“If Obama is the food stamp president-then Bush was the planes crashing into buildings president"

[kpete]

Maher Mocks Conservatives as Racists and Defends Liberal Hatred of Bush

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The one complaint they have is they really are sensitive about the idea that they are racist. And not all of them, of course, are. But then they do like nine racist things every week.

And this is what I want to say to them, is like stuff like this strikes me, like saying that you're threatened, Newt Gingrich calling Obama the "food stamp President" because he took office in a recession when people were needing more food stamps. It's like calling George Bush the "planes crashing into buildings President."

..............Say what you will about the left's hatred of Bush, at least we were hating on the real guy. We didn't invent a boogeyman who tanked the economy, took us to war on false pretenses, and tortured prisoners. That was the actual guy.

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[stlsaxman]

3. how did i ever guess that this was your first post to Democratic Underground?

- "lucky?"

[Swede]

4. I don't like your new sock puppets name.

Try again.

[Rex]

7. Wow, did that touch a nerve or something?

Bill is right on the money, again. Must suck being right so much.

[Major Nikon]

8. Believe it or not, 2 people voted NOT to hide that post

[lpbk2713]

16. I suspect some vote that way because they don't like the jury system at all.

I've seen other votes where the verdict would seem obviously unanimous
but it didn't turn out that way. Just a guess on my part however.

[Major Nikon]

18. Pretty sad if that's the case

Saying it's OK for a freeper to post here because you are turned off by the jury system is just nutty, but I do agree with the possibility of that motivation. I can't think of any other reasons.

[Rex]

21. I am inclined to agree with you as a Host

and I believe it is the people that complain the MOST about the system being a failure...that are trying to sink it by gaming the system.

[tridim]

2. I don't like that analogy, simply because BUSH is the food stamp president.

It is a fact that he is responsible for the lingering effects of the American economy he helped destroy.

Of course he is also the "ignore the pre-9/11 warnings" pResident and the "let Bin Laden go at Tora Bora" pResident, not to mention the "bail out the TBTF banks" pResident.

Obama is the "clean up Bush's destruction and turn every economic indicator back into a positive President", all despite 100% GOP obstruction.

[Denninmi]

5. Food stamp program participation wouldn't have gone up under Pres. Obama IF...

Bush and the rest of the republican mafiosi hadn't completely trashed the economy in the first place.

[limpyhobbler]

6. I would be proud to be called the Food Stamp President because food stamps are awesome.

The main problem with food stamps is they are too hard to get.

We need a real food stamp president who will give food stamps to anybody who needs them.

[southernyankeebelle]

9. Bill was hot last night. Sure was proud of him. He of course was right. However, that girl

in the middle never shut up. Of course neither did the republican who looked upset from the beginning last night. Martin hardly got a chance to talk and I wanted to hear what he had to say. Foley did have some points.

[rurallib]

10. not only did she not shut up, she had nothing to say when she spoke.

[FarLeftFist]

12. She really said that global warming is happening but ONLY because of sunspots.

Crazy chick.

[southernyankeebelle]

13. LOL, your right. I wanted to stick my head through the screen and tell her to shut up. Wondered

was wrong with the republican? He seemed mad from the very beginning. Like he didn't want to be there. He never gave any credit to Obama for anything. The hate for Obama just seem to ooze from his mouth.

[FarLeftFist]

15. Like Bill said, "There's that bubble again, conservatives live inside a bubble".

Then all of Rohrbacher's talking points got vaporized.

[southernyankeebelle]

19. Thanks I couldn't remember his name. He sure did vaporize him and he still couldn't deal with

facts. Just talking about the Clinton raising taxes and how it helped the man was unbelievable. He made himself look stupid.

[FarLeftFist]

11. Maher dismantled the conservatives using facts and pointing out how they live in a bubble.

It was good to see.

[southernyankeebelle]

14. It was but alas they still are delusional. They never give credit to democrats for anything.

[Major Nikon]

24. I don't really expect them to any more than I expect Democrats to do the same

It's just they start to get over the top when they start blaming Obama for a situation that was created in large part to Shrub's fucked up domestic policies.

[southernyankeebelle]

25. Your right.

[lpbk2713]

17. Bush was the Emergency No-Bid Contract president.

BushCo gave more money to his corpor-rat friends than Obama
ever could give away to those who genuinely need the help.

[southernyankeebelle]

20. What I can't understand is how they got away with these no-bid contracts. It is illegal.

[lpbk2713]

22. Of course it looks that way to most people.

But BushCo had the deck stacked heavily in their favor. They owned all three branches of the Federal government. They wrote the laws, they interpreted the laws and they enforced the laws, when they felt like it. They appointed their own people to high positions in the Justice Department who would usually turn a blind eye to any shady deals BushCo was in favor of. The rethuglican Congress would pass laws which would just make stealing money from the US Treasury more legal.


What amazes me is after all this time the thieves in high places have not been held accountable for their crimes.

[Major Nikon]

23. There are provisions in the law for it

However, as usual the Shrub administration took a valid purpose and perverted it for their own fucked up political gains.

[southernyankeebelle]

26. I didn't know that. I remember working in a contract office for the military clubs and when you

wanted something you had to put out open bids. They always took the cheapest bid. Of course that was back in the mid 70s. The way they are doing it now why bother putting bids out if they are going to give it to their buddies.

[Major Nikon]

28. The system should be flexible to allow for it

The competitive bidding system takes time and cost money. In the vast majority of situations it is the appropriate way to go, but there are circumstances that require urgency or there may be only one company that can provide the services required. Going through the bid process would be counterproductive. As expected, Shrub used these exclusions as a way to back door large Republican donors with huge contracts. With the GOP in control of all three branches of government, there was little to stop them.

[southernyankeebelle]

29. Guess someone always finds a way to abuse the situation.

[cbrer]

27. Which just goes

To show how useless these types of labels are when trying to discuss politics rationally. Don't get me wrong, this kind of crap can be a real barrel of monkeys under certain conditions. But when attempting to find optimum solutions for the problems we face as a nation, they're pretty lame.

All the accusations, finger pointing, categorizing, and payoffs are not going to get us 1 inch closer to the kind of nation we want to leave our kids.