Comments on: 20 reasons Democrats are the walking dead

By: zotdoc

zotdoc — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:02:27 +0000

can we please fast forward to the next election so we can completely vote the democrats out and get back to work already?

By: Stamper

Stamper — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:38:06 +0000

U.S. Big Issues:
• Taxes
• Entitlement Programs
• Defense Spending
• Discretionary Spending
• Government Waste, Fraud and Abuse

By: tangerinesunset

tangerinesunset — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:10:15 +0000

“When your policy is directed to benefiting a minority of about 12% of the population at the expense of the majority, which is what health care ‘reform’ in particular did, expect to see some backlash.”

It’s fascinating the way people say things like this to implicate a black agenda when that same 12% of the population has been more likely to work full time without health care benefits, disproportionately more likely to lose work in this economy, which has led to a high loss of homes. And that same 12% has suffered a huge increase in hate crimes all at this same exact time.

It has been clear to blacks from the start that Obama could never be seen to show favoritism towards blacks. He is the President of the United States of America, not the black president.

By: pereiraarvindin

pereiraarvindin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:03:18 +0000

James,

Your analysis is excellent, very diagonostic however could you come up with soutions, high labor rate drove away manufacturing, call centre, medical transcription and BPO jobs. Korean and Japanese companies sell well in the US, do you suggest a protectionist policy, so that national financial deficit comes down?

Thx
Arvind Pereira
http://www.Arvindleopereira.co.nr

By: roshambo

roshambo — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:12:30 +0000

Reason #21:
Americans are ignorant, impatient, mindless drones who believe anything people tell them that sounds good at the time.

By: StevenLeser

StevenLeser — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:34:23 +0000

This article is a prime reason why I don’t think AP and Reuters should blur what they do by allowing editorial and opinion based content to appear under their banner.

By: Rhino1

Rhino1 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:47:21 +0000

There was this German chancellor in the 70s, Helmut Schmidt, who once said “What do you expect from the people? People are stupid!” He was referring to voters. There was a big outcry at the time in Germany in response to his statement. But quite frankly, I am starting to think he was right. Most people do not have an education in economics or politics. How could they know what would have happened if the banks and the car industry had not been bailed out?
Fact is, the whole recession would have been several times worse and it would have pulled the rest of the world down with it.
But people will vote for the Republicans today because a lot of them still think that everything will go back to the way it was.
Helmut Schmidt was right.

By: dlewis17

dlewis17 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:33:03 +0000

2, 12, 16, 19, 20. Very strong (and probably underestimated) points. What a fantastic article, concise, to the point, not to much garbage opinion, I’m a big fan.

(And I do not know why Obama’s race came up in any comments for this article, completely irrelevant).

By: URKiddinRight

URKiddinRight — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:43:42 +0000

Obama’s in trouble because he is black. One only needs to read the bigoted filth covering the internet discussion groups that radical lunatic groups like Fox news, Limbaugh forment to realized that for large segments of the population, the civil rights movement of the 60′s was the start of the downfall of America.

Obama’s in trouble because the Robert’s court has opened the floodgates of unregulated money, which has saturated the media with misleading ads supported by shadow donors. The sad reality is that for a good number of folks, if you tell they anything (e.g. Obama is a Muslim, Obama is a non-US citizen, Michelle O has more staff than here predecessors, “cattle guards”), they will come to believe it.

Obama’s in trouble because many Americans have be convinced that the same strategy of wealth redistribution to the very wealthy that got us into this mess, will somehow get us out.

By: vksaini

vksaini — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:32:42 +0000

The author of the article has pointed 20 reasons for Democrats walking dead but has failed to suggest remedies for all. Suppose he had been in place of Obama what he would have done? It is very easy to criticize but difficult to perform in the war ravaged economic crisis,banks failures,housing mortgage crisis, rising unemployment and fiscal deficit and continuous war in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as peak level of sovereign debt handed down to him when got elected. Magical expectations rarely fructify!

Moreover final decisions are taken by the house and congress approval.Why all those who blame singlehandedly on president Obama & his policies failed to muster the majority opinion against those policies and obstruct at that stage instead of blaming when it went wrong? Why they don’t like to share blame? Does that mean, be Democrats or Republican, go for the party only and not for the policies which are for the best of the country?

I feel America at present needs a third alternative; neither Democrats nor Republicans, to bring it out of the present mess or be prepared to compromise for the fall of its superpower empire with tunes of the coming times!