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(The Week) Obvious Obama's top 5 successes as president. Hmm. Wonder why they didn't make it a top ten list?   (theweek.com) divider line 185
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2012-01-25 10:52:26 AM
Because those five are so significant, they're worth double.
 
2012-01-25 11:26:47 AM
Because banging your mom to her complete and ultimate sexual gratification would have been #6 subby. And they figured you couldn't handle it.
 
2012-01-25 11:38:55 AM
Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.
 
2012-01-25 11:41:29 AM
EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

Getting a bigger kick that the foundation of the foreign policy success is killing OBL.

You would think they would crow about the NDAA and the TSA groping Americans.

I used to laugh about the FEMA camps. But not i am not laughing.
 
2012-01-25 11:59:02 AM
EnviroDude: EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

Getting a bigger kick that the foundation of the foreign policy success is killing OBL.

You would think they would crow about the NDAA and the TSA groping Americans.

I used to laugh about the FEMA camps. But not i am not laughing.


Did you just have a conversation with youself, or did you forget to change to your alt?
 
2012-01-25 12:05:01 PM
Darth_Lukecash: EnviroDude: EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

Getting a bigger kick that the foundation of the foreign policy success is killing OBL.

You would think they would crow about the NDAA and the TSA groping Americans.

I used to laugh about the FEMA camps. But not i am not laughing.

Did you just have a conversation with youself, or did you forget to change to your alt?


busted
 
2012-01-25 12:17:13 PM
Darth_Lukecash: EnviroDude: EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

Getting a bigger kick that the foundation of the foreign policy success is killing OBL.

You would think they would crow about the NDAA and the TSA groping Americans.

I used to laugh about the FEMA camps. But not i am not laughing.

Did you just have a conversation with youself, or did you forget to change to your alt?


That's reminds me, I haven't seen skinny-head or SMDW in a while. Maybe Obama applied NDAA to them.
 
2012-01-25 12:47:18 PM
Obama's top 5 successes as president

I can hear the butthurt being heard around the world.
 
2012-01-25 12:47:59 PM
Darth_Lukecash: EnviroDude: EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

Getting a bigger kick that the foundation of the foreign policy success is killing OBL.

You would think they would crow about the NDAA and the TSA groping Americans.

I used to laugh about the FEMA camps. But not i am not laughing.

Did you just have a conversation with youself, or did you forget to change to your alt?


Ahaha wonderful.
 
2012-01-25 12:48:54 PM
Subby thinks that Obama only did five good things? Really?

Name five good things that Republicans have done in the past four years. You won't make it to 3.
 
2012-01-25 12:49:17 PM
EnviroDude: EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

That's the Trouble with Tibles.
 
2012-01-25 12:49:38 PM
Bravo subby. If it had been a top 10 you could have said, "Why isn't it a top 25?" list and still had the same troll factor.
 
2012-01-25 12:49:48 PM
EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

It's particularly funny considering how often he blames Bush for the problems we're currently facing.

"Bush is responsible for everything terrible that has happened under my regime even if I signed the order, I am 100% responsible for everything good that has happened under my regime even if Bush signed off on it. I HAVE SPOKEN!"
 
2012-01-25 12:50:00 PM
BUSTED!!!!


Alt in thread! Alt in thread!
 
2012-01-25 12:51:04 PM
Jake Havechek: BUSTED!!!!


Alt in thread! Alt in thread!


It's kind of like those old Agatha Christie mysteries where...the killer walks...among us.

One of us did it. Who?
 
2012-01-25 12:51:13 PM
Hey look everybody, EnviroDude is an idiot. Let's all point and laugh!

images.sodahead.com
 
2012-01-25 12:51:30 PM
I read a lot of politics, but did GDP really farking drop -8.9% in one of his first two quarters??

How the fark did I miss that tidbit?

I'm not blaming the man, but that's a pretty serious contraction in the economy, and places some new light for me on just how bad things were.
 
2012-01-25 12:51:58 PM
Hahaha. I love when alts get outed.
 
2012-01-25 12:52:11 PM
Obama is both ruining American with all the socialist entitlement programs he is ramming down America's throat and doing nothing at all. WTF is this guys problem?
 
2012-01-25 12:52:25 PM
Pretty pathetic that you need an Alt account so you can agree with yourself.

That's farking sad.
 
2012-01-25 12:53:07 PM
6. Keeping Sarah Palin away from the White House.

/I think this is under-appreciated these days.
 
2012-01-25 12:53:44 PM
EnviroDude: EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

Getting a bigger kick that the foundation of the foreign policy success is killing OBL.

You would think they would crow about the NDAA and the TSA groping Americans.

I used to laugh about the FEMA camps. But not i am not laughing.


Alt-like typing detected.
 
