Liberals Need to Take a Lesson

[blzrul]

I agree fully. Finally at the end of his presidency, like the last 3 months it seemed like he was finally starting to put his foot down. I do give Bush props for not pardoning Scooter Libby, even though by all accounts Cheney practically begged him to do so.

Absolutely agree - I often felt sorry for Bush, because he had to be frustrated at the very least. I am sure many days he didn't want to get out of bed, and that he didn't run screaming from the building says something at least. I don't think he really enjoyed being President very much.

[BillsFan-4-Ever]

Limbaugh is only interested in himself, so praising Obama over America's use of excessive force against the pirates is only a snide tactic to advance his Neocon policies of aggression over diplomacy. It's despicable that Rush would use this tragedy as a front to advocate war mongering colonialism.

Limburger is an IDIOT plain and simple.

 

He will use whatever he can to boost his ratings.

[DC Tom]

Absolutely agree - I often felt sorry for Bush, because he had to be frustrated at the very least. I am sure many days he didn't want to get out of bed, and that he didn't run screaming from the building says something at least. I don't think he really enjoyed being President very much.

 

Bush had to deal with the worst attack on American soil ever, followed by the worst natural disaster in American history, followed by the worst economic collapse in almost 80 years. Bush may have been a doofus of a president, but he was a singuarly snakebit doofus.

[Chef Jim]

Bush had to deal with the worst attack on American soil ever, followed by the worst natural disaster in American history, followed by the worst economic collapse in almost 80 years. Bush may have been a doofus of a president, but he was a singuarly snakebit doofus.

 

He deserved what he got seeing all those snake bites were self inflicted.

[blzrul]

Bush had to deal with the worst attack on American soil ever, followed by the worst natural disaster in American history, followed by the worst economic collapse in almost 80 years. Bush may have been a doofus of a president, but he was a singuarly snakebit doofus.

So you are saying he was a victim, eh? Arguably he might have had little control over prevention of catastrophes, but he certainly should have had some control over response, and that what he's been held accountable for.

 

There were warning signs - some subtle, some not - for ALL of those major catastrophes. Their damage could have been mitigated by paying more attention and taking appropriate steps. THAT is what the President is accountable for, and at THAT he failed.

[Chef Jim]

So you are saying he was a victim, eh? Arguably he might have had little control over prevention of catastrophes, but he certainly should have had some control over response, and that what he's been held accountable for.

 

There were warning signs - some subtle, some not - for ALL of those major catastrophes. Their damage could have been mitigated by paying more attention and taking appropriate steps. THAT is what the President is accountable for, and at THAT he failed.

 

How was his response to the deepest economic downturn since the depression?

[Gene Frenkle]

How was his response to the deepest economic downturn since the depression?

He mailed it in quite nicely? Kind of like 4:30 on a Friday before a 3 day weekend.

 

Exactly what I would expect/want a lame duck to do.

[Chef Jim]

He mailed it in quite nicely? Kind of like 4:30 on a Friday before a 3 day weekend.

 

Exactly what I would expect/want a lame duck to do.

 

Sorry, I was talking about the last worst recession since the depression.

[Bad Lieutenant]

What a jackass! Asking NYC cop if he's been living under a rock. Yeah, I'm so sure bitter old bastards rate higher than NYC police on the relevance and/or awareness meters. More evidence for my "RI is a phony, (doesn't-really)-know-it-all" theory.

 

And yeah, Bill, it appears you are right, they are so affected they simply cannot help themselves. I saw your "kudos" in the pirate thread(hmm, that sounds kinda cool for some reason) and thought the same thing.

 

Could you do everyone the courtesy of attaching some sort of disclaimer to the beginning of your posts? Something along the lines of "The following blustery hoopla was written by a right wing shut-in paranoiac who has deluded himself into believing that he is being targeted for summary execution by a cabal of liberal intellectuals. Attempting to take such grandiose idiocy seriously may be damaging to your frontal lobe, and can put you at risk of joining OCinBuffalo in his lobotomized-like state."

 

Look I am in the first group of people they have to kill in order gain/keep their power: people that can build things from scratch without any help from the government or inheritance. My very existence proves their ideology to be the BS that it is, because, according to them, I don't exist. I do, so they have to get rid of me. I look at resisting them as self-defense, and so should every other small business owner, or independent contractor, or VC company founder, or inventor that wants to benefit from his/her own work.

