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Four dead Americans in Benghazi

 
 
Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 05:22 pm
@edgarblythe,
Does even CI think his "good job" was anything more than a polemic?

I could be wrong, but I suspect you are convinced that there was an abundance of facts to bolster Democrat positions on the Plame Affair, "Lawyergate" Iran/Contra and the Teapot Dome scandal.

Is there a scandal from a Democrat president's term that you accept?
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 05:32 pm
@Finn dAbuzz,
Every president does stuff they should not be doing or don't do stuff they should be doing. It's not necessary to make it all up as the Republicans are in these cases. If they had any brains they could find some real issues to go after.
Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 06:16 pm
@edgarblythe,
You didn't answer the question.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 07:03 pm
I am not going to go into every scandal of the past, but Iran/Contra is too juicy to pass on. Reagan was so wrong on Iran/Contra he fully expected to get impeached. But the Democrats rationalized that a man so popular could not be successfully prosecuted that way. However, I do not intend to derail the thread further, since we are here for the present situation.
H2O MAN
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 07:21 pm
@edgarblythe,
That old seed won't ever germinate.
JeffreyEqualityNewma
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 07:47 pm
@H2O MAN,
H2O MAN wrote:

That old seed won't ever germinate.


You left out one of your silly Juvenile comic photo's you normally spam the forum with.
H2O MAN
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 08:09 pm
@JeffreyEqualityNewma,
The silly picture you so desperately need

http://jbos.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/obama_met_hond.jpg
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McGentrix
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 09:40 pm
@JeffreyEqualityNewma,
JeffreyEqualityNewma wrote:

H2O MAN wrote:

That old seed won't ever germinate.


You left out one of your silly Juvenile comic photo's you normally spam the forum with.


Don't you follow Rexred and his picture spewing? I think H2O MAN and his pics do a great job of making a point for those of that refuse to read anything.
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JTT
 
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Reply Mon 20 May, 2013 09:54 pm
@Finn dAbuzz,
Quote:
Is there a scandal from a Democrat president's term that you accept?


This is how they keep the ignorant too busy to worry about the fact that both Dems and Repubs are nothing but crooks, felons, war criminals, terrorists. None of you are, at all, willing to look at the facts.

Instead, you each have your favorite prez/party because you think they represent you and your views. But peel off that thin veneer and there is no material difference.

The sheeple baa baaa baaaaa and wiggle their little rumps, screaming for more.
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revelette
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 08:40 am
Republicans’ Hatred of Obama Blinds Them to Public Disinterest in Scandals
Quote:
Republicans are so focused on their bitter battles against Obama, they can’t see how little impact the “scandals” have had on public opinion.

Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce on a second-term Democratic president they loathe, do not respect, and certainly do not fear. Sound familiar? Perhaps reminiscent of Bill Clinton’s second term, after the Monica Lewinsky story broke? During that time, Republicans became so consumed by their hatred of Clinton and their conviction that this event would bring him down that they convinced themselves the rest of the country was just as outraged by his behavior as they were. By the way, what was Clinton’s lowest Gallup job-approval rating in his second term, throughout the travails of investigations and impeachment? It was 53 percent. The conservative echo machine had worked itself into such a frenzy, the GOP didn’t realize that the outrage was largely confined to the ranks of those who never voted for Clinton anyway.

These days, the country is even more polarized, and the conservative echo chamber is louder than ever before. Many conservatives made it all the way to Election Day last November unaware that their White House nominee was falling short. How could Mitt Romney possibly lose when everyone they knew was voting for him? Except that he did lose, and it wasn’t even a very close race. Five other post-World War II presidential elections had closer outcomes.

The simple fact is that although the Republican sharks are circling, at least so far, there isn’t a trace of blood in the water. A new CNN/ORC survey of 923 Americans this past Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, pegged Obama’s job-approval rating at 53 percent, up a statistically insignificant 2 points since their last poll, April 5-7, which was taken before the Benghazi, IRS, and AP-wiretap stories came to dominate the news and congressional hearing rooms. His disapproval rating was down 2 points since that last survey.

In Gallup’s tracking poll, Obama’s average job-approval rating so far this year is 50 percent. For this past week, May 13-19, his average was 49 percent, the same as the week before. The most recent three-day moving average, through Sunday, May 19, was also 49 percent. Over the past two weeks, even as these three stories/scandals have dominated the news, they have had precisely zero effect on the president’s job-approval numbers. His ratings are still bouncing around in the same narrow range they have been for weeks.

