After the 2008 presidential election, I posted "Obama Hope" on my blog which included the following:
"Hopefully, it (Obama's election) will end or at least begin to end the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton led race based victim hood business and truly fulfill Rev. Martin Luther King's dream that people will be judged on the 'content of their character' rather than the color of their skin."
Sadly, President Obama cast aside this golden opportunity to transcend racial divides. The first example is the famous White House Beer Garden summit after he jumped to the defense of a black Harvard professor in an altercation with Cambridge police. Chalk that experience up to inexperience. More recently, he joined the chorus against what the New York Times called the "white- Hispanic", George Zimmerman, in the Trayvon Martin killing. Should Obama have commented on the case, sure, it was a national issue. But when he personalized it to himself, he effectively took sides well before Zimmerman was even charged with a crime.
Okay, two misstatements in three years, give him another pass but recently the President's campaign has taken a largely race based strategy. His support from white voters is too low to win reelection so he has turned to building a strong election turn out coalition of minority voters. To secure the Black vote, every criticism of Obama is called racist. Homosexuals are courted by the end of the Clinton "Don't ask, don't tell" policy and a flip flop on support for same sex marriage. There may not be many votes in this community but on the Left it does attract Hollywood campaign money. He hopes to co-opt the Hispanic vote with his "no deportation give'em/work permits" for children of some illegal immigrates. Icing on this cake is blaming Republicans for failure to pass comprehensive immigration legislation. This is in spite of solid Democrat control through 2010; enough control to ram through ObamaCare. Truth be known, Democrats would rather have the issue than the solution.
No appeal to American values and interests that cover all citizens but rather a crass effort to divide, create hate and discontent and avoid debating the state of the economy. On race at least, Obama could have been the statesman for hope and change. Unfortunately, he wants reelection so badly he's willing to highlight that which divides. The President turns out to be no statesman but just another Chicago pol.
But not as long as Obama is in the oval office fixated on race, class and rewarding union patronage and seniority.
Posted by: Jeff B. on June 23, 2012 12:09 AMBeautiful....
Posted by: scottd on June 23, 2012 07:52 AMHis mother had originally claimed that Barack Obama Sr. had left her, which has since been debunked. She also had a difficult time with the truth - the acorn does not fall far from the tree, as he has displayed countless times since he became POTUS and well before then.
Posted by: KDS on June 23, 2012 10:02 AMMore right wing racial hypocrisy.
Posted by: dorky dorkman on June 23, 2012 10:57 AMI care about the destruction his policies and his attitude have wrought on this country.
I care that he sees not one nation but focus groups to be willingly exploited and unwillingly denigrated.
I care that he's spending us into oblivion.
I care that he's made the US a limp-wristed, mealy-mouthed laughingstock.
I care that he's a liar who refuse to accept responsibility for anything.
I care that his lying, irresponsible behavior has further enabled and propagated hateful, vicious discourse in his defense and on offense against any opposition and that it cements an ugly example for our young.
I care that he's a disgrace to the office he holds.
I care that his fellow party members are too stupid, too beholden or too stubborn to admit any of it.
Next time, I'll tell you how I really feel.
Posted by: RagnarDanneskold on June 23, 2012 11:04 AMEver heard of Frank Luntz, Karl Rove, Floyd Brown, etc ad nauseum.
You have a lot of nerve or a lack of sufficient brain cells to spout your obvious lies.
Posted by: dorky dorkman on June 23, 2012 11:30 AMUm, that's their OCCUPATION.
What's Obama's occupation again??
Wasn't he the liar who said "I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.".?
Nope, he just wants to pit the takers against the makers, the young against the old, the black against the white, the tax-takers against the taxpayers, the illegal against the legal, the lawbreakers against the law-abiders, the liberals against the conservatives, the Congress against the executive branch, the Supreme Court against the himself, the world against HIS OWN COUNTRY...
You have a lot of nerve or a lack of sufficient brain cells to spout your obvious lies.
