President Obama - Profiles in Leadership

[sean miguel]

Don't forget porn and a picture of Wormy on your wall to thwart off evil spirits...

Yes, that goes without saying though a picture of Worm would fulfill both purposes.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Bill Clinton; Bathhouse Barry Sotero; Lyndon Johnson; Al Gore; Barney Frank; Whorehouse Harry; Anthony Wiener; Jon Edwards; Hildebeast Clinton; Gary Hart; Joe Biden; Rob Blogojevich; all scumbag democrats. It is amazing how many lowlife scumbags you prog/commie/leftist folks hold up as saviors.

Look fool I have had this arguement with much better than you.
First, I am not and never will be a leftist if you read any of my posts with any kind of an open mind you would see I'm a gun packing, Capitol punishment pushing, flag waiving American. I would take the time to pick your list apart but why bother the fact is we humans a flawed,every last one of us, yes even you Ace. But what your list lacks are the GOP/tea party freaks like Mr Cruz/Rand Paul/Michele Bachmann/Sarah Palin serve no one but their own burning need to control/dominate and in the end screw over us all.
I will always forgive someone for having human flaws I will never forgive a person for imposing their flaws on me.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

I don't hold up any politician as a "savior."

No, that was democrat voters in 2008 swooning over Obama and who believed he would lower the sea levels (and probably walk on it.)

I think there needs to be a healthy irreverence towards our elected officials. They are our employees. We are their boss. As I said, I view them as a necessary evil. Otherwise you end up with what you have in North Korea.

This is one of my favorite parts in the movie Clear and Present Danger where James Earl Jones as the CIA Deputy Director explains who the boss is:

Yet you support the very party that is trying to make corporations people??
The same party that wants 'less' government while inflicting their morale code on everyone.
But I can't expect someone who roots for a morally bankrupt collage football program to look at anything objectively. The win at all costs mentality is a major problem in this country.

 

[MustBeGood]

Yet you support the very party that is trying to make corporations people??
The same party that wants 'less' government while inflicting their morale code on everyone.
But I can't expect someone who roots for a morally bankrupt collage football program to look at anything objectively. The win at all costs mentality is a major problem in this country.

And the same party that is homophobic, but won't put a link on a post on the ------------------------- board you posted a pic

Crack me up!

 

[sean miguel]

Yet you support the very party that is trying to make corporations people??
The same party that wants 'less' government while inflicting their morale code on everyone.
But I can't expect someone who roots for a morally bankrupt collage football program to look at anything objectively. The win at all costs mentality is a major problem in this country.

Huh? WTF?

As far as a moral code being imposed what do you think political correctness is?
Who's pushing to limit "hate speech" on college campuses or in the public arena?

And talk shit about Ted Cruz and the GOP all you want but leave the Ducks out of this. Don't hate them because they score early and score often. Hold on, they just scored again.

 

[pool_hustler]

No. I wholeheartedly believe he hates white Americans

So does that great paragon of rationality, Glen Beck
Talk about divisiveness...

I guess Obama must have hated his own mother too, being as she was white.

and that he views the Constitution as a nuisance.

It would seem an odd choice then, that he spent 12 years teaching about a nuisance.
In contrast, 3 GOP congressional leaders shared an account of George Bush referring to The Constitution as "just a goddam piece of paper".

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

It would seem an odd choice then, that he spent 12 years teaching about a nuisance.
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He was a part-time guest lecturer.

And there's the fact that he sat in Jeremaiah Wright's church for twenty years and pretended like no racist bullshit was going on there.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

And then there's this: OBAMA WROTE IN HIS MEMOIR THAT AT AGE 13 HE NO LONGER CONSIDERED THE WHITE IN HIM. IN FACT OBAMA SAID “I CRINGE AT THE THOUGHT OF WHITES. I WILL SIDE WITH MUSLIMS FIRST.”

 

[pool_hustler]

And then there's this: OBAMA WROTE IN HIS MEMOIR THAT AT AGE 13 HE NO LONGER CONSIDERED THE WHITE IN HIM. IN FACT OBAMA SAID “I CRINGE AT THE THOUGHT OF WHITES. I WILL SIDE WITH MUSLIMS FIRST.”

When one places quotation marks around a statement they are representing that statement as one a person has actually made, in exactly those words; i.e. verbatim.
.....and of course Obama has never written or said what is quoted above.
Furthermore, he never wrote that at age 13 he no longer considered the white in him.


From a google search it appears what you posted is hosted on a tiny number of virulently anti-Obama blogs - pinterest and tumblr seem to be the primary hosts lol - here's an amusing example http://www.pinterest.com/PatriotAZ/anti-obama/ :1oglaugh - that dredged this "information" from ancient viral emails that have long since been completely debunked.
Readily debunked as well, by people who have actually read his memoirs and are thus familiar with his writings and their context.

He was a part-time guest lecturer

No, he was not a guest lecturer.

statement from The University of Chicago Law School: "The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer." From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors."

regarding his part-time status

"Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching."

Indeed. During his last six years as a senior lecturer at U of C law school Obama was also serving as an Illinois State senator.
He was offered a full-time tenure track position, but his career in politics/public service prevented him accepting it.

 

[pool_hustler]

From a google search it appears what you posted is hosted on a tiny number of virulently anti-Obama blogs - pinterest and tumblr seem to be the primary hosts lol - here's an amusing example http://www.pinterest.com/PatriotAZ/anti-obama/ :1oglaugh - that dredged this "information" from ancient viral emails that have long since been completely debunked.
Readily debunked as well, by people who have actually read his memoirs and are thus familiar with his writings and their context.

The manufacture of these sorts of mangled paraphrases, misrepresentations. distortions and outright lies have become extremely commonplace during Obama's presidency. Sadly, this sort of fear mongering propaganda does nothing but (as intended) further divide the American people, make those who accept it as gospel look seriously misinformed, and undermine the credibility of legitimate conservative journalism.

 

[Johan]

McConnell And Obama Are Already Planning To Undercut Liberal Democrats In Congress


Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that he and President Barack Obama are already discussing plans to cut corporate tax rates and pass free trade agreements, following the GOP's major gains in Tuesday's elections.

The comments from McConnell, who is expected to become the next Senate majority leader, shed light on the Republicans' potential strategy next year. For months, Republicans have argued that if they controlled both chambers of Congress, Obama would have to moderate his own liberal positions and give more ground in legislative talks. But McConnell's early agenda suggests a different strategy: He will seek to exploit economic policy rifts between Obama and congressional Democrats to press for deals on issues where the president and Republicans already agree.

"Trade pacts," McConnell said at a press conference Wednesday. "The president and I were just talking about that, right before I came over here. Most of his party is unenthusiastic about international trade. We think it's good for America, and so I've got a lot of members who believe that international trade agreements are a winner for America."

The senator added, "I think he's interested in moving forward. I said, 'Send us trade agreements. We're anxious to take a look at them.'"

Obama has struggled to sell Democrats on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a pact his administration is negotiating with 11 other Pacific nations. Leaked drafts of the text have sparked a host of liberal concerns. Consumer advocates are worried about potential restrictions on food safety and other regulations, environmentalists fear it will undermine environmental protections, and global health experts are concerned it will curb access to low-cost generic medicines.

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman has a testy relationship with many Democrats in Congress and with many liberal policy organizations, who accuse him of making promises on key Democratic priorities and then retracting them as trade negotiations continue.

Large swaths of the Democratic Party are simply wary of free trade deals in the mode of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement. Some studies have concluded that such deals exacerbate income inequality and depress wages. While the NAFTA and World Trade Organization treaties have helped to expand overall U.S. economic growth, many economists argue they have had substantial negative consequences for American workers.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, however, is a strong supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has not yet been finalized. The pre-eminent American corporate lobbying group almost exclusively supports Republican candidates.

Tax reform could prove somewhat less controversial among congressional Democrats -- although Obama has supported a plan to close corporate tax loopholes and reduce the corporate tax rate for years with nothing to show for it.

"The president's indicated he's interested in doing tax reform," McConnell said Wednesday. "We all know having the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world is a job exporter." He added, "[Obama]'s interested in that issue and we are, too."

The U.S. does have a high official rate of 35 percent for the largest corporations. But a 2013 Government Accountability Office report found that extensive loopholes and tax credits allow companies to pay an average rate of just 12.6 percent, which is in line with or below the rates of other developed countries.

Obama has supported "revenue-neutral" tax reform, in which all the revenue gains from closing corporate loopholes would be balanced by the losses from lowering the corporate rate. Many Democrats would prefer to use at least some of those revenues to fund progressive policy items. Republicans generally favor corporate tax cuts.

Also on Wednesday, the president said he would be open to providing a corporate tax holiday -- known as "repatriation" in tax circles -- in which for a period of time, companies with cash stashed overseas would be allowed to bring it back to the U.S. at a reduced rate. Democrats in Congress are generally skeptical of the idea, and studies suggest that the Bush administration's 2004 effort served to drive up the deficit without creating jobs.

