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Wondering when Obama will begin building Nuke power plants and drilling offshore for oil... I'm waiting... Oh, my bad, it was just another LIE. Gotta stop believing this guy.
- Already approved it in July as part of the clean energy bill. You need to get a clue.Mimio
- ..or submit your plans to build a nuke plant yourself.Mimio
- OHHHH! It's part of Cap-n-TAX! I "GET IT".********
- He didn't say that actually. Not even in the bill yet either.Mimio
- I bet you can't wait for that nuke plant to be built in your hometown too.joeth
- I don't want no stinkin' nuke plant®********
- mathinc0
^^ SumWurk.. but don't you think that could help get unemployment numbers down and strengthen our future work force? It gives people another option.
- Don't feed the animals.Mimio
- No way mathinc. Not unemployment. Strengthen future workforce perhaps.********
- ...at a further cost to you and I.********
- ukit0
Finally got a chance to catch the SOTU speech and it was excellent, actually I was surprised he was able to pull off a speech that good after the setbacks of the past couple weeks.
Of course Obama is good at delivering speeches but at this point a speech on its own would have rung pretty hollow, especially if it was nothing but a defense of health care reform and other past initiatives. Instead, he laid out a number of actual new policy ideas that were not left or right pandering. Cutting the capital gains tax for small business, moving to block the effects of the Supreme Court decision, ending DADT, ending Bush tax cuts for over 250k earners and starting to cut the budget deficit in a serious way. He also mentioned the nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia that is in final stages which I think would be a major accomplishment.
Many in the left-wing media (like the Huffington Post) are continuing to attack him for trying to be bipartisan. But it's a pretty ridiculous line of attack considering that is the only way to get things done (and was before the MA election since at least 2 or 3 of the "Democrat" votes in the Senate are more conservative than a couple of the Republicans). All their bitching and whining will do is lead to disillusionment which leads to the other party getting elected, at which point the situation will be reversed, with the Dems being obstructionist.
At the same time Fox and the right will try to paint him as a socialist or extreme left winger but it is more and more clear to me their efforts are just the result of taking advantage of some of the extreme measures that were needed to stabilize the economy. It's not clear to me they will be able to demagogue campaign finance reform in the same way.
Only question is whether Congress and the extreme partisans will finally figure it out and stop bickering over pointless bullshit like little girls.
- < Certified ObamaTool®********
- SumWrk stop bickering over pointless BS like a little girlfooler2
- < Certified ObamaTool®
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Just watched Obama repeat his State of the Union Address in Tampa. What a dip. He reminded me that our tax dollars (via the American "Recovery" Act) are going to build a "high speed bullet train" somewhere on the East coast. LOL!!!
- That's jobs right there numb nuts.Mimio
- http://www.fra.dot.g…waterhouse
- From here on out I'll be calling you "Numb Nuts". I encourage others to do so as well.Mimio
- We're getting high speed rail in the corridor from chicago/milwaukee/mi... too.DrBombay
- about time too.DrBombay
- all gov. jobs in the end... that's not job growthPonyBoy
- In the state of Florida alone it's 600 full time jobs.Mimio
- and creates 23,000 jobs to build it.Mimio
- That's just ONE state.Mimio
- Yeah it'll create jobs to build it, good luck with the financial blackhole afterwards!mathinc
- It is time to modernize the infrastructure in this country.DrBombay
- You can disagree with it all you want, but it is happening.DrBombay
- Road budgets in this country NEVER are disputed. Just get over it.DrBombay
- Fuck the Hoover Dam too. Piece of shit blackhole.Mimio
- what gov agency builds anything = none = outsource = jobsBattleAxe
- I for one look forward to not having to drive an hour and a half into Orlando to go to a venue. So suck on my balls SumWork.EightyDeuce
- I'm taking your money and building a train :DEightyDeuce
- BonSeff0
Haha hillbillies can't sell enough hooch to afford to attend their own convention
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01…
Everyone of the male speakers look like registered sex offenders
http://www.nationalteapartyconve…$550 to bigot it up? maybe if they threw in a Hee Haw box set it might sweeten the deal?
