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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#51 Post by Jasper » Mon Jun 30, 2014 2:06 pm

SQUAWK! FOX NEWS! SQUAWK!
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Yeah, nah, I don't think so, douchebag.

What a disappointment it is to address someone intelligent and be subjected to a reaction from you.

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#52 Post by Essence_Smith » Mon Jun 30, 2014 2:17 pm

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#53 Post by Jasper » Mon Jun 30, 2014 2:33 pm

:essence:

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#54 Post by tvrec » Mon Jun 30, 2014 3:56 pm

Essence_Smith wrote:Image
I know :banghead:
and don't (thankfully) since I started using the ignore list--But I can guess its general tenor from the image you posted. LJF and I have had some heated discussions in the past, but those have been respectful conversations. While the same cannot be said of all my interactions here, one can hold out hope.

On a different note, maybe I can help steer the thread back to its purpose. Many politicians should really be voted out, jailed, or held to task. I don't think I really hate any of them, but several are worthy of general disdain. A couple, mostly locally, that come to mind immediately:
Anthony Weiner (no link needed)
Bob Filner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Filner);
Mike Carona, former elected sherif in OC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carona);
and that Mayor from Bell, Robert Rizzo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal).

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#55 Post by kv » Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:31 pm

Essence_Smith wrote:Image
look at the thred title then explain why you clicked it :lol:

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#56 Post by Hype » Mon Jun 30, 2014 6:16 pm

I don't think I hate any politicians, but I do think the worst politicians are the ones who tout 'small government' and always have a shit-eating grin on their faces.

You know the ones...

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#57 Post by Essence_Smith » Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:27 pm

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Essence_Smith wrote:Image
look at the thred title then explain why you clicked it
I keep hoping we can eventually disagree with one another without calling each other names... :neutral:

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#58 Post by kv » Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:40 pm

lawl

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#59 Post by Hype » Tue Jul 01, 2014 11:41 am


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#60 Post by LJF » Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:17 am

tvrec wrote:This thread has gone off track since LJF's invocation of the IRS "scandal," unless the bulk of comments since are directed at "overlord Obama," and we've already bandied back and forth on the IRS "targeting" issue long ago. While we're back on it, though, I don't think many people other than those employed at Fox and who subscribed to Fox's fair and balanced bullshit give more than one shit, let alone two about this issue (which is not to say the IRS should act with impunity, etc.). The indignity over groups self-identified as aligned with a political agenda being self-strictly reviewed for and/or denied tax-exempt status is about as empty as the "I built that" meme and has nothing to do with historical examples of the IRS harassing people like Pande or MLK, infringing on their personal liberties, and so on.

That's sad to think people don't care about what is very clearly a coverup. The IRA just happened to misplace key e-mails, sure ok got it. This is what is scary about people that follow one party or the other blindly. For them it's just the other party is on a witch hunt. Take the blinders off and look up what is happening. Also this IRS scandal is very much about a politician.


When we stop questioning our so called leaders bad shit will and does happen. Stop hiding behind the right is just out to get obama. This issue isn't just about targeting groups, it about the cover up. What would you have thought if this was under w's administration? Don't have blind faith in your party.

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#61 Post by Essence_Smith » Sat Jul 05, 2014 9:07 pm

This kind of thing will never end because some people can't handle the truth

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#62 Post by Jasper » Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:30 pm

Essence_Smith wrote:This kind of thing will never end because some people can't handle the truth
Such a profound statement. Thank you so much for this brilliant contribution.

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#64 Post by Essence_Smith » Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:45 am

Jasper wrote:
Essence_Smith wrote:This kind of thing will never end because some people can't handle the truth
Such a profound statement. Thank you so much for this brilliant contribution.
:tiphat:
Seriously, I think the majority out there don't mind living with blinders on and there are things our government does that would cause riots in other countries...americans are a pretty apathetic bunch in general imho...

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#65 Post by tvrec » Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:19 am

LJF wrote: That's sad to think people don't care about what is very clearly a coverup. The IRA just happened to misplace key e-mails, sure ok got it. This is what is scary about people that follow one party or the other blindly. For them it's just the other party is on a witch hunt. Take the blinders off and look up what is happening. Also this IRS scandal is very much about a politician.

