Yes indeed, and the group that thinks they will get the most for nothing, vote the most, even if it destroys the government. Hence, our current dilemma.

like the 95 percent of some group who vote a particular
way -- makes me wonder about the way they view
our situation here in the u.s....... . voting is just a
part of the process of getting stuff from the government. -- j

Usually seemed he ignored them and dodged any direct contact, I think that was what has surprised everyone.

Not disagreeing with the headline, and that once again, it's "my way or the highway" for Obama...

But someone remind me...when exactly was Obama ever diplomatic, not blunt, not tough, or even civilized in his dealings with the GOP? Or anyone else who dared cross him?

Yes, and mobs can be manipulated. Kinda reminds me of Issac Asimov's Psychohistory from the Foundation series...

it's mob rule these days -- like everyone Just Must
wear clothes from the Gap, or something. -- j

Exactly, right up there with the "deciding" issue,(abortion, gay rights, gay marriage, color, sex, and all those other things) that cloud the issue

but millions of voters care so little about their awesome
responsibility as voters that they will consider gender
a qualifier of the first order. . whatta country! -- j

No, please. There was a Carville post I put up last week or so, that was enough of that wind bag. He's scary..in many ways..

Nope, not going there...maybe divine right, but definitely not gender. I can't care less if they are male, female or trans, as long as they are competent and honest. Since they seem to lack in those 2 qualifications, none pass...

qualified by gender?! -- j

Indeed...I am still not seeing any qualifications for President...but the Obamanation didn't have any either, so maybe it has been dispensed with...

she is a corrupt political lawyer, just right for this regime. -- j

p.s. our president has finally resorted to language
more appropriate to a mob boss in chicago.

Sad, but true, but goes back a lot further. Clinton's and Rove turned it into a viable tactic, before that it was amateurish (like being gay,playing with Senate pages etc). Now they just say you are trying to steal the peoples money for your own ends, but that is said so often it has become true.

It's called the NSA. You pay for it. Kinda like Dish, you pay 100.00 a month to get the 5 channels you actually want to watch. We get the NSA with our Tax dollars, defending America for Americans.

"They" likely have someone assigned to monitor the Gulch.

As someone said so eloquently in another post: I am a Cash Cow, Just ask my legislator (read Obamam). Thats all we are, or ever will be to the one president who was worse than Jimmy Carter.

Careful, they are listening......

Uh, for 2 terms. So what does this say about the electorate that elected such a noob to power? Either they are really stupid, bought off with lots of promises never to be kept, pandered to by special individual interests, or just"I always vote Democrap" and hold their nose. Or a mix of all the above, of course there is a light possibility the election was rigged, there was video of a voting machine (in Ohio I believe) where the guy pressed the Republican button and it kept coming up Democrap. At any rate, he won on a Kennedy like race method of smooth talking and "We can fix this" stories. And they were stories.

This is one of the points of Atlas Shrugged: Government is not for the good of the country, rather the good of the government. AKA greedy little trolls, and party is just a different coat of paint on the same cockroach.

so the democrats want to tax us and print money for their projects, headed by the kind of arrogance Obama. the republicans want to tax us and print money for THEIR projects, and each of them vetoes the others' projects. the problem is that both of them use government power to get the money out of one group and give it to another. That is just wrong and is at the bottom of our problems. Of course there is gridlock- there has to be, and actually we should be thankful for that !!!! Keeps government spending lower

I don't want to bash Obama on a personal basis, a tactic that he has taken recently when talking about his GOP counterparts. When your argument begins to fail, many people just raise their voices, assuming that a louder volume will make their position clearer.

We need to remember that Mr. Obama served 3 terms as a state senator in Illinois, a state just short of bankruptcy due to mishandling by state government. He was then elected to the US Senate in 2004. He has never held a position in business, finance, foreign affairs, the military or governance. His primary accomplishments prior to becoming president consist of becoming chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee for the State of Illinois. It should be noted that he recently chided Marco Rubio for Rubio's lack of foreign policy experience.

We have placed the future of our country in the hands of an individual who lacks the necessary experience to deal with the problems that our country faces in today's political environment.

Before I heard of Ayn Rand or the Gulch, I heard Obama refer to someone like me as one of his "enemies."
"Fine," I said to that Traitor-In-Chief on TV, "you are my enemy too."

It's tactics: bludgeon your opponent with enough public limelight that makes them look bad (with the ever-present help of your media goons) and they'll eventually capitulate. It's worked for more than 4 years so why stop now?