[scifinoir2] Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods?

2009-12-20 Thread Tracey de Morsella 

Frank Rich Goes There: Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods? 


by route66   


Sat Dec 19, 2009 at 07:39:51 PM PST


Frank 
Rich takes a look back at the decade in his Sunday NYT column, and what he
sees ain't pretty at all.

Though the American left and right don't agree on much, they are both now
coalescing around the suspicion that Obama's brilliant presidential campaign
was as hollow as Tiger's public image - a marketing scam designed to
camouflage either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it)
or spineless timidity (as the left sees it). The truth may well be neither,
but after a decade of being spun silly, Americans can't be blamed for being
cynical about any leader trying to sell anything. As we say goodbye to the
year of Tiger Woods, it is the country, sad to say, that is left mired in a
sand trap with no obvious way out. 

*   route66's   diary :: :: 
*

Rich details the "bamboozling" of the American Public throughout the decade,
from Enron to Bush, Citgroup to John Edwards, Barry Bonds to Balloon Boy.
He reserves his  most pointed criticism for Tiger Woods, in a scathing
indictment that makes Woods the poster boy for all that is wrong in
America

People wanted to believe what they wanted to believe. Tiger's off-the-links
elusiveness was no more questioned than Enron's impenetrable balance sheets,
with their "special-purpose entities" named after "Star Wars" characters.
Fortune magazine named Enron as America's "most innovative company" six
years in a row. In the January issue of Golf Digest, still on the stands,
some of the best and most hardheaded writers in America offer "tips Obama
can take from Tiger," who is typically characterized as so without human
frailties that he "never does anything that would make him look ridiculous."


There is truth in Rich's rant, regarding Iraq, "we wanted to suspend
disbelief. Much of the country, regardless of party, didn't want to question
its leaders, no matter how obviously they were hyping any misleading shred
of intelligence that could fit their predetermined march to war."

Rich takes issue with Time Magazine's choice of Ben Bernanke as Person of
the Year and has instead named Tiger Woods

As cons go, Woods's fraudulent image as an immaculate exemplar of superhuman
steeliness is benign. His fall will damage his family, closest friends,
Accenture and the golf industry much more than the rest of us. But the
syndrome it epitomizes is not harmless. We keep being fooled by leaders in
all sectors of American life, over and over. A decade that began with the
"reality" television craze exemplified by "American Idol" and "Survivor" -
both blissfully devoid of any reality whatsoever - spiraled into a wholesale
flight from truth. 

If truth will set us free, the lack of truth rampant in this country, well
described in this column, will surely shatter whatever future we have.  The
failed climate agreement and finger pointing, the sad, almost comical
actions of the United States Senate in the current Health Care reform
effort, the placing of Wall Street foxes in the henhouse of the United
States Government Treasury, the hourly and daily politics of dancing around
the truth speak volumes.  There is no more common good nor common sense and
we are all wasting time, wasting money and wasting lives.

Kudos to Frank Rich.  Many will disagree vehemently with his
characterization and questions regarding our President.  I hope our
President will read the column and think long and hard about the State of
our Union.

'tis not a pretty sight.

update my take and headline re. Rich's column do focus on the current
state of affairs that Barack Obama finds himself in; Rich concludes his
column with the graf I quoted first.  I don't think Frank Rich intended to
directly compare the antics of Woods with the efforts of the President and
the situation each finds themselves in currently.  The obvious snowballing
of America by many parties, before Tiger, is paramount in the article.  Many
comments below have automatically focused narrowly on the fact that both are
black and accuse Rich of racist undertones.  Read the article and reach your
own conclusions.  I'm going to bed.

[scifinoir2] Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods?

2009-12-24 Thread Amy Harlib 

ahar...@earthlink.net
Well said.  I never drank the koolaid and voted for Cynthia McKinney who spoke 
the truth.  We ended up with President 'Obusha' who has turned out far worse 
than I imagined.  

