Meet The Press: Rachel Maddow Calls Conservatives "Disgusting" For Cheering Chicago's Failed Olympic Bid
I do think that the wingnut glee in the IOC deciding to award Rio with the 2016 Olympics has really been a perfect example to show how reactionary the republicans and conservatives have become. Actively cheering something that would have helped an American city (and American jobs and the economy) just because they perceive it as hurting the president? Serious derangement.
On Meet the Press, Rachel Maddow just can't believe the level of Obama Derangement Syndrome necessary to cheer against an American victory:
The unseemly cheering on the right for America losing the Olympic bid I think is going to be the taste that lingers a long time after this failure. Certainly, the President tried to get something and he didn’t get it, and people who hate the President feel like that’s a cause for celebration, but to see, for example, the Weekly Standard, post “Chicago loses! Chicago loses! Cheers erupt at Weekly Standard headquarters” I think says a lot more about the Weekly Standard, says a lot more about the right right now than it does about this loss.
I know that facts are pesky and frequent ignorable and non-essential things for conservatives, but all four final candidate countries were represented by their respective head of state. If Obama hadn't gone, the right would have excoriated him for losing the bid because he didn't show. And it's the same hubris and American exceptionalism that dismisses that King Carlos of Spain and Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama were also snubbed. So there was no scenario in which Obama could have not gotten slammed by these wingnuts.
And it is in that Catch-22 that the wingnuts lose even more supporters, because these idiots are happy for failure for this country just to score some cheap political points, as Republican strategist Mike Murphy so aptly proves.
These are the people to guide America? I don't think so. They don't care about America. They don't care about Americans. It's the same mentality that fights against real health care reform, and helping struggling homeowners over insurance companies and financial institutions. And try as they might, Americans saw that "party over everything" attitude in 2008 and voted accordingly. And if the right keeps letting the wingnuts control the dialog like this, I have no fears over 2012 either.
Even Joe Scarborough was bitching about those conservatives who are cheering our loss of the Olympics. He played a clip of Rush having a pissing fit about it and saying who would want to come to this crappy country. Yeah, Rush thinks the US is crappy because of President Obama.
I don't think most Americans like any party who would condone some of the stuff we are hearing from the right. These lunatics took their marching orders from Rush earlier this year and they want the country and the president to fail, no matter the cost to their party or our country. Sick sons of bitches is the only term that comes to my mind when I think about it, which I try not to any more often than possible.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/gop-sabotaging-fo...
Seems to be one word in particular, that describes what the right is doin perfectly.
contemptible comes immediately to mind. UnAmerican for sure..
Each cheering face you see has signed up for the FASCIST/SLAVE Empire. They are the Junta from HELL. How is it amerikan for DeMint to go to Honduras to 'support' the junta there. Rich ZIONISTWHOREs called '.......100 families (rich, see something they want) this is from an uncensored article on the rise of what they want to try to call 'anti-semetism' but which is mostly just not wanting the rich to have more of their resources. I call it treason, just like ChickenCheney outing Valerie Plame and her whole network, it's treason!
If they can't win any vote process honestly, they don't think we should even try. i.e., President Obama should not have even tried to get the Olympics unless it was "in the bag" before he went - in other words, unless we knew we would win before any voting took place - which means, unless the vote was rigged.
To lose is humiliating because we are so Exceptional that we should have carte blanche to cheat to prove our Exceptionalism - see how that works?
So, to sum up: in the sick mind of the Right-wingers, to lose is humiliating, but to win by cheating is proof of exceptionalism.
That's why they won't give up on trying to force a "do-over" on the last election by delegitimizing Obama's presidency. They can't believe they lost in spite of all the voter fraud they committed - and to a black man!!! It must be deligitimate, it simply must!
And rather than face their own arrogance and narcissistic insanity, they will bring down the whole country - so they can tell themselves forever that they really were Right, and Exceptional.
We'll soon hear the calls for Rachel to apologize for being truthful.
