Obama and the Paths He Chooses

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I am not going to read over everything again so just ask away and I will try to answer them.
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See Page #3 of this thread, the 3rd post.
Shouldn't be too difficult.
 
Quote from Landis82:

An unproven track record?
My God, do you even have a clue as to who President elect Obama has appointed to his cabinet?

For example, what is it about Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense that is unproven in your opinion?

What is it about General Jim Jones and his appointment as the National Security Advisor that is unproven?

How about former Army Chief of Staff and General Eric Shinseki that will be heading up the VA?
What is it about General Shinseki that is "unproven" in your mind?

How about Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy?
What is "unproven" about him?
Did we even have a national energy policy over the past 8 years?
If so, what was it besides filling up the SPR?

How about Larry Summers or Paul Volcker?
What is it about these 2 men that is unproven in your opinion when it comes to negotiating through the waters of the Economy?

How about Mary Schapiro as the new chairman of the SEC?
What is it about her that is "unproven" in your mind especially when compared to current SEC executive chairman Christoper Cox, who Bush appointed in August of 2005?

- - - Please be specific when answering my questions above.

Nothing is "certain" in life . . . but I must say that I am rather impressed with many of the President elect's appointments.
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Are you honestly telling me that you think a person's track record can be seen and judged by the people he appoints in his cabinet?

Thats like saying this certain person is amazing at baseball because he picked all these great players on his fantasy team.

You truly have to be mentally challenged if you equate a person's track record with the people they appoint.
 
Quote from Landis82:

Once again, you completely missed my point . . . But I am not surprised given your partisanship bias and your lack of knowledge regarding how government and politics "work" in this Country.

Given some of your comments on ET ( and lack of grammar ), I would guess that you are quite young, and not originally from the United States. I have noticed that you tend to make claims and statements that are quite general in tone, with absolutely no facts in evidence to substantiate such claims, assumptions, and generalizations, and yet with a specific bias.

Not once did you address the suggestion that I made about the power of an effective leader in the White House, as opposed to a WEAK leader ( Bush ) that rarely used his VETO pen and who allowed Congress to ride roughshod. Was the depth of my point too difficult for you to comprehend, from an intellectual standpoint? Otherwise, why would you shy away from addressing it?

Instead, you go off on some sort of tangent ( and naive rant ) about Democrats in Congress not willing to further their careers . . . and instead "more interested in proving that Bush was a dumbass instead of actually helping their political careers."

You must be quite naive to think that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and the rest of the Democratic Congressional leadership saw their political careers aligned with anything having to do with George Bush. Were they in jeopardy of being voted out? Of course not.
So why would they accomodate George Bush and the lowest approval rating of a President in modern history?

You must be incredibly ignorant of how government and politics work.
Why you'd think that Pelosi and Reid and Frank & Company would do anything to help prevent an already "sinking ship" is absolutely beyond me. Their political "goodwill" was not tied to Bush in any shape or form whatsoever. It was tied to whoever the Democratic Presidential nominee was going to be! - - - That's not an excuse. It's not a lie. It's simply a political FACT. Why you can't fathom that is absolutely beyond me, and most people here on ET.

But leave it to you to ASSume and infer that I am happy with what has happened in the Democratic Congress over the past 2 years . . . I can quite frankly say the opposite is true. But I understand how politics work, as opposed to the naive generalizations that you continually present here on ET.

And for what its worth, until this year I was a registered Republican for 28 years. So congratulations for making yet another absurd ASSumption about the political party that I associate with.

Have a nice Weekend.
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Landis-

Don't waste your time with this idiot, brother.

He is the stockturd3r of the P&R forum.
 
Quote from Landis82:

Thanks.
Will put on IGNORE.
:)
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Reaver beat me to it with his good advice. You need to remember that while ignorance can be corrected, stupid is forever. Don't waste anything more than an occasional and much deserved insult on NeoRodent.
 
Quote from Landis82:

Thanks.
Will put on IGNORE.
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The only problem in putting the high school kid on "ignore" is that you miss out on a lot of fun. I usually read his posts when I need to get a good laugh. Thankfully, NR is abundantly available and is at his cracking best during the evening hours in his inebriated state after having performed quite a few elbow-bending exercises.
 
Quote from ak15:

The only problem in putting the high school kid on "ignore" is that you miss out on a lot of fun. I usually read his posts when I need to get a good laugh. Thankfully, NR is abundantly available and is at his cracking best during the evening hours in his inebriated state after having performed quite a few elbow-bending exercises.
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Apparently you agree with what Landis has said.

If you agree than answer this question.

Does it make sense to judge Obama's leadership skills, track record and overall experience by looking at the people he appoints in his cabinet?

You liberals would look so much better if instead of teaming up to insult the opposite view you could actually team up to debate the opposite view.
 
Quote from NeoRio1:

You liberals would look so much better if instead of teaming up to insult the opposite view you could actually team up to debate the opposite view.
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The problem is . . . is that no one sees the VALUE of debating you because you have such a distorted and "grandiose" style of debating based in presenting one generalization after another, with no evidence or basis in fact, and very little logic being applied except for a rather naive partisanship . . . conveniently avoiding key points being raised, along with an overall lack of basic understanding of just how Congress and the Executive Branch function under strong and/or weak leaders.

Good Luck to You.
 
Quote from Landis82:

The problem is . . . is that no one sees the VALUE of debating you because you have such a distorted and "grandiose" style of debating based in presenting one generalization after another, with no evidence or basis in fact, and very little logic being applied except for a rather naive partisanship . . . conveniently avoiding key points being raised, along with an overall lack of basic understanding of just how Congress and the Executive Branch function under strong and/or weak leaders.

Good Luck to You.
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How can I be anything but general when it comes to Obama? He hasn't said shit for the last couple months. Basically the only judgment that can be made about the man is what he hasn't said as of right now. Everything else is pure speculation on what he can and can't do.

You think Obama will most likely become a great leader.

I think he will be a poor leader.

We will see.
 
Quote from NeoRio1:

How can I be anything but general when it comes to Obama? He hasn't said shit for the last couple months. Basically the only judgment that can be made about the man is what he hasn't said as of right now. Everything else is pure speculation on what he can and can't do.

You think Obama will most likely become a great leader.

I think he will be a poor leader.

We will see.
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Once again, you have put words in my mouth.
Your lack of reading comprehension is once again rearing its "ugly" head and proving exactly my point as to why it is a complete waste of time debating you.

I have never said that "Obama will most likely become a great leader."
What I have said ( thus far ) is that I have been very impressed with the appointments that he has made to his cabinet.

But you certainly do appear to be OBSESSED with the President elect ( who I might add has yet to officially take office ), given the FACT that you have posted 216 times using his name.
 
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