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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: InfidelSerf on November 09, 2009, 09:46:43 AM
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source (http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/lawmakers-detail-obamas-pitch/)
Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
Talk about extremely distasteful, he should be taken to the mat on that comment.
Of course it will be largely ignored. Once again the hypocrisy knows no bounds. ;/
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source (http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/lawmakers-detail-obamas-pitch/)
Talk about extremely distasteful, he should be taken to the mat on that comment.
Of course it will be largely ignored. Once again the hypocrisy knows no bounds. ;/
I'm unsurprised. President Obama is a horrible individual who hides behind a "nice" persona that is supported by fictions in the media.
He has a point. However, the democrats who turned failed to realize that although they may not get SUPPORT from the Tea-party goers, the strength of their opposition is DIRECTLY related to how they vote over destroying our country('s healthcare).
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Notice how those who attend "tea parties" have become "tea baggers" to those on the left?
I thought it was just a mis-statement, but now I've no doubt the usage is deliberate; I just found out that "tea bagging" is street slang for some peculiar homosexual practice.
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To be fair, the tea-party people had used the term first:
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To be fair, the a single member tea-party people had used the term first after the democrats had already called them that:
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FTFY
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Look carefully at the lower left-corner of the poster. IT's been supplied by FreeRepublic.com for people to print and distribute. There's probably more than one of these out there.
Not that I mind either way .:D
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Can you imagine the uproar that would ensued had Bush said such a thing?
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I'm unsurprised. President Obama is a horrible individual who hides behind a "nice" persona that is supported by fictions in the media.
He has a point. However, the democrats who turned failed to realize that although they may not get SUPPORT from the Tea-party goers, the strength of their opposition is DIRECTLY related to how they vote over destroying our country('s healthcare).
The problem is not all the Democrats come from districts that have a strong base like that to elect Democrats. Many of them don't want that negative publicity.
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You mean like when he flipped the bird to the camera guy? That was a big old poop storm....they called him every name in the book.
Can you imagine the uproar that would ensued had Bush said such a thing?
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Look carefully at the lower left-corner of the poster.
Don't you mean the "other left" ? :laugh:
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Look carefully at the lower left-corner of the poster.
It looks like it was hand-written with marker. Or did you see them on their website? ???
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It looks like it was hand-written with marker. Or did you see them on their website? ???
I was assuming that since the letters of the slogan were printed, so was the entire thing.
Either way, my only point is that, in the great scheme of things, 'insulting people who insult him' is not the most important of Obama's issues.
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Ah, yes. I forgot you are APS's self-appointed Issue Importance Czar.
Still, the contrast between Bush and Obama, in the way they respond to criticism, is remarkable.
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Ah, yes. I forgot you are APS's self-appointed Issue Importance Czar.
Still, the contrast between Bush and Obama, in the way they respond to criticism, is remarkable.
Both of them are doing it wrong, no?
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Bush never criticized his critics, never went after the media, and certainly never had an "enemies" list. He took jabs at him in stride.
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i can't wait to see how THE obama does at dodge shoe :angel:
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i can't wait to see how THE obama does at dodge shoe :angel:
The shoe would be deflected by a teleprompter.
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Both of them are doing it wrong, no?
I was thinking of anti-war demonstrations and other protests.
Bush, to my recollection, always said something like, "I understand that some people disagree, and that's their right. But I'm doing what I believe we need to do for our country."
Obama's reaction is always very demeaning and dismissive.
Bush's way was far more presidential.
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Bush's way was far more presidential.
Clinton was more presidential. (It really hurt to say that).
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You think Clinton's response to popular criticism was more presidential? Why?
I assume you're not referring to the way he blamed Rush Limbaugh for the OK City bombings.
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What is it about you people and tea? Cant you leave our national beverage (the one that isnt an alcopop) alone?
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You think Clinton's response to popular criticism was more presidential? Why?
I don't remember Clinton's attacks on Limbaugh and others to be so coordinated, with his minions in the press parroting the talking points. Could just be memory loss, though.
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Order of presidential-ness:
GW > WJC > BHO
IMO.
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Every other president > BHO
Fixed it for you. ;)
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Every other president > BHO
Fixed it for you. ;)
Even Coolidge?
