THE "MORNING AFTER" PILL .....
WILL THE U.S.’s POLITICAL “MORNING AFTER” PILL WORK? We all pray so!
With the last election, the U.S., and consequently the world, sought and realized a truly major political U-turn.
The U.S. may have also realized fundamentally altering societal and economic changes it had not bargained for.
It is astounding the shift from the feverish emotional pitch the Obama juggernaut caused right through election night to the resounding thud of the “day-after-reality.”
Much like New Year's eve resolutions: nobody is richer, thinner, brighter, healthier or happier as a result of a calendar page flip.
It is astounding that the national psyche shifted from Obama euphoria right back to the downward emotional vortex of the world wide greed-poisoned economy and two totally unpopular wars.
This phenomenon is commonly referred to as “reality.”
It is unfair to President Obama, though.
To view him as the “morning after pill” is absurd. At best, assuming that he can generate some major antidote through his governance, it is likely to be an “at least 4 years after pill”.
And then there is the ubiquitous press, who with vertiginous speed shifted gears from Sarah Palin’s RNC wardrobe to the future “first dog”.
Memo to President and Mrs. Obama: Buy a Wheaten Terrier. Good looking, more loyal than any politico you have ever met, grateful for any and all handouts, loooves glad-handing. And hypoallergenic.
The future of Western Civilization can wait.
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THE "MORNING AFTER" PILL .....
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jogor777 ( 79 posts / 5 fights ) from Paradise, California (United States) on 02/09 at 07:04PM PT
A morning after pill necessarily assumes that there was a night before and I don't think the Bush administration was sexy enough to qualify in that scenario.. Obama is a product (not a contraceptive method) of a system that prizes entrepreneurship only as long as it is subsidized, incubated or tax deductible. Keep the illusion of money flowing creating a nation of debtors on the carrion of which feed the brokers of reality.
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rachee ( 105 posts / 2 fights ) from London, London (United Kingdom) on 11/18 at 05:08AM PT
I say let the the man have at it for a while. We don't think much of him. Sort of chickenish, if you ask me. But he deserves the chance to be a leader. You elected him. Now you and us have to live with him and his decisions.
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Harm ( 171 posts / 0 fights ) from Alexandria, Virginia (United States) on 11/13 at 12:10PM PT
We need to give the new president a chance to make good on his promises. The election is over and we are not going to reality. Barns wrote that Obama may surprise us all. I hope he surprises the people who voted against him and not those of us who voted for him.
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chem ( 90 posts / 0 fights ) from Palo Alto, California (United States) on 11/13 at 11:42AM PT
I think that we are looking at a 2 year report card. At the end of two years, the U.S. will kick every Democrat running for re-election out of Congress or will kick every Republican running for re-election out of congress. This President will have the shortest honeymoon ever.
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Spinner,
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Spinner ( 160 posts / 3 fights ) from Sherman Oaks, California (United States) on 11/11 at 07:23PM PT
Barns, you outdid yourself. Being the proud owner of a wheaton terrier, I wholeheartedly endorse your suggestion to the Obamas. And, they will need a devoted affectionate animal to take away the sting of disapproval which the American people will voice when they learn that Obama just doesn't have the finesse yet to lead the free world. As to Palin more mud is slung at her because she's a woman!
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