# When did Obama throw chunks of concrete at school buses? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 15, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037 "2011-11-15T19:04:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/21 "2011-11-15T20:05:22Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > What a stupid request. People who think Obama can do no wrong don’t say “Obama can do no wrong.” They simply defend everything that he does no matter what. What a weak excuse. Show me posters that only praise Obama and condemn Republicans-posters who, through their posts, give the idea that Obama can do no wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/22 "2011-11-15T20:06:44Z")
> [@RyJae](#): > > I believe Marley said it best, and I will not debate further on this topic since I do believe that people are blinded by some supposed loyalty to a party. You’ve got nothing. I understand. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/23 "2011-11-15T20:07:02Z")
> [@RyJae](#): > > I will claim and insist he will defend Obama, or the Democrats, above and beyond any praise he will lay on Republicans. As opposed to what? Finding both parties to be exactly as praiseworthy as the other? I mean, people usually vote for one party or the other, presumably because they find one to be at least marginally better then the other, and presumably if they agree with that party more of the time, they’ll defend that party more and attack the other party more. That hardly means they think that their prefered party “can do no wrong” or are blind to its faults. > [@](#): > > And singling him out was actually not intentional it was however the first thing I came across after the post I responded too. And it fits rather well. I don’t really see how it fits. Its just **Gonzomax** defending Obama regarding a particular scandal. **Gonzomax** spends plenty of time on these boards attacking Obama for various things. Just finding one item he’s defending him on hardly means **Gonzomax** acts as if “Obama can do no wrong”. As the above poster said, you seem to have moved the goal post from “people say Obama can do no wrong” to “sometimes people defend Obama and I disagree with them”. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/24 "2011-11-15T20:07:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What a weak excuse. Show me posters that only praise Obama and condemn Republicans-posters who, through their posts, give the idea that Obama can do no wrong. You seem to have me confused with **RyJae**. While we are both incredibly good looking, I can assure you we are not the same person and don’t share a point of view. Just because his claim is silly doesn’t mean your counter was any less so. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/25 "2011-11-15T20:10:30Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > You seem to have me confused with **RyJae**. While we are both incredibly good looking, I can assure you we are not the same person and don’t share a point of view. Just because his claim is silly doesn’t mean your counter was any less so. I will definitely need a cite for that claim. Having seen your picture but not **RyJae’s** , I can only accept half of your “incredibly good looking” statement as being true. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/26 "2011-11-15T20:14:05Z")
Hey now! No flirting in Great Debates! ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/27 "2011-11-15T20:15:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I will definitely need a cite for that claim. Having seen your picture but not **RyJae’s** , I can only accept half of your “incredibly good looking” statement as being true. ☹ I do not get top dollar on the pole but I go away with some tips. 😛 My post is my cite! _and totally joking_ ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/28 "2011-11-15T20:18:59Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Obama made my chickens stop laying, and turned the milk sour! He turned me into a newt. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/29 "2011-11-15T20:24:41Z")
Pics, or it never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/30 "2011-11-15T20:27:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What a weak excuse. Show me posters that only praise Obama and condemn Republicans-posters who, through their posts, give the idea that Obama can do no wrong. Shayna. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/31 "2011-11-15T20:29:40Z")
Obama has done plenty wrong., but I stil prefer him over any of the Republican candidates. Signed, Yellow Dog Democrat. So there. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/32 "2011-11-15T20:37:27Z")
I’m not sure there’s really a debate here. I’m moving this to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/33 "2011-11-15T20:45:43Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Shayna. Also Stoid, who seems to love the President too much to criticize him. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/34 "2011-11-15T20:49:06Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s not the media. It’s the species. As long as that species is _Homo americanus_ I might agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/35 "2011-11-15T20:51:18Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > As long as that species is _Homo americanus_ I might agree with you. It’s not. Sorry, but people have been creating divisions among themselves and fighting about them for as long as they’ve existed. It’s frequently stupid and self destructive and aggravating, but it’s not restricted to any country and it doesn’t reflect manipulations by the media on behalf of a shadowy power structure. Fighting about us vs. them is one of those things human beings do. Politics reflects that. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/36 "2011-11-15T20:54:52Z")
No, the idea that there are only two political sides, one being always right and the other always being wrong, only seems to exist these days here in the US. And it seems to be getting worse by the day. Yes, of course when I lived in Canada and the UK there were people who always defended their party no matter what. But it certainly didn’t seem to be about 90% of the population like it is here. From what I understand, most European democracies are even less polarized. There is a mood of “no compromise, no surrender” in this country that I find extremely disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/37 "2011-11-15T20:57:27Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > Obama has done plenty wrong., but I stil prefer him over any of the Republican candidates. > > Signed, Yellow Dog Democrat. > > So there. This is a perfectly reasonable position, and summarizes in general how I feel about the majority of Republican candidates (plus the occasional Democrat) that I support. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/38 "2011-11-15T21:12:55Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Obama made my chickens stop laying, and turned the milk sour! Wow, your chickens give milk? ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/39 "2011-11-15T21:15:12Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Obama made my chickens stop laying, and turned the milk sour! ☹ Actually, that was me. I had Taco Bell. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-obama-throw-chunks-of-concrete-at-school-buses/603037/40 "2011-11-16T03:51:44Z")
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