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Obama Confirms Leadership Failure, Pulls Out Mother Of All Mutual Assured Nukes: "Raise Debt Ceiling Or Risk Global Recession"
And people made fun of Hank Paulson for threatening with eternal damnation if congress didn't stamp his multi-trillion blank check to bail out his former co-workers from Goldman. In a step that makes the Kashkari-Paulson threat seem like amateur hour, the teleprompter just received its latest high frequency directive from the Wall Street superiors, promptly delivering the latest MAD message to what continues to be perceived as an idiot audience: "Failure by Congress to raise the U.S. debt limit "could plunge the world economy back into recession," President Barack Obama declared Friday, and he acknowledged that he must compromise on spending with Republicans who control the House to avoid such a crisis. Obama urged swift action, saying he doesn't want the United States to get close to a deadline that would destabilize financial markets. He said he was confident Congress ultimately would raise the limit. "We always have. We will do it again," said Obama, who voted against raising the debt limit as a freshman senator from Illinois."
For those keeping score of the President's numerous accolades, this merely underscores that the president is now in contention for the Nobel Prize in hypocrisy: after all compare this statement to Obama's now supremely ironic remark from March 20, 2006: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." They sure do. And in order to replace the current failed leadership, they will gladly start with a new president.
"I'm the person who is best prepared for us to finish the job so that we're on track to succeed in the 21st century," Obama said. That's the heart of his argument for voters to give him a second term over more than a half dozen Republicans seeking the White House.
As the 2012 campaign gets under way, it's being shaped by a deep disagreement over federal spending in Washington between Republicans who control the House and Democrats in power in the Senate and White House. Obama and Republicans compromised a week ago on a spending bill to avert a government shutdown, a preview of the debate that's certain to dominate the coming months on deficits and the ceiling on money the nation can borrow.
The president said that he doesn't expect either side to get everything it wants in negotiations and that he's pushing for "a smart compromise that's serious."
He warned of dire consequences if the debt ceiling is not raised before it hits its limit of $14.3 trillion; the administration says the latest Congress could possibly act is by early July. But Obama said some longer-term questions about where the government trims its operations will have to be left until after the 2012 presidential election.
"I'm confident that the withdrawal will be significant," he said. "People will say this is a real process of transition, this is not just a token gesture."
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take the re and the y out
Take the rec and y out.
the green shoots mainstream financial media were seeing after eating some kind of mushroom
one thing is for sure: the previous president couldnt possibly have used a teleprompter, because noone could possibly have written speeches that stupid.
teleprompter being loaded by soros
he said we could afford more debt
ZIRP! ZIRP! ZIRP!
That's the sound of a hep cat drinking anti-freeze.
Ethylene glycol poisoning is a supposedly excruciating way to die. Your liver is unable to metabolize the compound, which results in renal and hepatic failure, followed by systemic failure, which results in coma and death of the unfortunate organism.
And the only antidote is a massive, continuous dose of ethanol!
It should be treated like toxic waste if you love your dog. They think it tastes sweet, and you are right. It is not a good way to die.
Crickets.
Compared to the current president's incredibly stupid speeches, Dubya seems like a genius. Only a brain damaged fool with the attention span of a fruitfly could still support the current TOTUS. Pointing back to Dubya won't make the TOTUS seem any better in 2012
this time I say we all vote NO WAY
But, but, but ..... He sold the people on change from the status quo, a new beginning per se ....
Change alright... to an even HIGHER level of debt
Should have read the small print...
ah, the wonders of advertising
reminds me of a scene in Blazing Saddles...
Sheriff Bart - "The next man that makes a move and the ****** get's it.."
"Hold it men.. he's not bluffing"..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFl3pWbfVX8
He's despa'ate! Do what he say...do what he say!!!
God love ya HH.. I was looking for the link.
HA HA good one!
I came here to post the exact same thought.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zg9I8HpF3SI/SCYeLyA0Y4I/AAAAAAAAAYE/Qd5LQDYo5X...
"Were it not for the obstinate resistance of the so-called Tea Party (thrice cursed be their name i neternity), Dear Leader President would have saved the USSA from the Greatest Depression in 2012. But alas, his great wisdom was not heard."
The History App on GovPad, 2051
All together now, Obama is a fucking .....?
Michelle?
I doubt it, Michelle and those 2 kids are stage props for the Manchurian President and besides Obama is a straight up homo. What, no one else knew that?
I'm with you Dog. I have yet to hear of One(1) Obama ex-girlfriend. You would think if he had any they would have been talking him up during the last election. But only crickets....
Oh, c'mon. He just likes to take baths...
with Rahm.
One of my saner buddies suggested to look real hard at the family photos. That if they don't look photo-shopped, then there's only one kid. If there're two, they look photo-shopped, wrong lighting angles, etc. Says they ate one of 'em. And this guy is reputable.
Youtube: The Ultimate Obama Light In The Loafers Collection
tres chic
...Porf!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h0rSTRrQeQ
douche bag?
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I'm sick of this shit.
I'm pretty sure the premise of this country wasn't to be reliant on borrowing from foreign countries and printing money.
What is this bull? Let's take the band-aid approach and get this put to bed for Christ sakes.
Consequences schmaquences. As long as im dead in a few years, Who gives a fuck. In the mean time, " Im just happy to be here today" .... Thurman Munson
btw, this BAC earnings trade worked like a charm: http://www.hedgefundlive.com/blog/trading-bank-of-america-bac-earnings Posted on zerohedge before.
Im just surprised they didnt wait till after market close to release this news gem. Although I guess at this point no news matters anyway as equity markets are 100% controlled by super computers now.
Yes We Can! Shove it right up the average joes pooper
So we're going to pin the eventual raise in the debt ceiling on the empty suit Obama and not instead on the hypocritical Congressional Republicans who raised the debt ceiling SIX FUCKING TIMES under Bush?
The only that has happened between Dems and Repubs is that the roles have reversed. They are two sides of the same coin. If you are upset about it now (as you can see by all the supposed "conservative" monaing and wailing) but were cool with it from 2001-2008 then you are just a flaming hypocrite.
I don't see anyone on ZH saying it was ok back then....
Obama voted against it. Just goes to show you the whole govt is nothing but puppets getting their strings pulled by banksters.
As opposed to all the supposed liberals moaning and wailing about Bush's $400 billion deficits from 2001-2008 and who now think that a $1.6 trillion deficit is no big deal. Aren't they also flaming hypocrites? Nice attempt to cover for your Messiah though.
BTW - the democrats were in comntrol of congress the last two years of Bush's presidency
That's fine so long as there is no gnashing of teeth. That old testament shit just pisses me off.
One shouldn't laugh.
It's less of a 'funny' laugh as it is 'if I don't laugh my brain will explode', kind of noise.
Paulson...
PAULSON...
PAULSON...
PAULSON...
Over...Niagara...Falls...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6VBg1SiYI
Well I think this proves things are worse than some feared since he did this much sooner than expected.
This shit is ridiculous.
The Great Agitator is trying to quickdraw the Ryan crowd and put them on defense. That is all. Set them up as the patsies for causing the " new " recession by messing with the debt ceiling. Ophony is sitting on a Fed-manipulated economy held together with duct tape and he knows it. He's now setting up the Pugs to take the fall for scuttling the country's fanatastic gains....in the stock market.
The scheme will never work, but he's just sayin what he's been told to say anyway.
I'll take the latter option please El Presidente... global recession... the first option of raising the debt ceiling is like placing the global economy into a medically induced coma.... lets just turn off the life support already ;-)
"Increasing the debt ceiling" is Obama the Tyrant's euphemism for putting unwilling third parties and the unborn into slavery.
The best statement i have heard all day.
I'd rather have a recession now than economic armageddon within a year or two, which is where we're headed. Bring it on!
