Media Abet Obama's Aloofness on Tough Issues

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  1. enlisted person

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    Do you notice that at every occasion, Obama seems to be talking down to people. Not an ounce of the self deprecating humor or humbleness that is the mark of a great leader in certain situations.
  2. MikeH92467

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    I'd say any information that's on there would be an accurate reflection of Administration policy. That's what you want isn't it? To know what the Administration's policy is, right?
  3. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    I think it's the word "verifiable" that's giving him trouble. After eight years of Truthiness, it's bound to be confusing...
  4. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Sounds like you're just insecure....

    ....an insecure baby that needs a daddy figure to hand him a pacifier.

    And people like you vote.

    No wonder our leaders have sucked eggs the past 30 years.
  5. Ward

    Ward A Stepford Husband

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    Trying to identify with your audience is just good strategery, after all.
  6. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    THAT'S fucking being talked down to.
    It's not at all subtle, is it?
    Remember how it tastes, it doesn't taste like paranoia.
    :diacanu:
  7. Ward

    Ward A Stepford Husband

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    It tastes like Kool-Aid, doesn't it??!?!?! :lol:
  8. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Keep it up, I wasn't going to vote Obama again, but you're making it clear four years of punishment wasn't enough.

    Would you...LIKE that? Is pain something you...enjoy?

    :diacanu:
  9. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    :derailed:
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  10. Uncle Albert

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    I gotta say, Obama comes off as more of a condescending, elitist snob than his two predecessors to me. At least he did for the total of 30 seconds I've spent listening to him since he first appeared on the radar.
  11. Muad Dib

    Muad Dib Probably a Dual Deceased Member

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    What is the administration's policy? :unsure:
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  12. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So your Snide Dismissal of Topic isn't limited to the written word. :techman:
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    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    Not anything. He could apologize, that might earn him a modicum of respect. Of course, if you'd meant to say we'd belittle, dismiss and sneer at anything he's likely to do, you're spot on.
  14. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    To reduce you to a level that makes Midnight Funeral seem like a Mensa candidate, and it's obviously succeeded.
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  15. Ward

    Ward A Stepford Husband

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    You're just teasing me now, right?

    :hopeandchange:
  16. Diacanu

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    All you ever needed to do...is abase yourself before me red-faced, and tear soaked, and hands prayer clenched, and Obama and his works would vanish from this dimension...you've known it all along, and your ego was just too important to you to make it stop.

    How...do you live with yourself?

    :no:
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    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    There is no point.

    We need to know more about the Republican candidates and their intentions because we have no idea how any will act as President. They are an unknown quantity.

    Obama is about as known as it gets. We've had three years of him as President so there is no having to put the pieces together to see what he will do as President b/c he is President. I don't know how to dumb it down any more than that.
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  18. MikeH92467

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    Well, when he went on his first world tour, the right wingers were all over him for his "apology tour". Ain't no pleasin' some folks.
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  19. Ward

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    So now that he's been president for 3 years you're giving the media carte blanche to not push him on the issues? Are you agreeing with garamet that all we need is whitehouse.org?

    :rolleyes:
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    See how easy that was?
  21. Ward

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    I just knew you were really Michelle. Even Obama himself couldn't stand that much kool-aid.
  22. Muad Dib

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    Go ahead. The faster the North finishes falling, the faster the South rises again.

    We win! :muad: :happydance:
  23. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Perhaps Ward can give us a comparison/contrast with other sitting presidents' activities in the year before the reelection campaign.

    What was Bush '43 doing in 2003 while the Democratic candidates were duking it out, for example?

    Bush '41? Reagan?

    We'll limit it to Republican candidates so Ward won't have to dirty his hands researching Democrats...
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    I've never understood the "conspiracy under every rock" mentality some people have.
    it always seems to be people they don't agree who are supposedly benefiting from these vast secret conspiracies too.
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  25. skinofevil

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    Like how Bush's uncle's cousin's third wife's stepson's college roommate's ex-girlfriend's boss's secretary's kid brother's ex-wife's Loyal Order Of Water Buffalos' Grand Poo-bah's niece's best friend's cat was the mascot of a guy who owned shares in Halliburton? That kind of conspiracy?
  26. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    :evidence:
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    And that was just on his mother's side. :diacanu:
  28. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Aw, this thread is a set-up. The minute Obama does get out there and do anything even remotely campaign-like, they'll all be :tantrum: "Why isn't he in the White House doing his jerb????"
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    http://bringiton22205.tripod.com/id6.html

    Skin bets you thought Skin would restrict himself to The Wrodfordge for examples. Skin didn't say it happened here, only that it happened. You may now kneel and kiss the ring. :diacanu:
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    [?=Spoilered for size, and NSFW]

    That one thrusting is clearly a Halliburton exec, the one on the table is Laura Bush, and the one behind them watching, it naturally follows, is Dubyah.

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