Comments on: Obama Just Doesn’t Know When to Fold ‘Em

By: mr

mr — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:03:55 +0000

#44 Gringo:
Yes Black.. I am a liberal yes. but I hat political correctness BS>>>>

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:12:08 +0000

“Deal faster, I’m losing!”

I wonder, is it possible that bho has nightmares and secret daydreams featuring a similar statement, when he is alone and no one is looking?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:08:29 +0000

A smart politician, like a crafty poker player, has to know when to lay down his cards and wait for a better hand. Think of it as an “exit strategy” that has nothing to do with warfare. Unfortunately, Obama can’t seem to find the exit even when it’s clearly the best option. Sooner or later he’s going to realize that pocket kings can and do blow up in your face.”

Obviously obama doesn’t know when, mainly because he is the ultimate player of denial. For nearly all the years since the beginning of his short political career, he did seem to wear a “smart” mask. But thankfully, the months since Summer 2009, his mask has been eroding, with all appearances of completing this degenerating trend. The sooner the Second Law of Thermodynamics completes its course for the fake president, so much the better for the USA (assuming we’ll end up with a REAL US – loving President). We CERTAINLY don’t need another crap artist in the White House!!!

By: LarryOldtimer

LarryOldtimer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:11:00 +0000

Brer Rabbit and the tarbaby come to mind. Of course, fools today think that this tale had something racial about it, which it didn’t at all. For Obama, there is no Brer Bear or Brer Fox around to release him from a good many “tarbabies” and “throw him into the briar patch”. That is, provide an escape for him. And his huge arrogance and hubris wouldn’t allow him to allow such a thing anyway.

Regarding poker, the loser plaint comes also to mind, which is, “Deal faster, I’m losing!”

By: Mike G

Mike G — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:09:35 +0000

In school, in business career and in the military – we have all seen this type with a deadly cocktail of aggressiveness, incompetence and narcissism. You don’t want to be stuck in a class with one, have one as a boss or as your commanding officer Unfortunately just the right set of circumstances in 2008 let one of them into the oval office where we are all in his class, all in his department and all in his platoon

It dates me but I keep hearing that quirky song from the 60′s: “Please Mr. Custer, I don’t want to go.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:16:57 +0000

@ 33. mr:
Akaky: no i am not a beliver that all Obama is doing is good. nor can I make a judgment in a short period of tine and not do I vote on party lines.. what I have a problem with is the racism here… it is clear most people who are here do not like blacks.

Through Comment #43,you are the only person on this thread to use the word “black” or “blacks.” Very entertaining.

BTW, I have a longstanding dislike of Chicago politicians, which I picked up from my downstate Illinois grandfather. What I found about Daley the elder simply showed me my grandfather was correct. Unfortunately, I have observed nothing in the last year to show me that my opinion of Chicago politicians was not correct.

By: Fantom

Fantom — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:44:54 +0000

Unfortunate for us, Dear Reader doesn’t even have a pair.

By: Portia

Portia — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:23:02 +0000

Devil’s Advocate (I think advocatus diabolus in my very rusty Latin) comes from the process of the Catholic church canonizing someone. There was a trial with an advocate citing the person’s wonderful qualities and a devil’s advocate the one who pointed out to any irregularities there might have been in the life of the proposed saint, etc. arguing AGAINST canonization.

Not that this is on topic exactly what we were discussing, but Obama clearly lacks a Devil’s Advocate. Perhaps he wouldn’t hold himself already canonized or deified if he ever heard and LISTENED to a contrary opinion.

And I only WISH the truth always won in the end. However, even now, most people still believe that Marie Antoinette said “let them eat cake”, a lie fabricated by the press of the time. What we think is the truth is usually the story concocted and passed on. (And right now those stories are Marxist-leninist and fit very badly with reality, which is what Obama is having issues with. He can’t see reality through the story-telling. Whether that bespeaks a lack of mental power or not I don’t know. On the one hand he’s never seemed exactly a bright bulb to me, OTOH it takes intelligence to be utterly stupid.)

By: mik

mik — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:14:29 +0000

9 months in, and already knocking the man. 9 months into bush’s term and 9/11 happened. what on earth has bush been doing since?

By: mr

mr — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:03:21 +0000

Fred: the mess I was talking about was the economy… you have to agree this went down under president bush and not Obama… BTW I do not make politcal decsions such a voting. I voted for the elder bush…

Chcuk: sorry for the mispelling … and if there are more mispellings here sorry for that as well
when it comes to health insurance i agree with your point that people who do not have good habits, such as smoking etc… but what needs to done is educating them… do you think an otherwise healthy person who does not have bad habits and has a chest pain should not be treated? this is not how it works.. I give you a great example my son who is 24 years old has a history of kidney stones. this is out of his control and he just graduated from school and I am no longer able to put him on my insurance he had a major attack last month while we were visiting family members.. I had to take him to Bryn Mawr General hospital. it is a federal law that hospitals have to treat people and can not turn anyone back. thay had to treat him he was there for 6 hours… he just got the bill from the hospital and it was close to $7000.00. do you know how long would it take him to ay this back? years and in most cases people are not able their debts to begin with. who will pay for it then? YOU AND I. so there needs to a solution here. Honestly I have no idea what is all involved in this healthcare bill and why are so many people for it and so many are not… I just admire him at least to try something new. we are a great nation here and we can always go back and say part of this is not working and we have to fix it…. let me tell you something else.. I am not sure where you live… I live in NJ in a very affluent town… and there two huge hospitals around the area… our proximity to Newark, East Orange and Irvington to these hospitals are very short… but the emergency rooms are always packed… I would bet that 85% the people who are there do not have emergencies.. they may have migran headaches, a simple cold, a stomack virus etc… but beacuse the do not have access to insurance thus no primary care doctor they then flood the hospitals. chuch you and I are paying for it…..