‘I wish this president would learn how to be an American’

The ticking time bomb at the bottom of at least 75% of the opposition to the President.

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How do you learn to be “american’ in a melting pot?

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“I don’t know … being a pot-smoker is a hell of a lot more #American than hiding money offshore.”

Haha..can I get an amen??

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Well he is a Kenyan, Muslim Marxist, right?

Nothing new, moving along

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40% of this country still thinks that Jesus could return during their lifetimes. I think that explains why there are 40 some odd percent of voters that would vote so badly and choose “Romney.”

Obama clearly will win this election again, however, as we have a majority that is not completely stupid. It’s a no brainer.

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I thought the campaign had to approve the quotes in advance. Does this mean Romney approves this message?

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Sununu was born in Cuba. He knows about learning to be an American.

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Old, fat, lazy, white cons are getting desperate to cling to power.

They got nothing on this President.

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I can just see the debates now..

Romney: I’m a job creator!

Obama: You shipped jobs overseas at Bain, you shut down companies, and as Governor, you did not create jobs. During my first term, we created ____ (large number) of jobs after the great recession which started under George Bush.

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Ennis — “spent more time on vacation”

Not even close. Obama’s predecessor spent what, 1/4 of his entire two terms on vacation?

Wish I could get three months of paid vacation a year.

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Ennis, this is Roscoooooooooooooo P Coltrain……….

I believe that little rich buddy of mine who now lives in Hazzard County TX has this president beat by a country mile as are as vacations.

10-4!!

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Bill Andersoot…. Since when has any president paid for the cost of flying Air Force 1 and 2 around this country????? Your post at 12:17 is way off center…And exactly what makes me a Nitwit????

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Romney has to do something to quiet the calls for him to SHOW HIS PAPERS to America!

Sununu to the RESCUE……

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Maybe a little context would help:

it certainly helps us more deeply appreciate what a flaming bag of douche this spokesman really is. Yep. Thanks.

(I really like how he deliberately re-arranges the Hawaii and Indonesia years. Nice work, damning someone [apparently] for decisions his parents made when Obama was in elementary school.)

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Shipping Jobs over seas like Mitt did is American I guess ?

Hell yes it is if you are Republican !

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I see Joseph has gotten the talking points email.

I watched Mary Matalin unfurl that stinkbomb Sunday morning.

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“Americans” don’t credit the government, or a village, for entrepreneurship. Americanism has nothing to do with fealty to the government.

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Hilarious! Of course, no one who supported the previous regime wants to take responsibility for the great economic crash that occurred on their watch ..; or the massive waste of money associated with the unfunded Iraq debacle … or the unfunded Medicare prescription benefit … or the TWO massive tax cuts that mostly benefited the uber-wealthy at a time when we were spending massive dollars on two unfunded wars. To these Republicans I say … pay your bills, deadbeats!

Republican politicians make a grand pretense of accountability and morality, but they are the most remarkably successful LIARS in our nation’s history, and the so-called lame-stream media routinely gives their talking points prominent forum. The Democrats represent a broader coalition of political interests, but lack the party discipline to fight back effectively. The so-called trickle down economics begun in the Reagan era initiated three decades of financial resources shifted from the middle class to the upper class, and American CEOs and upper management are now making an estimated three times more than their counterparts around the world. There have been record corporate profits over the past two years, yet these so-called job creators are not hiring in large numbers and unemployment has remained high.

Republicans complain about the deficit but refuse to pay it down, only want to cut programs that benefit most Americans, and are much more effective at marketing their positions than the Democrats (Dick Cheney was famously quoted during previous regime as saying “we learned from the Reagan years that deficits don’t matter”). Republicans publicly announced that their number one priority after the last presidential election was to make sure Obama failed, and have fought tooth and nail against any and every proposal to repair the economy (including many that were originally Republican proposals, such as the health care initiative).

Our nation has many daunting challenges, but our winner-take-all political system is failing. Neither political party has all the answers, and our Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that was supposed to prevent excessive concentration of power on one side or the other. But if the Republicans completely refuse to work together with half of our nation, then we are doomed to failure. Ugh.

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“I watched Mary Matalin unfurl that stinkbomb Sunday morning.”

she got it from a mememe I saw on FB

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Someone on twitter says hiding money offshore wasn’t American.. Didn’t the US sue Switzerland to get the names and account numbers of the thousands of account in swiss banks. The caymans still hold thousands of accounts of Americans. I believe it is the thing to do for Rich Americans. Hide all money offshore=’s no taxes. Seems fair to me….

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I guess this is a feeble attempt to cover for Obama’s gaffe about business owners. Arguing that successful business owners got help from others along the way and suggesting they should pay more in taxes in return, he noted how government often provides the infrastructure needed for success. “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that,” Obama said. “Somebody else made that happen.”

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Well, let’s see … we have John Sununu saying that because Obama grew up in Hawaii, he isn’t a real American …

and we have Mrs. Mittens saying that she doesn’t do vacation “overseas” like the Obamas do …

strong with them, geography is not

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yay!!! I get to unload the full quote again … in all its contextual glory:

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

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News I have been following:

ThinkProgress reveals the following congressmen have spent the following amounts on car leases under “office expenses” for the past year and a half:

Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN): $25,580.84
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI): $24,525.00
Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX): $10,997.45
Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO): $20,978.07
Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH): $4,889.76
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS): $8,848.00
Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR): $10,746.59

The Tea Party played their constituents….

Then there’s this from Krugman:

Trust me: you will see very few news analyses saying that Mr. Romney proposes huge tax cuts for the rich, with no plausible offset other than big benefit cuts for everyone else — even though this is the simple truth. Instead, you will see pieces reporting that “Democrats say” that this is what Mr. Romney proposes, matched with dueling quotes from Republican sources.

The article basically points out that the tax returns ARE about policy, the Romney policy that the rich deserve tax breaks and the poor deserve tax hikes.

And finally, Politifact analyzes how transparent the Obama administration has been. Their conclusion? He has been more transparent than any prior administration, but fell short of his own promises of full transparency. He shot for the stars but only made it to the moon.

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Jay:

“Hype that fear”… Are you kidding Jay? Like telling seniors Republicans want to take away their medical care? That Republicans want to take away food stamps for kids and let them die in the street? That Republicans want dirty air and water? Is that the type of fear you’re referring to???

