what are barack obama's flaws?

yes, but in going along with the game, we'll come out with some weak brew of business breaks, tax cuts for buying america cars, and piddly road fixups, and not a gop yea vote in the bargain. it's not just the optics of the process that matter but the meat of the bill passed

i don't buy for a second (never did) the explanation that obama is playing some mysterious other level chess game that the rest of us mortals just don't understand.

― NFL RUNOFF miss u plaxico (daria-g), Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u didnt even buy it when the metanarratives around your candidate sunk her?

i mean in this case im not so sure hes on the right track but come on, u think it was just dumb luck & not his 'chess game' that had him beat the biggest name in dem politics??

It helped that her campaign seemed to be run by three-year-olds.

i don't think it was 'metanarratives' but ground-game ruthless execution that offed HRC in the end.

besides, fighting HRC to a media/narrative draw doesn't mean he isn't getting rolled on the stimulus

besides, fighting HRC to a media/narrative draw doesn't mean he isn't getting rolled on the stimulus

― goole, Wednesday, February 4, 2009 7:57 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i said as much

just put off by daria's "ive been TELLING you guys" thing

where did she say that

i don't buy for a second (never did) the explanation that obama is playing some mysterious other level chess game that the rest of us mortals just don't understand.

― NFL RUNOFF miss u plaxico (daria-g), Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was referring to this (altho taking into acct her exaggeration of the position that i & others argued), if i recall the primaries threads correctly something of a consensus developed that yah he kinda was playing a mysterious (i.e. didnt have any information leaks) other level chess game (i.e. came up with a winning plan & stuck to it w/ consistency) that 'us mortals' didnt understand (lol obama is GOD to his supporters amirite??)

i think you're making a mountain out of a molehill

it's maybe time to put away all the bullshit lessons we learned from the primary thread and move on

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11358

[i]Finally, at his press conference today, President Obama begins to rise above the Church of Broderism that fetishizes bipartisanship for bipartisanship's sake, and instead offer up a little bit of good old fashioned commonsense:

In the past few days, I've heard criticisms that this [stimulus] plan is somehow wanting, and these criticisms echo the very same failed economic theories that led us into this crisis in the first place, the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems, that we can ignore fundamental challenges like energy independence and the high cost of health care, that we can somehow deal with this in a piecemeal fashion and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.
I reject those theories. And so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change.

More like this, please.

[/i]!

Liberal Democrats: waiting for the Republicans to pay the price for looking like childish assholes for 28 years

The writer is president of the United States.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020403174.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
now that's what i'm talking about. give em hell barry

Liberal Democrats: waiting for the Republicans to pay the price for looking like childish assholes for 28 years

in case you didn't notice they lost the white house and both majorities in congress and their core demographics are shrinking

He's a bully:

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"What do you think a stimulus is?" Obama asked incredulously. "It’s spending — that's the whole point! Seriously.”

ah, that's more like it.

no doubt! heard some reporters discussing this @ npr this morning & finally seemed to be catching on as far as why it might be important to spend money, someone called in & made the point that the GOP had no problem with spending shitloads of money every time bush wanted it, no questions asked. but a lot of media still hung up on viewing the entire thing as fighting for political advantage, which.. no doubt plays a role in whatever gets done but for crying out loud, another 600K+ jobs were lost last month!!

also, good lord - some of you guys really need to get over the primaries.

yeah, the "Villagers" aspect of this is really taking over, with all these pundits and journos continuing along on their behavior of something between junior high schoolers and courtiers/syncophants of the Sun King.

And sentiments like We're All Bob Somerby Now are spreading

I think PRESIDENT: ARE THESE PEOPLE SERIOUS? is my favorite headline.

Like, ever.

"I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV -- if you're headed for a cliff, you've got to change direction."

^^^luv this fucking guy

I've been reading somerby for years as well.. the media attack on gore in 2000 is kind of an idee fixe for him, but he's OTM on that, I think.
did you catch MoDo's recent column comparing obama visiting a DC public school while Daschle was being attacked for tax issues to... Bush sitting there in the classroom, dumbfounded, on 9/11? clearly THE SAME THING

the hatchet job the new yorker did on gore in 2000 still gives me the willies

Rumor is he's not very good in the sack. Neither was Sam Cooke apparently. Huh. Imagine that.

Wait...you got a source for that, OHS?

Lucianne Goldberg told him; he recorded the conversation.

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/4209/att00000lg2.gif

Ha ha ha!

Mr. White, words cannot express my delight in what lies at the end of this link. My sorry ass motherfucking ignorance has been cured.

There is something immensely satisfying about it, n'est-ce pas?

Nixon on the WH tapes - now there was a motherfucking asshole. This Obama guy is just... sweet.

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. His 'motherfucker' sounds downright wholesome next to any profanity uttered by Nixon.

NO WORSHIPPERS HEAH, NO SIR

did you promise not to post about obama for the first 90 days?

Oh, c'mon, Morbs! Did you ever expect to hear a President of the U.S. utter the word 'motherfucker' like that?

xpost

Take a listen, Morbs. It's Obama reading aloud from his book about growing up, for a book-on-CD version. He doesn't seem able to make it sound nasty. The timbre of his voice is too gosh-darned good-natured.

he wanted ron paul, who cant say "motherfucker" without a racial slur in front of it

did you promise not to post about obama for the first 90 days?

i promised not to comment on his policies, and must you dive on my dick every time you see I've posted? It's disturbing.

Technically, it's a comment about the Obamaloverfaithful, amirite Morbs?

http://www.art-books.com/artbooks/images/items/05-2338.jpg

I saw my first (1.20.13) bumper sticker today.

What did the little voice inside your head say?

Don't look, Barack!

He should stop emailing everybody asking for hits on his Youtube videos but then leaving the videos as 'friends only' so no one can watch them.

He needs to give Joe Biden the correct name for recovery.org

is, by any reasonable standard, a huge fucking liar.

is just another Imperial Manager, most reminiscent of Clinton and Nixon so far.

(welcome to the 101st day)