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Showing posts with label Special Comment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Special Comment. Show all posts
Monday, February 15, 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Keith Olbermann Slams Healthcare Reform Sham
This Healthcare Reform is turning out even worse than I expected. It has clearly turned into a debacle.
Here, Olbermann tells it like it is.... tells it like it has been for the past 6 months. KO talks as if he is giving a concession speech....like a man finally coming to terms with the failure of something (Healthcare Reform) that he probably knew wasn't going to be successful a long time ago... or at least I would like to think KO was sharp enough to read between the lines back then. Perhaps he wanted his viewers to have some sort of hope to hold onto...so he kept coming out every night pushing it. I commend that.
This is an epic failure of sorts...
I have stated many times that this was a combination of bad timing and poor strategy on the part of Democrats, for a whole list of reasons that I won't rehash.
But clearly, Obama misread the national mood.... (I have mentioned that many times). He's an intelligent man for sure... no question about that whatsoever. However, I don't think he fully understands the Country... particularly in terms of voters, voter behavior, the national media, the racial dynamics, etc etc. Obama seems to miss the point (and even Keith Olbermann missed this point too) regarding how & why he is coming out on the losing end of this fight - and i'm not sure if we can even call it a fight since Dems didn't really participate. Obama seems to be clueless regarding the fact that this was a PR war for the most part and that the other side completely destroyed Progressives in that PR war. He seems clueless to the fact that this will continue to happen as long as there is no Progressive media infrastructure that can match and someday exceed the power and influence of Conservative media. Obama seems to be under the delusion that there is a level playing field and that the Democratic plan really had a fair chance.
This situation only reinforces some of the things that I feel about the Country....mainly that the nation is headed for an inevitable decline and we're in fact in the midst of that decline. This is partly due to the fact that the U.S. political system has become dysfunctional and that dysfunction will mean that the nation won't be able to keep up with future challenges and won't be able to make the Progressive changes that will be necessary to mitigate future threats and improve the lives of Americans. The changes to the world in the next few decades are going to be lightning fast...and there is little chance that this political system will be able to keep up in any meaningful way. Only those Countries that can keep up will be able to compete. Life will get tougher for people who live in Countries with archaic political systems... because these Countries will be left behind. For example... watch what happens with Climate Change legislation. I can tell you now that it is dead on arrival in the Senate. As is Immigration Reform. In fact, most of Obama's major initiatives (those requiring Congressional approval) are already dead.
With this kind of gridlock in place for the foreseeable future - not to mention corporate whores like Joe Lieberman contaminating the halls of Congress - and with K-Street literally controlling legislation, the U.S. is going to wither on the vine. With a government so inherently corrupt at its core, and with ideas like government of the people for the people having died a long time ago.... the citizens are left with a political system that doesn't work.
Solutions?
Besides moving to Canada or out of the Continent completely... I am running out of remedies.
Here, Olbermann tells it like it is.... tells it like it has been for the past 6 months. KO talks as if he is giving a concession speech....like a man finally coming to terms with the failure of something (Healthcare Reform) that he probably knew wasn't going to be successful a long time ago... or at least I would like to think KO was sharp enough to read between the lines back then. Perhaps he wanted his viewers to have some sort of hope to hold onto...so he kept coming out every night pushing it. I commend that.
This is an epic failure of sorts...
I have stated many times that this was a combination of bad timing and poor strategy on the part of Democrats, for a whole list of reasons that I won't rehash.
But clearly, Obama misread the national mood.... (I have mentioned that many times). He's an intelligent man for sure... no question about that whatsoever. However, I don't think he fully understands the Country... particularly in terms of voters, voter behavior, the national media, the racial dynamics, etc etc. Obama seems to miss the point (and even Keith Olbermann missed this point too) regarding how & why he is coming out on the losing end of this fight - and i'm not sure if we can even call it a fight since Dems didn't really participate. Obama seems to be clueless regarding the fact that this was a PR war for the most part and that the other side completely destroyed Progressives in that PR war. He seems clueless to the fact that this will continue to happen as long as there is no Progressive media infrastructure that can match and someday exceed the power and influence of Conservative media. Obama seems to be under the delusion that there is a level playing field and that the Democratic plan really had a fair chance.
This situation only reinforces some of the things that I feel about the Country....mainly that the nation is headed for an inevitable decline and we're in fact in the midst of that decline. This is partly due to the fact that the U.S. political system has become dysfunctional and that dysfunction will mean that the nation won't be able to keep up with future challenges and won't be able to make the Progressive changes that will be necessary to mitigate future threats and improve the lives of Americans. The changes to the world in the next few decades are going to be lightning fast...and there is little chance that this political system will be able to keep up in any meaningful way. Only those Countries that can keep up will be able to compete. Life will get tougher for people who live in Countries with archaic political systems... because these Countries will be left behind. For example... watch what happens with Climate Change legislation. I can tell you now that it is dead on arrival in the Senate. As is Immigration Reform. In fact, most of Obama's major initiatives (those requiring Congressional approval) are already dead.
With this kind of gridlock in place for the foreseeable future - not to mention corporate whores like Joe Lieberman contaminating the halls of Congress - and with K-Street literally controlling legislation, the U.S. is going to wither on the vine. With a government so inherently corrupt at its core, and with ideas like government of the people for the people having died a long time ago.... the citizens are left with a political system that doesn't work.
Solutions?
Besides moving to Canada or out of the Continent completely... I am running out of remedies.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on the Released Torture Papers
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on The Bankers
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on The Bankers
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment
Olbermann To Bush: "You are a Liar" ... "You Have No Remaining Credibility On Iraq"
This was one of the more enjoyable "Special Comments" that I have seen from Keith Olbermann. He tells it like it is...and spills the beans on the Bush Administrations intentions regarding Iraq. Although those beans have been spilled for a while (with the Downing Street Memo, documentaries, and all of the other revelations). It's just that the American public has grown to accept it rather than fight it. No revelation seems to get the people up in arms anymore because there have been so many that it has become "the norm". The public has even grown to accept the Iraq war itself; it's almost as if they are getting used to it...perhaps they feel so helpless to change anything that they are accepting this as the "new normal".
In a way, this is what Bush & Co. wants the public to do- to "get used to it" or comfortable with it as the "new normal". Once this phase sets in, it will be easier to convince the American people that U.S. troops will have to be in Iraq for decades. The government already knew this fact years ago (as I have been pointing out on this blog). But it now appears that Bush & Co. is finally getting around to convincing Americans that this will be the case. But all anyone had to do was follow the building of the permanent U.S. bases in Iraq.
Hear an NPR Report on the book "Dead Certain".
This was one of the more enjoyable "Special Comments" that I have seen from Keith Olbermann. He tells it like it is...and spills the beans on the Bush Administrations intentions regarding Iraq. Although those beans have been spilled for a while (with the Downing Street Memo, documentaries, and all of the other revelations). It's just that the American public has grown to accept it rather than fight it. No revelation seems to get the people up in arms anymore because there have been so many that it has become "the norm". The public has even grown to accept the Iraq war itself; it's almost as if they are getting used to it...perhaps they feel so helpless to change anything that they are accepting this as the "new normal".
In a way, this is what Bush & Co. wants the public to do- to "get used to it" or comfortable with it as the "new normal". Once this phase sets in, it will be easier to convince the American people that U.S. troops will have to be in Iraq for decades. The government already knew this fact years ago (as I have been pointing out on this blog). But it now appears that Bush & Co. is finally getting around to convincing Americans that this will be the case. But all anyone had to do was follow the building of the permanent U.S. bases in Iraq.
Hear an NPR Report on the book "Dead Certain".
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