UGH!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
apologize for being right.
disgusting. I'm embarrassed for these adults that would cheer a "failure." Hosting the Olympic Games appears to be a dicey deal, but it would have surely provided tourist traffic to Chicago and the surrounding area at a time when it would most likely benefit the area.
I've always marveled at the schoolyard mentality of these supposed adults, from the mocking of Kerry, with the BandAids, to the witch doctor photoshop of Obama. That's what children do, they mock, and point and laugh. Real adults, people of maturity and thought recognize that while they don't agree, debate does not consist of trying to turn your opponent into a caricature or simply repeating slogans/soundbites/memes ad nauseum.
It's bad enough to have to observe this childish crap in a random adult at a random rally, but to have congressional representatives exhibit this behavior is tragic. We are better than this (at least I am and I'm sure most of those here are as well).
Had Chicago gotten the games, anything that went wrong regarding the games from now until they are played and over would have been blamed on the President. As far as the right was concerned, this would be a lose /lose for the President no matter what. Had he not gone to bat to get the games and Chicago had lost out, they would have blamed the loss on his not going to bat for them. I'm afraid we have three more years of this childishness unless an adult on the right stands up and gets the kids to behave. So far I haven't seen an adult on the right willing to take control, because without the kids, what does the party have left?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
It's damned if you do and damned if you dont. If the rethugs want to keep score, so will we in the 2010 elections when they lose more seats.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
unless the elections are taken out of the hands of Diebold et al.
I think that's why the right keeps spewing shit. They know they "got it in the bag" or something. It's odd to me that NO ONE has stood up against all the LIES being spewed.
has the emotional maturity of a thirteen-year old!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
we know they spend their days doing not much more than jerking off, so there is that.
these tools on meet the press are the biggest bunch of dickheads I have seen together on there in a long time (minus Rachel, of course) Brooks and Gregory are two smarmy assholes and that other asshat is just oozes scum.
Cheering Chicago's failure to win the Olympics is not an example of how Conservatives 'have become', but is instead a plain example of Conservatives' belief in party over country. This ideology has been there since the Gingrich years for those who have been paying attention, but this is a rare obvious demonstration of that belief.
As long as it helps them win elections, they don't care if/how it impacts the country.
That is what this is all about. The GOP does not want the Obama and Democratic Congress to succeed at anything and will cheer a loss in Iraq or Afghanistan if it means a black eye for the Democrats. The GOP does not put country first. The Democrats and Obama have to face this fact as reality and govern in spite of the GOP's treachery. Obama and his staff need to understand they need to put forth the best policies for the American people and forget bipartisan votes with the GOP.
Krugman got it right today when he said they have "the emotional maturity of a bratty thirteen year old". I might disagree and say they act more like three year olds who aren't wise enough yet to see the consequences of their actions.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
thinking the same thing. They probably also make fun of mentally challenged people and people with disabilities. It's pathetic.
It is pathetic, but it's also a disgrace for our country. We aren't the only ones hearing their insantity, people around the world are hearing it too and probably wondering what in the hell is wrong with the US. We fianlly have a president who is admired by just about everyone everywhere and our own people are trying to tear him down.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
..just not very wise about it! They know, as do most everyone here, that they will continue all this obstructionism and attitude of NO until they can use any and all failures against the Obama administration. We've seen it before and we'll see it until the crack of doom. They have nothing, they offer nothing and want only to see the Obama administration in a bad light. They're hypocrits and prophylactics but I'm preaching to the choir.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
what Krugman said. Great minds think alike! ;)
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Republicans ARE practicing seditious DEMAGOGUERY and anti-democracy OBSTRUCTIONISM intended to destabilize our economy for purposes of political exploitation.
Republicans AREN'T making a sincere effort to STOP the bleeding THEIR incompetent leadership and failed policies created. Instead, they're using inflammatory lies and accusations as a smokescreen to conceal their subversive agenda, which is to cause President Obama and America to fail so they can blame Democrats for the consequences of THEIR calamitous mismanagement.
