May I feel some Obama love around here tonight ?

[Brigid]

Anybody care to join in? :loveya:

People (including myself) forget that he is an experienced poker player. I don't know when he last played, but I remember hearing he was good at it. :)

[vaberella]

1. I love my President. Always have and always will. Obama is the man.n/t

[pnwmom]

2. I don't think there is another Democrat who would be doing a better job.

I also don't think that a white Democrat would have engendered all the hate that Obama has been experiencing from the birther wing of the Republican body -- which comprised 70% of Republicans at one point.

[Drale]

You might be asking far to much from this bunch

I have supported the President through this all because I understood exactly what he was doing and I could follow his brilliant strategy.

[JuniperLea]

5. Yeah, this is leaving a bad taste in the mouths of some...

[Drale]

8. When you eat a crow you eat someones soul

I guess that it is fitting for the rich to be eating crow.

[politicasista]

3. Kick

for President O. :yourock: :kick: :patriot:

[JuniperLea]

4. K&R

We like peas!

[BeyondGeography]

6. He is a force

Routinely underestimated, too. Hell, even I do that.

I want a second term for a lot of reasons. Not least because I think we'll see his best self comparatively unencumbered. We need it.

[babylonsister]

16. !

Nice to see you on this thread. :fistbump:

[Kahuna]

24. Just always remember..The Prez never shows his hand..Evah!

He lets people yap and underestimate him. Then WHAM!!!

[onpatrol98]

100. +1

[gateley]

7. What happened??????

And, you can ALWAYS count on Obama love from me (even when I want to wring his neck!)! :loveya:

[Brigid]

12. I know the feeling.

:)

[gateley]

14. But what happened? Why the surge of support? I did hear

that Pelosi said she "couldn't be more proud of his leadership", but I can't get anyone to let me know what transpired. PLEEEEEEEEEZE!

:kneelingandbeggingsmilie: :7

[Drale]

22. Did you ever see office space?

You know that scene when they beat the crap out of the fax machine? Well thats what Obama did to the Repukes. I hear he even had "Die Motherf*cker, Die" playing in the background.:rofl:

[gateley]

27. I'm getting that impression, but will somebody tell me what

happened? PLEASE???? Did he make a statement? Did the Republicans make a statement? I am honest to god clueless!

[Drale]

28. Mitch McConnell gave up

He told the rest of the nuts to give Obama the power the raise the debt ceiling without any cuts or anything else.

[gateley]

35. Oh! I don't trust it at all -- but now I at least know what you're

all yammering about! :7 Really, THANKS SO MUCH for clarifying! :fistbump:

[NYC_SKP]

29. Here ya go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0_S_EdZ_I8

:P

[boppers]

92. PC LOAD LETTER

Paper Cartridge, LOAD LETTER-sized paper.

It was a printer, not a fax machine.

</geek>

edit: missing letter

[Zen Democrat]

9. He did the political Rope-a-Dope with aplomb. He's got this.

[Drale]

19. Self Delete.

[Ineeda]

10. I'm a reliable source....

of that.:fistbump:

[jaxx]

11. Count me in.

And it's a pleasure to K&R this thread.

[Tikki]

96. Us, also.....

The Tikkis

[JoePhilly]

13. K&R

[Kahuna]

15. Obama definately needs a theme song because he's a...

bad mutha shut yo mouth. :)

[bigwillq]

17. Poker Face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo

[Kahuna]

21. I guess I'm showing my age...

:P

[bigwillq]

23. It's not really a good Obama theme song

I just like that song, A LOT!!! :hi:

[Kahuna]

26. Okay! I don't know the lyrics, but the Prez does have a poker face..

So maybe... :hi:

[bigwillq]

31. I was going with the poker theme.

I'm in a silly mood.

[boppers]

94. Well, the song lyrics are.. uhm... yeah.

It's kind of about poker. And muffins. And glue guns.

:evilgrin:

(It's about having a sexual relationship with somebody, for money)

[NYC_SKP]

44. "Talkin' bout Shaft!" (clip below)

:hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHbYLjWEEQA

[CakeGrrl]

18. Here ya go! K/R

[Top Cat]

20. I love President Obama....

He has worked hard to get us back on track considering the hand he was dealt!

[DevonRex]

25. Well, there aren't many Dems left here but

I'm one of them. And I'm in!

