"Was Obama thinking eight steps ahead of the opposition in the debt ceiling talks, playing multi-dimensional chess while they were playing tic-tac-toe? Or was he a fatal step or two behind, playing patty-cake while they were playing Mixed Martial Arts? Chess master? Or pawn?
I think we know the answer, at least about this encounter. Pawn, and captured pawn at that." --James Fallows, The Atlantic, Aug. 2, 2011
Amazing how quickly the US has fallen. 30 years ago the vast majority of US citizens enjoyed a far better standard of living. Now, the only opinion that matters in Washington is what is best for Wall St., Goldman Sachs, Military contractors, and other leaches. "A republic if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin said.
The reason for that is because all his strings are being pulled by powerful (bullies really) special interests. Like a documentary stated, everything that he promised, the opposite was done!
Exactly, Obama is Nothing more than the Ultimate Corporate Capitalist!
AHAHA this reminds me of that south Park where the polic negotiate with the kids when they take baby cows hostage. The cop say to the negotiator "You are in fact the worst negotiator I've ever seen in action" The negotiator said "All right, I'll give you that. But in exchange I want 3 staples"
You "D's" and "R's" bash each other, and you are both wrong, it's the Government fight's between the party's that is hurting the USA. Calling each other names and spewing garbage talking points gets this country no where. You are BOTH wrong. Get rid of the party's, and be civil to each other, and make some good things happen, but NOOOOOOO, you people have to stick up for "your side"....It's wrong. There should be NO party's anymore, only jobs in Government, that's all.
WELL DUH TURK! We TOLD your koolaid sopped ilk over&over that O-Usurper had ZERO experience, was NOT your messiah, was a FRAUD & a shifty grifter (corporatePUPPET) of foreign banksters who own the Dem-publicans.
Yo CENK! THE WEALTHY DON'T PAY taxes at all if they have a good accountant WELL-versed in tax code. Read "Rich Dad Poor Dad".
America; buck up. Pressure your reps to VOTE for freedom from corporate & wealthy slave masters. Obama's loyalty is with the slave masters, not the slaves.
It has begun to appear to me as if someone is holding a gun to Obama's head, just back there behind the curtain. Either it is as Cenk says ( and I have suspected) which is that he is a total liar, or it is much more sinister, with the Militia and the radical right perhaps pulling what Reagan pulled on Gorbachev: "Do what I say, or I will nuke your ass."
@alucard1234567889 however much i agree with you the only problem is R&D's plus Independents and third parties have too many flaws and they see each of their own flaws and they gnaw at each other with them like animals; kinda like high school :) its a sick practice that should come to the end i mean come on even the Republican voters didn't even want tax breaks for the rich or even any one else; we should have a system of government that acts more like representatives & not like Gods
I think the Republicans knew they could not win in 2008. So they put a plant in. Said everything most Americans wanted to hear and now does what the Republicans want him to do...did anyone ask him if he is an adherent of Chicago School of Economics? The last 4 or 5 years have been right out of the corporatists' playbook....
I would happily go back to Clinton's tax rates personally to help my country...
@missvicki49 He was no plant. He is what happens when retards vote in socialists who know only ideology. The American people do not like socialism. Obama is a socialist with no real political experience. Do not cry, you get what you vote for.
Obama had to do what he did or else there would be NO CHANCE OF REELCTION. So shut the hell up.
@ARepublicanVictory Reap what you sow, ignoramos. Oops. Was that word too big for you? How about stupid? When you figure out the difference between a socialist and a rabid capitalist punk let us know, and maybe then you can gradate to operating a refrigerator door.
Cenk...you need some serious help and you need to come out of that fucking coma you are in. To call Barry Soetoro the world's worst negotiator is to imply that there is something to negotiate....IT'S ALL RIGGED YOU SIMPLETON. The President is a paid corporate pitchman and these whores in Washington are all bought and paid for. THERE IS NO DIFF BETWEEN DEMS AND REPUBS...DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU GET? RIGGED!!! Ok...sick of this left-right paradigm bullshit...RIGGED!!!
