Larry Flynt For President!

[FrenchieCat]

He's got the big Balls and knows how to use them.
He's got the answers and knows exactly what needs to be done!

SO let's get him elected and running the country.....
:woohoo:

[Lord Helmet]

1. Perv power!

[tabatha]

2. He is not a man who understands finesse.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Who needs finesse,

when we have Flynt! :patriot:

He can just blackmail everybody,
and they won't have shit to say about it.

We'll have our own Prez. J. Edgar Hoover! :bounce:

[ruggerson]

3. Frenchie - you're taking the Larry Flynt thing way too seriously

I'm quite sure he wants Obama to succeed, most of us want Obama to succed - no one wants a Republican takeover in 2012. We just all have different and variant views on how he gets there.

[FrenchieCat]

7. With people who want you to succeed like that......

Who needs opponents?

Sounds to me like Flynt believes Obama to be nothing more than a piece of shit.

You have failed to keep many campaign promises.
You’ve ignored civil-liberty violations such as warrantless wiretapping.
You passed a stimulus package that is obviously full of pork for Democrats.

You handed over billions more in taxpayer dollars to crooked bankers.

You listened to the very people who created our economic meltdown, the Mutt and Jeff team of Larry Summers and Tim Geithner.

You’ve let the insurance lobbyists hijack health-care reform to the detriment of every man, woman, and child in America.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-30/grow-a-pair-obama/?cid=bsa:mostpopular3

Maybe when Flynt's President, he can tell the entire corporate media to go fuck itself....
cause that guy has balls! He's so impressive!

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Flynt IS corporate media, but...

when he's Prez, guess what the "stimulus" package will be...

[FrenchieCat]

14. I'm sure he can get himself elected and all.....

after all, he's got all of the answers, and Big Balls too!
How could that awesome combination fail?

[ruggerson]

13. he's obviously to the left of Obama

and probably thinks Obama's instincts are more liberal than his actions, so he is expressing his right as a citizen and pushing at his President. Historically, this is what our country does; it has a policy debate and the POTUS is often at the center of the storm. Obama is not the first, nor will he be the last, to be criticized and pushed by members of his own party.

[FrenchieCat]

17. Yes, all is always lost.....and Obama is the Whipping boy

Got it.

[ruggerson]

18. Do you think this kind of criticism is some brand new shiny thing

that was born the day Obama took office?

[FrenchieCat]

26. Yeah...I think the over the top criticism from all sides

was born the day Obama took office.

Or else, tell me what President got it from all of the below, six months in?

the Racists eminating from all over the place
those who expected him to have solved all of the nation's problems by now, despite 8 years of ruthless incompetency.
A bought and paid for corporate media parroting GOP points as often as possible.
A minority party of No and their big ass microphones (handed to them by the media).
the bungling "scared of the media" congress.
The easily manipulated aka, a nation of selfish ill-informed scared-ass cowards and whiners.
Those who actually believed that Obama was gonna be a socialist.
As well as those who only need an excuse to pounce on this President for anything and everything he does that they dislike, while never acknowledging what he has done right, aka, PUMA.

[ruggerson]

28. If I remember, Bill Clinton got it from all sides beginning, literally, the day he took office

and the media, by and large, was far worse with him than with Obama.

And my own humble opinion is that overall, Obama is doing a better job than Clinton did - this far into his Presidency.

[FrenchieCat]

29. Well, they didn't have the Internets then,

so I didn't have to hear the bullshit from my own side 24/7.

[ruggerson]

30. all you had to was pick up a paper or watch CNN

the "liberal" media ate him alive.

[FrenchieCat]

31. Like I said, I didn't have to hear our side 24/7....

cause there was no MSNBC or Fox....

What is strange, is just like now, when the Clintons were doing health Care, no one stood up for them....and so we ended up not getting shit.

It wasn't until Bill got caught with his pants down that everyone came to the rescue.
That's what so stupid.

[noamnety]

32. Much as I criticize Obama

(and I do a lot), I really can't give Flynt any credibility whatsoever in this area, given his history of publishing nasty racist material.

[vaberella]

41. Two people in this thread seemed to use Larry Flynt as someone worth while.

I think this is what has pissed off FC and it sure as hell unnerved me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8564962#8564970

[Cha]

45. Well, I'm ignoring that

author so they're on my shit list anyway.

[vaberella]

47. Ahhh, understood---then you wouldn't be surprised by who used Flynt as worthwhile.

You wouldn't be able to see it either.

[Cha]

50. I'm sure they used Flynt to

further their whiny little cause that Pres Obama is unworthy.

[rug]

5. He doesn't look like he's surrounding himself with republicans.

[FrenchieCat]

8. Well, no, you are correct!

Flynt's got the balls....cause look who he does surround himself with!
Now see, that takes a hell of a lot of courage.

[Flying Dream Blues]

43. What makes you say that? They look exactly like Repubs to me. nt

[masuki bance]

6. I think I get it. Frenchie thinks that unless you're willing to be

President, you shouldn't criticize Obama.

[FrenchieCat]

10. I think there criticism is fine.....

when it is reasonable.

But I'm sure that the context isn't required
when one has big balls..... right?

[xchrom]

12. +1 -- these posts keep getting nuttier with the months that pass from

01/20/09.

self fulfilling really.

[FrenchieCat]

15. !

