‘I wish this president would learn how to be an American’
“I wish this president would learn how to be an American.”
– Top Romney surrogate John Sununu, in a media call this morning arranged by the Romney campaign.
Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire and White House chief of staff under the first President Bush, has since tried to apologize for the statement. Perhaps he’s trying to unsay it retroactively. Perhaps he’s got his Etch-a-Sketch out, shaking it furiously.
But really, there’s no cause for an apology or retraction. Sununu simply said what he meant to say. For example, is the statement above any different from what Sununu told Fox News this morning, for which he has not apologized?
“He has no idea how the American system functions. And we shouldn’t be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent … another set of years in Indonesia.”
We get it: “Barack HUSSEIN Obama isn’t a real American. He’s not one of US, he’s one of THEM. I mean, just look at him. Where’s his birth certificate? No, not that one, the long form.”
We all understand the message quite well.
On the other hand, as someone on Twitter just put it, “I don’t know … being a pot-smoker is a hell of a lot more #American than hiding money offshore.”
– Jay Bookman
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HDB
July 17th, 2012
2:53 pm
Mighty Righty
July 17th, 2012
2:35 pm
“Another example of stimulus outsourcing is Japanese wind energy firm Eurus Energy, whose U.S. subsidiary, Eurus Energy America, received $91 million in stimulus funds to build a wind farm in Texas, according to a 2010 report from American University. That wind farm reportedly was built with wind turbines manufactured by another Japanese company – Mitsubishi.
“Eurus Energy America, the U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese firm, received $91 million in stimulus money for its Bull Creek wind farm in Texas. The farm consists of 180 Mitsubishi turbines,” the American University report said.
Eurus told American University that the wind farm was actually built by British firm RES Americas and is now being run by EnXco, an American subsidiary of the French energy firm EDF Energies Nouvelles.”
Lest you forget that it was the REAGAN Administration that eliminated the R&D credit for GE to further develop wind turbine technology; that move made Siemens and the Chinese the industry leaders in alternative energy technology rather than GE maintaining their industry status!! If you REALLY want to blame someone, blame your sainted Ronald Reagan!!
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 17th, 2012
2:53 pm
Butch u see my answer on the IRA
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
2:53 pm
“Even cons admit that only 1/3 of the Bush Administration was worth the trouble; the other 2/3 was feces.”
You having problems counting Joe? So if 5 or 6 of the W years were okay then where do you come up with 2/3rd of his presidency being feces? Fractions never were your strong suit were they? Only the 2 recession years were horrendous- 07 and 08. The first year was bumpy due to the dot.com bust and 9/11 hitting in his first year but after that the next 5 years were’nt bad. They certainly seemed better on the economic and employment front than the first 3 1./2 years of the O presidency. The employment numbers bear that out. And I don’t think you’re stupid enough to argue that employment during W’s first 6 years was demonstrably superior than it has been the last 3 1.2 years. Facts is facts Joe and the fact of the matter is that unemployment was much lower during the first 6 years of W.
BS Aplenty
July 17th, 2012
2:53 pm
Obama.
Racism.
James H. Cone.
Trinity United Church of Christ.
Nothing funnier than watching liberals engage in their favorite double standard.
.
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
2:54 pm
Obama keeps showing his stripes. During the first election it was comments to Joe the Plumber on spreading the wealth around. Now, he comments that business people did not earn or make their business.
Remarks as Obama has made confirms the beliefs Conservatives have of Obama. His background and upbringing, and what he will do to America if he is not voted out.
The lies attacking Romney on Bain Capital and outsourcing have riled some powerful people that are starting to strike back. The vetting of Obama not done during the first election will now occur. It will be so loud the drive by media can’t ignore it. It will be in the news whether Obama supporters like it or not.
The big question is, why with who he is and what he wants to do, does Obama have any supporters?
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 17th, 2012
2:55 pm
Liberals like to steal from the poor and give to the rich
Fact
That’s what the current president’s student loan and energy policies do
But liberals are either corporate servants or too dumb to realize the results of their policies
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
2:55 pm
Where’s the context today?
already addressed by Jay, wayyy upthread.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/07/17/i-wish-this-president-would-learn-how-to-be-an-american/?cp=all#comment-1015227
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 17th, 2012
2:56 pm
Between 2004 and 2006, when subprime lending was exploding, Fannie and Freddie went from holding a high of 48 percent of the subprime loans that were sold into the secondary market to holding about 24 percent, according to data from Inside Mortgage Finance, a specialty publication. One reason is that Fannie and Freddie were subject to tougher standards than many of the unregulated players in the private sector who weakened lending standards, most of whom have gone bankrupt or are now in deep trouble.
