David Sirota: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

» My two cents on 11.23.09 @ 07:44 PM

Obama is a big clumsy puppet of the Communist Socialist left in this country and he doesn’t even realize it. Someday he will wake up and realize he’s a naive idealogue who is being used.

» My two cents on 11.24.09 @ 04:42 AM

local you’re so ignorant it’s funny. Are you one of the high school dropouts you speak of? Because you forgot to learn how to spell. You also must have missed social studies and civics. Your political knowledge is based on parroting something you heard somewhere but didn’t put much thought or research into. Allow me to educate you.

I do happen to know what the terms mean and they are not mutually exclusive.  In fact, one is a transition to the other. Neither are “forms of government” but rather, theories or forms of social organization. Capitalism is not a form of government either.

SOCIALISM is (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism.

COMMUNISM is a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.You can be a socialist AND a communist if you believe in Marxism, if you think that is the way things should be.

“cronism” (spelled cronyism) is the practice of favoring one’s close friends, esp. in political appointments.

One kind of greed and “cronism” has simply been replaced with another and corporate greed has been replaced with government handout greed and entitlement greed.

You don’t think Obama has appointed any of his friends as “czars” or cabinet members?? You’re ignorant.

You think Bush was a Fascist? I don’t think you know what that means either but it sounds like a really big mean word that you heard somewhere so you use it in your obsessive irrational Bush hatred.

Fascism IS a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

No I was not a fan of our past President because he was too liberal, but he was far from a fascist.  Bush never had complete power, did not forcibly try to suppress opposition and criticism, believed in the private sector as opposed to regimenting industry (you yourself said he was into deregulation - the very opposite of regimenting) and did not try aggressively to nationalize anything. GM maybe, I don’t know how “aggressive” he was and I don’t know how much credit to give to congress. If he did, I sure was not a fan of that, and Obama continued it and was a lot more aggressive.

If you want to see a fascist open your eyes and look at what Obama and the Democrats are doing - trying to suppress Fox news and talk radio and healthcare opposition (asking people to snitch on healthcare opponents by reporting them to whitehouse.gov) nationalizing banks and the auto industry,  etc etc.

Did you get all that or do you only have the attention “spand” (I think you meant span) of a goldfish?

Got anything else? Give it up while it’s clear you’re not going to get ahead. Go crawl back in your hole and work on that high school degree instead of displaying your ignorance blogging.

Slam!!

Source: dictionary.com

» Ron Dexter on 11.24.09 @ 06:15 AM

Thanks Noozhawk for some “balance” to Michelle Malkin.

» Former Barbarian on 11.24.09 @ 09:09 AM

I agree with Ron Dexter about this article supplying “balance” to the stable of Noozhawk columnists which include the malicious and mal-informed Miss Malkin. As I approach Malkin’s columns, I would recommend to readers like two cents and RKV: reading is optional, which, based upon two cents’ selective “research” on socialism, he already knows. What he fails to grasp by relying solely on conservative internet sources is that having social programs, as the US does and is looking to broaden, does not a socialistic government make (for evidence, see: the EU and the predominance of Social Democracies which also embrace market-based economies - although better regulated, generally, than the recent US Republican regime would like). While people like two cents and RKV want to see the world as black-and-white, it is, sadly and fortunately, gray.

» local on 11.24.09 @ 10:05 AM

My Two Cents can use a dictionary. Actually, my two cents maybe used Google. So George Bush was too liberal for you? Wow, you and Glenn Beck,Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin must be buddies?

Sorry but Bush was a corporate fascist!! He and Cheney utilized extensive control via corporations to dictate policy at the expense of the people. He did forcibly suppress any opposition. He dictated in black and white. He rewarded loyalty and suppressed any descenting opinions to the point of fabricating information. Look at Iraq and the Scooter Libby debacle, our so-called energy policy created by Cheney behind closed doors and the use of no bid contracts to satisfy his military industrial complex and Haliburton buddies.

My two cents and RKV should move to Texas where corporatus neo-cons like yourselves will feel right at home. The extreme economic deprivation in this country is being addressed by Obama via policy changes. It is about time that the middle class be given a break. Without a strong middle class in this country, We the People, cannot survive.

» Tomahawkdeb on 11.24.09 @ 12:58 PM

Has the columnist conveniently forgotten the deadlines set by Mr. President himself with regard to the passing of health care reform?  His original deadline didn’t even allow our legislators the opportunity to read what they were supposed to vote on.  Huh?  And we all know that the sky was going to fall if his deadline wasn’t met.  However, I still see the sky up above my head and our legislators are now actually reading and working on health care reform.  So, given that he’s had a whole year to come to some kind of decision on Afghanistan but was allowing legislators mere days/weeks to come to a decision on health care, I wonder who’s the idiot.

» GeeWillikersWally on 11.24.09 @ 06:24 PM

If 2cents and his co-belligerents would get their news from more diverse sources they would realize that the administration has spent this time crafting an exit strategy for this new committment of troops . Too bad the previous administration lacked the brains and ethics to do the same.

» My two cents on 11.25.09 @ 12:13 AM

One thing I agree with you on local is:

“It is about time that the middle class be given a break. Without a strong middle class in this country, We the People, cannot survive.”

Tat is far from what is happening though.
Do you do that by creating more and more energy taxes for the businesses that would hire them and promote them? Do you do that by creating more and more wasteful government programs and more and more spending and debt that they will have to pay for somehow?

» AN50 on 11.25.09 @ 12:38 PM

My two cents, you are having a battle of wits with an unarmed adversary. Please stop. It’s embarrassing that such conversation is allowed to expose the utter mental deficiency of the political left. In addition to the wobbling, indecisive Commander in Chief (oh, that’s right, in lift wing speak an indecision is being “thoughtful”), we now have the anthropogenic global warming hoax exposed. The tragedy in this incident is that real scientist will now be compromised by a few liars and cheats. Unfortunately the idiot left in this country and around the industrialized world has hitched their political credibility on the liars instead of the few scientists who still practice good old fashioned skepticism rather than “political science”. But for the author of this unmitigated bunch of baloney you really need to check that intellectual narcissism out their buddy or your little slavish lap dogs (ya you Local), will just follow you right over that cliff.