‘This image is pretty striking’: An eerie snapshot of ‘Obama’s America’

nope. Obama has nothing to do with it. the ACA is law. if the GOP wants it repealed or changed, there is a democratic process they need to use in order to do so. .Holding the country hostage is not the way to do it. You don't negotiate with terrorists

 

This is grade school civics here.

 

and you are embarrassing yourself over it

 

I suspect you are the only one on the forum who isn't aware that all legislation requires the assent of the President, unless congress has a supermajority to over rule his veto.

 

Usually, the government isn't shutdown.

 

Yeah, why would they do something like guard the precious treasures of the US?

 

Not the topic

 

So great that the public is denied access to it. Yeah that makes sense.

 

Surreal, isn't it.

They had no problems with the "War on Drugs."
They had no problems with the "War on Terror."

But take a pic of member of the park service guarding a monument and "OMG!?!10001 OBAMA IZ A DICTATER!!!"

 

Weve been through many of these shutdowns, never before has the Lincoln Memorial been barricaded and guarded to prevent entrance.

 

You look foolish devoting 5 post to the topic you now claim isn't the topic.

 

Only because the Republicans shut the government down...again.

 

Never ever? Not during the 1995 shutdown? Are you sure about that?

 

If the democrats are so inept that they're never responsible for anything then they probably need to be let go. I would suggest you start looking to them for their lack of leadership and trying to figure out who to replace them with that they will actually do something.

Or you could be honest and realize that both sides are responsible for this. I have yet to see a blameless politician let alone an entire political group so I have no idea why you would exclude them from this responsibility and pretend they're perfect.

 

I do not know how these losers look at themselves in the mirror, blocking citizens from their open air memorials. They should be ashamed of themselves.

 

Pathetic Obama, simply pathetic. Obvious political posturing. Shameless, simply shameless.

This is where the Edward Gibbon of the year 3000 starts the first chapter of his 1000-hour virtual reality Decline and Fall of the United States, after a prologue starring FDR and George W. Bush.

 

Protecting the public is the most important thing for police but that doesn't mean it's the only thing that's important. This is like complaining hospitals don't put all the doctors and nurses in ERs or ICUs.

 

Republicans are trying to shut down Obamacare. Democrats are the ones who are shutting down the government in response

 

Except I didn't

 

Lol, that's like claiming alqueda tried to destroy the World Trade Center, and the police shut down the surrounding streets in response.

The mental gymnastics you people go through to defend terrorist GOP members is hilarious.

 

How does it make Obama a tyrant to have security on public landmarks when they are closed? Is it now evil to hire security for museums and monuments? Those guards would still be there during a shutdown, no matter who is president. The OP is just grasping for any chance to claim Obama is evil, and it's really pathetic. There are plenty of actual things Obama does that actually are bad but these morons are too busy looking for talking points and "gotcha" photographs to do the research and find them.

 

It doesn't. Nor is he the first tyrant. FDR certainly was. He can be partially excused because he had the good sense to lead us as part of an alliance in winning a world war. Plus he died in office. That always covers a multitude of sins. And Bush 43 was a tyrant. He also breached the Constitution. Obama may or may not be the worst but he is current and he must be stopped.

Obama is petty in addition to being a tyrant. There is some value in using theater to bring attention to those who are bad actors.

 

Except witholding funding from Obamacare isnt a terrorist attack and doesnt create a need for security. We can see where the mental gymnastics are.

 

Nobody is complaining about security. Its the closing of the open air monuments with barricades, that everyone is complaining about

 

of course it's a terrorist attack. The GOP is holding America hostage because they lost the last 2 elections and can't achieve their goals via legitimate means.

There is no way around that.