During those same explosive three years, private investment banks — not Fannie and Freddie — dominated the mortgage loans that were packaged and sold into the secondary mortgage market. In 2005 and 2006, the private sector securitized almost two thirds of all U.S. mortgages, supplanting Fannie and Freddie, according to a number of specialty publications that track this data.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
2:56 pm
Trinity United Church of Christ.
racist?
Other than appealing to ignorance about what “black liberation theology” MIGHT mean if you stand on your head and squint, you really have zero, zip, zilch to back that up.
Mighty Righty
July 17th, 2012
2:57 pm
Jefferson
July 17th, 2012
2:05 pm
Righty, the ecomomy was wrecked b/4 President Obama took over, and is has slowly improved since.
Wrong O’ wrongly named one. Today, higher unemployment by any measurement than when Obama took office.. By percent, by number, by total. Today lowest GNP growth, highest amount of national debt, largest annual deficits, 3 A rating lowest in history. No improvement period. Most ever on food stamps. Most ever below poverty line. Worst consumer confidence measurement. Most distrusted president in history. Take a measurement of any way a leader is measured and Obama fails. No energy policy. No jobs policy. Nothing but BS.
GT
July 17th, 2012
2:58 pm
Obama was correct, nobody in the country made it by his or her self. What is it with us that we don’t understand about ourselves. We make decisions like Iraq or Vietnam like it is a unilateral decision. A rag tag army with a fraction of our resources holds us at bay because we can’t get our head out of the sand. No supermen here, too many movies not enough reality.
There is a saying that second and third generational wealth is lost to poor character. This country may be suffering from that right now. We started this country off the hope of mankind but now we have people who don’t need this country they can do it no matter where they are it is all about them. I say line em up in a boat and let em go settle in a country of 1% ers. That would put America about where we were coming into this story. A bunch of refugees, hungry, looking for a better life, we have lost that edge and that one percent blocks the way of getting it back.
mm
July 17th, 2012
2:58 pm
The GOP is blowing a gasket. Too bad. But damn funny to watch.
Keep it classy you whiny cons. Mommy, he hit me! LOL
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
2:58 pm
Looks like Joe Mama is still having problems with his fractions.
HDB
July 17th, 2012
2:58 pm
weetamoe
July 17th, 2012
2:48 pm
Actually, you statement should read this way:
“Republicans smear the minorities by calling them “welfare queens”, “thugs”, “anti-Americans” while stating that they are reaching out to minority groups and simultaneously invoking fear and animus into the American populace.”
That’s a more accurate statement!!
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 17th, 2012
3:02 pm
Sfd 2:55 thanks
I would consider that a non-response by jay
The interpretation of sununu’s comments may be accurate
But we won’t know for sure from jay’s blog
I’d also say that the reaction to obama’s “businesses build themselves” comments that the context didn’t change the ultimate conclusion on the nature of his comments
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
3:03 pm
Going to head out and go swimming and sunning for a few hours. Ya’ll let me know when Joe Mama figures out fractions and how 2/3rds of the W presidency were atrocious. 1/4 of it I would agree with him and maybe even 3/8ths of it but I’m interested to see how he is going to revise history to make 2/3rds of his 8 years as bad as the last 3 1/2 years under the clown currently presiding in the office. As criteria you may use the employment levels Joe. This is gonna be funny!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
3:04 pm
Keep it classy you whiny cons.
Don’t they have to get classy first?
SBinF
July 17th, 2012
3:06 pm
Yes, we need Mitt Romney to show us how the American system functions. Apparently it functions best when you keep your money in overseas accounts.
Don Abernethy
July 17th, 2012
3:08 pm
Sununu is absolutely correct. People all over the world are going to be laughing at us if we re-elect him.
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
3:09 pm
“they pander to the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers.”
gb @ 2:43 — I believe that’s about 80% of the GOP today!
Mighty Righty
July 17th, 2012
3:10 pm
HDB
July 17th, 2012
2:53 pm
Lest you forget that it was the REAGAN Administration that eliminated the R&D credit for GE to further develop wind turbine technology; that move blah, blah, blah
My apologies for not explaining the argument was about whether or not Obama “outsourced” jobs with his stimulous money. The Socialist in chief is lying about Romney outsourcing jobs to foreign countries when in fact it is the bamster himself that has out sourced jobs. The Romney lie is continually repeated when it has been disproven over and over even by liberal publicaions like the Washington Post. But, then libs have nothing to brag about so the make stuff up.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:11 pm
Doom — “You having problems counting Joe?”
