Question for Teabaggers, Why Obama?

[ChesusRice]

LOL, and the democrats considered Mitt Romney?
Um, Obama is president. How wasn't he given a chance?
Keep it real Londong!

-birth certificate?

 

[ginwilly]

They were in Obama's ass from day one. Most of it due to jealousy, bigotry and/or racism. Most people at least gave Reagan and Bush a chance. Never was a chance given to Obama. Keep it real..people will respect you more.

For me personally I didn't vote for him but really did buy into his rhetoric a bit and thought well at least he has a chance to work across the isle and all this partisanship will take a back seat. Boy was I wrong. I liked the transparency promises but the very first bill he signed he broke his promise of all bills being up on a website for a few days before voting takes place and I thought damn, that was fast.

Then the stimulus happened....... Most of us with any Austrian based reading were amazed at the stupidity of this. Btw, we were more right about it than the Keynesian. It showed us how clueless this administration was when it comes to economic principles. Aggregate demand is something children might fall for. After the stimulus didn't do what he said he's passed 18 jobs bills that hasn't worked all while saying he can't get anything done because of the republicans.

He was given a chance, it's just that within a month of taking office he doubled down on the stupid shit Bush was doing, pissed on our heads and told us it was raining. I don't trust him, he lies, he doesn't know what he's doing, and he keeps doing it.

After all these bills have passed and not done near what he claimed they would, after he failed to close Gitmo, after it's been proven that Obamacare is not what they claimed, after doubling down on wars, after adding cell phones to the Patriot act instead of repealing it, I don't understand how he got re-elected. People aren't paying attention or are lying to themselves to keep from admitting they were wrong. I've watched him continue Bush's policies that everyone bitched about and they give Obama a pass.

I don't understand the support. I do however, understand how it was easier to vote against Romney, so maybe that's the majority of it.

 

[Dr Kynes]

decent, but i asked for the tea party from 12/2007-11/2008, not the cato institute (glad to hear you admit they are nothing but a right wing cheerleader of the party though).

and there is nothing in the RIU archives remotely close to what we are seeing here nowadays.

wanna know why? it's because the tea party is nothing but an astroturf organization. just like with benghazi, you guys need to be told what to be angry about and what to bitch about. yet history records none of the same (fake) outrage from similar events in the past.

so transparent, so pathetic, such followers you guys are.

no you didnt. you double dog dared him to find any comments from "righties" criticizing bush2.

 

[Dr Kynes]

-birth certificate?

the birth certificate flap was started by hillary's #1 money bundler who was also long time democrat activist.

you are such a liar.

 

[Flaming Pie]

For me personally I didn't vote for him but really did buy into his rhetoric a bit and thought well at least he has a chance to work across the isle and all this partisanship will take a back seat. Boy was I wrong. I liked the transparency promises but the very first bill he signed he broke his promise of all bills being up on a website for a few days before voting takes place and I thought damn, that was fast.

Then the stimulus happened....... Most of us with any Austrian based reading were amazed at the stupidity of this. Btw, we were more right about it than the Keynesian. It showed us how clueless this administration was when it comes to economic principles. Aggregate demand is something children might fall for. After the stimulus didn't do what he said he's passed 18 jobs bills that hasn't worked all while saying he can't get anything done because of the republicans.

He was given a chance, it's just that within a month of taking office he doubled down on the stupid shit Bush was doing, pissed on our heads and told us it was raining. I don't trust him, he lies, he doesn't know what he's doing, and he keeps doing it.

After all these bills have passed and not done near what he claimed they would, after he failed to close Gitmo, after it's been proven that Obamacare is not what they claimed, after doubling down on wars, after adding cell phones to the Patriot act instead of repealing it, I don't understand how he got re-elected. People aren't paying attention or are lying to themselves to keep from admitting they were wrong. I've watched him continue Bush's policies that everyone bitched about and they give Obama a pass.

I don't understand the support. I do however, understand how it was easier to vote against Romney, so maybe that's the majority of it.

Romney was definitely more charismatic than McCain. However, I remember him getting torn into by the other republican candidates. It was almost too easy. He couldn't defend himself against the accusations of his own party.

I didn't vote for either of them. Some may say I threw my vote away, but I could not in good conscience vote either man into office.

 

[abandonconflict]

Liberal bullshite 101

Did you know a liberal is someone who believes in free-markets?

I bet you didn't.

 

[abandonconflict]

Aggregate demand is something children might fall for.

