Obama is totally playing the Republicans, and doing a fine job at it (Atman)

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Atman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-24-11 06:30 PM
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Obama is totally playing the Republicans, and doing a fine job at it.
   
Edited on Thu Mar-24-11 06:36 PM by Atman
Bush got caught lying about the GOP's favorite war. Along the way, he made countless stupid, counter-productive comments that entrenched him, backed him into a corner, and embarrassed the nation ("Bring 'em on!" "Nope, no WMD under here!"). Obama, OTOH, is carefully measuring his words, not playing into their hands. Letting the so-called GOP "leaders" make laughing stocks of themselves with Gingrichy flip-flops and brazen hypocrisy. I'm not thrilled with everything Obama is doing, but one thing he is doing well lately is exposing the child-like thinking and tactics of the GOP.

My support for President Obama has had some ebbs and flows since the happy "Change" days, but right now he seems to be playing them like a fiddle.

I like that. I work in political advertising. These Republican clowns are writing my material for me!

(edited for minor typo)

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The white house should hire him as press secretary. He can spin so well.

spanone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-24-11 06:31 PM
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1. they are slime. they are against anything he does.

Dissent is patriotic or have you forgotten?

tridim  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-24-11 06:36 PM
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2. Some might call that political "chess"
   
He has been playing them since day one.

2012 and especially 2014 are going to be nightmare years for the GOP.

Yeah after the shellacking he brought down on the GOP in 2010. Oh wait.

JuniperLea  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-24-11 06:50 PM
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14. The 2010 election results are meaningless in this regard...
   
They were predictable for other reasons, and they most likely served to awaken the sleeping beast that elected Obama.

Just wait until 2012 when we get more tea party people in.
The bloodbath for the GOP will be primaries, the bloodbath for the Dems will be the election.

Atman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-24-11 07:24 PM
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18. The freepers, Cave dwellers and Koch whores are busy tonight!
   
I've seen the recs swing five points in just a few posts. Only proves to underscore my point: they're skeered.

Awwww he mentioned us  

crim son  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-24-11 07:45 PM
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21. Precisely.
   
Since day one Obama has made republicans look like fools, but the people who recognize this don't vote republican.

The only way the GOP is looking foolish is not listening to the tea party.
Those who stand against Barry will probably do very well in the next election.

title modified by franksolich; carry on

[chitownchica]

Atman's in political advertising?
Isn't he the guy who made shirts to sell on zazzle?  Big business there.

[Carl]

Atman's in political advertising?
Isn't he the guy who made shirts to sell on zazzle?  Big business there.

Yep...a real step up from useless surfer dude he once was. 

[true_blood]

spanone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)    Thu Mar-24-11 06:31 PM
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1. they are slime. they are against anything he does.

I must be way worse than slime, because I absolutely HATE what that communist community organizer is doing to this Country.

[franksolich]

Atman's in political advertising?
Isn't he the guy who made shirts to sell on zazzle?  Big business there.

Yeah, Pedro Picasso is an "artist."

While George Bush was president, Pedro raked in big bucks selling anti-Bush garbage out of his "studio."

Just before the elections of 2008, Pedro sensed the way the wind was blowing, and got a job as "artistic director" for some fringe left-wing mass-mailer.  After all, there wasn't going to be a market for anti-Bush trash any more.

It's reasonable to speculate that Pedro Picasso, after November 2012, is going to go back to individual entrepreneurship (rather than working for a company), because there's going to be a market for the anti-whoever-the-new-Republican-president is.

[franksolich]

Yep...a real step up from useless surfer dude he once was. 

Yeah, that too.

He used to write for surfing magazines.

Pedro Picasso, who grew up in one of those Levittowns down in Florida, and who's on the increasing side of 50 years of age, still imagines himself a beach playboy.

[miskie]

Excellent. The more the primitives feel that 'it's in the bag' , the more spectacular the crash will be. If somehow, continuing and/or expanding Bush era policies that primitives hate the most is 'Playing the Republicans' , I am really looking forward to the encore.  

[franksolich]

Atman's in political advertising?

I forgot to mention that eons ago, Pedro Picasso worked in the art department of some women's fashion magazine.

That's where his screen-name, "Atman," comes from.  "Atman" is a line of women's perfumes and cosmetics designed by Richard Russell or Bill Simmons or whatever his name is.

[franksolich]

Excellent. The more the primitives feel that 'it's in the bag' , the more spectacular the crash will be. If somehow, continuing and/or expanding Bush era policies that primitives hate the most is 'Playing the Republicans' , I am really looking forward to the encore.  

Just before the mid-term elections of 2010, Pedro Picasso deigned to show up on Skins's island, and said that the Dems were going to win, that 0bama was very popular, no liability, every Dem candidate wanted the Big Zero to come and campaign for him, ad nauseam.

