Which is why when some overreact you and others overreact in reply and pretend there was never any basis for any concern. Makes sense to you I'm sure.

“Obviously, that was not a serious suggestion”

So maybe you could denote what part of your arguments I should respond to and whats total BS that you will jettison and mock people for countering. Just to save us both the trouble.

I said it to make a point that we do have some elements of socialism already, and they have served the elders, widows and disabled in our society fairly well.

Many on the far right are prepared to oppose Obama no matter what he says or does. He could capture OBL and there would be those who would claim that Osama is no longer important, and that Obama only captured him to create a diversion from the health care mess.

You mean crap like asking conservatives to give back SSI and Medicare? Practice what you preach and maybe you'll have a little credibility. Right now you're pigs in the same pen bitching about how the “other” pig smells bad.

But though many conservatives seem to want to go back to the good old days, its important to note that during the last century most people worked until they died and most- before the New Deal could not own their own homes. Workers had to put up with unsafe conditions in many occupations and often worked 6 12 hour days.

In this country wealth is concentrated at the top— we are nowhere near being socialist or communist.
To suggest this is just as bad as comparing Bush and Cheney to Hitler. In other words, its only the desperate who resort to these kind of suggestions.

The right can't fight fair so they conjure up images of a totalitarian state- so that their followers won't even give the new administration a chance. Its fear-mongering at its worst- something the far right has gotten extremely good at.

If there are policy disagreements, come out with them. But put a kibosh on these idiotic comparisons.

Sure right after you get those assholes to stop taking my money!!!

You righties want pure capitalism? Why not give back your Social Security checks and refuse your Medicare benefits. We've had pure capitalism, and it resulted in child labor, unsafe working conditions and filthy tenements full of disease. Robber barons made huge fortunes which their descendants used for philanthropic causes. Presently, we have a hybrid of capitalism and socialism and it works pretty well. It enabled a poor fatherless kid born in Hawaii to become president.

Try hanging around with a better class of people. Perhaps it's just like calling to like because right now you seem like a bigot to me.

What they say when black are around, is mere partisan politics.

A lack of confidence based in racism permeates America and it makes me sick. Worse yet, it gives ME a lack of confidence in Americans.

This is what he wrote:

“I could care less that Obama is speaking for 15-20 minutes to my daughter during school.

“I am 100% positive that he will not successfully change any of the beliefs & values she has come to hold after being on this planet for nearly 14 years.

“If you think Obama is going to have that kind of influence on your child then you might want
to take a look in the mirror at the type of parent you have been to your child up to this point in their life that you believe the Snake Oil Salesman in Chief can change your child's beliefs & values in a speech that is less than 20 minutes long.”

I'm not cross-posting to TMV cuz I don't want you to feel like I'm picking on you. I'm definitely not. Yours was just the catalyst that made me finally write something about it.

Most of my point though was hyper-ventilating over this issue as with many others that have come up does give red meat to the right but it doe not actually help them with the middle or the soft left since then Obama(unlike prior GOP admins.) actually moderates what they were planning and comes off like calm grown ups. I would eventually like to have two parties to choose from again but freaking out before something happens makes that side look bad if it does not go down that way. If you want Obama to lose the best course of action is to sit back and let him overreach and fall on his face. Instead I think the right is actually helping to hold him up though they would of course be horrified by the thought. I do think freaking out about this before it happens is an extreme stance. In essence it sounds like “I dont trust you to not win over my child with tv waves” which of course is the kind of crazy that the Dems found themselves in 30-40 years ago and still carry the label for it. When the election happened I thought he could be the lefts Reagan swinging the country back the other way for 30 years or so until we switch course again after going too far. Moments like this just make me more certain that this is the case. Well that and the tax=theft thing which is as common now as the property=theft thing was in the 60's/70's.
The technology has changed the type of event that can be held but I am seeing the seeds of a future where either the left will flip out just as hard or worse when the next Repub tries it or neither party will ever again be able to speak to our children and I think that is actually a bad thing.

You probably already know that the “commercial” is actually a video produced in January (around inauguration time) by some extremely star-struck hollywood folks swept fully up into the hope-and-change theme. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with teh white house.

Strangely, it appears to have become merged w/ the president's Tuesday speech in some quarters — likely because a less-than-perceptive elementary school principal in Utah showed it in an assembly on August 28th — and michelle malkin then put that story into her hard spin about the speech.

It would be extremely inappropriate to show — not just in the context of the speech, but to a school in general. But nowhere (other than by malkin and a couple of comments) have I seen that obama / the white house are incorporating it — or even that they're aware of its existence.

The funny thing is that if it wasn't for all the BS about how there is no problem at all, the repubs did it to, you're a racist, it's inconceivable that any rational person would ever see anything wrong in the least, ect garbage I would be bothered a lot less

And no there has never been this kind of event before. Also the feds have never tried to push (which is a violation of their own rules) a lesson plan based on such an event.

The definition of a cult of personality is a country's leader uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. If you look at that, many of our Presidents had cult of personalities created by their respective “bots”. Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, and George Bush Jr (1st term) come to mind. But President Obama is of a generation that is more technology savvy and “in the loop” so to speak. So he presents “messages” utilizing all tools available. He has set a standard that I know the Republicans will use as well (they would be foolish not to).

But I will agree with you on overreaching. Obama has folks in his administration that, in my opinion, looks at his historic election and presidency as a green light to make a “historic image”. And it's not limited to his administration. My grandparents, civil rights activists in Mississippi back in the “bad times”, have three big pictures on their living room wall, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr, and President Obama. They are still stunned that he won and they are extremely emotional about it. And there are folks in Obama's administration that know people like my grandparents exist and are going to piggyback off of that. I don't like it one bit but it is a time-honored tradition among politicians.