Obama said he would consider using the immediate revenues generated by a tax holiday to help finance a broader legislative package that would include Democratic priorities like infrastructure spending.

"Repatriation," Obama said. "There is an opportunity for us to do a package that is good for business, good for jobs."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/05/mcconnell-obama_n_6109668.html

So now that the Republicans are in control of the Senate and the House, Mitch McConnel and Barrack Obama can serve their donors, cut taxes on the rich and the corporations, move forward on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. 'cause when it comes ot economy, Obama and the GOP share the same policy : Please the rich and the coroporations as much as you can, a the expense of the American people.

 

[mongo18]

And there's the fact that he sat in Jeremaiah Wright's church for twenty years and pretended like no racist bullshit was going on there.

Yeah, if there's one thing we know the republican party can't stand, it's racism!

 

[MustBeGood]

Crack me up.

Reading people quoting Ace even though on ignore, WOW!

Race this, race that. Bitch, bitch, bitch. acing:

I should find some of the stuff he types on here, find a ghost writer (since my grammar sucks! ) and get payed from a book called "Life of Internet Forum Single Minded Loser".

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Huh? WTF?

As far as a moral code being imposed what do you think political correctness is?
Who's pushing to limit "hate speech" on college campuses or in the public arena?

And talk shit about Ted Cruz and the GOP all you want but leave the Ducks out of this. Don't hate them because they score early and score often. Hold on, they just scored again.

Second biggest payroll in football behind Alabama.
They do things the wrong way I've been to Eugene what 18 year old athletic kid is going to choose to live in that crappy little town?? Oh yeah the one whose mom got a free house that's who.
Political correctness is ignorance at it zenith.

 

[Johan]

GOP Strategist: Democrats Blundered by Hiding Barack Obama


Republicans explain what they would have done differently if working for the Democrats

Republican operatives still relishing their Senate election victory offered some unlikely criticism of their Democratic opponents’ campaigns Thursday.

“They sidelined the president,” Rob Collins, the Executive Director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) told reporters at a backslapping post-election briefing. Instead, Collins argued, Democrats shouldn’t have been scared off by Republican attempts to tie Obama to their candidates.

Collins said NRSC polling had long identified the economy as the issues voters cared about most, and one where Democrats stood to gain. “We felt that that was their best message and they sidelined their best messenger,” he said. Collins added that in many states, Democratic candidates had positive stories to tell. “In Colorado, unemployment is 5.1 percent and they never talked about it,” he added.

“They were so focused on independents that they forgot they had a base,” Collins said of Democratic Senate candidates. “They left their base behind. They became Republican-lite.”

Collins also attacked the Democratic “war on women” message, particularly in Colorado, saying Democrats used “a tactic as a strategy.” He was equally critical of the Harry Reid-pushed Koch Brothers narrative. “It was a dumb debate. It didn’t move a voter,” he said.

“I can’t remember a Democrat who spent any kind of money in a significant way talking about the economy,” he added. “If I had a choice between talking about the number one issue we saw in every single poll, and talking about a single issue, I would be talking about the number one issue.”

But Collins’ advice may well be a form of psychological warfare against Republicans. Earlier Thursday, he labeled Obama as Republicans’ best surrogate.

Obama only appeared publicly with one Democratic Senate candidate, Senator-elect Gary Peters of Michigan, who was already well ahead in the polls. The White House said Obama was taking his cues from the individual campaigns. In the closing stretch of the campaign, Obama was engaged in radio and robo-calling efforts on behalf of some Senate Democrats to drive base turnout, but the Republicans argued it was too little, too late.

NRSC communications director Brad Dayspring argued that Democrats should at least tried to see benefit from Obama. “We were going to use Obama against them no matter what,” he said.

Dayspring highlighted the success of the party’s much-mocked candidate schools: “We didn’t have a single candidate create a national issue for other candidates,” he said.

http://time.com/3565624/republican-senate-obama-election/

So basically the Dems offered the congress to the GOP by not using their bst cards, not telling about the good things Obama did for the american people. Instead they went even more Center-Right than Obama, they pretended to be Republicans. But everyone knows that, between the original and the copy, people always choose the original. Therefore, Democrats lost.
If only they would have ran real progressive campaigns, they probably won't have been smashed the way they've been.

They had a full house but instead they displayed two pairs

 

[Lee Van Queef]

http://time.com/3565624/republican-senate-obama-election/

So basically the Dems offered the congress to the GOP by not using their bst cards, not telling about the good things Obama did for the american people. Instead they went even more Center-Right than Obama, they pretended to be Republicans. But everyone knows that, between the original and the copy, people always choose the original. Therefore, Democrats lost.
If only they would have ran real progressive campaigns, they probably won't have been smashed the way they've been.

They had a full house but instead they displayed two pairs

Are you saying the Dems "jobbed" to the Republicans? Who do you blame for booking it?

Not arguing at all. Just want clarification.

Many people here say there isn't much difference between the two parties. Maybe they just do enough to get their Liberal/Conservative street cred then join hands on everything else. Is that more your thinking? Might not be far off.

Either way, these assholes play us for fools dividing us at every turn and still get away with it. Why do we dig in and argue with each other the way we do? If you were in this country maybe you grab a pitchfork and I grab a torch then we both head to Washington.

 

[Johan]

Are you saying the Dems "jobbed" to the Republicans? Who do you blame for booking it?

Not arguing at all. Just want clarification.

Many people here say there isn't much difference between the two parties. Maybe they just do enough to get their Liberal/Conservative street cred then join hands on everything else. Is that more your thinking? Might not be far off.

Either way, these assholes play us for fools dividing us at every turn and still get away with it. Why do we dig in and argue with each other the way we do? If you were in this country maybe you grab a pitchfork and I grab a torch then we both head to Washington.

Who do I blame for it ? The system, the way politics works in the country : As I said before, most politicians value their donors much more than their voters, if passing a bill that would profit their donors to the expense of the people could get the some fundings for their campaigns, they will pass that bill without any hesitation.

Pitchforks and torches won't make any difference. Nor will AR-16. 'cause they have F-16, Abrams M1, etc.
But they are other ways to make things change, other battlefields than the streets of DC : http://www.wolf-pac.com/the_plan

 

[Lee Van Queef]

Who do I blame for it ? The system, the way politics works in the country : As I said before, most politicians value their donors much more than their voters, if passing a bill that would profit their donors to the expense of the people could get the some fundings for their campaigns, they will pass that bill without any hesitation.

Pitchforks and torches won't make any difference. Nor will AR-16. 'cause they have F-16, Abrams M1, etc.
But they are other ways to make things change, other battlefields than the streets of DC : http://www.wolf-pac.com/the_plan

Agreed. The pitchforks and torches were a figure of speech. Money is King here.

I've mentioned many times politicians only want to keep their jobs or get better ones. They will drive over our skulls in their bullet-proof limo if it benefits them.

When people try to make heroes or Grand Deities out of them it gets frustrating. They are supposed to be our servants and accountable for their service to us.

 

[Johan]

Agreed. The pitchforks and torches were a figure of speech. Money is King here.

I've mentioned many times politicians only want to keep their jobs or get better ones. They will drive over our skulls in their bullet-proof limo if it benefits them.

When people try to make heroes or Grand Deities out of them it gets frustrating. They are supposed to be our servants and accountable for their service to us.

Remember that Jefferson quote about government fearing the people and people fearing the government ? Gun-right advocates uses it alla the time, as if the US government would fear a mob waving AR-15 (one AH-4 Apache would be enough to neutralise such a mob).

Anyway, that quote sums it up. 'cause right now the US government -wether Dems of Reps are in office doesn't matter- don't fear it's people, they fear their donors, the fear the big coporations, the lobbies, etc. And the people should fear the government because, as you said, They will drive over people's skulls in their bullet-proof limo if it benefits them, if it pleases their donors.
It's not exactly a tyranny, more like an oligarchy. But in the end it's the same : the people gets fucked over and over again.

 

[Lee Van Queef]

Remember that Jefferson quote about government fearing the people and people fearing the government ? Gun-right advocates uses it alla the time, as if the US government would fear a mob waving AR-15 (one AH-4 Apache would be enough to neutralise such a mob).

Anyway, that quote sums it up. 'cause right now the US government -wether Dems of Reps are in office doesn't matter- don't fear it's people, they fear their donors, the fear the big coporations, the lobbies, etc. And the people should fear the government because, as you said, They will drive over people's skulls in their bullet-proof limo if it benefits them, if it pleases their donors.
It's not exactly a tyranny, more like an oligarchy. But in the end it's the same : the people gets fucked over and over again.

It's getting more obvious by the day all politicians care about is money and power. They don't even put as much effort toward their lies as they used to. You ever see Barack Obama's press secretary Josh Earnest? For a guy who's name is associated with being sincere he constantly smirks when he answers questions.