Fuck Obama

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

The Obama administration is doing two things that are face-value fascist but long-term strategically anti-fascist.

That's the paradox of trying to function in an uber-fascist culture where the media is run by fascist enforcers.

1) Damage mitigation. A lost war and a crashed economy where the elite don't suffer one bit but the masses do.

2) Trying not to give stereotype meme handles to be beaten up with in the racist fascist CIA media early on in the first term in order to have a second term. The CIA-GOP-CFR is desperate to resuscitate their civilian front political party and the DLC Dems (ugh) are doing the psywar thing of coopting the opponent's themes to make them 'irrelevant.'

[Nordic]

More Paul Street:

LEGITIMATE LEFT ANGER



There has been a lot of left-wing teeth-gnashing over the policies of the United States' fake-progressive president Barack Obama. Left-progressives' anger with the Obama administration is understandable given the new White House's actions to (for example):



* Significantly expand the reach and intensity of imperial violence (replete with the mass slaughter of civilians and the related escalation of targeted assassinations) in South Asia.



* Promote a notorious assassin and death-squad leader (Lt. General Stanley A McChrystal - former chief of the military's special Joint Special Operations Command) to the position of Commander of U.S. Forces in the newly merged "Af-Pak" war theater. [1]



* Sustain the criminal occupation of Iraq beneath rhetoric of withdrawal. [2]



* Increase "defense" (empire) spending, consistent with the following statement in a report issued by the leading Wall Street investment firm Morgan Stanley one day after Obama's presidential election victory: "As we understand it, Obama has been advised and agrees that there is no peace dividend."[3]



* Revive military commissions.



* Continue the practice of renditions.



* Maintain secret prisons for persons "held on a short-term, transitory basis."



* Continue the unspeakable torture of prisoners by an "extrajudicial terror squad" (Jeremy Scahill's description of the Pentagon's sadistic "Immediate Reaction Force" in Cuba) at Guantanamo Bay. [4]



* Advance the policy of "indefinite detention" (potentially permanent incarceration) for Guantanamo prisoners for whom no legally compelling evidence can be marshaled.



* Intimidate England (with a threat to withhold intelligence data on potential terrorist attacks!) into preventing a Guantanamo victim from having his day in court on the Bush administration's torture practices. [5]



* Sustain the Bush administration's abrogation of habeas corpus rights in regard to the roughly 600 "enemy combatants" kept at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan (where people rendered out of other countries like Yemen and England can be considered "war [-zone]" prisoners!. [6]



* Advance nauseatingly specious legal and moral arguments ("better to look forward than backward") to prevent serious federal investigation of the Bush administration's human rights crimes.



* Sustain George W. Bush's domestic wiretapping program.



* Invoke the "state secrets" (akin to the divine right of kings) doctrine to prevent disclosure of evidence in response to lawsuits emerging from Bush era rendition and surveillance policies.



* Suppress photographic evidence of U.S. torture practices.



* Justify all this and more in the name of the supposed "global war on terror" that was supposedly launched in legitimate defense against the supposedly unprovoked jetliner attacks of September 11, 2001.



* Disregard qualified progressive defenders of civil liberties and human rights from consideration for appointment to succeed Supreme Justice David H. Souter and to thereby counter the hard right leanings of the court's conservative majority. [7]



* Send clear signals of intent to roll back and partially privatize Social Security and Medicare benefits.



* Betray campaign pledges to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to insert stronger labor and environmental protections. [7A]



* Betray campaign pledges of serious intent to advance an elementary and overdue labor law reform (the Employee Free Choice Act).



* Force and approve an automobile industry re-structuring that drastically cuts domestic autoworkers' jobs, wages and benefits while subsidizing General Motors' further shifting of jobs abroad. [8]



* Advance a tepid, business-friendly health care "reform" that leaves the leading parasitic insurance corporations (major campaign sponsors of his) in power.



* "Methodically erase single-payer advocates from the picture" (Glen Ford) of health care reform despite the fact that a majority of Americans have long favored a single-payer ("Medicare for all") health insurance system. [9]



* Spend trillions of federal dollars on taxpayer handouts to giant Wall Street firms who spent millions on his campaign and who drove the economy over the cliff. Obama's Wall Street bailout rejects the elementary bank nationalizations and public financial restructuring that are required to put the nation's credit system on a sound and socially responsible basis, choosing instead to guarantee the financial, insurance, and real estate industries' toxic, hyper-inflated assets while keeping existing Wall Street management in place. It amounts to a giant effort to "keep perpetrators afloat" (liberal economist James Gailbraith) through a scheme in which the government takes more than 90 percent of the risk but private investors reap at least half the reward.



