Presidents get criticism, rightly so

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Lowell Greenbaum's criticism of The Augusta Chronicle concerning President Obama's apologizing ("Cartoon an insult to president," June 9) is beyond the pale. Every president, Democrat or Republican, has been subject to cartoons and lampooning.

Greenbaum did the same thing in an article to The Chronicle: He made fun of Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.

President Obama should never apologize for the United States. Those 9,000 soldiers sleeping forever in the Omaha Beach cemetery will not be coming home. Because of the United States military, the French are not under the German boot.

Max Bolgla

Augusta

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overburdened_taxpayer

Here, here Max. To apologize to Europe for America being "arrogant" is just not right. How many times have we saved Europe from it's self-destruction? At least 2 that I can name - WWI and WWII. Who knows how many times it would be if you included America's presence with it's troops in NATO and the use of diplomacy. We have EVERY right to tell Europe how to act and we have EVERY right to be arrogant because of the thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of American lives that were given for them to remain free from tyrany.

jack234

I think its really good that ellie mae has resigned to spend more time with her family and future son-in-law. Good thing she isn't vice-president and have to resign to patch up things at home. HELLO! HELLO!

patriciathomas

You're right Maxi, the president's actions are always open to lampooning, regardless of who they are.

cparker

Criticism of Obama is fair game when it's honest.. The problem is Conservatives enjoy manufacturing lies or spinning half truths as though the rest of us slept through the last eight years. We all know if you guys are making up stuff, and for the most part you are... If Obama does understand criticism he would not be President. How does a man defend against being called an Arab if he's not? GITMO is a problem Obama caused, not GWB? Ending the war at $15B a month and addressing a domestic issues is robbing white folks? A woman that took eight years to get a BA degree is smarter than a sitting US Senator that finished as the top graduationg lawyer at Harvard? It never ends, but the rest of us are suppose to sit quietly as Conservatives spin this on us? Obama is far from perfect, but he has a duty to right our wrongs as the spokesman for every US citizen. Bush & Cheney should have thought about that before telling the UN we would rather go to war alone, only to have to admit later we used flawed evidence to justify our stance. We ought to thank God Obama doesn't have a cowboy mentality that caused the stress with many allies. Thank God for Obama & this country...

55 F-100

Speaking of the White House, jack234, when will the 1st Mammy-in-law start paying for her rent and groceries in the White House? Will she lose her "government check" payday if she files for a change of address from her former address while she "stays" there? Did I miss the announcement of her being named the "Mammy-In-Law" Czar ?

xanadu

Mr Greenbaum simply suffers from what all Democrats suffer from: the "do as we tell you to do, not as we do" mentality. It's perfectly okay for them to criticize everyone and everything that is not Democrat-related, and we must listen to it, but we dare not criticize or make any derogatory comments about them or theirs in return. No one does hypocrisy with the chutzpah that Dems do it.

xanadu

55-F-100: Good one! poor jack234 is probably scrambling to come up with a pithy answer, which we all know will end with HELLO! HELLO! he needs to work on his vocab.

cparker

55 F-100... Everyone knows you are second best racist to patriciathomas. Fools like you try to insult blacks when they are doing great or really bad. I enjoy thinking about Obama making Conservatives crazy enough to manufacture a new lie to get even everyday.. We need you to keep up the good work because Obama is going to need fools like you to show us what we are going to get if they vote for another Conservative to be President...

xanadu

anyone hear the violins yet?

apex24

Cparker, the only reason you and you're brotha's give a damn about Obama is because he's black. You dislike this country as you always have, the only difference is the President is black and a crooked, lying idiot from the Chicago political machine. Obama knows he can say one thing this week and completely changed his story the next week and it's alright. You have to know Chicago politics.

MtnMan

OOOooooh! you Augusta Republicans will never get over a Black man in the White House.....and me right along with them! lol

MtnMan

P.S. however...I voted for him anyway !

convertedsoutherner

I guess the blind and gullible followers can't believe that anyone could ever be against the incompetent liar; Chicago community agitator; IL sen for 143 days; friends with racists, terrorists, felons, cocaine users, etc.; isn't coherent without his teleprompters; apologist to our enemies; private industry destroyer; etc.; and someone that pays millions to keep his birth and school records hidden; who just happens to be a 6% black man. If that were the qualifications of a white man, the dims would be protesting loudly.

xanadu

all i can say, on this fourth of july as we celebrate our independence, is that THANK GOD this socialist creep wasn't in charge of things back in 1776. you wouldn't be enjoying hot dogs, hamburgs and fireworks today, folks!!
oh, but wait a minute, kid obama did do ONE GOOD THING since getting in the oval office. he has effectively and most cleverly silenced that dynamic duo of deception, Hillary and Bill.

apex24

Mtnman, you must be a government employee or on government assistance. Also, read converted southerner's well written 9:31 post. I guess that's you're man Obama.

jackfruitpaper833

convertedsouthern you and your KKKanity talking points, do you have anything original, I guess the next talking point that nut spew you will add that to you list LOL... your mind is warped.

