News Questioning Obama's Critics: Why the Dislike?

[mheslep]

I'd look into having the FCC consider fines against Fox.

On what legal basis? That they're biased?

 

[OAQfirst]

FOX has arrived at that far-reaching altar of a basis all their own.

 

[LowlyPion]

On what legal basis? That they're biased?

That would be a start.

Certainly they do not serve the public interest in their 24/7 propagandizing of the Republican talking points.

 

[OAQfirst]

And even now Fox is extending their programming to include specials from Alaska and indulging in Palin revisionist history in an attempt to resurrect her apparently for 2012.

Dehh, I just realized that the Mayan end-times prophecy is 2012. My God! It's true!


-I can't be the first to notice this. *hits search bar*

 

[LowlyPion]

-I can't be the first to notice this. *hits search bar*

No. You're close to being the first.

Only half a million hits.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Funny: Before the election and according to the righties, Obama was an extreme lefty. But now, according the lefties, he was a secret righty all along.

I have a strongly left leaning friend who is complaining by email. And Obama hasn't even assumed office yet!

Obama promised a balanced approach, so I would expect objections from the left and the right. And as we know, the right has been very happy with many of Obama's decisions. He has shown extremely good judgement.

Of course, many will spew vile and venom at his meeting with Gore, and and his comments on climate change, today.

Good job so far, Obama!

Reminds of a quote from a judge: ~"If everyone leaves unhappy, then I probably made a good decision"

 

[Ivan Seeking]

He calls Obama, Obomba, , because Obama plans to continue in Afghanistan.

He also begins his emails by calling me a butthead. I have been accused here of being a closet liberal, and now I'm a closet righty.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Remember this one?

COLMUBUS, Oh (AP) - John McCain has called on a political
heavyweight to give his campaign a lift -- Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The California governor told a rally in Ohio that "Mac" is
back.
He ribbed McCain rival Barack Obama by saying Obama has "skinny
legs" and "scrawny arms"...

http://www.wkrg.com/politics/article/schwarzenegger_obama_has_scrawny_arms/20527/

And now we get this.

WASHINGTON - Forget Barack Obama's staff making contact with a governor charged with corruption. What's got everyone talking is the president-elect's fine first form.

"FIT FOR OFFICE: Buff Bam is Hawaii hunk," the New York Post gushed on its cover Tuesday above a photo of the future president strolling without a shirt in Hawaii. The Drudge Report called him "President Beefcake," while TMZ said the president-elect is "still humble enough to do laundry -- ON HIS ABS!"...

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/dec/25/beach-photos-push-obama-toward-first-hunk-status/living/

Obama is probably the most physically fit President that we have ever seen.

 

[OAQfirst]

He ribbed McCain rival Barack Obama by saying Obama has "skinny
legs" and "scrawny arms"...

Compared to who?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Compared to who?

Maybe we should have allowed the ladies to decide who is the most buff by judging McCain and Obama in their swimming trunks.

 

[maze]

Obama is probably the most physically fit President that we have ever seen.

I dunno, I'd put my money on Bush in a running race against Obama.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I dunno, I'd put my money on Bush in a running race against Obama.

At least we are finally getting down to substance!

 

[turbo]

I dunno, I'd put my money on Bush in a running race against Obama.

Running away from responsibility and accountability, running away from his record? Bush hands-down.

 

[NeoDevin]

Bush did pretty good ducking those shoes.

 

[Hurkyl]

Of course, many will spew vile and venom at his meeting with Gore, and and his comments on climate change, today.

Did he say something condemnable?

 

[LowlyPion]

And on other fronts the RNC continues to endear itself to minorities with the "Barack the Magic Negro" flap.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/29/saltsman.obama.song/index.html

 

[mgb_phys]

And on other fronts the RNC continues to endear itself to minorities with the "Barack the Magic Negro" flap.

"sending a CD with those lyrics shortly after electing the first African-American president -- one supported by nearly 97 percent of the African-American community -- shows a serious lack of judgment, tact "

Presumably a plan to get rid of the 3% that support your candidate?

 

[mheslep]

And on other fronts the RNC continues to endear itself to minorities with the "Barack the Magic Negro" flap.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/29/saltsman.obama.song/index.html

That phrase was coined in an LA Times article by left winger David Ehrenstein.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...r19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

 

[LowlyPion]

That phrase was coined in an LA Times article by left winger David Ehrenstein.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...r19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

Unfortunately context is everything. And the tin ears of Republicans looks to be further marginalizing themselves with such insensitive appeals to divisiveness. Serves them right after having botched up the economy under their loathsome stewardship these past 8 years. It looks like the country will be turning the page on unrestrained indulgence, not so much by choice as by the ruin that these ideologues have brought to all our doorsteps.

