"The Republicans are sociopaths and Obama is a weak president."

[brentspeak]

Words spoken not from some liberal blogger or Cenk Ugyur or pulled from an anonymous Democratic Underground/Kos/FDL poster, but quoted from a co-worker of mine, an older gentleman who's more independent than Democrat. I've encountered similar sentiments from quite a few other regular, non-political people I've met.

Despite any spin or dubious polls claiming otherwise, the average non-Republican American who's been following current events is quite aware that Obama has merely managed to enable the Republicans so far. Tonight's grotesque and completely unnecessary "grand bargain" was the culmination of a mess entirely set-into-motion by Obama's own cynical appropriation of the GOP's hunger for giant spending cuts.

People out there know what's going on.

[Skittles]

1. CORRECT

[BeFree]

2. Weak is apt

But the people voted to change congress to republican. And this is what they voted for?

Did your friend vote for this?

[brentspeak]

6. He voted for Obama, but he doesn't consider himself a Democrat

More like a Gerald Ford/Jimmy Carter middle-of-the-road voter.

[BeFree]

10. Congress

What does he think about congress? And how they gained power last year?

[PVnRT]

25. That would qualify him as liberal these days

[Vincardog]

3. Obama is not weak, he is doing exactly what he wants to do

[ProSense]

5. Warning

conflicting memes!

Is he weak or sinister?

[melissaf]

11. He's weaksinster

[Armstead]

29. Not sinister....Not liberal either....Just a moderate conservative

[polichick]

8. True, but not everyone has caught onto that yet.

[ProSense]

4. More:

"The Republicans are sociopaths and Obama is a weak president."
"The Republicans are sociopaths and Obama is a weak president."
"The Republicans are sociopaths and Obama is a weak president."
"The Republicans are sociopaths and Obama is a weak president."
"The Republicans are sociopaths and Obama is a weak president."
"The Republicans are sociopaths and Obama is a weak president."


There that's enough for the rest of the week.

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[ProSense]

15. "Just make sure you put 'Gutted Social Security and Medicare' on it as an 'achievement'"

And where did you pull that nonsensical claim from?

[earthside]

7. That nails it.

"The Republicans are sociopaths and Obama is a weak president."

I think that is a very good description of political reality in this country on August 1, 2011.

Of course, it hurts more for Democrats and progressives because we had such hope that Barack Obama was going to be the change that the nation so desperately needed.

We expected the Repuglicans to be crazy and extreme ... no great surprise there. But the weakness of Obama ... well shucks.

Too bad for all of us.

[KingFlorez]

9. That would be an interesting statement

If this "co-worker" really existed. That sentiment sounds exactly like something only people on DU and other leftist sites would say.

[brentspeak]

12. How deep is the ostrich hole in your backyard?

Interesting also that you refer to DU as a "leftist site". Unintentionally reveals a bit more about yourself than you probably realized.

[KingFlorez]

13. You still are not right

This is a leftist site, you'd only have a problem with that word if you were right-wing. Leftist is not a bad word, but maybe it is to you for some unseen reason, hmmmm....

[brentspeak]

17. It's not considered a "bad word", yet right wingers use it as a prejorative?

Thanks for proving my point. Very sporting of you.

[Hawkowl]

20. Nicely played. nt.

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. Unrec.

:rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

18. Is your ' friend' a Canadian?

A free donut to the poster that gets the reference.

[Lorien]

19. I overheard the same from two elderly vets at the grocery tonight

one was saying to the other "it's unbelievable; the republicans are doing this to us and now so are the Democrats!."

[yurbud]

21. Obama is not so much weak as a professional wrestler willing to take a scripted fall

[brentspeak]

22. I'm more in line with your take on it

Why didn't Obama insist on a clean vote on the debt limit back in December when he negotiated with the Republicans on the Bush tax cuts extension? If he's not as cynically duplicitous as his record has clearly shown so far, then he's got to be the leading contender for Dumbest Oval Office Chump of All-Time. But I don't think he's stupid.

[yurbud]

26. it's amazing the crap Washington and their PR consultants think the rest of us are stupid enough to

buy.

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24. Obama is not weak

He's a corporatist. I don't think terms like Republican and Democrat have any meaning anymore so I won't call him a DINO or whatever, but he's clearly a corporate hack.

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[vroomvroom]

28. K&R