Not feeling very merry right now,
Amy


  Lets be honest, most people will say that you should not put faith in people. 
Or paint a perfect imagine of a person. If you do then when they do something 
wrong, one thing wrong you will become greatly disappointed. 
  --Lavender

  If all truths were knowable, then all truths are in fact known.



  Subject: [scifinoir2] Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods?




  Frank Rich Goes There: Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods? 
  by route66 
  Sat Dec 19, 2009 at 07:39:51 PM PST
  Frank Rich takes a look back at the decade in his Sunday NYT column, and what 
he sees ain't pretty at all.

  Though the American left and right don't agree on much, they are both now 
coalescing around the suspicion that Obama's brilliant presidential campaign 
was as hollow as Tiger's public image - a marketing scam designed to camouflage 
either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it) or spineless 
timidity (as the left sees it). The truth may well be neither, but after a 
decade of being spun silly, Americans can't be blamed for being cynical about 
any leader trying to sell anything. As we say goodbye to the year of Tiger 
Woods, it is the country, sad to say, that is left mired in a sand trap with no 
obvious way out. 

a.. route66's diary :: :: 
b.. 
  Rich details the "bamboozling" of the American Public throughout the decade, 
from Enron to Bush, Citgroup to John Edwards, Barry Bonds to Balloon Boy.  He 
reserves his  most pointed criticism for Tiger Woods, in a scathing indictment 
that makes Woods the poster boy for all that is wrong in America

  People wanted to believe what they wanted to believe. Tiger's off-the-links 
elusiveness was no more questioned than Enron's impenetrable balance sheets, 
with their "special-purpose entities" named after "Star Wars" characters. 
Fortune magazine named Enron as America's "most innovative company" six years 
in a row. In the January issue of Golf Digest, still on the stands, some of the 
best and most hardheaded writers in America offer "tips Obama can take from 
Tiger," who is typically characterized as so without human frailties that he 
"never does anything that would make him look ridiculous." 

  There is truth in Rich's rant, regarding Iraq, "we wanted to suspend 
disbelief. Much of the country, regardless of party, didn't want to question 
its leaders, no matter how obviously they were hyping any misleading shred of 
intelligence that could fit their predetermined march to war."

  Rich takes issue with Time Magazine's choice of Ben Bernanke as Person of the 
Year and has instead named Tiger Woods

  As cons go, Woods's fraudulent image as an immaculate exemplar of superhuman 
steeliness is benign. His fall will damage his family, closest friends, 
Accenture and the golf industry much more than the rest of us. But the syndrome 
it epitomizes is not harmless. We keep being fooled by leaders in all sectors 
of American life, over and over. A decade that began with the "reality" 
television craze exemplified by "American Idol" and "Survivor" - both 
blissfully devoid of any reality whatsoever - spiraled into a wholesale flight 
from truth. 

  If truth will set us free, the lack of truth rampant in this country, well 
described in this column, will surely shatter whatever future we have.  The 
failed climate agreement and finger pointing, the sad, almost comical actions 
of the United States Senate in the current Health Care reform effort, the 
placing of Wall Street foxes in the henhouse of the United States Government 
Treasury, the hourly and daily politics of dancing around the truth speak 
volumes.  There is no more common good nor common sense and we are all wasting 
time, wasting money and wasting lives.

  Kudos to Frank Rich.  Many will disagree vehemently with his characterization 
and questions regarding our President.  I hope our President will read the 
column and think long and hard about the State of our Union.

  'tis not a pretty sight.

  update my take and headline re. Rich's column do focus on the current 
state of affairs that Barack Obama finds himself in; Rich concludes his column 
with the graf I quoted first.  I don't think Frank Rich intended to directly 
compare the antics of Woods with the efforts of the President and the situation 
each finds themselves in currently.  The obvious snowballing of America by many 
parties, before Tiger, is paramount in the article.  Many comments below have 
automatically focused narrowly on the fact that both are black and accuse Rich 
of racist undertones.  Read the article and reach your own conclusions.  I'm 
going to bed.

RE: [scifinoir2] Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods?

2009-12-20 Thread Tracey de Morsella 
Because of the obvious racial under/overtones. I thought I should add this
excerpt from Frank in which he speaks to that issue

 

What makes the golfing superstar's tale compelling, after all, is not that
he's another celebrity in trouble or another fallen athletic "role model" in
a decade lousy with them. His scandal has nothing to tell us about race, and
nothing new to say about hypocrisy. The conflict between Tiger's
picture-perfect family life and his marathon womanizing is the oldest of
morality tales.

What's striking instead is the exceptional, Enron-sized gap between this
golfer's public image as a paragon of businesslike discipline and focus and
the maniacally reckless life we now know he led. What's equally striking, if
not shocking, is that the American establishment and news media - all of it,
not just golf writers or celebrity tabloids - fell for the Woods myth as
hard as any fan and actively helped sustain and enhance it.

People wanted to believe what they wanted to believe. Tiger's off-the-links
elusiveness was no more questioned than Enron
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/business/enron-s-collapse-the-overview-en
ron-auditor-raises-specter-of-crime.html> 's impenetrable balance sheets,
with their "special-purpose entities" named after "Star Wars" characters.
Fortune magazine named Enron as America's "most innovative company" six
<http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/29/news/enron_guiltyest/>  years in a row. In
the January issue of Golf Digest
<http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2010/01/toc> , still on the stands, some
of the best and most hardheaded writers in America offer "tips Obama can
take from Tiger," who is typically characterized as so without human
frailties that he "never does anything that would make him look ridiculous."

 

 

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Frank Rich Goes There: Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods? 


by route66 <http://route66.dailykos.com>  


Sat Dec 19, 2009 at 07:39:51 PM PST


Frank <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20rich.html?pagewanted=2>
Rich takes a look back at the decade in his Sunday NYT column, and what he
sees ain't pretty at all.

Though the American left and right don't agree on much, they are both now
coalescing around the suspicion that Obama's brilliant presidential campaign
was as hollow as Tiger's public image - a marketing scam designed to
camouflage either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it)
or spineless timidity (as the left sees it). The truth may well be neither,
but after a decade of being spun silly, Americans can't be blamed for being
cynical about any leader trying to sell anything. As we say goodbye to the
year of Tiger Woods, it is the country, sad to say, that is left mired in a
sand trap with no obvious way out. 

*   route66's <http://route66.dailykos.com/>  diary :: :: 
*

Rich details the "bamboozling" of the American Public throughout the decade,
from Enron to Bush, Citgroup to John Edwards, Barry Bonds to Balloon Boy.
He reserves his  most pointed criticism for Tiger Woods, in a scathing
indictment that makes Woods the poster boy for all that is wrong in
America

People wanted to believe what they wanted to believe. Tiger's off-the-links
elusiveness was no more questioned than Enron's impenetrable balance sheets,
with their "special-purpose entities" named after "Star Wars" characters.
Fortune magazine named Enron as America's "most innovative company" six
years in a row. In the January issue of Golf Digest, still on the stands,
some of the best and most hardheaded writers in America offer "tips Obama
can take from Tiger," who is typically characterized as so without human
frailties that he "never does anything that would make him look ridiculous."


There is truth in Rich's rant, regarding Iraq, "we wanted to suspend
disbelief. Much of the country, regardless of party, d

Re: [scifinoir2] Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods?

2009-12-24 Thread Rogue 
Lets be honest, most people will say that you should not put faith in people. 
Or paint a perfect imagine of a person. If you do then when they do something 
wrong, one thing wrong you will become greatly disappointed. 
--Lavender

If all truths were knowable, then all truths are in fact known.


