I am bone-tired defending President Barack Hussein Obama...

[OnyxCollie]

69. I do not participate in fan clubs, hero worship, or cheerleading.

Nor do I join the two minute hate often reserved for the likes of Nader et al.

Instead I choose to study the alternatives and make a rational decision based on what will provide the best outcome. YMMV.

When the rules allocate resources to people on the basis of ascriptive characteristics, and when the use of those material resources is given by tradition rather than the result of a calculative weighing of alternatives, then economic interactions take place under nonrationalized conditions. When those rules enable people to make precise calculations about alternative uses of those resources, and when they discipline people to use those resources in more rather than less efficient ways on the basis of those calculations, then those rules can be described as "rationalized."

Wright, E. O. (2002, December). The shadow of exploitation in Weber's class analysis. American Sociological Review, 67(6), p. 836.