Your morning chuckle, courtesy of Obama and Kimmel
Politico has posted its lists of the 15 best jokes told by Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and the 18 best jokes told by host Jimmy Kimmel.
Personally, I think Obama had the better writers, but you can judge for yourself. Here’s my choice for the best five by each of them, in no particular order:
First, Obama:
– “Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let’s not forget that’s a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.”
– “Jimmy got his start years ago on ‘The Man Show.’ In Washington, that’s what we call a congressional hearing on contraception.”
– “Recently, [Romney's] campaign criticized me for slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon. In fact, I understand Governor Romney was so incensed he asked his staff if he could get some equal time on ‘The Merv Griffin Show.’”
– “Look at this party. We’ve got men in tuxes, women in gowns, fine wine, first-class entertainment. I was just relieved to learn this was not a GSA conference.”
And one not on the Politico list:
– “What’s the difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom? The pitbull is delicious.”
And from Kimmel:
– “If you told me when I was a kid I would be standing on a dais with President Barack Obama, I would have said, ‘The president’s name is Barack Obama?’”
– To Obama: “Remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? That was hilarious.”
– To New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: “I think you’re misunderstanding New Jersey’s slogan. It’s not the Olive Garden state.”
– “It’s great to see the Gingriches here, because that means the check cleared.”
– “Democrats would like you to stick to your guns. And if you don’t have any guns, you can ask Eric Holder to get some for you.”
– Jay Bookman
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Thomas Heyward jr
April 30th, 2012
10:21 am
the White House Correspondents Dinner?
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The joke is on the USSA Pravda trained Romney/Obama seals who still take the MSM serious.
.
Ha Ha.
Brosephus™
April 30th, 2012
10:21 am
dB @ 10:17
If you haven’t already figured it out, there are those who lack the ability to laugh at some things. I don’t know why you or anybody else here is even wasting their time with the humorless. Let them live their own lives in misery instead of trying to spread that sh*t around like halloween candy.
Mighty Righty
April 30th, 2012
10:21 am
For the economicly ignorant. A reduction in the credit rating of the US will result in am increase in the inerest on our debt. The increase will be paid by we taxpayers either now or later. That’s econ 101 dumb A.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
April 30th, 2012
10:21 am
Mighty Righty
April 30th, 2012
10:18 am
Finn-Tell us who helped Obama?
Probably your own Mama and Daddy …..
and mine
and all American taxpayers.
Just like they would help you.
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
April 30th, 2012
10:22 am
Question for Republicans…..Under Bushs last year in in office, the economy lost over 4+ Million jobs….my question is, in your mind, how long do you think it should have taken to recover those 4+ Million jobs?
Jm
April 30th, 2012
10:23 am
Frog
Dude, I have no idea why they were there. Ridiculous
Gator Joe so you think I’m a racist eh? Shove it pal, you don’t know a thing about me.
Ty, it probably will be all the liberals here, I’d say half of all democrats, maybe more will claim racism
That Black Guy who is a "con" and a Vet. STOP SPITTING ON ME!!!!!
April 30th, 2012
10:25 am
Normal Free, Plain and Simple April 30th, 2012 9:32 am
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Let’s see, Mighty Righty, jm, JKL2, and “Smiley” didn’t like the jokes….One has to wonder why. President Obama is a good President now
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I wouldn’t say he’s a good president now.
He’s just better than the others IMO.
A SAD time for America.
Jm
April 30th, 2012
10:25 am
The secret service joke was super funny too
Especially given the non-laughs from the SS on hand. A little public flagellation was due….
Donovan
April 30th, 2012
10:26 am
Mighty @ 9:43. Beautiful!
Isn’t it fun swimming with these sharks? You must always keep your perspective and realize you can’t reason with them.
After all…these are the same lunatics who voted for that empty suit and continue to support this Jimmy Carteresque idiot. But look out for that researcher and historian, JamVet and that zany elitist, Godzilla chick. They seem to know it all.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
10:26 am
I tend to like when Kimmel on the Man Show attempted to end Women’s Suffrage!
