Man, not my fault she had her face beat in(literally) by the ugly stick. Hell, she is an ugly stick. How do you get such a pudgy/wide body and such thin appendages.
And who the hell told her she’d look better walking around in 10 inch heels. It’s like highlighing a zit on your forehead by circling it with a ballpoint pen or something. Lipstick on a pig?
Oh, please. Comparing black people to apes is an old habit of racists, and no one else. There’s no other plausible reason for you to compare someone like Michelle Obama to an apelike mythological creature than racism.
And you aren’t criticising her, you are engaging in baseless insults of her.
I think he has run smack into a wall of opposition that will not allow the economy to be fixed. There are rich and politically powerful people who do not want to accept the blame for the damage to the world economy or to relinquish their control. I think his economic moves will be thwarted and the economy will continue to spiral down. His presidency will fail.
Sums it up nicely - I’m still giving him the benefit of the doubt, but it’s running low. I’d damn well better see some more constructive movement on the processing of Gitmo prisoners and the gays in the military thing soonish, or I will be very miffed indeed. Not so miffed as to vote GOP, of course - that’d be stuffing a grenade up my nose to spite my face - but still pretty miffed.
As for snubbing the PM, frankly I doubt Gordon Brown noticed any “snub” amidst the flurry of abuse he’s getting in the UK from friends and enemies alike. He was probably just happy to have someone speaking to him on civil terms. And the Queen likes Michelle so clearly has endured her “molestation” with grace.
And I’ve never heard the phrase “sasquatch bitch” in either eastern Pennsylvania or Nebraska. It’s probably an echo chamber thing.
Re the OP: The sense I get is that people are taking a wait & see attitude, and are more concerned with bread and butter issues than Obama. Everyone I talk to has little energy to spare besides an enormous amount of anger at how things got where they are today, particularly with the housing crisis, mostly vented at the previous administration but I’m sure you know there several different views on who should take the blame. Also an enormous amount of disgust and discouragement that whoever is to blame will see whatever punishment would be just. I think this shared view gives Obama a lot of leeway – people feel he has a lot on his plate.
I’m not sure this is okay to say, but: thank you, Mods, for your swift actions today.
I spent Mother’s Day with my very Republican family. They are pretty much acknowledging that Bush was a disaster and say they didn’t really care for McCain either. They are far from supporting Obama though. They are against everything he’s done to fix the economy and anything he may do to fix health care. They are mostly “fiscal” conservatives but at least one of them is really pushing the “Obama fake birth certificate/not a citizen” angle.
My dad, a hyperconservative fundie, floored me the other week when he said that he respected Obama. He still thinks all of his policies are terrible, but he respects the way he can get things done and face his opponents calmly and without raising his voice.
Considering that that’s the only nice thing my dad has said of any Democrat since Carter, I’d say that the word on the street for Obama is pretty good.