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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 11/5/2008 7:44:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
genegerue AT ruralize.com writes:

> Bush is still at it and it is a mistake to think  
that he is done.

Essentially, Gene, you posit is correct, but the fact is Bush IS done, that 
is, the die is cast.  The 'final solution' is set into motion and he could 
drop 
dead and it would still pay out.

> > I naively  
> thought that even a zealous evangelical president could not hurt the  
> country with his efforts to inflict his beliefs and business interests  
> upon the country. 
> 

You still naively think that. As far as inflicting his own interests on the 
rest of us, Bush was the right hand punch and Obama is the follow-up left.  
The 
old coal miner song 'Sixteen Tons" contains the couplet:

"I've got one fist of iron, the other of steel
 If the right one don't get you, then the left one will!"

Bush, like of all his ilk, bought his own schtick.  He really believes that 
the only way any of us can have beans on the table is if they tinkle down 
from 
the monstrously wealthy above us.  When you protest about his largesse to his 
wealthy buddies, he blinks and stares and says you are trying to take away 
the 
source of succor, the ONLY source, from the poor.  After all, if you bridle 
the rich, there will be nothing to tinkle down on you and you will be ruined. 
 
That's idiotic of course, even evil, but it is what the Bush's of the world 
earnestly believe.

That's the right hand blow.

Obama believes his own schtick as well (and so far, it seems you believe his 
schtick).  The only reason some people are poor is because the rich have too 
much.  If we just took some of that stuff from the rich, there would be 
plenty 
to give to the poor, the old 'divide up the pie' ploy.   History and reality 
firmly remind us that this is not true.  Once you start sticking your finger 
in 
to someone else's pie, they stop baking pies.

All jibbing aside (for this post only) and being straight for once, set aside 
all the 'yes we can' and 'change the changes' and 'he's a decent man' and all 
that empty rhetoric.  What is Obama going to do?  From what we've seen so far 
it is a rehash of the worst of the New Deal and the Great Society.

That is, by Bush (and ilk) facilitating the worst of the greedy instintcs of 
the American people, he has delivered us an almighty right hand blow with his 
fist of iron.  Now, Obama facilitating all the worst of our dependent and 
slothful instincts, is winding up to give us an almighty left hand blow with 
his 
fist of steel.

The only bright spot in this is that as the Obama administration undwinds, 
perhaps we sill at long last look up from our punch drunk haze and say with 
bloodied lips, "Enough of this!" and quit this left-right destructive 
punching 
we've experienced our entire lifetimes.


James