Politico: Dick Lugar Turns Down Obama's Air Force One Invite

[radhika]

This is from Ben Smith's blog...

Those &*(%^& are so vile, abusive and condescending it sickens me. I feel for Obama trying to do the world's hardest job surrounded by such infantile venon and hatred. I also intuitively feel that these petty and crude brush-offs (like on Super Bowl Sunday) would not have taken place if the Chief Executive was white. I am sending Obama all the positive energy I can to stand in there with this - he'll need us to watch his back.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0209/Lugar_turns_down_Air_Force_One_invite.html

[aquart]

1. Time for No More Mr. Nice President.

[Why Syzygy]

2. No soup for Lugar! nt

[RB TexLa]

3. What's the big deal? So he doesn't want to fly on the plane with the President.

[MarjorieG]

4. Think of all the Bush slights and errors we never heard about. Politico? An agenda?

Do we know why, really?

[democracy1st]

9. oh ur so observant !

[MarjorieG]

5. Just adding, Lugar sought Obama to mentor, join on loose nukes issue, may not want to travel. More

Politico creating crap.

[saltpoint]

6. Dick Lugar no fly in air plane. Air plane go zoom zoom fast, scare Dick.

[Pirate Smile]

7. LOL

:spray:

I was not expecting that.

Definitely preferable to getting huffy and put-out. :)

[JanusAscending]

10. WOW!!

I'm so glad I caught this thread! I didn't know you changed your name too!! What are we all gonna do when our old names aren't in the sig line anymore??? Oh, and by the way,:yourock: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :fistbump: Great to see ya! JA

[saltpoint]

11. We're a pack of name-changin' fools, aren't we? Howdy-do and

happy February!

Great to see you knockin' around these boards in the middle of the night!

[JanusAscending]

12. Hey you !!!

I was just about to hang it up for the night. Guess only us old folks are up so late tonight. Tomorrow's a workday for most, (those who still have a job) I guess our new POTUS likes to burn the midnight oil like we do??? Good on him. Better to sleep in, in the morning, when he can!! When I first saw your new name, I thought is was going to read "salt peter" :fistbump: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Nite nite!!

[Enrique]

8. Dick Lugar, venom, hatred and racism?

Obama would be the first to tell you that wasn't the reason.

It's more likely that Obama is going there to campaign for the stimulus and Lugar is opposed to it.

[firedupdem]

13. I don't trust republico and I don't click on that site. I do find it odd

that when the President invites you to something that you say "no". Fuck him and the rest that want to behave like assholes. They only make themselves look petty and divisive.

[ashling]

14. Oh, but they'dve LUVED 'em some beer with GWB

:puke: