Obama

Shame on you … Pitted broken ducks … have you no spam …

I’m wondering why the OP would put any stock in the political opinions of Americans who don’t even know what a constitution is.

Asked repeatedly and not yet answered.

\

“have to” or “want to”? Come on now, be honest.

Actually, Obama has explained quite clearly why he doesn’t use the term “radical islamic terrorism” - for the same reason his predecessor, George Bush didn’t! Because it alienates the non-radical muslims that we need on our side, and plays directly into ISIS’s “Islam vs. the West” narrative.

“Not once has an adviser of mine said, ‘Man, if we really use that phrase, we’re going to turn this whole thing around.’ Not once. So, someone seriously thinks that we don’t know who we’re fighting? If there’s anyone out there who thinks we’re confused about who our enemies are, that would come as a surprise to the thousands of terrorists who … we’ve taken off the battlefield. If the implication is that those of us up here and the thousands of people around the country and around the world who are working to defeat ISIL aren’t taking the fight seriously, that’d come as a surprise to those who’ve spent these last 7 1/2 years dismantling al-Qaida in the FATA, for example — including the men and women in uniform who put their lives at risk, and the special forces that I ordered to get [Osama] bin Laden and are now on the ground in Iraq and in Syria. They know full well who the enemy is.”

In the eternal words of Yahtzee Crowshaw: “Go team retard!” The idea that you need to have some form of background check to make sure you’re not fucking crazy before you buy the kind of gun you could use to murder dozens of people in a few minutes from half a mile away does not infringe on your right to bear arms.

Do you really think it’s at all fair to judge someone by the actions of their spouse?

Breitbart is a reliable, non-partisan fact-checking operation that focuses on debunking internet myths? That would, in fact, be news to me.

We asked you for a citation and you refused to provide one, instead offering a google search, and requesting that we do the work of demonstrating your argument for you. When we turn up sources that you don’t like from that google search, you have no right to complain that “my links are better”.

We’ve gone from Iran getting nukes in less than a year to Iran getting nukes in maybe a decade starting from when they violate the treaty (at which point the sanctions start again). Even if we backed out of the deal, all of our allies which signed onto it and play a substantial role in upholding Iran’s sanctions would not.

Under Obama, the actual number of illegal immigrants has been going down. He’s deported more immigrants per year than any other president, and had a far lower rate of return than Bush.

This is embarrasing.

I have never understood this weird line of reasoning. How would any of these strikes been better if they had come from an F-15 or F-16? Being a drone just made the attack safer for our people. We still would have put a few hundred pounds of explosives on a bad guy’s head, either way. How is it bad that a drone did it? :confused:

The frequency of our drone strikes and the paltry oversight in determining if these explosives are, in fact, being dropped on bad guy’s heads is a concern of mine. Why are drones worse? They detach the American public from the violence that is currently being carried out in it’s name. American pilots involve risk to American lives, concern for their welfare stays in the media news cycle which hopefully challenges politicians goals and holds their actions accountable.

I’m not advocating we ground drones, but they are a very easy political solution, and that should worry us more than it currently seems too.

I wouldn’t hold my breath-OP hasn’t logged in in over 30 hours now.

Like all those news stories about how F-16s dropped bombs on the wrong people’s heads?

Oh wait, that doesn’t happen. The idea of manned aircraft dropping bombs on the wrong people’s heads really only enters the public discussion when a Doctors Without Borders hospital is destroyed. The fear of drones doing something bad is more or less a constant buzz in our national security discussions.

Well, it shows that Obama is a secret muslim and therefore evil. We’re on a run of evil presidents, after all Bush was gay:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bush+kisses+a+saudi+prince&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1193&bih=810&tbm=isch&gws_rd=ssl

Oh, for the old days of good old hetero-Christian Clinton!

I’m late to this thread, so this has probably been done already, but there are plenty of conservatives on this board, and we have plenty of good, thoughtful fights (and a few knock down mud matches), but I don’t see them coming to the defense of your arguments.

So, what lessons do you think you can draw from that?

Drawing lessons, fer sure! Maybe dancing lessons…

…that even the “conservatives” on the board are liberal scum who hate America?

That he has his own set of facts, dammit, why aren’t we listening?

That’s the beauty of the Dope: even our regular conservatives are smart (somehow, anyway).

He slipped his collar … that was quite a beating he took.

Eh, same old same old. New person suffering from terminal ignorance and unwillingness to learn blows onto the board, posts the same old crap we’ve all heard and rebutted for however long we’ve been on the dope. Person doesn’t believe sources, doesn’t read rebuttals, doesn’t comprehend rebuttals, panics and resorts to whatever magical words of protection are common for their malfunction. Then they run off back to whatever bubble they came from.

Right wing, left wing, conspiracy theorist division, doesn’t matter. Dumb people who believe with great passion that they have found the truth and with the zeal of the convert, want to share it with the world.

*Underneath the bridge
The animals are trapped
They have all become my pets
And they’re living off of grass
And drippings from my ceiling

Something in the way
Yeah*

Eerie, did Kurt know this guy?

It does his! :stuck_out_tongue:

Pitted broken ducks… what?