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- oboshoe, on 03/02/2009, -32/+136Republican/Democrat
just two sides of the same coin. Just gives the masses a "team" to root for and vilify the fans of the other team.
Nonetheless, even I am suprised that Obama is continuing the Iraq war. Sure he says he is ending it, but leaving 50,000 well armed troops there while expanding the war in Afghanistan is not the mark of an anti-war president and is certainly a broken promise. - strum40, on 03/02/2009, -9/+80This is what happens when you elect people based on "sides" instead of the issues...
Someone needs to do this experiment:
Get two groups of people, 1 strongly liberal group and 1 strongly conservative group.
-Give them the same exact bullet points of a bill to look over, let's say the economic stimulus package.
-Tell the liberal group that it's a Bush/Republican plan.
-Tell the conservative group it's an Obama plan.
My theory, both sides will find things "wrong" with the bill that they wouldn't consider wrong if they were told it was created by their own party. - dilbert, on 03/02/2009, -44/+112The country needed Ron Paul but most of the voters 'knew' better.
- oboshoe, on 03/02/2009, -17/+79Most of the voters voted the way the media told them to.
- iloveobama, on 03/02/2009, -19/+70What do you mean? I thought Obama was going to be the greatest president ever?
- Ryan32, on 03/02/2009, -14/+62Anyone with any intelligence whatsoever knew he couldn't even begin to keep the promises he made... That was actually my biggest complaint with him to begin with. He just promised to do anything and everything he thought voters would want to hear. This alone should have been enough warning to not vote for him.
He made promises he KNEW he couldn't keep. Whats worse is he went the exact opposite direction on some major issues. Yet we still have people blindly supporting him (most of whom don't know the first thing about his policy or voting history).
I think I'm more upset with the voters out there for being such gullible suckers than I am with the fact that Obama is the President. - TubaTechno, on 03/02/2009, -3/+42That's actually a very illogical argument.
We can't criticize the President on the job he is doing because it's not been 4 years yet?
He's been doing a lot these past few months. Why can't we look at those things and give him feedback? - SteveLRowe, on 03/02/2009, -11/+48Not a mental image I needed
- MaxxusFlamus, on 03/02/2009, -10/+46nope....not really
- GhostInAShell, on 03/02/2009, -12/+47Obama is not a savior the way everyone played him out to be.
He does NOT represent true change, and hope still hasn't surfaced.
He's just another big govt, spend-happy Democrat Keynesian who has no idea what he's doing and playing the whole thing by ear, just like everyone else. - Hetman, on 03/02/2009, -4/+39How come anyone who disagrees with war is a hippie? Some of us are just not insane uncivlized barbarians. We believe there is a better way than force to fix this world.
- haikuFU, on 03/02/2009, -13/+47Only about 3.5 inches.
- muckemuck, on 03/02/2009, -16/+4710 Ways Obama is like Bush.. http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2009/02/obama-bus ...
- blacktriangle, on 03/02/2009, -11/+41Continued Aggression towards Arab countries.
Sabre rattling towards Iran
Continuence of world empire and the increased size thereof.
Continue to build forces to surround the Soviet Union.
Massive guaranteed subsidies for large US companies and banks.
Continued torture.
Continued globalism.
Continued disarming of the US population.
Continued disassembly of The Bill of Rights.
Hiring of lobbiests for positions in the Administration.
Continued increases in the size of the Federal Gov. - snazer, on 03/02/2009, -5/+34This is the sad state of affairs in modern world politics - it's the same here in Europe. The parties are increasingly centralised or at least matching, so it's impossible to distinguish between them. If one does *****, the other would do exactly the same.
Where can we all go from here? - Granfalloon, on 03/02/2009, -14/+42Agreed - Ron Paul would've been a better choice......but the sad fact is that our President is chosen by the size of his/her advertising budget.
- oboshoe, on 03/02/2009, -5/+33Get used to it.
The hate on Clinton started immediately and continued 8 years. The hate on Bush started immediately and continued 8 years.
