Congratulations Barack Obama! In two Days you will have been in office 6 months!

[FrenchieCat]

So much to do, and so little time!
Well, Thank you for what you have done thus far.
It ain't been perfect, and it ain't been easy,
and you haven't pleased everyone just yet (nor will you ever),
but just keep on trucking,
as I and many other Americans look forward to much, much more.

Again, thank you for your service! :patriot:

[lilytea]

1. Thank you obama for being a lovey man

:loveya:

[FrenchieCat]

2. What does that even mean?

:shrug:

[lilytea]

3. crazy night.Cancun '99

you wouldn't understand

[babylonsister]

6. Hahaha! You're an ass, but a funny one. nt

[firedupdem]

15. keep dreaming. n/t

[mvd]

4. Congrats, Mr. President! Here's to having a fruitful two terms

:toast:

[CakeGrrl]

5. Rec to offset the Unrec

;-)

Have PUMAs morphed into vultures, or WTF?

[FrenchieCat]

8. They ain't got shit else to do

I guess. no.life :shrug:

[FrenchieCat]

7. Can't even wish the Pres a happy 6 month anniversary,

without the "Unrec" gang looking for blood! :rofl:

Pitiful and trifling!

[AllentownJake]

9. More FDR less Jimmy Carter

I'll be happy.

[ZombieHorde]

10. No FDR would be better than more FDR. nt

[AllentownJake]

12. ?

[ZombieHorde]

16. !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

[AllentownJake]

17. Oh fucking please

It was WW2 and the American people were racist xenophobes. He had no choice.

[ZombieHorde]

18. He lacked free will and/or leadership? I don't think those are qualities I wish for Obama. nt

[AllentownJake]

19. It was that or a mob

and soldiers were needed at the front not trying to prevent lynchings, the internment was leadership.

He beat Hitler from a Wheel Chair and gave us Social Security.

[ZombieHorde]

21. I don't see what his wheel chair had to do with commanding armies.

Social Security is good, but it does not remove foul deeds.

"soldiers were needed at the front not trying to prevent lynchings, the internment was leadership"

If right wingers started lynching gay people would you support rounding up gay people, taking away their property, placing them into camps, and shooting at them if they tried to leave?

[AllentownJake]

22. If there was a giant gay nation attacking us at the time

Yes

[ZombieHorde]

23. Why would that matter? nt

[AllentownJake]

24. Things happen in declared wars we don't like

Grow-up

[ZombieHorde]

31. GWB reminded us that things we don't like happen in declared wars.

Grow-up

Perhaps I can become mature enough to insult others on message boards.

[Arkana]

28. Why does the idea of a giant gay nation make me snicker like a 5-year-old?

[AllentownJake]

29. I don't know but it would be a pretty cool place to visit

and I'm guessing pretty gay with the literal English term.

[Arkana]

27. No, I want more LBJ (minus the whole Vietnam thing) and less FDR.

FDR, for all his stature in the halls of the Democratic Party Hall of Fame, was not a man who spent political capital liberally. That's why he was so reluctant to act on anything concerning civil rights--the Democrats in the South held his domestic agenda by the testicles and would crush it if he so much as shit the wrong way on the pot.

What I want is an LBJ-type negotiator--someone who will sit down in a room with the Blue Dogs and say "Either you support me on this or I will personally campaign for your primary opponents next election cycle--and I'm very, very popular right now. Your move, chuckles."

He shamed, threatened, cajoled, and intimidated people into supporting his agenda. For the elements of the Great Society, this worked very well (no one bring up Vietnam, I know, I know).

[AllentownJake]

30. Agreed on the negotiating tactics...he needs FDR like vision or advisors with it nt

[HamdenRice]

36. Have you ever seen photographs of "the Johnson Treatment"?

I don't think there will ever be a president as "persuasive" as Lyndon Johnson.

[Arkana]

38. I've seen 'em.

Obama's got the height to pull it off--and he did it to Holy Joe Lieberman once.

[Drunken Irishman]

41. ...

[ZombieHorde]

11. K&R nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. Good job Mr. President!

[firedupdem]

14. Rec'd

I'm happy with what the President has done so far. There is a long way to go, and he didn't walk into a clean office. I have faith we'll get it all done.

:patriot:

[Hutzpa]

20. Hell Yeah!!!

Kicking and Recommending

Seems like he's been there forever.....

Job well done so far Mr President.


:thumbsup:


:kick:

[Arkana]

25. I bet he'll go into his office on the six month anniversary and repeatedly

bash his head on the desk chanting "Why in the blue fuck did I volunteer for this?"

[Odin2005]

26. GOBAMA!

[grantcart]

32. K and R

[Lilyeye]

33. Congrats Obama! K&R

[cboy4]

34. That's a very, very low recommend total for a Democratic wesbite with

143,000 user registrations.

[jefferson_dem]

35. Shame, huh.

Lots of "concern" out there.

[FrenchieCat]

39. LOL!

Skinner knows who rec'ed this thread and who didn't. :rofl:

[cboy4]

40. Yes, well you're a polarizing figure at DU which is why the number of

recs is so low.

Your poll results, therefore, have to be thrown out the window.

[FrenchieCat]

45. I'm not polarizing, I'm just frustrating to some....guess they don't like my arguments,

as they make too much sense and are hard to rebut mainly....
makes it easier to just demonize me on a personal level....
right?

Funny how that works.

As for why the recs are so low, if folks rec based on who's posting,
then more power to them....after all power is hard to get in life...
and some folks need every bit they can muster, just to be able to go on with their day.

[uponit7771]

37. K&R

[Uzybone]

42. congrats Mr President at the 12.5% mark

of the 1st of your 2 terms.

[jenmito]

43. K&R. With everything he's accomplished so far his approval ratings are still

60% or higher which is EXCELLENT! He is doing a great job for having inherited soooo many problems.

[Ikonoklast]

44. Just now getting his legs under him.

He walked into a building on fire, a real five-alarm job, and at least things are starting to come under control.

The fires are slowly getting put out, one by one. The naysayers are getting more desperate in their rhetoric as they see his policies starting to take effect, and it angers them.

Fuck the haters, FrenchieCat, in a year they'll be laughed at by everyone.


:fistbump:

[FrenchieCat]

46. You are correct in as far that....

hating never accomplished much. In fact, it tends to backfire. :hi:

[UrbScotty]

47. I am damn proud of him!

So, he's not perfect. Know what? Me neither.

In my young life, I have never been as proud of a President as I am of Obama.

[Cali_Democrat]

48. Thank you very much Barack Obama

90 more months to go :)