[/ huge LOL] ... and again a shining example of the devolution of the culture, Thanks D squared! You and your lefty pals are so unwittingly and so perfectly illustrative.
You have a lot of nerve or a lack of sufficient brain cells to spout your obvious lies.
Posted by dorky dorkman at June 23, 2012 11:30 AM
Settle down, junior. Why do you consider these comments proven true to be obvious lies ? How did you ever get let out of Western State ?
"Ever heard of Frank Luntz, Karl Rove, Floyd Brown, etc ad nauseum."
None of them have anything to do with Warren's post. There you go again trying to divert the topic because you have nothing to offer !
The troll has been fed...
Posted by: KDS on June 23, 2012 12:54 PMI did not state the issue about his mother and father - it was done to point out the lack of truthiness and to demonstrate that mendacity runs in his family - from the mother's side and the radical marxist roots come from his upbringing. Merely background information about the imposter in chief and who he is has become less of a mystery, as a better effort by alternate media is being made to vet this SOB.
Posted by: KDS on June 23, 2012 01:00 PMAnyone who is rational can look at nearly any metric and see the failures of this administration. And to head the knee-jerk dorky response off, yes, Bush made a lot of mistakes too. But two wrongs don't make a right.
We need a leader, not a petulant party boy, in the White House. Clinton was George Washington when compared to Obama. And that's why he keeps going off-message and trashing Obama.
Posted by: Jeff B. on June 23, 2012 01:03 PMHere isnew science showing Leftist/fear based climate models often do worse than random number generators. These are the same models that Obama/ Holdren/ Chu/ Salazar/ Hansen have based energy policy upon. In addition to the economic failure of Solar/ Wind and the lack of any possible baseload performance, the science backing their alleged need is false. A total failure in energy leadership that had lead to increased energy prices and increased dependency upon OPEC.
By contrast a true leader would be exploring Thorium, the other side of the 1960s nuclear development that was abandoned in favor of heavy radioactive element steam reactors we have today. We could be a world leader in cheap abundant energy that would open the flood gates for more electric cars, create thousands of new US jobs, and a real reduction in greenhouse gases, if not for the false climate implications, but for better air quality and less dependence on foreign oil.
But we are never going to get that leadership from Obama. Collectivism drives decisions based on authoritarian fear instead of physical reality. Obama is a coward bent on failed Wind and Solar subsidy that enriched his cronies, but did nothing to fill the energy gap created by his restrictive fossil fuel policy.
The Leftist still love to obsess about Bush/Cheney and Halliburton but the "Green Energy" debacle is a far bigger scandal, with much greater proof and far greater consequences for us all. And this is just one example of the total failure that is Obama.
Posted by: Jeff B. on June 23, 2012 01:38 PM
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This administration still uses Halliburton as the main contractor in the middle east, but that factoid is not publicized. With the exception of unlawful use of drones in Pakistan, the Owebama admin has adopted a large number of the strategies that Bush used in Iraq and Afghanistan and the middle east, in spite of their whining about it during the Bush Admin. They were incapable of coming up with any better ideas themselves. Hypocrisy knows no bounds, nor does lawlessness. It's the chicago way, which is all this community organizer in chief in an empty suit has to offer.
Posted by: KDS on June 23, 2012 02:51 PMWow. I am so glad our lefty pets contribute so much to the dialog. I'm so impressed with the way the counter the President Downgrade complaints and facts with facts of their own and rational argument for his policies. It is encouraging to see healthy debate without devolution into name calling and vulgarity
Oh. Wait.
I so hate to repeat myself, however... "and again a shining example of the devolution of the culture, Thanks D squared! You and your lefty pals are so unwittingly and so perfectly illustrative."
Just connecting the dots & not a take off on a not to be named talk show host who has referred to him as Pres. Kardashian before.
