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Barack Obama: Change, but to what end?

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  • #52
    Matt Holck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭Matt Holck


    checks and balances


  • #53
    corkstudent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭corkstudent


    Why do people keep saying Obama has no distinct policies when they're not even reading up on what his policies are? If you're going to judge it by media aimed at the lowest common denominator in the US, you're not going to find any intellectual meat.


  • #54
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Personally, I plan on giving Obama the same chance that Democrats gave George W Bush when he took office back in 2000 (sound fair enough?)
    Let's assume that's fair for the purposes of my post. All the democrats I know (and I actually mean all) had an attitude in January 2009 that it was going to be OK, because there was a good chance that GWB was going to surround himself with smart people who knew what they were doing, even if their policies would be a little different to what they had liked.

    They gave the guy a chance for a few months before deciding that the only difference between the Bush administration and a bucket of swill was the bucket.

    Either way you look at it, even dubya was no Hitler. Hitler was smarter. And for the "OMG, is Obama like Hitler" fear, it's worth noting FDR didn't go into all that much detail about what the New Deal would be before his first election either. Although he did take the time out to refer to his opponent as "fat". Conspiracy theories are probably more popular in recent years than ever before, partly due to the arrival of the Internet as a convenient way of distributing views that almost no-one would pay for at a cost of almost zero. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if by March we hear a rumour that GWB has salted away tons of gold from the Federal Reserve and is preparing to leave the country with it[1] (that rumour, by the way, did the rounds about Hoover after Roosevelt beat him). Hitler comparisons tend to be poor currency among those who have heard the little German guy compared to everyone from US Presidents down to Homer Simpson but they seem to be worth something in the group of people that reads one book about lizards taking over the planet and takes it as true because they've seen it in print. Unfortunately, that's turned out to be a surprisingly large group of people.


    [1]Please, feel free to spread that around the Internet. I'll find it funny. Don't post it on Politics though or there will be a slapping


  • #55
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    corkstudent wrote: »
    Why do people keep saying Obama has no distinct policies when they're not even reading up on what his policies are? If you're going to judge it by media aimed at the lowest common denominator in the US, you're not going to find any intellectual meat.

    You do realize that you insulted the people that actually voted for him don't him?


  • #56
    Ludo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
    You do realize that you insulted the people that actually voted for him don't him?

    I think he insulted everyone with that comment including republicans. Yet it is a very valid comment. Very little of the pre-election coverage actually examined the policies in detail but catered to the entertainment side of news.
    I am talking about the tv news channels here by the way. Newspapers tend to do things in a bit more detail. Unfortunately most people don't read the type of newspapers that give this coverage, hence they are all in financial trouble.


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