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| Newter Newt | Dec 14 2011, 12:02 PM Post #31 |
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Newt Gingrich talked about how an American hero should be held for treason. GINGRICH SAID WE SHOULD ALLOW SOME TERRORIST ATTACKS TO REMIND US OF THE DANGER: During a book tour, Gingrich told an audience in a speech that was televised on C-SPAN that the Bush administration had been very successful at intercepting terrorists. ...."allow another attack to get through to remind" Americans about the danger of terrorism. WOW! He is willing to sacrifice people's lives to make a point. How kind of him. |
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| Bobby Cool | Dec 30 2011, 07:31 PM Post #32 |
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Once again, the president's detractors are bringing up the issue of his birth certificate and his academic records. Here is something to consider: Obama was ELECTED as President of the Harvard Law Review, one of the most prestigious things that can happen to a lawyer, and that is not effected in any way by affirmative action. And in so doing, he was firmly supported by the CONSERVATIVE law students of the time. "The most intelligent politician I've ever met" - This quote did not come from a liberal, but from CONSERVATIVE David Brooks, William F. Buckley's protege. But let's say those old report cards show mediocre grades, of an unmotivated student, who wakes up a little later (a common scenario). What does that tell the president's detractors, other than the opportunity to embarrass the man? That says more about them, than the president. |
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| Machete | Dec 30 2011, 07:45 PM Post #33 |
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You all must realize that the dirty campaigning playbook came from the GOP (Greed Over Patriotism) under that slimeball Newt. I even remember McCain's campaign being named the "most untruthful" in United States' history...It seems that the GOP is inherently dishonest (to put it mildly). |
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| PatPeterGomez | Jan 17 2012, 10:26 PM Post #34 |
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I'm so glad I found this Pinoy forum. Regarding this topic, just remember what George Carlin said. "Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that." Then realize they can all vote. :harhar: I'd like to share this article written by Andrew Sullivan:
Andrew Sullivan, former editor of The New Republic, weekly columnist for the Sunday Times of London, brought his hugely popular blog, The Dish, to the Daily Beast in 2011. He's the author of several books, including "Virtually Normal," "Love Undetectable," and "The Conservative Soul." |
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| Jovel Alipio | Jan 18 2012, 02:33 AM Post #35 |
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When I listen to the attacks on Obama, I have to wonder what alternate universe they come from. Where else could Dinesh D'Souza and Newt Gingrich get the idea that the roots of Obama's "rage" (Rage? What rage? Where? When? Has anyone ever even heard Obama raise his voice?) come from the politics of a country where he never lived and a father he never met. Or that Glenn Greenwald could convince himself that Obama is such a fascist that it's better to sit out an election and hand it to the Tea Party Congressional candidates than to vote Democratic. Liberals who stayed home last November to teach the Democrats a lesson are still astoundingly obtuse about refusing to admit the cause and effect relationship between what they did and the current state of affairs in Washington. In most cases, the loathing for Obama comes not from anything he's done but from the fevered, paranoid imaginations of people convinced that he's GOING TO do something terrible in the future. "Today it's Osama bin Laden, tomorrow the SEALS will be coming for you or me." "He just pretends not to care about gun control, he's just waiting till he gets re-elected to take all our guns away from us." "Don't you just KNOW that he wants to raise our taxes so that he can give free handouts to -- you know, "them?" He'll do it the minute he gets the chance." :harhar: WOW! What hallucinogen are they popping? :crap: |
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| Reggie | Jan 19 2012, 06:38 PM Post #36 |
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The 4 remaining GOP con-didates are just about to have another debate. Funny how all the corporate-owned media is there to question the corporate-owned candidates. What a surprise if we end up with a corporate-owned President. Newt's ex-wife was married to him for 18 years, and he has a pattern of leaving women when they are sick, cheating on them, and all the while talking about the sanctity of marriage. I'm sorry, but that is disgusting behavior, and this is more than just a 'bitter ex'. By the way, John Edwards behavior is similarly disgusting. You'll note, he is no longer running for President. Newt should take that cue. I am certainly no defender of John Edwards. He certainly has paid a high price for his infidelity, as he should have. I probably have a bigger issue with Newt and the Republicans because they seem to have this self-righteous mentality and want to impose their morality on everyone. It kind of bugs me, that's all. Ron Paul is the only honest one there who supports doctors taking advantage of cancer patients to pay their high salaries. If Ron Paul was President in 1941, he would've just brushed off Pearl Harbor and we never would've lost so many American lives in WWII. He's a libertarian who believes the government shouldn't be involved in your life AND he's anti-choice! What's better than THAT??? He's had like five Presidential runs yet nobody even heard of him until a few months ago! What's better that voting for a 5-time loser? Rupert Murdoch supports Santorum and corporate welfare. Right-wing billionaire, Rupert Murdock controls Faux News, the GOP propaganda machine. Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico - so according to the Birthers' "reading of the Constitution," Mitt's NOT a "Natural Born" citizen and is ineligible? Is this really the best the GOP can come up with? Seriously?!..I mean c'mon! They have nothing. No facts, no NEW plans, and mostly, no respect for our system of government or our intelligence. It doesn't matter who wins the GOP primary. The agenda will still be the same, New World Order. Have you looked at your civil rights lately and seen a few missing?? Americans falling into poverty....businesses going bankrupt...the Patriot Act....the new provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act...E-911 (Gps location on cell phones)...censoring of what you say...SOPA...PIPA. |
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| Mischel | Aug 26 2012, 01:06 PM Post #37 |
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If President Obama is not a natural born US Citizen, as alleged by birthers, Teabaggers and some Republicons, why is it that the Republicans have not filed a case in court to disqualify Obama to run for president? The Republicans claimed that the birth certificate of Obama issued by the state of Hawaii is fake; again file a case in court, to settle this once and for all. Also, as US president, if President Obama is not a natural born US citizen, which is a culpable violation of the US Constitution, why is it that the Republicans have not filed an impeachment case in Congress against President Obama? The Republicans are desperate -- being behind at the polls. They tried this trick before in the 2008 election, it did not work. Now they spread a doctored You-Tube video to show that Obama was not born in Hawaii. With no doubt in my mind this trick would not work again. The American voters could not be hoodwinked. The truth will always prevail. Now regarding the schools transcripts, prior to his law degree, this became academic and irrelevant, when Barack Obama graduated with JD degree, magna cum laude from Harvard University. What has religion got to do with being president? We are in a country where there is a freedom of religion and separation of Church and State. Obama's camp never did criticize on Romney being a Mormon. This issue on religion is a personal matter and should stay as it is. With no doubt in my mind, Mitt Romney, will get the worst beating of his political life. President Barack will again win the presidency come the November election. |
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| Louie Fernan | Aug 26 2012, 03:30 PM Post #38 |
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So, how have the Republicans managed to persuade Americans to buy into the whole "Obama as big spender" narrative? It might have something to do with the first year of the Obama presidency where the federal budget increased a whopping 17.9% — going from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. I'll bet you think that this is the result of the Obama sponsored stimulus plan that is so frequently vilified by the conservatives…but you would be wrong. The first year of any incoming president term is saddled — for better or for worse — with the budget set by the president whom immediately precedes the new occupant of the White House. Indeed, not only was the 2009 budget the property of George W. Bush — and passed by the 2008 Congress — it was in effect four months before Barack Obama took the oath of office. Reagan: 82-85 8.7% Reagan: 85-89 4.7% Bush I: 90-93 5.4% Clinton: 94-97 3.2% Clinton: 98-01 3.5% Bush 2: 02-05 7.3% Bush 2: 06-09 8.1%* Obama: 10-13 1.4% *2009 stimulus reassigned to Obama Scholastic records and tax records are not the same. Tax records are more or less about honesty while scholastic records are just that, academic. Besides, comparing Columbia/Harvard grades to those of Northeast Missouri State University, for example, is like comparing apples and oranges. Really, how does one compare grades of different majors? Moreover, providing tax records have been a tradition. And Obama disclosed all his tax records and birth certificate. But making college grades was never part of this tradition. Besides there is really serious doubts about Romney's tax affairs now that the Marriot tax shelter scandal is now out in the open. Yup, it was about criminally generating a fictional tax loss of $70 MILLION! Nope, not overstating church donation by a few hundred dollars! The Republicans are again simply trying to evade the issue just like 4 years ago when they were asking for Obama's birth certificate which was nothing but a totally racist distraction. No white presidential candidate was ever asked that. Obama could have asked McCain for his college record transcript to embarrass him knowing that McCain graduated fourth or fifth from the bottom of his class! But he wisely did not. It was irrelevant. Again it is racist to ask for Obama's college grades when that, again, was never asked of white candidates before. That Obama graduated from Columbia and Harvard and taught at Chicago is enough. How many of those politicians have graduated from these top schools and became president of the most prestigious Harvard Law Review, anyway? |
