Obama Addresses Job Creation For Election Year (Video) and GOP ect..

Obama Addresses Job Creation For Election Year

“President Barack Obama’s “billion-dollar war chest”"

 

We are proud of it.

Still things seem to be going all right, toward reasonable directions. And there is an “INTRIGUING,“ “HILLARIOUS“  title of  Yahoo news.:

 

“The evangelical dilemma in South Carolina: adulterer or Mormon?” 

 

“For South Carolina conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, the 2012 campaign season is the year of magical rethinking. Look at the frontrunners:

If you want a president with a legacy of marital fidelity, you’re going to have to work around Newt Gingrich’s adultery.

If you believe that Mormons don’t really qualify as Christian, you may find yourself struggling with Mitt Romney.“

 

“almost-dead.bz.cm” you are none of my concern. you are too stupid, trivial, meaningless, filthy, same with your Russian whore and her stupid husband. YOU THINK I”M ALMOST DEAD?; your life has been useless, full of dirts with your dirty heart/eyes, even messing up churches with your filthy, dirty eyes. The LORD will deal with you, what you have done. not me. Despite all cruel/brutal things you’ve done to make me disappear, why do you think i’m still here?

“In your righteousness, bring me out of trouble. In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.” “The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shred. You saved the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty. You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light…..You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn. I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed. I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet. You armed me with strength for battle; you made my adversaries bow at my feet. You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes. They cried for help, but there was no one to save them – to the LORD, but he did not answer. I beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind…“ “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”;  Psalms 18″ Thank G-.

How to Save the Drowning America: “Four Rules” by Robert Reich

America is drowning. It is on the way of going down, unless anybody does anything to change the current destructive ways of things work in this country.

Dr. Robert Reich offers “Four” Simple Rules of How To Prevent This Country from her “Disgraceful Fall”, a country which used to put the world under her command.

Supper Congressional Committee, Super Rich, Super Businessmen, whomever, should think about “Who let them have what they have now at first place?, “Who let them to grow bigger than who they used to be? It’s This Country. This Land. These people. Without them, super rich, super businessmen would not have existed “as who they are now.” If this land and people go down, super rich, super businessmen will go down together, because they will lose the source of their richness. Why don’t they pay back what they owe to the country, to people? Why don’t they let this country, the people to recover from their fall and remain well nourished enough so that they can enable super rich, super businesses to continue their business and earning profits. In a same way that farmers maintain their fields well nurished enough to make sure successful harvest every year. Wisemen will not hang on small profits but look into bigger picture in longer term. That’s what big people do. Don’t be small.

“The Left Edge of the Possible?”: “Actually Beyond Right and Left”

Respectable Mr. Robert Kuttner depicts the current national situation pretty well. As he points out in his blog, “The Left Edge of the Possible” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/the-left-edge-of-the-poss_b_828907.html), the real serious national political/economic issues are economic recovery and the budget, the health system, the banking/housing mess, American economic competitiveness in the world, rising gas price and global climate change.

Current national and global economic situation seems to become increasingly beyond the capacity of left and right of US politics. In other words, the right and left of US politics are increasingly limiting their abilityto smaller issues while being oblivious to eminent, bigger issues.  For example, Wisconsin Governor Walker’s attempt to rip of public workers’ right to organize that caused the consequent labor movement against it seems to be a complete sidetrack from what need to be done for the sake of solving current national issues of recession and joblessness, making things worse. Like there are not enough problems now.
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Llord anoints Kking;”rainforest waterfalls”.

Obama, O’Reilly Interview: Super Bowl Sit-Down Between President & Fox News Host (VIDEO)

I agree with you. This interview shows the extreme opposite qualities of President and O’Reilly: Perseveran­ce of integrity and respect and sincere efforts to answer to questions from President side vs. totally lack of integrity, respect, and efforts to carry on sincere conversati­on from O’Reilly side as a journalist­/tv personnel. The drastic difference in these two people shows who rises to the top of the nation and who remains in tv as a perfectual­ly grumpy granpa who constantly­, angrily criticizes basically everything­, nothing makes him happy, the world should be something wrong all the time, otherwise things are not right for him. Based on their demeanor, it’s confusing who’s President and who’s not. O’Reilly looks anti-visio­nary. I’m impressed by President even more.
More on Video
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What Lessons of Election Day?

I think Mr. Kuttner’s post,

“What Lessons of Election Day?”

 

(Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com//robert-kuttner/post_1183_b_776752.html) is a great one to think about at this election time.

Regarding his statement:

“liberals are dismayed with Obama not because this or that initiative was insufficiently lefty. They are mad at Obama for blowing what had to be a Roosevelt moment, and thereby ushering in a totally needless period of far-right resurgence, dominated by a lunatic right that makes Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove look like moderates.”

As a person of pragmatism and willingness to compromise for good (which may make me sometimes look too weak), I feel like I understand President relatively well. But at this point, I have to admit the deadly combination of destructive opposition, partially ill-spinned pragmatism of president, and the screw-up of his economic team (except dear Christina Romer).

I admire liberals for their eagerness for pregress. But sometimes, I also wish them to take accounts of barriers, limits too. I strongly agree with Mr. Kuttner that:

“Far better would be for Obama to draw the right lessons and surprise his critics now.”

Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine

Regarding Mr. Norman Solomon’s statement, “the president has empowered, not countered, the right wing by moving in its direction on a wide range of basic policies and governance formulatio­ns….Rath­er than staking out decent, progressive, populist positions and defending them with moral fervor, “

The statement, “the president empowering the right wing,” seems to be incorrect. The blind objections of the opposite political party against whatever the president’s agendas, opposition for the sake of opposition seem to have resulted in empowering itself. it sounds almost nonsense to state that it is the president who empowered the opposition party.

