US Politics Group Featured Member - asherp

I welcome and appreciate opinion from the "further left" green/nader perspective. We ultimately are working largely for the same things whether from the inside or outside of a party. I'm glad to see you connecting the dots on tangible issues rather than conspiracy theories.

asherp...you never fail to both amuse and delight, and that was another much needed breath of fresh air. thank you to current89 and asherp!

Thanks to Current89 for another great interview. I really appreciate AsherP's comments, I agree with over 90% of them. I appreciate his having been all over the map, so to speak, that he says he is from America. That is cool to have gotten to live in so many places and learn about them.

Thank you to AsherP for sharing so much of yourself on Current.

Fucking Awesome dude! Fucking awesome! And did I say how fucking awesome you are! Yeah!

Great interview. I always enjoy your videos even when I don't agree with your take but they are always well thought out and fun to watch. I do agree more often than disagree though.

I came very close to voting for Rev. Billy for Mayor of NYC, but Bloomberg's violation of the will of the people was something I took very seriously and I had to go with the more viable candidate. I did love Rev. Billy's speeches.

Cheers for all of your groups. It was nice of you to start a Republican group.

Keep up the good work. I love the Punk Patriot submissions.

Lol. I didn't know he was the Punk Patriot either. Awesome interview.

Holy crap, I didn't know you were the Punk Patriot. I guess I don't pay close enough attention.

Ya blew us all away with the video interview, now we all look boring.

Excellent interview, aserp is one good dude. I can tell by his thorough explanations of things he is wise beyond his years.

I really like getting to know more about posters here !

I thought i moved around a lot, damn. Asher has got an amazing perspective. I really enjoyed this. It was good to see him not play the topics to any type of status quo, then go on to explain how they are equally important. I learned quite a bit about the U.S. from this interview of Asher. Well done. Keep up the good work.

Fascinating. I too enjoyed the video response. I agree with many of asherp's points (though I disagree with many others). I thought his comments on the importance of watching Congress were particularly important. One of the most frustrating aspects of reading many of the posts on Current is the frequency with which Obama is blamed for a governmental failure when he has little or no influence over the branch or other governmental entity that is truly to blame.

I have seen posts already, for example, blaming Obama for the recent Supreme Court Decision involving corporations and whether depriving them of the right to contribute directly to campaigns or campaign advertising is a denial of their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Even aside from Current, I had a staunchly conservative Republican put his finger in my chest the other evening and tell me that the ruling was Obama's fault because after all it was Obama's court... Since the guy was about 6"5" and 250 pounds with very little body fat, I decided to just give him a noncommital smile.

In any event, thank you 89 for bringing us an intriguing glimpse into the background of another regular contributor.

Very cool interview. Its going to be hard to follow up such a nice video interview with a normal written down interview! I was not aware that you hosted so many groups. It was very cool of you to create a Current Republicans group.

I particularity like how asherp pointed out that all of the topics I asked him to rank are interrelated.

NOTE: Interviews with Saladin and Conniepae are on there way. Also, I'll have a post on some challenges/interviews/ideas for the US Politics group on Wednesday.