BRICS want to dump the dollar....
http://www.iol.co.za/business/international/brics-want-global-monetary-shake-up-1.1057500
http://nakedempire2.blogspot.com/
Well why dont they just DO it then! We've been hearing pots and pans being rattled about how they dont want the rice paper USD $4 trillion in debt ago!
They have.
How many nuclear meltdowns, mena revolutions, and EU bankruptcies have failed to produce so much as a dead cat bounce in USDX?
For those who actually hadn't caught on yet, they put out a press release yesterday.
Belarus Central Bank Halts Sales of Gold for Roubles
Via Jesse:
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/04/run-on-central-bank-of-...
And the real funny part is the real debt is NOT 14 trillion its $202 trillion.
Sort of makes you wonder why they dont just keep borrowing more without asking permission or even admitting that they are still borrowing.
In short order the fed will just be monetizing all of it anyway.
Does a quarter of a quadrillion dollars even sound real to anyone?
A quarter of a quadrillion dollars is a stack of $1000 bills 15,750 MILES high.
nice avatar, pops. slewie usta wear that patch, too. in camo, bro.
fly air america!
Ain't it strange that financial numbers today, used to be only used by astronomers?
The man is so utterly deceitful that not a single syllable from his mouth can be believed. Obama is the Deceiver in Chief!
This shows democrats are scared and republicans had the upper hand.
All the republicans had to do to get timmah and obummer scared was to put off hearings until may!
Most tea partiers want to renege on the debts. It is the only way we can protect the children and drive a stake thru the heart of big government.
Tea Partiers renege on the debts? That paid for their farmer welfare?
[I want to see Congressman Gospel Singer from Frog Fuck, TN get cut off first and that little bitch from MO get "picked on" with a pitchfork.]
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-hypocrisy-lawmakers-tea-party-t...
my apologies. I ejaculated prematurely:
http://tinyurl.com/6ly6bbq
DEFAULT! The Fed owns more of it than anyone else anyway!
Well,
Senator Burr gave me his word in a letter I received yesterday he is voting "No" to raising the debt ceiling, and he states that is not the answer to our problems, and raising it makes things way worse. I will hold him to his word. He has voted "No" in the past.
Kay Hagan on the other hand, no response. I guess she doesn't want anyone's vote when elections roll around. I imagine, since she is a Dem anyway, she will support the failed Obma policies and administration.
If you haven't written your Senators yet, there is still time. Tell them to vote "NO" on raising the debt ceiling. Explain why it should not be raised like the 80 previous times.
There is still time to get their attention.
"your Senators" LOL
You just don't quit, do you?
+ 1913
Not all politicans are bad people, there are some in the Congress that are trying, and want to make the right changes. The problem is there are more crooks than there are good honest people. One more good tea party election, and the game changes severely.
And yes, as much as no one wants to believe it, and I have my doubts too, they are 'your Senators'. You elected them. And if you didn't vote, then you have no reason to speak.
Elections don't change anything, unless the right people are put in office. We have been killing ourselves as a nation for the past 8 elections.
One more good tea party election?
You mean vote in more of these assholes?
Like Congressman Gospel Singer from Frog Fuck, TN collecting farmer welfare?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-hypocrisy-lawmakers-tea-party-t...
astroturfing shills should have the brains to at least get an avatar...this shit is transparent
Truth hurts don't it? Their receipt of farmer welfare is a matter of public record.
Tea Partiers are dumbshit shills for the Billionaires that fund them.
Try again.
And speaking of shills, how much does the Nuclear Power industry pay you?
Now, be a good little whore and go tell everyone there's nothing to worry about regarding the month+ disaster in Japan. We haven't heard much from you lately.
Yeah Flat, abc news is a nice non-partisan source of news.
Keep trying...
Their farmer welfare is a matter of public record they can't run from.
