Ted Rall- You can go home now

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. " . . . and let the bad guys win."

Too true.

How can we get the attention of the president? Every president in my 54 short years has complained about being in the bubble, unable to break out of the comfort zone that the White House and its huge entourage create. But some of them realized it sooner than later. I wonder when, if, this president will get it and change his economic plans. If ever.

On too many issues, he has continued Bush policies. So much for change. Audacity. Hope.

[n2doc]

3. He is who he is

I refuse to believe that anyone as smart and accomplished as Obama could be hoodwinked for this amount of time. He isn't some country bumpkin, fresh off the farm. He is doing exactly what he thinks is the right thing to do. I happen to disagree on many of these things, especially the ones in this toon.

[RufusTFirefly]

5. Isolation

Seymour Hersh recently made some eye-opening comments about the President's isolation:

And I still think—I think right now—I would almost use the word "cult" to describe what’s going on in the White House. Everything is political. He’s isolated. Very good people say they’ve never seen a president this isolated, in terms of being unable to get to him with different opinions, etc. So here’s really captive of a few people there. I know this may sound strange, but I know what I’m talking about. You can’t get to the guy—and even, for example, Pickering, as competent as he is. And Pickering has done some wonderful stuff for the United States intelligence community undercover, and so he’s known as a trusted guy. Those guys who have been involved in talking to Iran off the record, Track II policy talks, for years can’t get to the President. He may not even know they’re looking for him. I just don’t know.

Source: Democracy Now

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. and some here piss on him for saying that.

I suspect that as smart as he is, he just doesn't realize that he is isolated. After all, he has instant communications globally with world leaders. He has instant F2F contact with the pentagon and CIA, NSA and State. It is just that those closest to him like the control they have, because it empowers them and their ideas, it prevents them from losing "control" subtle as it may be, over Obama.

But, let's face it, if your control the data going in, even a man as smart as Obama will make decisions on the data he has at hand. Hell, remember how Rumsfeld controlled Bush with his beJezus messages on the war?

[OnyxCollie]

2. K&Fuckin' R. nt

[Karmadillo]

4. K&R. Four more wars! Four more wars!

nt

[JohnnyRingo]

6. We should probably give the Republicans a chance in 2012

I don't think I can punch the ticket for Romney or Rick Perry, but I'm disappointed in Obama as well so I'll just stay home and encouage all my friends to do the same on election day. Since Obama only brought change in some areas and not others maybe the Republicans have a better idea of how to run the country. We'll never know unless we give them a chance, and I hear Mitt Romney ran a business once.

Total sarcasm.

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8. kick n/t

[KG]

9. but, but, um, uh, Ted Rall can't draw for poo!

:P