He has also utilized the tactics taught by Cloward & Piven to overwhelm the system (i.e Government) with his end runs around Congress with his Executive Orders and now his Executive privilege about Fast and Furiouis - what's he trying to hide ?
Posted by: KDS on June 23, 2012 08:09 PMNo. Crackpots are people like you who believe that this President has been a success.
Posted by: Jeff B. on June 23, 2012 08:24 PMCHANGE IS: equal pay for equal work - Improving women's health - protecting women's right to choose
CHANGE IS: Ending insurance company abuses - keeping premiums low - expanding access to care - closing the Medicare prescription 'donut hole' (or, as it is better known, as the average Republican voter's intelligence quotient).
CHANGE IS: Putting Americans back to work and rebuilding a fair economy for the middle class - 4.6 million jobs saved or created by cutting taxes, investing in clean energy, roads and bridges, -- keeping teachers in classrooms - AND protecting unemployment benefits. Obama saved the American auto industry, preventing the loss of 1.4 million jobs - The private sector has created nearly 4 million jobs in the past 21 months and President Obama is fighting for the American Jobs Act, which would put even more people back to work and more money in peoples' pockets.
CHANGE IS: Creating an economy built to last beyond the next bubble created by the bankers that subsidize Republican hegemony.
We need to: Out educate the rest of the world - out innovate the rest of the world - make sure everyone plays by the same rules - make sure that everyone does their fair share.
Why does a presidential aspirant like Romney need a secret Swiss bank account? Isn't that for deposed dictators?
And, finally, Change is ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan; refocus our energies toward dismantling Al Qaeda and similar organizations and honoring our veterans who have fought for a decade in wars started by the criminal Bush administration to enrich companies such as Halliburton and Blackwater.
Join us.
Stamp the dust of the past off your shoes, turn a deaf ear to the winjy-whiny Smigels of the reactionary right, and move this country forward.
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And then there's the teaching of history. Eric Rauchway has a great post about attacks on the history curriculum, in which even talking about "immigration and ethnicity" or "environmental history" becomes part of a left-wing conspiracy. As he says, he'll name his new course "US History: The Awesomeness of Awesome Americans." That, after all, seems to be the only safe kind of thing to say."
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/29/11941256-a-different-kind-of-political-correctness?chromedomain=leanforward&lite
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BLATANT FABRICATION
-Progressive propaganda. The short version is; No mention of over 6 million jobs lost since March 2009
-preventing the loss of 1.4 million jobs - No evidence of this more fuzzy math.
- The private sector has created nearly 4 million jobs in the past 21 months. This is a meaningless statistic as this no mention of how many private sector jobs lost in the same period. What is known that April lost 388,000 jobs and created only 69,000 new jobs.
-rebuilding a fair economy for the middle class - the only fair economy in the eyes of a neo-com is redistribution of wealth, like a modern-day Robin Hood, which will further debilitate the economy.
Like shooting fish in a barrel...D-squared aka Heir Dork
Posted by: KDS on June 23, 2012 11:10 PMhttp://nul.org/newsroom/publications/monthly
Let's see, now who was president in 2007 and 2008?
* Total Nonfarm Payroll Jobs:
January 2009: 133,561,000
March 2012: 132,821,000
Net loss: 740,000 jobs.
* Total Female Nonfarm Payroll Jobs
January 2009: 66,122,000
March 2012: 65,439,000
Net loss: 683,000 jobs.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/apr/10/mitt-romney/romney-campaign-says-women-were-hit-hard-job-losse/
There's a problem with your numbers.
Posted by: dorky dorkman on June 24, 2012 12:00 AMI am impressed that you've learned how to cut and paste. Next time just post a link to the Obama propaganda page and save the comment space for your own original thoughts. That ought to keep it brief.
Posted by: Jeff B. on June 24, 2012 01:28 AMWant the truth about jobs creation under President Obama? What are the real facts - as compared to the Leftist spin/lies that you peddle? This is taken from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, report LNS12000000:
Civilian employment in January 2009: 142,187,000
Civilian employment in May 2012: 142,287,000
Civilian employment NET GAIN: 100,000
What if we look at Jan 2001 to December 2008, the President Bush years?