@feseveri1911 Cenk is one of the biggest corporate media shill there ever was. The sad thing is is that he's smart enough to know what the truth is, but continues to let himself be used as a tool to lead the dupes on the left into a false hope, just as long as we get the "right democrat" in office. Guaranteed, when Hillary runs in 2010, who's even more of a corporate globalist than Obama, he'll drooling all over her like she's the next progressive hope.
@seanlaca damn, do you really think he knows the deal? Because he talks as though he is the #1 useful idiot on the planet. He really speaks with conviction when he spews the garbage that he spews and the reason I say this is because even when he was a nobody (still is) on that internet show...he said the same stuff..."the Dems will save us". I mean if he really knows the truth, he is sure a good actor. Either he is a major tool.
@seanlaca Obama hasn't bombed Iran, and they've concluded he's not going to. He's pandered plenty to Israel, but even mentioning the illegal occupation of Palestine and settlements in East Jerusalem, is enough to bring a small but significant *vitriolic* level of opponent his way. Rather than saying just what it is they actually object to about Obama, which they in fact could not
do without revealing the vileness of their objectives, which they habitually hide in order to accomplish, what
It's one thing to complain about the problem, but what's your answer, simply give up?
And when you use birther code talk do you know it's hard to take you seriously? It's like the teleprompter crap....harp on Obama about the real issues in what Cenk is doing and you have failed to dispute.
The republican party is having a field day with this presidency. They could not have engineered a better political scenario for themselves if they tried. They simply have a better political strategy than anyone else; Stick together & let the other side criticize and demonize themselves. Label any legislation from the democrats "Anti American" Systematically block the president on every issue, and capitalize on the dissent as a result either way, brilliant really-The presidency is obsolete FTW
I actually agree with the analyst. For those knowledgable about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, know how the US utterly failed at maintaining the negotiations while offering the Israeli part mind-blowingly unreasonable compromise. World's worst negotiator.
he got another year of unemployment benefits. so the democrats get to keep wasting money on people not working, and republicans get spending without revenue. sounds like status quo to me....
@coolnamesweretaken1 Of course you feel that way because you don't except accountability from your leaders like liberals are doing right now. You're content with crappy leadership on the reason that you think that the GOP sucks a little less than liberals.
The shame is on you.
It's funny how right wing hacks always hurl insults that describe them to a tee.
@Scipio2021 your calling me out on leadership/ accountability? I'm no liberal/ right wing hack. I'm just calling it how i see it. I know from experience what it takes to be a leader and to hold men accountable.
@coolnamesweretaken1 You failed to point out one thing wrong in this video, so I take it you concede on that point unless you mention otherwise.
If you despise both Republicans and Democrats for being crappy leadership what is your answer? I would take it a 3rd party. You should give them some advertising.
BTW: I am a huge advocate of making it easier for 3rd parties to get on the ballot and in more debates for this very reason. Is this the reform you seek as well?
@coolnamesweretaken1 You also can't dispute one thing that's said in this video. Until you do, you prove you have zilch when it comes to debate skills.
BO did not back down, he lied and deceived you! BO lies so much, he makes Pinocchio look good! Of course BO wants to give his rich supporters a tax break too. (Problem - Reaction - Solution)
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Anyone that supported BO does not deserve to have a say over anything. You lost all your credibility. These idiots are even dumber then the idiots that voted for Bush!
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I'll take Freedom and Liberty any day over the fake Progressive Utopia.
@h82sk8 Even though you feel that both Bush and Obama supporters should not have a say over anything, this is still a Democratic Republic where we get to pick our leaders and vote on other issues.
And in a way I feel you, when most Americans though that Saddam Hussien was behind 9/11.
Senate RepubliCONs have successfully filibustered Pres. Obama's agenda for the past 2 years, and have recently doubled-down on that strategy. If Obama DOESN'T compromise, does Cenk think RepubliCONs will suddenly work with him?
And WTF does 'fight harder' mean, exactly? It's Congress, not the damn WWE.
Pres. Obama got 20 BILLION dollars from BP for the victims of the oil spill after a 15-minute meeting with BP's corporate executives; and I'm supposed to believe that Obama is a bad negotiator?
@PostSurgeOperative , Obamacon got 20 billion from BP in the form of a trust fund, written by BP lawyers to shield from liability and investigations.
