SensibleAmerican's Comments (2121)

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“With all my regards to Senators Rockefeller and Snowe, they'll love this!!!

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“What "followers"?! The guy follows his own shadow! LOL But I don't blame his affinity for Porn, it is tough to keep the spice alive through 3 marriages without it!”

“You got THAT right Rosiebond007! You should have seen Ann Coulter defend Wilson on Bill Oh-Lier-ly last eve'!”

“If you have 'em show 'em! Wish it was a lil' more "see through" though! ;-))”

“Obama with a teleprompter is like Yoyoma with a Cello, always a great performance! That's all it was , a great performance, no "game changer" no "turning point", just another good speech for the books

No health care bill yet, just a "plan"
Wait till the "plan" goes into committee discussions to enable drafting an actual bill
He will not sign a bill that "adds a dime to the deficit": wait till the CBO dissects his claims
... and wait till the rhetoric meets substance ...

"Just you wait Professor Higgins, just you wait" ... :-))”

“Do NOT underestimate the power of the "stupid"!

Circa 1980: a visionairy President Carter was ousted by a B-Grade movie personality
Circa 2000: 4% of total voters who supported Nader made sure that Al Gore did not become the 43rd POTUS
Circa 2004: an ex-AWOL chicken hawk transformed himself into a determined and resolute Commander-In-Chief while a true Vietnam Vet was reduced to being a bumbling "flip flop"
Circa 2008: the far left wide eyed believers and the clueless young brought into power a man they thought was they new found messiah only to see him "romancing the center"

Circa 2012: Sarah Palin could well be the Repugnant nominee for the Presidency”

“That Obama straddles the fence on most/all issues was manifested in his campaign as well, nothing surprising there. None of his actions so far can be labeled "progressive" by any which way you want to define "progressive"!

What is more frustrating is that the right wing nuts decide on a message, scream that message through various forums again and again till even their most insane rants enter mainstream media as if their sheer idiocy is what the American public believe in by and large! The essence of their messages in a nutshell is that this administration is "destroying the country as we know it"!

"Death panels" has gained more traction than the truth on "end-of-life" support. Socialism as a label has gained even more momentum, "birthers" and mobs at townhalls get more news coverage than the realities of the health care bill! Why is it that whether the Repugnants are in or out of power they always call the shots and set the stage for so called public discourse!?! They managed to oppose Bush on immigration and made sure that their sitting President never got that one through even though Bush badly needed that legislative victory! Where are Progressives on DOMA, don't-ask-don't tell, renditions etc.? Why did we not see liberals take to the streets when Obama signed a law that allows one to carry guns to National parks or when Obama vacillated on the "Public Option"?!”

“All the brouhaha over this speech was so "much ado about nothing"! Having stated this, it has reached a point where the right wing nuts have reached such diabolical rabid opposition to Obama that if the man sneezed, they would scream that he is "weakening the country" or something insane like that!

The base of the Republican Party or one can even venture to state that the majority of the Republican Party is now the carry over from the demographics who opposed desegregation and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964-65 and for them the very fact that an African-American is in the White House is an abomination of cataclysmic proportions!

The seething mobs at townhalls, the "death panel" BS, the birther insanity and so much furore over a President addressing kids is just a manifestation of a deep rooted hatred and of being in denial that times have indeed changed!”

“The "next thing" OleLadyS?! Remember that "birther" who volunteered to go to Afghanistan and then volunteered not to go?! LOL He did so because he does not think that Obama is his legit President and therefor not his commander-in-chief!

Just see the townhall looney protestors who "want their country back"?! Translation: we don't recognize this guy as our president ...”

“"Right wing batty" is like stating that the Pacific Ocean is made up of water! Words like "batty" and "insane" are synonymous with the right wing fascists. Nancy Pelosi's daughter made a documentary on the McCain-Palin '08 campaign and it was aired on HBO, you should see and hear the views of the demographics that form the "Republican base"!

These people would ban Gas-X and stay bloated if Obama recommended taking it after meals!!!”

“And that's the way the cookie crumbles!!! Gays wonder why Obama won’t take a stand on gay marriage when state legislatures will or on repealing "don't ask don't tell". Union bosses wonder what happened to the man who sounded more protectionist than Hillary Clinton in the primary. Some liberals have been stunned by the serial about-faces on extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention without trial, military-tribunal trials, the state-secrets doctrine, and other policies they associate with the Bush administration.

