This so sums up America at the moment

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I don't like seeing obama called bambi. What an insult, to bambi.

 

[Ozmar]

But I will say this: It's no coincidence that the "running back to the right" coincides with a black man being elected. That being said, it took an ego like Obama's to get elected. Otherwise what do you have? A bunch of older black people warning younger black people not to run because "the man" will get you if you try. I shit you not, that's the mentality that was out there and still is to some extent. If not when he was elected, then when? 100 years from now? 200? No time like the present. Even if there is this backlash right now, it was the right time. If it wasn't the right time, then he would not have been elected. This backlash may last for a time, but consider it growing pains. The Sydney Morning Herald totally misses this point.

When all other points fail, pull the race card.

Go take a poll of people vehemently opposed to Obama and ask if they'd vote for Condoleeza Rice.

When all reading comprehension fails, concentrate on the first two sentences and zone everything else out. Did you graduate elementary school?

 

[Ozmar]

From a comment on a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald. One of those instances where I say, "I wish I had said that". This is soooo how it looks from the outside (my bold)..

"One of Bambi Obama's great mistakes was his failure to take control of the national narrative upon winning the election, thereby allowing the lunatics of the Right to narrate instead. Bambi just doesnt seem to be able to get real politik, that the big issue and long term efforts are needful but you need to also do for those on the ground. If he hadnt been so busy being self enamoured and pouring his vision into two autobiographies (by age 45) he may have been able to actually see his own country.

This simply wasnt his time, he should have let the Clintons deal with the Right in the way they know how. But Bambi's ego got the better of him.

Obama is nothing but a peacock and because of him, of his vanity and grandiosity, America is being hijacked by the far Right."

The Sydney Herald is filled with stupid pieces of shit. Here is one of their leaders from before Obama took office:
Obama is walking a high wire - Opinion - smh.com.au

When Barack Obama was asked last year what his favourite TV show was, he replied: The Wire. Brilliant answer. Like so much of what he has said and done since winning the longest US presidential campaign in history, the man who is about to become president has shown intellectual adroitness, from his choice of cabinet to his choice of words. Even his choice of TV show. (Hillary Clinton likes Antiques Roadshow and Grey's Anatomy. John McCain yearns for Maverick. Thank God he didn't win.)

So what does that say about the SMH that before he won they were all agog over Obama and now they diss him at every turn?
Bugger those racist pigs.

Ad hominem! Good one. Considering how little you know about SMH, or the culture of Australia, I'll give you a pass. A D is "passing."

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Hey Grump, did y'alls government take away your guns?

 

[Ozmar]

America: If everyone has guns, there will be less gun-related deaths.
Australia: If no one has guns, there will be less gun-related deaths.

I hate to break it to you, the Red Coats aren't coming to take back their colonies.

 

[Toro]

America is being hijacked by the far Right."

America is running back to the far right

America is running back to the center, albeit the right side of it.

From a global perspective - and an international perspective is what you will get from an international newspaper - America is moving from the center under Obama to the right.

 

[Toro]

From a comment on a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald. One of those instances where I say, "I wish I had said that". This is soooo how it looks from the outside (my bold)..

"One of Bambi Obama's great mistakes was his failure to take control of the national narrative upon winning the election, thereby allowing the lunatics of the Right to narrate instead. Bambi just doesnt seem to be able to get real politik, that the big issue and long term efforts are needful but you need to also do for those on the ground. If he hadnt been so busy being self enamoured and pouring his vision into two autobiographies (by age 45) he may have been able to actually see his own country.

This simply wasnt his time, he should have let the Clintons deal with the Right in the way they know how. But Bambi's ego got the better of him.

Obama is nothing but a peacock and because of him, of his vanity and grandiosity, America is being hijacked by the far Right."

We on the right here in America are watching you You rope ean assholes riot over entitlements and we are our asses off.

um, new zealand isn't in europe.

Its all the same...

 

[Quantum Windbag]

From a comment on a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald. One of those instances where I say, "I wish I had said that". This is soooo how it looks from the outside (my bold)..

"One of Bambi Obama's great mistakes was his failure to take control of the national narrative upon winning the election, thereby allowing the lunatics of the Right to narrate instead. Bambi just doesnt seem to be able to get real politik, that the big issue and long term efforts are needful but you need to also do for those on the ground. If he hadnt been so busy being self enamoured and pouring his vision into two autobiographies (by age 45) he may have been able to actually see his own country.

This simply wasnt his time, he should have let the Clintons deal with the Right in the way they know how. But Bambi's ego got the better of him.

Obama is nothing but a peacock and because of him, of his vanity and grandiosity, America is being hijacked by the far Right."

What were all those town halls, speeches about health care, and other campaign appearances he made that dominated the media, totally obliterating anything the Republicans, or the Tea Party, had to say, if it was not a completely successful control of the national narrative? Why does the Left keep trying to say that they did not communicate their position, when the actual fact is that the better they communicated it, the less people liked it? Is it remotely possible that the average American is not as stupid as y'all think they are?

