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Thursday, November 19, 2009 05:30 PM

I was just going to say -

Joe, welcome to the Party of Personal Crisis (props to Max Blumenthal).

Palin is the Queen; you can be her minion.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 05:24 PM

I can't speak for sunspots

or the Nobel Prize Committee, but I can vouch for ACORN, who were having dinner with me that night.

They had nothing to do with the results.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 01:53 PM

Old Joe

Bush denied global warming and tried to cover up scientific evidence. Obama has already gotten a bill into Congress and had the EPA re-classify CO2 so that it may be legislated.

Bush established Gitmo and tortured. Obama is closing it, behind schedule, but on the way.

Bush sat on 9/11 detainees, suspending our time-honored system of habeas corpus. Obama is bringing the top perps to trial.

Bush created wars on two fronts; Obama is carefully ending one and agonizing over another.

Bush broke the economy; Obama is trying to fix it.

Hardly a case of business as usual, Old Joe.

I would like to see Obama rein in Wall Street more than he's doing, but I've wanted to see that for decades. And how loud would YOU scream if he got tough with the people who are dragging the middle class through the mud?

The middle class has an enemy, clear as day, and it ain't Obama and the Dems (even if they could do more).

You might not like Obama personally, or he may be moving too slow for you, but you're delusional if you think he's W II (as are some of the Dems who say the same thing - it's hysterical hyperbole).

Speaking of which - why are you so hysterical about someone trying to clean up your mess?

Thursday, November 19, 2009 01:27 PM

Ah Rupert Murdoch's NY Post -

the nation's butt-wipe of record.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 01:19 PM

PS squaresville

If you're tied up, please send Sarah. If not her then glock. They both know science good too.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 01:14 PM

squaresville

This just in: AP reports scientists all over the world are awed by your magisterial knowledge of their fields. They say you are the one.

They're waiting by their phones for you to tell them how to do their jobs. Don't leave them hanging, wise dude.

The fate of the world depends on you. Every single day.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:55 AM

PS Old Joe

You ARE excusing Bush/Cheney, if you equate 8 years of concerted, organized effort to conduct bogus, un-budgeted war, transfer of wealth to the upper 1% and suspension of habeas corpus (just for a cherry on top) with precisely one year of Obama and Co. trying undo this.

You're NOT blaming Bush/Cheney for causing all this stuff, you're only trying to hang it on Obama. Period.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:47 AM

Old Joe

You're out to lunch on this one. Liberals ALWAYS criticize their own leaders. It's in our DNA, unlike conservatives, who look for someone else to blame for Bush. If the Dems didn't fight Bush enough (the didn't), it's still HIS policies, HIS mistakes and insanities. They flowed from him and Corporate Controller Cheney, and their neocon circus. No other.

Most liberals will answer your questionnaire with. "Obama's working on it", which he is. Which is all you can hope for in this toxic psycho-partisan environment. And you know that.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 09:36 AM

Old Joe

You mean, did "OPR" undo in one year what it took Bush/Cheney 8 years to wrought?

So you agree all those things that "BC" did were venal. And you're decrying the people TRYING to undo them, but you're not helping?????

So BC ran riot for 8 years, and those trying to repair the damage are the culprits?

All you're doing is trying to project the profound damage done by Bush.Cheney on another party and president.

It's scapegoating 101. That's all.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 02:29 AM

PS R2

It's hardly an accomplishment to pretend you're going to refuse stimulus money when your state is already the largest per capita recipient of Federal earmarks, and flush with oil money. Try again.

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