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Originally Posted by Rochard
We have a habit of blaming the President. We do it all the time. Robbie is doing it right now saying "he is in charge" and "the buck stops here".
We did it with Bush. I blame the economy on Bush every day here on GFY. We blame Iraq on him too. But at the end of the day was Bush really the one directly responsible for the economy? Not really, no.
Obama didn't code the website. Obama didn't hire the guy that coded the website. Obama didn't install the servers. Obama didn't have a decision in how the website works.
At the Congressional hearing the other day, it was all Republicans bashing that woman (who might have deserved it). But not once has a Republican come forward and say "I want to help fix it" or "I have a solution" or "I have a better idea". They don't want to fix the problem; They want it to fail. They can't take it down legally, even by going so far as to take it to the Supreme Court or by shutting down the government, but they'll spend the next two years throwing up every hurdle.
That's one hell of a way to do business.
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It does stop with obama, and the other 544 people *as well*.
I'm in the UK, so can only talk about the US politicians as a whole, using our gov't's acts/excuses/bullshit as a measure of what all politicians are about. So while I can't talk with any knowledge at all on any of the things in the OP's link, what I can talk about is the fact that who gives a fuck what xyz did before abc came into office. who gives a fuck if obama didn't get hands on with the server set-up. These people have more power than any of us could ever comprehend, yet fuck up daily, weekly, monthly, yearly - time after time after time.
They give zero fucks about anything other than staying in office, else shit would actually get done. Excuses, passing the buck, outright lies - that's what politicians in office do, no matter how pure and genuine their intentions at the start of their careers may have been.
If something you personally did, or could personally change, affected someone you had direct daily contact with, you know full well you'd do everything you could to make a wrong thing right - these people are detached, unaccountable in any real sense of the word, and sleep fucking easy at night.
Every last one of them is a two-faced lying sack of shit who sold out their own ideals as soon as they got someplace they could actually implement, or influence them.
That famous speech about ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country (sorry for the misquote, I can't remember if that's a correct recollection) was the biggest con of all when it was directed outwards at citizens, instead of inwards to those in power. The worst thing is, millions upon millions fell for it, and have been suckered into believing that above all else, you need to be 'patriotic' and 'serve your country'. Give me 1 good reason why anyone 'should' be either? Our moral duty, if any at all, is to help fellow man, and the biggest service you can give your fellow man is to say enough bullshit - do shit.