John Adams

Did I read the entire article? No. Thank you for pointing out that Obama is a boob.

So, Obama is a bad president? That's not a rebuttal.

That avoids the issue of Obama being the worst president ever but staying on topic is not what this board has ever been about. Does the success justify the expense? Will there be long term positive results because we unseated the Taliban and disrupted the C&C of AQ? Is Pakistan now a mollified "good guy"? Accomplishing a goal doesn't make it worthwhile. "Wasn't our best." Yeah, no he wasn't. Easily top 5 worst though. Even if you think Afghanistan was a good idea, Iraq surely wasn't and it created a PR debacle. This isn't a black and white issue. Obama is a bad president. That's inarguable. But he's more in the range of embarrassingly ineffective and a terrible leader than actively damaging. If Benghazi is one of his top 5 failures, it's bad but not catastrophic. The ACA is the pinnacle of his evil and as time passes, it's really not that big of a deal despite B-Man's daily Chicken Little posts. Bush was actively bad at everything: he spent like a drunken sailor, got us into two wars--only one justifiable, held no one accountable for financial crisis that occurred on his watch, was an international relations buffoon. I loved his father as president but I can't remember a redeeming quality about him as president.

We are just about out of two idiotic wars and an economy once in shambles is relatively stable. Obamacare has not been nearly as bad as predicted mostly due to limited participation. The Mideast is as much a mess as ever. Debt and SS are ignored as ever. Obama is bottom half but not nearly as bad as W, Carter, Nixon, Johnson, Harding, Coolidge, Grant...all of them far ahead of Obama. W is probably the worst ever.

My million dollar idea will be a huge seller in Kabul.

Short-sighted.

It's not like they're selling burning Twin Towers snowglobes. People will always B word. I went to there this past winter. The museum and gift shop weren't open but the endless waterfall and names were there.

I don't know many museums where they allow people to carry.

They both had injuries. The difference is that Stevie has a recurring nightmare in th hammy groin. Woods has more polish as a rookie that SJ did. There is no comparison.

Johnson was the second best WR last year (3rd if you note that Chandler had a better year than him). He was NOT the best WR on the team. Woods is clearly much better.

The Bills gave up their number 3 WR for a 4th round pick. That's a pretty good return.

I'll take the former. At least he's trying to make the team better NOW. Basically the Bills gave up a 1st round pick next year to move up 5 spots and get Watkins. The rest is no loss. Whaley had a great draft last year. Maybe he knows what he's doing?

A 4th for a guy who would be riding the pine? Sounds sensible to me. Once they traded for Watkins, Johnson was gone along with his cap hit.

You know that you don't have to post "Hey DC Tom" in the subject line to get his attention, right? You can post your message to him on page 59 of the why jock itch is better than hemorrhoids thread and he'll still see it 3 minutes later.

Agree this is bull. What's the use in spending a few hundred mil for a stadium that is mostly empty 355 days of the year? The Ralph is not a great stadium to be sure but it's not terrible either. STFU Goodell.

You're not concerned that he had a slump after finding success and also got arrested?

Not as catchy but it's accurate. There's no thread that you guys won't help him screw up including this one.

Straight out of central casting, I give you "Consultant."

Just like the others: Missing the point.

I have Blue Cross Personal Choice. I have a health care professional in my family who reviewed the plan. I understand the coverage. If I get a denial on something, my problem is with Blue Cross, not the ACA. Given that I had the exact same plan (nearly) for the last 12 years, I doubt I'm going to run into any issues where the ACA is the culprit. Now, if my rates shoot up by more than 20%, then I'll basically be where I've been for the last 12 years in the ever-increasing premium racket. But I will have the exchange to shop on and at least had a rate reset. I love how the anti-ACA guys are now taking PearlHoward seriously. Jesus Christ people.

Sirius's idiotic programmers offer P oTUS radio, in which the P stands for politics not president. It's got a cadre of independent radio hosts, the best of them is a former Philly talk show host named Michael Smirkonish, who is on from 10-12 with a replay in the evening drive. I only bring it up if you're sick of right hosts vs left hosts in talk radio. Smirkonish is a true Independent. He admits his struggles with certain issues. He calls out the left and right for their hypocrisy. Great show (he is now also on cnn...haven't seen that). The morning show is a good review of the news of the day. Not hard hitting but lighter with lots of direct footage of the news makers of the day with limited commentary. The weakest show is something called the Press Pool but even that's interesting as the (very liberal, regrettably) host has different reporters on and let's them talk about the stories they are covering. Fun to hear the reporters in their own voice talking about the news they cover. If you like politics, relatively unfiltered, it's about as good as it gets. They also play the streams of Jay Carney and other press briefings as they happen, which can be riveting to hear--the voices of the most inside people without the media spin. They run a good radio feed called No Labels radio on Saturdays. Bob Edwards, Michael Steele, and others host shows. Plug over. Station 124 on Sirius.

The executive has long been overstepping its bounds, more and more each president. I thought I'd never seen anyone as bad as dub ya...until Obama. I'm sure the next person will beat Obama. Maybe. The current problem the executive faces is the intractability of both parties. No one is willing to compromise and move forward. That started in the Gingrich-lead Congresses and has only gotten worse. So the executive looks over, sees nothing getting done, and takes charge of some ****. It's a bad result, the wrong result, but a practical consequence of the fact that who we elect (and reelect and re elect and re elect) looks just like this board: Partisan shills who refuse to recognize that their "side" is occasionally wrong, or that compromise is necessary.

My rates are going to go up? What a non shock that would be. Time will tell. My posts on my experience have defined practical. I'm sharing my experience using the system. It's been excellent. Most of the people responding on here haven't used it so jboys and I are giving our first hand account. I had this payment snafu early too. They figured it out.

Maybe yes, maybe not. The exchange got me a ton more choices than I ever had so I got about my same plan for a LOT less money.

I was already paying for insurance so for me, the marketplace allowed me to comparison shop. It was a great and easy experience. You say I'm the exception to the rule and yet, people are signing up--more and more every day. So clearly it's working for lots of people. The people why cry about how it's a complete failure are just not right. I have the same plan, same docs, and pay substantially less than I used to. My specialist co-pay went up and a few other things are different but none substantial. At the last company I owned, our premiums never went up by less than 13% every year for a decade and many years were at 18%--one year a monumental 23. The only years it went down was when we lowered benefits for our 110 employees. And that sucked but we had no choice. Obamacare was rammed down our throats with little forethought. The rollout (who even cares now that it's running) was a debacle. The lack of knowledge about the wider effects that it had/will have was a huge problem. Still, this is going to be a HUGE loser of an issue for the right in 2016. I bet the right will figure out at some point that it needs to be off the table for that election. They've lost this fight multiple times now--time to move on to something else, like cutting spending. Fixing social security. Medicare. This horse is dead.