Reminds me of all the flack that Bush got about not having the “gravitas” to be president. Obama is truly the anti-gravitas president!

So, does this mean you and your ilk with slither back under your rock and continue to dwell in the underbelly of society away from the productive people who make it work?

We can hope!!!

Change!!

Obama probably has “first hand” experience with tea bagging. He’s just revealing the contents of his mind.

Wow! If you did vote for a 3rd party canidate than you and others that voted like you are partly responsible for Obama’s victory.

While it may be true, the notion that we have to vote for only one of two parties is part of the problem. We need more competition in the process.

While I held my nose for McCain, I will never do that again. I will, like ellinas, vote for the candidate that I feel honors my views the best. I will never vote by party again. I will vote by principle.

It’s the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God.

So Obama was being naive when he claimed the ability to unite all Americans?

Was he being naive when he promised transparency?
Was he being naive when he promised ethical governance?
Was he being naive when he promised fiscal responsibility?
Was he being naive when he promised net deficit reductions?
Was he being naive when he promised to win in Afghanistan?
etc, etc…

Either that, or was hoping for the impossible.

These are all his decisions to keep his promise or not. He promised to show
bills on the White House web site for 5 days before he signs them, for the
most part, the whole of Congress is FAR more secrative than it has EVER
been. Bills made into law without them having been read at all, let alone
showed to the people for review.

He promised ethics… Is lying ethical behaviour?

etc…etc

He has control over ALL of it, yet choses to do the opposite of what he
promised. This is NOT naive… Nor is this “hoping for the impossible.”

Do you REALLY have a counceling service? Do you enable liers in your
counceling sessions? Do you embolden the sadistic by excusing their
behaviour? Do you rationalize the sickness rather than confronting it?

Well ellinas, at least we agree Obama is naive. And I commend you for noting Obama’s “hope and change” was empty rhetoric that fooled enough Americans to get him elected.

syantiss, are you Seth Yantiss?

Oh, Since I was forthcoming, a question: Why do you want to know?

Trying to find some discrepancy in my opinions? Someplace where I’ve been on the government dole? Some hypocracy in my statements?

Nah!!! Was just making sure it is the Seth Yantiss I
knew. Personally? From where? (rough section of the country
will do)

I consider you an honorable and honest person,

I
try, but have made my share of horrific mistakes.

albeit on the
wrong side of the political spectrum.

Sorry, but there is no
way you fully understand the value of freedom and what the intention of the
Founders, and why it worked so well. Read “The 5000 Year Leap”.

No matter though, as we do converse civilly. The few rib shots
here and there are inconsequential, as the bulk of the conversation is
honest sparing.

The only thing I cannot stand is someone who has truth presented before
them, and still cling to their lie. Nothing is more frustrating as someone
telling you the sky is green (unless they also see a blue car as green, but
I’m sure you get the point.)

We are, each of us, a collection of personal experiences that sum our values
and interpretations of our surroundings. We all have choices and decisions
to make on the wide array of topics, the world over (and beyond). Debate
that devolves into strawmen or debasing, or lying, is unhelpful to the
transfer of the ideas or principles that formulated the thought being
debated.

The purpose of my avatar, the reason I like the symbol so much, is, in part,
due to the nature of the circle. We are all whole as individuals, wrapped
within ourselves, good and evil, light and dark, strong and weak, ignorant
and knowledgeable. As a society, this is true as well.

No matter though, as we do converse civilly. The few rib shots
here and there are inconsequential, as the bulk of the conversation is
honest sparing.

I appreciate the compliments. So far
there have only been a few that I cannot converse with civilly. Dino is
one. The sky is green…

You have to be in some pretty deep denial to not think a Tea Bagger isn’t anti-government or someone who want’s to be united.

I will grant that Obama’s policies make it hard for people to “unite”. But he isn’t a cruel, heartless and mean spirited person like the Teabaggers.

F>ck the teabaggers. They made him enemy number one. And they have become my political enemy as well.

But no matter what you can neither unite, nor copulate with people who don’t want you.

You can if you have exclusive use of force… you know… Like the Government has.

That is called rape. You have not been raped. When that occurs,
I will avail my counseling services to you and others that are similarly
situated.

There are many forms of “rape”. The term “Rape” is most commonly used to
express the act of forced sexual activity, but Rape can be used to describe
any forceable removal of an individual.

If someone removes your kidney or gives you a lobotomy, the term “Rape” can
be applied to these acts.

Likewise, forcing me to part with some of my life can be termed “Termed”.
Wouldn’t you agree?

My life can be translated to money as I exchange a share of my life or time
for it.

Forcing me to part with my money is the same as forcing me to part with my
time or life… therefore, “Rape”, especially if that money goes to fund
services that I do not use or want.

So, I have been raped. I am raped daily by our Federal Government.

If you cannot see that life and liberty are the same as personal sexuality,
then I certainly do not want your counceling services.

Wrong on both counts; he was lying, and continues to lie.

Suck my nuts

Aww ya fooled me, I didn’t read all the words. I should have known that your headlines are usually misleading. I thought the President said those things. I should have taken your advice when you told me to learn to read.

So, this is really just another unprovoked attack on the President that the majority of voters elected. Another bunch of sour grapes.

