The First Obama Term

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:25 pm

TPRJones wrote:whut?

Julius Caesar.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:45 pm

Let's spend more. To quote Jon Lovitz, "Yeah, that's the ticket."

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:47 pm

If you REALLY want to help people, give them tools that generate wealth. Give them a good education, one that fucking matters. Make science and technology majors FREE rides at public universities. Fuck liberal arts majors.

(Ed note: I was a liberal arts major, but mine was the only liberal arts major that was in the top 5 starting salaries)

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:57 pm

TheCatt wrote:If you REALLY want to help people, give them tools that generate wealth. Give them a good education, one that fucking matters. Make science and technology majors FREE rides at public universities. Fuck liberal arts majors.

Some people are just not helpable.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:19 pm

Uh, yeah.

President Obama promised American Indian leaders that he would reverse years of neglect ...

Uh, how? He's planning to give back all the land we took?

"Today's summit is not lip service," Obama said Thursday in remarks opening a daylong tribal conference in Washington. "I get it. I'm on your side. I understand what it means to be an outsider.

I got a buddy of mine whose personal history seems to change depending upon the conversation at hand.

If he's talking to someone who had a large family, then he relates tales of his dozen or so stepsisters/stepbrothers/cousins he grew up w\. If he's around someone's whose an only child, his story miraculously changes to, "Yeah, I know what it's like to grow up without any siblings." There're words for that -- pandering, patronizing, & condescension.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:35 pm

How about "bullshit?"

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:51 am

China has spoken... now Obama will think about reducing spending.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33910089/ns/politics-white_house/

China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities, has expressed concern about the size of U.S. deficits. U.S. policymakers worry that alarm over deficits could push foreigners into cutting back on their purchases of Treasury debt.

Thanks, China!

If you recall, the lack of ID verification on Obama's campaign contribution website allowed anyone in the world to donate to his campaign.

Edited By GORDON on 1258206755

Post by **thibodeaux** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:03 pm

Incompetence or perfidy?

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:57 pm

From the way I understand it, the site accepts whatever the recipients give it. Call it bad programming for allowing free entry where it should limit it to things that actually exist, call it bad planning by giving money to people that are stupid, either way I'm betting simple incompetence on this one.

For now.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:28 pm

And I'm sure the money is given right back when errors are found in the donation process. Perfidy.

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:08 pm

SNL is ripping Obama pretty hard, now.

Honeymoon's over.

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Post by **thibodeaux** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:34 pm

Ouch.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:57 pm

Watched that full episode. They sure let Al Gore pimp the shit out of his new book and gave him the podium for a few to lecture us all on global warming.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:31 pm

Maybe they'll make fun of him next week, now that the fraud has been revealed.

Post by **Leisher** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:05 pm

This article was front page on Yahoo this morning.

Another one run over the weekend was extremely critical of Obama's presidency thus far and was front page on Yahoo for the better part of the day. (I forget which day.)

This is stunning for Yahoo who has a habit of running left leaning articles, and quickly removing anything that could paint Dems badly.

Post by **Leisher** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:24 am

Obama committed to beginning withdrawal of troops in 2011.

I just love that headline. It's so re-election oriented.

It might as well say, "Obama pledges to make it look like he's ending things in Afghanistan prior to the next election."

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:57 pm

AIG gets another hundred billion or so. $182 billion, actually. But it's all good ...

Geithner said taxpayers could recover the cost of the AIG bailout if lawmakers support an Obama administration proposal that would impose a $90 billion fee over ten years on financial institutions.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:05 pm

Obama backs ... nuclear power?

$20 says this is a bargaining chip.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:10 pm

even Greenpeace has admitted they really screwed up by opposing nuclear power.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:18 pm

Obama wants warrentless cell phone tracking.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html

...the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts.

Unlike Bush's warrantless wiretapping on incoming/outgoing overseas calls that sent the left into an uproar, this actually bothers me. They can't even begin to pretend this is aimed at foreigners. This is straight-up tracking of American citizens.