Xchoboomer

Wow! I’ve been MIA these last couple months and there has been so much material! From a CIA operative being released from Iran to a witch running for public office and the midterm elections.  Good stuff! I’m joking about the first two  but come on, a 32 year old Berkeley Graduate hiking with her boyfriend and a friend on the Iraq-Iran border? Smells like CIA to me but regardless I’m glad she’s home and wishing the same for her colleagues.

So its a few days after the mid-term elections and I just can’t understand how fickle the American public is. It is amazing to me the “hope” we voted for two years ago and seeing some progress to that hope, that it is construed as socialism due to all the right wing rhetoric flying back and forth, even with the Public Option not being included in the health care bill. What the fuck? American’s are so uneducated and misinformed with fear. Sure Obama should of held to his guns and demanded the public option instead of appeasing the right wing and settling on Bob Doles plan, but you know what, he still got the plan through and something the republicans couldn’t do years ago. Not only did he get the plan through he averted the worst economic downturn since the great depression by passing the stimulus package because Bush era economic policies threw this country into the worst tail spin that I have ever seen. For that the Dems get labeled as Socialists. Well I rather settle with socialism then be thrust into a state of anarchy and rally round the family with a pocket full of shells! And I’m not a socialist! I believe in this experiment we call capitalism, although as we are learning, laissez faire does not work and regulations need to be implemented to protect us from ourselves. The unemployment rate may be high but this whole thing could of been a hell of a lot worse. Another presidential promise Obama and the Democrats have lived up to is ending the war in Iraq. Sure their are still troops their and probably always will be secure a proxy government but combat troops were out in August! Afganistan will be the next promise Obama needs to live up two before the 2012 campaign and I’m hoping he will stick to his promises their and get our troops home.  He did all this while dealing with one of the worst man-made disasters to hit our shores with the gulf oil spill. So why the Democrats did not come out to vote on Tuesday is disgusting to me. It does show how young and immature our youth is when they can’t even come out to vote to get Prop 19 passed to legalize and decriminalize marijuana. Keeping people in jail is big business and the prison lobbyists won this battle over the lazy pot smoking democrats who couldn’t remember Tuesday, November 2, 2010 is the day that we go to the polls. Ridiculous! But I am especially disgusted with my independents who I thought were smarter and would hold their ground. 2 years isn’t a long time, especially in Washington DC where it takes years to get done what it takes months to achieve at the local level. And to look at everything that was accomplished in this short two years and now you want to gridlock the system once again! Unbelievable…

I think Bill Maher articulates this better then I….

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