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In reply to the discussion: I woke up today and President Barack Obama is still President of the United States of America [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)80. Throwing a shoe is one of the gravest insults one can offer in that country.
Considering the hundreds of thousands of dead in Iraq over an invasion for oil, it's an exceptionally well-deserved trifle.
You mistake the office of the president of the united states with some of the monsters who have taken it (and by Bush, I mean that literally).
Blind allegiance is very dangerous and very very useful to the monsters. You're not winning me over with your further opinion!
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I woke up today and President Barack Obama is still President of the United States of America [View all]
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
OP
Three cheers for the four sections of the Bill of Rights destroyed on his watch!
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#38
It is the exact fucking definition from the FBI and the "patriot act".
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#79
Yes! Pay no attention to any fact calling your opinion to question! Ignore all fact
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#33
Avg CEO income up 40% since 2009, avg American earns less than they did in 1999.
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#26
Yeah! He's such a powerful dictator, he can raise everybody's income all by himself!
Amonester
Jul 2013
#185
Ignorant hyperbole unless there are links to back that up, of course. People could
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#192
the rising middle class in China and India should thank American politicians
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#194
I know and understand ALL that, but you don't seem to understand something: this House.
Amonester
Jul 2013
#199
Sure he "had the nation at his back." Except for every Republican politician; wingnut; racist; PUMA
Hekate
Jul 2013
#193
You really, really need to search DU and read Alan Grayson's words on the TPP
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#203
The issue was whether everybody had his back after he was elected. They didn't.
Hekate
Jul 2013
#204
The issue is the theft of the economy and our freedoms through Obama's own actions.
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#205
When the Constitution is being destroyed, when the nation is being handed over to
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#207
You've been shown the "other facts" but they don't penetrate. I don't need to reiterate them....
Hekate
Jul 2013
#208
Ignore the destruction of the Bill of Rights on Obama's watch, ignore the destruction of the economy
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#209
I woke up this morning and saw that there are still people fooling themselves into thinking Obama
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#22
"Barack Obama is one of the most eminently qualified men to take on this most challenging role,"
bowens43
Jul 2013
#25
nope. that joy and common ground lasted literally about 2 months and started to unravel
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#167
You are being too generous. He went under the bus 2 months before the inauguration when he
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#176
You are EXACTLY right, Steven. Love the pathetic attempts to "whitewash" how this site has treated
Number23
Jul 2013
#217
All the haters to this thread need to start their own party. Flame me, put me on ignore or
mfcorey1
Jul 2013
#37
Well, good luck with that. One has not been found since the first President of the United States.
mfcorey1
Jul 2013
#53
Anything Obama says or does is all right with you. That's quite a philosophy you have there.
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#42
I never stated that I agree with everything, so twisting my words will not help. I
mfcorey1
Jul 2013
#54
Throwing a shoe is one of the gravest insults one can offer in that country.
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#80
Because when so called Democrats help Republicans make a Dem President unpopular, we get
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#220
Bottom Line is that you are offended by these characterizations and they sting
bobduca
Jul 2013
#121
see what you are doing? making shit up. if someone agrees with the president on ANYTHING
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#125
thank you. and although I knew it would stir things up...the main point
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#122
I can drive for miles without any checkpoints in this country. I can vote by mail in Oregon
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#130
I like it that you think there are no checkpoints ever...in the country
nadinbrzezinski
Jul 2013
#156
I woke up today and the USA is still the largest fascist oligarchy in the world.
PowerToThePeople
Jul 2013
#107
This is what they sent you to say while they work on the Larry Summers narrative? nt
Dreamer Tatum
Jul 2013
#108
I can build support for the president and his goals here AND write letters to him and
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#137
because I refuse to be a part of a right wing echo chamber of demoralizing shit
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#141
Methinks you highly overestimate the impact of DU on voting results.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#145
not true. I have return correspondence in actual paper form from Barack Obama and Ron Wyden
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#146
A)I know Saudi Arabia is an ally. Much in the way that Pakistan is an ostensible ally.
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#196
He's undoubtedly our head of state and the person making final calls on diplomatic relations with
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#182