Who will support this with me?
http://www.sanchi.ro/view_video.php?viewkey=ab91def7fac026ead455
carlosgvv
April 30th, 2012
10:26 am
Mighty Righty – 9:31
Obama was only a child when he ate dog meat. Romney was a grown man with a wife and four impressionable kids when he tied the dog to the car. Of course, being a good Christian, Romney believes people have souls but all other life forms, like cats and dogs, are just beasts of the field.
How does he know that? Because the Bible tells him so.
TaxPayer
April 30th, 2012
10:26 am
There’s just no better way to start off a Monday than watching right wing nut’s heads assplodin’.
ty webb
April 30th, 2012
10:26 am
stands for decibels,
okay, I’ll try.
Obama: Jimmy Kimmel got his start on a show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money….”Win” hell, I’ll just take it.
That Black Guy who is a "con" and a Vet. STOP SPITTING ON ME!!!!!
April 30th, 2012
10:27 am
Jam, no I don’t like being trickled on.
Not an R. Kelly fan.
Brosephus™
April 30th, 2012
10:27 am
Cost of borrowing money will go up. employer will have to pay more interest. your raise will be less then it would have been.
Considering that the US lost it’s AAA rating more than 3/4 a year ago, wouldn’t those rates have already started their impression of a Saturn V if that were going to happen? Raises haven’t been much of sh*t since the 1980’s for many lower and middle class workers, so why would a rating decrease change things now?
The US, even with AA credit, is able to borrow money at lower rates than countries with better ratings simply because of our past record. If you or anybody else wants that to change, all you have to do is keep cheerleading for this gridlock and division that created this mess in the first place.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:28 am
Third time today.
Could we at least agree, that it would be helpful to write beyond a seventh grade level of sloganeering to make out points?
Especially six consecutive ones?
We on the right are not into Rich Poor Class warfare.
We believe in the indivicual.
We believe that free enterprise capitalism has thus far been the most successful economic system known to man.
Government that interferes less is best.
The current adminisatration belives socialism is best.
We will fight it every step of the way.
Brosephus™
April 30th, 2012
10:29 am
TBG
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
10:29 am
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
April 30th, 2012
10:22 am
________
Based on their comments, they apparently thought six months would be ample time.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
10:29 am
Blah, blah, blah Jimmy Carter, blah, blah, blah.
Posting like a con is easy.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:30 am
Donovan, one day you will post something that is empirically (look it up) verifiable.
Or not…
Libertarian
April 30th, 2012
10:30 am
I think most people are “over” DC and all the crap. Seems like neither side does anything but point fingers and host lavish dinners and galas. Meanwhile, a lot of people in America are unemployed and are struggling to fill up their gas tanks and put food on the table. I think it would have made a huge statement if they had cancelled the correspondents dinner and given all the money they spent on it to a homeless shelter or, better yet, a children’s charity (of course people would inevitably complain about the choice of charity). I think the Washington elite and hollywood celebs could do without a fancy dinner for one night.
Jefferson
April 30th, 2012
10:35 am
Romney is indeed out of touch with the average american.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:35 am
Carter Derangement Syndrome is particularly stupid.
Especially when our Bushbots voted for the Worst Ever twice…
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
10:36 am
Libertarian
April 30th, 2012
10:30 am
______________
It’s a party, for Pete’s sake. Enjoy it.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
10:36 am
Libertarian
Based on the content from these pages by those on the left and right………….. don’t think you will get much support………….. in fact you will probably be told its one side or the others fault for homeless or children issues…………. much more important to act like you are superior than actually be effective
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
10:40 am
Based on the content from these pages by those on the left and right………….. [...] …………. much more important to act like you are superior than actually be effective
I loves me some irony in the morning.
Hootinanny Yum Yum
April 30th, 2012
10:40 am
Obama is the bomb! He is so in touch with today’s youth. And Hollywood and the media love him. Hugs and kisses to Obama!
stands for decibels
April 30th, 2012
10:41 am
Jimmy Kimmel got his start on a show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money….”Win” hell, I’ll just take it.
Change “take” to “tax” and you might earn a few titters from a subset of the ~30% or so in the room who instantly remember who Ben Stein used to be.
yep. Killer stuff.
