"He has accomplished nothing,"

The economy is showing signs of recovery. It's still got a long way to go.

"no peace with Iran, no peace with N. Korea, no peace in Afganistan, 10.2% unemployment, on the wrong side in Honduras, Chevez still condeming the usa, no public option on health plan"

So in less than a year he's supposed to fix things his predecessors have made a mess of for years or decades. And in many cases, such as health care, reform is held hostage to the lies of a minority that's afraid reform will work.

"this man is a liar, nothing more"

What are you calling lies?

Obama took on a situation that was a complete mess made by 8 years of incompetency of Bush. Two wars, economic and financial meltdown, huge deficits and much more. Who is the real liar?

We sent troops to Afghanistan because OBL was supposedly there, but he got away. We sent troops to Iraq because SH supposedly had WMDs and was helping terrorists, but neither turned out to be true.

You want to talk about liars? About incompetency?

"No more...he's an idiot, and has no business being in the oval office."

He and Biden are geniuses compared to the folks they replaced.

"Many American people are mesmerized by his slick words, judge him by his action, forget his words they are meaningless. Wake up America, he's a fraud."

What would you have him do that he has not done? Start another war?

Do you think John McCain and Caribou Barbie would do better?

In fact I think the GOP threw the election. John McCain tried for the nomination several times but was too much of a centrist for the GOP to let him have it. In 2008 they knew they had no chance to win, because Bush made such a total mess, so they let him have the nomination as a consolation prize. Then, to insure a loss, they saddled him with the quitta from Wasilla.

America under the GOP is like a person who ate all the wrong things, never exercised, drank, smoked, abused drugs and generally made a complete wreck of their health and had a massive heart attack, complicated by several other ailments.

The Obama administration is like a brilliant team of doctors and medical folks who manage to save the person's life.

But it's touch and go, and major life changes are still needed. Recovery will not be easy and will take a long time, because the damage is extensive and the bad habits are chronic.

Yet the person complains that they can't have junk food, alchohol or tobacco, have to do all sorts of therapies, and don't feel wonderful all the time. And the person refuses to see that real cause of all the trouble is the bad habits of the past, not the doctors of the present.

"it was my anger speaking for me."

Old but true saying: The person that angers you controls you.

Classic trick; get the other guy angry so he makes a fool of himself.

"I really have a problem with the "organized" part of religion, not the individual Christians or the people like me who adhere to many Christian teachings."

You just haven't seen an "organized religion" with the right kind of organization.

Imagine an organized religion with almost no dogmas or rituals, no creeds, no paid clergy, no fancy churches, and where each person has their say, not just the "preachers".

I'm a Christian, and I say that praying for harm to come to another is a moral and logical contradiction.

"If Christ were alive today, he wouldn't be a Christian." -- Mark Twain.

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"If Christ ever came back and saw what some people are doing in His name, He'd never stop throwing up" -- Woody Allen

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I seem to remember Him saying that we should feed the hungry, house the homeless, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and care for the sick. Regardless of their ability to pay.

I seem to remember him talking about peace being better than war, forgiveness, kindness and stuff like that.

I also seem to remember Him saying we should love our enemies. I think that when He said that, He meant we shouldn't kill them.

They are NOTHING like their own lives.

Some time back, I watched reruns of "Sex & The City", which Ann Yardley (my SO) found quite amusing. She asked why I was interested in a show where all of the characters had such different lives with nothing in common with me. And the reason just popped out: "It's BECAUSE their lives have nothing in common with me!"

For many such shows and "lifestyles" is that their reality is usually very different from the portrayal.

Most important of all is the less of "The Seven Samurai"/"The Magnificent Seven":

The producers (farmers) can exist, prosper and be happy without the looters (bandits). But the looters cannot even exist without the producers.

Most of us could exist, prosper and be happy without TV - or the kind of bikers portrayed in that show. But TV - and those bikers - could not even exist without us.