President Obama News Thread

[Milkman]

Originally Posted by Panda

Wouldn't matter who was in power there in the US, Democrats, Republicans. They would all be doing the same thing with hand outs to the super rich banks, companies etc at the expense of the poor/middle class.
Obama is way ahead of the republicans here on the health care issue.
On the spend , borrow, print issue, he's taking the only option left that the Republicans would surely do also.

Exactly.

History tells us this.

I wish the partisan sheeple, would understand this.

Partisanship is how the masses are divided into false believing they have a "choice," when in fact, they do not.

[Jet Gorgon]

Originally Posted by Milkman

Partisanship is how the masses are divided into false believing they have a "choice," when in fact, they do not.

Gee, Obama Admin just gave them more choices, adding 440 Congressional Districts to the map of where they sent out stimulus money. This would be hilarious if if was not so serious. NH has four CDs according to them, when in fact it only has two. A guy is running for office in one of the new phantom districts. 555555555


The government’s Web site that is supposed to tell taxpayers how their stimulus dollars are being spent, and which spends $84 million per year to do so, shows that $6.4 billion of the stimulus has been spent in 440 congressional districts that don’t exist, according to a report by the Franklin Center, as reported by Watchdog.org. The site, Recovery.gov, reports, for instance, that North Dakota’s 99th Congressional District has received $2 million in stimulus funding. But North Dakota has only one congressional district. The nation’s capital now contains 35 congressional districts, according to Recovery.gov.
For those keeping score at home, there are really only 435 congressional districts, so adding 440 new ones effectively doubles the size of the House of Representatives. By the way, Recovery.gov also reports that the $6.4 billion spent in those districts has created 30,000 jobs, which works out to almost $225,000 per job created. Various news reports, however, show that many of the estimates of “jobs created or saved” are bogus, so that number, too is in doubt. (See the Washington Examiner’s map and chart tracking jobs created claims.)
440 Phantom Congressional Districts Get $6.4 Billion According to Recovery.gov » The Foundry

[Boon Mee]

Keeps going down. Pretty soon his numbers will be lower than Dubya's!

[MrG]

Originally Posted by Milkman

Partisanship is how the masses are divided into false believing they have a "choice," when in fact, they do not.

Unfortunately, it's how things work over here. As much as I agree that the parties of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum don't have much space betweeen them, there is enough to make a difference on some things. Observe the healthcare debate. When you figure majorities needed in congress to get anything done, especially when one of them (Republican) is clearly indifferent to the wishes of the American people, it is suicidal to break ranks.

[robuzo]

Ye gads and little fishes!
"PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately."
Public Policy Polling: ACORN
No wonder the tea-baggers are so upset, poor dears. At least the Democrats had the decency to go nuts only when the election had been actually, demonstrably stolen. Even so, they went only a little nuts, because Bush seemed like a such a reasonable, even compassionate conservative (at least until 9/11 "changed everything"). They didn't have to deal with the belief that a coke-dealing Muslim Commufascosocialist African with fake citizenship had absconded with the presidency through the efforts of a nefarious organization no-one had ever heard of before. Now I can totally understand why the Republican base is going haywire.

Very weird being back in the States.

[panama hat]

Originally Posted by robuzo

a coke-dealing Muslim Commufascosocialist African with fake citizenship

I keep forgetting his drug-dealing past . . . but why are we neglecting his insidious role in the Black Panther organisation. The truth must come out . . . to make BM feel better

[robuzo]

Originally Posted by panama hat

I keep forgetting his drug-dealing past . . . but why are we neglecting his insidious role in the Black Panther organisation. The truth must come out . . . to make BM feel better

I left out the Black Panthers and the Weathermen, what's wrong with me? That Obama sure was a lot more precocious than most of us grade school kids were in the '60's. He's also a Maoist who controls his victims' minds through hypnosis.

[Jet Gorgon]

Hard to believe that people here professing they have brains still adore Obama and the Dems. Must be doodoo folks living in Thailand, away from the stink.

[AntRobertson]

And yet you supported Bush through 8 ruinous years, go figure.