Obama's 47 Percent Approval Lowest of Any President at This Point

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derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Strix

Quote from: derspiess on January 04, 2010, 04:10:05 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 04, 2010, 02:28:58 PM
It's enormously funny when Republicans play the victim. 

How am I doing that?

You have to be if not than that would mean that Obama's numbers are about the job he has done. People don't want to open that closet.
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Razgovory

Quote from: derspiess on January 04, 2010, 04:57:42 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 04, 2010, 04:40:31 PM
Quote from: derspiess on January 04, 2010, 04:10:05 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 04, 2010, 02:28:58 PM
It's enormously funny when Republicans play the victim. 

How am I doing that?

Oh, the blacks they hate us!  Sob!  Sob!

I don't much care if I'm hated or not.

So you stoicly play the victim.  It's still playing the victim.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Caliga on January 04, 2010, 01:41:50 PM
Really?  :huh: Well, it might not technically be incorrect, but it just sounds horrible to me.
Pretty sure that's not correct, but I can see a book having that if a character speaks in that dialect.
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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derspiess

Quote from: Razgovory on January 04, 2010, 07:49:13 PM
So you stoicly play the victim.  It's still playing the victim.

That is incorrect.  It was a throwaway comment in any case, Obamabot.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Razgovory

Quote from: derspiess on January 04, 2010, 09:16:36 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 04, 2010, 07:49:13 PM
So you stoicly play the victim.  It's still playing the victim.

That is incorrect.  It was a throwaway comment in any case, Obamabot.

Really, there seems to be alot of playing the victim amongst the GOPtards these days.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

Quote from: Razgovory on January 04, 2010, 10:09:24 PM
Really, there seems to be alot of playing the victim amongst the GOPtards these days.

Perhaps, but Spiess wasn't doing so in this instance.
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grumbler

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 05, 2010, 03:56:28 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 04, 2010, 10:09:24 PM
Really, there seems to be alot of playing the victim amongst the GOPtards these days.

Perhaps, but Spiess wasn't doing so in this instance.
Demotards love to portray Republicans as whiners.  In fact, that whine about Republicans is all one seems to hear from the Demotards these days.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Sheilbh

Quote from: grumbler on January 05, 2010, 09:06:56 AMDemotards love to portray Republicans as whiners.  In fact, that whine about Republicans is all one seems to hear from the Demotards these days.
This may be so but I do think there's a strain within the Republican party that does perceive itself as a victim.  There is a section, I think represented by Sarah Palin (who poses as the Maid of Orleans), that seems more interested in an attitude of cultural grievance and victimisation than in politics - you hear it when the subject of elites comes up.

Which is sad.  I still think she could have been an intensely persuasive candidate.
Let's bomb Russia!

grumbler

Quote from: Sheilbh on January 05, 2010, 09:18:58 AM
This may be so but I do think there's a strain within the Republican party that does perceive itself as a victim.  There is a section, I think represented by Sarah Palin (who poses as the Maid of Orleans), that seems more interested in an attitude of cultural grievance and victimisation than in politics - you hear it when the subject of elites comes up.

Which is sad.  I still think she could have been an intensely persuasive candidate. 
Agreed that some of the Republitards are like the Demotards, and more interested in playing to the emotions than to logic, and agree that Palin is no more intellectually honest than, say, Raz.  Disagree that she would be persuasive absent her schtick.  There just isn't any "there" there.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

The Minsky Moment

Obama is the only President at this point; thus his approval ratings are both the highest and the lowest of any President at this point. 
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Faeelin

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on January 05, 2010, 10:02:49 AM
Obama is the only President at this point; thus his approval ratings are both the highest and the lowest of any President at this point.

Did the French rewrite their constitution recently?

Caliga

0 Ed Anger Disapproval Points

derspiess

Quote from: Razgovory on January 04, 2010, 10:09:24 PM
Really, there seems to be alot of playing the victim amongst the GOPtards these days.

Only if you define "victimhood" down to mean any sort of complaining whatsoever. 

There are *some* on the right who are trying to claim "victim" status.  As annoying as it is, it's almost hard for me to blame them for trying it when it has been used so effectively by certain elements of the left.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Razgovory

Quote from: grumbler on January 05, 2010, 09:48:56 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on January 05, 2010, 09:18:58 AM
This may be so but I do think there's a strain within the Republican party that does perceive itself as a victim.  There is a section, I think represented by Sarah Palin (who poses as the Maid of Orleans), that seems more interested in an attitude of cultural grievance and victimisation than in politics - you hear it when the subject of elites comes up.

Which is sad.  I still think she could have been an intensely persuasive candidate. 
Agreed that some of the Republitards are like the Demotards, and more interested in playing to the emotions than to logic, and agree that Palin is no more intellectually honest than, say, Raz.  Disagree that she would be persuasive absent her schtick.  There just isn't any "there" there.

Of course not. :rolleyes:
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017