[Pirate Smile]

30. Heh

K & R :D

[Lil Missy]

32. Yup. Obama was playing chess while the goopers were playing checkers.

[EffieBlack]

33. K&R

[jefferson_dem]

34. Making us proud...

Daily. Thank you, Mr. President! :applause:

[mcar]

36. Can you feel the love tonight?

I've got it. :D

[Palmer Eldritch]

37. Some of us have loved him all along. Gobama!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

38. K&R!!! Let's do this!! n/t

[Pirate Smile]

39. Nevermind - don't want to bring any neg vibes to happy thread. I'm not surprised he

is making it work out well. :)

[Kind of Blue]

40. You bet!!!

And for you, too, Brigid
KnR

[Brigid]

42. Aw shucks . . .

Thanks . . .

:blush:

[jenmito]

41. Yup yup!

:loveya:

[Whisp]

43. steadfast love

:)

nary a waver. I believe he is a good man and is doing what he can against the greatest odds.

[Tx4obama]

45. K & R

:patriot:

:kick:

[Dawgs]

46. Was a deal made?

Let's wait to see what's in the compromise before we start kissing butt.

[Kind of Blue]

53. This isn't about kissing butt or the upcoming deal.

This to me is about taking delicious satisfaction in once again seeing the Republicans biggest fail is always underestimating Pres. Obama and the fact that they basically admitted they can't govern is driven home.

[Dawgs]

70. "Once again"? That extension of the Bush tax cuts was a big fail for the Republicans, right?

And they did it without the Presidency or Congress. Good thing they underestimated him on that one.

And, now we have proof that the WH admitted to raising the Medicare age to 67.

We should feel so satisfied.

[Kind of Blue]

71. Of course, you know we see things differently.

And you can take complex situations and spin them to satisfy/justify your anger all you want.
But you can't really hijack this thread from what you and I know what the OP is about. If you can't give him love, just say no or leave it alone.

[Doctor_J]

78. Dawgs is spinning?

What abou those who are taking a victory lap before hearing what was given away?

[Kind of Blue]

80. Negotiations are over!?!

Oh, please let me know what has been signed and given away so far. 'Cause all I know right now is the next phase is to reach an agreement.

Or are you falling into the camp of that great Rumsfeld speech: "The message is that there are no knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns."

You know? :rofl:

[Doctor_J]

81. So you're taking a victory lap while admitting there haven't been any

negotiations yet. Like I said, accusing Dawgs of spinning while admitting this is pretty far out there.

[Kind of Blue]

82. As I said in my response This to me is about taking delicious satisfaction

...in once again seeing the Republicans biggest fail is always underestimating Pres. Obama and the fact that they basically admitted they can't govern is driven home.

You call this thread a victory lap, I call it delicious satisfaction. I admit it, negotiations aren't over. You can't. You're the one who knows things have been already "given away."

[gademocrat7]

47. Kick!

[MadMaddie]

48. His patience is what is driving them crazy

they don't know what to do when their opponant isn't reacting with a knee jerk every time an event hapens.

It is a facinating game of psychology......I believe the Republicans thought their bullying would continue to work and they have slammed into a brick wall...in an ally without lights.

[Schema Thing]

59. this

[rury]

49. Feel my

Obama LOVE:loveya:

[wndycty]

50. K&R

:kick:

[terip64]

51. K &R

[graywarrior]

52. Yo!

[Avalux]

54. I'm in and I'm not going anywhere.

I have confidence he will weather this storm and keep the Puke mitts off Medicare and SS (at least this time). ;-)

[Frustratedlady]

55. Was there any doubt? I've been standing with him since Iowa. He hasn't let me down yet.

I believe he will end up one of the best presidents in history.

[quakerboy]

102. Yes there was

That's an incredible claim. "he hasn't let me down yet". Perhaps your definition of perfection is somewhat lower than mine, because there is pretty much no one who I have ever depended on who would fit that. You never felt a twinge of disappointment when we didn't get a public option, or when the rich got their tax cut after all? I am "let down" when things do not go as I feel they should, even if I realistically know they won't.

But skipping that philosophic argument, yes, in light of some of the failures and disappointments, there was doubt. Credit where it is due, standing up today gives my sense of hope a huge boost. It backs me down off my "damit, we need a challenger from the left" soapbox. But that soapbox ain't stuffed back in the closet yet. As a skeptic, I'm not sure whether the President outfoxed the repubs(if so elegantly done), or the repubs out stupid-ed President Obama(an option I would never dismiss given how stupid oriented they are). I guess, as with most things, I will judge it by the end result. At the end of this, are SS and medicaid getting cut?

