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Hatred is often much stronger than logic, credibility, reality or plain ole common sense.
Vincent Vega
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Must hurt pretty bad if it's suddenly not your group anymore politics are done for.
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It doesn't even have anything to do with being gay, but it still makes me think of this:
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Joe Biden's mother Jean died today. RIP
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DeMint: Obama 'distracted' from protecting the country
Posted: January 3rd, 2010 02:00 PM ET
Sen. DeMint said Sunday that the president has been 'completely distracted by other things.'
Washington (CNN) – A leading Republican critic of the administration's homeland security efforts suggested Sunday that President Obama is making mistakes similar to those the Bush administration made in fighting al Qaeda.
“He has been completely distracted by other things,” Sen. Jim DeMint OF South Carolina said on CNN’s State of the Union.
Fellow Republican Thomas Kean, who chaired the 9/11 Commission, also cited distractions in his earlier interview on State of the Union.
“We had an administration which was not focused, as it should be, on terrorism and that’s understandable,” Kean said. “They were focused on health care and global warming and the economy. That’s very understandable.”
DeMint told CNN Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger that Obama “is not focused on building the security and intelligence apparatus of our country.”
“The last administration – President Bush – made a huge mistake,” DeMint said, “by sending the Yemenis back” – a reference to freed prisoners from the Guantanamo detainee facility who returned to terrorist activity, including two Yemenis suspected of planning attacks against the U.S. and British embassies in Sanaa after their release. “The core leadership of al Qaeda now is made of those folks who were at the Gitmo prison. We can’t make that mistake again. So, it’s not just about this administration. It’s about losing our focus on security and I’m afraid politics and political correctness has become front and center in this debate.”
Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri , a longtime Obama backer, took issue with DeMint’s remark.
“That’s just not true,” she said. “This president is focused like a laser on how to keep this country safe.”
McCaskill noted that Obama went against the wishes of some in his own party by ordering a troop surge in Afghanistan. “This is a president that is taking strong action and is building up our intelligence community – not diminishing it.”
Posted: January 3rd, 2010 02:00 PM ET
Sen. DeMint said Sunday that the president has been 'completely distracted by other things.'
Washington (CNN) – A leading Republican critic of the administration's homeland security efforts suggested Sunday that President Obama is making mistakes similar to those the Bush administration made in fighting al Qaeda.
“He has been completely distracted by other things,” Sen. Jim DeMint OF South Carolina said on CNN’s State of the Union.
Fellow Republican Thomas Kean, who chaired the 9/11 Commission, also cited distractions in his earlier interview on State of the Union.
“We had an administration which was not focused, as it should be, on terrorism and that’s understandable,” Kean said. “They were focused on health care and global warming and the economy. That’s very understandable.”
DeMint told CNN Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger that Obama “is not focused on building the security and intelligence apparatus of our country.”
“The last administration – President Bush – made a huge mistake,” DeMint said, “by sending the Yemenis back” – a reference to freed prisoners from the Guantanamo detainee facility who returned to terrorist activity, including two Yemenis suspected of planning attacks against the U.S. and British embassies in Sanaa after their release. “The core leadership of al Qaeda now is made of those folks who were at the Gitmo prison. We can’t make that mistake again. So, it’s not just about this administration. It’s about losing our focus on security and I’m afraid politics and political correctness has become front and center in this debate.”
Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri , a longtime Obama backer, took issue with DeMint’s remark.
“That’s just not true,” she said. “This president is focused like a laser on how to keep this country safe.”
McCaskill noted that Obama went against the wishes of some in his own party by ordering a troop surge in Afghanistan. “This is a president that is taking strong action and is building up our intelligence community – not diminishing it.”
INDY500
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BVS
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INDY, at this point in presidencies how many vacations did Dubya take vs Obama?
coolian2
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hahaha, definitely the wrong angle to take.
BVS
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Even Bush would have known not to make that reference.
MrsSpringsteen
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He should have just cut brush in a cowboy hat in Hawaii instead of playing golf
People can multitask when playing golf-just ask Tiger
People can multitask when playing golf-just ask Tiger
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who cares about comparing the two? Doesn't Obama want to be a better president than Bush? Well, he doesn't even seem to be trying.
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wow, really?
MrsSpringsteen
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I wonder if diamond is on Chuck's e-mail list
Chuck Norris Hunts for Obama's 'Secret Vault' as Interpol Conspiracy Theories Get Wilder - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com
Chuck Norris Hunts for Obama's 'Secret Vault' as Interpol Conspiracy Theories Get Wilder - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com
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Racial Referee? Critics Charge President Obama With Playing Favorites
Sen. Harry Reid's Comments, Reported in 'Game Change,' Have Stirred New National Debate on Race
By DAN HARRIS and HUMA KHAN
Jan. 12, 2010—
President Obama has been thrust into the role of racial referee amid reports of Sen. Harry Reid's remarks about his skin color, prompting some critics to question whether the president is playing favorites.
