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Author Topic:   The Awesome Obama Thread II
Taq
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Message 31 of 397 (651571)
02-08-2012 11:21 AM
Reply to: Message 28 by crashfrog
02-08-2012 9:57 AM


Re: As an outsider....
And this seems to fly in the face of basic negotiating tactics. Recall that it's the goal - the win condition - for Republicans when they can prevent the President from taking any action whatsoever. A failed or vetoed bill is a Republican win. So when the President says "it's either my way or no way", he's basically giving Republicans a simple choice: hand the President a win that costs Republicans at the polls, or easily achieve everything they want. Wow, I wonder which one they would take?
Republicans also considered it a win when the country suffered because bills were not being passed. They saw a failing country as a failing Obama, so they went out of their way to help the country fail.
You've allowed conservative complaints about "radical Socialism" and "social engineering" to color your recollection of a campaign that was, overwhelmingly, about pragmatic solutions to our problems. Obama never promised a radical reimagining of the American health care system, because he's always known that such a thing would be impossible.
In a twist of fate, Obama's ideas on national health insurance reform was nearly identical to the reforms signed into law by Romney in Massachusetts. Obama signed a bill that was weaker than the one Romney signed.

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Message 172 of 397 (653580)
02-22-2012 7:05 PM
Reply to: Message 168 by Buzsaw
02-22-2012 2:56 PM


Re: Regime's Cooked Stats
The employed consist significantly of government mandated union jobs. This is so the lying briber in chief will be voted for by union workers so as to keep their higher than average high paying government jobs. LoL, unbribed non-union seekers of work need not apply.
Why are conservatives against workers banding together and negotiating higher wages, but are all for CEO's making 100 times more than those union workers? That has never made sense to me.

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Message 186 of 397 (654608)
03-02-2012 11:57 AM
Reply to: Message 183 by onifre
03-02-2012 9:54 AM


Re: A Little Judicial Activism
He may have said that to "fix things" with the sensitive people who got offended but, that joke is not a racist joke. Anyone reading it un-biasly can tell it's a shot at his mother and not his race.
It was a shot at his mother because she had sex with a black man which is only one step up from having sex with an animal, according to the joke.

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Message 191 of 397 (654622)
03-02-2012 12:53 PM
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03-02-2012 12:38 PM


Re: A Little Judicial Activism
I didn't get that from the joke.
And you call yourself a comedian . . .
The kid is half black. It could have been worse. He could have been half dog. The implication is clear. Being half black is bad, but still better than being half animal.

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Message 203 of 397 (654641)
03-02-2012 3:00 PM
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03-02-2012 1:09 PM


Re: A Little Judicial Activism
Oh come on, it's not saying that.
Yeah, it is. If Obama was white would it make any sense?
Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

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