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Finally: President Obama steps up his attack on Republican attacks

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100929/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_iowa

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This is long overdue, IMO.

Treating these bottom feeders with respect is pointless. They deserve to be put in their place -- with their noses against the wall in detention!
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250 comments // Finally: President Obama steps up his attack on Republican attacks

  • daveinLA
  • daveinLA
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
    • iamaman  
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  • jimbones2045
  • iamaman
  • jimbones2045
  • iamaman
  • themotivateddropout
  • jimbones2045
  • iamaman
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • -2
      Ian_Judge_Lord  

    • The so-called, quote-en-quote "Tea Party" is NOT a "Grassroots Populist Movement"
      Populists, by definition, work for the best interests of the average civilian citizen, who in this nation are known as the "middle class"
      The "Tea Party" has repeatedly demonstrated that they could not care less what about the average person
      Because that's not who their "base" is
      the people they are directing their every communication at are NOT the "average" civilian citizen
      their focus is on the most radical, reactionary, fundamentalist extremist fanatics out there on the fringe

      These people are not thinkers; they are not scientists, they are not doctors, they are not nobel laureates, they are not professors, they are not teachers, they are not lawyers, they are not philosophers, they are not authors, they are not journalists
      They are not thinkers, they are NOT intellectuals
      These people do not think before acting
      they do not think after acting either
      they act WITHOUT thinking
      These are those people who have other people to do their thinking for them.
      These people do not ACT
      They REact
      these people are NOT activists
      they are REactionaries

      This is the "base" of the "Tea Party"

      The "Tea Party"'s goal is not to accomplish anything
      their goal is to PREVENT anything from being accomplished
      The "Tea Party's goal is not to achieve anything
      Their goal is to AVOID anything from being achieved
      Their goal is not to get anything done
      but to STOP anything getting done
      This is because they know that, when nothing gets done
      that they will then be able to blame it on those people who tried but failed to achieve anything,
      rather than on those who prevented anything from getting accomplished

      THIS is why they lose
      No matter how many electoral victories they might win
      they will ALWAYS lose
      and it is because governing is not about REACTING to what others say and do
      it is about getting things DONE
      It's not about promising to YOUR people what it is that you WON'T do
      or why they should NOT pick the "other" guy
      It is about KEEPING your promises to ALL of the people, about what you WILL do,
      and about telling those people why it is that they SHOULD choose you.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • -2
      Ian_Judge_Lord  

    • President Obama managed to achieve something that EVERY President, Democrat and Republican, has attempted and failed to accomplish for the past half a century
      President Obama has accomplished at least as much in less than two years than the previous Democratic President achieved in two terms, and much more than the last President, his predecessor, managed in eight years.
      Has President Obama done "enough"?
      Of course not.
      No one has EVER done "enough".
      No one will EVER do "enough".
      The simple fact is that there ALWAYS has been, and ALWAYS will be, MUCH more left still to do.
      No one could EVER do "enough".
      Nothing anyone does will EVER be "enough.
      No matter what ANYBODY ever does, there will ALWAYS be someone for whom they did not do "Enough".

      What i would like to know, from all of those whom are proposing that President Obama be replaced with someone else because he has not done "enough" is:
      WHO?
      Who would you replace someone who has NOT done "enough" with whom WILL do "enough".

      Like it or not, President Obama HAS actually done some real things.
      To replace someone who has actually DONE things with someone who done NOTHING, simply because you think that the person in question has not done "enough".
      Is there a rational person in this world to whom that makes even the slightest bit of sense?

      Has President Obama DONE things?
      YES
      Is what he has done "ENOUGH"?
      NO
      Of course not.

      But my question is: Who would you replace President Obama with who WOULD do "enough"?
      is there anyone out there in this world who could possibly EVER do "enough"?

      There is always more to do.

    • 1 year ago
  • PressCore
    • +1
      PressCore  
    • Ian_Judge_Lord:

      I think you missed the point others were attempting to convey.
      We don't give a rats ass what he's allegedly done for this country.
      He gets paid for that, amply. We only care what he's doing, and
      allowing to be done TO this country. To us that's all that maters.
      Continuing the Hitler Bush agenda is what I and others are refering to.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • -1
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • PressCore:

      What possible reason in the wide world of all things sane and rational would President Obama possibly have to NOT run for re-election on his legislative policy record as President once the 2012 elections roll around?!
      President Obama has accomplished as much in in the past two years since his inauguration
      as the last Democratic President managed to get done in two terms
      and one hell of a lot more than the last THREE Republican Presidents were ever capable of having done
      in TWENTY cumulative years in the Oval Office of the White House
      in just the last twenty short months President Obama has ALSO managed to achieve something which EVERY single President, from both parties, Democrat and Republican, Liberal and Conservative, has tried and FAILED to accomplish throughout the past half-of-a-century (50 years)
      The Republican Tea Party GOP minority in Congress (one of whom would be the only even quasi-viable pick to run against the sitting incumbent President two years from now) has not proposed one single piece of legislation,
      and has used the filibuster (the root term of which comes from the Dutch word for "Pirate") more than any legislature in the 300 year history of our nation's government;
      and has blocked, voted against, and voted down every single policy put forward by anyone in the government whom is not a so-called, quote-en-quote "Tea Party" Republican, and/or whom has actually been even the tiniest bit interested at all in actually GOVERNING the nation, or in actually getting anything done

    • 1 year ago
  • PressCore
    • +2
      PressCore  

    • That photo is just so ludicrous on so many levels I can't stop
      laughing. Maybe Pinnocho'bama thinks we pay him to practice
      his spiel in public as if he weren't killing time instead of DOING
      something to eliminate the impending disasters due to occur
      by 2020 when gasoline hits $10 a gallon as forecast, which will
      catch everyone flat footed, thanks to his gross negligence &
      incompetence. But then I guess it's difficult, if not impossible,
      to convince that grifter that because he netted the presidency
      hoop, that he really is executive material, when he knows he
      isn't more than an intellectual fool. Talking when he should be
      taking action proves it. What was it he sang at the Denver DNC
      convention Chain chain chain of fools. His Arrogance there was
      talking about us for ever voting for him. Doesn't it incense you
      to know the corrupt Democrats & corrupt Repugnant Cons decided
      they were going to stage a Monopoly, and manipulate you to vote
      for one just to vote against the other to play us against ourselves ?

      Don't support pinnocio'bama. Let the politicos pick someone
      honest like Dennis Kucinich/Ron Paul to replace this looser in
      the next primary. Putzes who talk about others talk because
      they're puppets who can't act aren't worth wasting your time on.
      Don't let them destroy our country because you don't care to
      preserve it from visionless losers like them. It doesn't make that
      son of a bitch a genuine leader because he's conned the sheeple
      into parroting his false claim he is because that's his show biz act.
      WAKE THE FUCK UP FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. IT DOESNT MATTER
      WHAT THAT PUPPET SAYS. IT'S ONLY A DISTRACTION TO MAKE
      YOU DROP YOUR GUARD !!!

    • 1 year ago
  • daveinLA
    • -2
      daveinLA  
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    • Obama promised a LOT, , , , but now all he can do is BLAME bush or blame the republicans, even tho the Democrats control the Senate AND the House.
      I now call him Barrack O'BLAMA. What a HUGE disappointment.

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • PigFarmington
    • -1
      PigFarmington  

    • Like this matters. Obomba attacks on republicans are useless when TagBaggers are voting people in who are racist. I don't even want to formulate the correlation, if you can't figure it out... then you probably still believe in a 2 party system.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dazedandconfused
    • +2
      Dazedandconfused  

    • Im honestly lost, i dont know who to believe on any topic its all just bias propaganda be it fox or stewart (who i love). Were all just running around with our heads cut off cause we have no real goals nothing real to believe in

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
  • JohnA
    • +1
      JohnA  
    • libertyman09:

      Everyone hated Bush, I think we have a consensus on that, I don't think there is an arguement. So why people are so anti Tea Party, a grass roots movement, taking over the Republican party from the neocons, I don't get. Kicking the neocons out of Washington is a good thing, in my opinion.

    • 1 year ago
  • hombre76
  • alexandrek
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • -2
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • JohnA:

      Have you ever heard of Americans For Prosperity or FreedomWorks?
      Dick Armey or David H. Koch?
      The so-called, quote-en-quote "Tea Party" is not a "Grassroots Movement" in any way, shape or form
      not by any rationally reasonable definition of the term
      A1.) it's not a "movement". There IS no "Tea Party" ticket, there has never been, and never will be, a "National Tea Party Electoral Nomination Convention";
      every single so-called quote-en-quote "Tea Party" candidate has run as a REPUBLICAN, on the REPUBLICAN ticket. and even if, goddesses forbid, the "Tea-Party" does take over the Republican caucus in Congress, they will STILL be called the REPUBLICAN party.

      B2.) It is NOT, allow me to repeat; it is NOT "Grassroots"
      not y any stretch of the imagination
      the so-called, quote-en-quote "Tea Party" WOULD NOT EXIST were it not for the funding by the multi-billionaire Koch Brothers ["Americans For Prosperity"], a former Republican leader in the House of Representatives, Dick Armey [FreedomWorks], and their endorsement by the long-time media mouthpiece of the Conservative Republican GOP, Faux "News" [owned by the Australian 117th Richest Person in the World and the 19th Richest person in the world, a Prince of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia]
      and their very own Televangelist, Glenn Beck (the one with the Messianic Martyrdom Complex the size of Alaska)

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
    • +1
      JohnA  
    • Ian_Judge_Lord:

      You're talking about all the groups gloming on to the Tea Party name in hopes of furthering their agenda, most of which have been discredited. I'm talking about the people, the voters, the ones that go behind the curtain and pull the levers in November. That is where the power of the Tea Party lies, not with some PAC that decided it might could raise some money if they used the name "Tea Party".

    • 1 year ago
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • -2
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • JohnA:

      The so-called, quote-en-quote "Tea Party" is NOT a "Grassroots Populist Movement"
      Populists, by definition, work for the best interests of the average civilian citizen, who in this nation are known as the "middle class"
      The "Tea Party" has repeatedly demonstrated that they could not care less what about the average person
      Because that's not who their "base" is
      the people they are directing their every communication at are NOT the "average" civilian citizen
      their focus is on the most radical, reactionary, fundamentalist extremist fanatics out there on the fringe
      These people are not thinkers; they are not scientists, they are not doctors, they are not nobel laureates, they are not professors, they are not teachers, they are not lawyers, they are not philosophers, they are not authors, they are not journalists
      They are not thinkers, they are NOT intellectuals
      These people do not think before acting
      they do not think after acting either
      they act WITHOUT thinking
      These are those people who have other people to do their thinking for them.
      These people do not ACT
      They REact
      these people are NOT activists
      they are REactionaries
      This is the "base" of the "Tea Party"
      The "Tea Party"'s goal is not to accomplish anything
      their goal is to PREVENT anything from being accomplished
      The "Tea Party's goal is not to achieve anything
      Their goal is to AVOID anything from being achieved
      Their goal is not to get anything done
      but to STOP anything getting done
      This is because they know that, when nothing gets done
      that they will then be able to blame it on those people who tried but failed to achieve anything,
      rather than on those who prevented anything from getting accomplished
      THIS is why they lose
      No matter how many electoral victories they might win
      they will ALWAYS lose
      and it is because governing is not about REACTING to what others say and do
      it is about getting things DONE
      It's not about promising to YOUR people what it is that you WON'T do
      or why they should NOT pick the "other" guy
      It is about KEEPING your promises to ALL of the people, about what you WILL do,
      and about telling those people why it is that they SHOULD choose you.

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • -1
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • JohnA:

      All that is going to become clear on the third of november will be how many congressmen and senators and how many congressional districts the so-called quote-en-quote Republican "Tea Party" GOP, with its Chamber of Commerce and Koch Brothers, was able to buy with unlimited multi-million-dollar anonymous funding of truthless attack ads

    • 1 year ago
  • noxidereus
    • 0
      noxidereus  

    • Republicans have gotten away with their bullshit for far too long. (and they will continue to get away with their bullshit so long as the American public remains mostly ignorant).

    • 1 year ago
  • dave_369
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
    • +1
      iamaman  

    • from link to one of Mike Shanklin's last posts:

      QUOTE

      ----I believe I am "more libertarian" than Ron Paul.

      ----The libertarian platform is pro-choice, religion apathetic, and against war (which so is Ron PAUL).

      UNQUOTE.

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • daveinLA
    • -2
      daveinLA  
    • Image

    • Obama showed his "street cred" by announcing that "the recession is over".
      Obama took time to proclaim a "Natl. Bi and Transgender Day" , ,,,,DURING THE BP OILSPILL.
      Sorry , but I am SO DISAPPOINTED in this president.

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • daveinLA
  • nanac
    • -3
      nanac  

    • Now it's time for the scared Democratic Congressmen and Senators to follow the courageous lead of President Obama...The Republicans need to be challenged in their dirty, deceptive, race baiting politics....

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • nanac
  • SpencerTreeGarden
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
    • +3
      iamaman  
    • SpencerTreeGarden:

      you can write a letter to this feller, here, at this address,

      The Honorable Barack Hussein Obama,
      President of the United States of America
      The Oval Office, The White House
      1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
      Washington, The District of Columbia

      you can thank IAN_JUDGE_LORD for posting that originally.

    • 1 year ago
  • Proud_Progressive
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • Proud_Progressive
  • iamaman
  • Proud_Progressive
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
    • +3
      iamaman  

    • every time someone wants to rag on the leader of my country, should i not try to defend him? Barrack Hussein Obama is my president and i am proud to be an American AGAIN!

      why is everyone afraid to say it? are they really ashamed? Did everyone forget that hillary had a shot at health reform once before? it doesnt matter if she wasn't ready at that time. we were ready at that time.

      i remember the first time that i herd that prick John Edwards promising universal healthcare during the Democratic convention, running for VP. the thick silent response from the crowd literally seemed to stun him as if he wasnt sure he was reading the right speech.

      people were afraid they were being lied to again. (i thought, "oh shit. what is Rush Limbaugh gonna say now?")

      that was then, this is now.

      Stick that in your pipe and smoke it for a while.

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • themotivateddropout
    • +2
      themotivateddropout  
    • iamaman:

      No you are not.

      "every time someone wants to rag on the leader of my country, should i not try to defend him? Barrack Hussein Obama is my president and i am proud to be an American AGAIN!"

      I wish I could vote this up again.

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • themotivateddropout
  • iamaman
  • kennymotown
    • +8
      kennymotown  

    • Time to reflect, stepping up to the plate and the bully pulpit President Obama (I love the sound off that) needs to wake up the sleeping giant that is America! Everyone who is willing to see and admit the Republican obstructionism has held this country hostage with attacks that are nothing short of lies! The difference is as clear as bell between the mega rich mouth pieces called Republicans and the Democrats that have tried so far with antiquated rules of the Senate too pass laws that we the majority want. When the dust settles in the fall and the Democrats still holding majority's in both house will be able to change the rules of the senate (filibuster rule 22) and no longer will this country be held hostage by the rich.

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
  • kennymotown
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
  • iamaman
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • +1
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • kennymotown:

      The worst thing a Democratic President ever managed to do was to have an extramarital elicit intimate sexual affair with a White House Intern,

      and now we have a Republican candidate for the United States Senate who is vehemently diametrically opposed to, shall we say... one-person solo sex

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • Ian_Judge_Lord
    • 0
      Ian_Judge_Lord  
    • iamaman:

      and the civilian casualties alone in he first 3 months of the bombing invasion and occupation of Afghanistan were 10 times again as many people as died in Manhattan on September 11

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • JohnA
    • -2
      JohnA  

    • I don't see how scolding supporters like a bunch of school children is going to get you that many votes.

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • JohnA
    • 0
      JohnA  
    • iamaman:

      That's the way it came across to me, especially that Rolling Stones interview. Buck up, it's inexcusible if you don't get out and vote, quit whining. Who is working for who here?

