A Tale of Two Americas - Obama vs Palin

[MaryJesusJoseph]

For Palin it was all about "me".

[zoomustard]

@MaryJesusJoseph What do you mean "was"? It still is.

[MaryJesusJoseph]

@zoomustard I agree, but I was addressing a specific incent that happened in the past.

[megagagnon1]

Thom thinks what Obama says matters. Obama has nice rhetoric, but he takes care of banks, multinationals, and unions, and screws everybody else. Here's a crumb. Hope. Change.

[chronicman06]

Sick ugly evil witch of a woman!!!!

[Savior20061]

Subbed. You are a beast Hartmann.

[walkinghorseman1]

The previous comment should read "a quarter of a century," since Rusho has been on the air spewing his extreme nonsense since 1988.

[walkinghorseman1]

Thom Hartmann is the smartest man on talk radio.

I challenge the righties here to turn your radio of Rush for ONE MONTH and tune into Thom Hartmann from 12 to 3. ....Granted, that may not be enough to deprogram many of you from nearly a quarter of a decade of extreme right-wingnut opinion, but its a start....

[megagagnon1]

@walkinghorseman1 I'm a libertarian and i always listen to Thom. I agree with some of what he says.

[rwcbanzai]

The TeaParty of noParty(GoOP) inSyncronicity withPalin launched herOffensive towards2012 to devour&bankrupt ourDemocracy ConservativeElites cannot exist without foolingrDemocracy with propoganda& consumingCosts as they slowly devour all of US thru coporate deregulation.

By voting 4 democacy urVote is regulating corporate control of our governance by GoP sponsoredCorporations..Governm­ent is only as good as the people who vote to regulate, cartels, monopolies & mediaPropoganda by Corporatism.

[Andy180084]

obama's owned by the lobbyists, b/c our country is corrupt, but If sarah palin becomes pres in 2012 i will move to canada.

[chamorumba]

Two very different reactions to one very sad event:

Sarah Palin: "Poor me, I, me, blood libel, I, I, I, I, I, me, me, me, me, poor me, I, I, I, I ..."

President Obama: "The victims, the heroes, WE, Our Democracy, Let's ...all come together, America, civility, ALL of us ..."

[mongoose135]

Double Speak at it's best.

[Zuul030]

@mongoose135 Could you build on that? This is exactly what happened in the wake of the shootings. I'm no massive supporter of Obama, but he did exactly what this video is stating.

[eugeneonegin09]

yes there are 2 americas......an urbane,sophisticated, urban america. then there is the rednecked,hillbilly,hick,ameri­cans who should be politically restrained, and RE-EDUCATED

[hydrolito]

@eugeneonegin09 Red necks produce the food so people can eat, Stalin had people reeducated &eastern europe went from successful farming to government run farming than didn't work, & millions died because of Stalin's regime. Red neck a person who's neck was red by working out in the hot sun, something welfare loafers don't want to do, welfare should be to help people get out of poverty, not to creat a propetual welfare state. Most crime is urban crime not rural crime so urban needs education.

[hydrolito]

@hydrolito Red necks are the working people, People who run corporations getting rich aren't rednecks as they don't work in the hot sun. Red Necks are working people so how do you have a society with no working people if you get rid of red necks the working people?

[eugeneonegin09]

@OldDyingRetard palin IS awesome......AWESOMELY dense, AWESOMELY stupid, AWESOMELY superficial

[justonefirefly1]

@OldDyingRetard $arah is getting fat and she has so much botox in her face - she couldn't wink if you paid her.....hahahah

[mweibleii]

I'm liberal, I was raised on welfare, foodstamps, state aid, etc... having had this experience I can tell you that welfare is crippling the USA - not helping it. As liberals we do what we FEEL is right, however, we should now know that these are failed policies. Our cities are rotting and being destroyed because of them. Also, the monetary system is gamed by the rich - and they won. They own the POTUS (bush, obama, etc...)

Sadly, we all lost. In the end, we only have ourselves to blame.

