Obama delivers first Democratic video address.
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Obama delivers first Democratic video address.
Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama recorded the “Democratic Radio Address” using video as well as audio. The New York Times notes, “It may seem like a political no-brainer in the age of YouTube, but as aides to Mr. Obama pointed out, it is a first for a president or president-elect.” In the message, Obama urges Congress to “pass at least a down-payment on a rescue plan that will create jobs, relieve the squeeze on families, and help get the economy growing again.” Watch it:
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Such a deal! What a start! This Country is in for some good times soon. How can we move January 20, 2009 up a couple of months, like next Tuesday?
November 15th, 2008 at 10:55 amLeadership on display.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:58 amNone of us knows how much he can accomplish, but he acknowledges the problems, offers suggestions, and most of all, he gives us hope that he can lead us to a better future.
This is going to he a long, hard slog, but a focused leader with vision can help us begin.
This is so cool. No one need be uninformed anymore.
But they will be…
November 15th, 2008 at 10:58 amBaracK Obama recorded the “Demcratic Radio Address”
– - TO seems to have issues with OK.
Ok?
November 15th, 2008 at 11:00 amUmmm, TP. Geeze.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:00 amHOw about taking 75 Billion of the bailout money, and turning to the auto industry and tell them, the money is here IF AND ONLY IF you spend it directly on Hybrids (25%) and the production of electric vehicles (75%).
How about taking another 250 Billion and turning to the Alternative RENEWABLE low impact fuel technology (NOT NUCLEAR) and tell them that here it is, get out the plans and make the jobs, and you will receive Grants, loans, taxbreaks based upon the number and type of jobs you create.
The money should NOT be spent on shoring up the failed banking insitutions of yesteryear, they should be spent on creating the NEW financial engines of tomorrow.
REPEAL THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT!!!!
November 15th, 2008 at 11:05 amPLEASE PLEASE HURRY UP JANUARY 20 AND GET HERE SOON!!! Man, it’s like Christmas when you know you really want the gift that you’re getting! (And I hate January normally)
November 15th, 2008 at 11:06 amWhat a treat. A President (one I can spell with a capital P for a change) who is capable of reasoned thought, can speak in complete sentences, and is not afraid of polysyllabic words.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:20 amfinally – a leader we can believe in…. such relief, maybe soon I can begin to lower the BP meds.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:38 amWe have been long overdue for a Pragmatist to lead this country.
Idealsts just don’t work in a position that requires a strong grasp of things as they are, not as we wish they were.
I am impressed by Obama sticking to his campaign promises to fight for the middle class.
We might have an actual Reprsentative in government for a change.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:40 amAlecto Says: HOw about taking 75 Billion of the bailout money, and turning to the auto industry and tell them, the money is here IF AND ONLY IF you spend it directly on Hybrids (25%) and the production of electric vehicles (75%).
I think any money that the Auto Industry receives from We The People aught to be under the exact same conditions that they have previously set when loaning money to us:
10% down and 25% interest rates for poor credit.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:42 amI wonder what this fool is smoking? The change Barack will bring amounts to a repudiation of all the horrific mistakes Dubya made. To affect that he needs people with intelligence and experience to make it happen. Would you prefer that rather than tap into experience in Washington he relies on a bunch of miscreants like Caribou Barbie? I”ll take experienced people from the Clinton administration (remember the world at ease in those days, and no 10 trillion dollar national debt) any day.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:50 amLushInterior Says WATCH MY FELLOW FLAKES!
November 15th, 2008 at 11:50 amLushInterior Says: Great marketing, nice neat wrapper, nothing of substance. This will at best be a “feel good” presidency. All the old faces of the past are turning up daily. Nothing new here, no change. This is looking just like GW’s first term more and more.
What is more substantial than showing up to work two months early, and getting to work?
Bill Clinton did wonders for this country. It would be foolish not to hire some of those same people just because they served already (albeit 8 loooong years ago).
I imagine you’d like to be judged in retrospect, rather than pre-judged prior to having taken any action at all. Let’s give the man a chance to do the job first, shall we?
November 15th, 2008 at 11:53 amWATCH MY FELLOW SNOWFLAKES!
Eat yellow snow.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:54 amDr. Hussein Matt Says: More proof that the radical right and left should be ignored.
I hope we can educate some of them.
We first have to get rid of NCLB, and the Conservative detruction of the public education curricula (denying Evolution, distorting History to lionize our leaders, minimalizing the arts, etc.)
