Here are some questions for Obama Supporters:
1. I have spent most of the last two days looking at liberal blogs throughout the nation. The vast, vast majority of blogs are ripping GOP presidential candidates but very few praise Obama. If Obama is such a wonderful liberal president, why don't the liberal blogs praise him instead of going after his opponents?
2. Why is Obama threatening to cut off Social Security payments when Social Security has a dedicated tax and is supposed to be solvent for the next few decades?
3. Why are the Democrats, except Obama, not involved in the budget debate? Is his narcissism making him do this or the are Democrats not supporting him?
4. If social security and the military is not paid on August 3rd, will Obama's staff still be paid? The cooks, waiters, house keepers etc...
5. When will Obama admit that the economy is his and that the things he has tried has failed?
6. Obama has said he has hundreds of thousands of dollars that he doesn't need. Why hasn't he donated those hundred's of thousands of dollars to a charity or to the government? Why is he waiting for a law to be passed to get rid of his extra money?
7. Why did Obama oppose tax increases a few months ago but now he wants to increase taxes?
8. How come the Libyan thug, Qaddafi, is not out of power yet?
9. When was the last time President has stopped and talked in an inner city of a poor city?
10. How come, based on the President's schedule via the White House, he is not scheduled to meet with House and/or Senate leaders for the rest of the week, if this debt issue is so important?
Just wondering about the President's priorities and his views. And why he continues to hate the poor, elderly and the disabled?
Bolton v. US, et. al.
35 minutes ago
Here you go. . .
ReplyDelete1. Most of us progressives/liberals/Democrats don't think Obama is a liberal. He's a centrist, and rarely starts with anything less than a centrist position, and then bargains toward the right. He's better than a Republican, but he's not the foaming-at-the-mouth liberal you all claim he is.
2. Social Security IS threatened when the government has no money-spending power, which is what would happen if the the debt limit isn't raised. ALL spending would have to be prioritized, and somebody has to make those decisions.
3. Other Democrats are involved, Biden, Pelosi and Reid at least.
4. I'd rather not find out who gets paid. Did you see that they're running out of beer and cigarettes in Minnesota because of the government shut down there? Oh. My. God.
5. Obama's policies haven't quite "failed," they've just been under-performing. . .if the stimulus had been bigger, I think things would be better, but he went with the biggest he thought he could get. I think things would be much worse without it though. Things ARE getting better, just slowly better. Tell me, WHAT SHOULD HE HAVE DONE INSTEAD?
6. That's just goofy.
7. Obama was against the Bush tax cuts, and only extended them because it was the only bargain he could strike to get extended unemployment. And the taxes he wants to increase now? Uber-rich taxes? Cutting oil/gas/huge corporation subsidies? Getting rid of loopholes? What's wrong with that?
8. Dunno. Qaddafi seems to be some sort of enchanted douchebag we have to live with. Got Bin Laden though!
9. I don't understand this question. Obama was a community organizer--the very definition of what you are asking--and is heavily ridiculed for it in right-wing world.
10. My impression was that he was meeting with them every single day until this is resolved. Dunno, if that has changed.
Your unnumbered last question is something you'd slap me for if I asked it about Cantor or Boehner or McConnell. The poor, elderly and disabled (and the young, and the unemployed, and the sick) are the ones being targeted by the new batch of GOP governors in their budget slashing. What did Obama do to them?
Honestly, this whole debate has strayed so far from the real facts. The debt ceiling has been raised something like 75 times since JFK, as much by conservatives as liberals. It is usually passed with little to no fanfare, and what hay is made is only a token response by the opposition party, with no real effort made at stopping it. This brouhaha is brand new. This wasn't controversial until this year. What changed?