:rofl:

[boppers]

38. It's nuts.

People keep egging them on, dropping a new attack, lobbing big brass ones from a bottomless sack.

:evilgrin:

[HopeOverFear]

11. ...

:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

16. Hardy Har Har!

[Beacool]

20. That cannot be a real picture!!!!

What the hell happened to that poor cat???????

:wow:

[FrenchieCat]

21. He's been reading your posts.

He ain't amused.

[Beacool]

34. Nahhhh, he might have been reading yours,

no sense of humor there.

:7

[FrenchieCat]

37. Actually, you only think you are funny.

[Flying Dream Blues]

44. +1

[HopeOverFear]

39. Awww, cmon, Frenchie!

[Orrex]

19. I'd need to see his birth certificate.

[vixengrl]

22. On the off-chance I ever get to be President myself, I hope big balls

don't turn out to be a necessary ingredient to one's success!

For what it's worth, I take Flynt's criticisms with a grain of salt--clearly, anyone can argue that there is a wish list here on the left that Santa Obama hasn't brung us. However, it is only August, not December. And there are a whole lot of characters who have to be "good" before we get some of what's on that list. Sadly, as a Constitutional scholar, President Obama seems to actually believe a lot of the separation of powers, checks and balances stuff that means he needs to have Congress on his side to make stuff happen. And he curiously thinks it has to stand up to a judge if need be.

(Case in point--his Administration has taken utter Bush-era crap to the courts re: detainees and their rights. These cases are losers, and, predictably, they lose and I suspect will continue to lose. And I kind of have the feeling that's "accidentally on purpose" to set precedents, since the former Admin and DOJ boldly went where angels would have feared to tread. This President wants to draw the lines clearly.)

I think most of us knew we were voting for a man, not a miracle-worker, and respect that some things will take time. While I think stuff like undoing DADT should be penstroke-simple, I understand why health-care is really the business of congress (who, by the by, can pass something inadequate and improve it later--no? I'd like to see them pass somethig reasonable, and then go back and perfect it if they can.) He understands the score:

He has a lot on his plate , but is ready to be accused of "doing too much". He inherited not just a poor economy, but a business culture that is perversely failure-pointed, and a media that likes to build heroes up just to smack them down. When he speaks honestly, which is his wont (recall the Democratic primary debates? when he was asked--"What is your major weakness?" he said he had a messy desk. Clinton said something like "I try too hard" and Edwards said "I care too much." If he hadn't gone first, he'd have realized it was one of *those* kind of questions. But *I* like him for stuff like that. Ditto his saying the Cambridge cops were stupid. Honest answer--what he actually thought) he gets sometimes hammered.

He's not going to do everything at once. I do like that he can do more than one thing at a time, and so far has, and I think he can get more done than we'd have business to expect from some other possible candidate. So while I hear what Flynt is saying, really, I still have a lot of hope about Obama. With all he has to do, we haven't seen the best of him yet, and I think we will end up pretty cool with what he brings to the table. The doable. The choices that are forward-looking. It's about brains, not balls.

[FrenchieCat]

23. Brains, not Balls.

With that I agree.

Some would say that Bush had Balls of steel....and look where that took us.

[firedupdem]

24. +1 good post! n/t

[boppers]

25. Balls for president!

Who cares who the balls are attached to, the only real measure of leadership and governance is testicles!

[FrenchieCat]

27. Perhaps that's why Bush was in two terms....

all he did was to tell everyone to shut the fuck up,
and then he just did what he wanted....and his
lockstep congress would just do his bidding.

That takes Balls, even if it doesn't do anything but polarizes the entire country
....or maybe even the world.

[frylock]

33. how many times does the opposition tell you flat-out that they aren't willing to play ball..

before you say fuck it?! why the hell are the dems capitulating to a group that is wrong 100% of the time?!

[FrenchieCat]

36. Larry Flynt wasn't talking about the Dems, although he could have....

he stated clearly that it was all Obama's fault.

Cause see, if Flynt could even get to become President,
he'd be using his whip...and his big balls, I guess.

President has pretty much gotten what he wanted to date....
so I'm not sure where you get the capitulation talk from....
is that what you want to believe,
cause Health Care ain't hardly over just yet.

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. Recommended.

:kick:

[Uzybone]

40. LOL

[camera obscura]

42. I'd vote for him, but then, I'm from Minnesota... we'd elect him governor

if he ran on the Independence Party ticket.

[depakid]

46. How about simply listening to what somone who's been through the wash has to say

Might learn something....

[Forkboy]

48. Where's the smugness in that?

[QC]

51. Not much chance for melodramatic displays of oh-so-righteous indignation, either.

Harrumph!

[depakid]

52. Look- dude's been confined to a wheelchair and worse for what, how many years now?

He's offered up a criticism that rings true.

Take it for what it is.

[QC]

53. I agree...I'm talking about all the poutrage here. n/t

[Hutzpa]

49. Bill Maher said it best --

Obama is the Michael Jordan of the Democratic party.

[girl gone mad]

54. If you spent just 1/10th of the time you spend attacking progressive voices..

making calls for health care reform, financial reform, or any other important cause, then we'd probably be getting somewhere.

Instead you choose to waste time with these angry rants against powerless liberals. I don't think you are changing any minds.

[Peacetrain]

55. ~rofl~ FrenchieCat.. you have a wicked sense of humor

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