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His utter inexperience in anything like an executive position is now on full display and it's not a pretty sight.
Utter naivete as well, what the hell is a president doing wasting time demonising his critics ? He should be above such nonsense.
As for Corzine, just another multi-millionaire Democrat, NJ deserves better.
Mind you, thats a little unfair to Bush. He didnt dive in, it was all pre planned and calculated, they wanted Iraq's oil (outlined as far back as the Reagan administration by Rumsfeld and Cheney) and they got it. The means justify the end in criminal Republican eyes.
If thats what being 'tough' is all about, you can keep it. Personally I like a President whose calm and steady and not that keen to press the 'whup ass' button at every given opportunity. Sadly, most Americans call that 'weak governance' whereas we would call it 'intelligent reflection'.
Methinks the man represents amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity. In short, the very stuff of Nobels.
International politics is a far more complex matter, and one should be very careful not to threaten any sovereign country, whether allies or hostile enemies, to do things in a certain way....or else.
As for those so-called missile defenses for Poland and the Czech Republic, which was actually a project of the previous government, there are pros and contras as to their effectiveness . It might be wise for those countries to first weigh the consequences of installing such defenses on their territories.
The Russians according to news reports, had threatened to counter those missiles with their own.
and that would be a deadly tit for tat.
But whatever the U.S. does, the world won't want to have another Bush, Cheney, neo-con scenario!
Only in the eyes of the uninformed and brainless.
Anyone who looked beyond the maintream media hype and thought it through soon recognised him for what he is -a puppet of American sorporations, put there to facilitate the biggest looting exercise in all of history.
As everyone who knew the real game at the time commented, the change Obummer brings is pretty ugly: mass layoffs, wealth transfer to banks and other corrupt institutions, affirmation of torture and rendition, more war, more corruption and more lies. Perhaps even forced vaccination and internment camps. The volence inflicted on the innocent in Pittsburgh is indicative of the evil that lies behind the mask.
Forced vaccinations and internment camps..WHAT? THAT, too? How mean can one really get!!!
Plans to obliterate Iran...that was, and still is, Cheney's old man's dream. The naive idiot Obama spends more on the military - why do you think the U.S. has now a great econmic crisis, not only due to Madoff and banking community's abuses, but because the Bush government overspent to finance the two wars...or do military troops only get paid with popcorn and peanuts?
Dear fellow, a warmongering Republican revival would be a nightmare, and is definitely what the world does not need, because when they were in government, there was NO peace and tranquility.
Hello, Barack? It's me, Gordon. No, I I haven't called about the air-conditioning, it's me, Gordon. Gordon Brown. The Prime Minister of Britain. No, really it's me. Where's Tony? Och, he's off trying to become President of Europe. No, don't laugh, please, it's true. Many people support him for the position. He can do what? I'm not sure he could even fit it up there. In fact that's why I was calling, Barack, to see if I could get your support for Tony's bid to... Hello? Hello-hello? Och, the line's gone dead...
For someone with a short memory, surely you might at least remember the broken pieces of foreign relations porcelain?
Well, Mr. Obama, your president now, and who earns at the most, a little respect, made sure that the porcelain is almost ...glued back to its original form. Old Europe has forgiven - but not forgotten - the wilfull insults it had to bear just because its countries were not willing to sacrifice their soldiers for Bush's and Co.'s war games.
Aren't they glad now after yesterday's bomb caused once again deaths of long-suffering Iraqians. A reminder that Iraq, sadly, for some time still, will not be an oasis of peace and tranquility. This is what happens when a once
major power meddles in the affairs and lives of peoples of other countries. One need not even go into the matter of Afghanistan, whose future, too, seems uncertain.
Obama should just go on with what has to be done to make the U.S. healthy again in more ways than one. He has truly a difficult task, what with people ready to jump at him and malign him with every step. More power to him, I hope he gets tough to achieve his goal.
One shudders to think if he fails, we have the nightmarish
vision of a Palin, in full combat uniform on still another aircraft carrier mouthing: "Mission accomplished"!
Its disgusting how Palestinian detainees are being tortured to death in Palestinian Authority jails, (and gays and protesters are being summarily executed by Hamasy). We should agitate for the Palestinians to follow Israel's example where Palestinian prisoners (including convicted terrorists) in custody there are studying for Israeli university degrees (at Israeli taxpayers’ expense) and also given cable TV, IPods and dental treatment.
It really makes one thing clear: how desperate people were after Bush that. They lavished all the praise - and a halo - on Obama before he had even done anything. And now the poor guy is blamed for not delivering already.
It will take a long time to clean up Bush's mess, so he really needs our support rather than criticism (be it founded or unfounded).
What exactly has he changed?
He is a LIAR and a fraud.
Watch the Obama Deception free on Google video for the truth....
oooooo baaaaaaaaa maaaaaaaaaa
Speaking as a woman- our genitals have nothing to do with the way we do our jobs, or shouldn't. Please note that there aer female members of the NRA, BNP, the KKK....
Gender, sex, whatever you want to call it- get over it. If equality is truly to exist, people shouldn't be pigeon-holed based on their chromasomes.
He is the guy you meet at a party, leaning against the wall, next to the doorway, with a gorgeous woman leaning next to him, smoking a cigarette, smiling and greeting anyone who passes through, then whispering ridicule to the woman the moment they get out of earshot.
Months earlier he was a none event, then a daytime TV presenter much wealthier than any Republican & with far too much control within the media began to be the force behind the throne & the sad & pathetic followed like Lemmings.
Perhaps he will CHANGE something who knows? but given the near closure of his first year in office & the fact that all Presidential elections begin during the third year he'd better get his arse into gear because as yet he has changed absolutely bugger all & shows no sign of doing so.
Sadly by the time US Preseidents wake from the hangover of their election success time is so short to re-election they usually go out & bomb something, given the parlous state of the world & for the foreseeable future that option is only open to the madman & lets face it anyone that nails their colours so transparently to the shallowness of daytime TV are likely to drown in the deep waters of the real world.
His major announcements to the world include:
Got a dog just like I said I would.
Kids have had their flu jab.
Wife bit of an ace with the Hula Hoop.
I can't play golf & be in the White House.
I do most of my thinking on the golf course.
I do most of my thinking on the john.
John does most of my thinking for me.
Waterwings a positive boon to the shallows.
Nearest he'll get to thaving the X factor is the Cowell thing, no doubt singing something from his love of Oprah.
One didn't hear the slightest squeak of criticism when G.W. Bush was eight years in office, ruining the country inside and abroad. And one musn't forget, how many lost their lives in the two wars he indulged in...for his satisfaction?
The world also remembers how he phonily posed in full combat uniform on an aircraft carrier, when in truth, he was reported to have played truant at the time when he was
supposed to be in the military service, but got away with it, thank to his family's name.
Mrs. Obama's hulahooping seems harmless enough, compared to the shenanigans of the ex-president's twin daughters, who
spent much of their precious time, as reported, getting stoned once too often in discos, with their equally spoiled-brat friends. That's the kind of thing you admire, am I right? Enough said.
At least, hulahooping keeps one fit, a great way to lose weight, and a lot of fun...do you agree?
You mean like promising transparency and then doing everything behind closed doors, like saying no lobbiests on my team, then putting in dozens. Like insisting would only have people of integrity on his team, then hiring tax-cheats. Like saying the White House was not for sale - then renting it out to anyone willing to donate a buck to the Dems. Like saying he had a plan for Afghanastan during the campaign - but had nothing at all. Like saying he would take on the responsibility of the Job, but it's still all Bush's fault.
That's the problem - when you promise to do "What's Right" then you do the exact opposite. We aren't stupid, Obama.
This could not be further from the truth. He is in fact, a petty, small minded, thin skinned man, who remembers every slight and goes to war from his bully pulpit against anyone who criticizes him. He will fire salvos at Fox news - because he doesn't have enough fawning sycophantic boot licking media cheerleaders?- Republicans, business, doctors, radio talkers, anyone who gets in his way. Just don't ask for a decision about Afghanistan. He is Nixon 2.0. 2012 can't come fast enough.
There are so many inaccuracies, I don't even know where to begin. That 'spirit of bipartisanship' that you claim Obama (according to his campaign speeches) brings to the table is completely non-existent. It is a fact that Obama refused to meet with any Republicans for MONTHS early this summer when the Dems were busy crafting the first edition of healthcare reform. And the reason only one Republican signed on is because all conservatives rightly recognize that the government cannot run any program efficiently, so we aren't about to entrust 1/6th of the US economy to them.
Obama not a vengeful man? Conciliatory? Creates an atmosphere of no fear? Sir, if you actually believe this, you are obviously not a conservative living in Obama's new America of Hope and Change. Over the last 8 months, I have repeatedly heard this President and his right-hand Democrat leaders of Congress call me a nazi, un-American, a neanderthal, astroturf, and I was even labeled 'the enemy' by Obama himself. This White House under Obama has set up an email account and has asked regular American citizens to spy on and report other regular American citizens for their 'fishy emails and casual conversations' that go against the Democratic party line on healthcare. This President has instructed me to 'shut up and get out of the way' and accuses me of hating America simply because I disagree with him and his policies. For all of Bush's faults, he never once used the power of his office to marginalize, malign, and demonize fully half of the electorate simply for daring to disagree with him.
And I won't even touch on the fact that this conciliatory, non-vengeful man has gone after the one, the lone ONE, news network that isn't showering him with all the love and affection he so needs.
It is a very scary time to be a conservative in Obama's America, but you sure wouldn't know it by reading the 'hope-and-change' love story put forward by this and other news outlets. Can you really be THAT clueless?
millions are waking up daily to the fraud and treason that is taking place....
The Global Elite, Bilderberg group, and truth of 9/11 that the media are too scared to even talk about.
Instead they are ACCESSORIES to MURDER...
Obama is a fraud.
A global crime syndicate of elite people has seized control of the planet and is taking us to hell.....
WAKE UP!!
What has this administration accomplished?
Pass the question on.
I suppose the writer thinks that an openly jihad against Fox News, The U.S. Chamber of Comerce, and the insurance industry...all for daring to publish rebuttals to Obama's plans, does not constitute a petty, vengeful, thin-skinned little man?
This guy relishes harming ANYONE he does not like.
Witness how he sent his goons out to illegally dig around in the private records of a private citizen not even remotely involved in politics.
That man was Joe "The Plumber" Wurzlebacher.
This man is not a president.
He is Al Capone minus the scar and with darker pigmentation.
Brilliant
Sheep in a herd/cult following ooooo baaaaaaaaa maaaaaaa
This simply isn't true. Just because Obama's own mini-scandals aren't afforded the same media attention as Clinton's were doesn't mean they're not happening - to wit,
1. Henry Louis Gates
2. Van Jones
3. ACORN
4. Anita Dunn
5. Bitchy swipes at Fox News
How do these blemishes compare to Clinton's troubles from Jan-Oct '93?
1. Zoe Baird
2. HillaryCare
3. Travelgate
4. Vince Foster
5. Mogadishu
[Whitewater and Paula Jones = Jan and May '94 respectively.]
I contend that American journalism, while barely able in the Clinton era to fulfill meaningfully its obligations as the Fourth Estate, is by now so utterly and brazenly partisan that Obama's transgressions have been spun virtually out of existence: further, they are surely more fundamentally damaging to American society than Clinton's "mini-scandals."
Obama looked strong in campaign mode - now he looks and acts weak. I am sorry I ever voted him - Hillary would have done more!
the following year, dealing a crippling blow to the newly minted Democratic president of the time, Bill Clinton." Well, yes it is just what happened but some historians now claim that it also saved the Clinton presidency and enabled him to run for a second term and win. A problem with united government is that each side sees itself superior to the other and there is no need for negotiations because both are literally in charge. When one side is of another party, they must get along, they must negotiate. In short, the nation is best run when there are branches on each side of the tree, not on the same side.
Oh yeah, that Barack Obama...he's such a fragile flower. Considering that we can't get the people of Des Moines to understand this man, I suppose it's not fair to hold the people of the UK to a higher standard.
Barack Obama is a Chicago-styled politician. There is nothing nuanced, naive or gentle about him. He cracks skulls and asks questions later. Or rather, he has Rahm Emanuel do it for him.
For the life of me, I don't get the British love affair with him. He hates you guys for what you did to his Grandfather in Kenya and he intends to make you pay for it. Just as the US is to pay for EVERYTHING that ever went wrong in the world - EVER. And when his temper tantrum is over, the Republicans (sans the Bush family, we pray) will be left to pick up the mess. Who's going to pick up the UK's mess when he's done with you?
great nation. The mood, the hate, the spite and nastiness in your - and your friend's comments here, reminds everyone of how it must have been in the good old Wild West lynching days - not too long ago, think of it!