What do you expect from a community newspaper “blogger”? This guy is all fluff, huff, but no guff.

Why read this blog when I can go watch Mr. Murdoch’s news-themed programming channel?

Thanks for wasting my time with unintelligent analysis, Bob!

It agree, it is an excellent variant

The writer is well informed has appears to stir up the ranks more than other bloggers.  Seems he’s doing a good job.

RIP - you betcha!!!!!  And that’s the first realistic thing you’ve posted :-0

Segeny - LOL the sky is falling - the sky is falling run for your lives.

RP - or is that RIP?  Anyone with an ounce of sense would be not only angry at what “The One” is doing to our country, but d*mned angry!!!  And trying to do something about it.  Of course, the loonylefties are so enamored of their notion of “dear leader” and so unable to say “Whoops - we made a huge mistake in pulling the lever for this America-hating bozo” that they will continue to spout his marxist party line and to cover their eyes and ears at what is happening.  Too bad they don’t also cover their mouths.

Segeny, what vitriolic ranting.  You should lay off the politics it doesn’t seem to agree with you, and oh, a few anger management sessions might not hurt.

Eccliastes chapter 2 & verse 17 (yep, the Christian Bible—-always relevant) says . . . ah . . . “And I have hated life, because the work that is done…is sad to me, for the whole is vanity and vexation and of spirit.”  So long ago written by THE richest and wise man, but it’s sure no different from how this feels.

Bye bye. I care, but I can’t keep wading through the ugly-natured and off-the-track verbage. I’m gonna go look for something productive to do. Be well, ya’ll.

The partisan moronics continue, I see. Ah, well… my work here is done.

haig - just like “The One” who declared that “the debate is over” - - “don’t confuse me with the facts” - - “I don’t want to admit that the overwhelming MAJORITY of AMERICANS do not want obummercare” - - “I am so superior to all those ‘astroturf’ folks that I don’t have to consider their arguments at all” - - “I am so intellectually and morally and worldly and blah blah blah superior that I’m not wasting my valuable time on actually listening to anyone who doesn’t agree with me” - - .

Uh huh.  Well as long as we know from whom you are taking your marching orders, we can be clear on just what spot of quicksand you and “The One” will be standing.

ponygirl - it’s “umbrage”.

I agree with the Crunchy One—debate should be debate, not name-calling.  I’m sorry I overreacted to the original article, but it just infuriated me to read such a piece of parrot-talk and I just couldn’t help myself.  Given the total lack of anything novel (as in previously unknown facts or news) or synthetic (as in combining the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity) in Mr. Scherer’s article I’m not sure what there is here to debate.

Me again—-the Crunchy Conservative. (Look it up =)  As I took umbrance at several commenters’ unkind and unuseful portrayal of Conservatives, I take umbrance as well with the unkind and unuseful portrayal of Democrats.  I believe more could be accomplished if we all stopped posturing and making witty criticisms and INSTEAD focused on ISSUES.  I don’t see any progress coming frome immature behavior.  Please, friends.

Has anyone noticed that President Obama CANNOT keep the campaign promises he made? Did we, as civilized adults, not know that such would be the case with any candidate? We HAVE to look at the issues, know their parameters, and apply our intelligence. Yes—many who don’t know these issues etc. voted for a charismatic man. Sad. Also true, many in the same shoes voted for John McCain. Until issues, parameters, and our intelligence vs witticisms and creative barbs are employed by We the People, banter such as we read from most commenters won’t serve any constructive purpose. “Preachy,” maybe, but oh so true.

Thank you.

Let’s see:  Collect taxes for 10 years, spend them for 6 years, and call it ‘deficit neutral’.  Right.  Pretend that this new entitlement won’t bankrupt the USA.  Right.  Demand that everyone buy health insurance (despite constitutional scholars saying that THAT is unconstitutional).  Right.  “Expend healthcare” to 30 million more folks (whether they want it or not) but not offer incentives to folks to become doctors to serve these millions.  Right.  Create an unelected, prez-appointed “protocol board” to instruct doctors as to just what procedures they may and may not employ on certain (read discardable) folks and then fine them if they don’t comply.  And then insist that these programs don’t amount to “rationing”.  Right. 
Only KoolAde guzzling Dummycrats would buy this line.
And only the sophomoronic, anti-American racist currently infesting the Oval Office would try to sell it.

Haig,if I had to quess, I’d say an awfully partisan moron would hit it on the head.
Bob, key words on your opener,“President Obama, in a prepared statement
about the H1N1 virus, September 1, 2009”
Now, the rest of the timeline,
Obama’s Blair House Health Care Roundtable, Feb 25, 2010
What bearing does one have on the other that you would close your insipid observations on health care reform with a quote from six months prior, while inferring that it was said at the Feb health care summit. You should really get someone to proofread your drivel before you hit the send key.

Er . . . I’m one of those modernly-dubbed “Crunchy Conservatives.” May I beg your pardon, Monika, Harv, GS, Haig? I’m not wealthy, and I believe that the availability of good health care can and should be facilitated. No, I haven’t the answer, but I take umbrance at your portrayal of Conservatives. We would all do well to think before we speak (or write). Imagine what could be accomplished were that done.

If the republican party didn’t have fear uncertainty and doubt they wouldn’t have a platform!  It wouldn’t matter what the President was trying to say or how he tried to say it you would undoubtedly find fault with it.  When the Republicans can start proposing something that is all inclusive and incorporates the needs of all Americans then I’ll start listening, until then I’m standing behind someone who is.

Did it occur to you that maybe Obama’s tone and attitude are the way they are because the Republicans insist on being so partisan, stubborn, unhelpful, and dismissive about everything the Obama Administration is trying to do?  I would have a bad attitude, too.

Interesting commentary.  Clearly shows the tea bagger mentality that seems to run rampant among arch conservatives lately.  Perhaps you might give us some ideas of WHAT the Republicans/Conservaties feel would be viable Health Care Reform?  Are you one of those ostrichs who believe that our health care is just terrific and having a FOR PROFIT bunch of slug take funds but delivery nothing of value to be better?  Perhaps if you actually listened to the President instead of immediately pulling your brain into lock down Teabagger, HATE OBAMA mode, you might actually learn something.  But then I guess that is far too much to ask of a conservative today.

By the way, can you tell me ONE thing that the Republican Party has done to BENEFIT the American PEOPLE over the past 15 years?  Not the uber wealth and the corporations, but the actual people who vote for the politicians?

Well, it not hard to know where you fall politically. Obama only seems talkative because he can clearly unlike the legacy of the other party’s leadership. If Obama trusted the Republican’s to set the tone and put America before short term political gain, maybe he would he would be more reticent. Behind the scenes leadership bought him nothing when he abdicated to Congress and let them work on the nuts and bolts of health care reform. You call Obama petulant and condescending which strikes me as the required response of a Tea Partyer or one that did not study enough in college to keep up with an adult conversation. Your silly little little blog post does nothing but beat the drum for the same tired argument: “Hate Obama because he is pedantic, thinks he’s better than you blah, blah, blah. But please support the candidates from the party that has road blocked every progressive piece of legislation since the turn of the lat century.” Yes progressive is a code word for the poor, abused, marginalized and otherwise screwed in America - something Republicans will never admit to existing in their perfect Republic - and if it did, it was deserved. It must be nice to feel so entitled.

Wow! You’re awfully partisan… or just a moron. Maybe both?