Obama Failure Thread Part IV

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  1. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
    There Be Dragons Here
    Club:
    Birmingham City FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I need to relax with a joint?
     
  2. uclacarlos

    uclacarlos Member+

    Aug 10, 2003
    east coast
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    What do you have against consonants?
     
  3. minerva

    minerva Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Denver, CO
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    consonants lead to constipation.
     
  4. luftmensch

    luftmensch Member+

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    United States
    May 4, 2006
    Petaluma
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That was one of my favorite Sesame Street songs as a child.
     
  5. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Valentine, NEbraska, was the place I was thinking about. Huge by Sandhill standards. Almost 3000 people.


    It's amazing how some place can strike you as amazingly undercrowded. That's how it struck us. And before my wife and I got to the Badlands, we'd spent 8 weeks in Yellowstone, and NW Nebraska still seemed really solitary.

    Is Fire Island still a place that might show up as a question on that "Is Your Child Gay" app, or have the gheys moved their frolicksome fun somewhere else?
     
  6. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 21, 2002
    Brooklyn
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's only two towns of the whole stretch
     
  7. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yep--almost half of the entire population of Cherry County...and Cherry County is larger than Connecticut.

    Whenever I canoe the Niobrara, we rent canoes from one of the outfitters in Valentine.
     
  8. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    There are already classrooms that are peanut/tree nut free and latex free (no latex erasers whatsoever), so, the already are regulated.

    And the cost of providing non-latex erasers is borne by me, for some reason, not the school. It's not my kid that's a freak.
     
  9. tomwilhelm

    tomwilhelm Member+

    Dec 14, 2005
    Boston, MA, USA
    Club:
    Fulham FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What do we want?!

    Latex erasers!

    When do we want them?!

    NOW!!!
     
  10. That Phat Hat

    That Phat Hat Member+

    Nov 14, 2002
    Just Barely Outside the Beltway
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Japan
  11. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Since there's no Dem Failure thread handy ...

    The biggest clowns in Washington to me are the Dems who are fighting Obama on the Buffett tax and closing corporate loopholes. At least actual Republicans have something of a fiscal plan -- protect big companies and the wealthy, and pay for this protection by taking more money from the poor and middle class by raising the payroll tax, broadening the income tax, cutting entitlements/benefits, and so forth. But these Dems-faking-at-being Republicans have nothing. They won't raise revenues and they won't cut costs either.
     
  12. That Phat Hat

    That Phat Hat Member+

    Nov 14, 2002
    Just Barely Outside the Beltway
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Japan
    It seems weird, not just from a policy and (at least from my POV) decency standpoint, why *not* use the ultra-rich and major corporations as the strategy going into 2012? Makes no sense to me.
     
  13. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Probably because the ultra rich and major corporations are the key sources of their campaign financing.

    Of course, as a fictional character on The West Wing said, "if you can't drink their booze, take their money and then vote against them, then you're in the wrong business."

    A fictional Republican character, that is.
     
  14. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think they are scared that the "class warfare" tag might get applied to them if they go along.
     
  15. tomwilhelm

    tomwilhelm Member+

    Dec 14, 2005
    Boston, MA, USA
    Club:
    Fulham FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]
     
  16. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Don't disagree, but I'm not so sure this signal will get through the noise.
     
  17. argentine soccer fan

    Staff Member

    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
  18. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    That's because he's always in the middle.
     
  19. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Not sure about that as per a recent poll even two thirds of Republicans favor the Buffett tax. Seems likelier to me that they have been purchased.
     
  20. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
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    Sep 21, 2002
    Brooklyn
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Democrats absolutely suck at debating semantics. How many perfectly good words have they let the GOP redefine without even a whimper.

    Maybe class warfare is appropriate right now but these chickens can't help but be afraid.
     
  21. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Couldn't agree more. Hell, I think it's a winning issue right now, but they're so used to losing these semantic battles they generally fold before the shooting even starts.
     
  22. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Liberal. Check.
    Liberty. Check.
    Estate Tax. Check.
    Various terms associated with Health Care. Check.
    Class. Check. Hell, even...
    ...Conservatism. Check.
     
  23. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
    There Be Dragons Here
    Club:
    Birmingham City FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Democrats have their own buzzwords, we're just capable of nuance so we don't have as many.

    Social Security, anyone? How about Pro-choice?
     
  24. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    In Republican-speak:

    1) Entitlements.
    2) Pro-Abortion, hence anti-pro Life, though from what I can tell the media hasn't followed on that one nearly as much.
     
  25. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 21, 2002
    Brooklyn
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    How about in the last 35 years?
     

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