Why do Republicans hate America?

Lionel Mandrake: Why do Republicans hate America?

I think they've forgotten why. Now, they just default to hating for no real reason rather than admit their opponents did something good.

They really are that petty.

Someone should send Bachmann a memo. I thought Obama was supposed to be stretching our military resources too thin.

I don't understand why supporting our allies is a bad thing. How many times do we ask our allies to join us in actions against forces that may not necessarily be a direct threat to them?

To be fair, both viewpoints are not necessarily internally incoherent. Obama COULD have been sinking billions into the war with little result while the French executed a stunning military coup.

Just sayin'.

JerseyTim: I don't understand why supporting our allies is a bad thing. How many times do we ask our allies to join us in actions against forces that may not necessarily be a direct threat to them?

We want the most credit for the least work.

Guys, it's been super fun watching you toss out all your deeply held beliefs so you can oppose the president. Keep up the good work.

Don't worry. When Libya turns back into a hostile nation like every country we "liberate" eventually does, they'll give Obama credit again.

LOL, libtards, keep defending your messiah by pretending there's something inconsistent in their position that they don't not concur with how not too little much enough he should uncontribute to the imperative illegal radical Muslim Brotherhood populist uprising against an evil normalized ally dictator.

Barbigazi: Guys, it's been super fun watching you toss out all your deeply held beliefs so you can oppose the president. Keep up the good work.

The fun one is watching them denounce Obama for not doing enough to take out dictators, while being angry about spending too much in Libya, and now wharring about Uganda.

Almost as amusing as all of us saying that this wasn't a war and the U.S. is only in Libya in a support capability in the beginning. Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

No, the rebels got him. We assisted. Obama gets points for great foreign policy.

Darth_Lukecash: Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

Que?

Darth_Lukecash: Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

Who's screaming that? Difficulty: nobodies on message boards don't count.

GAT_00: Barbigazi: Guys, it's been super fun watching you toss out all your deeply held beliefs so you can oppose the president. Keep up the good work.

The fun one is watching them denounce Obama for not doing enough to take out dictators, while being angry about spending too much in Libya, and now wharring about Uganda.

I don't think I ever saw someone spin as fast as Newt did on the Libya issue.

Darth_Lukecash: Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

I see....let's see...oh right, nobody saying that.

The spin machine is getting powered up.

You think that's bad? My friend is an Air Force Major and Obama ORDERED him to deploy to GERMANY!!

GERMANY!! Now we're invading our ALLIES!! The worst part?? He has to take his wife!!! My God, an innocent civilian in a foreign land??

When will this end, fartbama. When?

Darth_Lukecash: Almost as amusing as all of us saying that this wasn't a war and the U.S. is only in Libya in a support capability in the beginning. Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

No, the rebels got him. We assisted. Obama gets points for great foreign policy.

I hear the liberals saying our supporting role was the right decision by Obama. I hear GOP candidates saying we shouldn't have been involved at all.

I think at this point the Republican Party would rather see this country totally go down the shiatter than have anything that might help Obama get re-elected happen.

GAT_00: The fun one is watching them denounce Obama for not doing enough to take out dictators, while being angry about spending too much in Libya, and now wharring about Uganda.

The Uganda whining is especially delicious in it horrifying contempt for human decency. The right wing is effectively supporting the Lords Resistance Army because they are Christian... while ignoring the fact that they are a cult that engages in murder, slavery, and rape. I guess the fact that their victims are black Muslims makes it acceptable.

Republicans before World peace is declared:

"Y NO WORLD PEAS, OBAMA? WHAR WORLD PEASE!!!"

Republicans after world peace is declared:

"HOW CAN U PUT ALL THOSE SOLDIERS AND ARMS MAKERS OUT OF WORK, OBAMA?!? WHAR JOBS WHAR?!?"

kronicfeld: Darth_Lukecash: Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

Who's screaming that?

ZOMG OBAMA TOTALLY GOT QUADDAFI!! HURRAY, AND SCORE ANOTHER ONE FOR OBAMAAAA!!!

Difficulty: nobodies on message boards don't count.

Oh.

Darth_Lukecash: Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

What fkn world are you living in?

what_now: You think that's bad? My friend is an Air Force Major and Obama ORDERED him to deploy to GERMANY!!

GERMANY!! Now we're invading our ALLIES!! The worst part?? He has to take his wife!!! My God, an innocent civilian in a foreign land??

When will this end, fartbama. When?

Nice.

Lionel Mandrake: Why do Republicans hate America?

They always have. More interestingly, why do Republicans love the French?