You try again. Explain it away if you can. I'm all ears.
talked to sue myrick,richard burr, and kay hagan this morning about hr 1489 to reinstate glass-steagall.
none of them had a clue.
ron pauls staff was on it
Bullshit. You describe our political process like an 8th grade history textbook. Wake up and smell the fire. Do some research on the historical importance of 1913 and our financial system.
'your Senators' "You elected them." No, actually, I did not. I only get to vote for two of those idiots and my state wasn't up for senatorial elections in 2010. Besides, our only REAL choices were chosen for us by lobbyists, foreign interests and the wealthy. The tea party has sold out already. You just haven't realized it yet. What does it take, a 2x4 acrosse the face for you to wake up?
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Another lazy coward on the Zero Hedge blog. I agree jkruffin. elect the right people we get change. It's what Boehner afraid of like baby. He make deal with President because scared of teaparty. I hear it in my mind. "President Obama I'll make look like playing tough on budget but better make deal wit me because you know those crazy teaparty and we better make look good."
Teaparty almost highjacked by social crazys too. It's typical politics get winning party and jump on like a leach.
Republican establishment scared a lot of tea party. If elections don't matter, then they wouldn't be scared. Now's the time to get rid of all the ones bought and paid for. Become, find or elect the right ones. Let's do it.
Coward? Reviewing my post, I'm convinced my opinions were pretty much in your face. In addition, I think your command of the english language leads me to the conclusion that America is not where you were born. Hence, your error in siding with the same elementary and simplisitc notion of how our political system really works.
Again, both of you, crack open some detailed literature beyond Mcmillan/McGraw Hill publishing and educate yourself further than the Immigration and Naturalization pamphlet you recieved in the mail. Lastly, I would return the Cliff Notes for your citizenship test: clearly you should ask for your money back, as you were robbed.
"If elections don't matter, then they wouldn't be scared." Great job, Capt. Obvious. Now, run along, the grown-ups have business to discuss.....
I wasn't calling you a coward for your opinion. It seems to me many here post and get themselves riled up, but that's it, it stops there. A way to make a difference is to get involved. If you don't like the system, then work to change it. Not whine all day on a financial blog.
The GOP are definitely scared. The teaparty scares the establishment. The first thing they did was adopt it to suppress it.
The community here could create a strong political movement and really create change. The people of the US are ready for change, they voted for change, but the power brokers aren't, they want things to stay the same. If you guys would get off your ass and quit whining, you could make it happen. Now's the time of any time in history besides maybe the original Boston Tea Party.
This community is mostly smart and could make a difference if they wanted to, but from what I've read here for the last couple of years, most people just want to vent. It's easier, you know? That's why you're a coward.
(thanks to writing help from friend)
If they were trying they would hold a press confrence and lay all the shit out on the table...even Ron Paul beats around the bush when Fox shoves a camera in his face..at anytime any one of these douche bags could say enough...be completely honest about our situation...but no..just more dems v repubs bullshit.
How....quaint...write your congressman. I'll vote next year too..that'll show those bastards!
Since it's OK and morally legitimate to steal $14 x 10^12 from and enslave hundreds of millions of people, then surely it's OK to steal an even greater amount.
I recommend enshrining the following definitions in law and then raising the debt ceiling to 999.99 gazillion dollars:
1 zillion = 1 googol plex * 1.39822×10^316 (Skewes number) * 6.022×10^23 (Avogadro's number )
1 bajillion = 1 zillion ^ 1 zillion (exponentation)
1 gajillion = 1 bajillion! (factorial)
1 brazillion = 1 gajillion ↑↑ 1 gajillion (Knuth's up-arrow notation)
1 bazillion = 1 brazillion + Graham's number
1 gazillion = 1 bazillion# (primorial)
Good thing those Ay-rabs discovered something called algebra. But then again, I suck at math.
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What a clusterfuk. So now for the next 2 weeks we will all be subjected to high political drama as they shave here and there, we'll hear the bickerings back and forth about cutting little Sallys cheese sandwich, and in the end theyll again cut nothing and raise the debt to whatever and go to the Hamptons for the weekend. I am so sick of this shit.
