So I befriended Jermaine Rogers on Facebook because I like his artwork (He's done some deftones shirts and posters). He occasionally makes political posts like the one shown below. I thought I'd post it here just to give yall some insight into the other sides POV.
Jermaine- Obamas mistake = TOO NICE.
and in a way, too much of a 'human being' for the job.
good man, poor politician: flip that, and you got Bill Clinton...
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Muhammad Omar Ghaznavi- Amen.
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Amy Fernandez VanRoo- Couldn't have said it better J. I feel exactly the same way.....
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Shannon O'Rear Palmer- you hit the nail on the head with this one.
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Richie Goodtimes- I'm not sure if you are aware of this phenomenon, but there are people out there that just don't like people with darker skin than their own.
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Erik Gustafson- I just hope he is taking off his bipartisian hat and putting on his gonna get shit done hat for the next 4. He will have my vote of course but Im not 100% happy with current progress. Dude is just TOOOOO NICE!!!!!
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Jermaine Rogers @ richie - i got a circa 1992 skinhead 'bottle scar' to prove it.
obama had a mandate.
screw trying to get along with these animals.
much as i cant stand her, shoulda made Hillary the VP...or attorney general...or something.
Obama needed a 'Bobby' to back him up...
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Jill Gallagher- I don't think Clinton is a 'bad' man, he's just got unsavory weaknesses & an inability to shut up at the moment...
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Shannon O'Rear Palmer- i love the guy though. maybe this is why i'd never make a good politician; I like the fact that he's human, that he's nice. i know i'll vote for him again.
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Jill Gallagher- I had a sticker from cafepress.com on my car right after Abama's speech at the DNC in '04. It said "Cinton/Obama '08" Sadly, Hil has the balls for the job & Barack really doesn't. Poor fella, he was practically served up...
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Jermaine Rogers- i think he should STAY nice.
thats why he was elected.
STAY NICE, and appoint Hillary as VP.
he needs someone who will be the 'bad guy'...with pleasure.
most folks saw it as a blip on the radar when Rahm Emmanuel left his cabinet. i told everyone i knew that it was a big deal.
when Emmanuel split, Obama was 'de-fanged'.
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Jill Gallagher Tep on Hil, yep on Rahm the Animal Steel.
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El Roi- Obama came up in the Chicago political system. If he wasn't aware that National politics are play for keeps and wasn't prepared to play hardball, he should have never stepped into the ring. All he did was give false hope to a lot of people who had never participate in the political process because they felt that their participation would be futile. Obama's capitulation to the GOP/Teabag Party at nearly every turn has assured those same people of the futility of their participation. Obama could have turned his back on the corporate shills that make up most of the Democratic Party and decided to do whatever he could over the four years he would have before they dumped him. He could have had the courage to tell them that there was no way he was going to appoint to his administration a bunch of Clintonian hacks and corporate shills. He could have decided that he was going to do the right thing even if it assured him a one term presidency and ruined his chance at a post-presidential career on the lecture circuit. He has followed through with almost none of his campaign promises. Considering the way he treated truly righteous people the likes of Dr. Cornel West so badly for questioning his actions, how can anyone think that he anything but part of the system. Face it, he merely says things we want to hear?
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El Roi- "...he should STAY nice," Isn't this the process that progressives have been pursuing with these intellectual midgets for decades. Isn't this the strategy that has gotten the Democratic Party screwed over again and again by the GOP and now the Teabagger Party. The time for appeasement and out and out capitulation to these idiots is over. It's time to call a spade a spade and if they don't like being enlightened to the fact that they are idiots with no sense of self-preservation...well, f*ck them!
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Jeff LaChance- I wish he were a bit more cut throat, he's dealing with alot of old white men who want to hold onto their money...he needs a bit more "Dolemite" in 'im.
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Jermaine Rogers- nothing is that black and white, elroi.
study your history very closely.
even most conservatives are not what you think they are.
they dont have fangs and tails and eat their young.
theyve just got a faulty POV...from OUR perspectives...which to them is 'faulty'.
so, in many ways its not about 'right and wrong' in domestic politics...but majority opinion and raw, human ethics...as they are dictated by current social leanings.
its like inheriting a thread spun blanket which is uneven on one end. somewhere in the weaving of the blanket, the weaver got off track...didnt stay balanced. as more and more progress was made on the blanket, that little miscalculation grew and grew...and so now, when the blanket is finished, the error is plainly visible.
the real way to really fix it, is to unravel the entire thing...take it all apart, at least to the point where the weaver went wrong, and start over. but, you cant do that with govt.
too many folks need 'the blanket'...the luxury of time and money to blow it up is non-existent.
so, if Obama decides to try and artifically adjust things, there is a certain amount of diplomacy that he must maintain.
study your Abe Lincoln.
a lot of my fellow liberal friends make the mistake of confusing 'diplomacy' with 'surrender'. its not the same. it never was.
i think Obama gave TOO much, in an effort to really cause CHANGE in the way things are done in DC. THAT is his naivete.
one administration will not change the system up there.
only one thing will do that...and i dont think this country has the stomach for it.
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Cynthia Douglas- Way too nice!! *sigh*
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El Roi
I agree with much that you say JR. It is reasonable and well put. However, if he were truly well intentioned from the beginning, he could have possibly averted many of his glaring miscalculations by appointing far more qualified individuals...
