Obama, You Devil...
Posted by Jake G. on 02.09.2009
Why Obama clearly is evil.
The country is falling apart around us. The banks are in trouble, the auto industry is in trouble, people are losing their homes, the dollar is losing value, we're losing ground in Afghanistan, jobless rates were up last month and the new guy has been in office for 20 days and hasn't fixed it all yet! WTF OBAMA?! What did we elect you for? Why haven't you made good on your promises and turned this country around, made the trees grow money and make dirt taste like lollipops?!
Barack Obama is the devil, haven't you heard? You need only to look at this website to see the right wing out in force, complaining about everything Obama has done since getting in office. From his choice of clothes, to the stimulus, to not fighting hard enough for smoker's rights... It's all Obama's fault. It's not just on 411 where we see this, we're hearing this sniveling from everything and anything that's a shade or two of red. The hilarious part of this is the most of the same people screaming about how Obama is bungling things, said it was unfair to criticize President Bush when he actually would stand in the face of problems or create them. We couldn't blame Bush for anything, because that wasn't fair, but now Obama should be the blame for everything. Then again most of these people are behind the idea that they "want" Obama to fail. In fact, that's downright American! It wasn't for the last eight years, back then you had to support the President no matter what... But now it's cool to want Obama to screw up. It's how God intended it, back when him, Jesus and Lincoln wrote the constitution. I think Jefferson Davis was there too, but enough about the glory days, back to the horrors of today!
Barack Obama is making hundreds of appointments, but since 4 of his appointments resigned because of tax issues, that means Obama's a bad man. Ironically, Obama took some of the blame, which to me was a stark contrast to a President who just sat for eight years in office and HAD NEVER said he screwed up once. When asked what he did wrong, Bush repeatedly claimed he never screwed up anything. Never. Not once. Obama in the midst of one of the greatest crisis our country has ever faced, plus a few wars, picked some people who hid their taxes and said he screwed up and yet we still got people calling for his head? Gimme a break!
I don't need to tell you Obama is being straight forward with the people. He is. You can see it all around you. Obama created TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) to help create some more government transparency and even is creating the citizens handbook where I, you and anyone else can suggest ideas to help the country. Imagine that, a President that wants to hear your ideas? He must be the anti-Christ.
This week Obama will go back out and face the American people, one on one, to help get support for the stimulus package. That plan is already getting some grief, but it's a grand idea in my book. Obama is coming to the people; he's making repeated addresses and seriously working to get this bill passed, but also to get the American public educated about what's in the bill and what it's for. He's even tweaking his plan to get Republican support. John McCain is critical of this, saying that only a few Republicans voting for the stimulus isn't enough, but exactly how many Democrats could McCain have gotten to go along with his plans? Let's be honest, Republicans are trying to paint this stimulus as bad because they're desperate to show their strength. They need to shut this bill down, just to show that they can.
Speaking of the stimulus, it looks like a wonderful plan. It's probably not enough, largely because the last guy burned the house down and we're still trying to pay to put out the fire, much less rebuild the home, but it's a start. If you actually read the stimulus bill, you'll see it's an impressive piece of legislature set to design a rebuilding of the American infrastructure from the inside out. Republicans should be clamoring for this bill, because it's one of the most Republican designed bills in years, even if the GOP didn't write it. Well over half the money in the stimulus is going to the states, because individual states can create jobs and rebuild the country much better than large government programs. But of course, we don't hear about that, we just hear that this is all a bunch of "pork"... Building schools isn't pork. Giving states that can't afford to fix their roads, levees or bridges isn't pork either. It's exactly what this country has needed for a long time.
The reality is this plan is nothing like Bush's. This isn't a bunch of tax cuts. Again, read the stimulus. A tiny sliver of this is tax cuts... Granted that sliver is over 100 billion dollars, but that's literally a drop in the bucket to what the overall cost of this thing is. Obama has stuck to his guns to try and rebuild this country just as he promised on the campaign trail. Obama has said from the beginning that there is no silver bullet that will fix everything. It's going to take a variety of plans, a variety of methods and ideas to get the hard work that needs to be done, done.
