He's a failure

[Big Money]

He was a Senate candidate in 2004 when he told the Democrat national convention, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is a United States of America.”


In 2007, he declared early in his presidential run that “I don’t want to pit red America against blue America. I want to be the president of the United States of America.”


A year later, after he won the Iowa caucus, he promised, “We are not a collection of red states and blue states. We are the United States of America.”


And in 2008 when he was elected, he insisted “we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America.”


Oh, well, that was then. Obamas' promise to heal a polarized nation has proven to be as big a lie as his promise that you can keep your health insurance.


As last week proved, he doesn’t even pretend to try any more.


On the same day that he supported his partys' move to neuter Republican power in the Senate by restricting the filibuster, 37 news organizations complained that the White House was acting like the Soviet Union in manipulating public opinion.


Meanwhile, Obama met with a gaggle of far-left pundits to drum up support as he battles record-low polls.


The developments are snapshots in the collapse of a presidency.


More and more people are realizing that Obamas' idea of "unity" is that everybody must agree with him.


http://nypost.com/2013/11/24/obama-has-no-hope-to-fix-fractured-america/

 

[christiefan915]

Michael Goodwin, hack extraordinaire.

How does someone who won the Pulitzer 12 short years ago fall so far, so quickly?

I found myself reading a article today about how how Obama is unlikable. My first impression was ‘This article is really juvenile’. I then realized it was from the New York Post. It’s the New York Post – what do you expect? It was all right-wing radical fantasy. Again, its the New York Post – typical Murdoch News Corporation propaganda. Nobody with an IQ over 50 buys into any of this nonsense. But then I saw the bio of the columnist – a Pulitzer winner, and he is writing this trash? Sad indeed.

I then went to the Post’s website to his page. What a sad, sad collection of fringe sickness. Titles like “Schools’ Bitter Fruit”, “Teachers Blind to Reality”, “We have met the Envy”, “Report no Evil on O” – and the sad titles go on and on.

Why would a columnist with a prestigious prize under their belt go from real journalism to being a propagandist’s monkey? Money? How much would this be? I guess everyone has their price, but at the end of the day, this too is sad. Perhaps he is just jumping on the ignorance industry ‘money train’. There is a lot of money in the ignorance industry, just ask Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, the cast of FOX News and Glenn Beck – they have all become filthy rich in this trade.

What is the ignorance industry? You see, lot’s of middle-ages white guys wake up on their 40th birthday and think – hell, why am I not rich? The ignorance industry is there to explain. It doesn’t tell this guy that ‘Hey, dipshit, you came from the middle-class and you are going to stay in the middle-class. But, thanks for supporting policies that are clearly not in your best interest, just for that CHANCE to become a member of our club – we really appreciate it.’

No, they give a different explanation. It is not the rich, its the poor that is preventing you from achieving your American dream. The all powerful poor. It is the immigrants, the black people, the gay people, the ‘liberals’ (whatever that means) – these are people who are ruining America. A country with a HUGE welfare system (despite the face it is the smallest one of any industrialized nation). A country with ‘the best healthcare system in the world’ (despite the fact we don’t live the longest, healthcare here costs exponentially more than the rest of the civilized world, millions are uninsured, etc.). Are you getting the picture? Is he riding this train?

I hope so. Otherwise, he is just a sad guy.

http://thecentristword.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/michael-goodwins-sad-decent-into-irrelevance/

 

[Big Money]

So Obama kept his promises to unite the nation?

37 news organizations didn't protest his high-handed treatment of the press?

Obamas' doing great in the polls?

 

[Truth Detector]

Michael Goodwin, hack extraordinaire.

How does someone who won the Pulitzer 12 short years ago fall so far, so quickly?

I found myself reading a article today about how how Obama is unlikable. My first impression was ‘This article is really juvenile’. I then realized it was from the New York Post. It’s the New York Post – what do you expect? It was all right-wing radical fantasy. Again, its the New York Post – typical Murdoch News Corporation propaganda. Nobody with an IQ over 50 buys into any of this nonsense. But then I saw the bio of the columnist – a Pulitzer winner, and he is writing this trash? Sad indeed.

I then went to the Post’s website to his page. What a sad, sad collection of fringe sickness. Titles like “Schools’ Bitter Fruit”, “Teachers Blind to Reality”, “We have met the Envy”, “Report no Evil on O” – and the sad titles go on and on.

Why would a columnist with a prestigious prize under their belt go from real journalism to being a propagandist’s monkey? Money? How much would this be? I guess everyone has their price, but at the end of the day, this too is sad. Perhaps he is just jumping on the ignorance industry ‘money train’. There is a lot of money in the ignorance industry, just ask Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, the cast of FOX News and Glenn Beck – they have all become filthy rich in this trade.

