good morning.

What a moment in our history! We’re seeing the history of Abe Lincoln & MLK coming together in Barack Obama. Wow. I’m feeling the moment big time. ;-)

Thanks for the compilation BT

Let’s hope that BO can live up to our expectations ,we’ve raised the bar pretty high !!

Well, for some, he never will live up to their rigid expectations. They just hate…just to hate. Me? I’m going to give him a chance, while others won’t be. Let freedom ring! LOL

I’ll say ,this is the first politician I’ve ever been excited about. This guy does have something special ,and it gives me hope for a promising future.

Mornin’, BT, pups.

We’re gonna hear excerpts from “I Have A Dream” all day. Not to take away any of the importance of that speech I think “Beyond Viet Nam” is more reflective of the present, a time of reckless military intervention to impose our will on others. Take an hour and listen to it.

foothillsmike is prolly still snoozin’ so

27 hours 36 minutes

I know most of us are middle aged and beyond,but do we have to look at belly fat so early in the morning.

ps, at least the picture of Joe Lieberman is gone

At the very least, Barack has awoken the Democratic Party. There are more young people in it now who see the top dogs of the Party as useless creatures. Maybe Barack’s email list he gathered while campaigning can be a new party? The Hope Party? LOL! Anyway, I am very excited for the dark cloud of the last 8 years to be leaving us! Barack is light right now for me. I’m not saying he’s going to fix our nation’s problems during the first hour, but I do believe he’s going to spend every day of his presidency working to. Those who start bitching about what he did and didn’t do in the first 30 minutes is going to get a V8 juice bonk to the forehead!

It just seems to me that, if he fails, we all fail. It’s not an easy position to be in, but I’m vastly relieved that he’ll be leading the effort.

Why’d BO submit his MLK essay as a special to the “Moonie” Times?

:shrug:

Lessee, I got my “Things to Change Before Exiting the Inaugural Stage” list ratcheer an’ by golly he’d better change ‘em afore Shrub and Darth get to their getaway vehicles.

Thanks SD I scanned the transcript ,when I have more time I’ll listen to the entire speech.
How in the world can people talk for so long?

Considering the condition of the country right now ,Obama seems to be the right man for the job.

Do you have a bottle of wine like Elliott does? If not, get one! LOL

I dunno. I know I sure can’t. I’d rather be in a firefight than stand up in front of folks and give a speech.

Imagine if our biggest problem was unity. Obama would be a godsend. I think he’s already succeeded in that regard. But, unlike a decade back, it’s not our biggest problem. The U.S. is in such dire straits right now that I don’t know if anyone can dig us out. I barely read the gloom and doom diaries because I feel so helpless (hopeless?). I’m having trouble even enjoying Obama’s success because the future looks so bleak.

Good idee. I’ll stop at the wine shop on the way back from the natural foods store. Almost out of coffee.

Barack has said throughout his campaign that he can’t do the changing by himself. We have to help and if it means helping the people in our neighborhoods, then so be it. We can’t put it all on him. George Bush took care of the top 5% of this country and gave the rest of us the finger which made us rear up like a spider, remember? We have a new president who is saying we are in this together with or without the top 5%.

*sigh*

I’m motivated at least. I know others won’t be, though.

A move to pardon Stevens is in the works:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2…..3722.shtml

To cheer myself, I just have to imagine another 4 years of Bush, McCain/Palin, or Palin alone.

While some Alaskans will be finding ways to take care of each other today (some heating oil would be nice!), ole Sarah is going to spend her day servicing Glenn Beck:

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/…..lenn-beck-

Hateful Pig in Lipstick.

It’s gonna take quite a while to get people out of the “me first and foremost” attitude. There are some at work who are uncomfortable looking me in the eye because they’ve heard me rant about the selfishness and thoughtlessness of others but they’re comin’ around.

The other day, I heard a Churchill quotation which I hadn’t previously heard:

“I’m an optimist. There doesn’t seem to be much point in being anything else.”

I liked it.

IIRC he’s not eligible under current guidelines, not that that means anything to this bunch.

27 hours 19 minutes.

I’ll try to remember that.

Why is Babe Buchanan on my TV?

Someone up there needs to recognize that Sarah Palin is actually “Chief Executive of the Effort to Promote ME” …she is not really the governor of Alaska.

I have two cleaning customers who for some reason are now trying to impress me with their richness and are trying to remind me that I’m poor compared to them. It’s kind of weird that they are doing this, but then I remember the last 8 years and how they were catered to and just shrug my shoulders at their selfish narcissism. I know that if the nation completely collapses, I could eat a squirrel if I had to survive. Them? Not so much. They will have an awfully hard time going without! I will just laugh at them. ;-)

Okay, going to work for a half day with the rest of the schmucks of America who have to too.

Some Alaskans are saying, “Where the hell did our Governor go!!!!”. Last I heard Sarah was saying something like, “Oh, let them eat cake. Now give me better lighting for this magazine cover shot!”. What an ass.

MLK showed extraordinary courage and spoke out against a “dishonorable war” in his Beyond Vietnam speech.

I see where SD has a link. Here is the speech in written form.

Bad linky. My link also has a pdf file of the speech.

ET’s posts on the latest session of the legislature paints a great picture of Palin. Let’s just hope Alaskans are payin’ attention.

