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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 20, 2011, 07:38:01 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2347749
Oh my.
Now, this is an enormous campfire, all the usual culprits at it.
JFN1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-20-11 12:53 AM
Original message
President Obama? He's Just Not Relevant...
Just to be clear:
Relevant -- Having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand.
-- (source - Merriam Webster Dictionary on my desk)
President Obama, through his silence, through his attempts to once again be the middleman, through his refusal to voice his OWN opinion and the ethical foundations upon which they rest, has proven himself, at least to me, to be completely without relevance to the #Occupations.
President Obama's entire significant and demonstrable bearing, is focused with politically typical precision upon his own reelection - and that is all.
President Obama is trying to juggle his performace against his promises, while riding a bipartisan unicycle on a Republican tightrope 8 miles above the rest of us; it would actually be a miracle if he had any relevance to #OWS, given where his thoughts and deeds seem to be centered, so far and above the rest of us.
No one in and of the #OWS protests, is even mentioning President Obama. In fact, he's been out of town the past couple of weeks in Asia, and he is likely expecting to come home trumpeting his foreign policy brilliance.
But the country has changed significantly in the last 10 days, and Mr. Obama is not returning to the same America he left, so short a time ago.
The 1% has brazenly sicced their private, incredibly well armed and angry, armies upon us, and there has been no mention whatsoever, no condemnation, no promised investigations, - there has been NOTHING from him or his administration - about the brutilization of American citizens exercising their most basic RIGHTS, while our SWORN PROTECTORS shred the Constitution with sociopathic glee as they criminally abuse their power over the 99%.
Mr. Obama, his administration, and especially his DOJ, don't need to defend #OWS; but they are duty bound to protect and defend the ****ing Constitution. And when they fail to do so, they do indeed send the clearest and strongest message possible about OUR relevance, to them...
Thus, I leave you with this thought, voiced when our country was still newly born. Please keep it in mind, if you would, when Mr. Obama returns and political expediency requires him to address all of this:
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -Thomas Carlyle, writer (1795-1881)
* -- on edit -- I just want to add, based on a few of the comments, that President Obama has made HIMSELF irrelevant - #OWS and the 99% didn't do it, and neither did the Repubs. Mr. Obama is irrelevant due to his OWN decisions.
** -- also edited for spelling --
W-a-a-a-a-y too long, so just a few primitive comments selected at random:
B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-20-11 03:23 PM
Response to Reply #40
118. They should be thanking Obama. If there was a republican president right now they would have have been rounded up and executed by firing squads!
Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-20-11 12:58 AM
Response to Original message
3. If our choice is between Obama and Newt or Mitt, we'd better get more enthusiastic
President Obama is disappointing. But Rethugs would be LETHAL fascists.
MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-20-11 01:00 AM
Response to Reply #3
4. The GOP would certainly give us something to cry about.
sendero (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-20-11 06:38 PM
Response to Reply #109
137. Obama .
... does not deserve a second term and I won't be surprised if he doesn't. Nor will I care, as he's done almost nothing I wanted done. All he is doing is smearing the Democratic brand.
nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-20-11 01:14 AM
Response to Reply #3
13. Voting is irrelevant
I will vote for this guy, but I do not expect any change from DC. The change will come from the streets.
By the way, if you read some history into the history of social movements in this country you will realize why.
But at this point... the election is just not relevant... truly.
In fact the media should give up the stupid show of the Republican Primary and actually do it's job, but in a country with freedom of the press in number 38 (and falling) that is owned by corporations, I don't expect that media to do it's job.
I will be there to vote, kind of what you do, even in a dictablanda, but enthusiasm... just not there.
Okay, having hit that speed-bump, I'll stop here. All the 0bamanuts are closer to near the end of the campfire.
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Dictablanda! Nutcase nadin rolled out "dictablanda", and even spelled it!
Someone said she had burned out the google button on her machine, but it's obviously still working.
Barrelling down the homestretch, know-it-all nadin still has the throttles wide open!
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Dictablanda! Nutcase nadin rolled out "dictablanda", and even spelled it!
Someone said she had burned out the google button on her machine, but it's obviously still working.
Barrelling down the homestretch, know-it-all nadin still has the throttles wide open!
She's obviously going for the strong finish. Hit that nitrous bottle! :stoner: :fuelfire:
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DUmmie JFNnumber finally figured out something we knew almost 4 years ago.
They are such geniuses. :sarcasm: