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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2010 -> 08:41 AM) Really? Gallup had one poll about 6 months ago that showed what you suggest, it got large amounts of press, then their next poll showed things back to just about where they've sat for the last 15 years or so, and it got no press. Almost as if there was some statistical phenomenon going on where if you poll on an issue 100+ times over 20 years, you'll occasionally get polls that show odd trends. http://www.gallup.com/poll/128036/New-Norm...s-Pro-Life.aspx And polls aside, I don't see why Roe v Wade won't be overturned eventually.

I love pretentious movie trailers like this.

That looked pretty bad tonight. If they're nibbling away outside on you and you can't hit it, don't you have to move a little closer to the plate? Sheesh.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 23, 2010 -> 08:33 PM) It's nice when someone else besides me "gets it." Since it's a guy's blog I'm just gonna paste the whole thing here. I don't necessarily endorse everything he's saying (I'm not pro-gun control for example), but the general thrust of his article is that people are full of s*** and delusional about certain things. http://open.salon.com/blog/robert_kelley/2..._to_some_things Agree with most of that, but not about abortion. What's to stop Roe from being overturned? Americans are turning against abortion at greater levels now, and the Supreme Court is a butt-hair away from letting states do what they want on this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/us/polit...nLqHQKdf67O9m0A Not really any proof of anything. But then again, I don't assume all politicians are scum.

As long as his health is fine, Petraeus seems like as able a replacement as any.

Kudos Obama Admin. Obama uses powers to expand federal rights, benefits for gays and lesbians http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...?hpid%3Dtopnews

QUOTE (NIUSox @ Jun 22, 2010 -> 10:32 PM) Gravity? Aren't scientists actually unsure why gravity works the way it does? Like, if gravity worked the way they thought, the universe wouldn't still be expanding... or something dorky like that.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 22, 2010 -> 09:28 PM) It may not be Obama directly in this case, but someone knew exactly what to say close to the general and virtually nothing was a direct quote - it was all "sources close to"... . Furthermore, the response was too quick (Gibbs was too much of a happy ass on this). They knew this was coming. It's White House communications job to know what stories are coming. This is terribly embarassing for the Obama administration, I don't understand how or why they'd have created this.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 22, 2010 -> 08:11 PM) You're missing the point, and always do. Hey! You mess with Tex, then you're messin' with me!

Actual article http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236 Wow, I've only read the first few paragraphs, and wow, what a moron.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 18, 2010 -> 12:30 PM) Seriously, after all the villifying of Bush you did. No one becomes the president of the US because they want to f*** up the country. I know I personally went over the top with some of my criticisms of Bush back in the day. But to be clear, I think my political views have matured a great deal in recent years. I was still in high school when the invasion of Iraq was beginning. Still Obama>Bush.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 18, 2010 -> 11:29 AM) I highly doubt Rand Paul is going to make kentucky competitive. If anything he'll win by 60 points. I think he'll win there, probably pretty easily, but the Democrats seem to have a good candidate running against him, so I doubt it'll be a total whoopin'

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 17, 2010 -> 11:24 PM) Thank you Toyota. Is Toyota's screw-ups actually credited with their recovery? I hadn't heard that. Interesting.

This might seem like some incredible statement, but I think Obama is a good man. And I think for the most part he's done what he thought is best for the country. Has he got all of these things right? No. Maybe he's even gotten them all wrong. But lets be reasonable. I can support a politician without thinking he's a Messiah. In fact that's what's inherently difficult about supporting a politician. They're going to screw up, and they're going to make decisions I don't like. I think Obama would like to see the American economy and the car companies recover, and the oil spill stop, not only because that's the sane thing to think, but because it's in his best political interests and those of the country. I think he cares more about his re-election, than about spreading the wealth. The idea that Obama let the oil spill so he could, turn this into a environmentalist, or socialist (which one is it) cause is probably as silly as the idea that the Bush administration let the terrorists attack so they could invade middle eastern countries. I trust these people more than that. In addition, aren't GM and Chrysler doing pretty good again? And I'm not going to say this is because Obama and Congress bailed them out (they'll do that on their own). But isn't it safe to at least consider that that was a good decision, and that it might eventually turn into a profit for taxpayers? And what about the stimulus? Didn't pretty much every single country do it? I kind of doubt that every government thought of it as Robin Hood stuff. Good example of groupthink, probably not a good example of all these countries perpetrating some svengalian act of secret socialism.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 16, 2010 -> 08:03 PM) I have been out of town and cut off from civilization for 2 days. can someone give me a synopsis of what Obama said last night? I'm on top of things, BP's going to pay people put out of work by this spill, Americans have to change their energy use, and screw that Kap teabagger that's always hatin' -Obama

