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2016 Postmortem

Cosmocat

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12. I would like ad one caveat

Reply to unblock (Reply #10)

Sun May 6, 2012, 02:06 PM

May 2012

the former, half wit clown president quite literally dropped pretty much every ball that went to air during his presidency, out of the sheer boredom of actually having to do the job.

From allowing 9-11 to happen on his watch, to allowing the budget to go bizarrely into debt, to allowing the economy to get run into the ditch, to Katrina ...

President Obama takes actually doing the job, and the heavy thinking required with it, seriously.

It IS the business of politics the way it is set up here now, that the president does all this campaigning.

IF he actually is doing the job, RIGHT, then so be it.

What chaffed me about Bush was he didn't really want to do THE JOB, while he was jetting all over the place doing the campaigning.

It was a 100 percent POLITICAL operation vs BO, who managed to actually run the country while doing the campaigning.

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HOW THE HELL DID PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS TRAVEL . . . [View all] madashelltoo May 2012 OP

Ronald Reagan just thought about where he needed to be and instantly materialized there. tanyev May 2012 #1

don't you know? The "liberally-biased media" doesn't think it's horrendous zbdent May 2012 #2

It's not a new issue Enrique May 2012 #3

It's a stupid issue, really... Drunken Irishman May 2012 #6

OMG!!! Could you imagine madashelltoo May 2012 #8

These Greedy Obfuscating Parasites have nothing truthfully negative to say about Obama, so they Cal33 May 2012 #4

Doesn't any plane the president's on automatically become Air Force One? Iggo May 2012 #5

Yes. Technically, any aircraft carrying the President is designated Air Force One... Drunken Irishman May 2012 #7

i think the movie you're thinking of was called, um, "air force one".... unblock May 2012 #9

actually, the opposition party always trots this issue out. unblock May 2012 #10

I would like ad one caveat Cosmocat May 2012 #12

can't argue with a word of that unblock May 2012 #15

The Right's argument is that Obama has campaigned more and held more fundraisers Beacool May 2012 #11

Whether or not it's true, the issue will continue to escalate Hippo_Tron May 2012 #13

Obama does more for this country in his sleep madashelltoo May 2012 #14

I think that it's a disgrace how much money is spent to get anyone elected. Beacool May 2012 #16

If his opponents weren't going to have more money than God, he wouldn't have to. Arkana May 2012 #18

They flew on AF1. Arkana May 2012 #17