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51. Spending social security and Medicare on missles is stupid

Reply to Dr Fate (Reply #42)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 04:03 PM

Aug 2013

so is equating Assad to Hitler. Little hyperbole huh?

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Now that Obama is finally imitating FDR, the Far Left is STILL complaining about him. [View all] Dr Fate Aug 2013 OP

Lol avaistheone1 Aug 2013 #1

I know...it's so ludicrous! joeybee12 Aug 2013 #84

This is one hell of a stretch The_Casual_Observer Aug 2013 #2

Thats for sure! LOLOLOLZ! /nt workinclasszero Aug 2013 #105

I think you mean "Syria" not "Egypt". CJCRANE Aug 2013 #3

FDR/Obama would not have gotten hung up on semantics. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #7

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? CJCRANE Aug 2013 #10

Forget it, the OP's rolling... n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2013 #33

Semantics...I love it. DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2013 #61

Yeah, it's all the fault of those dirty rotten Semantics! Fozzledick Aug 2013 #72

It took me a few posts to understand that Doctor F was just having fun with us, TWM-style DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2013 #73

I don't think anti-Semantic posts are allowed here FiveGoodMen Aug 2013 #81

Are you telling me you're anti-semantic? I thought that violated DU's ToS :) - nt HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #89

Wow, openly anti-semantic. Bluenorthwest Aug 2013 #96

I had constipation for 5 days. No more! Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #118

This message was self-deleted by its author JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2013 #79

This message was self-deleted by its author woo me with science Aug 2013 #4

Umm. enlightenment Aug 2013 #5

I am happy to ride off a cliff as long as FDR and Obama are in the car with me. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #11

You can't see me, enlightenment Aug 2013 #16

I'm glad to embarass myself it means that Freedom will ring. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #26

Damn. enlightenment Aug 2013 #39

Freedom wil reign! R. Daneel Olivaw Aug 2013 #49

The "Far Left" (EEK!) believes that public servants should be held accountable. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2013 #6

Um...what? cyberswede Aug 2013 #8

Those assholes. SomethingFishy Aug 2013 #9

STOP IT SOMETHINGFISHY Skittles Aug 2013 #45

And if the Germans bombed it. n/t n2doc Aug 2013 #101

Hehe.. Forget it he's rolling... SomethingFishy Aug 2013 #104

You will of course expound on this premise...? LanternWaste Aug 2013 #12

No problem, The point is that FDR and Obama both knew a just war when they saw it. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #15

Egypt attacked Pearl Harbor MNBrewer Aug 2013 #19

Fine. People with funny hats then. That should cover it all.You wont fools me with semantics tricks. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #24

I don't think the far left has lost the "Obama should be more like FDR" argument at all. cyberswede Aug 2013 #50

Well, he is in fact imitating FDR on this. Will you support his FDR style stance? Dr Fate Aug 2013 #52

I don't get it. cyberswede Aug 2013 #58

I accept your concession. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #59

Stop, you're killing me dreamnightwind Aug 2013 #78

Plus there is also the problem that I am sure the writer of the OP truedelphi Sep 2013 #117

So much Fail WilliamPitt Aug 2013 #13

To be honest I think Obama made a reasonable and measured statement CJCRANE Aug 2013 #14

And when he does not bomb Syria, the far left will look like fools for saying he was gonna do it. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #21

you forgot something MNBrewer Aug 2013 #17

This somehow got recs whatchamacallit Aug 2013 #18

From 0 to Godwin in 1 post! reformist2 Aug 2013 #20

The first thing Hitler did when he was elected LearningCurve Aug 2013 #62

Beat Garlits & Muldowney both in the quarter mile! Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #119

Manny does it better tkmorris Aug 2013 #22

Ah...I get it now. CJCRANE Aug 2013 #27

Manny disagrees with me in the very thread. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #29

no, Dr Fate is way better at it than Manny. dionysus Aug 2013 #44

LOL Hissyspit Aug 2013 #55

I had to scroll up and check Mnpaul Aug 2013 #106

One of us needs to read more history MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #23

So get reading then. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #28

OK, let's take those one at a time: speeches "tinged by racism" MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #34

You read and posted on all the old FDR vs. Obama posts that were on DU. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #37

Perhaps I'm getting old and senile MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #71

