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OpenMike -- My New Blog -- Blasts Off on MichaelMoore.com

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Hey Everybody,

Though I'm in the middle of my next project, I, like you, can feel the ill wind blowing across the country as the crazy Right is already suited up and ready to ride into town in November. I don't have any magic tricks to show Mr. Obama, so I've decided instead to start a brand new unstoppable, unapproved, uncompromising, and utterly unruly daily blog on my site (MichaelMoore.com). And sometimes I'll write about what's really on my mind (sports, Marion Cotillard, lost episodes of "F-Troop" and "Rat Patrol," the weather in Portland).

Actually, a lot is on my mind these days, and I thought you'd like to hear my take on things. But before I launch into the Republicans, I remember the nuns taught us to clean up our own backyard first. So, in addition to my previous offer to move in to the White House and work for free, I'll now be sharing my thoughts with the President and with you on my new daily blog.

I'm calling it OpenMike, and I'd love for you to make a habit of checking it out every day -- and posting your own comments for the President and the voting public to see. Very soon we'll have some live chats and some other new additions to my site (like an uncensored "Ask Me ANYTHING FAQ," and some little daily subversive missions I'll send you on). Foreign visitors who are scared sh*tless that the bad old days are coming back are also welcome to join in.

Here are the first two days of my new blog (from Monday and Wednesday). I've reprinted Wednesday's below in full. Monday's has language I, um, never use, but I got inspired by Rahm Emanuel and I wanted him to read it (so I had to speak in his tongue). Some teens (and younger) may have parents who won't want them to read it, so kids, check with mom and dad as you always do.

I am so sincerely disappointed at how Obama and the Dems have blown much of the first 20 months of holding absolute power. (This is not to say they haven't done a lot of good, but stop any five people on the street and ask them to name the "great accomplishments" of Obama's first term and watch what happens.) The administration's bend-over-backwards, can't-we-all-get-along attitude may win them points at a 4-H Club fair, but their opponents are ruthless cutthroats and have rammed our good country right down the toilet -- and they want to be back in power so they can continue the final flush of everything we used to have and stood for. This likely debacle is less than 8 weeks away.

But it doesn't have to happen. Obama's speech Wednesday -- click here -- was awesome and showed the balls we've been waiting to see since January 2009. Do the Democrats deserve what they're about to get? Absolutely. But we don't. We'll be the ones who will have to suffer; they'll all have cushy lobbying jobs. So do we now have to save them from themselves? How much longer will we have to play this stupid charade? Or do we just let them crash and burn and then start something new out of their wreckage?

I believe our first African-American president deserves a couple more years to try to get it right. After all, he didn't create the disasters he inherited. I think someone's just got to light a fire under him. So I'll strike my match every day on this new blog. And I invite you to join me and do the same.

Anyways, enjoy my blogs, enjoy the site (it carries a lot of the buried news you may miss from the mainstream media every day, and it has some other cool things). Thanks to millions of you on my email list, to my 300,000 friends on Facebook and the nearly 700,000 of you who follow me on Twitter where I tweet and tweet and never sleep.

Thanks!
Michael

'A Week of Proclamations'

By Michael Moore

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 2:45 PM

Last week, President Obama addressed the nation, declaring the war in Iraq to be over and that combat troops were all home. Yesterday, two American soldiers were killed in Iraq -- by an Iraqi government soldier. This followed an attack on Sunday on a U.S. base in Baghdad. It all seemed a bit confusing to me because I always thought that when a President declares something, it's supposed to happen. Now I'm worried about the other proclamations Mr. Obama made this past week:

Tuesday, August 31:
"Today, I am announcing that combat operations have ceased in Iraq. There will be no more combat. Combat is over. Done. Finished."

Wednesday, September 1:
"I am here today to declare an end to global warming. Don't ask me how I did it. And there's no reason to look at thermometers or the polar ice caps anymore, because I just told you everything's great. Just send me another Nobel Peace Prize."

Thursday, September 2:
"Today I am announcing there is no more unemployment in America. Everyone else just got a big raise and fantastic health coverage. And all 37 million outsourced jobs are back. (Don't ask your bosses about the raise tomorrow, they'll just be embarrassed.)"

Friday, September 3:
"Today I am announcing that mosquitoes and all insects smaller than a centimeter will heretofore go away and stop biting hard working Americans."

Saturday, September 4:
"After today's victory over UConn, the Michigan Wolverines will cease playing effective football for the rest of the college season."

Sunday, September 5:
"From this day forward, I hereby declare an end to Formica and all other prefabricated counter toppings. Not for me to judge, but: Nobel Peace Prize?"

