"Americans want all of us in Washington, especially me to concentrate on the task of

[RB TexLa]

building our nation here at home."


What the president meant and sadly the truth is: You are selfish people who care only about your God damn selves no matter what."

[Brigid]

1. Oh boy.

[RB TexLa]

3. As the president said we do have a duty to the world. But too many of our citizens think only in

terms of "ME, ME, ME!!"

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

12. Bullshit.

We do have a duty to the world? Really?


Is that duty to let the corporations bleed out our jobs overseas and then tell us that they can't find qualified Americans to do the work?

Is that duty to watch our electeds turn a blind eye to main street while they fellate Wall Street, the NSA or the MIC?

Is that duty to watch industry insiders get top jobs in the present administration for god knows what reasoning?

Is that duty to go broke wile CEOs make a killing while flipping us all off?


And we are expected to do what exactly: give up another round of sons and daughters to the sausage machine in order to enhance empire?

[RB TexLa]

13. Yes, we do. We aren't Ecuador, we aren't merely the 145th signatory on a treaty.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

14. Wow. What an indolent and servile reply.

Did you even bother to read my post before you so slavishly agreed to give up another round of America soldiers?

Hey, don't sweat it. I'm sure their suffering will be duly noted by those that call themselves Patriots.

[RB TexLa]

15. I read it. I know, you feel Americans are too precious of human beings to be subject to doing

anything that is not for themselves.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

16. "anything that is not for themselves."

Why don't you explain that rather shallow and baseless comment in detail.

Be specific. Cite examples.


Seeing how the American people have been in a state of war for over a decade, have watched their soldier children come home emotionally damaged, physically damaged, or both not to mention coming home in a box, have watched the national debt skyrocket, have watched US influence plummet, have seen their wages stagnate...if they're lucky enough to have a full time job, have watched their taxes go up, have watched their property values plummet....if they were lucky enough not to be foreclosed upon...while watching as Wall Street CEOs reap the benefit of criminal activity, have watched as their student loans come due while not being able to find work except for that as a barista, watch as their future in college slips away because they won't be able to afford a student loan in the first place now, have watched as practically every institution wants to outsource the remainders of the workforce, have watched as our civil liberties erode, have watched as whistle blowers are treated like criminals while the criminals they uncover walk free, have watched as it has been made clear that our elected officials do not trust us and are spying on us at an alarming and undemocratic rate, have watched how the only people that seem to matter are those in the MIC or with political power or money to buy political power... and you have the unmitigated gall to say that "Americans are too precious of human beings to be subject to doing anything that is not for themselves?"

[Marr]

19. A sickening comment.

I don't believe you're serious with this. You have to be trolling.

[RB TexLa]

20. No. I think it's sad that as a whole we think so selfishly

[Marr]

21. No, it's sickening. Your idea of "doing something for others" is bombing people.

I mean, that's how a normal person would describe baking someone a cake. In the context of bombing people, sickening is exactly the word.

[RB TexLa]

22. If we can achieve it without bombing that is great. But the message the President said he

got from the American people was: "Us, focus on us! We want and we want now!"

[DisgustipatedinCA]

17. Kindly point to where this duty is enumerated in iur Constitution.

[RB TexLa]

18. Here

Article 2 section 2
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur


Article
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land

Along with our moral authority and duty to enforce treaties.

I understand, you want them to do for you and only for you. The isolationism and selfishness that comes out when the world needs us truly is sickening.

[quinnox]

2. LOL

You are baaaaaaaaack!

[Old and In the Way]

4. consecrate? really, he said that?

I've drunk 2 bottles of cheap Cabbie tonight and that doesn't sound right. If I read betwen the lines, I think he might mean we need to figure an energy solution that liberates us from ME oil and the geopolitics that this necessrilly involves us in, but I could be wrong...or drunk.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Consecrate? I'm sure you meant "concentrate". nt

[RB TexLa]

7. Yes I did

[cali]

6. "consecrate"? say what?

[RB TexLa]

8. Spell check error

[NYC_SKP]

10. "Damn you Autocorrect!"

[RB TexLa]

11. OK

[sibelian]

9. Wellll THAT was a bit Freudian.

Ooh dear.

[frustrated_lefty]

23. Hmm

1 in 5 Americans struggling to put food on the table and yet some would still have us enter into another war for oil. One in 5 Americans, many of them no doubt children.

Why do you want American children to starve?

That's truly an unfathomable position, yet you seem so adamant about it.