We love to hate the other team. - StingingNettle, on 03/02/2009, -3/+31Deficit spending is no better, actually its much worse (hard to believe). 3.7 trillion budgeted for 2010. And how often does government hit or come under the budget?
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -7/+35The plan is to pull out of Iraq like Bush wanted and then to take what is pulled out and stick it in Afganistan.
Basically nothing changes. We fight an endless pointless war in Afghanistan which we will probably never win. yup. Change indeed. - RonPauls, on 03/02/2009, -3/+28we just handed over like 10 trillion dollars in budget, bailouts, stimulus, and treasury guarantees, and federal reserve shenanigans
so yeah no free pass - Pstall, on 03/02/2009, -19/+42One
Big
Ass
Mistake
America - Nephlabobo, on 03/02/2009, -8/+30Far too much, that's the problem.
For someone who promised "change", he's keeping *far* too many of Bush's policies.
This article is right - the way Obama is acting makes it looks like Bush was doing the right thing all along, and that is simply unacceptable. - vbullinger, on 03/02/2009, -25/+47Leave it to a foreign source to tell us the truth. It's sad.
There are more differences, though:
Obama's ears are bigger
Obama is slightly less white
Obama is more intelligent than Bush, just like my pet fish
Obama's voice is more powerful and bold
Obama stammers even more while speaking, albeit in more of a William Shatner type of way
Obama will be puppeteered by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Rahm Emanuel instead of by Dick Cheney and Karl Rove
Obama has a meaningless "D" next to his name, instead of the meaningless "R" that adorns Bush's name
Not much else, really. Same *****, different *****. - vexingmodstwo, on 03/02/2009, -10/+31I've been saying this since it was clear Obama was going to get the nomination.
The Obamabots wouldn't listen. Take everything they didn't like with Bush and Obama is doing more of it... that's the "Change" he was bringing. - inactive, on 03/02/2009, -4/+25Problem is, anyone who wants that job should not be allowed to have it.
- oboshoe, on 03/02/2009, -5/+26To be clear, I'm talking about the Iraq war.
Obama was most definitely positioning himself as anti-war
Heck, he promised in his acceptance speech to pay for all the glorious new government programs by simply ending the Iraq war. - rdldr1, on 03/02/2009, -3/+23...from the ground!!
- oboshoe, on 03/02/2009, -3/+22Its a pretty sad comment on humanity really.
It seems we have a need to hate an enemy and we have a need to find a glorious leader. - icyfire111, on 03/02/2009, -2/+20what's crazy about abolishing the fed and the IRS. Both institutions are responsible for overspending in our gov't with our money.
- TheInformer, on 03/02/2009, -8/+26So now since the digg lemmings constantly assailed Bush every day, Would they dare do the same to the one whose water they carry?
- Nickolassc, on 03/02/2009, -3/+20You almost forgot one:
Obama has mastered the art of teleprompter. - MrFunStuff, on 03/02/2009, -4/+21Did you read the article?
"The brief on the detainees concerned an appeal for release by four prisoners at the U.S. detention center at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Their appeal, submitted while Bush was still in office, was based on a Supreme Court decision in June which had granted prisoners at Guantánamo the right to appeal their detainment."
They gave the new administration four weeks to take a position
"Directly before this deadline expired, the Department of Justice announced that those making the appeal had properly been classified as “enemy combatants.” They were not subject to the protections offered by the U.S. Constitution".
"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which represented the detainees in court, was bowled over. One of the ACLU lawyers said dryly that Obama had confirmed Bush’s position that prisons could be operated outside of the law. "
http://www.welt.de/english-news/article3272032/How ...
