Has the Right Wing totally outsmarted the everyone ?

[Spamature]

Barack Obama is not a liberal. He openly said he models his presidency after Reagan. He coddles Wall Street and corporations. He's a not just a hawk where war and terrorism are concerned. He's arrows in both claws bald eagle. So much so they'll probably have to start naming drones models after him. The biggest dig on him and guns laws is that possible, maybe someday in a non existent future with real effort a so far non existent govt entity might could, possibly, maybe, someday used the information collected under the law to track guns ownership. His crowning achievement is the passage of nearly 20 yr old right wing plan for health insurance reform.

Yet for most of his first term in office the big discussions about him haven't been about policy. They've been about crazy. Like whether or not the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is an illegal alien. Whether or not he's possible the worst practicing Muslim in the world. One who drinks alcohol, eats pork, doesn't attend mosque or prayer nor does observe any known Muslim religious holiday.

Maybe there is a method to the madness. Maybe Barack Obama is the Republican president the right always wanted but could never get. And all the craziness is just a way to run interference while he gets done what they the never could. Instead of shouting, "hey everybody look over here while I bang on this drum to drown out the sounds of our ever creeping agenda !" They're just shouting crazy shit, hey look there's communist Muslim with a fake social security number in the White House and he's come whose come to take away your freedom to die from preventable illnesses after your 3rd bankruptcy.

Maybe we haven't been besieged by morons. Instead we've all been trolled by master of the craft

 

[Mytzlplk]

It's been the continuation of the good cop/bad cop routine we've all been victimized by since the dems went "Third Way" during the Clinton admin.

He just seems like a "socialist" when compared to the crazy Pee Partiers.

 

[Spamature]

It's been the continuation of the good cop/bad cop routine we've all been victimized by since the dems went "Third Way" during the Clinton admin.

He just seems like a "socialist" when compared to the crazy Pee Partiers.

Just proves the mistake Clinton made. You can't give into to sociopaths like these. You can't even have a DMZ. Because they'll just advance on to in claim it as there own and keep on advancing. The only way to stop them is to take them on and drive them back and hurt them enough to make them think twice about doing it again.

 

[fairsheet]

Just for fun, I'd like to read 2-3 ideas as to what Obama SHOULD have done, but didn't.

 

[Spamature]

Just for fun, I'd like to read 2-3 ideas as to what Obama SHOULD have done, but didn't.

Right after the 2008 election the GOP was on the ropes and America's house was on fire. He should have moved to crush them. Instead he tried to work with them.

1) In his first year he should have never given a speech on the state of nation he inherited that did not squarely lay the blame on the GOP. By not doing so he let them blame him and that idea started to sink in with their desperate base. His unwillingness to do so is at the center of his Teabagger problem today. He gift wrapped and handed to them the breathing room to come back at him.

2) He should have pushed HARD for a public option in the insurance reform bill instead of shying away from it / opposing it. This would have waylaid a ton of the problems he's having now with their central TP rallying point around the law now.

3) He should taken on the mantle of leader of the Democratic Party and coordinated with the membership of every step of the way on the big stuff like HCR and the Stimulus. His efforts to combat GOP propaganda have been pitiful. That is an indisputable fact.

4) He gave his election machine an election off. It should have been put to use in the 2010 elections to help stifle the GOP comeback. He should have been out there rallying the Democratic base at every opportunity as if his own office were on the line. Instead he basically left each Dem to fend for his or her self. While each was facing an over arching national campaign funded by TP backers. Had the GOP / Tea Party done a lot worse in that election even the GOP wouldn't be facing the internal problems it does right now.

 

[marvin martian]

1) In his first year he should have never given a speech on the state of nation he inherited that did not squarely lay the blame on the GOP. By not doing so he let them blame him and that idea started to sink.

Wow, if you have evidence of an Obama speech where he actually accepts blame for something he did, I'd love to see it. It can go in the file next to my Loch Ness monster videos, OJ Simpson's "real killer" evidence and that alien autopsy video...

 

[Mytzlplk]

Just proves the mistake Clinton made. You can't give into to sociopaths like these. You can't even have a DMZ. Because they'll just advance on to in claim it as there own and keep on advancing. The only way to stop them is to take them on and drive them back and hurt them enough to make them think twice about doing it again.

SO very true spam. This is the primary reason I've long contended that civility, even in the public square, is way overrated, and is seen as nothing but a weakness to be exploited by them. They can dish it out, but take it very poorly, and the stakes dictate that they and their goals be properly described in no uncertain terms.

 

[Spamature]

Wow, if you have evidence of an Obama speech where he actually accepts blame for something he did, I'd love to see it. It can go in the file next to my Loch Ness monster videos, OJ Simpson's "real killer" evidence and that alien autopsy video...

Who accepted responsibility for the cluster **** in Iraq. Which Democrat was sat in on the planning to invade Iraq ? Did Obama sit in on the meetings that lead to bush's decision to pull out of Afghanistan to do it too ? Do you expect Obama to stand up and say he caused the financial melt down in back in 2008 months before he took office ?

What is he supposed to take responsibility for ?