Bachmann: Wackiness will out itself in time
Michele Bachmann, in a dead heat with Mitt Romney in Iowa in the latest Des Moines Register poll, got some more good news from Gallup today.
Under the headline “Bachmann in Strong Position as She Enters 2012 Race,” Gallup reports that the Minnesota congresswoman “enters the race with 69% name recognition among Republicans and ties for the highest Positive Intensity Score of any GOP candidate Gallup tracks.”
(Gallup defines “positive intensity” as the percentage of those who strongly favor the candidate minus the percentage that strongly opposes him or her.)
Note that Newt Gingrich, one of the best known of the GOP candidates, has a positive intensity rating of 2 among his fellow Republicans. And Tim Pawlenty is turning out to be the kind of man who can’t excite anyone but his dog back home, if he has one. With a PIR of 8, he trails even Rick Santorum. (In GOP presidential politics, Santorum serves as the equivalent of baseball’s Mario Mendoza.)
Pawlenty is counting on performing well in Iowa, but after weeks of working the state, he’s still at just 6 percent in the Register poll. It ain’t happening for TPaw.
According to a Register analysis of its poll:
Bachmann, 55, rates the strongest with very conservative caucusgoers, along with those who are well-educated and ages 45 to 64.
More respondents pick her as their second choice, 18 percent, than name Romney, 10 percent.
“Michele Bachmann has always looked like a fit for Iowa on paper, and the debate likely helped solidify her standing,” pollster J. Ann Selzer said. “This poll confirms she has potential to do very well here.”
Me, I’m not buying it. I’ll admit to being surprised by the degree of discipline that Bachmann has demonstrated to date, but it won’t last. In the harsh glare of the national spotlight, wackiness will out itself in time.
As Ron Carey, a former chief of staff for Bachmann and now a Pawlenty backer, writes in the Register:
“The Bachmann campaign and congressional offices I inherited were wildly out of control. Stacks upon stacks of unopened contributions filled the campaign office while thousands of communications from citizens waited for an answer. If she is unable, or unwilling, to handle the basic duties of a campaign or congressional office, how could she possibly manage the magnitude of the presidency?”
For the time being, people are enamored of Bachmann because she is saying things they like to hear (the same trend drove the early support for Herman Cain.) But like Cain, she is not someone to be taken seriously as a potential occupant of the White House.
– Jay Bookman
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Mr Right
June 28th, 2011
7:29 pm
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:25 pm
I would say if she has a dairy farm can’t be much profit there!
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:29 pm
AmVet,
“With Ricky Bobby, jcb?”
Nah…just the baby jesus as my co-pilot. But let a driver named Danny Efland take it out with me as a passenger…he freaking showed what that car is capable of. Amazing…
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
DISGUSTED
Don’t fall prey to your own prejudices. Not every Southerner who understands what is meant by states’ rights is of that school…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
Scout, you do put out a lot of nonsense deceptively disguised as “fact”. 1st hor are you measuing “happiness”? Evidence? you also conveniently left out a lot of other muslim countries. Wikipedia lists 47 Muslim majority countries.
Does your nonsense drive your hatred or does your hatred blind your ability to comprehend your nonsense?
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:31 pm
Disgusted,
“Thank God there’s a U.S. Constitution”
And a 14th amendment.
Bruno
June 28th, 2011
7:32 pm
Though since mr. nonjewcowboy and I couldn’t marry at the time of his death, I did pay income taxes on his life insurance. Part of that there gay tax.
I think you may be confused on that point, jcb. If you were the named beneficiary, and you didn’t purchase the policy on his behalf, then no taxes are due.
http://militaryfinance.umuc.edu/estate/estateplan_taxes.html
Though you feel singled out for being gay, if you think about it, ALL single people are discriminated against in terms of taxes and other benefits that married people enjoy.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:32 pm
“I would say if she has a dairy farm can’t be much profit there!”
Or, in other words, you can’t refute that she reported a profit from the farm she said she did not profit from. AKA: she lied
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:35 pm
“Though you feel singled out for being gay, if you think about it, ALL single people are discriminated against in terms of taxes and other benefits that married people enjoy.”
