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Politics Obama - Actually doing a good job?

Discussion in 'Tilted Philosophy, Politics, and Economics' started by rogue49, Mar 10, 2012.

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  1. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

    Location:
    Yucatan, Mexico
    Good read. Thanks for the link.
     
    Tully Mars, Sep 28, 2015
    #1541
  2. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    rogue49, Oct 7, 2015
    #1542
  3. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    Pretty much

    Obama on Broadway
     
    rogue49, Nov 2, 2015
    #1543
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  4. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    rogue49, Jan 10, 2016
    #1544
  5. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    How refreshing it would be to elect a President that could be castigated for doing too little...
     
    Lindy, Jan 10, 2016
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  6. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC

    How refreshing would it be for a president to get the credit due...good or bad...but even more so, some cooperation.
    What could we accomplish then???
     
    rogue49, Jan 11, 2016
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  7. Stan

    Stan Resident Dumbass

    Location:
    Colorado
    We've already got a congress that does nothing, I'm not sure "refreshing" is the term that I'd use.
     
    Stan, Jan 12, 2016
    #1547
  8. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    Change is not necessarily progress, and movement is not always in the best direction. To the question "What is the proper sphere of government?" the answer is not always "Anything it wants."
     
    Lindy, Jan 12, 2016
    #1548
  9. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC

    True, but it's also not productive in resisting ALL just for political gain in a war of attrition.
    The goal should be for the good of the nation and it's citizens...not to get your opponent's efforts to sit in the mud.

    This is not a race...a debate perhaps, but then work needs to be done.
     
    rogue49, Jan 12, 2016
    #1549
  10. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX

    I was thoroughly disgusted with the Republican party when they started mouthing off about fighting Obama, before he was sworn in, even before the 2008 election results were even official.
     
    Chris Noyb, Jan 12, 2016
    #1550
  11. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    Interesting perspective from a conservative pundit.

    I miss Barack Obama

    I wonder how many from his typical opposition feel the same??
    Honor your enemy?
     
    rogue49, Feb 10, 2016
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  12. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX

    I think that many of the things Obama did, namely sending our troops into foreign countries, fit the Republican agenda quite well.
     
    Chris Noyb, Feb 11, 2016
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  13. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC

    So is he a LINO?? (liberal in name only...doesn't have the body of him ;))

    Actually, I think his most recent budget wasn't truly liberal since wasn't going to be passed...I think it was just a "fuck you" to the GOP congress
     
    rogue49, Feb 11, 2016
    #1553
  14. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    rogue49, Feb 18, 2016
    #1554
  15. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX

    I've never understood why the USA maintained its cold war policies regarding Cuba once communism in Russia collapsed. Did our government seriously think that Cuba was plotting to 'infest' the US with communists who would mastermind a takeover?

    The few people I've personally known with Cuban roots--two who immigrated, & three who's parents were born in Cuba--were totally anti-communism.
     
    Chris Noyb, Feb 18, 2016
    #1555
  16. ASU2003

    ASU2003 Very Tilted

    Location:
    Where ever I roam
    The problem is that the families who were doing well in Cuba before Communism and then lost out when their property (ill-gotten or earned) was nationalized, are still pissed and living in Florida. And they seem to be like people in the Middle East that can't get over things that happened to their parents and grandparents.
     
    ASU2003, Feb 21, 2016
    #1556
  17. redux

    redux Very Tilted

    Location:
    Foggy Bottom
    Significant criminal justice reform will be another Obama legacy if he can get Congressional Republicans to give a little on protecting corporate and white collar criminals (and why are the Koch brothers involved in the discussion at all?)

     
    redux, Feb 22, 2016
    #1557
  18. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH

    ie my wif'e's mother's entire family
     
    Derwood, Feb 22, 2016
    #1558
  19. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    Obama plays the Trump card on the GOP
    As the president tells it, Donald Trump is the embodiment of what he's been up against in Congress.

    Pretty much.
    I'm surprised he's been able to do as much as he has...and he's not being suckered anymore by the GOP like his first 2 years.

    I couldn't agree more.
     
    Last edited: Apr 10, 2016
    rogue49, Apr 10, 2016
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  20. ASU2003

    ASU2003 Very Tilted

    Location:
    Where ever I roam
    I would rather have a Democratic party that knows how to win local and state elections and is able to explain why the majority of Republicans are wrong about the major issues. Maybe someone should make a documentary of the past 160 years and see how many issues that Republicans were against, actually turned out to be good things.
     
    ASU2003, Apr 10, 2016
    #1560
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