Maybe that will change. Maybe these allegations will start getting traction with voters. But it might just be that Americans are more focused on an economy that is gradually coming out of the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Most economists say the current quarter will show a slowdown in economic growth from the first quarter’s 2.5 percent pace, but they expect the economy to be stronger in the second half of this year. People may be encouraged by housing prices rising and the stock market setting record highs—and their retirement accounts may actually be looking better. The University of Michigan’s widely watched Consumer Sentiment Index is at the highest level since 2007, before the recession. The Conference Board’s more volatile Consumer Confidence Index is also generally moving up, although it isn’t at the record level of the Michigan index. The National Federation of Independent Business’s Index of Small Business Optimism, which took a deep plunge after the election, increased last month and is on an upward trend since the beginning of the year. Maybe the people and businesses polled have written off Washington as a political cesspool, and so these stories don’t affect them much. Perhaps they see this town as a place that can’t seem to get anything right.

One wonders how long Republicans are going to bark up this tree, perhaps the wrong tree, while they ignore their own party’s problems, which were shown to be profound in the most recent elections. Clearly none of these recent issues has had a real impact on voters yet. Republicans seem to be betting everything on them, just as they did in 1998—about which even Newt Gingrich (who was House speaker that year) commented recently to NPR, “I think we overreached in ’98.”

Republicans and conservatives who are so consumed by these “scandals” should ask themselves why, despite wall-to-wall media attention and the constant focus inside the Beltway—some are even talking about grounds for impeachment—Obama’s job-approval needle hasn’t moved. The CNN/ORC poll suggests that people are aware of and watching the news, but they aren’t reacting, at least not yet. Clearly Republicans hope the public will begin to respond. But at what point do they decide that maybe voters might be more interested in other issues or worries than about politicians on one side pointing fingers and throwing allegations at those on the other side? At what point might the GOP conclude that it is just digging the hole a little deeper?


H2O MAN
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 10:00 am
@revelette,


That's nothing more than a democrat smoke screen deployed in a
effort to hide the fact that Obama and his team are a bunch of **** ups.

It's not working.
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 10:04 am
@revelette,
They can't be digging the hole much deeper; their approval rating is at 9%.

At this rate, I believe they are shooting for ZERO; a new goal in politics.

They are obsessed fools!
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hawkeye10
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 10:11 am
@H2O MAN,
given the general abdication of duties we have seen from the citizens over the last decades the revelette quoted opinion is possible, but not likely. the great recession was a wake up call to how fucked we are, nothing has been fixed, and I see no evidence that the people have gone back to sleep.

the Obama poll numbers are skewed because most americans are still tickled pink that we elected a man with light brown skin, they like him and they like him in the chair. he gets far worse opinion on the quality of his work.
H2O MAN
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 10:22 am
@hawkeye10,


Obama has done more to divide this country than any previous president.

Obama's actions woke up the TEA party so he directed government agencies to put them to sleep.

Obama has no idea what it means to be an American and his actions confirm this fact every single day.
JTT
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 10:27 am
@H2O MAN,
Quote:
That's nothing more than a democrat smoke screen deployed in a
effort to hide the fact that Obama and his team are a bunch of **** ups.

It's not working.


Change the date to when a Repub was in and you can state the same thing. The US has never really worked, h20guy; it just limps along, allowing different bands of criminals to fleece all you sheeple.

What brand of lube do you use?
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H2O MAN
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 10:36 am
@H2O MAN,


... on the other hand, Obama has done a very good job of uniting & arming the Islamic Brotherhood
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 10:53 am
@H2O MAN,
H2O MAN wrote:



... on the other hand, Obama has done a very good job of uniting & arming the Islamic Brotherhood

he is currently arming al queda in Syria, which does not end well.

also keep in mind that the contents of Gaddafi armories are now floating around Africa in part thanks to him. Gaddafi had been tamed, he we helping us for fucks sake....this hurts us for no good reason.
H2O MAN
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 10:57 am
@hawkeye10,
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads21/2016themovie+United+States+of+Islam+586x3201355865359.jpg

This film does a very good job of explaining what Obama's mind set and goals are.

http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Entertainment/660/371/2016-obama-660.jpg?ve=1
H2O MAN
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 11:02 am

A United States of Islam?

http://islamkesipahi.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/usi2.png?w=300&h=132
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hawkeye10
 
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Reply Tue 21 May, 2013 11:02 am
@H2O MAN,
Obama's foreign policy is summed up "I dont give a ****!"...he dabbles, to often bad consequences.

losing our ambassador has legs because it fits the established storyline that Obama has established through his actions.
 

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