A 2 billion dollar per year payoff for a 200 billion dollar disaster isn't very good negotiating. With the losses they claim, BP will actually make more profit this year?
@jag10 WHAT?! BP's lawyers were involved in the negotiation of Obama's $20BILLION 'shakedown' of BP? OMG, that's UNBELIEVABLE! How DARE BP have lawyers assist them in negotiating such an agreement! You omit the fact that Obama reserved the option of demanding more money if necessary for the victims of the BP disaster, and the FACT that it was RepubliCONs in Congress who prevented subpoenas of BP.
WRong Paul voted AGAINST whistleblower protections for oil rig workers who report corporate crimes.
@PostSurgeOperative , which bill are you referring to? As far as I know, Ron Paul has never voted against whistlebower protection. He stand alone in that regard.
As for a blaming a minority Congress for halting subpoenas against criminal activity... you kidding right?
So how much has the tax payer shouldered for the cleanup thus far, while BP took a 10 billion dollar deduction this year for "losses"?
How many lives were shattered by the failure of government with Katrina and BP spill?
@jag10 Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010 HR 5851
WRong Paul voted AGAINST whistleblower protections SPECIFICALLY for offshore oil rig workers, such as those 11 men who were killed this year in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion and fire which was caused by a faulty blow-out preventer. Workers on that rig KNEW the BP-leased equipment was faulty, but BP management chose to ignore those concerns because repairs mean delays, and delays means more costs.
@PostSurgeOperative , ok, point taken, but who are we protecting by enacting law upon law. We have too many laws. What does 5851 do that isn't already available. Seems like that time could have been better spent finding the truth, rather than setting up another law, with specific language, time frames and disclosures that shade transparency. Congress is a dog and pony show, they wouldn't know truth if it landed on their desk, in the form of a briefcase full of thousand dollar bills.
This is a stupid self-destruct. Obama does have his merits, and if Democrats want to foolishlessly fuck around, we WILL have President Romney, or even worse President Palin.
Bam might not have the experience to negotiate well, but believe me, Romney and Palin *want* to hurt you, and they don't give an eyelash for how many other people they kill around the world. People's characters matter---we saw on the campaign trail how Palin didn't care what she was stirring up, through lies,
@givebirthathome as long as she was benefitting, personally. Read the Vanity Fair article investigating her with her neighbors, family and town council...she doesn't hunt, she doesn't pray, and she doesn't understand math well enough to work on budgets, only spout rhetoric. But don't expect America's critical thinking to be sharp enough to catch that, and turn away from Palin to an unappealing Democratic candidate.
Palin is being showcased by Fox News, and neocon warmongers like William
I'm really starting to regret voting for Obama, don't get me wrong I know politics is based on lies and deceit but for some reason i thought Obama wasn't as fucked as the rest.
The only good party of the Obama Administration is that there are now a plethora of classic Cenk rant's. From TYT to MSNBC he comes with the passion that is rarely seen in todays political pundentry. Keep up the good work Cenk, the TYT army is behind you and TYT nation all the way.
i like Ventura more, i was born in Minnesota & Ventura did a DAMN Good Job as governor! and saw it 1st hand but i like Paul as well & would GLADLY vote 4 em over either a D's or an R
i was born in minnesota & actually voted against Ventura out of stupidity but by the end of his term i was one of his biggest backers... he Really did do a Damn good job!
@myrelative Mike Huckabee is a piece of shit who said the Wikileaks founder should be assasinated. Ron Paul is the guy in 2012 because hes the only real constitutionalist, proven through his voting record.
@playgrrrr do what? did you just suggest Jank Yoooogr should be in an office in our government? he is a radical arab supremacist piece of shit, a racist, an idiot, and one who stands on fallacious logic in his debates, resorting to name calling and anger. I hate this piece of shit Jank.
obama is out of his mind, a crazy narcissist with genocidal tendencies. Use section 4 of the 25th Amendment of the US constitution to remove him from office. this is the only way to start to fix the global economy. OBAMA NOT MENTALLY FIT FOR OFFICE!
