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As far as stem cells, really? Stem Cell research is pretty popular with most people, and laws supporting it passed in republican houses, I think. They were vetoed by Bush.
For a while I thought being 'stupid' was a prerequisite for being a Republican. Glad to see that it is not always the case and that some of our republican brothers and sisters 'can' think on their feet and make their own decisions.
Thanks for sharing.
They all seem to ignore that this is what happens in democratically-elected countries.
People need hope, he provides it, and I'll bet he proves to be one of the greatest presidents of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obri6-6w238
1. President Obama won this election because the majority of Americans preferred his ideas (clearly expressed during the campaign).
2. That means he now has an opportunity to put his ideas into practice.
3. If you do not like those ideas, you may speak out, however, most of us do like his ideas and do want them put into practice.
4. Now the "others" know how I felt for 32 of the last 40 years.
Of course, Obama did get some young evangelicals voting for him, and that's great.
These people are brain damaged, not 'religious'
Anyway, I've been puzzled by this tendency, too, of certain groups to be surprised, shocked even, that Pres. Obama has said or done something that he said he was going to do while he was campaigning. Were they paying attention? Or did they just hear what they wanted to hear?
They need to check their hearing because on the issues they are crying about he is doing exactly what he said he would
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/c...
seriously, are they here from another planet to sabotage our political system so they can take over and turn us all into rush limbaugh clones??
oh, but then they would be FOR stem cell research. I guess they are just stupid aliens as well.
Obama hopes to reduce the number of abortions performed in the country by making America live up to its kick'ass potential; this way a: fewer unwanted and unplanned pregnancies will occur, because more people will be smart enough to use birth control and b: more of those unwanted and unplanned pregnancies that DO occur will be carried to term, because America will be too kick-ass of a country NOT to bring more children in to in order to contribute to its kick-assedness. The Religious Right Republicans could help us achieve that goal, if they weren't so busy being petty and snide and whiny mewling jackasses.
The religious right never supported anything President Obama stands for. They have their narrow minded agenda which does not include the rights of the American people.
Am as tired of them as I am all republicans.
It does not matter what Obama BELIEVES for himself and his family, he is the President of ALL of the people and he understands that. It's a lesson that the "religious" right needs to learn. The LAW needs to be flexible enough to accomodate ALL of the people's needs and wants whenever possible. If an option exists, it does not mean that YOU have to take it. If you can't be disciplined enough to make your own choices that honor your own beliefs, then that's a personal problem.
Thank God that the President understands that. The problem w/these religious right people is they want to legislate their religious convictions on the rest of the US and world. They're as bad as the Islamic extremeist they preach against.
We're in trouble w/the middle east (heathen lands) because we've suggested the US is superior to other (uncivilized) nations and we're the power that knows what's best for them.
Even God gave Adam and Eve the RIGHT to Chose.
Maybe they'd be happier if he instituted Sharia law. Nothing like a little religulous law and order.
Until then, Id prefer to have stem cells save me from cancer or fix a lost limb if it should ever god forbid happen to me.
The media and still limping winger debris need to be confronted and asked "Why do you hate the people of America?", "Why do you want America to fail or greatly reduce the scope of our great new President's agenda for American uplift?, ""Why the constant winger bitching and failure to focus of the positives?"
CNN, last week, sent a crew to St Louis where the mayor was bitching about his city's small amount of recovery money. After an anchor lede that implied Mr. Obama was frittering the money on unimportant projects like a small State roadway bridge just outside metro St. Louis without any mention or marvel at Federal dollars arriving in a locality ONE WEEK after Obama signed the bill, the package made an interesting discovery...Recovery money is directed first at the greatest need. The little bridge was heavily traveled by scores of 18-wheelers (just during the length of the package) as the surprised reported noted. As the reporter interviewed a person with the bridge above the interview site, a huge chunk of concrete and metal came crashing down quite near the reporter as a large truck sped across the bridge. The reporter exclaimed that perhaps this bit of recovery WAS greatly needed. Not so surprisingly, I've not watched CNN travel to other localities that might actually conflict with imaginary Beltway scripting...
I find it interesting that they hardly address the topic at hand. They divert to other items such as: Rev wright, Terrorist, Blah Blah Blah...seems to me that they are fools. The Bible states in Proverbs: it is the fool who is always talking Crap!!!!
