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umm... Obama can close Gitmo any damn time with a scribble.
Just a reminder, Guantanamo Bay is STILL open 728 days later.
umm... Obama can close Gitmo any damn time with a scribble.
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umm... Obama can close Gitmo any damn time with a scribble.
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Explain yourself.
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Explain yourself.
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Our politics today are such a joke.
Bush/Obama did this, Bush/Obama didn't do that. I love how the American people want all these things done, but won't do anything to help. They want their President to take all the blame and all the responsibility as if he somehow had something to do with how much your life might suck. If SO many people knew the levies were going to fail in regards to Katrina, why weren't they writing letters to their congressmen or women, bringing it up at city councils, submitting letters to newspapers, you know, doing something? You honestly believe that a President knows about every single issue going on in the country? That's what your local governments are for. If people are voting in incapable candidates, then who are we to blame? The person who is in office or those who voted for him? People expect too much these days. There's no work ethic. Why is it that somebody a thousand miles away has to do something YOU want done. The spirit of America has gone from going out, putting in work, helping people out, and providing for your family, to waiting around for other people to respond to your every need and want.
Just my opinion, but I've seen a lot of it these days. No personal responsibility and no accountability for our actions and mistakes. Who really cares what Obama is doing or what Bush did? What are YOU doing to improve the country and your situation? Are you educating yourself to contribute to society? Are you gaining valuable skills and developing your talents to help people out so we don't continue to wallow in this political trash we've been in for the past forever? Or, is that too much work for you to do and you'd rather have somebody else do something about it who actually does care?
One of these days, America isn't going to be America anymore and we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Bush/Obama did this, Bush/Obama didn't do that. I love how the American people want all these things done, but won't do anything to help. They want their President to take all the blame and all the responsibility as if he somehow had something to do with how much your life might suck. If SO many people knew the levies were going to fail in regards to Katrina, why weren't they writing letters to their congressmen or women, bringing it up at city councils, submitting letters to newspapers, you know, doing something? You honestly believe that a President knows about every single issue going on in the country? That's what your local governments are for. If people are voting in incapable candidates, then who are we to blame? The person who is in office or those who voted for him? People expect too much these days. There's no work ethic. Why is it that somebody a thousand miles away has to do something YOU want done. The spirit of America has gone from going out, putting in work, helping people out, and providing for your family, to waiting around for other people to respond to your every need and want.
Just my opinion, but I've seen a lot of it these days. No personal responsibility and no accountability for our actions and mistakes. Who really cares what Obama is doing or what Bush did? What are YOU doing to improve the country and your situation? Are you educating yourself to contribute to society? Are you gaining valuable skills and developing your talents to help people out so we don't continue to wallow in this political trash we've been in for the past forever? Or, is that too much work for you to do and you'd rather have somebody else do something about it who actually does care?
One of these days, America isn't going to be America anymore and we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves.
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Our politics today are such a joke.
Bush/Obama did this, Bush/Obama didn't do that. I love how the American people want all these things done, but won't do anything to help. They want their President to take all the blame and all the responsibility as if he somehow had something to do with how much your life might suck. If SO many people knew the levies were going to fail in regards to Katrina, why weren't they writing letters to their congressmen or women, bringing it up at city councils, submitting letters to newspapers, you know, doing something? You honestly believe that a President knows about every single issue going on in the country? That's what your local governments are for. If people are voting in incapable candidates, then who are we to blame? The person who is in office or those who voted for him? People expect too much these days. There's no work ethic. Why is it that somebody a thousand miles away has to do something YOU want done. The spirit of America has gone from going out, putting in work, helping people out, and providing for your family, to waiting around for other people to respond to your every need and want.
Just my opinion, but I've seen a lot of it these days. No personal responsibility and no accountability for our actions and mistakes. Who really cares what Obama is doing or what Bush did? What are YOU doing to improve the country and your situation? Are you educating yourself to contribute to society? Are you gaining valuable skills and developing your talents to help people out so we don't continue to wallow in this political trash we've been in for the past forever? Or, is that too much work for you to do and you'd rather have somebody else do something about it who actually does care?
One of these days, America isn't going to be America anymore and we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Bush/Obama did this, Bush/Obama didn't do that. I love how the American people want all these things done, but won't do anything to help. They want their President to take all the blame and all the responsibility as if he somehow had something to do with how much your life might suck. If SO many people knew the levies were going to fail in regards to Katrina, why weren't they writing letters to their congressmen or women, bringing it up at city councils, submitting letters to newspapers, you know, doing something? You honestly believe that a President knows about every single issue going on in the country? That's what your local governments are for. If people are voting in incapable candidates, then who are we to blame? The person who is in office or those who voted for him? People expect too much these days. There's no work ethic. Why is it that somebody a thousand miles away has to do something YOU want done. The spirit of America has gone from going out, putting in work, helping people out, and providing for your family, to waiting around for other people to respond to your every need and want.
