Yes, it seems that some of Obama’s policies haven’t been too successful. On the other hand I think we should bear in mind that when Obama took office, the country was in the worst recession in 80 years. That must make the task considerably more difficult. Furthermore, it seems that the previous administration played an important role in triggering the recession, because according to former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, the Bush administration encouraged the abusive practices of the banks that were arranging predatory subprime mortgages and thus brought on the recession we're going through.

According to Spitzer, “[i]n 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, … [n]ot only did the Bush administration do...

I merely repeat the words of the NPR’s web site: According to National Public Radio, "The U.S. electric grid is a complex network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission lines.” If you say NPR is wrong, please provide some evidence. And by the way, I hereby claim the $1000 on the strength of the 2005 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers cited above.

It's perfectly true that Obama is a patsy of Goldman Sachs and Wall Street in general. However exactly the same was true of Bush II. As a matter of fact many of the same financial gangsters populate both administrations, as explained in great detail by the former Goldman Sachs executive and present investigative journalist Nomi Prins on her web site http://www.nomiprins.com/. She calls the trio Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner the “Federal Pillage Triumvirate”. Don't you think that, instead of merely assailing the Democrats for being Wall Street patsies, you should propose that the powerful agents of the parasitical financial oligarchy be expelled from government, whether it be Republican or Democratic?

Sowell is perfectly right. Now he should write an article condemning the recent Supreme Court ruling that gives corporations the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. That’s a much more important issue than some Florida hooligan’s. Since 90% of corporate equity is owned by just a tiny sliver of the population, the so-called “conservative” Supreme Court has disenfranchised the American people with a stroke of the pen. Sowell isn’t interested in writing about that. I wonder why.