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Obama: You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry...

Matt Negrin

Posted: Feb 5th 2009 11:31PM

Filed under: Politics, Boston University

A lot of details can get lost in the mix while Washington's best and brightest debate the president's stimulus package. In short, Democrats mostly want to OK the $819 billion boost, while Republicans want to trim it down and include more tax breaks.

It would appear to be a civil debate, maybe a little partisan, but certainly nothing worthy of Taiwan-style parliamentary fistfights --

Oh wait. Barack "The Hulk" Obama just walked in.

Speaking at the House Dems' retreat in Virginia, Obama threw down his stick and pads, spat on the floor and growled in the face of cameras -- metaphorically. Though the president did mock his opponents in the GOP for criticizing how the aid package requires too much spending, saying:

"What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending. That's the whole point! No, seriously, that's the point."

Hey, easy, big guy. We're just saying, maybe we should ease back on the trillion-dollar cash delivery, and have a reasonable discussion about it. I mean, why are we spending $800 billion when we've got this deficit --

"First of all, I found this deficit when I showed up, number 1," Obama barked back. "I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me when I stepped into the Oval Office."

Well, at least it was wrapped!

All right, so party politics is back (did it ever leave?), and it's finally getting fun again. Just this week, John McCain, apparently unaware of Nov. 4's results, returned to the spotlight to offer up his own stimulus package, roughly half the size of Obama's and made up almost entirely of tax cuts. It was promptly rejected in the Senate.

And, before that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asserted her dominance to reporters when one asked her about Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge influencing the stimulus's makeup. "I am the speaker of the House. I don't get into that," she said while waving away the question, Politico reported.

Quick, somebody fetch this Congress a bucket of water. 'Cos it is on fire!

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melma

11:45AM 11:45AM Feb 19th 2009

Becky...you hit the nail on the head!!

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OBAMA 2012!!

4:31PM 4:31PM Feb 22nd 2009

Ed

3:30PM 3:30PM Feb 7th 2009

David, Obama's agenda is not the salvation of the American economy. His agenda is the destruction of our social structure and building his private army that he wanted. Through the 5.2 billion he gave to ACORN and the billions he plans to funnel into militant organizations such as The Nation of Islam, Black Panthers...

ed...step away from the keyboard, and take your medicine. You are absolutely certifiable.

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OBAMA 2012!!

4:31PM 4:31PM Feb 22nd 2009

All you guys who voted for John McSame and Caribou Barbie...let's have another election! I'd like to see McLame get his azz kicked again, this time in slow motion. Maybe I'll TiVo it this time! ROTFLMAO!

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WhitneyD

8:33PM 8:33PM Feb 22nd 2009

MOST OF YOU ARE IGNORANT! OUR COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE AND IT IS WAY PASS TIME FOR BLACK/WHITE, MALE/FEMALE, RICH/POOR, REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRATE! OBAMA HAS MADE DECISIONS THAT WEREN'T THE BEST, BUT WHAT PRESIDENT HAS! ITS NOT HIS FAULT THOSE PEOPLE DIDN'T PAY TAXES BUT HIS SCOUTERS SHOULD HAVE CHECKED THEIR CREDIT JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER AMERICAN WHEN THEY APPLY FOR A JOB. MCCAIN WANTED TO HELP THE RICH AGAIN JUST LIKE OUR OLD FAVORITE PRESIDENT(SARCASTICALLY)GEORGE W.BUSH! TRY TO GIVE THE GUY A CHANCE. YOU SAID IT YOURSELF ITS ONLY BEEN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. AND HE DID JUST INHERIT A MESS EVENTHOUGH HE KNEW HE WOULD WHEN HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT. JUST HOPE FOR THE BEST AND NOT FOR THE WORST CAUSE IN THE END WE WILL BE THE ONES MESSED UP!!!

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kathryn williams

11:47AM 11:47AM Mar 4th 2009

most of you are a bunch of idiots. we have a new president now, but instead of being supportive, all you can do here is complain. you are what is wrong with this country. no president has a manual for being president. all any of them can do is their best. obama couldn't do half as bad as some of the other presidents most of you supported. leave the man alone and allow him to do his job. but to all of you conservatives that pretend your in this christian party, what a shame, get off this board and go and pray for the man instead of here complaiming, isn't that what conservatives do?

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Richard

3:12PM 3:12PM Mar 1st 2009

If anyone is trying to talk sense to these democrats in here, Stop. Let me save you some time, You can't talk sense to a democrat, (unless of course you are five years old and retarded) Democrats have a rare disease known locally as Demoheadinass, there is no cure, it is a terminal prognosis.

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2:27PM 2:27PM Mar 2nd 2009

Remember, 4.5 Billion to ACORN in the stimulus.

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