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Timbjerr September 15th, 2009 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Juicy Fruit (Post 5119096)
I'd shake his hand. He actually cares for people unlike all the others.

Oh, to be young and naive to the ways of politicians, I miss those days...enjoy your ignorance while you can. :D

NarutoActor September 15th, 2009 11:57 AM

trow a rock at him(and not because he is black because his Ideals are out of wack he is not in toche with the peoples wants and needs so dont even try to play the race card)

Ineffable~ September 15th, 2009 1:07 PM

Ah, the immortal race card. But it seems no one is playing it here. So don't be presumptuous, Naruto...

twocows September 15th, 2009 7:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Timbjerr (Post 5120401)
Oh, to be young and naive to the ways of politicians, I miss those days...enjoy your ignorance while you can. :D

Oh, to be slightly older than young and think you're any wiser than anyone else. Enjoy YOUR ignorance, fool. The true insight is that none of us is insightful. Now get off your high horse and go do something besides be a jerk. Nobody likes being talked down to.
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Originally Posted by narutoactor (Post 5120438)
trow a rock at him(and not because he is black because his Ideals are out of wack he is not in toche with the peoples wants and needs so dont even try to play the race card)

Violence solves everything. I'm sure your brilliantly rebellious act would suddenly inspire him to see things your way, and gain insights into how the people that disagree with him think. It wouldn't result in about fifty secret service agents giving you a cavity search or anything.

Yes, I am aware of the irony in this post. I don't care.

Timbjerr September 16th, 2009 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by twocows (Post 5121923)
Oh, to be slightly older than young and think you're any wiser than anyone else. Enjoy YOUR ignorance, fool. The true insight is that none of us is insightful. Now get off your high horse and go do something besides be a jerk. Nobody likes being talked down to.


omg ur right. You talked down to me and I feel bad now. ;_;

...actually I'm used to receiving this kind of treatment whenever I express my political opinions around here. If you want proof, ask apple.SHAMPOO about our long rivalry. XD

The point is, you can't fall back on a stupid argument like "he cares for us when others don't" to defend a politician of any sort because that's what any politician will tell people just to get votes, and to believe it without question is simply naive. Sure, Obama may genuinely care what the people want, or he may just have put it up as a front to get elected. Unless you know him in person, you have no right to say that he does or doesn't. Similarly, one can argue that bush was a great president because he was a regular church-goer and a very spiritual person. >_<

That's why I hate it when I see people using a lame argument like that instead of looking at issues and current events to judge a president. :P

But I digress, as much fun as it if to go off-topic, I should desist and steer it back on course. XD

EvilTelevision September 16th, 2009 1:14 AM

If i saw Obama i would probably just observe his activates from far, and pretend to ignore him if he sees me.

Ineffable~ September 19th, 2009 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Timbjerr (Post 5122253)
The point is, you can't fall back on a stupid argument like "he cares for us when others don't" to defend a politician of any sort because that's what any politician will tell people just to get votes, and to believe it without question is simply naive. Sure, Obama may genuinely care what the people want, or he may just have put it up as a front to get elected. Unless you know him in person, you have no right to say that he does or doesn't.

^This. There's really nothing for me to add, but it's true that any politician can just say that. You shouldn't believe it just because he said it. >.>

donavannj September 19th, 2009 3:57 AM

If I had the opportunity to meet the President, I would shake his hand... but in a situation like you described, I would probably just watch the motorcade go by... he does have places to be, after all.

As for the whole healthcare debate in this thread, I'm for either the public option to provide competition for the outrageous rates health insurers charge individuals (and I've seen how much worse my parents' healthcare coverage would be if they bought a plan as a family as opposed to getting it through either of their employers), or the forced segmentation of some of the providers that have monopolies on various states (I saw somewhere recently that one company provided 98% of the insured care in Alabama... but I'm not entirely sure if this is true or not) so as to create competition in these monopolized states.

With regards to the "for or against Obama" debate going on here, I'd have to take the side that he was handed an evolving disaster when he stepped into office, and is not solely responsible for the slow movement on stuff (some of the Democrats in office in Washington won by very narrow margins and have to walk a tightrope on policy as to not lose their borderline constituents), though Obama is by no means a super-human miracle worker, like it seems many of his supporters believe.

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ September 19th, 2009 4:39 AM

I'll scream his name and then run over there and shake his hand =)


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