Odd, isn’t it, that when we had numerous insane Bush pittings over the years, for the silliest things, nobody blamed Democrats in general for it. But here in this thread we have posts like ‘Will the last sane Republican please stand up’, etc, all lamenting the state of the Republican party.
Get a grip, people, it’s simply a case of putting the boot into Obama at every opportunity, just as some here did with Bush.
It’s called politics.
And, no, this doesn’t add to Obama’s lustre, although it’s not his fault. Any President would have felt duty bound to support the Olympics coming to the US.
You were here years before me and you somehow never saw a post by Shodan?
Democrats get blamed generally, specifically, and in all sorts of other roundabout ways all the time on this board. You absolutely have to have seen it considering the amount of time you’ve spent here and if you’re pretending like you haven’t I think you’re either being disingenuous or you have a shit poor memory.
I have no intention of reading any posts in this thread but I must say I admire the economy of the thread title. In a mere 11 words or (10 real words and a bit of onomatopoeia) the OP manages:
** Awwww** - insincere, here I go kowtowing to the babies rejoinder.
The Great One - insincere hyperbole. We must assume he is far from great.
failed to deliver - hints at promises made, underhand deals.
Chicago cronies those he deals with are not associates, friends, supporters…no they are cronies. Sure someone will point out that the etymology of crony is quite innocent but no-one refers to their old friends as cronies, it now has disparaging connotations.
He may be right or he may be wrong but I hope he is at least making a dollar from his skills - maybe writing headlines?
You said “nobody.” Your post isn’t that far away you just have to scroll up like 3 inches.
Even then, he’s far, far away from being a single solitary swallow. I said Shodan because he’s the most obvious pick but he’s not the only one. Again, you know this. You simply have to know this unless you are completely blind or oblivious. I stand by my point.
The Democrats were blamed all the time. And what “insane” pittings are you talking about? Bush was and is incompetent scum; he inflicted major damage on the country and the world. He spread death and misery and destruction; he ruined everything he touched. He qualified for his own pit forum, much less the occasional Pit thread.
When the Republicans overwhelmingly act like raving lunatics, that’s the reaction you are going to get.
Not even close. The left wing critics of Bush were on the whole*** right***. The right wing critics of Obama are liars, delusional, or as in this case making mountains out of molehills.
Yeah. We really need a guide so we can tell which sarcastic nickname goes with who.
To start things off, “great one” is Wayne Gretzky’s nickname and it’s not even sarcastic. Obama’s sarcastic nickname is “the chosen one” or “the messiah.”
I hope that clears things up for any future pittings.
Correct, which, along with its abysmal unemployment rate, IMO makes it a better choice to get a huge influx of money as a local “stimulus” to build and improve. The Olympics are a better reason to rebuild a city than a hurricane, in other words.
An emissions cap (without the trade, technology can handle it)
I slightly disagree: I think we should have, instead of a cap, a strong look at legislating the best possible technologies for cleaner emissions from power plants… and enforce the hell out of it. As opposed to the ‘rebuild 25% of the plant at a time and you don’t have to update emissions’ kind of loopholes.
I think we can improve metric fuckloads if the damn coal plants actually cleaned up their act instead of faking it. Right now, the coal dust comes down on my deck in NY… from PA. Turns a white deck grey in days.
As someone who works in drug treatment, and hears the stories from several sides, the pot volume is the hugest damn thing in the world. It really doesn’t do damage to people, way less than beer, and if we got rid of chasing it, we’d be able to do shit about the serious problems.
Not to mention the problems we have in our national forests and parks being full of drug dealers growing pot. Not a joke.
In my entire history of reading these boards, I never laughed louder or harder than I did in this moment.
Consider my day officially made.
On the other hand, I’m getting so tired of this petty shit. Was there ever a time in history where nobody thought to ascribe political blame at every opportunity? I didn’t get involved in politics until Bush Jr, but to me it seems like it’s getting progressively worse. It’s hard to measure the accuracy of my perception, though. I feel like Bush was so extremist and the consequences of his extremism so profound (in terms of how it directly affected national and foreign policy in such an unprecedented way) that the backlash made sense, whereas Obama is just this middle-of-the-road politician not really doing anything significant enough to get pissed off about. He certainly hasn’t done anything significant enough to make me happy, so I’m not sure why Republicans are so upset.
I saw no less than three “It’s nuclear! NUCLEAR, you dumb hick!” rants over the past several years, and in just about all of them the people trying to excoriate Bush for it were in the minority. The silly inane shit got shrugged off by all but the most die-hard haters, as this thread rightfully is.
Yeah. Bill Maher last night asked if the right wing these days realized that Obama isn’t even a liberal. He’s right down the middle of the road, virtually indistingushable from a moderate Republican (if there are any moderate Republicans left anymore), yet he’s being branded as a socialist on the basis of being microscopically less fiscally conservative than George W. Bush, and actually more fiscally conservative than Reagan.
Of course, the Hitler stuff, the “death panels,” the birther stuff, the calling for a military coup doesn’t even have that much of a basis in reality, so it has to make youwonder if there’s something else about him that makes them so hysterical. It isn’t his policies, his personality, his rhetorical style or his personal character, so what does that leave?
Well, I dunno about the last part there, but I agree I’d be happy to see detroit thrive again. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time there in the past 5 years, and I like the people and businesses I’ve dealt with quite a lot. Great architecture, too. If only there was more to the cuisine than sammiches and coney dogs…