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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #560 on: September 19, 2009, 07:35:29 PM »

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/18/obama-race-not-overriding-issue-in-criticism/ by the way - why the hell does he do this? I know he thinks it makes him look like the better man, but it only empowers the racists running around at these tea parties when Obama mirrors their statement that the protests aren't about race...

Can you imagine how pissed they'd be if he did call them out, though? "How DARE that uppity negro call me a racist! I'm the most tolerant person out there! HE'S the RACIST! A REVERSE-RACIST!"
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #561 on: September 19, 2009, 07:41:53 PM »

he could have just kept his mouth shut and let his fellow democrats and action committees detract these stupid protests as the race rallies they are.
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #562 on: September 19, 2009, 07:50:27 PM »

He plays good cop, the other Democrats play bad cop.

Not a bad ploy - regardless of whether or not the other Democrats are even aware of it :itsmagic:
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #563 on: September 26, 2009, 10:51:24 PM »


:8D:

I am amazed I haven't seen anybody using this as an avatar yet.

...not me, I just changed mine.
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #564 on: October 09, 2009, 02:13:01 AM »

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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #565 on: October 09, 2009, 02:14:49 AM »

nice
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #566 on: October 09, 2009, 03:04:04 AM »

A little premature, but... :itsmagic:
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #567 on: October 09, 2009, 05:01:02 AM »

This gives Barack something in common with Teddy Roosevelt.  And I am down with that.

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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #568 on: October 09, 2009, 06:30:38 AM »

Oh Lord I can't wait to see how the Right spins this.
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #569 on: October 09, 2009, 07:48:51 AM »

The Nobel Prize has a well-documented liberal bias.
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #570 on: October 09, 2009, 07:49:56 AM »

The Abjurists of the Right never cease to amuse.

"Liberals are more likely to benefit humanity... must be bias. Pass me my ill-gotten gains, will you?"
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #571 on: October 09, 2009, 08:03:47 AM »

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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #572 on: October 09, 2009, 08:24:32 AM »

Oh Lord I can't wait to see how the Right spins this.

So far seems to be "What has Obama really accomplished?"
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #573 on: October 09, 2009, 08:41:49 AM »

Pfft! What does Diplomacy have to do with Peace!?

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« Reply #574 on: October 09, 2009, 09:22:12 AM »

See, Republicans are upset because Obama hasn't actually created global peace.  Which is what the prize is awarded for.  We all remember all those other people who won the prize because the world is at peace right now, right?

I wonder if the award was given because Obama took a murderous country that was despised in the eyes of the world, and managed to turn it around by ending torture, promising to close down Gitmo and end extraordinary rendition, helped assuage the global financial crisis (it's not over yet but you gotta realize things could have been worse) by the sheer fact that while being in office he's resisted the temptation to start invading other countries.  In fact, he's begun talks with Israel and Palestine (which George Bush mostly ignored until the end of his presidency) and was even diplomatic towards Iran of all places when he called them on their nuclear facility.

So no, he's not perfect and he hasn't solved all of America or the worlds' problems.  But unlike everyone else he's doing what he can, and he's encouraging others to do the same.

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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #575 on: October 09, 2009, 09:24:52 AM »

Oh, other fun gotcha for Republicans who claim he hasn't done anything: Ask them if he hasn't done anything, why do they hate him?

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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #576 on: October 09, 2009, 09:35:09 AM »

too easy.
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #577 on: October 09, 2009, 09:43:50 AM »

Are you looking for a difficult way to fuck with a republican's head?  Because that in and of itself is a challenge.

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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #578 on: October 09, 2009, 09:59:10 AM »

This presupposes i would be talking to or about a republican of my own volition or even under duress/torture, which is a mistake, as even point out that they're lunatics, criminals and murderers legitimizes their way of thinking more than they deserve.
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Re: Oh! Bama
« Reply #579 on: October 09, 2009, 10:05:10 AM »

Anyway, time for that moment of sobering realization.  It's great that Obama won the prize, but really, he's now keeping company with Henry Kissinger, Yasir Arrafat, and Mikhail Gorbachev.  Kissinger in 74 seems to be the point where the award began to mean less.

On the flip side, it was also awarded to Martin Luther King, Jr and Teddy Roosevelt (whom Constantine scholars will recognize as tied for being my favorite president).
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