I believe liberals are people that are well informed, well educated of politics with passion for better society. But they also need to learn how to take in different contributing factors in judging policy outcomes. Also, sometimes, even the outcome may not agree to what they really wished for, for the sake of country, maybe sometimes sacrifice what they believe to certain extent and support their leader if there are still value on him. Choose Big One at the costs of small ones. It wouldn’t make things better if they let down their leader to let the opponents win.

In Asia, there’s a saying that if too many people row a boat, the boat will climb a mountain (instead of sailing water.) If there are too many voices and nobody know when to be silent, or give in, nothing works.
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Cesca’s American Temper Tantrum, Center-Leftness

Mr. Cesca has interesting, insightful view of defining Americans as Center-Left in place of Center-Right in below  post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/despite-americas-temper-t_b_735466.html

According to the numbers shown in the below excerpt, America definitely sounds like “Center-Left” nation.

“A majority of Americans, 54 percent, believe abortion should remain legal. (The pro-life label is also misleading, so we’d do well to ignore polls containing that frame. After all, who in their right mind would admit to a pollster they’re “anti-life?”)

A super-majority, 65 percent, of Americans refuse to sacrifice civil liberties for additional anti-terrorism measures.

50 percent of Americans, even in this slow recovery, believe the environment should be given priority over economic issues.

Americans are now solidly in favor of same-sex marriage. 58 percent.

A massive 87 percent of Americans believe gun laws should remain as they are now or become stricter.

A majority of Americans support embryonic stem cell research. A majority of Americans support allowing open LGBT service in the military. Overwhelming majorities of Americans support social welfare programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Americans support the progressive income tax, and we support allowing the Bush tax cuts for the super rich to expire.”  – Bob Cesca-

I am glad to hear that “50 percent of Americans, even in this slow recovery, believe the environment should be given priority over economic issues.” At this tipping point of earth, the issue of environment should be the umbrella issue that incorporate economic issue as one of its subcategory issues. Without livable environment, the issue of economy doesn’t exist in our horizon.

And I find Mr. Cesca’s below view very interesting.

“Unfortunately, there’s a good chance a Republican Congress will try to freeze spending or force a government shutdown, risking an economic backslide at the worst possible time. Congress and the press, meanwhile, are mistaking inchoate tantrums for a “center-right” shift and that’s simply not the case. We have anger management issues here, and I’m still hopeful that we’ll snap out of it and grow up before we put the recovery in jeopardy…”

America needs tantrum/anger management to mature.

Elizabeth Warren, Finally Got There? Almost.

I am relieved to hear the following news in Prof. Elizabeth Warren’s words:

“The president asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has also asked me to take on the job to get the new CFPB started — right now. The president and I are committed to the same vision on CFPB, and I am confident that I will have the tools I need to get the job done.”

One step at a time. One by one.

Of course, as Prof Warren is known to be critical to Federal Government, it may not have been an easy decision for the White House to onboard its own critique as its crew. But I heard that “Big Person” has the capacity of being open, listening to it own critics, and accepting/adjusting to some of them if reasonable. Eventually, that adjustments will pay off.

The ruined US economy became the condemning ghost of previous presidency and helped the candidate Obama get his momentum high toward US Presidency. But, since then, it has turned its claws around to hunt him back down, with the same trap, in the middle of his presidency. Some differences in President’s policies may have made some, or slight differences in current political climate. But, the fundamental problem must have remained anyway and the current situation may have been inevitable for President anyway. Because few people have found any solution to the current national trauma of joblessness, ruined economy.

Making every efforts to take a right step at every endeavor into right direction. That is, I believe, the best strategy that President Obama can take on now, to wither through the tough currents of unbearably ridiculous politics. And, for the remaining part, let time heal the wounds and bring the best solutions. I believe, President should do his best to show his sincerity with honest heart to the public, make sure it is not misunderstood as his cleverness with less heart, and stick with middle class and jobs.

“Fighting to Protect Consumers,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/fighting-to-protect-consumers_b_720410.html

“Elizabeth Warren To Lead Search For New Consumer Chief, Could ‘Pull A Dick Cheney’”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/elizabeth-warren-could-pull-a-dick-cheney_n_720429.html

Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Meet Amid Speculation She Could Be Picked To Head Consumer Protection Agency

Adding Elizabeth Warren to his crew, along with his new economic plan of expansion, extension of research and development tax credits, allowing businesses to write off their equipment plants investments, $50 billion infrastructure investment, will help President better steer tough pre-election water. At this point, positive thinking is better. Nobody knows the outcome yet.
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Return of Ferocious Obama?: Yes, Vegivour, Omnivour doesn’t work.

Yesterday, President Obama proposed new measures to boost economic and job growth that have become sluggish recently: (a) expansion and permanent extension of research and development tax credits; (b) allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their investments in equipment and plants through 2011; (c) $50 billion investment into highway, rail, airport infrastructure projects.

The initial demand/push for bipartisanship and compromises by both public and the administration, in varying ways, to get work done ended up politically backfiring, punishing him. President’s recent moves are positive ones that send signals that he is seriously changing his courses in this aspect. Regardless of what critics say about President’s recent actions or the limited timing of these new measures to pass Congress, President should keep trying to change public opinion on him whatever it takes. It’s the only option for now. Nobody knows the outcome for sure, in short-term or long-term.

I believe, no matter whether it passes Congress in time or not, President Obama’s refusal to extend Bush-tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans while maintaining tax cuts for middle-class should work at least to break previous public image on him as being too soft on Wall-Street and wealthiest, putting him closer to Middle-Class.

It sounds too obvious to write, even. Isn’t this lion handsome?