Not at all, Doom! I’m doing great, considering your crappy writing skills!
“So if 5 or 6 of the W years were okay”
Goalpost Movement Alert! That’s not what you said.
“then where do you come up with 2/3rd of his presidency being feces? Fractions never were your strong suit were they?”
Better mine than yours. YOU said “the middle years,” not me. Leave out the ‘first years’ and the ‘last years’ and you have about a third. If you want to get specific, then you should have gotten specific before, Punkin.
“Only the 2 recession years were horrendous- 07 and 08.”
I’ll be sure to remember that the next time we discuss Bush’s record. 2001-2006, not horrendous according to Doom.
“The first year was bumpy due to the dot.com bust and 9/11 hitting in his first year but after that the next 5 years were’nt bad. They certainly seemed better on the economic and employment front than the first 3 1./2 years of the O presidency.”
Appearances can be deceiving, Doom. One day you will put down that silly, cherry-picked Heritage report and actually *read* the BLS data on that period in detail.
“The employment numbers bear that out.”
Nope.
“And I don’t think you’re stupid enough to argue that employment during W’s first 6 years was demonstrably superior than it has been the last 3 1.2 years. Facts is facts Joe and the fact of the matter is that unemployment was much lower during the first 6 years of W.”
Extract your two cherry-picked years, and it’s actually *comparable.* I’ve said many times that BOTH Bush and Obama suck for job creation. It’s a shame that you’re so partisan that you can’t bring yourself to a dispassionate reading of the data and to a similar conclusion.
Lord Help Us
July 17th, 2012
3:11 pm
‘Drive-by media’
Anytime I see that phrase, I have a good idea where the poster gets most of their information…
Has the ‘whitey tape’ been shown by the ‘drive-by media’ yet?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 17th, 2012
3:12 pm
People all over the world are going to be laughing at us if we re-elect him.
That ship sailed a long time ago.
Right around the year 2000.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:14 pm
BS Aplenty — “Stay in focus.”
Oh, Punkin, I’m in tight focus. I just know more about it than you do.
“We’re talking about the collapse of the RESIDENTIAL real estate market not the COMMERCIAL real estate market (which did not suffer nearly the declines nor did INDUSTRIAL if you wish to go there).”
I know that. And if the causes were such as you state, the commercial RE market wouldn’t have gone belly-up at the same time. Besides that, the residential RE markets for about a dozen European nations wouldn’t have done it at the same time as well. (laughing)
“The WEALTH of the Middle Class, most of whom don’t own COMMERCIAL real estate, flows primarily from home equity.”
Which is irrelevant to the point you were trying to make, Punkin. (laughing, pointing)
“Thanks for playing.”
Purr! Thanks for being my mouse!
HDB
July 17th, 2012
3:15 pm
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
3:03 pm
Doom….I’ll take it further:
The first three years of the Bush Administration were atrocious for me: job loss and the inability to find employment for a two year period (3/8)…then the final three-and-one-half years were worse (3.5/8)! When you do the math (6.5/8 = .84375)….84.375% of the Bush Years were the PITS!! Change that paradigm to the Obama Administration…unemployed for three months but have been working SINCE….and home ownership with improving credit rating: (90/365.25/4 = .0616) = 6.16%
I’ll take 6% misery rating vs. 84% anyday!!
Lord Help Us
July 17th, 2012
3:15 pm
‘Right around the year 2000.’
And they shook their heads in total disbelief in 2004…
Joseph
July 17th, 2012
3:16 pm
I’ve just decided I would rather have a clueless President than one who won’t show me his tax returns….
Liberal logic…
PJ
July 17th, 2012
3:16 pm
“If you ask anybody in the coal industry what would happen if Obama is re-elected, they’d say the coal industry is done,” said Sedgmer, whose husband, Ryan, is a coal miner and whose family has depended on the industry for at least four generations.”
If it weren’t for Democrats and Unions, her husband and other family members would still be living on the owner’s property paying him rent, buying food stuffs from the company store, no health or life insurance, no safety measures in place and using canaries and lanterns as equipment. These are the ingrates Liberals speak about. The fools that don’t know that if left to conservative business owners they will go back to those times. Dupes.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:16 pm
J. Reb — “The lies attacking Romney on Bain Capital and outsourcing have riled some powerful people that are starting to strike back. The vetting of Obama not done during the first election will now occur. It will be so loud the drive by media can’t ignore it. It will be in the news whether Obama supporters like it or not.”
First racism, now threats. How low can you go?
