Magox

It's pretty obvious, Obama won and he feels empowered. There is no hiding who he truly is now, he's an unabashed liberal who cares more about from his view, dealing with social inequities through implementing bigger government policies while instituting punitive measures amongst those who feels owe it back to society, than trying to restore a vibrant economy. If anyone saw his inaugural address, knows that his agenda is the antithesis of Clinton's second term, when he decreed "The era of big government is over"... Well, Obama basically said "The era of big government is back, and we've juiced it up". So of course, it wasn't surprising to me that he never made mention of the economy and debt, why would he? Those are his failures, not to mention that liberals don't really enjoy discussing the debt. Rather than discuss these topics, that most of us care about, he is going to try to push through his leftist agenda. He's a borderline megalomaniac, it's gonna be his way or the highway, and he has the election results to prove it. At least that's how he sees it. The only hope I have of there being a grand bargain is if he comes to his senses and decides that addressing the entitlements and tax reform is part of the legacy he wants to leave behind. My guess is that he won't deliver, first because he isn't equipped to come through on a grand bargain, simply because he isn't able to connect with the opposing party. Secondly, liberals don't want to touch the entitlements, and he has always been beholden to their beliefs. The only reason why he ever pissed off liberals with some of his "compromises" is because he had to. If there is anything he loves more than his liberal orthodoxy, it would be himself. Which means that he compromised not for the sake of the good, but for his legacy and his re election. Well now that he has been re elected, I expect to see an even greater movement to the left.

It all starts and ends at the top.

Dude, he's trolling... Leave him him be so he can masturbate to his Manti Teo posters on his door.

Holy ****! You are me! I talk about incentives and the government all the time. If you continue to pile up the incentives for doing less, you will get a less productive society. If you apply punitive measures (higher taxes on the wealthy), not for tangible results but in the name of economic "fairness", then you will get less production. Make no mistake, Obama cares more about social justice than having a vibrant economy. Remember the Hillary/Obama debates?

I'm not surprised

Shallow much?

"I'd like to get me some of that chunky piece of ass, oh ****, Hillary is lookin again"

Get use to it.... Obama right now believes he's untouchable, and with that feeling of invincibility it's only natural that his followers will have the same level of arrogance.

Right on cue

In other words, he believes Fitz sucks major balls.

Well, he isn't afraid to say what he believes. But he's not your kinda dude, you're pretty close to being a full blown socialist, he's on the opposite side of the spectrum.

Dude, the guy is a staunch conservative, just because he believes in Global Warming doesn't mean he's some sort of Moderate R. He believes in balancing the budget through spending cuts. He believes in cutting taxes. He believes that Private insurers are better for the U.S than State run health care. He believes in smarter and less regulation. And he's pro Life to boot. Please, you would never in your life time even come close to considering him as someone you would vote for.

Ray Lewis does it, Ok Tebow does it, Bad

I still don't get how this ad was false. Someone please help me out here.

For me it's simple, if others are doing it to get an edge and you are directly competing against them, then I don't have a problem with it, but if you get caught, that's the risk you took and you deserve the consequences.

I don't fault him for "cheating", the whole cycling world was doping, and if you want to fall in the world of irrelevance, then you can stay clean and not be competitive. If you are fiercely competitive and you want to be relevant, then you even the playing field. From my perspective, where he loses major points is how he treated people in order to protect his legacy. In a nutshell, that's my views on this matter

I don't care if he lied, he's a 22 year old...

Out of curiosity, what similarities do you see from Andy Dalton and Nassib? Where did you come up with this comparison?

I seem to remember reading a thread where DC TOM and Simon got into a tiff about how he was temporarily banned and made mention of how he planned on visiting the site less.

He's 22 years old, 22 year olds do stupid and unexplainable things at time.. I'm certainly not gonna brand the kid for the rest of his life because he did something stupid.

That's the main cog of the liberal plank. Gotta hand it to B.O, he's mastered it.

Very solid pickup

It's not that they lie, it's that the variables they use don't depict an accurate picture.

While I agree with this sentiment, now you're conflating one subject with another.

Holy crap, this was an absurdly infantile statement to make.. You sound like a petulant 13 year old. You do know that the vast majority of presidents win when they are the incumbent don't you? All he has done was won re election and here you are boasting this ordinary occurrence as if it were Phil Jackson coaching the Bulls during their Dynasty.