So, all the conservatives bitching about Obama's lack of leadership and his inabillity to get anything done he promised-first off, whoa, a president went back on some of their campaign ideas?!?! Call the presses, we've got a real breaking news story here!
Second, and more seriously...are any of those conservatives aware that they are part of the reason WHY Obama can't get shit done? The minute he supports an idea that a Republican originally supported (see Romneycare, which turned into Obamacare), the Republicans stopped supporting it. They fillibuster like crazy. They drum up insane scare tactics-death panels! Socialist/communist overthrow! No more guns!-that for some reason work on people in this country and make them turn against ideas that are quite good and that don't have squat to do with the horrorland the Republicans have come up with. They help many bills die before they even reach Obama's desk. And so on. Yes, Obama shoulders some of the blame. He needs to get tougher. He needs to find a better strategy to outline why his ideas will be good for us. He needs to rally the Democrats (and independents) to help gain support for his ideas.
But for the Republicans to sit there and complain about a situation they've had a big hand in creating within the last four years is hilarious.
Also, Mrs Garrison, excellent rant about Afghanistan, you get no argument from me on that one. Particularly the bit about spending so much money to make their country stronger and get those people better jobs and better living conditions and such when we can't even seem to do that here in our own country.
But I think Diemen raises a good point, too. The "you break it, you bought it" strategy makes sense-if we're willing to go into other countries, patronize their citizens, disregard any way of life they seem perfectly happy with to try and enforce ours onto them, and destroy their nation and kill their people in the process...yeah, we should probably find some way to clean up that massive mess.
The tip off should have been Barack Obama's "gaffe" (Michael Kinsley's definition of a gaffe made by a politician is when he tells us how he truly thinks by accident) back in 2008 when he derisively described people who live in small-towns as bitter people who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them."
...yeah, I've lived in those rural areas. I remember people making a big stinking outrage over that quote.
And then I remember many of those very same people turning around and proving that quote to be true. Look at how gun sales have risen since Obama became president, because of some bizarre fear that he'll take away the guns these people supposedly don't cling to. Look at how obsessive people about what religion Obama REALLY is.
There is some very strong truth to that quote. Believe me.
Let's protect women from the GOP
Yes, please, can we?
. What an intelligent argument against Obama being made by that person.
You have terrible heuristics. I assume starting a giant financial crisis was a great George W. Bush policy because it made gas prices crash? Maybe Obama should do it?