Except for one little devilish detail…they choose to be single. Jewcowboy didn’t and neither do I.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
7:36 pm
Renowned rocker Tom Petty hit Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann with a cease-and-desist letter Monday following the congresswoman’s decision to close out her campaign announcement to the tune of “American Girl,” Rolling Stone reports.
________________________
My suggestion for Bachmann….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw
AmVet
June 28th, 2011
7:36 pm
There’s nothing better than that feeling of going really fast, is there?
Until you get scared ________.
Now I’m more of a…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euP525DpvHM
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
7:37 pm
This blog is a disgrace to the average American who does not spend time trying to ruin the reputation of political Americans.
Here is a woman well educated, experienced in law and government, protector of children, a fighter fro “rights’ and all you can hear here is words like batshyte crazy, wackiness, and on and on.
What’s with you people? You want decent people to run our country yet you treat anyone who tries
like dirt? I mean you have spent the entire afternoon here acting like you are mud wrestling. Bookman is the only one with an excuse. He gets paid to do it.
You are a diappointment, the pure brakes on the advancement of our country. I think you can do better if you try. I hope so.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:39 pm
Bruno,
“I think you may be confused on that point, jcb.”
I make to claim to be a tax expert…but I ended up writing a checks to the IRS and State of GA in the amount totally $323,619 after the estate was settled…an amount I would not have paid if we were a straight married couple. my tax attorney assured me Trust me when I say I remember that exact sum.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:39 pm
“This blog is a disgrace ”
blogspot.com is ready whenever you think you can do better
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:40 pm
josef,
“they choose to be single. Jewcowboy didn’t and neither do I.”
Bingo!
Bruno
June 28th, 2011
7:41 pm
they choose to be single
Well, some people are just butt-ugly.
Mr Right
June 28th, 2011
7:42 pm
“I would say if she has a dairy farm can’t be much profit there!”
Or, in other words, you can’t refute that she reported a profit from the farm she said she did not profit from. AKA: she lied
Nope can’t refute it and don’t care! If she indeed took subsidies is that breaking the law ? I thought yall bleeding heart libs would be happy to give someone else money away.
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:44 pm
jewcowboy
Right now Unmentionable and I are taking care of some paperwork on one of those loose end ones.. Know what our problem is? Will the loss due to taxes be more or less than what we’ll have to pay the lawyer and all the filing fees, etc. One little piece of paper and none of it would be necessary…
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:44 pm
“If she indeed took subsidies is that breaking the law ? ”
As I said earlier, it isn’t neccessary to be a law breaker to be a hypocrite. Or a liar.
Rev. Johnson
June 28th, 2011
7:44 pm
Liberal Democrats are sexist and two-faced! They hate conservative women and Blacks..it’s a fact! Democrats have a long history of being in the KKK, radical black and Muslim loving and anti-America. The worst haters in the world are liberal Democrats! They will answer for the millions of aborted children one day bfore the God they hate!
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:44 pm
Dusty,
“This blog is a disgrace ”
Then why are you here with your 2 cents?
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
7:47 pm
Thank you, Doggone, for your usual information. You truly represent the “feeling” of this blog.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:48 pm
Mr. Right,
“If she indeed took subsidies is that breaking the law ”
I think you are confused. No one is saying she broke the law. The statement that began this was, “She’s a free market capitalist opposing a president steeped in European socialist dogma approaching Marxism.”
How does taking farm subsidies equate to a free market capitalist?
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:48 pm
“Then why are you here with your 2 cents?”
Because it’s easier to be critical than it is to be better?
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
7:49 pm
I might ask you the same thing, jewcowboy,
Why are you here fussing about your finances and tax matters? Is it helpful to tell the world about your troubles on a political blog? Is that your two cents worth?
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:50 pm
Yeah, but the law doesn’t prohibit the butt ugly from getting married and procreating…
getalife
June 28th, 2011
7:51 pm
She is a dingbat way out of her league.
A train wreck and horrible in the house.
Always tow the party line like a good little con.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
7:51 pm
Rev Johnson: Democrats have a long history of being in the KKK
Now, now, be a good little preacher and go back and read the history of the KKK. Its not limited to Dems.
