American Politics during the Obama Presidency

Now, this is just ridiculous. First, Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize for . . . absolutely nothing.

Now, Forbes ranks Michelle Obama as the "Most Powerful Woman in the World." [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101006/lf_nm_life/us_power_women[/url]

Why? Cause you can see her guns when she wears those sleeveless tops? Nope. "Forbes said Obama topped the list this year because 'she has made the office of first lady her own' while remaining popular."

Angela Merkel? Hillary Clinton? Heck, Cristina Fernandez? Nope, none are as powerful as Michelle Obama, according to Forbes.

Who says the Dems don't have the mainstream media in their back pocket? For anyone complaining about Fox News, there are dozens and dozens of examples of media bias in favor of Democrats in general, and liberals in particular. This may be a mild one, but it's pathetic nonetheless. Not as bad as awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for hopes and aspirations, but it's just one more stroke in the left-tinged media mosaic.

[QUOTE=Stan the Man; 412992]Now, this is just ridiculous. First, Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize for. . . Absolutely nothing.

Now, Forbes ranks Michelle Obama as the "Most Powerful Woman in the World. " [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101006/lf_nm_life/us_power_women[/url]

Why? Cause you can see her guns when she wears those sleeveless tops? Nope. "Forbes said Obama topped the list this year because 'she has made the office of first lady her own' while remaining popular. "

Angela Merkel? Hillary Clinton? Heck, Cristina Fernandez? Nope, none are as powerful as Michelle Obama, according to Forbes.

Who says the Dems don't have the mainstream media in their back pocket? For anyone complaining about Fox News, there are dozens and dozens of examples of media bias in favor of Democrats in general, and liberals in particular. This may be a mild one, but it's pathetic nonetheless. Not as bad as awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for hopes and aspirations, but it's just one more stroke in the left-tinged media mosaic. [/QUOTE]There are dozens of women that are more powerful than Mouchelle Obama, but kissing their asses may not payoff like kissing MO's.

This woman is a detestable, American-hating, elitist, racist (yes, I said it) snob. Maybe now that she has one this honor, she can be proud of AmeriKa for the second time.

Steve Forbes is a long-time Republican, so suggestions that Dems have his magazine in their back pocket seem dubious at best.

But I agree her ranking as "Most Powerful Woman in the World" is odd. It seems she has been supporting some worthwhile causes, but I wouldn't rank her above Merkel or Clinton. I usually change the channel when a story about her comes on, she is too wholesome for me.

Harsh words Walleye, though not surprising from you. Are these the racist comments you are referring to:?

[url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX3ZdYbixiw[/url]

[QUOTE=Miamipro;412879]Whats really funny about my posts is the fact that your the punchline.[/QUOTE]You were the last to bang Layla? Too Funny. Suggest you stick to serial antagonism and stay away from the chicas dude. You need to search the Layla thread to really get the whole picture here newbie. As I have already reported my wingman saw this chica late last week. As a liberal, as usual, you never let the facts get in your way. LOL. And I'm you're punchline? Too funny. Tick. Tick. Tick. Soon all will be revealed.

Happy Mongering All,

Toymann

I think we are in for some rough road before the unemployment numbers improve. Most previous Administrations understood that the private sector will add jobs only if adding jobs makes economic sense i.e. the tax burden of adding an employee does not break the back of the company.

Not this Administration. This Administration has the ingenious idea of increasing taxes on those who are working and using this tax money to create make believe government jobs. Wow, and these geniuses actually have college degrees.

But what do you expect from an Administration filled with life long government hacks who couldn't change the tires on their car much less operate a lemonade stand.

[QUOTE=Esten;412995]Steve Forbes is a long-time Republican, so suggestions that Dems have his magazine in their back pocket seem dubious at best.

But I agree her ranking as "Most Powerful Woman in the World" is odd. It seems she has been supporting some worthwhile causes, but I wouldn't rank her above Merkel or Clinton. I usually change the channel when a story about her comes on, she is too wholesome for me.

Harsh words Walleye, though not surprising from you. Are these the racist comments you are referring to:?

[url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX3ZdYbixiw[/url][/QUOTE]

May be a republican and Forbes magazine has long been a very well respected periodical however, I don't think that the magazine could be considered to be a conservative or right-wing mouth organ.

