Why so socialist?

[jct us101]

The same photo removed from Flickr due to a false DMCA takedown notice.

[KungPOW]

Who took the photo?

[Ratmagiclady]

I'm sure it's just grabbed om someone else's work, really.

Tsk. no respect for the office.

[gokenin]

more important no respect for one of the greatest villans in Batman history The Joker

[graphicgr8s]

Originally Posted by gokenin

more important no respect for one of the greatest villans in Batman history The Joker

And to think I agree with you here

The penguin wasn't to far behind though. But the Riddler was almost as bad as the Joker

[gokenin]

I would say Two-Face would be the second best villian I loved that absolute certainty of a coin toss The best one time only villian would have to go to Bane the only villian to beat the Batman

[KungPOW]

Originally Posted by Ratmagiclady

I'm sure it's just grabbed om someone else's work, really.

Tsk. no respect for the office.

I was assuming the photo was of a banner on the side of a building. Are you sugesting it is a photoshop job?

[Mike Cash]

Originally Posted by Ratmagiclady

Tsk. no respect for the office.

......Trying to recall expressions of similar sentiment during Bush's tenure......Nope....nothing springs to mind.

[Ratmagiclady]

Originally Posted by Mike Cash

......Trying to recall expressions of similar sentiment during Bush's tenure......Nope....nothing springs to mind.

*Bush* didn't respect the office. Tit for tat doesn't work if you don't know *the words* you're using for scary accusations. It's not 'tit for tat' if you've got people screaming out of ignorance of what 'Socialism' 'National Socialism' and 'Socialized Medicine' *mean?* "They all say Social, ergo, Obama, Sweden, and Canada are Nazi! OMG!"

And Cheney was The Penguin.

Bush and Cheney were disrespected cause of what they *did,* not because of who they *are* or what someone want you to be afraid they *might* do.

If you're gonna compare people to Batman villains, at least pick one that fits, rather than just picking an excuse to stick scary makeup on posters. There isn't even any kind of meaningful comparison there, it's just a reason to put Obama in white-face to *scare* people.

Say 'Socialist' cause he supports a public option a majority of Americans favor? (Yes, they do. If people are going to be forced to buy health insurance, they need an option they can afford and protection from the price-gouging. I heard this spelled out pretty nicely last night. In the past ten years, average wages have gone up 29 percent: health insurance costs more like 129 percent, and corporate health care *profits* 428 percent. )

Support for the public option goes way up when people look at the facts that the Republican plans would just force people to buy health insurance. And use public money to subsidize paying ...guess who, the big insurance companies, billions in public money to profit off of. And still control prices.

Meanwhile Fox News is orchestrating this Astroturf movement for people to scream in panic about what they don't understand, the rest of the MSM duly covers these, err, 'displays' like it's really half of some kind of serious debate, ...and after the past two election cycles of saying about Democratic candidates, 'Boring, don't pay attention to them they're boring,...' along comes another smart guy, this time with both statesmanship *and* some charisma, and all of a sudden the same people are "He must have some kind of *vooodooo power!* We must 'expose' this!"


It's like, ..dudes. He can speak. And after eight years of Bush being a national embarrassment, people are and have been psyched. Get over it. You might even try listening. Yes, most of the country is more 'liberal' than Fox News pundits. This was the case when the Dem candidates were 'boring,' too.

[Mike Cash]

Originally Posted by Ratmagiclady

*Bush* didn't respect the office.

Neither does the current occupant, which makes the rest of your weak self-serving justification of your usual double standards not worth replying to.

[graphicgr8s]

Originally Posted by Mike Cash

Neither does the current occupant, which makes the rest of your weak self-serving justification of your usual double standards not worth replying to.

And the one before W didn't either. I mean oral sax in the Oval Office.

[Parallax]

Originally Posted by Ratmagiclady

*Bush* didn't respect the office. ................

As opposed to the staunch moralist that preceded him?

[flyer]

The way some of you (Americans) talk about your president sounds even more radical than the worst Nazi or Communist. When you say he has no respect for the office, by saying that it just shows that you have no respect for it either. Just my opinion, and you don't have to agree with me. Just prove me wrong.

[er1kksen]

In accordance with Flyer, I'll stand up and say I don't have much respect for the office. I've always gotten the impression the president (any president in the last few decades) did more to further the benefits of wall street and the military-industrial complex than anything else; if that helps out the people on the way, well, great. If it doesn't, well, it tends to get spun so that at least a large, vocal portion of the population thinks it does, which is enough to get those who aren't so sure (even if they're the majority) to play along.

[Ash]

It seems very few people have respect for any form of authority.

Flyer, ideally people would accept who their leaders are and would support them in their job to make life for the regular man better. Unfortunately, much of human nature is about finding fault and playing the blame game particularly with those who are in influential roles in society.

Nevertheless, it's quite clear that leaders are not infallible, and indeed most of them would have been involved in bribery, personal agendas and activities that do not have the people's interest at heart. I don't know if we can fully understand what motivates a politician to get caught up in such acts unless we've been in a similar position, so I'm not one to judge.