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Okay. . .why do you have a pig in a pouch? Is this like Paris Hilton and her micro dogs?
 
Sean Renaud said:
The fuck is a poke?!
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pig in a poke:

Literally, 'a pig in a bag or a sack'. Buying something sight unseen. Usually resulting in buyer's remorse. This saying is found mostly in the southern states.
"I should have known better than to buy a iPod on Ebay, it turns out it was a cassette recorder"
"Well, you should know better than to buy a pig in a poke."

This was also a moderately lame attempt to leverage the Piggate scandal surrounding Cameron.
 
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Oh thank you. Someone should hand you one of those "The more you know" stars cus I didn't know what a poke was and while I understood the phrase equated to "You dun goofed" I wasn't clear on the mechanics of why it meant that. I feel like one of those really old people in the movies learning from a teenager.

Kid Awesome: Man that trick you pulled was so bad!
Me: I'm sorry, I didn't mean-
Kid Awesome: No no, bad is good. You did well.
Me: Wait. Bad is good? Did we wake up in 1984?
Kid Awesome: Republicans have been telling us we've always been at war with Islam and war over there means peace over here so quite possibly.
Me: . . . I hate everything.
 
Hate to be the Republican but it would be nice eventually if some of those charts went back further.
 
President Obama: Afghanistan War Going So Great, Let’s Never Leave!


Remember how President Obama was going to pull all of our troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2016, and then we would finally be done Never Forgetting 9/11 by bombing the crap out of Afghans? And, oh yeah, sometimes doctors, because oops! sorry, our bad. Well, here’s a shocker for you: never mind.
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During a press conference Thursday, the president explained that everything in Afghanistan is going according to plan — hooray! — which is why he has to alter the plan just a smidge.

“America’s combat mission in Afghanistan came to an end,” he said, thanks to more than a decade of war, plus “2200 American patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice.”
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And that means:

" I have decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through most of next year, 2016. Their mission will not change. Our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that I outlined earlier: training Afghan forces and going after Al Qaeda."

The president will be keeping 5500 troops at a small number of bases, which will allow us to continue training Afghan’s troops so they won’t need us anymore. You know, one day. Maybe. Or not! Depends on how well we continue to be victorious.
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Meanwhile, on the fiscal front:

Following the first Democratic debate, Fox News and the broader conservative ecosystem erupted in a coordinated effort to paint the Democrats as frivolous spenders, handing out free stuff to everyone without bothering to discuss how they’d pay for it. However, the irony of this attack is thick, given how the Democrats have taken up the burden of fiscal responsibility in the modern era. The Republican Party has no choice but to dig deeply into the history books to find the last GOP president who actually bothered to leave the deficit in better shape than when he was inaugurated. Meanwhile, President Obama, like President Clinton before him, has seen the federal budget deficit fall by record numbers.

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch site, the federal government ran up a deficit of $439 billion for the 2015 fiscal year. That’s 2.5 percent of GDP, which is the lowest level since 2007. Why is this significant? The Obama administration inherited a $1.4 trillion (with a “t”) budget deficit — driven in large part by stimulus spending meant to combat the financial crisis — which authorized George W. Bush in October 2008.

Since then, Obama has presided over a gradual $1 trillion-dollar reduction in the deficit. Insofar as deficit reduction is important — and remember, according to the rhetoric of the GOP over the past several years, it is very important — this is a massive achievement for the Obama administration. Massive. And neither he nor the Democrats will get any credit for it.

If Mitt Romney’s lies about the deficit in 2012 were a predictor of the GOP’s attack plan for 2016, we can expect to hear the Republican ticket attack both Obama and the Democratic nominee on this very issue. But they won’t cite deficit numbers because, well, they’re not nearly as dumb as they look. Instead, they’ll recycle the Romney tactic of conflating the deficit and the national debt — two entirely separate numbers.

For example, Romney said during his first debate against Obama in 2012: “The president said he’d cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he doubled it.” Well, no. The deficit wasn’t “doubled” at all. It was the debt that rose, but analysts have repeatedly shown that the chief drivers of national debt were George W. Bush’s wars, Medicare Part-D (a Bush-era policy) and the impact of the Great Recession — none of which was offset with higher taxes or spending cuts. Obama can hardly be blamed for all that.

Not insignificantly, though, the Obama administration’s deficit reduction has slowed the growth of the debt. In fact, the year-over-year increase in the debt has slowed to 10 percent. Compare that with the highest growth rate for the debt ever — 13.4 percent per year under, yes, Ronald Reagan. We’ll circle back to comparing the records of recent presidents in a second.