If there is a bulls-eye in political commentary then Cenk just hit the bulls-eye dead centre on target. How can the President negotiate from a position of enormous power with the majority in both houses and fall flat on his ass and sell out his supporters? Not really a progressive at all? When the right accused Obama of being a socialist last year Bill Maher retorted by saying that Obama wasn't even a liberal or a progressive.
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"Was Obama thinking eight steps ahead of the opposition in the debt ceiling talks, playing multi-dimensional chess while they were playing tic-tac-toe? Or was he a fatal step or two behind, playing patty-cake while they were playing Mixed Martial Arts? Chess master? Or pawn?
I think we know the answer, at least about this encounter. Pawn, and captured pawn at that." --James Fallows, The Atlantic, Aug. 2, 2011
hookalakah 7 months ago
Amazing how quickly the US has fallen. 30 years ago the vast majority of US citizens enjoyed a far better standard of living. Now, the only opinion that matters in Washington is what is best for Wall St., Goldman Sachs, Military contractors, and other leaches. "A republic if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin said.
DWRWC 8 months ago
The reason for that is because all his strings are being pulled by powerful (bullies really) special interests. Like a documentary stated, everything that he promised, the opposite was done!
Exactly, Obama is Nothing more than the Ultimate Corporate Capitalist!
VRRA4 11 months ago
AHAHA this reminds me of that south Park where the polic negotiate with the kids when they take baby cows hostage. The cop say to the negotiator "You are in fact the worst negotiator I've ever seen in action" The negotiator said "All right, I'll give you that. But in exchange I want 3 staples"
durhamdf 1 year ago
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Nothing funnier that watching leftists complain about Obama.
llyynncollnn1 1 year ago
Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!
dvton3 1 year ago
With democrats like Obama, there's no need for Republicans !
wilburhog 1 year ago
Obama=one lousy term as U.S President. The loser will have no more America to destroy.
ARepublicanVictory 1 year ago
enough of Obama
marniespeaks 1 year ago
You "D's" and "R's" bash each other, and you are both wrong, it's the Government fight's between the party's that is hurting the USA. Calling each other names and spewing garbage talking points gets this country no where. You are BOTH wrong. Get rid of the party's, and be civil to each other, and make some good things happen, but NOOOOOOO, you people have to stick up for "your side"....It's wrong. There should be NO party's anymore, only jobs in Government, that's all.
habitualstudios 1 year ago
@habitualstudios You make alot of good points.
llyynncollnn1 1 year ago
WELL DUH TURK! We TOLD your koolaid sopped ilk over&over that O-Usurper had ZERO experience, was NOT your messiah, was a FRAUD & a shifty grifter (corporatePUPPET) of foreign banksters who own the Dem-publicans.
Yo CENK! THE WEALTHY DON'T PAY taxes at all if they have a good accountant WELL-versed in tax code. Read "Rich Dad Poor Dad".
America; buck up. Pressure your reps to VOTE for freedom from corporate & wealthy slave masters. Obama's loyalty is with the slave masters, not the slaves.
Zapppo 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Just have to laugh at these guys.
*trying to catch my breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
McKennahLane 1 year ago
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jwri1981 1 year ago
It has begun to appear to me as if someone is holding a gun to Obama's head, just back there behind the curtain. Either it is as Cenk says ( and I have suspected) which is that he is a total liar, or it is much more sinister, with the Militia and the radical right perhaps pulling what Reagan pulled on Gorbachev: "Do what I say, or I will nuke your ass."
finnertyManuel 1 year ago
@finnertyManuel no obama is a liar and the worst kind of marxist filth
100crawma 1 year ago
obama is a dismal failure and a marxist pig
100crawma 1 year ago
Look at how these sorry fucking left wing losers turn on Obama now.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Worthless left wing crybabies-
ARepublicanVictory 1 year ago
Negotiating? Republican vs Democrats? Why dont we all just work together to make a better, stronger country?
alucard1234567889 1 year ago
@alucard1234567889 however much i agree with you the only problem is R&D's plus Independents and third parties have too many flaws and they see each of their own flaws and they gnaw at each other with them like animals; kinda like high school :) its a sick practice that should come to the end i mean come on even the Republican voters didn't even want tax breaks for the rich or even any one else; we should have a system of government that acts more like representatives & not like Gods
Polaryoda1 1 year ago
I think the Republicans knew they could not win in 2008. So they put a plant in. Said everything most Americans wanted to hear and now does what the Republicans want him to do...did anyone ask him if he is an adherent of Chicago School of Economics? The last 4 or 5 years have been right out of the corporatists' playbook....