I truly think many of these people could be reformed if we once again make Education a priority in our country rather than singing contests and sporting events.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
LushInterior Says:
Hitting the bottle so early on a Saturday?
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he read this.
not easy watching your
best friend die.
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thank you.
^
November 15th, 2008 at 12:07 pmIf you want to wind up where we are now again…..you know, finanial scandals that the taxpayers have to pick up the tab on, record unemployment, outsourcing jobs, predictable recession…..this time mayber worse.
Yeah, raygun was known for a speech he gave in 1980…..nothing more.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pmLushInterior Says:
It’s okay sweetie. Come to Mommy. There, there, now. Stop crying. Everything will be alright. There’s a good boy.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pmLushInterior Says: don’t know if the Clintonistas can pull it off though….to much ego, back biting and nut kicking.
It’s all about leadership, and based on his drama-free campaign, it’s evident that Obama’s Administration will be low-drama. He’s already demonstrated level-headed leadership.
Put away your crystal ball, its broken. After all, it was the same thing that told you that Bush was gonna be a good President…
November 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says: Sadly, it would be easier to milk a rampaging bull.
We have all managed to convert a lot of Republicans over the last four years, and we didn’t do it through force or coersion – we did it with education. :)
There certainly isn’t hope for many of these insistent adults, but if you educate children and teach them how to think, we’ll find that their ranks dwindle, just as they have in all other Western Nations.
I have hope. :)
November 15th, 2008 at 12:14 pmhear hear, marie…
Leadership on display.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:17 pmGood Morning camper’s….Very little can be done untill after Jan.20, 2009..And even less should be expected untill Pres. Elect Obama has his administration in place…What Obama has done already is the big picture…He has brought hope to America and a reflection of future respect from the world just by winning the race..All over the world people look at us in a better light than we have had in 8 year’s…..Every where he go’s in the world people flock to see him and hear his message’s….If he accomplishes only a few thing’s our country is the better for his presence…..
To all the troll’s who may viset I have a question for you
November 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm,when did bull shit bush or any of his ilk ever command an audiance even close to Obama’s.?….Since the troll’s are slow leakers I will give them the answer..NEVER…We have a chance at a new beginning, let’s wait for it, with out rose colored glasses or long list’s of demand’s …Blessings
If you’re going to reform education then you have to get rid of the sports……they are largly responsible for the decline in educational quality in our schools.
What is the most money spent on in most US public schools…….
who were the kids at columbine looking for…..jocks and cheerleaders.
When you set up shallow people like the athelets as gods and base the income for schools on winning at sporting events then you go the way of Rome.
See cheerleader bush.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pmLushInterior Says:
Shooting for a Reagunesk level of accomplishment would be a good target….don’t know if the Clintonistas can pull it off though….to much ego, back biting and nut kicking.
Yeah, those Clintons . . . oh, wait. They lost the primary, uh, months ago.
Please try to keep up.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pmlushy, my memory is just fine…..you prolly need sticky notes to remember the destruction caused by republicans but I don’t.
republicans…..the anti-Americans.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pmLushInterior:
November 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pmHow do you feel about Camelot? Do you buy the version taught in the schools and commonly held? Just wondering. What about the Reagan story. Do you buy that one?
Fred Says: If you’re going to reform education then you have to get rid of the sports……they are largly responsible for the decline in educational quality in our schools.
I personally think the problem has been that Republicans have been in leadership for 20 of the last 28 years and that they simply do not value education, hence, our culture has stopped valuing it.
Parents must instill in their kids, prior to them becoming old enough to attend school, an appreciation for learning. Most do not – hence the “pageant parents” and “my-kid-is-gonna-be-a-football-icon parents”.
I had to dole out consequences to 8 students in one of my Introduction classes who plagiarized their reaearch papers. One of them asked me “Why does it matter?” She truly did not get why it was wrong to steal someone else’s work and pass it off for her own rather than actually bother to learn something.
And if I say the word “read” it’s the equivalent of “go set yourself on fire” to most of the freshman I teach.
If we look at Japan where 95% of their students graduate high school, versus 68% here, we see that it comes down to a correlation between how much our different societies value education.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pmlush gives a lecture
to the troops.
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interesting.
:)
November 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pmWitch1 says: when did bull shit bush or any of his ilk ever command an audiance even close to Obama’s
The only time he did so was right after 9/11 when the world watched him with the bull horn — since then, he’s gone downhill until he finds himself today at the bottom of the list. Hubris, stubbornness and arrogant ignorance are his hallmarks.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:32 pmA total failure; a tainted legacy; troubles and woes for America that will visit us for decades to come; a buffoon, an oaf, an uncurious boor, an embarrassment — and did I say failure?
