New Rule: He's Your President, Not Your Boyfriend

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Bill is telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing BUT the truth. Right on Bill. I'll sit at home instead of getting lied to this bad again. Count on it.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x458164

or this?:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=456866&mesg_id=456866

bye

"Wake up, people!" - especially coming as it does most often from dumb motherfuckers who think nazi Reptilians from the hoolow earth are going to irradiate our meat and make the negros revolt and then prove the holocaust was not only fake, but perpetrated by Atlanteans.

with that post, it sounds like it. People don't want to think, they just want to feel good and be a part of something even if it is bogus. The plans for Afghanistan were in before 9-11 and Obama said the reason we are there is because of the 3000 people who died that day. (huh?) The monopolistic media will never let the good ones (ie Kucinich) win.

What a phony, Maher IS a "corporate douchebag".

He's a nice pie in the sky side show. Not a real option. You know why? Not because "the media won't let him win." Because America ia NOT a liberal country. It is way more liberal that the past eight years, and even more liberal than most main stream Democrats...but not truly liberal Kucinich is a dyed in the wool liberal. That ain't a terrible thing. I love that he in in congress... I love that he is the beacon of liberal thought 5 miles ahead of everyone else. We need Kucinich to show where we are going....but we won't get there in his life time - or mine.

That being said (and before someone accuses me of being a Freeper), I do NOT understand what the fuck Obama and the Democrats in congress are waiting for. Keeping their powder dry? There is tantamount to unanimous agreement (85% - it don't get any better than that) that we need a public option for insurance at the very least - even at the expense of higher taxes. There is no better time to REALLY re-regulate the banks and insurance companies to make sure they NEVER again get "too big to fail." And all these people want to do is prop up the same bullshit system that has ripped off the entire nation over the last 20 years.

This doesn't mean I want republican rule back in place - I just want the democrats to do what we the people are CLEARLY telling them we want done! They are our best hope - but they are a frustratingly timid and mincing lot.

Winning means compromising on at least a few things.

Kucinich wants to whine.

about stuff like including SCHIP protection for children of legal immigrants. Or revoking blanket warrants from FISA legislation. You know, stupid shit like that.

Piss off.:eyes:

makes the President seem so small. Bothersome isn't it? Having an actual Democrat to compare him to.
So as always, there is nothing but an verbal attack upon the man, based on nothing but some poster's opinion. You have nothing to counter with but characterizations. Because you got nothing of substance to say. Nada. Zip. Zero. Just an insult without foundation, in the grand tradition of those who must defend anything, but know how to defend nothing. Getting old and so predictable.

I'm just very annoyed by the phrase "Wake up, people!" and the wild-eyed froth-mouthed nutjobs who tend to use it.

Railing against corporate interests is satisfying but doesn't solve the problem or build support for what Obama is doing.

(although you wouldn't know it to look at him) they're BOTH ENTERTAINERS; and they're both playing a role. No more, no less. And as for the "religion" Maher brought up; It's clear that he worships HIMSELF anyway, so of course he's going to be threatened by someone else receiving a lot of admiration.

I can't stand him with his white male authoritarian, ok to hit women, make people leave the studio for expressing their 1st amendment rights - oh it's just "politically incorrect" right. ech.

Pretty much all of it. I really enjoyed his telling the right wing that his criticism of Obama is in no way approval of their BS.

K and R

Absolfuckinlutely!

I don't worship Obama, I worship Jesus Christ. But my Bible tells me to uplift and encourage others. Sorry if that bothers you. Well, not really. I'm never going to apologize for worshipping my God and supporting the politician I helped get elected.

What the OP is saying is, we get to criticize him when we think he's wrong. And he can be wrong.

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nature?

i am sure it was a deeply personal request just to you

because i am pretty sure jesus was particularly fond of powerful politicians.

If'n you don't mind, that is.

And there are MILLIONS of Americans who feel this same way.

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Some people need to give it a rest.