From: Tracey de Morsella 
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 7:16 AM
To: ' Lockhart, Daryle ' ; afrikanm...@hotmail.com ; 'Albert Fields' ; 
bettil...@msn.com ; CINQUE ; dorothyh...@sbcglobal.net ; duva...@hotmail.com ; 
fis...@bellsouth.net ; 'GTW' ; 'Jeffrey Ballou' ; 'Kai Pettaway' ; 
kalpub...@aol.com ; keithbjohn...@comcast.net ; 'Kera' ; 'Leroy Hughes' ; 
'Logic' ; 'Martin Baxter' ; 'Marvalous' ; 'Michael Gordon' ; 
michael.v.w.gor...@gmail.com ; 'ravenadal' ; rs...@yahoo.com ; 'Seku 
Brathwaite' ; 'Valery Jean' ; 'Wendell Theophilus Smith' ; 'Whitney J Evans' ; 
williamsf...@speakeasy.net ; 'Zanfordino Anthony' 
Subject: [scifinoir2] Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods?


  

Frank Rich Goes There: Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods? 
by route66 
Sat Dec 19, 2009 at 07:39:51 PM PST
Frank Rich takes a look back at the decade in his Sunday NYT column, and what 
he sees ain't pretty at all.

Though the American left and right don't agree on much, they are both now 
coalescing around the suspicion that Obama's brilliant presidential campaign 
was as hollow as Tiger's public image - a marketing scam designed to camouflage 
either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it) or spineless 
timidity (as the left sees it). The truth may well be neither, but after a 
decade of being spun silly, Americans can't be blamed for being cynical about 
any leader trying to sell anything. As we say goodbye to the year of Tiger 
Woods, it is the country, sad to say, that is left mired in a sand trap with no 
obvious way out. 

  a.. route66's diary :: :: 
  b..  
Rich details the "bamboozling" of the American Public throughout the decade, 
from Enron to Bush, Citgroup to John Edwards, Barry Bonds to Balloon Boy.  He 
reserves his  most pointed criticism for Tiger Woods, in a scathing indictment 
that makes Woods the poster boy for all that is wrong in America

People wanted to believe what they wanted to believe. Tiger's off-the-links 
elusiveness was no more questioned than Enron's impenetrable balance sheets, 
with their "special-purpose entities" named after "Star Wars" characters. 
Fortune magazine named Enron as America's "most innovative company" six years 
in a row. In the January issue of Golf Digest, still on the stands, some of the 
best and most hardheaded writers in America offer "tips Obama can take from 
Tiger," who is typically characterized as so without human frailties that he 
"never does anything that would make him look ridiculous." 

There is truth in Rich's rant, regarding Iraq, "we wanted to suspend 
disbelief. Much of the country, regardless of party, didn't want to question 
its leaders, no matter how obviously they were hyping any misleading shred of 
intelligence that could fit their predetermined march to war."

Rich takes issue with Time Magazine's choice of Ben Bernanke as Person of the 
Year and has instead named Tiger Woods

As cons go, Woods's fraudulent image as an immaculate exemplar of superhuman 
steeliness is benign. His fall will damage his family, closest friends, 
Accenture and the golf industry much more than the rest of us. But the syndrome 
it epitomizes is not harmless. We keep being fooled by leaders in all sectors 
of American life, over and over. A decade that began with the "reality" 
television craze exemplified by "American Idol" and "Survivor" - both 
blissfully devoid of any reality whatsoever - spiraled into a wholesale flight 
from truth. 

If truth will set us free, the lack of truth rampant in this country, well 
described in this column, will surely shatter whatever future we have.  The 
failed climate agreement and finger pointing, the sad, almost comical actions 
of the United States Senate in the current Health Care reform effort, the 
placing of Wall Street foxes in the henhouse of the United States Government 
Treasury, the hourly and daily politics of dancing around the truth speak 
volumes.  There is no more common good nor common sense and we are all wasting 
time, wasting money and wasting lives.

Kudos to Frank Rich.  Many will disagree vehemently with his characterization 
and questions regarding our President.  I hope our President will read the 
column and think long and hard about the State of our Union.

'tis not a pretty sight.

update my take and headline re. Rich's column do focus on the curre

Re: [scifinoir2] Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods?

