Sounds like sour grapes from a bitter Rethug.

let it age and it could make a fine whine.

Good. The longer they delude themselves about the complete rejection of their bankrupt ideology, and their dogmatic belief that any policy result that results from the implementation of their ideology is inherently good and desirable, the longer it will be before they're a viable threat to our majority.

I believe it might be time to reintroduce Tennessee and Alabama to the joys of unregulated free market capitalism. Sell the TVA and Oak Ridge Labs. See what Lamar has to say then.

Lamar Alexander is still alive?

What does this redneck think change in management means?

you mean Lamar! no longer has his finger on the pulse of america? what a surprise.

Seems that Toyota is the primer auto manufacturer, world-wide. And they just said they're barely going to be seeing black. So if that is true, and the market response to the announcement is adjusting itself accordingly, then I suspect all those foreign auto assembly plants in those southern states rebelling against helping the Big 3 may be seeing a little cut back in their production schedules - lay offs due to reduced consumer demands.

I know VW, BMW and Mercedes are struggling in Europe so I suspect they're sales in the US are getting hammered too.

So we need to hear from Honda, Subaru, KIA, and a few other Asian auto makers to see how they're weathering the storm. If they're doing just as bad or worst as Toyota, then those southern Senators are all bark and no bite.

Obama : Repackaged Bush

FARHAT MAQUAMI

The Liberals should not be surprised by Obama’s selection of the Right Wing Evangelist Rick Warren because they don’t understand Obama. Their infatuation with Obama has blinded them to Obama’s social philosophy.

Those on the left, or anti-war movement are surprised by the direction Obama has taken to the right. Lets make it clear Obama has never said he is Anti-War, pro-Black Civil Right activist, or progressive in economic theory or Future of Military Missions of the Empire. The Progressives are still daydreaming and are giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Yet, every Cabinet appointment he is proving to be a refurbished Bush. His election, the Festivities of his inauguration and the rhetoric of Change might prove to be the smokescreen to fool the world America has changed while carrying the same bankrupt policies of Bush administration.

As he declared vigorously the night he disconnected his connection with the Black Church and his spiritual mentor :” Reverent Wright does not know me.” He should have continued to declare that he used the Black Church to get elected in Chicago, he used them to get elected in the Senate, he used Black Americans to unseat Clinton; since he never thought of himself as Black , never shared their historical sufferings. He emphasized time and time again that he was born from a white mother an a Kenyan Father!

The infatuation of the Liberal America with Obama, and the childish concept that putting a Black Face in the Whitehorse would bring fundamental change, is nothing but an illusion! Even his election is a great psychological victory for the Black Americans or any minority group, his economic and foreign policies are already set in motion by Neo-Cons. Continue to spend on a War of aggression which has already costs us $940 billions of dollars and use the government to Bailout the rich elite.

Unfortunately our disillusionment with the Republican Party and 6 years of war which has brought disrepute to America outside and economic bankruptcy to the US economy, has not permitted us to question Obama’s Policies. Yet, sooner or later the Liberals would notice that they have been betrayed not in the War in Iraq but a wide range of policies. Lets analyze all the contradictions. The trick is the phrase he is using now “seamless transition”!

In Defense he is going to use Robert Gate so the Bush agenda in Iraq would continue ”seamlessly” ! He has never made a clear statement after the election about Iraq. He never told Iraqis that he is getting out in 18 months and they better vote to pick-up the bill.
Like Bush and McCain he wants to close the Guantanamo Bay Torture Chamber, but he is not saying how to release the torture victims or how is he going to prosecute those who violated the international law and American Human Right Principals by torturing innocents, driving many to commit suicide and others who have become mentally deranged. He is not declaring to the World that Americans are going to wash their hands of the blood of innocents in Abo Gharieb prison by bringing these criminals to trial. He wants bi-partisanship, while Bush drove this country to the edge of madness by far lesser Vote in a disputed election and never sought bipartisanship for his reign of terror.
In Iraq, he now wants a “seamless” withdrawal and carry it out by letting the same Generals follow the same agenda and carry us to hell of political disrepute and economic disaster.
He forced the Democrats to keep Liberman, who is more vicious than Bush administration toward Iraq and Domestic surveillance as Chairman of the powerful Homeland Security. The left is still simmering in infatuation so all concern have not even considered the implication of this stupid act as Obama’s framework of action toward war and national security.
He put a 4 Star general and a close friend of McCain in charge of his National Security.
He has made many speeches and funny interviews, yet he has not still told the world that the vicious, illegal, and universally condemned Bush Doctrine of Preemptive War would be rejected on his first day in office. This would assure the world that we would be entering a new era of cooperation, diplomacy and the rule of law.
He is probably going to announce that he would keep the FBI and the CIA Director for another seamless transition rather that making a declaration that while in presidency he would ensure that he would issue a new Executive Order to stop all Extraordinary Renditions and Country’s adherence to Geneva Convention.
In order to calm the world he also should declare that he would stop the War on Terror which has not only terrorized the world but encouraged and enabled every anti-democratic regimes and every Feudal Warlord to use the most vicious methods to terrorize their own people. We have never heard from him that he is a man of Peace, wants to bring Peace to the World and to achieve this would stop supporting the undemocratic government. Most opposition of various Islamic group is not to Americans or America but to the American support of their oppressive regimes and therefore America is going to bring Peace to the world, not by arms but by diplomacy.
Until he comes up with real change for Americans he would be nothing but Bush with a black mask!

"A change in management ..." ? Now THAT's some serious spinning (like wheels grinding in the muck after a Tennessee rain storm). Electing Daffy Duck would get you a "change in management", Lamar. Go home, put on a nice flannel shirt and some comfortable slippers, put your feet up, and call us in the morning. Jeez . . .

Change? You want change? Here's your change:

Redefining the Role of the U.S. Military in Iraq

"...military planners are now quietly acknowledging that many will stay behind as renamed “trainers” and “advisers” in what are effectively combat roles. In other words, they will still be engaged in combat, just called something else."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/washington/22combat.html?_r=1