What is the ignorance industry? You see, lot’s of middle-ages white guys wake up on their 40th birthday and think – hell, why am I not rich? The ignorance industry is there to explain. It doesn’t tell this guy that ‘Hey, dipshit, you came from the middle-class and you are going to stay in the middle-class. But, thanks for supporting policies that are clearly not in your best interest, just for that CHANCE to become a member of our club – we really appreciate it.’

No, they give a different explanation. It is not the rich, its the poor that is preventing you from achieving your American dream. The all powerful poor. It is the immigrants, the black people, the gay people, the ‘liberals’ (whatever that means) – these are people who are ruining America. A country with a HUGE welfare system (despite the face it is the smallest one of any industrialized nation). A country with ‘the best healthcare system in the world’ (despite the fact we don’t live the longest, healthcare here costs exponentially more than the rest of the civilized world, millions are uninsured, etc.). Are you getting the picture? Is he riding this train?

I hope so. Otherwise, he is just a sad guy.

http://thecentristword.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/michael-goodwins-sad-decent-into-irrelevance/

Irony; a woefully inept article from a rarely viewed leftist blog lampooning a Conservative writer.

The most dimwitted part of your post; this notion that conservatives blame minorities, immigrants, gays and liberals for their lack of wealth.

Yes, the author of this pathetic piece of literary garbage is really THAT incredibly stupid as is anyone who swallows such empty headed swill.

 

[Mr.Badguy]

So Obama kept his promises to unite the nation?

37 news organizations didn't protest his high-handed treatment of the press?

Obamas' doing great in the polls?

If you think those quotes in the OP constitute promises, you might be a redneck. </Jeff Foxworthy>

 

[Truth Detector]

If you think those quotes in the OP constitute promises, you might be a redneck. </Jeff Foxworthy>

If you think that those quotes were assumed to be promises, you just might be a dimwit. But Obama did promise to heal the nation, bring the nation together and improve Americas tarnished reputation in the world; how's that working?

 

[Big Money]

Obama did promise to heal the nation, bring the nation together and improve Americas tarnished reputation in the world; how's that working?

It's not.

 

[Mr.Badguy]

Mind giving me a citation or a quote where he promises to heal the nation?

 

[Big Money]

 

[Truth Detector]

Mind giving me a citation or a quote where he promises to heal the nation?

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House – a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, “We are not enemies, but friends…though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.” And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn – I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.

Tomorrow you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility before hard work and sacrifice. Tomorrow you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, create new jobs and grow this economy so that everybody has a chance to succeed. Not just the CEO but the secretary and the janitor; not just the factory owner but the men and women who work the factory floor. Tomorrow you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that puts reason against reason, and city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need to hope.

I can find much more if you have any difficulty finding them on your own.

http://obamaspeeches.com/

 

[NOVA]

Michael Goodwin, hack extraordinaire.

How does someone who won the Pulitzer 12 short years ago fall so far, so quickly?

I found myself reading a article today about how how Obama is unlikable. My first impression was ‘This article is really juvenile’. I then realized it was from the New York Post. It’s the New York Post – what do you expect? It was all right-wing radical fantasy. Again, its the New York Post – typical Murdoch News Corporation propaganda. Nobody with an IQ over 50 buys into any of this nonsense. But then I saw the bio of the columnist – a Pulitzer winner, and he is writing this trash? Sad indeed.

I then went to the Post’s website to his page. What a sad, sad collection of fringe sickness. Titles like “Schools’ Bitter Fruit”, “Teachers Blind to Reality”, “We have met the Envy”, “Report no Evil on O” – and the sad titles go on and on.

Why would a columnist with a prestigious prize under their belt go from real journalism to being a propagandist’s monkey? Money? How much would this be? I guess everyone has their price, but at the end of the day, this too is sad. Perhaps he is just jumping on the ignorance industry ‘money train’. There is a lot of money in the ignorance industry, just ask Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, the cast of FOX News and Glenn Beck – they have all become filthy rich in this trade.

What is the ignorance industry? You see, lot’s of middle-ages white guys wake up on their 40th birthday and think – hell, why am I not rich? The ignorance industry is there to explain. It doesn’t tell this guy that ‘Hey, dipshit, you came from the middle-class and you are going to stay in the middle-class. But, thanks for supporting policies that are clearly not in your best interest, just for that CHANCE to become a member of our club – we really appreciate it.’

No, they give a different explanation. It is not the rich, its the poor that is preventing you from achieving your American dream. The all powerful poor. It is the immigrants, the black people, the gay people, the ‘liberals’ (whatever that means) – these are people who are ruining America. A country with a HUGE welfare system (despite the face it is the smallest one of any industrialized nation). A country with ‘the best healthcare system in the world’ (despite the fact we don’t live the longest, healthcare here costs exponentially more than the rest of the civilized world, millions are uninsured, etc.). Are you getting the picture? Is he riding this train?

