Boy, do you guys have an incompetent president

[synapse62]

Very sad to see the state of America these days. WTF are you guys doing to yourselves and the rest of the world!? Wake up!

Nuff said.

 

[KingOrfeo]

So who's your president-or-equivalent?

 

[Bert Notorius]

Very sad to see the state of America these days. WTF are you guys doing to yourselves and the rest of the world!? Wake up!

Nuff said.

 

[synapse62]

So who's your president-or-equivalent?

We have a Prime Minister in Canada. He's not perfect, but he does lead. I'm sorry to say, yours appears to me to be an empty suit. Your leader is bankrupting you and your Grandchildren.

 

[warrior queen]

I don't think it's the current President that's the problem.
It's the rabidly bi-partisan politics, and the fact that the ruling President can't do a fucking thing without the opposition support that's causing the problem.
Seems they don't actually care about the people they represent, Dems and Republicans both.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Very sad to see the state of America these days. WTF are you guys doing to yourselves and the rest of the world!? Wake up!

Nuff said.

Obama works for the bankers.

This is the government by bankers and for bankers.

It's a good time to be a banker.

 

[Squibbs]

We have a Prime Minister in Canada. He's not perfect, but he does lead. I'm sorry to say, yours appears to me to be an empty suit. Your leader is bankrupting you and your Grandchildren.

You're not Canadian.

You're a hillbilly fuck weasel.

 

[blobfish]

Obama works for the bankers.

This is the government by bankers and for bankers.

It's a good time to be a banker.

Damn it feels good to be a banker.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Here is a brief list of organizations that fully control the US federal government and military. State's rights are being eliminated and the whole country is being federalized in order to increase the power monopoly of these institutions.

*Goldman Sachs
*JP Morgan
*Chase Manhattan
*Wells Fargo
*Bank of America
*Morgan Stanley
*CitiGroup
*State Street
*Bank of New York Mellon

 

[KingOrfeo]

We have a Prime Minister in Canada. He's not perfect, but he does lead. I'm sorry to say, yours appears to me to be an empty suit. Your leader is bankrupting you and your Grandchildren.

Ha! Obama compares favorably by any measure to motherfucking Stephen Harper!

Reasons to like him
* Led Canada through the Great Recession[11]
* While he prefers to mingle with the anti-abortion crowd (see below), doesn't want to re-open debate about it.[12] Considering his religious beliefs, Harpo may be doing so only to prevent pissing off the general electorate, but it's something.
* Discontinued the minting of pennies.
* Made scholarship and fellowship grants to students non-taxable.

Reasons to "meh" him
* Put the "Royal" back in the Canadian military[13]
* Negotiated the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) with Ontario, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia, which combines the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Provincial Sales Tax (PST) intending to "improve the competitiveness of Canadian businesses."[14]
* Is in the process of establishing free trade links, from the EU to China

Reasons to dislike him
* Started creating significant deficits before the banking crisis,[15][16] and sent Action Plan checks disproportionately to important party ridings[17]
* Eliminated the long form census which powers Statistics Canada,[18] considered one of the best of its kind today[19]
* Reduced GST rates everywhere else, a move criticized by almost every economist in the country[20]
* Appears to be a hardcore fan of supply-side theory[21]
Reagan-smashed the Canadian Wheat Board while the majority of farmers said otherwise,[22] possibly putting them at risk to harmful agribusiness practices
* Has taken a weird stance on Israel, saying that he will "defend it whatever the cost"[23]
* Seems to have zero idea of what a logical fallacy means[24][25]