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willard outsourced the Olympic uniforms to Burma.

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Ennis @ 12:15

Ha..ha..ha….I believe George W. Bush took more vacations than any American president ever. In fact I think I once saw a chart that showed he was “on vacation” as much as he was “on duty”. The fact the President takes his time a couple of times a year in Hawaii is because that is where he is from. Hawaii is a state.

Please provide actual evidence of your assertions because I think you are just spouting something you heard or read somewhere.

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Jay,

Hype what fear? The whole argument that Sununu was making that the president does not know how to create jobs.

you state:

“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.”

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the message if not a claim of racism? How does this fan flames of fear?

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Your Medicare plans would accomplish that.

Aw come on–the Ryancare coupon books are gonna be awesome.

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Romney
is
toast

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The right wing media had a field day yesterday when Obama said “you didn’t become successful on your own”, where he meant that you also need the public infrastructure paid for by tax payers. The talking blowhards have been spinning it with manufactured outrage that Obama is anti-American.

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John Sununu is a lesbian?

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BeeJay …… Please that was silly……

Isn’t George Bush the guy who started Homeland Security ?

Isn’t George bush the guy who created a larger US government ?

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“really? So it’s just her horsies that get the vacay?”

no, they just go to one of their two “vacation homes” (like all good Americans)

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Hey Joseph……

When will the Republican’s apologize for their lies and deceit???

We want to help the Poor.

We are for the environment.

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No, only true Americans have car elevators in their garage(s).

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Peter:

Safety nets are in place for the poor but I think we can all agree that waste and fraud has become a serious problem that dems could care less about. Getting the economy moving again will benefit the poor more than any entitlement ever could. Oblama and the dems want more people to depend on the gubmint… That’s an obvious fact.. Especially when you see ads encouraging people to do so…

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“I don’t think he’s a racist, ZoSo. Not at all.

I do think that he and others feel threatened and overwhelmed by a changing America, and that the Romney campaign is trying to hype that fear. But racism is another thing entirely.”

Well, I’m happy to see that Jay finally has the racism definition down correctly.

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Joseph – so since the only plan the GOP has for getting the economy moving is more “tax cuts”…and since we’ve seen very little job creating via VERY LOW TAX RATES and EXTENDED TAX CUTS…please tell me how the GOP has a plan to create jobs?

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Amen to pot-smokers and Chardonnay-sippers, LOL!

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I’ve met John Sununu when he was Governor of New Hampshire. He was taking a tour of the National Guard at Ft. Drum. A friend and I were fraternity brothers of his and he let us join the tour, however he lopped us off before the tour made the whole circuit. He is a very smart guy, a graduate of MIT and a professor there.
All Mr.Sununu was doing was giving an opinion, nothing more or less.
Getting to his alleged comment, just an opinion. Everyone has a right’

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Speed racer – who do you think got us into the GreatRecession? It was the private sector.
How has Obama “redistributed” wealth when the wealthy, now, are more powerful than ever, pay low if any taxes, and the middle and lower classes are increasingly hurting?
Where do you get your information from? Have you even looked at real data?

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I remember the Dem’s using pot smoking to disqualify a supreme court nominee. Based on Obama’s record as President, maybe the pot smoking did have a long term impact?

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I don’t get why people still blame Obama for jobs and the economy as if they forget the Republican house and blue dogs. It doesn’t matter what the plan is. If the house and Senate says “No!” there is now bill for him to sign. Blaming the President is mistaking the symptom for the cause.

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“No, only true Americans have car elevators in their garage(s).”

bwaaa, Steve! And only true Americans understand “dressage” as an Olympic sport!

“)

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Don’t you know there is “American” and then there is “AMERICAN”.

I grew up in liberal California, so I didn’t learn the difference until I moved to the Republican south part of the country.

Please excuse this off-color Democratic joke, but, “Don’t you know what President Obama’s problem is? He nags too much, nag, nag, nag. He is a nagger”. And, some will never be able to get over that fact, no matter what he does.

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Bush diary secrets

“At one of the most important moments of his presidency, all the guy was thinking about was food,” said longtime democratic strategist Bob Shrum, in reference to what has quickly become the most widely discussed section of the diary: a fourteen-page entry written on the eve of the Iraq War in which the president vents about the quality of the White House food, specifically the poor selection of comfort snacks, his dissatisfaction with the chimichangas and his ongoing frustration with the size of the hamburgers.

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Here is a direct quote from our president while on a recent campaign…

“If you have a business, you didn’t start that, someone else did that for you”….

Democrats really support this garbage?

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@USAInUK
Lebanese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sununu

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“Learning how to be an American:

“Buy what you don’t need and cannot afford except on credit. Knowing nothing about the other 200 countries outside America. Wanting everything but not wanting to pay for it – good roads, schools, clean air and water.”

This guy must have not heard about what is going on in Europe!! LOL

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Goldie — “only true Americans understand “dressage” as an Olympic sport!”

I confess, I don’t get the concept of dressage (q.v. Ballet Ponies) as a “sport.”

Then again, my favorite Olympic event is Modern Pentathlon, so go figure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_pentathlon

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Woodstock – do you think you could go to a deserted island and successfully start a business that would work and prosper?

Please.

Our tax base provides the foundation and infrastructure for people to actually start, build and maintain businesses. Without this, nobody would get anywhere.

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Hey commonman, where do you morons think the tax dollars that paid for the roads came from? Do you think the just appeared down at the tax office on their own?

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Common Man @ 12:50….

Sununu is a closet lesbian? Oh my bad…he is from Lebanon, a country I visited last year. A beautiful country with much potential if we can keep Syria from interfering.

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This is hilarious. Every time someone mentions that Obama quote in Roanoke you know it’s because they do not watch/listen/read anything but conservative media.

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So start a business, Steve.

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Well, House Speaker Boehner said Obama was “almost” un-American.

I can live with that !!!

Washington (CNN) – “House Speaker John Boehner Tuesday forcefully denounced the Democrats’ campaign theme that they are for the middle class and Republicans are for the wealthy – saying the politics the president is running on are “almost un-American.”