Monday, September 6:
"As your President, I hereby declare an end to Delaware."

Tuesday, September 7:
"Democratic Party combat operations have ended. Actually, they never started. We've refused to stand up to the Republicans for the past 20 months -- uh, sorry, make that 20 years -- I mean 30 years -- and we see no reason to start now. Republicans will organize a government after November and I'm just hoping they'll give me a few months to pack before they impeach me for being a Muslim atheist."

Wednesday, September 8:
"Today I am declaring an end to the slogans 'Yes We Can!,' 'Change We Can Believe In,' and 'Hope.' The truth is this: No we can't, there's not much change you can believe in, and my only hope is to find a way to turn the clock back to January of 2009 so I can start over and fight like the champ the American people thought they were electing. That is all. I will have no further proclamations."

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/happy-fuckin-labor-day

[Lost4words]

1. thanks for posting!

:donut:

[Mimosa]

2. Funny. n/t

[xchrom]

3. that was funny. nt

[flyarm]

4. hey Micheal, I had 3 workers in my home yesterday, when I had Obama's speech playing on my TV

all three workers were Blue Collar workers..they started talking among themselves, and thought I wasn't listening to them..they were talking over Obama..calling him a liar, and worse , much worse. They used the same language you used in your letter to Rahm, Micheal..and they were very angry. I was in a room adjacent to where they were working, so I walked into the oom and asked the men why they were so angry?? One of them asked me if I would mind turning Obama off the TV..he said Obama makes his Blood Boil ( his words, not mine) So I asked if they were Republicans..NOOOO they all answered in unison! The man who said Obama makes his blood boil said that is why he is so angry, he said he was a lifetime dem and he voted and worked GOTV for Obama. The other two guys said they were also democrats. I said I was a democrat as well. Well after I told them I was a democrat , they opened up and told me all the reasons they were so angry. Seems their jobs were all on the line and so many of their fellow workers had been fired as their employer did not think a layoff would suffice, they said they were on skelaton crews, doing twice the work to make up for so few workers now, with no increase in pay but a major increase in work. These men said they now work many times 7am to 9 pm to get all the work done, and they can't say a word for fear of losing their jobs!

They repeated to me that Obama is a liar, they voted for him, they worked to get him elected and they are more screwed now than they were under Bush! They were angry! And they weren't afraid to say so, in fact when I told them I was a democrat they seemed to open up and let it all out!
My house cleaner was here at the time and she agreed with them vocally!

I asked them all if Obama did anything they agreed with, the answer was a resounding NO !
The men said their Health Insurance has gone up, and one man was a Vet and he said it is a lie that we are "OUT OF IRAQ" and he was extremely angry that Obama accelerated the war in Afghan..then the man turned on me and said "TELL ME WHAT IS ANY DIFFERENT THAN THE LAST ADMINISTRATION?" He then answered himself.."NOTHING THAT'S WHAT!!" he said. He said except that now he feared every dsy he came to work he would lose his job, and everything he has ever worked for!

I am sorry to say, I could add nothing to change these men's minds..I tried but to no avail.

To list the things Obama has done, that is insignificant to their lives, and that does not effect their lives directly, would have been an insult at that point.


Micheal Moore is correct , ask people what Obama has done, people who don't go on blogs because they are working long hours just to keep their jobs and their livelyhood..ask them .. you will get an earful..and it won't be the earful you want to hear!

[FrenchieCat]

5. Are you sure that your 3 friends wasn't just you and 3 mirrors?

:rofl:

[flyarm]

6. 1. they weren't friends..But I understand reading and comprehension is difficult for you!

i would put a laughing icon here..but I am serious!

[yodermon]

7. you know Frenchie, ordinary folks aren't plugged-in political activists.

If their lives suck, they aren't going to make the cognitive political calculation of "well i better keep voting Democratic because the alternative is worse."... no.. they'll just Sit Out the mid term elections (and probably 2012 unless their lot SUBSTANTIALLY improves.)

..it's a great set-up for you though... if Dems lose this fall, these non-voters whose lives happen to really suck ass will *also* end up as *your* convenient scapegoat for why we lost. :rofl: indeed.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. To recap:

Republicans feel like they're going to win... so let me help them do so by starting a daily bitchfest at Obama. Brilliant.

[TheKentuckian]

9. Lets see. Instead of recognizing concerns and working to address them I'll just kick, scream, wipe,

and dangle till the ship is docked in Davy Jones locker and blame those that expressed problems.

[impik]

10. Yay! Obama sucks!!!

Idiot.

[Cha]

11. Michael Moore is acting like an idiot..so

be it.