Reasons to hate him
WARNING: This list is not for the faint of heart. RationalWiki will rebate any breakfasts/lunches/dinners etc. that are lost while reading this section.
* Blindly supported the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and has now begun to quietly emulate Dick Cheney[26]
* Is sleeping around with Blackwater[27]
* Attempted to reinstate a gay marriage ban immediately after taking office,[28] then shut down 12 out of 16 federal Status of Women offices[29]
* McCarthy-esque crackdowns on government dissenters[30][31] and liberal university professors[32][33]
* A dismal record on global warming,[34][35][36][37] muzzling climate scientists[38][39] and calling Kyoto "a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations."[40][41] He then formally withdrew Canada from its commitment to the Protocol, making it the first country of the 191 ratifying signatories to do so.[42]
* Enacted controls on the Ottawa press gallery,[43][44] thus effectively limiting (or even silencing) journalists from asking questions
Prorogued Parliament twice in two years, the latter in fear of facing oppositional criticism over the Afghan detainee scandal[45]
* Wasted almost $1 billion in three days for security and other costs during the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto.[46][47] The resulting protests were the largest mass arrests in Canadian history, making the the 1970 FLQ crisis under Pierre Trudeau look like Quebec never wanted to separate from Canada (just watch this). If you're not raising pitchforks yet, G20 military records were found to equate "embarrassment to the Canadian government" to terrorism,[48] which speaks for itself.
* Tried to steal ballot boxes, make stimulus plan signs permanent,[49] filled the government lobby with photos of just himself,[50] continues to have the Government of Canada listed as the "Harper Government" in official communications,[51] and used Fox News lookalike Sun News to concoct an act of propaganda worthy of Failblog mention.[52]
* Was influential in halting a UN resolution to declare water as a basic human right,[53] has pressed to maintain the freaking asbestos industry[54] reluctantly ended funding for the Chrysotile Institute in May 2012 after international condemnation[55] (plus a good mocking by Jon Stewart), drastically cut foreign aid to Africa,[56] and literally wants the poor to starve[57]
* Negligence over the $7 million Bev Oda scandal[58] and the "In and Out" scandal
* Let the Treasury Board President take $50 million from the G8 fund to spend on gazebos in his own constituency[59] and allowed the Defence Minister to use a search-and-rescue helicopter as a personal limo[60]
* In a terrifying hilarious move, fully copied one of Tim Pawlenty's 2012 presidential ads[61]
* Blatantly lied about the cost of 65 F-35 fighter jets (you know, the ones loved by John McCain[62]), expected to be tens of billions of dollars more than official projections[63][64] Oh, and they also have a nasty habit of losing communication in the High Arctic. Good thing Canada isn't trying to enforce its ownership of the North!
* Is in the process of imposing American "tough on crime" laws, while all evidence points to the current system working since the 70s.[65] And fibbing about the cost.[66] Shocker!
* Fired all non-Christian chaplains from Canadian prisons.
*Apparently stuffed the ballot box, using robocalls to send Liberal voters to the wrong voting locations, in the very election where Stevie won his majority government.[67][68]
*Used his majority to ram a 400-page "budget bill" through Parliament, damaging everything from the environment to social protections and opposed by almost every scientist and constitutional expert in the nation.[69][70] Once the Harper-instituted budget office realized it was probably illegal, they were told to fuck off.[71]
* Made John Lennon cry out in terror from beyond the grave

...and finally, after all of that:
*Being the first ever PM to be held in contempt of Parliament, something never before seen in the British Commonwealth.[72] Enjoy, eh.

 

[Wok]

Very sad to see the state of America these days. WTF are you guys doing to yourselves and the rest of the world!? Wake up!

Nuff said.

Says the guy living in a socialist country. Fix your own shit first.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Obama works for Goldman Sachs, nuff said.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I don't think it's the current President that's the problem.
It's the rabidly bi-partisan politics . . .

I think you mean "rabidly partisan." "Bi-partisan" politics would involve cooperation, not rabies. We're not very bi-partisan here these days. (OK, some of us experimented in college . . .)

 

[warrior queen]

I think you mean "partisan." "Bi-partisan" politics would involve cooperation.

Probably
I'm halfway down a bottle of bourbon, not really caring about too much, and deciding how soon I have to rinse the shower stall.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Says the guy living in a socialist country. Fix your own shit first.

Canada is no socialist country, and would not be even if the NDP were running it. Social-democratic, maybe; not at all the same thing.

 

[Squibbs]

Ha! Obama compares favorably by any measure to motherfucking Stephen Harper!

Harper is an asswipe.

I'd take Obama over him.

 

[Wok]

Canada is no socialist country, and would not be even if the NDP were running it. Social-democratic, maybe; not at all the same thing.

Yes, I know that.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Very sad to see the state of America these days. WTF are you guys doing to yourselves and the rest of the world!? Wake up!

Nuff said.

That is a very insulting thing to say about our miserable excuse for a President.

 

[Squibbs]

Yes, I know that.

Your trolling skills are just that good...

 

[Wok]

Your trolling skills are just that good...

shrug

 

[Byron In Exile]

I don't think it's the current President that's the problem.
It's the rabidly bi-partisan politics, and the fact that the ruling President can't do a fucking thing without the opposition support that's causing the problem.
Seems they don't actually care about the people they represent, Dems and Republicans both.

No, that's all theater.

The important shit, they all agree on that.

 

[warrior queen]

No, that's all theater.

The important shit, they all agree on that.

Wanna see theatre?
Check out Julia Gillards 'mysoginy' attack on Tony Abbott.

Personally, I think she should have attacked his resemblence to a blue tongue lizard, but this'll do.

 

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[LadyVer]

Wanna see theatre?
Check out Julia Gillards 'mysoginy' attack on Tony Abbott.

Personally, I think she should have attacked his resemblence to a blue tongue lizard, but this'll do.

Good one.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Wanna see theatre?
Check out Julia Gillards 'mysoginy' attack on Tony Abbott.

Personally, I think she should have attacked his resemblence to a blue tongue lizard, but this'll do.

Trust me, I've seen enough of American political theater with Vietnam, Panama, the Gulf Wars, and Afghanistan.

I'm sure the rest of the world has, too.