Is it okay to criticize Obama yet?

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    know1 wrote:
    He deserves a lot of criticism for what he's done to the national debt since he's come into office. He seems to be on a massive spending spree.

    On a smaller note, his defense of that Harvard professor who was arrested was a really ill-thought-out move and I'm shocked he hasn't gotten more flack for that.

    I happen to think Obama's probably right about the comments he made, but you are also right that he probably should have refrained from commenting on it. Nonetheless, I have trouble sympathizing with the police perspective though, especially after I read one comment by a cop in LA saying people shouldn't judge and then pointing to Rodney King as an example... you're going to use Rodney King as your example of why we should give police the benefit of the doubt? How isolated from reality are you?

    Cops tend to have a sort of circle the wagons approach to any criticism. To an extent, I don't blame them because they have a job that is difficult beyond anything I can imagine. But on the flipside, protecting scumbags like the Rodney King officers or refusing to acknowledge that maybe this Gates cop used poor judgment in arresting Gates rather than just leaving after he ascertained that Gates lived there doesn't really help their cause much.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    soulsinging wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    He deserves a lot of criticism for what he's done to the national debt since he's come into office. He seems to be on a massive spending spree.

    On a smaller note, his defense of that Harvard professor who was arrested was a really ill-thought-out move and I'm shocked he hasn't gotten more flack for that.

    I happen to think Obama's probably right about the comments he made, but you are also right that he probably should have refrained from commenting on it. Nonetheless, I have trouble sympathizing with the police perspective though, especially after I read one comment by a cop in LA saying people shouldn't judge and then pointing to Rodney King as an example... you're going to use Rodney King as your example of why we should give police the benefit of the doubt? How isolated from reality are you?

    Cops tend to have a sort of circle the wagons approach to any criticism. To an extent, I don't blame them because they have a job that is difficult beyond anything I can imagine. But on the flipside, protecting scumbags like the Rodney King officers or refusing to acknowledge that maybe this Gates cop used poor judgment in arresting Gates rather than just leaving after he ascertained that Gates lived there doesn't really help their cause much.

    I'm one of the last to sympathize with police, but when you read the accounts of what happened in that incident, it's pretty clear that the police had to arrest him. He was completely belligerant and aggressive toward them. Maybe the accounts were fabricated, but you can't act the way he is reported to have acted and not be arrested.

    And in any case I think we agree that it was too early for Obama to say on national television that the police "acted stupidly".
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Vitalogensia
    Vitalogensia Posts: 2,223
    I heart Scout Niblett wrote:
    VINNY GOOMBA wrote:
    It is always OK to criticize your elected officials. It's our duty, actually.


    "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" Thomas Jefferson

    "It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority" - Benjamin Franklin

    “If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.” - Thomas Jefferson


    GOOD CALL, both of you
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    The Closet Conservative wrote:
    I was very proud to have lived in an era that saw the election of the first black President of the United States. With that being said I am growing very disappointed in the President so far.
    I've seen the massive amount of flaming done when anyone dares to swim against the liberal stream so I am asking to be alerted when it becomes okay to reveal the ridiculousness and danger that the Obama administration is becoming.
    North Korea is developing nukes, Iran is spinning out of control, over 2 trillion in wasted money, a health care plan that far more than most do not want. Coupled with the fact that this guy is calling White Sox players when he should be calling world leaders. And that he seems to be trying to be Captain Media man more than the leader of the free world.
    If Clinton's errors led to 9/11 and Bush and Cheney led us to Iraq, where is Obama going to take us? I'm really not sure but the Mayan's are looking more prophetic everyday.

    mayans....? :lol:

    seriously, I love those who think Obama is overexposed...he's the POTUS... in case you didn't know, there's lots of shit happening right now...

    I'd be willing to bet if he pulled a bushy and when AWOL like bush did the last few months of office you'd be all upset asking "where's Obama, why isn't fixing anything? blah blah blah..."
  • OffHeGoes29
    OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    No its not, as long as you post on a far left board like this...you can't.
    BRING BACK THE WHALE
  • noahgenda
    noahgenda Posts: 63
    i will be the first to say (maby) but all the czars that he has put in place is fucking crazy! come on i hate BUSH and he has already topped him in 100 days! this guy might very well be the antichrist and my computer would not even let me type that! had to go back 3 times to get that in there. just sayin. bash me if you want

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