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:52 pm
Whoa! Dusty’s here with PMS… (okay, Doggone, I know, I know…but, well…just slap me!)
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
7:53 pm
“okay, Doggone, I know, I know…but, well…just slap me!)”
How about a joke instead?
“I have PMS and a gun. Any questions?”
getalife
June 28th, 2011
7:55 pm
“Whoa! Dusty’s here with PMS”
Typical Dusty.
Should have read her in the Iraq debate.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:55 pm
josef,
“One little piece of paper and none of it would be necessary…”
Amazing isn’t it? That one little piece of paper would have had the entire State Dept. behind me to help me get Noah back from Dubai…instead I had to have his family and the Dubai Municipality gov’t help me. Our State department treated me as if I was nothing but an acquaintance. Never mind the thousands of dollars we spent getting lawyers to try to make us “spouses”.
I will never forgive Obama, Republicans, the voters of this state or ANYONE that caused that caused the anguish for me and for his family. They can all rot in the hell of their own bigotry and narcissism.
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:55 pm
Doggone
AmVet
June 28th, 2011
7:56 pm
Keep, it’s still timeless, isn’t it?
Bruno, that’s mean. But funny.
Dusty, I’m not sure how you can even see us looking down that long nose of yours!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jZeXvpyZQ
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:57 pm
Disgusted and josef:
Alas ……. you miss my point as usual.
I too grew up in the segregated South but I hated or personally discriminated against no one. In fact, I went out of my way to be polite to all. During the late 60’s I was more concerned with fighting next to my black buddies (who would have given their lives for me and vice versa) just to keep the NVA from overrunning us. I guess you would have had to have been there to really appreciate that commraderie.
In any case, what I meant by this Republic being a true “states rights republic” is that WORSE CASE SCENARIO, under the provisions of the Constitution the “states” have the right to call a Constitlutional Convention and by doing so they can amend the Constiltution and trump ANYTHING the president, Congress or the Supreme Court may have done or have plans to do.
It is the FINAL check and balance of the people short of revolution.
But due to your own prejudicies you assume the worse.
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
7:57 pm
Dusty,
“I might ask you the same thing, ”
Because I didn’t write something like, “This blog is a disgrace…”
josef
June 28th, 2011
7:57 pm
jewcowboy
“They can all rot in the hell of their own bigotry and narcissism”
And I second that emotion.
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
7:58 pm
Well, JOSEF, This blog is enough to give even you PMS. Seems you are familiar with it. Most of the “gentlemen” here seem to have a thing of their own. BBB? (Blocked Brains on Blogs)?
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
7:59 pm
jewcowboy:
You like the 14th Amendment? I do too.
Do you think all Amendments should be supported equally ?
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:00 pm
Jewcowboy,
You SHOULD be writing “this blog is a disgrace”. That’s a fact. Not “fancy”.
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:00 pm
SCOUT
Still your jerking knee and go back and read what I had to say to Disgusted…
“But due to your own prejudicies you assume the worse.”
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:03 pm
DUSTY
Even sweet, little ole charming witty intellectual and sensitive me has got better sense than to tangle with YOU on PMS…
Uncle Billy
June 28th, 2011
8:03 pm
As a Democrat I say, GO MICHELE! I hope you get the nomination.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
8:03 pm
LITTLE GIRL ON A PLANE
“An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her
and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a
conversation with your fellow passenger.”
The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total
stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”
Oh, I don’t know,” said the atheist. “How about why there is no God, or no
Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?” as he smiled smugly.
“OK,” she said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question
first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer
excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse
produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”
The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl’s intelligence, thinks about it and says,
“Hmmm, I have no idea.”
To which the little girl replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss why
there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death, when you don’t
know sh*t?”
And then she went back to reading her book”
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:05 pm
AMVET,
Behold, the original discontent of all times, has to comment.. Play us a song , Amvet, and tell us about the joy! That seems to make you happy.
Uncle Billy
June 28th, 2011
8:05 pm
1811/1801 etc. That is the fourteenth time I have seen that joke. Try to come up with something original.
