Patrick.net

Funny how the Obama haters can't say exactly why they hate him

By Patrick   Follow   Wed, 9 Nov 2011, 2:45pm   24,383 views   293 comments
Watch (2)   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike  

Is it the 15 cent Christmas tree tax?

I don't think so.

Hate for Obama is something they can't explain by anything Obama has done or not done.

Just they hate him because... well, you know.

« First     « Previous     Viewing Comments 214-253 of 293     Next »     Last »     See most liked comments

1. bob2356 Follow Befriend 3 threads 2,564 comments

   214   10:31am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Bap33 says he came to power with zero background, as if chosen by some devine power. his followers allow him free run, giving blind obedience. those who oppose him or his system are demonized with great effort. he shows no reverence for the laws of man his words and actions bring warmth to his followers, while his words and actions bring fear and anger to his opposers. he operates above any oversight. Are we talking about Bush or Obama here? Why do you see Obama as evil incarnate and not Bush, they are really pretty hard to tell apart as presidents, other than Obama not starting any wars yet.

2. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (17) 785 threads 7,962 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   215   10:41am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (1)   Bap33 says I do not hate Lord Barry. Lord Barry is simply the man Seriously Bap, you need to stop listening to Glenn Beck. The guy is poisoning your mind. He's the Jim Cramer of politics. Bap33 says the figure head of the movement/ideals/principality that is against traditional American culture, values and beliefs as found on Leave it to Beaver, Fozie, George Lopez, Karate Kid, Full House, Family Matters and Cosby Show. America was founded in 1776, not the 1950s. Furthermore, America's foundation, although an improvement over the feudalism and monarchies, was hardly a perfect society. There were many injustices including slavery, object poverty, child labor, racism, sexism, and nationalism. American's history is a series of struggles to right those wrongs and others while battling those who would return to those injustices. And those injustices all have one thing in common: one group of people having control over another group of people. The 1950s were no utopia. It was the height of McCarthyism. The KKK ran uncheck. And the federal government was providing sanctuary to Nazi war criminals in order to get an edge over the Soviets in rocketry. Meanwhile, the threat of nuclear annihilation was a constant fear. From the shows you listed, I an only surmise that the goal you with to accomplish is a sexless society. This simply isn't going to happen. And the Republicans and social conservatives aren't going to decrease the amount of premarital sex no matter what they do. Just rent any Girls Gone Wild video. Notice that all the girls have red state accents. That's not a coincident. You'll never see an MIT, UC Berkley, or Harvard coed showing her titties on GGW. Christian fundamentalism took off as a way to keep girls and women from having sex. It has completely and utterly failed to do so. It turns out that the more educated a woman is, the likely she is to appear on GGW. So, instead of trying to replace evolution with bible studies, you should be doing the opposite if you want there to be less promiscuity. Ultimately as long as birth control exists, there will be promiscuity. And no politician is going to get birth controlled banned no matter how much he/she wants to. The demand for birth control is simply too great that our society isn't going to let the government take it away no matter what. However, it's really sad that people still obsess over promiscuity when there are so many other, far more important issues to deal with. Issues like genocide, war, energy independence, pollution, rising sea levels, the income gap, counter-progressive taxation, America's brain drain, fraudulent banking, an unstable financial sector built on fraud and speculation, deteriorating and obsolete infrastructure, etc. So stop trying to use government to force people into chastity. It won't work. It has never worked. It will never work. And that's not what government is for. As long as you try to use government for this purpose, it cannot function effectively at dealing with the problems that it should address.

3. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

   216   10:44am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   bob2356 says Are we talking about Bush or Obama here? Why do you see Obama as evil incarnate and not Bush, they are really pretty hard to tell apart as presidents, other than Obama not starting any wars yet. That's just it. The difference between Bush and Obama is purely cultural. Their economics are pretty much the same. We just love fighting the same old culture wars over Gays, Guns, n' God.

4. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (17) 785 threads 7,962 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   217   10:45am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike (1)   bob2356 says Are we talking about Bush or Obama here? Why do you see Obama as evil incarnate and not Bush, they are really pretty hard to tell apart as presidents, other than Obama not starting any wars yet. Both Bush and Obama have done the same evil things: tortured, murdered unarmed civilians, falsely imprisoned people with no access to the courts, etc. However, I have a conjecture on why Bap and other social conservatives hate Obama but not Bush. Since Obama is a Democrat, he represents sexual freedom, and to a social conservative two consenting adults having premarital sex is a greater evil than torture and murder. This is a really fucked up value system, but it seems consistent with the political stances of social conservatives.

5. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (17) 785 threads 7,962 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   218   10:46am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (1)   wthrfrk80 says We just love fighting the same old culture wars over Gays, Guns, n' God. I have a solution to that. We need a gay, gun-toting god like the this guy.

6. TPB Follow Befriend (1) 65 threads 1,209 comments

   219   10:57am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan8267 says The USA Patriot Act could be used to suspend elections in an emergency, where emergency is defined at the sole discretion of the president. Pretty much, the president can do anything under the USA Patriot Act. Of course, Republicans are mostly responsible for that act. Finally blame where blame is due. But how can we not blame a Current Liberal administration for NOT abolishing the Patriot Act and much of its ominous consequences? What do you think History will have to say about Obama, if the next administration takes Patriot Act even a step further, to where we have Gustopos like the KGB rounding folks like you and I up, for even posting in this thread?

7. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,520 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

   220   11:04am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   TPB says What do you think History will have to say about Obama, History probably would not view it well, but not as bad as first instituting the the Patriot Act in the first place. TPB says if the next administration takes Patriot Act even a step further, to where we have Gustopos like the KGB rounding folks like you and I up, for even posting in this thread? And, this would probably be viewed by History even worse than the writing of the Act in the first place. The question here would be, who is more likely to take the Patriot Act further?

8. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (17) 785 threads 7,962 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   221   11:09am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike (1)   TPB says But how can we not blame a Current Liberal administration for NOT abolishing the Patriot Act and much of its ominous consequences? I do blame Obama for the Patriot Act. I just also blame Republicans because far more of them than Democrats voted for that act. And the vast majority of those who voted against the evil Patriot Act were Democrats and Independents. As for Obama, I never supported him because he voted to extend the Patriot while he was a senator. I also didn't support Hilary because as senator she voted for the Patriot Act. But are you telling me that Santorum, Newt, or Romney are against the Patriot Act? Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who is against that act and the Republicans have always broadsided him. TPB says What do you think History will have to say about Obama, if the next administration takes Patriot Act even a step further, to where we have Gustopos like the KGB rounding folks like you and I up, for even posting in this thread? That is the nightmare scenario that those of us against the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the TSA and all other forms of executive unchecked power and human rights abuse have. In the short term, tyrants are always portrayed in a positive light. In the long run, Bush and Obama will go down as the axis of evil.

9. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (17) 785 threads 7,962 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   222   11:12am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (1)   leoj707 says The question here would be, who is more likely to take the Patriot Act further? And unfortunately I can't say that Obama won't, especially in a second term when he doesn't have to worry about re-election. And unfortunately our press is composed of incompetent idiots who completely ignore these issues including the recent announcement that due process does not mean judicial process. Due process now means whatever the government wants to do.

10. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,520 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    223   11:17am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Dan8267 says And unfortunately I can't say that Obama won't, especially in a second term when he doesn't have to worry about re-election. Yeah, that is why I did not phrase it as a rhetorical question. That said, I think that given their history a Democrat President -- with the propensity to do nothing other than maintain the status quo -- is less likely to push the Patriot Act to the nightmare scenario.

11. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,520 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    224   11:19am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan8267 says In the long run, Bush and Obama will go down as the axis of evil. I think in the long run whoever actually enacts the nightmare scenario will be the one viewed as the major player in the axis of evil. Bush will just be the guy that got the ball rolling and Obama will be the one who stood by and did nothing.

12. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    225   11:38am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   What's so terrible about the Patriot Act? I really am ignorant about it. I just know it's a "boogeyman" for the Left. Sort of like how "socialism" is a boogeyman on the Right.

13. thunderlips11 Follow Befriend (13) 61 threads 2,705 comments Premium

    226   11:39am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike   leoj707 says You say that like you actually believe that the government has not been bought and payed for by the richest 0.1%. Government's been brought by PBS contributors, you know, the ones that sent in $60 to get the tote bag. It's not as innocent as supporting NOVA and Sesame Street like those liberals claim.

14. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,520 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    227   11:40am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   thunderlips11 says leoj707 says You say that like you actually believe that the government has not been bought and payed for by the richest 0.1%. Government's been brought by PBS contributors, you know, the ones that sent in $60 to get the tote bag and support Sesame Street. Homo Economicus. A Legendary Creature, like Bigfoot, claimed to exist by Pseudoscientists. Ah, haha funny.

15. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    228   11:43am Tue 20 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   That's what those pledge drives are for. So ordinary people can buy the government and get a nice tote bag with Big Bird on it. ;-P

16. Kevin Follow Befriend 40 threads 2,652 comments

    229   1:58am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   My only point is that none of the prior administrations had gone to the extreme level of evil that the current and past one did. And I disagree. We've had internment camps, forced relocations, murder of student protestors, you name. it. Yes, I think putting American citizens found on american soil in detention camps and murdering student protestors is worse than putting american citizens found on foreign soil and murdering people with links to terrorist organizations. Therefore, you are incorrect in concluding that this level of evil is necessary to combat terrorism or ensure national security. Your statement is empirically false. I don't believe I drew that conclusion. The conclusion I drew is that any President who is capable of obtaining the office would do it. Kennedy and Eisenhower certainly would not. And as for Carter, not killing innocents hardly makes one a pussy. That's a pretty bold assumption. Circumstances were radically different, and both of those men had plenty of guilt to take to their graves. Then the Constitution shouldn't be suspended during this period of indefinite war. Good thing it hasn't been, then. I certainly believe that we've been stretching the limits of the constitution, but I also don't think it's up to anyone who's not on the Supreme Court to decide what's valid and what isn't. The constitution is only as strong as the will of the people to support it. Gitmo, Different from WWII internment camps in what way? the suspension of Habeas Corpus, The Civil War (and during reconstruction), WWII, and after the Oklahoma City Bombing. government stating that assassination of U.S. citizens is legal are all new in American history. I'll grant that one. They certainly never *said* it before. And there you are wrong. There are no fewer than 1 million Americans who would have done a better and more ethical job than Obama, and that's an extremely conservative estimate. And exactly zero of them have any chance of being President of the United States of America. Except Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Ralph Nadar. And if people voted for these two instead of all the assholes, there would be more people like them in office. Sorry, I should have said "any serious candidate". Nobody who says that they're NOT going to murder "terrorists" will not get elected President. Electing people like Elizabeth Warren and William Black would help a lot too. Not unless you can get a few hundred of them elected. You won't, though, because most Americans support people who want to kill brown folks. And on that, we agree. Well, except that I don't believe "we're" respecting the Constitution on American soil. I don't agree. While there has definitely been a lot of questionable activities (patriot act, wiretapping, etc.) so far I haven't seen anything that is clearly a violation of the constitution. Now, I definitely believe that these activities *should* be a violation of the constitution, but I also believe that the constitution is fundamentally broken and we need a convention.

17. Honest Abe Follow Befriend (41) 91 threads 1,806 comments

    230   7:18am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (2)   Patrick, I don't want to sound like a know it all. I like to learn, read, and expand myeslf. Perhaps thats why I talk about books so often. I know you like to read too. Have you read Liberty Defined, of any of Dr. Ron Pauls books? Just aksin'

18. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,648 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

    231   8:13am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Honest Abe says Patrick, I don't want to sound like a know it all. I like to learn, read, and expand myeslf. Nominated.

19. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,520 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    232   9:30am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says Honest Abe says Patrick, I don't want to sound like a know it all. I like to learn, read, and expand myeslf. Nominated. Ah, ha ha ha, seconded!

20. Honest Abe Follow Befriend (41) 91 threads 1,806 comments

    233   9:52am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   In life there are only successes or lessons.

21. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,520 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    234   10:27am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Honest Abe says In life there are only successes or lessons. Yeah, but Abe based on your comments you are learning all the wrong lessons. Not every lesson leads to "truth".

22. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    235   10:46am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Trestle, is the following a good description of what's really going on?

23. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,520 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    236   11:01am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Trestle Rider says The real truth is that the Teaparty and Occupy are very, very closely aligned in views, but the cavelcade of misinformation seeks to destroy the natural linkage that should have happened. Yes, I agree with a lot of what started the teaparty to begin with... However... They lost me when they got co-opted by FOX "news".

24. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (17) 785 threads 7,962 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

    237   11:36am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Kevin says And I disagree. We've had internment camps, forced relocations, murder of student protestors, you name. it. The Japanese interment camps were bad and so was the Kent State massacre, but there's a big escalation when the government starts to premeditate about who it's going to kill. It's a whole new level of evil not seen since slavery. Kevin says is worse than putting american citizens found on foreign soil and murdering people with links to terrorist organizations. First, don't consider yourself safe because you are on American soil. They can always move you off American soil or just ignore that constraint without legal ramification. Second, everyone including you is linked to a terrorist organization if some bureaucrat decides you are. All it takes for you personally to be consider a terrorist is some asshole in TSA putting your name on a list because he doesn't like you or some idiot making a typo while entering a social security number. Kevin says The conclusion I drew is that any President who is capable of obtaining the office would do it. If that's true, our species is doomed. Kevin says Kennedy and Eisenhower certainly would not. And as for Carter, not killing innocents hardly makes one a pussy. That's a pretty bold assumption. Circumstances were radically different, and both of those men had plenty of guilt to take to their graves. Bolder than concluding that anyone capable of being elected would resort to torture and murder without rule of law? Kennedy and Eisenhower certainly weren't perfect, but they had a sense of ethics. And assassinating U.S. citizens without trial certainly is not consistent with their well-document public lives. Kevin says Then the Constitution shouldn't be suspended during this period of indefinite war. Good thing it hasn't been, then. Only if you accept the ridiculous premise that due process is a meaningless phrase that can be interpreted any way by a government official at his pleasure. Kevin says Gitmo, Different from WWII internment camps in what way? Torture Kevin says the suspension of Habeas Corpus, The Civil War (and during reconstruction), WWII, and after the Oklahoma City Bombing. Your point? Evil has existed in the past. Therefore, we should not attempt to stop evil or at least prevent it from increasing. After all, any harm that isn't unique is not worth fighting. Kevin says government stating that assassination of U.S. citizens is legal are all new in American history. I'll grant that one. They certainly never *said* it before. There's a huge difference in risk between a state in which some government officials break the law and don't get caught and a state where government officials cannot break the law because whatever they do is the law. Kevin says And exactly zero of them have any chance of being President of the United States of America. And you calculated this how? Kevin says Sorry, I should have said "any serious candidate". Nobody who says that they're NOT going to murder "terrorists" will not get elected President. You must think the American public is more cowardly than I do. Sure, 1/3rd of Americans are cowards who shit their pants at the site of a Muslim. But that leaves 2/3rds to vote more rationally. We're not all Republicans. Kevin says Electing people like Elizabeth Warren and William Black would help a lot too. Not unless you can get a few hundred of them elected. You won't, though, because most Americans support people who want to kill brown folks. A single, truly good presidency could change this country for the better as dramatically as the Bush/Obama reign have changed it for the worse. Kevin says And on that, we agree. Well, except that I don't believe "we're" respecting the Constitution on American soil. I don't agree. While there has definitely been a lot of questionable activities (patriot act, wiretapping, etc.) so far I haven't seen anything that is clearly a violation of the constitution. Then you and I have vastly different standards for upholding the Constitution. The warrantless recording of telephone conversations and Internet traffic of tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of U.S. citizens. The arrest of people video recording the police. The illegal mass arrest of hundreds of people for being in the same location. There are plenty of examples. Kevin says I also believe that the constitution is fundamentally broken and we need a convention. On that we agree. The Constitution needs to be rewritten, but not by those in power now. It needs to be modernized to protect the public from all the abuses of government that have come into play over the past 100 years, and particularly over the past 12.

25. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (17) 785 threads 7,962 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

    238   11:36am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (1)   Honest Abe says In life there are only successes or lessons. Which is death?

26. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,520 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    239   11:53am Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan8267 says All it takes for you personally to be consider a terrorist is some asshole in TSA putting your name on a list because he doesn't like you or some idiot making a typo while entering a social security number. Yeah, haven't we already seen this with the no-fly list?

27. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    240   12:26pm Thu 22 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   I think Dan8267 might be a terrorist. ;-)

28. Kevin Follow Befriend 40 threads 2,652 comments

    241   1:06am Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Sorry Dan, you're still not going to convince me that Pre-Bush governments were meaningfully better than post-Bush. I think I provided plenty of evidence that almost all of the evils of the recent administrations are not new, and go all the way back to the founding of the republic. Torture, communication interception, and detention without charge all have a long and rich history. It's absolutely true that these are evil things, but they're not new things, and the simple fact is that they will continue to happen as long as large percentages of the voting public approve of the tactics. When people finally decide that they want their rights back, people who won't do these things will get elected.

29. marcus Follow Befriend (5) 171 threads 5,211 comments

    242   6:54am Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   EJ dione recently wrote about the right wing's irrational feelings about Obama. http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2012/03/04/opinion/doc4f4e7dc2a0ce3998828291.txt

30. Honest Abe Follow Befriend (41) 91 threads 1,806 comments

    243   7:52am Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (3)   Read this, people on both sides of the fence need to be vigilant: http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/ascendence-sociopaths-us-governance?ppref=DLC420ED0312B

31. everything Follow Befriend (2) 3 threads 565 comments Madison, WI

    244   10:03am Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Definitely Abe! It matter not, which side of the coin you vote for, you'll still get the same coin. Liberty and Justice are both teetering on the edge now. I would not decry 50 thousand people who are smart enough to know robotic government jobs make for stable employment though. But yeah, you work for our government, and you learn to keep your mouth shut real quick. Some government employees still have unions, but those are being eradicated as we speak, funny, hitler did that as well. Actually, lol, he talked them all into one union first, then just got rid of the one.

32. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 209 threads 4,511 comments Davis, CA

    245   11:03am Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike (1)   marcus says EJ dione recently wrote about the right wing's irrational feelings about Obama. http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2012/03/04/opinion/doc4f4e7dc2a0ce3998828291.txt I don't see the right-wing as being exceptionally hateful towards Obama. If I harken back to Clinton days when I was a Republican, some pretty vicious attacks and incessant harsh language were around then too. Everything Clinton did was about building a New World Order ending with black helicopters and ATF rounding up the righteous for reeducation camps. I'm ashamed to say I was hoodwinked by this stuff myself. I vividly recall now trying to explain to my misguided "libtard" friends how IMPORTANT it was to impeach Bill Clinton over his blowjob indiscretion, as it symbolized his lying nature and was a real crime because there was lying under oath & coverups going on. Oh for simpler times.... Obama being black and "foreignish" adds a lot of spice and kicks things up a notch or two is all. I'd add to that they are burned about being out of power after so long in power, it don't sit right. Much like Viserys in Game of Thrones the ONLY goal is bringing low The Pretender and the end justifies all means. Viserys Targaryen: "We go home with an army. With Khal Drogo's army. I would let his whole tribe fuck you - all forty thousand men - and their horses too if that's what it took."

33. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 209 threads 4,511 comments Davis, CA

    246   1:27pm Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike (1)   Kingshat says 35 - First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places You left out 36 - Ordered Biden to do a drive-by on my house and killed my children. REVENGE!