I could go on. It's not a pretty story. And it's only going to get worse.

Link:

http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21576

[Percival]

I may start another thread on this later but for now:

All night tonight CNN and FOX have been showing POLLS that indicate an OVERWHELMING amount of Americans are now OPPOSED to the closing of GBAY prison in Cuba.

This is no doubt because of Obama claiming when he closed it he was just going to bring them all home and imprison them on US soil, which he NEVER MENTIONED before and simply told us all he was going to close it down LEADING MANY of us to believe that the NIGHTMARE was over and those innocents being imprisoned there would finally be released.

So now he announces, after getting the left all excited with hard ons that he was going to close it that yes he will close it but they are all coming stateside and will be put in our prisons here at home now SUDDENLY everyone just wants him to LEAVE IT OPEN which I now think was his INTENTION ALL ALONG!

He can now say to the LEFT well I tried but the people have spoken and they want it to remain open and we will listen to the people.

FUCK OBAMA.

[lightningBugout]

He can now say to the LEFT well I tried but the people have spoken and they want it to remain open and we will listen to the people.

Evil genius...

[Cedars of Overburden]

In a grubby little city in Southern Appalachian, half college town, half working class misery, two leading local liberals stop to gossip outside my office door. It seems one went to an organizing meeting of the local peace people and said meeting was held up by someone who insisted on reciting Obama's sins and betrayals of the peace movement, not to mention, er -- you know -- the Constitution.

"He just would NOT shut up," the one complained. The other said, "oh, that's just SOOOOO redneck." "Yes, it is," the other agreed.

In addition to everything else, you all -- Chlamor especially? -- need to be aware that you are now -- no matter your radical credentials -- "just SOOOOO redneck." I doubt that any number of anti-racism workshops will save you.



Does anyone know a reputable and righteous manufacturer of "Don't Blame Me -- I Voted for McKinney" bumperstickers? I deserve one. A lot of you do too.

[Pele'sDaughter]

I do love Ms. McKinney, but if I had a bumper sticker it would say "No matter who you vote for, the government wins".

[justdrew]

republican Jim Leach to be Obama's nominee for chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities

[Nordic]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/02-4

Obama approves two-dozen new mountaintop-removal coal disasters.

Two dozen. New. Mountaintop removals.

Fuck Obama.

FUCK HIM.

[chlamor]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/06/02-4

Obama approves two-dozen new mountaintop-removal coal disasters.

Two dozen. New. Mountaintop removals.

Fuck Obama.

FUCK HIM.

Was just going to post that bit. He just keeps on sliming us. it ain't pretty.

Obama has to be one of the most janus faced politicians to come down the pike in a long time and there are soooo many. King of the weasels and duplicitous cretins.

From article:
A review of Obama campaign statements showed the presidential candidate expressing concern about the practice without specifically promising to end it. On a West Virginia visit, he said he wanted "strong enforcement of the Clean Water Act" and added, "I will make sure the head of the Environmental Protection Agency believes in the environment."

[chlamor]

Wall Street, Obama administration conspire to block financial regulation
By Barry Grey
4 June 2009

In the guise of enhanced regulation, the Obama administration is working with major Wall Street banks to sanction a continuation of the speculative practices that precipitated the financial meltdown and deepest economic slump since the Great Depression.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has, according to a detailed exposé published May 1 by the New York Times, adopted a proposal drawn up by a group of big Wall Street firms for new regulations on the lucrative trade in derivatives such as credit default swaps. Geithner headed the New York Federal Reserve Bank and played a key role in the Bush administration’s bank bailout program before being named to his present post by Obama. His recently issued proposal on derivatives regulation, in opposition to measures backed by certain corporate interests, such as agribusiness firms and the congressmen who represent them, would exempt most trading in credit default swaps from any serious public exposure or government regulation.

Credit default swaps are contracts agreed to between corporations in which the seller insures the buyer against the default of specific corporate bonds or securities. The transactions are “over the counter,” i.e., arrived at privately without being listed on any public exchange. Since the passage of a law in 2000 supported and signed by then-Democratic President Bill Clinton, they have been unregulated.

