Obama on O'Reilly 9-4-08

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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[quote]Mick28 wrote:
GCF wrote:
pat wrote:
Hmmm… I never watch the news, but perhaps it’s time I know what this nimrod sounds like. I have read he’s bad off the cuff. I just don’t know if I can bring myself to watch a news channel. Wait! Isn’t there a college game on tonight?

You mean there are people in the US who actually believe FOX is a news channel?

Fuck you idiot.

It’s as much of a news channel as ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.[/quote]

Settle down Mick no need to get your panties in a twist, over my own personal opinions and a very obvious tounge in cheek remark.

But if what you say is true that is a real worry!

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[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
Part 2 of the interview is up

http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/

It’s good shit[/quote]

Bill is doing (did) as good a job as could be hoped for by anybody with a career to protect. They should have let me interview him. I would have done it without hesitation.

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[quote]pat wrote:
bald eagle wrote:
Obama showed his socialist tendencies last night.

Yes he did…The sad part is that up until that moment he didn’t realize that’s what he is doing. He had this “ah ha” look, or rather “oh shit” look on his face when he was called out on it. Like up until that moment he didn’t know he was sponsoring wealth redistribution. He just thought it was the neighborly thing to do. My neighbor can get a fucking job if he want’s money, that’s the way I see it.

The best news is that this shit is available on the web the next day and didn’t have to give up Monday night football…Aaron Rodgers looked good too. I think Green Bay will be just fine.[/quote]

I could not believe my ears…HE DID CONDONE SOCIALISM. Too bad the “waitress with minimum wage is earning less”…GET A-FUCKING-NOTHER JOB if you don’t make enough!!

I’M TIRED of people waiting for Government to bail them out.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Nominal Prospect wrote:
Part 2 of the interview is up

http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/

It’s good shit

Bill is doing (did) as good a job as could be hoped for by anybody with a career to protect. They should have let me interview him. I would have done it without hesitation.[/quote]

I love O’Reilly. I think he did great.

And part 3 is now up

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All 4 parts are up now on youtube.

Overall I thought Obama showed himself to be a very smart, well-spoken guy. I agreed with pretty much everything he said except for his economic policy of “being neighborly.” It’s one thing to voluntarily help someone out, and another to be threatened with jail-time if you’re not neighborly enough… I’m not even in the top tax bracket yet, but I would be pissed to pay 40% in taxes even if “i can afford it.”

I don’t think the solution to generating more money is to tax the wealthy more, it’s just to make the government spend less money. Unfortunately, neither party stands for spending less anymore, which is a key reason why I’m no longer Republican but Independent. Now I look to other issues besides economy since I think both parties suck on that issue.

*oh and Fox News is indeed a horrible source of information. They are easily the most biased news station in the USA. A lot of the others have liberal slants, but it’s much less blatant than Fox

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[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
I love O’Reilly. I think he did great. [/quote]

And there I thought Obama was the one being interviewed.

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[quote]Rockscar wrote:
pat wrote:
bald eagle wrote:
Obama showed his socialist tendencies last night.

Yes he did…The sad part is that up until that moment he didn’t realize that’s what he is doing. He had this “ah ha” look, or rather “oh shit” look on his face when he was called out on it. Like up until that moment he didn’t know he was sponsoring wealth redistribution. He just thought it was the neighborly thing to do. My neighbor can get a fucking job if he want’s money, that’s the way I see it.

The best news is that this shit is available on the web the next day and didn’t have to give up Monday night football…Aaron Rodgers looked good too. I think Green Bay will be just fine.

I could not believe my ears…HE DID CONDONE SOCIALISM. Too bad the “waitress with minimum wage is earning less”…GET A-FUCKING-NOTHER JOB if you don’t make enough!!

I’M TIRED of people waiting for Government to bail them out. [/quote]

Maybe there should be a government grocery store for the rich where bread is $15/loaf and milk is $20/gal.

Then there is another gov store for everyone else where bread is 50 cents per loaf and milk is about 75 cents per gallon.

Makes as much sense as his tax policy.

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[quote]bald eagle wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
pat wrote:
bald eagle wrote:
Obama showed his socialist tendencies last night.

Yes he did…The sad part is that up until that moment he didn’t realize that’s what he is doing. He had this “ah ha” look, or rather “oh shit” look on his face when he was called out on it. Like up until that moment he didn’t know he was sponsoring wealth redistribution. He just thought it was the neighborly thing to do. My neighbor can get a fucking job if he want’s money, that’s the way I see it.