Joseph
July 17th, 2012
3:18 pm
I’ve just decided that I would rather have a President that send’s jobs oversea’s using my tax money than one that sends jobs oversea’s using his own money…
Liberal logic….
HDB
July 17th, 2012
3:18 pm
Mighty Righty
July 17th, 2012
3:10 pm
Romney did also, MR…..and those employees are letting you know!!
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/17/bain_off_shoring_victims_ask_romney_for_help/singleton/
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
3:19 pm
The vetting of Obama not done during the first election
this is getting kind of sad.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
3:20 pm
By the way, if America’s corporate scum decided to plan a coup against a sitting President, it wouldn’t be the first time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:21 pm
PJ — “If it weren’t for Democrats and Unions, her husband and other family members would still be living on the owner’s property paying him rent, buying food stuffs from the company store, no health or life insurance, no safety measures in place and using canaries and lanterns as equipment.”
My grandfathers were both coal miners (and I know Doom has miners in his family too), and while they weren’t educated men, they also weren’t stupid. Coal miners know who’s on their side and who’s against them. Miners know who’s trying to give them a hand up and who’s trying to keep a boot on their heads, holding them down.
Miners and mine union locals tend to support Democrats because Democrats fight for better working and safety regulations for the brave men who venture down into those holes for the rest of us.
Tundra Dude
July 17th, 2012
3:21 pm
It isn’t that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much about so much that isn’t important.”
Ronald Reagan
” I hate quotes. Tell me what you know.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 17th, 2012
3:22 pm
“My guess is, you are a young black man with a chip on his shoulder. Am I correct?”
Yes. Yes, I am. I’m a big, scary black man who will take your woman away from you. And not give her back.
Well, what did we try and tell you? Now you know why us Southren White men tried to keep the old way of doing things. Dang Civil Rights Act!
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:22 pm
SfD — “this is getting kind of sad.”
It is, isn’t it? We’ve had *several* of our regulars claim that they’re going to beat Obama with the same criticisms that didn’t work last time.
Shrug. Go ahead, guys. Do your worst.
Lord Help Us
July 17th, 2012
3:22 pm
I’ve decided we need to return to the policies of the GWB administration, since that worked out so dandy…
Con logic
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
3:26 pm
Always a great laugh to see the same cons whine about the “lack of Obama vetting” and then tell us that its a diversion to seek Romney’s tax returns. Almost as funny as the offer to exchange tax returns that they don’t have for education records
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:27 pm
R. Convert — “Well, what did we try and tell you? Now you know why us Southren White men tried to keep the old way of doing things. Dang Civil Rights Act!”
I did notice that JohnnyReb dropped that line of argument after I said that about taking his woman away and not giving her back. (giggling)
PJ
July 17th, 2012
3:30 pm
“People all over the world are going to be laughing at us if we re-elect him.”
Yeah, all those terrorist shot and killed and blown up are laughing so hard they don’t know what hit them. I don’t see anymore of our hostages being tortured and killed on the internet anymore either; as a matter of fact they are begging for the droning to stop and using captives to show how nice they are being treated. That’s so funny, HA HA.
Jefferson
July 17th, 2012
3:30 pm
Righty, you are blind to not see improvements, the fact of how things are is a result of how BAD they WERE when the GOP was in charge.
PJ
July 17th, 2012
3:31 pm
Joe Hussein Mama @3:21 pm
Agreed, that was for the women quoting otherwise and the one who posted what she said.
Old Goober
July 17th, 2012
3:33 pm
Miners and mine union locals tend to support Democrats because Democrats fight for better working and safety regulations for the brave men who venture down into those holes for the rest of us.
It was that way at one time. Now, all mine workers can think about is jobs. They watch coal waste foul their rivers and creeks. They see occasional drownings as coal waste dams break. They look out the windows of their shacks and see entire mountain sides that have been shorn of all timber and vegetation. They ignore the largely ineffectual efforts to enforce mine safety laws. The only meme they know is that Republicans will keep their mines open.
You can’t drive down I-77 in West Virginia without seeing huge signs blasting the EPA and insisting on coal as an energy solution. You can’t turn on your TV without seeing ads from the coal industry that tout coal as the solution to our energy problems. Somehow in all this, people have managed to ignore such phenomena as acid rain and mercury poisoning.
The murderous coal industry is in the back pocket of the Republican Party. It won’t stop till we’re right back to breathing poisonous air and drinking polluted water. And unfortunately, the short-sighted miners have collective amnesia. Is it any wonder that the EPA is in the cross-hairs of Republicans and that supposed “over-regulation” is the battle cry?
