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| Minch:
--- Quote from: Mao TSO-Tung on November 12, 2010, 02:55:50 AM ---The President is a puppet for the most part nowadays. He can say platitudes and demand change but for the most part bar a few minor tweaks to make it look like Washington cares, he's going to maintain the status quo. I mean, I think Obama has improved a lot of things in America, mostly our horribly tarnished international appearance, but he's not actually going to do even a tenth of the things he promised. And now with midterms swinging control of the House to the Republicans it's just going to be 2 years of posturing and nothing really getting done. --- End quote --- I knew it that the president is just a figure head. We were screwed already... --- Quote from: Trotskykami on November 12, 2010, 02:56:00 AM ---The current president, following the legacy of a disastrous one, will serve one term and be replaced by a self-styled "sensible conservative" who will reap the benefits of the groundwork the current president is laying and so carrying the White House for two terms. Or maybe I'm just remembering Carter to Reagan. --- End quote --- Your just remembering Carter to Reagan. |
| Alfred F. Jones:
--- Quote from: G.R.U.pop on November 12, 2010, 02:53:16 AM ---Hah our loonies was worth more than your bills! :V --- End quote --- Ours were worth the same, albeit in a different way. When I was a kid, my parents promised me a trip to Europe instead of a Quincea?era when I graduated from high school. What happened when I graduated? The market crash. Feh. --- Quote from: Trotskykami on November 12, 2010, 02:56:00 AM ---The current president, following the legacy of a disastrous one, will serve one term and be replaced by a self-styled "sensible conservative" who will reap the benefits of the groundwork the current president is laying and so carrying the White House for two terms. Or maybe I'm just remembering Carter to Reagan. --- End quote --- My personal favourite is how our Senate Minority Leader actively says that the Republican party's main aim is to make Obama a one-term president. As opposed to, you know, taking the first steps to fixing the economy, confronting our wars in the Middle East and pulling out our troops, doing something about Medicare and what have you. And completely forgetting that a democracy is supposed to work by compromise. (I hate how that word, "compromise", has become a bad word in the continental US lexicon. You just can't work with a democracy if you won't compromise at all.) |
| helvetica:
--- Quote from: Trotskykami on November 12, 2010, 02:56:00 AM ---The current president, following the legacy of a disastrous one, will serve one term and be replaced by a self-styled "sensible conservative" who will reap the benefits of the groundwork the current president is laying and so carrying the White House for two terms. Or maybe I'm just remembering Carter to Reagan. --- End quote --- Err Carter was garbage. He somehow managed to totally throw away control from the Democrats despite basically being handed the White House and Congress for the next 100 years thanks to Nixon's royal cockup. The Energy Crisis showed how absolutely ineffectual he was as a diplomat in reigning in a war hungry Israel, and his price controls almost brought the economy to a complete collapse. His charity work is great, and he's an excellent spokesperson for human rights not just for Americans but for all humanity, but as a leader he was too idealistic and impractical. |
| Ubiquitial:
--- Quote from: Mao TSO-Tung on November 12, 2010, 03:02:48 AM ---Err Carter was garbage. He somehow managed to totally throw away control from the Democrats despite basically being handed the White House and Congress for the next 100 years thanks to Nixon's royal cockup. The Energy Crisis showed how absolutely ineffectual he was as a diplomat in reigning in a war hungry Israel, and his price controls almost brought ~*~the economy~*~ to a complete collapse. His charity work is great, and he's an excellent spokesperson for human rights not just for Americans but for all humanity, but as a leader he was too idealistic and impractical. --- End quote --- So who do you approve of? |
| Tengukami:
Meh, I still like Carter, warts and all. He got Egypt and Israel to talk to each other, he tried to bring the metric system into the US, and he put solar panels on the White House roof (which Reagan immediately removed). So maybe he wasn't stellar, but still. I've said before that on his gravestone they're going to engrave "He Tried". --- Quote from: Fidel Castruro on November 12, 2010, 03:02:11 AM ---My personal favourite is how our Senate Minority Leader actively says that the Republican party's main aim is to make Obama a one-term president. As opposed to, you know, taking the first steps to fixing ~*~the economy~*~, confronting our wars in the Middle East and pulling out our troops, doing something about Medicare and what have you. And completely forgetting that a democracy is supposed to work by compromise. (I hate how that word, "compromise", has become a bad word in the continental US lexicon. You just can't work with a democracy if you won't compromise at all.) --- End quote --- The GOP wants the president to fail, hard. That's been their priority since he started running for office. They have no ideas, no alternatives beyond "let's do things the way Bush did". They play to people's worst fears and basest xenophobic hatred. And if the Democrats don't start changing their game from reactive to active, they're going to hand the country over to them. |
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