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In reply to the discussion: American State of the Union: A Festival of Lies [View all]dionysus
(26,467 posts)311. LOL, double points!
1) counterpunch
2) repeating the glen beckian type "Obama is penny pritzker's puppet" type spew...
u been reading TheBlaze much bro?
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Yes, the predictability of those who try to deflect from inconvenient questions
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#210
Well at least you agree he's just a lying corporate tool while you're being rude and condescending.
cui bono
Jan 2014
#154
The President "danced like Mr. Bojangles to get around the issues at hand," is insightful?
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#449
Keep trying but I dont think you will get any of them to commit. They support whatever
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#218
For some reason I'm imagining having dropped a fish on the pier and frantically
ChisolmTrailDem
Jan 2014
#229
So you're against the anti-democratic attempt at pushing through TPP without public debate?
cui bono
Jan 2014
#161
Arent you falling for the distraction? I have a hunch that he supports whatever Pres
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#190
They put loyalty above principles. I have asked over and over for someone
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#217
Lucky them, at least their government is apparently aware of what is in it. Our Congress
sabrina 1
Feb 2014
#321
Even the best estimates show TPP to be essentially a zero-sum game for Japan
Art_from_Ark
Feb 2014
#323
I'm not familiar with him but that doesn't sound like a RW talking point to me.
cui bono
Jan 2014
#168
What I do know is not good. Do you know anything good? Do you like NAFTA? WTO? CAFTA?
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#258
I think that's just fine if you want to wait. But while you are waiting it isnt cool to disparage
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#268
Only those with their fingers in their ears and their eyes closed dont know.
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#283
How do you know if they are facts or not? You told us you didnt know anything about it.
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#329
Said zappaman, the DUer who supports Allen Dulles, J Edgar Hoover and Gerald Ford.
Octafish
Feb 2014
#361
This same guy is on satellite radio all the time bashing Obama on the Mark Thompson Show
brush
Jan 2014
#243
Easy, Bush crashed the economy with winger econ policies and handed the rich no strings money...
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#45
Another winger meme - it wasn't totally bushes fault. It was, he's the ONLY president in US history
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#55
My attack was directed at the author who has a long record of anti-Dem, anti-Obama writings. nt
tridim
Jan 2014
#153
It does suck. A lot. Especially when he had all that political capital and he just squandered it.
cui bono
Jan 2014
#186
Wish it weren't so, but it's Year Six and there's no New New Deal on the horizon.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#8
During the 2012 Presidential Debates, Mit Romney mentioned the Obama's Pacific/China Portfolio.
DhhD
Jan 2014
#83
These are desperate times, and I'm a firm believer in trying every tool in the box
LuvNewcastle
Feb 2014
#367
I said I hate when white people post things from there and act like it represents the majority
bravenak
Jan 2014
#220
Wow. There's a few things I'd say right now but you would accuse me of being racist...
cui bono
Jan 2014
#234
I hate the black agenda report. It's a hateful publication that to me is similar to stormfront.
bravenak
Jan 2014
#236
You'll be in good company. Msanthrope, one of the SMARTEST fucking people here, does the same
Number23
Jan 2014
#270
Thank you! I realize that I am late to this thread...but I have an excuse...
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#450
I'm surprised that people act like they don't know how black people feel about the BAR.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#353
Do you think this "black publication" represents more than a tiny minority of black opinion?...
SidDithers
Jan 2014
#104
If you don't know the publication, maybe you should refrain from defending them...nt
SidDithers
Jan 2014
#133
Cornell west has spent the last few years pissing off the black community and me in particular.
bravenak
Jan 2014
#313
So, rather than address what the Administration is doing, you slam Cornel West.
Octafish
Feb 2014
#376
Why try to make ignorance contagious, zappaman? Learn how Wall Street Killed Financial Reform.
Octafish
Feb 2014
#417
The richest people in the world have been using Washington to make wars for profit...
Octafish
Feb 2014
#421
Not familiar with it are you? It was very popular with Democrats throughout the Bush years like
sabrina 1
Feb 2014
#415
Now that I read it, indeed it was. Very hard-hitting, but then, the truth tends to be like that
quinnox
Jan 2014
#102
You may assume what you want, Dr. Gibson is a professor of sociology at University of Pittsburgh.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#38
I was not aware of Donald Gibson...thanks for bringing his work to my attention!
deutsey
Jan 2014
#90
You are most welcome, deutsey! If you can, add Gerald D. McKnight to your reading list...
Octafish
Jan 2014
#128
+1, winger meme and wording all thrown into one asinine phrase "presided over" as if Bush didnt
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#50
BULL FUCKIN SHIT!!! Clinton did NOT implement the NDPA... the economy crashing was Bush's DIRECT han
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#60
Clinton pushed for financial deregulation, NAFTA and many other things that ledf to the mess
Armstead
Jan 2014
#68
When he had the chance to end the Bush tax cuts by doing nothing. He extended them.
grahamhgreen
Jan 2014
#126
Washington -- Geithner -- sacrificed homeowners to “foam the runway” for the banks.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#71
Thank you, hay rick! Geithner bailed out Wall Street THIEVES with the US TAXPAYER's money.