Conservatives will have a hard time getting sympathy after the way they act.

Stop whining.

If you cannot see that life and liberty are the same as personal sexuality,
then I certainly do not want your counseling services.

Type your comment here.

I did not intend my use of the word “rape” to mean a sexual assault.
You do have options.

One is, if I may suggest, moving to Bangladesh.
The tax rates are extremely low, medical services are individual responsibility as government and business do not provide for medical care, no Social Security, no Medicare (read: socialized medical care), no regulations to hinder bossiness (you can work your employees 16 or more hours daily with no breaks, no days off, no safety regulations etc) free market principles etc. etc.
A conservative paradise, I am told,

You liberal idiots are the only ones who believe America and government are synonymous. To be anti-government and pro-American is not a bad thing. It is to support the ideal that the individual can be and is the font from which the power of the state flows. You liberals on the other hand believe power flows from the state to the people in whatever amount the state allows. This is no different from believing that might makes right.

I am the most powerful thing there is. You can whip me, beat me, kill me, but you cannot change my spirit, you cannot have my mind. I am my own person. Your beliefs have it that my power is from without. My power is from within. YOUR power is from without and it is entirely subject to being taken away from you at any time. You have a sense of that and it gives you fear and you seek power to distance you from that feeling.

Never works, does it? When your looks fail, and your money is spent, and your glibness fails, you will have nothing because all you had was predicated on everyone else and not at all on you.

To be reflexively pro-government on the idea that it is the essence of patriotism gave us the barbaric ham-fisted behavior of the Red Scare which hurt actual loyal Americans and missed hundreds of very much pro-Soviet people. How does it feel to be an intellectual brother in arms to Senator McCarthy?

Another astoundingly ignorant statement. Politicians generally lie …………….mark him as one of the biggest liars ever to deceive the American people into electing him.

Sorry you were mesmerized and awestruck like a teenager by Sarah Palin thus unable to discern the truth.

So that justifies him calling people he disagrees with “tea baggers”? And
implying that they’re “extremists”?

After everything he has been called on your blog by you and others, you ask a question like this?

Well the tu quoque argument is a fallacy for a reason. “you do it too” is the sort of defense a third grader comes up with.

For what its worth I’ve defended Obama when I’ve felt the attacks on him were unfair. I don’t take responsibility for what other people say.

No he actually said those words and was quoted as saying them in the article.

Personally? From where? (rough section of the country
will do)

Not personally, but from this blog. You used to use your full name. Was trying to ascertain that you were the same one.

The only thing I cannot stand is someone who has truth presented before
them, and still cling to their lie.

I feel the same way. When I was growing up in Greece, I learned through the educational system, there was/is only one truth.
On top of modern Greek, I learned Classical Greek, “Hellenistic” Greek (the language of the new testament), studied philosophy, the ancient philosophers, studied Ethics, Religion political science (ancient and modern), and a plethora of other subjects to include the English language. I traveled extensively all over the world, with the exception of Latin America (Panama was the furthest South American country I went), China and Russia.
When I came to the USA, I was shocked to learn that the “truth” had many faces, was politically and religiously motivated.
I am open to studying what other people consider as truth, but am also fiercely independent and reserve the right to reject what I consider contrary to my values.

The sky is blue…..with a few white wisps of clouds scattered about…….

I’ll take you to task on your remark . Obama is the president. And he makes these kind of remarks? His true colors are showing thru.

His true colors were showing during the campaign for the presidency.

I will take you to task on your remark.
Were you so mesmerized and awestruck by Sarah Palin to the point you could not see through the rhetoric?

Once again, do you like the “change” you got?

Yes I did vote for a 3rd party candidate. The ones presented to me by the two major parties were nothing but the opposite sides of the same coin, as both parties IMO serve the needs and wants of the monied and well conected, and not the people.

As far as change goes I got none. Thing are the same for me. The only ones that got “change” were the monied and well connected bankers and incompetent CEO’s of failed banks, and large corporations, under both the Bush and Obama administrations..

So Obama was being naive when he claimed the ability to unite all Americans?

I think so.
Either that, or was hoping for the impossible.

“But no matter what you can neither unite, nor copulate with people who don’t want you.”

I think Obama/Pelosi are attempting to copulate me.

Remember when, after getting elected, Obama said he was going to be a President for all Americans? Remember when he said he was going to usher in a new era of unity?

Yeah, I remember.
But no matter what you can neither unite, nor copulate with people who don’t want you.

Simple as that.

The bulk of your comments and posts are obscene and untruthful personal attack, interspersed with crude homosexual references and outright lies, while remaining completely ignorant of the subject matter at hand.

Whatever you say uncle Robie180.
I don’t argue with 86 year olds.

I think Obama/Pelosi are attempting to copulate me.

Resist with all your might. You should be the copulator, not the copulatee.

Wow! If you did vote for a 3rd party canidate than you and others that voted like you are partly responsible for Obama’s victory.

Once again, do you like the “change” you got?

syantiss, are you Seth Yantiss?

Do you REALLY have a counseling service?

No I do not have a counseling service. What I meant was I will listen to whatever ails you and offer advise. Not hard to do, when one has been on this earth as long as I have.

So that justifies him calling people he disagrees with “tea baggers”? And
implying that they’re “extremists”?