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2011-09-28 Home Front: Politix
Axelrod: Obama faces 'titanic struggle'
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Posted by Fred 2011-09-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 We're lowering the last of the boats. Please pass this note to Mr. Hartley and ask him to have the orchestra strike up this tune.

Note for Orchestra leader Hartley.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-28 00:23||   2011-09-28 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 B-U-T, the Titanic didn't have enough lifeboats for its number of passengers to begin with, + what boats they did have weren't properly managed or led after that wily dastardly iceberg intentionally crashed into it.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-09-28 00:29||   2011-09-28 00:29|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-28 05:48||   2011-09-28 05:48|| Front Page Top

#4 But I firmly believe we're on the right side of the struggle

Technically, you're on the LEFT side of the struggle. Given the historic record of events, its not a sustainable let alone winning side. You can extend the struggle through the usually delaying means like suspending civil rights and real democracy and thus kick the proverbial can (inevitable implosion) to the next generation.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-28 08:50||   2011-09-28 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 A video for the bitter clingers and James Cameron haters:

Posted by Eric Jablow  2011-09-28 08:57||   2011-09-28 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, darn. Mods, can you delete or fix that? It looked fine in Preview.
Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-09-28 08:58||   2011-09-28 08:58|| Front Page Top

#7 g(r)omguru, fun to see somebody else familiar with that movie.

Made to watch this crap movie recently, find myself cheering for the iceberg anymore, stars Bill Paxton (Game Over, Man!) so it has that. Wife commented the reason it was such a big love story is that dicaprio dies before they have to start waking up next to each other for 4 years with kate complaining that dicaprio has no job and a family to provide for.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-09-28 09:07||   2011-09-28 09:07|| Front Page Top

#8 >deregulation and tax cuts that caused the downturn in the first place

What de-regulation? The credit bubble was regulated into existence as politicians need credit to cover over the harm to money velocity that transfer taxes do.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-09-28 09:10||   2011-09-28 09:10|| Front Page Top

#9 I can but hope....my take on the movie and why I never saw it "I know the ending, the ship sinks and they mostly die."

That's what's happening here, we can but pray that the fatalities are the appropriate ones.
Posted by AlanC 2011-09-28 10:14||   2011-09-28 10:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Not only did the titanic go down, but the Titans were overthrown by Zues and company. So yes, by all means the Titanic struggle metaphor is apt.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-09-28 10:21||   2011-09-28 10:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks for that, JUSTICE. I was just informed that I should not encourage the nasty troll but I can't help asking if you ever heard of a product we call toilet paper. How about soap and water? They work very well together. But I guess it doesn't matter if you don't mind smelling like a camel. Oh, one more thing, do you really shave your pubes? No, no. Forget I asked that one. I really don't want to know.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-09-28 11:50||   2011-09-28 11:50|| Front Page Top

#12 As for Axelrod, you cannot sail directly into the wind. You have to tack otherwise you'll be stuck in irons. I thought a smart guy like him would have figured that out.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-09-28 11:54||   2011-09-28 11:54|| Front Page Top

#13 You're not seriously expecting lefties to actually recognize and understand reality are you? They never have before and aren't likely to start now.
Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-09-28 12:03||   2011-09-28 12:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Fifteen-hundred people went into the sea, when Titanic sank from under us. There were twenty boats floating nearby... and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six... out of fifteen-hundred. Afterward, the seven-hundred people in the boats had nothing to do but wait... wait to die... wait to live... wait for an absolution... that would never come.
Posted by tu3031 2011-09-28 13:51||   2011-09-28 13:51|| Front Page Top

#15 #7 I think you mean Eric.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-28 15:03||   2011-09-28 15:03|| Front Page Top

#16 Grom, there is only one Titanic movie worth watching: A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, and Robert Ayres. Why did you think I referred to James Cameron haters?

Does the Cameron movie have a "Nearer My God to Thee" scene?
Posted by Eric Jablow  2011-09-28 20:05||   2011-09-28 20:05|| Front Page Top

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