HyperU2
War Child
I think the sarcasm was clear in her post. Typical Lib, changing their story.
I'll get from it what I want. She wants me dead.
I think the sarcasm was clear in her post. Typical Lib, changing their story.
I'll get from it what I want.
Obama is taking serious heat from gay rights groups here in CA, they are threatening to sit out mid term (2010) elections.
Gay rights demonstrators call on Obama to abolish "don't ask, don't tell"
I know what I'm doing.
I am glad Obama has taken a firm stand on "No more Israeli Settlement expansion of any kind"
This is way over due from our State Departments.
Isn't that one of the most common last lines of Darwin Award winners?
"Mr. President," he was asked, "you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?"
"Yes," began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our lives as Americans on our history. "It really is. I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander in Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as — to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
Golf, sir? Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq? Do you think these families, Mr. Bush, their lives blighted forever, care about you playing golf? Do you think, sir, they care about you?
(skipping ahead)
When somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead.
This advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up!
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama hit the golf course after marking his first Memorial Day as commander in chief.
The president's motorcade took him to Fort Belvoir in Virginia. That's where he went for a game of golf more than a week ago.
Obama grabbed his clubs after he participated in Memorial Day observances at Arlington National Cemetery. He laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and, in brief remarks, saluted the men and women of America's fighting forces as "the best of America."
It was not immediately clear who joined the president for the round of golf.
From Keith Olbermann's special comment from May 2008:
Press was not allowed, no photos or video exists. Maybe the president didn't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander in Chief playing golf'... on Memorial Day.
Boy, imagine the neck-vein-popping special comment GWB rushing off from the wreath laying ceremony to play golf would have produced.
Hey Keith. Fore !!
Olbermann is saying that giving up golf is a stupid, shallow, pointless gesture (I agree wholeheartedly, and I can't stand Olbermann), so I doubt he'd have a problem with Obama playing golf.
He'd damn well have a problem with Bush playing golf, that's the point.
It was very important that the American people knew that their President was doing everything possible to end the War.
That he had a personal stake in the duration, that each day the War went on, he was paying a price, too.
Um, that entire snippet from Olbermann you posted states the contrary. The problem he had was not with the golf playing, it was with the ridiculous gesture Bush was making by not playing golf, in some bizarre, twisted show of sympathy. As though not playing golf is going to ease the pain of parents whose children were killed in the war. Please.
"If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it. There is a dictionary definition. One word that describes that toxic blend - you're a fascist! Get them to print you a T-shirt with fascist on it."
How about Olbermann's Feb '08 Special Comment about telecom immunity?
What are the odds we get a Special Comment Monday when the government and General Motors join together in that toxic blend? Was "dictionary fascism" on Keith's lips when the federal government seamlessly took control in several of the nations largest banks?
Or for that matter, was there a call for Senator Obama to wear a printed fascist t-shirt when he voted for the FISA bill with immunity as a senator or since then, as now president, made no gesture to change or repeal the law?
I'm talking about the double standard. If you find him obnoxious and the flip side of Rush Limbaugh then we agree about something.
Both these Special Comments were discussed on earlier threads with the general consensus that "Keith nailed it." No doubt with extra points for calling Bush a fascist and to "shut the hell up." But then they probably operate under the same double standard and in the same bubble as Keith.
Sorry to get you all riled up.
You obviously have no appreciation for the game.
I don't like sensationalistic media from either end of the political spectrum. It's very undignified and chock full of bias. I prefer to get my news from less shouty sources. I recall that while there were some Olbermann defenders on here, there were also quite a few liberals who feel pretty much the same way I do about him.
You didn't rile me up, it was your buddy Bush. I know there's no chance we'll ever agree on anything politically, but I just find it astonishing that anyone could defend Bush's exercise in golf deprivation. It may have been well intentioned, but it was seriously plain dumb and insulting.