 

[Charles_Main]

From a comment on a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald. One of those instances where I say, "I wish I had said that". This is soooo how it looks from the outside (my bold)..

"One of Bambi Obama's great mistakes was his failure to take control of the national narrative upon winning the election, thereby allowing the lunatics of the Right to narrate instead. Bambi just doesnt seem to be able to get real politik, that the big issue and long term efforts are needful but you need to also do for those on the ground. If he hadnt been so busy being self enamoured and pouring his vision into two autobiographies (by age 45) he may have been able to actually see his own country.

This simply wasnt his time, he should have let the Clintons deal with the Right in the way they know how. But Bambi's ego got the better of him.

Obama is nothing but a peacock and because of him, of his vanity and grandiosity, America is being hijacked by the far Right."

How illogical to say we are being hijacked by the far right while we have a congress and White house dominated by the Far left.

 

[eagleseven]

What were all those town halls, speeches about health care, and other campaign appearances he made that dominated the media, totally obliterating anything the Republicans, or the Tea Party, had to say, if it was not a completely successful control of the national narrative? Why does the Left keep trying to say that they did not communicate their position, when the actual fact is that the better they communicated it, the less people liked it? Is it remotely possible that the average American is not as stupid as y'all think they are?

Nah, of course not. Everyone knows that the average American is dumber than our leftist superiors.

It must be a failure to communicate. Obama is just talking way too far above the heads of the masses.

 

[eagleseven]

From a global perspective - and an international perspective is what you will get from an international newspaper - America is moving from the center under Obama to the right.

I still find it hilariously ironic that Socialism is more popular internationally today, than it was before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I suppose that, without the looming specter of Soviet Apocalypse, socialism is far friendlier than before?

 

[MikeK]

There is no question that Obama has failed to do the necessary amount of damage with the weapons at his disposal and as a result our enemies on the right are still standing strong and potentially menacing. So I say the writer of that vox pop article is making a valid point and in some measure I agree with it.

Obama wants to be liked and he doesn't want to get bloody. I believe it's because he's too concerned about his future after leaving Office.

 

[eagleseven]

Obama wants to be liked and he doesn't want to get bloody. I believe it's because he's too concerned about his future after leaving Office.

He's a young man...he's got the next forty years of his life to think about! He can't blow it all on the Presidency...

 

[Article 15]

From a comment on a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald. One of those instances where I say, "I wish I had said that". This is soooo how it looks from the outside (my bold)..

"One of Bambi Obama's great mistakes was his failure to take control of the national narrative upon winning the election, thereby allowing the lunatics of the Right to narrate instead. Bambi just doesnt seem to be able to get real politik, that the big issue and long term efforts are needful but you need to also do for those on the ground. If he hadnt been so busy being self enamoured and pouring his vision into two autobiographies (by age 45) he may have been able to actually see his own country.

This simply wasnt his time, he should have let the Clintons deal with the Right in the way they know how. But Bambi's ego got the better of him.

Obama is nothing but a peacock and because of him, of his vanity and grandiosity, America is being hijacked by the far Right."

its like i keep on saying Doc......the guy aint no leader....

Ayup

 

[Harry Dresden]

America: If everyone has guns, there will be less gun-related deaths.
Australia: If no one has guns, there will be less gun-related deaths.

I hate to break it to you, the Red Coats aren't coming to take back their colonies.

i hate to break it to you.....but that is not the reason they wanted the populace to be armed....

 

[Dr Grump]

Hey Grump, did y'alls government take away your guns?

1) I'm a NZer not an Oz
2) No they didn't take away my guns, I've never owned one nor will I
3) Australia only got certain types of guns banned
4) Wanna compared deaths by shooting vis-a-vis NZ vs US or Aus vs Us?

 

[Dr Grump]

From a global perspective - and an international perspective is what you will get from an international newspaper - America is moving from the center under Obama to the right.

I still find it hilariously ironic that Socialism is more popular internationally today, than it was before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I suppose that, without the looming specter of Soviet Apocalypse, socialism is far friendlier than before?

The Soviet Union was not socialist. It wasn't even Communist. It was totalitarian...

 

[Dr Grump]

What narrative do you think Obama should have presented and how exactly should he have "taken control of it"?

Funny think about Americans. We don't particularly like it when people try to order us to do things.

And yet you have no problems telling the rest of the world what to do.

welcome to our world....

Really? Pray tell what American citizens have attempted to tell NZ to do?

1) Your govt, not citizens
2) Care to point out where I'm telling anybody to do anything?

 

[Dr Grump]

We on the right here in America are watching you You rope ean assholes riot over entitlements and we are our asses off.

NZ is not rioting over anything. Plus I live in Oz, where there was hardly a recession at all...

 

[R.C. Christian]

Hey Grump, did y'alls government take away your guns?

1) I'm a NZer not an Oz
2) No they didn't take away my guns, I've never owned one nor will I
3) Australia only got certain types of guns banned
4) Wanna compared deaths by shooting vis-a-vis NZ vs US or Aus vs Us?

No, because we don't care.