The Obamagood Thread

[contrifan32]

Contry, unlike most of your knee-jerk reactive glee club, I read what I post...and the Salon article posts the same shit you thought the WaPo has better. He still praised President Obama for something he would've gleefully swallowed a Republican's baby batter for doing, no matter how much you wanna believe a grudging or backhanded compliment mitigates anything. You got a problem with that, take it up with Krauthammer, not me!

Glad I got you reading the thread, though. Ain't heard you peep up for a spell. They lied when they said the Politics Forum was dead. This milkshake is bringing everybody to the yard!

The Washington Post was Krauthammer's column, not parts cut out and taken out of context to try fit Salon's political agenda. I can see why you are happy to see a backhanded compliment thrown Obama's way... it not like he he is getting anything else from the right or left these days. Lame duck walking, thank goodness.

 

[AlexVega]

here we go, some truth

Oh for the love of hillary

 

[AlexVega]

The Washington Post was Krauthammer's column, not parts cut out and taken out of context to try fit Salon's political agenda. I can see why you are happy to see a backhanded compliment thrown Obama's way... it not like he he is getting anything else from the right or left these days. Lame duck walking, thank goodness.

You have to remember that Zumi is blinded by his ignorance. He has a dark heart which blinded him from seeing how much of a racist pig asshole he is.

Just read the crap he posts.

at least Sean can see how dirty Dems are just as I can see how dirty Reps are.

However, no body EVER will put on a show of epic excitement and entertainment as Donald and Palin. America is doomed.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The Washington Post was Krauthammer's column, not parts cut out and taken out of context to try fit Salon's political agenda. I can see why you are happy to see a backhanded compliment thrown Obama's way... it not like he he is getting anything else from the right or left these days. Lame duck walking, thank goodness.

It is what it is. And it got him shook enough to talk about it. Salon didn't make it an "agenda," Kraut did as soon as he opened his mouth to opine about it the way he did. That's what political news is. KnowwhutImean, Vern?

Plus, the theme of this particular thread would be a word to the wise. Got it? Good!

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[contrifan32]

this particular thread[/B] would be a word to the wise. Got it? Good!

When you and you Ilk post misinformation, be prepared to be called out.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

When you and you Ilk post misinformation, be prepared to be called out.

Reporting on opinion pieces isn't misinformation. Kraut said what he said. You'll deal.

If you can't deal and the sweat being that pressed is ruining your shirts, write a letter to the editors of your faves and request that they be more circumspect with their compliments and praise of the Left, however slight they may be.

Not my prob either way. Have a nice day!

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[AlexVega]

oh had to share the good news!

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[Sean Renaud]

Funny thing. Carter never had that award to begin with.

 

[RUlookingup]

Funny thing. Carter never had that award to begin with.

Citation please?

 

[Sean Renaud]

you first.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement

In 2010, a 16-year-old named Kalief Browder from the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack. He was sent to Rikers Island to await trial, where he reportedly endured unspeakable violence at the hands of inmates and guards — and spent nearly two years in solitary confinement.

In 2013, Kalief was released, having never stood trial. He completed a successful semester at Bronx Community College. But life was a constant struggle to recover from the trauma of being locked up alone for 23 hours a day. One Saturday, he committed suicide at home. He was just 22 years old.

Solitary confinement gained popularity in the United States in the early 1800s, and the rationale for its use has varied over time. Today, it’s increasingly overused on people such as Kalief, with heartbreaking results — which is why my administration is taking steps to address this problem.

There are as many as 100,000 people held in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons — including juveniles and people with mental illnesses. As many as 25,000 inmates are serving months, even years of their sentences alone in a tiny cell, with almost no human contact.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/barack-obama-why-we-must-rethink-solitary-confinement/2016/01/25/29a361f2-c384-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html?source=socnet_tw_ofa_20160127_bo_criminal-justice-reform-op-ed_potus_1&utm_medium=socnet&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=socnet_tw_ofa_20160127_bo_criminal-justice-reform-op-ed_potus_1&utm_content=20160127_bo_criminal-justice-reform-op-ed_potus_1

 

[Sean Renaud]

Not to disagree with the prez but I think this example is a case of fatally missing the point. Solitary sucks. . .unless people are constantly beating you and it's the only safe place to be.