And Dick Cheney wonders why no one likes him I recently read?

 

[LowlyPion]

Ouch. Here are some haters that got a smack down.

Judge assails cases doubting Obama's citizenship
By NEDRA PICKLER
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship, lambasting the case as a waste of the court's time and suggesting the plaintiff's attorney may have to compensate the president's lawyer.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvhtmoNEnyP1Bu6Ol4zJsN94mlewD96O5TV03

Make them pay for the waste of the court's time as well.

 

[BarackZero]

So as not to derail other threads, it seemed best to start this one.


I am starting to think that the most vocal opponents are simply racists.

I am not "starting to think" that Democrats play the race card excessively. I know they have been playing it, for decades.

Nobody can say anything negative about a "person of color" without being branded by Democrats as "racists" and worse.

Point of reference: Robert Byrd, senator from West Virginia.

He is the only Ku Klux Klansman in the United States Congress.

Oh yes, and he's a Democrat.

Until Democrats stop playing the cynical race card, rational debate is impossible for them.

On national television, a room full of Obama supporters were asked by the newscaster to name ONE accomplishment of Senator Obama. A room full of people, mind you.

Between them, they could not name one single thing.

Oh but this guy is "good." (Hint: He's black.)

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Between them ...

Among them ...

 

[LowlyPion]

Robert Byrd, senator from West Virginia.

He is the only Ku Klux Klansman in the United States Congress.

Nobody's perfect.

Of course that has absolutely nothing to do with Barack Obama.

 

[neu]

Nobody's perfect.

Of course that has absolutely nothing to do with Barack Obama.

Yeah how can you be sure he isn't also a member? hmm?

 

[LowlyPion]

Yeah how can you be sure he isn't also a member? hmm?

If he is, he hides it well.

 

[neu]

If he is, he hides it well.

With a pointy white hat

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Point of reference: Robert Byrd, senator from West Virginia.

He is the only Ku Klux Klansman in the United States Congress.

Oh yes, and he's a Democrat.

I believe he's an ex klansman who left the organization before he even assumed his current office back in the 50's.
if I remember correctly Obama mentions in The Audacity of Hope that on his first day at senate he visited with senator Byrd, received some good advice, and had a nice conversation with him.

 

[NeoDevin]

We can start a new rumour about Obama: He is secretly a Klansman!

 

[jreelawg]

I don't hate him, but I am beginning to get annoyed. He hasn't exactly been very honest with us. Particularly with the issue of AIG. Same thing with congress. They go and talk strong words when the public is listening, they talk strong words to AIG in congress, but it seams it is all for show, and many of the same people who talk tuff are the ones who are making it possible for AIG to keep on scamming us. For example Chris Dodd. But, it isn't just Chris Dodd, Apparently Chris was ordered by the Treasury to slip in the provision to let AIG give out excessive undeserved bonuses with bailout money before there was time to review it. Well, Obama is the Boss of the Treasury, so I guess he is responsible, and he admits it. But why? I the whole, this is a big mess and we have a bad hand of cards thing only goes so far.

I am also a little displeased to see the vast lists of "pork barrel" projects and earmarks that he has signed off of so far. He flat out lied when he campaigned on a no earmarks, no pork barrel policy. And he then has the nerve to go and lie about the obvious saying "there are no earmarks in this bill". If we don't start demanding some honesty out of Obama, we may end with a new Bush in the white house.

 

[Astronuc]

For example Chris Dodd. But, it isn't just Chris Dodd, Apparently Chris was ordered by the Treasury to slip in the provision to let AIG give out excessive undeserved bonuses with bailout money before there was time to review it.

Treasury cannot order a Senator. Does one have evidence to support this allegation? The bonuses were apparently determined last year before the company acknowledged it was is trouble.

I expect that Dodd will not be re-elected. Hopefully, he'll retire.

The current CEO, Edward M. Liddy, has indicated that AIG's Financial Products business was too complex to fully understand or manage.

Back in June 2008 however, there was indications of trouble.

Probe focuses on AIG financial products: WSJ
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSN1340737120080613

NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc's (AIG.N) financial-products division, already burnt by accounting issues, is coming under scrutiny in government probes, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Justice Department are investigating whether the insurer intentionally overstated the value of subprime mortgage-linked contracts.

The division specializes in credit-default swaps, contracts that are at the heart of the mortgage crisis.

Regulators are focused on an investor presentation held on December 5, the Journal said, at which both AIG Chief Executive Martin Sullivan and former financial-products chief Joseph Cassano said risks from the roiling subprime crisis were unlikely to cause the insurer major damage.

. . . .

Those dudes should be investigated.