You will go down in history as the least successful politician of All Time.

Thank god.  We were starting to feel like the last person picked for a team in Gym.

If so then I want to introduce you to a dictionary and point out the word “politician”, then have you meditate on that for a while.

So the answer is “yes”, but the REAL question after is “Has Obama delivered on his promises more consistently than another politician in his place would or could have done?”

To which the correct answer is “who the fuck knows?” 

If you would have told the founders that their sentence of “all men are created equal” to include women and blacks, there would have been a lot of spit-takes.

I’m not saying this shouldn’t be the correct interpretation, just that you need the right SC Justices to interpret the constitution “the right way”.  

Life is Politics, and Politics is Power.

Just bitterness and despair.

This is a “preemptive strike” by Obama that will result in little real world change.

Gillard’s main political problem is that people don’t trust her, it’s not that she’s too left wing. She’d be better of being more left wing and more honest.

Wait, what’s that?  It’s already gone?I wonder how that happened.

For god’s sake: a huge push of the Bush/Cheney reelection big was Karl Rove’s BAN GAY MARRIAGE stunt!

Yeah, that box was checked off, like, three years ago?  I won’t argue with the majority of your argument, in fact I agree with most of it very strongly, but this meme that Obama has done nothing to stop the practice of torture is simply false.  Could he do more?  Certainly!  Prosecuting the people responsible would be a huge step, and would also likely end his administration in a matter of weeks.  Congress holds the real power here, or the Supreme Court; Congress could pass a law more precisely defining torture or the Supreme Court could give a judgement classifying these practices as what they are; crimes against humanity, and irremovable stains on our souls.

I understand why people are upset though; this excuse, though I find it to be valid and persuasive, does nothing to dispel the disgrace I feel as an American knowing that my country tortures it’s enemies.

Because otherwise…

It’s international news that an American president doesn’t entirely support legalized discrimination. Bravo, America.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/05/grim-future-supreme-court

“We’re approaching a situation where supreme court nominees are approved or not on straight party line votes.” And when the Senate requires 60 votes to even bring a nominee to the floor, party line votes are going to result in extended vacancies on the court. Mourdock, the guy who just beat Lugar in a primary challenge, told Fox News yesterday that his idea of bipartisanship is that Democrats should agree with Republicans on every point. That’s a quite common point of view in the GOP today, and is a recipe for blocking confirmation of every even vaguely Democratic nominee.

He may have just given away the election.

Know what President Johnson supposedly told an aide when he signed the Civil Rights Act? “We have lost the South for a generation.” This turned out to be an optimistic assessment—two generations later the South still remains solidly Republican. But LBJ signed the bill anyway, and it was the right thing to do.

So you might be correct, but I’m still glad our President took the right stance instead of the safe one.