 

[AlexVega]

Not to disagree with the prez but I think this example is a case of fatally missing the point. Solitary sucks. . .unless people are constantly beating you and it's the only safe place to be.

and by reaming their lives Obama means that he needs access to other people's monies

 

[Sean Renaud]

Not in this case no. But in general yes, Obama needs access to other people's money. Or really his so long as he's president.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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President Obama Announces Rules for Closing Gender Pay Gap

by ERIK ORTIZ

In his final year in office, President Barack Obama is returning to an issue that was at the heart of the first piece of legislation he ever signed at the White House: closing the gender pay gap.

Obama on Friday unveiled new rules that would compel companies with more than 100 workers to provide the federal government annual data for how much they pay employees based on gender, race and ethnicity.

That information would be used to help public enforcement of equal pay laws while giving more insight into discriminatory pay practices, he said from the White House.

Historically, full-time female workers have only been paid a fraction of their male counterparts: In 2014, it was 79 cents for every dollar, according to the latest White House brief.

"What kind of example does paying women less set for our sons and daughters?" Obama asked.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-announce-new-rules-closing-gender-pay-gap-n506941

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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Obama Makes Historic Visit To U.S. Mosque

Obama wants to highlight the American right to freedom of religion for all, including Muslims.

02/03/2016 01:43 pm ET | Updated 3 hours ago

CATONSVILLE, Md. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama visited a U.S. mosque on Wednesday and declared that attacks on Islam were an attack on all faiths in a move to counter rhetoric from Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates that have alienated Muslims.

“We have to understand that an attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths," Obama said at amosque outside Baltimore. "When any religious group is targeted we all have a responsibility to speak up."

Read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-us-mosque_us_56b23196e4b04f9b57d807d7?section=politics

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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[IrezumiKiss]

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I Miss Barack Obama

David Brooks FEB. 9, 2016

As this primary season has gone along, a strange sensation has come over me: I miss Barack Obama. Now, obviously I disagree with a lot of Obama’s policy decisions. I’ve been disappointed by aspects of his presidency. I hope the next presidency is a philosophic departure.

But over the course of this campaign it feels as if there’s been a decline in behavioral standards across the board. Many of the traits of character and leadership that Obama possesses, and that maybe we have taken too much for granted, have suddenly gone missing or are in short supply.

The first and most important of these is basic integrity. The Obama administration has been remarkably scandal-free. Think of the way Iran-contra or the Lewinsky scandals swallowed years from Reagan and Clinton.

We’ve had very little of that from Obama. He and his staff have generally behaved with basic rectitude. Hillary Clinton is constantly having to hold these defensive press conferences when she’s trying to explain away some vaguely shady shortcut she’s taken, or decision she has made, but Obama has not had to do that.

He and his wife have not only displayed superior integrity themselves, they have mostly attracted and hired people with high personal standards. There are all sorts of unsightly characters floating around politics, including in the Clinton camp and in Gov. Chris Christie’s administration. This sort has been blocked from team Obama.

Second, a sense of basic humanity. Donald Trump has spent much of this campaign vowing to block Muslim immigration. You can only say that if you treat Muslim Americans as an abstraction. President Obama, meanwhile, went to a mosque, looked into people’s eyes and gave a wonderful speech reasserting their place as Americans.

He’s exuded this basic care and respect for the dignity of others time and time again. Let’s put it this way: Imagine if Barack and Michelle Obama joined the board of a charity you’re involved in. You’d be happy to have such people in your community. Could you say that comfortably about Ted Cruz? The quality of a president’s humanity flows out in the unexpected but important moments.

Third, a soundness in his decision-making process. Over the years I have spoken to many members of this administration who were disappointed that the president didn’t take their advice. But those disappointed staffers almost always felt that their views had been considered in depth.

