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Obama “feels your pain”…

Or rather, he feels sympathetic to rich people getting richer. It’s so hard to tell the difference.

Ok, tactically, I suppose I understand, as Brad Delong does. But it still smells really, really, bad and given that no matter how you look at it he’s being “two-faced” and then which face is the real one?

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More on the arbitrariness of politics…

Taken from a post I made at another site:

In my mind intelligence and even wisdom have little quarter in politics. I know vastly smarter and even wiser people than me who have bought into one party or another’s dogma and will not be dissuaded by even their lying eyes. Really it is a matter [...]

I don’t get it…

Yada, yada – whatever…

I’ve seen this on a bumper sticker and now a t-shirt (see image to right):

I point it out, not because it’s particularly egregious in what it says, but because it encapsulates well those that are against Obama.

You see, it’s like a caricature of what you’d think a liberal [...]

George Carlin on “Hope”

“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American [...]