Gary Tincu, Naples
Divided we fall
This president, if you can call him that, is the most divisive, most ideologically driven occupier of the Oval Office in our lifetimes.
Rather than being the unifier he committed to be when elected, he has succeeded only in dividing us on the basis of class, race and belief in American ideals. And all of it has been deliberate.
He speaks of everyone having an "equal shot" at succeeding, but what he really means is that he wants to make us all victims of an equal sum game (i.e., more redistribution of wealth, more punishment of success and more dependency on bigger and bigger government).
Can anyone name any program, piece of legislation, etc., that has improved our collective national well-being? And when you couple this with the gross incompetence of Eric Holder, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, it spells failure.
To all liberals, keep drinking the Kool-Aid. To the rest of us, let's vote him and his minions out in November. He needs to go back to being a do-nothing empty suit; either that, or go to work for his "enablers" — the liberal media.
The latter is tantamount to the same thing.
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Comments » 49
Heraclitus writes:
You must be pretty young, I'd rank him as the fifth most divisive within my lifetime.
CarpeVeritas writes:
I love it that Gary really knows that the president and his minions are responsible for all the divisiveness in government.
First, I get a kick out of the term "minions." Sounds so sinister. Shades of Lon Chaney saying, "yes, master."
A deliberate plan to fracture the Union. Very sneaky. Bad, bad, BAD Obama.
All hatred, bad haircuts, speeding tickets and venereal disease issues from that Kenyan socialist communist fascist anti-American so-called president with a skanky wife worthy of attack, too.
Republicans are allowed to say such things because they're true, and Obama started it. Proof is unnecessary; they just KNOW it. And if you don't, you're either a traitor too, or a moron. Or both.
Republicans are lovers, not snide snipers. People jump all over poor Rush and Murdock, those great patriots for the Cause. (In Murdock's case, it's an honorary patriot award since he's a foreigner.)
Gird your loins, grab some rope. It's time to take back our country! Don't worry--the Constitution doesn't protect our enemies, since we KNOW they're out to take our money and despoil our daughters.
titanbite writes:
Who said,"minions",Rush,Hannity,perhaps,Ann,"she's a man,man!",Coulter?
After reading letters the likes of this one,it's fairly obvious,none of these idiots could have possibly come up with that!
Heraclitus writes:
"First, I get a kick out of the term 'minions.' Sounds so sinister. Shades of Lon Chaney saying, 'yes, master.'"
Funny, but when I hear the word "minions", I think of the movie "Despicable Me".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCkerY...
pmz writes:
Before President Obama took office neo-republicans committed to two things.
To put Grover Norquist's needs before their constituents.
And to make President Obama a one term President at any cost to the country.
Now they label him "devisive".
Ignorance or willful lie?
romneygate writes:
This is another diatribe by a Willoughby Tea Party fanatic raving about wealth distribution as some kind of attempt to dislodge the 1% from their "throne". It smacks of the prejudice and bigotry it implores under the guise of free speech. The criticism of Obama programs ironically is faulted by the denial of a health care program that requires everyone to provide for themselves. This has always been the criteria of the conservative hypocrites and now they oppose it because Obama proposes it. It's really quite ridiculous but understandable given the mentality of the disengenuous.
whalling writes:
Ed Klein recently published a book about Obama entitled "The Amateur". He was asked what is the biggest lie Obama has told the American public and based on his extensive research for the book, his response about the biggest lie follows. “He promised that he would bring us together. He promised that he would not be partisan, He promised that he would reach out to the other side, the Republican side. Instead, he and his small little group of people in the White House hunkered down, have not reached out, not compromised, making it impossible for Washington to work. It’s not Republicans who are at fault here, it’s the president, who does not know how to use the leverage of power and his powers of persuasion. He’s the anti-Lyndon Johnson in that he doesn’t know how to get things done. And so he’s been more divisive, more partisan than any president we’ve seen in modern history." In my opinion, Klein is totally correct. Obama is the Great Divider, he is not a uniter. His politics of demonization of Americans and American organizations and his committment to class warfare in order to gain votes, without regard to the damage caused to the nation, are his modus operandi. Obama has demonized so many American institutions, banks, oil companies, insurance companies, health care companies, Congress, Supreme Court, investment companies, states(e.g. AZ),, Bain Capital, and on and on. I do not ever remember another President attacking our own institutions with the purpose of gaining votes. Like the Democrat Mayor of Newark said about Obama's demonizing Bain Capital, it is nauseating. Our nation is more polarized now than ever before. It is easy to divide people, it takes great leadership to unite people.
romneygate writes:
Dividers and "bring us together"? That's a laugh. Lincoln tried it and the rebels are still honoring the confederate flag to this day. Some on their former rebel state capital grounds in a derisive manner. Some things seem permanently divisible.
pmz writes:
Whalling provides us with a great example of neo-republican party over country. Like all neo-republicans he avoids any responsibility for his pledge to make President Obama a one term President at any cost to the country. In fact, following the lessons of radicals everywhere, he projects his nefariousness on his enemy, the President and real Americans everywhere, accusing them of his pledge of devisiveness.
