The Proper 2012 US Election Result Thread

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:03 am

People also tend to forget that no president is given absolute power. Those screaming "obama will be the end of us" conveniently forget that. It was the same way 8 years ago on the other side. If people really want to effect a change it starts with congress.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:33 am

Optimus Prime Rib wrote:People also tend to forget that no president is given absolute power. Those screaming "obama will be the end of us" conveniently forget that. It was the same way 8 years ago on the other side. If people really want to effect a change it starts with congress.

In all fairness, President Bush and his administration really DID do a lot to **** up the country. The President's policies (especially a lot of deregulations and tax cuts on the wealthiest citizens) directly led to the economic crash. And then there's the two wars that destroyed a few countries, killed tens of thousands of people, and REALLY hurt America's standing with the rest of the world.

I remember some conservatives making fun of "liberals" for blaming President Bush for Hurricane Katrina. But it's not the hurricane itself that he caught flack for. It's putting one of his friends, somebody with no experience in disaster management in charge of the country's disaster relief organization. Which, again, led to quite a bit of death, destruction, and general misery.

When conservatives say that Obama will be the end of us all and that his polcies are going to wreck the country, I have to wonder if they somehow forgot about the President who ACTUALLY DID THAT.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:08 pm

Professor Smooth wrote: I remember some conservatives making fun of "liberals" for blaming President Bush for Hurricane Katrina. But it's not the hurricane itself that he caught flack for. It's putting one of his friends, somebody with no experience in disaster management in charge of the country's disaster relief organization. Which, again, led to quite a bit of death, destruction, and general misery.

Oh come on Smooth, Barabara Bush assured us they were better off than they had ever been after Hurricane Katrina.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:09 pm

Yaya wrote:
Professor Smooth wrote: I remember some conservatives making fun of "liberals" for blaming President Bush for Hurricane Katrina. But it's not the hurricane itself that he caught flack for. It's putting one of his friends, somebody with no experience in disaster management in charge of the country's disaster relief organization. Which, again, led to quite a bit of death, destruction, and general misery.
Oh come on Smooth, Barabara Bush assured us they were better off than they had ever been after Hurricane Katrina.

Truly, it was a heck of a job, from Brownie. The guy who, in the aftermath of Sandy, actually criticized Obama for (and I'm not making this up) responding too quickly.

I wish I could remember where I read this. But somebody pointed out that, if Bush was such a great President, why wasn't he invited to speak at the RNC or support (on film or in person) Romney's campaign?

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:25 am

Professor Smooth wrote:
Yaya wrote:
Professor Smooth wrote: I remember some conservatives making fun of "liberals" for blaming President Bush for Hurricane Katrina. But it's not the hurricane itself that he caught flack for. It's putting one of his friends, somebody with no experience in disaster management in charge of the country's disaster relief organization. Which, again, led to quite a bit of death, destruction, and general misery.
Oh come on Smooth, Barabara Bush assured us they were better off than they had ever been after Hurricane Katrina.
Truly, it was a heck of a job, from Brownie. The guy who, in the aftermath of Sandy, actually criticized Obama for (and I'm not making this up) responding too quickly.

I wish I could remember where I read this. But somebody pointed out that, if Bush was such a great President, why wasn't he invited to speak at the RNC or support (on film or in person) Romney's campaign?

Because being a door greeter at a Texas hardware store is a full-time job.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 2:10 pm

Shanti418 wrote:
snarl wrote:Apparently some fat whore tweeted something along the lines of

"4 more years of this N*****, hopefully somebody will assassinate him this time"

She was sacked.

Didn't think that there was a problem with what she said - Said she wasn't racist...

Saw her interviewed, the interviewee pointed out that she did tweet "N*****", didn't it follow that a logical expectation would be people who saw her tweet might think she was racist

This *sort of* registered with her, but she still didn't get it.

Mad bitch.
It's true. Right now, the common thinking around race and racism in America can be summed up thusly: "Do I think non-white people are biologically inferior to white people? No way! Thus, I can make stereotypes and use racial epithets at liberty, because clearly I'm not racist!" SEE: Daniel Tosh or anything Seth McFarlene has even done.

My brother-in-law likes to let off epithets and follow them up with "I'm not racist, it's just fun to act like it."

He was raised in a giant house on a lake. He and his wife, my wife's sister, recently lived in their parents' guest house for a year before his parents helped him get a place of their own closer to his work. Most of our conversations are about... well, about him saying how stupid everyone else is. He was pretty broken up about Romney losing.

Yep.