The 2000 law sparked an explosive growth of this form of financial gambling. According to the Times, “The market now represents transactions with a face value of $600 trillion, up from $88 trillion a decade ago. JPMorgan, the largest dealer of over-the-counter derivatives, earned $5 billion trading them in 2008, according to Reuters, making them one of its most profitable businesses.”

Trading in credit default swaps played a major role in the subprime mortgage bubble that imploded in August of 2007, leading to the financial crash of 2008. The collapse of insurance giant American International Group, which has to date received $170 billion in government funds, was the result of the firm’s massive holdings in credit default swaps tied to subprime mortgage-backed securities and other dubious assets. AIG bet that the underlying mortgages would not default. It lost its bet and was required to come up with huge amounts of cash as collateral, which it did not have.

AIG’s imminent failure threatened to bankrupt thousands of “counterparty” banks and other financial firms around the world, provoking a panic that was stanched only by the infusion of hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds into its coffers and those of scores of other financial firms.

The Times reports that in November of 2008, only a month after receiving billions of dollars in government cash infusions, the nine biggest participants in the derivatives market—including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America—set up a lobbying organization, the CDS Dealers Consortium, to counter calls for serious regulation of credit default swaps and other forms of derivatives speculation.

The new lobby hired a “longtime Washington power broker” who had helped push through the 2000 law, Edward J. Rosen, a partner at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. The Times reports that it has obtained a copy of a confidential memo drafted by Rosen in February that was “shared with the Treasury Department and leaders on Capitol Hill” and played “a pivotal role in shaping the debate over derivatives regulation.”

According to the Times, Rosen opposed proposals that derivatives be traded on open exchanges, akin to stock markets, and instead argued that they should be traded through “clearinghouses” that would be run by private firms closely affiliated with the banks. He further proposed that the derivatives trade continue to be overseen by the Federal Reserve Board, which has a long record of giving the banks free rein to engage in this form of speculation.

Moreover, he argued that a special dispensation be given to so-called “customized” derivatives, a vague term that encompasses most credit default swaps, which would shield them from public scrutiny or government regulation.

The Times article indicates that all of these suggestions were incorporated into the proposal for “increased” oversight released by Geithner. The newspaper notes that Treasury officials “say that their proposal was arrived at independently...” But the article makes clear that the Obama administration’s plan for derivatives was basically drafted by the big Wall Street banks.

The article further reports that the big banks’ clearinghouse firm of choice is ICE US Trust, “an entity closely affiliated with banks that are also members of Mr. Rosen’s group, the CDS Consortium.” The Obama administration also favors this firm, according to the Times. Citing Brad Hintz, a brokerage firm analyst at Bernstein Research, the article states, “ICE seems to be the clearinghouse of choice, especially among policy makers in Washington.”

Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, a state with large agribusiness interests that are pressing for tougher regulation of derivatives, is quoted as saying, “The swaps and derivatives people are all over the place up here. ... A lot of money is on the line.”

The article also quotes Collin C. Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat and the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, who is sponsoring a bill that would bar derivatives trading in a clearinghouse, such as ICE, regulated by the New York Federal Reserve. He calls the New York Fed, Geithner’s former home, “a tool of the big banks” which “wouldn’t do much” to regulate credit default swaps or other derivatives.

Peterson is blunt about the domination of Congress by Wall Street. “The banks run the place,” he says. “I will tell you what the problem is—they give three times more money than the next biggest group. It’s huge the amount of money they put into politics.”

The article provides some figures: “Through their political action committees and their own employees, securities and investment firms gave $152 million in political contributions from 2007 to 2008, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission data.

“The top five companies—Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Credit Suisse—gave $22.7 million and spent more than $25 million on lobbying activities in that period, according to election data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

“All five companies are members of the CDS Dealers Consortium, the lobbying group formed in November.”

The Times quotes Yra Harris, an independent commodities trader, who sums up the situation as follows: “The banks want to go back to business as usual—and then some. And they have a lot of audacity now that everyone has bailed them out. But we have to begin with the premise that Wall Street doesn’t want transparency because more transparency means less immediate profits.”

The instrument through which the banks are resuming at full throttle the criminal methods that have brought the US and world economy to its knees and inflicted growing social misery on the working class, is the Obama administration.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun20 ... -j04.shtml

[Nordic]

What a massive con job.

