Comments on: Obama (and John Boehner) on Al Punto

By: Leen

Leen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:55:26 +0000

Tough for folks to realize that Jesus was a socialist

By: Leen

Leen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:54:40 +0000

I heard some piece on NPR a while back that reported that folks watering their lawns out there brings in some of the plants that people are trying to escape from the east due to their allergies. Crazy

Ew thanks for this post. On NPR even Cokie Reberts said that this Obama interview on “Univisions Al Punto” was a really good idea

By: PaulaT

PaulaT — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:57:28 +0000

One big problem is if you are illegal, you don’t go filling out forms to qualify for anything, especially forms about income or birth. If you have brown skin and speak with an accent, a bunch of people assume you are illegal even before you have to produce proof of income and have no tax documents. You’re lucky if they think you’re just a regular illegal and not a drug dealing gang member. Contrary to the stories about illegals doing everything they can to cash in on America’s entitlements while living high on the hog, it’s a tough decision to risk deportation of mom or dad. Odds are better at the ER where they can’t ask a whole lot of questions and you can lie about the ones they do ask without them being able to verify before providing services. Plus it’s an emergency by then so risking deportation seems more worthwhile.

The other thing that is naive is the idea that covering the children of illegals is any different politically. The people who hate the illegals REALLY hate that a pregnant woman can come here and have a baby and thereby entitle that child to full citizenship. Baucus would have to write up a whole new section on the child having been in the country for 20 years before they could take advantage of health care if they ever wanted to please the Republicans on that issue. Better to leave it vague and let the poor immigrants fight it out.

By: PaulaT

PaulaT — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:38:45 +0000

Thank heaven people are finally catching on to the socialist threats that have been growing in America in the past decade, especially in the music industry. I have been amazed at how few Americans are aware of the importance of bling and Escalades in the writings of Marx and Hitler.

By: Nell

Nell — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:51:43 +0000

Okay, I clearly should have gone to bed a few hours ago; somehow skipped over the transcript (for which huge thanks). It’s not a new position; but it’s a slippery and clusterfvck-creating restatement of the existing position.

Will you recognize the winner of the next presidential election in November in Honduras?

President Obama: I really would like to see the parties embrace the Arias approach. That will, I think, confer much greater legitimacy on the elections that are coming up.

By: Nell

Nell — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:22:45 +0000

What Obama would do regarding Honduras (Obama took a middle ground, appealing to having a more legitimate election in the future)

Is there any way for someone to see this interview? Any chance a transcript will be available in Spanish?

This answer by Obama goes beyond anything anyone in the administration has said before in its assumption that the legitimate Honduran government will not be restored between now and November. (Which has everything to do with U.S. complicity with the coup during July and most of August, topped by Obama’s thin-skinned insult in Mexico to those asking the U.S. to live up to its own laws and to his empty words of opposition to the coup regime.)

Clinton, Obama, and the permanent government at State and DoD thought it would be cute to string things out and restore a tamed Zelaya to office just before the elections. Well, guess what, it’s not about Zelaya. It’s about the grasping, corrupt oligarchy trying to hang onto its complete grip on power in the face of popular pressure for more participatory democracy — and the two-going-on-three months of continuous mobilization has fused the various streams of the anti-coup resistance into a solid force for real change. Joke’s on you, elitist scum (North American and Honduran).

By: orionATL

orionATL — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:24:25 +0000

giants and cowballs -

does anyone understand how coaches think?

to me, football coaches are like white house gurus; they make stupid decisions and then pretend they didn’t or spend man-years having their spokesmen invent lies to defend those stupid decisions.

case in point:

how is it that the giants can run for 12 yards in the first half

and then,

starting the second half, let their mack-truck of a halfback, brandon jacobs, run all over the cowballs,

and then set him down on the bench with the ball at around the 20.

and then order manning to throw passes - three incompetent throws.

do coaches, or presidents, know anything about psychology?

if his linemen and jacobs are having fun,

for goods sake let them run!

i cannot count the number of times i have seen this coaching folly played out in the nfl.

oh, well.

By: solerso

solerso — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:22:20 +0000

Tomato plants arent that big

By: solerso

solerso — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:21:44 +0000

several years ago, when i worked for my brothers marine construction company,I worked with young, white laborers who wanted their money “under the table” so their live in girlfreinds wouldnt lose thier PA and food assistance and wic, all the while complaining about the dark skinned others who were the problem. I KNOW it hasnt changed a bit since then, that hasnt changed in over 300 years. That irony is at the root of white racism. Poor whiteS were(are) allowed to feel superior to blacks by the white ruling class, it keeps the working class divided better than ANYTHING else they could have come up with.

By: Loo Hoo.

Loo Hoo. — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:10:58 +0000

They’re stealing the entire plant? How in the world would they transplant it?