The Glade 4.0

What he said.

Although I will say this - please PTBs, please let her be the nominee.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Oh, dear lord, please don't let her be the Republican Nominee....

Lets actually pick someone this year who is moderate in at least some sense of the word. Someone who has some experience, doesn't mind making tough decisions that might leave them politically unfavored, and will stand by the campaign promises they make.

Not that I ever think any of our major party candidates will do those things...

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Obama has done a pretty fantastic job of keeping his campaign promises. I haven't checked politifact in a while, but he was cruising along rather nicely. The hilarious thing is watching people on the far left freak out about the things he's done, despite them being directly in line with his campaign promises.

He broke some promises, no doubt. Some of them on big, big issues. But not nearly as many as he's kept.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

According to http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/ Obama has only kept about 20% of his promises so far.

I'd like to know how you feel qualified to express an opinion on such advanced subjects, such as the economy, when you are pwned by fractions?

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In time, this too shall pass.

Though he didn't link anything, does this count toward the number of times Monty was owned by his own source? That list is getting el hugeo.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I vote that it does.

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The Dude abides.

If it's Obama vs. Palin, I'll vote for Palin.

If it's Obama vs. Palin then I will do my damndest to vote with my feet and move to Canada.

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In progress and stalled = Kept.

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Holy shitsnacks!

See, I figured Kept = Kept, but then I don't try to overstate the situation.

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In time, this too shall pass.

This one thousand times this

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Its Kept till its broken.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Actually, I'll probably do what I did last election.

Let the dice decide who I vote for. It really doesn't matter who I vote for.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Oooh, fractions. I love fractions. Let's see what kind of fun we can have with them...

First the facts.
Promises kept: 119
Promises broken: 19
Promises compromised: 37
Promises stalled: 82
Promises in process: 245
Promises not yet rated: 3

Total promises: 505

So now a little math with my handy dandy calculator here shows that 119/505 = 24% Promises kept which humorously enough is 20% more than what you're giving him credit for. It's also worth noting that this is after about 1.5 years in office.

By contrast he's only broken 4% of his promises, which puts his success to failure ration at 6.3 to 1. Note that I don't view compromises as failures and I'm leaving them out of this number.

If he's able to maintain the current pace and success ratio then we'd expect for him to have successfully kept 63% of his promises by the end of his first term. I honestly don't know how that compares to other presidents, but my gut tells me it's probably pretty decent. Especially given how amazingly hostile the republican party has been to his leadership.

Yeh, should assign weighting to the promises he kept and those he broke

Some of the broken ones were HUGE parts of his platform. Like "I'll make everything available on the internet for 5 days", and "I won't raise taxes on people that make less than 250k."

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Holy shitsnacks!

Yeah, I think you had a little too much fun....

If I have a cake and hand 20% to you, how much have I kept? Oh, I understand! You want to have my cake and eat it too!

A true liberal.

You're humorously assigning all the promises not kept in your file drawer under "hope and change". Next election cycle you'll blame it on Bush.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Hilariously, other liberal sites I've seen range from annoyed to outraged that Obama isn't doing more to keep his promises... or maybe it's that he's not doing more to adhere to Prgressive Orthodoxy.. or something. It's a little hard to say.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

It's not like there's only 2 options in the election...

If it's Obama vs Palin I'll vote third party...

I'll be voting for the person on the ticket with the best chance to defeat the incumbent.

Not that it will matter here in liberal-lefty-land. There is almost zero chance that this states' electoral votes wont go to Obama.

What part of the phrase "bi-cameral Democratic Party supermajority" do you not fully grasp?

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

It's just barely a super-majority in the Senate, DFK, which means that if even one Dem Senator sides with Republicans, the game's over. And that's not even counting all the other obstructionist tactics available to a sizable minority in the Senate. Arguing that everything Congress does or doesn't do is on the Dems right now is just b.s.

Demonstrate that. "Barely a supermajority" does not negate "supermajority".

Show me exactly how Republicans, voting as a block and assuming no defectors, can wholly obstruct anything the Democrats want, given the same assumptions.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Having broken form problems. I thought Palin was a good Balancer to Mccain's ticket, but I don't think she's ready to be on her own yet. However in the end, I can not vote for Obama in good conscience.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

My point is that those are unrealistic assumptions.