Ah. Got me! MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #74

Is this an "Onion" post?......... socialist_n_TN Aug 2013 #25

Go back and read the old Obama vs. FDR posts on DU. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #31

I......er.......what is this? Skittles Aug 2013 #30

We need a LiberalAndProud Aug 2013 #32

FDR gave us social security -- Obama is NO FDR nt daa Aug 2013 #35

He is on the issue of bombing the Hilters of the world. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #42

Spending social security and Medicare on missles is stupid daa Aug 2013 #51

I think that if FDR were alive today, he would agree with me & Obama, not you. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #56

Nice try daa Aug 2013 #68

Go read up on the Social Security that FDR gave "us". Social Security as you know it was bluestate10 Aug 2013 #88

The Far left? mick063 Aug 2013 #36

Another contender... Fozzledick Aug 2013 #76

Some wit (Mark Twain or Ambrose Bierce) quipped that war is HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #38

Moderates dont care if it is Egypt or Syria. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #47

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing - nt HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #87

Damn, you had me. Union Scribe Sep 2013 #111

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Ambrose Bierce Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2013 #67

Great post! dennis4868 Aug 2013 #40

Fixed it for you ... blkmusclmachine Aug 2013 #41

I am drunk too! n-t Logical Aug 2013 #43

At least we dont have to boy-cott French wine this time around. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #48

Ermehgerd!!! bobclark86 Aug 2013 #91

It's never too early to start drinking on a Friday, I guess. Vashta Nerada Aug 2013 #46

'far left'? there goes your credibility....take a hike. bowens43 Aug 2013 #53

I'll glady take a "Freedom Hike"- with FDR and Obama as my guides. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #54

I is confused. Hissyspit Aug 2013 #57

get back to me when Obama gets rid of Race to the Top and actually starts funding schools. liberal_at_heart Aug 2013 #60

I think he will fund schools in Syria. Dr Fate Aug 2013 #63

Whose law is that again? woo me with science Aug 2013 #64

Poe's Law. This thread is satire--but it has Colberted a lot of DUers! nt tblue37 Aug 2013 #86

Thank you. woo me with science Sep 2013 #109

Oh dear god... progressoid Aug 2013 #65

That poor man must have ingested chemical weapons! Dr Fate Aug 2013 #66

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2013 #69

Too subtle for some. bvar22 Aug 2013 #70

LOL RainDog Aug 2013 #75

That's some funny shit! Rex Aug 2013 #77

FREEDOM KICK!!!!! Dr Fate Aug 2013 #80

What's with the hippie punching today? nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #82

Of course, if Obama were like FDR and bombed a city like Dresden ProSense Aug 2013 #83

And with that you get the Margaret DuMont Award. Bluenorthwest Aug 2013 #98

FDR was a WAR CRIMINAL! (But I hope Obama does not imitate that part) Dr Fate Sep 2013 #114

The real thing will never measure up to a fantasy. FDR, by no means was perfect, not even bluestate10 Aug 2013 #85

Well the REAL "far left" now AND in the 30s..... socialist_n_TN Aug 2013 #92

This is what they are complaining nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #94

+1 Which means Obama really is a lot like FDR leftstreet Aug 2013 #95

That's quite true. The thing is that MineralMan Sep 2013 #112

Lets just keep our fingers crossed RobertEarl Aug 2013 #90

. LWolf Aug 2013 #93

This is a joke, right? polichick Aug 2013 #97

What is really is is parody. Bluenorthwest Aug 2013 #99

Yes, that's the word for it. polichick Aug 2013 #100

Going to war with Syria would be ultra-leftist and Bolshevist. David__77 Aug 2013 #102

I'm on the far left and I don't think I have ever attacked Obama. kestrel91316 Aug 2013 #103

"Far Left" AgingAmerican Aug 2013 #107

FREEDOM KICK!!!!! Dr Fate Sep 2013 #108

This message was self-deleted by its author Union Scribe Sep 2013 #110

Shove that far left shit where the sun don't shine. mick063 Sep 2013 #113

You are just mad that centrism is working. nt Dr Fate Sep 2013 #115

FDR was really a far right austerian corporatist fascist who hated the idea of a social Zorra Sep 2013 #116

It's a good thing Obama does not imitate him on anything else. Dr Fate Sep 2013 #120

WTF did I just read? nt Demo_Chris Sep 2013 #121