[IDBillzFan]

Could you do everyone the courtesy of attaching some sort of disclaimer to the beginning of your posts? Something along the lines of "The following blustery hoopla was written by a right wing shut-in paranoiac who has deluded himself into believing that he is being targeted for summary execution by a cabal of liberal intellectuals. Attempting to take such grandiose idiocy seriously may be damaging to your frontal lobe, and can put you at risk of joining OCinBuffalo in his lobotomized-like state."

Again...just another outstanding contribution. Well done, sir. Keep up the good work. The value of your contributions simply can not be measured.

[DC Tom]

So you are saying he was a victim, eh? Arguably he might have had little control over prevention of catastrophes, but he certainly should have had some control over response, and that what he's been held accountable for.

 

There were warning signs - some subtle, some not - for ALL of those major catastrophes. Their damage could have been mitigated by paying more attention and taking appropriate steps. THAT is what the President is accountable for, and at THAT he failed.

 

I didn't say he was a victim. I said he was snakebit. What other president has had to face as many crises as severe as those? Maybe Lincoln and FDR.

 

And what, exactly, were the warning signs that were supposed to cause the president to mitigate New Orleans getting swamped by a hurricane? That's just !@#$ing stupid.

[Gene Frenkle]

I didn't say he was a victim. I said he was snakebit. What other president has had to face as many crises as severe as those? Maybe Lincoln and FDR.

 

And what, exactly, were the warning signs that were supposed to cause the president to mitigate New Orleans getting swamped by a hurricane? That's just !@#$ing stupid.

Radar images of a big !@#$ing hurricane headed for New Orleans?

[Bishop Hedd]

I voted for McCain, but when he lost I vowed that I would never sink to the level of liberals and trash the President no matter what he did. When he did things I disagreed with I'd feel free to disagree, when he did things I approved of I would give him praise. After 8 years of Bush trashing by the liberals and liberal media, I'd had enough. Rush Limbaugh just now was PRAISING (used the word 'praise')Obama, admitted he did a great job handling the Pirate Crisis and said when the President does something right, he deserves credit. I thought that showed real character from Rush. Lord knows if it was Bush the liberals would find a way to criticize him, saying something like he just wanted more blood. Hating everything the President does, no matter what side you're on is counter productive.

What a moronic topic! Ever heard of a little thing called 9/11?

[blzrul]

Radar images of a big !@#$ing hurricane headed for New Orleans?

That would have been a dead giveaway...of course they start predicting those things DAYS in advance and what with ADHD and all I could see where it would easily become old news, particularly IF it happened to also be Brush-Cuttin Season....

[Bishop Hedd]

Radar images of a big !@#$ing hurricane headed for New Orleans?

BULLSEYE!

[Gene Frenkle]

That would have been a dead giveaway...of course they start predicting those things DAYS in advance and what with ADHD and all I could see where it would easily become old news, particularly IF it happened to also be Brush-Cuttin Season....

There's no Weather Channel in good ol' Crawford.

[Bishop Hedd]

There's no Weather Channel in good ol' Crawford.

For all of DC Toms self*professed intellectual virtuosity he can be as thick as a turd.

[DC Tom]

Radar images of a big !@#$ing hurricane headed for New Orleans?

 

So he could have done what, precisely, with a three-day forecast?

 

You people live in a real fantasy-land.

[drnykterstein]

I didn't say he was a victim. I said he was snakebit. What other president has had to face as many crises as severe as those? Maybe Lincoln and FDR.

 

And what, exactly, were the warning signs that were supposed to cause the president to mitigate New Orleans getting swamped by a hurricane? That's just !@#$ing stupid.

 

I do wonder DC Tom, or at least this is the thought that crossed my mind when I read your post...

Of those three things how much did he have to do with causing them?

 

- His foreign policy and blank checks to Israel have obviously caused a lot of Islam hatred towards the USA.

- There is plenty of documentation showing the levies were old and in disrepair and requests to repair them had been ignored.

- Being President for 7.5 years prior to a recession, I think his policies had a little something to do with the collapse.

 

I mean I personally blame him for at least the wars and the recession. Especially the recession. I suppose pinning the levies on him is being unfair, so I won't do that. Either way, I cannot tell what you feel his role was in all of these. Is it causation or correlation?

[blzrul]

So he could have done what, precisely, with a three-day forecast?

 

You people live in a real fantasy-land.

oooooohhhh maybe like picked up the phone, talked to the affected governors about their plans, had FEMA standing by, you know the usual stuff.

 

For Christ's sake, many of us have more disaster preparedness in our basements and garages than the feds had for Katrina. And as King of the Feds, the buck (much as he always dodged it) DID end with him.