I would happily go back to Clinton's tax rates personally to help my country...
missvicki49 1 year ago
@missvicki49 He was no plant. He is what happens when retards vote in socialists who know only ideology. The American people do not like socialism. Obama is a socialist with no real political experience. Do not cry, you get what you vote for.
Obama had to do what he did or else there would be NO CHANCE OF REELCTION. So shut the hell up.
ARepublicanVictory 1 year ago
@ARepublicanVictory You really are an idiot.
allwayselvis 1 year ago
@ARepublicanVictory Reap what you sow, ignoramos. Oops. Was that word too big for you? How about stupid? When you figure out the difference between a socialist and a rabid capitalist punk let us know, and maybe then you can gradate to operating a refrigerator door.
finnertyManuel 1 year ago
@finnertyManuel The rabid punk is yourself. And do not ever in your lowly existence address me out of term.
ARepublicanVictory 1 year ago
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Obama is a lame duck president.
Reformation1517 1 year ago
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Obama is a lame duck president.
Reformation1517 1 year ago
Maybe Obama is not that bright? I think that he actually has no clue about economy. He does what the Wall Street crooks tell him.
After the Assange smear campaign, this guy doesn't deserve any leeway.
Larry Sinclair! Where are you?
FormerlyKnownAsNopez 1 year ago
@FormerlyKnownAsNopez That's because Wall St was his highest campaign donor.
soccerdude601 1 year ago
The honeymoon is finally over.
PolticiansLie 1 year ago 3
You have enough information now, to conclude that Obama is a Republican Shill.
Obama doesn't want to fight. He's working for the rich. He needs to be impeached.
He lied all the way to the White House.
cocoabeacher 1 year ago
Cenk...you need some serious help and you need to come out of that fucking coma you are in. To call Barry Soetoro the world's worst negotiator is to imply that there is something to negotiate....IT'S ALL RIGGED YOU SIMPLETON. The President is a paid corporate pitchman and these whores in Washington are all bought and paid for. THERE IS NO DIFF BETWEEN DEMS AND REPUBS...DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU GET? RIGGED!!! Ok...sick of this left-right paradigm bullshit...RIGGED!!!
feseveri1911 1 year ago
@feseveri1911 Cenk is one of the biggest corporate media shill there ever was. The sad thing is is that he's smart enough to know what the truth is, but continues to let himself be used as a tool to lead the dupes on the left into a false hope, just as long as we get the "right democrat" in office. Guaranteed, when Hillary runs in 2010, who's even more of a corporate globalist than Obama, he'll drooling all over her like she's the next progressive hope.
seanlaca 1 year ago
@seanlaca damn, do you really think he knows the deal? Because he talks as though he is the #1 useful idiot on the planet. He really speaks with conviction when he spews the garbage that he spews and the reason I say this is because even when he was a nobody (still is) on that internet show...he said the same stuff..."the Dems will save us". I mean if he really knows the truth, he is sure a good actor. Either he is a major tool.
feseveri1911 1 year ago
@seanlaca Obama hasn't bombed Iran, and they've concluded he's not going to. He's pandered plenty to Israel, but even mentioning the illegal occupation of Palestine and settlements in East Jerusalem, is enough to bring a small but significant *vitriolic* level of opponent his way. Rather than saying just what it is they actually object to about Obama, which they in fact could not
do without revealing the vileness of their objectives, which they habitually hide in order to accomplish, what
givebirthathome 1 year ago
@feseveri1911 So tell us what your solution is?
It's one thing to complain about the problem, but what's your answer, simply give up?
And when you use birther code talk do you know it's hard to take you seriously? It's like the teleprompter crap....harp on Obama about the real issues in what Cenk is doing and you have failed to dispute.
Scipio2021 1 year ago
So Federal employees are not getting paid enough?
sintruder 1 year ago
Obama === Puppet.
