White House suggests Social Security cuts remain 'on the table'

[beerandjesus]

130. I actually don't disagree with your central point.

And although I do disagree with Obama a lot, and feel disappointed by him on many fronts, I think it's frankly childish to do the "cool, clever, acting smarter" thing you're talking about; and I mean literally childish, in the sense that I thought it was hip in my teens but, like most people probably, outgrew it. On the other hand, it's human nature to be more motivated to write on here when you disagree than when you agree.

I think the main reason Chained CPI is "on the table" right now probably is that the Republicans are going to reject it anyway, so Obama gets to look reasonable and willing to "make the tough choices" without having to actually do any harm to Social Security. (I think you were saying this elsewhere in this thread, pardon me if I'm wrong.) I'm still very uncomfortable with him playing that game, and wish he would stake out turf farther to the left, but I do think he knows what he's doing.

The reason the "ODS" thing infuriates me so much, specifically, is that it amounts to calling liberals teabaggers. The REAL ODS crowd is made up of the idiots still clamoring for the "real" birth certificate and talking about how Obama "thinks he's a king". To lump ANYONE on here (who survives the ban hammer for more than about 5 minutes) in with those morons is nothing but slander, or as I put it before, a lie, and a malicious one at that. This case was particularly egregious, since the OP merely copied and pasted an article in which the Obama administration said that CPI was still on the table, and for that was accused of "ODS".

And now I've pretty much lost my train of thought, but the point is, we don't all have to agree, and some of can even be assholes, but--and I'm not proud of this--that "ODS" thing PISSES ME OFF.