Having had nearly a year to unwrap the shiny new administration we gave ourselves last year...

[highplainsdem]

How are you feeling this Christmas?

A) I'd like to return it for what was advertised.

B) I know it isn't what was advertised, but in the "real world" I didn't expect it to be and I'll take it for what it is. Cynics R Us.

C) I think it's just as good as advertised - and don't you dare remind me of the advertisements!

D) I'm still dazzled by the wrapping paper and have no intention of looking any farther. Please don't ask me to!

[Greyhound]

1. LOL!

A, man

:toast:
:rofl:

[countingbluecars]

2. I feel really good.

Merry Christmas.

[golddigger]

3. Good one!

A.

:rofl:

[highplainsdem]

35. Thanks!

[CrispyQ]

4. Funny!

A.

[griffi94]

5. lol

i pick option a

[Vickers]

6. After 8 bags of coal, anything looks good. n/t

[boston bean]

7. You forgot E

A Christmas card that when opened sings the same hellish tune over and over again!

Not me and you, but others!

[Hydra]

8. I'd like Option A+

Since the product was not as advertized, I'd like an upgrade to an all-dem model, complete with no corporate ties

You should see what's on the rest of my Christmas list :evilgrin:

[inna]

9. Shouldn't this be in a poll format?

just sayin'.

[hfojvt]

10. a non-donor can't do a poll n/t

[hfojvt]

11. How about you got a pony last year

and now all you notice is the heavy hay bales you gotta carry and the crap you gotta shovel up. Or you might have gotten a Lexus last year and now be complaining about the insurance and gasoline costs, because you can always find something negative if you want to look hard enough.

I know, you don't have to look very hard because other DUers will do it for you. Anything negative that gets run up the flag pole has hundreds of DUers ready to salute and sing the "life sucks, the corporations rule and we can't win" song. They were singing it before the election, saying we couldn't win the election and they just keep singing it through good times and bad.

[griffi94]

15. well to me anyway

it's more like we ordered a shiny new lexus last year, and we knew insurance for it would be required and we knew that gasoline would be required as well, but we ordered it anyway. however when we recieved shipment of our shiny new lexus it turned out to be a pony, a tired old broke down pony that eats a lot and farts alot too. so now instead of the shiny new lexus we have a pony we can't ride and it stinks to high heaven and we're knee deep in horseshit.
the bummer is that all sales are final.

[elocs]

20. Wow, "pony", don't you think that horse has been run into the ground by now?

This place really could use some new catch phrases.

[Laelth]

12. A

Kill the bill.

Forcing people to buy insurance is no more the answer to a failed health care system than forcing people to buy houses is the solution to homelessness.

:dem:

-Laelth

[HoarseWhisperer]

13. Underneath the tinsel is tinsel. Not much "there" there. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. I read the fine print under the adverstising when they offered it and turned it down.

The new advertising consists only of lipstick on the first product since it broke down.

No Sale.

[ShortnFiery]

16. A

[AndyA]

17. A. n/m

[Vidar]

18. Ready for a trade in.

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. +1

:thumbsup:

[truedelphi]

19. Does it really matter what we think? At all?

Apparently the control is totally complete.

We are free to do as they tell us!

[Myrina]

21. I prefer option A, please.

:(

[varelse]

22. E) Did anyone save the receipt?

:shrug:

[WeDidIt]

23. E) It came just as advertised and people who convinced themselves it was a different product

are now spinning away and whining.

[live love laugh]

32. Or they are trying to convince others it was not as advertised. The real spinmeisters. nt

[Raine]

24. A ... I want my money back nt

[Kansas Wyatt]

25. A

I did not vote for a Corporate America nanny.

[ballantine]

26. sounds like a lot of consensus on option A

Where's the change? Where's the change we were promised? (looks around).... I don't see it. I don't see anything changing. All I see is, the same old problems getting a lot worse.

Our Senate just passed another trillion dollars in corporate welfare. Add that on top of the trillion we just spent to bail out the Wall Street screw-ups, and the trillion before that to kill a hundred thousand innocent Iraqis -

And we complained about all the illegal wiretapping and surveillance, but now Barry is not only continuing it, he just granted diplomatic immunity to Interpol agents!

Where's the change?

My hope is being dashed! I find myself having a melancholy holiday season.

[live love laugh]

33. The change happened January 2009. I have not been embarassed 1 day

this year because this country is no longer represented by an idiot.

Too bad the losers who supported the idiot can't accept the loss.

Get over it.

[Dappleganger]

27. How about E) I'm still trying to figure out where to put the batteries in to get this thing working

[emilyg]

28. a

[donco6]

29. LOL! Thanks.

I'm thinking the return line is really, really long. I'll wait till after new years'

[Terra Alta]

30. A.

I voted for change, not the same old, same old. I'm really disappointed in Obama.

[HughMoran]

34. C

I am old enough to know the difference.

[shadesofgray]

36. E) Bait 'n' switch

[dajoki]

37. The wrapping paper was sure dazzling...

unfortunately, I tore it all up.