SkyBlueAugust 1 year ago
The republican party is having a field day with this presidency. They could not have engineered a better political scenario for themselves if they tried. They simply have a better political strategy than anyone else; Stick together & let the other side criticize and demonize themselves. Label any legislation from the democrats "Anti American" Systematically block the president on every issue, and capitalize on the dissent as a result either way, brilliant really-The presidency is obsolete FTW
sliderglider 1 year ago
I actually agree with the analyst. For those knowledgable about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, know how the US utterly failed at maintaining the negotiations while offering the Israeli part mind-blowingly unreasonable compromise. World's worst negotiator.
Epifrin 1 year ago
he got another year of unemployment benefits. so the democrats get to keep wasting money on people not working, and republicans get spending without revenue. sounds like status quo to me....
mikheii 1 year ago
i cant believe the Liberals are letting Obama out to dry for shame......
coolnamesweretaken1 1 year ago
@coolnamesweretaken1 Of course you feel that way because you don't except accountability from your leaders like liberals are doing right now. You're content with crappy leadership on the reason that you think that the GOP sucks a little less than liberals.
The shame is on you.
It's funny how right wing hacks always hurl insults that describe them to a tee.
Scipio2021 1 year ago
@Scipio2021 your calling me out on leadership/ accountability? I'm no liberal/ right wing hack. I'm just calling it how i see it. I know from experience what it takes to be a leader and to hold men accountable.
coolnamesweretaken1 1 year ago
@coolnamesweretaken1 You failed to point out one thing wrong in this video, so I take it you concede on that point unless you mention otherwise.
If you despise both Republicans and Democrats for being crappy leadership what is your answer? I would take it a 3rd party. You should give them some advertising.
BTW: I am a huge advocate of making it easier for 3rd parties to get on the ballot and in more debates for this very reason. Is this the reform you seek as well?
Scipio2021 1 year ago
@coolnamesweretaken1 You also can't dispute one thing that's said in this video. Until you do, you prove you have zilch when it comes to debate skills.
Scipio2021 1 year ago
@Scipio2021 i can teach you alot about leadership.
coolnamesweretaken1 1 year ago
When are the talking heads going to come right out and say it.
This is a puppet regime.
jag10 1 year ago
The Progressive whore will never get it?
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BO did not back down, he lied and deceived you! BO lies so much, he makes Pinocchio look good! Of course BO wants to give his rich supporters a tax break too. (Problem - Reaction - Solution)
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Anyone that supported BO does not deserve to have a say over anything. You lost all your credibility. These idiots are even dumber then the idiots that voted for Bush!
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I'll take Freedom and Liberty any day over the fake Progressive Utopia.
h82sk8 1 year ago
@h82sk8 Even though you feel that both Bush and Obama supporters should not have a say over anything, this is still a Democratic Republic where we get to pick our leaders and vote on other issues.
And in a way I feel you, when most Americans though that Saddam Hussien was behind 9/11.
Scipio2021 1 year ago
Our president is gutless, and just increased the country's deficit
spacecalander 1 year ago 3
Ron Paul all the way!
Mike Huckabee can
blow his hot air somewhere
else.
tangledweb79 1 year ago
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@tangledweb79 , Ron Paul 2012
jag10 1 year ago
stop, Stop, STOP!!! Cenk.... you make me cry.
henkvanderlaak 1 year ago
Seems like almost everybody want Ron Paul...
RonPaulSwede 1 year ago
Anyone who signs up for the beer party gets a justin bieber cd.
ToeInspector 1 year ago
Senate RepubliCONs have successfully filibustered Pres. Obama's agenda for the past 2 years, and have recently doubled-down on that strategy. If Obama DOESN'T compromise, does Cenk think RepubliCONs will suddenly work with him?
And WTF does 'fight harder' mean, exactly? It's Congress, not the damn WWE.
Pres. Obama got 20 BILLION dollars from BP for the victims of the oil spill after a 15-minute meeting with BP's corporate executives; and I'm supposed to believe that Obama is a bad negotiator?