Civilian employment in January 2001: 137,778,000
Civilian employment in December 2008: 143,328,000
Civilian employment NET GAIN: 5,550,000
What do the facts show? President Bush, in 8 years, added over 5.5 MILLION net jobs - there were 5.5 million more people working in December 2008 than in January 2001. Over 48 months, that's 115,625 net new jobs every month under President Bush. Nearly 4000 new net jobs EVERY DAY.
President Obama has added just 100,000 new jobs, from January 2009 to May 2012. That's just 2,941 jobs per month so far, under President Obama. Less than 100 new net jobs every day.
And the most damning statistic out there? In one month, President Bush averaged MORE net jobs created than President Obama has done over his entire term so far. In an average month, President Bush created more net jobs than President Obama has done over his entire term. President Bush created net jobs at a staggering 40 TIMES higher rate than President Obama.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on June 24, 2012 06:39 AMIt certainly seems as if half of America is on hallucinogenic drugs as the nation veers and teeters towards economic, social and moral collapse. Just keep watching "Dancing With The Stars", folks. Nothing to see here....
Posted by: Saltherring on June 24, 2012 06:47 AM11,299,000- Number of unemployed in Dec., 2008.
Jobs lost -- 3,117,000
Number of unemployed in Dec., 2009 (Remember, this is the trend started in the BUSH recession. The recovery hasn't yet begun) - 15,124,000
Jobs lost in the Bush recession 2007 - 2009 - 6,943,000.
12,720,000 -- Number of unemployed in May, 2012.
Jobs created in the Obama administration (adjusted for seasonal unemployment and job losses in the public sector created by Republican obstructionism): 2,404,000
The trend is clear: Republicans are losers and Democrats are winners. Do you want to stake your economic future on a job outsourcer like Romney?
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost
- Number of unemployed in Dec., 2009 (Remember, this is the trend started in the BUSH recession. The recovery hasn't yet begun) 15,124,000.
A LIE. The beginning of the recovery does not signal anything, only in your pea brain. That was 11 months into Obama's term. The stimulus bill had already been passed.
Unemployment rate Feb. 2009 - 7.8%
Jun. 2009 - 8.2%
Those simple facts indicate that Owebama's policies have hindered the economy. Furthermore, this statistic from @31 from a reliable source sums it up;
Civilian employment in January 2009: 142,187,000
Civilian employment in May 2012: 142,287,000
Civilian employment NET GAIN: 100,000
Average is less than 3,000 jobs/month and only 69,000 in April 2012.
8,182,000 - Number of unemployed in Jan., 2002.
11,299,000- Number of unemployed in Dec., 2008.
Jobs lost -- 3,117,000
Irrelevant- You provided no information on how many jobs gained. The relevant statistic is how many net jobs ? LMAO !
Finally,
* Total Nonfarm Payroll Jobs:
January 2009: 133,561,000
March 2012: 132,821,000
Net loss: 740,000 jobs.
* Total Female Nonfarm Payroll Jobs
January 2009: 66,122,000
March 2012: 65,439,000
Net loss: 683,000 jobs.
This is close, but they should have only gone back to March-April 2009. You made the case against Owebama, D-squared...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/apr/10/mitt-romney/romney-campaign-says-women-were-hit-hard-job-losse/
There's a problem with Politi-Fact. Their argument distorts the number with their misinformation - this is a hack website full of distortions, similar to Politico.
Your arguments are all dishonest and you expose some stupid assumptions. They may work for trolls and in North Korea but not here. Here's a reminder -
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Posted by: KDS on June 24, 2012 09:31 AMAnd why is that demo kid? Do you really believe that Obama has no ability to affect a recovery within four years? Then why are you mindlessly voting for him?