I don’t know why you or anybody else here is even wasting their time with the humorless.
You call them “the humorless.” I call them “my straight men.”
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
10:41 am
. in fact you will probably be told its one side or the others fault for homeless or children issues………….
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Our problems are brought on by globale competition. loss of manufacturing jobs, movement of jobs in US to techincal and finance, and young workers and people who lost their jobs are not qualified for the jobs that are availabe.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
April 30th, 2012
10:41 am
act like?
GT
April 30th, 2012
10:42 am
Some real humor to me was Obama trying to coerce Newt into not giving up, fight the fight don’t quit, stay in just a little longer, things may work out, please don’t give up.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:45 am
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today he might not even recognize the Republican Party.
When Lincoln first joined the GOP it was led by men — then considered radicals — whose primary agenda was to free the slaves. Lincoln guided it towards being a moderate progressive party with a wide appeal to the majority of Americans, which helped him win the 1860 presidential election.
Lincoln would also be appalled by all modern legislative assaults on human and civil rights. He would equate all recent attempts by various states ranging from denying civil rights for gays, to telling women what they could or could not do with their bodies, and repudiation of equal pay for equal work, as ill-disguised attempts to subjugate minorities and women.
(What GOP War on Women? LOL)
Finally, Lincoln would advise Republicans to start working with each other instead of engaging in endless bickering, as well as returning to the negotiating table with the Democrats. Lincoln knew successful American politics has always involved *compromise*, starting with the Founding Fathers creating the Constitution.
(OMG, not the *C* word?!)
And certainly Lincoln would testify if he could successfully negotiate and comprise in the midst of the greatest internal crisis our country has ever faced, so can and should the leaders of today’s Republican Party.
(The author used it again!!)
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/04/25/what-abraham-lincoln-would-say-about-todays-republican-party?hpt=hp_bn15
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
10:45 am
GT
April 30th, 2012
10:42 am
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Newt would stay in longer if he could borrow another nickel. but he is tapped out.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
April 30th, 2012
10:46 am
OH! Look everybody! jm is trying on the art of sarcasm…needs work though…keep your day job, jm.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:49 am
Yum Yum,
It’s always struck me as more than a little ironic that the “Christian”, “family values”, “moral majority” “severely conservative” (LOL) die hard, liberal-loathing McCarthyites and reactionary Republicans put zillions of dollars into those hated Hollywood hands every year.
Self-loathing in GOPville?
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
10:49 am
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:45 am
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Lincoln’s main support was from northern industrialists would wanted high tarriffs to force the south to buy from them, instead of trading directly with England. High tarriffs and protectionism for the north was the issue.
Money then drives politics, just like it does not. Money trumps ideology.
barking frog
April 30th, 2012
10:53 am
Is wall street still occupied?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
10:53 am
Money trumps ideology.
Two words.
Koch brothers.
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
10:54 am
Am I better off than 4 years ago…NOPE…I am going to give a guy that actually has some Economic and Financial experience a shot…voting for Mitt Romney. God forbid we have a President that has actually run a P&L.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
10:55 am
doesn’t matter is wall street is occupied……. they are all at fundraising parties for obama and romney
TaxPayer
April 30th, 2012
10:56 am
“What picture. I didn’t take her picture, honest.” – Rick Santorum
Jefferson
April 30th, 2012
10:56 am
Romney didn’t creat a bunch of job when he was gov, what makes anyone think he can now ? He gutted companies and walked away with huge sums of money, he built nothing.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
10:57 am
…I am going to give a guy that actually has some Economic and Financial experience a shot…
Been there. Done that. Got the melt-down.
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
10:58 am
God forbid we have a President that has actually run a P&L.
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God forbit is correct. Business vultures make for poor government. We need the man with the most experience. The one who will have had four years running the oval office. That resume beats anything else that could be mentioned.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:58 am
frog,
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth.
Occupy groups across the U.S. have protested economic disparity, decrying high foreclosure and unemployment rates that hurt average Americans while bankers and financial executives received bonuses and taxpayer-funded bailouts. In the past six months, similar groups, using social media and other tools, have sprung up in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
That should drive our self-sidelined, self-emasculated neocons to go all Rush Limbaugh again!
