Something to think about

In his inaugural speech, Obama spoke of tired ideologies and a time to think anew about policy and politics. That is easy to do if he simply means rejecting Bush’s ideas.

But he has suggested this rethinking will hit the left, too – that’s trickier.

Is everybody here ready to accept this? Is everybody here ready to leave partisan politics behind? We represent a cross-section of society.

Just something to think about.

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Jon Stewart did a comparison last night noting how much Obama's speech rhetoric sounded like Bush's.



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Updated On: 1/22/09 at 12:52 PM

My sentiments echo Art's, I think, in that I think it's a really complex issue that I haven't really sorted out yet. I think it's up to our leaders to set the tone, though, if we are really to come to a state out post-partisanship, and it will be interesting to see how things unfold.

I don't think speaking of getting past "tired idealogies" means not arguing persuasively for issues and ideas you're passionate about. What I think it means is dropping the college football template and frat boy mentality that has dominated the discourse since the Reagan administration and the invention of the angry white man, which birthed the Limbaughian Era.

That all seems soooooo t-i-r-e-d now.

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I am all in favor of abandoning this nasty partisan tone and "Gotcha" politics- right after we spend the next eight years with our collective foot on the Republican neck, shoving their face in the mud. I want Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld all on trial for war crimes, then Bush & Cheney executed on national television for treason. Oh yeah, I want Condoleeza Rice to be discovered working as a carhop at Sonic. Just Because.

THEN I want to usher in a new era of cooperation and forgiveness.

And in the right, also Papa.

"RUSH: I got a request here from a major American print publication. "Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency....I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails."
El Rushbo ushers in the new era of bipartisanship