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kleinbl00  ·  3750 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Autopsy: Michael Brown was shot six times, all from the front

    I know that if I was attacked by robots, top priority would be bringing the hurt home to those in control.

What is this idiocy you talk about? That's a business model, son. If you look at the PNAC as a business plan it all makes perfect sense. All you've gotta do is forget that brown people are people and it's wine and roses.

As far as Obama, I think people aren't quite realizing that Bush set us back 40 years. If Obama can get us all the way to 1988 he'll be a goddamn miracle worker.





thundara  ·  3750 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    As far as Obama, I think people aren't quite realizing that Bush set us back 40 years. If Obama can get us all the way to 1988 he'll be a goddamn miracle worker.

40 years in what respect? Money? Diplomacy? Domestic issues?

kleinbl00  ·  3750 days ago  ·  link  ·  

All of the above. By 2008, we were at the end of LBJ's first term. Thank god we didn't elect Nixon.

bioemerl  ·  3740 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And that had fuck all to do with bush, and everything to do with the events surrounding the president.

Do you think anyone else would have acted differently? Would a democrate stood by without going to war in the middle east? Would a democrat not have approved of the same economic muckery that bush did in order to boost the economy?

Bush didn't set us back forty years. We did.

b_b  ·  3739 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Do you think anyone else would have acted differently? Would a democrate stood by without going to war in the middle east?

I don't know why we're even having this debate in 2014, 12 years after the push to invade Iraq. No president since LBJ save for Bush has had the audacity to lie through his teeth to start a war (or escalate in LBJ's case).

bioemerl  ·  3739 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't know why we're even having this debate in 2014, 12 years after the push to invade Iraq.

Because you still seem to think it is the fault of Bush for what happened in his term.

    No president since LBJ save for Bush has had the audacity to lie through his teeth to start a war (or escalate in LBJ's case).

We have had only a single president since Bush, Obama, who still has yet to go to war in Iraq even after all the things to have happened there with ISIL/ISIS/DumbFucks. Secondly, the conversation is not about LBJ setting the US back fourty years, it is about bush.