These are serious civil right violations. Why shouldn't they be give-in the right appeal their detainment. If there is enough evidence to support their detainment then they will stay in prison. What's the problem? Are we know longer for freedom and justice for all? - inactive, on 03/02/2009, -8/+25http://i40.tinypic.com/11tqy52.jpg
- ipushmycar, on 03/02/2009, -3/+19I wish we could give him 4 years before judgement. But in 4 years, this whole country can collapse if he doesn't do things right. This country is on the edge of economic destruction. We can't just sit back and wait to see what happens. Things need to be done immediately, not over time. It's a ***** situation, but Obama knew this going in, and so did everyone else.
I'll whine now, thank you. - muzfuz, on 03/02/2009, -10/+25Are you a troll or just stupid?
- askjeffro, on 03/02/2009, -3/+18We don't have 4 years to waste.
"Whining" after the fact does no good at encouraging people to change. - Nickolassc, on 03/02/2009, -0/+14 Sadly people on digg do it all the time. They criticize Bush's bank bailout while praising Obama's "stimulus". They aren't exactly the same, but in the end they will have the same effect. Doing little to help our sinking economy and running up record deficits.
- icyfire111, on 03/02/2009, -3/+17really? please explain. I thought Obama didn't have much of a voting record other than a few token votes here and there with a whole bunch of "present" votes.
- akhomestead, on 03/02/2009, -1/+15The first one, who the ***** cares, as for the other two, find out why he believes that. Personally I think it's "crazy" not to research someone’s reasons before belittling them. Search "money masters" or Money as debt" or "America: Freedom to Fascism" on google video. .
- atexisthatbest, on 03/02/2009, -17/+31same ***** different *****... wake up people... Ron Paul is the only true politician out there word to the wise!
- whaleyboy69, on 03/02/2009, -3/+16The Bush hate started before he was even elected to his first term. It just got worse over time.
- DarkShroud, on 03/02/2009, -3/+16@kward711, Obama has already spent a trillion dollars in a month. One of the biggest gripes with Bush was the spending. Do you see where this is going?
- frcc, on 03/02/2009, -12/+25The new neocon president is just like the last one.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 03/02/2009, -1/+14Getting nothing done is a hell of a lot better than assaulting us with even more idiotic laws that we don't need.
- vexingmodstwo, on 03/02/2009, -4/+16Anyone calling that spending bill a "REAL stimulus plan" has no business calling anyone else a ***** moron.
- frcc, on 03/02/2009, -10/+22People are coming to the realization they've been lied to. The multi-billion dollar media advertising blitz aimed at selling "change" has ended. There is no change. There never was. Everything Bush did is being continued or accelerated. 50,000 are staying in Iraq forever or until the money runs out to pay for it. That was always the plan. FISA, Patriot Act, its all here to stay with more to be added.
- SatoriSeeker, on 03/02/2009, -3/+15Don't scare the uninformed ones. They don't want to live in a world where both major parties are essentially the same. Imagine how scary that is to someone who can't think critically? It's like waking up from the Matrix but there's no Morpheus waiting to tell you how it really is, you have to figure it all out for yourself, that's why these people never break out of the red and blue sports team box the media puts their minds in.
There were 4 candidates offering real change this past election, and none were allowed into the presidential debates because the democrats and republicans run them and stifle any competition.
http://www.opendebates.org/theissue/ - cl2yp71c, on 03/02/2009, -10/+21Maybe it's exactly the mental image you needed.
- ingodwerefucked, on 03/02/2009, -2/+12i'm liberal and i thought so. i shed tears for so called "liberals" who say they are anti-war, anti-torture, against the atrocities occurring in gaza, against political prisoners, against the drug war, against the corporative favoritism in government, and then continue on to say how much they support barack obama.
the man is hardly libral. he is a centrist who is using democratic ideals of big government as a tool to expand the powers of government with the people willing. it's sickening. the only real democrat in d.c. is kucinich and the only real republican is ron paul. the rest of them (with a few more exceptions) are big time crooks and wonderful liars. unfortunately the masses eat it up just like their big macs. - IJstickI, on 03/02/2009, -3/+13"go ron paul!!!, oh wait he has no chance of winning, go obama!!! (for some reason, because its cool i think)"
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