On this weekend's Chris Matthews Show, Matthews' "Big Question" for the week was this: Of the Republicans running for president, which one offers the best chance of becoming, a great president? The response, mainly crickets by his panelists John Heilemann, Kelly O'Donnell, Gloria Borger. The only one willing to give him an answer was Joe Klein.
His response of what Republican president might end up on Mount Rushmore -- Barack Obama. That's a pretty sad state of affairs with our current field of Republican candidates when all of them were not willing to say anything good about any of them.
And someone should remind Joe Klein that to be an actual Republican these days and not the Villagers imaginary idea of what remains of the Republican Party, you have to be a bat shit crazy ideologue who's not willing to negotiate with anyone on anything if you think there's political gain in it and the public will fall for it.
I'm not any happier than a lot of us with how far both parties have moved to the right and how money is corrupting our political process, but sorry Joe, the party that has run off the cliff with being insane should not have their label attached to our current president.
I'd like for him to be further to the left like the rest of us, and as aggravated as I have gotten with what's he's been willing to concede to the other side and with validating a lot of their talking points, I would not wish having to navigate this current political climate he walked into and the Congress he's been forced to deal with on my worst enemy. And today's current Republican Party does not deserve to have anyone who is even half-way sane tagged with their label. They deserve to be called out for the zealots and TeaBirchers they are that have taken over their party.
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Wow, does that say it all about this feaux Democratic president!
So they're all writing that illustrious candidate, Nun O'deabove?
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Heather,
I understand that you wish to apologize for President Obama, but with Democrats like him, who needs Republicans?
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I tend to agree with Klein, and think his wisecrack was both accurate and funny. But your larger point is very well taken. Indeed, I anticipate Obama making it a staple during the 2012 campaign, in the spirit of Reagan's oft-repeated statement that he didn't leave the democratic party, but rather it left him.
tweety loves to stir it up....constantly harping about palin and bachmann....wish he'd go back to mclaughlin show where he was the whipping boy
In a democracy if you don't like either candidate is it best to pick the least bad or not vote for either of them? Obama ran on a progressive agenda then ran away from it as soon as he got in. In 2010 a lot of progressives stayed home in protest and the Republicans took over. I think the same will happen in 2012 and Obama will be a one term president. Will that be god or bad? I don't know but I suspect if McCain had won the Dems would have acted more lke Dems and opposed him. Obama would certainly have qualified as a good Republican if we compare his policies with Republican presidents of the past like Nixon or Ike. I am one progressive who won't be sad to see him go. I will suck it up and suffer with a republican and hope we get a real progressive in 2016
SCOTUS screamed loud and clear in 2000 that you have no voice in this show. They told you point blank that your vote doesn't mean a gawd-damned thing. Why would you even ponder over having to vote "for" someone or "against" another? Have you no respect for the highest court in the land?
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Obama at his worst is STILL 1000% better than any republiscum or teabagger.
I would disagree, but that's me.
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The corporations have no reason to unseat Obama. And the corporations are who runs the show. Common cents.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
that nasty corporate stink that comes from both parties. Common scents.
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Run Kcarab Amabo, like Bill Maher said. I can just see his face on Mount Rushmore.
But seriously, this crop of who?s is pathetic. Unless Obama gets involved in some huge scandal that dominates the networks, I see him coasting to reelection.
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As much as I disagree with the pres becoming more and more compromising to the right. I still support him. The alternative is what I see in Ohio. John Kasich Believe me if I lose my job I will be moving out of state!!!
who quoted Confucius when asked about political leaders... and I'm paraphrasing. "Those who are over zealous about being leaders, are often the least qualified". In other words, the best leaders are often the most reluctant to run for office.
Their homeworld was a place called Earth, located in an uninteresting part of the galaxy. They had an expression: pride goeth before a fall. Their pride was their undoing. I know. I was there....They did not listen, of course. Arrogant men never do.
...who would be a crappy GOP candidate: ALL of them!
That wasted question was based on a faulty premise.
You know as well as anyone (especially the insiders) that NONE of these jackasses are running for POTUS. They're just campaigning.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
...I guess.
i'm taking bets, as to how you will collect? if i'm wrong? i'll send you some virtual dollars, you know, like the US Treasury Dept. issues.
of comments here and on other blogs/tv cable shows that bemoan the fact that Obama should "be further to the left" than most progressives are. On what planet were these people during the election. It wasn't difficult for me to realize that wasn't what we were getting...and he IS the president of ALL THE PEOPLE...seems like many of the things BUSH was rightly criticized for are now things folks think Obama should do..principles ladies and gentlemen...it's what's supposed to separate us from the REPUGS!!!!
many, if not most of us saw this coming before he was elected.
It would have been nice to be wrong about it, but I understand who runs the government. Here's a clue: they have never run for or held public office. They do, however, have LOTS of MONEY.
Hope this helps clear up your confusion.
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
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Wasn't he the guy who wrote Primary Colors (in a snit) because he wasn't allowed to fly in the cockpit of Air Force One?
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