The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[sleepyjeff]

My new word of the day....homophones.....

[JWBear]

Are those gay telecommunications devices?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Alex

I can not believe I homophoned "their" twice, two different ways, in one post.

Typing homophones is the most idiot-looking thing I do.

Saayyyy, are you looking for this thread?

Colon, capital "d"

Alex, I thought this was a homophone:

[sleepyjeff]

lol

[Gn2Dlnd]

Homophone! It'ss your dime misster, sstart talkin'!

[JWBear]

Congress and SCOTUS got their collective asses handed to them on a platter tonight!

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Congress and SCOTUS got their collective asses handed to them on a platter tonight!

Yes! It was a beautiful thing. Where has this dynamic guy been for the last six months?

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Yes! It was a beautiful thing. Where has this dynamic guy been for the last six months?

Really? Were we watching the same thing? Did we look into Obama's eyes and get mesmerized by his twinkly twinkle again? *throws cold water on flippyshark and JWBear*

Congress and the Supreme Court didn't get crap handed to them because our dear darling President is all talk -- he can't do diddly squat about the Supremes lousy decisions and he can't get diddly squat done in Congress either. All he can do well is talk talk talk talk talk talk talk.

Hope change change hope hope change change hope hope change. *yawn*

And don't get me started on how he's repeating his campaign promises of "working with Congress" about repealing DADT when he knows damn well he can issue an Executive Order like Truman did in 1948 to end racial segregation in the military. There's plenty of pushback on that from the Republicans, who are saying that the issue needs to be studied further (oh jeez, they were saying that in 1993 when DADT was implemented! Are ya done studying yet?). But with that pushback, is diddly squat going to be done on that? I'll believe it when I see it. But more talk talk talk talk talk talk talk hope change change hope hope change change hope hope change -- with no deadlines, no plan, just a nebulous "oh jeez, yeah, someday we'll get around to that even thought I'm losing all my goodwill" statement is, to put it mildly, disappointing.

Fvucking DO something already Mr. President, and I'll support you. But today, I really don't believe anything that crosses your lips.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Really? Were we watching the same thing? Did we look into Obama's eyes and get mesmerized by his twinkly twinkle again? *throws cold water on flippyshark and JWBear*

I admit, I have no rational reason to think anything will change, but damned if he can't get me all tingly. *sigh*

[scaeagles]

That's exactly why I read speeches and don't watch them. I'm not interested in the least in how some politician delivers his speech, I want to know what was said. I don't care about the applause lines that the Congress gives the ovations for, I want to see what I would applaud for (not that I pretend I would applaud Obama for anything).

I haven't had the chance to read the speech nor the response yet, just snippets from various news stories last night and this morning. Everything I've read, though, seems to say it was pretty much a campaign speech.

ETA: What the hell does it mean when Chris Matthews says "For an hour I forgot he was black"? I can't think of anything that makes that a good thing to say. If some conservative commentator said that I believe there would be hell to pay.