I'm Staying Loyal to Obama on This One

[SoDesuKa]

I'm not going to panic because it looks like Obama's selling out our old people. This man is a shrewd politician, and he may be setting the Republicans up for a trap. I think he deserves some slack. He's doing something counterintuitive the way experienced outfielders play The Wall at Fenway Park. We'll see if that's what he's up to.



Fielding at Fenway is counter-intuitive

[lamp_shade]

1. Rec.

[ixion]

2. loyalty to a politician....whatever floats your boat...

just don't expect it to be returned in kind, because they're only 'loyal' to whomever is paying them the most.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Like the way he finessed them on the Bush tax cuts?

That worked out well. For billionaires.

[Enthusiast]

4. Obama created the catfood commission.

Obama appointed two anti-New Deal zealots to head it up. This was hardly an accident. Social security and medicare can easily be preserved by increasing the dedicated tax but instead Obama chose to reduce FICA contributions.

Far from being a victim in this Obama is central participant in the attack on the social safety net. This will end Obama's presidency. But I do not think it matters to him in the least.

[tekisui]

5. We'll see and then it may be too late.

[katnapped]

8. Then we need to "get over it"

And look at the big picture (OH NOES BIG BAD REPUBLICAN ON THE OTHER SIDE!!! OMG!!!!)

:sarcasm:

[boston bean]

6. are you a plebian?

[katnapped]

7. Yea yea yea

More 99th dimension chess...when you forfeit right before your opponent loses.

Heard this song before...

[Enrique]

9. his opponents are more experienced than he is

Boehner was passing out bribes on the House floor while Obama was still in short pants.

[Ganja Ninja]

10. Bwhahahahahahhahahaha!

:spray:

[merbex]

11. My reaction to your thread title? pathetic and sad n/t

[Wind Dancer]

12. Why?

Would you be loyal to a Republican who had carried out the same policies?

Do you agree with Obama's strategy?

[Vinca]

13. Baloney. There is no underlying, secret motive.

During the healthcare debate we all thought, at the end, there would be a slick move by Obama to get the public option incuded. Ha! Same this time. He's singing kumbayah again.

[Poll_Blind]

16. Ding! Ding! Ding! Exactly. We have been here before.

PB

[Brickbat]

14. The cake is a lie.

[Shrek]

20. This was a triumph!

Huge success!

[pangaia]

15. Great photo !!

I must go to Fenway before I'm six feet under....

[SoDesuKa]

26. Fenway Park

You run in on a ball hit over your head so you can play the carom off the wall.



Left field at Fenway Park in Boston

[madokie]

17. So am I

So far anything that appears he's done that is not in our better interest is, when you look at it closely, the pukes fault anyway.

[myrna minx]

18. Just like those amazing moves for the public option and the uber wealthy tax cuts.

:eyes: Yes, he's rather shrewd.

[Tippy]

19. K&R

[WinkyDink]

21. What has Obama ever done FOR people that was "shrewd"?? He's in OVER HIS HEAD.

[Javaman]

22. shit in one hand and wish in the other

see which fills up first.

[Marr]

23. Oh, he's a shrewd politician alright.

He's maneuvered himself into a position from which he can make cuts to Social Security and Medicare and still run as 'the guy on the left'.

[somone]

24. The beating will continue until morale improves

[Obamanaut]

25. Nope, no slack. Slack is not for someone who has the welfare of

more than 300 million people at the tip of his pen; who has the ability to send children, cousins, parents, uncles, etc to some other country to get blown to bits; who has at his beck and call the mechanisms to blow countries and inhabitants to smithereens.

No. Slack should only be found in the dictionary somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphillis', or in the rope tying your boat to the dock when the tide comes in - not in the office of the President.

[moondust]

27. He may play the trump card and save everything.

14th Amendment.

After he has given Republicans plenty of time to expose themselves as the reckless sociopaths they are.

:shrug: