Occupy Wall Street protest

[onmyknees]

Right away with the name calling? Typical.

How the fuck is it a continuation..? Because you say so? If it is a continuation...are you conceding the illegality? You make no sense. And as is always the case, you don't answer the question....What is the purpose of the Mexican gun sales? Maybe you can shed some light on that smart ass. Spend more time fact checking yourself, and less time spell checking me.
I've seen your pics...no way you were 6 years old . Fuck you kidding?
...looks like we're going to have to see your birth certificate too !

[trish]

The Justice Department was selling guns to Mexico under the Bush administration with the hope of tracing their movement within the country. The policy continues under Obama. Is it illegal? I don't know. Iran-Contra, a complex gun-drug swap between Nicaraguan-Contras and Iran to circumvent an embargo was illegal.

And yes, you did spell Reagan incorrectly.

If it is a continuation...are you conceding the illegality?

How are the two related. You make no sense.

[Bobby Domino]

Simply stated....

[Stavros]

Say wha...? Are we talking about the same Obama? He doesn't believe in negotiaing or compromising at all. Did you follow how Obamacare was crafted and pushed down the throats of Americans who wanted nothing to do with it? He backtracked on just about every campaign promise he made. No more deals behind closed doors.... full transparency.... every bill would be published online for Americans to review before it was voted on... full CSPAN coverage of the debates on the house and senate floor...

All a bunch of hot-air and bollocks. All broken promises. All lies.

Obamacare was the seediest, filthiest, back-room, bribe infested piece of legislation that has passed in my lifetime.

I think Obama has two faults: One is that he is a weak leader. (see the book Confidence Men by Suskind). Second is that he is to rigid idealogically. He is a progressive and he won't move to the middle on many issues that could help him politically.

But Obama did compromise with the House just over last July and August over the debt; he has compromised his own target to close Guantanamo for whatever reason the lawyers and the military have given him; what you call 'backtracking' is the reality that hits every President when they enter office and discover the promise they made on X or Y cannot be fulfilled in the way they want, if at all. Its the reason why he was destined to disappoint a lot of his supporters.

I also recall Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice and John Bolton being famous for being incapable of seeing the world through anything but a monocle -so being ideological and rigid seems standard in the White House, if it is true.

I think Obama has faced more hostility from inside the beltway than any other President in living memory, and it started from day one. George Bush was ridiculed for his bizarre parapraxes, for appearing to be nice but dim, and a lot of the personal stuff was unworthy, to me it was his misguided policies that undermined his reputation. Obama is not a figure of ridicule -but to my ears from far away there is a touch of hate about some of the rubbish thrown at him which would have been unthinkable even with Clinton, who was the target of his opponents and who gave them what they wanted with his exposed affair. It obscures the difficulty of being a President, which is why I can't decide if he isn't up to the job, or is being let down by people on the inside, as well as the Washington system -it will make interesting reading when the 'candid' memoirs come out, or the obligatory Bob Woodward version....

[hard4janira]

But Obama did compromise with the House just over last July and August over the debt;

Did he? I heard that Obama and Boehner had a deal. They had reached an agreement and Obama welched on his part of the deal. Obama threw in more taxes in the 11th hour and Boehner had to walk away. I question whether or not Obama was every really serious about the deal in the first place or was it always the strategy to do what he did....

he has compromised his own target to close Guantanamo for whatever reason the lawyers and the military have given him; what you call 'backtracking' is the reality that hits every President when they enter office and discover the promise they made on X or Y cannot be fulfilled in the way they want, if at all. Its the reason why he was destined to disappoint a lot of his supporters.

Probably some truth to this. However I find it ironic that a President who campaigned so vigorously against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and who repeatedly held up the mantle of the 'rule of law' would be so eager to start dropping bombs on Libya without getting congressional approval.

I also recall Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice and John Bolton being famous for being incapable of seeing the world through anything but a monocle -so being ideological and rigid seems standard in the White House, if it is true.

Well Bush did try to privatize social security but the other Republican members of congress bailed on him. He gave up on that and gave us Medicare part B instead. A bloated, 300 billion dollar social welfare prescription drug mess that simply adds to the public debt. Christ, we could have elected John Kerry for that kind of nonsense.

[Dino Velvet]

Not sure what these characters are after anymore. Every day it's getting to be "Must See TV" for all the unintentional comedy. If I ever run out of weed I'm going down to LA City Hall and grab a piece of pussy on the way out. Fight The Power! I heard Hezbollah is setting up a snazzy Job Fair. Their retirement program is somewhat mysterious and macabre though.

[hard4janira]

I heard Hezbollah is setting up a snazzy Job Fair. Their retirement program is somewhat mysterious and macabre though.

I think it's called '40 virgins'.

[Dino Velvet]

I think it's called '40 virgins'.

Go across the street where Al-Qaeda offers 72. Don't shortchange yourself in life or death.

[Silcc69]

I think it's called '40 virgins'.

I thought it was 70?

[Dino Velvet]

I thought it was 70?

Hezbollah notorious lowballers. They live near the Israelis.