Clinton is much more powerful than Moochelle, so much so that she has a good a chance of getting the Dem 2012 nomination as BHO and kicking the Mooch back to the Windy City (although the chances of a Dem occupying 1600 Penn after 1/20/2013, looks slim now - but two years is an eternity in politics). By the way, go back and search my past posts (Nov/Dec 2008?) about Clinton gaming for 2012 and BHO overstepping his bounds (early-mid 2009) and the backlash that was coming. Then try to show me one post were you have been on target with your wild ass shots in the dark.

They are not harsh words, they are accurate. I hear that they are making a movie about the Obama's move to destroy America, the working title is "Get Whitey." And all this time I thought he was going to be the first post-racial president (soooo historic and all). Read about the poll on how race relations have worsened in the US over the past two years. They were better under the first black president (Clinton).

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1318727/Race-relations-worse-America--despite-Obamas-presidency-new-poll-reveals.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Wild Walleye; 412993]There are dozens of women that are more powerful than Mouchelle Obama, but kissing their asses may not payoff like kissing MO's.

This woman is a detestable, American-hating, elitist, racist (yes, I said it) snob. Maybe now that she has one this honor, she can be proud of AmeriKa for the second time. [/QUOTE]Wow, I am really disappointed in you. Having a Black couple residing in the White House is really eating you up!

But just to harmonize, I will still buy you lunch in BA or Bangkok when I see you.

[QUOTE=Black Shirt; 413007]Wow, I am really disappointed in you. Having a Black couple residing in the White House is really eating you up!

But just to harmonize, I will still buy you lunch in BA or Bangkok when I see you. [/QUOTE]I don't care what color or sex the president is, so long as we share the same fundamental philosophies.

There is not a racist bone in my body, never have, never will and I won't spend any time defending myself from aspersions contrary to that.

I have, and have had throughout my life, many friends (Esten will find that hard to believe) paramours, business partners and acquaintances from around the globe (including Africa, MENA and other places where most people don't look like me. I have never once thought of any of them as being defined by the color of their skin, the god to which they pray or their caste. I'm not going to start now.

What I object to with the Obamas (both of them) is not that they are black, it is that they both have made racist, anti-white comments. I do not believe that only white people can be racist.

I am looking forward to lunch and harmony, thanks.

[quote]Comparisons of Barack Obama's presidency to Jimmy Carter's miss the point. Carter's presidency did little to change the basic party construct of the nation or to influence its ideology. Reagan's presidency accomplished both.

But Barack Obama is destroying the Democratic party. It may not recover for a long time. In this, he most closely resembles a synthesis of the failed candidacy of George McGovern and the catastrophic presidency of Herbert Hoover. The damage he is doing to his party's image and prospects closely resembles the harm Hoover did to the Republican party, from which it did not recover for 20 years after he left office. And the extent to which Obama is discrediting the Left parallels the damage George McGovern did to his ideological confreres in 1972, when he went down to flaming defeat.

In a sense, America met its first conservative in 1981 and fell in love. We met our first liberal in 2009 and are running away screaming. FDR was too long ago to count, Lyndon Johnson too distracted by Vietnam to make an impact. So Obama is the first full-throated liberal to be president in our lifetimes. And we won't soon forget him and the lessons his failure is teaching us.

Strangely, the Democrats don't yet get it. They whistle a happy tune as they March off the cliff. There is no voice of dissent against Obama's policies, no mumbled animosity, no suppressed discontent. The party is solid as a phalanx behind its leader even as he sends it to political death. It is the Charge of the Light Brigade, and none of them know that 'someone has blundered. '

For decades, the liberal alternative glittered attractively on the sidelines. As income inequality increased and Wall Street bonuses excited class animosity, the possibility of an economic-populist response had become more interesting to voters by the time Obama came along. The hyperactive Bush foreign and military policy made the yearning for peace and isolation stronger. And as conservatives increased our national wealth, the glaring omission of the health-care system loomed larger. Finally, when the depression hit, voters called in the liberals from stage left and asked them to take a shot at turning the country around.

