Would You Jump Off A Bridge If Obama Said It Was A Good Thing?

Kimberly I applaud you! This is a well written article. I also agree with you whole-heartedly that we are in BIG trouble now and its is only getting worse. This is heading toward a socialist country fast! When we look the other way and rely on FOOLS to fix it we can't blame anyone but ourselves when we are no longer the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

No, I do not think Obama " can do no wrong", but he has only been in office a few months, and in my opinion has taken great strides in fixing what Bush and his cronies broke. It will take longer than a few months to get out from under this mess, and all this right wing derision is doing nothing to help.

I agree with all that you said. I was at one of those tea parties--in Long Beach, CA. It was a small but enthusiastic group. We met in a park. Shortly after we had gathered in a circle to discuss our strategy, a man and woman plopped down in front of us facing the street with their (anit-what we believe in) signs and chairs. Somebody said they were Acorn, but they claimed to be independent.

Then I saw a CNN reporter harass a demonstrator with a small child and then blame the participants in the protest for having a bad attitude.

What is going on here? For the first time in my long life, I'm afraid for this country. I think we should have those demonstrations at least on a monthly basis. If we do, it will grow. Maybe then Nancy Pelosi will not be able to call us "astroturf."

A lot of people are angry, and rightfully so. We are not right wing fanatics!

Yep, if a republican were in office and taxes went up, they Dems would not just shut up and pay them. Funny how you can't disagree with a Democrat isn't it. ??

Its our constitutional right to agree or disagree with anyone. I'm all for giving him a chance. He's only been in office for not quite 3 months. What's happened to this country has taken quite a few years, its not going to be fixed overnight. I'm a Democrat and I voted for Obama. I thought Bush was a blithering idiot, but I felt very sorry for him when the events of 9/11 occured not quite eight months after he took office. I know he didn't plan on that happening when he ran for office. I gave him a chance too, look what happened. It works both ways.

I agree this country is in big trouble.and the Obama backers are still puting the blame on Bush. They need to look at the changes Obama promised. They Are not the changes we need. We are going to lose the U S A as we know it.And it will be Obama doing it not Bush.

Bush is the one who got us in debt. Not Obama. McCain would of been just another Bush and made things even worse. At least Obama is trying to help the little man out along the way. Bush never done that.

I agree with your article. The other day I made reference to "keep drinking the Kool-aid" and the guy had the nerve to write me and say I didnt leave a reference for that remark. That the only person he knows who uses that saying is Bill O'reilly. HELLO that reference is to Reverend Jim Jones in Jonestown south africa. I hate when people just got into politics with Obama and think everything revolves around the last election. The focus should be on the future and what we can do. Not what he she or whoever should have done.

Nice when you can presume to speak for every single member or group that was out demonstrating at the Tea Parties. I guess I can assume it was you personally that used your little children as props, carried the racist signs, waved the Hitler images, made the references to Kenya, are one of the NRA nutjobs and delighted in presented insulting effigies of President Obama, teleprompter jokes, threats of succession and armed revolution....what was your 'message' again? Oh yeah.........TAXATION and SPENDING!
ASTROTURF is the collective of what it became after the 'grass roots' movement was handed over and allowed to be co-opted by Fox news and their band of merry men and woman. The unfortunate teabag theme and even the 2M4M fiasco could have been avoided entirely had FOX really had your interests at heart and not been going for the easy ratings and publicity that was inevitable!

I know some people who think I should jump off that proverbial bridge, but I follow no man blindly except my doctor who has the blue pills. : } Impeach Obama before we are no longer America.

I woudln't jump off of a bridge, if my own mother told me to do it.

I will start off with your first statement. No, its not that Obama can do no wrong its more that to you and those who think like you can not see anything he can do right. That says a lot which takes me to the last administration. Some how no matter what he did many of his supporters could see no wrong in anything he did. They embraced him as if he were a god like figure walking water even though he got us in not one but two wars. He allowed his supporting business people to contract to do services in the war zones who were paid obscene fees though many either did not complete the jobs in a professional manner or not at all. The amount of money spent in dubious ways never seemed to bother his supporters not did the outlandish ways troops not supplied with all the tools they needed to do the jobs they were charged with doing safely. Do you recall the vice president's response when asked about flack vest and armor for vehicles for the troops? They have to do the job with what they have. I can still hear the echo of silence from his supporters and all the nasty names me and others were called for pointing it out.

Now lets move on to another of your comment I am hearing more and more of his detractors say.
Your words:
"Obama pledged to uphold the Constitution of the United States when he took office but he's done more as a sitting President to undo the Constitution than uphold it than any other President in history. I don't really believe this man loves this country or he wouldn't be making he wouldn't be making some of the fool hearty decisions he is making that will impact all of us for years to come."

