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Maraya1969

(22,459 posts)
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 08:20 PM Dec 2013

So in a little thread over on FB someone posted a picture of the sign language imposter

at Mandela's Memorial service.

The first person said it was hysterical.


And the second person said: "That's about par for this administration."


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ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
6. Link doesn't get me through, probably have to be friends with the dumbass that said that. It's just
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:02 PM
Dec 2013

as well she's no friend of mine.

Thank you anyway for trying =).

nyquil_man

(1,443 posts)
4. The image some people have of Obama is very contradictory.
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 08:55 PM
Dec 2013

On the one hand, they think he's so powerful that he can do pretty much anything he wants. On the other hand, they think he's so incompetent that he can't do anything.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
10. Like many of them, they somehow manage to keep diametrically opposed concepts in their heads ...
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:16 PM
Dec 2013

despite the fact that the concepts cancel each other out.

Squinch

(50,897 posts)
11. Can you link that second person to this thread? You know she'd read it, and then she could
Sun Dec 15, 2013, 11:02 AM
Dec 2013

see how people outside of her bubble view that kind of dumbass statement.

(I ask because I know nothing about Facebook. Don't belong, never will.)

Maraya1969

(22,459 posts)
14. I already had a long "discussion" with her. I gave her a fanatical rant I've share here along with
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:26 AM
Dec 2013

her response. I don't want the people over there to know my user name here and I don't want my real name posted on here.

I cannot believe this. You, Debbie are so filled with Obama derangement syndrome you fail to re realize that it was the memorial of South Africa's first black president, the man who road the people in South America to freedom from apartheid and won a Noble Prize for his accomplishment.......YOU DON'T REALIZE THIS IS THE SOUTH AFRICAN'S ADMINISTRATION THAT PUT ON HIS MEMORIAL!!!!!! You all have such a need to rake on President Obama that you blame him for things that happens in other countries by their own administrations!!!!

Then she said:

"My comment way up there was pointed at the secret service who are now upset about this interpreter's lack of credentials after the fact when it is their job to maintain security for the president in the first place. You can't argue the incompetence that went all around there. And 3 world leaders took a selfie photo there, adding to the disrespect shown at Mr. Mandela's funeral."

Then I wrote this:

And all the while you are spreading the meme that he is a joke, illegitimate, not qualified, is bankrupting our country. Basically you are all saying he is a loser with no real evidence. That is Barack Obama derangement and you blaming him for South Africa's breach of security, (because that is what you said) is just more proof that there are many people in this country spreading lies about him with the intent of coaxing others to believe that about him also. I am not saying that you are doing this but some in your party are: hoping that he will fail just to prove a point. All the while we have kids losing food and education and Head Start and more people living in poverty because republicans in congress have blocked EVERY SINGLE JOBS BILL AND CUT FOOD STAMPS AND BLOCKED OBAMA'S ATTEMPT TO BRING JOBS BACK TO THIS COUNTRY BY PUTTING A TAX ON COMPANIES THAT MAKE THINGS IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. The republicans blocked the veteran's job act their sequester took billions away from veterans, disabled people, hungry people and the plain poor. So you see when I hear someone make a false statement and insinuate that this administration is just a joke it really pisses me off because it you LOOKED at Congress's job in the last 2 years and how many bills the republicans blocked and how many they just did not even bother to bring to the floor you would see that the problem is NOT the president but it is the stooges that are trying to bring down the government, (just like you did in a tiny way by insinuating "his" administration's security, (the US security which btw are not set up by the president. They are put there and are the same for every president) is a joke. What do you win if he does fail? What does this country win?"


And then she said:

"I'm not arguing this here in this forum. These arguments are partisan in nature, and no one gets anywhere arguing them. I have yet to meet anyone who has had a political revelation on Facebook. You can call me all the Obama derangement names you want it doesn't change my opinion that I think he's leading us down the wrong path. Thanks for the discussion and Merry Christmas."


Squinch

(50,897 posts)
15. Yes. I'm sorry. I didn't think about the cross-identification thing. As I say, I'm not a Facebook
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 05:23 PM
Dec 2013

user, and don't know how it works.

But that wasn't a rant. It was an honest assessment, and it's for her own good.

I love how she posts partisan things and then says she won't have a partisan argument. Typical.

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