Obama will donate entire $1.4 million Nobel winnings to charity

[Soul Crusher]

Now wait a minute, you guys are all over the place one minute the mindless idiots who are lucky they can get themselves dressed in the morning, now they influence elections? One minute they have no power, the next they will be the downfall of the POTUS.

It depends what day it is. 

BTW - I think today definitely defeats any notion of 240's idea that he is a libertarian in any sense of the word.   

[Parker]

Now wait a minute, you guys are all over the place one minute the mindless idiots who are lucky they can get themselves dressed in the morning, now they influence elections? One minute they have no power, the next they will be the downfall of the POTUS.

Ignorance is a very powerful weapon in American politics.

[Hedgehog]

Wow, pretty huge move there.  Obama's net worth is $800,000 (2008 filings) and he's just going to give the $ to charity.  Incredible move there.

I suppose some of the very rich right-wing voices hating on this move, won't be donating 1.4 million of their huge salaries to charity this year, even though they are worth way more than Obama.

I heard he's donating it to the charity "Free Craig Titus" and the responsible website.





...any truth to that rumor bro? 

[2ND COMING]

I think 240 enjoys this a little more IMHO. 

is that obamas mouth as a vagina 

[Kazan]

Ignorance is a very powerful weapon in American politics.

Not to me it isn't, I put about as much faith in what Glen Beck has to say as I do Keith Olberman, they are entertainers. The odds that you are going to get an unbiased story out them is about as likley as me striking oil in my back yard.

[Parker]

Not to me it isn't, I put about as much faith in what Glen Beck has to say as I do Keith Olberman, they are entertainers. The odds that you are going to get an unbiased story out them is about as likley as me striking oil in my back yard.

Then count yourself lucky. The same people who can't even park their car, let alone keep it clean, are the same people who call a business man in a m5 a liberal elitist socialist... All for driving that car.
 The same people who complain about illegals and how they are allegedly driving down wages, doesn't realize that corps were not going to put extra money in their chex if their were no illegals do low wage jobs. The same people who complain that whites will eventually be a minority, don't realize that overweight people are the majority, and taking care of them in the future will create a lot of healthcare challenges

[a_joker10]

beats me.  something about peace, love, happiness.

Those aren't goals, but aspirations. I think most people would put those on their list of things to aspire to.

A goal has to be achievable.

For example, Obama has a short term goal of closing Gitmo, getting out of Iraq and winning in Afghanistan. What is the long term goal.
It can't be to make America safer, because, having 160,000 troops surrounding your greatest threat makes you more safe. Taking them away makes you vulnerable.

How about nuclear deterrence and the missile shield, he wants to scrap both.
Again he says it is to make America safer, but how is that possible. Every nation knows that America can blow them to kingdom come, this ensures that China and Russia aren't aggressive and missile shields would help to protect vulnerable friendly states like Poland from Rogue states like Iran. But that isn't important to him. instead he withdraws the shields from the vulnerable states and proposes to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons. No Russia is building nuclear warheads for Iran.

He is a Carter or Chamberlain light. Both got caught up in Appeasement and both paid dearly for it and the rest of the world is still being held hostage from their decisions on both Germany and Iran.
The huge problems in the Middle East can be directly traced to decisions they made. Now Obama is going down the same path.

How about health care or climate change? He wants a plan on both, but what is his goal, protecting the environment or providing health care to all Americans? It can't be because he hasn't even put his own bill forward and he isn't backing any bill right now that would either ensure a large amount of reduction in green house gases or 100% coverage because he needs votes in some key states that would oppose those measures.

Strong leaders make unpopular decisions in the face of great opposition to meet their goals. Weak ones fallow the masses and make popular decision in easy times and forget their goals.
How many short term goals has he met?

Running the most powerful nation in the world isn't a popularity contest, even though Obama seems to think it is.
Who cares what the UN thinks as long as America and its Allies are better off with each decision he makes. He doesn't seem to understand this. Because he still looking to be the most popular guy in school.

[The Showstoppa]

Send it to me.