Obama’s basic approach is to promote his values as much as he can within the limits of the situation. Bernie Sanders, by contrast, has been so blinded by his values that the reality of the situation does not seem to penetrate his mind.

Take health care. Passing Obamacare was a mighty lift that led to two gigantic midterm election defeats. As Megan McArdle pointed out in her Bloomberg View column, Obamacare took coverage away from only a small minority of Americans. Sanderscare would take employer coverage away from tens of millions of satisfied customers, destroy the health insurance business and levy massive new tax hikes. This is epic social disruption.

To think you could pass Sanderscare through a polarized Washington and in a country deeply suspicious of government is to live in intellectual fairyland. President Obama may have been too cautious, especially in the Middle East, but at least he’s able to grasp the reality of the situation.

Fourth, grace under pressure. I happen to find it charming that Marco Rubio gets nervous on the big occasions — that he grabs for the bottle of water, breaks out in a sweat and went robotic in the last debate. It shows Rubio is a normal person. And I happen to think overconfidence is one of Obama’s great flaws. But a president has to maintain equipoise under enormous pressure. Obama has done that, especially amid the financial crisis. After Saturday night, this is now an open question about Rubio.

Fifth, a resilient sense of optimism. To hear Sanders or Trump, Cruz and Ben Carson campaign is to wallow in the pornography of pessimism, to conclude that this country is on the verge of complete collapse. That’s simply not true. We have problems, but they are less serious than those faced by just about any other nation on earth.

People are motivated to make wise choices more by hope and opportunity than by fear, cynicism, hatred and despair. Unlike many current candidates, Obama has not appealed to those passions.

No, Obama has not been temperamentally perfect. Too often he’s been disdainful, aloof, resentful and insular. But there is a tone of ugliness creeping across the world, as democracies retreat, as tribalism mounts, as suspiciousness and authoritarianism take center stage.

Obama radiates an ethos of integrity, humanity, good manners and elegance that I’m beginning to miss, and that I suspect we will all miss a bit, regardless of who replaces him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/opinion/i-miss-barack-obama.html?smid=tw-nytdavidbrooks&smtyp=cur&_r=0

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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Volcanic spires and Joshua trees: Obama protects 1.8 million acres in California's desert

President Obama designated three new national monuments in the California desert Thursday, expanding federal protection to 1.8 million acres of landscapes that have retained their natural beauty despite decades of heavy mining, cattle ranching and off-roading.

The designation was requested by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who for a decade has sought to protect land that wasn't included in the 1994 California Desert Protection Act. That measure covered nearly 7.6 million acres, elevated Death Valley and Joshua Tree to national park status and created the Mojave National Preserve.

Unable to gain momentum on her California Desert Conservation and Recreation Act last year, Feinstein and conservation groups asked Obama to act unilaterally to create the three monuments overlapping biological zones between roughly Palm Springs and the Nevada border.

The areas embrace volcanic spires, dunes, ribbons of wetlands wedged between steep canyon walls, grasslands, Joshua tree forests, historic roadways and petroglyphs. They are home to species that thrive despite withering heat and scant rainfall: bighorn sheep, tortoises, fringe-toed lizards and more than 250 types of birds.

"The effort to preserve the California desert has been a long one, and today is a major milestone," Feinstein said. "This kind of landscape is so much a part of what the West once was, and these monuments are icons of our cultural heritage. Simply put, the California desert is a national treasure. This designation only reaffirms that fact."

Read: http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-monuments-20160212-story.html

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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[IrezumiKiss]

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[IrezumiKiss]

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The President greets the cast and crew of ‘Hamilton’ after seeing the play with his daughters at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City, July 18, 2015.

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

 

[RUlookingup]

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The President greets the cast and crew of ‘Hamilton’ after seeing the play with his daughters at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City, July 18, 2015.

(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

One day you'll all be in Obama the Musical starring Tracy Morgan.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

One day you'll all be in Obama the Musical starring Tracy Morgan.