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| RectoKid | Aug 26 2012, 04:18 PM Post #39 |
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Note how Obama's birth certificate, scholastic records from Puna Hoe to Harvard were scrutinized closely by the Republicans and their allied media. The DNC already performed its Due Diligence on the leading Democratic candidates before the final nominating convention. That has been a traditional part of the nominating process. The racist campaign. The transcript of records. The birth certificate. These are for the 2008 presidential campaign. It is already 2012, Obama has been president for almost 4 years. Four years is enough time for any legitimate issues against Obama to reach the courts. Why? Because the GOP lawyers can't find any that the courts will accept. Is there nothing original Romney can come up? I heard the GOP national campaign manager Michael Steele in a TV interview say, that the birther talk by Romney in Michigan against Obama was intended merely for LEVITY! The campaign should not be serious all the time. Besides there is no law against it. Weeeellll... The money Romney invested abroad in Cayman islands, Bermuda and his deposits in Swiss banks seem to me also a big joke of his on American patriotism. The birther for levity talk actually is self-discrediting but there was a time when GOP Rick Perry, Donald Trump and others were serious about it. They never said it was a joke until this date. However, let us not forget that Romney had admitted during his primary campaign that Obama was born in the USA. But nobody paid him any attention, not even Rick Perry nor Donald Trump, and Obama himself didn't bother to say thank you [a complain by GOP strategist Karl Rove] because everybody, including Obama took him as telling a joke to make his campaign lively. hahahaha... there's the levity! Here's Romney's statement in Michigan [which was later claimed only for levity which could be true because he already admitted before that Obama was born in the USA. Of course, who really knows if he already changed his mind! With politicians one can never be sure]. "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate." "They know that this is the place that we were born and raised." On the campaign trail everything can possibly be said for any purpose but we know that all, joke or serious, is connected to the end-all purpose of discrediting the opponent. This Romney cannot deny. But will it go into Romney's head that it is a poor campaign pitch? Ok, I saw on TV that he got the laughs for his "mocking birther joke" but will he get the votes? Edited by Karsie, Aug 26 2012, 04:22 PM.
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| Karsie | Aug 26 2012, 04:35 PM Post #40 |
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Now on the matter of confidential school transcripts what possibly anything damaging could they find in Obama's college records that these racists keep harping on while mum on Romney's tax returns? Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law. What else do they want? Let the racists bitch. Nothing will ever change their racial hate anyway. Scholastic records are, and have been checked out regarding certain candidates. People have forgotten how George W. Bush' poor performance in college and Harvard Business School were used against him as well as his non-performance with the Texas National Guard. So was Robert Kennedy's record as a college undergrad at Harvard, during the Dem. Primaries in 1968.....or Johnson's graduating from the SouthWest Texas State Teacher's College. These are floated in the press. There is significance in scholastic records in packaging a candidate. It can be used for or against him. The GOP camp makes me think the American voters are dumb. Otherwise, they would not try to trick the voters into believing that they've got something in Obama's birth record, in his transcript of records in school, even under his black skin that they were not able to unearth in the 2008 campaign. The worst CRIME that the GOP would have committed if the allegation that Obama is not born in the USA is in its not having stormed the White House to eject Obama. I have to credit the GOP for coming up with the transcript of records issue that they know is worthless if Obama obliges. They want to plant the idea of grave doubt on his ability in some areas that can be made a good reason for an imagined poor performance in those areas in his presidency. Obama, if you have noticed, is an astute politician. He will come up with the damning evidence against this charge in an opportune moment where he can get maximum impact. I believe he is just waiting for that moment. Scholastic records can be useful if they show good marks but can be damaging if they don't. However, have poor scholastic records stopped the mentally poor candidates from winning or the mentally poor voters from voting for them? Take Lyndon Johnson. Oh, let's not forget yes, yes... Bush? Need I say more? Posted Image Posted Image Compare above how the Reagan and George W's huge deficits correlate with low tax rates they have gifted the rich. Didn't Sen. McConnell infamously declare, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."? So he, Boehner, Cantor et al proceeded to treasonously sabotage the economy by saying, "No!" to all of Obama's proposals to make sure the economic recovery doesn't happen! Never mind if millions of fellow Americans suffer from unemployment or underemployment! Edited by Karsie, Aug 26 2012, 08:07 PM.
