In many ways Trump and Bernie are speaking the same language - the language of disruption. That a significant portion of the population is tired of business as usual, I think. I'm not asking about the policies of either man, just what you think is happening and whether you think it is for the good.
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Originally posted by seer View PostIn many ways Trump and Bernie are speaking the same language - the language of disruption. That a significant portion of the population is tired of business as usual, I think. I'm not asking about the policies of either man, just what you think is happening and whether you think it is for the good.
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Originally posted by Leonhard View PostI think that is a fair statement, Obama was riding that wave too with his whole "Yes, we can!" slogan. People seem to be frustrated with the system as it is today.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Leonhard View PostI think that is a fair statement, Obama was riding that wave too with his whole "Yes, we can!" slogan. People seem to be frustrated with the system as it is today.
But in his book he made pretty clear what he was actually planning to change was to compromise more with the Republicans than Dems had ever compromised before. Fortunately he was thwarted by a Republican attitude of "if he wants compromise, we won't give it to him", and the emergence of the Tea Party who managed to bully Republicans into refusing to accept everything they'd previously said they wanted when Obama offered it to them in a deal.
I think Trump and now Bernie are the same product of the electorate wanting change as Obama was. Unlike Obama, I think both Trump and Bernie are actually resulting/going to result in various changes."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Dimbulb View PostWhat [Obama] was actually planning to change was to compromise more with the Republicans than Dems had ever compromised before.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
https://www.politico.com/story/2009/...p-i-won-017862
This is what idiots like Starlight call "compromise".Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by seer View PostIn many ways Trump and Bernie are speaking the same language - the language of disruption. That a significant portion of the population is tired of business as usual, I think. I'm not asking about the policies of either man, just what you think is happening and whether you think it is for the good.Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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Originally posted by seanD View PostI would put this in the perspective of the economy. If the economy is doing so great, why is Sanders surging?Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostPresident Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
https://www.politico.com/story/2009/...p-i-won-017862
This is what idiots like Starlight call "compromise".
About the only time he did talk to them it was to deliver a sneering lecture about how he won and elections have consequences where he haughtily told then House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (when the latter offered to negotiate on the stimulus package):
Look at the polls. The polls are pretty good for me right now. Elections have consequences. And Eric, I won.
Obama's then Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, in his usual cordial manner, put it another way: "We have the votes. F-word them."
Obama and the Democrats in the House and Senate refused to consider a single Republican proposal during the first two years. And after the Republican landslide in 2010 Obama literally had to ask his aides if they knew how to contact the incoming Republican leadership because he never talked to them before.
I've noted previously that Bob Woodward documented a lot of this in his book The Price of Politics
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Originally posted by rogue06 View Post...
I've noted previously that Bob Woodward documented a lot of this in his book The Price of PoliticsGeislerminian Antinomian Kenotic Charispneumaticostal Gender Mutualist-Egalitarian.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostObama made it crystal clear that he did not need to or want to talk to the Republicans. He said it was useless because they were too extreme while simultaneously offering to open up talks with America's bitterest enemies (obviously because they were more reasonable than the Republicans ).
About the only time he did talk to them it was to deliver a sneering lecture about how he won and elections have consequences where he haughtily told then House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (when the latter offered to negotiate on the stimulus package):
Look at the polls. The polls are pretty good for me right now. Elections have consequences. And Eric, I won.
Obama's then Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, in his usual cordial manner, put it another way: "We have the votes. F-word them."
Obama and the Democrats in the House and Senate refused to consider a single Republican proposal during the first two years. And after the Republican landslide in 2010 Obama literally had to ask his aides if they knew how to contact the incoming Republican leadership because he never talked to them before.
I've noted previously that Bob Woodward documented a lot of this in his book The Price of PoliticsSome may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by seer View PostIn many ways Trump and Bernie are speaking the same language - the language of disruption. That a significant portion of the population is tired of business as usual, I think. I'm not asking about the policies of either man, just what you think is happening and whether you think it is for the good.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostI honestly have no idea where Starlight got the idea that Obama was prepared to compromise with Republicans more than any other Democrat before him."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by NorrinRadd View PostI don't entirely trust Woodward, but I trust him a thousand times more than Obama, who had every motivation to revise history to make himself look good in his own book.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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