My mom keeps saying Obama is "evil". I ask why, and she has no answer. She just says she knows he's evil, he seems evil.
She's one of these End Time Prophecy people, she's obsessed with the Biblical End Times, and I think she must have seen one of those old pictures or cartoons that show Obama as a devil and is just going on that.
I'm no Obama fan, but I don't think he's at all evil in that sense.
Does anyone else think Obama is evil....Anti-Christ type of evil? IIN to think this??
She's one of these End Time Prophecy people, she's obsessed with the Biblical End Times, and I think she must have seen one of those old pictures or cartoons that show Obama as a devil and is just going on that.
I'm no Obama fan, but I don't think he's at all evil in that sense.
Does anyone else think Obama is evil....Anti-Christ type of evil? IIN to think this??

And they're doing a damn good job.
Think Obama's awesome? You just give him 4 more years and see.
Think Romney's your man? Think he'll repeal Obamacare? HA! You just wait and see, too.
Ron Paul is the lesser of three evils, but there's no way he's really going to be in the white house. Besides, I don't want to see him assassinated, so I'd rather he went back to Texas and lived a long, happy life with his wife.
The Obamney clones can burn in hell, where they're from.
He's portrayed as a god-like creature in U.S. media to spread their agenda dispite all of this, and European media take that to the next level.
Bush was a nightmare, which opened the door for this monster...
...makes me wonder how much worse the next guy's going to be.
He is personable though...and he can sing! That's cool...
...and just to play into the OPs thread...Satan was an angel...
When Bush was in office, the 4th Amendment of our Constitution (basically states that it's illegal for the government to search and siege property) was whittled into obscureity...anyone who questioned the PATRIOT act (yes...that's really what they called it), was accused of being a terrorist. "What do you have to hide?" His foreign policy was "kill everyone and ask questions later."
Now the Obama administration is shredding individual liberty for the sake of the "collective good;" from requiring citizens to purchase a service, to dictating the food our children eat. His foreign policy is "apologize to everyone that wants to exterminate us so they will hold hands with us and sing 'Kum Ba Ya'."
Scary stuff...from both of them.
As far as how inept each of them are with basics of law, history, and articulation? I'd say they're equal. Bush knew how many States we have in the Union. Obama knows how to pronounce "nuclear."
Everything he said about Bush doesn't deserve questioning.
Anywhoo..typical left wing banter. Don't need an exact quote or speech, when he probably was alluding to when Obama leaned over towards Putin and said, "we can work something out once this pesky election is over," when he told the middle east that Isreal, our ally, and a people who's targeted by all of its neighbors for extermination, that "they should revert to the 1967 borders," who thinks Chaves isn't a threat...but ok...he might not have stood up and said, "I'm sorry" to someone.
He is, in fact all about regulating how much salt producers can put in condiments, wants power over resturaunts to regulate nutrition standards, and when mayor Bloomberg proposed limiting soft drinks to no more than 16 oz containers, his wife mentioned how great it would be...and that's the model the rest of the nation should follow! Ok..so that wasn't him...but, given precidence, that's the houshold rule.
As for the second part of your answer, BFD.
I will say, though, that when he's been on European soil, he's been quite aggressive about getting the best deal for America. He's been polite about it too, but nonetheless aggressive. This isn't a criticism. I wish our leaders were more like that and got better deals for us.
Bush, on the other hand, completely undermined the U.S. as a country. By choosing him as a figurehead, the rest of the world thought America had taken leave of its senses. And I actually quite like George Bush as a person. He does have qualities worth having. But as a person. Not as a person with any kind of responsibility.
In terms of intelligence, I couldn't even begin to compare the two. I'd certainly challenge anyone saying Obama is unintelligent.
Or...do you mean the billions in kickbacks and insentives GE gets? Wait! GE is a big corporation...Obama can't be in bed with them!
Buffet and Soros don't support him either. They're evil billionaires. Wait..the Buffet rule says he needs to pay his fair share! Maybe instead of paying his team of corporate lawyers to fight what Berkshire pays while he tells the rest of us "shame! shame!" he could...just pay "his fair share?"
The left is as guilty as anyone...for hypocracy.
The Buffet rule is not law. Also contesting the IRS and their figures doesn't make him guilty of anything.
Telling everyone else to "pay their fair share," while expending every available rescource to avoid doing so oneself...is the epitome of hypocracy. Simply saying it's not...proves that you are either blind, irrational, or both; rendering this entire debate usless.
He's good at talking, very good at talking
but he's piss-poor at actually doing something good. He throws billions at projects that they KNOW were failing, refuses to drill for oil and taps our reserves instead to artificially lower gas prices.
And that's not even counting all the top-secret information he's let "leak" from the white house... all to make himself look popular. Who cares what lives THAT bullshit move costs the operators in resources & life, as long as he can use it to get votes right?
and what's up with that "you didn't build that" bullshit?
Because someone had "help" from a teacher or friend and got successful, they owe the *government* more taxes.
Sure, stomp out success. It works really O_o.
I don't necessarily disagree with his intentions but I think that he is pushing this much kore rapidly than we are able to handle at the moment. I wish he'd focus more on reform of corporate regulations to.ensure that this doesn't happen again as well as re-evaluation of national defense endeavors, welfare programs and and the progress of our education system.
The social values of our country are becoming more liberal than many of us have the adaptability to evolve into successfully. The younger generation here is being taught tolerance but.not how far that tolerance should go and whom they shouls and shouldn't trust as well as how to properly handle their personal desires. Parents are often failing to step up to the plate as economic conditions often prohibit them to spend ideal time with their kids and about half of the parents in this country did not intend on parenthood, statistically many of them are young and single.
We're at a pivotal point where education is most needed to help these people better understand the changing environment around them, and to take control of their lives rather than remain in a state of learned helplessness because opportunity is argueably harder to find. It's not just politicians that must change, the citizens must change too.
To get out of a recession early, business needs stimulating, creating jobs, giving people disposable income, allowing them to buy products, and houses, and get capital circulating again rather than stagnating in banks.
The problem is, when the economy is bad, the welfare spend is at its highest and it seems counter-intuitive to cut back on something when people need it most. And there is always a "buffer" too; a delay in the benefits of changes. The public don't often accept solutions that don't offer immediate tangible benefits. Explaining this kind of thing is one of the few things I have sympathies with politicians for.
Addressing the public......
But (even though I think the cloves thing is RETARDED) you have to argue that while cigarettes kill thousands of people a year, cannabis has never killed anyone, and treats a shitload of different medical conditions, everything from anxiety and insomnia up to tumor reduction, and has been proven to prevent alzheimer's and (perhaps) make the lungs more resistant to cancer. At the very least they've been trying to find a link between cannabis and cancer recently, and so far have found jack shit.
I don't think shrooms would actually *do* anything if you smoked them, but I know what you mean. :P I've tripped a few times and I wouldn't dream of trying to drive on that shit.
Do you drink or smoke or anything? I get the feeling that you're straight edge, it's always weird talking about effects of drugs to someone who's never tried them. :P
Actually this one would probably be pretty all inclusive
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_faq1.shtml
Sources at the bottom.
And I wanted the link to the government study, but google is being unhelpful right now and this is good enough
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=casual-marijuana-smoking
The study you're quoting was tossed out years ago, monkeys lost brain cells because they were being gassed and deprived of oxygen.
Personally, I find Obama as about as fearsome and formidable as a new born mouse.