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05/31/2010 09:47:15 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by Simms:
If its any consolation to any of you, outside of the US President Obama is incredibly respected and a great advert for modern America. Obviously I am not fully aware of internal politics, but on the world stage he certainly is held in very high regard.
Now GWB on the other hand was a laughing stock (and also seemed, potentially, very very dangerous).
My opinion only of course. |
How refreshing to hear that. |
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06/02/2010 03:03:42 PM · #27 |
OH MY FUCKING GOD! Obama was young and inexperienced! Young and bold! Young and not in touch with one's identity. OH MY FUCKING GOD! He was just like any other human being ever born on this planet, young! OH MY FUCKING GOD!
What exactly did you have in mind when you posted this? Were you trying to belittle your President? Or was it to show his true colors?
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06/02/2010 04:16:12 PM · #28 |
Remember when folks on the right said it was unpatriotic to criticize a war time president?
When people said calling the president a "fascist" was giving aide and comfort to the enemy?
What has caused such a shift in the respect that the office holder is due, in such a short time?
Just be happy Obama does not embrace the notion of the Unitary executive theory or the folks on Fox news would be truly apoplectic.
I forget what comedian said it but to paraphrase this unknown "as a liberal I wouldn't call Obama a true liberal, but it makes a refreshing break from eight years of "Jesus Camp" meets "Team America-World Police" that was the Bush presidency."
Message edited by author 2010-06-02 20:41:18. |
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06/03/2010 07:26:38 AM · #29 |
Nice set of photos. Thanks for posting!
Needed to work on the `fro a little bit more though.
Or am I missing the point? |
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06/03/2010 08:00:47 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by Jac:
OH MY FUCKING GOD! Obama was young and inexperienced! Young and bold! Young and not in touch with one's identity. OH MY FUCKING GOD! He was just like any other human being ever born on this planet, young! OH MY FUCKING GOD!
What exactly did you have in mind when you posted this? Were you trying to belittle your President? Or was it to show his true colors? |
I was wondering the same thing -- what is the point in posting these photos? And what's the point in labeling him a socialist? Are we all supposed to run screaming from the room in fear for our lives? Your meaning is incomprehensible... |
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06/03/2010 10:55:29 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by Judith Polakoff:
Originally posted by Jac:
OH MY FUCKING GOD! Obama was young and inexperienced! Young and bold! Young and not in touch with one's identity. OH MY FUCKING GOD! He was just like any other human being ever born on this planet, young! OH MY FUCKING GOD!
What exactly did you have in mind when you posted this? Were you trying to belittle your President? Or was it to show his true colors? |
I was wondering the same thing -- what is the point in posting these photos? And what's the point in labeling him a socialist? Are we all supposed to run screaming from the room in fear for our lives? Your meaning is incomprehensible... |
Pure racism...but they probably don't even realize it.
It's odd how people rank things of importance...with things of little consequence.
I mean, the OP is pissed that Obama wasn't doing something he would like BUT after voting for George Bush twice he'll defend a whole string of catastrophic decisions that threw our country backwards, physically, in world opinion and killed thousands of Americans not to mention hundreds of thousands of innocents...AND that's only to name a few things.
It's also funny how screw-ups that the "Right" supported defended of the previous Administration are now being used as props, hung on the current President.
"Could this be Obama's Katrina..."
"Is this (disaster) Obama's Iraq..."
"Obama's 9/11...his "Mission Accomplished"...his "Bailout" etc.
I don't think he's doing that great a job but given the shit-sandwich he inherited and half of the Congress that wants to do nothing but obstruct anything, just to kill his Presidency. It ain't right and the amnesia mixed with tons of bullshit is piling up so high we may never dig ourselves out of it.
Whats' worse...a President that smoked a joint OR a President that admittedly doesn't read THE NEWS ?
Message edited by author 2010-06-03 14:57:33. |
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06/07/2010 06:33:05 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Remember when folks on the right said it was unpatriotic to criticize a war time president?
When people said calling the president a "fascist" was giving aide and comfort to the enemy?
What has caused such a shift in the respect that the office holder is due, in such a short time? |
What caused it? Unadulterated conservative hypocrisy. I saw this coming even while they were bleating about everyone supporting THEIR wartime president, GW. It's like I'm Kreskin or something. "Dissent is unpatriotic!" Yeah, you freakin' dissemblers... at least until the Democrats win. Then the president's fair game because what you say today means nothing tomorrow. Republicans are the party of tomorrow meaning nothing. Just look at their policies! Don't worry, though... here comes the Rapture to save the day!
