what are barack obama's flaws?

George W. Bush is the man who saw into Vladimir Putin's soul and liked what he saw.

Well, that's what he said... then. You must've missed these misgivings in a Maureen Dowd column.

The Russian leader told him the breakup of the Soviet Union was the worst thing that had ever happened. Tell it to Ukraine, W. dryly noted. He also said of Putin: "You always have to watch out when someone steeples their fingers."

does dowd just make things up or did bush have a crackling wit he carefully concealed from the american people during his time in office?

http://i.imgur.com/VvrpsDg.png?1

so he should know!

Dubya is not an idiot. He's a shit, but not an idiot.

come on he's also kind of an idiot

who is the worst american president of your lifetime in foreign policy terms?

I started another thread to discuss this.

ACLU:

"By my count, the Obama administration has secured 526 months of prison time for national security leakers, versus only 24 months total jail time for everyone else since the American Revolution.... The bulk of that time is the 35 years in Fort Leavenworth handed down to Chelsea Manning."

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/leak-prosecutions-obama-takes-it-11-or-should-we-say-526

you think he realises on any level that the cousin pookie thing is condescending and demeaning?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/our-passe-president/381664/

not even cool now

that's who the Dems are interested in -- Cousin Pookie

Cousin Pookie is back! And yes, he is still sitting on the couch.
Washington Post‎ - 2 days ago

I had no idea this was a type was invoked by name through New Jack City's Chris Rock crackhead

gawd cmon already if i come to your thing i come

http://gawker.com/the-state-of-the-union-is-dumb-hacks-writing-garbage-sp-1680681848

yet another reason to hate Woodrow Wilson

command+f "terror" 9 matches

"middle-class economics" smh

This is so dull. Where are the flying cars and micro chips imbedded in our brains?

who needs prose when Boehner's wearing a thistle-colored tie?

Boehner's got a great glower. I love how he looks disgusted over every little bit of good news or silver lining. He just won't be happy until the economy is back in the shitter.

had this thread open when Barack Obama said "my flaws, of which there are many"

who needs prose when Boehner's wearing a thistle-colored tie?

Wtf is this bread bag speech?

Oh I get it, nowadays we can't afford a bread bag

I'll have to listen to this tomorrow, am I missing anything

POTUS proposes, Boehner dozes.

did anybody yell "you lie!" yet

The POTUS is laughing, goodbye, goodbye

I've listened/watched all or nearly all his SOTU speeches and his delivery in each was identical. When you realize that no modern president will risk venturing into the higher flights of rhetoric for a SOTU, you learn to swallow your disappointment and listen for any scrap of matter that is a) specific, b) interesting in a non-horrific way, and c) achievable. There's at most one or two of these extremely dim highlights you can glean, at best. I can recall none from tonight's speech.

He just won't be happy until the economy is back in the shitter.

back huh

did anybody yell "you lie!" yet

Actually, when he asked early on, rhetorically, if it was fair that the wealthy kept getting richer at the expense of everyone else, or something along those lines, some voice did yell out "no!"

As boring as you'd expect. I thought "I know, because I won" was funny, though--played that for my class.

Tea Party response. Nothing exciting, but I really hope that he bellowed TEAM every time the word appeared.

Warmed over lines, unworthy of the NYT's slobbering profile of the speechwriter, but at last he mentioned POVERTY and stopped mentioning MIDDLE CLASS MIDDLE CLASS so much. Also: he didn't look as shrunken as his last few teevee appearances.

p4reene back and on fiyuh!

http://gawker.com/the-state-of-the-union-is-dumb-hacks-writing-garbage-sp-1680681848

Poverty x1 (in an international context), Middle-class x7 (Middle east x2) - according to a quick search through the transcript.

NYT's slobbering profile of the speechwriter

In terms of craftsmanship, it was about as good an effort as one can achieve when one is confined to expressing every idea to a 6th grader's vocabulary and understanding. US politics descended to such ultra simplistic Dick-and-Jane-see-Spot-run stylings in our political speeches a long time ago.

nothing predestined about that.

It is predestined, if everyone involved thinks their primary audience is made up of simple-minded, grossly ignorant people who must be cajoled and flattered, but never made to think.

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/B72Vsn3IAAEjTKN.mp4

the comments in the youtube video where i watched this, whew

Man, I hate people

youtube comments are the worst type of comments

Alex p otm

just in case you thought Obama wasn't as close to the Saudi royal family as our last commander-in-chief

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/27/king-salmans-shady-history-saudi-arabia-jihadi-ties/?utm_content=buffer06ac1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh today to offer his condolences on the death of the beloved Saudi King Abdullah and to meet his successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. But just who is King Salman?

http://imgsrv2.aramcoexpats.com/pipeline/sa_news/other_media/AK_003.jpg

a few weeks before FDR went to the Great Oasis too.

you'd think w/ oil prices + obama's full court press to reestablish diplomatic relationships w/ iran we wouldn't be so beholden to the saudis but i guess we still are!

at least we got some quality Michele Obama side-eye out of it

great pic of O with Condi and Jim Baker greeting His Majesty. Thank God for our "two" parties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSezzirJs_k