In the mean time I will go back to giving the president the benefit of that doubt. Something I was not prepared to do 3 days ago. For whatever that is worth I really hope that with 2 terms he will have the drive to go down as the best president yet.

[R. P. McMurphy]

56. You Got It! (some Obama lovin' that is) n/t

[Bobbie Jo]

57. K&R!

:kick:

[Kaleva]

58. K&R!

[mopinko]

60. he routinely cleaned the clocks of many in springfield.

great poker player. ate their lunches.

eta- gobama :bounce:

[Hatchling]

61. Not just no. But hell no.

[slay]

62. No

he has betrayed us too often. how quickly people forget he covered up the Bush era war crimes, did not even try to get us single-payer or a public option - gave tax cuts to billionaires, stacked his administration with wall street insiders. so no - hell no - the is no Obama love from me tonight. not at all.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

103. When did he ever promise prosecution or single-payer?

I must have missed that speech.

[CakeGrrl]

63. Kick for support

Today's outrage was that POTUS "threatened" to withhold SS checks when he simply stated that there may not be enough to cover them (obviously due to Republican obstructionism).

Crazytown.

[The Doctor.]

64. LOL... I think of poker analogies all the time when I examine his approach.

And they fit like a pair of shades.

:cool:

[AtomicKitten]

65. I'm in. He has to deal with the knucklehead GOP and that can't be easy.

:patriot:

[lamp_shade]

66. I'm in. :smile:

[Cereal Kyller]

67. From hour to hour...

threads like this can go either way.

[pacalo]

68. I believe he's dealing with the worst Republicans of our lifetime the ONLY way

he can & he's showing himself to be masterful while showing how incredibly inept the Republicans are.

[great white snark]

69. United in support.

:kick:

[stevenleser]

72. Love the President. Don't always agree. n/t

[jimmyflint]

73. Jobs,the wars, the patriot act, and the WOD

Are very important issues to me, not so much for this administration.

[Doctor_J]

74. Bush tax cuts, public option, DADT

The bar has gotten so low that it makes me sick to my stomach. I also predict this will come out a lot worse than we're hearing today. Remember all the celebration over the Big Insurance Profit Protection Act?

[Tarheel_Dem]

75. Much love from Tarheel_Dem...

:loveya:

[Doctor_J]

76. can we wait a little while?

Some of us were pissed when we heard that the president had offered raising the Medicare age. We were called traitors and told that it was bullshit. Now we find out that, sure enough, he did his usual advance fold. But now we're asked to jump for joy over a success that is nebulous at best and will probably be much less than Big Media is currently letting on.

[lamp_shade]

77. Where did you hear that "the president had offered raising the Medicare age"?

[lamp_shade]

79. Only 31 unrecs? That's not too bad. Wonder where "they" all went.

[JTFrog]

83. Rec.

[cui bono]

84. Nope.

[Politicub]

85. K&R for afternoon love

[WingDinger]

86. How about a historical artifact?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9664757

[Fire1]

87. He's obviously DAMN good at it!! K&R

[Scurrilous]

88. K & R

:thumbsup:

[AikidoSoul]

89. He's the best we have -- and a master chess player

Many Duers can't see that.



:loveya:

[pamela]

90. k&r

:-)

[Fearless]

91. Depends on the results. He needs to get results.

[BumRushDaShow]

93. K&R!

:kick:

[flamingdem]

95. He is currently on a roll and must be enjoying slapping down the rethugs nt

[Phx_Dem]

97. i'm definitely feeling the O-love after today's smackdown!

Best negotiator/strategist evah!

[griloco]

98. And I say..

ENRICH THE RICH
VOTE REPUBLICAN

don't like that?? how about

STIMULUS--YA GOTTA SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY


afraid of spending? (China isn't)

PROGRESSIVES ARE VISIONARIES
REGRESSIVES LOOK FOR CLOCKS TO TURN BACK


ok alright already,, i'll stay on point


♫ GOBAMA ♫ GOBAMA ♫ GOBAMA

or

♫ MOBAMA ♫ MOBAMA ♫ MOBAMA

[Tx4obama]

99. Kick!

[Pisces]

101. I'm in!!

[watercolors]

104. You got it, he plays poker well!!