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Chris Mathews last nite said, for the hour of Obama's speech, he forgot Obama was black!!!
I'm sure any minute now the media is gonna jump all over this story and demand mathews apologize or maybe resign and im sure the justice brothers, rev. al and jesse jackson will be staging protests and demanding justice be done for such racist comments.......any minute now.......cricket....cricket...
- BonSeff0
- who are they??GeorgesII
- #3 Farah is the WorldNetDaily guyMimio
- I don't recognize the rest without their hoods and white sheets on.Mimio
- #3 Farah also holds top honors in the molestache competitionBonSeff
- #2 holds top honors in the flesh-colored molestache divisionBonSeff
- hahahahahahaa! omgDrBombay
- Bahahahaaa...! @ 'molestache'blaw
- DrBombay0
AFA challenges CBS not to air gay make-out ad during Super Bowl
According to press reports, CBS is giving consideration to running an ad for a homosexual dating site during the Super Bowl, an ad that will feature two gay men brushing hands as they reach into a bowl of chips and then feverishly making out to the shock of a third man sitting nearby.
Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association (AFA), said, "It would be totally irresponsible for CBS to run this ad during a television program that is watched by more American families than any other show of the year. CBS should not put parents in the position of answering embarrassing and awkward questions from their children while they're just trying to enjoy a football game. CBS should quit dithering around and reject this ad out of hand."American Family Association is a pro-family advocacy organization with over 2.5 million online supporters.
- Yeah, because God knows there's no families with gay members in them.Mimio
- I like how people act like witnesses gay affection will make them gay.Mimio
- ...because parents shouldn't have to do their fucking jobs by teaching their children about life, love and sexuality.bulletfactory
- All the beer sluts in the ads is enough is what they're saying. Really, if your parenting skills can't handle that maybe you shouldn't have made lil' ones.zarkonite
- shouldn't have made lil' ones.zarkonite
- fooler20
I was going to put this in a Superbowl thread but there isnt one yet... besides it's more political anyway.
- I hope he sues for slanderfooler2
- I think the statement is true.********
- Shame really. I can't even take a side on this one.waterhouse
- BattleAxe0
Superbowl ad from 2007 , maybe not feverishly making out , but still ran
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Obama was blatantly inaccurate, wrong or worse, LYING when he blasted the Supreme Court Justices last night. What a supreme gaffe (pun intended). Perhaps the gaffe of the century.
The media is eating him up on this big time.
- ukit0
"This new ruling is terrible. I would rather see a cap and tight regulations put on campaign financing."
-SumWurk, before Fox News told him what to think
- lowimpakt0
so how do people feel about the Taliban being brought back to the negotiation table in Afghanisatn?
sign of the total failure/shortsightedness of Bush's actions and a total waste of life/money? or a maturity of the standard conflict cycle?
- version30
i'm more concerned with the phillipines flash flood
- BattleAxe0
^^ whatever it takes, just end it
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Floodgates will be open to foreign corporations to contribute money to US political campaigns.
That's not true. The court did not deal with that law. "Foreign companies are already prohibited from influencing American campaigns. The current legal prohibitions on foreign involvement in elections are quite specific, and prohibit a foreign national from directly or indirectly contributing to a candidate or party, or paying for a broadcast, cable or satellite communication which refers to a federal candidate in the period before an election ('electioneering communications'). Furthermore, FEC regulations already prohibit a foreign national from direct, control, or indirectly participating in the decision-making process of any corporation, labor union, or political committee in their election-related activities." So it's a flat-out and out lie, it's a scare tactic. The libs are all upset because the First Amendment was upheld. Freedom came out of its coma a little bit with that ruling by the US Supreme Court. The libs are all bent out of shape because free speech gets in the way of their plans.