There are two compelling reasons to voting the crumbling mob out of government.
The actual results of their previous actions when in power.
Their current deceptive behaviors.
Whalling doesn't get sheep dipped enough absorbing the 24/7/365 neo-republican propaganda Ministery output, so he's taken up reading the same lies in book form.
His chances of recovery to independent thought ever again? Zero.
CarpeVeritas writes:
Ed Klein is also known for calling Hillary Clinton a fat, old lesbian who conceived her daughter Chelsea only after being raped by Bill Clinton.
So it shouldn't be shocking to find out that this new book has been called "the literary equivalent of a backed-up septic tank.”
pmz writes:
People who add that book to their already insatiable appetite for the 24/7/365 output of the neo-republican propaganda Ministery obviously relish backed up septic tank product.
lb5361 writes:
"Can anyone name any program, piece of legislation, etc., that has improved our collective national well-being?"
Gee. Give me a minute. Hmmmmm. Wait, give me a minute......
How about:
GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead. Or how about comprehensive health care reform. Or how about the largest payroll tax cut for workers in US history. Or ending the war in Iraq and soon Afghanistan. Or how about closing the Med D Rx donut hole for seniors. Or I know, how about the dreaded stimulus that prevented a depression. Fighting for the middle class to keep insurance companies from dropping coverage when you get sick. I could go on.....so tell me, what has the GOP done for you lately? Idiot.
lb5361 writes:
Yup. Because they still believe "the south will rise again"! And it will be legal to own black slaves again. Why do you think they cannot, will not, ever approve of a black man living at 1600 and riding around in a spiffy 747.
Bigots all!
Godstheboss writes:
Someone told me Eddie died???? Have been out of the country so did not see the paper. Any truth? Sorry to hear that. Eddie is always good for banter.
John_Q_Public writes:
If you think GWB was a better President than Obama you are a fool. Same goes for the liberals who think Obama is better than GWB.
Both Presidents blew up the debt, expanded and/or started wars, detained citizens without trial, spy on Americans in violation of the 4th amendment, continue the senseless drug war, and much much more.
Democrats thought they were electing a President who would end the drug war, close guantanamo, bring our troops home, and protect civil liberties. Did they get it? Not at all.
Republicans thought they were electing a President who would end the nation building "little wars" of Clinton, would reduce the debt and lower taxes, who would end abortion, and who would reduce the size and scope of government. Did they get that? Of course not.
Until you realize that the republicans and democrats are two wings on the same Big Governmnent party you will continue to fight each other and accomplish nothing except an ever expanding nanny state that will eventually collapse.
And seriously, do you honestly believe that Mitt Romney is any better? The guy who CREATED the individual mandate for healthcare that the Republicans want to repeal so badly. The guy who supported abortion before he was against it? The guy who supported TARP before he was against it?
You are being duped again.
pmz writes:
Sounds like you believe that we should shut down the most successful government in the history of the world, lock the doors, and move to, wait a minute, where should we move to that's better?
pmz writes:
I think that the success that business has had in importing semi-slaves from south of the border (with no transportation costs even) has the south ready to rise again. There isn't that much difference between minimum wage with no benefits and outright human ownership.
So now they are claiming that President Obama was even more divisive than Lincoln. Neither President would allow them to have their way.
pmz writes:
In fact, as I think about it, the illegals recruited from south of the border are probably less expensive labor even than slaves.
With slaves, you have to feed them and house them.
Minimum wage with no benefits doesn't cover the cost of feeding and housing families. The difference has to be make up by government assistance which we all (well at least all in the middle class. The wealthy not so much.) pay for in order to avoid bodies in the streets. Government subsidized slavery.
So, the conclusion is that the south has risen again and reinstated what they always wanted. Other people to do their work.
pmz writes:
There were many LTTE tributes to Eddie. I think that he would have been pleasantly surprised.
whalling writes:
Arizona Governor Brewer angrily denounced the Obama administration’s decision Monday to strip the state’s police agencies of special immigration arrest powers, saying it was like telling the state to “drop dead” in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision upholding a key provision of Arizona’s immigration law. She said the decision to rescind the joint arrest agreement, which essentially deputizes state and local police to detain illegal immigrants, would also affect the state’s ability to use federal data bases to help “verify” illegal immigrants. This is typical behavior of our President to punish AZ because the Supreme Court decision favored the AZ poition, in fact the vote was 8-0, unanimous, yet Obama plays dirty politics against US citizens. It is disgusting and nauseating.
romneygate writes:
Goodness, why is Governor Brewer upset about the Federal Government getting out of Arizona's business? She contends the Feds are always interfering or inept in providing services, whichever fits her agenda, and then goes on like Joan of Arc on a crusade to save Arizona "independence". It's ludicrous.
ChiDem writes:
You sound like someone living off your credit cards. Nice clothes and furniture and a lease on a BMW. All the good things government bought with China's money, including votes.
Buying votes with other peoples money. That's OK with you?
Has adding 5 trillion to our national debt improved our well being? Gee. Give me a minute. Hmmmmm. Wait, give me a minute...... .
What happens when we are Bankrupt? Are we bankrupt now?
Once a society collapses and is reformed, the 1% will once again become the 1% and you will still be whining about the 1% instead of trying to be one of the 1%. You lose ................. again.
But will we be reformed where you have the opportunity to succeed? Or will government decide?
lb5361 writes:
Typical tea bag response. If I listened to the rethugs, FukNews, Rushbo, Levine and Hannity like you do all day long, I be afraid of the black man in the White House too.
Why do the sheeple continue to vote against their own best interests? The USA will never go the way of Greece. Why? We produce goods, you know like cars and we have a strong treasury. NewsFlash, the government is not the enemy. You must believe what Mitt says "Corporations are people my friend". Sad.
pmz writes:
What policies of his added $5T to our debt?
Write_Thinker writes:
What if a state decided the federal government was lax in it's collection of federal income tax from international corporations. What if that state mirrored the federal government in new laws that would seek to collect those lost feeral income taxes from these corporations, if the feds would not do it, the state would. Would Rush and the Republicans be equally applauding this state for enforcing federal laws, as they are regarding Arizona and the immigration issue?
Heraclitus writes:
Interesting article from Stars and Stripes:
http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-...
"Since January 2011, Paul remains the clear leader in donations, collecting $333,134 to Obama’s $184,505 and Romney’s $45,738."
"In March, President Barack Obama took in the most campaign contributions from those within the military and the Department of Defense, trumping the previous leader, conservative candidate Ron Paul, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics."
The article is from April 2012... anybody got an update?
Silent1nomore writes:
Ever notice how the diatribe of the left gets more and more desperate as their "Messiah's" popularity declines!
As he said, "If unemployment is not at 6% by this time, then I should be a one term proposition"!
Come on, it's not like he won't find another job! Don't worry folks he'll make tons of money on the book signing and lecture circuit! That is if he's not in jail!
When all of this "Fast And Furious" debacle plays out, we may just have a President with the blood of a Border Patrolman and others on his hands!
Godstheboss writes:
Thanks for letting me know. I hope his vegatable garden is growing well and he is at peace. RIP Eddie.
pmz writes:
Of course when he said that he assumed that Congress would be working on the problem too. A reasonable assumption for every Congress up to this one.
nstinks writes:
"First, I get a kick out of the term "minions." Sounds so sinister."
OK........let's not be so harsh
Let's just say Obama and his regime.
It works for me.
Does it work for you?
pmz writes:
I like "Back to Bush" better.
nstinks writes:
Wow........I was unaware Willoughby had so much influence.
He must be doing something right to get such a reaction from the socialists.
nstinks writes:
Ha!
After four years.......all you and your "minions" have is going negative on Bush.
Please explain to the audience why Obama has to go negative on Romney.
I know why........do you Peter?
It's because Obama can't make the case that we should want four more years of him.
Even our resident Libs have failed to make a case for re-electing him.
Here is a great analysis describing the bind liberals find themselves in.
We are past the point where Obama can win a referendum election, regardless of whether it is on him or the economy.
The success of his campaign is contingent upon two things.
First, when focusing on the narrow sliver of undecided voters, between 6 and 8 percent of the electorate, the Obama team must make its candidate the lesser of two evils.
It has to make the prospect of a Mitt Romney presidency so unpalatable that about half of those undecided voters will begrudgingly vote for reelection.
Polling focusing on the undecided voters reveals they are a deeply pessimistic and angry segment of the electorate and don’t particularly like either candidate (fitting, because they don’t tend to like politicians).
But they show signs of being more conservative than not.
One unpublished analysis gives Republicans a 10-point advantage on the generic congressional ballot test among those undecided about the presidential race.
Close analysis of the numbers shows that Obama might have an edge with between a third and a quarter of the currently undecided bloc.
That’s cutting things awfully close.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/column...
nstinks writes:
Yeah!
Obama told Governor Brewer to "drop dead."
Arizona law enforcement officers are now an enemy of the federal government and rule of law.
What is Obama hiding?
Why is he afraid to come clean?
The dirty little secret is Obama is comfortable with a certain amount of viloence on our southern border.
It promotes stricter gun control laws.