Republicans ARE preposterously professing that THEIR disgraceful political WHORING had nothing to do with the banking, real estate, stock market and employment catastrophes that resulted.
Republicans ARE trying to hamstring Democrats to prevent them from repairing the damage caused during a Republican presidency that was irresponsibly enabled by Republican Senators and Representatives.
Republicans ARE offering ridiculous arguments meant solely to disrupt and prevent progressive change. They'd rather divide America and create political gridlock than endure the political consequences of effective Democratic governance.
Republicans AREN'T the LOYAL OPPOSITION; they ARE the ENEMY WITHIN whose mercenary personal priorities have eroded their moral and ethical standards to the point that duplicity and betrayal are their preferred modus operandi.
It's one thing to advocate their conservative beliefs; it's another thing entirely to willfully sabotage America's government because a successful Democratic presidency would not be vulnerable to the greed, fears and hatreds that have produced and sustained the radical Republican anti-government corporatism and anti-Christian faux theocracies that are poisoning and crippling American society.
Junta from HELL!!! To willfully sabotage your own country is TREASON and the moment they outed Valerie Plame and her whole network, was the most egregious breach of law on the books. DeMint is doing just that in Honduras, where ZIONISTWHORES have 'found' something of 'value' just waiting for them to plunder, so they call up their puppet USofBLOODYISRAEL, and sig the PUKIES after the wayward US
Not only do you risk alienating the Jewish community when you spew anti-Zionest rhetoric (within the context of an unrelated thread) you encourage the marginalization of the Progressive cause by painting it as extreme - because using terms like "ZIONISTWHORE" are considered well outside the mainstream.
As a progressive of Jewish descent, I consider myself a zionist. I happen to also be an atheist, and I mention that to show that my feelings about Israel have nothing to do with religeon, but are about culture, family and ancestors. There are tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of Jewish americans who feel as I do, and you seriously risk losing their support by combining your activism against right-wing forces in America with your activism against the Zionist gov't of Israel. The fact that the US and Israel have very close ties (and as you so in-elegantly point out, some have good reason to believe the US is heavily influenced by Israel) - this fact is NOT key to the fight against right-wing conservatives hijacking our government, media and culture.
Lets work together to fight this domestic threat, and afterwards, we can try to have a respectful debate - within the progressive community - in a thread(s) which address that tiopic (I will be right there with you pointing out everything the Israeli gov't does which is bad and wrong - but I will defend Israel's right to exist, to be sure, while behaving in a humane manner, IE., not like they are behaving lately).
To be clear - you are not going to deter me from contributing to the progressive fight, and I will continue to proudly fly my freak flag and call myself a Liberal, as I always have - BUT, many people who are Jewish, in America, who support Progressive causes, do not have my committment, and talk like yours (not to single you out especially) is going to have a negative effect on their continued support. Just think about it. Please.
to accuse the left of hating Bush so much, that they wanted terrorists to win, etc... The rabid on the right project their own worst vices onto their political enemies.
If you maintain the belief that everything the right does is a symptom of projection, then their behavior suddenly begins to make sense. Starting with Ronald Reagan's statement about the government being the problem, not the solution, through accusing John Kerry of being the recipient of undeserved medals, to the screeching we hear today, it's all about the rightwing fear that a somewhat left of center administration will try to do all the things they want to do, and that this administration will engage in the type of political backstabbing that we saw with the Abu Gonzales Justice Department.
the right-tards would have bitched anyway.
fuck 'em.
President Obama didn't lose the Olympics; Chicago didn't get them. Or, more accurately, Rio de Jainero got them.
Why must every "failure" be Obama's? This was a vote where there were going to be more losers than winners--the nature of the beast. Big deal; move on.
Now, let's do something significant about the Chicago youth deaths!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
You can bet they'd be screaming from the rooftops about how he missed an opportunity to have the Olympics here in 'Murrica and what awful President he is if he HADN'T gone.
