Did Obama piss everyone off here again...

[snooper2]

some new news or something?

[Scurrilous]

1. Pearl Harbor Day brings out the best in New DU.

:patriot:

[Ikonoklast]

7. Yeah. Most members commemorate it by bombing their own side.

We'll sink our own fleet at the New DU, and save our enemies the trouble.


This place isn't what it says it is anymore.

[Winterblues]

10. What side is that, Zell Miller's or Ben Nelson's or ???

They each have a D after their name as well....I believe in Progressive taxation, do you? That is my side.. I believe in Universal Health Care do you? that is my side. Neither of those appear to be Obama's side.

[Ikonoklast]

13. Bombs Awaaaayyyy!!!!

Ben Nelson is as much a Democrat as you say you are.

[Winterblues]

20. Except I don't say I am a Democrat

I am an Independent as I have been my entire life. I have been voting for over forty years and NEVER swore blind allegiance to any Party. I vote for what I believe is right not what I am told the Party believes. I am on America's side not the Democrat's or the Republican's side.

[Ikonoklast]

21. Good for you.

Good Luck with that.

I see you get to decide what is 'right' for America.


What a burden.

[Winterblues]

22. You seem to want to leave out half of what I say

I said I do what I Believe to be right. Do you do any differently?

[Ikonoklast]

24. Yes.

But I am a pragmatist that lives in the real world, where real things happen.

I'm not that much into philosophizing while real people get hurt by voting for what I believe in.




I believe in a balanced budget, as I am a fiscal conservative, yet vote against my beliefs because right now, that would be counter-productive for the well-being of most people hurting in this economy.

We make compromises in life.


Everyone does.



Everyone.

Political purists write grand books expounding their great ideas, yet without putting any of those ideas into practice, the world rolls on.

[mrcheerful]

14. Even worse is Political is now saying that shrubs approval rank is up to 47%

Isn't it funny how DU has become exactly like the sites that drove a lot of people to DU? There is a fine line between disagreeing with policy and bashing. What many seem to forget is Obama was elected to bring bipartisanship back to the country, there is a double standard D's are expected to work with R's by the majority of uninformed voters, it hurts D's to fight then it also hurts D's to not fight. Reagan saw the double standards and ran with it, the R's learned to follow suit.

Your dealing with a divided country and no matter what the D's do they get screwed by the people. I saw the same thing when Carter was president, no matter what he did he was attacked, if he stuck up for the middle class he was to hard and a dictator if he compromised with R's he was weak and a namby pamby president. I've seen this happen over and over since Nixon left office in disgrace, look at Reagan vs Clinton, Reagan was patted on the back for doing illegal things like the Contra drug deal, Clinton was impeached for a BJ, go figure.

[Demoiselle]

2. You're kidding, right?

Or have you made the entirely sensible decision to turn off all news? I do my best to avoid it, that's for sure.

[snooper2]

8. Yeah, have been on a call all morning...log in to look around and

you would think he killed a baby with his bare hands or something :eyes:

[Individualist]

3. I like cats.

[still_one]

4. In two years when our deficit has increased a trillion dollars more and they want to cut social

programs, that is when you are going to see people pissed

[Lord Magus]

23. The Repugs always want to cut social programs.

The deficit has nothing to do with it.

[bigtree]

5. it's also going to be cold this winter

[TBF]

9. Not for the billionaires with their gold-plated fireplaces. Continued socialism for the rich. nt

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. The scalded marmot sings at midnight

I repeat..."The scalded marmot sings at midnight"!

[tcaudilllg]

11. But for the last time this time.

Funny that words Kerry appropriated for the Republicans fit even better with Obama.

[cbdo2007]

12. No, everyone is pissed about inadequecies in their own lives. They're just taking them out on Obama.

[jefferson_dem]

15. +1.

n/t

[dennis4868]

16. Can someone tell me...

how I can get to the website DU? I must have made a wrong turn and ended up in a bash/blame Obama 24/7 website.....

[NorthCarolina]

17. You know, now that you mention it. Even folks like

Sen. Bernie Sanders are bashing Obama over his decision to extend tax cuts to the rich. Do you think there might be some, as yet unseen, connection between someone like Bernie Sanders and the folks here on DU? :shrug:

[okieinpain]

18. funny, but so true. but you do have to admit not keeping your base

happy leads to stuff like this. you have to throw them a bone every now and then.

[treestar]

19. Yep, he is not a "strong" leader and did not get everything people

wanted and horse traded with Republicans (strong leaders just somehow mesmerize the opposing party into complete agreement with them).

Obama fails to be a cult leader rather than a US President.

Everyone must agree with Obama, who must agree 100% with any given poster, and it could all work out exactly as poster wants if Obama would just say so!

[Ikonoklast]

25. I dunno, I got to keep a tax cut, too.

And the capital investment accelerated depreciation schedule will directly impact my business for the positive, as I get to write off improvements to my physical plant quicker.



I'll take some horse-trading, thank you, as purity doesn't pay the bills.



All politics is compromise, unless you have one-party rule.