggers who were helping would be an added plus!

Please don't hold this against me but I am all about responsible gun ownership...It is literally the only political view I hold that could even be questioned or argued as being right wing. However, I lost all my respect for the NRA as a protector of rights long long ago. I know what they are all about and it is making gun & ammo companies money. I, and even more so the NRA, also know there are many Democratic Congressmen/women & Senators who are for responsible gun ownership as well and know there is not much besides the AWB that has even a chance at passing right now. So, the idea that Obama, Eric Holder or the Dem controlled Congress is going to begin taking guns away is simply BULLSHIT! Much like death panels and FEMA Camps! However, if the NRA sends out the PANIC emails to redneck America then we will see a return to panic buying!

Have you actually done a stock search on Ruger & S&W to see what their stock prices did last Jan-Feb? If can pull up a graph and it will make you laugh. Well, laugh in a troubled kinda of giggle. LOL!

Well, the media still feels it needs to try and compete with FOX News rather than do their jobs...So, given this fact and the fact Americans are in large part uninformed and have very short memories I would not be surprised at all if Sarah Palin becomes president in 2012...Especially if the crying & bitching over Obama actually reduces the left's turnout. It really does aggravate me to see the way many here act like Obama has not done so much already that we all wanted to see done. Of course, we are not getting all that we want on this health care bill but that is not so much Obama's as it is those who actually thought we would. I was shocked to see the Public Option idea get as far as it did. That is why Obama never said he would not sign a bill without a public option! Obama knows the political climate in America and especially in the Senate!