Comments on: Freethought San Marcos: Facing the truth about President Obama (Part 1)

By: Avery

Avery — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:43:10 +0000

Its a shame y’all don’t know a socialist/communist when you see one. If you are unhappy about your choice just wait until civil war is rampant in the U.S. You refuse to see what is right just because it isn’t ‘fair’ and the choices are hard and you really want everybody to love you. Your great-grandfather would disown you and kick your butt. I have just witnessed serious acts of treason on the part of our own elected officials and not one thing was done. Had I been elected rather than GWB there would have been some folks against a wall in front of a firing squad. The majority leader would never have lived to see today. We now face a true and serious posibility of armed insurrection because of your current president. I will no longer support any sort of socialistic policies. They only open the door to what we have now. A WANNA BE COMMUNIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Get ready for a fight. This is my home and the home of my fathers going back longer than there has been a USA. No communism on our soil. Ever.

By: Wilfried Schuler

Wilfried Schuler — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:26:56 +0000

Dear Mr Hankins,

your problem is very clear. Elections in the US are decisions one has to make whether he will choose plague or cholera. That’s all.
Michael Moore said ” Democrats are just republicans but wearing cheaper suits” How true.

The stunning fact is that Mc Chrystal became famous as the leader of a group doing illegal killings. He made insubordination all the time by by-passing the chain of command. Indeed, like Mc Arthur. And he succeded. I can imagine that Petraeus could run for president in 2012. And his vice president Mc Chrystal. Thanks God I’m not 20 anymore. So I hope to pass some years through the looming desaster.
A canadian friend warned me not to speak too open in such blogs. He had to remind me that the CIA is reading them as well which I don’t doubt for a second. My coordinates are 51 degree north 15 east. I can help with more precise data to ease a drone attack started in Ramstein.

By: ratee

ratee — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:12:52 +0000

Great article. Too much expectations and this was bound to happen. As with Obama and with other US Presidents is that they are living in the same fool’s paradise that US has already lost its importance to create any good impact on the world at large because it has caused more negativity by its self inflicted occupation and wars in the Middle East.

Financially USA is not the same that it was at the time of the Vietnam war so that it can help other poor countries that it has attacked or other nations that it wants to help or create some sphere of influence based on financial help.Its fighting these wars on borrowed money amounting to $ 13 trillion at this time so the hands of the leadership are tied while they are living in past grandeur when USA had its real assets!!

By: Lamar Hankins

Lamar Hankins — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:34:37 +0000

To Dewey:

You must have read someone else’s column. I did not say that I made a bad choice in voting for Obama. Given the choices that were available to me, I picked Obama. I would still do that today. What I was wrong about was not voting for him, but having too much hope that government policy would change dramatically. As an optimist generally, hope comes naturally.

By: Dewey

Dewey — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:59:58 +0000

Okay, you admit you were wrong. No big deal.

What is important is that you admit to having a real problem making good choices and that your logic skills are poor at best. And we’re supposed to look forward to reading more columns by you on this subject?

You said Bush was feeble – what is this – the comedy column?

By: Katie Bell Moore

Katie Bell Moore — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:17:24 +0000

President Obama has fulfilled many of his promises for change already and we aren’t even one year into his presidency. In addition, he is well on his way to passing real reform for our health care industry. Not a small feat. Here is a list of other things he has accomplished:

-Ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay military detention facility and abolishing “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

-Setting a fixed timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq.

-”Returning science to its rightful place” by lifting the Bush restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

-Signing laws to expand children’s health insurance (financed by a 61-cent per pack increase in the federal cigarette tax).

-”Forge a meaningful statement from the United Nations” criticizing North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile.

-Lifting travel and remittance restrictions for Cuban Americans who seek to travel more frequently to the island and send more US currency to their immediate family.

-Appointed the first Latina to the US Supreme Court.

-Engaging world leaders in Europe, Turkey, Latin American and the Caribbean with “strength and humility.”

By: Lamar Hankins

Lamar Hankins — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:39:30 +0000

To Bill Haney:

You make good points. I did not mean to cast aspersions on MBAs in general. Bush was a lackluster student and never a teacher. The use of his mind was never important to him. However, any lawyer who does not assess the black, white, and gray of a client’s case is not doing his job. To best represent a client, an attorney needs to know the strengths, weaknesses, and ambiguities in a client’s case. After 32 years of practicing law, I can tell you that there are plenty of feeble-minded lawyers. In fact, I met so many feebleminded lawyers in the seven years after I finished college that I decided that being a lawyer must not be too intellectually demanding. There are smart, hardworking people in all professions, just as there are slackers in all of them. Bush was a slacker.

By: Bill Haney

Bill Haney — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:48:04 +0000

While I agree with Mr. Hankin’s assessment of President Obama’s performance, I hope he does not paint all MBAs with the “feeble-minded” brush. Not the least of those things that distinguish MBAs from JDs is their ability to see shades of gray and act upon those shadings. The JDs, unless involved in mediation/arbitration, tend to assess only the black versus the white. Beyond the MBA/JD context, the performance of either can be tainted by placing self-interest above public service and that appears to be the case during the past three administrations. A parliamentary form of government might be better at this point in our nation’s history and for our nation’s survival.

Bill Haney, MBA, UCLA, 1970

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:11:10 +0000

I feel that Barrack’s election and subsequent actions highlight sharply the false dialectic of our political system. He ran on a platform of change, and has changed nothing from the disgusting Bush administration, except to open more holes in our spavined economy (something for which the executive branch is less to blame than the historical mistakes which created the fed).

The bottom line is that both sides have one goal: self-interest. Except that “self,” here, is defined as the life and size of the government. The right will do it by diverting attention of the magical terrorists which hate our freedom (not our fault, right? Remember what we did to Iran in 1953?), while growing the military industrial complex. The left diverts our attention to the bad bad corporations (whose existence and rapacious grasp are due, in part, to government involvement in the market), and then grow the size of the government to stop the corporations.

End of the day, it’s all the same. The government got bigger, and the powers of the average citizen diminished equally.