The trolls are trying to make themselves relevant – but all they have is Ronnie Raygun’s failed trickle down economics (they never mention his illegal, felonious Iran/Contra affair). I laugh at them and their predictions of Obama’s administration — fools that they are, unable to see honesty when it stares them in the face.
Milton Friedman’s trickle down economy which has been embraced by repugs is a failure – it has failed wherever it has been tried – and we are in the midst of it ourselves.
unbelievable Says:
Fred Says: If you’re going to reform education then you have to get rid of the sports……they are largly responsible for the decline in educational quality in our schools.
I personally think the problem has been that Republicans have been in leadership for 20 of the last 28 years and that they simply do not value education, hence, our culture has stopped valuing it.
This has been very hard for me to swallow over the years. When I graduated from a California high school, I did so with a very thorough grounding in many subjects, and I could have chosen to attend a high-quality state college or university for minimal cost. My kids are in their early 20s, and throughout their teen years I was appalled at how little they actually needed to learn in school in order to graduate — not to mention the complete lack of PE and the increasing degradation of arts classes. And universities are no longer a priority for government, even here in Oregon. Prisons? Oh, sure, lots of money for that.
And the University of Oregon is going to be spending $200M on a new sports arena, while incoming freshmen have no dorms to move into.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:38 pmGood post Marie, I wasen’t counting 9/11 as in my view it was allowed to happen by design or intent and like everything bull shit bush has done live’s were lost on his watch….The most evil people in the world bush/cheney live here and should be jailed..Blessings
November 15th, 2008 at 12:40 pmSo he’s admitting that the previous “rescue plan” had nothing to do with any of that despite those things being the very selling points brought to the public by the bankers’ representatives and the media.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pmWow. How’s that NAFTA workin for ya? How’s the WTO workin for ya? How bout that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act? etc etc
November 15th, 2008 at 12:47 pmLushInterior Says:
Shooting for a Reagunesk level of accomplishment would be a good target…
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“Reagunesk level of accomplishment”??? “Reagunesk”???
How about basic spelling, for starters? Or were you proudly home skooled?
November 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pmYou sure they lost? Because Obama sure is rebuilding the Clinton White House.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7730485.stm
Is Obama recreating the Clinton era?
All in all, 31 of the 47 transition or staff posts that Mr Obama has filled so far have gone to people with ties to the Clinton administration, Politico has reported.
Eleven of the 12 members of his Transition Advisory Board are Clinton veterans.
Try to keep up.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pmSo the guy knows how to talk to a camera and his flunkies can post it to the web. Doesn’t make him a progressive or a president anyone wanting real progress in this country should get the least bit excited about.
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
November 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pmIt is funny when you can’t spell the name of your imagined hero
November 15th, 2008 at 12:53 pmthis is HI-larious!
found via C&L:
Get Your War On: New World Order
http://www.236.com/video/2008/get_your_war_on_new_world_orde_10121.php
enjoy! and pass it on!
November 15th, 2008 at 12:54 pm00mpp00:
November 15th, 2008 at 12:55 pmWhat about you how did you feel about Camelot? Myth or Reality?
Barack Obama Believes in Government, and will strive to Make it work for the American People.
George Bush , and the conservatives,Do Not believe in Government, and strive to make it Ineffective and Incompetent. They have been wildly successfull in this regard.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pmAlejandro Says:
All in all, 31 of the 47 transition or staff posts that Mr Obama has filled so far have gone to people with ties to the Clinton administration, Politico has reported.
Eleven of the 12 members of his Transition Advisory Board are Clinton veterans.
Try to keep up.
It sure is stupid for an incoming President to use experienced people in his transition team — you know, people who actually know how the White House and the Executive branch work? Where else would President Elect Obama get such staff?
November 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pmAlejandro says
How is that FMLA working for ya?
How is that DADT working for ya?
How is that Brady Bill working for ya?
How is that OBR act working for ya?
How is that DMC act working for ya?
etc. etc….
sheeze
November 15th, 2008 at 12:59 pmYo Alejandro. Are any of those people on the cabinet? If you were President-Elect and wanted to set a course to right all of the wrongs of the last 8 years wouldn’t you want to get your transition filled with people with experience in how government should be run? Or would you get Caribou Barbie and Joe the unlicensed Plumber to be your advisors.
Please try to keep up.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:01 pm00mpp00 Says:
Doesn’t make him a progressive or a president anyone wanting real progress in this country should get the least bit excited about.
