I’m still confused. Are you saying that the great Obama outsmarted the opposition and prevailed anyway — or that they outsmarted him?

Do you read the crap you write before pressing send? So the purpose of a nominating convention in an election year shouldn’t be to win the election. And that’s somehow the moral equivalent of an obstructionist Congress too. If you actually believe this, you must be so warped by ideology that you’re losing touch with reality.

No amount of lying about history can knock modern Republicans off their perch as the most obstructionist politicians. They earnestly claimed the title for themselves and then truly earned it. By comparison, the Democrats main sin is to have cooperated with Republicans too much, from supporting Reagan’s tax cuts, to Clinton gutting the welfare system, and needless to say, there are plenty who wish they could revisit their support for Bush’s biggest legacy, the Iraq war.

Obama spent his entire Senate career doing exactly what you say you deplore, i.e., obstructing the President and not doing his job. This was after he came into the national limelight by delivering the keynote at a convention whose express purpose was to make President Bush a one-term president. So how many legs does Obama have to stand on? The double standards are hard to keep straight.

That was good Ken!

I was just going to ignore this one from j.a.m. because it will get us back into the exact same argument we’ve had before about the obstructionist Republicans. When you start off saying that your most important job is not doing the job you’ve been elected to but making Obama a one-term president, you really don’t have a leg to stand on..

I’m feeling mellow tonight, so rather than even trying to decide where to start on jam’s latest steaming heap of bullshit, I give you another comedian’s take, this time on the Republican’s chances of winning in 2016.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_1NST5umMU

Actually, it is Obama who needs to get over the fact that the US has divided government because his party lost both houses of Congress in the last election — as it has lost every House election since he took office. Obama’s apologists also need to own up to the fact that his misguided ideology and incompetent leadership have left the country more polarized and the world more dangerous. As for the economy, Obama has managed to produce both stagnation as well as wider inequality, a neat trick. Obama has evinced no willingness or ability to find common ground, so the Republicans’ mandate for now is to minimize the harm he can do.

By all means, I’m all for voluntary private philanthropy. Of course it would be impossible on the scale of the Gates Foundation if whiners like Obama and Sanders get their way, since people like Gates would not be allowed to get rich by creating new industries in the first place. Note that the Gates Foundation makes its own decisions about allocating its resources — it didn’t sign over billions to the government, because everyone knows what a colossal waste that would be. To Gates’s credit, a significant share of his generosity goes to help students escape government-run schools.

Socialism doesn’t make everyone a millionaire — it enriches the politically connected, and makes everyone else a pauper.

I hope you’re right, that less will be voting for him. I seriously hope so…

Cheers nicky. Cruz is fond of saying most people aren’t voting for Trump – he fails to point out that even less are voting for him!

No j.a.m., what they do is get greedy, forget about where they came from, and the government support that enabled them to get where they are today. Wealth gives you freedom, and the more equal a society is, the more free and wealthy people there are.

$1,000,000 in the hands of 1,000 people rather than one person is better for the economy and better for society. It enriches everybody, people spend, and there are more opportunities for entrepreneurs and business people. That’s just simple logic. There comes a point where you just can’t spend all the money you make. And some people actually care about their fellow planet-dwellers. That’s why atheist Democrats like Bill Gates give most of their money away.

And it’s the Republican Congress that’s known as the do-nothing congress, and has done less work than any other in history. And it’s the Republican Senate that shut down the government completely. And it’s Republicans that kept wasting time by doing things like presenting Bills to repeal Obamacare more than 60x despite knowing it’s a waste of time. It’s fair enough to do something so you can say to your constituents you tried, but more than 60 times? FFS! There are plenty of things that Dems and Reps agreed on that they could have gone forward with, but no, they were too busy throwing their toys out of the cot.

They lost the election. Get over it. How about proving they deserve to get back in charge.