Military Strike on Syria?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/29/13 at 10:47pm

Unbelievable. We're goin' it alone! Again.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/29/13 at 10:48pm

This planet is in big trouble.

I feel sick.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:22am

i find it abhorrent that the republican president is ignoring congress and the world to lob missiles at syria because his pride is hurt.

typical behavior of the gop!

oh wait...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:24am

I never could figure out why Republicans hated him so much.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:27am

because they answer to different corporate masters.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:27am

Me either Namo. He's like a George W. lite.
I'm glad I didn't vote for him in 2012.

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:27am

with logic like that Pappa, youre gonna get IGNORED

Updated On: 8/30/13 at 09:27 AM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:28am

"because they answer to different corporate masters."
That's the truth!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:28am

He got heavy when he started with the unconscionable drone strikes.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:29am

me too, erik. this would never be happening if my guy had won.

jimmy "the rents too damn high" mcmillan would never be lobbing missiles at syria because them damn things is expensive!

[javero]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:29am

Full disclosure: I voted for Obama 2x.

However, the cynic in me can't help but wonder if this is a Syria-Invasion-for-Obamacare-Funding faustian deal with GOP congressional hawks. Oct 1 is a critical date in that it marks the start of both the federal government's fiscal year and a major Obamacare funding cycle. If Congress doesn't send the POTUS an appropriations bill for his signature by that date or approve a continuing resolution to fund the gov't on an interim basis, there will be a shutdown. Also looming is the mid-Oct debt ceiling debacle.

I don't know what else to make of going it alone.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:30am

Yup. The drone strikes are what completely disillusioned me. It made it impossible for me to vote for him.
He really should return his Nobel Peace Prize.

I voted green in 2012. Went with Jill Stein. Updated On: 8/30/13 at 09:30 AM

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:30am

They dont like OBAMA cuz he thinks the

Govt can solve all your problems.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:38am

Papa, different corporate masters are in fact the case. I also agree this is a way for hime to make nice with the Right and have them go a little less harshly on his legacy, Obamacare.
I voted for Obama twice, but am now regretting my second vote.

Though the other choice was completely unacceptable!

Updated On: 8/30/13 at 09:38 AM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:41am

javero, i don't believe he's getting anything from the gop on this. i think it's about pride. he foolishly made a statement from which he could not back away and someone called his bluff. i realy feel he's the most venal president since nixon and that he's pissed that he could be made to look the fool.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:43am

I don't think he's getting anything from the GOP either.
When you look at his record he has no problem using force. There's no reason to believe he's doing this because he's been backed into a corner.

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:45am

maybe he will continue his usual policy

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 9:57am

Let's not pretend that McCain or Romney would do any different in this matter.

Which makes Obama's decision all the more revolting. Can they revoke that Nobel Peace Prize?

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 10:00am

interesting you ask that ROSCOE, there are campaigns under foot. This is from the ultralib HUFFPOST.


The Growing Campaign to Revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize that President Obama received 40 months ago has emerged as the most appalling Orwellian award of this century. No, war is not peace.

George Carlin used to riff about oxymorons like "jumbo shrimp," "genuine imitation," "political science" and "military intelligence." But humor is of the gallows sort when we consider the absurdity and tragedy of the world's most important peace prize honoring the world's top war maker.

This week, a challenge has begun with the launch of a petition urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to revoke Obama's Peace Prize. By midnight of the first day, nearly 10,000 people had signed. The online petition simply tells the Nobel committee: "I urge you to rescind the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Barack Obama."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-solomon/the-growing-campaign-to-r_b_3007189.html

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 10:04am

which is why i didn't vote for either of those two, roscoe.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 10:04am

Who cares if the revoke it or not Roscoe. I mean Arafat has one. It doesn't really have any meaning.

Maybe Putin should get one next year.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 10:05am

the obama foreign policy:


"just muscular enough not to get mocked"

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 10:08am

putin wants your nobel prize

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 10:14am

I voted for Obama twice, but am now regretting my second vote.

Word.

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/30/13 at 10:15am

Well the good thing is he has former Prez W backing... even though Barak blames everything but the food on the Presidents Jet on him...

George W. Bush: "The president's got a tough choice to make and if he decides to use our military, he'll have the greatest military ever backing him up."