Obama: U.S. is Not A Banana Republic

[AuH20]

He sure fooled me!


During a 75-minute session Sunday at the White House, Obama told the congressional leaders that America is not a “banana republic,” so he won’t agree to several months-long debt increases that raise fears of a default, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the meeting.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58643.html#ixzz1RnngnVVz

[Carehn]

It at a point now where everything the news or government says is the exact opposite. This is how we know the US has become a Banana Republic. He said it isn't so we all official now know that it is.

2+2=5

[acptulsa]

I thought the fact that we're at war with Libya despite an unconstitutional lack of Congressional authorization, and/or the fact that the Constitution prohibits Congress from denying habeus corpus so it was done by executive fiat order, was proof enough myself. Didn't need Obama to confirm it with his lying denial.

[specsaregood]

yeah, more of a corn empire.

[Pericles]

If we're not a banana republic, we are getting there as fast as can be reasonably expected.

[Dr.3D]

He sure spends like it is a banana republic.

[CaseyJones]

http://www.animateit.net/data/media/august2009/m_95be7a97332c4749bdbe3cb414d54638.gif

[randomname]

yes it is

[oyarde]

Those types of republics probably have less regulation than we do ....

[acptulsa]

Yeah, between the executive orders and the bypasses of Congress on the way to war, we're less a banana republic these days than a tinhorn dictatorship.

[oyarde]

Yeah, between the executive orders and the bypasses of Congress on the way to war, we're less a banana republic these days than a tinhorn dictatorship.

Yeah that may be closer.