Obama: spineless

[Torvald Von Mansee]

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As all you right wingers on this site make over a million a year, I'm sure, I'll bet you're overjoyed!!!

[the_tyrant]

SSDD

[mookiemookie]

Republicans voted to raise your taxes at the end of 2010. George W. Bush signed that into law. That's a fact. That's history. So now these are known as the Obama tax cuts.

Or they would be if his handlers knew jack about marketing political messages.

Are you kidding? Is the left coming to terms with Barack Obama?

is that not racizt?

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Republicans voted to raise your taxes at the end of 2010. George W. Bush signed that into law. That's a fact. That's history. So now these are known as the Obama tax cuts.

Or they would be if his handlers knew jack about marketing political messages.

Crazy is just that.

[Platapus]

Politics is all about compromise. No one ever gets 100% of what they want. . There are always trade-offs.

Obama got an extension to the unemployment that he wanted and compromised to a 2 year extension to the tax cuts instead of a permanent change.

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto Von Bismark, 1867

[Takeda Shingen]

I would not want to be President Obama. If he does not compromise with Team R, he is a socialist idealogue. If he does compromise with Team R, he is a spineless POS. Talk about having the deck stacked against you.

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

I would not want to be President Obama. If he does not compromise with Team R, he is a socialist idealogue. If he does compromise with Team R, he is a spineless POS. Talk about having the deck stacked against you.

You can alawys blame it on the neo=Cons who were 1960s liberals who disavowed Manson like violence.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

I would not want to be President Obama. If he does not compromise with Team R, he is a socialist idealogue. If he does compromise with Team R, he is a spineless POS. Talk about having the deck stacked against you.

Sucks to be president.

To be President of the United States is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client... - John Updike

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

I would not want to be President Obama. If he does not compromise with Team R, he is a socialist idealogue. If he does compromise with Team R, he is a spineless POS. Talk about having the deck stacked against you.

A while back, I was at a business luncheon with some clients of one of my bosses. They were fairly unsophisticated and very very East Texas...we were having pleasant conversation until one of them started on on the then-newly elected Scott Brown and how it was a great triumph. She followed that up by saying that any Republican who didn't vote with the rest of them should be kicked out of the party.

Your comment was what I said, as it was the most non-partisan and innocuous way I could steer the conversation someplace else, before I pointed out what and idiot she was. I remember saying something like "You know, I wouldn't be president for all the money in the world. You can never please anyone - be it the other side or your own base. There's a good reason they age so fast." It worked.

No real point to that story. That comment just reminded me of it.

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Republicans voted to raise your taxes at the end of 2010. George W. Bush signed that into law. That's a fact. That's history. So now these are known as the Obama tax cuts.

Or they would be if his handlers knew jack about marketing political messages.

This, my friends, is known as "spin".

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Aramike

This, my friends, is known as "spin".

Yep it is. You've stated the blatantly obvious. I was giving an example of how this could be used for political spin. I even said that in my post.

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Yep it is. You've stated the blatantly obvious. I was giving an example of how this could be used for political spin. I even said that in my post.

Relax, Grasshopper. I just thought it was funny.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Aramike

Relax, Grasshopper. I just thought it was funny.

They need to hire me as a Washington spinmeister.

[Ducimus]

I was wondering why he nuckled under when i saw the news, then i read this:

Referring to the bitter wrangling over the issue, Mr Obama said he would not "let working families become collateral damage for political warfare".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11933043

That's a reasonable explanation i suppose. TeamR got TeamD backed into a corner with no way out except to either pass schit, or let everything suffer because of TeamR being obtuse. Which of course, team D will get the blame for, regardless. So, there you have it. In the world of politcs, all you have to do is hold your breath, and pout like a 5 year old tell you get what you want.