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Indeed… we are already 11 days Post-Election, and Obama hasn’t ended the wars in South Asia, or addressed Global Warming, or brought Permanent and Lasting Prosperity to the country. Why does Obama hate America so?
Time to start that Impeach Obama Now talk, huh?
Four more beers! Four more beers! Four more beers!
November 15th, 2008 at 1:02 pmWith Regards to Clinton People in Obama’s Administration…
Abraham Lincoln ( As described by Doris Kearns Goodwin, in her Bestseller “Team of Rivals”), put his Political Opponents in his Cabinet. That way he could hear All Sides, and keep an eye on them.
Barack Obama Studies Lincoln.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pmHow’s that budget surplus working for ya, how about millions of jobs actually created instead of millions lost?
How’s that stock market thing workin for ya, you know it was 3k when clinton took office and 11k when he left. Do I need to point out the obvious.
Clinton wasn’t perfect but he was dealing with newt and the gang of thieves at the time too.
I wouldn’t try to compare Clinton if I were you, he actually did much good for our country……republicans historically, not so much.
I’m kinda tired of hearing you guys whine about things you imagine to be reality…..please don’t drag me into it with you.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pmI guess gone are the days when the President could deliver his weekly radio address in his underwear, sipping a beer and munching on a leftover pizza.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pmeveryone should spend more time at 236.com… cheer up…
A Quick List Of Stuff George Bush Should Regret
(Off The Tops Of Our Heads)
http://www.236.com/news/2008/11/14/bush_has_two_regrets_we_provid_1_10243.php
November 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pmgummitch Says: My kids are in their early 20s, and throughout their teen years I was appalled at how little they actually needed to learn in school in order to graduate — not to mention the complete lack of PE and the increasing degradation of arts classes.
After years of teachers being blamed for everything, too many of them have simply stopped bothering to fight students to learn anything. It’s why I left high school to teach college. Everything was my fault, and I got tired of spoiled brats pitching temper tantrums to get handed good grades in order to calm them down. Administrative acquiescence to them and their “not my kid” parents ruined the opportunity to teach, so that my job was essentially little more than babysitting. And I was at a Charter School. Who wants that job? Not quality teachers – which is why their attrition is one of the highest of all careers.
And let’s not even discuss the crappy pay for teachers (while Administrators get paid very well however).
NCLB standardized testing hasn’t helped either as most teachers who have to give test tied to funding must teach to these pointless tests rather than educate their students.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:11 pmTrolls: Please email sara p. with your NEW ideas and republicans will live happy for ever after.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:11 pmIsn’t it refreshing……not like the gibberish of shrub at all is it?
Makes you think he might actually have some intelligence instead of being like bush, a frat-rat low brow daddy’s boy who failed at everything he ever did…….
November 15th, 2008 at 1:12 pmDoesn’t make him a progressive or a president anyone wanting real progress in this country should get the least bit excited about.
After 8 years of destruction, incompetence and lurching backwards under Bush, I’d be excited to see a f***ing tree stump elected and plopped in the Oval Office.
At least give the man some actual and real time in office before crucifying him.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:13 pmObama should start every address by saying, “Don’t worry. You’re not dreaming. We finally got rid of The Worst President Ever™.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypMFARJW84
November 15th, 2008 at 1:14 pmAlejandro Says: Wow. How’s that NAFTA workin for ya? How’s the WTO workin for ya? How bout that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act? etc etc
Much better than Reagan Economics that have the country currently poised on the cliff of meltdown.
No President is perfect, but Clinton’s screw-ups were more tolerable than George Bush’s.
It must be really miserable to be you with 8 years of better times ahead of our country. Don’t implode. LOL
November 15th, 2008 at 1:15 pmBadger Says:
[...]
Barack Obama Studies Lincoln.
“There have been two skinny guys from Illinois who have made a real difference: Abe Lincoln, and Barack Obama.”
- Charles Ogletree, on Colbert
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/209522/november-04-2008/indecision-2008–america-s-choice—charles-ogletree
November 15th, 2008 at 1:20 pmMy response was to correct the other poster’s “correction” regarding Clintonistas.
And did Bill Clinton use a bunch of old Jimmy Carter people in his first year of the White House? I don’t think so.
This isn’t so bad, but this isn’t some great triumph.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell? Are you serious? You’re defending this?
The Brady Bill? You must be joking. Yeah, it’s done so much to reduce crime.
Which one? 1993? Except for the higher taxes, that one was all right. The reduced spending is great and PAYGO is definitely the way to go, even though that came under daddy Bush.
