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| West replies to Obama's 'insult to me' remarks. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 20 2016, 07:23 AM (136 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | Sep 20 2016, 07:23 AM Post #1 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Best Allen West blog ever. http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/mr-president-youve-just-crossed-line |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Catseye | Sep 20 2016, 07:45 AM Post #2 |
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Pisa-Carp
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I can't speak to 'best' because I haven't read Allen West, but there is throughout this blog a sense of honest anger expressed by a well-informed man that I respect very much. I just have no way of knowing whether it is evenhanded or one-sided. Not that bloggers ever do that. The impression I am left with, with Obama, is largely the one I've had for most of his Presidency: He is a well-intentioned man who didn't know enough about how to do the job. In fact, not nearly enough. And too much ego to ask for help, so he committed what to me is the worst sin an elected can: He put self before country. He should've asked. In fact, Presidents always ask. It's not reasonable to expect a President to know everything. It is going to take years to fix what's broken as a result of that arrogance. Not that the American people are off the hook. They should have held his feet to the fire much more stringently before he was elected. Does it not seem now that his inadequacies would have been exposed? |
| "How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | |
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| Axtremus | Sep 20 2016, 08:17 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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No, he didn't. He pushed through the rescue of GM when the public was largely against government bail outs. He pushed through the ACA knowing full well that will make him less popular. He works to close Gitmo when that position is not popular. There is just no good justification to show that Obama put himself ahead of country. You're talking about GWB. The Iraq war was arrogant and ill advised, and has done much to squander the USA's international standing and influence. The mortgage bubble/financial crisis than unfolded late in GWB's presidency damned near break the free market capitalism as we know it, and is truly a broken mess that the Obama administration is spending years to fix. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 20 2016, 08:25 AM Post #4 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I don't think he did that. Where's the evidence that he himself—not his cabinet, not his administration, not his press secretary or his chief of staff, but Barack Obama himself—is purely ego-driven? Awhile back, he mentioned wealth inequality as (paraphrasing) the principal issue in America today. In fact he mentioned it more than a dozen times in that speech. Pundits flipped out and called it class warfare, and a lot of people agreed, so he walked it back that week. Way back. Later in the year, he was speaking to some advisors, and he told them the biggest thing they could do for him was to figure out a way to work on wealth inequality without being accused of engaging in class warfare. If he was an egomaniac, he'd have said fuck it, I'm doing it anyway. But he didn't. His thing is that he never stopped campaigning. It's all image, no substance. Sure, there's some ego in there but he's not Donald Trump, he doesn't do whatever the hell he wants all the time; he cares about the image too much. As for West, he's a crap writer.
Give me a fucking break, exactly how many ways do you want to chop this one up? Did he pull this one out of nonsenical hyperbole mad libs? |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Copper | Sep 20 2016, 08:43 AM Post #5 |
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Every example you mentioned is exactly Obama putting himself ahead of country. There is a big difference between "pushing through" and negotiating. If the proposal is unpopular all that means is that it is unpopular, it doesn't mean that it is right. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Sep 20 2016, 08:48 AM Post #6 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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You wanna talk about deplorable, his erosion of power separation between the Branches comes pretty close to the definition. It's a very bad precedent to set. But to be fair, you know damn well that these days a Congressman's more likely to fart arcade tokens than work across the aisle on any initiative, so when you're getting jammed up "just because," well, this is the kind of thing that can happen. When no one compromises anymore, you get unilateral decision-making. |
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| Copper | Sep 20 2016, 08:48 AM Post #7 |
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The story about the "video riot" in Benghazi is enough for me. He made up that story because he thought it would help get him reelected. And if he didn't personally make it up there can't be much question that he supported it. And all the Iranian activity for the last year is about his legacy, nobody thinks it is a good idea to send money and weapons to a regime that has vowed death to America. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Copper | Sep 20 2016, 08:50 AM Post #8 |
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Yup. But that is still the job. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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