The First Obama Term

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The First Obama Term

He'll be assassinated before he takes office.
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He'll be assinated in office.
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14%
He really is the anti-christ and we're all going to die.
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21%
His Presidency will be a failure of Jimmy Carter Proportions.
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14%
His Presidency will be seen by history as mediocre.
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36%
His Presidency will be seen as a success of Reagan proportions.
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14%
He really is the second coming of Christ and GORDON is screwed.
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Dinner with "Barack and Michelle"

Posted on FB by a friend.

FB is kind of depressing sometimes. I pretty much have two camps of "friends": yuppie white urban liberals and rural jesus freaks.
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approximate retail value of all prizes $4,800

Really? For two plane tickets, a night in a hotel and a dinner?
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Post by GORDON »

Does one have to pay taxes for that "prize?"
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Post by Leisher »

Obama gets booed in Boston, MSN spins it.

I realize he was kidding, and all, but fuck me. I wonder if was tough to type that article with Obama's dick in the writer's mouth.
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The Supreme Court has struck down the individual mandate for health care.
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Wait... now im reading this
The individual mandate survives as a tax.
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The bottom line: the entire ACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government's power to terminate states' Medicaid funds is narrowly read.
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Chief Justice Roberts' vote saved the ACA.
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This is our current politicians taking a steaming shit in the mouths of our founding fathers.

A huge win for all the lazy fucks living in this country who want everything handed to them.

It will be interesting to see the fallout from this ruling. The right is going to be livid, and I guarantee you that you'll see record numbers from them at the polls in November.

Also, a majority of American citizens, 51-76% depending on which poll, wanted the ACA repealed. A lot of folks are going to feel like their government doesn't serve them anymore, but rather rules them.

I just don't understand how anyone can defend Obama's presidency. It's been a disaster. Economy is the toilet? Use the Obama plan:
-Raise taxes on the folks who already pay the most in taxes. Make sure you use PR to make these people seem evil. Completely ignore the fact that these people create the most jobs.
-Raise costs and taxes on private industry.
-Hire more government workers.
-Increase government spending to record levels.
-Increase handouts to the people.
-Model your government on the European governments. You know, the ones that are all going bankrupt...

I can't wait until we have the ask China to bail us out.




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Yeah, we're on our way to Italy.
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Post by GORDON »

Obama: it isn't a tax.

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Roberts: it is legal because it is a tax.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote about the individual mandate, citing the taxing clause:

“It is reasonable to construe what Congress has done as increasing taxes on those who have a certain amount of income, but choose to go without insurance. Such legislation is within Congress’ power to tax."
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TheCatt wrote:Yeah, we're on our way to Italy.
Greece?
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I wonder how many senators who voted for that piece of shit... who thought there was no way in hell the Supreme Court would let it stand... are now shitting themselves because now they have to own it.
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Just buying more votes, why would they care?
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Post by GORDON »

Because this could end up being a disaster.

The problem with the health care industry is the health "insurance" providers. Obamacare props up and increases what is wrong. This could be bad.

Then, there is going to be a massive cost to most citizens, either through their existing premiums rising to cover 25 year old children, or people like me who don't have insurance because they can't justify the expense vs. the risk ($500/month when you don't get it through an employer), or small business owners, or whatever.

This is a massive, massive across-the-board tax. Last I looked the debt was already at 104% of our GDP.... this has the makings of a disaster.
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DNC: It's constitutional, bitches.



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Fuck the socialist agenda, i'm moving to <s>Canada</s> Mexico.



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Post by Leisher »

Facebook is oddly quiet regarding the decision.

The lefties I know aren't celebrating, and the right wing nuts aren't declaring war.

I just see subtle posts about anger.

If the Republicans take the White House and get control of Congress, this ruling is going to be a big reason why.
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Mine's been pretty quiet about it, too. A few "Yay!"s
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Post by TPRJones »

GORDON wrote:The problem with the health care industry is the health "insurance" providers. Obamacare props up and increases what is wrong.
So far his entire administration has been about exactly that, propping up the failures so they can keep failing. See google results for "bailouts" for further examples.
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