I don't know about you, but I think we have one bad ass president.

[Drunken Irishman]

[Lost4words]

1. I think you have been drinking,

[Moochy]

58. self-evidently

:beer:

[vaberella]

2. ...

:)

[lunatica]

3. Amazingly he doesn't have to be a pretend cowboy to be bad ass either

He doesn't strut or smirk or sneer or pose or get all twangy and puffy chested or mean and vindictive or have to have glamorous backdrops or land jets or stuff his crotch or vet his audiences or have the same words repeated all over his backdrops.

[Cosmocat]

5. It is just so darn sad ...

He is 100 times tougher than Jr. who was so friggen soft in the head, but the media will NEVER give him a fair shake about it ... Gotta stick to the right wing agenda - dems soft, Rs strong, just the way it is ...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Real men rarely get "puffy chested".

They know they don't have to in order to get their point across.

[Clio the Leo]

11. Did you see where Mr. Amadinnajacket called him a cowboy?

Too funny.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has issued a strong personal attack against US President Barack Obama, calling him a “cowboy” who was quick to threaten to use nuclear weapons against America’s enemies. Commenting on new US policy restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons which deliberately excluded Iran, Ahmadinejad said Iran would not yield to threats.

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/9249

[lunatica]

12. There's something so pathetically predictable about extreme right wing rhetoric

that wasn't so obvious not too long ago. The accusations being hurled by the teabaggers (they don't warrant the label 'party' as far as I'm concerned) are the same as those of the extreme theocratic world leaders. Ahmadinejad sounds just like the GOP and the idiocrats everywhere.

The novelty of the raging hurled accusations is wearing thin. And the mantra is getting tiresome and boringly repetitious.

[proteus_lives]

22. Sisko icon drives the point home.

I love DS9. ;-)

[proteus_lives]

21. I love that pic!

[one_voice]

24. Hot...

Obama looks sooo good in that picture.

That's always been a favorite of mine.

[proteus_lives]

20. Big emphasis on "pretend cowboy".

My Texan relatives always said "Bush is no cowboy."

I've met real cowboys and they despised Bush.

[nenagh]

4. HaHa

Yes...what happened to the talking point that he's 'Weak Like Carter'??

[Solomon]

6. Oh some are still trying the "he's Jimmy Carter on

steroids".

[nenagh]

9. You're right.. I just read on DK some Repub reaction to Obama's

nuclear deal is to call him weak again...

I should realize by now, they will never let go of a talking point.. just recycle and reuse..

And monitor Pavlov's dogs..

[MadMaddie]

23. Isn't it funny! They are so stupid that they don't realize that all

President Obama did was continue Ronnie Reagan's path of reducing nukes. They are so stupid!

[ieoeja]

51. A path started by the first treaty on nuclear arms limitation by Nixon.

[NJmaverick]

7. You go that right

:toast:

[JohnnyLib2]

10. Odd how we seem to want one -- and not want one.

Trick part of leadership, IMO.

[Papa Boule]

13. Please tell me this is not because he has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens

without hearing, trial, or anything.

[sandnsea]

14. Like the FBI Most Wanted list

Kill or Capture. Same thing as the CIA terrorism list.

[vaberella]

19. Exactly. The interpretation these people have of the facts is reactionistic. n/t

[Papa Boule]

42. Um, the FBI can't decide to kill someone without some form of due process.

Big difference.

[sandnsea]

44. If they're trying to arrest someone

particularly an armed and dangerous FBI Most Wanted, and that person flees, they most certainly can shoot to kill.

[Papa Boule]

53. Well, hey, if the president's CIA kill team promises to try to peacefully arrest the target first

so he can be brought to trial, that's due process.

That's not what they're talking about doing.

[sandnsea]

54. Of course it is

Do you seriously think they would refuse to take someone captive if they came out with hands up?

[Papa Boule]

59. Would you say the same, trusting thing about a kill team if Bush/Cheney were still in office?

n/t

[vaberella]

18. Get your facts. He never claimed anything about assassinating anyone.

I've read enough of the information out there and I'm tired of the sensationalistic rhetoric.

