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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SGJ who wrote (82886)	4/21/2010 6:31:58 PM
From: chartseer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

oh bummer! Yup! Don't worry! Be happy! the hopeless comrade chartseer in the new era of hope

To: SGJ who wrote (82886)	4/21/2010 10:21:14 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

TextBanker...."And look at DC, look at Detroit, look at New Orleans.".... Need to go to web site to view Videos..... From the Sky, Detroit Looks Like Sarajevo tv.gawker.com Chris Hansen traveled to Detroit, Michigan for a Dateline special that aired tonight on the state of what is probably America's most desolate city. And in aerial footage—devastation porn at its best—Detroit's grim plight was revealed. Video inside. "Today, from the air, parts of Detroit look like a war zone," Hansen said in a voiceover near the beginning of the special, before he listed some of the most shocking facts about the city's current state—the population is less than half of what it was decades ago; there are 400 liquor stores there, but only eight supermarkets—all while panning shots of the consequences of its deterioration flashed on the screen. video Describing Detroit as "a city that is virtually on life support," Hansen then introduced the audience to an ambitious plan by Mayor Dave Bing to bulldoze down more than 10,000 buildings and literally shrink the city's borders in order to save money spent on public services. Again, disturbing aerial shots were abound. video As the special's end drew nearer, depressing music played as even more aerial shots revealed Detroit's desolation—combined with shocking information, like the fact that there are 40 square miles of vacant/abandoned property within the city's limits—and Mayor Bing explained in more detail to Hansen his plan to shrink its size (something he claims will take 10 to 20 years, if it's able to be completed at all). video Will Detroit ever return to its glory days of the first half of the 20th Century? Probably not. Will it even be able to avoid going completely bankrupt and return from the brink of total destruction? Nobody really knows. What is clear, though—especially after seeing the devastation from the sky—is that the Motor City has a long, long way to go to even become a shell of its former self.

To: SGJ who wrote (82886)	4/23/2010 1:06:10 AM
From: MJ	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224718

Obama was not elected by a significant majority of Americans. Obama was elected by "some" of the people. Obama wooed the young with his hip-hop hype. He seemed so 'cool' so with it---did anyone ever hear what he was going to 'change'? No he used catch-phrases, political garbage to win the Democrat Primary-----sure "change Washington". The change of course was not that "I want to 'change Washington for the benefit of the American people'."------the change was I want to control Washington. Having seized that power he has now carried that to "I want to control the world. He is the would be pretender king of the world" as he ventures into a world whose history he was ignorant of and now seeks to control. To seize control of America he played his race card-----saying to the real black Americans I am one of you---------while never having ever been one of you(or one of them). Everything was fake, including the artificical Romanesque columns used at the Democrat Convention--------and the young impressionable voters bought the hype. The test will be this November------will they, his support in 2008, turn on the pretender king and throw out his support in Congress? mj