Obama

Watching the Queen of England and Michelle Obama on TV reminds me of how far we actually have come in human affairs. Since the Henrys ruled in that small nation, long before the British Empire was built and then released back into the wild, class has become quite a bit less meaningful.

Dear Mr. President The Mattress is All We Have Left

President Obama, The real problem with the banking institutions of the USA is not just bankruptcy. It is the amount of drainage the managers of the banks pull out of the system of money management. Every dollar drained off for bonuses and salaries seriously impacts the depositor. It is the imbalance between our interests and those of the people running those institutions that is driving us to put our money under the mattresses.

Or How Obama Can Handle Bunk Banks And Turgid Traders

The screaming on Wall Street is audible on Main Street. But in the Beltway it is business as usual. Not that Tiny Tim Gerthner and his boss Ebenezer Obama are not trying. But a political establishment as entrenched and deviant as the one in Washington D.C. Is slow to change. Forty days in that ideologically driven desert, where no new ideas dare bloom, would cause most Messiah's to despair.

Or How You Can Spin Out While Trying to Turn the Corner

Lying, without qualms about any repercussions, is a real art form today. Of course we call it spin but my mother and her whole generation were not so easy to fool. They knew a lie when they heard one. They heard, “Prosperity is just around the corner,” from Herbert Hoover, the George W Bush of their time. Now, according to some Nouveau Right economists, Hoover was a sadly misunderstood genius.

Or How the Right Have Finally Found Their Principles

Peel back the layers of the onion and when you get to the heart of Republican Principles, a word and phrase we have heard ad nauseum, they are soft and squishy. While peeling an onion that had sat in the drawer too long that analogy attacked me and held me down until I agreed to put it on paper. Now that poor pathetic rotten onion is being blamed in my analogy; blamed for all of the hate and bitterness, calumny and meanness of spirit the voices of the right are heaping on the rest of us.

 Or How the State of the Onion Makes Even the Right Cry a Bit

In the few days since President Obama took office the Republican response took a left turn. Or at least the Governor of Louisiana in his response hit the populist button regularly in his response speech. His most common phrase was, “The American People Can Do Anything!” Well Bobby, “Yes We Can.” We can discern jingoism disguised as patriotism in a New York Second. We can also tell real political acuity from silly partisan rhetoric.

Or How an Unpopular Republican Governator Could Succeed and a Popular President Fail -- Part 1

Proposing a test for officeholders that holds them to their obligation to the people has become uncommonly ignored by the public. No one can argue that we are running a government dictated by the whims of the proletariat in this nation. After years of a Presidency run by men who massacred the meaning and purpose of our constitution in spite of oaths to the contrary we are used to politicians running amok.

Or if You Imagine it is Easy to Say the Right Thing Inside the Fish Bowl Try it Sometime

Rick Santelli is one of the more soundly grounded guys on the babble box these days. His views are generally measured and defined by his genuine insights into the markets and the economy behind them. He is also a bit more passionate than the run of the mill financial analyst on CNBC. So it was no real surprise when he expostulated dramatically about President Obama’s attempt to fix the home foreclosure problem. Some people then seized on his comments and critiqued them a bit harshly.

Or Now That We Have A Leader Can We Learn How to Follow?

Watching Obama play with the ideas that summon up a press corpse in these fractious times is fun. Never mind that journalism is dying as the newspapers gasp for money and advertising. Never mind that even the mindlessness of the Super Bowl was not quite the commercial success for the TV producers involved this year. Just enjoy the fact that just for one shining moment someone answered questions for serious people who really want to hear answers. And one hell of a lot of us watched him do it.