Dunno why that line just popped into my head.

Okay well yeah I do. :P

... So there.

It just gets better with age.

;)

He's right, over the weekend, DiFi (Dianne Feinstein, ) was trying to say there weren't enough votes in the Senate for the Public Option, which a CBS News/NY Times poll shows that the vast, overwhelming majority wants. We have to climb over the Democrats before getting to the repugnicants.

favor the public option.

I've decided to have a pissing contest with congress... who's in?

~

And, appointments...

There would be universal consensus on this board. Put a D after the name with a hip feel good kinda branding - and hey - he's doing one heck of a job.

And, yeah, I know he has only been in office for five months. I am basing what I am saying on what he has DONE in those five months. Pillaging our treasury to hand over to the banks...letting the health insurance companies dictate the fate of our health care 'reform'...Expanding the war in Afghanistan while Iraq continues to drain out the life blood of our intergrity and finances.

We need a third party because the dems have become the Republicans (with very few exceptions and I would hope that they would be the ones to stand up and lead the way).

Libertarians.. give me heartburn

These are not radical ideas; they are just not the corporate way.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=221&topic_id=139871&mesg_id=139897

I said it first!

no stinking rules. Jealous little prick.

We need rules... we're a nation of them.

When it becomes conventional wisdom to continue the policies of corporate welfare (bowing to big pharma and looking the other way while the insurance K street lines the pockets of congress), that's when a true Democrat should speak up and agree with Bill Maher.

Remember the Democratic wing of the Democratic party? Maher was speaking that truth to the kind of power apparently still holding it over this administration's head. That same power elite are making it pretty clear they don't give a shit how many people fall to the wayside receiving the worst of healthcare access, or if this government acts on behalf of the banking industry to socialize the rape and pillage of our time and our kids future.

Here's someone who's calling it out like it is. What would he be jealous of? What the fuck's a matter with that?

my own rules..and one of them is..I don't let other people tell me how to think.

I think that's pretty much what Maher's message was on that particcular "new rules" piece. Sometimes it's gonna including poking through the promises of the president.

Isn't independent thinking supposed to work this way? I don't let anyone think for me either, including my president. THAT'S WHY I KEEP TELLING OUR PRESIDENT what 85% of the other people are saying about health care.

and we don't need Bill Maher's permission..

And I am a fan of Maher (obviously a bigger fan of President Obama).

:)

is that he's reality based.

http://www.serve.gov/

You broke my heart.

him.. no matter what bill maher thinks.

and I could give a shit what Maher thinks about it. :rofl:

son..that would be wrong. :rofl:

:hi:

and voted for the man. I also agree with Bill here.

once again Bill brings the truth, sign, sealed, and delivered.
And what is with all the hate here, I don't see Bill saying he hates Obama, but he certainly isn't fawning over him absolutely gobsmacked.
He's only holding him, and even more so the pussy Dems in congress, accountable. What's wrong with that. If our party is not going to do anything for the people, they might as well team up with the Repubs and we can have ourselves a nice little one party dictatorship.:sarcasm:

The Dems need to grow a pair.
If the Dems were as "passionate" and forceful as the Repubs in delivering a progressive platform, THE US WOULD BE A HELL OF A LOT BETTER OFF! :rant:

Oh my, that's just like the Republicans and Rush Limbaugh. :shrug:

awfully cute though!

Sorry..I couldn't help myselfB-)

My bad.

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And not one of the folks who criticize his work here offer a counter argument, much less a funny counter joke. Instead, they simply attack Bill personally. The pretend that an opinion they do not like is an attempt to 'tell them how to think.' They pretend that the running gag 'New Rules' is an attempt to make actual rules, instead of a comic bit, a schtick. "Comics don't make my rules" well good for you, no comic is trying to. The man is telling you his opinion, in America, and most Americans agree with him.
And the ones who don't can not exactly say why, so they call Bill names.

Bill's not your father in law. He's a comic.