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In reply to the discussion: Amazed at how Some Folks Jump to the Extreme Negative on everything Obama Does [View all]AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)87. People with credentials have been wrong before. Did you know that Bush-43 has an MBA degree?
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Amazed at how Some Folks Jump to the Extreme Negative on everything Obama Does [View all]
Yavin4
Dec 2012
OP
Not enough cold water in the ocean to put out this fire, I'm afraid. No cuts to SS - shouldn't even
leveymg
Dec 2012
#2
FACT IS, he said - flat out - in his presser this morning, that 'everything' was on the table.
Myrina
Dec 2012
#3
You assume you know who's standing, how, and for what. I wonder too if anyone thinks about how such
patrice
Dec 2012
#40
Myrina, don't confuse them with facts. THey like to tell us to SHUT UP FUCKERS!
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#50
What is the definition of "everything" please and thank you as in "everything is on the table"?
patrice
Dec 2012
#95
Actually, ,he only promised that SS would not be privatized while he was president. If Democrats
freshwest
Dec 2012
#52
I think a certain percentage are republican or libertarians. Both bash all Democrats and hate Obama.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#53
This place IS about done for. It's like watching a slow motion train wreck. I anticipate just
patrice
Dec 2012
#36
OMG, I thought I was the only one who was thinking that!! & The trouble with anti-authoritarianism
patrice
Dec 2012
#94
I think we, all of us, would benefit from more open honest discussion of what freedom is.
patrice
Dec 2012
#98
The word "weird" has a very interesting evolution, so I think I know what you mean. & it is weird
patrice
Dec 2012
#104
Signing 3 so-called "free-trade" agreements and getting ready to sign another (TPP) is anti-labor.
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#79
Why doesn't Obama just cut military spending and aid to countries like Pakistan.
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#56
You did not defeat the people who make money from wars, which is not just the banks.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#58
PAUL KRUGMAN himself said that he's reserving judgement on what is going on with this CPI proposal.
patrice
Dec 2012
#41
K, so there's no need for rational support? Just saying things makes them so? . . . .
patrice
Dec 2012
#45
Credentials are about rational support based on information about what is happening to people, sorry
patrice
Dec 2012
#47
No. Relying upon credentials while rejecting the views of ordinary Americans who do not claim to
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#82
People with credentials have been wrong before. Did you know that Bush-43 has an MBA degree?
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#87
Neither condition, credentialed or not, is a guarantor of validity or invalidity. The basics are
patrice
Dec 2012
#100
Agreed! And "ordinary Americans who do not claim to have credentials" & represent themselves as
patrice
Dec 2012
#92
I'm not against self expression. I'm against self expression that delivers universal absolutes &
patrice
Dec 2012
#105
By and large it's the same people who have jumped on Obama for the last four years
WI_DEM
Dec 2012
#9
Amazed at how some folks jump to the extreme positive on every republican idea Obama puts out.
Jakes Progress
Dec 2012
#16
"extreme positive"?? WHERE, please? Everyone, including PAUL KRUGMAN, is saying it's too early. SHOW
patrice
Dec 2012
#44
so at least you agree that Mike Bloomberg is doing great things and should be Homeland Security head
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#71
Hell, we've both been here for over 10 years! You're not really amazed, are you?
11 Bravo
Dec 2012
#20
This is their cycle. Ad nauseam. I was wondering when they'd all come back.
MjolnirTime
Dec 2012
#21
I get tired of it when some people are considered 'holy cows' that one should not criticize.
Michigan Alum
Dec 2012
#22
It's possible to think that about either side of what we're seeing here. Who's right? nt
patrice
Dec 2012
#32
OUR problem is Congress. & We are setting ourselves up for a fall in 2014. People won't vote in
patrice
Dec 2012
#27
Make that: Naderites reincarnated as Anarchists reinforced by eager LiberTea Trolls.
patrice
Dec 2012
#31
Jay Gould, "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half" . . .
patrice
Dec 2012
#29
Par for the course with many on this board intent on sowing dissent. It's their only purpose.
Pisces
Dec 2012
#42
He's the adult in the room. Sometimes children hate adults. It's that simple.
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#66
And I'm amazed how some folks accept the same actions from Obama that they condemned Bush for
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#83
What good does waiting for the agreement before we protest it do? It's too late then.
Demit
Dec 2012
#84
Waiting for the facts is a foreign concept 'round these parts. Nice effort on your part.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#93