So while you're trying to find something to pin on Obama, remember that this plan is exactly what he had promised on the campaign trail. Read the stimulus package and see how incredible it was and see how the Republicans have already hindered it by actually adding unnecessary tax cuts and then complained about the pork. Look at it and see who cut the school programs and building projects. Then remember that Barack Obama has kept his word and he's given us a plan that's certainly not perfect, but it's a helluva lot better than what we had. Obama is not infallible and I for one am glad he's admitted that. I'm glad he's listening to me, interested in our plans and giving the American people the details straight and in person. Let the detractors keep looking for horns and hooked tail; I'm going to look at the facts and make sure the benefits outweigh the risks. Thus far they have and that's exactly what the new President told us he would provide.
It's okay to want Obama to fail, but don't project failure on success. Wait for it to come, sometime, eventually Obama will screw something up. Jump on it then. Until then, enjoy the good stuff while it lasts.
Jake, the reason for all this is most folks only regurgitate what either the liberal or conservative talking heads are screaming about on any given day.
They listen to those that will validate what it is they think they already know, just take that as reinforcement that they are right, and act accordingly.
Instead of thinking reasonably and responsibly for themselves from all-source information exchanges and unbiased data feeds.
Heaven forbid anyone actually did their research and homework first, THEN came to a conclusion.
Posted By: Scott Williams (Registered) on February 09, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Ha ha HA! This is the good stuff?
Can't wait for the bad then...
-MDB
Posted By: MDB (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 01:34 PM
Can you post a link to the Stimulus Package, so that I can read what is proposed, while I proclaim that Obama is the devil?
Posted By: Dude (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 01:39 PM
How ironic! Rush Limbaugh's dogma was just run over by his own karma. The Republicans created the current recession, soon to be depression, by spending without generating "revenue enhancement". It is the chicken-hawk neo-cons that destroyed the economy. "Tax and spend" is what they label the Democrats. The Republicans just spend, and leave their children with the bills. It is no wonder that they are opposed to birth control. They also based their dogma upon deregulation. Just look how that agenda has killed Wall Street investors, banks, insurance companies, etc. There was very little Republican opposition to Bush's call for the Trillion Dollar bailout, based upon a 2 1/2 page request, a few weeks ago. Now the Republican's are blaming the depression upon Barney Frank, the head of the Senate Banking Committee for the last two years. They do not assign any responsibility to President Bush, the Secretary of the Treasury, the head of the Federal Reserve, the head of the Security Exchange Commission, the Secretary of Housing, etc. All were Republicans appointed by Bush. Rush Limbaugh cannot accept the reality that the Obama election was based upon the rejection of the Bush/Cheney/Limbaugh/Coulter dogma.
Posted By: Larry Linn (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 01:48 PM
So just so we're clear: Republicans have no moral, philosophical, or ethical objections to the stimulus. All Republican opposition is simply a "show of strength".
On the contrary, Democrats have nothing but the best of intentions for the country, every dollar of OURS they plan to spend is absolutely, 100% necessary and all doled out through divine foresight.
Oh, and anyone who takes issue with anything the Democrats or Obama wants to do just hates Obama. And the economic problems are 100% the cause of Republican policy.
I love a good cynic, but a partisan cynic is just a useful idiot. Partisans lecturing others on partisanship. Wunderbar.
Posted By: *sigh* (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 02:30 PM
Hell, as far as I'm concerned there has already been some change in that at least Obama admitted making a mistake in choosing some of those people. That sure in hell is a welcome change from Bush spending the last eight years acting like a living deity whose will we dare not question.
Posted By: Josh (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 02:35 PM
Hell, as far as I'm concerned there has already been some change in that at least Obama admitted making a mistake in choosing some of those people. That sure in hell is a welcome change from Bush spending the last eight years acting like a living deity whose will we dare not question.
Posted By: Josh (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 02:36 PM
From Popular Mechanics (via SCSU Scholars):
There are no specific parameters or requirements that define shovel readiness. But according to civil engineers, the idea behind this new buzzword could help scuttle the stimulus bill’s highly publicized, though secondary, goal of infrastructure reform. At issue is that 90-day restriction stipulated by Congress, an even narrower window than the bill’s original 180-day limit. “They’re well intentioned, and they know their infrastructure sucks, so they’re trying to do immediate reactive management to what is a very deep, endemic problem,” says Robert Bea, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. “If you want to patch some potholes in the road, this is a good program. But if you’re hoping for anything long-term with this approach, throw away all hope. It can’t happen.”
The programs that would meet the bill’s 90-day restriction are, for the most part, an unappealing mix of projects that were either shelved after being fully designed and engineered, and have since become outmoded or irrelevant, or projects with limited scope and ambition. No one’s building a smart electric grid or revamping a water system on 90 days notice....
That might be acceptable to people focused purely on fostering rapid job growth but, ironically, such stimulus spending could fall short on that measure, as well. “In the 1930s, when you were literally building with shovels, that might have made sense. That was largely unskilled labor. Today, it’s blue collar, but it’s not unskilled,” Levinson says. “The guy brushing the asphalt back and forth is unskilled, but the guy operating the steamroller isn’t. And there’s an assumption out there that construction workers are interchangeable between residential and highway projects. But a carpenter isn’t a whole lot of help in building a road.”
Posted By: AdmChesterMynutz (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Terrible article. I hope you never write another thing.
Posted By: rejected (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 05:17 PM
One of the most refreshing reads in quite a bit of time, in my opinion.
It is honestly funny to me how many people believed that Obama was just "blowing hot air" while he was on the campaign trail, talking about improving America and changing how government works for the people.
So far, he's stuck to his guns, and has assembled a pretty stellar team to get his work done.
I can't wait to see the reaction of people, when he finally stabilizes this economic mess, and starts to push the other major planks of his campaign.
A major investment in the sciences and clean energy, improve the accountability standards, for teachers, students, and parents, in our public school system, lowering the costs of healthcare, work with our allies to improve our standing in the world, improving worker's rights, and actually working with a balanced budget.
Republicans going to lose there collective shit.
Posted By: scipio2009 (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 08:01 PM
Excellent comment. I hope you post everything forever.
Posted By: rejecting (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 10:03 PM
It's not just the four that got in trouble for tax evasion/tax fraud.. Others on the list include corruption charges, socialists, lobbyists and family of lobbyists, pro illegal immigration advocates, academic fraud, controversial clemencies with no repercussions for the fugitives that committed murder and robbery, academic controversies, and anti-Semites! The list goes on.. Why is it that when Bush made a mistake, you liberals were the first to point it out! When you jerks get a taste of your own medicine, you cry foul!
You're nothing but a bunch of whiny sycophants! Try doing some research before you run your mouths!
It's like with Sarah Palin! The liberals make up all this false crap about her, which people seem to believe and care about... All the while, Obama has done nefarious things with nefarious associations and gets away with it like he's Mother Theresa!
You're all blind!
Posted By: Spyke (Guest) on February 10, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Rush Limbaugh cannot accept the reality that the Obama election was based upon the rejection of the Bush/Cheney/Limbaugh/Coulter dogma.
Posted By: Larry Linn (Guest) on February 09, 2009 at 01:48 PM
Larry Lib...errr....Linn you, my friend, obviously drank too much of the Dems kool-aid. I bet you see NOTHING wrong with tax-cheats running the Treasury...or apparently any other area in Obama's cabinet. Maybe Blago can eventually kiss and make up to become Secretary of something in Obama's term. You say people are sick of the bush...Rush...Coulter "dogma"...newsflash man...people are just sick of politicians in general...because ALL of them are liars...Dems or Republican...the part in power always will be criticized of their choices more and more...You'll see a shift in House and Senate in '10 because of theis Pork spending bill that will not stimulate anything unless it's in regards to the $345 million on STD prevention. How about just giving the Members of House and Senate some condoms and tell them to stay away from the whores (both M and F)!!
Posted By: Politicians suck monkey nutz!! (Guest) on February 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM
That was a very interesting article. Seriously, it was highly entertaining and I needed a good chuckle this morning.
