{"id":3755,"date":"2008-12-05T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2008-12-05T09:57:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T14:57:42","slug":"hello-hello-hello-is-there-anybody-in-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3755","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Hello, Hello, Is There Anybody In There?"},"content":{"rendered":"

…Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?<\/p>\n

Barack Obama is already deflecting…this is going to be a long four years for everyone<\/em> if our fears of his emptysuitedness manifest themselves.<\/p>\n

All Americans should hope that Obama grows some, and fast. What America needs now is not the rhetoric and campaign promises that landed Obama in the White House on the backs of millions of people that think he is going to save them from their rightful obligations.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the office of President will be of no more value to America than the mock, ego-driven farce that is the “Office of the President-Elect.”<\/p>\n

Democrats are growing impatient<\/a> with President-elect Barack Obama’s refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country. Obama has sidestepped some policy questions by saying there is only one president at a time. But the dodge is wearing thin.<\/p>\n

He’s going to have to be more assertive than he’s been,” House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., told consumer advocates Thursday.<\/p>\n

Frank, who has been dealing with both the bailout of the financial industry and a proposed rescue of Detroit automakers, said Obama needs to play a more significant role on economic issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Could there be someone less qualified than Beans ‘n Frank to deal with this crisis? Yes. Barack Obama. At least Barney Frank knows how it happened on account of his personal culpability and corruption. Not only was he at ground zero, he lit the fuse.<\/p>\n

Obama did stress that a significant component of the fund should be used to reduce the number of foreclosures. But he did not specify a particular remedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not so fast, Mr. Jimmy. You might want to consider the effect of that on your soon-to-be-plummeting approval rating.<\/p>\n

Many Americans are outraged<\/a> that their money is being spent to rescue irresponsible mortgage borrowers. Still, that probably won’t stop government officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a lot of hard-working, responsible people out there, many of whom voted for you Mr. Oprah, who are dead set against bailing out those that took imprudent risk at the expense of those that saved and lived below their means.<\/p>\n

Insert leadership here.<\/p>\n

What America needs is a President that tells America the truth. Government can no longer cover your six if you make bad decisions. It can’t and it won’t. It’s the only intelligent thing Jesse Ventura ever said.<\/p>\n

Based on some<\/em> of BHO’s cabinet choices, I am guardedly optimistic that he in fact is weighing his options and that he truly wants to do what is best for America, within the limiting realm of his ideology; but the forces of opposition, Frank, Reid, Pelosi et al, are very strong.<\/p>\n

And soon, may not even be on his team (which may be a good thing).<\/p>\n

“That One” spent two years telling us “Yes We Can.” Now it’s time to tell us “No We Can’t.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home? Barack Obama is already deflecting…this is going to be a long four years for everyone if our fears of his emptysuitedness manifest themselves. All Americans should hope that Obama grows some, and fast. What America needs now is not the rhetoric and campaign promises […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,59,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-pork-patrol","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}