Comments On: This Afternoon, Seattle Came Out to Thank President Obama for His Support of Marriage Equality by Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/05/10/this-afternoon-seattle-came-out-to-thank-president-obama-for-his-support-of-marriage-equality Comments On: This Afternoon, Seattle Came Out to Thank President Obama for His Support of Marriage Equality by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: This Afternoon, Seattle Came Out to Thank President Obama for His Support of Marriage Equality]]>
<< Romney, he said, "is a patriotic American," and he congratulated him for the "success he's had as the head of a large financial firm," which earned derisive laughter from the crowd. >>

What's the joke? Many of Obama's top economic advisers came from high positions in financial institutions (i.e. Larry Summers, Rahm Emanuel).

The film Inside Job (2010 Oscar winner for best doc, narrated by Matt Damon) connects many of the dots.

Director Alex Moore presaged the Occupy movement as a response to the financial crisis way back in September 2010:


Q: Inside Job doesn't paint a pretty picture of post-crisis America. Will things change?

A: I am optimistic that the American people are going to respond to this. It's going to be slower and more gradual than certainly I would like. I think we had an opportunity when President Obama was elected, and he had an opportunity and a mandate, in fact, to really do something transformative about this, and he blew it. And that's a huge tragedy for this country.

He really did have an opportunity at a historically important moment and he had the power to do it, I think. Now that he has chosen not to, it's going to have to be a much more gradual process of the American people becoming more informed and angry and activist and eventually forcing their leaders to act.

Posted by Ipso Facto]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 02:24:54 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: This Afternoon, Seattle Came Out to Thank President Obama for His Support of Marriage Equality]]>
Pretty sure facebook is thriving and I'm fairly certain their IPO will reflect that.

I obviously didn't witness the delivery or reception of the Romney's "success" line, but I got a kick just out of reading it, if only because I distinctly recall Obama also (genuinely) praising McCain for his success & standing as a war hero. This praise doesn't seem anywhere near as genuine, and is quite funny when viewed in that context, intentional or not.
Posted by mikethehammer]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 00:49:49 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: This Afternoon, Seattle Came Out to Thank President Obama for His Support of Marriage Equality]]> Once again words don't match the deeds.

Case in point, he cleverly puts in a jibe that the intellectual property that allowed Microsoft, Google and Facebook to "thrive" (though we'll see this month about the latter) was based on property bought and paid for by the taxpayers of my parents generation.

Yet, at the same time (during the week of "thunderstorm" Irene) he signed the most egregious patent legislation ever purported on American people, switching from a first to create system that allows the true author/inventor to claim his work, to a first-to-patent system that favors the claiming of these inventions by those big and powerful enough to utilize the patent system.


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 22:12:39 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: This Afternoon, Seattle Came Out to Thank President Obama for His Support of Marriage Equality]]> whenever something explodes we don't see anything of it, again, for a while. Is this the last we'll hear of human sexual rights this election season?

Posted by Pip Hellion]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 21:33:52 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: This Afternoon, Seattle Came Out to Thank President Obama for His Support of Marriage Equality]]> Posted by badstone]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 19:12:38 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: This Afternoon, Seattle Came Out to Thank President Obama for His Support of Marriage Equality]]>
It's not like they were going fast in the city.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 18:16:50 -0700 The Stranger