Bruno
June 28th, 2011
8:08 pm
I was hoping HD would check in to see this first pitch thrown by a performer from Cirque du Soleil. Kind of like WWF meets MLB:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Cirque-du-Soleil-performer-gets-nutty-with-Padre?urn=mlb-wp10971
Soothsayer
June 28th, 2011
8:09 pm
“A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer
excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse
produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”
You know, I cain’t say they’s a day what’s gone by what I ain’t worried about that there same thang! Why, it’s just plumb beyond imaginin’?
Gator Joe
June 28th, 2011
8:09 pm
Jay,
Even Republicans aren’t stupid enough or fatalistic enough to make a Bachman, a Palin, a Perry or a Cain their nominee. Perhaps they’ll prove me wrong, I sure hope so.
PS
Bachmann is living proof that one can be educated, while not being intelligent.
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
June 28th, 2011
8:12 pm
Has she ever thought there were 57 states? Apologized to the good people of Vienna for not being able to speak “Austrian”? The list goes on and on. She could be comatose and be more qualified than the Dear Leader.
It will be interesting to hear your complaints about each Republican candidate. Going to take a lot of work, given how many there are, and likely to be more. Everybody knows they can be a better President than this clown (he does have the ears for a circus job).
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
8:13 pm
“Bachmann is living proof that one can be educated, while not being intelligent”
Heck, a computer proves that!
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:13 pm
JOSEF.
Some one is using your Id. I mean “sweet, charming intellectual anad witty???
Will the real honest JOSEF please return? For a moment, I thought that was getalife posting.
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:14 pm
ZamVet
I’ll do it for you…if that’s okay with Dusty…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ScoePqVA
out of the blue
June 28th, 2011
8:16 pm
This just out.
Does Bachmann have any scruples?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552/ns/politics-decision_2012/
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
8:16 pm
Amvet….its a classic that never dies.
Bachmann Clinic received medicaid payments for over 6 years…..someone’s got some weaning to do.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
8:17 pm
josef:
Sorry ………………………………
!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zANvYB93u2g&feature=related
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:19 pm
DUSTY
Just knows my place…me and jewcowboy..
Thulsa Doom
June 28th, 2011
8:19 pm
Jay
June 28th, 2011
5:23 pm
Thulsa, GM was doomed without the money and nobody seriously disputes that. Do you think the stockholders ended up with nothing and the executive team agreed to leave because they could have survived without the money?- Jay,
Wrong Jay. Lots of people seriously dispute that. GM would most likely have filed chapter 13 reorganization bankruptcy. That doesn’t mean they would be out- they just would have restructured or merged with someone else. To cavalierly state that they were completely done without fed money is simply wrong.
2 more points to be made.
1- The U.S. taxpayer has not recouped all of his money and the latest I’ve read is that the taxpayer will lose minimally 1 billion on the deal
2- The Obama administration brazenly ignored U.S. law in the structuring of the deal with the arbitrary subordination of the secured bondholders to union interests. This is in violation of all legal precedent. How and why this president can just ignore U.S. law at a whim is beyond me. And the secured bondholders too. This is not an administration that adheres to the rule of law.
As Ford acknowledges, it too probably would have gone under except for the serendipitous fact that it had borrowed a huge amount of money for expansion overseas just before the implosion came, giving them enough money to tide them over. Without that happy accident, they would have been in much the same shape as GM and Chrysler.- Jay
Translation from Jay? That Ford just got lucky. “A happy accident?” Had nothing to do with good planning did it Jay? That one statement gives me a glimpse into your misunderstanding of capitalism. You think a company like Ford or an individual like a Bill Gates just got lucky. Had nothing to do with them doing their homework, working hard, or planning. They just got lucky. Darn good thing you don’t write for the business section.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
8:20 pm
Good Fight/out of the blue, et al:
OLD NEWS !
She addressed every one of those questions directly to Mr. “Flake himself” Wallace last Sunday.
I suggest you go back and listen to the show or review the transcript.
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:20 pm
Scout
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:20 pm
Ho hum. More insults from the so called intelligent.
Yes indeed, one can be called educated while not being intelligent. And…one can be educated, intelligent and still not be interesting or truthful. We see it here every day.
