Pres. Obama breaking "Imagined" Promise 1,438,890 - "Vote for me, and you will get a Pony, period."

[FrenchieCat]

This just ain't right!

Even if he really never said it, I could tell that this was what he wanted to do.

This is totally messed up! :cry:

He just shat on all of us, and this cannot stand!

[redqueen]

1. .

[EFerrari]

2. Berating disappointed people is such a community builder.

:thumbsup:

[redqueen]

3. Yeah... you're right.

[FrenchieCat]

5. I'm disappointed about my pony.....

what are you talking about?

Are you trying to tell me he never said that he would give me one?

[EFerrari]

6. 'Way to rake in support, Frenchie Cat!

[FrenchieCat]

7. Talk to me later.....

Right now, I'm pissed.

Oh, I'm still supporting him....but he's made it quite a bit more difficult,
not to support something he never said he would.

[SunsetDreams]

8. Frenchie, I'm psychic he really did say that, I'm almost sure I heard it

or maybe I saw that he was going to say it when I saw the 3456th neuron go flying by.

[EFerrari]

9. DU is a supportive community. I'm sure one of our regulars

will help you get right by listening, understanding and commiserating. DU at its finest.

[noiretextatique]

14. the president of a fan club

is not a community builder.

[FrenchieCat]

16. That doesn't have a damn thing to do with ponies!

If I'm to be President of a fan club, even more reason to get a fucking pony!
Don't you think?

I hate this!

[EFerrari]

21. Unfortunately, that's right.

Trying to force people to agree with you usually doesn't work. And ridicule doesn't work best of all.

[FrenchieCat]

23. So does this freedom of expression only restricted for some......

and not for others?

Because I don't see the "force" you are speaking of.

Calling names is never good, but I don't find that here.

[EFerrari]

25. Do your thing, Frenchie. I'm sure you'll get the results you work for. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

26. What would be those results?

That folks start putting things into perspective and realize that this President can't just do what we want him to do just because we want it. And that if he didn't run on it, acting like he did is a lie?

IT's one thing to have an intelligent discussion over policy issue, including legalizing Marijuana, etc...

It is quite another to act as though Obama has betrayed us all, and is totally wrong in his approach...considering that we are talking politics, after all.

I'm tired of the bar being set so high.....and then folks jumping down the President's throat when he doesn't meet their expectations.....along with not giving him much time to even get to anything.

It is disengenious.

[EFerrari]

27. DU did just fine in the two years before you got here.

Maybe you need to figure out how to trust the good people who post here. :)

[FrenchieCat]

29. So getting here in 2003 makes me inferior to those who got here in 2001?

How superior of you!

I'm not sure what to say, massa'.

I feel so much smaller now. It's like I don't matter as much.
Congrats! Way to build the community!

[EFerrari]

31. I suggested that you learn to trust posters to DU.

You spun it ugly which may be a habit you need to think about.

[FrenchieCat]

33. Why are you suggesting that I do stuff, but I can't suggest that to anyone else?

What makes you better? And what makes me worse?

My habit is not to post ugly. My habit is to post how I feel,
and find that posters who copy and paste negativity don't get your advise.
Why is that? You care about me more or something? :shrug:

[EFerrari]

38. You owe an apology to me for your horrible language, for one thing.

And I'll just let it sit there.

[FrenchieCat]

39. Sorry.

[SunsetDreams]

4. I want my pony dammit!!! Call Congress Right NOW!!!!!

[firedupdem]

10. but, but, but, K&R! n/t

[Brazenly Liberal]

11. What? You didn't get yours?

Well, be glad. It's not what it's cracked up to be. Sure, he's cute, but he has oats breath. And it's amazing that such a small animal can leave such large piles of pony product all over the lawn. I almost lost the beagle in one of them! (Note to self: Give beagle a bath)

[SunsetDreams]

12. OH MY NO!!!

The poor beagle!!!

:rofl:

[azmouse]

13. Worst of all, he laughed...

I'm heartbroken... :cry:

[Cali_Democrat]

15. ....

[Zodiak]

17. This is very disappointing

DUers who attack other DUers with ridicule and lack of respect are not helping anything at all...in fact, they damage this community, and signal to all that there will be no discussion without deliberate attempts to instigate anger.

I have had about enough of this. Plonk.

[FrenchieCat]

20. You mean those who announced that Obama Shat on them.....

or the others like me who thought that was going further than required, and decided that ridicule might be in order? Just looking for balance here.