(And I love it.)
http://tinyurl.com/7gmhdqy
TaxPayer
April 30th, 2012
10:59 am
All those Bush/GOP tax cuts and Republicans are worse off than they were without the tax cuts. Now that’s funny. Especially since I’m better off.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
10:59 am
best supporting actor for his attempt at logic
and the oscar goes to oscar
Mary Elizabeth
April 30th, 2012
11:00 am
In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said, “Both (North and South) read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. . . The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither, has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. . . ”
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The purposes of the Almighty were beyond money. Lincoln well understood that.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
11:00 am
“Am I better off than 4 years ago…NOPE…”
Translation:
I desperately want Georgie and Dicky back running this country the way it is supposed to be run.
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:00 am
I can just picture Jay sitting in his lounger with a box of Chips Ahoy in his hippie stoner voice saying, “That was a good one Barack…a really good one…4 more years…4 more years”.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
11:03 am
jefferson
you probably watched an ARTISAN ENTERTAINMENT show this weekend after you ate your DOMINO”S PIZZA and then went to buy resume paper at STAPLES and then got running shoes at THE SPORTS AUTHORITY and went home to sleep on your mattress from SEALY ………..
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
11:04 am
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
10:59 am
best supporting actor for his attempt at logic
and the oscar goes to oscar
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Sour grapes.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
11:05 am
i turn sour grapes into fine wine
oscar turns sour grapes into whine
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
11:07 am
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
11:05 am
_______
Personal attachs instead of talking about issues is bad form and is not helpful or construction.
Impotent Rage Against Obama the Mammmba (thwack) Machine
April 30th, 2012
11:08 am
wah wah wah teleprompter wah wah Jimmy Carter wah wah socialism
wah wah class envy wah wah wah you-libs wah wah
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:09 am
Not better off…
1) my house is worth less
2) my 401k is stagnant
3) gas is expensive
4) business is stagnant
5) The future looks uncertain
What’s better about that? Stop the blind love for Obama (and hatred for conservatives) and look at your own situation. Sometimes the truth hurts.
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:09 am
The 2012 Presidential election is going to come down to Bill Clinton’s budget surplus vs. Grover Norquist’s risky, idealogical tax schemes……
carlosgvv
April 30th, 2012
11:10 am
JamVet – 10:28
When the middle and high school Christian Academy students decide to stop posting here, most of the sloganeering will go away.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
11:10 am
i turn sour grapes into fine wine
I rode the winning horse in the past 15 Kentucky Derby’s
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
11:10 am
oscar, its an online blog for pete’s sake enjoy it
its not a personal attach
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
11:13 am
kamchak
you should be congratulated on your success……. you are in there with Romney
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:13 am
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:09 am
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REALLY..!?!? Third quarter, 2008…..932,000 jobs lost……-0.3% GDP……
First quarter, 2012……2.2% GDP growth, +500,000 jobs…..
Butch Cassidy
April 30th, 2012
11:13 am
SteveAtl – “God forbid we have a President that has actually run a P&L.”
You do realize that the United States and the government was never set up to be a for profit enterprise right. And if it was, and Romney is going to use his “experience”, please tell us which states he should bankrupt and sell first?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
11:14 am
i turn sour grapes into fine wine
sour grapes:
$15 trillion in debt
fine wine:
$15 trillion investment in our kids and grand kids future
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
11:14 am
i turn sour grapes into fine wine
I built the Great Pyramid of Giza
Ranger Doug
April 30th, 2012
11:15 am
Obama’s Entire “Presidency” is THE Biggest Joke I’ve Heard in Years.
L O L !
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
11:15 am
i turn sour grapes into fine wine
I designed The Great Wall of China.
Joe the Prophet
April 30th, 2012
11:16 am
If you believe tax cuts reduce deficits and spending cuts grow economies and jobs…..DO I HAVE A RELIGION FOR YOU…!?!?!
It’s called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints….you can have as many wives as you want, you don’t have to worry about Hell, and you don’t even have to tithe….They just take it out of your payroll check once a month….like they do your insurance….!!!!!
