HappySqurriel said:
From what I have seen, very little of the "disrespect" that American's receive in other countries comes from their president ... I think one thing people never seem to consider is that Obama is set up to be a massive "failure" primarily because people's expectations of him are entirely unrealistic. When it starts to become clear that Obama can not give a speech that heals the world, and he starts to make decisions which are not (necessarily) in everyone's best interest, it will be interesting to see how "loved" he is then
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You sure are good at turning something good into something bad aren't you.
What you are saying is like, "I am going to go out with this girl. If she doesn't like me, I am a failure. She has already shown a lot of interest in me and was the one who asked me out." Of course you can always fail, but does anything get accomplished by sitting there and dwelling on the negative possibilities? Should you just not go out on the date because you might fail? That's ludicrous, and your argument is ludicrous as well.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
