President Obama News Thread

[Boon Mee]

Watchword of the Day



You bet your sweet ass we do!

[Muadib]

So you're a member of the 28% who still believed in GWB as he exited office... After the last 8 years how could anyone be so naive???

[Boon Mee]

^
Negative on that...I'm just saying he'd be one hell of lot better than this POS we have now...

Let's put it in perspective, shall we?

What if BO was president in 1989?

[sabang]

At least Bush has had the common sense to keep his head low, and out of the limelight.

Cheney seems to be verifying the State Departments opinion that he is certifiably insane.

[Dug]

Originally Posted by sabang

Cheney seems to be verifying the State Departments opinion that he is certifiably insane.

How so?

[Dug]

I found this interesting.

Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush

Barack Obama's reaction to bad news is to play it so cool that Americans yearn for a bit more drama - and some even for his predecessor, writes Toby Harnden in Washington.



Toby Harnden's American Way
Published: 5:57PM GMT 07 Nov 2009
Comments 312 | Comment on this article

Barack Obama has spent more than two months considering a troop increase but do we know how he really feels about the Afghan war? Photo: GETTY


During the election campaign, Barack Obama's cool detachment was a winning quality, the "No Drama Obama" a welcome contrast with the "Mr Angry" John McCain, never mind the hot-headed "I'm the decider" President George W Bush.
A year into his presidency, however, Mr Obama seems a curiously bloodless president. If he experiences passion, he seldom shows it. It is often anyone's guess as to whether an event or issue truly moves him.

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He has spent more than two months considering a troop increase but do we know how he really feels about the Afghan war?
In a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. "I never thought I'd hear myself say it," one Democrat told me. "But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on something."
When Mr Bush's Republicans were defeated in the 2006 mid-term elections, it was the President himself who stepped up and declared that his party had received "a thumpin'". The Democratic defeats on Tuesday were not on anything like the same scale but Mr Obama acted as if nothing at all had happened.
Mr Obama had campaigned for Jon Corzine, New Jersey's Democratic governor, five times, twice just last Sunday. But when Mr Corzine lost by four points in a state Mr Obama won by 15 last year - a 19-point swing to Republicans - White House aides just shrugged.
In Virginia, which Mr Obama won by six points last year, prompting Democrats to declare an historic political realignment in the state, the Democratic candidate went down by 17 points in the biggest landslide since 1961 - a 23-point swing to the Grand Old Party.
It took Senator Mark Warner of Virginia to admit that his party "got walloped". For three days, Mr Obama maintained a studied silence about the results while his aides blamed them on local factors that had nothing to do with the President. And to think that it was Mr Bush who was always accused of being "in denial".
More serious perhaps was Mr Obama's strange disconnectedness over the Fort Hood massacre of 13 soldiers by an Army major and devout Muslim who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, had praised suicide bombing and shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire.
Maybe Mr Obama had been reading the American press, much of which somehow contrived to present the atrocity as a result of combat stress due to soldiers going on repeated war deployments (though Major Nadal Hasan had not been on any) and therefore, no doubt, Mr Bush's fault.
When the television networks cut to the President, viewers listened to him spend more than two surreal minutes talking to a gathering of Native Americans about their "extraordinary" and "extremely productive" conference, pausing to give a cheery "shout out" to a man named Dr Joe Medicine Crow. Only then did he briefly and mechanically address what had happened in Texas.
On Friday, when most of the basic facts were available, Mr Obama tried again. It was scarcely any better. He began by offering "an update on the tragedy that took place" - as if it was an earthquake and not a terrorist attack from an enemy within - and ended with a promise for more "updates in the coming days and weeks".
Completely missing was the eloquence that Mr Obama employs when talking about himself. Absent too was any sense that the President empathised with the families and comrades of those murdered.
It was a reminder that for the past 16 years Americans have had two Presidents who would often extemporise and express emotion. President Bill Clinton could certainly "feel your pain" while Mr Bush sometimes struggled to hold back tears. Mr Obama is more like President George Bush Snr, who famously communicated his concern for people by blurting out: "Message - I care."
The White House argues that Mr Obama was not on the ballot last week and there is therefore no need to fret. The problem with this complacency is that voters were angry about the state of the economy, which Mr Obama can't keep blaming on his predecessor. With unemployment now above 10 per cent, Mr Obama needs to show Americans that he can relate to what they're going through, and take responsibility.
It could do him good to show he has a bit of fire in his belly. Perhaps he might make a decision or two based on gut instinct and deep conviction. In other words, maybe he should try being a bit more like Mr Bush.

