Why I plan to vote for Obama anyway

Sam Smith- The lesser of two evils is a lesser evil.-  Voting for a third party candidate may be a fine choice but it will clearly fail. There have been only five third party presidential campaigns since Abraham Lincoln that made it into double digits – and only two of them were on the left. …

Obama’s non-political problems

Sam SmithI plan to vote for Barack Obama despite considering him a pretty lousy and reactionary president. I’ll be doing this because I don’t consider presidential elections a choice of leaders but of battlefields. I also believe that in such elections, poker is a better guide than virtue. Obama is the best bet for a …

Otohbotoh Obama

Sam Smith If the Democratic Party still had the same sort of philosophy it had until the mid 1970s, Barack Obama would have little trouble getting elected against Mitt Romney. He would be able to brag about all the jobs he had created, all the new public works underway, and all the nearly foreclosed homes …

The Obama con of the week

Barack Obama has joined with the National Association of Manufacturers in a program to provide a half million community college students with training for manufacturing jobs. Said Obama, "If you're a company that's hiring, you'll know that anyone who has this degree has the skills you're looking for. If you're a student considering community college, …

Controlling Obama’s birth

Sam Smith Barack Obama’s curiously tardy release of his long form birth certificate may have confirmed one of our alternative theories on why he was acting so strangely in the matter. . ..arrogance – exemplified by ignoring citizen queries for several years and then releasing the document as soon as someone raised questions who might …

Morning Line: The arrogance of hope

Sam SmithBefore liberals rant anymore about Judge Vinson's decision on the healthcare bill, they should read this footnote: “I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that ‘if a mandate was …

The Obamacon

Sam Smith Barack Obama's State of the Union address offers further proof that he is one of the greatest political con artists of modern times. I came to realize this early in his campaign, but being surrounded by liberal friends who thought otherwise, I thought it best not to put it so bluntly. But now …

Liberals in denial

Sam Smith - The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote a column in the Washington Post that would have made her a prime candidate for psychotherapy had she been talking about alcohol or sexual problems. Fortunately, she was just writing about Obama and how "progressives" were not really opposed to him: "What's happening on the left …

Obama and the American oligarchy

Sam Smith 2010 "An oligarchy," says Wikipedia, "is a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royal, wealth, intellectual, family, military, or religious hegemony. The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for 'few' and 'rule.'" Go back more than two decades and you find …

WHY PEOPLE CALL OBAMA A SOCIALIST. .. AND WHY IT MATTERS

Sam SmithIn trying to figure out why so many people think Barack Obama is a socialist, it finally occurred to me that it wasn't a matter of politics or ideology at all, but one of class and culture. Because of the way Americans have been raised - in school, in the media and in the …

WHEN THE TOP CAVES IN

What corporate America wanted was nothing less than the Third Worlding of the US, a collapse of both present reality and future expectations. The closer the life and wages of our citizens could come to those of less developed nations, the happier the huge stateless multinationals would be. Then, as they said in the boardrooms …

THE CIVILITY CLUE

Sam SmithYou know things are going poorly for the establishment when it starts appealing for civility as Obama did the other day, asking for a "a basic level of civility in our public debate."That means they've pretty much run out of arguments to defend the way they're screwing things up and are now attempting to …

THE THREE WARS WE’LL NEVER WIN

Sam SmithThe three wars we'll never win are easy to remember. The enemy in each conflict begins with the letter M: Muslim, Mexican and marijuana. Leaving aside all moral restraints, there is still one exceptionally good rule about starting a war: don't begin one you can't win.But an extraordinary percentage of our national, state and …

MEMO FROM A FORMER WHITE HOUSE ADVISER

Sam SmithThe following memo was discovered in the White House desk of Oliver G.Chortlelywell, former presidential public relations adviser, shortly after he had resigned his post in order, as he put it, "to spend more time with my family and pursue other interests."HOW TO CHANGE THE OBAMA IMAGE FOR THE BETTER1. Stop behaving like a …

LIBERALISM IS DEAD. TIME TO MOVE ON

Sam Smith, 2010 Liberalism is dead. It started going into its final throes when liberals jumped aboard the Clinton campaign, claiming that the toy boy of the Democratic Abandonship Council was really a one of them. Later on, even the anti-worker and anti-environmental trade deals, the assault on welfare, and the deep corruption didn't dissuade …