carcraft

cparker on Sat Jul 4, 2009 7:40 AM " A woman that took eight years to get a BA degree is smarter than a sitting US Senator that finished as the top graduationg lawyer at Harvard?" Cparker how do you know what Obama's graduation status? Obama's college records, all of them are SEALED! So much for his openness.. Gov Palin and her husband are self made millionares, ran businesses, and have a great record...What is not sealed about Obama is a record of corruption with Rezko, ear marks so Michelle could get a six figure job and a history of favoring communism...Ha HA HA

jack

I think its really good that ellie mae has resigned to spend more time with her family and future son-in-law. Good thing she isn't vice-president and have to resign to patch up things at home. HELLO! HELLO!
Posted by jack234 on Sat Jul 4, 2009 6:57 AM....Tep, she did the right thing to get prepared to campaign for national office. Just can't keep a good woman down, especially if she's a Republican conservative. In the mean time, what are you leftist gonna' sspend your time attacking now? Pretty pitiful to put poitical targets on kids backs, but we all know what political slime balls DIMs are anyhow.

jack

We ought to thank God Obama doesn't have a cowboy mentality that caused the stress with many allies. Thank God for Obama & this country...
Posted by cparker on Sat Jul 4, 2009 7:40 AM....I'll take that "cowboy" mentality that has kept us safe than the limp wristed Jimmeh Cahta' clueless empty suit you and your ilk elected who is destroying this nation.

carcraft

Obama supports the muslim mullahs in Iran over the freedom people seek, Obama supports the marxist president seeking to over turn the constitution of Honduras take away the freedom of the people . We are approaching 10% unemployment and the Democrates want to add a hugh energy Tax to the economy as well as cripple the economy with a trillion dollar health care program that is going to further unemployment and ham sting America that is going to prevent construction of electrical energy plants. Obama is a dolt

carcraft

Cparker, I challange you to produce Obama's college grade point average from any university or college he attended, Produce one course record for Obama, one paper he wrote while in college, other than the lame [filtered word] he called poetry, or one piece of evidence of how Obama paided for his education. YOU CAN"T BECAUSE HIS RECORDS ARE SEALED! Why? What is he hiding?

jack

convertedsouthern you and your KKKanity talking points, do you have anything original, I guess the next talking point that nut spew you will add that to you list LOL... your mind is warped.
Posted by jackfruitpaper833 on Sat Jul 4, 2009 9:46 AM....Fruitcake, seems you don't have the intelligence to debate. The KKK handle is best suited to KKK Byrd, the former(?) grand wizard.

jack

CParker, were I you, I'd be the lastone on here to accus3 anyone of being a racist because we/they criticize your messiah (snake oil salesman). He has proven himself to be a liar in about every campaign promise he made-troops out of Iraq this year, no taxes of any type for 95% of Americans (but wants cap and tax, VAT and Cliton era income taxes). Bush spent $Bs fighting a war to protect us, NOT to buy votes (UAW, ACORN, et al)with 4 times what Bush spent in 8 years in only 6 months. I could go on, but you blind fools are just that, blind fools that worship the "messiah". Let's hear you screech when your electric and heating bills ore than double, gasoline is $5.00 and everything else you eat, drink and wear costs more. What happens to the "poor" you DIMs always whine about then?

convertedsoutherner

fruit... Tell me what's false about what I posted and give your facts. Knowing plenty about IL politics, I don't have to get my talking points from anyone, like dims. The dims mantra is to blame someone else, evade, avoid and ignore while they aren't able to tell anyone about anything GREAT their 'annointed one' has done that is good for this great country of ours.

Happy Camper 455

Palin needs to Polish up. I'm embarrassed for her. Did you all hear her use the word 'hell' several times in her speech. I'm sure she is a nice person. But she needs to stick to car pooling and the such. She is a little too down to earth.

Happy Camper 455

Her speech was nothing short of some sort of ramblings. She has got beautiful hair, but the style is not appropriate at all for a political figure. Perhaps a bob cut, would look more professional. Those bangs the way they hang in her eyes is so wrong.

Happy Camper 455

But since she is resigning no need for any of the above lol.

ONLY THE TRUTH

Maybe she needs corn rows like Cynthia McKinney. I bet you would like her then.

carcraft

Cparker- where are the college records so we can know OBOZO's actual academic standing instead of your delusional projections, just waiting...I'll keep repeating in the mean time OBAMA IS PRESIDENT ALL IS WELL,OBAMA IS PRESIDENT ALL IS WELL,OBAMA IS PRESIDENT ALL IS WELL,OBAMA IS PRESIDENT ALL IS WELL,

Pu239

I'm not sure but I think that possibly down to earth is all that is left. Peanut farmers, Actors, Rhodes scholars, Oilmen, and Harvard Lawyers can't seem to get the job done. I really think we need a sanitation engineer to clean up this mess. (Translation a garbage man to take out the trash)

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