Obama/Democrat thread
Jan 24th 2012, 4:41 pm
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Re: Obama/Democrat thread
FiL (born on OK farm, one of nine kids, gun nut, slum landlord) was going into a frenzy over this last week, no doubt fed by the emails from his OK relatives and his habit of informing himself with Faux bloody news. He's going to take my guns away.....seemed to be the issue.
This strange misconception has no basis in reality. Obama rarely even mentions guns. Surely if you really were itching to place onerous controls on guns, the perfect time would have been in the aftermath of the Giffords shooting? Mrs. FB explains it away by the fact that he just doesn't like black people. While this is undoubtedly true, I think the real issue is that these sorts of voters don't really live on planet Earth any more.
This strange misconception has no basis in reality. Obama rarely even mentions guns. Surely if you really were itching to place onerous controls on guns, the perfect time would have been in the aftermath of the Giffords shooting? Mrs. FB explains it away by the fact that he just doesn't like black people. While this is undoubtedly true, I think the real issue is that these sorts of voters don't really live on planet Earth any more.
Jan 24th 2012, 4:42 pm
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Jan 24th 2012, 4:43 pm
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Re: Obama/Democrat thread
It's very odd, in all the years I've been here I've seen plenty of people heartily dislike assorted Presidents, but I've never met so many people who felt afraid of their President. Why is this fairly middle-of-the-road, Christian, well-off, person, who has proposed nothing more radical in any way than a couple of things that in some ways resemble social policies that the rest of the developed world has been successfully implementing since WWII, so frightening? What exactly are you all afraid of?
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Jan 24th 2012, 4:45 pm
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Jan 24th 2012, 4:50 pm
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He might just give incentives to corporations to get natural gas to peoples homes so they can use all that abundant supply of natural gas instead of using imported oil. And then god forbid, he may also give incentives to homeowners to convert to natural gas.
Jan 24th 2012, 4:51 pm
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Re: Obama/Democrat thread
So what will he be doing then, specifically?
It's very odd, in all the years I've been here I've seen plenty of people heartily dislike assorted Presidents, but I've never met so many people who felt afraid of their President. Why is this fairly middle-of-the-road, Christian, well-off, person, who has proposed nothing more radical in any way than a couple of things that in some ways resemble social policies that the rest of the developed world has been successfully implementing since WWII, so frightening? What exactly are you all afraid of?
It's very odd, in all the years I've been here I've seen plenty of people heartily dislike assorted Presidents, but I've never met so many people who felt afraid of their President. Why is this fairly middle-of-the-road, Christian, well-off, person, who has proposed nothing more radical in any way than a couple of things that in some ways resemble social policies that the rest of the developed world has been successfully implementing since WWII, so frightening? What exactly are you all afraid of?
I think they are actually afraid he might actually do a good job. Then all their preconceived notions of black people will be shattered.
Jan 24th 2012, 4:51 pm
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Re: Obama/Democrat thread
You would think that as a historian (and obviously a very good one considering how much he got paid by Freddie Mac) he would know a little more about history.
Jan 24th 2012, 4:51 pm
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Jan 24th 2012, 4:53 pm
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Jan 24th 2012, 5:18 pm
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Or Gingrich lobbing for drug companies for medicare Part D which required the government to pay 75% of the cost of drugs with no reduction in drug prices and a guarantee that the government would not try to negotiate a reduction in drug prices. That is called free enterprise and why the capitalistic system works so well.