You have the gall to say Obama is not upholding the constitution after all the blasphemous action of Bush? Where did you live these past eight years? Some how you can ignore all the times Bush people failed to appear for legally issued subpoenas before congress, exposing an undercover international worker and a host of other sleazy operations yet you claim Obama is not following the constitution. Your accusations and incorrect assessments are whole sale right wing hog wash. I had hoped by now at least one of Obama's opposing folks would have made an intelligent plea for something different to be done.

Just like the others I find your comments to be shallow and full of right wing rhetoric as apposed to intelligent and sound discourse. Your eyes and hears must be fixated on a predetermined belief and thought process. All this rhetoric about foolish spending and having this country in extreme debt has no effect as long as you have the ability to ignore as some had said that Bush's over spending was not too bad. If you give just a little bit of real thought to what you and others are saying you might realize Obama is not the cause of all those stores you mentioned to be closed and they certainly have not closed due to any tax increases.

What make it so difficult for you and others to formulate in your minds that just maybe this man has a better idea than some others. While you are screaming about debt, which you say is never a good thing, you totally ignore the possibility that if you allow the president to help pump back up these various institutions and get our economics working again and your precious stores open again people will have more jobs which will stir the economy. If as so many of you seem to feel we just sit and wait for wall street, other major industries, financial institutions and others eventually make a come back how long do you feel that will take if at all? I have yet to hear any intelligent response to that question. What I continuously hear is that he is wasting our money which takes me right back to your first sentence. It ain't about me seeing no wrong what Obama does its about you not seeing nor giving him an opportunity to do anything right.

And for your information I too see some things I do not agree with but I refuse to toss the baby out with the bath water as many of you seem to prefer in the infancy of this presidency. The only thing which makes sense to me in seeing such nonsensical reactions is that you have fallen prey to the FOX News propaganda machines which are constantly tossing less than important issues for you to grab like a bone while making sure you ignore the real important issues this country faces. You ignore the real issues like health care, education, the environment and others yet, you get all bent out of shape about gun control. Your over broad statements tell me the issues you mention have not been thoroughly seated in your minds.

For the first time in my long life, I'm afraid for this country.-Susan

NOW, you're afraid? WHERE have you been?

I thought Bush was a blithering idiot, but I felt very sorry for him when the events of 9/11 occured not quite eight months after he took office-Elizabeth O.

Then there was that whole Katrina thing....(NO, we are NOT the same people)

Spencer T-Thank you.

Linda

First you don't know my thinking as I have not stated exactly how I think or went in detail of my thinking when it comes to politics. So don't assume.

Obama has made it clear that in order to bring the debt down we will go in more debt first. People need to give him time to see if he can actually do what what he plans on doing.

I wish to know why people think Obama can just snap his finger and things will magiclly happen.

I wish to know why people think Obama can just snap his finger and things will magiclly happen. -Minipin
I believe we can thank Mr. Limpball for that...

Spencer, Bush is gone. You cannot blame the next million years on him. But, we can blame Obama for messing up our country in ways that may never be fixed. He is changing our country into a socialist one right in front of everyone, and people cannot see. We had a man from East Germany at our first Tea Party rally in March, and he said that he and his family are SCARED because what is happening here is EXACTLY what happened in Germany and they couldn't see it either.

We want politicians who follow our founding documents. We want fiscal conservatives. It is never right or wise to try to spend yourself out of debt. It doesn't work at home, in business or in the government. It also does nothing to try to equalize people by taking everything those at the top worked their butts off for and giving it to those who did not. What does work is giving everyone equal footing to succeed or not on their own.

We need to stop bailing our failing businessor or individuals. We need to stop spending money we don't have. And we need to stop thinking that it's right to take so much money from those who have been successful...and nothing from 40% of Americans.

At our Cincinnati Tea Party, we talked about how much better it would be if EVERY working American was expected to pay at least $100 in income taxes...instead of getting back 2, 3, 4 times more money than they ever paid in.

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I am afraid that a President who talks his country down to other countries is not going to inspire respect by those countries. A president who bows down to the king of the Saudis is not going to look strong and confident to our enemies. A president who selects as the head of the Treasury a man who doesn't even bother to pay his taxes, doesn't inspire others to happily fork over their hard earned money.
One thing that really ticks me off.....
I don't believe in abortion. Why is part of my tax money going to be sent to other countries to help THEM pay for abortions?
That sounds like taxation without representation to me.
Why is it ok for the liberals to demonstrate all over the place for their beliefs, but when conservatives stage peaceful demonstrations against unfair taxes those same liberals call us "teabaggers" and tell us to "quit whining and pay our taxes"?
Tell you what, when all the members of the cabinet and all the presidential appointees start paying their fair share without cheating, then I will pay mine without whining.
And by the way, I think that conservatives have the same right to demonstrate that the liberals do.
I also think America IS a Christian nation. (Or at least it was.)

