The other Awards Obama will will this year...

[kandrathe]

Tom Tomorrow weighs in, with a rather clear explanation: The Idea of Obama.

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/10/13/tomo/

-Jester

Exactly. Both illusions, and the real thing. Although, I'm still suspicious of the totalitarian socialist state side less the ridiculousness of an Acorn conspiracy and the birther nonsense. I don't think people really understand the idea of creeping socialism, and how insidious totalitarianism can be. Once you have a government monopoly over an industry, it is a short step to justify stamping out any competition and the underground economy by making private contracts illegal. Then, given the circumstances, it is then easily justifiable to stamp out the dissent by making dissent illegal. Astroturf my latex buttocks.

Today our Senate finance committee voted on a bill that actually doesn't even exist yet. Forget about voting on bills that haven't been read. This is a vote on one that hasn't even been written. It is a concept of the merger of two very disparate bills that will be merged behind closed doors by a handful of Dems, and then the umpteen gazillion pages will be put to a vote before anyone can read or fully comprehend it's impact. And... like all politics, politicians keep going through the motions until the populace bores of the process and instead tune into the NFL, Nascar, Dancing with the Stars or the WWF.

We really don't deserve freedom if we are not willing to stand vigilantly for it.