Dang! Obama a master!

[MarAzul]

The man can pluck heart strings like no other before him. It's like he has them stung in the National Harp
and it's his night in Carnegie Hall.

 

[Denny Crane]

Buh bye, Barak.

 

[Denny Crane]

Libertarian view of Obama.

http://reason.com/archives/2017/01/10/goodbye-obama

Goodbye, Obama
The outgoing president leaves a loaded gun in the Oval Office.

As a presidential candidate, Obama made clear that, along with "dumb wars," he firmly opposed unauthorized wars. That December, in a candidate survey on executive power conducted by reporter Charlie Savage, Sen. Obama stated plainly: "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

As Obama gained on Clinton in the following months, she was reduced to carping: "I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House.…Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." And yet that speech turned out to be instrumental to Obama's winning the nomination, and thus the presidency.

...

"Shut the fuck up!" Obama reportedly exclaimed on the early morning of October 9, 2009, when press secretary Robert Gibbs woke him with the news he'd won the Nobel Peace Prize. In retrospect, it might have spared everyone a lot of embarrassment had Obama pulled a Bob Dylan and gone AWOL on the Committee. A week before the announcement, after all, Obama had ordered 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, and by the time he hit the podium at Oslo to acknowledge the "considerable controversy" the award had caused, he'd already launched more drone strikes than George W. Bush managed in his two full terms.

In the years to come, the U.S. military's "operational tempo" would grow steadily more frantic, as Obama surged troop levels to 100,000 in Afghanistan, launched two undeclared wars, deployed U.S. Special Forces to 85 countries around the globe, and tallied 10 times as many drone attacks as his predecessor. Over Labor Day weekend this year, while Americans stocked up on Bud Limes and burger rolls, their government launched nearly 70 airstrikes across six countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya. As the end of Obama's tenure approached, The New York Times noted, he was poised to become "the first two-term president to have presided over a nation at war for every day of his presidency."

Lots more good stuff at the link.

 

[MarAzul]

Just curious. I am the only one that see Obama as speaking on an emotional level, about almost every issue he choses to speak out on?

 

[dviss1]

Just curious. I am the only one that see Obama as speaking on an emotional level, about almost every issue he choses to speak out on?

Politics is literally about people's lives. But you have to actually care about those that look completely opposite of you to relate.

 

[MarAzul]

look completely opposite

Perhaps, but he sounds the same even when I don't look.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Perhaps, but he sounds the same even when I don't look.

You mean he sounds elitist and condescending? Like he knows better than you about what's best for you?

 

[Sedatedfork]

You mean he sounds elitist and condescending? Like he knows better than you about what's best for you?

Denny wouldn't like you talking about him like that.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Denny wouldn't like you talking about him like that.

Since when do I give a fuck what anyone on this forum likes or not?

 

[MarAzul]

You mean he sounds elitist and condescending? Like he knows better than you about what's best for you?

Maybe that's it, but he does seem to bath every issue in how we should feel about it or how he feels about it. I don't do that, and I often don't care.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Maybe that's it, but he does seem to bath every issue in how we should feel about it or how he feels about it. I don't do that, and I often don't care.

Of course he does. He's a Liberal and a Democrat. That's what they do. They're not concerned about FACTS. The only things that matter to them are Trump's tweets, inanimate objects like guns, and basing their opinions on feelings and emotions instead of logic and reason.

 

[barfo]

Since when do I give a fuck what anyone on this forum likes or not?

Since last Thursday at 9pm.

barfo

 

[Jade Falcon]

Since last Thursday at 9pm.

barfo

What happened last Thursday at 9 PM?

 

[MarAzul]

Of course he does. He's a Liberal and a Democrat. That's what they do. They're not concerned about FACTS. The only things that matter to them are Trump's tweets, inanimate objects like guns, and basing their opinions on feelings and emotions instead of logic and reason.

Oh! I see. Well known, heh!

 

[barfo]

What happened last Thursday at 9 PM?

You started to give a fuck what anyone on this forum likes or not.

barfo

 

[Jade Falcon]

You started to give a fuck what anyone on this forum likes or not.

barfo

It must have triggered you if you're so butthurt about it.

Maybe I can grab Rasta's pacifier for you and your safe space. Would that help?

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

You mean he sounds elitist and condescending? Like he knows better than you about what's best for you?

Obama isn't my dude, so I'm not trying to defend him, but what politician doesn't act the way you just described? Aside from maybe The Bern. But for realz, you pretty much laid out a simple description of every politician.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Obama isn't my dude, so I'm not trying to defend him, but what politician doesn't act the way you just described? Aside from maybe The Bern. But for realz, you pretty much laid out a simple description of every politician.

Oh bullshit. Obama had condescension, arrogance, and elitism down to an art form unlike any other president in modern times.

I don't recall Bush Jr or even Clinton addressing people so arrogantly during speeches. Bush was too stupid, and Clinton just didn't give a fuck about anything.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Oh bullshit. Obama had condescension, arrogance, and elitism down to an art form unlike any other president in modern times.

I don't recall Bush Jr or even Clinton addressing people so arrogantly during speeches. Bush was too stupid, and Clinton just didn't give a fuck about anything.

Meh. They're all like that.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Meh. They're all like that.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I find Obama's arrogance and elitism to be appalling on a level I never saw with Bush, or even Clinton.

 

[Denny Crane]

It must have triggered you if you're so butthurt about it.

Maybe I can grab Rasta's pacifier for you and your safe space. Would that help?

I suggest crayon. He might understand that.

 

[Jade Falcon]

I suggest crayon. He might understand that.

Good idea, thank you. And maybe a Sesame Street coloring book.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I find Obama's arrogance and elitism to be appalling on a level I never saw with Bush, or even Clinton.

I get it with Dubya. He was too dumb to know anything different. But most politicians are elitists and believe they're smarter than everyone else.

 

[Jade Falcon]

I get it with Dubya. He was too dumb to know anything different. But most politicians are elitists and believe they're smarter than everyone else.

Meh....it wasn't even that he was dumb. He just.....I dunno.....he was far more humble and soft-spoken. He used a quiet resolve to get his point across, rather than projected arrogance.

But who knows...perhaps he really was just too dumb to know any better.

 

[Denny Crane]

As people, I liked W and Obama just fine.

If you get your picture of who they are from SNL, you won't like W.

If you watched them both on C-SPAN, you'd have seen how warm and funny they both are. And how well W got along with black people.

 

[barfo]

It must have triggered you if you're so butthurt about it.

Maybe I can grab Rasta's pacifier for you and your safe space. Would that help?

No idea. I'm not the one who has been triggered here. After all, nothing happened to me last Thursday at 9pm.

barfo

 

[Jade Falcon]

No idea. I'm not the one who has been triggered here. After all, nothing happened to me last Thursday at 9pm.

barfo

Well, since you're the expert on my activity, then perhaps you can tell me what happened at that specific time that offended you so much.

I can't even remember when I last took a shit. Yet you remember the specific time slot and day that I made a supposed post.

So enlighten me or go away. Your obsessed stalking is starting to creep me out.

 

[barfo]

Well, since you're the expert on my activity, then perhaps you can tell me what happened at that specific time that offended you so much.

I can't even remember when I last took a shit. Yet you remember the specific time slot and day that I made a supposed post.

So enlighten me or go away. Your obsessed stalking is starting to creep me out.

Not sure what you are talking about. Nothing offended me.

You sound sort of paranoid. Do you hear voices, perchance? Are they telling you to do bad things?

barfo

 

[Jade Falcon]

Not sure what you are talking about. Nothing offended me.

Really? You could have fooled me. I figure someone who knows my posting regimen to the hour is an obsessive nutcase who probably needs to stay off the internet until they can grow up.

You sound sort of paranoid.

And you sound sort of like an asshole. So I guess we're even.

 

[barfo]

Really? You could have fooled me. I figure someone who knows my posting regimen to the hour is an obsessive nutcase who probably needs to stay off the internet until they can grow up.

Who said I knew anything about your 'posting regimen'?

And you sound sort of like an asshole. So I guess we're even.

Paranoid & Asshole? We sound more odd than even.

Or like the cast of every cop buddy movie.

barfo