Fa King
Fa. Pronounced as in Do Re Mi.
You’ve been duped. Duped into thinking this dude was the be-all and end-all. Duped into thinking you might have a chance at health care, a job, keeping your house. Duped into thinking the Fa King was “progressive” instead of the Same Old Sameold. He is a puppet of the corporations, and now he’s a warmonger on top of it.
Hey, I know, I voted for him in the general election. At that point, it was between him or the Nutbag Squad. I was in a corner, just like I was when it came to John Kerry (who is 10000000 times better than THIS asshole).
And just think, that old nutbag and the other REPUBLICANS LOVE HIM NOW!! Aren’t you PROUD of your choice?
LCers who supported him, you’ve been FAKED. Pronounced as in PHONY. Kinda like one of those basketball things. Only this ain’t basketball, and our kids futures are at stake. You want to be the ones to condemn the future generations to live in a third world country? Thanks for the start.
I HOPE you don’t lose your house and have to CHANGE your residence. Just keep saying to yourself, Yes We Can!
And maybe, if you’re lucky, he will be a one-term Resident, and Hillary will change her mind about not running in 2012. But I kinda doubt it. This ain’t just a cat box she’d have to clean…this is more like moving a landfill.
Moi ;) on December 2nd, 2009 | File Under Assholes, Politics, RIP, Rants | 6 Comments -
And the guy that created that pic of Obama got in trouble because it was taken from an AP image, or some such. Dishonesty all the way around.
Europe is looking better all the time..
i was duped? really? obama ran on the idea of having a surge in afghanistan. so did clinton. so did mccain. the election wasn’t about “would be escalate in afghanistan”, that wasn’t an issue that was given as a choice either during the primaries or general election. it’s been a done deal for a while.
and i knew that. so how was i duped?
Obama ran on the idea of taking care of the people at home FIRST. And all he has done is PR.
Don’t believe me? I am not the only one who thinks this is the case. Check out David Sirota today.
It WASN’T a done deal. And who’s going to pay for this??? US? With WHAT?
“Obama ran on the idea of taking care of the people at home FIRST. And all he has done is PR.”
that’s not really true. i mean, he delayed the afghanistan decision until after he passed the lily ledbetter act, rescinded a bunch of labor related executive orders (which is really fantastic, in this labor lawyer’s opinion. it just didn’t make the news for anyone else), appointed someone to the supreme court, passed the stimulus bill, pushed congress to act on health care (although that’s hardly done. it’s already further than president clinton did in his first 2 years as president)
“It WASN’T a done deal.”
what i meant by “done deal” is that escalation in afghanistan is what obama, clinton and mccain ALL promised to do during the presidential campaign. the american people really didn’t have a choice on it. no matter which of the “viable” candidates they chose, we would have this escalation.
just to be clear: i really don’t approve of obama’s decision on afghanistan and i believe it will just end up being another foreign policy mess.
“And who’s going to pay for this??? US? With WHAT?”
the same way we “paid” for the iraq war. it’s all just more debt. the afghanistan surge is less expensive than the iraq war. i’m all for having a war tax, make the wealthy pay for these wars somehow if they’re not going to sacrifice their children. but i doubt one will pass congress (because, let’s face it, members of congress are all from the class of people who would pay the tax not the people who have kids in war). but the bottom line is that this country has displayed an endless appetite for borrowing to pay for war. people only freak out about the deficit when we’re talking about health care.
Yeah, it was true that he ran – he played us, he told us what we wanted to hear. We wanted to hear about jobs, health care, etc.
I am glad to know you don’t approve of his decision. However, a lot of these other people who don’t approve of it are the ones who will vote him out in three years if we are still in the same situation. So how is this war going to help us out of the pit? It’s NOT.
As helpful as it may be, Ledbetter isn’t creating jobs. My cousin runs Democratic Talk Radio and he is a labor activist, so I hear about this stuff regularly. Coatesville and Bethlehem used to be real labor towns – now we have desecrated steel plants, and families in poverty – 90 year old widows whose husbands’ pensions were taken from them. Coatesville is a ghost town, full of drugs and criminals. If it weren’t for Moravian, Bethlehem would be about the same (Allentown already is).
People freak out about debt and the deficit when they’re getting kicked out of their homes, or when they don’t have jobs to put food on the table. Or when the only things they can buy in the store are CHINESE. Things that could be made here.
THESE are the HOPE and CHANGE things he promised. And he can’t even put a frigging cap on credit card interest? Not exactly a hard thing to do.
i agree he should be doing more to create jobs. the stimulus bill, for example, should have been more targeted towards job creation. then again, it was in the original version that obama submitted. arlen specter (then a republican) got those fund taken out, including aid to states, in the name of “fiscal responsibility.
but while the president could have done more about jobs, most of the current unemployment is due to the economic collapse that happened on george bush’s watch. employment is a lagging indicator. that is, there’s a delay between a fall in GDP and the rise in unemployment. likewise, there is a delay in an increase in GDP and a decrease in unemployment. our GDP went negative in late 2007. president bush did nothing about it for a year and then our entire banking system pretty much collapsed. the employment fallout of that economic damage is still hitting us now even though GDP is now growing again and we are technically out of a recession.
really we need a new job-based stimulus to speed things up and start helping the employment numbers. but because the public is starting to pick up on the GOP’s sudden concern about deficits, it will probably be really hard to pass anything that doesn’t suck.