Are these US protests significant?

[El Kabong]

What? The only protests I see are the 3-8 people (yes as in 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 of them at most) outside the courthouse every Monday with signs like "No blood for Oil" and "North Carolina Labor Against the War in Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya" and a couple of jobless hippies are playing drums out there when the weather is nice (Fair weather protesters I reckon).


Other than that I have actually seen 0 protesting.....now on the national level the people in Wisconsin are pissed off (as are the folks in New Jersey, Ohio etc) because the Government Union workers are finally getting, oh how should I put this ...ah they are having their pensions and benefits "regulated" in order for those states to achieve a balanced budget.


2012 can't get here soon enough...Obama has shown he knows fuck all about LEADING a country, he's in way over his head and I dare anyone to tell me Sarah Palin could fuck things up worse. I don't even like her but damn Obama sucks, he's got no damn clue he just wants to do interviews, pick his brackets on ESPN, and just continue being a cult of personality.

[generalbulldog]

Protests? None that I know of here.

Obama might not be a good president, but shit he aint no worse than Dubya. People seem to have selective memory that the wars and country's shit economy were all under Dubya's watch not the current guy.

[Gandalf]

I've a general perception of what the protests taking place are about, but no real insight so can't really respond with much. I will try and catch up properly over the weekend.

I do call into question your final paragraph though. It bewilders me how any human being can suggest that someone as clueless and downright stupid as Sarah Palin could in any way be a better president than Obama. And I say that as someone who is notoriously gun shy of slinging praise Obama's way. Did you not see those Sarah Palin videos that I posted in a thread a few months back. She is beyond belief, both morally and intellectually. Kid Thunder could knock her out in a debate!

[Gandalf]

That is true, GB.

The wars were Bush's as was the financial crisis. Obama has been sweeping up crap ever since. My problems with Obama are because of his reluctance to seriously reform health care nor come to grips with the financial sector. There were zero prosecutions for the financial meltdown despite fraud being endemic in the system. It wasn't really possible to just stop the wars in their tracks at the drop of a hat either, but I don't believe expanding in Afghanistan has helped. I also disagree strongly with the way the Bradley Manning case has been handled. I'm kind of sidestepping with all of that though.

Still, you haven't really noticed any protests either. The alternative media I have been listening to a little has been mentioning them a lot, but I really haven't been as comprehensively as I used to.

[VictorCharlie]

Miles are you talking about the protests in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio over public sector union's collective bargaining rights? A couple weeks behind but other than those I can't think of any major protests that have been going on.

[Gandalf]

Miles are you talking about the protests in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio over public sector union's collective bargaining rights? A couple weeks behind but other than those I can't think of any major protests that have been going on.

Yes, all of those.

I'm not that far behind as I know protests are happening, but just haven't given the time to finding out the ins and outs of it all. It was being suggested that this is an expanding thing and that got me curious, just thought I would ask on here first. It seems they aren't such a big deal judging by the mild reactions on here.