Stepping up for the WSOP, Obama

Its hard to believe we are already only about a month away from the start of the WSOP! I am going to try and get into the Main Event this year through Full Tilit’s Step Qualifiers. They are a lot of fun and should save me a good chunk of the $10k entry.

I haven’t written a blog in quite some time, so I would like to quickly throw some of my opinions on how I feel about President Obama’s actions since my last blog questioning him.

I think he has made a few small mistakes in his time in office.

1) Commenting on the cop vs professor, as he admits, was a mistake.

2) Going after the olympics for Chicago, thankfully he failed, look what it did for Greece and besides I think the Olympics have been sold out and are only a shadow of what they were when I was a kid. My former favorite sport of wrestling has had the rules so changed, that Randy Couture told me “I don’t even recognize it.” when i asked him how he felt about the new rules for Greco Roman wrestling.

3)Allowing the expansion of off shore drilling. As the recent platform disaster illustrates.

Other than those I can’t criticize him. He made an overture to allow the right to participate in governing and now is taking control. Passed the Health insurance reforms and now going after the banks. If health insurance reform was going to be so devastating to business, why did the stock market reflect just the opposite? I would have liked to see a public option, but he got what he could.

I am not really left or right in my views, I am anti corporatism in that I don’t think the large corporations should control the government. I was very unhappy about the recent ruling by the supreme court, basically saying corporations have all the rights of a person. If this is true they should have all the responsibilities, in which case many of them, would be in prison. As it is they just have little “sub-corporations” that only exist to “do there time for them”.

One other political observation. The new Arizona law is definitely a disgraceful case of racial profiling. I don’t think it is anything like my recent post on airline security, but makes me more thoughtful on the slippery slope aspect of my opinion.

I am hosting an FTOPS event later today on Full Tilt, see you there.