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In reply to the discussion: To us non-Americans, Obama is Doing a Pretty Good Job! [View all]Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)80. You're not from the US -
you have been on this site for 1 month, and you presume to tell us what is good for us?
Stick around and learn a few thing. The fact is, he has already shown us what he can do.
He can kill innocents just as good as any hawk out there.
He can deprive people of their civil rights just as well as any banana republic.
He can cut back room deals just as good as any Wall Street crook.
He can look the other way at war crimes and financial crimes as good as any other bought politician.
I am an American. I am a liberal. I am a (by a very thin thread) a Democrat.
Sorry, but he just doesn't cut it for me.
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We here in America don't care about what other nations think of us. We're the best
gateley
Jan 2012
#37
Damn straight! USA baby! We can't trust Canadians anyway. 90% of them live within 100 miles of
pampango
Jan 2012
#46
I tend to agree. He hasn't been as transparent or honest or courageous as he could have been, and
anAustralianobserver
Jan 2012
#13
Yes your Senate needs reforming and it seems to be set up such that it can only reform itself,
anAustralianobserver
Jan 2012
#39
Like yours the states have the same number of senators which causes
anAustralianobserver
Jan 2012
#71
If you read more than my post title you'll see I tend to agree with that,
anAustralianobserver
Jan 2012
#35
Yes, many of us life it but what these two posters are reminding us is that it will NOT get better b
jwirr
Jan 2012
#55
If that is the only damned choices I have then yes, lesser of two evils. Give me someone else who
jwirr
Jan 2012
#58
Roosevelt had to deal with the same "the liberal left" (his words) all during his eight years
demosincebirth
Jan 2012
#28
If your post is sincere and not propaganda, you are clearly a very poor judge of character.
Edweird
Jan 2012
#24
I don't like Obama because he didn't do anything to save the delta smelt!!
demosincebirth
Jan 2012
#27
Gave up and sold us out. But hey a Canadian who hasn't a worry about losing social safety nets
SammyWinstonJack
Jan 2012
#83
In your scenario about going toward a cliff at 120 mpg, a Centrist would say "Slow down to 60."
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#66