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    Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    I think the 100 day mark is technically on Wednesday, but I'll be traveling on that day so I thought I'd post this today.

    What I like:

    Established a rational timeline for the withdrawal from Iraq and is doing a good job of allowing the commanders in Iraq to dictate exactly when we'll finally be out instead of sticking to an untenable mandate.

    Has been much more open and deferential on the world stage than we had seen with the previous administration. Hopefully this is the beginning of a more reduced role on our part in terms of how we deal with international crises and lead to an end to our efforts at nation building.

    What I don't like:

    I feel like I underestimated the severity of this economic mess in advance of the election. I think that once he was elected and had a near supermajority in Congress that the American People were force fed a budget that we were scared into believing we had to have or else. Reminded me a lot of the way the Patriot Act was forced down our throats after 09/11.

    Bringing his cabinet together and giving them 90 days to come up with a way to reduce $100 million in spending to show he serious about reducing the size of the Federal Government.

    Final Grade: C-

    The wreckless nature of his spending frightens me. His foreign policy gives me hope.

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny*Mack* View Post
    The wreckless nature of his spending frightens me. His foreign policy gives me hope.
    it isn't just his wreckless spending, its the fact that he has zilch point nothing control over barney franks. that guy would have been a natural fit for the spanish inquisition.

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny*Mack* View Post
    I think the 100 day mark is technically on Wednesday, but I'll be traveling on that day so I thought I'd post this today.

    What I like:

    Established a rational timeline for the withdrawal from Iraq and is doing a good job of allowing the commanders in Iraq to dictate exactly when we'll finally be out instead of sticking to an untenable mandate.

    Has been much more open and deferential on the world stage than we had seen with the previous administration. Hopefully this is the beginning of a more reduced role on our part in terms of how we deal with international crises and lead to an end to our efforts at nation building.

    What I don't like:

    I feel like I underestimated the severity of this economic mess in advance of the election. I think that once he was elected and had a near supermajority in Congress that the American People were force fed a budget that we were scared into believing we had to have or else. Reminded me a lot of the way the Patriot Act was forced down our throats after 09/11.

    Bringing his cabinet together and giving them 90 days to come up with a way to reduce $100 million in spending to show he serious about reducing the size of the Federal Government.

    Final Grade: C-

    The wreckless nature of his spending frightens me. His foreign policy gives me hope.
    I commend your objectivity. Very well put.

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Quote Originally Posted by jkm, the stolen pifwafwi View Post
    it isn't just his wreckless spending, its the fact that he has zilch point nothing control over barney franks. that guy would have been a natural fit for the spanish inquisition.
    Barney Frank should be in jail.

    And what foreign policy are we talking about?

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    must be talking about TOTUS apologizing to the world for us, or the fact he is now BFF with Chavez???

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    The best part of the "Historic First 100 Days" is now I have some new pictures to use besides Madame Albright toasting the Dear Leader.



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    Sorry, couldn't resist!!

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Sorry Tuba, but fear tactics died back in January. Keep up.

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Obama kills kittens! I know I heard it on da intrawebs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KC//CRIMSON View Post
    Sorry Tuba, but fear tactics died back in January. Keep up.
    Someone forgot to tell the DHS secretary that.

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    Speaking of fear tactics, isn't that how TOTUS got the porkulus passed??

    Sure is helping GM & those 21,000+ they are laying off today!!

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    Someone should go to jail for this...

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    How relevant and fresh, keep it up Tuba.
    Boomer Sooner

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    It's not every day I can find a quote from this guy that I agree with, however:
    The GOP: divorced from reality
    The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.

    By Bill Maher
    April 24, 2009

    If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

    It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who's going to win "American Idol." But it wasn't tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that's when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.




    The conservative base is absolutely apoplectic because, because ... well, nobody knows. They're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Even though they're not quite sure what "it" is. But they know they're fed up with "it," and that "it" has got to stop.

    Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the economy, the environment, mending fences with our enemies and allies, and the rule of law.

    And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes.

    Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?

    It's sad what's happened to the Republicans. They used to be the party of the big tent; now they're the party of the sideshow attraction, a socially awkward group of mostly white people who speak a language only they understand. Like Trekkies, but paranoid.

    The GOP base is convinced that Obama is going to raise their taxes, which he just lowered. But, you say, "Bill, that's just the fringe of the Republican Party." No, it's not. The governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is not afraid to say publicly that thinking out loud about Texas seceding from the Union is appropriate considering that ... Obama wants to raise taxes 3% on 5% of the people? I'm not sure exactly what Perry's independent nation would look like, but I'm pretty sure it would be free of taxes and Planned Parenthood. And I would have to totally rethink my position on a border fence.

