"We’re a really stupid country"

[impik]

John Cole:

Charlie Cook is on Hardball telling us how many seats the Democrats are going to lose, Nate Silver had a pessimistic piece out today, and they were talking about it on NPR today. And I have got to say- I can not figure out why.

When the President was elected and this congress took office, we were losing over half a million jobs a month. Now, we are gaining jobs.

In the past year and a half, they’ve stabilized the banks, the economy, and the major car companies, they passed health care reform that adds thirty million people and cuts the deficit long term while getting rid of the worst abuses of the insurance companies, extended the solvency of Medicare for a decade, we’re drawing down troops in Iraq, we are making progress with green energy, there has not been one successful terrorist attack on American soil, we’ve just signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty and re-examined our use of military weapons and we are making great progress on the global stage. Hell, the DOW is up over 3,000 since we got rid of the bums. Personally, we’re getting a road paved near me that was a disaster, and it is being paid for with stimulus money. We’re gonna put some people to work and have a nice paved road! And Obama and company did it all without getting blowjobs from interns.

And we’re going to reward them by kicking a lot of them out of office. We’re a really stupid country.

[Chulanowa]

1. There are two reasons

1) Republicans will hate and fight against any Democratic administration they are presented with, no matter what they do.
and
2) Democrats will hate and fight against any Democratic administration they are presented with, no matter what they do.

[boppers]

2. LOL, the ad underneath your name is for buying... Plutonium. On ebay.

Is that a creative sig, or what?

[Chulanowa]

20. It's an actual ad!

I was looking up info on plutonium on teh google, and, at least at the time google ran ebay ads that would offer to sell you whatever you were searching for.

[HughMoran]

10. Yep, that's all you need to know

Republicans will fight Democrats & Democrats have decided to let perfect be the enemy of the good, the result being 10x as bad as the 'good'. I hope the economy is picking up steam by then, it will take a lot of the wind from the right-wing sails.

[HughMoran]

11. Here's a perfect example of "Democrats will hate and fight against any Democratic administration"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8122920

What more do you need to know about why the Dems will lose mega seats in the fall?

[ClassWarrior]

3. I have to laugh at people who pull out the third grade epithet, "stupid," any time they can't...

... explain something.

And what does this windbag want? For our side to get complacent and ignore the election, figuring we have it in the bag??

:eyes:

NGU.

[Hersheygirl]

18. This country let George Bush in office for 8 years

I'd say "stupid" about covers it.

[ClassWarrior]

19. This country "let" Bush/Cheney** in office? It wasn't election theft? Twice?

:eyes:

NGU.

[Zoeisright]

28. Did we try to stop it?

Stupid is right.

[ClassWarrior]

30. Yes, "we" did.

NGU.

[Enthusiast]

4. NPR will always promote

right wing talking points. I will no longer listen to NPR.

We can prove them wrong on these elections!

[VespertineIconoclast]

6. I like your enthusiasm, Enthusiast.

:) The most important polls are the Election Day results.

[impik]

9. True, but we need to get our ass moving, because

the danger is real. Retaining both majorities is a matter of life and death, no less.

[Enthusiast]

12. It is! nt

[NJmaverick]

5. K&R

[Bitwit1234]

7. Isn't it about time we stopped just talking

about the election and got off our butts and did something to get the vote out. We need to do it on the local scale. And constantly and continually be sure we tell the country this. Over ride the tea bags and the radical republicans. GET OUT THE VOTERS. We have twice as many Democrats as republicans and they could bring our people home.

[HillbillyBob]

31. I spoke to my mom this past week she was veering into

tea bagger territory..the one thing we could agree on especially after me saying "well lets look into this". its not just taxes its not just medical its that corporations are orchestrating the teabag parties(she started to get huffy). I said look you have a puter and google up dick armey look at what the left has to say. Just look. Koch brothers.
These corporates are donating money that runs that bus with the red bloody hand on it. pause. and "Don Blankenship' "Who is that?" "Well he's the donor to the bloody hand bus, who owns Massey Energy coal company...the company that bought Dick Armey, and buying WVa legislature also donates to that same bloody hand, killed 25 miners this afternoon at Upper branch mine yesterday(our family has relatives in that area) will not pay a price for killing those folks and they sponsor the tea party. Silence .
Well love you and talk to you later....

