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the contrast between rush obama

2009-03-05T14:13:00.001-08:00

I love writing to my thus far audience of one! It's fun stuff.

The Democrats picking a fight with Rush Limbaugh just seems to work on so many levels. Here are some of them I've come up with.

1) Rush isn't in the background behind the scenes influencing public opinion. He's in the forefront. On one hand we have an eloquent, practical, and reasibable man in Obama arguing for one issue and on the other had you have a pompous blowheart in Rush Limbaugh. Both men are very passionaite, but who's judgment do you trust?

2)Like many of his colleagues in talk radio (Sean Hannity, you know who I'm talking about!!) Rush argues solely with ideology. He'll say "the government should stay out of our business" or "he doesn't want to respect our naturally born freedom as individuals." Obama agrues with a team of experts beside him. He's got the best people on his team. The Republicans need a leader who can agrue with Obama on these types of issues point by point. What actually is the best way to procede with the economy? What are the specifics things that we can do without ignoring the enormous problems of healthcare, education, infrastructure, energy, terrorism and religion. Ok. Take out religiion. I'm just joking about that one. But with all sincerity, we have some real problems. We're like that kid politicians always talk about who, in the future, will have to clean up our mess. They're usually referring to the mounting deficit. But we're those kids cleaning up our parents' mess right now. All of us are. Our parents lef us broken healthcare, an energy policy that gives money to people trying to kill us, then there's those people tyring to kill us. (wouldn't it be great if nobody out there were trying to kill us! I know I'd feel safer! Much safer than I do getting stripped searched at airport for). There's broken education. There's a lack of funding for science. There's the weakening of the middle class in our country and a siphoning of almost all the country' s wealth to a few wealthy people. There's so much more too. We need our leaders putting out specific solutions, not ideological ones. Rush is not equipped to do so.

3) Obama can use Rush to get Republican support for his ideas. Here's what may happen if things go right for the Dems. In one corner we have the thoughtful Barack Obama and in the other we have the ideologue Rush Limbaugh. Speaking for myself, I don't whether or not Obama's plan for the economy, for teorrorism, for the war, or anything will work out well for us, but I am confident that a) Obama has a smart team around him and b) Obama will do what he thinks is right. Thus far, there hasn't been thoughtful Republican who has publically opposed Obama. Charlie Christ seems like a thoughtful man to me on a few glances, but he was in favor of Obama's stimuls aid to the states. And Bobby Jindal, well, lets just say that he had difficulty in pulling off "thoughtful." The main point here is that ideas from a thoughtful man sound much better and inciteful when it is contrasted asgainst ideas comfing from an ideological man. To put an example out, the thoughtful arguement that we need to fix these big problems because these problems just don't fix themselves sounds much better than "big government sucks."

That's all for now. I be baack.

Republican choices

2009-03-04T08:22:00.000-08:00

The Republican leadership would to well to drop "Conservatism" from their agenda. They'de be better off and would attract much more people across the country to their party. And seriously, where are the conservatives going to go?

Conservatism, as promoted by Rush and Hannity, isn't even something that's real in any sense. It's an ideology, and these guys tend to find evidence that supports its validity and conveniently ignore issues that shred it to pieces. They'd rather cling to their ideology than look at what's really going on, and it's their right to do so. But why do we follow such people? How can one look and listen to a guy like Rush Limbaugh, a man who is pompous, condescending, devisive, and arrogant, and believe that he has the right answers? Look at where his message comes from. Why do we believe people who pretend to know things that they cannot possibly know?

Rush Limbaugh

2009-03-02T11:05:00.000-08:00

So I was watching CNN on Saturday afternoon and I just happened to catch all of Rush Limbaugh's speech at CPAC. I have no personal gripe with Rush, and while I see that he seems to have a very high IQ, his arguments are not intelligent. While Rush's core conservative beliefs are very well thought out, they are nothing but a house of cards because they're purely ideoligical. We have a big mess right now in our country. The economy was left laissez faire and got twisted in a huge knot. If government doesn't work at untwisting the knot how is it going to happen? We have a health care system that is in shambles and is bleeding money. We have an education system that does not equip our children to compete in a global market place. We have an energy policy that gives is bad for the planet and that gives money to people who are trying to kill us. Isn't Now the time to fix these problems once and for all?

Rush and his conservative colleagues gripe about the most is the enormous deficit. The rationale they use against a large deficit is ideological. In other words, it's based on some idea they have about all deficits being bad and not through true investigation of the matter. I would rather leave our children a healthcare system that works, an education system that prepares them for the challenges ahead, and a clean and healthy planet. Are you telling me that some number is more important than that? If you think so lets have some words.

Our leaders

2009-02-28T12:46:00.000-08:00

Can I even describe how much I love that we have an intelligent, thoughtful man leading our country? For years now our leaders have been idealogical. They've clung to their party's particular ideas about what works better, big gov or small gov. It's like they're blind or something. There's no such thing as a Democrat and there's no such thing as a Republican. These are all just stupid, silly words that have been confusing us. We are all people. We are all people and our leaders are all people. We need them to start seeing that commonalities so we can get some stuff done! To me, Barack Obama is one of those guys who sees things at this level. He's a guy who naturally sees the sameness in all people and it comes across in the way he interacts with everybody.

Hi

2009-02-24T05:47:00.000-08:00

I put up a blog for a few reasons. The first is that I, like everybody else I know, think my ideas are pretty cool, and for the first time I am hoping to get some feedback from a broader audience. For those of you reading my posts, I enjoy getting bad reviews on what I write (and good ones) and I love debating. All I'm saying is that your criticism better be backed up with some sound logic cause I'll pounce if it isn't. I'm interested in a bunch of topics, i.e. politics, sports, war & peace, science, spirituality and religion, etc, and I'm looking forward to having some fun with this.