The speech was carrots for the bunnies.

[RegieRocker]

I want him to prove me wrong but waiting for two years is too much of a ploy for re-election for me. He has had two years to make changes that really matters. I already gave him my vote and what has he done with it. He gave the rich tax breaks and cuts the LIHEAP in half. Fool me once.....

[dionysus]

1. need a tissue?

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[RegieRocker]

23. Had your chocolate milk yet?

[dionysus]

39. after my cartoons are done regie.

[JoePhilly]

32. Some are very upset that their prediction that he'd announce

big cuts in SS and Medicare were wrong.

It did not happen.

So rather than accept that, the outrage machine simply moves on.

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[deacon]

61. +1

[cliffordu]

72. Yep, drunk trombones and all......

[in_cog_ni_to]

40. I guess we can assume you don't NEED LIHEAP to feed your family? Arrogant!

Your reply was ARROGANT and extremely insensitive! Some people can't afford to buy food and really do depend on programs like LIHEAP.:Grr: Shame on you.

[dionysus]

41. and i hate christmas, and bunny rabbits, too.

:eyes:

[in_cog_ni_to]

45. Roll your eyes all you want, but there are THOUSANDS of families that depend on LIHEAP. n/t

[MineralMan]

3. Feh! Try helping, instead.

Write your Congress member and Senators. Tell them that you expect them to help President Obama achieve these goals. That will help. This doesn't.

[Bandit]

14. Yep those millionaires are just chomping at the bit to help average Americans.

The evidence of that is just everywhere.

[MineralMan]

15. Goodbye.

I don't have time for this shit.

[sudopod]

55. Xenu forbid someone have an opinion.

Clearly, no one who doesn't have a congressman's ear should ever post their opinion on the internet.

[Carolina]

4. Touche

We've heard his pretty but vacuous words before.

[blondeatlast]

5. Define "bunnies." nt

[bettyellen]

7. i think the bunnoes are in the house and senate

[RegieRocker]

10. Here ya go

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. There are eight different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), cottontail rabbits (genus Sylvilagus; 13 species), and the Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi, an endangered species on Amami Ōshima, Japan). There are many other species of rabbit, and these, along with pikas and hares, make up the order Lagomorpha. The male is called a buck and the female is a doe; a young rabbit is a kitten or kit.

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

They like carrots.


A little deeper understanding read this.

http://thelighthouseonline.com/articles/carrots.html

[blondeatlast]

11. Were they in the audience? Did he offer carrots to them?

If so, I missed that part.

[RegieRocker]

16. Brick wall reply

[Wait Wut]

37. Too close to Easter for them to be there.

They're at the North Pole looking for eggs. Next month they'll go back to the senate and when they see Joe Biden's shadow we'll have four more years of Obama!!

:patriot:

[RegieRocker]

43. Ever think about writing childrens books. If you thought that up

without drugs that was good, out there but good.

[Wait Wut]

44. LOL!

They don't let me do drugs at work.
I think most of what I write in my freetime would give children nightmares, but thank you!

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. Your metaphor has failed

People don't dangle carrots in front of rabbits; they dangle them in front of donkeys, to get them to go forward and do work. Carrots, to rabbits, are just a pleasure.

[RegieRocker]

60. Only in the minds of bunnies.

[Frances]

6. You aren't stating facts

The tax breaks for the rich were enacted under Bush II with Greenspan testifying before Congress that these breaks were great!

If you listened to Obama's speech, Obama was saying that the richest are paying less than anytime during the last 50 years and should pay more.

[leftstreet]

9. But Obama said this before. He campaigned on it

He can't spend 4 years complaining about tax cuts that he and his party could have already dealt with by letting expire.

He can't go back out there an 're-educate' his followers about rich people having too much money.
Everybody already gets that!
That's why he was elected

[RegieRocker]

13. Oh really?

WASHINGTON -- Less than two months after signing tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans into law, President Barack Obama proposed a spending plan to Congress that cuts funding to programs that assist the working poor, help the needy heat their homes, and expand access to graduate-level education, undermining the kind of community-based organizations that helped Obama launch his political career in Chicago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/13/obama-budget-proposal-cut_n_822689.html

[Donnachaidh]

73. and you're cherrypicking facts to divert blame from the FACT that Obama

gave the wealthy another two years of tax breaks. Regardless of who *started* it -- HE continues it.

And even in his speech he's finagling yet again -- because not once did he state that he would get rid of those tax breaks before the next election.

So he's once again dangling carrots to the American public - hoping they won't remember the FACT that HE extended the tax breaks for the wealthy by another 2 years.

[LynneSin]

8. Fool you twice have fun with President Bachman or President Rommey

Look, not saying you MUST vote for Obama - we have a primary, that's the chance to give our 'thumbs-up' or 'thumbs-down'.

But when the primary is done, if Obama is still our candidate then I'm there 100%. And if someone else wins the primary for the democrats I'm there for them outside of some strange fluke like Sarah Palin or Donald Trump running as a democrat in the primaries.

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[Donnachaidh]

74. a primary with NO challengers is worthless

Yeah, like a thumbsdown will matter if there is only one guy in the primary. :eyes:

[Solomon]

17. Utter Fail

[RegieRocker]

18. Udder cheese

[Wait Wut]

38. ...to go with your whine?

C'mon...you made that too easy.

:blush:

[RegieRocker]

59. No, to go with your complacency. Good one though I'll give you that.

[Wait Wut]

69. Touche

Humor is good for you. We need more of it here. It makes it easier to sneak your point across the frontlines when your opponent is laughing.