When we stop questioning our so called leaders bad shit will and does happen. Stop hiding behind the right is just out to get obama. This issue isn't just about targeting groups, it about the cover up. What would you have thought if this was under w's administration? Don't have blind faith in your party.
I agree, LJF, that our leaders, whichever party they may belong to, need to be questioned and held accountable. On this particular issue, I don't think there is much of a which hunt at all, for it's barely in the news at all unless you listen/watch a news station with an express agenda to drum it up into one. Personally, the IRS could hand over emails from Obama that directed the IRS to scrutinize tax exempt applications for political action groups, and I would still have no problem with it, especially considering what a joke that status appears to be for 501c3/4s (again, whichever party or politician they are affiliated with). But I do agree that coverups make matters worse, and that that appears to be the case here. Indeed, the Obama administration has had it share of coverups. Far more concerning to me, however, are coverups like these: the ATF gun-running scandal, Obama's "kill-list," the drone program (if we consider this program as one without anywhere near the transparency it ought to have), the NSA's apparently near total data collection and mining.

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#66 Post by LJF » Thu Jul 10, 2014 6:30 am

Our president is the man who knows nothing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/world ... .html?_r=0

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#67 Post by LJF » Fri Jul 11, 2014 1:04 pm

I agree, LJF, that our leaders, whichever party they may belong to, need to be questioned and held accountable. On this particular issue, I don't think there is much of a which hunt at all, for it's barely in the news at all unless you listen/watch a news station with an express agenda to drum it up into one. Personally, the IRS could hand over emails from Obama that directed the IRS to scrutinize tax exempt applications for political action groups, and I would still have no problem with it, especially considering what a joke that status appears to be for 501c3/4s (again, whichever party or politician they are affiliated with). But I do agree that coverups make matters worse, and that that appears to be the case here. Indeed, the Obama administration has had it share of coverups. Far more concerning to me, however, are coverups like these: the ATF gun-running scandal, Obama's "kill-list," the drone program (if we consider this program as one without anywhere near the transparency it ought to have), the NSA's apparently near total data collection and mining.[/quote]


So if there were e-mails that directly tied obama to this targeting you would have no problem with that? First that would prove that he falt out lied about not knowing about this targeting until the press reported it. Which seems to be his answer to everything that happens. Second you would be comfortable that the president used his power to target groups?

Also just because it isn't in the news, which I don't agree I seem to see reports about it, doesn't mean this isn't important. I could say what most people think and that is the news, except Fox, is biased towards liberals and maybe they are deciding not to cover this so not to make the president look bad. Any cover up is important.

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#68 Post by tvrec » Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:17 pm

One the first part, yes, that is what I said, though you left off from bolding the part directly afterward: (again, whichever party or politician they are affiliated with).. I think 501c3/4s are a joke and applications for them should be scrutinized, whatever their political affiliation. I start from the premise that no one starts with tax-exempt status, and I think using the word "targeting" is a sleight of hand in the same way that the term "enemy combatant" is (though I also know it is the term most frequently used in coverage of the scandal). When you apply for a home loan, should the lender verify the information you've provided? Should they ask for additional paperwork or materials to ensure you meet the criteria of the loan before approving it? Are such practices targeting? (Bare in mind that the lawsuits that have recently been won regarding home loans are about shoe-horning minorities into sub-primes, and NOT verifying application information diligently.) The groups in question may have been held to a more rigorous standard and that should have been more even handedly applied for sure, but we have had this discussion before. And, though I admittedly have not been following it, the only group to have actually been denied status under this process seems to be democratically aligned: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/15/meet_th ... democrats/ So I guess I struggle to see where any undo burden or suffering was incurred, though perhaps some people were inconvenienced as they laid political plans.

Secondly, if we want to get upset and out a politician who lies, the halls of government will be pretty vacant (in my best John Lydon). I am not saying that is a good thing, rather that if the bar for outrage is prevarication and questionable ethics, it seems odd for people to have tunnel vision on Obama. How about some consistency, that hobgoblin of small minds? Every president during my lifetime has flat-out lied to the public, and many of those lies have been much more weighty than those you allege Obama has told about the IRS scrutinizing political action groups' applications for tax exemption. (Yellow cake anyone?)

Thirdly, a quick google search and you will find that the top hits for "IRS scandal" (today, as of this post) are Fox News, Breitbart.com, Huffington Post (with a story about Jon Stewart's correction of where the true "scandal" lies), and the National Review. I'm not saying that that is all or that the news of the issue is non-existent, but that the majority of the noise around it is agenda driven--and if that is the case, it is hardly any more sound than the allegations it hopes to prove in my book. Moreover, the trope that the news is liberal is tired. Sure, some news outlets lean conservative (like my immediate news paper, the OC Register or the Wall Street Journal), while others lean liberal (like the NY Times), but those biases can be accounted for in one's assessment of the news they provide. Other sources hardly provide news at all (Fox or CNN) and seem more intent on entertaining their demographics (if CNN even has one anymore!), at times descending into base fear-mongering.

My point here is not that if Obama lied, it's unimportant because, well, he's a democrat and not a republican and so he should not be held accountable. Nor is it that everyone in Washington lies so this lie should be excused like all the others. Rather, I am saying that if this issue sits at the top or anywhere near the top of someone's concerns, I cannot agree with the weight it has been afforded against other Obama-driven problems like those I listed in a previous post.

That said, I do understand your concern about the matter. In the end, I would actually like to see more outrage about the shit our government does, supposedly in our name. I think I just write these long, tiresome posts in response to you, LJF, because the outrage often seems particularly channeled toward the democratic party and Obama and not the rampant hypocrisy, cronyism, and all-around shady ethics of so many who hold power in the US. Maybe I just missed those other posts...

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#69 Post by Juana » Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:36 pm

I hate Woodrow Wilson and Col House personally

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#70 Post by LJF » Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:04 am

Tvrec you are right I've been going after Obama and yes I can't stand him, but also because he is in office. Also the president should be held to a higher standard and if the president lies it is a very big deal. I 100% agree that we should go after everyone of them, politicians, that lies. It seems we as a country have just grown to accept that they will lie and that is just the way it is. That's a shame since they were elected to serve us not lie to us.

One of my biggest issues with our current president is his standard answer of I didn't know about it until the news mentioned it. He is either least informed person or lying, either one is bad. As a leader you need to be on top of things, I know he can't know everything, but he knows nothing. If he really doesn't know anything who is running the country. If he knows take responsibility that's what real leaders do.

One person I wish the media would stop giving a voice to is Palin. Let her go back to looking at Russia from her front door.

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#71 Post by tvrec » Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:20 am

LJF wrote:Tvrec you are right I've been going after Obama and yes I can't stand him, but also because he is in office. Also the president should be held to a higher standard and if the president lies it is a very big deal. I 100% agree that we should go after everyone of them, politicians, that lies. It seems we as a country have just grown to accept that they will lie and that is just the way it is. That's a shame since they were elected to serve us not lie to us.

One of my biggest issues with our current president is his standard answer of I didn't know about it until the news mentioned it. He is either least informed person or lying, either one is bad. As a leader you need to be on top of things, I know he can't know everything, but he knows nothing. If he really doesn't know anything who is running the country. If he knows take responsibility that's what real leaders do.

One person I wish the media would stop giving a voice to is Palin. Let her go back to looking at Russia from her front door.
Here, here, LJF. Totally with everything you've said here.

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#72 Post by Hype » Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:23 pm

I try to think of politicians as nothing more than place-fillers for positions that voters, courts, media, independent watchdogs, etc., are tasked with continually checking for corruption. The people can't generally be relied upon to pick the best candidates for any of these positions, but with organization and diligence we can try to get rid of the worst people in power. That's the real virtue of democracy. It's an absolutely terrible way to choose a good leader, but it's absolutely the best way of (and really the only way of perpetually) avoiding being stuck the worst leaders.

It really scares me when politicians start saying things like "My enemies trying to remove me from office through the legal system is undemocratic!" (See: Rob Ford.)