I found it disturbing, back when I was still on the fence about the guy, to see his affect on big crowds of people. They would be staring, rapturously, tears streaming down some of their faces, in complete silence.

Really disturbing then. Even more so now.

And it wasn't just here in America. People all around the world fell for it.

[Username]

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Obama is the Antichrist!
"Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" Rev 13:4

The short answer to this question is the Saints of God are able to make war with this beast. The worldwide phenomenon that is Barack Obama is astounding. Everywhere he goes, you sycophants faun over him like he was a god, and indeed you think he is. An idolatrous Muslim (once a Muslim always a Muslim, so their law says) raised by a tramp atheist mother, there is nothing redeeming about the man. He has called Jesus a liar, and commits the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost every time he talks about the Bible. Behold the three legs of the Unholy Trinity: The Dragon (Satan), The Beast (Antichrist Obama) and the False Prophet (the Pedophile-enabler Pope). They have come to seal your doom while they vainly think they can overcome the Host of heaven. Here is their end, along with all of you maudlin, sickening sycophants: "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone" (Rev 19:20). That's some change for you!!!



UPDATED -- 22 Theses on Why Obama is the Antichrist

1. He was elected by a healthy margin (pundits say it was the highest turnout ever for the presidential race) by a nation that hates God, has forgotten God, hates God’s standard, and persecutes God’s people. He brags that he was elected by people from every walk of life; he truly reflects the face of this nation, See Isaiah 3.

2. There is not a single voice of counter-point or checks-and-balance in the utter worship of Obama that is taking place in this nation about Obama and his presidency. They’re all with one voice singing his praise, bowing down, and eagerly anticipating the great sweeping “change” he has promised. (This is a buzz word for breaking off the bands of the Word of God and getting out from under his outpoured wrath. They think this arrogant pup can do this; that’s not going to happen.)

3. They shamelessly carry on in the media and in the jabber of the whores and sluts of this land about how “beautiful” he is, physically, as if that’s ever been an important presidential quality. Since being “beautiful” is way more important to this nation than ever cracking a Bible, that’s a perfect fit for them – to have their “beautiful” president.

4. He claims to be a “Christian” while openly admitting he rejects nearly all the Bible – and distorts the rest to his political purpose. This is Satan’s favorite device, employing the name of Christ, and the words of the Bible, for Satan’s cause.

5. He was raised by an adulterous woman, an absent deadbeat father, a superstitious stepfather, and grandparents who taught him to worship the creature instead of the Creator. That is the perfect representative for this doomed nation.

6. He is the first president of doomed america who does at least claim to have been raised in a Christian household. He was raised by atheists, Hindus and Muslims, and is a proud “renaissance" man,” just as his evil mother planned. (This is one of the strongest pieces of evidence that she is in hell today.)

7. He is arrogant, hard, angry, calloused, violent, and full of his defiance against God. He is like his ancestor Nimrod, raising his fist and middle finger to heaven every day.

8. Obama and his laptop vice president, Joe Biden, are both specifically on record as officially against the saints of God, including in their votes in Congress trying to stop the picketing, and their words out of their mouths critical of the message of God from the mouths of his prophets in this earth today.

9. His home-base is Chicago, a city of scum, corrupt to the core, and overflowing with evil.

10. He is a “fierce advocate” for filthy feces-eating fags, and has promised to use the full power of the office of the President of the United States to promote their mutinous cause.

11. He is an aggressive supporter of killing unborn babies, and has promised to use the full power of the office of the President of the United States to promote killing born and unborn alike.

12. He is a smooth orator, who understands dark sentences, and promises peace which will destroy, see Daniel 8.

13. He is slick, polished, and gabby. He loves to talk. He loves to show how brilliant he is with his words. He is the picture of the Beast wearing out the saints with his blasphemous words.

14. He has blasphemy written on his forehead. Anyone who stands in front of a rebellious nation, that considers itself the super power of the world, saying he can’t accept a God who sends most people to hell, and picking out little snippets from the Bible to support his quest for power, is a great blasphemer.

15. The young people of this nation treat him like a god-and-rock-star combined, screaming, crying, writhing, in massive crowds formed to worship him. These are the generations raised on a steady diet of “It’s OK to be gay,” God is a liar, sin all you want and God is still required to bless you, and make your entire vain life all about you. The young people of this nation are brutish, violent, vulgar, grievous sinners against God. Who or what they worship can be nothing but bad.