:fistbump:

[Recursion]

19. I think I may have some cheese here (nt)

[Electric Monk]

33. If we shred some of that on top of my dough and tomato sauce...

Yum, that's what this thread was missing.

[JuniperLea]

20. Fertilizer

How long do you suppose it should have taken The Magic Negro (TM) to fix all the ills of the world? Please, do tell!

[RegieRocker]

21. And your going to stand by and cheer on the destruction

of what past democrats have worked so hard to build? What a bunch of .>>>>>>>

[JuniperLea]

42. You keep making up shit...

This is even stinkier fertilizer than the first bullshit you threw out here.

[RegieRocker]

62. Go back into your rabbit hole, I didn't write the article the link points

to. No, it be you that is making stuff up.

[snooper2]

22. So that means the speech was GREAT...Mostly Bunnies eat crap greens

getting a carrot is a real treat..

[RegieRocker]

24. Great promises that will go unfulfilled. If that is a great speech

to you then believe it.

[snooper2]

25. Didn't watch/listen, was busy attending Webinar covering some new Juniper gear

just commenting on the analogy :)

[RegieRocker]

34. That is ok.

[upi402]

28. "There's a sucker born every minute" - P. T. Barnum

We've been 'fooled' far more than twice already - and still so many act like battered wives. No wonder we're screwed.

[RegieRocker]

31. Thank you!

[SidDithers]

26. ...

Sid

[RegieRocker]

29. That aint all that sucks ass

[blondeatlast]

48. What else does? nt

[ecstatic]

27. When people say he gave tax cuts to the rich, how come they leave out the other part

tax cuts to middle class and unemployment benefit extensions? I guess I could have done without my tax cut, but I'm sure there are many families who are really grateful for theirs (and for the unemployment insurance).

[JoePhilly]

35. If he HAD let the middle class tax cuts expire ... the same DU folks

who scream about extending tax cuts for the rich, would crucify him for breaking his promise to not raise taxes on those making under 250k.

[TheKentuckian]

52. No, I wouldn't I never wanted them passed, suggested they be rescinded before the sunset,

and still want them gone. I don't know what is so complicated about not being able to afford them, the bulk of the benefit goes to those that don't need them at all (aka top 20%, top 2% or not), and them providing an incentive for those with surplus resources to pocket the money instead of reinvesting into the economy.

The tax cuts are shitty policy. The only tax relief that makes any sense would be targeted to the bottom 20-40% to stimulate some demand AND be offset by further increases on top earners.

These tax cuts are plain old stupid and act as an anchor on the entire economy plus they ramp up the greedy to do all the shady and stupid things they have been up to for the last ten years because they are deep, deep, deep in the kid in a candy store factor. They are looting the country and these rates just foster avarice.

Nope, you are spinning. Many of us have been very consistent on this and it doesn't have a thing to do with the President because it would be garbage policy regardless of Donald Duck, Buddha, George Washington, Bush, Hillary Clinton, McShame, Kucinich, Huey Long, Ronald Reagan, or Jesus Christ was in charge.

Come on man, you are talking to a population of people who were always against this shrink the pig scam. I have no idea why you think folks want these cuts and are just trying to spit in Obama's eye other than projecting your own desire to keep these cuts (no matter the cost to the future or the present of critical programs and investment).

[inna]

67. precisely. well said, as always.

[alcibiades_mystery]

50. Not to mention no vote at all on DADT if the tax cuts weren't extended

Short memories by some folks here, for sure.

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[treestar]

46. It's got to be painful to live that much outside reality

And to see everything in its most negative possible light.

[RegieRocker]

58. How is those rose colored glasses working for you? Very well I see.

[NoodleyAppendage]

49. Exactly. This is the Obama strategy. A red meat speech to get the base off his back...

...then while we wallow in complacency that he's actually going to live up to the speech content, his corporate cabinet works to bring us right of center.

I'm not holding my breath.

J

[elias49]

51. Please DO.

[NoodleyAppendage]

53. The next few weeks will show which of us was right. I hope you will learn from the experience.

Blindly following a Democrat just because he/she has a (D) behind their name and regardless of his/her prior political behavior gets us nowhere.

J

[elias49]

56. You hope I'll learn something?.

OK. We all can learn, right?
You can learn not to judge me. That's a start, oh presumptuous one.

[NoodleyAppendage]

57. Time will tell. n/t

J

[Shagbark Hickory]

54. +! for posting your complaint on a day where he gives a successful "lets make up" speech. nt

[RegieRocker]

64. He gave several obviously successful election speeches what does that

have to do with it?

[Shagbark Hickory]

66. Just saying it took guts to post your grievance here on a day where many of his supporters forgot

about the last two years.

[RegieRocker]

70. Thanks. I want him to stand by his words. I want no meddling with

medicaid, medicare or S.S. unless it is in a giving more way.

[Shagbark Hickory]

71. Well he said medicare wouldn't be changed under his tenure. But like you pointed out,

he's made promises before that he hasn't met.

[bemildred]

63. It was another stall.

Fine speeches is not what we need.

[RegieRocker]

65. Exactly! If we don't hold him to it what is the point of a great speech?

[inna]

68. i guess that's one way of putting it; and it's as good as any.

i hear you.

[bvar22]

75. Well, he said that NEXT time, he will really, REALLY fight...

...against giving Tax Cuts to Billionaires!
Next Time!!!!

Has he EVER done ANYTHING that would make you doubt his words? :shrug:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-163435387173807719#
The gangs all here.

[quinnox]

76. You gotta love the title of this thread. K&R