“This is a president who said I’m not going to be a divider, I’m going to be a uniter, and running on the politics of division and envy is – to me it’s almost un-American,” said Boehner.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/24/boehner-policies-president-obama-is-running-on-almost-un-american/

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When my neighbor does
well, I do well, but maybe
not as well or maybe better.

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Woodstock

Did you spring from the earth all by yourself?

It ain’t garbage. Not even close.

Next time while blowing dry your coif, point the nozzle
towards your ear and see if some of that saw dust won’t
just come a flying out the other side.

Or stop by your local Build a bear….for better stuffing.

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I know libs are foaming at the mouth like never before.. They just can’t understand why these attack ads have gone nowhere. No one cares about Bain… They are more concerned about Obama’e epic failures…

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

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I’m with RB from Gwinnett on this one, Obama is not American until he releases his baptism certificate which is then blown up and put on 10,000 billboards across the country.

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Joe Hussein Mama:

Well no, he wasn’t. He was referring directly to Obama.

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“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.”

Well, this Snuzi is dead-cinch right. Obama’s one of Those People. And a Socialist Muslim besides. Not to mention a Usurper. You think we’re all blind? It’s just too bad Snuzi’s too far gone to finish his sentences.

Say, I wonder how much Romney pays his stable hands? I mean, his wife’s horse eats, right? And if the horse eats, he must poop, right? And there’s a job right there, unless his wife’s trained the horse to clean up his own mess. It’s something to think about, seeing as how Romney wants to take care of us little people.

Anyhow, it’s back to work for me. Today it was beans & weenies. In a few years, though, soon as Romney’s had a chance to get settled, I’ll be stopping by a fancy restaurant for lunch. And not just to deliver some beer either.

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The way you guys attack me is so un- Democrat??

You guys are in for a big suprise. Everyone is over blaming rich people and our tax system for their own problems. I don’t understand why Democrats are so jealous? Come on guys, don’t hate America, this is the greatest country on Earth, I know you guys don’t think so but sorry, you’re wrong, America is the greatest and will remain that way long after Obama. Sorry guys…

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In four years President has
brought us Obamacare, if
nothing else. For me that
gets him four more years.

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0311 — “That’s enough for me right there !”

Shrug.

You know what’s enough for me to call someone unAmerican?

Wishing for misfortune to befall the President and the country, just so your party can seize upon the opportunity to regain power in Washington.

REAL Americans want the country and the President to do well and to serve the American people, regardless of what party’s in power.

Give that some thought.

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RB: Your responses are all that is required, chum

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0311 — “Well no, he wasn’t. He was referring directly to Obama.”

Well, I’m sure he wasn’t. We know who ran on the “uniter, not a divider” meme, now don’t we?

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USinUK – pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout:

Yes a blog from the NYT’s is creditable… LOL…

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They terk er jerbs!!!

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as I’m about to head home, could someone else educate Joseph about 538???

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Mike — “I don’t understand why Democrats are so jealous?”

We’re not jealous and you’re right, you don’t understand. You’d have to remove the pewp from your ears and actually listen to have any hope of understanding.

“Come on guys, don’t hate America, this is the greatest country on Earth”

We don’t hate America. And we do think America is a great country — we just want it to be GREATER than it already is.

“I know you guys don’t think so but sorry, you’re wrong,”

Sorry, Mike, but you’re the one who’s wrong here. We love our country. We just don’t put it on a pedestal and fetishize it the way conservatives do.

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Joe Hussein Mama:

“REAL Americans want the country and the President to do well and to serve the American people, regardless of what party’s in power.

Give that some thought.”

I have thought about it long and hard and REAL Americans don’t support a President who wants to do “well” in changing the basic nature of this Republic !

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ty webb:

Thank you but remember that Tories were patriotic in their minds.

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USinUK – pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout:

Again the NYT’s is not a creditable news source… You may need to educate yourself….

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Joe Hussein Mama @ 1:04

Well they sure were because that’s who they were talking about in the interview ………. Obama.

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Is there anything or anyone that doesn;t scare the bejeesus out of white Southern Conservatives these days?
They’re scared of the boogeyman socialists.
Scared of black people.
Scared of anything not American (and most things American).
Scraed of women
Scared of the United Nations.
Scared of Europe.
Scared of Asia.
Scared of science.
Scared of healthcare reform.
Scared of the federal government.
It must be terrible having to walk around in fear all the time.
Just holding your blanket and crying and sucking your thumb, and going “wah wah worst president ever. Waahhhh!!”

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Quoting Rush and Snowdrift Snooki, great now I know y’all have jumped the shark.

SMH

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“Again the NYT’s is not a creditable news source… You may need to educate yourself….”

the country’s paper of record isn’t a creditable news source???

laugh.

out.

effing.

loud.

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Thanks ZoSo, that basically changed the whole meaning.

Still can’t stand Sununu or his son.

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The lib comments on this lib blog are priceless. Thanks for the laughs…have to get back to the business that I started from nothing but someone else built.

Always happy to hear what this racist regime really thinks when the TOTUS is not in use.

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Joe Hussein Mama @ 1:10

Preach on Rush !

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More classless libs.. Remember when you vote folks. If you vote for a democrap you’re voting with these people…

http://youtu.be/N3wYU3jprTI

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Again the NYT’s is not a creditable news source

So you’ll join me in calling for them to dump Thomas Friedman and David Brooks from their payrolls and replace them with sentient humans?

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There is nothing more un-American than shutting down American companies and laying off the workers, making millions in the process, and then moving that money to off-shore bank accounts to avoid taxes that could be used to build American infrastructure.

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Didn’t like Sununu’s comments, but watch – this is going to be a continuing line of attack against President Obama. Just as the Dems are trying to paint Romney as a dishonest, out of touch, protect the rich/screw the poor candidate, the R’s will try and paint Obama as some un-American candidate. And it might work with some folks. The thing is, the press or public doesn’t really hold either side accountable.

