Obama bowing....againFollow

Here I thought this was a necrobump. But I looked at the date and saw April 13th.

The world didn't end the last times it happened, why is it so EarthAmerica-Shattering now?

I'm glad you said 'most'.

This. Good lord, Varus, get a life.

You won't like an American President until he lets Palestine jerk off in his face and he anally rapes Israel.

You must be new here. Shut up while you can, there's grown folks making fun of Varus.

Key part. Note that a good portion of America has less than an ounce of comprehension. I blame it on the fact that we should be using the metric system, because very few people bother to remember how large an ounce really is or how it converts.

It's varus, what do you expect? A thread that actually makes sense and isn't a lame attempt to insult Obama?

I think varus could take a page from Obama's book about respecting others. Then again, he'd probably implode if he does.

He's popular in Europe for two reasons:

1. He's black and they secretly and shamefully know that they wouldn't elect a black person to a similar position.

2. He's as far left as anyone in the US gets.




There was vastly more of what I'd call "hate" towards Bush. What you're seeing is disagreement with his polices and actions and a whole lot of crying wolf about how this somehow equates to "hate speech". I've yet to hear someone on a right wing radio show here in the US (including callers!) say anything half as hateful as the kinds of things said almost every single day by the actual hosts of many liberal talk shows on the radio towards Bush when he was president.

Also, no one blames Obama for getting us into the current economic mess (although some like myself do place a fair share of blame on Democrat actions and polices over the last decade). What people blame Obama for is the horrifically bad choices he's made in response to said economic problems. They're blaming him for the certain economic problems which will come as a result of those choices. For the most part, we'd be in exactly the same economic spot today whether a single one of Obama's various stimulus initiatives had been passed. However, we'd be a lot less in debt if we hadn't. The cost in the long run for the "fix" to our economy will almost certainly end out being worse than the short term economic benefits.

That's what people blame him for. We're going to be paying off this bill for decades. It would have been better to just take a big hit today and then recover naturally...




I disagree. He comes across as someone of average intelligence at best, who's skilled at appearing to be smarter than he is. Not that this isn't a good trait for a President, mind you, but I doubt seriously if he has had a single original idea himself at any point in his professional life. He's not "full of ideas" at all. He's surrounded by advisers, just like every other president, and has largely had his career mapped out for him by others, not by himself. That's not uncommon for politicians, but let's not pretend that he's somehow different. He just has more people wanting very hard to believe that he is.




I suspect his biggest accomplishment will be having been elected while black. Honestly. His administration itself will most likely be viewed as just slightly less competent than that of Jimmy Carter's.

Sigh. You know... When I wrote that point, I considered adding something like "with a chance of obtaining high office", but figured that it wasn't necessary since I was already talking about his significance as President. Thanks for shattering my faith in humanity! :(

That actually sounds a lot more like GWB, except for the "skilled at appearing to be smarter than he is" part.

I'm sorry, you don't get into Harvard while being poor and black without being sharp as a tack. You cannot simultaneously be an elitist, ivory-tower intellectual and be only of "average" intelligence.

Keep in mind that this is coming from someone who likes to brag about how smart he is because "he once wrote a paper in school school that the teacher thought was really good -- but he never read the book!" and other Tales Of Astounding Genius.

Besides, that's almost certainly not true. The largest immediate recipients of stimulus money were state governments who used it to avoid a large number of teacher, police and other state service layoffs. Ignoring any other projects, there was a notable retention of jobs in those areas.

Unfortunately, where it's been slow has been in producing new jobs. States played pretty fast and loose with their definitions of "shovel ready" and a lot of these projects are still bogged down in planning and bidding phases.