Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Rome]

Expecting Obama to correct the mistakes of the past eight years 50 days into his first administration is what's laughable, especially with the special interests that are aligned against him.

mistakes of the past 8 years in 50 days? No. This one would have been an easy slam dunk.

WTF are you babbling about?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Expecting Obama to correct the mistakes of the past eight years 50 days into his first administration...

Right.  Only 8 years.

[phillymic2000]

Expecting Obama to correct the mistakes of the past eight years 50 days into his first administration is what's laughable, especially with the special interests that are aligned against him.

mistakes of the past 8 years in 50 days? No. This one would have been an easy slam dunk.

WTF are you babbling about?

Not signing the bill and ending earmarks like he said he would do. But why bother Nancy probably said sit.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Yeah, right.  He would go "The Rock" on Pelosi.

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[Rome]

Not signing the bill and ending earmarks like he said he would do. But why bother Nancy probably said sit.

Not mindless or partisan whatsoever.

[phillymic2000]

Not signing the bill and ending earmarks like he said he would do. But why bother Nancy probably said sit.

Not mindless or partisan whatsoever.

[Tomahawk]

Expecting Obama to correct the mistakes of the past eight years 50 days into his first administration...

Right.  Only 8 years.

No shtein. Would you say it's closer to 50 or 150 years?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Expecting Obama to correct the mistakes of the past eight years 50 days into his first administration...

Right.  Only 8 years.

No shtein. Would you say it's closer to 50 or 150 years?

Closer to 50, but in between the two.  Governments have always been corrupted in different ways, but fiscal irresponsibility and debt-fueled spending have grown exponentially since the Great Depression.

And before ATV or Cerevant post a graph, it's been just as bad or worse in the last 30 years under Republican Presidents, but most of those Congresses were controlled by Democrats.  Under Clinton, we had the perfect, beautiful storm of gridlock between the executive and legislative branches and unprecedented growth in the markets.  Some of that growth was "dot com" and some of it was the beginning of what we have seen collapse over the last year - funny money.

Clinton definitely deserves some credit, though.  The country would be better off if he never left office.

[rjs246]

Stem cells.

[fansince61]

I agree that the method is broken but government itself is broken as well.  Hell, how many trillions of dollars have been wasted on defense spending debacles or covert ops that no one outside of Washington even has knowledge of?

forget covert stuff...bush publically  lied about a war that is going to end up costing us in the trillions...not to mention the tens of billions of that money that has been stolen or disappeared in the hands of shady contractors...yet these idiots are bitching about obama not vetoing a bill that had 7 billion in earmarks

simply amazing

I'm more pissed about the dead and maimed

[ATV]

^^

I get the dumbass's point, but on the other hand I'm not sure I'd want a President who pretends to know all of life's answers, or isn't humble or wise enough not to shove their personal beliefs down the public's throats. I'd rather have the President continue to work on things like the economy than to sit down and try to solve the riddles of life. We didn't elect Obama to be God or even Dean of a department of Philosophy. He's chiefly a politician and in this instance I see nothing wrong with him simply following the will of the people.

[rjs246]

Do you honestly think that the will of the people dictates 'science without morality'?

I don't have a problem with what Obama did, but I'm essentially heartless when it comes to the issue of abortion and fetal rights. (As far as I'm concerned, until a fetus is viable it is nothing more than a parasite that the mother should feel free to have removed.)

However, I do not believe that I represent the norm. I also do not believe that our country should embrace a-moral scientific progress unquestioningly despite my own feelings on this matter.

[Rome]

Some of the greatest advances in biological science came at the expense of hapless victims of questionable research methodology.  I'm not necessarily saying the ends justify the means but to a certain extent they do especially if the fate of millions rides in the balance.

[mpmcgraw]

Anyone who says an embryo used for stem cell research is anything more than goo on a petri dish deserves to be shot in my humble opinon.

[General_Failure]

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