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This is a pretty weak column Jay. There is no doubt that Obama is an American. He just has absolutely no clue how the American economy, much less American business, works. If he did, he would never hold Americans hostage by threatening to push the economy over the fiscal cliff. Even Keynesian economists will tell you that raising taxes in a recession is an idiotic idea. “The private sector is doing just fine.” Yeh right. The fatal flaw with all of Obama’s economic policies is that he only offers short term solutions for long term problems. George Shultz had an excellent interview in the WSJ over the weekend. He used a football game analogy to describe the current U.S. environment. Teams were sitting on the sidelines with lots of cash to put to work. However, they weren’t willing to play because Obama hadn’t defined the rules of the game yet. Obama was telling them to go ahead and play by putting their money to work and he would make up the rules as he went along. Obama may be American, but he thinks that he is a benevolent dictator. Like it or not, our constitutional form of government created checks and balances to prevent presidents from going down Obama’s path. The Obama campaign has spent $512mm on negative ads against Romney. Do you really think that scrutinizing an ultra high net worth individual’s taxes is going to help unemployment, reduce the deficit, and improve U.S. trade? At a time when a leader should be creating global trade agreements to help both the EU and U.S. economies, Obama has released the Foreign Account Tax compliance Act (FATCA). Global partnerships are now subject to approval by the IRS. That’s a great example of Obama’s image of American business. He thinks that the IRS is an efficient organization and articulate ambassador for U.S. global buisiness.

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JP: The thing is, the press or public doesn’t really hold either side accountable.

Bingo. Anyone that does is labeled as a partisan, so they avoid it and say stuff like “Some Democrats say…”

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When asked about the chinese made US olympic uniforms Romney would only say he was going to weigh in, because he knows he lives in glass. Who is for sell ? Romney or the White House, he’s all about off shore.

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S/B NOT weigh in.

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stands for decibels (SfBA):

I honestly could care less who writes for them… I think its wonderful to Bookman’s at every paper… It just increase’s turnout against the dem party when independents read his tripe….

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Joe Hussein Mama:

Since we can’t seem to agree, I have a great idea.

Let’s vote this November !

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What are the chances that Romney WON”T be the GOP nominee?

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Jefferson:

What has Oblama said about the uniforms.. Link please…

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Recon 0311 2533 @ 1:18

Thank you ………… and by the way that’s a very good definition of “un-American” !

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“We get it: “Barack HUSSEIN Obama isn’t a real American.”

Well said.

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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.”

And of course there are no Democratic bigwigs who have money offshore. For Pete’s sake little ole Doomy has money offshore in 2 small accounts. One in the Curacao and one in Costa Rica. And yes- its money I already paid taxes on. Geez. And Romney paid his taxes just like anyone else and put his money wherever the hell he wants to.

Oh noes! More Democratic hypocrisy? Ironical.

“ABC News has uncovered that White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett has up to a quarter million dollar line of credit in, where else, Bermuda? She’s not the only one.

According to the Weekly Standard, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz also has a history of overseas investments.

Now we got Debbie Wasserman Schultz investing in Swiss bank accounts, foreign drug companies and the Bank of India, according to the Weekly Standard.

And then we find out, let’s see, Daily Caller, and they point out that Nancy Pelosi has investments in an LLC company, $1 to $5 million. Their singular focus — investing in Asia. And they’re lecturing Romney?”

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J- If the link was wrapped in barbed wire and stuck up your butt you would KNOW where it was.

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Ken@1:18, very well stated.

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Thulsa-

How rude of you to bring up those facts.

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I would be interested to hear how much of that 1/4 are <$1000 above.

and if so? Seriously, what kind of an absolute jerk makes a BFD over a few low-income parents might be slightly overqualified to receive a frickin’ lunch program subsidy?

These people are psychopaths.

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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.”

The exception: one activity is legal and the other is simply smoking weed, right?

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The gop showed zero patriotism after a collapse.

UnAmerican and unpatriotic.Period.

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one activity is legal and the other is simply smoking weed, right?

why don’t we ask the American voting public which one they find more morally repellant?

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Amazing that so many
conservatives have been
on government payrolls
and benefits their entire
lives.

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The Republicans have spent the past decade practicing bigotry, intolerance, ignorance, paranoia, and greed. Their policies wiped out millions of jobs, left us fighting to wars without an objective, left the American dream in ruins after a housing bubble, created a too big too fail banking empire that is robbing the people blind, and concentrated most of the wealth in the hands of the privileged few. Is that what being an American is all about?

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If you have a hundred million ($100,000,000) off shore, you could be leveraged and blackmailed by foriegners.

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“why don’t we ask the American voting public which one they find more morally repellant?”

Or we could ask them if we should follow the Rule of Law or pick and choose and eventually have a breakdown of society and then what?

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“Romney: ‘I’m Simply Not Enthusiastic’ About Releasing Tax Returns”

Fatal error of his campaign.

Did he launder money for the drug cartels like HSBC?

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Princess is a lurker?

Too funny!

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I paid taxes already on the money in my wallet.
I shouldn’t have to pay taxes on it again.
Anyway,
that’s what I told em at the walmarts
and the gas station.

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I want the wealthy to pay their fare share:

I dare you to watch this very clear and accurate video:

http://www.upworthy.com/why-you-and-i-have-to-cover-what-the-rich-dont-pay?g=2&c=bl3

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I think MItt’s pal, Sheldon Adelson, provides a good example of the benefits received by the wealthiest among us. You see, Sheldon owns a casino in the middle of the desert. Fortuitously, the American taxpayer built a dam just south of Las Vegas, so that city and Sheldon’s casino, now have access to water in the middle of the desert. Then, in the 1950s America began the construction of an interstate highway system, so Sheldon’s customers can get to his hotel in the middle of the desert. Since then, the government has financed the development of a network of airports, including the one in Las Vegas to provide customers quicker access to Sheldon’s casino in the middle of the desert. Agencies at several levels of government including the Department of Justice, State, and local agencies provide law enforcement services, so that Sheldon’s customers can feel secure at his casino in the middle of the desert.
Is Sheldon’s casino dependent on taxpayer support? — absolutely!

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Oblama and the dems want more people to depend on the gubmint… That’s an obvious fact.. Especially when you see ads encouraging people to do so…

Prove it is a fact, and not your opinion please….. add a link here that states that exactly !

http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/25/news/economy/food-stamps-ads/index.htm

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Holy crap, Michael – that was an actual normal, sane, sensible post! It will be lost amongst the loonies here, though.

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“Well, we better put a few more pot-smokers in stir then.”

Careful, as some may determine you are an obfuscating moron.

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Show us your papers willard.

Now.

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@getalife “A President that saved our economy, auto industry and got obl is not American?”

Now, that’s funny!

