Submitted by Savitri D on July 16, 2009 - 10:47pm.
Gosh yeah I sure do think about all that. Appreciate your anger on all fronts and would guess from this that don't know very much about us. Dig a little deeper.
It is worth examining the POSITION of president as much as the president himself-- how much can an American president actually change? And if we all know the answer is "not very much" then lets figure out why so many people put so much of their energy into it.
I have never put any sizeable hopes or faith in the presidency. Ever. However I do think Obama is far less dangerous to the world than Bush/Cheney, and if you are trying to say they are exactly the same and nothing whatsoever has changed than you should probably spend a little more time in the sunlight.
However I'm guessing from your sign off that your just another cynical Ayn Rand freak-- I read all those books before I was 15 and thought they were vacuous middle brow %$#@^#%$ then. John Galt? Devil get thee behind me! Here is some typical soul killing Ayn Rand #^%#@&^% drivel:
The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the ‘competition’ between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of ‘exploitation’ for which you have damned the strong.”
When I was about 21 I got in a fist fight over Ayn Rand in a little bar in Montana -- I don't regret it-- me and my Blackfeet friend Harmon Good Gun got bashed up pretty good but we stood our ground. Years later I ran into that &*^#*&$^ at a concert. Guess where -- Washington DC and working guess where? The State Department.
hmm...
It is worth examining the POSITION of president as much as the president himself-- how much can an American president actually change? And if we all know the answer is "not very much" then lets figure out why so many people put so much of their energy into it.
I have never put any sizeable hopes or faith in the presidency. Ever. However I do think Obama is far less dangerous to the world than Bush/Cheney, and if you are trying to say they are exactly the same and nothing whatsoever has changed than you should probably spend a little more time in the sunlight.
However I'm guessing from your sign off that your just another cynical Ayn Rand freak-- I read all those books before I was 15 and thought they were vacuous middle brow %$#@^#%$ then. John Galt? Devil get thee behind me! Here is some typical soul killing Ayn Rand #^%#@&^% drivel:
The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the ‘competition’ between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of ‘exploitation’ for which you have damned the strong.”