Ig Nobels

[Joseph Tracy]

  A reality check up? What university do you teach at? What is your  
real name? Perhaps you had not noticed that the  USA is utterly  
bankrupt and that the planet is in serious trouble  calling for  
something perhaps just a bit more more real than telling kids to work  
hard and go to college. Perhaps you would like to share about the  
wonderful results  the Nobel committee achieved from rewarding Henry  
Kissinger's stirring efforts for peace.
The problem is not that O. is trying and failing. The problem  is he  
is preemptively failing so he won't have to stand up to those who are  
strangling democracy, he is backing down without a fight. The  
political realism you seem to extol is really just a lack of  
courage.  All those noble looks and  the  King like rhetoric have,  
when the rubber met the road, revealed in stunning and elaborate  
detail a man without the courage even  to stand up to a fascist boor  
like Glenn Beck. This is a  person who cannot consistently show  
courage in a single area.

The only thing  I can sincerely credit Obama with is  a commanding  
speaking style.  As a political leader who could make a difference in  
a critical time he is failing on all fronts.

On Oct 10, 2009, at 4:55 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> You boyz need to check in for a reality check up. Why anyone with half
> your brains would talk such utter nonsense about American Politics can
> only be explained by extreme delusions of grandeur, extreme naive
> idealism turned bitter cynicism. Both need to be checked  by anyone
> who hopes to say something intelligent about the current state of
> America. The President was awarded a Nobel. A smart move by the Nobel
> folks. Will certainly make a difference. That is, of course, what
> anyone with half a brain wants to see: change. To make change the
> President must sell his ideas. He's a good salesman. He wraps up his
> ideas in hope and inspires people, especially the young and those of
> any age, citizens of any nation, who have not surrendered to cynicism.
> Not too bad. Much better than what we've suffered since JFK if not
> since FDR. That one would expect the President to dismantle the
> American Military Industrial Complex in his first term or in his
> second should he be fortunate enough to win one, is rediculous.
> Certainly, we should expect that the President answer his critics who
> have noticed that he has failed to deliver on several key campaign
> promises and has clearly shifted to the Right of the Right of Center
> position he ran on. This is not a shock. Anyone who knows even a
> little about politics in America expected this would happen. Pop the
> tires on the Presidential band wagon and what will you get? A
> Republican. Sure would be the best of all possible worlds if we didn't
> have a one party system that only serves up one meal seasoned for
> slightly different tastes, but that's what's on the table. The Nobel
> folks are lot smarter than the P-List gives them credit for. They've
> done something clever here.