16. His goal is world power; he is loved worldwide; he is the person who can bring the kings of the world together to build a world power, designed to undo the judgments of God. He will put forth many words about this, with talk of change, prosperity, peace, and overcoming.

17. The black people have turned him into a god, and indeed blasphemously called him Christ. His other monikers at the hands of this wicked nation are The One, the Elect, and Savior. God calls him The Wicked and The Beast.

18. He is already building his union with the big false prophets of this world, starting with Rick Warren. He and the Pedophile-Producing Pope Benedict Arnold the 16th are already doing a dance, and very shortly they will form a union. The Pope will declare his deeds great miracles, and fueled by the Dragon (Satan), this unholy trinity will start forming a worldwide army to fight God. That army will be made up predominantly of militant brutal fags and dykes with some hard core enablers thrown in for good measure.

19. He is already making sounds about changing times and laws. He will get into office and undo the few semblances of civil or religious liberties or freedoms in this country, again full of words about peace and prosperity. This nation is already primed to be scared of its own shadow, and one need only hint at the possibility that their oil and wine (partying, fun, sexual filth) will be in jeopardy, and they will hand all power over to this Beast. The members of Congress are scared sissies who will be afraid to oppose him because of his popularity that they see as a “mandate.” They will bow down to him shortly, and give him all their power – for fear of being kicked out of office.

20. He was raised on a bizarre conglomeration of superstition and lies, taken from the Universalist Unitarians, the Hindus, the Muslims, Malcolm X, and so-called “Christianity.” He cherry picked what he heard from his mother, grandparents, mutation of so-called fathers, teachers, and black people he sought out in search for a purpose and place in life, all to suit his ambition and pleasure. The result is a Satanic cocktail that he has the nerve to palm off on this stupid in-a-drunken-stupor nation as Christianity – so he could get their votes.

21. More Evidence Obama is the Beast Antichrist: In the week leading up to his coronation as king of the world, Bloody Baby-Killer Beast Obama bragged about how much he will build a fag army. As part of his fierce advocacy for fag special rights, he’s promised to quickly dispense with the mythical “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of the military. This is symbolic of his love of all things sodomitical. The fags already have all the run of the military their dark hearts desire. This is just to put a big punctuation mark on how much Bloody Beast Baby-Killer Obama loves fags. And why, you might ask, must this Beast build an army? Because, as he told the brutes of Baltimore on January 17, 2009, he intends to lead this evil nation in declaring a new independence. He calls it an independency from bigotry. Balderdash! It will be a declaration of independence against the standards of God! He intends to declare “independence” – in other words declare war – against Christ himself. You can read all about this in Revelation 19. And when he does – hear us on this earth dwelling rebels – Bloody Baby-Killer Beast Obama is going down! Christ is going to whoop him good, sound, once and for all, and cast him into chains of darkness, prepared for the devil and his angels, forever!

22. Bloody Beast Obama came out of the gate sprinting to commit this nation to a new level of sin and rebellion against God. His true colors are coming out. He has pretended during his campaign that he is a Christian. The stupid phony Christians of this stupid false-hearted nation fell for that lie. So as the watchers from Westboro Baptist Church stood at 4th & Pennsylvania showing the world the words – Beast Obama, God Hates Obama, Bloody Obama, Antichrist Obama, Hell to the Chief – we were awash in the pure stupidity of this nation’s voices. They claimed Obama wasn’t in favor of abortion because he’s a Christian, and worse, they lied, he’s a Baptist. What?

o Well, don’t worry, Obama immediately took steps to show that’s a lie. (Of course the odds that those stupid people will read the news reports are slim to none.) He rang up the president of the Palistinian Authority to reassure him – and Muslims everywhere – that he was all about peace and harmony and love-festing with the Muslims. The people of Israel are real nervous. It’s too bad the people of Israel don’t obey God. Then they wouldn’t have to be so nervous about the Beast, not mentioning Israel in his coronation speech; his phone call to court Muslims; or his appointment of George Mitchell (who sees pushy Israel’s spread of “settlements” for the acts of aggression they are) as the new Middle East envoy. There are a few righteous Jews somewhere in this world – maybe doomed america, maybe doomed israel – and the Beast will smoke them out, as they say. (The False Prophet pope Benedict Arnold XVI is in lockstep with the Beast. He made the Jews angry by the unprecedented act of single handedly reinstating four bishops from a “breakaway wing” including Richard Williamson who says the Nazi Holocaust never happened. Too bad the Jews don’t see God’s hand in that matter.)