There is no winning with them because everything is an excuse to attack.
You must remember that these anti-Obama wackos are a very small, very vocal minority in our country.
They get way too much publicity.
Lower the retirement age.
the asshole with the beard next to Rachel. What a smug turd.
I really bristled when he said that the President of the U.S. is basically in a separate category from the other heads of state, implying that the leader of the U.S. is superior, better, etc. That's why people hate us. This is not a football game, it's not a student council race, it's world politics.
Also, as my husband and I were discussing this, he mentioned how things changed after the Salt Lake debacle and that it would now be impossible to "count the votes" of the committee anyway.
I've seen Murphy countless times on MTP. It's like they have to balance the "political scale" with a dumb Republican like him, but it's basically using a pile of s### to do it.
American is not great because we THINK we're great. We're great because we do great things. And Republicans have not done any great things for quite some time.
Murphy is right though. That's a difference between Republicans and Democrats. For the wingnuts, power and respect is inherent, it doesn't ever have to be earned. So he can sit there and chuckle as if he made some kind of point, but everyone knows he's just a smug asshole who will never understand the real meaning of exceptionalism.
The bearded moron talked about this view that the President of the US is somehow a superiour being, and that the Spanish leader is somehow below him in pecking order - and he KNOWS it (they love to tell you that you KNOW they are right and won't admit it). She should have pounced on that and agreed that this IS a key difference in how Progressives see the US in the context of the world. We need to put more concentration on this concept as a differentiation between the conservatives and progressives. She did of course quip that he would be very unpopular in Spain now, but it wasn't enough - this was a telling reveal that she should have made more of with her remaining time.
The Obamas went out to dinner this weekend to celebrate their wedding anniversary. I'm just waiting for someone on the right to start bitching about this. I think the only reason we haven't heard anything yet is they haven't found out about it yet. I can just imagine the first complaint. With a decision waiting to be made about sending more troops into Afghanistan, the President decides to put that aside and use his precious time to eat out at some fancy restaurant.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
once again as the reason for Chicago not getting the Olympics was what,
an act of patriotism?
Could anyone have predicted Dems would do that?
Would Rachel call that disgusting or Anti-American?
Rio won much more than Chicago lost....period. You crawl out from your bridge salavating for a chance to slam Progressives and the President...country be damned.
it's just that I can't believe the crap you guys post here when you certainly you must know rock-solid proof of your hypocrisy is etched in stone on prior blog threads from not that long ago.
You try so hard to appear objective about it too; that's the sad thing.
It breaks my heart.
meet Dennis!
dandy
10 to 1 on the box 'a rocks.
It's all over your sleeve.
Go. Away.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Assholes like you are happy that the potential for Americans having badly needed jobs being lost gives you joy. Obama must fail! Obama must fail!
Obama is the socialist, nazi, marxist, communist, muslim, radical christian anti-christ doncha know.
I'll bet he even eats fiber.
You're guy is/was a moron. He's a loser. He was a loser as president. He's an idiot. He's a dry drunk. He's stupid and he was an embarrassment as president. Oh, what am I talking about, he wasn't president, the guy that sat on the V.P selection committee and decided he himself would be the best V.P. candidate, he was running the show. They started two bogus wars, they allowed people to be tortured, they spied on Americans (I could go on here).
Your loser politicians deserve all the scorn heaped on them, all of it. You deserve scorn for supporting them. The difference between you and me, I would not laugh or cheer or jump up and down if they were indicted and convicted. You probably had a Purple Heart BandAid didn't you? Your team needs to quite acting like this is middle school. You don't like Obama, that's fine, this is not about popularity, but you've got no business lecturing anyone about hyprocrisy, cause here you are trying to equate people celebrating the loss of the Olympic Games with legitimate criticism of the way that Bush and his mafia crime family mismanaged this country into the third world place it is quickly becoming.