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
3:33 pm
Newt: [“The question is whether or not these companies were being manipulated by the guys who invest to drain them of their money, leaving behind people who were unemployed,” Gingrich said on Bloomberg. “Show me somebody who has consistently made money while losing money for workers and I’ll show you someone who has undermined capitalism. … That’s an indefensible model..."]
So who’s really your guy, Cons? The Mitt… Really??? Why do you hate America so much???
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
3:33 pm
We’ve had *several* of our regulars claim that they’re going to beat Obama with the same criticisms that didn’t work last time.
read on.
http://prospect.org/article/vetting-obsession
[T]here were hundreds, maybe thousands of articles written in 2008 (and since) about Barack Obama’s youth. He even wrote a pretty frank book about it himself, before he ever became a politician. If you think he wasn’t “vetted” you weren’t paying attention. But there are millions of conservatives who believe precisely that, and as we approach Obama’s possible re-election, with an extremely busy and consequential first term almost behind us, the obsession with his allegedly hidden past only grows. So what does it mean that a candidate is “vetted”? Does it mean we know everything there is to know about him? Of course, that’s simply impossible. Perhaps it means we know everything important, everything that might make a difference once he’s in office. Which is what makes the continued conservative interest in vetting Obama so strange. Now that he has been president for three years, can’t we just look at his presidency to see what he’ll do as president?
Yet even at this late date, conservatives are still hoping that within Obama’s past lies a blockbuster secret that will change everything once it is revealed, even if it’s not so secret or not so new. Last week the New York Times reported a proposal made to billionaire conservative Joe Ricketts to air $10 million worth of ads attacking Obama for his association with his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. “The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” the proposal said (my emphasis). It further quoted Ricketts himself asserting in reference to a never-aired 2008 McCain ad about Rev. Wright, “If the nation had seen that ad, they’d never have elected Barack Obama.” Just for fun, I searched Google News for stories about Reverend Wright between March 2008, when the story broke, and election day of that year. There were over 10,000 news stories that mentioned him.
So just what are these people thinking? In a way, their perspective shows an almost charmingly naïve faith in the power of information to persuade. Although the Ricketts plan was quickly aborted, I’m sure that if it went ahead, he wouldn’t have thought he was trying to stir up racial resentment, but rather that he was simply putting information voters needed in front of them
St Simons - he-ne-ha
July 17th, 2012
3:33 pm
the middle years of sompn-sompn
yeah, when we fell off the cliff, that middle part wuz jus like flyin..
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:35 pm
PJ — “Agreed, that was for the women quoting otherwise and the one who posted what she said.”
Understood. And thank you for clarifying.
HDB
July 17th, 2012
3:35 pm
Republicans showing their colors again!!
Rutland County, Vt., GOP says Facebook post meant to be satirical, not racist
The Republican Party of Rutland County, Vermont, says it regrets a post on its Facebook page that it said was meant to be satirical but which Democrats labeled “racist” and “appalling.”
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The post was spotted on Sunday by the Vermont political blog Green Mountain Daily. By Monday, the post was deleted and Rutland County GOP Chairman Rob Towle issued a statement saying he was “very saddened” that some people were offended. By Tuesday, the entire Rutland County GOP Facebook page was taken offline.
The original post read:
“Just wanted to let you know – today I received my 2012 Social Security Stimulus Package. It contained two tomato seeds, cornbread mix, a prayer rug, a machine to blow smoke up my butt, 2 discount coupons to KFC, an “Obama Hope & Change” bumper sticker, and a “Blame it on Bush” poster for the front yard. The directions were in Spanish. Watch for yours soon.”
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/17/12792807-rutland-county-vt-gop-says-facebook-post-meant-to-be-satirical-not-racist?lite&__utma=14933801.1643297393.1342441986.1342441986.1342553452.2&__utmb=14933801.1.10.1342553452&__utmc=14933801&__utmx=-&__utmz=14933801.1342441986.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=14933801.|8=Earned%20By=msnbc%7Ccover=1^12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.nbcnews.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=149083446
Jay
July 17th, 2012
3:36 pm
“I think they have to recognize that we’re in a campaign mode where simple, tough, declarative sentences are required, that this is not a campaign to be won on nuance but to be won on making sharp distinctions with the failure of the Obama administration economically, the loss of jobs and the pain that Americans across the country are feeling.”
– John Sununu,
July 5, 2012
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:37 pm
“I wish this president would learn how to be an American”
–Some smart guy with lots of common sense!
AMEN!
