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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

2012 / Politics "This is not poker. This is not a game."

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:06 PM

President Obama, calling out the Republicans for voting to increase taxes of everyday Americans earlier today:

Note the moment at 4:15, when he tells Republicans to be more like the men and women of the military and work together to do what's right. That's some awesome old-school presidential shit, right there.

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That's the president I voted for.

Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on December 20, 2011 at 5:45 PM

That's the man who can win in 2012. He just needs to remain that guy.

Posted by Lilliable on December 20, 2011 at 5:49 PM

And if it were a poker game, the Republicans would be the highly-staked retarded card sharps: playing with other people's money, but also with their cards turned around backwards for everyone else to see.

Posted by Banna

on December 20, 2011 at 6:04 PM

The problem is, the Republicans are most definitely not playing poker. What they're playing is Calvinball.

Posted by Brooklyn Reader on December 20, 2011 at 7:47 PM

I agree, that's the president I have been looking for.

Posted by ttmix on December 20, 2011 at 8:38 PM

Well look at that. The Whitehouse is putting shit up on YouTube all by itself. I'll be dammed.

Shit's gonna be different in the future. Little kids writing research papers on the first black president are going to have a lot of easily accesible source material to work with.

Posted by Westlake, son! on December 20, 2011 at 11:58 PM