The wingnuts like to try and claim that their irrational hatred of Obama has an equivalent with the lefts recognition that bush was and always had been a piss poor leader. They try to ignore all of the fuck-ups from bush and all of the ways that he really did tread on the Constitution and other laws of the United States and attempt to show Obama is worse by making up easily disproven crap that they try to pass off as the truth, even though all of their lies are easily disproven. Thats what gets me, they really think the majority of Americans are so easily fooled by thinnly transparent lies.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Something just for you dennis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWUaboCIrM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Where are the Dems blaming Bush for not getting the Chicago Olympics?
I cover the media all the time and the only reference I remember, Dennis, is some Dems pointing out that the Republicans who concern trolled Obama's flight to Copenhagen, didn't have a problem with Bush promoting Chicago at the beginning of this push for the 2016 Games.
I do think there's a valid argument to be made that the US, by its actions in the last eight years, have not made themselves a friend to the rest of the world, but truthfully, I don't think that played that large a role in the decision-making process.
As much as we like to believe that we're just this shining beacon that everyone is mesmerized by, the truth is that there have never been an Olympic Games in South America and that probably factored into the decision more than anything else. It makes these Games stand out and be historic, which the IOC likes. We've had the Olympics in the US, what? sixteen times in the modern age? Where's the cache for that?
I was going to call dennis on that, but I don't get to hear as much of this stuff as you.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
..from a most knowledgable source.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Sorry got sidetracked and didn't see your post until just now.
Here's Roland Burris putting the blame on Bush.
Burris blames Bush for Olympic flameout
Here's Jesse Jackson, Jan Schakowsky and some Chicago state rep (Democratic) blaming Bush.
Chicago torpedoed by anti-U.S. sentiment?
Congressman blames Bush for Chicago's Olympics defeat
No one takes Burris seriously, not even the Democratic Party. You know that, Dennis.
Schakowsky does not blame Bush. She says she's heard rumors that anti-American sentiment played into this, but doesn't know how true it is.
And I acknowledged that there is a legitimate argument to be made that we haven't exactly been a good neighbor in the international community, although I personally don't think that really played into the IOC's decision making.
But it's different to say that anti-American sentiment played into this than to actually say that the IOC slapped down Obama, which is how the right is portraying this. Jackson, Schakowsky and Mendoza said that our policies and attitude have damaged our reputation worldwide. I don't think that's an arguable position. Yes, that occurred on Bush's watch, but for the most part, there's a distinction between the policies and the man. Rush said that Obama's ego has landed. The Weekly Standard, Drudge and other rightwing media outlets called this a rejection of Obama.
It's a nuance, but a crucial one. I really don't think there's an equivalence to this one, Dennis.
Republicans are OUTRAGED!!!
the whole lot of them!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
I think progressives should defend Glenn Beck and here's why www.newsmediatube.com
beck is a fear-mongering racist asshole.
Thirty seconds of my life I'll never get back.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
..from what? Is he like someone who will hurt himself if left to his own designs? Defend beck for his..lies?..racist rants?..attempts at comedy while trying to poison the SOTH? What exactly does beck need to be defended from?..his own show?
I can't get my Cable Company to remove faux from my basic programming package; I'm the one who needs a defence!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/gop-sabotaging-fo...
who threw the shoe at President Bush, libbeNmod.
Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush during press conference
Your exact quote:
Don't you think that for someone that elated about the President of the United States having someone throw a shoe at his head, that you'd be a little more careful about calling Americans "disgusting" for this?
Something half the citizens of Chicago didn't even want in the first place?
Or do you still have the Immunity Idol in your possession, libbeNmod?
Your argument is pretty convincing, I must admit, though.
"It's not the same and you know it!!!!"
Convincing.
Somebody kicks down your door, murders your brother, rapes your wife and blows off one or two of your limbs.
You throw a shoe at him and you're the bad guy, right?
on the original blog thread, Cafeen Man.
But thanks anyway.
Sounds like the same logic the Hollywood people defending Roman Polanski use, only less convincing.
