Why I Like Obama

[steviedresses]

Someone asked Obama about people who hate him... "Comes with the job..." (or something like that)

While I don't agree with alot of his politics I do appreciate his straight forward talking. Can't help but like the guy. (Even if you do think he is the second coming of Karl Marx.)

[jimbobw2]

Someone asked Obama about people who hate him... "Comes with the job..." (or something like that)

While I don't agree with alot of his politics I do appreciate his straight forward talking. Can't help but like the guy. (Even if you do think he is the second coming of Karl Marx.)

drugs

[bartholomeus]

Someone asked Obama about people who hate him... "Comes with the job..." (or something like that)

While I don't agree with alot of his politics I do appreciate his straight forward talking. Can't help but like the guy. (Even if you do think he is the second coming of Karl Marx.)

second coming of karl marx?lol....

[Coroner]

Comparing Obama with Karl Marx shows pretty much how ignorant and uninformed many Americans are. The best example is the health care debate. 40 million Americans cannot afford a health insurance and one million is marching in the streets against any move forward to help those people. I´ve been following these events in the press and on TV. How many African Americans were among those "protesters"? I couldn´t see one but they were probably a few. We have a public health care system in Austria and it´s not even close to socialism. Unfortunately, Austria is a very conservative country (unlike Germany). George Bush fucked you up and Obama has to clean the shit now. It´s too much work for 10 months and it´s hard for him to make the "change" happen due to Republican sabotage, obstruction and conservative media propaganda.

[EZWind]

amen my friend, you have nailed it squarely on the head

Comparing Obama with Karl Marx shows pretty much how ignorant and uninformed many Americans are.

...and far too easily manipulated

The best example is the health care debate. 40 million Americans cannot afford a health insurance

and even those that can are often denied coverage when it comes time to collect on a claim. Over 100 Americans are dying every single day because of this and it's a downright rotten lowdown dirty shame.
And you also couldn't be more right on about...

George Bush fucked you up and Obama has to clean the shit now.

....and he's being stymied every step of the way by the right wing in Congress which is totally in the pocket of the pharmaceutical/insurance machine. These tea bagger protests and rallies are not the grass roots uprisings of the common man that they would have us believe but are in fact organized and funded by tools of the drug/insurance cartel such as Americans for Prosperity, whose sole purpose is to scare the shit out of everyone w/ talk of death panels and comparing our President to Hitler and even Pol Pot fer crissakes. Most of these clowns pissing and moaning about "I want my America back" aren't worried about health care anyway...the're just pissed because there's a Black Guy in the White House.

...and it´s hard for him to make the "change" happen due to Republican sabotage, obstruction and conservative media propaganda.

yep...Rupert Murdoch and Rush Limbaugh are the Devil incarnate. If a properly informed electorate is the cornerstone of an effective democracy, we've definitely got an uphill battle on our hands. Hopefully, with reporters like Rachel Maddow telling it like it really is, sanity will prevail.

btw...was lucky enough to visit Austria back in '85 and fell in love w/ the place...esp. Wien. Hope to be able to return someday, if I can stay away from Amsterdam

[hippifried]

If you ain't goosesteppin' down the boulevard, you might as well be carrying a hammer & sickle. Call a taxidermist & a voodoo master. We're gonna exhume Joe McCarthy & come after all you reds. Damn! This whole board is pink! We're Doomed! DOOMED! They're gonna just take over without firing a shot! Aaaargh!

[Rogers]

If you ain't goosesteppin' down the boulevard, you might as well be carrying a hammer & sickle. Call a taxidermist & a voodoo master. We're gonna exhume Joe McCarthy & come after all you reds. Damn! This whole board is pink! We're Doomed! DOOMED! They're gonna just take over without firing a shot! Aaaargh!

Head for the hills, they're coming for us all!!!

Chinese Paratroopers in California?
http://www.tldm.org/news4/chineseinvasion.htm

Except for the 5th. Columnists of course, whoever they are? :P Quite a few "reptilian brains" are probably twitching after reading that no doubt.

[EZWind]

If you ain't goosesteppin' down the boulevard, you might as well be carrying a hammer & sickle. Aaaargh!

hmm..Nazis and Commies eh?...wait a minit...ya left out Genghis Khan and Torquemada

Damn! This whole board is pink! We're Doomed! Aaaargh!

we're not responsible for the color scheme on this thing here

okay.sure, free market capitalism is a great thing...ya set up a company and get it up and running. If ya take in more money than ya pay out to produce your product ya make a nice profit for yourself. Can't argue w/ that... nothing wrong there if you're making cars or computers or chocolate chip cookies.

With these insurance weasels however, they're paying out ridiculously exorbitant salaries based on obscene profits generated by denying people coverage. This results in bankruptcy for far too many working families, not to mention over 40,000 deaths every year. Sorry, but there's something about that which just seems very wrong to me.
Not quite sure how that makes me a Nazi or Communist, but if that's the case, I'm happy to disappoint you.

[paulgutierrez]

Comparing Obama with Karl Marx shows pretty much how ignorant and uninformed many Americans are. The best example is the health care debate. 40 million Americans cannot afford a health insurance and one million is marching in the streets against any move forward to help those people. I´ve been following these events in the press and on TV. How many African Americans were among those "protesters"? I couldn´t see one but they were probably a few. We have a public health care system in Austria and it´s not even close to socialism. Unfortunately, Austria is a very conservative country (unlike Germany). George Bush fucked you up and Obama has to clean the shit now. It´s too much work for 10 months and it´s hard for him to make the "change" happen due to Republican sabotage, obstruction and conservative media propaganda.

Yeah, a better comparison is Trotsky or the Labour Party. Still socialists all the same. Obama has done and attempted much more than just universal healthcare. Nationalizing industries, cap and tax, and appointing leftist radical czars just to name a few things. He supports the redistribution of wealth. He also has a chip on his shoulder. If you read his book 'Dreams from My Father' you can even hear him going off on white people. He's also apart of Reverend Wright's church, the guy who espouses "Black Liberation Theology" which Pope Benedict blasted for being Marxism dressed up to look like Christianity. Obama even has affiliations with left wing terrorists, and supports groups like ACORN. Seriously, what more is it going to take to convince people? Are people just blind?

If you don't think Obama reeks of marxism then it is you who is ignorant, uninformed, AND easily manipulated. You sound like you know absolutely nothing about economics, which is a shame because the Austrian school of economic thought is simply the best there is.

And to the OP I don't about you but I can't stand him. He's the kind of guy that can look you in the face and shamelessly lie his ass off without flinching. But of course he needs his teleprompter or he'll be stuttering like a motherfucker.

[hippifried]

But of course he needs his teleprompter or he'll be stuttering like a motherfucker.

Hm. Sounds like Reagan.

No industries have been nationalized, cap & trade has been used in this country for over 35 years (a Nixon initiative) without ill effect, a "czar" (another Nixon term) is merely a coordinator between overlapping departments, & economic theology (including the Austrian school of makinshitup) is pretty much bullshit across the board.

You don't know what you're talking about.