I just can't wait for the 2012 election/circus. It's going to be this times a thousand due to the added benefit of reality TV star Trump and airhead Palin (hopefully). I can hardly wait to come home every night and watch the highlights while downing single malt by the quart (to suppress the tears).
Are the Americans ready for the new hero, the new just what we want to hear message? Or do you need 4 more yrs. until you're ready for the new double talking president? I promise he will be just what you want until he is elected.
Why wait...?? Cheers !!
Does that mean I can shave my nads then, too?
Barry needs his glue to snif....cut the fucker off
One of my saner friends said that he changed his name from Barry Soetoro because it sounded too much like a Chicago politician. And he's reputable.
PS. Soetoro doesn't even spell check right, and my buddy says that's another sign that he's not real, otherwise it'd change it OK, and he knows what he's talking about, believe you me.
Your country is so poor that the old yo mama jokes turn poor jokes of you and your government
Your middle class is so poor that when I told about the last supper, they thought food stamps had run out
Your middle class is so poor that the building society repossed their cardboard boxes
Your middle class is so poor that only time they smelled Hot Food was when their banker farted
Your middle class is so poor, they get more government handouts than a Finnish farmers
Your national dept is so big that all the Chinese can retire and live well with your interest payments
Your national dept is so high that NASA fears it will punch another hole in ozone layer
pls bring me some more
How very niggardly of you, sir.
Have you actually read Paradise Lost?
Why dont these idiot puppets just announce the new debt ceiling is $1 quadrillion dollars, no one knows what that is anyway, and just get back to regular normal ass raping of america unhindered by some BS debt ceiling that doesnt mean shit anyway?
Keeping the illusion of Dems against the Reps otherwise the people might catch on to the game.
Why does Tyler bash Obama like it matters who is in office? It's disingenous to insinuate things would be better (or will get better) when/if we elect(ed) someone else.
The alternative we're staring at right about now is The Donald... aka - it's pure comedy.
if Donald gets that guy over there in Libya to be his running mate, we'ld have a Donald Daffy!
I agree, it doesn't matter who's in the top spot now, we're all fucked unless we revolt.
We see what we want to see. Me thinks someone is a closet Obama leg humper.
Because he called Obama, 'Everlast', most folks wouldn't know what he was talking about.
So I'm confused - am I being junked because people think a different president would have been different... or because I am perceived to be supporting Obama.
Because if it's the latter, that's stupid... Anyone you put in that spot isn't going to "fix" things. If it makes you feel better to blame Obama - which kind of makes sense now that I think about it... by all means. DOWN WITH OBAMA. But in the end it's like convincing yourself there's one person to blame. Which is very American of you. Idiots all.
There are plenty of people to blame and they're all in NYC and DC. Obama is one of them so why should anyone cut him slack? Whether he's doing this on his own or someone else pulling the strings, that doesn't absolve him. He could turn around and order the Justice Department to arrest the Wall Street and K-Street gangster but he chooses to play along. He is a major cog in the criminal empire. I don't believe Ron Paul or his son would participate in the global financial rape of the world. That is why they will never become POTUS. Time for you to grow up, stupid kid
Obama is a colossal PUSSY.
There. I said it.
Obama knows who pulls the strings. This is a "slow burn" operation. Obama simply doesn't want to be assassinated.
You got it. Obama is a P.O.S. excuse for a human being. How this human 'mistake' came to be the president of this country is the real tragedy.
i'm with you. don't know why you were junked. both mainstream parties are tools of the bankers. the Donald would add a touch of classlessness. the combover is perfection.
Only a WEEK ago all the DC puppets were saying the debt ceiling would not have to be raised, thats far off anyway...blah blah just let me off this stupid ride its not amusing in the least.
A week ago? You're not supposed to remember that, you need to start watching more t.v..
