Freepers are wishing for Obama to fail miserably so they can say "told ya so"

[greenbriar]

but they are stupid and ignorant

I hope they realize that it would mean they woudl be failures too

[madaboutharry]

1. I don't understand the desire to see

failure. Do they not want a nation that is at peace, a nation that prospers, a nation filled with healthy and employeed citizens? They are stupid and ignorant.

[asthmaticeog]

2. They're idealogues.

Success to them means that the nation is being run according to the principles the hold to be true, not whether or not those principles actually work.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. It's the GOP mindset.

One of empire and conquest.

Always a zero-sum game with these people.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. No, they don't want any of those things.

They want God, acting through the US and Israeli military, to continue to rain death and destruction on Muslims. They want teens who don't meet their criteria for "good" to suffer through unwanted pregnancies and ruined lives. They want to see more people go to prison rather than decriminalize drugs. They would rather have no health insurance themselves than live with the thought that some "undeserving" person might get help at public expense. They are not normal. They hare hateful vermin.

[Mz Pip]

3. It's a pretty shortsighted

point of view.

I never like Bush but I never wished for him to fail. In fact after he was selected I said to my son, "I really hope this all works out." I take no pleasure in his failure as it has cost me, my family and this country far too much. I would have much preferred him to end up being one of the greatest presidents ever; how much better for us and the world if that had happened.

But he wasn't and don't feel any need to sat "I told you so." People either get it or they don't. The Freepers obviously don't.

[Paula Sims]

5. My mother always told me

"Don't wish something upon others that you wouldn't want for yourself". Don't often agree with her but in this case I agree

[flakey_foont]

6. told us what?

Sweet Mother of God! if Obama fails, it would most likely be that the foundations he inherited were so damaged by their boy Georgie Porgie that it was too late to fix

[elocs]

7. I asked this yesterday of my best friend who bleeds Republican

and he said he wants to see Obama succeed so his grandchildren have a chance at a better life. But he also added that it is Democrats who want to see a Republican fail in office.

[Happyhippychick]

9. Why do they hate America so?

[w8liftinglady]

10. this was the intent of the ltte I submitted today

I didn't wish for the failure that was the Bush administration.
I didn't wish for lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction that led us to an unnecessary war,resulting in 4,228 deaths of American soldiers and 1,000,000 Iraqis.
I didn't wish for 4.5 million Iraqi orphans,including 500,000 homeless children.
I didn't wish for the neglect of our wounded soldiers that was exemplified by the Walter Reed scandal.
I didn't wish for the disregard of our Military by failing to equip and protect them as too few of them were sent to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I didn't wish for the total disregard for the citizen-soldiers known as the National Guard to be rotated on multiple deployments to war zones,leaving our nation and their families in jeopardy.
I didn't wish for the shortchanging of our veterans by cutting services and raising fees for our veterans.
I didn't wish for the crumbling economy with poor oversight of investment banks by the SEC,1,000% increase in the deficit,and tax cuts in light of a war in 2 countries.
I didn't wish for a record number of homeowners to lose their homes due to mismanagement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
I didn't wish for a complete disregard of the Constitution and law shown by the Bush administration ,as evidenced by one signing statement for every 10 laws passed-making these laws invalid.
I didn't wish for over 45 million Americans to be without health insurance,leaving a sicker population to be entering our emergency rooms for primary care.
I didn't wish for record high unemployment,decreases in consumer spending,and closures of businesses large and small as a direct result of the 2003 Tax Cuts proposed and passed by President Bush-to the objection of 10 Nobel Laureates in Economics.
I didn't wish for any of these,and yet they happened.
Now I hear people wishing for the failure of the Obama administration.Who would wish for the failure of their country?President Obama has a formidable task ahead of him.I pray he has the strength and foresight to create success out of the failures left for him.

[malaise]

11. See with the Freepers

We told them Bush would be an EPIC FAILURE and we were right.
The only time you'll see the word right next to a Freeper is right-wing 'moran'.

[dysfunctional press]

12. 8 years ago, how many of us were hoping for shrub to be a successful president?

none that i can recall...

[lolly]

14. I don't know if "hope" is the right word

The man's entire life history gave evidence of nothing but failure--so, yeah, most were predicting failure.

I was thinking more along the lines of setbacks, however--not the complete disaster that actually happened.

I suppose you can "hope" the scorpion won't sting you in the middle of the river, but you're asking for trouble if you expect it.

[gratuitous]

13. They see it as payback for Bush's miserable failures

The Freeper mindset (always a slippery concept) is that for the last eight years, libruls have been wishing failure on George W. Bush and his administration. They see this as payback for all the times that Bush was murderously wrong during his tenure.

What they don’t understand (by chance or design) was not so much that libruls were hoping that Bush would fail, but that our objective analysis of his fucked-up policies led us to the conclusion that the end result of his fucked-up polices would be a fuck-up. In real time, this opened the door for Freepers to denounce us as traitors who wanted Tinker Bell to die because we refused to clap hard enough and announce that we did indeed believe in fairies.

The difference, of course, is that the Freepers want Obama’s policies and programs to fail not because they necessarily want more people starving in the streets but because any success by Obama will reflect badly on Bush. It’s a political calculation all the way. If Obama succeeds where Bush failed (and Bush failed so often and so miserably that Obama doing better will happen a lot of times just by accident or by dint of the fact that Obama isn’t the incompetent that Bush is), that will inflict even further damage to the Bush Legacy.

Some day they may come to grips with the fact that George W. Bush is a complete dolt and that they prostrated themselves before his image. That day will surely not be pretty, but the aftermath will be better for the country.

[lolly]

16. Well, you beat me to the punch

And said it better than I did.

"Predicting" is not the same as "hoping."

Certainly, none of us "hoped" that we would be plunged into the economic and foreign relations disaster we're now facing.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. We Can Already Do That

Bush is OUR evidence that WE TOLD THEM SO!

Idiots
GAC

[ObamaRules]

17. How can you love your Country but root for its leader to fail? N/T

[ProfessorGAC]

18. I Did

I didn't want anyone to suffer, but i wanted Bush to be a failed president. Fortunately, i was right in 2000, and i'm right now.

On Edit: I never considerd Bush ANYBODY'S "leader". He's just a buffoon with a job.
GAC

[Harry Monroe]

19. So I guess they are traitors too??

They're are not supporting the president. Same thing I was told by repukes lo these long 8 years.

[spindrifter]

20. It's only because they have surrounded themselves

with their own failures.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. "... would be failures, too"?

Honey, they're already failures. That's why they celebrated Chimpy Fucknuts so rabidly - they recognized him as one of their own, albeit with a trust fund.

Obama is so far beyond them in every conceivable way, they're unable to relate even at the simple point of being a patriotic American and hoping for the best for our country. They're inadvertent traitors, but they're too, too stupid to realize that.

They're freepers..............