I would honestly LOVE it if a Democrat president started carpet-bombing conservatives with treason and sedition charges, to the horror of the bleeding heart wing of the liberal camp. Give them a taste of their own medicine and just throw the Republican uproar right back in their faces. "I'm just doing what you've demanded! Protecting the office!" Then roll out clip after clip of politicians, Glenn Beckalikes, and Ann Coultergangers to back it up, while rounding up and sending all the Tea-Baggers to a much whiter Guantanamo for some exciting waterboarding and probing questions about why they hate America so much! This is what they expect isn't it? Why not just go for it for once?
The fundamental beauty of being a liberal is thus: We don't care if a president bangs an intern as long as he's doing his job and his wife/husband doesn't care. We don't sell ourselves as paragons of artificial moral virtue, but as humans just doing the best we can. This makes it absolutely delicious when yet another conservative gets their nose rubbed into the crap THEY get up to behind closed doors, or in airport bathroom stalls, or on trips to South America with mistresses, or coming back from Europe with a rent boy 'carrying your luggage'... it never ends! It's the ultimate gotcha. The schadenfreude is palpable. Too bad their hypocrisy runs so deep that they don't hold their fallen to the very standards they profess, and don't run them out of office. Because it's about the team, right? Can't gimp the team. Hoo-rah!
This also means that liberals usually only get severely burned on fiscal hypocrisy, but who doesn't?
There, some invective. Why bother being constructive? Conservatives aren't. It's all about race-baiting pictures of afros and smokes for them, isn't it?
Frankly, I wish I could have been so hip at that age. Young Obama is damn well presented, if you can get past the whole 'from a profoundly different culture' thing.
Message edited by author 2010-06-07 22:40:25. |
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06/07/2010 07:01:21 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by Mousie:
Young Obama is damn well presented, if you can get past the whole 'from a profoundly different culture' thing. |
Believe those pictures were from his Occidental College days, and average kid in 1980 (at least according to my brother who was in the same residence hall), in those days when weed was normal and even white guys tried to have afros. Ha, the days of the perm, what a lovely look. Looking back those times were a "profoundly different culture".
Among the differences between presidents 43 and 44 is that 44 decided to get a bit of focus in his life, quit weed, and transfered to Colombia University in his junior year. He took off like a rocket after that. 43 quit being a blackout drunk and coke fiend after his 40th birthday. St. Paul reminds us that when we become adult, we put away the things of childhood, it seems some people become adults earlier than others.
Message edited by author 2010-06-07 23:03:08. |
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07/12/2010 02:07:56 PM · #34 |
Jac said a baaaaaad word! I'm telling my mommmy!!! ((Sorry, just had to inject a little humor into this. I'm not at all offended by the F-word))
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07/12/2010 02:09:58 PM · #35 |
| I want to go on record to state that I have family buried in Arlington National Cemetery. But, this idea that those buried there somehow served with more honor than military dead in other national cemeteries and even in non-military cemeteries is just pure unadulterated bullshit. Now, I have to go tell my mommy on myself! |
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08/25/2010 01:22:58 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by cynthiann:
Originally posted by scarbrd:
My advice is to stop watching Fox News.
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Ditto... and their friends on talk radio. |
Ahh, for a little humor at Glenn's expense, we only need to turn to our friend Louis Black. I never get tired of it. |
I'm still waiting for an explanation of what you meant by that post. |
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08/25/2010 01:27:16 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
I want to go on record to state that I have family buried in Arlington National Cemetery. But, this idea that those buried there somehow served with more honor than military dead in other national cemeteries and even in non-military cemeteries is just pure unadulterated bullshit. Now, I have to go tell my mommy on myself! |
To be fair, you do have to earn a spot there. However, that doesn't mean their lives were more important than others', or that we ought to only honor them. I support Obama's decision 100% here. I hope our next Presidents follow suit and consider honoring our veterans in other cemeteries, perhaps close to their (the Presidents') hometowns or where they used to live...
Message edited by author 2010-08-25 17:28:58. |
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08/25/2010 01:51:35 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by Simms:
If its any consolation to any of you, outside of the US President Obama is incredibly respected and a great advert for modern America. Obviously I am not fully aware of internal politics, but on the world stage he certainly is held in very high regard.
Now GWB on the other hand was a laughing stock (and also seemed, potentially, very very dangerous).
My opinion only of course. |
Mine too - and America in the eyes of the world was basically brought back from the brink by the election of Obama. Obviously very powerful forces are intent on dragging it back down anyway... |
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