    • 1 year ago
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • iamaman
  • JohnA
    • 0
      JohnA  
    • iamaman:

      I thought the Rolling Stone interview was a bit overbearing. He seemed to be scolding his base, telling them they must go vote, he sounded like a school principle to me.

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
  • iamaman
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • daveinLA
    • -7
      daveinLA  
    • Einsam_Data_Old:

      Are you aware that the Democrats have the White House, and a full majority in the House, the Senate ? Are you not aware that if they can't pass a bill, it is because even some Dems have voted against it ? Just trying to blame "the other party" for everything is childish and moronic. Maybe it's time to grow up, Einstien.

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
    • 0
      remanns  

    • The Corporatist Republicans have NOTHING to offer but oppression, hypocrisy,... and parasitic "taking".......of everything they can as fast as they can,....and calling it "freedom". If the Democrats can do ANYTHING less harmful,....they ARE superior.

    • 1 year ago
  • Nick19
    • -3
      Nick19  

    • I really don't care too much if you ask me. I'm just waiting for that third party to form already. Republicans and Democrats are attacking one another obviously because its almost election time.

    • 1 year ago
  • sarasarasara
    • 0
      sarasarasara  
    • Nick19:

      Good luck with that. I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think just sitting around WAITING for a new party is pretty sad.

      You should attempt to DO something while you can, because it's likely that a third party will form and be even worse than the current two parties combined.

    • 1 year ago
  • themotivateddropout
    • +1
      themotivateddropout  

    • Consider the picket people that show up at Music Festivals and Democratic National Conventions. When you attack them back, they get louder, angrier, and more contradictory, but they never concede. Even you present adequate information on the subject being discussed, then they turn it around to "The problem isn't the idea, the problem is you!"

      Now apply said information to Republican attackers.

      Treat them like the picket people, ignore them.

    • 1 year ago
  • themotivateddropout
  • remanns
  • Sparky2U
    • -8
      Sparky2U  
    • Image

    • While Obama is attemtping to deflect blame of his failed leadership and his democratic hold on power slips away. The Senate and House have now dropped the ball to run home and not pass any bills. Very professional group right?

      "Congress punts tough choice until after election"

      WASHINGTON – A deeply unpopular Congress is bolting for the campaign trail without finishing its most basic job — approving a budget for the government year that begins on Friday. Lawmakers also are postponing a major fight over taxes, two embarrassing ethics cases and other political hot potatoes until after the Nov. 2 elections.

      With their House and Senate majorities on the line, Democratic leaders called off votes and even debates on all controversial matters.

      "It would be one thing if you have a chance to pass something, then by all means have a vote," Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said Wednesday. "But it was pretty clear that it was going to be mutually assured destruction."

      It was a messy end to a session fraught with partisan fire.

      "We may not agree on much, but I think with rare exception, all 100 senators want to get out of here and get back to their states," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is locked in a tough re-election fight against Republican Sharron Angle in Nevada.

      http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100929/ap_on_bi_ge/us_departing_congress;_ylt=Anqqk...

    • 1 year ago
  • brit50
    • -2
      brit50  
    • Sparky2U:

      This just shows how obviously the majority of American people are not happy with the majority party in Congress more specifically their policy agenda.

    • 1 year ago
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
    • +6
      BrushwithDeathToothpaste  
    • Sparky2U:

      The Democrats have not had any hold on power since Scott Brown got elected. They controlled congress all of 3-4 months after Al Franken was elected but wasted that time trying to work with Republicans. The president made the same error.

      The legislature cannot pass anything meaningful so there is no point in staying in session. I don't agree with this but I see the reason behind it.

    • 1 year ago
  • onemalefla
  • derk
    • +3
      derk  

    • I am not clear on why people on this thread are talking about the Democrats. This article is about one and only one party ... i.e. not the one that is lying/manipulating the public; the ones that are erroding American media like a levy in a flood.

      I recommend not getting caught up in any straw man argument that trys to make this a 2-party problem. That is like blaming the cleaning crew for making the mess that they are obligated to pick up.

    • 1 year ago
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