Wouldn’t know since DMC isn’t ringing any bells. Run DMC?
Are you the president elect that promised “change” and a “new way of doing things in DC”? No, that was Barack Obama. Who is full of crap.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:22 pmI almost feel sorry for the troll’s that frequent TP. Almost..It must be hard for them to write enough reich winged garbage to collect their posting fee’s…Guess they will be unemployed soon, what will they be able to write about except failed past presdencie’s and crazy old war monger’s..So vey sad…Not….Blessings
November 15th, 2008 at 1:25 pmKaty,
Not Only wre they both skinny and from Illinois….they Both Started out Poor, and worked their way up to the highest office in the Land.
They have/had a different take on things than Children of Privelge like George W. Refreshing.
Lincoln Saved the Union, Obama may have to, as well.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:29 pmAlejandro Says: Are you the president elect that promised “change” and a “new way of doing things in DC”? No, that was Barack Obama. Who is full of crap.
Try to actually read the responses we post that address your posts.
It’s not about the people who worked for Clinton, but about Obama’s leadership. It’s how he runs the show that matters, not about who carries out his orders.
How do you not understand that the change is him?
November 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pmAn open message to all the trolls out there:
Your tin idol currently (but not for long) in the white house has been an utter failure…everything he has touched has turned to sheeyat, including our economy. Now, we all know you drank copiously of the “you’re either with us or against us” kool-aid for the past eight years but, it’s time we all start rowing together to get ourselves out of this mess caused by republican greed gone wild. If you are incapable of doing so, just go in the corner and STFU.
Thank you
November 15th, 2008 at 1:38 pma concerned American.
Alejandro Says:
Typical troll……cherry picks the topics he wants to respond to because he is a coward.
try addressing the issues in post #55 if you’re not yellow.
Must hurt deep in the pit of your stomach to know that you guys were given free reign the last 8 years to get things the way you wanted them and now that you have you find that it’s just not working at all….that it’s actually a total disaster and the American people have turned their collective backs on you and your idiology…..sad.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:50 pmLushInterior Says:
Something else not worth the waste of life it takes to read. Pretty much par for the Lush course.
And we get more prognostications from a wingnut. Truly Wingnuts have no shame. After being SPECTACULARLY WRONG about every prediction they made about Iraq they feel confident to come in here and tell us their shiny NEW inanities strait from their I Ching or Ouiji board or magic 8 ball or wherever they get thier ALWAYS WRONG predictions about the future. Since I could have done a better job predicting the future the last 8 years reading the entrails of pigeons I think I will meet this NEW attempt by a WINGNUT to predict the future with the only thing it deserves DERISIVE LAUGHTER
November 15th, 2008 at 1:52 pmAlejandro Says:
Your tax cuts for the wealthy and de-regulation was supposed to usher in a new era of prosperity……we’re waiting….
November 15th, 2008 at 1:52 pmWho is full of crap?
LushInterior Says:
And perhaps you ought to wait until he actually takes office and DOES SOMETHING before boring us all with your inane predictions about what he MIGHT do wrong? Perhaps THEN you might have a bit of credibility. I dont think you can pull it off though. Too much stupid, too much brainwashing, and too much ignorance inherent in you
November 15th, 2008 at 1:56 pmFred.
It’s not Just
Tax Cuts and Deregulation.
American CEO’s “Earn” over 400 times the income of the average worker in their companies. In Europe and Japan, that ratio is maybe 15.
Our Handsomely paid Economic Leaders have Run the Economy into a Ditch. They do not Earn their Pay…they just Set their Pay.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pmLushInterior Says:
Fred, please print out your comment and nail it to your basement wall for future reference, then we can both have a laugh when your prognostication comes to fruition.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oh like YOUR predictions will be right on. You do know you are an idiot dont you?
November 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pmIt is very refreshing to have a decent individual as the elected President of the USA, however, END THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND AFEGHANISTAN! CHANGE THE USA’S FORINGNER POLICIES. Only then we will have REAL Change! Obama is surrounding himself with same people who served under Clinton… like many elected presidents in History, they get elected with left wing discourses but governs with right wing policies… I hope this man will be different. Yhe World is watching, hoping and waiting!
November 15th, 2008 at 2:07 pmLike FDR? Like JFK? many? Although Clinton signed on to a couple of moderate ideas like nafta and welfare reform, he mostly led us in the direction that progressives want to go.
more & better jobs, balanced budget, strengthened unions, stronger middle class, etc.