And did they ever! They kept their promises and then some. They tripled the deficit and sent the debt soaring. From the moment George Washington took the oath of office until Obama did, America had borrowed $9 trillion. Under Obama, it has borrowed $3.2 trillion more, in less than two years. Our health-care system was deformed, manufacturing was terrified by the prospect of cap-and-tax, GM was absorbed by the government and conquered by the unions, and federalism was buried in an avalanche of subsidies that turned state governments into branch offices of Washington.

Americans have learned their lesson, just as they learned from Hoover the evils of Republican laissez-faire economics. His legacy cast a shadow over politics until Eisenhower vanquished it with his personal popularity in 1952. But it was not until Nixon and Reagan that anti-Hooverism stopped structuring national elections.

In George McGovern, we all saw the incompetence of liberalism, its disorganization, its extremism, and its ultimate impotence. The best testament to his failure as a candidate is his own discovery of the virtues of private-sector capitalism in his old age. This gentleman — who was never anything less than that — clearly paved the way for Ronald Reagan and the conservative ascendancy.

This is likely not the legacy Obama had in mind when, with his massive ego, limited competence, and paltry experience, he took over the White House. Americans, in a fit of national delusion, made what they now realize was one of their biggest mistakes.

The magnitude of our error — or at least of our understanding of it — will become apparent on November 2, when the GOP will win both houses of Congress, the House by a considerable margin. The 2010 landslide will likely set the record for the largest transfer of House seats in an off- year election. The prior mark of 74 seats in 1922 (a Democratic gain in the wake of Harding's scandals and the Teapot Dome investigation) will probably be eclipsed. But the true measure of the damage Obama has done to his ideology and his party will not be evident for some time. [/quote]Pretty much tells it like it is, and if the left doesn't believe it, they're 'whistling past the graveyard'.




[b][i]Draft Chris Christie for President in 2012. [/b][/i]

[QUOTE=Black Shirt; 413007]Wow, I am really disappointed in you. Having a Black couple residing in the White House is really eating you up!

But just to harmonize, I will still buy you lunch in BA or Bangkok when I see you. [/QUOTE]My problem isn't the color of Barack Obama. It's his eagerness to throw away all that makes America great, in pursuit of a Socialist Utopian vision he learned at the feet of such mentors as Saul Alinsky and a scorn he learned from such mentors as Reverend Wright.

George McCarthy used to call his type 'pinkos'. This was at a time when "Red" (Communist) Russia was a clear and present danger to the USA. Now that color, an inflammatory color on any map, is being used to label states that polled a Republican majority in 2000, and since.

I wanted, and dearly hoped, that our first Black President would be Colin Powell on a Constitutionalist platform, a "Black Eisenhower". Not this Teleprompted figurehead for the Socialist takeover of a country that was once the beacon of Freedom and Opportunity to the "huddled masses" (quote off the Statue of Liberty's plinth) of the world.

I think Obama will do better than expected in the upcoming elections if he can get back on message. The message seems to be the elimination of private sector jobs through draconian tax increases while creating millions and millions of make believe government jobs.

This is a vision voters will reward in November provided the voters are restricted to convicted felons, the mentally challenged and third generation welfare recipients.

And now this from the AP:

"No Social Security COLA expected for 2011"

When did the govt get put in charge of intimate "ports of entry?"

Westy:

I was going to work in my objection to Reds but, I figured I would get labeled as anti-injun.

[QUOTE=Wild Walleye;413010]What I object to with the Obamas (both of them) is not that they are black, it is that they both have made racist, anti-white comments. I do not believe that only white people can be racist.[/QUOTE]I think you are in a fringe minority once again Walleye. The only recent racism story I recall is the Shirley Sherrod episode where a conservative blogger presented something she said out of context, making it appear she racially discriminated against a white farmer. If anything, you can say the (hasty) rush to judgement on this story showed Obama's low tolerance for anti-white racism.

So really, what evidence do you have for your racist allegations of either Obama or his wife. Can you post even one link to a credible news source that provides some proof?

[QUOTE=Punter 127;413028]Pretty much tells it like it is, and if the left doesn't believe it, they're 'whistling past the graveyard'. [/QUOTE]LMAO! Don't know where you got that little essay, but it's mere conservative fantasy.