Possible change of tack in International response to Syria

**-Lazarus-** · 09-11-13, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

So you're saying that Presidents should use public opinion as a guideline when making foreign policy decisions?

I thought you said you voted for him to perform some administrative tasks on your behalf. You're the public, right? Do you want him to consider your opinion while he performs administrative tasks on your behalf?

**AetheLove** · 09-11-13, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

He's not my leader, that job belongs to me.

I just voted for him to perform some administrative tasks on my behalf.

I found
in this post
a certain amount of

intentional

humour.
Perhaps sly
or sarcastic
or simply side-of-the-mouth truth
said with a shifty-eyed smile.

Clumsy in execution?
Maybe
But no more clumsy than my

pathetic

attempts at
blank verse.

Did I guess it?
Am I hearing the text
correctly?

Or should we fill this thread with posts demanding that others maintain perfect consistency of comment

with them selves
and with their past selves
and with our own selves

You'll have to choose
for your self.

Æ

**Alundil** · 09-11-13, 11:31 AM

You clearly speak truth
in this sarcastic take on
internet posting

**-Lazarus-** · 09-11-13, 11:44 AM

Ok this place needs to be classed up a bit...

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

- Walt Whitman

**Warprosper** · 09-11-13, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by -Lazarus-

Ok this place needs to be classed up a bit...

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

- Walt Whitman

:_)

**Alundil** · 09-11-13, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by -Lazarus-

Ok this place needs to be classed up a bit...

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

- Walt Whitman

If you're going to bring professional/published poets and/or writers into it, Whitman is fine.

Amateur impromptu prose, verse and haiku is just that

**-Lazarus-** · 09-11-13, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by Warprosper

:_)

Damn you war. Damn you. *sigh*

**AetheLove** · 09-11-13, 01:37 PM

Anywhere I'm found
Is certain to be a place
That needs classing up

Æ

**HeavyG** · 09-13-13, 12:05 AM

The last time I trusted a Russian, he betrayed me. Then again, that was in Metro Last Light... so carry on.

**HeavyG** · 09-13-13, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by DuDDy

Watched the speech tonight for about 5 minutes. Got the "I do what I want" vibe from it and "i dont care about the american public opinion" vibe as well. WW3 here we come.....

Um... he wants Congress's approval. Our democratically elected leaders will be voting on this. Public opinions will be heard. Maybe you had your Obama Blockers on and didn't understand what he was saying.

"Remember what I said, I'm a Republican flip-flopper... yea... get ya self some Obama Blockers". - Spin off of the Blue Blocker rap song?