I don't really see any direction. Just a drift.

The war in Afghanistan.
The administration being consistently on the wrong side of issues relating to freedom of information and the rights of the individual.
What direction is this?

When liberals are in a position to do something for the country, and they do little or nothing, the result is that the electorate turns to someone they consider to be strong. So if Obama and his coterie keep this befuddled circular snail's pace going, the result will be another fascist president.

Who wouldn't want to watch grown men downing hotdogs like Blutarsky at an all you can eat buffet. Early favorite is two-time defending champion Joey Chestnut, while the second choice on the Vegas betting line is 6-time Champion Takeru Kobayashi.

to those offended by iraqi's celebrating our troops leaving there, i say you should instead be happy for them. if, indeed, part of the reason for us being there was to "liberate" them (it wasn't, but work with me here!), those celebrations should represent our success in that regard.

Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend--or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.

When I went looking for it, though, I found the whole speech it's from, and it's a remarkable speech in its entirety.

It is horrible to know that we have gone, in only half a century, from having the President hold habeas corpus as the foremost thing Americans should be proud of, to Bush and Cheney's authoritarianism. This is the first Independence Day since the end of their terms, and I can only hope that President Obama will understand that, in Eisenhower's word's:

... (I)f we are going to continue to be proud that we are Americans, there must be no weakening of the code by which we have lived; by the right to meet your accuser face to face, if you have one; by your right to go to the church or the synagogue or even the mosque of your own choosing; by your right to speak your mind and be protected in it.

Well, now realizing Reagan politics was not good, much of it was horrible. Actually the concept of the Republican theme has not been a true Conservative core. It's simple just as in the physics of the natural order of things does surface what one takes from the system needs to be placed back into it or will likely as no matter what new world order is contrived, result with failure. Ladies and gentlemen of America the poor and middle income people have been intellectually raped for decades. Thinking we need to defend the rich and powerful, it is not a need, we have to or they will with out regret put anyone out in the street or as James TX suggests we loose the freedoms we have to be cast into mental and physical purgatory.  

Now cutting taxes and sacking the treasury through fear of failure is diminishing the American dream. Whole legions of educated college graduates have made mistakes in grand fashion. They are not accountable all the while now asking American's to stand in the unemployment line and spend generations to pay for their mistakes. It is preposterous to think that America can slip into an abyss by an insurance company that is too big to fail and destroy our system. In the eleventh hour Bush claims our system is resilient, so let them who have made mistakes learn by them. Giving these entities free money from the Federal Reserve or the treasury is nothing but "forced public philanthropy."  

Yep.