PostSurgeOperative 1 year ago 3
@PostSurgeOperative , Obamacon got 20 billion from BP in the form of a trust fund, written by BP lawyers to shield from liability and investigations.
A 2 billion dollar per year payoff for a 200 billion dollar disaster isn't very good negotiating. With the losses they claim, BP will actually make more profit this year?
How bout that for a WTF.
jag10 1 year ago
@jag10 WHAT?! BP's lawyers were involved in the negotiation of Obama's $20BILLION 'shakedown' of BP? OMG, that's UNBELIEVABLE! How DARE BP have lawyers assist them in negotiating such an agreement! You omit the fact that Obama reserved the option of demanding more money if necessary for the victims of the BP disaster, and the FACT that it was RepubliCONs in Congress who prevented subpoenas of BP.
WRong Paul voted AGAINST whistleblower protections for oil rig workers who report corporate crimes.
PostSurgeOperative 1 year ago
@PostSurgeOperative , which bill are you referring to? As far as I know, Ron Paul has never voted against whistlebower protection. He stand alone in that regard.
As for a blaming a minority Congress for halting subpoenas against criminal activity... you kidding right?
So how much has the tax payer shouldered for the cleanup thus far, while BP took a 10 billion dollar deduction this year for "losses"?
How many lives were shattered by the failure of government with Katrina and BP spill?
jag10 1 year ago
@jag10 Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010 HR 5851
WRong Paul voted AGAINST whistleblower protections SPECIFICALLY for offshore oil rig workers, such as those 11 men who were killed this year in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion and fire which was caused by a faulty blow-out preventer. Workers on that rig KNEW the BP-leased equipment was faulty, but BP management chose to ignore those concerns because repairs mean delays, and delays means more costs.
PostSurgeOperative 1 year ago 14
@PostSurgeOperative , ok, point taken, but who are we protecting by enacting law upon law. We have too many laws. What does 5851 do that isn't already available. Seems like that time could have been better spent finding the truth, rather than setting up another law, with specific language, time frames and disclosures that shade transparency. Congress is a dog and pony show, they wouldn't know truth if it landed on their desk, in the form of a briefcase full of thousand dollar bills.
jag10 1 year ago
Dr. Ron Paul is my president
sailfished 1 year ago
Cenk probably voted for Obama. Now he sees why he should have voted for Nader.
XM8rifle 1 year ago
Funny how they're all whining about wire taps even though they were all for it with the patriot act. These guys are so full of two faced bullshit.
Garlannd 1 year ago
@Garlannd When has Cenk been for the patriot act?
deadmeat343 1 year ago
This is a stupid self-destruct. Obama does have his merits, and if Democrats want to foolishlessly fuck around, we WILL have President Romney, or even worse President Palin.
Bam might not have the experience to negotiate well, but believe me, Romney and Palin *want* to hurt you, and they don't give an eyelash for how many other people they kill around the world. People's characters matter---we saw on the campaign trail how Palin didn't care what she was stirring up, through lies,
givebirthathome 1 year ago 2
@givebirthathome as long as she was benefitting, personally. Read the Vanity Fair article investigating her with her neighbors, family and town council...she doesn't hunt, she doesn't pray, and she doesn't understand math well enough to work on budgets, only spout rhetoric. But don't expect America's critical thinking to be sharp enough to catch that, and turn away from Palin to an unappealing Democratic candidate.
Palin is being showcased by Fox News, and neocon warmongers like William
givebirthathome 1 year ago
How quick they eat their own kind.
Garlannd 1 year ago
I'm really starting to regret voting for Obama, don't get me wrong I know politics is based on lies and deceit but for some reason i thought Obama wasn't as fucked as the rest.
pickledouche 1 year ago
The only good party of the Obama Administration is that there are now a plethora of classic Cenk rant's. From TYT to MSNBC he comes with the passion that is rarely seen in todays political pundentry. Keep up the good work Cenk, the TYT army is behind you and TYT nation all the way.
khenry88 1 year ago
Obama knows he will not be reelected he is on a mission to make us pay
trotwoodtrouble 1 year ago
We must start presenting several strong alternatives to the Obama in 2012, now!
YOURINQUIRER 1 year ago 15
@YOURINQUIRER
Like....?
