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Yeah, that was a weird jaw line right? It was like she bought teeth that were 2 sizes to big for her mouth....how the does she eat?
your funny BB...
Yeah, that was a weird jaw line right? It was like she bought teeth that were 2 sizes to big for her mouth....how the does she eat?
Funny wording.
Are you saying it was boring, or that Obama himself is boring because Trump just happened to said the SOTU was boring?
You were made for a Trump like candidate.
Denial, paranoia and bigotry: Obama warns against Republican ugliness and they immediately prove him right
on the substantive issues, Haley made sure the conservative base knew that the Republican Party fully supports this vortex of bigotry and paranoia they’ve been sucked into. And in doing so, she proved Obama right.
For instance, Obama’s point about how it’s irresponsible to exaggerate the dangers of terrorism or to imply that he’s secretly working for the other side? Haley did just that: “Even worse, we are facing the most dangerous terrorist threat our nation has seen since 9/11, and this president appears either unwilling or unable to deal with it.”
Or Obama’s warning about exploiting anti-Muslim bigotry to pander to bigots? Oh yeah, Haley did that, too: “And in this age of terrorism, we must not let in refugees whose intentions cannot be determined.” (Her implication that we do so is a flat-out lie. Refugees have a lengthy process, of an average of 18-24 months, of vetting to get into this country.)
Perhaps the worst part of her speech, however, was when Haley exploited the hate crime committed in her state — a mass shooting at a black church that took the lives of nine people — to pander to racists who want to believe the Black Lives Matter movement is deliberately instigating riots: “We didn’t have violence, we had vigils. We didn’t have riots, we had hugs.”
Haley is praised for her conciliatory rhetoric but that line reveals how much she’s also perfected the use of dog whistles.
In his speech, Obama warned about those who promise “to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control.”
It’s not just Donald Trump. The woman the Republicans flagged to offer their official rebuttal used her speech to do just that. Haley used her speech to take swipes at refugees, at immigrants, and at protesters who are trying to reduce police violence.
She went about as low as you can go, weaponizing the loss of innocent lives to chastise people who are trying to stop the loss of more innocent lives. She was exactly the threat to “rational, constructive debates” that Obama warned about.
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/13/deni...ove_him_right/
I thought it was funny how the Paul Ryan Twitter account tweeted, 30 minutes into the speech, a prepared statement on how poorly the speech was going so far.
You follow Ryan's twitter?
It was retweeted by someone I follow.
But I do follow some accounts that I don't agree with. It's the same as visiting a message board that has posters you don't agree with.
somebody actually watched that? It's not even being covered in the news, lol
even Fox News carried it.
No, I voted for Obama. I think he is a smart guy with good judgement (generally speaking). However, he has always been an unimpressive and a highly overrated speaker in my opinion. Stylistically, he is boring. He takes too many unnecessary pauses between sentences... sometimes even words within a sentence. His statements are also full of boilerplate messages. They are things you'd expect his press secretary to say. They don't seem new, uniquely intelligent or thought provoking. I can recite dozens of lines from great presidents like FDR, Eisenhower, Lincoln, and others. I can't recite anything really meaningful and memorable that Obama has said that really connected with me. As far as the artistry of oration goes, he is what Jackson Pollock is to the visual arts -- people who want to see brilliance will see it, others though just see paint splattered on the wall.
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Where do you get your news?
Hater Pugs are beyond pathetic.
Side note here is a similarity.
Last edited by MultiTroll; 01-13-2016 at 02:28 PM.
Hater Pugs are beyond pathetic.
I knew he reminded me of someone. I just couldn't figure out who.
Paul Ryan struggles to explain Obama-era economy
are Republicans prepared to give the president some credit for the improved economy and for rescuing the country from the Great Recession? The nation’s top GOP official confronted the issue yesterday.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) launched a broad critique of President Obama’s economic record hours before the president delivers his final State of the Union address.
Instead of crediting Obama for any of the economic gains that have occurred in the last seven years, Ryan argued that the Federal Reserve’s policies pushed the recovery.
According to the transcript, via Nexis, a reporter asked Ryan if he believes the president “deserves any credit at all” for economic improvements. The Republican Speaker responded, “I think the Federal Reserve has done more. And by the way, I think the Federal Reserve has given us, in combination with Obama policies, more regulations, higher taxes, more uncertainty; has given us trickle-down economics.”
I realize that much of the Beltway political establishment considers Paul Ryan some kind of numbers-wiz policy wonk, but his answer yesterday was a reminder that the Wisconsin congressman really doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
We can just skip over the fact that, if a President Romney had cut the unemployment rate from 10% to 5%, Ryan would be organizing parades in his honor. That’s not important.
What is important is that Ryan’s explanation is gibberish. Consider the Speaker’s argument broken down into its component parts:
1. Paul Ryan opposes the Fed’s recent monetary policies.
2. Paul Ryan believes the Fed’s recent monetary policies are bad for the economy.
3. Asked about positive economic developments, Paul Ryan credits the policies he doesn’t support.
About a year ago, Paul Krugman described Ryan’s understanding of monetary policy as “craziness.” The assessment continues to be fair.
As for the GOP leader’s complaints about “trickle-down economics,” this really is through-the-looking-glass rhetoric, even by 2016 standards.
We’re talking about a lawmaker whose claim to fame is a budget plan that rewards the very wealthy with massive tax breaks – while slashing domestic spending – in the hopes that prosperity will eventually reach everyone once the rich has even more money in their pockets.
Paul Ryan doesn’t get to complain about trickle-down economics; Paul Ryan is a champion of trickle-down economics.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow
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