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Presidential Counter Programming: GOP Debate or NFL Opening Night

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Aug 31, 2011.

  1. CarltonBanks

    CarltonBanks New Member

    I don't think Obama is necessarily being a dick...just playing politics. And he was shot down. No big deal.

    Now if he wanted to preempt the NFL opener, that's an entirely different thing.
     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member



    He's going to do health care and then he's going to pivot to jobs.
     
  3. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    On the other hand, these guys have been out of session for how long? How important can those votes really be?
     
  4. CarltonBanks

    CarltonBanks New Member

    Are you serious? After a two-and-a-half year "laser-like" focus on jobs, this is the culmination of all that focus. This is a big fucking deal (TM Joe Biden).
     
  5. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

     
  6. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    There's jobs out there, just, for the most part, they aren't good jobs.

    And if you feel underemployed, you don't want to make a backwards move just to do something different.

    Better jobs are available but then you have to make a literal move to another state or region and that's easier said then done.
     
  7. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Newsletter = subscribed.
     
  8. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    It doesn't matter what Obama says or when he says it or where. He's finished anyhow. People, especially the people who voted for him, know he's just an exceptionally timid pol who folds at the first hint of opposition from the Republicans about ANYTHING -- like when this speech should be held. He's a very smart man who just couldn't step outside his own success within the system to see that the system is irretrievably broken and will either radically change for the better, meaning he'd have to fight for something, or radically change for the worse, which is what's going to happen.
    Bottom line: There's nobody in American elected office, or at least no more than five percent, who gives a good goddamn about anybody who isn't wealthy. And that sure includes the President.
     
  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Breaking: Obama bows to Boehner's demands. Took him almost three full hours to fold this time.

    I am sure he will be met with utterly unmitigated unanimous support Thursday, in recognition of his magnanimous and selfless gesture.
     
  10. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    A GOP debate, in September? And the primary season starts in, what, February?

    In a related development, the Royals and White Sox will start the exhibition season tomorrow.
     
  11. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member


    Just looking back, there had already been nine debates among Democrats by this time in 2007.
     
  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Depending on what Florida does, Iowa could be as early as January 3rd.

    (Florida would set off a chain reaction causing South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Iowas to all move up.)
     
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