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Micheal that is an interesting rewrite of history and the motivation behind it…all wrong, but interesting nonetheless

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Recon, scout,

They don’t like those uncomfortable truths regarding their rank hypocrisy on investing offshore. Hard to believe anyone can take Wasserman shultz or Pelosi seriously.

When it comes to money though my favorite is the awful stinginess of the Dems. Obama has historically given very little to charity though he finally upped the ante last year. Biden as is his usual stingy self gave a paltry $1,000 again last year despite criticisms in the past over how cheap he is. Shameful and disgusting but typical of a lib politician-generous with taxpayer’s money but stingy with their own. Romney meanwhile has given away millions to charity. There’s just no comparison between the generosity of R candidates and the greed and stinginess of D candidates.

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Hiding your tax returns is not American.

Outsourcing Olympic uniforms to Burma is not American.

Not uniting and showing no patriotism after a collapse is not American.

Party first is not American.

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Fiscal cliff for tax cuts for the wealthy is not America.

The newt’s plan to get the President is not American.

Wanting our President to fail after they collapse the global economy is not American.

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callin’ Wall St. brokers and CEOs who ship jobs overseas “job creators” (and saying they need to pay even less taxes than they do now) is what I call un-American!

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“some may determine you are an obfuscating moron”

We determine that is true for you weak cons..

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Which party was the one that freed the slaves, and which one founded the KKK and even allowed a KKK kleagle (or was it Exalted Cyclops?) to still serve as an iconic senator in this century?

Babble on about party first, donkey.

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Righty reminds me of that ventriloquist’s dummy that goes I KILL YOU.

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Mitt needs to retroactivly release some tax returns, just saying… lol

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Mitt, Rush , Sean, Grover where do you get these clowns?

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Which party was the one that freed the slaves, and which one founded the KKK and even allowed a KKK kleagle (or was it Exalted Cyclops?) to still serve as an iconic senator in this century?

Babble on about party first, donkey.

Is this your first foray into politics?

Did you know that Jay can see what you are going to post as you type it?

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When Vice President Dick Cheney was campaigning in 2000, he defended his family’s charitable donations of $209,832, or about 1%, of the $20.6 million he earned from 1989 to 1999. “It’s a private matter … a matter of private choice,” Cheney said in 2000

IOKIYAR……… Hmmmm… wonder if the silly Ftroopy kiddies have factored in time donated.

But lets get to more current numbers for the Ftroopy kiddies…. Forbes 2011: “Biden’s [2010] return shows $379,178 in adjusted gross income, … $5,350 in donations.” Guess someone’s claim of $1000 donation is just wrong…. How surprising.

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John Sununu — just another ugly Con, hatin’ on Our President…

Thank God for President Obama!

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Last time I checked Hawaii was the United States of America so Sununu (how “American” is that name?) just called into question the “Americanism” every Hawaiian-born American. More than half of American kids have tried pot before they were 20, even those serving in the military so Sununu (Middle Eastern?) just questioned the patriotism of about half of our Service men and women. As for having ever lived outside the USA be a reason to not vote for a candidate? I guess he’s ignoring his own candidate whose father was born in Mexico and whose son spent 2 years living in France where he proudly learned to speak fluent French. Sounds suspicious to me.

Republicans have clearly lost their minds.

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That evil, reefer-eyed blob needs to let Princess Leia go!

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Barack Obama’s economic stimulous with his approval has outsourced more american jobs to foreign countries than anything done by Mitt Romney

Piffle

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The bottom line is Obama and all elected encumbents need to be defeated in the upcoming November elections. This would be a start on moving the USA to a position of strength that causes others to truely listen and logically consider official pronouncements of our national leader(s).

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In Obama’s own words “a little blow.” He was not an occassional pot smoker.

Here’s the passage from his book, Dreams from My Father, where he discusses his drug use:
“I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.

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Righty, the ecomomy was wrecked b/4 President Obama took over, and is has slowly improved since.

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I don’t know what Obama is. Without a doubt, he’s different. The one thing he isn’t – a successful President,

Admitting it is your first step

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Jay, you will have to admit that President Obama has been playing this up also by not releasing his records like other presidents. And the media did not ask what was in those records/documents of his past he had sealed the first day in office. He is using this just like the right. At least call it both ways.

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middleground:

Jay NEVER calls it both ways.

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It is damn sho working, you can tell by the whining,crying and hate.

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Spare me Jay…I am not getting into the American or not “go nowhere discussion” but Obama certainly does not know how this economy works and his statements in VA on Friday against small business owners and entrepreneurs revealed where he is coming from and it truly scared the crap out of me…..those statements will really come back to haunt him

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Jay, do you really believe that a biz owner had everything given to him/her ? Maybe since Obama never had to work hard for anything he does not understand how hard it is to be successful in any biz.
It’s the liberal way, bash the individual and claim everyones success ib because of gov. Obama made one good point when he was trashing hard working biz owners. Our founders put in place a system that lets people prosper. Obama wants to end that system !

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Mighty Right

Bush said he abused alcohol, can we assume you didn’t vote for him? And that was up until he was 40, not just is his teens and 20s

But do carry on. You posts, while usually not factual or in context are very humorous.

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Let’s say a college student (born in Auburn, Alabama) enrolled at the University of Georgia and then became president of the student body. Then said “president” wanted to change the UGA mascot, school colors, provide free test questions to all students and then dissed the university while making speeches at Tennessee and Georgia Tech.

I’d say he might be enrolled at Georgia but he sure ain’t no DAWG !!!

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According to Rasmussen 63% of Americans believe we’re in a recession. Of course Obama said that he doesn’t believe it’s wise to raise anyones taxes in a recession.

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Hussein @ 2:08

Comrade, I’m at least happy you agree with #2 and #3. That’s a start toward your rehabilitation.

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god, somebody rescue the vulgar pigboy on the radio.
After he finally showed back up for work, refuses to move
to Costa Rica like he promised, the last two days he’s
done golf stories, ‘entrepeneurial spirit’ lectures, and i guess
today he pretty much has to go with the ‘depend on charity’
from the patrons angle, after Lord High Hair-gel’s speech
about the ‘little people that serve us refreshments’

Jesus, barack. Bank the money. Rush & Richy are gonna elect you
right by theirself.

