I’m watching MSNBC’s post-debate analysis and I’m not sure why. In general, the cable networks offer little more than facile nonsense — the kind of quick response that attempts to sound authoritative but really is just blather.
I know that, given my short missives on the blog, I could probably be accused of engaging in this kind of stuff. But I was just offering brief thoughts. I’ll wait until tomorrow to offer more substantive analysis.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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No need for in depth analysis on this one. Obama held his ground. McCain looked weak, frail, inarticulate, arthritic, used up, confused and above all old. I think people hated the \”that one\” reference. In the morning, a lot of people are going to be denying they ever said this was McCain\’s last chance to change the game. But it was, and he didn\’t. I think he\’s done.
I watched on MSNBC but went to AAR for post-debate. David Bender (who often disappoints me) did a good job with post-debate analysis IMO.
McCain and Palin are utterly despicable and loathsome with their latest round of Joe McCarthy-type of attacks on Obama. When in the name of G_d will Americans vote for their own best interests and not the interests of the upper 1%? Geez Louise. McCain has made it perfectly clear that he will gut, cut, slice and dice Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. This is an abomination and yet working class right wingers and libertarians support this shyt, thereby cutting their own throats! When does the stupidity end? All the other affluent industrialized democracies have some form of universal health care except the USA. VOTE FOR OBAMA, PLEASE.
>libertarians support this Excuse me? How do you figure \”Libertarians\” support this? There's no libertarian around that I know who would agree with anything there two bozos say.Libertarians are for free markets, voluntary solutions, and peace. I did NOT hear anything like that. Really, I'd suggest a little browsing at Lew Rockwell Dot Com, Mises, or the many libertarian sites and blogs. I get really annoyed at your CONTINUED mistatements of what \”libertarians believe\”. Please leave \”us\” out of YOUR mess.
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover came very close to the libertarian ideal of unbridled free markets, laissez-faire social Darwinism, regulation free predatory capitalism and look what it brought us: THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Libertarians are all for unregulated capitalists preying on the rest of us. Libertarianism is great for billionaires like Steve Forbes but toxic for ordinary Americans. Libertarianism is just as toxic as Reaganomics and Bushonomics. The libertarian solution to our current health care crisis is to do absolutely nothing and just watch millions of people slip into the gutter for lack of health insurance. According to many libertarians and right wingers, if you are uninsured you are a bum so drop dead anyhow.
>Harding, Coolidge and Hoover I can only respond to Hoover as a libertarian. I've done a lot of reading about Hoover, FDR, and the Great Depression.Bzzz, wrong!Hoover signed Smoot Hawley and as many interventionist measures as FDR. FDR had to get us into a war to get us out of the great depression.> Libertarians are all for unregulated capitalists preying on the rest of us. And, pray tell what great Libertarian icon are you citing for this wisdom? Do you even know a Libertarian icon?Sigh, the gooferment with its corporations creates this fiction you have. >The libertarian solution to our current health care crisis is to do absolutely nothingNothing goofermentally. It's the REASON we have problems. >just watch millions of people slip into the gutter for lack of health insurance. Why don't we hear about the Amish having health care problems. Perhaps because they don't look to the gooferment for help, but to their community.>if you are uninsured you are a bum so drop dead anyhow.On the contrary, haven't you ever seen the community rally behind a local who is in trouble. Pass tha hat for old so and so, who needs help.If we had less gooferment we could have more PRIVATE charity. Americans are fantastically generous. Imagine what can happen if we were free of the gooferment. >>You hide behind your 'anonymous' shield and lecture us what libertarians think. Please do us all a favor cite a source sometime. Surprise us with your smarts.Have you even read Mises, Hayek, Rothfarb, Adam Smith, Jefferson, or any of the Dead Old White Guys?Read Human Action by Mises and then tell me what Libertarians think. Bottom line: We want you to be as free as we want to be. No, gooferment health care a la the VA or Medicare or Medicaid or Canada or Great Britian. No thank you. Please take your gooferment all you want, but leave the rest of us alone.Sigh, like that is ever going to happen. People like him just love to tell others what is right for them. They have the vision. They are the annointed.Argh!