Just my opinion, but I've seen a lot of it these days. No personal responsibility and no accountability for our actions and mistakes. Who really cares what Obama is doing or what Bush did? What are YOU doing to improve the country and your situation? Are you educating yourself to contribute to society? Are you gaining valuable skills and developing your talents to help people out so we don't continue to wallow in this political trash we've been in for the past forever? Or, is that too much work for you to do and you'd rather have somebody else do something about it who actually does care?
One of these days, America isn't going to be America anymore and we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves.
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He's better than Bush? What kind of argument is that?
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He's better than Bush? What kind of argument is that?
dame theory
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Of those really in charge.
Obama hasn't met all this opposition for nothing...
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Of those really in charge.
Obama hasn't met all this opposition for nothing...
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Who's in charge?Originally Posted by Dame Theory
Of those really in charge.
Obama hasn't met all this opposition for nothing...
Someone with an answer
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Who's in charge?Originally Posted by Dame Theory
Of those really in charge.
Obama hasn't met all this opposition for nothing...
Someone with an answer
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--That's where military prison guards are sent to to get crock-meat sandwiches.
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--That's where military prison guards are sent to to get crock-meat sandwiches.
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And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
good post brah
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And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
good post brah
Most of what you said is just ridiculous. We pay like 30-40% tax on our income. Why shouldn't we care what Obama or Bush is doing?
We pay taxes so that government can ensure that the levees don't fail and people don't die. That was one of the most important statements in the Declaration of Independence. "LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
Are you seriously saying that the New Orleans residents should have gotten engineering degrees and inspected the levees themselves? What! So in the same line of thought, all the residents of California where wildfires occur need to learn how to put out forest fires too, right?
People are more educated than ever before. EVER. More people with Masters degree, Ph. D's, advanced certifications, etc. So people are doing their part to try and raise the standard of living higher than our parents standard of living. However, real wages adjusted for inflation have been in decline since the 1980's.
Most of what you said is just ridiculous. We pay like 30-40% tax on our income. Why shouldn't we care what Obama or Bush is doing?
We pay taxes so that government can ensure that the levees don't fail and people don't die. That was one of the most important statements in the Declaration of Independence. "LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
Are you seriously saying that the New Orleans residents should have gotten engineering degrees and inspected the levees themselves? What! So in the same line of thought, all the residents of California where wildfires occur need to learn how to put out forest fires too, right?
People are more educated than ever before. EVER. More people with Masters degree, Ph. D's, advanced certifications, etc. So people are doing their part to try and raise the standard of living higher than our parents standard of living. However, real wages adjusted for inflation have been in decline since the 1980's.
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This.
You really don't have any justification to call these people terrorists. They have not been found guilty of terrorism, some people have not been found guilty of anything, the American authorities just 'suspect' they have done something wrong.
The American Government has some balls. Earlier this week publicly calling China out on its human rights record. Yes China has a poor record, but look how many innocent people America has killed over the years, let alone basic human right violations such as Guantanamo Bay.
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This.
You really don't have any justification to call these people terrorists. They have not been found guilty of terrorism, some people have not been found guilty of anything, the American authorities just 'suspect' they have done something wrong.
The American Government has some balls. Earlier this week publicly calling China out on its human rights record. Yes China has a poor record, but look how many innocent people America has killed over the years, let alone basic human right violations such as Guantanamo Bay.
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The majority of those held at guantanamo are not terrorists though. Most of those people are "suspected of conducting terrorist activity" which is a whole grey area in itself. The place is a huge human rights violation and should have been shut down before it was even opened. "isolated island?"
Amen
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The majority of those held at guantanamo are not terrorists though. Most of those people are "suspected of conducting terrorist activity" which is a whole grey area in itself. The place is a huge human rights violation and should have been shut down before it was even opened. "isolated island?"
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This is why the top job is so tough. When something goes wrong, regardless of whether you were directly responsible or not, it is the person at the top who ultimately will have to take responsibility for it.
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This is why the top job is so tough. When something goes wrong, regardless of whether you were directly responsible or not, it is the person at the top who ultimately will have to take responsibility for it.
