Obama's Broken Promise

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  • otter
    otter Posts: 772
    Starfall wrote:
    LOL. For someone who likes to dismiss other sites as left wing partisan sites regardless of the truth, I'm surprised you picked a right wing hack like Andrew Breitbart - who by the way is continually wrong.

    I mean seriously, not only was he proven wrong on the identity of a person visiting the White House as NOT being the head of ACORN, he had the temerity to place a bet... and lost again. :mrgreen:

    But to the substance of the argument - I'm not happy about Obama either. The guy for all practical purposes is governing like Bill Clinton and his Democratic Leadership Council - swing to the center, curry favor with big corporations, and tell your base to fuck off because they'll support you anyway no matter what.

    (EDIT) For the record, most of the hearings on healthcare were already televised, and had the Republicans not insisted on obstructionism the entire way, we'd have a real conference committee, that might have been televised, instead of the procedural method the Democrats are doing to bypass more GOP bullshit. The Republicans essentially took themselves out of the process because of their constant filibusters and delays, so fuck them, I'm glad the Democrats are getting this bill passed, even though I don't like it.
    60 Dems = no filibuster
    Nothing has been televised.
    It's up to the dems to be bipart. Remember not one Repub voted for this. Obama failed
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  • KDH12
    KDH12 Posts: 2,096
    Pepe Silvia wrote:
    i have to say it's a bit disappointing to see all the partisanship here. if you feel Obama needs more time to get started on this change we can believe in then fine but to see all the excuses...i doubt if this were Bush any of you would be saying 'so Bush broke a bunch of campaign promises, i bet he told his dentist he'd floss everyday, too!' what you are saying it is perfectly ok for our politicians to lie to our faces and put in zero effort. or seeing people say Obama never said that! i mean he did say that but he never said WHEN so techinically he didn't say that (which, by the way, makes NO sense at all)

    ya know, it's perfectly ok to support a politician and still voice unhappiness in their efforts. i've seen many Obama supporters here voice displeasure in things he's done or hasn't done but just giving him or Bush or any politician free pass after free pass is only what makes our whole system fucked in the first place.

    i bet if you bought a car and got it home only to find out the dealer completely lied to your face about the car you'd shrug it off and say 'i bet he lies to his dentist about flossing, too, oh well!' how can you compare telling your dentist you will floss to the actions or inactions of the fucking president of the united states!?

    if it was wrong for Bush it should be wrong for Obama, if something is ok for Obama to do it should've been ok for Bush to do, too. you can't have it both ways, it can't be so wrong when the other guy does it but perfectly acceptable when it's your guy.

    like i said, it's perfectly reasonable to still support someone while being critical of them at the same time but to just shrug and look the other way when it's your guy is being nothing but a partisan hack and that is why politicians fuck us over so easily, they know too many of you just won't care as long as the have the right letter next to their name so there's no motivation to follow through on promises or look out for our interests over corporate interests.

    Dude give up on the flossing analogy it was a weak joke I used in an attempt to show people how ridiculous this is

    i guess it is my fault for saying it in the first place but really do you need to continue to run with it
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  • WaveCameCrashin
    WaveCameCrashin Posts: 2,929
    Pepe Silvia wrote:
    like i said, it's perfectly reasonable to still support someone while being critical of them at the same time but to just shrug and look the other way when it's your guy is being nothing but a partisan hack and that is why politicians fuck us over so easily, they know too many of you just won't care as long as the have the right letter next to their name so there's no motivation to follow through on promises or look out for our interests over corporate interests.

    Well said....

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