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Carrot Top is more presidential. =)
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Carrot Top is more presidential. =)
Joe Biden is more presidential :)
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Joe Biden is more presidential :)
Ouch. :lol:
Just by a smidgen, though.
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What is it about you people and tea? Cant you leave our national beverage (the one that isnt an alcopop) alone?
if your drinking tea out of a bag, no i will not leave it alone >:D nasty stuff what comes in those bags. [tinfoil] now if your drinking real tea, grab a chair and a cupa :angel:
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Even Coolidge?
Coolidge is one of my favorites and likely the last to truly appreciate the Constitutional limitations on the POTUS.
A fine example of inactivism as to be found anywhere.
One of y'all APSers has one of his sayings as a sig. Somethign like:
"If you see ten problems rolling down the road toward you, nine will end up in the ditch before they get to you."
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>Could just be memory loss, though.<
Quick Dick, what's your name again? :P >:D
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Clinton was more presidential. (It really hurt to say that).
I'm not sure playing hide-the-cigar with young interns is anything even remotely presidential.
=|
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Joe Biden is more presidential :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ)
:)
Truly, I believe Obama is terribly disrespectful of the office he occupies.
Hell, I was mad when I heard that he doesn't require a jacket and tie in the Oval Office.
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295 days down, 1166 days to go.
Will the Republic survive ?
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A *expletive deleted*bag talking about a teabag......
It does have a certain symmetry.
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Hell, I was mad when I heard that he doesn't require a jacket and tie in the Oval Office.
Better that than a guy who doesn't require pants in the Oval Office. :P
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Hell, I was mad when I heard that he doesn't require a jacket and tie in the Oval Office.
Doesn't bother me; someone has to stop the fashion madness. Kennedy was the first president to go about without a hat; I'm sure that seemed disrespectful to a lot of people.
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Hell, I was mad when I heard that he doesn't require a jacket and tie in the Oval Office.
I can't argue with not requiring a jacket/tie. I really hate ties...very uncomfortable.
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Doesn't bother me; someone has to stop the fashion madness. Kennedy was the first president to go about without a hat; I'm sure that seemed disrespectful to a lot of people.
Apparently, the Kennedy w/o hat notion is a bit of a myth. I think maybe Snopes has an article about it.
Here it is: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/jfkhat.asp
Anyway, I've never seen any indication that walking about sans hat is seen as being disrespectful. If anything, it seems to have been taken as a sign of poverty way back when. Or so I thought. Maybe it was a bit of a riding into Jerusalem on a colt, the foal of a donkey kind of thing. :) OK, not really.
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Considering that it was a private pep talk, he probably never thought it would get out. He has made other slips in the past and that just shows his lack of polish and self-control. I doubt it will make that big of a splash. Most of his supporters already refer to the tea partiers as *derogatory term deleted* and it is pretty widely used. Granted, it doesn't make it any less insulting, but it is hard to be surprised that the president used this term.
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To be fair, the FreeRepublic.com used the term in retaliation of CNN's supposed unbiased news anchor Anderson Cooper (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21384.html), former President Bill Clinton (http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1109/clinton_we_are_winning_c3243bd1-33d6-42a7-ab70-5bae329fdc6e.html), President Obama (http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/lawmakers-detail-obamas-pitch/) and many many others on the left. Please note the "FreeRepublic.com" signature at the bottom of the protesters sign as well as the time line of each when they first started using that term.
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Fixed your post for you......
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I can't argue with not requiring a jacket/tie. I really hate ties...very uncomfortable.
Most of the discomfort there comes from having an undersized dress shirt for too long. As years go by, weight tends to increase - as does neck size. Get the next size (or half size) up, and your discomfort will likely go away.
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Most of the discomfort there comes from having an undersized dress shirt for too long. As years go by, weight tends to increase - as does neck size. Get the next size (or half size) up, and your discomfort will likely go away.
and for the love of God, get rid of the clip on (http://www.tie-a-tie.net/) [tinfoil]
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A *expletive deleted*bag talking about a teabag......
It does have a certain symmetry.
Enough. Stick a fork in this one.