Still hypocritical to cheer one and call these people disgusting now.
Not that that would stop anyone on the Left from doing it.
It's not hypocritical at all. Bush caused the death and maiming of a lot of people and walked away without a bit of consequence which is normal for him.
Nobody on the left was cheering on American losses. The right is though and they're doing it in a big way. You guys need some adult supervision.
on whether this was an American loss or not, Cafeen Man.
I'v talked to a number of good friends in Chicago and overwhelmingly they were not in favor of hosting the Olympics. Almost to a man.
And when Obama characterized it before the decision as one of a crowning glory as he ends his presidency in 2016, you can hardly be surprised that inwardly his detractors would not want to see that happen. I seriously doubt if folks here would've withheld their jubilation if the same thing had happened to Bush, had he gone about this the same way as Barack and Michelle Obama had.
How soon you forget...The last time around New York lost its bid to host the Olympics to London.
The difference -- Bush did not take the chance to make his pitch to get the games here -- although with his reputation, that was a good move.
I'm sure these "friends" of yours wouldn't want such a thing to happen in Chicago, because, gosh-darnit...who needs the work in Chicago anyway?
..or the media exposure for the city or the new sports venues for the little league and maybe one or two of their professional sports' franchises...yeah, who needs all that? Um, IOC, if you change your mind about Rio, there's always New York. Just sayin'!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Two? Three? What, eight years wasn't enough time to plan a getaway to New Buffalo or The Dells?
Bet there's someone here who has talked to a great number more who supported it. [cue L&L]
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
And they fully disagree with the few friends you have.
these friends of his are one or more of the following...
A)crackers
B)cracker-ass crackers
C)republican
D)imaginary
E)assholes
I can't explain it.
You probably would too.
let me remind you that you first appeared here calling anyone and everyone even slightly opposed to Obama 'racists'.
And those were the Hillary supporters at the time.
So please don't lecture me on cred, mmm-kay.
That's right, use the race when all else fails.
you've NEVER done that, have you, Lefty?
It was your calling card, for Christ's sake.
he didn't call anyone and everyone who even slightly opposed Obama racists...
He just called the trolls, and the PUMA punks who were spreading lies and disinformation about Obama, racists...
So...you're still an idiot.
damn right I'd be an asshole...to you.
In fact, I think we'd probably brawl.
Dennis has every right to post here and your comments are over the top.
Perhaps that explains lNm's admiration for the Iraqi
reporter/shoe throwing pitcher. He admires an out of control hurler. Keeps the batter from crowding the podium.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I just have a short fuse lately.
How is a reporter throwing a shoe at bush anything like what the GOP is doing to undermine Obama?
All he can do is claim the left is hypocritical but not explain how wishing for significant American loss (the right) and thinking a shoe thrown at Bush is funny (the left) are the same thing.
fuckin pathetic.
libbeNmod?
If you live in Chicago and you love Barack Obama as much as say, LeftandLeft does, and you don't want to see the Olympics hosted there, does that mean you were wishing for significant loss too?
It's hard to answer yours and C-Man's questions when they don't make any sense from the way you've framed them.
wow...
you're consistent...I'll give ya that.
Lefties in this country did not cheer the reporter who threw his shoes at Bush. The guy missed. They cheered that he was not signed as a relief pitcher for the Mets.
The left does not defend Roman Polanski.
They are still angry over the sequel to Chinatown.
I am pleaded that all rock references have correctly placed these objects in boxes, where they belong.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Polanski had nothing to do with The Two Jakes?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
If not for his perversity we might have been spared that outrage.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Chicago isn't my issue. It's right-wing whack-jobs who wish bad things on America simply because they think it will reflect badly on Obama.
On the flip side, Bush brought bad things on America (and just about anywhere else he had anything to do with) and the left didn't like it.
And somehow you think those things are the same.
And btw, the left didn't need to constantly contrive things to make Bush look bad. They just pointed out the truth. If that made Bush look bad then maybe he should have done different things.
