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2011-10-27 Home Front: Politix

Obama: "We Have Lost Our Ambition, Our Imagination"

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Posted by Beavis 2011-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 He does like to project* doesn't he?

*In the Freudian sense, rather than the infrastructure sense.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-27 00:03|| 2011-10-27 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Anything they accuse real Americans of doing, they are doing it themselves. That's how you know what democrats are doing, just listen to what they accuse you of doing.

Doublespeak. It's so Orwellian.

Posted by newc 2011-10-27 00:09|| 2011-10-27 00:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Our...American Exceptionalism?

Tsk tsk, the thing we flaunt which causes the world to hate us.

Perhaps another round of goal-less futbol will restore our competitive standing.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-27 00:23|| 2011-10-27 00:23|| Front Page Top

#4 A few years of Obamunism will do that to a people.

Posted by SteveS 2011-10-27 00:36|| 2011-10-27 00:36|| Front Page Top

#5 He does have a point when we'd rather outsource the Oakland Bay Bridge to China and ship it across the world rather than build it ourselves.

I guess we can eliminate those useless civil engineering majors from our universities and all just major in those valuable diversity degrees.

Posted by Jeque Hupairong2828 2011-10-27 01:06|| 2011-10-27 01:06|| Front Page Top

#6 It is even worse than that.

By his own words, looking for a way to do things without the normal checks and balances. Flip the coin over, that the president whomever that may be can just by fiat, or as they call it executive order, bypess the accepted and Constitutional Process, or as us regular folk call a Contract of Agreement, is in itself creating the very uncertainty businesses break upon.

That is, whomever the current POTUS is, is the determining factor, despite at least the appearance of due process. This should be a concern for all involved, as the whole point is a controlled baton pass as the selling point of stability.

In effect, whomever is in charge makes the rules if precedent is set here, and every 4 years people scramble about attempting to hedge bets about what the new rules may or may not be, especially if there is not an election to be concerned about.

Uncertainty, as definition.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-27 01:18|| 2011-10-27 01:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Well shit JH2828, you are absolutely right, and would be a modern marvel if it were not so sad, and so sad that the locals with their uber-understanding of the liberal arts would be able to sell as, well, modern marvel, if they had any competency as their own trademark. F#n fail fail, guess they just get rid of those racist physics classes and concentrate on t..wait, fail at that as well.

Liberalism is a damned failure.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-27 01:26|| 2011-10-27 01:26|| Front Page Top

#8 And pardon my rant, but G-D cannont make our own statues of our own rights leaders but outsource to Maotin Luther King, Jr, its bullshit.

And that get props, that gets touted, its a joke.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-27 01:30|| 2011-10-27 01:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Dear Comrade Ogabe:

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-10-27 01:38|| 2011-10-27 01:38|| Front Page Top

#10 "Malaise" on steroids.

And what exactly has Obama ever made, or constructed, or created, or built, or invented, or marketed, or improved? What value has he ever added to anything?

Never forget that in one of his books he referred to the few short months he worked in the private sector as being "behind enemy lines".

And what does one do to the enemy, historically? Tries to kill and destroy and enslave them.

As a lifetime private sector person I can say that in that, at least, he is honest and predictable.

Posted by no mo uro 2011-10-27 06:07|| 2011-10-27 06:07|| Front Page Top

#11 If there is anything positive to be said about malignant narcissists, it's that they give you fair warning. They're quite open about their intention to f*ck you over, and drop plenty of clues as to how they're going to do it. As things near fruition, they're almost screaming, "don't trust me, you fool!"

But you have to LISTEN, and take them at their word.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-10-27 08:16|| 2011-10-27 08:16|| Front Page Top

#12 "We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge,"

Cause your EPA would have shut down the Golden Gate Bridge project, doffus. Government is the problem.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-27 08:33|| 2011-10-27 08:33|| Front Page Top

#13 He's using the royal we of course. A certain segment of the political spectrum attempts to stop all large scale building projects with environmental impact harassment and paperwork because they wish a return to the medieval times when the peasants were unarmed and didn't dare talk back.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-10-27 08:51|| 2011-10-27 08:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Rjschwarz Yes, and I think Teapartydoc posted a good comment on the EU mess:

"The greatest intellectual achievement of the enlightenment was the idea of human equality in the sense of due respect, rights and duties. The notion that each man is sovereign over his own interests.
It has been given little interest, but the rights that were showed this new respect included the rights associated with property, including the ability to dispose of it as one sees fit. This implies the right to receive just and equal compensation for it. A form of money is often required. That money is a form of property.
Through representative government, the right of sovereignty over that money and the ability to ascertain the value thereof was gradually ceded to governments. The sovereignty of man to govern over his own affairs was alienated in an insidiously voluntary, but unsuspecting way."

That magic word "Sovereignty" will be hard to reclaim.

Posted by Dale 2011-10-27 09:51|| 2011-10-27 09:51|| Front Page Top

#15 We haven't lost it. It is currently buried under a mountain of government regulations, mostly created by Obama.

Remove the mountain, and we will be good to go.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-10-27 10:06|| 2011-10-27 10:06|| Front Page Top

#16 Translation: People are getting wise to Obamageddon and BO's lies--it means he is having trouble pushing through his progressive agenda. If we wanted socialism or communism, we would have come up with a Constitution that laid that out. I'd say spare us your tired BS.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-10-27 10:22|| 2011-10-27 10:22|| Front Page Top

#17

"And pardon my rant, but G-D cannont make our own statues of our own rights leaders but outsource to Maotin Luther King, Jr, its bullshit."

Posted by: swksvolFF

The MLK memorial's resemblance to this statue is certainly telling.

http://silezukuk.tumblr.com/post/2142371889

Posted by Jeque Hupairong2828 2011-10-27 13:32|| 2011-10-27 13:32|| Front Page Top

#18 Not going to run for reelection?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-27 14:25|| 2011-10-27 14:25|| Front Page Top

#19 Obama: "We* Have Lost",
*Democrats

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-27 18:59|| 2011-10-27 18:59|| Front Page Top

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