Free love on the freelove highway

Quote from: matthew on August 2, 2009, 09:43:47 PM

Quote from: Jacques Oz on August 2, 2009, 12:00:43 PM

The hullabaloo over Obama's beer choice in the "beer summit" between him, Gates, and the cop is ten kinds of asinine.

First of all: who cares? Second of all: they're really trying to get red staters to rally around the idea that drinking Bud Light is unamerican? Good luck with that. Third of all: the only real way he could have chosen an American beer would be to pick a microbrew, since Budweiser is owned by InBev, Miller by the South Africans, and Coors is 50% owned by Molson. And if he'd chosen a microbrew, it would have been the dijon mustard incident all over again--him getting excoriated for being highbrow.

And here's a thought: if the big buyouts of American beer companies were happening now during Obama's watch as opposed to a few years back under Bush, and Obama had pushed to stop them, on grounds of keeping American beer American, wouldn't the neocons have gone for his throat for standing in the way of globalization and free market capitalism?

The bottom line of course is that they don't give a shit what beer he drinks, they just wanted to take the opportunity to take potshots at him.

While I agree that this is utter nonsense, it is nice to see some criticism of the president...even if the situation has become so bleak that we have to look to the xenophobes and moonbats for it.

Obama Liberals, with full support from the mainstream media which still has not fallen out of love with him. are attempting the same ploy that Bush Conservatives perfected during the War on Terror: Mischaracterize the opposition. To do this they regularly suggested that the anti-war movement was populated solely by burnt out acid freaks with BUSH = HITLER/ZIONISM = NAZISM placards; flagburners and 9/11 Truthers; gray-bearded, morbidly obese men handing out Communist tracts; and square-shouldered butch lesbians marching in nothing but bodypaint.

The same Liberals who screeched about every news item coming out of Iraq are now making excuses for the same policies continuing under Obama. The escalation in Afghanistan and the new war Obama started in Pakistan ...well, they receive a shrug...and a HEY LOOK OVER THERE!!! THERE ARE RACISTS WHO THINK OBAMA AIN'T A CITIZEN! HOW IGNORANT! LET'S WASTE SOME MORE TIME GLOATING OVER THE TEMPORARY DEFEAT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY! WHOO!

Who gives a fuck? At least these conservative fuckheads are ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING THEY BELIEVE IN... we all laughed and cringed watching that woman with her birth certificate in a ziploc bag...but where are the fucking "anti-war liberals" jumping up at townhall meetings demanding that Obama end his illegal and bloody wars in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, his further expansion of NATO/aggravation of Russia, his administrations saber-rattling in the direction of Iran, his administrations muted support for the coup in Honduras ...

As near as I can tell they don't fucking exist...liberals stay home when Democrats are in office...even if they are carrying out the very same policies as the last guy. That last guy they despised with every molecule in their being...the guy that would cause them to gnash their teeth if they caught a glimpse of him on tv. The guy who angered people enough to prompt them to regularly refer to the Days In Office Remaining Clock. The guy who, if he had done what Obama has done in Pakistan, would have had millions of liberals angrily muttering the words, "I wish someone would fucking shoot that motherfucker."

But instead we hear nothing but, "Is the Republican machine out for the count?"

Fuck the parties..it really doesn't matter - evidently they share more or less the same views on the big issues of empire and state.

Hey Matt!

Quote from: The Joke Murderer on July 25, 2009, 11:38:25 AM

Quote from: Tripp on July 25, 2009, 10:58:30 AM

let 'em keep spinning their wheels.

Yeah, but see, I think a democracy works best if there's an effective opposition constructively criticising the government. But all the opposition we get from repugnicans these days is deluded asshole far-right bullshit... In the meantime, most people on the left seem to have become faithful presidential lapdogs.