Former reight-of-center supporters of Obama, including David Brooks, Christopher Buckley, Jim Cramer, and Warren Buffett, have expressed varying degrees of criticism of his early moves, surprised that he is more hostile to the free market than they had thought

After Obama took office, the pundit class found itself debating the ideology and sensibility of the new president — an indication of how scarcely the media had bothered to examine him beforehand”

“The words "hypocrisy" and "republicans" are synonymous and so are "stupid" and "Republican base". Seriously, one has to be really stupid not to understand that even "socialized medicine" is better than no coverage and bankruptcy caused by a lack of that coverage ...”

“All your comments are right on the money BabblingBrooks! To paraphrase Bill Maher, "Bush may have been retarded with messed up priorities but he meant what he said and said what he meant!" That admin pushed through a war no one wanted (21% in July 2002 believed Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11) to a war that most Americans wanted just 9 months later! (73%) ... go figure ...

Obama in his campaign speeches wanted "single payer" for health care reform. Then he talked about public option, then he got rid of the public option, then he claimed that the public option was just a "sliver" in the overall picture, then his press secy claimed that he was all for public option and now it maybe totally removed again!

On this very board I was slammed constantly for calling Obama's campaign rhetoric "fluff" and that he was where he was because the entire liberal media was carrying him on its shoulders. It is all unraveling now and not in a good way

All the so called Progressives who were so mesmerized by him need to publish their agenda and/or a list of what they want this admin to achieve for them. Then compare it to anything on their list even close to being accomplished (DOMA, don't ask don't tell, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, gun control, repealing the Patriot Act and FISA laws, the damage that Bush did to the constitution and the Bill of Rights ... )”

“Lest I forget, DOMA is still going strong and "don't ask don't tell" may just never be repealed, "gun control" is taboo for the Dems looking to get re-elected in 2010 and the right wing nuts are still more successful in spreading their lies and BS

If the Progressives cannot further their agenda now with control of the House, Senate and the White House, they never will ...”

“Recently Obama signed a bill which allows carrying guns to National Parks. More troops are being sent to Afghanistan. Patriot Act is still to be repealed and the Bill of Rights which were shredded by Bush-Cheney are still to be reversed
"Public Option" may not be an option after all. "Cap and Trade" is a cop out and not going anywhere. Feds are printing currency like there's no tomorrow, bailing out financial institutions while the same FIs are "bonusing" their execs up the wazoo! Wall Street has simply no connection now with mainstreet while 15% of the stimulus monies is really stimulus ...

So, we elected a Progressive-Liberal in 2008! LOL”

“The right wing nuts are in a minority but yet they can hold Dems to ransom?! Be it opposing something or simply selling something like the WMDs, these people stick to message, all on the same page and then they repeat it again and again till it starts sounding like the truth! In July 2002 29% were for a war on Saddam's Iraq and by March 2003 73% of Americans were all for invading that country!

Now with the Dems incharge or I should state "incharge", we cannot even sell Health Reform without 6 different bills and a 100 different messages?! People like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart should be heading Democratic legislative strategies ...”

“Archivist, I am not sure if we watch the same news but "THEY revealed their true colors" way back when Reagan was blowing hard against 'socialized medicine"! The right wing have been nuts for several decades now and as for Obama "doing what he wants", does anyone even know what he wants?! Seriously, can anyone on this board clearly summarize precisely what Obama wants from/in the bill or if he just wants A healthcare bill?!”

“Sebelius is to Obama what Harriet Miers was to Bush. For such a landmark bill of far reaching importance we should have had a stronger Health Secy than a bobhead hand maiden”

“Does anyone even care what Dowd has to state or say?! One blog on Facebook by Palin gets a thousand times more attention than poor has-been-washed-out Dowd's "intellectual" flatulence. The sad truth is that the "crazy and insane" get far more traction and coverage ...”

“It must be frustrating for Ohbamerrmann not to be formally a part of the Obama campaign. But then he can still pretend to be a talk show host and campaign for "the One" ...”

“When Russia attacked Georgia, Obama first sat pretty then came up with 3 iterations in one week! This is what happens when you are entire career is marked with "present" or with instances of running away from crucial votes

Same inaction in this financial crisis”

“It started after the SC primary when the "First Black President" Bill Clinton was labeled as racist. When both Obama and Clinton did not reach the pledged delegates' majority, the drum rolls started: "if you steal the elections from Obama" it will "alienate the black community forever"! Affirmative action decided the nomination

And now Obama will lose not because he is all hot air and no substance but because the "American people are still so prejudiced"!!!”

“Off topic but equally interesting! Heard the latest far left mantra pre-empting an Obama loss? Racism! There you go! The last refuge of the harbingers and proponents of "victimization"!”

“Obama's coddlers and carriers: MSNBC, CNN and NYT. Obama's nannies: all clueless far left blogs ...”