AK-47s “belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities.”
-President Barack Obama
True, but sadly no one will do anything about it. Washington is just afraid of the NRA and the conservative nuts that support it financially. What a shame…
Because Jesus would have totally wanted to deprive the sick, the poor and the needy of affordable health insurance.
-FA
The Whitehouse.gov response to the petition to remove “under god” from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Is anybody surprised about this response? Funny how “religion in the public square” is nothing more than a crappy euphemism for religion in government. Nobody is banning the mention of god in public though. What a non sequitur.
Funny how the “Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships” says that the separation of church and state is really important. If it really was such a faith based governmental position like his would not exist. But whatever. Just because you add the phrase “non-believers” to the end of a sentence does not magically make it OK. What a load of BS.
-FA
Funny how the republican selected secretary of defense wants to get the repeal done, as opposed to the President and the Democrat controlled congress. It was all empty rhetoric. Typical politicians….
Here is a reply in response to this post.
tobiaslane said: Mega-overreaction. Think about this stuff. Obama and the democrats did as much as the filibuster would allow and we got more progress in the last 2 years than the previous 60. Take a quick flip through whatthefuckhasobamadone…
The picture above is a screen shot of the website the moment I clicked on the link. It goes without saying that Guantanamo is still open for business.
-FA
PD
BTW, the filibuster is not an article of the constitution. It could have been eliminated by a simple majority vote. Just saying.
*Warning* Political commentary ahead.
I predict even bigger republican “shellackings” in 2012 if democrats keep rolling over like they usually do. Not even 24 hours have passed and this is what we get.
Remember that democrats won both houses of congress, most states and the presidency in 2008. What concessions or compromises did democrats get from republicans in the next 2 years? NONE. ZERO. ZILCH.
Democrats lose the lower house just one day ago, in a mid term election, and the President is all of a sudden tripping over himself to appease republicans. With that institutionalized lack of conviction and/or principles, Democrats deserve to lose every single time. And why not? Aren’t republicans in charge anyway even when democrats are supposedly in the majority?
Like the democratic blue dogs in this election the President will learn the hard way that winning an election with votes from the republican base will only happen after hell freezes over, and as we all know there is no evidence that hell exists so the more harder it is still. When will democrats actually act upon the principles they talk so much about?
-FA
Obama: “I am a Christian by choice.”
Friendly Atheist: “I am an Atheist by obligation (to truth, reason and reality).”
With the Proposition 8 fight, Obama has fallen short in a different way, by his reluctance to join an emerging social consensus. Obama had previously criticized California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage, as “divisive.” But his official position—which no one believes he actually holds—is that he is against legalizing gay marriage. Americans are changing their views on this issue with inspiring rapidity. Judge Vaughn Walker’s moving opinion provided an occasion for Obama to embrace the extension of equal rights to gay people. Instead, he slunk mumbling in the other direction. How dismal that America’s first black president will be remembered as shirking the last great civil-rights struggle.
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President Obama
Tolerance is a good idea. But Obama has just divided the nation, forgetting all of his previous brief, superficial mentions of non-believers, into those who are part of his one nation under God, and the rest of us, who are…what? Not part of the nation?
-PZ Myers
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The president refuses to stand up for immigration, gay rights, and religious freedom - by Jacob Weisberg (via danielholter)
Indeed…