I too, am saddened by the number of empty storefronts in the town I live in, and in every town I drive through. You can't even say anymore that it's because they all moved to the mall, because the malls now have about the same proportion of empty storefronts as downtowns do.

So far from what I am seeing, most of the Left on Gather would do just that.

Your expressed some great thoughts very well. Thanks for your article.

I think you're lumping a lot of people in together. I saw something where Obama did a town hall type thing, online I believe; where people could submit questions. The top rated question was one about legalizing and taxing marijuana, in response; Obama said something like " I don't know what this says about people online". ( paraphrasing) I like Obama and voted for him, but that statement made it seem like it was just a silly question; not worthy of discussion. As others above have pointed out, he's only been in office 3 months; give the guy a chance- if Mccain had gotten in- he'd have his work cut out for him too.

i would not

I'm not making much sense out of the whole tax and bail out stuff no matter how much I read about it.

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I think it's a bit soon to say anything.

Again, we are, and always were, a REPUBLIC, not a THEOCRACY.

"Obama pledged to uphold the Constitution of the United States when he took office..."


Obama ... um ... well, he was less than truthful when he did that.

Since on and /or before 2001 - and forward? he has bemoaned the "essential constraints" to government power found in the Constitution. And has on occasion entertained ways of getting around those "essential constraints."

A Constitutional scholar? I think so.

A Defender of that same Constitution?
I do not think so.

Breaking Free from the Constitution
"Mr. Obama’s comments take a turn from discussing the historical record. Unprovoked he laments that the Supreme Court “could not break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.” He further describes the Constitution as “a charter of negative liberties.” This is at odds with the preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."


"Obama pledged to uphold the Constitution of the United States when he took office but he's done more as a sitting President to undo the Constitution than uphold it than any other President in history. I don't really believe this man loves this country or he wouldn't be making some of the foolhearty decisions he is making that will impact all of us for years to come."

I agree.




I agree this country is in big trouble.and the Obama backers are still puting the blame on Bush. They need to look at the changes Obama promised. They Are not the changes we need. We are going to lose the U S A as we know it.And it will be Obama doing it not Bush.
Deloris Wright , Apr 17, 2009, 7:56pm ED

I'm with you, Linda.





Gee, mini, just because Bush got us in some debt does that mean it is OK for Obama to get us into monstrous debt. If it wasn't OK for Bush, then it is not OK for Obama. The convoluted thinking of some people drives me crazy. How do they think getting us into more and more debt will get us out of any debt. Obama has been in office long enough to put my grandchildren in debt. Bush never did that.
Linda W., Apr 17, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

"The other day I made reference to "keep drinking the Kool-aid" and the guy had the nerve to write me and say I didnt leave a reference for that remark."

At least, as you say, the reference to drinking the koolaid has a somewhat valid link to the situation it refers to. There is valid reference for the use of it to describe what 'one side' thinks of the 'other side' (whether either 'side' thinks it's true or not).

But, never never never under any circumstances (as I'm sure we are all painfully aware by now) never ask the reference for the term libs use to refer to those of us who actually attented a TEA party. Having to do with the tea bags.

What I'm getting at is look at the heart and character behind what libs use as 'tags' and the 'tag' of "koolaid drinker."

The kool aid 'tag' refers to a horrible actual event that came about because people simply believed what they were told; and when they no longer believed it they still went along to their and their family's deaths.

The teabag** reference? Refers to an act as base as the minds and hearts which conceived it; as base as the character and morality that teaches it's actually appropriate to voice; that it's valid, and descriptive of TEA party goers. +shrug+ The "reference" here has no basis in reality and doesn't have any valid footing in fact for being used as a descriptive. It is simply, like so much that comes from libs, just intended as an insult; intended to bring down each of us in a personal, derogatory, and overly nasty way.







I agree with your article. The other day I made reference to "keep drinking the Kool-aid" and the guy had the nerve to write me and say I didnt leave a reference for that remark. That the only person he knows who uses that saying is Bill O'reilly. HELLO that reference is to Reverend Jim Jones in Jonestown south africa. I hate when people just got into politics with Obama and think everything revolves around the last election. The focus should be on the future and what we can do. Not what he she or whoever should have done.
norene t., Apr 17, 2009, 8:19pm EDT

+shrug+ Unlike what we are told about prosperity (it doesn't trickle down...), attitude certainly does trickle down. No references; those who know what I mean, know what I mean. Those who don't, or don't care; they won't hear and still won't care.

Sadly, what you describe is truth no matter what invective libs use to describe the attendees.





Why is it ok for the liberals to demonstrate all over the place for their beliefs, but when conservatives stage peaceful demonstrations against unfair taxes those same liberals call us "teabaggers" and tell us to "quit whining and pay our taxes"?
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Bravo, Kimberly!!

I am going to say I would not listen to him but I would pray for him.