Seriously, GOP? Really?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I was with you until this part. Obamacare is broadly unpopular and I think you underestimate the dislike for Obama amongst both Republicans and Democrats. It's not strong enough to allow a weak GOP candidate to beat Obama, as you rightfully pointed out, but Romney is not a weak candidate like Gingrich and Santorum.

Romney isn't a weak candidate, but in this economic climate, he needs to explain his time at Bain Capital better (which he can, he just hasn't yet).

[DaShi]

What is already happening is that racial quotas, known also as "affirmative action" and "disproportionate impact," create a system of incompetent private and governmental institutions staffed by the racially entitled. That's a serious problem because it weakens institutions and civil society. A less competent fire station fired by less competent firemen; a poorly run hospital or school; a business run into the ground. It will be death by a thousand cuts.

A worst case scenario is that this kind of race-based discrimination will encourage already existing racist ideas and cultures. To some extent it already does that. But this can and does lead to race-based, confessional politics and political systems and race-based patronage. That can create an American Lebanon--an America run by Al Sharptons of every colour, stoking up racial hatreds and riots to get entitlements from the state. This is a worst-case scenario but it can happen.

No, you're engaging in hyperbole. It's not constructive.

[Sava]

So Santorum--RICK ****ING "MAN-ON-DOG" SANTORUM--actually wins Iowa.

And now, Newt MOTHER ****ING GINGRICH is going to win South Carolina.

NEWT GINGRICH?

Is this what it has come to?

What the **** is wrong with this country?

y so srsly?

republicans have decided they never want to win a presidential election again

unless they deport all the mexuhcans, there's no chance for them

[Zevico]

"Obama has raised taxes", uh, no, he's cut them.

Sometimes under protest.

"Obama has appeased Islamists", oh, no, he's killed OBL, bombed other Islamists around the world, and his killed more than any other in the past.

OBL wasm't an Islamist and Al Qaeda was not an Islamist organisation. Al Qaeda is Islamic Fundamentalist. There's a difference. He hasn't bombed any Islamists, anywhere. He has bombed Islamic Fundamentalists.
The problem is that he hasn't identified movements associated with Islamism as explicit threats to the United States and its interests notwithstanding their repeated calls for religious war against the United States. According to the US:

- The Muslim Brotherhood deserves "engagement", not condemnation, for its declaration of jihad on the United States in 2010.
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister is still peaches-and-pie even though he's allied with Hamas and Iran; and its work in Syria is praiseworthy even though its sponsoring a Syrian opposition group basically run by the MB;
- Palestinian-Israeli peace talks are alive, even though Fatah is basically uninterested in anything other than its survival in the West Bank and couldn't hope to take back Gaza if it tried. You see, the more unstable and uncertain the situation is, the more reason to negotiate with a government that can't guarantee that it can rule over its own people. Nevermind Fatah's leader recently denied the right of Israel to Jewish statehood and called the Schalit kidnapping a boon for the Palestinian people: he's really just a very confused moderate. Who's making deals with Hamas. That's what Hamas is all about--moderation.
- He took about two years to "pivot to Asia", or in other words, to understand that the PRC was a strategic threat and that selling F-16's to Taiwan was a good idea.
- Yet another turn on the negotiation merry-go-round in Iran. When will it end?
- Reset policy with Russia. Who here thinks Putin and Medvedev are really nice guys in disguise? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller? Anyone?
-Installing a rebel government in Libya based on unconfirmed reports of massacres against rebels. Such reports having been spread by the rebels. The rebels being composed partly of Al Qaeda fighters. Outcome: Sharia state in Libya. Foreign policy 101: don't install your enemies into power.

"Obama has made the government ever larger", actually, no, there are no more Federal employees today as when he took office despite the population growing larger.

The allegation is that he made the federal deficit larger for little to no benefit and intends to increase the size of government in future by way of laws such as, e.g., Obamacare. The size of government is determined not by the number of its employees per se (but more always helps) but by its reach into the lives and affairs of everyday citizens.

Republicans are just born liars trying to fight a shadow opponent who is exactly the opposite of reality.

Good to know you have such a rich fantasy life.

I'm not saying that this or that candidate is better because of their party. I could care less which party you belong to, I care about whether you get things right. Obama is getting foreign policy very wrong. And certainly the size of the federal deficit has increased to little or no ascertainable benefit. And there's the fact that he supports racially discriminatory policies which endanger the health of the American polity. Apart from all that though, yeah, he's great.

[Sava]

How can somebody write so many words yet say absolutely nothing?

[Egbert]

How can somebody write so many words yet say absolutely nothing?

Become a lawyer. They will teach how to use a vast number of words to say virtually nothing.

[Zevico]

How can somebody write so many words yet say absolutely nothing?

Here's a few words for you: Obama's invasion of Libya installed Al Qaeda factions into power there. Success! Vote Democrat 2012!
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/252/0/3171.htm --Al Qaeda in Libya.