2012-01-25 12:53:47 PM
I predict that this thread will be filled with well-reasoned debate, culminating in a greater understanding between previously-polarized camps.
 
2012-01-25 12:53:54 PM
watson.t.hamster: It's particularly funny considering how often he blames Bush for the problems we're currently facing.

Yeah, that IS funny. It's almost as if Bush was a horrible horrible President and a lot of awful things happened on his watch that we're still struggling to get over, or something.

But that's not true at all.
 
2012-01-25 12:54:14 PM
Don't forget he

- doubled gas prices since becoming President. By having high prices, this has reduced our dependency on oil. Remember his energy secretary thought it was a great way to get people to buy hybrids

- raised the price of bacon by 22% since he became President, and we know that bacon is not good for your health.
 
2012-01-25 12:54:25 PM
Lando Lincoln: Subby thinks that Obama only did five good things? Really?

Name five good things that Republicans have done in the past four years. You won't make it to 3.


Well let's see:

There's...tax cuts, Tax Cuts... And I believe you owe me a beer because I thought of the 3rd one, and there are plenty more:

TAX CUTS.
 
2012-01-25 12:54:48 PM
watson.t.hamster: EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

It's particularly funny considering how often he blames Bush for the problems we're currently facing.

"Bush is responsible for everything terrible that has happened under my regime even if I signed the order, I am 100% responsible for everything good that has happened under my regime even if Bush signed off on it. I HAVE SPOKEN!"


www.pbpulse.com

ALT!!!!!!
 
2012-01-25 12:55:21 PM
#6: Obama shot Nice Guy Eddie.
 
2012-01-25 12:55:39 PM
HA ha, EnviroDude's an alt troll.

Not that we didn't already know, but it's nice to have confirmation from the horse's ass mouth.
 
2012-01-25 12:56:45 PM
tenpoundsofcheese: Don't forget he

- doubled gas prices since becoming President. By having high prices, this has reduced our dependency on oil. Remember his energy secretary thought it was a great way to get people to buy hybrids

- raised the price of bacon by 22% since he became President, and we know that bacon is not good for your health.


static.guim.co.uk
 
2012-01-25 12:57:40 PM
Jake Havechek: Pretty pathetic that you need an Alt account so you can agree with yourself.

That's farking sad.


Every time an Alt-user is busted it always ends up being a conservative troll. I am starting to think that all of the conservative trolls are really the same person.
 
2012-01-25 12:58:44 PM
EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

Because Bush was so well known for keeping his promises or what?

Wait wait, I just wasted my reply, didn't I? I totally want another shot, this is fun.

B...B...B...Bushing? Priceless you stupid libtard.
 
2012-01-25 12:59:20 PM
I'm sort of surprised they could find 5.
 
2012-01-25 12:59:41 PM
 
2012-01-25 12:59:51 PM
tenpoundsofcheese: Don't forget he

- doubled gas prices since becoming President. By having high prices, this has reduced our dependency on oil. Remember his energy secretary thought it was a great way to get people to buy hybrids

- raised the price of bacon by 22% since he became President, and we know that bacon is not good for your health.


That couldn't be because we were in the depths of a world wide recession and the resulting decrease in demand that caused prices to plummet, now would it?

Your disingenuous posts are why I typically have you on ignore, but I just had to see what everyone was ripping into EnviroDude on.
 
2012-01-25 12:59:57 PM
EnviroDude: I used to laugh about the FEMA camps. But not i am not laughing.

Probably because you just had a stroke. Moron.
 
2012-01-25 01:00:42 PM
Lando Lincoln: watson.t.hamster: It's particularly funny considering how often he blames Bush for the problems we're currently facing.

Yeah, that IS funny. It's almost as if Bush was a horrible horrible President and a lot of awful things happened on his watch that we're still struggling to get over, or something.

But that's not true at all.


If you're going to blame the previous president for the negative effects of his policies then you also have to give him credit for the positive effects of his policies: like the entire withdrawal from Iraq that was written up by the Bush administration and merely adhered to by the Obama administration.

Surely you can see the fairness in this and the hypocrisy in trying to claim otherwise?
 
2012-01-25 01:01:18 PM
A Dark Evil Omen: HA ha, EnviroDude's an alt troll.

Not that we didn't already know, but it's nice to have confirmation from the horse's ass mouth.


Yeah, but WHO? Was it someone who already posted in here? Or was a fly-by? Or what?

/wasn't me
 
2012-01-25 01:01:35 PM
watson.t.hamster: 3) He did do that, I'll give him this one. Whether it will be a success or not is up in the air but he did manage to pass a noble sounding 1000+ page lobbyist written bill that no one actually read all the way through.

Agreed. I mean other than the lobbyist written part since the health insurance companies were actually against it. And the read all the way through part because the Republicans definitely did so they could pick and choose various sections to lie about (death panels anyone?) And the success being up in the air part since my kids will never know what a "pre-existing condition" is.

