Good and bad handshakes

[editec]

No I'm thinking a 40 foot high concrete wall topped with razor wire and patrolled by marines should be our reply to to Latin America. After all they hate us so much that keeping them the fuck out shouldn't bother them at all.

How would you propose that wall be paid for? It would be a Federal Project and create jobs for Americans, and you know how much you righties are against any taxpayer money going to the American workers. Perhaps Halliburton could build it with workers outsourced from India, that should meet with the right-wingers approval.

It would be built by the Army Corp of engineers you idiot.

What are you, some kind of socialist?

It should be build by Phillipino workers, hired by an Arab Empirates corporation which is a former American contruction company that moved to the Emirates avoid paying US taxes.

The cement should be imported from Africa, the barbed wire made in Pakistan and the workers' buffet should be catered by whatever Chinese catering company which contributed most heavily to the the DNC during the last election cycle.

This the American way of business, Skull.

Our government owes it to the American consumers, after all, to see to it that no American actually works on the project since they're all screwed up because of marxist unionism and must be punished for expecting to make a living wage.

 

[Gunny]

How would you propose that wall be paid for? It would be a Federal Project and create jobs for Americans, and you know how much you righties are against any taxpayer money going to the American workers. Perhaps Halliburton could build it with workers outsourced from India, that should meet with the right-wingers approval.

It would be built by the Army Corp of engineers you idiot.

What are you, some kind of socialist?

It should be build by Phillipino workers, hired by an Arab Empirates corporation which is a former American contruction company that moved to the Emirates avoid paying US taxes.

The cement should be imported from Africa, the barbed wire made in Pakistan and the workers' buffet should be catered by whatever Chinese catering company which contributed most heavily to the the DNC during the last election cycle.

This the American way of business, Skull.

Our government owes it to the American consumers, after all, to see to it that no American actually works on the project since they're all screwed up because of marxist unionism and must be punished for expecting to make a living wage.

While you think you are being sarcastic and witty, the fact is, there is a kernel of truth underlying your comment.

 

[Skull Pilot]

What are you, some kind of socialist?

It should be build by Phillipino workers, hired by an Arab Empirates corporation which is a former American contruction company that moved to the Emirates avoid paying US taxes.

The cement should be imported from Africa, the barbed wire made in Pakistan and the workers' buffet should be catered by whatever Chinese catering company which contributed most heavily to the the DNC during the last election cycle.

This the American way of business, Skull.

Our government owes it to the American consumers, after all, to see to it that no American actually works on the project since they're all screwed up because of marxist unionism and must be punished for expecting to make a living wage.

While you think you are being sarcastic and witty, the fact is, there is a kernel of truth underlying your comment.

Correct

there is a bit, quite a bit actually, of truth to Ed's sarcasm.

 

[MaggieMae]

The hand shake itself was no big deal.

what was bothersome is that our "leader" just sat there smiling while tin pot dictators like Ortega rant about how tyrannical the US is.

Ortega is such an insignificant little twerp, I had completely forgotten he was still alive.

Sometimes the best defense during an outrageous diatribe is silence, and just let the attacker be the one with egg on his face. (My new commandment for self.)

 

[MaggieMae]

The hand shake itself was no big deal.

what was bothersome is that our "leader" just sat there smiling while tin pot dictators like Ortega rant about how tyrannical the US is.

You must be very well rested like so many others here, it is apparent that you and those like you slept through the last eight years.

So now the "leader" of the US must debase himself because a few insignificant latin American dictators didn't like Bush.

Puhlease. What is with the ass kissing obsession of you lefty moonbats?

Well...let's put it this way: If Obama HAD chosen to stand up and refute Ortega's repudiation (or even allowed Clinton to do it), you people would have been shouting about how undignified it is for a POTUS to get into a smackdown with a foreign leader. Am I right?

 

[MaggieMae]

The hand shake itself was no big deal.

what was bothersome is that our "leader" just sat there smiling while tin pot dictators like Ortega rant about how tyrannical the US is.

Did you want Obama to start a big fight over his words at that point? He did the right thing ignoring it. Ortega once again looks like the fool. Nobody believes him.

The righties must believe that Dubya would have sent troops to invade and avenge Ortega's words. Who knows, Dubya might have done just that, and with their blessings.

Nah, he would have invited Ortega to Kennebunkport first for a mano-o-mano talk and a little fishing.

 

[MaggieMae]

Did you want Obama to start a big fight over his words at that point? He did the right thing ignoring it. Ortega once again looks like the fool. Nobody believes him.

The righties must believe that Dubya would have sent troops to invade and avenge Ortega's words. Who knows, Dubya might have done just that, and with their blessings.

No I'm thinking a 40 foot high concrete wall topped with razor wire and patrolled by marines should be our reply to to Latin America. After all they hate us so much that keeping them the fuck out shouldn't bother them at all.

Why do they hate us?

 

[Iriemon]

The hand shake itself was no big deal.

what was bothersome is that our "leader" just sat there smiling while tin pot dictators like Ortega rant about how tyrannical the US is.

Did you want Obama to start a big fight over his words at that point? He did the right thing ignoring it. Ortega once again looks like the fool. Nobody believes him.

Obama showed class. He was polite and then made a joke about it which effectively undermined everything Ortega ranted about. It would have been infantile gesture to go stomping out because you're not getting your way.

 

[Skull Pilot]

You must be very well rested like so many others here, it is apparent that you and those like you slept through the last eight years.

So now the "leader" of the US must debase himself because a few insignificant latin American dictators didn't like Bush.

Puhlease. What is with the ass kissing obsession of you lefty moonbats?

Well...let's put it this way: If Obama HAD chosen to stand up and refute Ortega's repudiation (or even allowed Clinton to do it), you people would have been shouting about how undignified it is for a POTUS to get into a smackdown with a foreign leader. Am I right?

no you're wrong as usual.

 

[Skull Pilot]

The righties must believe that Dubya would have sent troops to invade and avenge Ortega's words. Who knows, Dubya might have done just that, and with their blessings.

No I'm thinking a 40 foot high concrete wall topped with razor wire and patrolled by marines should be our reply to to Latin America. After all they hate us so much that keeping them the fuck out shouldn't bother them at all.

Why do they hate us?

Don't care. Just don't want them here.