Okay, here’s the link:

http://stanford.edu/group/King…..pdf”>

Obama is inheriting a mountain of woes that are the result of 8 years of Republican rule and the 30+ years of most Americans buying into conservative propaganda. If Obama were just dealing with the disasters of the last 8 years his job would be much easier but changing the mindset of the nation will be a far more difficult task. The U.S. seems to be a prisoner of a failed ideology and the myth of exceptionalism. Because of this Obama’s initiatives will likely be far too moderate when bold “radical” solutions are required to pull the nation out of the abyss. Take health care. Most rational people recognize that a single payer system is the most cost effective approach but then Americans are easily frightened off by “socialized” medicine. Have Americans been so programmed to respond in certain ways that they have become nothing more than trained monkeys on a leash?

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool. This will be the first time I won’t be in the MLK parade here in 5 years. Bummer.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

27 hours 8 minutes

Gotta give credit where it’s due. The folks over at Free Republic have done a great job on this. Digging and digging. Going through archive after archive and now confidently report:
Pete Seeger is a Communist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167212/posts

Great job guys!

wow. tick. tock. tick tock. i think i’m getting a tingle up my leg. wish i was off tomorrow

Time to go be a cog in the wheel !!
Feel like a hamster running in it’s wheel ,run my ass off all day and never get anywhere !!

My sense is that Obi does get it but knows that he can’t act “unilaterally” although he may have the “power” to make some very radical changes. He won’t do that. His strategy at politics seems to be to enlist the “enemy” and get them onboard first and slowly (my guess) get them to move to where he wants to go. This blunts criticism from the right and allows them to “rationalize” that they are part of the deal and not the opposition party.

It is distasteful to have Rick Warren at the station when “our” train is leaving, but if he excludes the unenlightened and wrong headed they will simply block the ay and be obstructionist.

Others will see him as a centrist “sell out”. He may be. But until there is a resounding unequivocal demand for SPECIFIC policies he will be hesitant to complete reverse our present policies.

I suspect he will climb aboard Afghanistan and then come back and say we need to re evaluate this position and begin to withdraw. I gave it a shot, listened to the DOD, the right and so forth and I see that this is not working. I think this is how he intends to tack left if that is his agenda.

He wants to live to see his children grow up and become a grandfather. You don’t crush the right and expect to live to grow old. I think that is one of the lessons of MLK, JFK, RFK, Malcolm – all men who dared to confront the power structure. Obi may be looking for a new way to get there… he’s being a bit dodgey. And if that IS his strategy and he get to where we need to be he will stand among the greatest Americans and be the fulfillment of Dr. King’s vision.

I think Obi feels the weight of Dr. King each and every moment. King knew he would be taken out for being outspoken and right. JFK and RFK didn’t know it. Obi knows that he needs enormous support at his back to move to the left. We are ready, but not everyone is … yet. Let’s see what he does over the next 12 months.

I am giving him the benefit of the doubt, disappointed in some of his appointments, but suspect he will not be stubborn and make the necessary corrections. He’s not a hubris burdened narcissist like Bush. The man has humility.

The man has humility.

rarely have i disagreed with you so much! …. just wondering, have your read the diaries obama wrote at daily kos?

Pete Seeger is first and foremost an American!!!

Me too, but I’m going to try to get someone to turn on the tv in the conference room at lunch time so that people can actually SEE Obama put his hand on the Bible and take the oath…and the guard move from behind Bush…and move behind Barak Obama. I have a bottle of champagne in the fridge at home that I plan on opening when I get back from work. I think we all anticipate that between now and that moment when the guard moves at 12:01 pm tomorrow, there will be a lot of rats scurrying around, pardons being signed and posted, etc. etc., but this is an amazing moment in the nation’s history and we need to honor that.

The comments are equally hysterical.

Morning all late night last night hence late morning.
26 hrs & 57 min

really. I love it. that sound you here tomorrow won’t be fireworks. it’ll be wingnut heads exploding. yes, i’m lovin’ it. there was one good one though. under the picture of springsteen it said “a little fiber in his diet could help with that problem.”

my 47 a rweply to solai 45

Morning all late night last night hence late morning.
26 hrs & 57 min

So, that means 26hrs 56 min till the list of pardons is revealed?

spelling error in my 48:

reply. not rweply

duh

The economic collapse explained
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/l…..397239.htm

Geeze, and I thought it was hemlines.

And Now Newt Gin. is lecturing Obama…some folks never know when to leave the stage. What wisdom.

The very first act PBO must do is collect the passports from George Bush and Dick Cheney, and ask them not to leave the country. /s

No, I haven’t.

You wont’ see a truly humble man running for political office. This is an oxymoron. But as far as pols go, he is well aware of his roots and the poor completely different experience than WE, or Hillary, or Schumer, or Ted Kennedy. You don’t see a difference?

I wouldn’t mind if they visited the Hague
26 hrs & 30 min

Yeah, Gingrich was almost giddy when Obama proposed 40% of his stimulus package include tax cuts but said they would have to oppose him when he proposes any “left wing” intiatives. Implementing failed Republican economic theory that is responsible for the mess the country is in is all well and good but to stray from their “religion” is heresy.

It boggles my little mind that he still holds himself out as expert on anything. He initiated the Contract on America that has taken us down this little path…not to mention his outrageous marital hypocrisy.