Keep Obama’s wind of change blowing
The UK’s gutter press is rolling in it’s own filth yet again, this time courtesy of hapless MP Jackie Smith.
While in the US bigger things are afoot as Obama’s winds of change continue to blow hard and cold.
The Nurse is amused to find herself envious of Americans for the first time.
Obama has only been in power since January but his formidable team of science advisers has hit the ground running. They’ve already stormed the scientific high ground. Stem cell research is back on the agenda. The loony christian right looks like being stopped in it’s tracks. And today the short sighted, profligate behemoth that is General Motors finally got the ticking off of it’s miserable, greedy life.
Marvellous stuff. This is the kind if clean sweep, no nonsense, like it or lump it, tough love politics that The Nurse would be pleased and proud to engage with.
Obama’s the kind of leader she needs. Someone who isn’t scared of being unpopular. Someone prepared to make brutally clean sweeps. Someone who thinks beyond the end of their silly fat nose into their kids’ future and recognises that it is almost too late to change, but that we must try.
We want one of those!
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Link | March 31st, 2009 at 2:52 am
Trev from leasing cars wrote,
Time will tell. I am not convinced that Mr Obamas tactics wrt. the economy are going to really help people. And as far as climate change goes – I think we are already buggered so let’s party!
Link | March 31st, 2009 at 12:37 pm
rene from decanter wrote,
The G20 summit promises to be interesting with the French threatening to walk out even before it has started. I’m not sure about the tough-love politics and I do think Obama-lama-ding-dong does worry about popularity. He has a really tough job on his hands, especially when some people (like the last commenter) don’t really care about the seriousness of the situation.
Link | April 1st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Diva from Fashion for Dummies wrote,
Time will tell. I think that Obama’s heart is in the right place, but is he mortgaging the future? Can we all spend, spend, spend to stimulate the economy? Look at all mishap with the AIG fiasco. Yeah, yeah, yeah… execs shouldn’t make that much money and bonuses shouldn’t be paid. And what do they do? Leave a loophole to pay the execs as a “retention fee” bonus… This is still rhetoric. He says one thing but his administration does another but he comes out smelling like a rose. The man has a great gift for gab but I’m still not convinced and the results of his policies will not be seen for awhile. Who I’m really impressed with though is Mrs. Obama. She really does have a warm touch with the kids.
Link | April 5th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Brian from Gogle Search wrote,
I’m with Trev and Diva, time will tell on the stimulus. We have only spent 5% and now there are signs of a recovering economy. It would be great to pull back the spending if the economy does not require it. I am also concerned about mortgaging our future. Yes, now GM has gone bankrupt and 70% owned by the Government. It would have been quicker to make a clean sweep half a year ago and enter into bankruptcy. We are at the same spot anyway.
What do you think?
Link | June 14th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
The Nurse wrote,
The Nurse agrees. But it would have been tough persuading people to give in when there was the merest whisper of hope that bankruptcy might not – after all – be necessary. Having said that, it displays optimism. Which, despite not being a natural optimist herself, The Nurse feels must be a good thing.
Link | June 18th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Juergen from Finanzierungsrechner wrote,
The future and finally history will show, if Obama was one of the most effective presidents or not. But what we can see up to now it is pointing in that direction.
Link | July 31st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Herb Shallcross wrote,
Not at all clear what the Nurse envies over here! Aren’t you guys already socialists? Do you enjoy that so much you’d like to double down?
If you look closely, you’ll find that the stimulus benefitted one bunch of rich guys and another bunch was abandoned. This is a naked power grab. General Motors should have been allowed to go bankrupt, so that they could have been reconstituted as a viable business. What Mr. Obama did stole money from GM bondholders, and rescued the unions, while burdening taxpayers with keeping an unrepaired GM afloat with tax money indefinitely. GM, unless this travesty can be reversed will soon be producing cars that will make us remember the East German Trabant fondly.
Mr. Obama has been mentored by and has surrounded himself with Marxist radicals his whole life, and while his audacity is surprising, the things he wants to accomplish aren’t. He has mounted a full-scale assault on capitalism and individual liberty. He has repeatedly ignored our Constitution, and it is his intention to sweep it away altogether. His financial policies are a Reichstag fire intended to create a crisis that will make it “necessary” to institute a Marxist state.
Link | December 31st, 2009 at 4:19 am
Herbert L. Shallcross III wrote,
I’m sitting here tonight, sipping at a small batch, 12 year old Bourbon. I’m not a wealthy man, and usually drink more modestly but today is a day for celebration. Martha Coakley, expecting to casually pick up the Senate heriditary peerage of the drunken, bloviating, deceased Ted Kennedy has lost, eliminating the Democrats’ senatorial supermajority, and the ignoble Republican party now has no excuse but to oppose Mr. Obama’s all-out Marxist revolution. Once again, Mr. Obama, who appeared a few days ago in Massachusetts to stump for Coakley has shown himself to have the shortest coattails in American history. He is the undisputed King of the Dead Cat Bounce.
More importantly, many Congressional Democrats have been shown what’s in store for them when they come up for re-election if they march in Progressive lockstep with the radical Obama team.
Finally there is hope I can believe in!
Link | January 20th, 2010 at 4:24 am
Herbert L. Shallcross III wrote,
By the way, I’m not particularly obscene, and admittedly my country’s rules about political correctness are slightly different, but as far as I can determine, my posts aren’t actionable in any way. The Nurse faithfully deletes my posts after a few days. It is obvious that she participates in viewpoint censorship. If you care about freedom of expression, and not merely the opportunity to agree with the Nurse, you might complain.
Link | January 20th, 2010 at 4:31 am
Herbert L. Shallcross III wrote,
My apologies to the Nurse.
At the time I wrote the last post, many of my posts had mysteriously dissappeared. Give the Devil her due, whatever the value of my posts, they have been re-instated.
Link | October 7th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
The Nurse wrote,
Always glad to hear alternative views, old chap… The Nurse
Link | October 12th, 2010 at 12:35 pm