Being what is considered a conservative on this site, I was actually offended by the generalizations. I would like nothing more than the "Chosen One" to be as good of a President as his speeches were during the campaign. Unfortunately he HAS showed that his promises of change were empty promises. He not only wanted to break from Bush politics but he also wanted to steer clear of Clinton politics as well, so what does he do? He fills the main spots in his cabinet with Clinton puppets (Hillary, Emanuel and Holder).
He says that gun owners have nothing to fear from him, but the White House website says differently in it's Urban Policy section. Also he has put several anti-second amendment politicians in his cabinet (also Clinton, Emanuel and Holder).
He stood by Daschle until he pulled out, then says it was a mistake. If Daschle would have fought for the position, then Obama would have stood by him. How can we honestly expect Obama to run the country when he can't even check appointees backgrounds?
I have mixed feelings on the stimulus. If the package was only creating jobs and trying to boost the economy, then I would be more comfortable with it. I would not support it but would be more comfortable. But there is too much money going to places where it should not be going. The last thing we need is to give more money and control to the government.
Also his stimulus rebates to the working and the middle class is a good start, but what about the people who have lost their jobs due to the recession? Where is their rebate? They are the ones that need it the most. Unemployment has skyrocketed and those people who have lost their jobs are having to survive on less than 1/3 of their regular pay. Where is their help?
How is the economy the sole fault of the Republicans? The Democrats have no dirt on their hands? I guess you are forgetting Barney Frank and the Democrats fighting to to make it easier for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to give home loans to people that cannot afford them. Bush and the Republicans warned that this mess would happen in the housing market and predicted that it could damage the economy, but Pelosi, Reid and Frank would not listen.
Bush made many mistakes in 8 years, but he is gone now. His mistakes do not give Obama a free pass on his mistakes. Obama will screw up many times and it will be asked by conservatives that he be held accountable for them, just as the liberals did with Bush.
Once he won the election he needs to worry about the concerns of everyone, not just the ones who voted for him.
Posted By: Jim (Guest) on February 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM
I’m not gonna put Obama on a pedistal, like some people – but I will admit that he’s been perhaps the most visible and demanding president on the people since Regan. Even if one disagrees with his philosphies, you can’t fault him for not trying to tackle this problem head on.
It’s something that neither Bush, or Clinton could do.
(Before anyone jumps on me about Bush and 9/11, let me state for the record that in my opinion, he dropped the ball on intel, allowed the Bin Laden family to FLEE the country during this and should’ve just blown holes into Afghanistan on Sept 12th until he knew Osama was a burning carcass, so he wasn’t exactly a model of “strength” and “quick responsive action”)
I do want to ask all...Republocrats a question: Why are you so easy to jump on each other? What is it about “being right” that drives you? In every decision one makes with their lives, you have a 50/50 chance of being WRONG. Why act like everything from your end is the Gospel of Jesus and the other side pure baby-killing Satanism?
Conservative principles and philosophies have their place in this country, as do Progressive. Each hold “morals” and “values” that benefit the other side, if one so chooses to do research and actually try to find a sense of UNDERSTANDING and COMPROMISE.
Why don’t you want that? Why do you feel that if you give an inch, the other side will take a mile? Why are you so distrustful of each other? This is no different than Shia and Sunni, Jews and Gentiles, etc. We all live here; I’m pretty sure we want the same basic things (success, shelter, clothing, food, love, freedom, being able to walk down the street without fear of being attacked...) So why do we have to FIGHT to get there?
I’m all for healthy debate and a vocal argument from time to time, but is it just me, or has the majority of us become so enamoured with what other people in power (not just politicians, but talk-radio and op/ed writers) say to us, that we just take it as fact and not actually rationalize our own individual plight based on our environment?
There’s *nothing wrong with questioning our leaders*. It is what we should do. There’s nothing wrong with shaking the establishment. What is questionable is the method and the motives behind it. Is it “Me” or “We” that fuels your existence?
I mean, we’re all gonna become dust into the ground at some point, so why not make the best of it, right? I know *someone* will probably attack me and call me some sort of “Utopia hippie freak” and call me out on how I know nothing because I have never “seen evil” or haven’t worn a uniform, blah blah – But no one knows me. Not on here, anyways. I won’t treat anyone under the assumption that I’ve walked in their flesh and understand their motives.
