'Gaps' in Obama's Leadership Contributed to Debt Deal Collapse

[Bucky Ball]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-ju...as-e--mann

[Jeff]

(10-09-2012 06:56 PM)BnW Wrote:  I'm getting the impression that the majority is rather happy with those. Definitely a left leaning crowd here.

Yes I agree. Therefore I conclude that a main issue with my threads is not their nature (political) or frequency but rather the political ideology they are believed to reflect.

(10-09-2012 06:56 PM)BnW Wrote:  The issue, again - for me, is you've become a one-trick pony. Pretty much every single thing you post is some rant against Obama.

I think the description of these articles as "rants against Obama" is a knee-jerk reaction to anything that discusses Obama's performance in an analytical manner. Obama is our President, this is the election season, and the articles I've linked for discussion all relate to points asserted or claimed by various people in this forum.

That aside, look at my list of threads started and you'll see that I've covered a variety of topics, and am not the one-trick-pony you describe. The fact that I've posted more of them recently has more to do with the nearness of the election and the number and type of articles being written in the wake of the Democratic convention.

So, no, I won't censor myself just because people don't like my point of view, or the topics I'm interested in discussing, or the way I bring them up.

[Jeff]

Good videos Bucky. I think I agree with every word of the Tom Coburn video.

[BryanS]

(10-09-2012 03:58 PM)Logica Humano Wrote:  Do you have a personal vendetta against Obama? This is really getting annoying. And most of this shit is biased (wrong), common knowledge, or irrelevant.

Jeff is posting a lot of GOP talking points, but this one you really should sit up and listen to. I haven't agreed with angle of some of Jeff's postings. However this is a real, legitimate, well researched criticism of Obama. It is fair and it is on point.

You make a claim that Bob Woodward's upcoming book is biased, common knowledge, and irrelevant. This is the Woodward of Woodward and Bernstein, the pair that took on and took down the Nixon presidency. He has a credibility that exceeds most journalists in the business today. He is NOT a partisan hack, and he is no GOP apologist.

Obama has failed to lead on any number of the most important issues of the day. This is a particularly relevant issue to this election. Knee jerk rejection of any criticism of Obama as biased is also not wise.

[fstratzero]

(10-09-2012 05:49 PM)Jeff Wrote:  

(10-09-2012 05:07 PM)BnW Wrote:  Now you know how the rest of the community feels about your constant Obama threads.

Since you are the spokesman for the rest of the community, how do they feel about the many anti-republican, anti-Romney or pro-democrat threads?

Big ass post thread.

When the republicans were smaller government pro-personal freedoms I liked them.

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