Hold On a Moment

At night, I am a cantankerous and surly blogger, during the day I am a meek, mild-mannered paralegal who works in records acquisitions.  As such, I spend a lot of time on the phone not talking to anyone. 

Yes, I’m supposed to be talking to people, but here’s how I actually spend my time:

 In On Hold Hell and Message System Hell.

First , On-Hold Hell:

Untruth in Labeling: Both sides are the same!

There's really no difference between the two parties, so it really doesn't matter which one you support.  Of course, the two parties I'm talking about are the Professional Left and the Tea Party.  Which parties did you think I was talking about?

 I increasingly cannot tell the difference between the two.  One turns right, and one turns left but they both arrive at the same destination: that Democrats - especially Barack Obama (neither side ever refers to him as President Obama) -are rotten sonsofbitches.

If you read any column by Glenn Greenwald he will tell you how President Obama has claimed the extraordinary right to Kill "American Citizens" without due process.  If you read any article by any right winger or listen to any right wing radio for any length of time they will tell you about the cosmic unfairness of the "death tax".

The use of the term "death tax" and "American Citizen" are both propagandist mislabels designed solely to hide the fact that we are referring to infinitesimally small groups.

An Open Challenge to Taylor Marsh and the Rest of the Professional Left: Name the President that Measures Up

Taylor Marsh wrote

FDR came from the 1%, but he didn’t govern from the 1%.
JFK also came from the 1%, but took on Big Steel.
Both FDR & JFK walked head-on into confrontation and weren’t afraid to make waves.
FDR connected with the people like few presidents since. JFK didn’t live long enough, but his connection to the American people and helping them dream is unquestioned and resounds today.

I’m also not disappointed to say most of the things Pres. Obama has accomplished most any Democratic president would have also done....

These are two separate quotes from two different articles by Taylor Marsh.   I put the two statements together because they illustrate the precise reason why so many Barack Obama supporters feel that the criticisms of Obama from the left are as racist as the criticisms of Obama from the right.  While her statements are not as obvious as a bone through the nose nor as crude as a field of watermelons they are still racist in that they have one standard for white men and another for a black man.

Jon Walker is a Dumb Mother F***er

In a post entitled Trying to Take Health Care Out of the 2012 Election Jon Walker made this f***ing idiotic bold statement:

Despite claims that Obamacare would become popular after it was passed and promises that the Democratic leadership would keep fighting hard to win the PR war over the law, it has remained very unpopular. With the law designed to not even begin trying to make good on its big promises until over a year after the 2012 election, there is just no reason to believe the law is going to get popular by the election.

It seems the Obama team has basically made the calculation that they simply can’t win on this issue so they can only try to minimize the amount the issue of health care will be talking about.

At the time I called bulls**t:

This bill will not be “run” from because there’s no reason to run from it. When Romney or Newt says they will end “Obamacare” President Obama will be able to say “Oh, really? how will that play to the seniors, students and small business owners that are currently USING the bill”.

 Now, a little less than three months later, with Obama's campaign just beginning, there is proof that I was right and Jon Walker was wrong.  Here's three thirty second videos of them most definitely NOT minimizing health care talk: