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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (98572)	7/31/2011 11:50:33 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

So you are saying the congressional black caucus is full of shit? How about the rest of the world? Obama should have given the Teapers the finger and invoked the 14th amendment like clinton and Tribe told him to do. They rolled him, same way the rolled him last year. The World Bank, IMF called this cliff hanger irresponsible. The London Times stated the "Tea Party Taliban" was responsible, true. Some other opinions from other countries: Conservative German Die Welt: “[T]here are few signs of self-doubt or self-awareness in the U.S. … [The Tea Party movement] sees the other side as their enemy. Negotiations with the Democrats, whether it’s about appointing a judge or the insolvency of the United States, are only successful if the enemy is defeated. Compromise, they feel, is a sign of weakness and cowardice.” The German mass-circulation Bild: “What America is currently exhibiting is the worst kind of absurd theatrics and the whole world is being held hostage… Most importantly, the Republicans have turned a dispute over a technicality into a religious war, which no longer has any relation to a reasonable dispute between the elected government and the opposition.” French newspaper Le Monde:”The American politicians supposed to lead the most powerful nation in the world are becoming a laughing stock.” Chinese state-owned newspaper Xinhua: “Given the United States’ status as the world’s largest economy and the issuer of the dominant international reserve currency, such political brinksmanship in Washington is dangerously irresponsible.”