Comments about ‘Obama doesn't speak to ankle-dwelling peasants’

As if Charles Krauthammer is a man of the people? He represents the conservative elite who pay for his services. He would no more feel comfortable talking with ordinary people in Middle American than give up his Gucci suits.

You can make the argument that we've never had a real president from the ranks of the people since Truman. I wouldn't count Clinton because of his educational-background and he was a trained lawyer. Similarly for Nixon. But every other president had ascended to the heights of political power before becoming president.

So the question arises, does any political figure know what is really in the hearts of the American people. I can assure you that Krauthammer wouldn't know if it bit him in the behind.

Well said! Charles, Here here!

One of the inconvenient truths (to the liberals) is that the American people have the freedom to reject the ideas they don't like - and we don't like what the left is trying to push on us. To the left we are dimwits who should not be allowed the freedom to reject them. We need to keep our guard up or we will find ourselves in a place where we can't object any more.

I also find it depressingly humorous that the President just wishes that he could have just better explained what his healthcare plan would do for us. When HE is the one who just doesn't understand that we citizens do understand what will truly happen. President Obama said repeatedly, "if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. You like your insurance, you keep your insurance." But that wasn't in the bill. Later he sheepishly admitted in front of the Republicans that somehow, bad things had crept into the bill.

So, if Republicans put up signs and traffic cones along a highway saying, "Warning: Bridge Out" does that make us obstructionists? If the bridge is out, it keeps us from falling off of a cliff. Krauthammer was right: dissension is only patriotic when a Republican is in the White House.

".....in the end, the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail." On this Krauthammer and I agree. There must be health care that people can afford. There will be reform. What form it will take is anybody's guess, but there will be reform, and Republicans can't just say "no" forever.

According to an Internal Revenue Service report on income in 2004 found that although overall income had grown by 27% since 1979, 33% of the gains went to the top 1%. Meanwhile, the bottom 60% were making less: about 95 cents for each dollar they made in 1979. The next 20% - those between the 60th and 80th rungs of the income ladder -- made $1.02 for each dollar they earned in 1979. Furthermore, the Times author concludes that only the top 5% made significant gains ($1.53 for each 1979 dollar). Most amazing of all, the top 0.1% -- that's one-tenth of one percent -- had more combined pre-tax income than the poorest 120 million people.
(the top 1% includes households earning over $389,000/yr)

Obama doesn't know it yet, but the American people have more wisdom than he does.

Which is, in a nutshell, the reason why democracies work so much better than monarchies.

The top .01% comprise 14,588 people who earn more than $11,477,000/yr.

I would like to ask Republicans. If tax cuts create jobs why did Bush have the worst record in job creation over the past 40+ yrs? (even before the economic meltdown)

Golly, there was some big werds in that ther newspaper story. I don't recon what I cood understand nothin what he was sayin. If only president Obama cood make a way so whta the govermint cood interprit it fer me. Maybe sum nice liberal persin cood say what this was talkin bout.

Right, Lew, there will be healthcare reform, hopefully the tort reform that we desperately need.... the Democrats can't just say "no" forever.

Like so many other americans I am tired of the 2 party system. I looked at the definition of what republic is. By the true definition I would be a republican. But, the meaning has been lost throughout the years. The rights of the individual are slowly being lost and the Federal Government I like to call big brother thinks that they always know what's best for everyone. Well I believe that what is best for everyone is what the individual thinks is best for themselves. But, if 51% of people believe something is right that's called democratic and we are forced to do what the democracy tells us. Somewhere in the middle is the average hard working people that are the backbone of this nation and are stepped on at every chance. Go figure !!

"To the left we are dimwits who should not be allowed the freedom to reject them."

Wrong. Freedom is about making choices. Ignorance it a choice. In America, chicken have the right to vote for Col. Sanders.

The best part of Charles's letter was the part about dissent. It says so much about how we poor little dirt dwelling Americans are being manipulated by the DNC and their partners in crime, the MSM. Why if we just understood that dissent is good during a Demo presidency and bad during a Pubs, we would be alot smarter.
I for one, am tired of being looked down on by this elitist professor president and his marxist buddies.

As for the "facts" folks here, "Some facts" - you lose when your facts are tainted with 'the Times author concludes' - as in New York Times? NYT doesn't know what a fact is, only lies.
And for "More Facts"- I'm glad to see that 14,588 people make $11,477,000 per year. Are you sure that's not 14,590 people? And whether it is or not, how many of those rich people are athletes or movie stars in Hollywood? Stars and Starlets who create no jobs at all, except of course for the dark underworld of drug dealers and prostitutes who don't pay taxes anyway?
Let's continue on with the 'spread the wealth' campaign, until we all make $75,000 per year. Then happiness will reign supreme.

Of course you didn't answer my question regarding Bush's record of job creation.

Your opinion is that the facts don't hold up? Do you have a source which disputes those facts?
Of course the wealthy individuals include movie stars and atheletes--how many movie stars and atheletes make over $11 million/yr? Wondering.

To "More Facts | 9:43 a.m." according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development full employment is when a nation has between 4% and 6.4% unemployment. Please explain why Bush would have to encourage more job growth if for nearly all of his time the country was considered to be fully employed.

Of course he doesn't speak to pesants. Thats who all the american people are in his eyes, Republican, Democrat, or Independant it doesn't matter. He wants your constitutional rights and thats all he cares about.

I don't care how many people are millionaires or who make above 250,000 a year. It is not fair to tax them more than anyone else. Obama is a fad and got elected because he is a fad.

@More facts 9:43 a.m. and 12:47 p.m.

The average unemployment rate during Bush's presidency was 5.53%. Essentially, that means everyone who wanted to work had a job.

Now a question for you. If Obama's "jobs created or saved" is a positive number, why does the unemployment rate continue to grow?

@Karl12:43a.m.

"So the question arises, does any political figure know what is really in the hearts of the American people."

Republicans perhaps... Democrats never.

"I can assure you that Krauthammer wouldn't know if it bit him in the behind."

Krauthammer is not president or running for same.