tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post3091805200832540513..comments2023-10-26T05:08:20.977-04:00Comments on Connecting.the.Dots: What's Wrong With ObamaROBERT STEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11999996852219220599noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-66117147411947683672010-01-07T21:43:46.873-05:002010-01-07T21:43:46.873-05:00So let me ask all those of you out there that vote...So let me ask all those of you out there that voted obama into office, do you feel stupid now? If not just wait things will get worse!Justinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-6911234391077295662009-01-27T16:27:00.000-05:002009-01-27T16:27:00.000-05:00"Anonymous" (What else?),I don't know what "non-Am..."Anonymous" (What else?),<BR/><BR/>I don't know what "non-Americans" you're referring to but I've traveled all over the world and haven't encountered that attitude at all. America is the place most people in the world dream about moving to so they can make their dreams come true and free themselves from the lack of opportunity or outright oppression where they are. A Muslim man in Turkey (one of the few free Muslim countries - 1 out of 49) said, "Do you know what I love about you Americans? You see something wrong in the world and you do something about it. You don't wait and look around to see what other countries are going to do like everyone else does."<BR/><BR/>That's my America. And I don't give a damn about people like you or countries who aren't intelligent enough to know that the world would be a much darker place without America, who don't know that the lion's share of worldwide charity and relief flows through America's gates (and is rarely paid back or even appreciated), and who don't know the heart of my country as well as I do. But then, it's common as mud for small, ugly, uneducated guys to resent big, handsome, virtuous guys. It's really as simple as that, isn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-13548378685221747802008-08-29T22:26:00.000-04:002008-08-29T22:26:00.000-04:00This is why every non-american hates you guys. Get...This is why every non-american hates you guys. Get the fuck over yourselves!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-87458652315688391672008-06-02T12:00:00.000-04:002008-06-02T12:00:00.000-04:00"Anonymous" (of course) above said he stopped flyi..."Anonymous" (of course) above said he stopped flying his flag because of what other people said about it, or how they used it. He should display his flag for no other reason than he has the ability to move to an "outer-borough neighborhood" and live in peace and prosperity. Despite what mistakes he thinks the Bush administration has made, this is still the greatest country in the world. Why did his flag have to become "their flag"? Why can't he have a mind of his own and fly his flag for his own reasons? How terribly easy patriotism is forfeited.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-26118967826690158842008-03-16T14:31:00.000-04:002008-03-16T14:31:00.000-04:00Legal implications of events that tend to mar the ...Legal implications of events that tend to mar the value of law degrees, and bar association membershp that idealize the integrity of lawyers, whether black or white, is or should be of concern to a nation supposedly living by laws, not the ruling of men.<BR/><BR/>Social mobility is not the question appropriate of whether lawyers violate that trust in order to capture the best that America has to offer since they presumably are held to a higher standard. Where legal education gives lawyers such professional immunity that they are rarely caught in the webs that afflict their clients, the problem rises to the level of Constitutional authority that rewards crime for some, and applies unfairly penalities for crime to others - a specific violation of due process under the Constitution, and a violation of the 14th Amendment.<BR/><BR/>A government under Constitution cannot afford that practice as public policy norms it can defend, and this is the reason President Clinton had to be impeached as President Bush should have been impeached. <BR/><BR/>The problem is more who is held to accountability and who isn't than whether they are black or white from the bottom of society to the top. And lawyers definitely reside at the top. The social injustice to ordinary citizens at the bottom who are summarily incarcerated for the same crimes as those at the top refutes the social injustice that Obama claims to hold dear, and try to correct. That makes him a "do as I say, not as I do" candidate of monstrous proportions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-91306951183318747352008-02-25T22:16:00.000-05:002008-02-25T22:16:00.000-05:00Both my wife and I were raised in Manhattan. Left/...Both my wife and I were raised in Manhattan. Left/liberal politics was my mother's milk. Moving to a more traditional, more conservative outer-borough neighborhood taught us that not all those who display the flag are right-wing crazies.<BR/><BR/>After 9/11, there was something comforting, healing, restorative about hanging the flag from our side porch. But that feeling didn't last long.<BR/>Soon, the flag became the chosen decorative element for anti-Arab demonstrations in the Midwest. Belligerents began to talk about flag-display as a defining feature of American patriotism.<BR/><BR/>Once again, our flag became their flag, symbol of narrowness, militarism, belligerence, unilateralism and xenophobia. I put it back in my dresser drawer and haven't taken it oiut since.<BR/><BR/>I hope a Barack Obama presidency will give me reason to display the flag once again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-61732676427385089092008-02-25T19:38:00.000-05:002008-02-25T19:38:00.000-05:00For people like Kristol, their second worst nightm...For people like Kristol, their second worst nightmare (after a hike in the capital gains tax) is a serious national debate led by progressives over what it really means to be patriotic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com