I don’t get your point.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:19 pm700 Billion Dollars buys a lot of Bailout… but how many jobs has it created?
November 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pmLibertyLover,
November 15th, 2008 at 2:26 pm42 overseers in executive branch offices.
Very cool. I’ve never heard the weekly radio address. In fact if I wanted to I have no idea which station in my area carries it or what time or anything. Doing it as a video makes it infinitely more accessible. Thank you thank you thank you! Now, start a youtube channel for it like “White House”. The British one is called “10 Downing Street”. Thanks for bringing this bit of government into the 21st century.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:41 pmHi LushInterior:
November 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pmIt would be advisable not to call me son. Which type of Libertarian are you?
what’s a ” Libeibertarians “?
November 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pmWow, just popped in. What’s with TP today? ONE post all day? Folks on vacation?
November 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pmwhat’s a ” Libeibertarians “?
Some jackass too cheap to pay their taxes. They are easily identified by their field markings and unique behaviors. Look for white males holed up in compounds raving about their government given right to guns but simultaneously damning said governement and announcing that they will not be taken alive. It is sad yet amusing to view them in the wild.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:10 pmLushInterior Says:
We (me and our clan) are all Libeibertarians…
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Libeibertarians… heh… so, the spelling of “Reagunesk” wasn’t an accident…
Funny… this one wants to come here and sneer at us for being so interested in “who occupies the Oval Office’… yet, correct me if I’m wrong… the vast majority of this windbag’s comments are shallow attemtpts at finding fault… w/ Obama… which would prove Lushy’s, well, kinda obsessed w/ who’s in the Oval Office…
Proving once again, that irony is lost on wing nutters…
November 15th, 2008 at 3:11 pmGOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles
“We have to be honest, and there’s a lot of blame to go around, but I have to mention George Bush, and I have to mention Ted Stevens, and I’m afraid I even have to mention John McCain,” he said.
DeMint offered a long list of complaints about McCain’s record in the Senate and on the campaign trail.
LINK
November 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pmlushy,
stay away from
paula abdul’s house,
‘k?
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November 15th, 2008 at 3:18 pmor representation.
Yeah, that’s livin aint it. You call someone else pathetic….realllllly?
November 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pmLibertarians stand in the middle of the road, trying to convince everyone they’re going the wrong way.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pmDNFP Says:
GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles…
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Huh? GOOPers HAVE principles? Who knew?
November 15th, 2008 at 3:21 pmFred Says:
Yeah, that’s livin aint it. You call someone else pathetic….realllllly?
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Lushy’s gone, Fred… appointment w/ the dentist.
He’s getting his tooth cleaned.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:21 pmOh, come on guys!
Could ya give President-elect Barr and Vice President-elect Root a chance to take the oath of office before knocking LushInterior across all 4 corners of the room? Give ‘em a chance!
November 15th, 2008 at 3:24 pmdbadass Says:
what’s a ” Libeibertarians “?
I thought maybe it had something to do with Joe Lieberman.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:29 pmMcWars Says:
Oh, come on guys!
Really drive the right into fits of hysteria: appoint Barr asst. AG. He’d go after ‘em, with a passion.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:30 pmLet the record show that Bozo The Neoclown owns this terrifc post!
Bozo The Neoclown Says:
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what’s a ” Libeibertarians “?
November 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pmpure art
November 15th, 2008 at 3:35 pmbarfly Says:
Really drive the right into fits of hysteria: appoint Barr asst. AG. He’d go after ‘em, with a passion.
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I gotta say… I LIKE that idea… that would be truly entertaining… and appropriate.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:35 pmI would very much like to have a respectful discussion with anyone who could possibly see Barr as a libertarian (well other than that too cheap to pay taxes part). I just don’t get where you could make that case. Just saying…
November 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pmOMG!!!
International Con Man Barack Obama Leaves U.S. With $85 Million In Campaign Fundraising
November 15th, 2008 at 3:44 pmWho does number 2 work for????
November 15th, 2008 at 3:47 pmgummitch Says:
I thought maybe it had something to do with Joe Lieberman.
or the Lib wing of the ibertarian party…
November 15th, 2008 at 3:48 pmCurlew Says:
What a treat. A President (one I can spell with a capital P for a change) who is capable of reasoned thought, can speak in complete sentences, and is not afraid of polysyllabic words
I agree. It will actually be great to speak of President Obama. I never once, ever, referred to Bush as President, because he was never my President.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pmdbadass Says:
I would very much like to have a respectful discussion with anyone who could possibly see Barr as a libertarian…
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I’m not sure there is such a thing – a true libertarian – dbadass… just the fact that the person proclaiming themselves to be such usually has some NEED to label themselves as such, kinda defeats the whole point, no?