Juan Williams: "Critics on the right have flip-flopped on this issues from the beginning on whether or not America should have played a role, any role, in supporting the anti-Qaddafi forces. Today's events are another reminder of how pure political concerns can blind people to America's best."

QFT

Darth_Lukecash: Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

No we aren't. NATO helped the rebels get Gaddafi, and the US provided valuable logistics and armaments to NATO, as well as training the rebels to fight on a military scale. Could NATO have done it without our help? Probably, maybe. Who knows, who cares. I'm glad we had a role in it, it was a good decision and the right thing to do. In short, cut the partisan bullcrap. It's not welcome.

The GOP is weak in the war on terrorism and foriegn policy.

shanrick: The GOP is weak in the war on terrorism and foriegn policy.

The only true terrorism there is is abortion, homogays, taxing the rich, and not being a 100% Christian nation.

I've already heard one "You have to thank Bush for this one! His restoration of the military after Clinton cut it to the bone made this possible."

I, too, wonder how this person manages to get up and shower without drowning or how he manages to navigate the labyrinth that is riding the bus to work, and all with rarely-shat pants.

Code_Archeologist: The Uganda whining is especially delicious in it horrifying contempt for human decency. The right wing is effectively supporting the Lords Resistance Army because they are Christian... while ignoring the fact that they are a cult that engages in murder, slavery, and rape. I guess the fact that their victims are black Muslims makes it acceptable

This sort of thing has a long tradition on the right. Reagan sold weapons to our enemies to illegally fund nun raping Central American guerrillas and they not only forgave him but named bridges and airports in his honor before starting a religion in his name.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: His restoration of the military after Clinton cut it to the bone made this possible."

After Clinton used NATO in Serbia and continued to pound Saddam Hussein? That's a heckuva stretch your friend does there.

Somacandra: Mr. Coffee Nerves: His restoration of the military after Clinton cut it to the bone made this possible."

After Clinton used NATO in Serbia and continued to pound Saddam Hussein? That's a heckuva stretch your friend does there.

This guy -- not a friend, I assure you -- is also convinced that Clinton PERSONALLY murdered more than 50 people. Bill couldn't get his knob shined by a Lane Bryant reject without it being international news, but he managed to make Hannibal Lecter look like a Sunday School teacher with perfect secrecy.

These two reactions from NRO were posted within an hour of each other:

Obama's support of the action was an insane, authoritarian attempt to circumvent U.S. law (new window)

Obama's dithering and his refusal to do more to oust Qaddafi equates to a net loss for the West (new window)

I'm sort of disappointed they couldn't find a way to make this both an illegal use of force by a rogue president drunk on executive power AND and example of more milquetoast "leading from behind" by a ineffectual president who doesn't have the stomach to fight the GWOT.

But it is early, I guess. I've got faith that they'll eventually come up with something really awe inspiring.

Darth_Lukecash: Almost as amusing as all of us saying that this wasn't a war and the U.S. is only in Libya in a support capability in the beginning. Now liberals are screaming that Obama got Qaddafi.

No, the rebels got him. We assisted. Obama gets points for great foreign policy.

This.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: This guy -- not a friend, I assure you -- is also convinced that Clinton PERSONALLY murdered more than 50 people.



Wow. 50? Personally? To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, Bill Clinton must have gotten up very early in the morning to do that. While grisly, that would indeed be rather impressive in its own way.

jake_lex: I think at this point the Republican Party would rather see this country totally go down the shiatter

At THIS point? You mean, as differentiated from any point during the past three years?

sigdiamond2000: I've got faith that they'll eventually come up with something really awe inspiring.

Not that this will be the party line or anything--but it would be nice if right-wing pundits would acknowledge there could be a genuine, perhaps even legitimate difference of opinion within the reactionary community over how and why Obama is History's Greatest Monster.

We shouldn't have been involved at all, and our involvement should have been greater and more decisive. Obama can't do anything right.

kronicfeld: LOL, libtards, keep defending your messiah by pretending there's something inconsistent in their position that they don't not concur with how not too little much enough he should uncontribute to the imperative illegal radical Muslim Brotherhood populist uprising against an evil normalized ally dictator.

Funny. I heard that in Rick Perry's voice.

what_now: You think that's bad? My friend is an Air Force Major and Obama ORDERED him to deploy to GERMANY!!

GERMANY!! Now we're invading our ALLIES!! The worst part?? He has to take his wife!!! My God, an innocent civilian in a foreign land??

When will this end, fartbama. When?

Welcome to Fartnamblabongozerobama's America.

I'm waiting for the "Obama only acted because he knew Ghadafi was ready to release the TRUE long-form birth certificate written entirely in that clicking language!"