Reply #32: You know, I haven't felt bad about newspapers collapsing at all.

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If this is the kinda crap they're willing to publish, they deserve to go out of business.

So according to this douchenozzle, he's supposed to be happy and excited that we're in the worse economic and social conditions since the Great Depression?

Do Americans really want to hear the tick of the old lighthouse clock? Or would they prefer the good cheer that we associate with FDR or JFK, the jauntiness with which they took over the White House and made it theirs?

Yeah, because you know, being happy is all important to American drones, I mean sheep, I mean people.
How will this Hiatt induced conversation go with the heartland?

Obama: What's the latest overall picture on everything?
Axelrod: We're still royally screwed!
Obama: Excellent! Let's party!
Oval office: whoo-hoo!

How about horse-trading or arm-twisting, like President Lyndon Johnson? George Will last week cited a recent Obama statement on the health-care bill ("Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people") to point out that Obama views such politics with a certain disdain.

Yeah I guess it is asking too much of politicos to vote for something without a rider/bribe/cajoling. No wonder the admin is in a bad mood- you'd figure people in power would want to do a better job, but no....