This line of thinking tells me that:
If..we don't take on more debt,
then...we enter a recession.
What does that tell you about economic "growth?"
Here's all you need to know about economic growth:
"It is possible to determine in terms of money prices the sum of the income or the wealth of a number of people. But it is nonsensical to reckon national income or national wealth. As soon as we embark upon considerations foreign to the reasoning of a man operating within the pale of a market society, we are no longer helped by monetary calculation methods. The attempts to determine in money the wealth of a nation or of the whole of mankind are as childish as the mystic efforts to solve the riddles of the universe by worrying about the dimensions of the pyramid of Cheops. If a business calculation values a supply of potatoes at $100, the idea is that it will be possible to sell it or to replace it against this sum. If a whole entrepreneurial unit is estimated $1,000,000, it means that one expects to sell it for this amount. But what is the meaning of the items in a statement of a nation’s total wealth? What is the meaning of the computation’s final result? What must be entered into it and what is to be left outside? Is it correct or not to enclose the “value” of the country’s climate and the people’s innate abilities and acquired skill? The businessman can convert his property into money, but a nation cannot." - Ludwig von Mises in Human Action
Finite planet, finite resources. What you gonna do. Bring on the recession, crash the system. We will all still be here. I can promise you that at least compensation will return to those that are actually worth a shit. Remember back when people who actually brought real value to the economy (value that other countries wanted) were properly paid. We have become a land of bankers (paper printers), financial experts (selling paper) and attorneys. None of which the rest of the world wants to be sold anymore. We can either take this who clown house down now under our terms, or let the central planners do it under theirs.
No.
We won't ALL be here.
Better get ready. It's about to become exceedingly unpleasant.
Okay fine, I will be here and so will my family and like-minded neighbors.
The. worst. President. ever. Fuck. And I thought topping Bush would be hard.
Ha - this assclown even makes Carter look decent. And THAT is hard.
No, Andrew Johnson really broke the corruption meter. But Barry's a close second and should overtake him for the Gold Medal by January '13....assuming there will be such a date.
The future generations cattle will pay with serfdom so long as the equities remain stable. Deflation is an evil word.
How many votes does it take to pass the debt ceiling?
On April 15th, (tax day), President Obama-dama-ding-dong demands a credit line increase on his credit card. "Yo Raise Debt Ceiling Or Risk Global Recession don't make me shank ya!"
What is the point of a debt ceiling if it is just easily raised by making up BS stories of doom? WTF
It's not so much a "ceiling" in the traditional sense of the word...more of a suggestion really...or maybe even a target.
Fucking awesome. Bring on the global recession. I have plenty of room for sharecroppers on my property. First come first serve of course. Everyone gets their own government worker as a whipping boy.
You mean employee. There is no such thing as a government worker.
How many firearms do you own?
I'd rather not say. How about zero, government troll.
It was a rhetorical question, moron.
Careful,
Sounds like he is getting ready to blame BUSH for Tax Cuts and 2 Wars that emptied the coffers
is there any chance that congress agreed on the budget knowing that they won't vote to increase the debt ceiling? I'm probably hoping too much but is that possible?
Not sure whether its funny, comic or tragic to see the vitriol directed towards Obama.Its not that things would have much different if a Republican was in power. They weren't before 2009. Remember ?
The realy problem is campaign finance. The next person winning will need 1 billion dollars to even have a chance. And when you need that huge purse you have to please a lot of people.
And thats why it does not matter who is in charge things will essentially remain the same. Our cuts in budgets will be for segments of society that do not contribute to campaign finance. So too bad if an impoverished family needs heating oil in winter. On the other hand segments of society that contribute will continue to get away with anything and everything under the sun.
That is the reality. So if you are holding hopes high that a new president comes into office in 2012 and all will be well, think again. Hopefully this gets through to the rational people.
So Manny how much does it cost to have you lips sewn to someones ass these days? If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem. No excuses for anyone in DC.
