Comments on: Welcome Back!

By: admin

admin — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:34:38 +0000

Hi, whabs! Thank you, thank you. It’s good to be back. I really missed blogging. I’m feeling heavy-hearted about the banking quagmire, the racism, and other crap. Writing about it helps me feel a little better. I am still easing myself back into the groove, so it’s probably going to be another fluff piece today.

By: SillyWhabbit

SillyWhabbit — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:00:37 +0000

Welcome back Minna! I missed your words! YAY!
What a nice treat to wake up to after blogging and coffee. I made my rounds and as I clicked, was thinking..”She said she’d be back” and you are!
I haven’t even read your post, just rushed in to say YAY! and give you a big hug! Now I’ll go read.
I couldn’t have said it better, but then I sort of fell off the face of the world the last two weeks and into “lets not go there” world of me.
I did manage to listen to the 100 day speech, I just haven’t been blogging political lately.
WELCOME BACK!

By: admin

admin — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:52:51 +0000

Holy shit, you’re right! I can’t swear when talking to the POTUS. I will have to edit this before I send it!

I agree that he has done so much in his first hundred days. It’s incredible when you stop to actually think about it. Jonathan Alter, a guy who wrote a book about FDR said that Obama wasn’t FDR, but he (Obama) was in that territory. Highly exalted ground. You are also correct that if Obama fails, so does America. In fact, that is the reason I’m worried that he’s not progressive enough when it comes to the banking system/Wall Street. I have the uncomfortable feeling that they are the ones who will finally decapitate our country.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:21:52 +0000

First, I do not think that it is appropriate to use the F*** word in a letter to our President.

That said, I agree 200% with everything you said, from cringing everytime GWB came on tv, knowing he’d speak like a 6 year old or worse, he would act totally unpresidential and he would talk without saying anything. And his pressers (as you call them) were all sleazy liars.

Obama is thoughtful and brilliant and, as they keep saying on the news, has done more in his first 100 days in office than any president since FDR. He did inherit a horrible mess, to put it mildly, and has, against all the Republican ill will and attempts to twist and lie, achieved a great deal and has indeed started turning things around in almost every domaine. He must succeed because if he fails, America fails.