Rep. Darrel Issa is not fooled.
The chairman of the House oversight committee investigating White House involvement in the botched “gun-walking” program that led to the 2010 death of U.S. Border Patrol agent accused President Obama of downplaying his involvement in the program or intentionally obstructing the Congress' inquiry.
The full House is scheduled to consider the contempt citation on Thursday.
Maybe Barack Hussein Obama should consider skipping all his campaign fundraising events on Thursday.
It's hard to read a teleprompter knowing you are having the worst day of your presidency.
pmz writes:
Clinton left the country in great shape.
Bush caused all of the damage we've suffered from since then. The wars, the Global Great Recession, the loss of American jobs overseas, the recruitment of semi-slaves from the south to displace American workers, the complete lack of progress on energy, education, and the environment, the massive debt caused by all of that, the need for the neo-republican mob to withdraw from governance, the rise of unelected mobsters like Grover Norquist to power, the take over of the country by business interests and the wealthy aristocracy, the destruction of basic freedoms like the separation of church and state, the compromise of the fourth estate as the defenders of democracy through enlightenment, all damaged, some nearly beyond repair.
President Obama has led a rapid recovery from much, but not all of that damage.
The choice in Nov is perfectly clear.
Return to the destruction or continue the recovery.
There is no question that the full recovery from Bush will take generations. There is also no question that all of the evidence says that Mitt would be equally destructive as Bush was.
We either recover to what America was under Clinton, or end the era of America here and now forever.
We know your choice and we know mine.
Others will decide though.
pmz writes:
"Obama told Governor Brewer to "drop dead.""
I think that it was the other way around.
pmz writes:
As the neo-republicans have no other Congressional business to conduct, they are entertaining themselves trying to spin the arms tactic against Mexican drug lords that they invented into a political side show worthy of such clowns as Rush.
Grover Norquist has promised to deliver all of the House Republicans to the task, an easy accomplishment for he who holds all of their strings.
On the other hand it keeps them occupied and out of the way so that responsible people can govern.
romneygate writes:
Willoughby is a regular Samuel Clemens. Sam used Mark Twain for a pseudonym and Barry just relies on an aromatic identification.
Ironbutterfly writes:
Wow, you libs are grasping at straws, lets see, blame Bush, Rush, Hannity, Norquist, congress, Jan Brewer, Republicans, corporations, Fox news, the 1%, The Tea Party, Barry Willoughby, Mourdock, I'm sure I missed a few blames in there, but who's counting besides the the lib/progressives?
Conservatives and independents will have an easy time winning this next election, all we have to focus on is Odictator and his many, many, many, screw ups.
trader9 (Inactive) writes:
"President Obama has led a rapid recovery from much, but not all of that damage."
Do tell us the facts behind this, or is it more random babble?
- Stock market up in an enormous bubble...
- Credit default swaps and other high risk derivatives still out of control...
- Unemployment still north of 8% w/ no discernible downtrend...
- Federal budget non-existent...
- No solutions proposed for Social Security and Medicare plans quickly becoming insolvent...
- GDP growth nominal...
Were there other things in the "much, but not all" category that you would consider in "rapid recovery", cause we're certainly willing to listen?
pmz writes:
Why would anybody not hold those who've caused our problems accountable? Don't you believe in accountability?
pmz writes:
Your memory is apparently all short term and no long term. A anomaly for an old fart.
trader9 (Inactive) writes:
Can't answer the question? Don't you hate it when your overworn propaganda falls apart?
MiguelSangria writes:
You wrote this this morning?
And on the 19th.
And the 18th.
And the 2nd...
Your opinion?
Really?
http://obamaachievements.org/list
pmz writes:
Truth is truth. You are just as capable of finding it as I am. The difference? I want to find it and you don't.
trader9 (Inactive) writes:
LOL...propagandists.
"We the People" know the truth.
Silent1nomore writes:
President Obama has had over 31/2 years to be the failure he is today!
Let's give him another 4 years to show us just how inept he really is at this job!
He still has some folks yet to blame!
Pragmatic1 writes:
Feel better?
Let the venom out. Tell us how you really feel.
But if you get a chance, could you reference one specific fact?
I'll start the other list with avoiding a financial armegedon, leaving Iraq, dramatically reducing Government spending increases to the lowest level in 60 years, The HealthCare Plan, equal rights for women, support for all citizens including gays, immigration reform ACTION not just talk, don't ask don't tell, killing binLaden, decimating al-quaida, reducing US casualties, helping the overthrow of Libya with no US Military casualties, bailing out GM and saving hundreds of thousands of jobs ...
The list could go on but you would not read or believe it anyway.
OBAMA. 2012 !
titanbite writes:
Coming from someone who already had their turn with Dumbya...twice!
So,what's your excuse...again?
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