I hope so. Otherwise, he is just a sad guy.

http://thecentristword.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/michael-goodwins-sad-decent-into-irrelevance/

Interesting post, Christiefan....

“Schools’ Bitter Fruit”, “Teachers Blind to Reality”, “We have met the Envy”, “Report no Evil on O” – and the sad titles go on and on.......whats wrong, you don't want to fact the truth ?....The schools a indoctrination centers, the teachers are out for anything they can get, the left feeds on the envy of the have nots over the haves, and reporting anything that doesn't put Obama, Democrats and liberal left in a good light is a no-no....thats just simple reality.

Why would a columnist with a prestigious prize under their belt go from real journalism to being a propagandist’s monkey? lot of money in the ignorance industry?
This is an easy one....he didn't...hes shows himself to be one of the few REAL JOURNALISTS left in the industry...and money...maybe you should ask
Chris Matthews, Rachael Maddow, Ed Shultz and most Democrats in Congress, the public school system, yes, there is money in the ignorance industry.

supporting policies that are clearly not in your best interest ?
Its not your place to deceide what is in my interest...who the hell do you thing you are ?....get the point ?

It is not the rich, its the poor that is preventing you from achieving your American dream. The all powerful poor. It is the immigrants, the black people, the gay people, the ‘liberals’ (whatever that means) – these are people who are ruining America. A country with a HUGE welfare system (despite the face it is the smallest one of any industrialized nation). A country with ‘the best healthcare system in the world’ (despite the fact we don’t live the longest, healthcare here costs exponentially more than the rest of the civilized world, millions are uninsured, etc.). Are you getting the picture?

A rant worthy of "desh the dense dunce".....I certainly get the picture....a picture of your perspective and its truly pathetic.
The are keeping you from achieving you dream ? Really ? Again, pathetic.
The poor, immigrants, blacks, gays and liberals are ruining America ?....Ruining is relative term, lets just face reality and admit, many of them aren't helping America.
Still trying to save Obamacare in spite of the facts.....again, pathetic....this monstrosity that was forced on the American people will not survive, at least
in its present from, even you must know that in heart....it sucks, its unworkable, and best of all, we're all coming to know that....
NEXT TIME WE'LL FIND OUT WHATS IN IT, BEFORE WE PASS IT, its what should have been done in the first place.

 

[Big Money]

HealthCare.gov, the administration's web portal for offering private health coverage to uninsured Americans in 36 of the 50 U.S. states, has been at the center of a political firestorm over technical problems that overwhelmed its Oct. 1 launch and have dogged the system ever since.


In addition, insurance companies have canceled millions of existing insurance policies because of the law, raising questions about Obama's promise that people would be able to keep their policies if they were happy with their coverage.


56 percent of respondents said they did not admire Obama, disagreed with him on important issues and said he does not inspire confidence, while 53 percent said they do not see him as a strong and decisive leader.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/obama-poll_n_4337643.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

 

[Lorca]

Oops, never mind. Thought it was a thread about USF lol

 

[Mr.Badguy]

I don't see any promises there, just typical politician rhetoric. Certainly nothing placing the burden of uniting the country on his shoulders. Maybe you secretly bought into the hype of the far left.

 

[Big Money]

Obama vowed in a speech to push for middle-class job creation, as part of a national tour meant to highlight a "better bargain for the middle class."


But only 46 percent of Americans believe that he would focus the remainder of his term on the middle class, while 50 percent did not.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/.../07/31/obama-middle-class-poll_n_3684652.html

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Oops, never mind. Thought it was a thread about USF lol

More likely that would be a thread about someone who complained about an attached hose, when there was no mention of one.

 

[Lorca]

More likely that would be a thread about someone who complained about an attached hose, when there was no mention of one.

You mean, except for these 'mentions?'

an actual gun??????, i'd be highly inclined to rule this justifiable. no matter that it was loaded or not. the issue is that the police are supposed to be this highly trained organization, yet they can't tell the difference between a water hose and a gun????????

Yes when a hose is pointing at them they should wait for the water to come out.

cops at least good ones know when they are in danger and when someone is holding a hose.
When do you assclowns call something murder, when they don't have a badge

http://ktla.com/2013/04/05/verdict-reached-in-douglas-zerby-wrongful-death-lawsuit/
maybe THIS is one of those reasons that cops should WAIT to see what the person is holding or doing before opening fire, even if he wasn't 13.
guess not. that whole officer safety thing needs to be observed, especially if they panic at garden hoses.

OMG, that one was just an early Christmas gift, wasnt it?

I am laughing so hard right now I can barely type.

 

[christiefan915]

Interesting post, Christiefan....

