Does anyone anywhere in the world really believe that George W. Bush

[WCGreen]

would have ever been president if it wasn't for all the advantages that came along with being a Bush...

That's what I would say if I ever had the chance to meet Tom Coburn...

He belittles the president, hell he puts in question the achievements of any African American, with his little outburst that somehow makes him, in the bizarro world of the media, seem to be an intellect in the republican party.

In case you may have missed this little gem...


"Obama's "intent is not to destroy, his intent is to create dependency because it worked so well for him," he said.

"As an African-American male," Coburn said, Obama received "tremendous advantage from a lot of these programs.""


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/18/1008223/-Shorter-Tom-Coburn:-Obama-got-unfair-advantages-from-being-black

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Coburn is full of shit.

I like this sentence from the daily kos article:

Or maybe it's just that Sen. Tom Coburn is blowing the racist dogwhistle as hard as he can.

[WCGreen]

2. Yea, and only republicans can hear it...

Seriously, I met a lot or racist democrats in my life time...

[hifiguy]

3. If Chimpy hadn't been born a Bush

he'd have been the fucking night manager of a Denny's in Waco.

[Rex]

4. Manager? Not a chance he could NEVER handle that kind of pressure.

GWB would homeless and eating out of a dumpster. He could never hold on to a job or be successful at anything.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Correct!

He only got where he did because his dad kept bailing him out from all his failures.

[rpannier]

10. One correction

He HAS never been successful at anything
Businesses his father gave him to run failed
His ownership of the Rangers was a disaster
His time as governor not good
His presidency a monumental failure

[unblock]

7. not for long.

restaurant work is hard work, and you don't show up drunk.

trust me, denny's he would not have lasted long at all at any restaurant, not even denny's.
night manager at the la quinta hotel next door, that i could see.

nah, clerk at the waco shop'n'save. that's more like it.

[hifiguy]

9. And he'd probably bust the Slurpee machine

within ten minutes.

[Ken Burch]

11. No....he'd be passed out in the alley BEHIND that Denny's.

n/t.

[HillWilliam]

15. Maybe dish washer.

He hasn't the brains to manage anything.

Jess thinkin' out loud here...

[monmouth]

5. Diebold/Katherine Harris....King makers...n/t

[Lasher]

8. Obama has earned everything he's ever gotten.

As a black man raised by a single parent he had almost no chance to excel as he has. He did anyway and I greatly admire that of him. Teabaggers like to call him arrogant. That means uppity, in case you can't translate the racist dog whistles.

[Atman]

12. That's a standard GOP talking point, has been for ages...

Democrats just want to make people dependent upon them so they can keep winning elections. It couldn't have anything to do with Dems wanting everyone to have opportunity, an education, a square meal. Nope, it's only about Democrats trying to get everyone hooked on government. It was stupid then, it's stupid now. Coburn is an idiot with not an original thought in his head.

.

[slipslidingaway]

13. No, but we need to stop giving them a free pass ...

sometimes you have to look back to protect the future.

Democrats, the Truth Still Matters!
By Robert Parry
(First Posted May 11, 2006)

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html


"My book, Secrecy & Privilege, opens with a scene in spring 1994 when a guest at a White House social event asks Bill Clinton why his administration didn’t pursue unresolved scandals from the Reagan-Bush era, such as the Iraqgate secret support for Saddam Hussein’s government and clandestine arms shipments to Iran.

Clinton responds to the questions from the guest, documentary filmmaker Stuart Sender, by saying, in effect, that those historical questions had to take a back seat to Clinton’s domestic agenda and his desire for greater bipartisanship with the Republicans.

Clinton “didn’t feel that it was a good idea to pursue these investigations because he was going to have to work with these people,” Sender told me in an interview. “He was going to try to work with these guys, compromise, build working relationships.”

Clinton’s relatively low regard for the value of truth and accountability is relevant again today because other centrist Democrats are urging their party to give George W. Bush’s administration a similar pass if the Democrats win one or both houses of Congress..."

[Motown_Johnny]

14. President? Hell he would not have had any of the jobs he held if not for Poppy

[City Lights]

16. Without Bush connections, Junior would be in jail or lying face down in a gutter.

Coburn disgusts me.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. Bush couldn't even keep his job on the Board of the Carlyle Group

His daddy got him the gig after he failed at several businesses. But the Chimp barely showed up, never paid attention to what was going on, and spent his time telling dirty jokes. Of course Bush would never have been President or anything else for that matter without his family's connections. If he had been completely on his own and left to his own abilities, Bush would have been good enough to sell aluminum siding or go door-to-door selling magazines, maybe.