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/252/0/5598.htm

The ideology of the military commander of the Libyan rebels. Key higlights:

The chapter on jihad praises it in general but deals extensively with conditions and constraints on waging jihad. These include a prohibition on targeting women and children, and observations about respecting agreements and on the treatment of prisoners. A large portion is devoted to a prohibition on fighting Muslim rulers and causing civil strife. Instead, the book advocates waging jihad against foreign occupiers of Muslim lands, naming Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan as the main arenas of jihad in our times. It should be mentioned that the book does not specify clearly whether contemporary Muslim leaders are considered believers or apostates, a distinction that is fundamental to the Salafi-jihadi doctrine.

Iraq and Afghanistan means non-Muslims therein. Including Americans.

See? Few words. Very important.

[Dinner]

I'm still thinking about jerking off to the girl in the Palin parody video.

[DaShi]

Sometimes under protest.

OBL wasm't an Islamist and Al Qaeda was not an Islamist organisation. Al Qaeda is Islamic Fundamentalist. There's a difference. He hasn't bombed any Islamists, anywhere. He has bombed Islamic Fundamentalists.
The problem is that he hasn't identified movements associated with Islamism as explicit threats to the United States and its interests notwithstanding their repeated calls for religious war against the United States. According to the US:

- The Muslim Brotherhood deserves "engagement", not condemnation, for its declaration of jihad on the United States in 2010.
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister is still peaches-and-pie even though he's allied with Hamas and Iran; and its work in Syria is praiseworthy even though its sponsoring a Syrian opposition group basically run by the MB;
- Palestinian-Israeli peace talks are alive, even though Fatah is basically uninterested in anything other than its survival in the West Bank and couldn't hope to take back Gaza if it tried. You see, the more unstable and uncertain the situation is, the more reason to negotiate with a government that can't guarantee that it can rule over its own people. Nevermind Fatah's leader recently denied the right of Israel to Jewish statehood and called the Schalit kidnapping a boon for the Palestinian people: he's really just a very confused moderate. Who's making deals with Hamas. That's what Hamas is all about--moderation.
- He took about two years to "pivot to Asia", or in other words, to understand that the PRC was a strategic threat and that selling F-16's to Taiwan was a good idea.
- Yet another turn on the negotiation merry-go-round in Iran. When will it end?
- Reset policy with Russia. Who here thinks Putin and Medvedev are really nice guys in disguise? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller? Anyone?
-Installing a rebel government in Libya based on unconfirmed reports of massacres against rebels. Such reports having been spread by the rebels. The rebels being composed partly of Al Qaeda fighters. Outcome: Sharia state in Libya. Foreign policy 101: don't install your enemies into power.

"Obama has made the government ever larger", actually, no, there are no more Federal employees today as when he took office despite the population growing larger.

The allegation is that he made the federal deficit larger for little to no benefit and intends to increase the size of government in future by way of laws such as, e.g., Obamacare. The size of government is determined not by the number of its employees per se (but more always helps) but by its reach into the lives and affairs of everyday citizens.


Good to know you have such a rich fantasy life.

I'm not saying that this or that candidate is better because of their party. I could care less which party you belong to, I care about whether you get things right. Obama is getting foreign policy very wrong. And certainly the size of the federal deficit has increased to little or no ascertainable benefit. And there's the fact that he supports racially discriminatory policies which endanger the health of the American polity. Apart from all that though, yeah, he's great.

The only one getting foreign policy wrong is you. In fact, I don't think you made a post here yet that was factually correct. Speculation and theory are not facts, btw.

[Zevico]

Here's a direct translated quote:

"Resistance is the only solution against the Zio-American arrogance and tyranny, and all we need is for the Arab and Muslim peoples to stand behind it and support it. The peoples know well who is [carrying out] resistance and who has sold out the [Palestinian] cause and bargained over it. We say to our brothers the mujahideen in Gaza: be patient, persist in [your jihad], and know that Allah is with you..."

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4650.htm

That's from the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Administration still hasn't clued up to the fact that the MB is an implacable enemy.

[debeest]

OK, I'm curious. Other than adopting the health insurance bailout that was originally proposed by the Republicans, and supporting the Republicans' bailout of the financial industry, what has Obama done to make Republicans hate him?

[MOBIUS]

For someone who thinks the US is a joke, this is the best result yet!

I'm just sad that Sarah Palin decided not to run - I bet she's kicking herself now...

[dannubis]

OK, I'm curious. Other than adopting the health insurance bailout that was originally proposed by the Republicans, and supporting the Republicans' bailout of the financial industry, what has Obama done to make Republicans hate him?

1) He is black
2) He makes sense

[Tuberski]

Ta Nehisi Coates raises the issue of Sotamyor's remarks in his own perfectly confused way:
[q]It's worth looking at the whole speech, and at least considering the statement in context:

The effect of affirmative action and "disproportionate impact" is to encourage racial divisions--the kind that brings about confessional politics and confessional elites. The Wrights, Jacksons, Farrakhans and Dukes of today may become the Jumblatts and Nasrallahs of tomorrow.

You mean that they will become people that 99% of the country has never heard of? Good.

ACK!

[molly bloom]

.The Administration still hasn't clued up to the fact that the MB is an implacable enemy.

It's true.

I'm aiming at the utter destruction of the Zionist Oppressor Government of Baruch Obama.

m.b.