If you’re wrong about the religion….it could mean Hell…..If your wrong about the tax and spending cuts….IT WILL MEAN SOCIALISM….!!!!!
Jefferson
April 30th, 2012
11:16 am
Romney is not the person who can do things better, sorry GOP you picked the wrong one.
dog lover (if properly prepared)
April 30th, 2012
11:16 am
C’mon, the bit about “4 more years of Obama” is 28 in dog years was hillarious.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
11:16 am
steve
look on the bright side
your health insurance will be dropping in cost any decade now
TaxPayer
April 30th, 2012
11:16 am
It just does a heart good to hear about Republicans doing poorly under the Bush/Republican tax cuts. I’m doing great. Give me more tax cuts and I’ll do even better. I might even feel like creating a job.
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:17 am
Hey RedneckBlueBalls…
How is your home value doing?
How is your retirement return going?
Have you tried getting a loan lately?
Do you commute with Adam in the Prius and not use gas at $4.00 a gallon?
Enough of the BS…
Joe the Prophet
April 30th, 2012
11:17 am
Ranger Doug
April 30th, 2012
11:15 am
Obama’s Entire “Presidency” is THE Biggest Joke I’ve Heard in Years.
L O L !
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Really…!?!?! Because GW Bush and Dick Cheney messed the economy up the worst it’s been in 83 years….!!!!!!
barking frog
April 30th, 2012
11:17 am
Butch
please
tell us which states he should
bankrupt and sell first?
+++++++++++
California,Arizona, New
Mexico,Texas.
Ranger Doug
April 30th, 2012
11:18 am
According to the allegations of Mr. Larry Sinclair, Mr. 0bama clearly prefers the taste of Hockey DADS instead.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
April 30th, 2012
11:18 am
kamchak
ok you had me until the great wall design……… you forgot to complete the wall and let the hordes slide in from both ends…………. don’t take credit for that one
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
11:18 am
i turn sour grapes into fine wine
I solved the problems with cold fusion.
HDB
April 30th, 2012
11:18 am
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
10:54 am
“Am I better off than 4 years ago…NOPE…I am going to give a guy that actually has some Economic and Financial experience a shot…voting for Mitt Romney. God forbid we have a President that has actually run a P&L.”
Excuse me…but didn’t GWB run businesses (Arbusto, Texas Rangers….) before he ran for office? Bush was the FIRST MBA President…and look what he did??
Am I better off than I was 4 years ago?? DEFINITELY!!
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:19 am
ButchCassidy – Michigan, California, Rhode Island…bankrupt and restructure…interesting that they are all BLUE states…what a joke.
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:19 am
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:17 am
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Could be better……could be a LOT worse……and if we mess up again….Socialism will be our only option…..!!!!!!
Jefferson
April 30th, 2012
11:19 am
Why blame the President for your own situation ? I though the GOP supporters got everything on their own, they don’t need any help.
Jm
April 30th, 2012
11:20 am
Normal take your meds
You’re more unhinged than usual and that’s saying something
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
April 30th, 2012
11:20 am
“How is your home value doing?
How is your retirement return going?
Have you tried getting a loan lately?
Do you commute with Adam in the Prius and not use gas at $4.00 a gallon?
Enough of the BS…”
I agree. That damn Bush and Cheney really screwed us!
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:21 am
It’s about 20 against 1 and I am kicking your arses…you need to have Granny pull the race flag…
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
April 30th, 2012
11:21 am
jm,
Keep trying…you’ll learn how to do sarcasm some day…
HDB
April 30th, 2012
11:23 am
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:19 am
“ButchCassidy – Michigan, California, Rhode Island…bankrupt and restructure…interesting that they are all BLUE states…what a joke.”