Now explain to me how Chicago hosting the Olympics would have been such a bad thing that not getting to do it is worthy of cheer.
GAH!
The Iraqis should have greeted Bush with candy and flowers because of all the wonderful things he wrought unto their country.
I'm sure the Poles loved Hitler just as much.
you don't need to repost other people's posts from that thread last year.
Why are you doing that?
Why not? It's not like you've ever had an original thought.
one of LNM's quotes above at 07:11? Just sayin...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
He's a total hypocrite.
in order to ask him why he's being such a hypocrite. And I posted a link to his hypocrisy for his ease of understanding and so he could have a visual.
I'm just trying to be helpful to Cafeen Man by letting him know that I've already perused the comments from that thread from last year so he doesn't have to repost them for my benefit.
Not as dennis does.
Hypocrites....
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
if you had posted a link to a thread from last year and used to aid someone in hopefully not making himself appear to be an even bigger hypocrite, and someone else came on and started posting identical posts to that link you gave, wouldn't you think that was just a bit weird?
And I'm just telling him that it's not necessary. I read those comments the first time when it happened and I just read many of them again.
It's one thing to shorten up the longer names, but all you did was substitute two letters in your effort to condescend to me.
I'm not your friend, dennis. If we were friends you'd know that that's not a nickname I go by. Back off now.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
you STILL refuse to answer the question...and not liking the way it's framed, lol!
What a pussy cop out.
and when it was said, it's still valid.
I guess Dennis is a typical right-winger. When there's a real war going on, he's nowhere to be found.
If somebody kicked in his door he'd abandon his family in a heartbeat and probably suck up to the enemy.
But those of us who actually care about other people can understand where the shoe-thrower guy was coming from. And he has a pair of balls Dennis and his ilk only wish they had.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
..........."nattering nebobs of negativism".
dandy
Can anyone imagine bush trying to utter that phrase?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
His empty head would pop...like a balloon.
Natter me once and my gynecologist can't get fooled again.
Now that's comedy!
Then our nabobs is learning after all.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
from what I done been told...
Nabobs is faist larners.
to pratice their love on the women of America.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Can we take time to put food on the families of those women?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
pie growing?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
i think dennis done went and runoft.
spokes heroine of the Olympic spirit.
http://www.tonyaharding.com/
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Thought that was Liz Cheney for a second!
Both are fond of incompetent guys who
lay their hands on pipe.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
think he left with Mrs. Hogwallop?
Mon, 10/05/2009 - 08:22 — pissed off patricia
Can we take time to put food on the families of those women?
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I support a home for battered woman.
I prefer them coated in chocolate batter.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
n/t
The republicans are so upset because they are under the impression that since we can't host the Olympics, we don't get to play in them either.
(ps I didn't know Olympics had to be capitalized. silly language)
..Mr. President,
I say, ENOUGH already. You will not ever win the Politicos or Pundits on the RIGHT with your intelligence, logic, Political ambitions, bills, challenges, etc. and so on! You may win the hearts and minds of Americans if you proceed with them but the RIGHT seems hell-bent on delegitimizing you no matter what. Screw them!
And so, its time for Single Payer! Time to close Gitmo! Time to throw KBR and Halliburton out of Iraq! Strip Xe of its Contracts! War Crimes trials for the w administration!
It doesn't matter what you do but these are things that MUST be done in order to re-establish the U.S.A. as a leader of nations and the exemplar of rights and dignity for its people and all the people of the world! Sir, JUST DO IT!
Aloha nui, Surfjac
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Time to stop extending the hand of diplomacy to these un-American republican traitors Mr. President!
The time for attempting to work with them is over...they've proven time and time again...their ONLY mission is to see you fail.
I totally agree!!
How many people actually said something that needed to be said on this Sunday's shows?
One good thing about the circle jerks is they shouldn't be around too much longer. You won't find many 20 somethings paying attention to them. And with some luck other 40 somethings like me have turned them off as well.
mornings again, at least in cities that don't have bars open at 6-8AM...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
because quite obviously, they do.
