"Best health care" - technically true, but you ignore that our access to this wonderful healthcare is a lot less than "best". Just our infant mortality rate alone should be enough to show that not only is our health care not the best, but that it lags behind those horrid evil socialized medicine having countries like Canada, the UK, and France. You can argue your point, but you can't deny the evidence that the healthcare in the US has severe quality and access issues.

So, why is it that when someone says anything that questions the superiority of the US v the World, people like you tell them to leave? People like you think that the US leads the world in all things good, regardless of any pesky facts. You are uninformed, or misinformed, so you ignore any criticism rather than listen and ask if maybe, just maybe, you could be wrong and we, as Americans, can do something to fix it.

You need to wake up and see that your "land of the free" is just as controlled as any other country, you just ignore that because it might get in the way of your rose colored view of the US.

The US has a huge amount of socialist system in place, you just pretend to not see it. But unlike you, I don't require you to shut up or leave.

Perfectly said.

You just highlighted my main complaints with the President. I voted for him, and I'm still glad I did, but to hear him now, you would think that all of the other crisis in US history were nothing and the presidents then had some kind of magic to make it easy.

FDR, Truman ,Eisenhower, and Johnson had their crisis, made a decision and fought to get it implemented. They led the cause. Obama is still trying to make the 'other' side like him and be part of the process. He needs to learn that while consensus is a wonderful thing, leaders lead. Regardless of the obstacles other people put in front of him, he is the President nd should lead. If this is too much for him, or he just doesn't want the fight, then maybe he should seriously consider not running again. For as much as I hated W.Bush, he picked (or was told) a goal and fought to get to it.

Obama could learn from that kind of determination.

It should be immaterial that 'everyone else does it'. Regardless of one's political bend, the utter pandering by candidates should be decried and condemned.

The US is doomed to failure if the best we can do allow our leaders to get away with lying to us. A person promising something then not being able to deliver is politics; the same person claiming they never promised it is just being dishonest.

Finger pointing in a post about finger pointing is comedy gold.

Also, how the hell is the parent flamebait?

Those were better times. Well meaning, intelligent people with differing views tried to express those views based on the merit of those views, not by attacking the other guys for being 'evil'.

Not that things were perfect, but I miss honest conservatives, because although I am liberal, we need true balance to prosper, not the extremist idealism we have been cursed with the last 25 -30 years.

But where was Beck when Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush had their Czars? Why is it that Obama's Czars are news when his predecessor had more Czars?

Oh yeah, Obama isn't someone Beck likes, so it is an issue. If McCain had won, I have a feeling Beck wouldn't be discussing it.

But seem Rush is a racist. Not a cross burner or some guy organizing a lynching party, but when you do something that is obviously racist, you lose your job on Monday night football.

And since you seem to be in the Fox as a bastion of truth crowd, I would ask you to explain how the left misbehaving in any way makes the poor behavior of those on the right any less bad behavior?

You cannot justify your foolishness by pointing out the foolishness of others. The truth is, both of you are fools.

No one is honestly claiming that one side is right and the other wrong, just that Beck is an ass and uses clever cuts and logical fallacies to rile up a base of well meaning, sincere, crazy as hell extremists. The people he motivates to action are the same ones that are openly talking about armed revolt. You know, just like other extremists. People Like Castro, Bin Laden, and Koresh.

Will you be so accommodating of madness when it is your family being shot at? Will Beck's ability to doctor a clip to 'prove' Obama isn't an American mean all that much when the laws that enabled this country to survive are undermined by the gun toting madmen that would kill you for not being the good kind of American.

People like Beck, and those that support him are playing with something far more dangerous than you even imagine. You rail against the government because it entertains you, but are you willing to give up the government and rely upon the decency of the mass of mankind to 'do the right thing'? Beck isn't calling his minions to reform, he is calling them to revolt. He uses imagery of the American revolution forgetting that people died in that revolution. People pay the price for Beck and Rush and their ilk's 'expression' of their freedom.

These people are making a living off yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater, and for some reason, some of those theater goers are cheering them on.

Decent people are offended by these madmen. They appeal to the basest of humanity, and honestly, they are the single greatest threat to our republic. Unless of course you actually believe the poison they are peddling, then I would consider you an enemy of liberty and America as well.

Bin Laden and his ilk do not scare me, people that think Beck is informative and pro anything but himself, those people scare the hell out of me. They breed 'domestic' terrorists that wear the flag as a shield as they actively try to destroy America.

Yeah, Fox is very honest and not a mouth piece of any political bias...they even say so in their byline!

I mean, if someone says they are 'fair and balanced' they must be, right!?!?!

You tell him brother! These innylektuals are always tryin to tell us that the world is older the six thousand years and that there really ain't no magic pant wearing wish givin super dude that live in an invisible city is the sky.

Bunch of smarty pants with their book lernin and reedins!

Hatred breeds hatred. Ol' Glenn has no problem doling out faulty arguments to defame the people he fears, but when someone has the gall to do the same to him, he cries like a spoiled child and has his lawyers abuse a process because they know they couldn't win in an actual court.

See, when Beck does it, he is trying to destroy someone. The parody site wasn't, it was using a classic joke to point out that Beck is very often the textbook example of paranoid madness screaming about how the people he doesn't like eats babies and kicks puppies. Not because they do, no, but because Beck lacks the intellectual ability to construct an argument that doesn't rely on logical fallacy. What next, calling the people he hates Hitler, oh wait, he already does that.

The reason people would be outraged of someone created a website with a name like www.didmichelleobamagangbangacollegefootballteamandgetpregnant.org is simple, but since you don't seem to get it, I will explain it to you:

See, Michelle Obama doesn't ask why someone, lets say... Michelle Malkin, doesn't deny that in 1990 she, Malkin, gang banged the Cincinnati Bengals, got pregnant and had an illegal abortion on the moon. Not that Michelle Obama believes Malkin did, but if she was innocent, wouldn't Malkin state her innocence?

See the difference, Beck does make outrageous claims like that, and sadly, a lot of small ignorant minds fail basic thinking and take those claims as truth. That is why there was a parody site, and that is why so many people thought it was funny. No one believed Beck raped anyone, let alone a child, but to see him and his supporters take offense, that is comedy gold.

If you can't grasp that simple concept, then I fear I wasted my time posting, but that is the risk we must take to at least try to improve our world.

Even if that means Beck and his minions might call us names. After all, it is the only ammunition they have, well that and tea bags.

Yeah, and in 1970 there was no iPod.

What exactly is your point? That at some point in time, businesses didn't fear digital copies and now they do? What was M$ supposed to do? Say 'no, we refuse to implement anything to legally cover our ass when we get sued for facilitating piracy'?

Yeah, Windows now has drm. That has a lot more to do with media companies demanding it in order to allow their product to work in Windows than M$ inventing it and forcing the masses to its will.

I won't claim M$ isn't and hasn't been shady as hell, but to blame them for closed source drm evil is as insane as the people that listen to RMS whine about it being 'GNU/Linux' They seem to miss the point that after DECADES, RMS can't get his damn kernel to a point where Linux isn't a better product.

Blame M$ for the things they have done, not for the things you imagine they will do. In the end, it is just F-ing software, use what you like and get on with your life... nothing to see here.