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September 02, 2009 03:27 PM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

  • 33 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

–Marcus Aurelius

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33 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Thread

  1. Ok, upu here in Boulder I’m overweight fat. But I was down in the Springs M/T and went to a Target to buy something. By the standard of the Springs I’m in awesome shape!

    As Rodney Dangerfield said – if you want to look thin hang aroundfat people.

      1. because of the local echo chamber he never believed for a second that a mixed race guy could get elected President until it actually happened. Kept hearing that mixed was even worse than a … you know.  Right up until the end he thought the polls were just people pretending they’d vote for Obama but who, like everyone he talks to in C Springs, would never actually do it in the privacy of the voting booth or by mail. Was pleasantly stunned at the outcome.

        1. David would also feel less overweight on the actual Moon, what with the gravity differential, but those are some good observations about a town that’s more complex than ouitlanders often admit.

  2. Ok, all of you that think you would come up with better questions when interviewing – go suggest them now at http://davidthielen.uservoice….

    The interview got moved up to tomorrow so today’s your last chance. And if you don’t suggest, you are not allowed to complain about what questions I ask him (#1 Jared, which is your favorite Russian pop music group).

      1. It’s a SAAS site we use at work. We’ve never had people complain about it at work.

        One thing – I think corporate users will generally create their own login. So the issue may be trying to use Facebook & Yahoo logins. That whole share login system is still quite new and so is probably pretty buggy.

        I also suggest you email support@uservoice.com with any problems to let them know. They’re pretty responsive.

    1. I tried to get in with a Yahoo! account, and I get halfway through the process and find some weird error message.

      I think four people have already told you that they tried this process, and it doesn’t work well.

  3. Ok, people who recognize me are familiar with my political leanings.  So I’m actually fairly pleased that Axelrod is coming out with some positive news that Obama’s going to be more assertive with telling the Congress what he does want and what he doesn’t want in this particular health reform bill (the public option, Yeah!!!)

    Then an article I read stated that Obama is looking to score some political points by going up against the fringe elements of his own party who won’t support a bill that doens’t include a public option.  He’s gonna need Republican votes to pass anything here it looks like.  

    So my question is does Obama play the part of the pragmatist here? or the pansy?

    I do like his stride, and his faux attempt to move to the center (it looks like its a move to save his and his party’s asses before the midterm elections next year, so they can give it another go, not really a move to the center at all), I’m gonna have to vote pansy.

    1. We’ve got a Democratic president who won by a decent margin, a Democratic majority in Congress, and huge demand for it,  and yet we can’t get a public option ?

      I am throwing my hands up in the air wondering WTF.  The tail is wagging the dog. I hate to say pansy but do see it – go all in with full fledged support for the public option, push hard for it, and if all of it goes down in flames so be it.  

    2. All he’s doing is trying to bring the camera lens back to the bigger picture of overall health care reform.

      Congress writes the bill, and there’s way too many people who have a vested interest in getting a solid public option for them not to include it. If there is a bill that doesn’t contain a public option, and Obama signs it, it will send the Democratic party into chaos.

      If he outright told Congress that he doens’t want a public option in there, then that would be one thing. But trying to refocus the debate doesn’t mean the death of public option. If it does end up becoming that, then it would be a huge mistake for the President.

      And I’ll echo what BC said: Obama has been far too pragmatic for the ideological left. He’s governed more from the center than Hillary Clinton probably would have, despite what his more rabid critics on the right say.

    3. Denver cops risk layoffs, Hickenlooper says

      “In the present situation, we’re going to have a reduction in the size of the force if there’s not some sort of change or we can’t come up with some sort of compromise,” Hickenlooper said. “Again, the door is always open. But now we must look at it and say, ‘How can we make sure we have the same number of police on the streets?’ ”

      He added: “Where are officers in desk jobs, and how can we redeploy our force?”

      Chief Gerry Whitman, through a spokesman, said the layoffs would be the first for Denver police in his 27 years on the force.

      Hickenlooper on Monday warned officers that rejection of the deal could mean the layoffs of 91 or 92 officers. He declined to stick with that number Tuesday.

      “It’s going to be a large number,” he said. “Now, we will always try to minimize that. What we have tried to do is get the smallest reduction in the size of the force as possible.”

      Obama says the Recovery Act was designed to make sure that [we] didn’t layoff Police Officers


  4. Presidents always encounter rough patches. What is unusual is how soon Mr. Obama has hit his. He has used up almost all his goodwill in less than nine months, with the hardest work still ahead. At the year’s start, Democrats were cocky. At summer’s end, concern is giving way to despair. A perfect political storm is amassing, and heading straight for Democrats.

    Link.

  5. Hahahahaahahahaha!!!

    All of Obama’s public posturing that he wants a public option is just that . . . empty posturing . . . .  with no real heart or conviction behind it.  Why do you think the White House has been so half-assed about fighting for and making sure the message gets out about  a public option?  (And yet, how many diaries and comments on this site have I read telling me that Obama REALLY WANTS a public option.  Why?  Well, because he said so publicly.)

    Slim, it’s nice to see you finally waking up from this cult of personality you helped build on this site here around Obama.  Like they say: Better late than never.

    1. …are you up late at night, surfing the web and looking for whatever Dem-hater websites you can find?

      Better stuff to post or talk about – why are you doing this? Have you started believing the Glenn Becks of the world?

          1. But I was running low on my five-per-day average as dictated by SXP of stupid Lib tricks.

            I had to catch up.

            I do still owe you a beer, though, from the snowy meetup.

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