Presidency

Barack Obama Election 2016 Obamacare Presidency

Obama Against the Wall

What would you do if you were Obama right now? How serious is the crisis of confidence? Certainly the most serious so far, probably by a lot.

What, me worry?

I always thought of Obama as kind of a jock in nerd’s clothing, doesn’t really get into the details. And while I liked the idea of leveling and raising the playing field a little bit for health care, what’s emerging is that he didn’t really think it through.

I’ve been trying to use the Website the last few days, and it does freeze up a lot. Sadly, the whole country was in such a tizzy about the ACA that all it really took was the system failing like this to tip things the other way.

December 1, 2013 2 comments

Capitalism Election 2016 Joe Biden Presidency

Joe Biden’s First Stump Speech

written by Uncle Sam

October 3, 2015

Joe Biden, Scranton, PA

So been thinkin’ about the POTUS job and here’s what I think. First, look… Obama, I love the guy. I think he’s a class act and he did a lot of good for America. So, classy guy, did a decent job, more than a decent job, but he had so much to go up against, not just cuz of who he was, but because of what he inherited. I think his greatest achievement is still going to be what he prevented, and it’s tough to prove a negative, but he was a hero. And while I’m surely not going to harp on what’s 6 years old – things to have a tendency to take awhile to show themselves – and also not going to harp on the amount of damage done, in money lost, hell, in lives lost, I think going forward this too big to fail thing means that the biggest thing of all, the USA, has a greater, not lesser, chance of failing, to an extent in democracy and capitalism we have to let the chips fall where they do, and if we are going to step in and do bailouts, it should be of the people and not of the bankers. But I wasn’t the President. I’d like to be the President. And if I was it would be different. The way I see it, we’ve gotta get the filibuster, the offshore tax thing, Citizens United,
publicly financed elections, all of it, fixed. If we had a military that was just twice as much as the next biggest 25 countries, instead of 20 times, every American could be given 5000 dollars! We gave 95% of all weath creation in the last 30 years has gone to the top 1% of the population. That’s actually bad for the 1%, because they don’t have a way to grow their money without a thriving economy, which depends on people have more disposable income. So I’m going to be the radical here, and be the Obama that Obama may or may not have been.

Just a regular Joe

October 3, 2013 0 comment

Election 2016 Hillary Clinton Presidency

Hilary Leans In

written by Uncle Sam

Hilary’s “retirement” has lasted just a few short months, and already she’s returning to the national stage with higher numbers and higher profile speeches. And why not? 3 years and a month from now we’ll be voting on a new president. She’s the presumed front runner, there’s really nobody who comes close to her gravitas, worldwide recognition, and machinery already in place.

All this can fade as quickly as you can say Benghazi, so if Hilary doesn’t lean in now, she may not be able to make hay while the sun shines. So what should she be telling us? And, mainly, how far should she distinguish herself from Barack Obama?

If I were Hilary, I would lean in now…hard. I’d take a page from the husband’s playbook and saturate. Time to start some heavy hanging with the American people, and developing the slightly new persona that’s going to be necessary to close the door on this election. Just as Reagan grew one final avatar for his last act, the kindly old gentleman dreaming of America, Hilary needs to whip up her pistol packing mama act and fully step into this role. The Annie Oakley Auntie Mame persona is already layed out for her.

Maybe when she’s ready to talk to the American people, she bills it as just a talk between grownups. She tells us: Tune in after nine and I’ll talk straight to the American people. Put your kids to bed.

She runs down the threats, the terrors, the dangers, the reality, she gives us a true rundown. She tells us the father figure that’s occupied this office hasn’t always told it to us straight. Daddy’s run off chile, now mama’s gone tell you how it is. You feel me? Hilary leans in.

“Look, I don’t want this going out as some big story, but I honestly believe that there are too many marginalized people, too many institutionalized people, and it’s a ticking time bomb. Yes, I see how warehousing so many human beings is profitable and why corporations would want to make this a business, but in terms of the social commons it’s not good. So please, meet me. What I am saying is: We can no longer afford to be in denial about who we are as a country. Nor can we afford to be puritanical or punishing or overly normative. This is what it is. As your President I am not going to hide reality from you. So here it is now: It’s scary. I’ve seen so much, and you’ve never seen anything like it.”

August 1, 2013 2 comments