Better recheck….Michigan has a REPUBLICAN Governor and legislature..and the state is under an economic fiefdom with the Governor denying elected representatives their elected rights uunder an Emergency Manager law………
GT
April 30th, 2012
11:23 am
You talk about ID theft, the Republican brand now stands for all Lincoln stood against, it doesn’t even represent Reagan, it is like the Catholic Church moving from Rome to Las Vegas. The Republicans are busy reversing the government of this country to weak, corrupt, immoral, independent state rule, very similar to the goals of the south in the 1800s. This would be like the old county system in Georgia that gave the minority south Georgia population all the power, the Republican Party has bought minority rule for this country. If they were half as creative in solving the nation’s problems as they were in rearranging furniture to gain power when they can’t get the popular vote, and protect their selfish positions this country would be well on its way to another 100 years of progress. But instead they are obstructionist, and damn close to being revolutionist to the country they claim to love as they destroy it. Very similar to the Confederacy, these people do not care about this country, and the very nation that Lincoln saved and died for, over 100 years ago.
They have done the same thing with religion too if one cares to look. Loopholes become commandments. Our way or the highway, nope Jesus wouldn’t recognize his group either. We have allowed them to buy us, even our names.
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:23 am
Can ANYONE show me a time in history when tax cuts reduced the deficit…!?!?!? NOPE…!!!!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
11:24 am
…I am kicking your arses…
I swam from Alaska to Russia across the Bering Sea, naked.
TaxPayer
April 30th, 2012
11:24 am
Jm calling someone unhinged.
Will the comedy ever end. 
TaxPayer
April 30th, 2012
11:25 am
Those tax cuts reduced my deficit. Didn’t they reduce everyone’s deficit.
Jm
April 30th, 2012
11:28 am
Normal
Btw no sarcasm here
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:29 am
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:21 am
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This is not a contest, Steve Atl….because the President is VERY likely to be re-elected…
This is about your idealogical understanding of tax policy, spending, and deficit reduction…..
Although there exists some evidence that tax cuts lead to growth, like under Reagan for example, the Bush tax cuts collapsed the economy and have ALWAYS increased the deficit…..furthermore, spending cuts have ALWAYS slowed growth…..Bill Clinton INCREASED TAXES, grew the economy, and REDUCED THE DEFICIT TO ZERO…!!!!
HDB
April 30th, 2012
11:29 am
Steve Atl
April 30th, 2012
11:09 am
You REALLY need to recheck as to the CAUSE of your problems:
Not better off…
1) my house is worth less — Housing bubble exploded under BUSH; Republican policies caused the decline in housing value
2) my 401k is stagnant – Stock market declined to its worst value under Bush…lest you forget, stock market declined under 8000 which caused 401K’s to bite it big!! Market is now over 12000 under Obama….
3) gas is expensive – Gas first went over $4/gallon under Bush! Oil companies set the energy polcy under Bush/Cheney…and now, the US is EXPORTING gasoline!!
4) business is stagnant – Business s more profitable. Problem is that business is obtaining profits on the BACKS of labor…and not hiring labor!!
5) The future looks uncertain – That is LIFE in a nutshell!! The question you should ask is: Are your more or less optimistic about the future?? Me — QUITE optimistic…..better than I was four — and eight years ago!!
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
April 30th, 2012
11:29 am
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:23 am
I believe Herbert Hoover did and it resulted in the Wall Street crash of ‘29 which led to the Great depression…but Republicans never remember their history because they are so against education…
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:30 am
TaxPayer
April 30th, 2012
11:25 am
Those tax cuts reduced my deficit. Didn’t they reduce everyone’s deficit.
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It’s true….you’re not going to have a deficit under Socialism….!!!!!
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:32 am
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
April 30th, 2012
11:29 am
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Great Depression…!?!?!? They can’t even remember back 3 years ago…!!!!! But the American people can….!!!!!!
Illegal Alien
April 30th, 2012
11:33 am
Steve Atl
Not better off…
1) my house is worth less (I almost lost my house in 2008)
2) my 401k is stagnant (I lost my 401K in 2008, saving my house and stocks dropping by 50%)
3) gas is expensive (I was paying over $4/gallon in 2008 and you were too)
4) business is stagnant (I lost my business in 2008 and many businesses were either failing or on the brink ; that’s not even stagant)
5) The future looks uncertain (Today’s uncertainity is nothing like that of 2008)
Compared to 2008, I’m better off.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
April 30th, 2012
11:34 am
redneckbluedog
April 30th, 2012
11:32 am
Yeah,
They should try ultimatememory.com