Right now, the vast majority of so-called “libertarians” just seem to be GOOPers who’ve tossed their armbands in the nearest trash can and hope no one recognizes them from Party photos.
Frankly, I’M prolly more of a real libertarian than most of the ones who come here making that claim, and I refuse to take on any label, anymore, period.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:52 pmsacopenapa Says:
It is very refreshing to have a decent individual as the elected President of the USA, however, END THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND AFEGHANISTAN! CHANGE THE USA’S FORINGNER POLICIES. Only then we will have REAL Change! Obama is surrounding himself with same people who served under Clinton… like many elected presidents in History, they get elected with left wing discourses but governs with right wing policies… I hope this man will be different. Yhe World is watching, hoping and waiting!
Considering the fact that pretty much anyone in Washington with any experience has either been involved in the Clinton Administration or both Bush administrations. Never before in our history has a president taken office with so many urgent problems that need fixing. And the only way that Obama can hit the ground running is if he hires experienced people. Since he is not going to hire people from Bush Administrations, that pretty much leaves the Clinton Administration. Would you rather he start out with a bunch of newbies who know nothing about how government works?
I really do think you should wait until you see what Obama does with the people he is hiring before you criticize him. I, for one, am going to give him my full support until he does something to deserve criticism.
sacopenapa – you constant harping on Obama and the things you think or perceive he is going to do, not what he has actually done, is taking you perilously close to troll status. Why don’t you give Obama a chance to prove himself before you criticize him?
November 15th, 2008 at 4:00 pmI think the only honest libertarians are the ones that just want to smoke pot without any hassle…
November 15th, 2008 at 4:02 pmdbadass Says:
I think the only honest libertarians are the ones that just want to smoke pot without any hassle…
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Heh… like I said…
November 15th, 2008 at 4:05 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
Time to start that Impeach Obama Now talk, huh?
Bite your tongue!
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=impeach+obama&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f
November 15th, 2008 at 4:09 pmSounds like borrowing money to create jobs? Day one on the job you start working on borrowed money. You just earned a dime but YOU OWE IT!
Nobody talks about the trillions squandered on an endless criminal war. Why not spend some of that vast amount here at home to create jobs? I don’t hear anyone talk about that!
The current economic situation here in the US is a direct consequence of trillions ill-spent dollars on a lavish endless criminal war!
November 15th, 2008 at 4:10 pmkaty Says:
OMG!!!
International Con Man Barack Obama Leaves U.S. With $85 Million In Campaign Fundraising
November 15th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Katy, The Onion can be just too hilarious. This was a good laugh!
November 15th, 2008 at 4:11 pmDaTruth Says:
Nobody talks about the trillions squandered on an endless criminal war. Why not spend some of that vast amount here at home to create jobs? I don’t hear anyone talk about that!
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Not true… we have discussed and cursed that endlessly here.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:12 pmleftcoast Says:
Katy, The Onion can be just too hilarious. This was a good laugh!
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Betcha Lushy’s last tooth that at least one wing nutter gets taken on that one…
November 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
Would you rather he start out with a bunch of newbies who know nothing about how government works?
Wasn’t one of the wingnut’s incessant whines during the campaign something about a so called lack of “experience”? Now, when experienced people are brought in, they whine about that?
And they wonder why they spend their lives being pointed to and laughed at.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
Bite your tongue!
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Yeeeeeeeah… already saw some of that… kinda what motivated the comment on my part. Go look at redstate or some of the other wing nutter websites. Just make sure you’ve got an empty stomach first.
They’re wasting no time trying to turn every single bit of news into Proof That Obama Is a Crook… kinda funny, if it weren’t so obnoxious…
Oh, those nutters…
November 15th, 2008 at 4:15 pmreminds me of a joke……I must be a libertarian too!!
November 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pmLushInterior Says:
And perhaps you ought to wait until he actually takes office and DOES SOMETHING
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Y U PO bastid, your pathetic life revolves around who occupies the oval office?….holy crap debby! Get out the old AK-47 and go shoot a couple of boxes…..enjoy life for once!
