The Northwest Courant
Apologies to and dedicated in the memory of B. Franklin’s New-England Courant
“An irregular blog” by Paul B. Bader
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Thanksgiving 2009- What we all have to be thankful for. ___________________________________________________________

What’s wrong with a cool, thoughtful, articulate & optimistic president?

Why we all need to cut President Obama a break or why we are so lucky to be in America at the beginning of the 21st Century

Barack Obama is the Rodney Dangerfield of the present American political theatre: He just can’t get any respect.  It is just so much easier to criticize than to give support. The present state of affairs in American politics reminds us of Mario Cuomo’s quote, “that to campaign is poetry to govern is prose.”

The president of the United States is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. Listening yesterday to Rush Limbaugh the great billowing tent of hate and his minions suggest the most inane garbage while simultaneously  shilling for the insurance death machine is simply amazing. And yet, we have so much to be thankful for in the first year of President Obama’s presidency already.

The world sees us differently now.

From my good friend Phil in the UK I received the following missive:

“The UK is worse placed than any other country in the Euro Zone because of our dim-wit of a PM.  We can’t wait for next May to sling him out on his ass.  Having said that; you guys must have been chuffed to bits to see Obama get in after that asshole Bush.  I know he’s getting some bad press over in the States right now but he’s pure gold on world stage and is repositioning the US reputation to where it deserves to be.  Louise and I really hope the Senate and the House of Representatives will stick with him so he can make a difference”

Courtesy of:  P. Pratt,  Salesforce Ltd.

The world did not end.

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The Northwest Courant
Apologies to and dedicated in memory of B. Franklin’s New-England Courant

“An irregular blog” by Paul B. Bader

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The Tent of Black aka The Black Whole
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” —T. Jefferson

Rush Limbaugh’s new penchant for wearing loose-fitting, billowing, all-black outfits seems appropriate for a man whose rants and raves border on treason. “Hoping for Obama to fail” is something that he would not stand for if the shoes (or tents) were reversed. Just contemplate if the “comedian” Rush Limbaugh, as Keith Olbermann refers to him, were to hear that some “liberal/socialist” were “hoping for Bush to fail” on philosophical grounds regarding the Iraq War. The magnificent Tent of Black would explode in a tirade about the treasonous nature of such thoughts, and suggest prison or possibly a worse fate. Oh well, we certainly know our good friends on the right love to redefine arguments in deluded hypocrisy. They also seem to frame issues with truly incendiary and inaccurate language. Socialism is a total economic and political model, not an adjective or adverb. I hope that Rush, the anti-socialist. puts his money where his extraordinarily large cavity is and does not take Social Security payments, Medicare, or his mortgage interest deduction in the future. Does he really want to live in a country without public education, police officers, and firefighters? Oh well, the Black Whole sucks in all as it obliterates all who come near.

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The Northwest Courant
Apologies to and dedicated in memory of B. Franklin’s New-England Courant

“An irregular blog” by Paul B. Bader
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Don’t let the door hit you in the rear as you exit

My initial rant

For me, it seems amazing that the Republican leadership that has driven us off the proverbial financial cliff is so positive that their obstructionism will succeed. For the 30% of the country they represent, they remain consistent, but it is a losing battle with the rest of America.

America no longer wants to argue over Terry Shiavo and the wedge issues of Rush and Karl Rove.  What they want and need is policies that garner results.  It is fascinating that a little known law prohibiting multiple ownership of radio stations that the Bushies eliminated in the name of “free markets’ is almost totally responsible for the O’Reilly, Hannity and Limbaugh troika, and the ugly rhetoric and poisoned well of the last decade’s Bush-Cheney regime (see below).

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