I think this brief statement shows, if any further demonstration were needed, that Obama is orders of magnitude smarter than Rand Paul. The first step to fixing America is to get all the people who think that government is the problem out of the government.
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As if poverty didnât exist in 1961?? thatâs what you are saying?? Go play on redstate if you want to blame Obama for this.
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Or do you seem to think that you too should not be asking what you can do for your country?
LOL of course not. This was just Pubbieâs sly way of criticizing Pres Obama by contrasting something another president said years ago against something Obama said which applied to a specific incident that is happening today. Never mind the fact President Obama has constantly called on people to help their communities through volunteering and getting involved as well as other acts to help the country as a whole.But I guess thatâs not quote worthy for certain right wingers.
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It would be interesting to hear you articulate what sort of point youâre trying to make by juxtaposing these two quotes. Then we might more clearly understand how it amounts to an enlightening contribution to the discussion here. Take your time, though.
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Get back to us next week?
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Donât you just love how the teabaggers and certain âconservativesâ on the right hate the âtyranny of governmentâ. Yet cops can kill unarmed people and itâs the victimsâ fault because they had no father or was âarrested 40 times beforeâ. Gotta love the cafeteria-style, pick and choose outrage.
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Dudeâs right.
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Aaaand, cue the MSM asshat outrage at mean Obama meanly calling them out on their asshattery in 5 . . . 4 . . 3 . . .
Iâm anticipating a particularly nauseating Ron Fournier piece.
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Don Lemon saw Aaron Brown sent to the hinterlands and replaces with Wolfie and drew the apparently correct conclusion that gobsmacking stupidity, inanity and utter cluelessness are the key to success at CNN.
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The detached, objective Professor of Sociology speaks. But where is the involved leader?
Trade deals: you hit the nail on the head. Iâm all for âmassive investmentâ in our cities- in the form of well paying jobs which are going to come fromâŚ? Where exactly?
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That goes without saying in this sort of situation, and the President has pointed it out often. The MSM is a steady diet of trivia and superficiality, supremely ill-equipped to tell anyone what the hell is really going on anywhere, about anything. Butâif the public wanted in-depth, insightful reporting, it would have it. Being well-informed takes effort, and requires that you accept that life is complicated. Most people, and this includes university-educated professionals, come home from work, crack a beer, and turn on the game. The online world, sadly, has only made the problem worse. Oh, there are still great journos out there. But theyâre not household names any more, and I donât know when or by what mechanism thatâs likely to change. This is why I drink.
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I bet 600 billion Paul Ryan dollars (itâs just a wager blueprint, you see, the funds will never materialize) that between the NHL and NBA playoffs a riot will break out in the championship winning city. It will not be met with even a tenth of the tightie rightie tut tutting about morals, family values, absentee fathers, drug abuse or any of the other nonsense weâre reading about Baltimore.
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I just wish Cliven Bundy had been there to teach these young people how to get a police force to back down and leave you in peace on public property!
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Republicans gut public education because Republicans donât believe in public education. Reduce budgets, fund charter schools with public money, vouchers for parochial schools, gripe about any standardized test that doesnât crow American exceptionalism, etc,
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Two words for you: âPeace Corpsâ
Another two: âNew Frontierâ
WTF did you think Kennedy meant, dipshit? Really, please tell us.
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This statement is un-American as it can get, completely and diametrically opposed to what America is all about. Americans CREATE opportunities, they donât wait on someone else, much less the government, to create it for them.
And please donât speak of things you ignore, you donât know me or my reality, where I coming from or what I have experienced in life.
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I was watching The View this morning at the gym, Iâd like to send this to their commentsâŚ
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As a ringing statement of abstract principles that would be just a terrific justification for slashing social spending so as to redistribute the societyâs wealth upward. Sadly, in response to Sniffitâs remark about the need for common investment in infrastructure to support the opportunities you swoon over, itâs nonsensical. Do you build your own roads, or do you wait for the state DOT to do it? You do? Damn commie.
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I agree with Obama, but think he is being disingenuous when blaming lack of action on the Republican Congress. Letâs face it. Solutions to the problems of the inner city and the disappearing black male have not been his priorities. If he had pursued these with the same passion as he pursued so called health care reform, which gave the insurance companies 31 million more Americans to rip off, or the Grand Bargain, which would have cut Social Security, than maybe we would have gotten some change. He had no legislative proposals and did not use the bully pulpit. Now I donât know if this was because he did not want to be perceived as just a president for African Americans. But in my mind, his legacy will be another corporate Democrat doing the bidding of corporations. His support of the TPP is a prime example. One of the reasons for the âdisappearing black manâ is the deindustrialization of America and the lack of good paying manufacturing jobs. So called âfree tradeâ agreements have contributed to this massively.
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