o Also Obama immediately issued his demonic decree, called an executive order, lifting the ban on funding for foreign abortions. My how the nations loved that little stunt. Watch out dumb doomed americans – Obama is already getting busy with your resources from your presidential office building his world empire. My oh my – boy howdy – do you cursed rebels of doomed america deserve this beast for president.

o And of course he could not deliver his coronation-speech without blaspheming God. He should cut out his tongue before he ever quotes Scripture again. He won’t; that’s part of his persona – he has blasphemy on his forehead – it’s the first thing you see about him if you have ears to hear and a heart to understand. He worships the human; he calls upon doomed america – a cesspool of despair and doom – to prove its greatness and for all its citizens to step forth and get their true adult destiny, to wit, their shabby raggedy happiness. Shut up Beast! It’s not about you! Just because your father and energizer Satan, a/k/a the Dragon, is in a rage against God (whose cast him out of any access to heaven at this hour; you know the way we don’t let ambassadors in when we’re at full scale war with their nations, so he’s raging in the earth because he knows his time is short), doesn’t justify your lies. You will be cast alive into hell. You are a very stupid arrogant beast! The saints of God rejoice. This is amazing happy stuff!

YES!!! Praise the Lord and Fuck Obama! Find more eye opening revelations at LINK.
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Wait there's more...

from Gawker:

Wal-Mart sponsors blog that says "Obama Eats Babies"


Through a third-party, retailing giant Walmart sponsors a white supremacist's blog that describes a desire for presidential candidate Barack Obama to be "tied up, gang raped, and have his neck cut" as "what we're all thinking." Walmart recently changed its logo and began touting its "green" initiatives in order to revamp its brand image. Guess one of Walmart's many ad agencies —Mediavest, Martin Agency, or perhaps Tribal DDB — didn't get the memo.

We've got a call into Walmart, but our guess is that through ad network LinkShare's affiliate marking program, hundreds if not thousands of Web site publishers put Walmart banner ads on their sites in hopes of referring shoppers and earning a slice of revenue from whatever they buy on Walmart.om. It would be very difficult to thoroughly vet each publisher. But if there's ever been a need for a clear example as to why Madison Avenue interactive agencies do not trust their clients to ad networks that claim extensive reach above all else, there is no more. Update: A Wal-Mart flack has gotten back to say: "We are investigating this matter and take it very seriously. This site used our banners without our authorization and we are working to have them immediately removed."

If you go to the white supremacist's blog and click on About Me you'll find the blogger's name is "Fuck Obama". hmmm...
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I object to the title of this thread.

These are the flames you are fanning with your obsessive focus and vulgar headings, which bring nothing but bitterness, hatred and fanaticism to this board.
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[AlicetheKurious]

Username said:

I object to the title of this thread.

These are the flames you are fanning with your obsessive focus and vulgar headings, which bring nothing but bitterness, hatred and fanaticism to this board.

You are right. I've said it a few times, and now I'm ashamed of that and wish I could take it back. There are many reasons to object to Obama's decisions, and he does appear to have convinced Americans to vote for him on false pretenses. And his promises of "change you can believe in" appear to be simply a marketing strategy to re-package the same-old same-old. His actions, and those of the people he's appointed, have already caused and will continue to cause untold suffering for many, many innocent people.

But "fuck Obama" is not the appropriate way to express one's opinion -- not if it's well considered and based on logic and facts; it's the language of ignorance and hatred.

Synchronicity: just before I saw your post, I had already vowed never to say "Fuck Obama" again. Maybe just a couple of minutes before, in this thread. My vow was also prompted by the fear of waking up in bed next to some strange fellows. Weird, eh?

[lightningBugout]

Obama's speech was not the same old same old.

[American Dream]

AlicetheKurious wrote:

Username said:

I object to the title of this thread.

These are the flames you are fanning with your obsessive focus and vulgar headings, which bring nothing but bitterness, hatred and fanaticism to this board.

You are right. I've said it a few times, and now I'm ashamed of that and wish I could take it back.

It's easy enough to change the title if you really want to. Just log in, go back to the original post and hit "edit"...