Obama was quick to forgive Reid after excerpts from a new book, "Game Change," emerged reporting that the Nevada Democrat called Obama "a 'light-skinned' black man 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.'"
In an interview with TV One, Obama said, "This is a good man who's always been on the right side of history. For him to have used some unartful language in trying to praise me, and for people to try to make hay out of that makes absolutely no sense."
The president was also quick to disregard a 2007 comment by Joe Biden, who told the New York Observer, "You've got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean."
In contrast, Obama was harshly critical of radio host Don Imus' comment about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Obama, who was then senator, told ABC News' Jake Tapper in April 2007 that NBC should fire Imus for his "nappy-headed hos" reference to the team, a comment for which Imus apologized profusely.
"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
He also helped stir up a national debate about race last year when he jumped into the middle of the debate about whether Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley's arrest of renowned Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was a case of racial profiling.
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home," Obama said in July. "What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."
Critics Chide President Obama's Response to Harry Reid's Remarks
Obama also called for the resignation of then-Senate Majority Republican Leader Trent Lott, who lavished praise on his home state of Mississippi for supporting Sen. Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign in 1948.
As a result, some African-Americans are taking aim at what they perceive as a double-standard, pointing to the Reid case.
"It's a very sad day that the president, because of political expediency, is giving a pass to bigotry, racism and just unadulterated ignorance," syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams said. "The president is showing no backbone and leadership. He's giving a pass to racism because he needs Reid to push his policies."
If Reid were a Republican, Williams said, the president "would have spared no time sending out a lynch mob."
Others echoed similar remarks.
"I think that the president of the United States has to stop having a lack of courage when it comes to the issue of race," said Michael Eric Dyson, professor of sociology at Georgetown University. "He is loathe to address the issue of race. Barack Obama runs from race like most black men run from the cops."
But other scholars said Obama is doing a good job handling the very sensitive job of racial arbitration.
"So I think Obama takes these statements one at a time and looks at the substance of them, and decides whether or not it's worth getting involved," said Clarence Page, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Page has said Obama may be seen as a "post-racial president," but he's not post-racism, a sentiment echoed by other scholars.
"Race is a serious problem," said Lani Guinier, a professor at Harvard Law School. "We are not post-racial. We are not racist in the same way that the United States might have been years ago, but race is an important sociological, economic and social fact."
One person Obama has refrained from commenting on is former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who told Esquire he's "blacker than Barack Obama."
"It's such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of s**t and phonies, but I was real, man -- and am real," the ousted governor told the magazine. "This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the f**k? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up."
Blagojevich later apologized for what he called "stupid comments."
As for Reid, he has said he wants to move beyond the remark and is "not going to dwell on this anymore.
"We have a lot of work to do," Reid said Monday. "I'll continue to do my very best for the people of Nevada and this country. I'm not going to dwell on this anymore. It's in the book, and I've made all the statements I'm going to."
But even if this issue simmers down, it is unlikely to be the last time Obama will be called on to play the part of the referee.
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., became Monday the first Democratic senator to openly criticize Reid's comments. He told ABC affiliate WISN that the Senate majority leader's comments on Obama's race are "racially insensitive" and that he is considering whether to call for Reid to step down as majority leader.
ABC News
Racial Referee? Critics Charge President Obama With Playing Favorites
Sen. Harry Reid's Comments, Reported in 'Game Change,' Have Stirred New National Debate on Race
By DAN HARRIS and HUMA KHAN
Jan. 12, 2010—
President Obama has been thrust into the role of racial referee amid reports of Sen. Harry Reid's remarks about his skin color, prompting some critics to question whether the president is playing favorites.
Obama was quick to forgive Reid after excerpts from a new book, "Game Change," emerged reporting that the Nevada Democrat called Obama "a 'light-skinned' black man 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.'"
In an interview with TV One, Obama said, "This is a good man who's always been on the right side of history. For him to have used some unartful language in trying to praise me, and for people to try to make hay out of that makes absolutely no sense."
The president was also quick to disregard a 2007 comment by Joe Biden, who told the New York Observer, "You've got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean."
In contrast, Obama was harshly critical of radio host Don Imus' comment about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Obama, who was then senator, told ABC News' Jake Tapper in April 2007 that NBC should fire Imus for his "nappy-headed hos" reference to the team, a comment for which Imus apologized profusely.
"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
He also helped stir up a national debate about race last year when he jumped into the middle of the debate about whether Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley's arrest of renowned Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was a case of racial profiling.
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home," Obama said in July. "What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."
Critics Chide President Obama's Response to Harry Reid's Remarks
Obama also called for the resignation of then-Senate Majority Republican Leader Trent Lott, who lavished praise on his home state of Mississippi for supporting Sen. Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign in 1948.
