On Sep 16, 1:46*am, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:46:42 -0700, "nom=de=plume"



The really disturbing part is the promoting of these feelings of fear and
uncertainty by "news services" such as Fox and Dick Army's Freedomworks.
Both of these groups know better. They should be ashamed of themselves.

There's no reason to insult the sensibilities of on concerned
Americans with untenable speculation. *You are right in that in as
much as the anxiety produced by the apparent path the country is
taking could be described as fear by less discerning persons, the
description fails to acknowledge legitimate concerns of those persons
who have their sensibilities assaulted, too, by statements such as
this; "One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is
led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it
can also have great advantages," written by Tom Friedman for the NYT.

tom friedman isn't barack obama. and the signs carried by folks, like
in the recent rally in washington, saying that obama's some alien
communist atheist america hating...well you get the picture...


The obvious that smacks the 'enlightened' reader pugilistically
between the eyes is that any one-party rule

and the GOP had one party rule in this country for so long, it's
driven them crazy to even conceptualize the idea there could be
another party in power...so they think power was grabbed, not
legitimately transferred

is an open invitation for
the induction of a narcissitic Nero who may, on a whim, blithely pin
ne'er-do-wells to trees, coat with wax, and set afire to serve as
improvised night lights. *If the autocrat can be enlightened the
autocrat can be debauch. *But, this is just one of many scenarios that
has given rise to civil angst. *To posit an argument that hinges on
the 'puerile' fears of a few citizens is to criminally deprecate the
wide-spread, warranted hand-wringing over profligate spending by our
"enlightened" legates and imperators.

the biggest spenders in US history were ronald reagan and george w.
bush. where was the outrage when they busted the budget?