The First Obama Term

Post by **Leisher** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:09 am

I'm too lazy to look it up, but someone here predicted this tactic:
Disagreeing with Lord Obama makes you racist.

You'd think that the worst president in history wouldn't be anxious to defend the guy that's on pace to take his title.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:12 pm

Carter, a Democrat, said Joe Wilson's outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders.

Where the fuck were you four years ago?

& Carter's not the worst prez in history. Maybe top 10. He is proving to be an extraordinarily ignorant ass, though.

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Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:16 pm

Sooo tired of the race card.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:32 pm

Obama throws away eastern European missile shield, tells Poland to go fuck themselves, 70 years to the day after the Soviet Union took them over.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion....-russia

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:27 pm

I'm beginning to think that the reason the rest of the world likes Obama so much is the same reason frat boys invite stupid college freshmen females to their keggers.

Easy target.

DoctorChaos · Post by **DoctorChaos** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:52 pm

And Bush was said to have ruined US relations with the rest of the world.

What a jackass.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:19 am

DoctorChaos wrote:And Bush was said to have ruined US relations with the rest of the world.

What a jackass.

He had the diplomatic finesse & rhetoric skills of an anvil. On the other hand, a walking vagina isn't any better.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:46 am

I guess the question is: is it better to be a dick, an asshole, or a pussy?

Post by **Leisher** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:57 am

We simply went from one extreme to the other.

We had the cowboy who said things needed to be done his way, and if you don't like it, then get out of our way.

Now we've got the equivalent of a pathetic girl in high school who's willing to sleep with anyone just so that people like her.

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DoctorChaos · Post by **DoctorChaos** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:17 pm

How is throwing Poland under a bus pleasing everyone?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:39 pm

DoctorChaos wrote:How is throwing Poland under a bus pleasing everyone?

It's getting Russia off our back so they'll be more apt to throw in w\ us on bitchslapping Iran & N. Korea, which will in turn go a long way towards getting China off our backs over the same issues.

Fucking U.N. security council veto power.

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Post by **Leisher** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:11 pm

Poland is in the AV Club. Sure, they're a good friend, but you can shit on them, and they'll take it because they're happy to just have a friend.

Russia is a cool kid who doesn't give a shit if you're friends or not.

And what Malcolm said about making them happy to get their backing on the security council is valid.

International diplomacy was not Bush's strong point, but again, that doesn't make Obama awesome at it by default.

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:34 pm

Ten points to whomever can find where, in these forums, I said Obama would be bailing out newspapers.

It may have even been in this thread.

http://thehill.com/blogs....-bill?h

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:47 am

Obama said that good journalism is "critical to the health of our democracy,"

Then why is he bailing out the newspapers?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:14 am

TPRJones wrote:
Obama said that good journalism is "critical to the health of our democracy,"
Then why is he bailing out the newspapers?

Following that, he said ...

"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said.

You're concerned that online news outlets don't fact check? That media may degenerate into one meaningless soundbyte after another? Yeah, that'll be a shitty day when that happens.

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:18 am

Hmmm, I thought most newspapers were already non-profits.

*groan*

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:05 pm

If you've lost Big Bird, you've lost middle America.

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Post by **TPRJones** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:34 pm

So, should we delete this thread to protect the two people who selected the second answer to this poll up above? Before the feds come and take them away like they did with the Facebook poll?

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:51 pm

I dunno, I'm guessing the feds are still trying to figure out what assinated means.

Post by **Leisher** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:03 pm

Interesting clip from Conan.

Do they reflect his views or are they going after the older, more conservative leaning audience that they've lost since Leno left?