Thulsa Doom
June 28th, 2011
8:21 pm
Conservative woman derangement syndrome is alive and well.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
8:21 pm
“More insults from the so called intelligent.”
/snort
He's brilliant
June 28th, 2011
8:23 pm
V. Right wing, Obama graduated top of his class from Columbia and Harvard Law. He was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was an instructor and professor at University of Chicago for 12 years. You can debate his policy if you don’t like it, but much to the haters chagrin, he’s an intellectual heavyweight and exceptionally qualified.
Sorry, but Implying or stating otherwise is just empty AM-radio rhetoric.
AmVet
June 28th, 2011
8:23 pm
B, that was badass.
Dusty, was your mom a big scolder, too? LOL.
Just don’t forget to also scold yourself for the rotten things you’ve said to lots of people here.
The best line I’ve read in ages, blue: “She’s giving hypocrisy a bad name”…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
8:25 pm
Scout, sorry I have witnessed your inability to read a transcript before. If it matters to you, I am sure you can link to it. Does not mean that it is any less contradictory of her prior claims and her foolishness.
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:25 pm
JOSEF,
Where’s your “place”? I don’t know where it is.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
8:26 pm
………………. and one can be articulate yet way in over his head !
Thulsa Doom
June 28th, 2011
8:26 pm
Dusty,
Have you not learned about the Democrat strategy incorporating Bush and Bachman derangement syndromes?
1- Blame Bush
2- Scream Racism
3- Bash Palin/Bachman
Hmmmmmmmm
June 28th, 2011
8:27 pm
Wacky…… I would say she is about as wacky as the sitting President… She could do NO worse than Obama…
What about an article about the Illegals that were protesting? My guess is that they were all left wing liberals…
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
8:27 pm
Thulsa:
Can you just imagine this upcoming campaign.
The libs. are so worried they could lose that the viciousness they unleash will be unprecedented.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
June 28th, 2011
8:28 pm
Good fight:
It’s up to you to stay informed. I won’t do it for you.
Soothsayer
June 28th, 2011
8:29 pm
This entire thread is an exercise in fantasy. Michele Bachmann has about as much chance of becoming President as a snowball has in H*ll. No, the guy the Left needs to watch is Jon Huntsman. Of all the candidates he has the appeal for the GREAT MIDDLE, i.e., independents. Of course, I could be wrong. Only time will tell. I like the fact that he has already declared that his campaign will take the high road.
For everyone Right and Left, the real issue is whether or not the United States is going to become a totalitarian corporate fascist state. We certainly are headed in that direction.
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
– Robert M. Hutchins
Thulsa Doom
June 28th, 2011
8:29 pm
The popular Democrat strategy or BSB- blame bush, scream racism, bash palin/bachman is known as the BSB strategy and is aimed at non thinking zombies.
BSB stands for bullspit believers- an accurate description of the Dem base.
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:30 pm
AmVet,
My mother was as fine as they come. She would never stoop low enough to drag someone’s deceased mother into a senseless discussion.
OH I forgot. Blog rules. Anything goes here..
out of the blue
June 28th, 2011
8:31 pm
1811/1801 – 0311/0317
I guess you did not review the entire report?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
8:31 pm
Thanks for the offer Scout. I agree with you. I would not consider you a source for staying informed about real issues or obtaining accurate information.
Thulsa Doom
June 28th, 2011
8:31 pm
1811/1801 – 0311/0317 ,
Oh don’t you know it. They are going to be feeding a lot of hate and red meat to their BSBs or bullspit believer base.
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:31 pm
DUSTY”
Where’s your “place”? I don’t know where it is.”
D*mn! And there I was hoping you could tell me since you keep trying to put me there!
Moderate Line
June 28th, 2011
8:36 pm
jewcowboy
June 28th, 2011
6:07 pm
Moderate Line,
“The bar is pretty low for being taken seriously.”
Please show me 10 batshyte crazy quotes from Obama before he was elected. It can be about the specific candidate…Cynthia McKinney had 10 years in the House, but never garnered 18% of the Democrats support in her attempt at the White House.