Joseph
July 17th, 2012
3:38 pm
I have to disagree with Oblama on someone else building the internet. Al Gore built that!!!!
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
3:38 pm
They ignore the largely ineffectual efforts to enforce mine safety laws. The only meme they know is that Republicans will keep their mines open.
yeah.
I think we’ve seen some similar movement among UAW workers, and those in affiliated industries, in the past, when liberals were seen as the guys who were trying to criminalize SUV owership (or somesuch) and were somehow destroying the auto industry.
At this point, of course, the right wing has gone so ape-crap crazy over Obama’s handling of GM and Chrysler’s financial near-collapse that I can’t see a similar migration to the GOP among these workers happening any time soon. But collective memory is a funny thing.
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:39 pm
Obama is a communist!
“you didn’t build that business….. the state did…”
What a delusional Idiot! (Buffoon)!
Williebkind
July 17th, 2012
3:41 pm
Ga will be a red state after the election. I did not have to spend thousands of taxpayers money to learn that in college. Liberals are educated beyond their intelligence.
josef
July 17th, 2012
3:42 pm
What I find the most intriguing about the Obama-Mixed Race thingie is just how insistent the liberal white left is in calling him black, and then, ever so “open minded” sing his academic prowess, his acoomplishments as “black, black,black,” never mind he was raised by the white side of his family and spent a great deal of his formative years in an East Asian socio-cultural milieu. They completely ignore that the President himself makes a point of being of mixed ancestry and is not just African American. It all gives him the perspective to be what he wanted to be: post racial. But neither the white, liberal left or the white conservative right want to let him define it for himself.
That he chose in his more mature years to marry a Black American and build his base in her community in no way diminishes his identity as a multi racial. Black Americans, left and right, have been far, far more tolerant of his mixed ancestry than their white fellow countrymen.
Again, it’s that damnable black-white dichotomy that we just cannot seem to get past in our blindered tunnel vision.
I
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:43 pm
Bernanke Predicts Slow Progress on Unemployment
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-17/bernanke-predicts-slow-progress-on-unemployment.html
Caesar Obama doesn’t care about the economy or unemployment; he is a complete naive fool blinded by his Communist Ideology!
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
3:43 pm
Let’s talk about Romney being Governor of Mass. and job creation. Number 1, the unemployment rate was under 5% under him, so that means that everyone that wanted to work was probably working. Number 2, that state is about wealth, Academics, and blue bloods. They aren’t looking at bidding for a KIA plant, don’t want one. The state is built out. They aren’t grading off large hunks of land and building anything. It’s all political garbage about this subject.
barking frog
July 17th, 2012
3:43 pm
When coal is safe for miners
and the enviroment it should
be part of the energy program.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
3:44 pm
What I find the most intriguing about the Obama-Mixed Race thingie is just how insistent the liberal white left is in calling him black
shrug. It’s how Obama self-identifies; it’s good enough for me.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/04/nation/la-na-obama-census4-2010apr04
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:44 pm
Old Goober — “You can’t drive down I-77 in West Virginia without seeing huge signs blasting the EPA and insisting on coal as an energy solution. You can’t turn on your TV without seeing ads from the coal industry that tout coal as the solution to our energy problems. Somehow in all this, people have managed to ignore such phenomena as acid rain and mercury poisoning.”
I haven’t been up there in five or six years, though my family is on the Ohio side (Athens County, OH). My aunts, uncles and cousins who still live in the area say that the one local mine that has reopened has been a boon to the local economy, but fortunately, they’re not doing mountaintop removal. Also, the coal in that area (farther east) tends to be lower in sulfur, which is (relatively speaking) more environmentally friendly and thus sought out by energy producers. That means jobs in a very economically depressed area.
I can’t say if the folks there have swallowed the company line, but the county elective offices still seem to mostly be held by Democrats. So perhaps they’re holding the line up there.
Verbal Kint
July 17th, 2012
3:44 pm
Suggested reading for all of our Repub-haters on here. America without Republicans. It exists….in California:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/welcome-to-california-america-without-republicans/article/2502102#.UAHRDHuhj3I.twitter
Williebkind
July 17th, 2012
3:44 pm
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:39 pm
Obama was talking about himself. He did nothing to earn or pay for his degree, his community service job, and his position as the POTUS.
Thomas Heyward Jr.
July 17th, 2012
3:45 pm
Call me old-fashioned but………..no true American would assacinate a 16 year old Fellow American.
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Nor would a U.S. citizen.
Or any decent person for that matter.
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Only a criminal would.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:45 pm
Williebkind — “Liberals are educated”
NOW you’re catching on.
