GOP Predictions About Obama

[SLD]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ama-s-economy.html?via=mobile&source=facebook

Apparently if Obama was going to be elected President bad things were going to happen to us. The Dow would crash, inflation would soar, and unemployment would never get below 6%.

I looked up some other predictions on the web. Apparently gas was going to be upwards of $6.60/gallon,or even $10. Limbaugh predicted a huge economic collapse. According to Michelle Bachmann there would be no future and no hope.

According to Mitt Romney Iran would have a nuclear weapon by now.

Oh well. Any others?

SLD

 

[none]

Death panels. and his limo would pullup into your driveway so he could take your guns.

 

[Ford]

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Oh well. Any others?

Well if you want to go back to 2008, some folks on the discussion boards of my local paper (now long since shut down) were pretty clear about what would happen.


I hate to break it to you, but if you're reading this in 2015, you may be living in a concentration camp. Your crime was something like flying an American flag outside your house, or being Christian, or carrying a gun.


If you're not locked up for standing up for the now-defunct Constitution, you are no doubt living under a Marxist/Muslim dictatorship that began when Obama nationalized the auto industry, then the banking sector, then the manufacturing base, then declared martial law.


Scratch your left forearm, and you'll no doubt irritate the microchip which was implanted there in order to keep you subservient to the Obama dictatorship. If you scratch too much, it will become infected and you'll be up in front of a Death Panel before you know it.

 

[Daioh]

As a non-American I am still waiting for Obama to send the drones out to blow up my house
After he had me dragged off to Gitmo of course

 

[untermensche]

All he did was kill American citizens without trial, spy on every single US citizen that uses email, and continue US wars in the ME up to this day, prosecute whistle blowers and ignore what they blew the whistle on, save the profits and bonuses of Wall Street bankers while millions lost their homes.

No he didn't set dangerous precedence.

 

[Bronzeage]

At some point, we have to invoke the Costanza Law: "It's not a lie, if you never believed it to start with."

 

[Medicine Man]

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Oh well. Any others?

Well if you want to go back to 2008, some folks on the discussion boards of my local paper (now long since shut down) were pretty clear about what would happen.


I hate to break it to you, but if you're reading this in 2015, you may be living in a concentration camp.

....Ah, yes....the FEMA Camps!!!!!




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[Medicine Man]

All he did was kill American citizens without trial, spy on every single US citizen that uses email, and continue US wars in the ME up to this day, prosecute whistle blowers and ignore what they blew the whistle on, save the profits and bonuses of Wall Street bankers while millions lost their homes.

No he didn't set dangerous precedence.

C'mon....c'mon....you lost....get-over-it.....


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[untermensche]

All he did was kill American citizens without trial, spy on every single US citizen that uses email, and continue US wars in the ME up to this day, prosecute whistle blowers and ignore what they blew the whistle on, save the profits and bonuses of Wall Street bankers while millions lost their homes.

No he didn't set dangerous precedence.

C'mon....c'mon....you lost....get-over-it.....​

So then you support that list of crimes?​

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

What I can't stand the most is the other lie... that the bastards that voted for W twice didn't like W.

All he did was kill American citizens without trial, spy on every single US citizen that uses email, and continue US wars in the ME up to this day, prosecute whistle blowers and ignore what they blew the whistle on, save the profits and bonuses of Wall Street bankers while millions lost their homes.

No he didn't set dangerous precedence.

Actually most of that was already precedent.

 

[Nexus]

C'mon....c'mon....you lost....get-over-it.....​

You think untermensche is republican or rightwinger because of the things he criticized in that post?​

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

C'mon....c'mon....you lost....get-over-it.....​

So then you support that list of crimes?​

He mistook your criticism for right-wing criticism. Some are so fatigued by right-wing petulance that many forget or don't notice that a lot of criticism actually has come from the left.​

 

[funinspace]

So then you support that list of crimes?

He mistook your criticism for right-wing criticism. Some are so fatigued by right-wing petulance that many forget or don't notice that a lot of criticism actually has come from the left.

You think untermensche didn't know that?

