[quote]hedo wrote:
I read that Fox overnight has higher ratings then CNN or MSNBC in prime time. If Obama is fighting them it’s almost guaranteed that it won’t workout for him. He really has screwed up everything he’s tried, this will be no different.
Consequences of hiring a naive president.[/quote]
Lincoln did stuff like this, attacking Copperhead newspapers of his day. He arrested editors and publishers, and forbade the use of the US mail (which is how papers often circulated in those days) by papers he disliked.
Obama is following in his footsteps. All he need do now is suspend Habeus Corpus.
[quote]lixy wrote:
It’s simple: Obama knows Fox will never agree with anything he does short of becoming a Republican. Therefore, he doesn’t care if he attacks it directly. He knows that he has nothing to lose in this regard.[/quote]
Looking like an egomaniac is even making some black folks wonder about voting for this twerp. The percentage of black people who say they’ll vote in 2010 is down by almost half. Of course, if one votes by race, then many such people lose interest.
[quote]Valor wrote:
This just speaks to how highly Obama thinks of himself…
If Bush had done this, the press would have lost their shit. Hell…if Bush had done almost anything Obama has done the press would have lost their shit.
Close Gitmo? Nope.
Bring troops home? Nope.
End Patriot Act? Nope.
Tax the fucking country into the stone age? Check!
Run up debt like a whore with a stolen credit card? Check![/quote]
“Promise everything, deliver nothing.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
That is something that bugs me about Obama, is that he won’t face his critics. He can’t hold his water. Also when something goes wrong, it’s always George Bush’s fault. “(Insert failure) is due to the policies of a previously failed administration…” It just gets to be tiresome and lackluster when someone can’t say, you know what, while our intentions were good, things did not work out as we had hoped. I would have more respect for someone who did that. But apparently, its taboo to admit when you are wrong. [/quote]
“The Party is always right.” (Orwell)
Remember how, in his novel, history was always ‘updated’ to show that the Party was always right?
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
<<< It just gets to be tiresome and lackluster when someone can’t say, you know what, while our intentions were good, things did not work out as we had hoped. >>>[/quote]
Except for public resistance being a bit stiffer than they anticipated things are working out exactly as they’d hoped. Notice how little talk there is from this bunch on job losses? Every night Obama is on his knees eyes to heaven praying for as many lost jobs as he can get and please PLEASE GOD don’t let any of our traditional sectors recover.
They are trying to push as many people into state dependence as they can and milking the clock until they can get their new socially just “green” economy in motion at which time people will be clamoring for those jobs and will be prepared to do ANYTHING to keep them.
Dependence means votes and while votes still matter they cannot proceed without them.
If Obama has made one miscalculation it’s that he truly believed that the public was voting for his new Marxist agenda in larger numbers than they were. Many people were voting against Bush and for the charm of a first black president. I think Obama is truly puzzled at times. [quote]Didn’t people listen when I told them I was going to transform America?[/quote]
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
Obama is obviously the WORST PRESIDENT EVAR!!!1! Rage on, rage on…[/quote]
Lincoln was worse. Roosevelt was simply evil. Reagan was a dunderhead who lowered taxes yet kept up the spending by starting up our infernal debt machine again.
Most presidents are simply amoral; they couldn’t be elected if they actually had morals since America loves ‘compromisers’.
“The truth is usually in the middle.” LOL! As if poison and food can compromise!
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
Obama is obviously the WORST PRESIDENT EVAR!!!1! Rage on, rage on…[/quote]
While this has been said sarcastically I think he may very well be on his way to becoming the worst President in US history. However, he has some big shoes to fill. Looking just at modern day Presidents LBJ was probably the worst President. Getting us deeper into Vietnam, spending billions on the war on poverty which did nothing but (you guessed it) cause more poverty. Why won’t liberals learn that whatever behavior you reward gets repeated? Oh well.
Also, Jimmy Carter would come in as the second worst President. 18% interest rates, runaway inflation and unemployment and of course who can forget the Iran Hostage crisis and the botched rescue plan. Yes, Jimmy Carter he was certainly a terrible President.
In comparison Obama has only been in office for 9 months, but his potential to be surpass these other two gentlemen is quite good. Let’s take a look at just some of his poor decisions:
-He’s doubled the national debt
-Billions to bail out failed corporations
-Passed a failed multi-billion dollar economic stimulus package (how many jobs did it create? ZIP)
-And let’s not forget “Cash For Clunkers” where paying billions for good assets and then destroying them was his idea of good economic sense.
-On the foreign policy side of things our enemies think that we are weaker than ever because of our naive President and our friends are almost totally disgusted. (See deal to scrub missile defense over eastern europe among many other mis-steps).
Yes in 9 months one could make an argument that Obama is the worst President in modern times. But, I will defend him against this charge. I don’t think he’s had the time to become the worst President. I think that’s a title that will take him at least another year or two to capture, but he’s got a great start hasn’t he?
The grand unintended consequence of this Obama presidency, and unintended consequences are the absolute norm with liberals, is that he is succeeding in guaranteeing that he will be not only the first but the last black president we see for a very long time.
Barack Obama is now the ultimate representative and spokesman for “black America” having carried the overwhelmingly vast majority of the “black” vote. He and the crew associated with him have incessantly harped on race as the explanation for ANY opposition to his agenda. People may not declare this when polled, but I am promising you there are millions of new maybe even unconsciously racists lite who will never vote for another black, especially Democrat candidate and have had serious damage done to their view of black Americans in general.
Professor X if you read this, (and I think you will) this is exactly what I was telling you during the campaign. This guy was the absolute worst possible candidate for a post racial America. He has set back race relations in this country in ways and to a degree that probably nobody else could have. It’s tragic.
[u][b] Every night Obama is on his knees eyes to heaven praying for as many lost jobs as he can get and please PLEASE GOD don’t let any of our traditional sectors recover.
They are trying to push as many people into state dependence as they can[/u][/b] [/quote]
It’s rational, sane arguments like this that have won me over to your side. How can anyone deny that the POTUS is nightly praying for job loses to aid his secret agenda?
[u][b] Every night Obama is on his knees eyes to heaven praying for as many lost jobs as he can get and please PLEASE GOD don’t let any of our traditional sectors recover.
They are trying to push as many people into state dependence as they can[/u][/b]
It’s rational, sane arguments like this that have won me over to your side. How can anyone deny that the POTUS is nightly praying for job loses to aid his secret agenda?
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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions . . . . Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.’ Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man. - Marcus “Tully” Cicero
If he isn’t praying for job losses then maybe he isn’t a praying man. He is certainly a naive man because his proposed policies make investments in new employees risky at best and foolish at worst. New mandates and the support he gives to unions and the public sector have the effect of crowding out the private sector which is the creator of most new jobs. Perhaps he should be praying for guidance and humility, but that would be out of character.
[u][b] Every night Obama is on his knees eyes to heaven praying for as many lost jobs as he can get and please PLEASE GOD don’t let any of our traditional sectors recover.
They are trying to push as many people into state dependence as they can[/u][/b]
It’s rational, sane arguments like this that have won me over to your side. How can anyone deny that the POTUS is nightly praying for job loses to aid his secret agenda?
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Yo WILL get it one day pal. Probably long after it’s too late, but you will get it. If you took me to mean he is literally and actually on his knees praying then the point was lost on you.
While we’re talking about FOX, Beck’s been showing a clip of Anita Dunn declaring Chairman Mao as one of her favorite political philosophers and one to whom she turns to the most.