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Ain’t Free

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Delta’s Ready When You Are

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…and it truly scared the crap out of me…

Aw, didums, does him need to retreat to him’s bunk-bed fort and pull the covers over him’s head?

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Joseph @ 1:57

Hmmm… “incoherent” as a liberal mantra. Let’s dissect your statement.

Incoherent….without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence. Please provide objective analysis that links your assertion of “incoherent” to “liberal”.

Please also define the term “liberal”.

I am especially interested in our research on this linkage because it has defied academics in this field for years.

Oh, that’s right. You don’t believe in science, only make-believe “whatever you hear or see”.

This poses a challenge for society to advance.

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Two policies in particular contributed heavily to the residential mortgage debacle: the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977, which pressured private banks to make risky loans the HUD affordable housing goals for FNMA and FHLMC, which caused the GSEs to purchase risky mortgage loans.

A June 2008 Washington Post article states that “from 2004 to 2006, the two GSEs purchased $434 billion in securities backed by subprime loans, creating a market for more such lending.” Furthermore, a 2004 HUD report admitted that while trading securities that were backed by subprime mortgages was something that the GSEs officially disavowed, they nevertheless participated in the market. On September 10, 2003 (note the date), U.S. Congressman Ron Paul gave a speech to Congress where he stated that the then current government policies encouraged lending to people who couldn’t afford to pay the money back, and he predicted that this would lead to a bailout (of FNMA and FHLMC), and he introduced a bill to abolish these policies.
In addition, Gerald P. O’Driscoll, former vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas stated that FNMA FHLMC had become classic examples of crony capitalism. Government backing let Fannie and Freddie dominate the mortgage-underwriting. “The politicians created the mortgage giants, which then returned some of the profits to the pols – sometimes directly, as campaign funds; sometimes as “contributions” to favored constituents.” Some lawmakers received favorable treatment from financial institutions involved in the subprime industry. In June 2008 Conde Nast Portfolio reported that numerous Washington, DC politicians over recent years had received mortgage financing at noncompetitive rates at Countrywide Financial because the corporation considered the officeholders under a program called “FOA’s”—”Friends of Angelo”. Angelo being Countrywide’s Chief Executive Angelo Mozillo.

On 18 June 2008, a Congressional ethics panel started examining allegations that chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Christopher Dodd (D-CT), and the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad (D-ND) received preferential loans by troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. Two former CEOs of FNMA, Franklin Raines and James A. Johnson also received preferential loans from the troubled mortgage lender. Fannie Mae was the biggest buyer of Countrywide’s mortgages and is now in government receivership.

Two additional notes. One, while private mortgage and investment banking companies were clearly involved in this debacle, only their SHAREHOLDERS are disadvantaged by their poor judgement and greed. Whereas, when GSE’s are involved, it is the TAXPAYER who must pay and has paid for the governmental ineptitude. I’m OK with the financial calculus that allows private companies to go bankrupt with shareholder losses. And believe that, were it not a SYSTEMIC crisis, I would have allowed ALL private companies involved to go bankrupt. But also, clearly, if the government had not participated in a large way, the market would have naturally corrected the excess of the private sector much quicker and more efficiently without COLLAPSING residential housing values, and by extension, Middle Class Wealth.

Your welcome.

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Bob — “Joe Mama, how about the college transcripts ?”

What about them? Since when have Presidential candidates made a show out of releasing them? President Bush sure didn’t do it.

“Maybe if the smartest man in the world was actually as smart as we are told”

I don’t believe I’ve ever heard him called that, either self-referentially or by someone else.

“then he would have no problem releasing them.”

Tell you what. Let’s have President Obama not release his academic records and let’s also have Gov. Romney not release his taxes. Then let’s see which one gets more criticism and cracks first. How about that?

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Calvin Coolidge

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Now Show Me Your Harvard Transcripts and We’ll See Who’s Smarter

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Dekalb comments:

I’ll give you my understanding of what the definition of a liberal is:
Someone who believe’s the gubmint is the answer to all our problems.

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Those GE talking points are sure hitting the fearmail boxes.

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Seriously? He whined about Heinze Kerry’s money? I seriously doubt that.

TD, just FYI:

“John Kerry ran for president; you know, his wife, who has hundreds of millions of dollars — she never released her tax returns,” Romney said. “Somehow this wasn’t an issue.”

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Sununu was right. Obama hasn’t got the first clue of what it means to be an entrepreneur, to take business risks, to even feel patriotic to a country that has treated him so well. It is simply the ignorant, uneducated masses, the dependency crowd that will vote for him. The people at the trough will grow ever fatter, until this whole deck of cards collapses.

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Would Be a Better President Than Mitt Romney (He’s Also More Conservative Than Mitt)

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bob

July 17th, 2012
2:09 pm
Maybe since Obama never had to work hard for anything….

PIFFLE

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The global economic collapse started on wall street with the gop bushies in the wh.

It will happen again.

That should scare you cons.

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JohnnyReb @ 2:12

Sorry friend but I have to call you out on this one.

“Mixed-race” parents has nothing to do with this. You don’t “choose” your parents. You can choose to be or do other things.

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But he ain’t no DAWG !

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Doom — “SO. They are bigwigs in the Dem party and I believe Wasserman is the head of the DNC. If she is going to make charges about money offshore the women should at least clean up her own act first.”

I don’t care, as she’s not running for President. Romney is.

This is similar to what happened right before the 2004 election, when Fahrenheit 9/11 was released. Conservatives lost their collective minds, screaming about how Michael Moore “lied,” even though no actual lies are present in the film. That said, if it’s so horrifying that a self-admitted ideologue and film producer might actually lie to you, why wouldn’t it be MORE horrifying when a Presidential candidate does it?

I recognize that Ms, Schultz isn’t clean in this regard. And so it’s a good thing that she’s not running for President, because I’d be reluctant to vote for her because of it. Then again, she doesn’t have to be clean to point out that Mitt Romney’s dirty, too.

“Seriously? He whined about Heinze Kerry’s money? I seriously doubt that.”

Link with video:

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney-tax-returns-teresa-heinz-kerry.php

“Only whining going on here is a lotta whining about Romney.”

Nope. The only whining I hear is Romney and his staff, appearing on every news show that will let them on over the last 4-5 days. (laughing)

“He’s holding up quite well thank you.”