188 more days
July 17th, 2012
3:46 pm
Wonder who O’Bama will claim is at fault for the mess we are in, if he were to win in November?
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
3:46 pm
I was so hoping Obama would speak at the NAACP meeting so we could hear that old negro preacher voice dialect of his. It’s a real crowd pleaser.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:47 pm
Timestamp — “Wonder who O’Bama will claim is at fault for the mess we are in, if he were to win in November?”
I think he’s going to pick on you.
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:47 pm
Obama has investments in companies that ship jobs overseas
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-has-investments-in-companies-that-ship-jobs-overseas/article/2502361
Comrade Obama is down-sizing in the U.S. and SHIPPING JOBS OVERSEAS!
Common Damn Sense isn't Very Common
July 17th, 2012
3:47 pm
St Simons@3:33 pm
yeah, when we fell off the cliff, that middle part wuz jus like flyin..
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The cons were counting floors throughout the freefall
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
3:47 pm
Obama has investments in companies that ship jobs overseas
who doesn’t?
TGT
July 17th, 2012
3:48 pm
Maybe if Obama hadn’t spent so many years pretending he wasn’t an American, or at least allowing others to present him that way, then he wouldn’t be having these issues.
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:49 pm
Star of Pro-Obama Super PAC Ad Unleashed: ‘Obama Is a Jerk, a Pantywaist, a Lightweight, a Blowhard’
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/star-pro-obama-super-pac-ad-unleashed-obama-jerk-pantywaist-lightweight-blowhard_648688.html
Tell us what you really think about Caesar Obama, America!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
3:49 pm
Well we know when Heyward speaks, its got to be true. Its not like he’s ever fallen for some fake news report about a Wisconsin drone attack.
That would be criminal.
Williebkind
July 17th, 2012
3:49 pm
“Williebkind — “Liberals are educated”
NOW you’re catching on. ”
Yep, you can read half real good!
They BOTH suck
July 17th, 2012
3:50 pm
“Maybe if Obama hadn’t spent so many years pretending he wasn’t an American”
Nomination for DUMBEST post of the day.
PERIOD
Common Damn Sense isn't Very Common
July 17th, 2012
3:50 pm
USMC
3:37 pm
–Some smart guy with lots of common sense!
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If nominated I will not run
Obambarrassment
July 17th, 2012
3:51 pm
Funny thing, the media. It can concoct a scandal, all in a half-day’s work for the business that is a hobby of rich men.
Obama calls Romney a felon. Romney demands an apology.
Not-Romney calls Obama un-American. The media demands an apology on Obama’s behalf.
It’s easy to see how it’s going to be. Mr. Bookman is just a hobby of the very rich Cox family, but why they support such an awful President is anyone’s guess.
Romney can either fight back or watch as America becomes encircled by its government, restricted, fined and managed literally to death. The real losers will be the moderate Republicans though, because if Romney loses disgracefully without fighting, but all the while making excuses about what an excellent fellow Obama is, those moderate Republicans are going to be a minority very soon, if not a minority party.
We’ll then see if the media and Jay Bookman prefer dealing with the modern Tea Party. No doubt they won’t–no senility there.
getalife
July 17th, 2012
3:51 pm
If willard can’t man up and release his papers, run ron paul cons.
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:52 pm
REPORT: DNC Head Gets Heckled At Synagogue Rally
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2012/07/17/report-dnc-head-gets-heckled-synagogue-rally#ixzz20uZ3ugfB
People are waking up! Debbie is a Dunce!
They BOTH suck
July 17th, 2012
3:52 pm
TGT
Maybe if you and countless others hadn’t bought all the bs that has been sold to you since 2008, “he wouldn’t be having these issues”
But I digress
Carry on with the blatant stupidity
Will be hard to top your last post, but I am sure you have it in you
in 3…2…1
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:52 pm
Williebkind — “Yep, you can read half real good!”
Yes, and I can spell, punctuate properly and write in complete sentences. Would you like to learn how?
getalife
July 17th, 2012
3:53 pm
cons,
What do you think willard is hiding?
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
3:53 pm
Mystery Meat — “Obama calls Romney a felon.”
I’m pretty sure you know that he did no such thing, but given your handle, I don’t expect a very high level of honesty or veracity from you.
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:54 pm
“If nominated I will not run”–Common Darn sense isnt very common
LOL! that was funny! At least I tried.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
July 17th, 2012
3:55 pm
Star of Pro-Obama Super PAC Ad Unleashed: ‘Obama Is a Jerk, a Pantywaist, a Lightweight, a Blowhard’
REPORT: DNC Head Gets Heckled At Synagogue Rally
Drudge rabbit holes.
