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Obama jealousy is so hot right now

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Obama jealousy is so hot right now

from JoeUser Forums

There seems to be a bit of a jealous streak running through the JU commentary on Obama these past few days. What's up with it?

The man is clearly clever. He has an Ivy League education. He rose to the top of a political institution. He writes good speeches and hires good speechwriters. He has a good understanding of technology and hires people capable of using it for fun and profit.

The man is clearly athletically gifted. He plays basketball frequently and is probably the fittest (both in the British and generic sense of the word) president in a long time. Speaking of the British sense, he has a hot wife and (unsurprisingly) a ready smile. Many men and women either want him or want to be him.

The man is clearly charismatic. Many of his followers seem to think he's the second coming of Jesus. His religious detractors consider him so charming that not only will he bring peace to the world, but armageddon too.

He speaks of hope, of dreams found and lives made meaningful again without the fear and drudgery of the past, and he does it with all the force of narrative causality.

It's normal to be jealous of this kind of man - rich, successful, charming, canny, the kind of man who speaks as if he thinks you can achieve your dreams and, more than that, wants you to.

But really, you're not doing yourself any favours by slagging him off mere days after he was inaugurated. With a bit of patience, you could do the nasty when he's fucked up, and crowing about it could be read by the kind as just a slightly enthusiastic taking to task rather than jealousy of Michelle.

In short, he may well be better than you in every way the public considers important. Get over it. You have many fine qualities which both differentiate yourself from a popular icon and give you an edge in your specialities. I might even like you.

Just sit back, and wait for the bad things to happen before you go in with both fists swinging. You never know. Maybe Obama will save you. It's not like you've got anyone else to fall back on if he can't.

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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

No person on earth gets my support with campaign promises and speeches. I never understood the idol mentality in the sense of people fainting around pop stars, or actors. My father is my hero along with a few select people I've met along the way. If Obama has you creaming your jeans, that's wonderful. It take more than what I've seen so far to impress me.
Wonderful. Your dad makes you cream your jeans. Incest is one of many, many topics I have no desire to get google search referrals from. So bugger off.
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Tell ya what, I'll bugger off, when you solve all the problems in Australia first. Are there too many liberals there that they need to swoon over this president? If people of other nations worried half as much about their own leaders as they do about the US, the world would be a better place. Tell me, how many people in the US do you think even know your prime ministers name? Why? Because for the most part they don't care. I like Australia, was there in 82, lots of "friendly" people (what is your mom's name?), but I'm uninterested in its politics, that said,don't you have a Brittany Spears or Jonas Brothers fan club to gush over? G'day mate. ;)

Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

I'd like to think my friends don't share a single emotional response to any issue, let alone elections.
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I know they're not strictly speaking all your friends, but the left here pretty much shared a single emontional response to Bush's election - hatred.

I don't recall a recount, or it being decided in the courts. In terms of recent US presidential elections, it was practically a landslide. But yes, in more normal terms it wasn't so much a bad loss as a convincing one.
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Had 4-5% of voters gone the other way, we'd very likely be talking about President McCain (gotta allow for that EC thing).  That's not what I'd call a landslide, but relativism is a way of life for the left. ;)

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Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top

Had 4-5% of voters gone the other way, we'd very likely be talking about President McCain (gotta allow for that EC thing). That's not what I'd call a landslide, but relativism is a way of life for the left
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Well, since we're all having fun being petty I want in too! This election was actually the widest margin in favor of one candidate since the 1996 election.

-popular vote-

2008-  Dem: 52.9% Rep: 45.7% (7.2 % margin in favor of Dem)

2004- Dem: 48.3% Rep: 50.7% (2.4 % margin in favor of Rep)

2000- Dem: 48.4% Rep: 47.9% (0.5 % margin in favor of Dem, Rep won on electoral college/supreme court decision stopping florida recount and granting presidency)

1996- Dem: 49.2% Rep: 40.7% (8.5 % margin in favor of Dem)

1992- Dem: 43% Rep: 37% Floppy-ears: 18.9% (6 % in favor of Dem)

1988- Dem: 45.6 % Rep: 53.4% (7.8 % in favor or Rep)

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

granting presidency
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:rofl: :X :rofl:

Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top

LOL.  This is a wonderfully ironic article.