I must say that it has become also obvious that the American people are getting smarter by not letting the media decide for them. The media is doing less reporting and more OPINION. I watch C-span for truth, and watch media just to see their bias views, and their verbal strategy when they protect their interest (money and/or Israel) . Most people accept as gospel, the mix of a little truth and a lot of lies.
I find that President Obama is sticking to his game plan...It is time to shake things up.
We need policy change in the mid-east crisis firstly, Secondly, to those who bear blame on President Obama for our current, economic, domestic, foreign ,financial, military CRISIS... you are people who will walk through life in denial about truth... may God open your eyes about who you are, and about reality...
Bush throws the man off the top of the building..........Obama gets blamed when the man goes splat on the pavement.
Yeah...that'll work. Thank God most Americans are simply not that stupid!
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
yeah, that's worked great for Obama's ALLIES, like us in the gay community, hasn't it?
President Obama has kept his word. You need to go back and take another look. His methods for lowering the number of abortions in our country is by making broad and cheap availability of contraceptives WITH effective family planning education counseling. This approach works. Medical case studies worldwide have shown this approach is the most effective approach. It profoundly lowers the rate of unwanted pregnancies and makes abortion rare and safe.
Increased funding for the above was originally part of the stimulus package but the Republicans made such a bad noise about this, it was pulled out. Now this is part of new budgets. Let's see what happens again.
Our new President is doing what he said he'd do. Stop making things up.
To which country would you wish such abhorance?
One is reminded of the history of the Puritans, and how they encountered your "preferably in another country."
Historically, in America, we learn that the poor Puritans were persecuted in Europe, and fled for their safety to America. But Gore Vidal corrects the planted saccharine revisionism by revealing that Puritans were Puritans--that is to say, more cultish than cultured, fanatical in their righteousness, and in-your-face in their tactics, employed in the unfinishable game of purity-testing which always creshendoes into inquisition. Collectively the populace, much less steroidal in spiritual perspective, had had quite enough, and, borrowing an old timey tactic of the Puritans themselves, shunned them, never through persecution, but by sane confrontations which matured from the naive ends of their tolerance and their endless bending over with deference.
While we inwardly envision the Puritans standing on the beach like little holy figures standing on a cake, the reality is that they wasted little time in structuring their inquisitions after encountering various American Native tribes, who greeted the Pilgrims with openness and friendliness. The Puritans responded in kind by pronouncing them savages, and proceeded to torture them, burn them at the stake, without mercy, adults and children alike.
Too bad it is irrevokably politically incorrect to mention the word 'facism' in America, or associations could be suggested.
There is too much self interest in your country and yu do not care about your people.
Everybody is an analyst. It is time you guys check your self and realise we are in the 21st century. Leave Obama alone he is the best thing to happen to you people. He is bright and can walk and chew gum at the same time. I guess you guys are so used to stupid leades you cannot even appreciate a good thing when you see it -Go figure.
Even GM does better in canada they are not saddled with health care cost as in America.Smarten up people.Stop blaming and get back on Track.
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anyone want to lay odds that the GLBT community gets thrown under the bus ala Clinton?
keep watching for the DADT and DOMA promises to just fade away... as it is, Pelosi is already talking about how they need to get the votes to repeal DADT before bringing it to the table...
get the votes?? huh? who's in the majority again?
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Are you serious???? President Obama is a great humanitarian, shrewd politician coupled w/an intellectual strategy that is unmatched by most. Do you REALLY BELIEVE he was Expecting them to LOVE him? He targeted who and what he wanted during the campaign.
Now that he is delivering on specific campaign pledges the right are all up in arms. He is ONLY doing what he said he would do. The right needs to realize, EVERYONE is not going to be happy w/every decision. They need to get in where they fit in, and pour themselves a nice hot cup of STFU and be quiet.
Perhaps this is because of the religious right of the republican party. They are overly rigid fanatics and appear to be nucking futty.
I am a Christian; however, I became disenchanted with organized religion about 20 years ago. I practice spirituality - not religion. Per a Catholic Theologian "To be religious is to turn outward and listen to someone else tell you what to believe. To be spiritual is to turn inward and *know* that the answers which you seek will be be revealed to you from God."
Nobody has been able to prove ol' Freddy wrong. Innocent until proven guilty.
As usual they are whining because they no longer really believe that God does anything in the world, so THEY have to judge us all.