PJ
July 17th, 2012
3:55 pm
USMC @3:39 pm
Where I went to school reading was fundamental and we were taught to read the whole passage not selective parts. Learn the fundamentals and not just the mental part.
188 more days
July 17th, 2012
3:55 pm
Hello Hussey,
I see you are at your best in being the mouth of athority on all subjects.
You even found out how to put those cute little happy faces when you admonish another person’s OPINOIN, that doesn’t agree with you, put then, as smart as you are (?) you must be right, cause you said so.
Have a nice day
Thomas Heyward Jr.
July 17th, 2012
3:55 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
3:49 pm
Well we know when Heyward speaks, its got to be true. Its not like he’s ever fallen for some fake news report about a Wisconsin drone attack. That would be criminal.
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If there were any funny American “wedding crashers” following this 16 year-old- American BOY…………………..they didn’t escape.
They were incinerated along with everyone else.
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Obama..your president…….. considers them combatents.
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He’s YOUR criminal President.
Mick
July 17th, 2012
3:55 pm
usmc
Hey gomer the lesser have you got one original thought in that jar of yours? Seems like rush, hannity, and bortz has your mindlessness on a leash…
Williebkind
July 17th, 2012
3:55 pm
I do recall the momentous effort just recently to claim that we are a GLOBAL ECONOMY! Now that the wise Mit used all his legal resources to make more money for the company by outsourcing to the GLOBAL ECONOMY, outsourcing is now bad. Why? Because he is not liberal? Investing in overseas adventures is what the liberals preached to dim the lights of the exceptional American standard. You are hypocrits and liars. You always will be.
monty
July 17th, 2012
3:56 pm
Sea Bill defeated!!!! YAY!!!!! OBAMA and the Dems willing to give up our sovereignty to the United Nations concerning out territorial waters.. I don’t think he does want to be an American. I’m not voting for him. Good Riddance!
TGT
July 17th, 2012
3:56 pm
Maybe if he hadn’t spent so many years being mentored by anti-American racists and communists he wouldn’t be having these issues.
USMC
July 17th, 2012
3:56 pm
“If willard can’t man up and release his papers, run ron paul cons.”–getalife
Obama took three years to “craft” a birth certificate and still hasn’t offered up his “Affirmative Action” college transcripts.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
3:56 pm
Nomination for DUMBEST post of the day.
but you clipped the best part of that line!
“…pretending he wasn’t an American, or at least allowing others to present him that way, then he wouldn’t be having these issues.”
How do you prevent people from presenting you in a certain way? I mean, unless you’re Kim Dog Dong or some such totalitarian despot who can have newsmen disappeared for insubordination.
To say nothing of the non-existent “issues”–I really, really don’t think any reachable voters out there in the US give a rat’s ass about whether Obama is sufficiently American for them. If you worry about crap like that, you’re never gonna vote for the guy anyway.
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
3:56 pm
“I did notice that JohnnyReb dropped that line of argument after I said that about taking his woman away and not giving her back. (giggling) ”
Unlike any who blog at work, i.e. screwing their employer, I work for myself. I do have to punctuate my blogging with actual work.
As to taking my woman, I prefer to keep her. Plus, if you think I’m a pain in the liberal world, you know nothing.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
3:57 pm
still hasn’t offered up his “Affirmative Action” college transcripts.
Stay classy, USMC.
Joseph
July 17th, 2012
3:57 pm
Who is Frank Marshall Davis?
Cosby
July 17th, 2012
3:57 pm
Bi-racial, raised in Kennya and Indonesia as well as Hawaii, never held a real job. Provides low cost government loans to GE which has outsourced over half its work force, spent over 1/2 trillion dollars to green energy whose owners provided hundred of thousands of dollars to his campaign, bowed to foreign officials, apologized for the US for unknown reasons, willing to prvide Brazil with billions of dollars for off coast drilling – outsourcing – while blocking drilling in the USA, using NLRB to violate the 10th amendment, using the EPD to institute cap and trade not authorized by congress, tells american small business that they did not build their business, the government did and their business does not belong to them, will not release his college records nor law school records…all facts Jay – he is as unamerican as you can get a down right bi – racil, muslim, marxist Chicago thug breaking the law every day – those are the facts…so when he tells you how much your job is worth and cuts your salary in half…do not come to me crying. Facts baby facts!! And we did not even get to his attorney General who says you must half three forms of ID to get a drivers license but no ID to vote – go figure!!