IMHO, the growing frustration in America is about MORE than.....

I guess you are still in shock that I am not a redneck? As I keep telling you, I have assimilated into American culture.

But just to shut up the doubter, I am a Malayalee and my family is from Kerala--but was actually born in Assam. I speak Mayalaym, but don't read and write it.

As far as my favorite food, its translated to English as "Salt Mango Tree" and I have it for breakfast. Find your local South Indian Malayalee and ask him to translate it for you. Now give up the stereo-type labels you guys use for all conservatives and state your political viewpoints.

 

I promise that I will address your arguments when I get more free time, but I have lost a day's worth "real" work with this thread and now have to work some late hours to make it up--and I know this unforced accountability to my clients may be a hard concept for the "entitlement" group to understand.

Nevertheless, I will be back after Easter to continue the discussion. Hopefully, I can do a better job of debating our differences to your satisfaction.

And even though I whole heartily disagree with most of your points, I again want to thank you taking your time to respond to me.

 

Thanks for your support!

I hope to be part of the vocal "snowball of the majority" that has started picking up speed and is now rolling downhill on top of the extreme left Progressives like Nancy, Reid and Barney's--let's wash these "socialists" out of our HOUSE!

I voted for McCain, but to be honest, a part of me was happy that a minority became President. But damm, did he have to be sooooo far to the left!

Was America so messed up that it had to be fundamentally transformed?


To be continued....

 

Basically, IMHO, Obama is following the frog in the boiling water theory. If he brings about all his (and Nancy's and Reid's) Progressive wishes all at once, with very little crumbs to the right, he knows the "frog" will jump out of the water. His plan is to slowly insert his Progressive(socialist) agenda and kill the frog. Remember the famous "NEVER let a crises go to waste" slogan by Rahm Emanuel? That's basically what I am talking about. Also, Obama, was talking about transforming America well before the recession hit us.

(For those that don't know about the frog: If you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out, but if you put it in water at room temp. and slowly heat up the water--it will stay there and eventually die.)

However, I do not believe he is a terrorist or has ill will towards America--like some on the extreme right believe.

I believe that Obama sincerely believes that he is doing wants best for the country with his Progressive agenda. But, a good part of his own party is against him. If fact, its the only reason he did not get the "single payer" system he really wanted.

But, I believe that he(and a small Progressive group of Democrats) are steering the country in the wrong direction by wanting the Government to grow too big and wanting to nationalize everything in our country.

So, I still do believe that he is very extreme left, but his own party is keeping him in check.

I hope to try and address the specific points you have brought up in more detail later.

 

To mitigate the polarization of this thread, I would like to steer this topic into a different direction:

Let’s discuss the following questions:

1. What is a Progressive?

2. What is their basic agenda and vision for this nation?

3. Are Progressives considered the "extreme" left of the Democratic Party?

4. Have the Progressives “hijacked” the Democratic Party? What I mean by this is, are they in the positions of power within the Democratic Party?

5. Now the big question: Is Obama a Progressive as we will try to define in the questions 1 though 3 question?

What I hope to accomplish is similar to basic algebra: If A=B and B=C, then A=C. This translates to: If Progressives = Extreme Left and Obama = Progressive, then Obama = Extreme Left.

I hope this can be less polarizing and more people can join the discussion.