Americans Still Don't Have A Friggin Clue

[Solomon]

The whole world is desperate and thirsty for the hope and fresh breeze that Obama is blowing.

May not mean shit to you, as a stuck up head up your ass spoiled American, but the whole damn world is digging it.

Go ahead and vent your spleen over it. I'm getting good schadenfreud out of your pain.

[redqueen]

1. LOL

"a stuck up head up your ass spoiled American"

:rofl:

[Zywiec]

2. Here's how the world is digging it on the BBC website

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&forumID=7098&start=0&tstart=0&edition=2&ttl=20091009154659#paginator

[CJCRANE]

13. The BBC's "Have Your Say" is usually swamped by RWers

from what I've seen in the past. I wouldn't judge it as a scientific sample.

[slackmaster]

3. Unrec for a resident of the District of Columbia referring to Americans in the third person

:nuke:

[imdjh]

4. yeah

[laughingliberal]

9. Use of third person referred to...

stuck up head up your ass spoiled American, not all Americans.

[slackmaster]

15. No such qualifier exists in the OP

Nice try.

[Fumesucker]

5. I'm on food stamps and haven't worked in well over a year...

No jobs available, especially for someone of my age..

But there was trillions of dollars available for those who already have billions..

Spoiled American?

:rofl:

[lukasahero]

6. Compared to the rest of the world?

You have food stamps - a government run program. Because you are an American, you have food to eat. Millions and millions of people in this world don't. THAT is why people call Americans spoiled.

[Solomon]

8. As I said, they don't have a clue.

[Fumesucker]

14. For someone taking the name of a famously wise person..

You aren't living up to that moniker very well, IMO.

It's funny, I talk with my son in law's grandmother from time to time, she grew up almost literally dirt poor during the Depression, she says they didn't realize they were poor because everyone else around them was dirt poor too.

Like so many things in life, poverty is relative, it's one thing to be poor when everyone else is poor, it's entirely another to be poor when you are apparently surrounded by wealth.

[Fumesucker]

10. What does that have to do with my opinion of Obama?

I'm pretty sure that's what your OP was all about.

If not then please correct my misinterpretation.

[KristinGarris]

7. seriously

Tell that 10% without jobs they're spoiled...supposed to go to 16% eventually.

[Fumesucker]

11. Actually it's already pretty close to 16%

I've been out of work long enough that I no longer show up on the unemployment statistics, I know a lot of others like me.

[laughingliberal]

12. Yes, things are bad for workers here and worse for me than most but

there are people far worse off in the world. Do we sit in our own little world and forget places like Darfur? Not saying we don't have huge issues to work on here but the most afflicted of us are better off than a lot of people in the rest of the world.