[HillbillyBob]

32. We also have to get Progressives to run

I would, but have a 'chequered' past and our dem rep seems to be moderate progressive with a progressive bent if we push him hard

I want to see a good progressive run against Burr here in NC.

[left is right]

8. My dad says often

“Americans do not have the sense to govern themselves.” He says this after hearing or reading something that suggests that we vote against our best interest and in favor of the moneyed interest

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Where do you live?

The nation you see, and the panic you feel is like something from another universe. Where are you? Why are your state and local Democrats so untrustworthy? Think the schoolyard name calling might be a turn off?
Around here, our Democrats are going to stroll back to DC without much stress. Why is your locality so messed up? Do you think your attitude toward your neighbors is off putting? I do.
Where do you live? Your profile is blank as are most of the cut and paste types. What do you do for a living, and where do you do that?
Some blank profile paste master calling my countrymen stupid is not what I call trustworthy or persuasive.

[stray cat]

14. Unhappy dems refuse to vote and elect the GOP - yes there are many idiots in this country

[old mark]

15. Dems who refuse to vote, thus electing republicans, ARE idiots.

They should start listening to Palin speeches -
about the same level there.


mark

[ShortnFiery]

22. That meme will fall on deaf ears. You want progressive votes, do something for the PEOPLE before

propping up Banksters, the MIC and Wall Street.

Now, we're still slouching toward economic fascism. It's progressing SLOWER but it's still VILE.

[political_Dem]

16. In a way, we need--as a country--rescue the notion of intellect from the RNC.

By doing so, we can promote a country that is more erudite and more prone to critical thinking.

This morning, I couldn't sleep, so I listened to old Presidential broadcasts. I came across one in which FDR was speaking in French on air in the form of a message to those occupied in Vichy France.

I thought to myself, "What if Mr. Obama spoke in another language on air?"

Would it be as well received as FDR? In my cynicism, I thought, probably not. The Teabaggers and their handlers would probably send out a bulletin that they have finally proven the "birther" evidence that seems to keep some of the RNC chomping at the bit.

It is a sad day that not even a POTUS can speak another language on-air as a show of his intellectual prowess. It would always be seen with suspicion and an act of pandering (since the only time a foreign language is spoken by anyone in government, it is during campaign time.).

Once upon a time, speaking a foreign language showed sophistication. Now, one becomes the enemy of those who want an "English only" country.

When will we come back to an America that praises our thinkers and theorists from all walks of life instead of viewing them as an enemy of the state?

[ShortnFiery]

23. We need to oust the New Democrats who are addicted to economic Neo-Liberalsim. eom

[bobburgster]

17. It seems pretty straight forward to me.

I'm not sure how the majority of people in our country all of a sudden have amnesia.

[ShortnFiery]

21. We're gaining McJobs: temporary positions without benefits. We're growing an large UNDERCLASS.

Nice try John, no sale. :::

[Cha]

24. We're a stupid country because

we let the craven corporatatemediawhores control too much of the message for too long.

One of the many things I like about Pres Obama and Team is that..they are trying to change this.

[MadHound]

25. Well, considering that the right will go Republican,

And the left, feeling left out, will either go third party or stay home, there isn't much in the way of voter resources for the Democratic party to draw upon. Perhaps they shouldn't have gone about systematically alienating their base, you know, people like teachers, anti-war folks, LGBT, etc. etc.

[depakid]

26. The politics of disappointment

It'll get worse with the probable failure to responsibly regulate Wall Street.

[treestar]

27. they can't predict the election now

I don't know why they waste their time.

They want to make a drama out of it and latch onto anything that will meet that agenda.

[girl gone mad]

29. Stupid is using Reaganomic policies to try and fix a crisis wholly caused by Reaganomics.

imho.