Meanwhile, contra Romney, Obama promised to cut the deficit in half, and he did. It took him five years instead of four, but he did it. Suffice to say, when you hear the GOP talk about government spending, listen for their deliberate swapping of the terms “deficit” and “debt.” They do it a lot.

How exactly did Obama manage to slash the deficit so drastically? It’s true that Republicans have controlled the House of Representatives since January 2011 (along with the Senate this term) and those years have been marked by aggressive GOP attempts to roll back the welfare state, punctuated by episodes of legislative brinksmanship that ultimately resulted in the dreaded sequester. But that only tells a part of the story.

Nearly every bill signed by the president has included offsets to make the spending deficit neutral. Why? Because it’s been the law of the land ever since President Obama signed the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act in February 2010, which mandates that new spending be offset with spending cuts or new revenue. Yes, a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress passed this legislation. Guess how many congressional Republicans voted for the law. Zero. Not one.
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You could not have posted your inane drivel in a more apropos place to showcase what inane drivel it is.
 
Beco said:
:rolleyes:
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I'm gonna assume you're not an idiot and the rolled eyes is because Obama has been a worthless pussy on this issue. Him saying climate control is just slightly less funny than Trump saying rich people can't be trusted.
 
Sean Renaud said:
I'm gonna assume you're not an idiot and the rolled eyes is because Obama has been a worthless pussy on this issue. Him saying climate control is just slightly less funny than Trump saying rich people can't be trusted.
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For all my disagreements with Obama on tactical foreign policy, he's withstood pressure that would break most men. Presidents have a thankless job-and they volunteer for it. Most of these guys can choose cushy careers, but they choose public service instead. As President, he has faced choices we all can't imagine. Because of this, I've always had a certain respect for our Presidents, regardless of my feelings about them. I think better of them than the press.

Trump by contrast sees this as a reality TV show., some game. ***k him. Can you imagine this guy with the nuclear codes?!
 
President Obama compared the Republican White House contenders to Internet celebrity Grumpy Cat on Friday, saying they go out of their way to see only bad news under his administration.

In a speech to the Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum meant to rally the party ahead of 2016, Obama criticized the GOP for painting a “gloomy” picture of the country for political gain.

“Overall, we are making enormous progress. And it does make you wonder why is it that Republican politicians are so down on America?” Obama said. “I mean, they are gloomy. They’re like Grumpy Cat.”
 
Beco said:
President Obama compared the Republican White House contenders to Internet celebrity Grumpy Cat on Friday, saying they go out of their way to see only bad news under his administration.

In a speech to the Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum meant to rally the party ahead of 2016, Obama criticized the GOP for painting a “gloomy” picture of the country for political gain.

“Overall, we are making enormous progress. And it does make you wonder why is it that Republican politicians are so down on America?” Obama said. “I mean, they are gloomy. They’re like Grumpy Cat.”
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That sure belongs in The Obamagood Thread, all right.

That was supposed to be your point, wasn't it?
 
Well Obama isn't the Second Coming.

Obama and Romney: Is there really a difference in hindsight?

How are liberals and progressives supposed to judge President Obama when we consider his recent corporatist appointments, his adamant position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, his schizophrenic position on the environment, and his recent announcement that US troops will remain in Afghanistan? It makes you wonder whether there really is much of a difference between the two major parties.

Let’s look at the record.

In July 2010, President Obama appointed Michael Taylor to the position of senior adviser to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Before that, Taylor was corporate attorney, vice-president and lobbyist for Monsanto, the company that has spent millions of dollars to force genetically-modified foods onto the world’s dinner plates. This was a year after the American Academy of Environmental Medicine called for a moratorium on GMO foods.

That’s just for starters.
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BHO has done a lot of good for the Banksters and ignored our International Treaties on War Crimes, and a lot of other things that the "Liberal Media" let slip by.

He's not perfect by any measure.
 
JackLuis said:
Well Obama isn't the Second Coming.

Obama and Romney: Is there really a difference in hindsight?



BHO has done a lot of good for the Banksters and ignored our International Treaties on War Crimes, and a lot of other things that the "Liberal Media" let slip by.

He's not perfect by any measure.
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No, but if we had elected McCain/Palin in 2008, we would have troops in Iran by now. And they would not be doing well there. And that would be the least of our troubles.
 
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