Stay tuned! You'll be shocked and dismayed with the recovery that happens after Obama leaves office.
And when that happens will you connect the dots? Doubtful. Anyone that would sycophanticly copy and paste probably isn't going to start thinking critically any time soon.
Posted by: Jeff B. on June 24, 2012 09:41 AMSo will you -- because it will be paid for on your dime and mine.
Posted by: dorky dorkman on June 24, 2012 10:55 AMSo will you -- because it will be paid for on your dime and mine.
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You have no credible proof. You have no God ! Your false God is the Government.
D-squared - if you choose to be a liar and support this neo-commie fraud, that's your problem. Same goes for your parent clone, Demo Kid and Mike Boy-Scout. LOSERS !
Schadenfreude back at ya...
Posted by: KDS on June 24, 2012 11:44 AMAhem, 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink'. ... substitute the words 'horsesASS' 'facts', 'knowledge' and 'learn'.
Posted by: RagnarDanneskold on June 24, 2012 12:49 PMFrom June 22, 2012*:
U.S. still stuck in recession
Counting missing workers would place unemployment rate at 11 percent
... Unemployment actually higher for 18 months after the recovery supposedly started. Instead of recovery, America has suffered the longest period of unemployment above 8 percent since the Great Depression under President Obama's public policy malpractice. Even last month, 53monthsaftertherecessionstarted, the economy created a mere 69,000 new jobs, with unemployment rising again to 8.2 percent. The May Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report adjusted downward the jobs created in March and April by 49,000, leaving a net of just 20,000 new jobs. The number of jobs created has declined every month this year.
The labor force is actually 365,000 workers smaller today than it was in June 2009, when the recession supposedly ended. Counting population growth since then, the economy is actually missing 7.7 million workers that would be in the workforce if the labor force participation rate had remained the same since the supposed end of the recession three years ago.
As Investor'sBusinessDailyreported on May 7, "That's in stark contrast to every other post-World War II expansion, which saw the labor force climb by millions at this point in their recoveries, even as unemployment rates were driven down." Indeed, if labor-force participation had stayed the same as it was when the recession supposedly ended in June 2009, the unemployment rate would be 11 percent, as Investor'sBusinessDailyalso reported on May 7. That is a more realistic number because those millions of workers missing from the workforce still exist and still do not have jobs.
That is the only way the unemployment rate has been falling - working people giving up and dropping out of the workforce. As the WallStreetJournalreported in its weekend edition of May 5-6, "Nearly three years into the [Obama] recovery, the U.S. still employs 5 million fewer workers than before the recession."
The creation last month of 69,000 new jobs, or 20,000 on net, under Obamanomics can be contrasted with the 1.1 million jobs created in one month alone in September 1983 in the first year of Reagan's recovery.
Moreover, as the WallStreetJournalalso noted on May 5-6, "Even as employers added jobs last month, full-time employment actually fell by 812,000." The BLS reports that for last month, the number of involuntary part-time workers totaled 8.1 million, saying, "These individuals were working part-time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job."
As a result, the BLS reported that in May, again, 53monthsaftertherecessionstarted, the total unemployment rate - counting the unemployed and involuntarily underemployed - increased again, to nearly 15 percent. That's persistent depression-level unemployment. The Shadow Government Statistics website, which includes the long-term discouraged workers the government hasn't counted since 1994, reports the total unemployment rate at 22.3 percent. That's what the total unemployment rate would be if it were calculated the same way as before 1994. ...
*I did NOT imbed the links - do a little reading/work for yourself, SquareD whomever, and READ the rest.
Hope and change! YEE-HAW Scared-D whomever!
Posted by: RagnarDanneskold on June 24, 2012 02:33 PMI suggest you try HorsesAss.com
Posted by: Saltherring on June 24, 2012 10:40 PMYou leftists hardly offend our "delicate sensibilities" because we don't have any. What you DO offend....with your bloody nonsense and lies.....is our intelligence.