I'm with you, Manny.
They are all scum.
Here here. Does anyone think things would be any different if McCain were president now?! Not a fucking chance.
No free pass. He is the President of the U.S. for damn sake. If that doesn't make you a humble servant before the people then nothing will. Altruism cannot be bought. It is a right of birth. The President is the protector of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Anyone else is just a prostitute for the Oligarchy.
You forgot to include your </sarc> tag.
Go fuck yourself, shill.
<sarc> empty space = your head</sarc>
Show me how douche bag!! I need a refresher from a pro like yourself!
Bring it, bitch. What the fuck is this shit?
Were you being sarcastic? Explain yourself before I engage you in battle.
McCain would have simply expedited the process. We would be at war with Iran by now (and Russia, and China, and the rest of the world once our weakness was revealed.)
...and the West would be getting their asses kicked.
Reality would suggest otherwise, showing just how easy it'd be to collapse the East.
So what you're saying, is the we shouldn't be critical of Obama, just because he's a liar with a twisted black heart, that worships money and is betraying the USA in a war of economic destruction, for a few pieces of silver?
And we should do this because other evil men also exist?
Would you argue that we shouldn't arrest and prosecute child molestors, becuase serial killers exist? And we shouldn't arrest serial killers because there are also rapists in the world?
Or shorter, "Let evil flourish because there's a lot of it going around?"
Its not that there should be no criticism of whats going on. Its all well deserved. But its nothing constructive. More of the cheerleading version you hear at tea party rallies.Its purely on party, idealogue lines. And not based on anything else.
Whereas if you take politics out of it, its crystal clear that no matter who is in power the special interests get what they want and people end up getting screwed. The masses have been taken on a ride with the biggest scam in the history of mankind And that scam has been systematically carried out during a period of time when both parties have been in power.
The problem is people are divided along party lines. Probably more so than at any other point in our nations history. And that too at a time when people should be united and see what is really ailing the country and what needs to be done to get us out of it. A change of leadership to another party will do nothing. Maybe it will just give a different set of cheerleaders fodder for criticism like when Bush was the President. But at the end of the day it does not solve anything. Ignorance and that too almost half a decade after the economic problems crept into the mainstream is just mind boggling.
And when i see this on ZH (where i attribute the people too be above mainstream intelligence) its even more mind boggling.
If even now the people over here are in the partisan state of mind i can only wonder whats happning on Main Street. And just wonder how much more time will it take before people can awaken and see no matter who is in power they are screwed unless they are on the inside.
Well said.
It is time to revolt!!!
by Manny , on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 17:25 #1174217
Its not that there should be no criticism of whats going on. Its all well deserved. But its nothing constructive.
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REPLACE the m'fawker already ... how's that for constructive?
What was it said of Reagan - "A fish rots from the head down." - no truer words have ever been spoken ...
Go sell it somewhere else. I am all stocked up on bullshit here. Thanks.
Pussy Junk!
Multiple pussy junks! Its a great day! Keep junking me I have turned it into a drinking game, mama's boys!
The banksters obviously control the US and, most probably, most "developed" countries. They have the wealth and power to do anything they choose. If a president decided to turn on them, then he or she would see the same fate as John and Bobby Kennedy. They are too powerful, but they must be stopped. The only way to do this, in my view, is for the military to turn on its own government for its own good and expunge the corporatacracy. They have the might to turn things around. Or perhaps 4 million second amendment believers. Is there another way?
The military can't turn on the government without the support of the people. Needs to be mss demonstrations first.
The financial system is already broke. The recession never ended. Imbalances have grown. Welfare and prosperity is dead. Nice try Obama, but the economy is crap and more debt ain't gonna solve the problem.
oBLAHma was intentionally placed as a one term president by the puppet masters. his mission is to destroy the economy, and economies. then, in 2012, the puppeteers will create the illusion of a new president, a savior to take over the presidency, but alas, they just screwed us again!