In order to gain the political power they’ve enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives made a pact with the devil (the religious right and Limbaugh racists, fear-mongers and hate-baiters) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. It was a conscious political decision to manipulate and exploit emotions to win rather than to be intellectually and morally honest and lose.
Today, those Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devils they empowered, and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without accepting and even advocating values that are dividing and destroying their party. The survival of the Republican Party has become so dependent on radicalism, that they have no significant political power WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s lunatic fringe.
The idiom about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics.
If they don't like this country they should get out. Love it or Leave it.
I also get upset at those who complain about Canada's health care system. I found it to be very good. Wish there wasn't so much whining by the Republicans here. I love the U.S., but some people are really in denial and, in my opinion, they need a reality check.
I agree with you a 100%. You betchya! You are so right. That is exactly what happened during the Bush Administration but some Christians are very gullible. They really believed they were important in politics during the Bush Administration. The devil conned all of us by making us believe that he is from God. In truth, some of us (I' m a non-gullible Christian) have a plan and it is to make the USA a Christian land - and most of the time that is by ignoring the love thy neighbor commandment. When GW was elected President (I'm a diehard religious Dem and I don't vote Repub because they do not represent me), some believe that it was the will of God to transform America in order to perfect God's plan. GW was chosen by God to free America from evil. Right now Gog is freeing America from the evildoers one by one. No longer will we put up with greed on WallStreet. No longer will we go to war for oil, or because of our own selfish reasons. GW destroyed the Middle class and made the rich richer. And the Bible says: The love of money is the root of all evil". Now you know who love money. There you have it.
For so long they have hijacked religion for political leverage. They are a shameful bunch of lunatics who don't even know what they really believe and who they really are.
"Pro-Life" + Pro-War = hy-Pro-crites
One thing for sure... they have begotten not God's only son, but tremendous power and money. Completely contrary to Christian teachings. - Free, Democratic values and choices are a threat to their imperialistic, dictatorial Corporate mindset.
May God have mercy on them.
*in 5 parts
PEACE
Favor 73
Oppose 19
Unsure 9
Oh if it were so easy...
These religionuts are not "religious"; they are thugs who'll tell any lie in pursuit of power. They simply hide behind "religion" in order to hide what they are. They support war -- against the word of their "Lord"; they are gung-ho FOR the war crime of torture.
By and large, the "religious right" consists of white supremacists -- the KKK also hides behind "religion," while ADMITTING that they are a terrorist organization -- Neo-Nazis and others who ONLY hate, based upon lies, and lie in effort to advance their efforts to overthrow our system of laws. They've all along been domestic enemies.
G. W. Bushit was one of them. He lied the country into illegal war. He authorized the use of torture. Having been subjected to torture, who would CHRIST torture?
I think it's just a shock to their system that they no longer have a direct line to the White House and they no longer have an ounce of influence on the political agenda in Washington. They don't know how to deal with a President who doesn't see their opinion as important as they think it is.
I'm sorry, but IMO that's a mis-placed comment. Obama doesn't want to be "...loved by the right..." He's not vain in that way, someone's projecting their own vanity. Obama wants to govern successfully, and that requires reaching out to all. The Prez is far more centered than to believe he can actually move very many conservatives, but the act of trying helps to cement his mandate.
The Religious Right is completely devoid of ideas, energy, and integrity. That won't stop the true believers from trying their best to turn the USA into a fascist theocracy, but at least the rest of us can breathe more easily now that their fear, stupidity, and lack of intelligence has rendered them impotent.
At least then they would be acting in an honest capacity, with the transparency that govt involvement entails...and that little detail...PAYING TAXES!
Speaking of broken promises...what about your broken promise to your namesake, Jesus? Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Love Obama as you love yourself. Oooops.
This childish behavior will soon be embarrassing even the children, it is so shallow and obvious.
But it IS most encouraging to hear that Obama isn't catering to the ir/religious right, a righteous plus for Obama.
If he went out of his way to "woo" any other group, and then actively and decisively undermined their agenda after taking office, wouldn't that group feel betrayed too?
Not questioning his policy choices, just the fairness of criticizing people who believed he would be post-partisan
Who said that? You?
Not a child.
Obama doesn't need Rush hoping for him to fail. He is already a failure on his own.
O'Failure from '08. Gone in '12.
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