Voting for any individual and expecting them to change anything for the better is, at this point, the definition of insanity. The only thing that will ever effect change in this country is mass demonstrations, but we’re all too mesmerized by our cell phones and social networks.

Now that is an interesting perspective since I’ve repeatedly been told that PFT readers want only serious and thoughtful discussion with absolutely no smacktalk whatsoever and that PFT readers find any kind of personal bickering–or as you say–a “hit out of the park” extremely distasteful. Therefore, all such comments must be censored for the common good.

Thus they’ve blocked comments from me containing such provocative lines as “Sweetheart, can you read?” and “You can get off the planet anytime you like, pal.” (I’m still waiting for a reasonable explanation as to why they allowed “Then get off the planet, dumbass.” It seems odd that they’d find “pal” more provocative than “dumbass.” But then I can’t will myself to think with a censor’s sensibilities.) It is interesting, however, that despite this conviction by the moderators, Mike continues to post on political topics that naturally incite bickering.

Personally, I believe people come to football blogs for both thoughtful discussion and entertaining smack talk. So I’m cool with whatever you post unless it crosses an extreme obscenity line. However, I do wish people would toss a little football in with their politics.

If somebody throws me a softball, I’m going to hit it out of the park. The PFT comments are for entertainment purposes only, not for thoughtful discussion about the role of government in labor disputes.

You’re simply parroting an opposition line regarding Obama’s policies. But that’s beside the point.

Instead of vulgar and provocative comments about Obama or countering slams about Bush, we should be discussing how a strike might affect the economy and how the power of our highest office can be used to avert it.

Both Republican and Democratic administrations have intervened in labor issues in the past. This shouldn’t be a partisan squabble.

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You could be 234 and he’d still be the worst president of your time.
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Why, cause he’s black? GWB was soooo much worse. You really don’t understand things, do you?

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That’s right. Any criticism of this terrible president is only because of racism. It has nothing to do with his policies, each of which weakens our once-great nation. Thank you for raising the level of political discourse on this post. I’m glad there’s someone out there who really understands things.

I can’t believe how incredibly STUPID most of the posters on this site are…
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Seriously? Unfortunately, anything posted about the President inspires Americans to behave like rabid dogs instead of respectful citizens. It shouldn’t matter whether or not they support him or his policies. People should be able to discuss issues and our leaders in a civil way. But civilized discourse on matters of state has gone the way of black-and-white television.

Never fear, though. You have at least one moderator on PFT who holds firmly to a 19th-century sensibility, so I doubt you’ll see this post. I’ve copied your use of “stupid,” and that’s not ladylike. He censors about 50 percent of my posts as inappropriate, including anything exhibiting a Southern dialect or sentences that begin with “baby,” “sweetheart,” or “darlin’.” Apparently the female Southern dialect is considered confrontational to uber-young northern boys who aren’t, a-hem, fully developed. I can’t think of any other reason they’d be so easily threatened. Didn’t you say your wife is a judge? Oh dear heavens, she surely wouldn’t be allowed to post here unless the network provided the moderators pee pads for their chairs.

If this post shows up … it means the night moderators got all the cojones in the network family

@tuckercarlsonisthevoiceofreason – I do question anyone who would suggest that Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter!

Don’t you know hatred for him is paramount to this country’s success in these people’s minds; yet it won’t change his continued popularity and movement into a second term where he can hopefully do more for our country.

He’s a great person who’s working as hard as he can for the future of this country and hopefully, the few clear thinking government officials (there are very few) can come forward to help him over the next 6 years.

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Why, cause he’s black? GWB was soooo much worse. You really don’t understand things, do you?

I can assure you he spends more time than any of you dealing with the world’s troubles…and this country’s…as he should.
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Wow, that hurts.

Here I am, a business consultant in New Jersey, spending every spare minute I have dealing with “the world’s troubles” and you have the gall and audacity to come on this web site and tell the world that the President of the United States spends more time on that than I do??

How dare you, Sir !?!?!?!?

When it’s convenient, they flip the script and complain about the “awful mess” they have to clean up.

What constantly amazes me is how many people fall for that!! Please, educate yourself, or stop voting.

Actually jobless claims are at a 3 year low. And NFL lockout would also increase the unemployed because lots of people, not just players, would be thrown out of work.
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Jobless claim numbers only cover new applications for unemployment. It doesn’t cover people who are already on unemployment, people whose benefits have run out, or people who have just given up looking and gone on welfare or taken poor paying, under the table jobs.

And of course, employment numbers are inflated by temporary workers working on “stimulus” projects, which do the exact opposite of stimulating the economy, who will be right back out on the streets when those projects end.

Seriously dude.

please focus”

Screw that. Get them out of there. That is an unwinnable war and we are just wasting resources and bodies. Fence it off, let them all kill each other and God can sort them out. We’ve got more important problems here at home as far as I’m concerned.

Obama is the worst president of my time and I’m 34.

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You could be 234 and he’d still be the worst president of your time.

No NFL is not going to be the end of any big businesses, but it could really effect the smaller mom and pop enterprises around the stadiums.
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Do you really think there alot of “mom and pop enterprises” in the shadow of stadiums that generate their entire operating income from 8 Sundays a year?

And if this were true, which it isn’t, would their business going down really be “devastating to the economy”?

I think a few people on here need to get a little perspective on the size of the American economy and the NFL’s impact on it.

And, I’ll ask again what I asked in my last post:

What exactly would the administration do about it?

De Maurice Smith worked for Obama’s White House transition team and headed one of its departments. The two are friends.

Why he doesn’t want to get involved is that most of the owners are Democrats and have, but may not contribute to his election campaign.

Just another layer to the fight between the cheats and the liars; the stinking rich and the filthy rich.

Settle down you ignoramuses and wait until the man removes himself from other pressing worries to deal with this before unleashing your ignorant critiques.

I can assure you he spends more time than any of you dealing with the world’s troubles…and this country’s…as he should.

I didn’t even vote for the guy, but c’mon…wake up people!!!

No NFL is not going to be the end of any big businesses, but it could really effect the smaller mom and pop enterprises around the stadiums.

It was Wall Street which tanked the economy. It was the Feds that saved things by bailing them out.

That means if you don’t spend money sitting in a bar on Sunday afternoon watching the NFL or purchasing DirecTV, you will spend the money in some other fashion. Maybe play an extra round of golf or go take a long weekend somewhere. They’ll go somewhere and not into savings.

Will it be an economic impact, sure. Will it be recession level, no. Will other things appear to take up the slack…absolutely.

The country seemed to survive in prior strikes and it will do so here.

Actually jobless claims are at a 3 year low. And NFL lockout would also increase the unemployed because lots of people, not just players, would be thrown out of work.