george bush billboard says: miss me yet?

[Sleazy]

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i'm not the most informed person on politics but it seems absurd that
obama shouldn't mention bush when talking about the war/economy.
i also think its bullshit how bush hasn't been public since he left office.
he got us into the war and then just disappears.
give obama a break. if he is really as malicious and awful as the media is
portraying him to be then we will be able to come to that conclusion at the end of his term.
reserve judgment for once and play it by ear.

[close]

Which media is portraying him as evil? It seems like most of them are still supportive with the exception of Fox News of course.

guess you didn't see this smear job

[Beeda Weeda]

I'm not american so my opinion isn't really valid, but it seeems like Obama walked into a really shitty situation. War, worst economy in years, bad international image ect.
Obama should have had all W's fuck ups fixed in at least 3 months.

[russ]

This country is a sinking ship. He's not fixing shit because there's no point! Obama just wants to go down as the cool ass dude smoking Newports up in the white house. He got into the history books now he can just chill.

[Sleazy]

he's been busting his ass on pretty much every promise he made on the campagine trail. he actually hits the road and trys to sell his ideas to the public after being ellected.

he's definitely not lazy and he's definitely trying really hard.

[IPODS SUCK!]

^Not to mention that when Reagan took over and the country fell into a recession that actually had higher unemployment than our current recession two years into him being in office he blamed Carter, and when Bush jr. Got into office the country also fell into recession shortly after he became president he blamed Clinton. To say that Obama is doing anything new or uncommon by blaming his predecessor for the recession that existed for nearly a year before he got elected is ridiculous.
What the fuck are you guys talking about "he needs to stop blaming Bush?"
What problem that we have right now ISN'T Bush's fault?
Nobody misses George W. Bush, at all. My problem with Obama is that he hasn't broken with Bush enough. I think that is a lot of people's problems. Bush let the corporations run wild, and we got fucked for it, I would NEVER want to go back to loosening restrictions on them like that. Also, he brought us into two wars without even really planning them out at all, one of which he didn't even have a reason to go into in the first place. The problem with Obama is that he hasn't tightened things enough, the regulations aren't coming back, and the withdrawls of troops are happening slowly. He's unpopular because no matter what he does the Republicans will hate him, and he hasn't really done enough to please his base. Granted, he has been cockblocked by the most obstructionist Senate minority in history.
I would be willing to bet that groups like the RNC are probably against this billboard, which was put up anonymously. The last thing they want in potential Republican voters minds is a return to George W. Bush. Nothing will EVER clean his record. The man is human scum and was literally booed by the masses as he left office. The Republicans have been doing everything they can to rebuild their image and cleanse themselves of his legacy since he left office.

Also, to the person who said the healthcare bill sounded bad, what exactly sounded so bad about creating regulations to give consumers power over their health insurance companies? Phew! We dodged a bullet there! Healthcare companies were going to actually have to deliver what they say and limit the amount of profits that they make off of people! Seriously, I don't understand how people got led in such a backward way by corporate interests. There is no logical reason to be against this bill as a consumer of healthcare. The kid who posted that he was against it said he didn't know much about politics or this bill, but heard it was bad. What a fucking pawn. You Bush-voting, get-them-wepons-of-mass-destruction, "didn't Saddam cause 9/11" dipshits are the ones fucking up by just accepting political agendas that are harmful to normal people and helpful to corporate interests who exploit them without even really knowing what you are accepting or opposing. It repeats over and over and over again. How the fuck is the highly impoverished south still so solidly Republican? They are either suckers or genuinely very racist and still angry about the civil rights bill. I just don't understand how fucking stupid Americans can be. Feed 'em till their fat and they'll let you do anything to you.

spot on Gipper.

[grimcity]

...and Republicans on the Hill have proven that they are indeed obstructionist asswipes.

They're blocking amendments that THEY AUTHORED as well as blocking all presidential appointments for reasons that have absofuckinothing  to do with the positions or people... Blue Dog Dems suck, but the Republicans are going apeshit trying to out tard each other.

Note to Sarah Palin: I typed "tard" the same way limbaugh said it, not the way Rahm Emanuel did. Please don't send any angry old white men to teabag me.

[cops keep firing]

lets get serious.
when george bush went into his first term, he had a budget surplus and a nation at peace.

obama inherited a seemingly pointless war and one of the worse budget deficits in this history.

nothing is more irritating then having people mouth off about how he didn't solve all the problems overnight.
we are talking about 8 years of madness and sending the country down the shitter and obama is supposed to fix all
everything in a fiscal year?

really?

[mcpeepants]

lets get serious.
when george bush went into his first term, he had a budget surplus and a nation at peace.

obama inherited a seemingly pointless war and one of the worse budget deficits in this history.

nothing is more irritating then having people mouth off about how he didn't solve all the problems overnight.
we are talking about 8 years of madness and sending the country down the shitter and obama is supposed to fix all
everything in a fiscal year?

really?

To repeat myself, nobody in this thread said anything about things getting better in a year. except for you and others that brought it up.

[Sleazy]

then what's the problem with his preformance so far?

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

^ Soshulizm!

[Donkey Lips]

this is why i have a drinking problem.

[Donkey Lips]

nah i'm only kidding.  i would've had one anyway.

[Epic]

 Obama is as stupid as every other nimrod president.  All these hardcore MSNBC liberals jizz in their pants if the man blows his nose.  His state of the Union address was one of the biggest wastes of air time in US history.  He just said a bunch of really good ideas that he said on the campaign trail.  Not only has he spent more money than anyother president ever has in a matter of alittle over a year, he has broken many, many, many promises he made on the campaign trail.  He promised open transparent politics......hasnt happened yet.  If anything politics is now more shady.  He promised that every american could go on the internet and read the bills before he signed them so people would know what they were getting.....well that didnt happen.  He promised no jobs or favors for his lobbyists.  Well he has made over 2 dozen exeptions for those men and women who helped him.  No earmark reform, No troops home in 16 months, no Gitmo closing, no renewable energy jobs, bipartison my asshole, no stem cell research reverse.  Fuck this dude and our government in general.  Its been shady since the beginning and will continue to be shady until the day this country is gone.

[grimcity]

Epic, I feel you on some stuff, but on some other stuff you're off base. I can hit this back point by point later on, but starting with the last thing first... Obama ended the stem cell research ban practically when he started office, he's as bi-fucking-partisan as any President we've ever had (I think you might want to look at the Senate when it comes to partisan hacks), he's RIGHT NOW trying to get a jobs bill passed that includes the clean energy sector, and he's called for earmark reform just a few months ago... but he can't just stop earmarks because that shit happens in the House, separation of powers doesn't allow him to change Congress.

Your comment about the money he's spent in a year was something he covered himself when educating the congressional Republicans just a couple of weeks ago. Where are you getting your news?

[Livin The Psychedelic Lif]

FOX news informs the daily happenings

[Sleazy]

oh no you didn't just question fox's integrity

[Inanimate Object]

Thank you Gipper and grim for being generally knowledgeable gentlemen in this thread.

Something I've been considering recently is that Obama's approval fluctuations are primarily a product of a media-created narrative, as opposed to a reflection of people's long term thoughts on Obama's presidency.  It seems as though discussions about Obama's performance frequently contain loaded questions like "is he doing enough, is he pleasing his base, is he delivering on his campaign promises", with the implicit statement in this questions being "he's not."  And clearly that's not the case, but it creates a situation in which a journalistic echo chamber can then respond to these assertions, under the guise of serious political debate.  A lot of you that are saying "I don't know much about politics but I this is what I've heard" are just reiterating the broad themes in these media narratives.

There are people that are genuinely displeased with Obama's performance whose opinions won't be swayed once the media narrative changes to "things are okay!" during his second term, but these people are tards.  The same type of tards that would blindly wish for the Bush years because back then the president was white and there was no media narrative about socialism or the president not being white.

[MFS]

Real talk

[TheFreshSC]

how can an inanimate object be so politically well-informed? wacky!

[danker]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8503348.stm

The first national convention of the Tea Party movement drew around 600 people from all walks of life.

Workshops included "US Govt Bankruptcy - Facts for Citizens Who Don't Have Finance Degrees" and seminars such as "Comparisons between the current administration and the Marxist dictators of Latin America".

Many participants, like Christine and her friend Gail Dorody, a truck driver from Charade, Illinois, have never been involved in politics before.

[Beer Keg Peg Leg]

The world is fucked because the majority of people will always be regular.

[rawbertson.]

hi hater

[grimcity]

The first national convention of the Tea Party movement drew around 600 people from all walks of life.

She was paid $100,000 to talk to 600 people.

This little movement is dumb.

[Sleazy]

i just had a conversation with a polish programmer that i work with and he was telling me how he has seen obama's game before and that he is infact a communist. i'm actually really stoked on this guy. it's going to be good fun talking politics with him and i'm not being sarcastic. he really enjoys explaining his case and i really enjoy scrutinizing it. it's like a slap politics thread without the penises.

great, when i googled to figure out the plural of penis, got a huge image along with the definition.

[cops keep firing]

would anyone care to comment on our health care vs. canada's?
and is obama moving in the right direction with the health care bill?

[Sleazy]

reform of healthcare part of it seems good (no more preexisting, ect...) but the lack of a public option is bad IMO. i think if they wanted to scrap anything they should scrap the whole "everyone is covered" angle instead of public option. for some reason the dems are being big vagina's even when they had a super majority.

[odp]

oftentimes i wonder if our current president was allowed to have been elected by the powers that be, the corporate plutocracy that has continued to plunder the coffers of this nation, so that he and the party, along with any mainstream hope for political and social change will be forcibly thrown by and to the wolves of the national sewer system, bringing to the table during the next election cycle a sweeping acceptance of and openess in viewing and living with a major right wing political system in this country. The nightmarish notion of working class anti-intellectualism has already become the backbone, as viewed by the American public at large, of the the increasingly right wing republican party, and the planned failures set forth through the current president of Hope, the Constitutional scholar and world citizen, could very much and are apparently already being utilized by the right as a means to demonize the future of intelligent leaders of man in this nation that is growing divided more and more everyday.

[weedpop]

Fuck this shit. I'm going back to the "how big is your tv" thread.

[cherry]

The poor class, the lower income classes, the middle class, the suburban class, the rich and even the lawmakers themselves all look to the government for help, in almost every aspect of their lives. By government I mean federal.states look to the federal government. there are also a lot of federal operated agencies that directly effect our lives that state government has no control of. the food and drug administration(not saying it is a bad thing) is one of these. In return, the federal government looks to the many things that make up our economy so they can keep everything running on a federal level.

Unfortunately we are a country that is dictated by the market.  major corporations(which dictate the market) make up the majority of our economy. They don't think in the interest of anyone but themselves. This is actually why we are fucked as a country. Politics are a joke; republican or democrat it doesn't matter it is basically a disillusion. The president doesn't have enough control to really change anything domestically. Real change can only come by all the classes uniting in idea and then kicking the shit out of state reps. to do something about it.

Look at anytime in history in which real reform has occurred in this country. It was never because of a law maker, all they do is enforce and make laws with hidden agendas and 30 page clauses/terms of agreement. Real "change" happened because people just had enough shit and did something about it. Everyone is so fucking caught up in their own little selfish worlds and brain washed by tv to think about anyone else though. It's just work/school; party/deal with kids(actually taking care of kids is to much work); watch TV/ face book or youtube; masturbation.



Note: i will try not to ramble again but noone even looks atthe what ever section so it's whatever. the slashes determine which stage you are at in your life.   some people go to work and school, some people deal with kids and party, i understand this just go along with it, youre going to forget this post in a half of an hour anyway.

[odp]

The poor class, the lower income classes, the middle class, the suburban class, the rich and even the lawmakers themselves all look to the government for help, in almost every aspect of their lives. By government I mean federal.states look to the federal government. there are also a lot of federal operated agencies that directly effect our lives that state government has no control of. the food and drug administration(not saying it is a bad thing) is one of these. In return, the federal government looks to the many things that make up our economy so they can keep everything running on a federal level.

Unfortunately we are a country that is dictated by the market.  major corporations(which dictate the market) make up the majority of our economy. They don't think in the interest of anyone but themselves. This is actually why we are fucked as a country. Politics are a joke; republican or democrat it doesn't matter it is basically a disillusion. The president doesn't have enough control to really change anything domestically. Real change can only come by all the classes uniting in idea and then kicking the shit out of state reps. to do something about it.

Look at anytime in history in which real reform has occurred in this country. It was never because of a law maker, all they do is enforce and make laws with hidden agendas and 30 page clauses/terms of agreement. Real "change" happened because people just had enough shit and did something about it. Everyone is so fucking caught up in their own little selfish worlds and brain washed by tv to think about anyone else though. It's just work/school; party/deal with kids(actually taking care of kids is to much work); watch TV/ face book or youtube; masturbation.



Note: i will try not to ramble again but noone even looks atthe what ever section so it's whatever. the slashes determine which stage you are at in your life.   some people go to work and school, some people deal with kids and party, i understand this just go along with it, youre going to forget this post in a half of an hour anyway.

man, phrase what you say a little better and you would have something going on there...