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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:11 PM
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I'm a Democrat and I am SURE feelin' underground these days.
I don't even feel like I exist anymore. Surely no one is noticing me anymore. Me or millions like me. Liberals and Democrats all. Not radicals. Just angry, abandoned Democrats left on the shoulder as the bus roars down the road toward Centerville.
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:13 PM
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1. Obama cares about approval ratings, and won't sacrifice them
for something as insignificant like rescuing our economy.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:28 PM
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6. That's BS - If You Watched His Interview
during the Super Bowl - he said if the economy doesn't improve - he expects he'll be a one term POTUS.

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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:31 PM
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He also said that he counterpunches if people
take advantage of his good faith efforts.

Apparently that doesn't apply to Congressional Republicans.
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Phoebe Loosinhouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:14 PM
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2. I hear ya, bud.
And even worse, the bus is kicking up all kinds of mud and shit and splattering me with it as it drives off.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:16 PM
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3. "as the bus roars down the road toward Centerville..."
which, ironically, isn't even the center, but simply a different shade of RW Fascism. A quasi-friendlier fascism, if you will.

Yes, I feel like I'm on that bus as well, screaming like mad that we're headed for a cliff, which the folks driving the bus ignore me entirely and fixate instead on the cliff before them, which they apparently do not recognize.
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:30 PM
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8. Bingo
There is no "center." What people are calling "the center" is about 10 steps to the right of Richard Nixon.

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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:18 PM
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4. That's how they want you to feel ---- powerless --- !!!
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:21 PM
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5. I'm wondering if this is a campaign for 2012
Perhaps he'll play to the center for four long years. A permanent campaign 'til that election.

Sigh.
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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:31 PM
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10. The fact is, if what Obama does doesn't get us significantly better off by then
He might as well not bother running. The sad thing is, if he fails by being to centrist/rw in his policies, the average American will just follow the MSM hype and vote in another RW bozo who will go even more towards corporate fascism. Not the other direction.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:29 PM
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7. And it really pissed me off when I heard that Obama was the "most liberal" senator.
And they still think that he's some sort of leftist or socialist. :sigh:
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:30 PM
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9. If Obama is a leftist -- or even a liberal
Then, I'm to the left of Lenin.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:32 PM
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11. Could it be that due to your name change no one recognises you anymore? :evilgrin: nt
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:40 PM
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14. Hehehe
Would that that were all it was .......
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katandmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:33 PM
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12. Amen
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lies and propaganda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:37 PM
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13. Its because you changed your username ;0
i feel like we all did...
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:46 PM
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15. here ya go pal


Or are you so far under that you require a crane. . .?



Here's a hoist just to make sure. . .



Next time maybe don't step in that hole.

It's only been two weeks ya know.

Things are still in flux. Maybe we'll be astonished very soon.

Ever the deluded optimist.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-09 12:57 PM
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16. You're not used to this? You maybe expected something different??
You want radical changes to the system itself without radical vision and leadership?




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