As for what Axelrod did actually say, that the Appalachians are not BHO’s demographic, that happens to be true, regardless of Axelrod’s obnoxious attempt to falsely convey that mountain people are all racists; and I’m damned proud he and Axelrod both aren’t our demographic. In my mother’s home county BHO lost 11% to 84% Clinton, in my father’s he lost 22% to 75% Clinton. (I was born out of state: we moved back to NC when I was a child).
It’s one thing to call someone a goober in a thread and another to use it in an article.
I have heard this insulting term used all my life; had it applied to me: I don’t care to read it in print; when I see it I will challenge it. Every. Fucking. Time.

Obama has only been in office a few months and he has already nearly outspent GWB’s 8 year fiasco.

Obama wanted to cut veterans benefits and is looking at the idea of cutting Social Security.

Where are the so called progressives/liberals on any of this?

Where’s the outrage? Not even crickets.

New York City went bankrupt in the 1970s. New Orleans did so a decade ago. No state has. No country has. What happens when a country files chapter 11? Do the creditor countries force it to chapter 7, liquidation? If so, what happens to us? Are we the assets or the debts?

Oh, my. Please, Goober, give me another swine flu update to distract me from such questions.

O, great! They are planning to seriously work on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security reform in 2011, after the midterm election.

(I found the Reuters link to be the most informative.)