US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

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^^^^ hoping someone would post this

really weird post alfred

the one that ends in 'simple really'

I was quoting a Cornerite.

more annoying than any dissatisfaction w the obama administration (a good amount of which i share) is the constant use of 'Bam' as a nickname. shit sets my teeth on edge

haha oh ok. i was mad confused

he is a hardcore Alinsky leftist, but an incompetent leftist

this kind of thinking is so deeply lol to me

"see look, we're right, he's who we say he is, he's just really bad at being who we say he is omg he's SO INCOMPETENT AT PROVING US RIGHT"

xp yeah i feel the same way every time people say derrick rose had a better year than lebron but that's how stans react

'Bam' as a nickname. shit sets my teeth on edge

Wall Street's Stooge in NYC tonight for 3 fundraisers

seriously why haven't ppl started branding Trump as a racist?

i am also glad someone posted the Caspar Weinberger strip. i remember being a kid and reading that, and having to ask who the hell Caspar Weinberger was. now, it's the first thing i think of when i think of the guy.

Wall Street's Stooge in NYC tonight for 3 fundraisers

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:21 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this im ok with

xp yeah i feel the same way every time people say derrick rose had a better year than lebron but that's how stans react

― k3vin k., Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:14 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he certainly had better games when playing against him

http://www.theonion.com/articles/afterbirthers-demand-to-see-obamas-placenta,6866/

Bam starts out at Jon fucking Corzine's apartment tonight

alert: stop saying bam it sounds dumb

Yeah, it's 'Barry', ppl.

you realize you just ensured a lot of people saying "Bam" just to get a rise out of you? nb not me I also find it annoying

obama is one of those guys that nicknames don't really stick to. W was W.

OBAMA IS MABUS, THE ANTI-CHRIST, THE BEAST 666!!!

Dude's so awesome, he moonlights as Secretary of the Navy.

i'm not sure the president (let's call him "Bam") should have played to these lunatics by releasing it. it doesn't matter what evidence he provides, they're not remotely going to go "oh wow....i'm really sorry we were so hyper about this. our bad."

^^^ otm

They'll just find some excuse to call it a fake and a forgery. So annoyed that he is wasting so much time and energy on this. Also annoyed that he should even have to consider it.

naw guys I mean I am not the guy to attribute three-dimensional chess stuff to the President/his team but I really do think this is a case of make a bunch of people look crazy, pull the rug out, now they're going to do the same thing with the transcripts but how will they look? like the crazy haters they are. this is kind of a genius move imo.

honestly if people didn't think the birthers were crazy already i'm not sure how much more evidence they would need.

True, but I'm just annoyed that this is even a thing, y'know. Like, guys, way more imptnt shit to deal with right now.

lol yeah they'd love to run against the birthers!

on the other hand, i have to imagine that this is hugely insulting and depressing to obama on a personal level. there's no way he doesn't know very clearly that half the country really hates him and about a quarter would actively cheer his death. say what you want about, i dunno, angry puppets of GWB or all the vince foster garbage, it really seems unprecedented to me.

I don't think the media has anything more important to them to deal with right now.

honestly if people didn't think the birthers were crazy already i'm not sure how much more evidence they would need.

yeah but this so seals the deal. this isn't "I have a picture of you naked at a party," this is "I have video of you eating your own shit for two consecutive years"

because it would make a big difference if the two shit-eating years were staggered between non-coprophagic years obv

aerosmith OTM this is classic "give em enough rope" move. the longer this is an "issue" for the GOP the better it is for Obama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvazQUYG1kE

i mean it is pretty funny on some level, it's also just faintly depressing that he feels it's important to prove it to a bunch of racist trolls.

honestly if people didn't think the birthers were crazy already i'm not sure how much more evidence they would need

Their birth certificates from Crazyland?

So much for the "issue" going away

lol

ugh

he was doing it more to bitch-slap the press than to bitch-slap the Birthers (who are a lost cause).

yeah wtf press?

John Cole tears Andrew Sullivan a new one.

it's also just faintly depressing that he feels it's important to prove it to a bunch of racist trolls.

Clearly it's much more important than putting financial miscreants in jail, changing the tax code, closing Guantanamo or stopping the murder inherent in our perpetual wars.

I know Sullivan’s reaction shouldn’t be pissing me off as much as it is, because he really can’t help himself. He really is just a stooge for whatever bullshit the right spews, either intentionally or accidentally. He doesn’t mean to be, I don’t think, just his self-identity as a conservative is so strong that he simply can not come to grips with the fact that conservatism is dead in the United States, and that those who call themselves conservative are just crazy people. But Andrew so yearns for a “sane conservatism” that he just can’t help himself, and as such, advances bullshit narratives like the Ryan plan being “serious” or it being Obama’s fault that he didn’t release this information earlier. Sully just can’t help himself.

this is fair i think

the press is a lost cause, too. but people still watch CNN and the evening news and give the media some respect/deference, while any sane person treats any Birthers they know like retarded children.

Clearly it's much more important than putting financial miscreants in jail, changing the tax code, closing Guantanamo or stopping the murder inherent in our perpetual wars.

blame the press for focusing on Birtherism, not Obama. which was kind of the point of his press conference today.

Yeah I agree.

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/rich-man-poor-man

great post xp

Might make it easier to combat Trump, supposing he runs (which I think is unlikely)

if obama was being straight-up, then this was supposed to be what it was: an attempt to remind the press to get out of the gutter and quit it with the bullshit because serious times etc etc

if there's any political deviousness to it, it's to remind professional republicans, hi, your base is a bunch of unpacifiable nutcases, don't think we both don't know it, have fun in 2012