But yes, it was indeed 1000+ pages. I too was shocked that you could not overhaul the entire national health insurance industry in 500 words or less.
 
2012-01-25 01:02:00 PM
CrackpipeCardozo: Probably because you just had a stroke. Moron.

A stroke of stupidity.
 
2012-01-25 01:02:01 PM
watson.t.hamster:

The infromation is strong with you
 
2012-01-25 01:02:46 PM
watson.t.hamster: 5) allowed a Bush policy to be carried out without interfering.
4) Not really important but interesting that he made everyone love us except for the people in the middle east, those we are most concerned about, now hate us more.

The French, British, Germans and Israeli's love us less than they used to.

3) He did do that, I'll give him this one. Whether it will be a success or not is up in the air but he did manage to pass a noble sounding 1000+ page lobbyist written bill that no one actually read all the way through.

It is so good that they are giving exemptions left and right to his supporters.

2) Not really a campaign platform of his and more incidental than anything, but I'll give him credit. He gave the order.

Yes. That must have been a really hard decision to make. Wow. I bet no one else would have given that order.
.
 
2012-01-25 01:04:40 PM
watson.t.hamster: you also have to give him credit for the positive effects of his policies: like the entire withdrawal from Iraq that was written up by the Bush administration and merely adhered to by the Obama administration.


Which every Republican candidate said they wouldn't have done
 
2012-01-25 01:05:22 PM
canyoneer: I thought the Administration was trying to negotiate extending the U.S. presence in Iraq, and the Iraqi government declined.

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's political leaders gave the government the green light Tuesday to begin negotiating a deal with the U.S. to keep American troops in the country past the end of the year to train Iraqi security forces.

But Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said a final agreement is still far from settled, and cautioned that Baghdad could still insist the U.S. military leave by the end of 2011 as required under a 2008 security agreement. (new window)

That's an odd sort of accomplishment.



I see you're here to do your usual, "I'm not bashing Obama, but..." routine.
 
2012-01-25 01:07:23 PM
4.55 Kilos of Dairy Product sounds really butthurt.
 
2012-01-25 01:07:44 PM
2.images.theweek.com

the fark
 
2012-01-25 01:09:34 PM
D-Liver: watson.t.hamster: you also have to give him credit for the positive effects of his policies: like the entire withdrawal from Iraq that was written up by the Bush administration and merely adhered to by the Obama administration.


Which every Republican candidate said they wouldn't have done



I think this needs to be said, again. You all are bashing him for accomplishing something that every Republican candidate initially said was a mistake. And now that there is credit to be gien, you want to give it to Bush. But, had the withdrawl resulted in mass suicide bombings and civil war, you'd have blamed Obama. I hate you farking bigots. Die.
 
2012-01-25 01:13:06 PM
tenpoundsofcheese: The French, British, Germans and Israeli's love us less than they used to.

What do you base that on?

tenpoundsofcheese: Yes. That must have been a really hard decision to make. Wow. I bet no one else would have given that order.

They weren't 100% sure that it was bin Laden and a Obama chose a riskier option.

So yes not everyone would have done it.
 
2012-01-25 01:15:28 PM
EnviroDude: EnviroDude: Getting a kick that adhering to Bushs timetible for the withdrawl from Iraq is considered a success.

Getting a bigger kick that the foundation of the foreign policy success is killing OBL.

You would think they would crow about the NDAA and the TSA groping Americans.

I used to laugh about the FEMA camps. But not i am not laughing.


Getting the biggest kick out of reading you have a discussion with yourself.
 
2012-01-25 01:15:42 PM
DROxINxTHExWIND: I see you're here to do your usual, "I'm not bashing Obama, but..." routine.

It has nothing to do with Obama per se. If you'll recall, Obama said during his campaign in 2008 that he would seek to withdraw U.S. forces from iraq, but added the caveat that it would depend on conditions at the time. So, I give Obama the benefit of the doubt and assume that once he became president, he reassessed based on conditions, and so decided it was in the U.S. interest that American troops remain in Iraq for longer. There's no shame or embarrasment in that, AFIAC, and IMO anyone in his position would have made the same effort.

What's goofy is this article calling it a great accomplishment, when clearly there was an effort to do exactly the opposite. That is not an accomplishment, it's a failure, technically-speaking. And I don't blame Obama for that either, given popular opinion in Iraq. Basically, the Iraqi government could not justify a continued U.S. presence to its own people, and that's that. I know many if not most Americans are happy that we're out of there too, but our government (and probably the Iraqi government) wanted to keep some sort of presence - probably the big lilly pads (airbases) that were built during the occupation for use in any hypothetical war against Iran.

Anyway, I'm not spinning anything, but the article sure did. That's pure spin.
 
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