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My GOD you are ignorant. Even by Limborg standards you are galactic level stupid. You have no idea about any facet of my life. You cant tell the future you cant read minds you are just ignorant and like to spout off because you are PROUD Of your ignorance and love to parade it around. You dont have any idea how much I love life. Adult education, look into it. I suggest you START with about a third grade level course in logic. Then maybe someday if you ever aquire the equipment that allows you some shot at higher brain function a jr high rhetoric and debate class so that you can at least RECOGNIZE a cogent argument, at least KNOW what one is. As of now the only thing you do here is humiliate yourself, you are just too stupid to know it.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:54 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
I completly agree. Imagine not cringing in embarassment everytime our President goes overseas. We all know the world leaders laughed at both Bush and US for electing him as soon as he left any room. Now if we could just find a reasonably intelligent conservative to post here with something other than warmed over Limborg talking points who could make a decent point at least once in a while.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:58 pmWill repugs leave the 19th century?
The trolls’ logic is escaping them again. They can’t wait to bounce on President Obama but let their chimpy get away with murder, literally.
Number One trolls, the people that were in the Clinton administration worked well together. They are dems, so why wouldn’t President Obama choose them? Also the look of an administration has nothing to do with the its outcomes. It begins at the top, you trolls seem to denied.
Number Two trolls, you can’t bring yourself to realize that your type of repug mentality in dead at the booth and on the blogs. Losers.
This is just like the repug stupid talking point that Sen. Obama voted over 90% with the dems, like that was supposed to offset that mcchimpy voted over 90% with the repugs. Where is the logic? In case you trolls missed it, voting with chimpy is detrimental to the world while voting for the dems isn’t.
Is this to hard a concept to understand, trolls?
November 15th, 2008 at 5:55 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
Imagine not cringing in embarassment everytime our President goes overseas.
As Frank Rich Noted in his July 27 Column:
What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pmIt seems a weird thing but why would I ever consider wanting to be you. Sell me! Come on If you are someone I wanna be for a day, make me want to be you for a day. It is all marketing baby…
November 15th, 2008 at 6:05 pmunbelievable Says:
Dr. Hussein Matt Says: More proof that the radical right and left should be ignored.
I hope we can educate some of them.
We first have to get rid of NCLB, and the Conservative detruction of the public education curricula (denying Evolution, distorting History to lionize our leaders, minimalizing the arts, etc.)
First and foremost we should withhold fed education funds for those states that mandate equality between evolution and Intelligent Design.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:16 pmLushInterior Says:
Don’t you wish you could be me for just one day? Oh what fun!
November 15th, 2008 at 6:19 pmYeah, Oh what fun FOR YOU to get a break from the hot griddle at McDonalds for a day.
I am not really for bailing out the auto industry. Bush already signed a low interest loan package [25 billion] for them they can start borrowing from in mid 2009.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:36 pmLushInterior Says: Don’t you wish you could be me for just one day? Oh what fun!
When someone says ‘Lush’ my mind pictures an alcoholic. Surely you meant to write plushinterior?
As for wishing to be you I dont follow your rational as to why your existence is preferable over any other humans.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:41 pmLushInterior Says:
Don’t you wish you could be me for just one day? Oh what fun!
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No, I couldnt live with the lobotomy that would be required to be anything LIKE you
November 15th, 2008 at 6:44 pmDuring World War II, the American Auto Industry STOPPED producing Automobiles (try buying a 1944 Chevy or Ford) , turnede on a dime, and began producing MILITARY Equipment for the War Effort.
Instead of Bailing out Detroit, the Govt. should offer Lucrative Contracts for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles such as…
Municipal and School Buses
Garbage Trucks
Postal Service Vehicles
Govt. Agency Vehicles
Let the Auto Companies Retool…and let the Green Technology spill over onto the rest of the Economy.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:52 pmHas anyone heard the rumor that Katie Couric will possibly host MTP?
November 15th, 2008 at 11:41 pmObama is clear, calm, specific, and incredibly charismatic. However, the racist rats and their disgusting ways of self-expression will test us without pause. As progressive, we must unleash a resounding “No!” to their tactics and build a clear majority that will deny the GOP victories in 2010.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:40 amhow does this sound…
November 16th, 2008 at 4:16 pmwe, as in America,
need to get, the economy moving, like steel factories, going and more products which are stamped, “made in the USA”, again, and also, while creating jobs, familys will need healthcare, so we need the healthcare industrys help, and also insurance companys, and you can also add on labor unions, we need everybody’s help, for our economy to grow, worldwide. If we could stop the Iraq war, which is calculated as 10 billion dollars a month, perhaps we just may be able to accomplish some of these things that I said above, what do you think? does “Made in the USA” sound familiar?
Maybe with 10 billion dollars a month, we could build this country back up?