This is a pretty loaded statement, you're saying it is a myth?

I actually agree with you overall here though but the reason I see it as a failed at-bat was that he bailed out the banks, and not the people.

 

[Mr Neutron]

i bet you think they represent the REAL AMERICA

Please enlighten the ignorant masses and tell us who the REAL AMERICANS are.

 

[Mr Neutron]

They were in Obama's ass from day one. Most of it due to jealousy, bigotry and/or racism. Most people at least gave Reagan and Bush a chance. Never was a chance given to Obama. Keep it real..people will respect you more.

Conjecture, opinion and biased perspective.

 

[Harrekin]

Did you know a liberal is someone who believes in free-markets?

I bet you didn't.

Yeah a classical liberal, not the National Socialist Party (AKA the Democrats) you call "liberals" today.

 

[abandonconflict]

Yeah a classical liberal, not the National Socialist Party (AKA the Democrats) you call "liberals" today.

I don't call them liberals, I call the people who stole the word libertarian liberals. I call democrats democrats.

And no, it is all liberals, from classical liberals to neoliberals who believe in free-market concepts.

 

[Harrekin]

I don't call them liberals, I call the people who stole the word libertarian liberals. I call democrats democrats.

And no, it is all liberals, from classical liberals to neoliberals who believe in free-market concepts.

Cool post bro.

Keep hanging to your "definitions", I'll keep calling the field as it actually is tho.

Dont forget your helmet in the bath.

 

[abandonconflict]

Cool post bro.

Keep hanging to your "definitions", I'll keep calling the field as it actually is tho.

Dont forget your helmet in the bath.

Cool post bro, keep going from post to post insulting me. Or keep doing it, if it makes you feel better, just a free service I provide.

 

[Harrekin]

Cool post bro, keep going from post to post insulting me. Or keep doing it, if it makes you feel better, just a free service I provide.

When you provide something other that riddles and propaganda, I'll be sure to give you the time you deserve.

Until then it's "flame on".

 

[ginwilly]

This is a pretty loaded statement, you're saying it is a myth?

I actually agree with you overall here though but the reason I see it as a failed at-bat was that he bailed out the banks, and not the people.

Not saying it's a myth, sorry if I implied that. What I'm saying is thought that aggregate demand is all that matters is how we end up with a bill shaped like the stimulus. The belief that you can spend 100k on hookers and blow and it does the same for the economy as using 100k to build a car wash, or open a laundromat or something is just not sound.

Like the rest of Keynesian economics, it's childlike in it's assumptions.

 

[abandonconflict]

When you provide something other that riddles and propaganda

 

[abandonconflict]

Not saying it's a myth, sorry if I implied that. What I'm saying is thought that aggregate demand is all that matters is how we end up with a bill shaped like the stimulus. The belief that you can spend 100k on hookers and blow and it does the same for the economy as using 100k to build a car wash, or open a laundromat or something is just not sound.

Like the rest of Keynesian economics, it's childlike in it's assumptions.

I think you're deliberately ignoring some of the complexity and making a kind of sweeping statement to juxtapose Keynesian economics to Austrian. Bailing out the banks is more like austerity than stimulus.

 

[ginwilly]

I think you're deliberately ignoring some of the complexity and making a kind of sweeping statement to juxtapose Keynesian economics to Austrian. Bailing out the banks is more like austerity than stimulus.

lol no, no it's not even close to anything resembling austerity or capitalism or free market ideas. It was a shiny example of straight up Fascism. Although technically we can say the banks own the state instead of the other way around. So we invented a perverse sort of reverse Fascism. We need to invent a new word for it, corporatism just doesn't quite describe it. GM and Chrysler are more examples of Fascism.

It's the opposite of austerity. Austerity measures would have been to let the bastards fail, not spend money.

 

[abandonconflict]

lol no, no it's not even close to anything resembling austerity or capitalism or free market ideas. It was a shiny example of straight up Fascism. Although technically we can say the banks own the state instead of the other way around. So we invented a perverse sort of reverse Fascism. We need to invent a new word for it, corporatism just doesn't quite describe it. GM and Chrysler are more examples of Fascism.

It's the opposite of austerity. Austerity measures would have been to let the bastards fail, not spend money.

Yet it still resembles austerity more so than stimulus.

 

[Harrekin]

Yet it still resembles austerity more so than stimulus.

It's actually neither.

Only you could say govt spending is austerity...