As a result, some African-Americans are taking aim at what they perceive as a double-standard, pointing to the Reid case.
"It's a very sad day that the president, because of political expediency, is giving a pass to bigotry, racism and just unadulterated ignorance," syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams said. "The president is showing no backbone and leadership. He's giving a pass to racism because he needs Reid to push his policies."
If Reid were a Republican, Williams said, the president "would have spared no time sending out a lynch mob."
Others echoed similar remarks.
"I think that the president of the United States has to stop having a lack of courage when it comes to the issue of race," said Michael Eric Dyson, professor of sociology at Georgetown University. "He is loathe to address the issue of race. Barack Obama runs from race like most black men run from the cops."
But other scholars said Obama is doing a good job handling the very sensitive job of racial arbitration.
"So I think Obama takes these statements one at a time and looks at the substance of them, and decides whether or not it's worth getting involved," said Clarence Page, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Page has said Obama may be seen as a "post-racial president," but he's not post-racism, a sentiment echoed by other scholars.
"Race is a serious problem," said Lani Guinier, a professor at Harvard Law School. "We are not post-racial. We are not racist in the same way that the United States might have been years ago, but race is an important sociological, economic and social fact."
One person Obama has refrained from commenting on is former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who told Esquire he's "blacker than Barack Obama."
"It's such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of s**t and phonies, but I was real, man -- and am real," the ousted governor told the magazine. "This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the f**k? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up."
Blagojevich later apologized for what he called "stupid comments."
As for Reid, he has said he wants to move beyond the remark and is "not going to dwell on this anymore.
"We have a lot of work to do," Reid said Monday. "I'll continue to do my very best for the people of Nevada and this country. I'm not going to dwell on this anymore. It's in the book, and I've made all the statements I'm going to."
But even if this issue simmers down, it is unlikely to be the last time Obama will be called on to play the part of the referee.
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., became Monday the first Democratic senator to openly criticize Reid's comments. He told ABC affiliate WISN that the Senate majority leader's comments on Obama's race are "racially insensitive" and that he is considering whether to call for Reid to step down as majority leader.
UberBeaver
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You want a conspiracy: How can terrorists even exist in a world where Chuck Norris exists? If Chuck gets rid of terrorists, how can any terrorists be? Only three options: 1.) There are no terrorists. 2.) There is no Chuck Norris. 3.) Chuck Norris is not good at his job. I think we'd all agree that 3 is outright crazy, so it has to be #1 or #2.
I just blew your fucking minds, FYM. BAM!
I just blew your fucking minds, FYM. BAM!
Vincent Vega
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It's 4.) Chuck Norris needs some terrorists to remain in society in order to justify his existence.
UberBeaver
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I see your point, however since Existence + Justice = Chuck Norris, there must be a flaw in your logic somewhere. I find sometimes redoing the formulas with long division helps me trace back to the error.
INDY500
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4) As a mortal, Chuck Norris is confined by the laws of time and physics and thus not able to travel fast enough around the globe to keep up with the horde of newly recruited terrorists on the Martyrs Against Gitmo fast-track.
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Did you stay up all night making that up?
I think you meant ass, not as. Ass makes more sense. Just helping you out
I think you meant ass, not as. Ass makes more sense. Just helping you out
INDY500
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Let me guess. The president didn't want to run the student loan industry. Why, he has enough on his plate fixing the economy, creating and saving jobs, managing two wars, reforming health care, overseeing the two car companies he didn't want to run either ...
Let me guess. The president didn't want to run the student loan industry. Why, he has enough on his plate fixing the economy, creating and saving jobs, managing two wars, directing health care reform...
This industry is already heavily government subsidized, so perhaps the government can share the profits instead of shouldering all the losses.
INDY500
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Sounds like the argument for Obamacare. We can only fix the problems in health care caused by government inefficiency, regulations, mandates and market distortions with MORE government inefficiency, regulations, mandates and market distortions.
Point taken, in the sense that there should be a broader discussion about the future of education and the cost of it. I'm concerned about anything that avoids "market forces" through loans, which just inflate the cost even more in the long run until even the loans are unaffordable.
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i actually feel kind of bad for the guy. his country is loaded to the gills with lunatics... then again, it's his fault for even wanting the job anyway. it's lose-lose.
note that i didn't say all americans are lunatics. obviously that's not the case... but holy shit do they ever come out of the woodwork in droves. the glen beck crowd are sure getting crazy with the cheez wiz these days.
note that i didn't say all americans are lunatics. obviously that's not the case... but holy shit do they ever come out of the woodwork in droves. the glen beck crowd are sure getting crazy with the cheez wiz these days.
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it appears as if Obama has made the mistake of speaking to the American people as if they are adults.
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haha, yes. that seems about right.
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