[Papa Boule]

43. Sensational rhetoric?

From whom?

Admiral Dennis Blair in Congressional testimony?

"Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair, acknowledged in Congressional testimony that the administration reserves the 'right' to carry out such assassinations."

Or the New York Times?

"The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen..."

Or the Washington Post?

"A Muslim cleric tied to the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner has become the first U.S. citizen added to a list of suspected terrorists the CIA is authorized to kill, a U.S. official said Tuesday."

[HughMoran]

15. He's a bad dude

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

16. Photographic evidence tends to agree.

[vaberella]

17. Our President knows how to use numchucks---cool. n/t

[scentopine]

25. You are half right -nt

[Enrique]

26. give me a B!

[slay]

27. Remove the word "ass" from your statement and I'd agree

he is beyond disappointing to me in ways, as a true liberal, you will probably never understand.

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[Drunken Irishman]

30. I never said he was great, did I?

But piss on him all you want.

He's FAR from being a bad president. And that is something you said. :eyes:

[Lord Helmet]

50. How'd that sitting on hands work out in Virginia?

It took the new republican Gov McDonnell and AG Cuccinelli about 5 minutes to overturn LGBT civil rights and declare Confederate pride.

Doh!

[joshcryer]

33. If you had liberal expectations of Obama you were deluded.

Sorry, but that's the truth.

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[LWolf]

34. +1

[ShortnFiery]

37. I understand. For the first time I told a member of the DNC

to not call me back. Told him I'm not voting for any more warmongering corporate democrats. I meant it. If there are any progressive democrats to be found in my region, I'm there. Otherwise, consider me an independent.

Not ever have I even been curt to the Democratic Callers - but when he said "Let's help them to keep their spines." I retorted, "What spines?!?"

Words can not describe how damn disappointed I am with my party today. :(

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[Ignis]

45. Do you need some manners?

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[depakid]

31. So bad ass that he's afraid to take on torturers, banksters, frtaudsters

and other egregious corporate criminals.

Knowingly poison millions of products, kill 9 people- sicken thousands of others (all the while leaving a paper trail that a prosecutor can only dream about)- and you'll safely hide behind the corporate veil, walking away scot free.

Obama may be a lot of things- but bad ass he;'s not.

[slay]

48. Exactly

he's a huge disappointment (at the very least).

[Hell Hath No Fury]

49. If he was a REAL bad ass --

Bush & Cheney would have be hauled before the world court for war crimes, Pharma punched in the gut, and he would have dumped the bipartisan crap.

THAT is a bad ass.

[depakid]

52. It's so the wrong words to use that it makes anyone informed on the issues just scratch their heads

The guy is a conciliator and consensus builder- to the point of pathological conflict aversion.

Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman- OK, maybe bad ass. Barack Obama? Come on now.

I mean, really- that's just not his nature.

Think about it. Would a "bad ass" have left Lieberman in his chairmanship after he campaigned for the opposition?

[Hekate]

32. Someone said you must be drinking. I'll toast to that.

:toast:

Hekate

[ShortnFiery]

35. Bush was also a Bad Ass ... I'm sorry, I'm less than impressed. eom

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[Peacetrain]

36. Yes he is... he just keeps coming back at them..Very impressive

[Sheepshank]

40. The Reps seem to think so

so, I'm ok with that. Whatever pisses them off gives me some measure of joy. What Obama has done in the last few weeks is shown fortitude and strength of character with little wiggle room to permit Reps to try and push him around. Obama has provided some reason to smile and I'm going with the positive. From one Utahn to another :)

[ShortnFiery]

55. Newsflash: Corporate control of our country is our enemy: right-wing includes more than the GOP eom

[Sheepshank]

56. well, aren't you just a ray of fucking sunshine?

and I shan't let you dull my mood.

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[opihimoimoi]

57. in 3 years they will chisel his face on Mt Rushmore.......by act of the People...