[justonefirefly1]

@mweibleii Go to hell that is all that some people have - so fuck off or pay back you are not liberal you are a fucking republiKKKunt shove your gun up your ass and pull the trigger. The fucking failed policies are in the racist republiKKKunt rhetoric and the only way to save america is for every one to declare themselves a corporation - there by qualifing for lower or no taxes - no responsibilities for your actions and huge subsidies from the republiKKKunt parties. No racism no sexism

[lynchmobb2000]

@mweibleii

Knock it off. Our cities and infrastructure are crumbling because of decades of insane conservative economic policies which have slashed taxes for corporations and the rich, while cutting services and the very kind of funding for infrastructure upkeep you're bitching about.

These chicken-hawk righties have squandered the incredible wealth of this country on useless missiles and useless tax breaks so some rich guy can get a second yacht.

Get a clue.

[bobino2468]

The Right are the robber barons that equal any authoritarian leaders in character., judgement and morality. It's no coincidence that its the uneducated, and immorally greedy white people of this country that follow the Republican Party's every whim. The dumb's anger and paranoia are twisted and aimed by the corporations at regulators and the just. They are the literal Satan the Bible speaks of.

[johnny718bravo]

Thank you Thom!

[UncleMikeNJ]

This man uses facts for 9 minutes, and the right-wingers can only respond, here and everywhere else, with their usual feckless lying attacks.

[realpqleur]

There are two types of folks in America, first, those that want everything given to them, and second, those that the first expect to receive everything from. We have truly set a course for self destruction. Polls say 71% of the US doesn't want debt ceiling raised. It is only because they have been working and giving away their earnings now since the late 60's and they are tired of it. Some want the country to MOL start over and going broke is a good start and a "real" stimulus for this..

[megagagnon1]

Obama makes good speeches, but that's pretty much his only skill. But his memorial service/kickoff for his 2012 campaign - including partisan t-shirts and the branding of tragedy, was disgusting. Equal pay for women? That's a long debunked theory that doesn't hold water. There's no such disparity.

[wistoncap]

@OldDyingRetard Sarah Palin blows dogs.

[ankharris]

@wistoncap - Alaskan Malamutes in fact.

[rwcbanzai]

Excellent editorial that summarizes the last week & last 2 years & tale of 2 cultures, Thom. It reveals 2 political movements... one that empowers corporations with humanRights & limitless monetaryCorrupting MediaPower, the other making humanBeingsHuman broke & powerless all due to RushRayGun propoganda .

Republicans cannot exixt without foolingDemocracy, Democracy can exist without foolingRepublicans. Begs the question of how Rush, Rove & Palin became millionaires in Murdoch's hands..?.

[NoogLeader]

@rwcbanzai Interesting perspective.

[NoogLeader]

@optionsupdate You have to be a heckling troll.

[Homer177]

@optionsupdate You're either a really good troll or you're someone who has a bible shoved up his ass.

[bobino2468]

@optionsupdate LOL. I love it, especially since the commie's hate homos.  Hahahaha. Funny troll though :).

[optionsupdate]

Hartmannovich must think the viewers are stupid, Obama has shut down Gitmo? nope he has not but he said he would during the campaign of lies which helped him to win white house

[optionsupdate]

Obama has told about 200 lies in past 3 years. did you know that hartmannovich?

[ddh540]

@optionsupdate you are too ignorant to realize that your statement is both ridiculous and contradictory.

[onlywhenprovoked]

Funny how she says calling for violence is reprehensible, while defending her right to call for violence, while she goes on about how low breakers aren't always bad but that law breakers should be held accountable unless of course the law is inciting violence and the breaker is her.

this week she denies her words could influence peoples actions and next week people like her will be back to blathering about how pornography, rock music and video games and gays are turning people evil.

* yawn

[henleythecat]

Thom,

I think this was your finest... um, ...well, 9 min.

But it add up quickly!

Thank you.

[MrMurraypants]

ive had just about enough talking and speeches and debates...actions speak louder than words. Whether its the president making great speeches or the opposition using talking points instead of answering real questions, im just sick of it all. Obama is not a progressive, his actions in legislation proves that entirely. He may say the right things but pushes for compromise and never gives any backbone for real progressive change. DGMW, i despise republicans but i also despise posers.