The best news is that this shit is available on the web the next day and didn’t have to give up Monday night football…Aaron Rodgers looked good too. I think Green Bay will be just fine.

I could not believe my ears…HE DID CONDONE SOCIALISM. Too bad the “waitress with minimum wage is earning less”…GET A-FUCKING-NOTHER JOB if you don’t make enough!!

I’M TIRED of people waiting for Government to bail them out.

Maybe there should be a government grocery store for the rich where bread is $15/loaf and milk is $20/gal.

Then there is another gov store for everyone else where bread is 50 cents per loaf and milk is about 75 cents per gallon.

Makes as much sense as his tax policy.
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Let’s don’t be silly. What we really need is a personal ID system where everybody’s government registration… urr… I mean social security card is coded like a credit card with your income bracket and you are charged for EVERYTHING accordingly.

Gas, food, clothes, entertainment, everything. Go to the movies and out comes your card. Oh you’re one THOSE guys… 35 dollars please. And here comes one of the real citizens… $6:50. Whew, good thing you didn’t get that raise or it would’ve been $10:50.

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[quote]lixy wrote:
Nominal Prospect wrote:
I love O’Reilly. I think he did great.

And there I thought Obama was the one being interviewed.[/quote]

lol

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Kind of funny how, before he decided to run for President, when the Obamas were making over $250K adjusted gross income per year in 2001 and 2002, they gave only half a percent to charity.

A little better in 2000, giving 1% on an income of $240K; in 2003, giving 1.4% on $238K, and in 2004, giving 1.2% on $207K. But still no great shakes percentage-wise.

(Even in 2005 with over $1.5 million in income from hios book he never achieved the 10% that undoubtedly his church teaches as standard for charity and which many, many people accomplish, but only could bring himself to give 4.7%. Having quite ample funds, and enjoying the Bush tax cuts, he still couldn’t bring himself to voluntarily give the kind of percentage that he wants add to my taxes that I will be forced to pay.

That’s his idea of being neighborly when it comes to his OWN money.

Apparently when it comes to the money of other people though, the requirements of (so-called) “neighborliness” of the government enforced variety (pay or go to prison) are many, many times greater than what Obama himself chose to pay on a pretty adequate income.

Could it be that the real version of his waitress story would have him leaving only a 1 or 2% tip rather than being so generous as he suggests he is? “I can pay more because I’m doing well!”

If so then why so Scrooge-ly those five years – and that’s as far back as the available tax records go – when it came to his own giving?

And did that 1% wind up almost exclusively in one place, the Reverent Jeremiah Wright? After that was there even anything significant given at all?

Valid questions in regard to someone who wants to be “neighborly” with my money and who wants to be the principal leader of the United States.

Or put another way: to the tune of Mr Rogers:

“It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood,
It’s a wonderful day for taxing you,
Can I, be your, Neighbor.”

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[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Kind of funny how, before he decided to run for President, when the Obamas were making over $250K adjusted gross income per year in 2001 and 2002, they gave only half a percent to charity.

A little better in 2000, giving 1% on an income of $240K; in 2003, giving 1.4% on $238K, and in 2004, giving 1.2% on $207K. But still no great shakes percentage-wise.

(Even in 2005 with over $1.5 million in income from hios book he never achieved the 10% that undoubtedly his church teaches as standard for charity and which many, many people accomplish, but only could bring himself to give 4.7%.

Having quite ample funds, and enjoying the Bush tax cuts, he still couldn’t bring himself to voluntarily give the kind of percentage that he wants add to my taxes that I will be forced to pay.

That’s his idea of being neighborly when it comes to his OWN money.

Apparently when it comes to the money of other people though, the requirements of (so-called) “neighborliness” of the government enforced variety (pay or go to prison) are many, many times greater than what Obama himself chose to pay on a pretty adequate income.

Could it be that the real version of his waitress story would have him leaving only a 1 or 2% tip rather than being so generous as he suggests he is? “I can pay more because I’m doing well!”

If so then why so Scrooge-ly those five years – and that’s as far back as the available tax records go – when it came to his own giving?

And did that 1% wind up almost exclusively in one place, the Reverent Jeremiah Wright? After that was there even anything significant given at all?

Valid questions in regard to someone who wants to be “neighborly” with my money and who wants to be the principal leader of the United States.

Or put another way: to the tune of Mr Rogers:

“It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood,
It’s a wonderful day for taxing you,
Can I, be your, Neighbor.” [/quote]

Government enforced charity. I love it when the government determines that I have enough and I need to share, of course filtering it through and incredibly inefficient if not corrupt bureaucracy. Sounds like a great idea.