Not if he’s hiding behind Teresa Heinz Kerry’s skirt, he’s not.

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stands for decibels,

I would hardly call that whining. Its a legitimate question as to why she never released her tax returns. Romney did. He released his 2010 tax returns and an estimate of his 2011 tax returns. But then I guess if O can’t run on his record I guess he and the Dems have been reduced to whining about Romney’s tax returns from 10 years ago. As if Romney’s tax returns from 10 years ago have an influence on his ability to serve as president. Go figure.

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b-troll – You might be paying a bit more for electricity, but, the air you breathe will be less toxic. And there will a cleaner enviroment for your grandchildren.

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Joseph – 2:19

Do you realize how foolish those comments are? Do you enjoy most of us getting a good laugh out of your consistently idiotic remarks?

If you truly enjoy being the laughinging stock here, day after day, just keep posting those inane comments of yours.

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Talking about jobs and all, the local media stooges have been stunningly quiet about Obama’s remarks this weekend about how successful people really didn’t do it by themselves.

They had help.

The govt did it for them by building roads that NO one else obviously uses, by inventing the internet (Owl Gore anyone?), by keeping underqualified union teachers on payrolls as political favors to teach then successful people how to get that way, blah blah blah.

You see, no one is capable of doing anything on their own in his world. You must be bred, led, and fed till dead by the govt to ever amount to anything.

THAT point of view is just about as un-American as it can get.

Maybe that’s the Kenyan way.

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Headline (CNN) : “Coal mom: If Obama wins, we lose”

“Amanda Sedgmer, mother of five and daughter of coal country, believes that in this presidential election, her way of life is at stake.

“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.”

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/17/us/embed-america-energy-war/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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Bush’s Yale transcripts we’re somehow obtained by New Yorker magazine and leaked.

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BS Aplenty — “Two policies in particular contributed heavily to the residential mortgage debacle: the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977, which pressured private banks to make risky loans the HUD affordable housing goals for FNMA and FHLMC, which caused the GSEs to purchase risky mortgage loans.”

Nope. 100% wrong.

80+% of subprime loans were made by lending institutions not subject to regulation or oversight under the CRA. Those risky loans that you’re complaining about were made by lenders that were NOT subject to the CRA.

Plus, FMNA and FHLMC didn’t touch commercial real estate — which tanked as well.

Sorry, Punkin, but your theory doesn’t hold water.

“Your welcome.”

So are you. Care to try again? (laughing)

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yes, 0311, the filthy-fuel industry really really really REALLY hates Obama.

’specially them Koch brothers.

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Some cons have supported the idea of “individual mandate” for health insurance for a long time — that is, until Our President started supporting it — like Newt Gingrich, Charles Grassley, Orrin Hatch, The Mitt (of course), Richard Lugar and Milton Friedman… just sayin’!

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Did I see another idiot here reference the Bush era, long ago gone and into the past, but always the crutch the Obamans need to prop up their own pathetic performance?

Can you spell out of touch, or shorter still, s-t-u-p-i-d?

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But here SURE ain’t no DAWG !

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Joe mama,

Bottom line is that if all you guys got is some nonsense about past tax returns not yet being released or whether he was the owner vs directly managing Bain capital then Houston you’ve got a problem. Common sense folks don’t think Romney’s past tax returns or whether or not he was actively managing Bain is of any great consequence in the great scheme of things. Could you guys possibly pick anything weaker to run against him on? Geez. Ultimately people are going to be more interested in economic policy and Obama’s dismal economic record then someone’s tax return from 10 years ago. And I suspect even you know that. But whine on libs. Whine on. Its what you guys do best.

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.Obama Administration Outsourced Jobs with Stimulus Funding
By Matt Cover
July 10, 2012

Obama’s 2009 economic stimulus spending law–the $787 billion American Recovery and Reivnestment Act–gave millions of federal dollars to foreign companies or funded domestic companies that built factories in foreign countries or bought foreign products.

For example, there is the North Carolina LED manufacturer Cree Inc. Cree was awarded $39 million through a stimulus-funded tax credit program in January 2010. However, half of the company’s employees are in China and the company opened a manufacturing plant in Huizhou City, China in November 2009, according to an article in the industry publication LEDs Magazine.

DOE is making up to $9 million available over three years for improving the accuracy of solar forecasting to more accurately anticipate changes in solar power production.
According to the same article, Cree CEO Chuck Swodoba said he did not consider Cree Inc. to be run like a completely American company.

“Cree management never runs this company as a US company. We consider Cree to be a global company with local wisdoms,” Swodoba said.

Swodoba also said he would continue expanding into China, adding that Cree would keep creating jobs there because it could take advantage of both China’s human resources and its “state-of-the-art technology.”

“We will continue to invest here [China] for both human talent and the most state-of-the-art technologies,” he said.

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.

Another example of the Obama administration funding foreign companies is a $337 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy’s green energy lending program.

That loan went to California energy firm Sempra Energy for a solar power array in Arizona. However, according to a Feb. 4, 2011 New York Times report, Sempra Energy bought its solar panels from the Chinese firm Suntech. The project, known as Mesquite Solar 1, reportedly used 800,000 of the Chinese solar panels.

Perhaps the best-known example of Obama administration funding of foreign companies is its $500-million loan guarantee to Finnish automaker Fisker Automotive. That loan, part of the Energy Department’s electric vehicle lending program, was made to help Fisker establish a U.S. manufacturing presence.

However, the company never established an American factory, choosing instead to shutter its U.S. operations and continue building cars in Finland

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Hussein:

I already chastized him for the “mixed race” comment. You can’t pick your parents.

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Definition of a “closet” Republican: The Kennedy’s.
Thats right, if you already have yours due to your famalies wealth, you can be all for tax and spend since it sounds p.c. and they can’t ever get to the bottom of your $ reserves! Then, you still have the lifestyle of the alleged “greedy” people…..rich-rich-rich but not self made. those that have WORKED for what they have don’t want to give it ALL away………..

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JHM – stating facts does not make me a racist. My guess is, you are a young black man with a chip on his shoulder. Am I correct?

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as I stated Standard American

dude. That post was FUBAR from the word go.

You should just bow out quietly and hope nobody brings it up again when you show your face in here.

