Are these US protests significant?

[Dizaster]

I'm not a fan of Obama, but you know what I find hilarious? It's that a lot of people are blaming Obama for the multiple wars and the economic crises that he inherited. Like I said people have selective memory on who was president during the economic turmoil and the wars that the US is currently in.

That is all, you an argue among yourselves.

I'm probably the least knowledgeable person on such subjects, but to be fair, didn't Obama keep in all of the retards (aka financial controllers/experts) who blindly let (lead) the country into a gigantic economic meltdown?

Likes Miles said, there are probably 1000's of fraud cases, each one on an enormous scale, that just get let go.... The super and mega and even reasonably wealthy in America are above everything... That should be enough to make any everyday American furious...

[El Kabong]

I'm not a fan of Obama, but you know what I find hilarious? It's that a lot of people are blaming Obama for the multiple wars and the economic crises that he inherited. Like I said people have selective memory on who was president during the economic turmoil and the wars that the US is currently in.

That is all, you an argue among yourselves.

I'm probably the least knowledgeable person on such subjects, but to be fair, didn't Obama keep in all of the retards (aka financial controllers/experts) who blindly let (lead) the country into a gigantic economic meltdown?

Likes Miles said, there are probably 1000's of fraud cases, each one on an enormous scale, that just get let go.... The super and mega and even reasonably wealthy in America are above everything... That should be enough to make any everyday American furious...

He basically got everyone that had been there before under Clinton....HOPE AND CHANGE....totally what we got, we're still Hoping the economy will get better and all we've got left in our pockets is Change

[greynotsoold]

Does anybody remember the Perot/Gore debate of 1993? The consensus was that Perot made a fool of himself and that Gore won the debate handily, and now, it seems, most of what Perot was "babbling" about has come true.
There is certainly something very wrong in this country; the richest, most productive nation ever has an astounding number living below the poverty level, a rich/poor gap on par with that of China, and is bankrupt on every level from the federal government on down to the millions in foreclosure. This is nothing new as it has been an ongoing thing for at least as long as I've been alive. Our 'leadership' is guilty of one of two things: gross and utter incompetence, or of being venal, corrupt and greedy.

[El Kabong]

Does anybody remember the Perot/Gore debate of 1993? The consensus was that Perot made a fool of himself and that Gore won the debate handily, and now, it seems, most of what Perot was "babbling" about has come true.
There is certainly something very wrong in this country; the richest, most productive nation ever has an astounding number living below the poverty level, a rich/poor gap on par with that of China, and is bankrupt on every level from the federal government on down to the millions in foreclosure. This is nothing new as it has been an ongoing thing for at least as long as I've been alive. Our 'leadership' is guilty of one of two things: gross and utter incompetence, or of being venal, corrupt and greedy.

Perot got a lot of things right, but he also got some things wrong as well. The way he was portrayed in the media was grossly mishandled as well, his Vice Presidential pick was given 0 respect when all he did wrong was be bad on tv. He was a verteran and a POW that served his time in the Hanoi Hilton (along with Sen. John McCain) he was also a professor at Stanford but he was given 0 respect at all. Perot was wrong on thinking that the US given the size of our economy could be completely and totally isolationist....he was correct on Iraq though.


Al Gore is a lying sack of dog shit but he makes up for it by being pompus and dull.

[generalbulldog]

1 thing I find utterly funny Lyle is that you blame the left or liberals for all of the US problems but choose to ignore what guys like Reagan and Bush jr. also had a fine hand in it. Like I said selective memory.
Shit wasn't all rosy under those guys leading the nation that's for damn sure.

[El Kabong]

1 thing I find utterly funny Lyle is that you blame the left or liberals for all of the US problems but choose to ignore what guys like Reagan and Bush jr. also had a fine hand in it. Like I said selective memory.
Shit wasn't all rosy under those guys leading the nation that's for damn sure.

True but you cannot doubt that Reagan was a LEADER, he was held accountable. As for Bush, I think the Republicans really went off the tracks fairly quickly re: the social issues after he was elected...under Clinton the Republican run House and Senate did a lot of good, but Ol' Slick Willy gets the credit....that and people just happen to forget the ".com" bubble that hit right before W took office and yes he did turn the economy back around after a recession.

[Gandalf]

Lyle, you live in cloud cuckoo land. The US has been systematically assaulted for a good 30 years. It doesn't matter which party it is, they have all brought about the same thing. A weakened middle class. Party politics is bankrupt. Big business owns them all and they will continue to assault people until there is nothing left. They want America to be like Mexico.