Posted By: Hello! (Guest) on February 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
"When asked what he did wrong, Bush repeatedly claimed he never screwed up anything. Never. Not once."
Posted by Jake G. on 02.09.2009
I have to disagree with you here. I actually caught an interview on CNN with President Bush a week before President Obama took over. In the interview, President Bush was asked about his thoughts on the job that he did while in office. Along with commenting on some of the positives he felt took place, President Bush actually made mention that he admits that he also made mistakes. Take that for what you will.
Posted By: j3ffro420 (Guest) on February 10, 2009 at 01:52 PM
Well the answer is simple....we as Americans are jealous of the Israelis and Arabs for their rivalries as they're getting all the national attention all the time for their eternal conflict. FUCK THAT, we're Americans, we can bicker and disagree and hold our smug opinions over everyone else better than anybody AND we can hold a grudge for generations.
Seriously, though, politics like everything else has become a competition...and competition brings out the worst in everyone. Too many politicians from both sides of the fence spent years posturing their "I told you so" speeches to get ready for 2008, totally ignoring what could have been done to begin with...just chomping at the bit to get their turn. Unfortunately, nothing has changed as everyone's getting ready to campaign on a "I told you so" ticket in 2012...sorry, folks. Nothing is going to change anytime soon, because nobody wants to accept the responsibility, they just want to be noticed in print or on 24 hour news channels....it's like the country is being run by....opinion...or Internet talkbackers (SHUDDERS)
Posted By: Bitter Truth (Guest) on February 10, 2009 at 04:56 PM
Who the fuck let you ramble on here? I don't even know what your fat fingers was trying to type here?
Posted By: Dark Lord Of Earth (Guest) on February 10, 2009 at 04:59 PM
Obama took some of the blame, which to me was a stark contrast to a President who just sat for eight years in office and HAD NEVER said he screwed up once
Thats because he never appointed anyone with tax issues. So he technically didnt "screw" up
Posted By: hhhh (Guest) on February 10, 2009 at 10:15 PM
hhhh, don't act like a moron. You know what Jake G. means by that. Coming to the conclusion that you did only makes people roll their eyes and dismiss you. If you have a valid point, make it. Otherwise, you are just trolling.
Posted By: xjuggernaughtx (Guest) on February 11, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Republicans are seeing all the work they have done to further their agenda in jeopardy now that they have lost the Presidency. And what is that agenda? Killing all social programs. The method they have used to do this, make the economy so poor and the debt so large that we cannot afford social programs, or least giving them that argument. If McCain had been elected they would have achieved that, but now they whine about everything Obama does. That is all they have left, and all they have acheived is the poor economy and the huge debt. There are a lot of terms that describe their behavior, two are selfish and unpatriotic, the remainder are obscene.
Posted By: Rich (Guest) on February 13, 2009 at 09:18 AM
It's kind of funny
Obama isn't the devil, any more than Bush was. However, the general complaint coming from one side of the isle is: You blame Obama for everything, and he's only been in office 20 days. However, even your article, you show the same blame game that those who opposed George Bush did - blaming Bush for everything.
Reality Check: Bush spent more money advancing government, more than any other president.
Reality Check: Obama just left the last 8 years in the dust.
Reality Check: How can we spend out way out of this problem with dollars that are worthless (IE, Federal reserve notes that devalue the rest of our money when they come into existence)
Reality Check: The only true way out of this crisis is to PRODUCE our way out - is to bring more VALUE to the American ecconomy, not create more useless money.
One last thing for this particular post: Why would the Democratic leaders, who proclaimed an open and honest gov't, meet in the middle of the night to produce an 800 Billion dollar, 1000 page spending bill, and then push to have it passed the next day, without releasing it to the United States public or congress, or giving us a chance to go over it. Would you do the same thing if you were buying a car or a house? Buy it without reading the contract? I wonder what got through in that bill that we simply don't know about, eh?
Posted By: Stephen (Guest) on February 14, 2009 at 03:36 PM
STAY CURRENT