[slackula]

Originally Posted by sabang

Cheney seems to be verifying the State Departments opinion that he is certifiably insane.

I think Cheney is scared of going to jail and is doing everything he can to make sure that any potential jury pool is tainted.

If he succeeds he will be benefiting from the very justice system that he worked so hard to subvert. He is the poster boy for the hypocritical cowardice of the neocons.

[raycarey]

Originally Posted by Dug

I found this interesting.

of course you did.

[panama hat]

Originally Posted by slackula

He is the poster boy for the hypocritical cowardice of the neocons.

How very well put

[Dug]

Originally Posted by raycarey

of course you did.

Didn't you?

[barbaro]

Originally Posted by sabang

At least Bush has had the common sense to keep his head low, and out of the limelight.

It's a historical tradition to not criticize the successor President. At the end of a Presient's term, there have been critical comments made by former Presidents on rare occasions, however.

Cheney seems to be verifying the State Departments opinion that he is certifiably insane.

And for a VP to publicly criticize, let alone soon after and election, but for a VP to criticize at all, is very strange, and unprecedented.

[Boon Mee]

^
Well, he's got valid reason for doing so.
BO is taking the country down the road to rack & ruin...

[Dug]

Originally Posted by Milkman

It's a historical tradition to not criticize the successor President. At the end of a Presient's term, there have been critical comments made by former Presidents on rare occasions, however.

And for a VP to publicly criticize, let alone soon after and election, but for a VP to criticize at all, is very strange, and unprecedented.

Any links to this? I haven't heard of Cheney for months.

[barbaro]

Originally Posted by Dug

Any links to this? I haven't heard of Cheney for months.

You can google.

Cheney has made several critical staments. Some, even on one-on-one interviews.

There's no need to put up a link, because it's general knowledge.

Google it, if you want.

[Dug]

Originally Posted by Milkman

You can google.

Cheney has made several critical staments. Some, even on one-on-one interviews.

There's no need to put up a link, because it's general knowledge.

Google it, if you want.

general knowledge? i read the news every day, never heard a thing.

[barbaro]

Originally Posted by Dug

general knowledge? i read the news every day, never heard a thing.

I said, then google it.

If you didn't "hear a thing" then you missed it. This story about Cheney is nothing new.

WHY DON'T YOU FIND SOME ARTICLE AND POST THEM?

[Norton]

Here ya go. 6.6 million hits "Cheney criticizes obama". A few are Liz, Dick's wife, criticizing obama so Dick can't be held responsible for all of the hits.

cheney criticizes obama - Google Search

[barbaro]

Originally Posted by Norton

Here ya go. 6.6 million hits "Cheney criticizes obama". A few are Liz, Dick's wife, criticizing obama so Dick can't be held responsible for all of the hits.

cheney criticizes obama - Google Search

Thank you, Norton.


Problem (for him) solved.

[Norton]

Did the same for another VP. "Gore criticizes Bush" 667,000 hits. Not so many and of course we need to keep in mind, Bush and he ran against each other.

[barbaro]

A debate about BO.

He pushed the left aside. So now, critics, on both sides.

YouTube - pt 1/2 Obama is in bed with Wall Street just like Bush Peter

[Boon Mee]

Can you find the obsequious moonbat among these world leaders?

[sabang]

That is 'too low' a bow. But of course, knowing your moonbat sources booner what we don't know is how the pictures may have been selectively tampered with.

But don't worry, it's just Pres Obama apologising for America again. Maybe you should say sorry for Hiroshima.

[panama hat]

I guess that proves Obama to be an American-hating Communist Muslim Terrorist

[raycarey]

^you forgot marxist, kenyan, and nazi.

[AntRobertson]

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Can you find the obsequious moonbat among these world leaders?

Can you not stick to posting your silly little pictures cut 'n pasted from blogs in the thread that was specifically made just for you to do so and stop polluting others.