08-30-2016, 11:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2016, 12:03 PM by Eric the Green.)
(08-29-2016, 11:53 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-29-2016, 10:42 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:He got politically slapped, retreated back to his room and remained there for six more years.(08-29-2016, 10:11 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-29-2016, 04:57 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Who the hell is Colin Kaepernick? That's the poll quesiton. For moi, it's who the fuck is Colin Kaepernick?What do you expect when the Robber Barons have the Democrats eating from their hands? You didn't actually believe that Obama was rugged enough to take on the rich.
Then again, this is about fötbah. I do not do fötbah whatsoever. The NFL etc. is a bunch of overpaid, overstuffed jocks who make way way too much money and their managers don't really belong to a city. The managers should be tied to whatever stadium they're currently at. Also, any city that builds a new stadium is the ultimate sucker in this.
Obama took them on as far as the Republicans and current ideology would allow him to.
Democrats eating from the hands of robber barons? I think you'd find if you looked that Republicans eat a lot more from their hands. But Democrats eat some too, it's true. The answer is to take money out of politics. Given that, the fact that all justices who voted for the Citizens United decision were Republican appointees, and all all who voted against it were Democratic appointees, and the fact that Democrats support reform and Republicans oppose it, should tell you all anyone needs to know about who's who in this regard.
That was his only option. When the people refuse to come out to vote, or vote for a congress determined to resist you fanatically and shut down the government, there's not a whole lot that even a president with an 18-3 candidate-horoscope score can do. Or even 19-2 with Jupiter rising! (Bill Clinton, shut down in Nov.1994). The people need to support the president through his/her term if they hope for any results from electing him or her. That's how our system works, but lots of people don't seem to understand that. They think you can just elect a president and that's all you need to do for four years, and then you can blame everything on him or her. What rubbish!
I think we need a parliamentary system. In that system, it's easier to understand. You vote for your legislature representative, and that's it. If your party doesn't get a majority, then it doesn't get its leader elected for the country. All democracies except ours, the first one, have this system; even the one we set up in our own colony of Iraq in 2003. Our early form of a democratic system is long outdated.