Random Politics & Religion #03

Only one of those incidents is specifically related to partisanship. You're completely projecting party politics in situations where that wasn't a factor, which makes the whole subtext of your "correlation" about as subtle as a roundhouse kick to the face.

... Assad will outlast Obama.

Assad will outlast Obama

Let's look at the 2010s....

Harrisonburg, VA. (D) Mayor, purplish state.
Oakland, CA
Oakland, CA
Oakland, CA
Pennsylvania State (Over the firing of a coach. Basically a wash)
Oakland, CA
Chicago, IL
Anaheim, CA
Ferguson, MI
New York, NY and Berkeley, CA
Baltimore, MD
The Bundy occupation (Hey look, an exception)
SLC, UT (Following a cop shooting of a minority)
Donald Trump Protest
Democracy Spring

Don't see a correlation here?

Fist fights at campaign rallies. A major presidential candidate called a bigot and bully by members of his own party. Gridlock in Washington. And Americans downright pessimistic.

This is America’s politics today, seven years after Barack Obama was elected president with a promise to change it all.

The political change he predicted never appeared. Instead, partisanship and dysfunction have grown worse. His legacy on policies is more mixed. He did accomplish things, notably the Affordable Care Act. But his legacy on politics is another story.

Republicans and Democrats refuse to compromise, sometimes even talk. Congress has become more unproductive with lawmakers failing to pass budgets or even consider presidential appointments. And most Americans have little to no confidence in the federal government to tackle the problems facing the nation in 2016, according to a poll released in January.

Just Thursday, about 20 people were arrested after hundreds of protesters blocked an intersection and vandalized a police car outside a rally for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump at the Orange County Fairgrounds in California. Several fights broke out.

“It’s fair to say that President Obama entered office as chief executive of a divided country, and he’s done nothing noticeable to heal those divisions in his seven years,” said William Galston, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the center-left Brookings Institution.

Barring an unexpected change in the country, the political legacy of the 44th president will be that he left office with the atmosphere in the United States in worse shape than when he was elected.

That failure is all the more disappointing, Democrats and Republicans say, because he raised expectations so high.

“He clearly thought – and he was entirely wrong – that he could transform politics in America,” said George Edwards, a presidential scholar at Texas A&M University. “It was naive to think he could bridge this divide.”

Before he was even sworn into office, Obama proclaimed that his successful election itself had altered American politics. “Change has come to America,” he said the day he was elected president.

Now entering his final months in office, Obama acknowledges that he was not able to “fix our politics.”

“It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency  –  that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better,” Obama said in his final State of the Union address in January. “There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office."

There’s plenty of reasons for the dysfunction: millions of dollars of unaccountable money in politics; districts that ensure most lawmakers don’t face competition; parties that have become more extreme; highly partisan media outlets and an atmosphere that no longer stops campaigning for governing.

In February, Obama devoted an entire speech to partisan politics, pushing for Americans to reduce money in politics, change how congressional districts are drawn and make voting easier.

But Obama, too, shares in the blame.

I don't know how much we can blame a leader who has dissent to the point of treason in his midst.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article74647642.html

Obama’s legacy: Politics of anger, fights, division

Oh get off it.

His legacy will be that that because the RepublicansDemocrats set out from day 1 to ObamaBush did. I don't blame him for doing what he has to do.
I noticed towards the end and second term that he took more shots at the Republicansfrom Democrats, but he did it with class and in a humorous fashion. I don't know how much we can blame a leader who has dissent to the point of treason in his midst.

He is a decent president who happens to be a great and likable guy outside of all of that.

Errr...You know A&M has a reputation of being an extremely conservative leaning university that has been under fire for students being overtly racist and homophobic as recently as the past year, right?

I think the point is, nobody would have thought Assad wouldn't have outlasted Obama.

A good question would be will Assad outlast a Trump Presidency?

and if there had been no Syrian war, then Assad would be in power for another 40 years.

Errr...You know A&M has a reputation of being an extremely conservative leaning university that has been under fire for students being overtly racist and homophobic as recently as the past year, right?

It farther right than Baylor, SMU and TCU.

Gotta love assumptions. Looks like everyone makes them huh.

If I am in your shoes then I just feel that I am right and think in a way that makes perfect sense to me. So then the train of thought ends there.


However, in my shoes you make me:

Yeah that whole area is a terrible place to live. College Station, Killeen, Temple, Waco. If you are going to live in Texas fine but don't live in that area between Dallas and Austin. A&M is still living in the 80s, if you need an engineering degree ok go there but anything else, stay away.

Ded gaem.

Illogical and emotionless thought process centered on partisan politics and a false dichotomy.

I don't believe my act is to get up here and attack either side regularly like it matters.

Mindsets, thought processes, and heartless or bad ideas are my nemesis. Not the same old "*** LIBERALS" and things that regularly goes on.

Alti did.

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Yeah I lived in San Marcos for 6 years.