Never let them convince you of that. It's not. It's the essence of the value of democracy.

The fact that Reagan, H.W. Bush, W. Bush, or whoever you think is a terrible politician, was elected isn't a sign that there was something good about them. The fact that they aren't still in power is a sign that there's something deeply good about the American political system.

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#73 Post by LJF » Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:55 am

Adurentibus Spina wrote:I try to think of politicians as nothing more than place-fillers for positions that voters, courts, media, independent watchdogs, etc., are tasked with continually checking for corruption. The people can't generally be relied upon to pick the best candidates for any of these positions, but with organization and diligence we can try to get rid of the worst people in power. That's the real virtue of democracy. It's an absolutely terrible way to choose a good leader, but it's absolutely the best way of (and really the only way of perpetually) avoiding being stuck the worst leaders.

It really scares me when politicians start saying things like "My enemies trying to remove me from office through the legal system is undemocratic!" (See: Rob Ford.)

Never let them convince you of that. It's not. It's the essence of the value of democracy.

The fact that Reagan, H.W. Bush, W. Bush, or whoever you think is a terrible politician, was elected isn't a sign that there was something good about them.
The fact that they aren't still in power is a sign that there's something deeply good about the American political system.


Yes something called term limits.

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#74 Post by Juana » Sat Jul 26, 2014 1:10 pm

LJF wrote:
Adurentibus Spina wrote:I try to think of politicians as nothing more than place-fillers for positions that voters, courts, media, independent watchdogs, etc., are tasked with continually checking for corruption. The people can't generally be relied upon to pick the best candidates for any of these positions, but with organization and diligence we can try to get rid of the worst people in power. That's the real virtue of democracy. It's an absolutely terrible way to choose a good leader, but it's absolutely the best way of (and really the only way of perpetually) avoiding being stuck the worst leaders.

It really scares me when politicians start saying things like "My enemies trying to remove me from office through the legal system is undemocratic!" (See: Rob Ford.)

Never let them convince you of that. It's not. It's the essence of the value of democracy.

The fact that Reagan, H.W. Bush, W. Bush, or whoever you think is a terrible politician, was elected isn't a sign that there was something good about them.
The fact that they aren't still in power is a sign that there's something deeply good about the American political system.


Yes something called term limits.
Not for Congress though they're who keeps fucking this country up being career politicians

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Re: What politician do you hate the most?

#75 Post by creep » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:16 pm

this is pretty hilarious


Curt Clawson, congressman from Fla., mistakes U.S. officials for Indian diplomats

A freshman congressman’s minute-long speech may be one of the most embarrassing in Capitol Hill history.

Rep. Curt Clawson (R-Fla.) spoke directly to two U.S. government officials during a congressional hearing on Thursday, explaining his familiarity with their country – which he mistakenly believed was India.

Clawson continued speaking about his hopes for the future of India while Nisha Biswal, State Department assistant secretary of State for South and Central Asian affairs, and Arun Kumar, who holds multiple titles in the Department of Commerce, stared in disbelief.

“I am familiar with your country. I love your country,” the congressman continued, addressing the Indian-Americans. “I’m hopeful with the new change in regime that the future and the land of promise and the land of opportunity of India can finally become so.”



After Clawson praised the country and its people, he asked the high-ranking U.S. officials for cooperation from the “Indian” government.

“Just as your capital is welcome here to produce good-paying jobs in the U.S., I’d like our capital to be welcomed there,” he said. "Can I have that?"

There was a moment of silence before Biswal answered.

"I think your question is to the Indian government," she said. "We certainly share your sentiments and will advocate that on behalf of the U.S. government."

Then Clawson realized his mistake and attempted to backtrack by clarifying that he was just asking for their opinion on the issues. But it was too late.

A video uploaded to Vimeo by Foreign Policy on Friday of the congressman's speech has been viewed more than 575,000 times.

According to USA Today, the politician has since apologized.

“I made a mistake in speaking before being fully briefed and I apologize. I’m a quick study, but in this case I shot an air ball,” Clawson told the newspaper.

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