++++
Is 10 the requirement to make someone a non-serious canidate? I did not realize there was such a standard.
“I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances.” –after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)
“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” — defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama’s policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
“What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…” –in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying “your Christian faith,” which Obama quickly clarified
“I’m here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.” –speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
“Let me introduce to you the next President — the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.” –slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
“Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.” –referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.” –Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip).”
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” –explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” –on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people.
“It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is merci beaucoup.” Barack Hussein Obama, July 2008
However, it is interesting to me that Sarah Palin is criticized about Paul Revere and Obama doesn’t even know how many states there are. What do you think is bigger.
Usually who criticize and what we criticize is more of a reflection of who we are not who the person we are criticizing is. In think it would benefit the left if they did not criticize the intelligence of people who disagree with them. Just as I think it would benefit the right not to criticize peoples patriotism when they disagree with them.
Martin Williams
June 28th, 2011
8:36 pm
If Bachmann is the best candidate the GOP is going to offer, then NO need for general elections. Just let the electorate do it and save plenty of dollars. I know and you all very well know that,the big guns of the GOP will NEVER have a woman head that ticket. Just ask Hilary. America will be the last country on this planet to let a woman run the world. I truly believe and done so for a very long time that, the world will be a much BETTER world if women are heads of states, AMEN.
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:37 pm
Brilliant
He’s no dummy, but hardly “brilliant…” No where near the calibre of John Marshall, Judah Benjamin, Philip Phillips, Louis Brandeis and any number of others…
Thulsa Doom
June 28th, 2011
8:38 pm
Watching video of mobs of young people that just walk into stores and or department stores “flash mobbing” just walking in and stealing as much stuff as they can. Seems to be all the rage in Philly, LA, Atlanta and other places like the mobs of kids walking into shopping malls here in atl and grabbing mounds of jeans or designer clothes and bolting for the door. Where’s dirty Harry when we need him. Too bad you can’t just start shooting these animals down.
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:39 pm
Thulsa, 8:26
I am quite familiar with the Bush syndome and other adnormalities presented by Democrats. Most of the time I just overlook their flights of furious fancy, their assigments of crime when there are no indictments because there’s no crime, their twisting of normal action into evil intent, etc. etc. etc.
But some days it gets TIRESOME. So I say so and it does not earn me the title of Mrs. Congeniality. But who cares. Telling the truth is not popular. Too bad.
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:40 pm
Martin
Heads of state or heads of government? In both cases the record is checkered…
Soothsayer
June 28th, 2011
8:42 pm
“Too bad you can’t just start shooting these animals down.”
Maybe you could just give ‘em jobs answerin’ the phone over there at yore insurance agency, there Thulsa. Heck, they’d be so busy, they wouldn’t have no time to be “flash mobbin’.”
getalife
June 28th, 2011
8:42 pm
I think we should look at the outcomes of his actions after his second term before we judge the President.
We are living with the outcomes of the w disaster.
The gop threat to default is not helping Europe.
Both of us are teetering on collapse while the gop are playing politics like they have from the start of the Obama first term.
AmVet
June 28th, 2011
8:44 pm
Dusty, I have no doubt. And you know, no offense was meant.
The craziest thing about today’s politicians is the sheer hubris and hypocritical sense of entitlement. I preferred the old pols who made no pretenses, “Heck, yeah, I profited from this, that or the other.”
But these clowns actually rant and rail against the very thing they are profiting from. And they’re so damn dumb they think everybody else is so damn dumb that they won’t get caught!?!?
Like some amateur blogger.
Just don’t do the Pete Rose!
I have zero problems with that Christian counseling service of her husbands. Nor family farms that have historically used commodity purchase programs by Uncle Sam. It is how American agribusinesses has operate for generations.
But please just quit being such a Washington weasel about it all, OK, Michele?
Soothsayer
June 28th, 2011
8:44 pm
Theft of blue jeans = death sentence!
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2011
8:47 pm
“Theft of blue jeans = death sentence!”
In Charles Dicken’s day a petty thief could get the death sentence for stealing a handkerchief.
Why do I keep hearing “let’s take our country back”?
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:47 pm
JOSEF,
I’m trying to put you in your place? What? I thought you were one of a kind.
captguitarman
June 28th, 2011
8:47 pm
Nancy also said that in the next election the Pubs will be the “incumbents” because they defeated nearly every House Dem that ran and took control of the House last November — a victory, by the way, that owed much to Ms. Pelosi for her handling of the Obamacare bill. But now they are the incumbents. Nancy surely must live in a strange fantasy world. But, being a wide-eyed Dem/Lib female ditz will never gain her the malevolent and vicous fear and loathing reserved for female conservatives, Palin, Bachmann, and black male conservatives, Cain, and Justice Thomas. How dare they . . . how dare they . . . become prominent, accomplished, and outspoken advocates for the conservative and now Tea Party causes? They are white females and male blacks. Don’t they know their place, their proper roles on the Great Liberal Federal Plantation? Ingrates! It is so interesting to watch how first, Thomas, then Palin, then Cain, and now Bachmann are covered and discussed on in the lame stream news media and on the lame stream networks and cable news channels. I thought Chris Matthews was going to self destruct today talking about Bachmann. He must have had tingles running over his whole body. It’s actually funny to watch. Like going to the zoo and laughing at the monkeys and wondering why they act the way they do? Sarah Palin drives a bus around with her name on it promoting herself (of course) and making personal appearances, and they foam at the mouth, twitch uncontrollably, and wet their pants. I can only ask why? And the only answer is – deny it all you want – fear. Plain old fashioned fear. If these conservative/tea party women ever catch on with the majority of women in America, and if black conservative males make even small inroads with black males getting them into the Pub/Tea Party side, the Dems have had it, and they know it. Personally, like many people, I can barely tolerate Palin, and neither her nor Bachmann are going to be the Pub candidate, thank God. But if the Pubs/Cons/TP have a lick of sense, they will keep these women out their churning things up as long as they can, just to keep the comic relief from the DEm/Lib/Left coming, as we head into the elections. It’s the best distraction we can hope for now that the Dems’ Weiner has been roasted.
Ninja
June 28th, 2011
8:47 pm
Why does nihilism suddenly seem so appealing?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2011
8:48 pm
Doomy is beginning to sound a lot like Bortz…. why wait for a death sentence….just start vigilante shootings. That always works out well.
Thulsa Doom
June 28th, 2011
8:49 pm
Soothsayer,
I don’t think answering the phone “yo” or “who dis” would suffice for my clients. If some store owners started shooting a few of them maybe they would get the message that this kind of sheet isn’t ok. If you’re brazen enough to join a mob and just rob people blind then you should face the consequences for your actions. Besides if the storeowners could just start gunning them down it would save the taxpayers the imminent incarceration costs of these future criminal for life thugs.
Joe Biden
June 28th, 2011
8:51 pm
“Wackiness”? Heck, they don’t get any more “wacked-out” than ME! HAHAHAHA!!! Why, hell, most of the time even I don’t know what’s gonna pop out of my own pie hole! And you guys think Palin and Bachmann are wacky? Look at Me! Geeez!
josef
June 28th, 2011
8:52 pm
DUSTY
Ninja
There is that.
Thulsa Doom
June 28th, 2011
8:52 pm
keep up,
Speaking of Doom he calls them “urban gentleman”. Vigilantes? Not quite. If a pack of thugs comes in to rob your store in a case of brazen criminality you should have the right to fight back. These thugs won’t be missed- except by bedwetting libs like yourself.
Cure for flash mobs
June 28th, 2011
8:54 pm
Ar-15 with a few 30 round clips. Remmington .223’s are not racists.
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
June 28th, 2011
8:54 pm
I believe that we’re headed toward some kind of a revolution in America. Hope it will be peaceful.
Dusty
June 28th, 2011
8:54 pm
AmVet,
Well, your vocabulary of namecalling has increased. I believe “Washington weasel” is a new one. Your ability to see criminal activity even in the farm land (Bachman does not own the farm). What next? She was a lawyer for the IRS. Can’t you tie something to that?
By the way, someone just announed that Obama graduated with top honors at Columbia . When did he release his academic records there?