I have no fear of these idiots regaining a majority position anytime soon. Oh they may recover a handfull of seats in Congressbut not enough to matter much. My concern is with the violence that their propaganda ministers are attempting to create, conservatards are ignorant beyond belief and are easily manipulated by liars and charlitans that's when it gets dangerous.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
I typed this last message on my phone and then ran into trouble trying to save, sorry.
I guess I got a little worked up over the anti-American ways of the conservatards, and they are anti-American. If the republicant party is goint the way of the whigs I wish they would hurry up, the sooner they finish imploding the better off we all will be. They have not done anything for the benifit of the country in well over a decade and have outlived their usefulness.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Amato does the same thing all the time.
Thank you. :)
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Their dying a slow death - their death ain't soon enouh for me.
the Olympic bid.
The biggest reason for the IOC's rejection of the Chicago bid was members of the IOC and staff had had the experiences that awaited the athletes, visitors, and sports fans from throughout the world who would have had to subject themselves to the unflattering attentions of the obese, droolin', moronic, abusive, arrogant, mono-browed, truculent, hare-lipped, xenophobic, knuckle-dragging cretins of the Transportation Safety Administration, all of whom regard it their sacred duty to inconvenience, insult, or humiliate any traveler who catches their fancy.
disposable lighters throughout my carry-ons, just to see how observant they are.
Sorry for any inconvenience it may have caused those in line behind me...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
It's worth saying fifteen times. :)
that again!
Answer this question.
How is a reporter throwing a shoe at bush, the same as GOP politicians going to other nations attempting to undermine his position?
they'll try again and miss?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
he doesn't like the way it's framed.
And yes...to answer your question.
It does seem to be a pattern amongst the trolls.
you should add:
How is an Iraqi reporter, whose life is in upheaval, who's lost family and friends in an unconscionable war and is venting his rage by throwing a shoe at bush, the same as GOP politicians going to other nations attempting to undermine his position?
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I thought about that, but didn't want to confuse him further.
I think my favorite Hillary quote about President Obama goes something like:
"If he were to walk on water they'd accuse him of not being able to swim"
....pretty well sums it up
all it takes is all of us
To be fair, republicans aren't fighting against anything. With dem majorities in the house and the senate and a dem president, all the rnc does is make noise. Ugly noise I grant you.
But, if things aren't getting done, no one to blame but the dems.
In 2004 the dems said they couldn't do anything because they were out-numbered.
In 2007 the dems said they couldn't do anything because they didn't have a large enough majority.
In 2009 the dems can't do anything because Rush Limbough's happiness is all that matters apparently.
This sums up the entire cheaters mentality of the Right - and they ought to be busted on this.
The winning city was determined by A VOTE. There was back-stage politicing, to be sure, but then there was a VOTE.
Wingers have actually said that the American President should never have gone unless he knew we "had it in the bag".
In other words, unless we had rigged the vote ahead of time and knew we would have no real competition, we should not have even tried.
Today's Republican Party - if the vote cannot be rigged before a single ballot is cast, don't even try to compete honestly. Because we're so exceptional, we should only win or not even play, because to lose fairly is humiliating, but to win by cheating proves American exceptionalism.
Not only are they proud to admit they believe in cheating, they think it's the only way to compete if you're American. Explains the last few elections, doesn't it?
Just one more reason why the Right cannot be trusted with reforming health care or any other matter of vital importance to this nation - all they care about is perpetually rigging the system.
before the President actually steps on the plane!
If that doesn't sum up the righties vision of diplomacy I don't know what does.
America needs to wake up to what the rest of the world already knows. There is no dealing with a Republican. There is no negotiation with a Republican. It's not only party over country, it's party over everyone. They really could care less what anyone has to say.
This is how they think elections should be won - by cheating!
Because nothing proves Exceptionalism to a Rightie like getting away with cheating.
"When people show you who they aree, believe them."
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