Is Democracy Dead?

[Spirit]

If making a joke/one-off comment in a thread in this forum is tantamount to being a "big fan of business as usual", we're all big fans of business as usual.

 

Feel free to respond with something about a banjo.

 

But if I make a comment about a banjo it would be a joke.  And it appears your joke receptor is on the fritz. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I think Obama's biggest flaw is not his liberal crap, which I don't like, it is his inability to get anything productive done.  A good President can get the House/Senate by their balls and get them to come to a compromise to get shit done.  Obama just whines and complains to the media that the Republicans aren't working with him.  Make them you worthless asshole.

 

I don't buy this. Precisely because of all the money poured into the coffers on both sides, the two parties are more entrenched and inflexible in their individual positions than they were even ten years ago, and I don't believe that even the second coming of John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan would whip this bunch into shape. Long ago, this became more about making the other side look bad than doing anything for the benefit of the country.