34. thomas.wong1986 Follow Befriend 16 threads 4,426 comments

    247   1:46pm Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Kingshat says 6 - The harassment of Gibson Guitars oh! now he did it .. harassing my baby Les Paul Custom.. that will tick off all the metal heads !!!

35. thomas.wong1986 Follow Befriend 16 threads 4,426 comments

    248   1:50pm Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (3)   Kingshat says 13 - America drops to 5th place in GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS You can blame the US public on that one.. they dont want to create US industries and jobs.. they want to occupy it! They also dont want to see wealth creation, they want wealth redistribution.

36. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

    249   2:07pm Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (4)   Dislike   Look, I get it if people want someone new. I have no particular love for Obama's administration. I'm at best indifferent. But a lot of the criticisms of Obama just seem silly to me, like: Kingshat says 2 - G.E sending 36000 Jobs Overseas,(Obama handpicked G.E. CEO to head his Jobs Committee) Right...Obama started that trend. It didn't have anything to do with free trade policies (by BOTH parties) that started long before. Kingshat says 8 - Soaring FOOD and GAS Prices I think Uncle Ben carries more responsibility for that than Obama. Maybe Obama could have picked a new Fed chief? Kingshat says 10 - The Downgrade of America's credit rating ( First time in American history) Fiscal conservatism is dead in both parties. Both parties buy votes. Bush bought the senior citizen vote with Medicare D. Kingshat says 11 - First time in American history over 42 MILLION Americans are living in poverty Kingshat says 14 - Over 400,000 small businesses closing every year under Obama Kingshat says 16 - No Summer Recovery 2009, 2010, 2011 Kingshat says 19 - Enabled the LARGEST number of HOME FORECLOSURES 20 - Turn America into the LARGEST FOOD STAMP NATION Kingshat says 23 - Created OVER 25 million UNEMPLOYED All of that stuff is thanks to the collapse of a massive housing bubble both here and in abroad. That happened before his watch. I blame cheap money from the Fed combined with banking deregulation (securitizing toxic mortgages) more than I blame Obama (or Bush for that matter).

37. Nomograph Follow Befriend (1) 104 threads 2,851 comments

    250   4:18pm Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (4)   Dislike   Kingshat says 35 Reasons to Vote OUT the Obama Regime ..... YOU FORGOT THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE. WHARES THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE OBAMA

38. simchaland Follow Befriend (6) 10 threads 1,234 comments Oakland, CA

    251   4:55pm Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike   36. He's a secret Muslim 37. He's a damn Kenyan! Tell it like it isn't!

39. thomas.wong1986 Follow Befriend 16 threads 4,426 comments

    252   8:10pm Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   wthrfrk80 says 2 - G.E sending 36000 Jobs Overseas,(Obama handpicked G.E. CEO to head his Jobs Committee) Right...Obama started that trend. It didn't have anything to do with free trade policies (by BOTH parties) that started long before. Change that wasnt Change.. seems he has no change in mind. Fact is, even with Jeff Emelt on board, he had 3 years to implement a US Manufacturing Inititive to attract these job back... but no! he wrote those jobs off and sunk billions into bancrupt solution -- new industries in Clean and Green Tech, which is the Democratic party agenda... which as we see today in Solar is now dominated by China. Failed at both!

40. thomas.wong1986 Follow Befriend 16 threads 4,426 comments

    253   8:16pm Fri 23 Mar 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (2)   wthrfrk80 says 23 - Created OVER 25 million UNEMPLOYED All of that stuff is thanks to the collapse of a massive housing bubble both here and in abroad. That happened before his watch. I blame cheap money from the Fed combined with banking deregulation (securitizing toxic mortgages) more than I blame Obama (or Bush for that matter). Try to explain.. to the regular families from 2000 to 2006 and even today ... HOME PRICES are too high and in a bubble... Why were they overbidding and going bonkers on home prices, gambling like it was Vegas.. Has anything today changed if your blaming it all on mortgages...

« First     « Previous comments     Next comments »     Last »