Forget Whitehouse.gov

[MDepr2007]

quote:Originally posted by Chicken Little

quote:Originally posted by inteller

i think it is pretty ironic that the president ELECT keeps spouting off that we only have one president at a time, yet he is holding radio addresses and conducting himself very much like a president.  there is a transition process, but BHO is overstepping his boundaries.

How so? Because of a domain name?  Baloney; do better. It's not Obama's fault that people have written off "Mr. 19%".  Nevertheless, Obama remains measured and diplomatic in his statements, "We only have one president at a time." etc.    

Obama is having press conferences because people are nervous about the future and hungry for information...and so, Obama talks to the press and even starts a website with the details of his agenda.  

It's called openness and transparency.  I know it must seem foreign to you...even unamerican.  That's because for the last eight years, people like Bush, Cheney, Rove, Fleischer, Snow, Scotty, and countless other Republicans have been too embarrassed about their actual activities to be honest with the American people.  Well, let me revise that...Cheney and Rove don't care.

Kinda like Tulsa

[Chicken Little]

quote:Originally posted by MDepr2007

Kinda like Tulsa

If you are talking about the Mayor, I think that things are getting better.  For instance, the street bond was as plain as day...to the point where it was boring to read it.  It was pretty much all streets and all "no-brainer" public needs and the financing was relatively easy to understand...it extended existing taxes.  It's also worth noting that citizens actually did get a chance to have a say in project priorities in all of those town hall meetings.

Anyway, its a subject for another thread, but this is how local government usually is and how it should be in Tulsa...plain, simple, (small d) democratic, and boring.

[Red Arrow]

quote:Originally posted by Chicken Little
Love of Country?

Don't tell me you're developing a soft spot for W now that he's a lame duck. []  Imagine only a few weeks ago the concept that a person left of center could believe that W could do anything for "Love of Country".  And so forth and so on.

[Chicken Little]

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow

quote:Originally posted by Chicken Little
Love of Country?

Don't tell me you're developing a soft spot for W now that he's a lame duck. []  Imagine only a few weeks ago the concept that a person left of center could believe that W could do anything for "Love of Country".  And so forth and so on.

I've never really doubted Bush's patriotism.  He's kinda dumb and extremely headstrong, and these are by no means virtues, but I've always felt that he felt he was making America a better place.  He was just wrong, that's all...so very wrong...more wrong than any President in our history.

He was ultimately accountable for all of this, and I'm not giving him a pass, but it's worth noting that the guy had a ton of help.  He couldn't have done better if "Wrongness" were a cabinet-level position.  It practically was.  The guy was surrounded and advised by an unseemly number of rogues, half-wits, yes-men, and wack-jobs.  There's no room for those kinds of people in government.  We need to strive for excellence.  Rove tried to sell headstrong stupidity as an asset and it kinda backfired...it always does.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

I am 100 percent behind President Elect Obama and wish him well. I did not vote for him, but find him to be very likable and think he'll do his best to pull this country out of the mess that it's currently in.

We all need to back this guy up and stop beating each other up in the process.

[PonderInc]

McCain: "My friends, what's a dot gov?"
GW Bush: "Dunno.  Must be one of those internets things."