Something to think about

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 12:07pm

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.

[jasonf]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 12:34pm

Nothing would be better than leaving partisanship behind, but that has to happen at the top before it stops being an issue with us commoners. Limiting lobbyist interests certainly is a step in the right direction, but it's going to take a LOT to unite this country after the divisiveness we've faced.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 12:52pm

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



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

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 1:02pm

This is a really interesting topic, NY. I'm glad you brought it up. It's actually been on my mind a lot since the Warren controversy. It brings up lots of complex feelings for me. I haven't sorted them out enough to really comment past that yet. I'll probably come back to it later. But thanks for bringing it up.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 1:07pm

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.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 1:14pm

I have a belief about politics that I do about collaborating on art--best idea wins. Whoever's it was.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 1:36pm

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.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 1:54pm

clearly he wants to be sure to be on the winning team, namo. i worry that your tack could leave him in 4th and long. is that waht we realy want? do we want the potus to have to be considering a hail mary on 4th and long???? i don't think so. surely you'd prefer that they matriculate down the field like hank stram's chiefs of old taking what they've give them and building on 1st down after 1st down.

Posted: 1/22/09 at 2:34pm

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.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 2:36pm

i tend to think that joe's vision is far more prevalent in the greater commie world of the left.

Posted: 1/22/09 at 3:25pm

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