Your Precious Obummer, a monumental fuck up

I just flat out don't care for his politics.

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AngryReptileKeeper
Not necessarily. I would have to wonder, though. I suppose it depends on the individual. I sure wouldn't want me in office, with some of the things I'd have the gall to try and legislate. Especially when I'm in a bad mood.

Luckily no one can single-handedly legislate anything. It's almost as though the government was designed specifically to prevent any one man - or even any one branch - from wielding supreme governmental power.

The President is the EXECUTIVE branch. Congress is the Legislative. The President can't legislate shit.


And if we start disqualifying people based upon potential "trauma" they experienced because that might cloud their judgment we're going to run out of people qualified to hold office. Besides, I don't want someone in office that's never had anything bad happen to them, and I sure as hell would feel more comfortable serving in the military if the Commander In Chief has done it. If he was a POW all the better - I know he knows exactly what it is he's asking me to do and potentially sacrifice for the nation.

Real life is not like the movies. You can't torture someone and turn them into a secret double-agent with brainwashing etc. It just doesn't work like that. You can't say a special word thirty years down the road and have them turn and kill the Pope.

Shit happens. More shit happens to some people, and worse shit happens to some people. A guy who's had several extra helpings of shit dumped on him and come through it successfully is someone to be respected and an example to follow.


What's the more remarkable story, the one that most bears application to your own life: the guy who was born to poverty and through his own hard work and struggles became a millionaire, or the guy who was born into vast wealth who, through his own hard work and struggles earned just as much money as the first guy?

If the Congress is the same as the President, it is really free reign.

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Konkurrent
And if we start disqualifying people based upon potential "trauma" they experienced because that might cloud their judgment we're going to run out of people qualified to hold office. Besides, I don't want someone in office that's never had anything bad happen to them, and I sure as hell would feel more comfortable serving in the military if the Commander In Chief has done it. If he was a POW all the better - I know he knows exactly what it is he's asking me to do and potentially sacrifice for the nation.

Touche. I hadn't thought of it that way before. :bdid

i think all politicians are crooks out to get what they want which is money and power.. thats it..

their past they use as a stepping stone, if they can use it to push themselves forward they will..

they dont care about you, they dont care about anyone but themselves, and what they can get..

we had tony bliar, (bad spelling on purpose), we had gordon brown, we had maggie and major. all the same..

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Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

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The biggest problem with politics is something that can't be repaired simply:

Those who want the job don't generally deserve it, and vice versa.

Anyone who deserves the responsibility and has the skills to handle it is probably too smart to jump into that shark tank. Everyone who does want into the shark tank is probably a shark.

Complaining that the shark you put into the tank is acting like a shark is futile. They're just like anyone one else with any other job - they want to do what it takes to keep the job. Our job is to make sure that they're in a position to where keeping their job means doing what we hired them to do.

Unfortunately it's just not quite as simple as that, and fixing that makes less sense than trying to fix the main problem. If it were possible to make the job desirable only to those who deserve to do it we'd fix pretty much all the problems all at once.

For example, if a politician's personal welfare and well being were intrinsically linked to the welfare and well being of their constituents, we'd see a massive improvement in politicians acting in the interest of their constituents.


You can't complain because people act like people. Survival of the fittest dictates that we're more inclined to act on our own behalf than on someone else's. When two people are starving the one who gives food to the other is the one who doesn't get to pass on that "weakness" to their offspring. Politicians are merely well-publicized in this "moral shortcoming". All we need to do is link the two: make it in their best interest to act in ours.

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Konkurrent
The biggest problem with politics is something that can't be repaired simply:

Those who want the job don't generally deserve it, and vice versa.

Anyone who deserves the responsibility and has the skills to handle it is probably too smart to jump into that shark tank. Everyone who does want into the shark tank is probably a shark.

Complaining that the shark you put into the tank is acting like a shark is futile. They're just like anyone one else with any other job - they want to do what it takes to keep the job. Our job is to make sure that they're in a position to where keeping their job means doing what we hired them to do.

Unfortunately it's just not quite as simple as that, and fixing that makes less sense than trying to fix the main problem. If it were possible to make the job desirable only to those who deserve to do it we'd fix pretty much all the problems all at once.

For example, if a politician's personal welfare and well being were intrinsically linked to the welfare and well being of their constituents, we'd see a massive improvement in politicians acting in the interest of their constituents.


You can't complain because people act like people. Survival of the fittest dictates that we're more inclined to act on our own behalf than on someone else's. When two people are starving the one who gives food to the other is the one who doesn't get to pass on that "weakness" to their offspring. Politicians are merely well-publicized in this "moral shortcoming". All we need to do is link the two: make it in their best interest to act in ours.

What the hell?!! Your rational and well thought argument has no place in this political discussion.
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