“Schools’ Bitter Fruit”, “Teachers Blind to Reality”, “We have met the Envy”, “Report no Evil on O” – and the sad titles go on and on.......whats wrong, you don't want to fact the truth ?....The schools a indoctrination centers, the teachers are out for anything they can get, the left feeds on the envy of the have nots over the haves, and reporting anything that doesn't put Obama, Democrats and liberal left in a good light is a no-no....thats just simple reality.

That's your mindset but I don't see much relation to reality. Indoctrination centers with teachers out for anything they can get is a pretty cynical way of looking at the school system. However, there may be a shred of truth to it, especially in those districts that want to substitute religion for science, or a slanted version of history instead of fact. What are your ideas on how the system could be changed?

As far at the reporting, that's just hilarious. I was at the dentist a few weeks ago, they had Faux on TV and it was non-stop Obama bashing. I see the same bashing in the newspaper and on web sites. You are just flat-out wrong here.

Why would a columnist with a prestigious prize under their belt go from real journalism to being a propagandist’s monkey? lot of money in the ignorance industry? This is an easy one....he didn't...hes shows himself to be one of the few REAL JOURNALISTS left in the industry...and money...maybe you should ask Chris Matthews, Rachael Maddow, Ed Shultz and most Democrats in Congress, the public school system, yes, there is money in the ignorance industry.

The author doesn't deny he was a good journalist in the past; he's commenting on how far Goodwin's come since his glory days.

supporting policies that are clearly not in your best interest ?
Its not your place to deceide what is in my interest...who the hell do you thing you are?....get the point?

I absolutely do. It's not the government's decision whether women use birth control or have abortions, for starters. It's not a state right to stick a wand up a woman in order to intimidate her because she's making a tough decision.

It is not the rich, its the poor that is preventing you from achieving your American dream. The all powerful poor. It is the immigrants, the black people, the gay people, the ‘liberals’ (whatever that means) – these are people who are ruining America. A country with a HUGE welfare system (despite the face it is the smallest one of any industrialized nation). A country with ‘the best healthcare system in the world’ (despite the fact we don’t live the longest, healthcare here costs exponentially more than the rest of the civilized world, millions are uninsured, etc.). Are you getting the picture?
A rant worthy of "desh the dense dunce".....I certainly get the picture....a picture of your perspective and its truly pathetic.

You do understand that Michael Goodwin is taking your position, not mine?

The are keeping you from achieving you dream ? Really ? Again, pathetic. The poor, immigrants, blacks, gays and liberals are ruining America ?....Ruining is relative term, lets just face reality and admit, many of them aren't helping America.

Yet immigrants are here because people are giving them the menial jobs entitled Americans can't be bothered doing, and paying them less than an American would accept. So you need to start at the source instead of assigning blame. And the bit about the poor, blacks, gays and liberals is just silly, as if every culture since the beginning of time hasn't had those groups.

Still trying to save Obamacare in spite of the facts.....again, pathetic....this monstrosity that was forced on the American people will not survive, at least
in its present from, even you must know that in heart....it sucks, its unworkable, and best of all, we're all coming to know that....

Oh, I think it's going to survive. In fact, I think it's going to flourish and the majority of people are going to love it because their biggest worry will be eased. That the website had a faulty start-up doesn't reflect on the plan itself and in the end the it's the plan that will matter most. And that, IMO, is what has you cons so fearful, that all your lies, propaganda and bashing will end up being for naught.

NEXT TIME WE'LL FIND OUT WHATS IN IT, BEFORE WE PASS IT, its what should have been done in the first place.

I presume you're talking about all of Congress, not just Dems. All politicians have the obligation to research pending legislation whether or not they agree with it. Do you agree repubs didn't find out what was in it either before it passed?

 

[USFREEDOM911]

You mean, except for these 'mentions?'

OMG, that one was just an early Christmas gift, wasnt it?

I am laughing so hard right now I can barely type.

So you're taking the PeeWee Herman defense and not taking any responsibility for what you FELT was fact.
Heaven forbid you actually investigate something, before casting judgment on those involved.
Kind of like Zimmerman; but then you've shown that facts are your strong point; HUH.

So if Topspin and STY declared you to be dumber then a rock, you would go along with it?

 

[Lorca]

So you're taking the PeeWee Herman defense and not taking any responsibility for what you FELT was fact.
Heaven forbid you actually investigate something, before casting judgment on those involved.
Kind of like Zimmerman; but then you've shown that facts are your strong point; HUH.

So if Topspin and STY declared you to be dumber then a rock, you would go along with it?

You mean, if they 'mention' it? LOLOL *snicker* Reality is also not your strong point...when do I ever just blindly agree with anyone?

heh, finally faced with truth you cant deny, now you backpeddle.

Seems like ya still need a dictionary tho.

Dont call someone a liar if you cant back it up (better yet, dont accuse them falsely)