    I know. It's not about what Obama's done. It's what he's planning. But you can't be sick and tired of something someone might do.




    Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota recently said she fears that Obama will build "reeducation" camps to indoctrinate young people. But Obama hasn't made any moves toward taking anyone's guns, and with money as tight as it is, the last thing the president wants to do is run a camp where he has to shelter and feed a bunch of fat, angry white people.

    Look, I get it, "real America." After an eight-year run of controlling the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, this latest election has you feeling like a rejected husband. You've come home to find your things out on the front lawn -- or at least more things than you usually keep out on the front lawn. You're not ready to let go, but the country you love is moving on. And now you want to call it a whore and key its car.

    That's what you are, the bitter divorced guy whose country has left him -- obsessing over it, haranguing it, blubbering one minute about how much you love it and vowing the next that if you cannot have it, nobody will.

    But it's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy.

    The healthy thing to do is to just get past it and learn to cherish the memories. You'll always have New Orleans and Abu Ghraib.

    And if today's conservatives are insulted by this, because they feel they're better than the people who have the microphone in their party, then I say to them what I would say to moderate Muslims: Denounce your radicals. To paraphrase George W. Bush, either you're with them or you're embarrassed by them.

    The thing that you people out of power have to remember is that the people in power are not secretly plotting against you. They don't need to. They already beat you in public.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...0,927819.story
    Just seemed a fitting response to a predictable Tuba-Gasm of hate/dumb posts.
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    "You have to be aware that there's a line where legitimate concerns begin to collapse into paranoid fantasy." - David Frum, Conservative author and speechwriter for President George W. Bush

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Quote Originally Posted by KC//CRIMSON View Post
    Sorry Tuba, but fear tactics died back in January. Keep up.
    That's a pipe dream. Fear tactics are used by evarbardy theses days.

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Quote Originally Posted by picasso View Post
    That's a pipe dream. Fear tactics are used by evarbardy theses days.
    Everybody with a trunk and tusks.

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Quote Originally Posted by KC//CRIMSON View Post
    Everybody with a trunk and tusks.
    yeah ok. Dems never try to scare voters either. are you serious?

    hah.

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Oh, and to get things back on track after Tuba's Tin-Foil-Threadjacking:

    I'd give O a solid B.

    His international diplomacy has been about what I hoped for/expected. His handling of the financial crisis has been less than I hoped for/expected (however I don't know exactly how is could have been handled BETTER, other than, maybe, keeping track of who got what and how much money).

    His handling of the wars overseas has been good. I liked the smacking of the Pirates. That was nice.

    I like it that he's opening up Cuba. I can't wait to go down there and open up a Casino/Resort.

    I like that his merely being in power is making it easier to spot the crazy conspiracy theorists in this country. All the future Timothy McVeighs keep holding up idiotic signs and shouting at the camera. Now the FBI can start files on them. Like the one guy in OKC that they already arrested for threatening via his Twitter account to commit mass murder. Doofus.
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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    you know, i'm a republican and i wouldn't have realized that i believed the things that maher just did.

    i APPROVED of the tax increases, the 250k raising was a minor blip compared to the real tax reform - phasing out the deduction for charitable contributions by income. if he passes a change that phases out municipal bond interest by income then i might cry tears of joy. if he passes a law that requires those of incredibly high net worth to pay taxes on unrealized capital gains then holy crap he'd be my hero.

    i just have a problem with guys like bill gates and warren buffet (both democrats, btw) creating vast amounts of wealth and then shunting it to their foundations to spend on their own personal pet projects without ever paying taxes on it. whereas if i wanted to do the same, i'd first have to give uncle sam his share.

    my biggest concerns as a republican are simple -> where my oldest's fastpitch tournament is this weekend, barney franks threatening to take money from average workers at companies, the entire AIG bailout and who the money is going to (like all the goldman sachs money going to pay off buffett's warrants), is the chick working the coffee stand one that can actually make a decent chai, the tons of money flooding overseas, whether OU can find an offensive line. yeah, mostly stupid crap that you wouldn't care about bill.

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    Re: Barack Obama - The First 100 Days

    Quote Originally Posted by picasso View Post
    yeah ok. Dems never try to scare voters either. are you serious?

    hah.

    Not a whole lot of fear in Hope & Change, but whatev.

    hah!

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