My husband got an earful from his brother just now...

[Skidmore]

Now my husband is black and of Caribbean descent. His brother lives in Milwaukee, and things are hard there. He told us that daughter has moved between 3 jobs recently and her current one is at a hospital where the entire staff has been moved to 4 hour days. Houses are standing empty and unsold in his neighborhood. There is a lot of fear right now and despair is setting in. My brother-in-law says he fears that something bad is just around the corner for the nation as a whole. He said in all of his years here, he's never had this feeling about America.

My brother-in-law stayed up last night watching the Teabagger Convention and Palin. He was furious that this woman has been given a national platform and that her shallow ignorance has been accepted and conventional wisdom. He was furious that the media is appearing to sell her and there is not pushback. This man who became a citizen of this nation some 40+ years ago BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BE ONE says that he thinks this nation is going downhill fast and it is being driven in the ground. He was furious with the people of Massachusetts too for sending Brown to the Senate. His thinking, and I believe him to be spot on, is that the racists on the right are riding hellbent for leather and they are being aided by the left. He said that the President can do nothing when he's being kneecapped on the right and hamstrung on the left. AND guess who he holds more responsible? The left...Democrats. You got it.

People are not stupid. They see the duplicity and the stupidity of ideologues and demogogues on both sides. They see people in power and those with access or the ability to influence thos in power unwilling to take meaningful practical, common sense steps to solve the nation's problems, electing to clutch at the pearls of the current manufactured outrage and have the vapors while letting it all go. They see a lie, a great lie. And this is how someone like Palin is given a platform at all. Sometimes when you burn the barn down, you burn the house also.

[90-percent]

1. In a nutshell

Almost all the institutions we as Americans have depended on for generations have been taken over and gamed by greedy sociopaths.

Please explain to me how any insurance exec that denies life saving coverage is anything other than a sociopath? How could one human being literally give a death sentence to another human being simply for MORE PROFIT?

Only a monster could do such a thing! Or else these brightest guys in the room are really no more intelligent than the 600 people who paid to go to the Tea Party in Nashville this weekend?

It will be interesting to see who gets paid and who gets stiffed for this convention, as I suspect it was a loser financially.

-90% jimmy

[villager]

2. How is "the left" "kneecapping" the President? Blue Dog Dems, sure...

... but I don't see where the left made health "reform" an insurance gift, insisted on bailing out Wall Street, and demands a supermajority to get even the most tepid, weakly "progressive" legislation passed....?

Nor do I see much of a "left" perspective in the corporate, Teabag-featuring MSM...

:shrug:

[sendero]

3. Well..

.... he's right, America is headed for big trouble.

He's wrong however in his assessment that the left is "kneecapping" Obama, Obama is kneecapping himself trying to appease the right.

In his attempted appeasement he is doing neither the country nor the party any good.

There is a very good chance we will see a president Palin, but it's not the left's fault - that much is for sure.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Milwaukee is the middle of the "Rust Belt"

the same area that has been hardest hit by outsourcing Manufacturing Jobs.

The DEMs could eliminate the Tax Incentives for Corporations outsourcing jobs Bush placed into his 1st Tax Cut proposal. This would go a long way to restoring the economy and shoring up election/re-election chances for the Dem hopeful

[opihimoimoi]

5. A Glimmer of HOPE remains...despite the GOPs enormous Power..they are not in real power

as when W during his 8 years...

"41 majority" and trouble making is in their quiver ....but not forever....

they will FAIL

American rose from low before...She can do it again...

[BlueJac]

6. When the Dems started going along with..........

the Republicans under Clinton it was over for the Democratic Party

[Skidmore]

7. No one is saying that Dems have to "go along"

with Rs. But doing the same thing they are doing tactically is not progress.

[AspenRose]

8. He's right, and all my foreign friends can see it

They're like, :wtf: ?