Obama is a genius! Obama is spineless! He caved! He stared them down! He won! He lost!

[wyldwolf]

A casual read of DU these days might leave one very confused.

[kentuck]

1. Who's on first??

WTH is going on?

[Jim Warren]

2. I am a Democrat

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers

[bluerum]

3. What.....

is your favorite color?

[Pryderi]

6. Wednesday. n/t

[Nanjing to Seoul]

34. Queen of Sheeba?

[Kalidurga]

4. I agree completely...

except your premise is entirely wrong. Going over the cliff is a great idea. We are all going to die. I will have salt on my fries, wait no salt. Hey, why didn't I get salt on my fries?

[liberal N proud]

5. Some of that is coming from trolls

That is my take on it.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. Some postes were calling, in a round about way, other duers with thousands of points trolls.

It wasn't just a few of the old timers that were being called out either.

The word "troll" has different meanings to some here.

[Fumesucker]

13. "Someone I disagree with" seems to be the operative definition for many

Me, I think of trolling in the fishing sense, casting out bait and gently reeling it back in while waiting to see if you hook a big one.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

24. I usually see troll as one who lives under a bridge threatening way wayfarers.

[LisaLynne]

10. Yeah, I think that is more true than we would like to think.

Trolls who just want to disrupt. Add that in with the reactionary worriers and ... yeah.

[uponit7771]

36. +1!

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. I never use harsh language in relation to the POTUS,

but members on DU can have whatever opinions that they believe in. If they can back them up with reliable evidence then even better.

[octoberlib]

8. +1000

[TDale313]

11. No one ever said...

Cat herding was easy But still love this place.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

29. +1 nt

[Skittles]

12. yup

it's the EITHER / OR, black & white views that make people look fucking stupid

[Fumesucker]

15. That's a rather black/white way of looking at things

[Skittles]

16. HOWDY FUMESUCKER

good to see you hanging in there despite all this....shit, ya know?

[Fumesucker]

17. 2012 was a hell of a ride

And it looks like 2013 is starting off with a bang too.

[Skittles]

18. yeah

we need to take both America AND DU back

[NMDemDist2]

19. +1 n/t

[lindysalsagal]

14. All of the elected D.C. officials know each other really really well.

It's a very small town with spies in every corner. They all know exactly where each other's bearing points are. D.C. is less like a college football game than a Harlem Globetrotter's exhibition. They're singing the same opera up there, and they know far more about each other than we think they do.

The Teabag kabuki game was good cover for a while, but there's a limit. They actually know those tea baggers are never voting dem, so they can double back and live to fight another day, and each one of them knows that.

Obama knows it, too.

They're all going to enlarge government. The only difference is that the GOP whiners will overact.

[JohnnyLib2]

20. Hurray for the Dummies book!

I've been hoping for that. Will there be an addendum for Meta?

[treestar]

21. Obama, Obama, Obama

Some posters act as if no one else is involved.

[JEB]

25. Policy is of superior importance,

personalities not so much. Or at least that is how I see it.

[femmocrat]

22. That book should be required reading for star membership.

Or for jury duty! hehehehe

(I'm kidding!!!!)

[freshwest]

23. OBAMA is ALL of those things! I know the TRUTH and NO ONE can prove me wrong. So there!

White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars

...Between 1981 and 1983, Obama is supposed to have visited Mars twice, by way of a teleportation chamber called a “jump room.” Basiago, a fellow chrononaut, told the website Exopolitics that he saw Obama “walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain.” To acknowledge his comrade, Obama is said to have told Basiago, “We’re here” — apparently, “with some sense of fatalism.”

It is not known what exactly Obama did on Mars. (Socializing Martian health care, perhaps? Building a birth-certificate printing press?) His mission was a perilous one, according to Basiago and Stillings. The CIA wished to “establish a defense regime protecting the Earth from threats from space” as well as a legal claim to “territorial sovereignty,” making Obama something of a Martian conquistador. Presumably, Obama’s CIA handlers needed him to “acclimate Martian humanoids and animals to their presence” in order to secure the U.S.-Martian alliance. (We’ll bet you weren’t even aware of Martian animals.)

“Simply put, your task is to be seen and not eaten,” an elder chrononaut, retired Army Maj. Ed Dames, is alleged to have told a young Obama.

You can scoff at the idea of Obama on Mars. But it explains a lot. Obviously the birth-certificate controversy is a side effect of Obama forgetting to sufficiently establish his fake identity as he learned to manipulate time and space. (Dugan has a demonstrated record of supporting space travel; the “jump room” must be broken.) And who else but a man accustomed to keeping the country’s most explosive secret would be comfortable waging so many undeclared wars? Ignore Basiago and Stillings at your own peril. If Obama’s reelected, the U.S. is finally colonizing Mars.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/obama-mars/

Accept it! This was pre-ordained! You're all gonna...

Well, at any rate, I'm gonna...

[loyalkydem]

26. In order to avoid confusion I usually ignore the ones who complain about caving

it makes the place easier to deal with

[ZombieHorde]

27. Funny. nt

[Mr.Turnip]

28. Well I personally think he both won and lost here.

The deal isn't particularly bad to me but he could have gotten much better and the Republicans are going to throw a fit over the debt ceiling again.

[MassedPole]

30. I thought he caved.

[JoePhilly]

39. Which is why this morning, Boehner is lying in a pool of his own sick, with Obama's foot print

on his ass.

[grantcart]

32. He punted and he scored!

[Mosaic]

33. He's on his way to Hawaii

I'd say he won.

[politicasista]

35. Hope he has a good one

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back in Hawaii.

[GeorgeGist]

37. Home invasion ...

moderate Republican style.

[JoePhilly]

38. Chapter 1: How to move the goal posts.

Put wheels on the goal posts ...


Chapter 2: Caves versus Gopher holes, know the difference!

Gopher Hole ...


Cave ...