[rangerone314]

Whatever happened to using Bush the 3rd?

[ian807]

Obama won't upset the applecart or do anything different from the Bush administration.

He doesn't dare.

Remember that scene in "Fight Club" where Tyler Durden duct tapes a politician's mouth and says to him, "We are the people who take out your garbage...we watch over you while you sleep...DO NOT F*** WITH US!"

Obama is the guy with the duct taped mouth. He has guards. He has servants. And those servants and guards have masters, who are not necessarily Mr. Barack Obama.

All it would take is a phone call from some gentlemen at Goldman Sachs to another on K-Street who calls a friend at the Secret Service to let in two unwanted guests to a party to "remind" Mr. Obama of just how vulnerable both he and his family are.

Think that sort of thing doesn't happen? Think it isn't happening right now?

If Mr. Obama dances the same dance and sings the same songs that Bush was ordered to sing, he'll be rewarded nicely at the end. If not, well, all it takes is a little carelessness for a change of administration.

Obama is in the big leagues now, and they don't play fair, or nice, and they don't leave tracks.

So nothing is going to be different, no matter who is in office, because the moment somebody refuses to play ball, that person will soon not *be* in office anymore.

Or anywhere else.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ian807', 'O')bama won't upset the applecart or do anything different from the Bush administration.

He doesn't dare.

Remember that scene in "Fight Club" where Tyler Durden duct tapes a politician's mouth and says to him, "We are the people who take out your garbage...we watch over you while you sleep...DO NOT F*** WITH US!"

Obama is the guy with the duct taped mouth. He has guards. He has servants. And those servants and guards have masters, who are not necessarily Mr. Barack Obama.

All it would take is a phone call from some gentlemen at Goldman Sachs to another on K-Street who calls a friend at the Secret Service to let in two unwanted guests to a party to "remind" Mr. Obama of just how vulnerable both he and his family are.

Think that sort of thing doesn't happen? Think it isn't happening right now?

If Mr. Obama dances the same dance and sings the same songs that Bush was ordered to sing, he'll be rewarded nicely at the end. If not, well, all it takes is a little carelessness for a change of administration.

Obama is in the big leagues now, and they don't play fair, or nice, and they don't leave tracks.

So nothing is going to be different, no matter who is in office, because the moment somebody refuses to play ball, that person will soon not *be* in office anymore.

Or anywhere else.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ian807', '
')Obama is the guy with the duct taped mouth.....

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '[')b]And how about Obama's campaign promise to make the US energy independent in 8 years??

[VZR1800]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '[')b]And how about Obama's campaign promise to make the US energy independent in 8 years??

[jdmartin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ian807', '
')Obama is the guy with the duct taped mouth.....

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ll of these politicians are cut from the same damn cloth. They're ALL for the Corpocracy.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'O')bama declaring the recession over is akin to Bush landing on the carrier in May 2003 declaring mission accomplished in Iraq. I wonder if we still be in recession 6 years later.

[rangerone314]

Anyone care to make any predictions as to whether Obama will get re-elected in 2012...?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'A')nyone care to make any predictions as to whether Obama will get re-elected in 2012...?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'A')nyone care to make any predictions as to whether Obama will get re-elected in 2012...?

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'R')epublicans [are] ... unable to present a decent candidate.

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')h, gee, Ludi, you don't think Palin is a decent candidate? She even has a book!

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')h, gee, Ludi, you don't think Palin is a decent candidate? She even has a book!

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')Good post, though you missed something that I didn't mention... odds of a challenge from within the Democratic party. (possible if the economy stays ragged by 2012)

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')Good post, though you missed something that I didn't mention... odds of a challenge from within the Democratic party. (possible if the economy stays ragged by 2012)

[jdmartin]

Not to mention that no sitting president has had a real primary challenger since 1992.

[RedStateGreen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'A')nyone care to make any predictions as to whether Obama will get re-elected in 2012...?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedStateGreen', '
')Only three? You forget the Anti-Abortionists and the Fundies. Those two groups alone cause most of the divisiveness, as each potential candidate has to be against abortion enough or "Christian" enough (aka say enough of the right words and have an 18/00 charisma to Fundies) to pass muster.