Posted by: Saltherring on June 24, 2012 10:47 PMSo, I see that you do not take any offense.
Posted by: dorky dorkman on June 25, 2012 08:02 AMI guess, according to your report, they are not doing a very good job.
If you want to blame some politicians for poor performance in job creation, how about the Republican congress?
After all, if jobs were being created at a fast clip, I'm sure you would be crediting the congress and not the president.
Posted by: dorky dorkman on June 25, 2012 09:03 AMFalse - more bulls**t from the cherry picking libtard.
Republicans have had a majority in the House (1/2 of congress) and Democrats maintain a majority in the Senate (the other half of Congress). The Senate has obstructed the passage of over 30 bills from the House designed to help create more jobs. Why ? The Senate leadership are aiding and abetting the faux narrative of BO running against Congress.
Is that all you've got libtard ?
Posted by: KDS on June 25, 2012 09:34 AMIf "Republicans have had a majority in congress since 2010", how come Harry Reid (D, NV) is still majority leader of the senate? Hmm...
Posted by: Confused on June 25, 2012 09:37 AMIt is obvious to anyone reading your comments as to who lacks intelligence...as well as honesty, integrity, wisdom and moral values.
Posted by: Saltherring on June 25, 2012 10:20 AM"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. ... What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply."
Be very clear here: he was saying that those of us -- somewhere close to half of us -- who believe the federal government's role should be far more limited than it is are "cynics" for whom the "ground has shifted beneath" us because we have "stale political arguments that ... no longer apply."
Ignore the many silly and inconsistent things Obama promised and proposed. Ignore the fact that it's stupid to call my constitutionally based views "stale political arguments." Just realize that from the beginning, Obama was making this all about us vs. them, where one group was the majority that voted for Obama, and the other was those who didn't.
He's been dividing us from Day One, and he hasn't stopped.
Republicans have had a majority in congress since 2010. They were elected on the promise that they would create jobs.
Bzzt. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House until January 3, 2011. There was NO Republican majority in 2010. It was solid Democrat control - House, Senate, White House.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on June 25, 2012 11:36 AMWhat never ceases to amaze me is posters like Dorky Dorkman who still parrot liberal/progressive fabricated propaganda like it is truth. Obviously they consume information that fits their world view without caring what the actual truth may be. Fear of being found that they follow something unsavory may keep them from searching for the truth. It can't be pure ignorance. Or could it be?
Posted by: Oscarphone on June 25, 2012 12:46 PMThe 'talking points' that I was 'parroting' was numerical data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But, as Stephen Colbert has pointed out, facts have a well known liberal bias. As Newt Gingrich recently mentioned: Conservatives have to start knowing things as well as believing things.
You people are ridiculous.
Posted by: dorky dorkman on June 25, 2012 01:50 PMI care about the destruction his policies and his attitude have wrought on this country.
I care that he sees not one nation but focus groups to be willingly exploited and unwillingly denigrated.
I care that he's spending us into oblivion.
I care that he's made the US a limp-wristed, mealy-mouthed laughingstock.
I care that he's a liar who refuse to accept responsibility for anything.
I care that his lying, irresponsible behavior has further enabled and propagated hateful, vicious discourse in his defense and on offense against any opposition and that it cements an ugly example for our young.
I care that he's a disgrace to the office he holds.
I care that his fellow party members are too stupid, too beholden or too stubborn to admit any of it.
But George W. Bush is no longer president, so how it this relevant?
Posted by: Lionel Hutz Esq. on June 25, 2012 02:00 PMNote to demokid @ 42: Doesn't it appall and frighten you just a bit to be so easily confused with SquareD? Does our 'confusion' of the two of you tell you anything?
It should.
Yawn. Lefty's need new material.
Posted by: RagnarDanneskold on June 25, 2012 02:07 PMGee, you should know that always and never statements are easily disproved. For example, look at the Father's day messages that Obama has written over the past three years. There are other holiday messages that also negate your statement. I guess you see or hear what you want to see or hear.
