American Politics during the Obama Presidency

You'll leave enough to spoil your kid. The tax changes will not change your life in any way. There is an huge revenue short fall. WE all know that you disaggree and hate the president and everything he stands for or dreams of and even hate the lint that is brushed off of his suite. I am sorry that I started this thread--there is no discussion--only sid's hatred and spleen.

JACKSON--PLEASE wipe out the whole thing. Sid has the right to post anything that wants......I just don't want to be part of it.

ps sid thanks for some of the great reataurant suggestions!

Sidney,

Post something about putas instead of your cut and paste spam.

Why do we have to talk about politics here? It seems like its a pissing contest that will never end. The worlds problems won't get fixed here.

[QUOTE=Miami Bob]You'll leave enough to spoil your kid. The tax changes will not change your life in any way. There is an huge revenue short fall. [/QUOTE]There's a huge revenue shortfall because politicians are wasting our money on pork masquerading as stimulus. The tax changes aren't going to increase revenue significantly, compared to the size of the deficits we're running up right now. They're just the Democrats' way of punishing the Republicans' constituencies.

I would venture to say that 2600 of those are copy and paste bullshit spam that has zero relevance to acquiring chicas.

Besides lots of the mongers I have met have patted me on the back for sharing that story of the streetwalker for the entertainment value alone. Not to mention the 10 or so newer mongers this trip alone that I personaly have taken and shown around town.

[QUOTE=Sidney]The Board has many valuable purposes besides 'acquiring chicas'![/QUOTE]I guess the posts about Politics before Obama where every critical item laid out about GWB were all OK.

As Reagan said, "Facts are a stubborn thing". The 12-year lows in the markets are being experienced right now and they are back to the levels during Bubba's presidency. GWB spent like a drunken sailor and deserved to have his ass removed in the exact way the US voters did, but you cannot deny the six or seven years of prosperity and growth under his watch. That "eight-years of failed policies" argument doesn't hold water.

IMHO it is absolutely disingenuous to defend the actions of this administration as anything more than eight years of pent up Democratic rage and class envy.

But Sidney, the best part here is still about acquiring chicas. Your economic and financial insight is a distant second or third.

I really hoped the Sid and others might have a conversation about our new president and what he is attempting to do. No one is going to change anyone else world view here. The strangest thing is that many of the people who have the most divergent points of view are actually friends who enjoy each others' company except when discussing politics.

I guess that truths that our grandparents taught us as kids once again hold true:

Don't talk about politics nor religion.

I like Sid and enjoy his company and would rather have his friendship than continue this line of discussion. Might we aggree to disaggree? Apparently.

Dialog is impossible I don't love everything about the big O and some of what is going on now is shocking to me. I voted for him and would do it again.

His policies look like that they will impact my retirement plans and impact my standard of living in the future. You may disaggree, but I honestly believe that.

Neo-con's would have eventually destroyed the republic.

Our politics in the usa tend to follow a dialectical pattern---discused by hegel and then carl marx--they swing back and forth to either tail of the bell curve. I though that in the big O there might have been a pull towards the middle like we saw with Clinton. I haven't made up my mind about him yet. The left wing of the Democratic party, to my point of view, is excercising too much control. This is unfortuate considering the extremist right wing shift in the Republican party since regan. The middle ground seems to have become lost. W.'s grandfather, Prescot, was a moderate and some thought liberal Republican. Today, Nixon would be considerred a liberal by most Republicans.

Maybe I am full of shit and take whatever I say with a grain of salt. The state of this tread mirrors what is going on in the USA today: anger, closemindedness, hate and an absence of dialog.

Sid--I know you and your personal point of view is generally in that middle ground. Why all of this strong emotion? Your postings don't to seem to belong to the man that I know and respect. Maybe we should just stop these political postings?

PS--Jackson I hate your editing software. It will not permit me to write what I want to write nor edit in the manner I prefer.

On second thought MB,

Maybe we should keep the thread simply for it's entertainment value. The bickering alone is priceless.

As long as we remember it's just the internet and don't take it too seriously, I think we will be fine.

It's when people start going ape shit that things get ugly.

We should start an " ape shit " prevention program and leave well enough alone.

Regards,

BM