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| Arturo Gomez | Sep 6 2012, 09:10 AM Post #41 |
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Here’s a link you might want to look at to compare the US National Debt. You can see how much it was in 2000 when GW Bush first became president and how much it was when he left 8 years later. You might just be surprise!: http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html |
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| Divera | Oct 10 2012, 05:42 AM Post #42 |
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House Republicans have launched an all-out war on women since taking the Speaker's gavel. In the last year, Republicans have: 1. Proposed redefining rape to only cases of "forcible rape" to deny access to women's health services. 2. Voted to defund Planned Parenthood and repeatedly tried to restrict access to women's health care services. 3. Held a hearing on women's health with five men and no women. Over the last week, we saw top Republican leaders squirm at denouncing or even criticizing Rush Limbaugh after he called women's health care advocate Sandra Fluke a "****" and a "prostitute" on his radio show. It's clear Republicans are trying to silence women who stand against their radical agenda. |
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| SabrinaQ | Oct 10 2012, 05:49 AM Post #43 |
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To those complaining about how expensive Pres. Obama's vacations are costing the taxpayers, the fact is ALL U.S. Presidents and their families take vacations. The Obama family has not taken or spent nearly as much as the Bush family for instance. This can easily be researched and proven. I suppose Republican fans weren't complaining when George W. Bush spent at least $20 million taxpayer dollars just on FLIGHTS to his ranch in Crawford, TX. He was the most expensive vacation president in US history. Not only did Bush spend more days on vacation than any other president, but he used Air Force One more often while on vacation than any other president. During Bush's two terms, the cost of operating Air Force One ranged from $56,800 to $68,000 an hour. Bush used Air Force One 77 times to go to his ranch in Crawford, TX. Using the low end cost of $56,800, this means that each trip to Crawford cost taxpayers $259,687, and $20 million total JUST for Bush's ranch flights. If cost of the flight was the only expense involved to taxpayers, Bush's vacations would still seem rather economical, but there is more, much more. The cost of transporting and accommodating staff, media, friends and family is not included in Bush's vacation numbers. |
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| breb | Oct 14 2012, 07:03 PM Post #44 |
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Romney's campaign was/is in debt, due to his mismanagement? How can Mitt Romney possibly begin to end the deficits, let alone start paying off the national debt, when his own campaign cant even stay out of debt? What a joke!
Romney swore he left Bain in 1999 before they started shipping jobs overseas, yet SEC filings show he was attached to the company as the PRIMARY managing partner until 2002. YES he DID offshore jobs, and he is also in line with Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who is under investigation for defying the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing Chinese officials to build a 50 BILLION dollar casino in Macau. That 50 BILLION created lots of jobs in China and none here. Could you imagine if that 50 BILLION had been invested in the US??? Sort of like how amazing it would be if Romney pulled all his money out of foreign ventures and invested HERE at home, rather than investing in Iranian banks, the Cayman Islands, Switzerland AND Bermuda. He knows nothing about foreign affairs, his trip to Europe proved that. So many voters want to elect a president who has ran a business. The last time this country elected a businessman president, he gave us a Depression! Can you say Hoover?! According to US News & World Report, businessmen and only businessmen have made the worse presidents in the modern era: Warren G Harding, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush. USN&WR is a conservative/pro-Republican. Running this country isn't like running a business. Running a business is not a good preparation for public office, in fact, it's one of the worst. Government is nothing like an operation that is supposed to benefit only the stockholders at the expense of labor and customers. Romney is not smarter than Pres. Obama. Pres. Obama knows why windows in an airplane don't roll down, Romney doesn't. Romney is a liar, and a tax cheat who won't even invest in America. Edited by breb, Oct 14 2012, 08:56 PM.
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