Journal Shakrai's Journal: OMG, I agree with Karl Rove, that can't be good..... 10
This bit kinda sums up in a nutshell why I'm bitter: Mr. Obama has not governed as the centrist, deficit-fighting, bipartisan consensus builder he promised to be. And his promise to embody a new kind of politicsâ"free of finger-pointing, pettiness and spinâ"was a mirage. He has cheapened his office with needless attacks on his predecessor.
Another interesting point: For example, he voted for the bank rescue plan in September 2008 and praised it during the campaign. Yet on Dec. 8 at the Brookings Institution, Mr. Obama called it "flawed" and blamed "the last administration" for launching it "hastily."
Oey vey
Change we can believe in? (Score:2)
Wasn't that the promise. So what exactly has changed, how can we believe in it, and how is it different from what Bush did?
Now Obama didn't start a lot of these things, but he has kept things the same as Bush had them:
Keeping the Iraq and Afghanistan wars going after promising to bring the troops back home after six months in office.
Keeping GITMO open and delaying any trials of terrorist suspects. After promising to close GITMO down in six months of office.
Keeping the brain-dead economic stimulus deficit sp
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Keeping the Iraq and Afghanistan wars going after promising to bring the troops back home after six months in office.
In fairness, he never said anything that I heard that suggested he wanted to leave Afghanistan. He was always upfront about supporting that war.
Keeping GITMO open and delaying any trials of terrorist suspects. After promising to close GITMO down in six months of office.
I honestly don't see the improvement in bringing people to American soil if we can't try them. They've all but admitted that there will be certain people that we can't try but will still hold. Now I don't happen to have a problem with that (enemy combatants are traditionally held until the end of hostilities) but I fail to see what we gain by holding people inde
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Why do you complain about Reagan's 8th term?
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Heh. Nixon - for all his evils - kicked against the pricks. He was enmeshed in the crap that his CIA director wove around, and around, since "the whole bay-of-pigs thing" that went down in Dallas.
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when elected turned his agenda over to Nancy Pelosi and ran to the far-left
Do you have an example of something that was actually done by the Obama administration that supports that idea? I for one would love to see some "far-left" ideas pushed through, but I am not aware of any that have made it to policy or even policy vote yet.
He's every bit the ideologue Bush was, just in the opposite direction
How can he be "in the opposite direction" of Bush, when he keeps supporting Bush policies?
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Do you have an example of something that was actually done by the Obama administration that supports that idea? I for one would love to see some "far-left" ideas pushed through, but I am not aware of any that have made it to policy or even policy vote yet.
How about the $787,000,000,000 "stimulus" bill that was about 10% stimulus and 90% pork barrel spending? They could have had GOP votes on that if they had included some more direct stimulus.
How about the cap and trade bill that was muscled through the House?
How about the health care "reform" bill that was drafted behind closed doors without any meaningful input from the minority party and which is so extreme that they can't even convince the moderates in their own party to support it?
How about the flagr
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How about the $787,000,000,000 "stimulus" bill that was about 10% stimulus and 90% pork barrel spending?
That is a judgement call. Some people would call it pork because there were plenty of district-specific projects in there. However, those projects did stimulate the economy, they spent money, they put people to work. Even if many of the projects were short-terms and only got a certain number of people back to work, they did give people useful work to do and paid them for that work. If you call that pork then there isn't much that goes through congress that isn't pork.
How about the cap and trade bill that was muscled through the House?
I presume you mean The American Cl [wikipedia.org]
spin and distortion (Score:1)
I notice Mr. Rove did not have the balls to quote George W. Bush.
Sure, I wish the fscked up situation we were in was fixed already, but believe me, Mr. Rove and his buddies had a long time to fsck it up this bad, and it has always been a lot easier to fsck up things than to set them straight. Especially when you use a virtual dictatorship to do your deeds, and leave the shit to the reformer stuck with a recalcitrant Republican monolith of shame.
So, how does Obama's first year ratings compare with Bush's la
Chicago (Score:1)
A stereotypical Chicago machine politician, who got groomed and anointed and appointed to the position (always follow the leads and recommendations of your betters in the main stream media, they know what is good for you) because he has good TV face and is controllable, probably several ways controllable, does what he is told to do.... So far, he has lived up to all my pre-election expectations.
The previous crook in chief...semi retarded violence prone son of the ex secret police chief and dictator...about