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 16, 2010 -> 02:44 PM) I'm not a scientist or an engineer, so I'm not sure what specific things he can/should do. But unless you're suggesting that he's no longer needed, there's SOMETHING he could be doing, like speaking to BP about his (our) concerns for longer than 20 minutes. And enforcing existing regulation would have prevented this thing from happening as well. Again, why would words on a piece of paper mean jack to a company that clearly skirted the rules and were allowed to because that oh-so-efficient government can't/won't/didn't do its job? Sweet. From now on these wells have to have a redundant blowout preventer. Hell, mandate they have 10 of them. That still requires the company to install it and the government to make sure that it gets installed. IMO there's an equal chance that this type of thing happens again because a blowout preventer fails and because a company gets greedy, works on the cheap, and the gov't fails to catch them. Sounds like a perfectly good argument for stopping this bloody deep oil drilling completely. And we seriously need to look past the President and BP's fault in this. We really need to look at ourselves. Who started using more public transit? Who started making and keeping more efficient residences? Who stopped buying fruits and vegetables from thousands of miles away? Nobody. I think we play this blame game to help us dismiss the fact that BP is really only providing a service that so many selfish individuals demand. We blame to cover up our own guilt. "It's those evil executives and politicians to blame! How could they do this!?!?! I'm so much better than them!"

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 15, 2010 -> 09:24 PM) Oh, the ironies of this post with a t w I S T of two years ago. The difference is, this guy is blowing it hard core and is still loved by the masses. The part you all want to gloss over is HE KNEW how bad this was day 3 - that's when all the offers of help started pouring in. What was he doing on day three? Flying on AFOne b****ing about AZ immigration and bashing Republicans for taking in part of the violence tendencies that this law was introducing. Negligence, baby. Barack Obama is 100% negligent. Period-io. What masses? It took Bush getting bogged down in two wars to have similar levels of popularity/unpopularity. Obama very well might not have been paying enough attention to this, but some mild statements about the Arizona immigration debate prove nothing (and of course he said nothing about Republicans, or violent tendancies). Democrats tended to oppose the Arizona law, big whoop.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 15, 2010 -> 08:49 PM) show me how any laws were broken. show me how he deviated from expected conduct of the President. Show me anything of any substance. Please. Since the election, Kap like so many others has become an abyss of negativism, narcissism, and knowitall-ism, there's little point in arguing with him. Has Obama made massive errors on this? Presumably. Is Obama, in comparison to previous Presidents (or other options in the 2008 election), bereft of the competence required to handle an issue like this. No, but no single individual, or organization could control such a cluster-f. Could this be such a terrible disaster that it could make Obama a one term President. Yes. But because he's been a competent President, he would leave a number of positive legacy items, even as a one term President.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 15, 2010 -> 04:37 PM) Holy cripes, you guys should have heard the British news outlets talk about Obama and the way the US is handling this thing. They are ballistic. They talk I heard was not what I typically associated with England and the US. It calmed down a bit after Cameron had his talk with Obama but they are f***ing livid at the Obama administration and they refer to him as the Great Joke (instead of the Great Hope). The British citizens are getting killed as there retirements are heavily impacted by what the US government is asking for. I personally have a major long-term buy status on BP because they will recover from this and right now they are incredibly undervalued. However, I could be a complete dumbass and be wrong. I tend to believe people over-react. According to the poll(s) I've seen today, most Americans think Obama should be harder on BP, so it's not like Obama has an easy balance to strike. Are some of these Brits, and others invested in BP of no fault of their own? Because to me energy companies are always attractive investment options, but with difficult moral questions, and certain obvious risks.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2010 -> 02:14 PM) http://www.twiceright.com/2010/6/9/obama-w...us-news/by/alex First of all I didn't know Hugo Chavez was one of the most dangerous dictators in the world... That's laughable. And other than running into Chavez at some conference, I don't think Obama has ever actually met with a "dangerous dictator" without preconditions. Other than that I guess you can argue that he should meet the BP CEO, or that Obama's not following the words of his campaign (big surprise). But the two issues aren't really connected. And not that I'll convince anyone in this thread, but I think Obama has performed at a high level in international relations.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 6, 2010 -> 03:26 PM) Sigh. Has he been proven wrong?

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 3, 2010 -> 08:23 PM) http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/20...quinn-1361.html Brady leading Quinn in the polls Have any local Illinois pollsters looked at the race recently? That's probably what you should pay attention to.

After watching Bobby tonight it is quite clear that he still has the stuff to close. It's all about location. And he had the tight slider working too. Didn't he use to have a pretty good 12 to 6 curve too?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 2, 2010 -> 09:45 AM) Which is, of course, why she'll be the 2012 nominee. I strongly doubt the Republicans are going to nominate a facebook pundit. And if she does win Obama will crush her. If not god help us all.