2009-12-24 Thread Omari Confer 
Always believe in concepts...people will always dissappoint you...

especially if they are hired to save you from oblivion...

c w m

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Amy Harlib  wrote:

>
>
>
> ahar...@earthlink.net
> Well said.  I never drank the koolaid and voted for Cynthia McKinney who
> spoke the truth.  We ended up with President 'Obusha' who has turned out far
> worse than I imagined.
>
> Not feeling very merry right now,
> Amy
>
>  *Lets be honest, most people will say that you should not put faith in
> people. Or paint a perfect imagine of a person. If you do then when they do
> something wrong, one thing wrong you will become greatly disappointed. *
> *--Lavender*
>
> *If all truths were knowable, then all truths are in fact known.*
>
>
>  *Subject:* [scifinoir2] Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods?
>
>
>
>  Frank Rich Goes There: Obama as hollow as Tiger Woods? by 
> route66<http://route66.dailykos.com/> Sat
> Dec 19, 2009 at 07:39:51 PM PST
>
> Frank 
> Rich<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20rich.html?pagewanted=2>takes 
> a look back at the decade in his Sunday NYT column, and what he sees
> ain't pretty at all.
>
> Though the American left and right don’t agree on much, they are both now
> coalescing around the suspicion that Obama’s brilliant presidential campaign
> was as hollow as Tiger’s public image — a marketing scam designed to
> camouflage either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it)
> or spineless timidity (as the left sees it). The truth may well be neither,
> but after a decade of being spun silly, Americans can’t be blamed for being
> cynical about any leader trying to sell anything. As we say goodbye to the
> year of Tiger Woods, it is the country, sad to say, that is left mired in a
> sand trap with no obvious way out.
>
>- route66's diary <http://route66.dailykos.com/> :: ::
>-
>
> Rich details the "bamboozling" of the American Public throughout the
> decade, from Enron to Bush, Citgroup to John Edwards, Barry Bonds to Balloon
> Boy.  He reserves his  most pointed criticism for Tiger Woods, in a scathing
> indictment that makes Woods the poster boy for all that is wrong in
> America
>
> People wanted to believe what they wanted to believe. Tiger’s off-the-links
> elusiveness was no more questioned than Enron’s impenetrable balance sheets,
> with their “special-purpose entities” named after “Star Wars” characters.
> Fortune magazine named Enron as America’s “most innovative company” six
> years in a row. In the January issue of Golf Digest, still on the stands,
> some of the best and most hardheaded writers in America offer “tips Obama
> can take from Tiger,” who is typically characterized as so without human
> frailties that he “never does anything that would make him look ridiculous.”
>
>
> There is truth in Rich's rant, regarding Iraq, "we wanted to suspend
> disbelief. Much of the country, regardless of party, didn’t want to question
> its leaders, no matter how obviously they were hyping any misleading shred
> of intelligence that could fit their predetermined march to war."
>
> Rich takes issue with Time Magazine's choice of Ben Bernanke as Person of
> the Year and has instead named Tiger Woods
>
> As cons go, Woods’s fraudulent image as an immaculate exemplar of
> superhuman steeliness is benign. His fall will damage his family, closest
> friends, Accenture and the golf industry much more than the rest of us. But
> the syndrome it epitomizes is not harmless. We keep being fooled by leaders
> in all sectors of American life, over and over. A decade that began with the
> “reality” television craze exemplified by “American Idol” and “Survivor” —
> both blissfully devoid of any reality whatsoever — spiraled into a wholesale
> flight from truth.
>
> If truth will set us free, the lack of truth rampant in this country, well
> described in this column, will surely shatter whatever future we have.  The
> failed climate agreement and finger pointing, the sad, almost comical
> actions of the United States Senate in the current Health Care reform
> effort, the placing of Wall Street foxes in the henhouse of the United
> States Government Treasury, the hourly and daily politics of dancing around
> the truth speak volumes.  There is no more common good nor common sense and
> we are all wasting time, wasting money and wasting lives.
>
> Kudos to Frank Rich.  Many will disagree vehemently with his
> characterization and questions regarding our President.  I hope our
> President will read the column and think long and hard about the State of
> our Union.
>
> 'tis not a pretty sight.
>
>