Apparently there were a LOT of people jealous of Bush then...

Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top

2000- Dem: 48.4% Rep: 47.9% (0.5 % margin in favor of Dem, Rep won on electoral college/supreme court decision stopping florida recount and granting presidency)
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Still have the sour grapes I see.  Some people just cant accept facts, and must always rely on talking points and lies.

If people of other nations worried half as much about their own leaders as they do about the US, the world would be a better place.
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If they had half the leaders the US does, they would not be creaming their jeans over teleprompters in the US.

Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top

Still have the sour grapes I see. Some people just cant accept facts, and must always rely on talking points and lies.
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I apologize if that's the way it was interpreted, as the comment was not intended that way at all. I was just stating the truth that indeed, a recount was underway in Florida that was stopped by the Supreme Court with their decision that Bush won. Regardless of which side one is on, the circumstances around the 2000 election and the way it was handled afterward (dragging on and on with hanging chads and the like, a recount that never officially finished because it was taking too long and so forth) were some unique conditions that will be paid extra attention in U.S  history. That is of course, if there still is a U.S one hundred years from now.

Reply #33 from Stardock Forums Top

If they had half the leaders the US does, they would not be creaming their jeans over teleprompters in the US.
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Right, good point.

Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top

recount was underway in Florida that was stopped by the Supreme Court with their decision that Bush won.
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Like I said, sour grapes.  The recount was done. Finished.  Bush won.  GORE went to court to try to get the recount changed.  If you cant get your facts straight, dont try to cloud the issue.  Them are the facts.

Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top

LOL.  This is a wonderfully ironic article. Apparently there were a LOT of people jealous of Bush then...
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Absolutely! The man looked and spoke like a simpleton but was entrusted with the US - who wouldn't be jealous of his role? But as you yourself have pointed out, we saw over time that he wasn't very good as a president.

That didn't justify the initial jealousy, and it was that initial jealousy that made all the opposition to Bush seem so petty. As I said in the article, "With a bit of patience, you could do the nasty when he's fucked up, and crowing about it could be read by the kind as just a slightly enthusiastic taking to task rather than jealousy of Michelle."

If people of other nations worried half as much about their own leaders as they do about the US, the world would be a better place.
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Most of the rest of the world doesn't have the luxury of isolationism. The US president matters enormously, because they tend to be extremely influential in who the US will invade/blockade/bomb/conduct economic sanctions/use their veto in the UNSC for next.

Fortunately the average adult has plenty of thinkspace to cover domestic and international affairs fairly well.

Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top

The man looked and spoke like a simpleton
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Umm, uhh, ahh, umm, ahh, uhh, like Obama?  So you like pretty boys?  Gee!  now I see the level of discourse on the left.  If they are pretty, that means they are swell!  Gee, and all this time I thought it was content.  LIke in the lack of it on the left?

Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top

Umm, uhh, ahh, umm, ahh, uhh, like Obama?  So you like pretty boys?  Gee!  now I see the level of discourse on the left.  If they are pretty, that means they are swell!  Gee, and all this time I thought it was content.  LIke in the lack of it on the left?
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Que?

Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top

I told ya all you should have voted for Cthulhu!  (why vote for the lesser of two evils?
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Heh.

Reply #39 from PolMach Forums Top

Quoting little-whip, reply 13

Maybe Obama will save you. It's not like you've got anyone else to fall back on if he can't.
Yup, we are truly fucked this time.

If something happens to Obama, we get Biden.  (ewwww.)

If something happens to Biden, we get...gasp....Nancy Pelosi!  (ewwww and uggghh.)

I told ya all you should have voted for Cthulhu!  (why vote for the lesser of two evils?)

Now pay the price and die.

 
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yeah it goes from bad... to worse.... to the worst....

Reply #40 from JoeUser Forums Top

Actually, as I think about it, my position on BO as Prez is no different than the left's position on Iraq.  You know the one, where they supported the troops but not the war?  That one.  I support him but not his policies.