Otherwise, kindly tell me what is un-American and otherworldly about being an “anti-colonialist.” because I was taught in my American History classes that our founding fathers fought against that sorta thing.

And while you’re at it:

There is a whole boatload of problems for children of mixed race parents, some leave them scared [sic] for life.

Christallmighty, you can stop digging that hole any old time.

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“And it’s a good thing, too. We couldn’t take any more of him.”

I dunno. I’ld take the middle years of the W presidency over the worst recovery from a recession in modern U.S. economic history. But then what did you expect when you hired a community organizer with zero meaningful private sector experience and zero executive experience.

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“It isn’t that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much about so much that isn’t important.”

Ronald Reagan

That Reagan quote sure proves itself correct each day on Jay’s blog.

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I still want to know – what does Romney bring to the table?
- tax cuts for the wealthy
- spending cuts that affect the rest of us
- cultish religious background
- tax shelters for his own money
- lower tax rate then I pay
- poor job creation record as governor
- surpasses John Kerry with flip flopping

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Joe Mama and the libs do love to throw that race card they do.

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Dekalb comments:

I gave you my definition skippy.. Now clean up and try again….

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Doom — “Bottom line is that if all you guys got is some nonsense about past tax returns not yet being released or whether he was the owner vs directly managing Bain capital then Houston you’ve got a problem.”

I’ll take that problem. Clearly, the Romney camp thinks it’s a problem, because they’ve been doing a full-court press on TV news shows since Saturday.

“Common sense folks don’t think Romney’s past tax returns or whether or not he was actively managing Bain is of any great consequence in the great scheme of things.”

Guess Romney’s campagn staff aren’t “common sense folks” then.

“Could you guys possibly pick anything weaker to run against him on? Geez. Ultimately people are going to be more interested in economic policy and Obama’s dismal economic record then someone’s tax return from 10 years ago.”

I don’t think so. I think people are interested in how Romney handled his business and personal finances, and I think that’s why his campaign staff is all acting like they’ve got bees in their collective bonnet lately.

“And I suspect even you know that. But whine on libs. Whine on. Its what you guys do best.”

Okay. We will. Leave us to it then, won’t you?

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I agree on life choices, but to turn a blind eye and state being from mixed race parents did not affect Obama is not being truthful.

Sure it affected him. He has said as much in his books. He had a hard time with his identity as a young man. Alot of mixed race children go through the same thing.

In the end it probably makes them stronger.

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No kidding. J. Reb, what kind of criticism were you trying to make by commenting on that? Seriously?

His handle is johnny reb.

Do you really think that guy isnt racist ?

I mean cmon. I live in the real world here.

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J. Reb — “JHM – stating facts does not make me a racist.”

No, but using someone’s parentage as some sort of evidentiary support for your criticism of them does.

“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.

BooOOOOoooOOOOoooOOOO!

Hehehehe.

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carlosgvv

I could say the same about you fruits. You know the three or four regulars that are so far out in left field that only a telescope could see you.

I do thoroughly enjoy making you loons foam at the mouth and howl at the moon… I could understand how hard it is to try and defend the indefensible.. And that’s what Obama is. A complete failure… Along with the dribbling idiot tag team of Harriot Reid and Nancy “Moonbat” Pelosi..

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Joe mama gonna wear out his whiney but but but Romney hasn’t released 10 years of tax returns card. Play it Joe! Play it! We’ll keep playing our “the economy sucks with a community organizer as potus card” since its true and just a tad bit mo impodent than some jobberish about 10 year old tax returns. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

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J. Reb — “I agree on life choices, but to turn a blind eye and state being from mixed race parents did not affect Obama is not being truthful.”

Neither is basing your criticism on it. For crying out loud, it was the FIRST THING YOU SAID in that post.

Sometimes you seem quite well-read, if misguided. Other times, you say clueless crap like that and just blow away my impression of you as intelligent and considered in your posts.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/study-says-obama-tax-proposals-could-cost-700-145037841.html

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Doom — “Joe Mama and the libs do love to throw that race card they do.”

Wasn’t us that threw it. Ask 0311.

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Joe mama gonna wear out his whiney but but but Romney hasn’t released 10 years of tax returns card. Play it Joe! Play it! We’ll keep playing our “the economy sucks with a community organizer as potus card” since its true and just a tad bit mo impodent than some jobberish about 10 year old tax returns. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

A step above gibberish. But not a big one.

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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!!

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“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.

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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?

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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

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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.

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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.

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Looks like Joe Mama is still having problems with his fractions.

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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

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Keep it classy you whiny cons.

Don’t they have to get classy first?

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Sununu is absolutely correct. People all over the world are going to be laughing at us if we re-elect him.

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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.

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‘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?

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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!

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‘Right around the year 2000.’

And they shook their heads in total disbelief in 2004…

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“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.

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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….

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The vetting of Obama not done during the first election

this is getting kind of sad.

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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.

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“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!

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I’ve decided we need to return to the policies of the GWB administration, since that worked out so dandy…

Con logic

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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)

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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.

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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?

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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?

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

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PJ — “Agreed, that was for the women quoting otherwise and the one who posted what she said.”

Understood. And thank you for clarifying.

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I have to disagree with Oblama on someone else building the internet. Al Gore built that!!!!

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Obama is a communist!

“you didn’t build that business….. the state did…”

What a delusional Idiot! (Buffoon)!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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Wonder who O’Bama will claim is at fault for the mess we are in, if he were to win in November?

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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“Maybe if Obama hadn’t spent so many years pretending he wasn’t an American”

Nomination for DUMBEST post of the day.

PERIOD

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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.

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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!

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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

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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…

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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!

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“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.

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“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.

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Who is Frank Marshall Davis?

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OBAMA and the Dems willing to give up our sovereignty to the United Nations concerning out territorial waters..

none but the wingnuttiest of the wingnutty actually saw it that way, of course. Even the Chamber of Commerce thought it was a boneheaded thing to oppose.

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“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…”–Mickey Mouse

Hey Mickey Mouse, you got bring more than that. You sound like a broken record at the Rachel Madcow/Keith Olbermann show…… Oh wait! Keith is out…

Come on Mickey Mouse, I know they taught you more than that down at the Union Hall pool room. You were in the Coast Guard fer godsake.