Also, you make no mention of the other parties responsibility in the declining political debate, which I agree with you is declining and very partisan in nature. For example, Mitch McConnell stated (paraphrasing) that one of his goals was to see to it that Obama would be a one term president, and who has done everything he can to obstruct in the Senate to ensure this goal. Now, it is the goal of the other party to not help the other party, but it also needs to take ownership to its end of the debate and the partisanship nature of the national debate.
On the local front, it is good to see people, like Brian McKenna reaching across the aisle (see: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2012/06/11/state-auditor-brian-sonntag-is-chairman-of-democrats-for-mckenna/).
Posted by: tc on June 25, 2012 02:29 PMI care that he sees not one nation but focus groups to be willingly exploited and unwillingly denigrated.
I care that he's spending us into oblivion.
'I care that he's made the US a limp-wristed, mealy-mouthed laughingstock.'
Owebama did this.
"I care that he's a liar who refuse to accept responsibility for anything."
Once again, Owebama.
"I care that his lying, irresponsible behavior has further enabled and propagated hateful, vicious discourse in his defense and on offense against any opposition and that it cements an ugly example for our young."
Provide examples of how Bush 43 did this. (you cannot truthfully do this). If you want to try, don't forget that the case could be made against Owebama continuing Bush defense policies.
Is that all you have ? The river Denial runs through your back yard. You have chosen to be on the wrong side of history by continually distorting the truth.
Posted by: KDS on June 25, 2012 05:08 PMPosted by dorky dorkman at June 25, 2012 01:50 PM
You cherry picked the data and distorted the time frame - therefore you have made the data from the BLS rubbish. Liar libtard !
Posted by: KDS on June 25, 2012 05:13 PMOn some of those points, you can make the case that the statements apply equally, or better, to Bush, depending on your point of view.
But Obama is much worse than Bush on "I care that he sees not one nation but focus groups to be willingly exploited and unwillingly denigrated." It's not even close. Bush didn't regularly, or even often, rail against liberals or any other disfavored group of Americans, (unless you want to count "criminals").
Further, you cannot possibly argue that Bush's spending excesses (which most of us agree existed) were even close to the excesses provided by Obama and the Democrats. The only way you can make that case is to give the FY2009 budget to Bush, even though Obama signed it into law (because Bush refused to allow about $400b in spending the Democrats wanted). Yes, in the last few years the rate of spending increases has dropped a lot, but even with that drop, the net spending gains under Obama dwarf those from Bush.
So, bottom line: Obama is far worse on intentionally fostering divisiveness, and far worse on spending.
There you go again pudge. Surgically removing Leftist myths.
No President that I can recall has been more divisive and corrosive. It is disgusting and creates anything but Hope.
Posted by: Jeff B. on June 25, 2012 09:41 PMNeither was Clinton when Republicans were blaming him for the bursting of the .com bubble. But your central theme, that once a president is out of office he no longer is responsible for whst happens, seemed not to extend to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Republicans then felty that the credit should go to Bush -- because he set foundation for the killing.
Why, then, is it so wrong then to blame Bush for the economic havoc that he set in motion? It makes Republicans look like unprincipled political political opportunists, which an April Pew poll reported that 70% of Americans felt.
Posted by: Dorky Dorkman on June 26, 2012 07:16 AMPosted by Dorky Dorkman at June 26, 2012 07:16 AM
Your logic is perverted and flawed. It is wrong because Mr. Obama refused to do anything that would have effectively stopped the economic havoc that occurred in the last 4 months of Bush's 2nd term and he did not have that opportunity because he was no longer in office. I don't expect you and other progressive commie/fascists who frequent this blog to understand that, but myself and others who value the truth stand by it.
I don't trust how you described the poll - source please ? Do you beiieve in social justice ? Keep jousting at windmills -- bwhahaha...
Posted by: KDS on June 26, 2012 09:06 AM