Rush: I hope Obama fails.

[doobs]

I ride WC hard because he talks out of his ass, pompously ridicules others for what he only imagines they say, and obstinately refuses all correction.

I started to ride WC long before he adopted the confederate battle standard as an avatar, and I will continue to long after he puts it away. WC is a bully, profane, ignorant and rude to people. My feeling about southern men and their quaint attachment to symbols of lost causes has nothing to do with it.

God forbid some genteel agrarian humanist or free mind, oblivious to the insult his banner gives others, should get singed by the flames. That would be very unfortunate.

The timing is rather provocative. Do you guess WC did picked his spot out of mischief or ignorance or both, doobs?

Well, I was trying to gently scold him. I have no idea why he chose to display the confederate battle flag. And, yes, his timing is strange.

[Cry Havoc]

It's HILARIOUS how FWD completely shut the haters up in this thread.

[Wild Cobra]

I think they're riding you so hard because of the confederate battle flag. James Earl Ray killed a man who fought against the oppression of blacks, which is what that flag represents to many.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I understand that there are people who can love the flag without being racist. Some people just love their Southern heritage. And some people just love the spirit of rebellion. The confederate battle flag is not the swastika.

But you have to expect some people giving you a hard time. Especially when you start displaying the flag around the time when our first black president is inaugurated.

I agree. However they will not admit their prejudice. When they realize it does not stand for slavery, I will consider taking it down. Until then, as long as I see these racist threads about whites...

them!

Someone has to stand up for rights.

How many things in peoples signatures offend others? Should they all be removed?

[Wild Cobra]

Well, I was trying to gently scold him. I have no idea why he chose to display the confederate battle flag. And, yes, his timing is strange.

My timing yes, is on purpose.

I'm tired of racism against whites!

[FromWayDowntown]

I'm tired of racism against whites!

[ChumpDumper]

Poor, oppressed whitey.

[DarkReign]

My timing yes, is on purpose.

I'm tired of racism against whites!

WC, just....stop. Stop now and let this thread die.

Old saying "Choose your hill to die on."

This isnt it, trust me.

[Winehole23]

Racism is now officially dead. Except of course for racism against whites.



Wave that victim flag, WC. Maybe your oppressed buddies will wave back.

[Winehole23]

Has Obama delivered on the four big things outlined in his first inaugural? Jonathan Chait says yes:

The conservative view of President Obama has straddled two difficult-to-reconcile portraits. One indicts him as a “Reagan of the left,” fundamentally (and, in their view, disastrously) altering the shape of the state. The other casts him as a hapless mediocrity, a Jimmy Carter redux. At the moment, the latter view is more in evidence — just in the last week, columns have appeared with headlines like “Is It Too Late for Obama to Rescue His Legacy?” and “The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama.”


On January 20, 2009, when Obama delivered his inaugural address as president, he outlined his coming domestic agenda in two sentences summarizing the challenges he identified: “Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.” Those were the four major areas of domestic reform: economic recovery measures, health-care reform, a response to climate change, and education reform. (To the justifiable dismay of immigration advocates, Obama did not call for immigration reform at the time, and immigration reform is now the only possible remaining area for significant domestic reform.) With the announcement of the largest piece of his environmental program last Monday, Obama has now accomplished major policy responses on all these things. There is enormous room left to debate whether Obama’s agenda in all these areas qualifies as good or bad, but “ineffectual” seems as though it should be ruled out at this point.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...-promises.html

[SnakeBoy]

So you'd rather that the economy fail than see policies you disagree with implemented, even if those policies brought success?

It's little wonder our political society is so polarized. Its not about the success of the nation any more -- it's about prevailing in the war of ideas, first and foremost.

[spurraider21]

Im not rooting for trump policies to fail. I'm rooting for his policies to not get implemented because I think they will fail.

But once they're in effect? Yeah, I hope they'll succeed. I'm going to be in the job market by the end of his first year. I also hope climate change turns out to be a Chinese hoax. I just have my doubts