 

[untermensche]

What I can't stand the most is the other lie... that the bastards that voted for W twice didn't like W.

All he did was kill American citizens without trial, spy on every single US citizen that uses email, and continue US wars in the ME up to this day, prosecute whistle blowers and ignore what they blew the whistle on, save the profits and bonuses of Wall Street bankers while millions lost their homes.

No he didn't set dangerous precedence.

Actually most of that was already precedent.

The point is the right could have a lot of real criticisms of Obama.

But they support the national security state and support these infringements of liberty, so they have to invent absurd criticism because it is only a game to them and part of their game is that the president of the other party can do nothing of value.

 

[arkirk]

What I can't stand the most is the other lie... that the bastards that voted for W twice didn't like W.

All he did was kill American citizens without trial, spy on every single US citizen that uses email, and continue US wars in the ME up to this day, prosecute whistle blowers and ignore what they blew the whistle on, save the profits and bonuses of Wall Street bankers while millions lost their homes.

No he didn't set dangerous precedence.

Actually most of that was already precedent.

You are correct...Obama didn't set precedents that hurt us. He just continued them after he suggested in his campaign (too smart to promise...so he thought) he would be one who would break with these precedents. He was against the war till he was for it. He was for transparency till we saw too much. He seems addicted to drone warfare. Bernanke and the Fed and QE policy just pumped up that joke of an institution we call the stock market. Wonder where our national debt resides? It is in our highly speculative (not productive) stock market and in weaponry scattered worldwide. Obama was far better than we probably would have had with Romney...but that is not saying much.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

What I can't stand the most is the other lie... that the bastards that voted for W twice didn't like W. Actually most of that was already precedent.

You are correct...Obama didn't set precedents that hurt us. He just continued them after he suggested in his campaign (too smart to promise...so he thought) he would be one who would break with these precedents. He was against the war till he was for it. He was for transparency till we saw too much. He seems addicted to drone warfare. Bernanke and the Fed and QE policy just pumped up that joke of an institution we call the stock market. Wonder where our national debt resides? It is in our highly speculative (not productive) stock market and in weaponry scattered worldwide. Obama was far better than we probably would have had with Romney...but that is not saying much.

Isn't that the trouble... that there is no alternative. It is a Democrat or someone representing the Party of Pain.

 

[SimpleDon]

It is not fair to make fun of conservatives by constantly pointing out that they were wrong in their predictions about Obama. Or really that they were wrong about any subject that comes up in political discussions for that matter.

The defining characteristic of conservatives, what makes them a conservative in the first place, is fear of change. They crave a static social order. They believe that society is held together by its social mores and traditions. That these bonds keeping society together are very weak and unable to withstand change. That all men are weak and subject to corruption.

This is why so many of them depend on a faith in a higher order, one that is not subject to man's many flaws and weaknesses; a god, the Constitution, the wisdom of the founding fathers, patriotism, the flag, or the invisible hand of the self-regulating free market.

But the problems that we discuss daily here and generally in the political sphere are almost always problems with the existing order. The solutions to these problems are almost always going to require change, the thing that conservatives fear.

The net result is that conservatives will almost always be wrong. They almost always will be opposing needed change.

Besides, these predictions about what Obama would do aren't meant for non-conservatives. These are the bullsh*t that conservatives tell each other so that they can believe, at least for a few moments, that they are right about something, anything.

 

[Keith&Co.]

The point is the right could have a lot of real criticisms of Obama.

But the point of THIS thread is not that they have complaints NOW, it's what they insisted would happen if Obama ever became president. Notice that their objections to Obama were never that he'd act like just another Republican in office....

 

[untermensche]

The point is the right could have a lot of real criticisms of Obama.

But the point of THIS thread is not that they have complaints NOW, it's what they insisted would happen if Obama ever became president. Notice that their objections to Obama were never that he'd act like just another Republican in office....

Sure, but I can't revel in how Obama proved to be so harmless because the Republicans were wrong again.

 

[George Oilwell]

For someone who was going to confiscate all guns and bibles while making homosexuality complulsory and Islam the state religion, he sure is taking his own sweet time.