Obama just shat on single-payer and legalizing marijuana.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8293415&mesg_id=8293415


Obama's new rallying cry: 'No, we can't.'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8293848&mesg_id=8293848

Obama laughs at the marijuana legalization question after admitting using it multiple times.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8293460&mesg_id=8293460

[firedupdem]

24. And I'm glad you do. Nothing is said about the constant negative

posts but God forbid you actually support the Democratic President. I have found zilch to be mad at this President for. That pick of Gregg was the only thing I raised my eyebrows at. I don't care who doesn't like it either. The constant negative attacks and right wing bs on this site is ridiculous. It's fine to disagree on some issues but some post attack after attack just like a right winger would. Where's the outrage at that?

[GarbagemanLB]

18. I would take this thread more seriously if it was from someone who had actually the ability to

be even the slightest bit critical of Obama.

[FrenchieCat]

22. No one is asking you for anything.

I am here for my own reasons.

We've got enough haters of everything and anything that Obama does and says (not you), and so I provide a certain balance.

That's how I deal with my own frustration about those wanting everything just cause they want it,
and believing that they have done more than others, and so they should get theirs on a silver
platter, no matter their impossibilities.

I've got Barack Obama's back (cause what I demand has a lower threshold then what some others might--not a crime, last I checked), cause that's what I choose.

If you put me on ignore, it will be like I don't exist.
I suggest that to anyone who don't want to read what I have to say.
Freedom of expression works many ways!
So I get to do it too!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. I'm getting my pony on April 1st!

[rug]

28. War, health care, human rights, such trivial ponies.

[FrenchieCat]

30. The point was he didn't really promise everyone a pony.

That's the part you missed!

[rug]

35. The point is people are still dying while you post bullshit about ponies.

[FrenchieCat]

36. Yep....just like they are still dying to post bullshit about everything else they so choose.

[rug]

37. You're tedious.

[FrenchieCat]

41. The feeling has always been mutual.

You were on ignore till after the election.

I would recommend it.

[rug]

42. I don't ignore. Feel free to continue talking into your armpit.

[FrenchieCat]

43. See, now others can understand what tedious really means.

and it ain't my beautiful georgous smooth soft sweet smelling baby like pits! That's for sure!

[iamthebandfanman]

32. yeah, being an asshole

will get people on your side and way of thinking!

gosh youre so smart!

obama should hire you!
heck, we shoulda gotten you elected!

god bless you!

[FrenchieCat]

34. People don't have to do anything they don't want to,

or I've been told.

Do as search, and you'll find plenty assholes
right here at DU, I'm sure.

But of course, who the assholes are is relative, isn't it?

[cliffordu]

40. Well.....

[960]

44. Someone's coming unhinged. It's not Obama and it's not those disappointed by him.

[dreamnightwind]

45. it's not about what he promised, it's about what's right

I enjoy much of what you write on DU, seriously.

This one, one of the most pathetic things I've seen in awhile. You're better than this, Frenchie.

It's not about what he did or didn't promise us, it's about what's right and what's wrong.

Millions of non-violent pot users and sellers going to jail is wrong. These people are not criminals. Hell, just living as a criminal, even if you're not caught, living with that shadow over you, is wrong.

Creating markets for organized crime is wrong.

Fiscally, it costs us money we can't afford to imprison these people, and to not have tax revenue from one of our largest cash crops.

<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october092008/marijuana_100808.php>

* In 2007 there were 14.5 million current users of marijuana in the United States, compared with 14.6 million in 2002, while the number of Americans who have ever used marijuana actually increased.
* ONDCP has not come close to meeting its goal of reducing illegal drug use by 25 percent by 2007.
* There was a marked jump in the percentage of marijuana treatment admissions referred by the criminal justice system from 1992 to 2006, while just 45 percent of marijuana admissions met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria for marijuana dependence.

According to data just released in the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report, police in 2007 arrested over 872,000 US citizens - that's nearly one out of every two Americans busted for illicit drugs -- for weed. That is more than three times the number of citizens charged with pot violations sixteen years ago.

Of those arrested in 2007, 89 percent, that's 775,000 Americans, were charged with simple pot possession. Not trafficking, not cultivation, not selling.

[dcindian]

46. This is the worst post you have ever posted.

A real shame. Why even be on a forum?

[MadHound]

47. It's official, you've become that which you hate

This post is just the topper to that. You post mindless, endless support for Obama, you berate anybody who says one critical word about him, and now you're going out and posting threads to try and preempt any threads critical of him. Congratulations, you've become that which you hate.