MOXNEWSd0tCOM 1 year ago 4
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM Ron Paul :)
MutantKush 1 year ago
@MutantKush
Ventura!
benympls 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM
Ron Paul :P
Garlannd 1 year ago 3
@Garlannd
Ventura!
benympls 1 year ago
@benympls Ron Paul OR Ventura!!
kdavidmcd 1 year ago 3
@kdavidmcd
i like Ventura more, i was born in Minnesota & Ventura did a DAMN Good Job as governor! and saw it 1st hand but i like Paul as well & would GLADLY vote 4 em over either a D's or an R
benympls 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM Ron Paul!!
newauraxx 1 year ago 2
@newauraxx Ventura!
benympls 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM Ralph Nader, Ron Paul(has to be an independent though), Cynthia McKinney, Mike Gravel or Jesse Ventura will all be good alternatives.
rohstyles23 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM
Ventura!
i was born in minnesota & actually voted against Ventura out of stupidity but by the end of his term i was one of his biggest backers... he Really did do a Damn good job!
benympls 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM
at this rate, it`s mike huckabee
myrelative 1 year ago
@myrelative Mike Huckabee is a piece of shit who said the Wikileaks founder should be assasinated. Ron Paul is the guy in 2012 because hes the only real constitutionalist, proven through his voting record.
MutantKush 1 year ago
@MutantKush
next time when you`re trying to blurp out "ron paul" at any cost, try to undertsnad my comment first. it wasnt in favor of mike huckabee.
myrelative 1 year ago
@myrelative Sorry but sarcasm doesn't work well in text form. I'll try to "undertsnad" better next time. XD
MutantKush 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM The beer party. it will be ran by 8 year olds,so's not to be evil.
ToeInspector 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM ron paul
SuCKeRPunCH187 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM
Ron Paul, though I'm sure there's plenty of comments already saying the same thing lol
SketchyGamerMan 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM Ron paul (except a few of his main points)
smokingslime 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM Howard Dean, Bernie Sanders, Anthony Wiener, Alan Grayson, Jesse Ventura.
biggydx 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM like cenk uygur!
LiberaLib 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM Like Cenk Uygur of course.
playgrrrr 1 year ago
@playgrrrr do what? did you just suggest Jank Yoooogr should be in an office in our government? he is a radical arab supremacist piece of shit, a racist, an idiot, and one who stands on fallacious logic in his debates, resorting to name calling and anger. I hate this piece of shit Jank.
13anjowizard 1 year ago
@13anjowizard You actually managed to turn almost every truth about him upside down. I'm surprised at your attention to detail.
playgrrrr 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM
How about hillary! She is more of the same but she would win in a landslide against obama and the neocon candidate.
babyjustwin1 1 year ago
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@MOXNEWSd0tCOM like ron paul
13anjowizard 1 year ago
@MOXNEWSd0tCOM
How about Senator Sherrod Brown?
arminvb05 1 year ago
@YOURINQUIRER , if Hillary and Rahm aren't available, how bout Oprah? She could give everyone a brand new Chevy Volt and a sammich.
jag10 1 year ago
obama is out of his mind, a crazy narcissist with genocidal tendencies. Use section 4 of the 25th Amendment of the US constitution to remove him from office. this is the only way to start to fix the global economy. OBAMA NOT MENTALLY FIT FOR OFFICE!
slade420 1 year ago 7
@slade420
exactly, he does not more know what he is doing...
angelusp777 1 year ago
@slade420 You're an idiot!!
allwayselvis 1 year ago
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jwri1981 1 year ago
Barry S. is a idiot puppet who follows his masters orders - the Global Elite own him, use him, and when they are done loose him.
silvergoldhedge 1 year ago 6
cenk the man with passion and emotion.
love that guy.
Vleesball 1 year ago
If there is a bulls-eye in political commentary then Cenk just hit the bulls-eye dead centre on target. How can the President negotiate from a position of enormous power with the majority in both houses and fall flat on his ass and sell out his supporters? Not really a progressive at all? When the right accused Obama of being a socialist last year Bill Maher retorted by saying that Obama wasn't even a liberal or a progressive.
seamoremonster 1 year ago
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