I've known Pedro Picasso for some years; he's always been a great prognosticator.

[Duke Nukum]

He played us so well the last two years, he lost the house and a few seats in the senate. If he keeps playing us this well, he will be out of office before 2012.

[franksolich]

Yep...a real step up from useless surfer dude he once was. 

Remember how in early 2007, Pedro Picasso made the really stupid remark that Republicans had lost the mid-term elections of 2006 on purpose; that it was some Republican plot to take over the government?

And that it got quoted on the most-popular talk-show on radio?

If I were my fellow alum Skins, I would've tossed Pedro off Skins's island post-haste, because all the laughter and scorn and derision of tens of millions probably did some damage to the good name and reputation of Skins's island, making them look bad.

[miskie]

Pedro has said many things that have either turned out to be wrong, or untrue. And it seems when Pedro gets something wrong, it is as wrong as wrong can be. - As in 180 degrees of wrongness - And he doesn't keep his word - my mailbox continues to be entirely unfilled with a hand carved bust of The Impeached One.

[Odin's Hand]

Is it me or does Pedro get more idiotic as the years pass? Or is it just compounding?

[miskie]

Is it me or does Pedro get more idiotic as the years pass? Or is it just compounding?

I'd say like all the Picassos, Pedro is slowly losing his mind.

[franksolich]

Is it me or does Pedro get more idiotic as the years pass? Or is it just compounding?

It's dementia praecox; Pedro Picasso has an especially bad case of it.

[GOBUCKS]

He used to write for surfing magazines.

A writer's dream job. Probably as lucrative as Pitt's position at truthout.

[franksolich]

There's been a lot of lurking primitives reading this thread; I'll bet many of them have been "personal messaging" Pedro to alert him about it.

It must be vexing, though, to be a primitive on Skins's island.

Pedro Picasso would probably like to yell at us, but he can't.

Remember, this is the site that shall not be named on Skins's island.

Alas! poor Pedro! shut up! alas! unable to talk back! alas! poor Pedro Picasso!

[delilahmused]

"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." Barack Obama.

Nope, no flip flop there. Oh I really, really hope they continue to keep their delusions. A shellacking like they got in the midterms rarely happens and shows just how fed up the people are. Not just tea partiers. Not just political junkies. But regular Americans who have other priorities. DUmmies are too stupid to figure out a political fact that's practically screaming at them. People are disgusted at Obama's utter incompetence, his lack of leadership, his inability to make a decision and then lead. They're sick of his secrecy, his arrogance, his ignoring the law, the Constitution, the courts. Obama care and his treatment of Arizona are just two examples. His poll numbers are going down. More people are unhappy with him than are happy. Usually after midterms a president's poll numbers go up because he reads the writing on the wall and changes (or at least plays the game) how he's governing. But Obama is too stupid and arrogant to know or care. The more they feed each others illusions the more depressed they'll be election night. All the better to entertain those of us who live in the land of reality.

Cindie

[BEG]

Yeah...use war to play republicans. Woo hoo, damn that Obama is so smart.

[jukin]

Obama was 145 steps ahead in 2010 too.  Losing a record number of state positions and the HOR by a record number was just some SMART POWER!!!!!1111!!!!!eleventy three dimensional chess trap.

[chitownchica]

This guy sounds like a real brainiac 

[PatriotGame]

I forgot to mention that eons ago, Pedro Picasso worked in the art department of some women's fashion magazine.

That's where his screen-name, "Atman," comes from.  "Atman" is a line of women's perfumes and cosmetics designed by Richard Russell or Bill Simmons or whatever his name is.

Hmmm...and all this time I thought "Atman" was some bottom-shelf line of women's feminine hygiene products intended to treat the most serious of the most serious ailments. Either that, or just a generic line of cat litter aromatic enhancing covering products.

Gawd I can't imagine the rancidity emanating from his yellow-stained toothed mouth...

[franksolich]

This guy sounds like a real brainiac 

Actually, every time I read Pedro Picasso any more, I'm always reminded of a madman one time in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants who tried to convince me he was the Grand Duke Alexei, son of Nicholas II.

[PatriotGame]

Is it me or does Pedro get more idiotic as the years pass? Or is it just compounding?

DUmmy stupidity IS compounding and as with compounded interest, it increases daily.

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy Atman is low man (very low) on the totem pole at a half-assed democrat ad agency. He apparently doodles cartoons around the edges of junk mail flyers for mostly losing moonbat democrat candidates. He's their "art director" which is sort of like when the drunken Pitt was "senior editor", or something like that, at truthout. DUmmy Atman can only dream of matching the artistic talent of DUmmy Swamp Rat.
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