I can easily name hundreds of GOP positions. Name any position the Democrats put forward. Use that as a guideline for finding the Republican position and you can always find them on the opposite side.
What the hell does it matter what Obama said last night?
That was…hours ago! It means nothing…now is now!
Like Clinton said…“it depends upons what “is” is”!
Uh… what?
Boy, that name takes me back! (I campaigned for Harkin in 1992.)
Is you is, or is you ain’t, my baby?
The way you actin’ lately makes me doubt.
I really don’t care about Obama’s fate.
I care about the fate of this country.
I would vote for anybody with a decent plan for how to tackle them - even Sarah Palin. The Republicans - well, everybody, really - should be thinking hard about how to solve the issues, instead of just opposing everything “the other team’s” President does. Let’s face it, there’s only one team now - Team USA. This isn’t the nineties where we can fool ourselves that every problem will magically take care of itself as soon as Clinton is removed from the Oval Office.
Your claims of being a moderate loses some of its credibility when you use phrases such as this.
Centrist snobbery, born of the notion that if you are not like that stupid guy nor like that opposite stupid guy, then you must not be stupid. It is the central conceit of the devout non-partisan.
Yeah, what?
You would benefit from looking at the posts here from an objective viewpoint. Just to cite a very small example, look at how many people put some bastardization of the words Barack Obama in their location field during the election (Raven still has it, I see).
People worship the guy, that’s pretty obvious. And that’s fine, despite the fact he’s run us off the cliff financially, after all it’s a free country. But I’m going to call a spade a spade (so to speak).
You should probably familiarize yourself with some facts before you spout off nonsense like “he’s run us off the cliff financilaly.” You pretty much make it obvious that you don’t know what you’re talking about and are spouting whatever you heard on Sean Hannity this afternoon.
Obama did that. All by himself, in two years, with just his little pink paddy paws.
Well, that’s one way to look at it. The other is he was elected captain of the Titanic right after it hit the iceberg.
“Col. Custer, I’m Major Obama, I’ve been sent to relieve you…”
“I told you not to cut the red wire! Jesus, what a mess, looks like a zombie luau…”
Only stupid people believed that in the '90s, and the things that happened in the '90s (the tech and housing bubbles, the festering financial crisis, terrorism, and a host of other things) while people were paying attention to stupid shit are not unconnected from the problems we’re dealing with now.
I would argue that the Messiah that ran America off the financial cliff was St. Ronnie.
Unless the economy completely stalls between now and election day, Obama’s being re-elected to a second term. As to his SOTU address, it was the standard ‘Ra! Ra! Ra!’ cheerleading and no-way-he-can-keep-them promises that politicians are famous for. I don’t know why anyone expects differently.
Amen, I’ve never seen so much worship for so one who did so little.
You are right, Dio. I apologize. It’s clear to me by now that the credibility and even-handedness you bring to these discussions only serve to advance the level of discourse. Further, I’m impressed at your ability to stay completely on topic, avoiding all temptation to bury landmines of threadjackiness. You have the rare and uncanny ability to examine all sides of a discussion, from all points of view, and provide witty and germane commentary that illuminates even the densest among us.
If anyone at the Straight Dope is listening, I hereby nominate Diogenes The Cynic to a moderator position… no, wait, make that: a replacement for Cecil Adams after he finally enters his well-deserved retirement.
Personally, I don’t think a somewhat-libertarian, mostly-incoherent political philosophy makes one a moderate.
This Obama hero worshipping thing is getting old and stupid. Presidents don’t even get a “honeymoon” any more. Obama is getting hammered by lefties and righties every day. He gets pounded by the right wing conservative news and Fox type stations too.
Omana was the first black president and many blacks were very excited to see it happen during their lives. They were fired up big time. Now they too are critical.
For a short time he was the first black president. Then he became a president and fair game.
Apparently even the Dems are not pleased with Obama’s veto promise:
*Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, made similar remarks Tuesday when word surfaced that the president would call for an earmark ban.
“I think this is an issue that any president would like to have, that takes power away from the legislative branch of government,” Reid told reporters. “I think it’s the wrong thing to do. I don’t think it’s helpful. It’s a lot of pretty talk, but it only gives the president more power. He’s got enough power already.”*