Octafish
Feb 2014
#366
He is the CIC of the US military. It it a title that applies to him whether you are military or not.
bravenak
Jan 2014
#150
He's not, those who say such are usually wingers in the first place and lay out anecdotal evidence
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#52
+1, we do... we've experience the non objectivity that can make people seem crazy. Obama's getti
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#65
I'm mixed and I still support him. He's not going to be able to overturn 300 years of evil in 8 but
kelliekat44
Jan 2014
#34
I didn't expect the Democratic Party to abandon him in 2010 and then whine when he couldn't
bravenak
Jan 2014
#84
So I'm racist for pointing out that the one black president has been treated worse by his
bravenak
Jan 2014
#146
So we are expected to overlook everything we donlt like simply because of his race?
Armstead
Jan 2014
#147
You are expected to give him just as much credit as you'd give any other president
bravenak
Jan 2014
#148
I think you're entitlted to think I'm a racist and I'm entitled to think that it's disgusting that
cali
Feb 2014
#358
Another winger meme on the intertubes... NO he's not... still highest approval rates and some winger
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#51
Meanwhile, the Big Players were off the Corporate McPravda radar, like Jackson Stephens...
Octafish
Feb 2014
#370
like everyone else in this thread who hates the op, you have no ability to respond
cali
Jan 2014
#39
+1, "presided over" as if Bush's NDPA had nothing to do with the overheated housing market that
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#62
I was just pointing out that you did the same exact thing you were getting on him for.
bravenak
Jan 2014
#227
Winger meme - "who has presided over the sharpest increases in economic inequality" is to act as if
uponit7771
Jan 2014
#42
Agree: The line of economic criminality goes back to 1971 and Reverse Robin Hood.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#93
So what? Global Research adds to what we know. You, on the other hand, don't.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#131
Are you implying that the black agenda reports is supposed to mean something to black people?
bravenak
Jan 2014
#204
Thousands of good jobs repairing and rebuilding Americas infrastructure are still waiting
randr
Jan 2014
#81
Yeah. But that would mean BFEE - those who profit from mineral extraction - would have to sacrifice.
Octafish
Feb 2014
#478
"That's absolute bullshit. It will have an immediate impact on a half a million workers."
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#199
I am happy to go thru it again. Your statement that, "It will have an immediate impact on a half a
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#224
Yes, that's my claim. What does that have to do with the Ford's bullshit claim?
ProSense
Jan 2014
#226
President Obama has always used Bill Clinton's third way as a guide in his Admin.
Vinnie From Indy
Jan 2014
#100
Being able to take conservative policies and make a few minor adjustments was Bill Clinton's
Vinnie From Indy
Feb 2014
#395
Where Democrats from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party may still find refuge...
Octafish
Feb 2014
#471
Income inequality is a symptom, the disease is a corrupt political system and campaign finance
mother earth
Jan 2014
#175
Is This Barack Obama's 2nd Term? Is it Bill Clinton's 3rd? Or Is It Ronald Reagan's 9th?
Octafish
Jan 2014
#249
Fred Hampton saw the big picture too, here's a K&R in his memory (I met him in 1967, no lie!)
bobthedrummer
Jan 2014
#196
WHY do you even bother responding to that person? He types the same damn thing in every thread!
Number23
Jan 2014
#269
I am guessing that when our corporate masters put H. Clinton-Sachs in the WH that
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#271
If you call being against the growing wealth inequality "self-righteous nonsense"
rhett o rick
Jan 2014
#279
You posted a link to wiki instead of reponding to a question about your vote...
ProSense
Jan 2014
#298
we need a NEW democratic party, and not one built from the ashes of the current one....
mike_c
Jan 2014
#257
if you think dismissing glen ford's article as bullshit is a hideable offense, then alert.
dionysus
Jan 2014
#308
Glen Ford: Wall Street and the wealthiest Americans have bought Washington...
Octafish
Feb 2014
#444
"Danced like Mr. Bojangles" is how your source described the President. And you post that racist
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#448
Disingenuous. Ford did not write that in the article I posted. It came from your article.
Octafish
Feb 2014
#451
So. You're demanding I explain to you why you dragged in the article you dragged in.
Octafish
Feb 2014
#456
''Wall Street–the 1 percent–believes the world is theirs for the taking, and they want all of it.''
Octafish
Feb 2014
#460
No..I'm demanding you explain why Glen Ford..a man that has used racist language to
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#459
I think it's vile to pick a racist source..but to pick a source because you think that having
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#469
You are mistaken if you think the message of a racist is worth discussing. nt
msanthrope
Feb 2014
#468
Here's the bottom line: Welfare for the Wealthy and Austerity for the Many...
Octafish
Feb 2014
#490