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“When a resolute young

chucktrotter — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:12:19 +0000

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“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here is a comment I made in

synchronicity — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:44:00 +0000

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Here is a comment I made in response to the santimonious speech yesterday.

“Mr. President, you frame reality in your terms that this was the best deal you could make and are 'sanctimonious' about this.

We see you concede everything before you even enter the negotiations we feel like we are getting short changed in the negotiations. We want to go into negotiations without conceding everything first and see what we get then. To me that's not sanctimonious, it's 'intelligent'.

Mr President your leadership style is not working for our country. While it appears to you that you have made short terms gains that are 'best', I see the long term costs for your choices making us far worse off in the long term.”

Rachel Maddow pointed out last night that the 'concessions' in this bill were not really concessions. Democratic senators believe they would have eventually gotten the unemployment extensions if they stayed in session longer. She also pointed out the the other tax cuts the president got 'for us' were concessions made to the republicans in the stimulus bill.

This bill is very nice for the republicans because they can also blame the expansion of the deficit on the president. It's all a great big christmas present for the republicans and a big FU to the dems.

I am done with this president. I already asked him not to run in 2012 a few weeks ago.

Look on the bright side. At

LarryH — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:57:09 +0000

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Look on the bright side. At least Obama would have known about the cultural divisions here, between the minority in Portland who like the sun (let’s call the Sunnys) and the majority who don’t (let’s call them Shia, as in “Shia! It’s too hot today”)

LOL!

we are stardust — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:15:21 +0000

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LOL!

I don't understand his desire

Michael Maiello — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:52:50 +0000

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I don't understand his desire to attack his allies before his opponents. Sometimes I think that if Obama had been president after 9/11 he'd have invaded Portland.

Right now...with the White

cmaukonen — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:55:05 +0000

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Right now...with the White House...everything is a Study in Foregone Conclusions.