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red states rule
10-20-2011, 03:17 AM
Talk about the height of arrogance




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I guarantee it's going to be a close election because the economy is not where it wants to be and even though I believe all the choices we've made have been the right ones, we're still going through difficult circumstances. That means people who may be sympathetic to my point of view still kind of feel like, yeah, but it still hasn't gotten done yet. This is going to be a close election and a very important one for the American people. The thing I hope the most is that everyone is going to be paying close attention to the debate that takes place because it could determine not just what happens over the next four years, but what'll happen over the next 20 or 30 years.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/transcript-abc-news-jake-tappers-exclusive-interview-president/story?id=14764446&singlePage=true




Remember the outrage from the left and liberal media when Pres Bush said he could not think of mistake he made in his first term?

Here are some of the choices Obama has made that have turned out to be wrong. The list is VERY long




The choice to appoint multiple tax cheats (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4908247-503544.html) to your cabinet, including your current Treasury Secretary?

The choice to keep insisting on (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/20/ap/politics/main20109066.shtml) closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, even though the public opposes this prospect -- which was repeatedly blocked by a Democratic Congress?

The choice to throw a lavish birthday party (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/08/05/unreal_the_obama_conga) for yourself, replete with a barefoot Conga line through the White House, as the threat of a national credit downgrade cast a shadow over the country.

The choice to file a lawsuit (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/justice-department-file-suit-arizona-early-tuesday/) against Arizona's law that authorizes state and local officials to help the federal government fulfill its woefully unfulfilled responsibilities -- and that your Attorney General admitted he'd never read (http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0510/Holder_hasnt_read_Ariz_immigration_bill.html), even as he publicly denounced it.

The choice to include two provisions -- 1099 reform (http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/taxes-and-fees/156171-obama-lifts-1099-business-reporting-burden) and the CLASS Act (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/17/incoherence_obama_issues_veto_threat_on_class_act_ repeal) -- in your unpopular healthcare bill that are so unaffordable and unworkable that your own administration has since abandoned them.

The choice of your Justice Department to file a lawsuit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVonk_OqEUU) to overturn a small North Carolina town's democratically-enacted decision to eliminate party identifications from municipal election ballots, arguing that African-Americans need "D" and "R" labels to determine whom to support.

The choice to sell your failed $800 Billion "stimulus" package as a means to spur "shovel ready" projects -- projects you later joked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVonk_OqEUU) weren't quite so shovel ready after all.
The choice to appoint a self-described "Communist" who signed a 9/11 Truther petition (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/controversial-obama-administration-official-denies-being-part-of-911-truther-movement-apologizes-for/) as your "Green Jobs Czar."

The choice to bow to union demands and cancel a successful inner-city school choice program (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/03/30/house_to_vote_on_dc_school_vouchers_program_today_-_update_bill_passes), despite its soaring graduation rates, improved reading scores, cost effectiveness, and overwhelming parental satisfaction.

The choice to alienate our greatest ally -- Great Britain -- by rudely disposing of (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html) a Winston Churchill bust, bestowing the Queen with an iPod filled with your own speeches (http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/01/confirmed-queens-ipod-includes-obamas-speeches/), giving the former Prime Minister a gift that literally did not work (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-03-06/news/17918273_1_mr-obama-prime-minister-brown-michelle-obama) on his own soil, and signaling neutrality (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100027397/et-tu-barack-america-betrays-britain-in-her-hour-of-need/)over the Falkland Islands.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/19/obama_all_the_choices_weve_made_have_been_the_righ t_ones

DragonStryk72
10-20-2011, 04:34 AM
Well, bush thought he was 100% in the right, too. I think that's one of the main problems of the past decade, is that our leaders are so busy trying to look like they don't make mistakes, they're completely ignoring anyone that points out they fucked up in the first place.

Noir
10-20-2011, 05:59 AM
Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Personally I'd rather he said he'd made mistakes, but given the age we live in its much more likey to get 'no mistake' answers.

ConHog
10-20-2011, 08:25 AM
Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Personally I'd rather he said he'd made mistakes, but given the age we live in its much more likey to get 'no mistake' answers.


Ummm no Noir, because once again this is a case where Obama was supposed to give us change, but he hasn't instead he's just a different dude in the same suit.

Noir
10-20-2011, 08:30 AM
Ummm no Noir, because once again this is a case where Obama was supposed to give us change, but he hasn't instead he's just a different dude in the same suit.

Every politician campaigns for "change". No doubt the words on the next Presidential campaigns will again be, er, change.

DragonStryk72
10-20-2011, 12:05 PM
Every politician campaigns for "change". No doubt the words on the next Presidential campaigns will again be, er, change.

Look, if Obama had started lowering the national debt, or at least stabilized the economy, we aren't so jaded we wouldn't give him credit for it, but really, he hasn't accomplished much of anything, but still gets up there like he's a rockstar. It's sort of like Clinton, for the most part people acknowledge that on economics, he was pretty good. He was also, well, a slick lawyer, but he never once tried to hide that fact.

logroller
10-20-2011, 12:31 PM
Look, if Obama had started lowering the national debt, or at least stabilized the economy, we aren't so jaded we wouldn't give him credit for it, but really, he hasn't accomplished much of anything, but still gets up there like he's a rockstar. It's sort of like Clinton, for the most part people acknowledge that on economics, he was pretty good. He was also, well, a slick lawyer, but he never once tried to hide that fact.

Doesn't "slick lawyer" suggest they have, actually, tried to hide facts.


http://youtu.be/YSDAXGXGiEw

Ahhhh, right--- "sexual relations". :winkwink: Bill Clinton--slicker'n a well-moistened cigar perhaps--but not a stained dress.

DragonStryk72
10-20-2011, 12:42 PM
Doesn't "slick lawyer" suggest they have, actually, tried to hide facts.


http://youtu.be/YSDAXGXGiEw

Ahhhh, right--- "sexual relations". :winkwink: Bill Clinton--slicker'n a well-moistened cigar perhaps--but not a stained dress.

Um, I never said he tried to hide facts in general, I said he didn't try to hide the fact he was a slick lawyer. We knew that when we hired him.

logroller
10-20-2011, 05:02 PM
Um, I never said he tried to hide facts in general, I said he didn't try to hide the fact he was a slick lawyer. We knew that when we hired him.

Like the scorpion and the frog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog).


...a scorpion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion) asking a frog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog) to carry him across a river. The frog is afraid of being stung during the trip, but the scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, the frog would sink and the scorpion would drown. The frog agrees and begins carrying the scorpion, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When asked why, the scorpion points out that this is its nature.

red states rule
10-21-2011, 02:42 AM
Well, bush thought he was 100% in the right, too. I think that's one of the main problems of the past decade, is that our leaders are so busy trying to look like they don't make mistakes, they're completely ignoring anyone that points out they fucked up in the first place.

and I pointed out Bush's refusal to admit what he would have done differently. I also recall the liberal media's reaction to that refusal

Now they sing a different tune when Obama does the same thing

Of course, Obama could have made all the right choices if he would not have decidied NOT to run for President