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Cyrano

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60. Sorry, I can't buy that.

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 05:42 PM

Sep 2014

I really don't believe that Obama could be bought.

Perhaps you're a cynic and I'm a naive idiot. However, I really believe that Obama is a man who wants to leave the world a better place than he found it.

Any president can make a fortune in speeches after leaving office. He doesn't need Wall Street's lucre.

This is a guy who cares, and is president during a period of history that really sucks a lot. He is stuck with a Cheney/Bush world and there's no one on the planet that can fix that.

He is stuck with a neocon philosophy of macroeconomics and there's no one in the world that can change that.

He is stuck with being a black man in a country that can't shake the era of slavery and is still going to take many years to shake the perception of black people as "the other."

He is a man who loves his wife and children. He is a man who's trying to do the best possible in a really lousy era. He is a wonderful man who everyone should respect. He is a man that, just perhaps, Americans will come to revere. Perhaps.

But I will never believe that this is a man who views the office of the presidency as a way of enriching himself.

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Let's not do anything about ISIS [View all] Cyrano Sep 2014 OP

The oil industry would like us to. Marr Sep 2014 #1

I've been thinking about this lately louis-t Sep 2014 #5

It's an interesting thought-- what I read was that they control five oil fields, and that Marr Sep 2014 #15

Dropping the price of oil will certainly get some invading going on! arcane1 Sep 2014 #51

Not to mention the Munitions Industry. ~nt~ 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 #16

I think we should have the same urgency as we had.. TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #2

Hang on, are you suggesting selling weapons to Iran in order to fund ISIS? N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2014 #13

Well, we might consider setting up small dictatorships to... TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #27

Was Bush right to do nothing about the Bin Laden threat? Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #3

If/when intelligence finds that they're Cyrano Sep 2014 #4

+1000 phantom power Sep 2014 #6

Or what if we spent that money on renewable energy resources. logosoco Sep 2014 #25

Like this? Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #8

There's a difference between a verbal threat and an actionable plot. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #19

I trust Obama to respond appropriately to this threat. Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #23

Obama will do everything possible to Cyrano Sep 2014 #43

Republicans said the same thing about Bush. FlatStanley Sep 2014 #44

+1 uponit7771 Sep 2014 #38

that comment suggests there is a similar threat from ISIS Enrique Sep 2014 #9

This is more comparable to going after Hussein. Marr Sep 2014 #20

You would probably have said the same thing about Bin Laden in August 2001 (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #26

Your argument could've been used to justify invading Iraq. And it was, oddly enough. Marr Sep 2014 #31

Really? What in the world did bin Laden have to do with Iraq? (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #34

Bush claimed that Iraq was a threat to the United States. Marr Sep 2014 #37

On that, I agree with you. Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #39

The problem is, Nye dixiegrrrrl Sep 2014 #47

Obviously, if Bush had just bombed Afghanistan a month before 9/11 the attacks would have Chathamization Sep 2014 #24

No invasion would've prevented 9/11, especially after the August 6th briefing arcane1 Sep 2014 #53

That's not the same, in most aspects. lark Sep 2014 #57

"No other country in the world seems to want to do anything about them." wyldwolf Sep 2014 #7

Wake me when their troops get there Cyrano Sep 2014 #14

Cyrano jumps down thread, moves goalpost wyldwolf Sep 2014 #22

For some, if you are going to 'do anything' that means troops and boots on the ground. Anything else pampango Sep 2014 #35

30 countries? Then we must certainly be able to sit this one out. n/t A Simple Game Sep 2014 #59

I stand with Elizabeth Warren on this. Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #10

why? Enrique Sep 2014 #11

Myself, while I usually support Senator Warren I try to be an independent thinker and just totodeinhere Sep 2014 #29

Me too. (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #30

Agreed! Aerows Sep 2014 #40

We did our 'humanitarian' rescue, so time to let them go at it! This was well predicted when we..... dmosh42 Sep 2014 #12

Yes. Thank you for a voice of reason. 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 #18

But..but...we have a golden opportunity to lose another war and prove our stupidity!! Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #17

With you 100% on this R.Quinn Sep 2014 #21

KurtNYC linked to this in another thread Aerows Sep 2014 #28

Cheers to you, Aerows. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2014 #48

kpete made an OP about it Aerows Sep 2014 #49

The Middle East: Not our circus, Not our monkeys Algernon Moncrieff Sep 2014 #32

It's our fault this is happening Politicalboi Sep 2014 #33

What is your plan? Skidmore Sep 2014 #36

My plan would include Aerows Sep 2014 #41

Regarding the "not Christians" comment in the op Cyrano Sep 2014 #45

But we have to! Scuba Sep 2014 #42

actually many other countries have expressed concern over isis La Lioness Priyanka Sep 2014 #46

There was a coalition in the Gulf Wars too. Rozlee Sep 2014 #52

Kerry: The cancer in Iraq locks Sep 2014 #54

Yes! For once let them battle it out among themselves. maddiemom Sep 2014 #55

Well "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."-Big Dawg TexasProgresive Sep 2014 #56

One day somebody sat our pal Barack down and showed him some $ that made his eyes pop. toby jo Sep 2014 #58

Sorry, I can't buy that. Cyrano Sep 2014 #60