ferris209 said:Truly a wonderful, and terrible, moment in America. While we succeeded in placing into office a black American, and thereby proven that we have achieved a post racial world, we also placed into office a socialist. It is a shame we had to sell out the American idea to break racial barriers.
"The American idea" - IOW, what we've had for the past several years...a country run like a conglomerate corporation, only concerned about the bottom line and the paychecks of its leaders, working towards their own ends instead of the prosperity of their employees, all the while throwing those employees the scraps and spare change, then wondering why those "valuable employees" aren't doing their jobs and aren't committed to turning things around.
You like things like the Patriot Act(s) that essentially give the government free reign to spy on anyone they feel like AND THEN find a reason for it? You want leaders who control, for all practical purposes, every major source of income - real estate, banking and oil being the most recent subjects - who when faced with the "downfall" of those operations do what...try to come to the rescue of "the people" by writing themselves a multi-billion dollar check to solve the problem they created in the first place?
People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
- V, "V for Vendetta"