Obama says LOL to healthcare reform

[David Floyd]

Change, my ass. Obama's gonna realize real quick that he can't keep a lot of his campaign promises. The situation in the Middle East is a ****ing mess, and we have legitimate national security concerns there. If he thinks he's going to be able to actually withdraw troops from the region, then he's either going to be mistaken once he starts getting intelligence briefings, or else be regarded as a foreign policy ****head a la Jimmy Carter.

As for healthcare reform, yeah, right. ****, he's already pretty much gone back on one campaign promise, by saying that he won't, in fact, immediately roll back Bush's "tax cuts for the wealthy". Then, look at some of his major appointees - Hillary Clinton, Rahm Emmanuel, and now Daschle. Bipartisan my ass. Yeah, he's keeping Gates, but Gates is pretty much universally respected. Same for Bill Richardson.

We'll see, gentlemen. I expect a rapid exit for Obama, possibly even courtesy of Sarah Palin, in 2012.

[Zevico]

Isn't one of the points of bipartisanship to keep around the 'universally respected' opposition?

[David Floyd]

Bill Richardson isn't the opposition. Gates is, I suppose, a Republican, but he's not exactly on the far right. Which is fine.

But Clinton, Dashcle, and Emmanuel are certainly on the far left, as is Obama himself.

[Zevico]

Oh of course. We all know 'stimulus package' is code word for 'gulag.'

[David Floyd]

Are you retarded, or just pretending?

Why don't you go get some sleep, and come back when you have a point to make.

[Kuciwalker]

My dad actually works at Alston & Bird. He isn't in the lobbying group though (thankfully).

[Zevico]

I just like it when people use words like far-left. They're silly. Here I was thinking the 'far-left' were, I don't know, socialists, but here you are thinking it's the Democrats. So what does this word 'far left' mean? Well it can mean many things for many different people, so it's pretty much useless as an adjective.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
My dad actually works at Alston & Bird. He isn't in the lobbying group though (thankfully).

i believe it is time that the administration of our great site do something about posters with ties to lobby firms

[Patroklos]

So let me get this right...

Anyone who has worked within an industry and has extensive knowledge about its workings/needs/future is disqualified from making government policy for that industry?

How about we give CENTCOM to Daschle and let Petreaus worry about health care

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by MrFun
Ramo

Slowwy

You know they basically said the same thing... just Sloww said it... Sloww style .

As Ramo pointed out, the no lobbyist thing was a campaign pledge and nothing more.

[Arrian]

But Clinton, Dashcle, and Emmanuel are certainly on the far left, as is Obama himself.

-Arrian

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


You know they basically said the same thing... just Sloww said it... Sloww style .

As Ramo pointed out, the no lobbyist thing was a campaign pledge and nothing more.

I thought Ramo was talking about the over-reaction against politicians with connections to lobbyist activity whereas Slowwy was simply going on about how Obama is nothing but a fake as far as possibility of change is concerned.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ramo was also talking about how the 'anti-lobbyist' thing was "cheap campaign bull****".

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Ramo was also talking about how the 'anti-lobbyist' thing was "cheap campaign bull****".

yep

[Imran Siddiqui]

So basically saying "how Obama is nothing but a fake as far as possibility of change is concerned" is a perfectly reasonable reaction.