reply to post by grover
Sorry, grover, but anyone who bothers to listen to any of the talk show hosts, is an idiot.
Not just Beck, but all of them, they're all getting paid and are therefore paid mouthpieces.
Listening to Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Alex Jones, Hannity, Limbaugh, or any of the other morons out there sharing their opinion on national
television and or radio and getting this as the their information source is just about as culpably ignorant as calling the Government corrupt because
it is all a sideshow, one hundred and ten percent, meant as a distraction.
If enough sound bytes are thrown out there then maybe enough people can be swayed to be idiot followers through not using their own brain between
their own damn ears.
This thread is divisive at best and a laughing stock at worst because it's just as sensationalistic as the trash you claim Glenn Beck is spouting
about Obama and volunteerism.
Without disparaging you grover what if Beck is right and the end goal is for Obama to have as many people as possible to volunteer and this is his
idiotic response to helping the job loss situation instead of actually fixing the economy?
Personally, I can see where a build up on unemployed citizens volunteering is a good thing just as much as I can see it is a bad thing because it all
leads to a war build up through indoctrination of the type that is supposed to be inspirational but at best is conspiratorial because of the nature of
how Obama phrases what he does in his speeches he tells you a whole lot of nothing.
Believe it or not, I am neither attacking you, Obama, nor Beck, but I am neither defending you, Obama, nor Beck, because the sensationalism in the
middle is the culprit and the people who listen to it without knowing that in the ancient Roman and Greek days that sensationalism went hand in hand
with the Flavian Amphitheater, gladitorial games, and throwing the Christians to the lions was just another way to distract the citizens from what the
corrupt Government was doing behind the scenes.
That people listen to the media at all and know little to nothing of politics is a surprise to me when it should not be because people are so damn
lazy as to avoid learning usually because they do not want to take responsibility for their own actions let alone their own nation.
I suggest to those who want to know what's going on in the White House read a good book.
The Cult of the
Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
Not turn on the television and listen to the crap coming out of any television show.
Amazon Review :
The Bush years have given rise to fears of a resurgent Imperial Presidency. Those fears are justified, but the problem cannot be solved simply by
bringing a new administration to power.
In his provocative new book, The Cult of the Presidency, Gene Healy argues that the fault lies not in our leaders but in ourselves.
When our scholars lionize presidents who break free from constitutional restraints, when our columnists and talking heads repeatedly call upon the
"commander in chief " to dream great dreams and seek the power to achieve them--when voters look to the president for salvation from all problems
great and small--should we really be surprised that the presidency has burst its constitutional bonds and grown powerful enough to threaten American
liberty?
The Cult of the Presidency takes a step back from the ongoing red team/blue team combat and shows that, at bottom, conservatives and liberals agree on
the boundless nature of presidential responsibility.
For both camps, it is the president's job to grow the economy, teach our children well, provide seamless protection from terrorist threats, and
rescue Americans from spiritual malaise.
Very few Americans seem to think it odd, says Healy, "when presidential candidates talk as if they're running for a job that's a combination of
guardian angel, shaman, and supreme warlord of the earth."
Healy takes aim at that unconfined conception of presidential responsibility, identifying it as the source of much of our political woe and some of
the gravest threats to our liberties.
If the public expects the president to heal everything that ails us, the president is going to demand--or seize--the power necessary to handle that
responsibility.
Interweaving historical scholarship, legal analysis, and trenchant cultural commentary, The Cult of the Presidency traces America's decades-long
drift from the Framers' vision for the presidency: a constitutionally constrained chief magistrate charged with faithful execution of the laws.
Restoring that vision will require a Congress and a Court willing to check executive power, but Healy emphasizes that there is no simple legislative
or judicial "fix" to the problems of the presidency.
Unless Americans change what we ask of the office--no longer demanding what we should not want and cannot have--we'll get what, in a sense, we
deserve.
This book was written right before Obama took office but it still holds true to what he's doing.
Oh, and by the way, I both work and volunteer, and I see between the lines.
[edit on 21-10-2009 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