And you'll be in an off-off-Broadway Grease 4 struggle startup with a deposed Ted Cruz.

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[urguyscott]

Remember how Obama insulted the leader of South Africa at his funeral? He showed that he has no respect for Black African’s. And how his woman insulted the Islam religion and the Arab nations at the funeral of the King of Saudi Arabia? How he belonged to a racists pig cult under an anti-Martin L. King named Wright? How he has tried to cause and has caused unrest by using race? His disrespect for the Constitution and his hatred of the Congress and the Court mark his tenure in office. (He has of course his corrupt zombie members who would follow Hitler or Lenin if they could.) On Earth Day he flew to Japan in a fleet of planes and had a small army of black limos and showed his disrespect for the people of Asia (not only in Japan, but the South East and the Island nations). The people of Japan like everyone else in the world have no respect for the man. Even those petty dictators whose ass his has kissed and booths he has licked laugh at him.

But there is one thing no one has ever accused the Obama’s or the Clinton’s for matter and that is having class. The following is just one article of many that came out in paper, radio and TV about his lack of class and trailer trash behavior. As a Chicago gangster he has no feelings for the people or for his country. Like the Clinton's he is in it for the money. That is the only thing the two love about the U. S. is the dollar bill.

Now I would be interested to hear a leftist anti-constitution pro slaver defend the President rudeness. It should be worth a laugh.

Obama’s rudeness hits new heights with Scalia, Schumer
By Kyle Smith New York Post
February 20, 2016

Gratuitous. Nasty. Petty. Spiteful. Insulting. Just plain rude. When the rhetoric of a major party’s leading presidential candidate falls to this level, we should be scornful.
So, how is it OK when it isn’t just a presidential candidate, but a president, who does it?

Donald Trump’s policy of demeaning and snarking his political opponents has been a favorite habit of President Obama for the last eight years. Obama is perhaps the first president who believes that leading the country and playing to the beliefs of the extremists in his own party amount to the same thing, and like Trump fans, Obama fans are motivated in large degree by sheer hatred.

Obama’s latest, silent insult — leaving a spokesman to explain he had better things to do on a Saturday than attend the funeral of a 30-year justice of the Supreme Court — isn’t surprising when you consider the mean-spirited things he says virtually every time he steps in front of a microphone.

Obama was doing exactly what he accuses Republican members of Congress of doing, calling them “hostage takers . . . [of] the American people.” Except that his rhetoric was about a debate over tax cuts, not Obama’s actual cutting of money needed to keep the nation’s largest city safe.

Meanwhile, when it comes to actual hostage takers, Obama can’t muster much outrage. At last year’s national prayer breakfast, he barely paused to obliquely refer to the Islamists who had just burned alive a Jordanian pilot so he could single out Christianity for bashing: “Lest we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama said. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

If you recall Christian principles, as embodied by a minister named Martin Luther King Jr., being a crucial component of civil-rights victories, Obama thinks you’re a dope. If you can’t see how 11th century atrocities more or less cancel out the ones committed the day before yesterday, you’re not the broad historical thinker Obama thinks he is.

Comparing Islamist fanatics to conservative Americans, and implying that he is more comfortable with the former, is a favorite Obama tactic. Dismissing extremists in Iran, Obama said last August, “In fact, it’s those hard-liners who are most comfortable with the status quo. It’s those hard-liners chanting ‘death to America’ who have been most opposed to the deal. They’re making common cause with the Republican caucus.” End

Now it not only the Democrats (what is left of the Democratic Party) but the Republicans as well (turning their party into Copper Heads) with corrupt candidates leading both parties in the primary elections (not really honest elections, but hey maybe we will be lucky and the U.N. will send people here to watch the polls like they do in other corrupt countries). If we had one primary election and only members of that party could vote for their party members than there would be a lot more candidates for the whole nation to chose from and not let a few small corrupt states decide for all of us. Then we wouldn't have people like Trump, Sanders, Clinton, etc., but honest people who represent us and not foreign governments or big incompetent CEO's.