Mitt Romney and his plan for ‘the little people’ out there

I think you have a typo Jay.
“We’re the party of people who want to get richer”

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Snake Oil salesman and he’s very good at it.

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Republicans are the Party of the rich. They make little or not effort to hide this. Romney’s speech saying “we want to help the poor” was aimed at that part of the electorate too ignorant and locked in fundamentalist Christian ideology to see what the rest of us do.

Unfortunately, it seems most of the Republican electorate falls into this ignorant and blind category and we liberals are the only ones who
see what should be obvious to all.

This religious and ideological blindness is a social and cultural tragedy that threatens to eventually bring our Country down to third world status.

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“The haves, and the have-mores. Heh heh heh.”

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Romney’s speech saying “we want to help the poor” was aimed at that part of the electorate too ignorant and locked in fundamentalist Christian ideology to see what the rest of us do.

This sounds so much like the Evangelical groups who preach that God wants you to be rich.

Carlos, have you met Fly-on-the-Wall? I think you two will get along famously.

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“why, that’s uniquely ‘Merican. Heh heh heh.”

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Maybe Romney could run for president of Amway.

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“Ah’m for Mitt Romney. Heh heh heh.”

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“Let’s overlook the condescension in Romney’s description…..”

no let’s not.

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As opposed to Obama who would tell the staff that it was only by government’s grace that they even have plates and glasses to serve people.

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“the change would force some 300,000 children out of the free-lunch program at school. … ’cause, ya know, if you can’t afford it, you don’t need it; or deserve it.”

well, then maybe the parents should retroactively decide to NOT have kids …

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“As opposed to Obama who would tell the staff that it was only by government’s grace that they even have plates and glasses to serve people.”

yes. because that’s EXACTLY What he has said in the past

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So, tell us libs…how many years on government assistance does it take for somebody to stop being poor?

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because that’s EXACTLY What he has said in the past

right after he promised that things would be “a heck of a lot better.” And ponies.

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the senate repubs blocked campaign financial disclosure…..are they basically pond scum or what?

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And again, I apologize to those who didn’t get the riches and perfection they weren’t promised by the guy they didn’t vote for. Truly, this must be a private hell most of us can scarcely imagine.

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“So, tell us libs…how many years on government assistance does it take for somebody to stop being poor?”

how about you tell us … how many MONTHS WITHOUT government assistance until families without a job and a home starve?

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oh, THAT’S right … churches will pick up ALL the slack … I forgot …

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Anyone else think it is a problem that Mitt thinks the waitstaff is middle class? Makes me wonder if Mitt has ever seen a poor person in real life…

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Also the party of Pro life, traditional marriage, moral values, pro guns, freedom , patriotism, exceptionalism, The Family unit…………………….way more things than money.

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McCain saw tax returns, then picked Palin — what does that say ?

Me likee this line of attack. More, please.

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“It’s tough being middle class in America right now,” Romney said. “The waiters and waitresses that come in and out of this room and offer us refreshments, they’re not having a good year FORTY YEAR RUN. The people of the middle class of America are really struggling.”

Yeah, no shiite, Mr. tax dodging, union-busting, wage crushing, welfare beneficiary, 1%er.

Like you would know. Or care.

And if you had the first iota of moral courage you would address the irrefutable fact that for four straight decades the working families in this country have gotten absolutely hammered, yet all you can talk about is how 2012 is a tough year???

But you won’t. You never will.

You’re too busy being a good little Republican, just like all of the others in your party in desperate need of spinal and scrotal implants…

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go JamVet … go JamVet … go JamVet … (it’s your birthday) … go JamVet …

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Oh the venom in the liberals is flowing today….They see the end coming.

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what dB said @8:50

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“LIsten to a successful man with a plan…”

Seriously? This is the rebuttal of someone who has not paid attention to one thing other than the GOP strategy that Obama = equals evil socialist and must be replaced.
The only plan that Mitt has is “I will do all things good, because Obama is bad, I will do opposite of Obama, because Obama is bad”

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They see the end coming.

Yep. And it can’t come soon enough to suit me, buddy boy.

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Barry really shouldn’t be asking anyone to “show him” any documentation. There’s a lot about the shill-in-chief that America will never know.

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Steve Atl 8:55-

But, but, it’s all Bush’s fault!

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Jay, I think we can finally answer George Will’s question of what Mitt was doing hanging out with “bloviating ignoramus” Donald Trump a little while ago: He is one himself.

Well, it’s either that or he’s just plain mean, in which case he’s just a “bloviating” pompus a$$!

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Look closely…

4) US debt under Obama is off the charts

that’s reaching, but then…

5) Obama is a divider.

this is where they’re running out of actual talking points, and reverting to AM talk radio fumes.

Best to stick to “too many are out of work.” that’s a legitimate knock, if you’re too stupid to understand that a Gooper congress is mostly responsible for cutting off the spending we’ve needed for two years to get people back to work.

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Jay well said! A dose of “REALITY” goes a long way!! Mitt Romney seems to be living in a fantasy world and so are his followers!!

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Now you see why Romney lets other people do his talking. He is clueless. The only reason he is running is because the Republican Party couldn’t get out of its own way. I am surprised he even noticed the waiting employees. When the debates come the biggest problem Obama will have is blowing short putts. Romney is so wide open O may be so shocked he blows it.

One of the things I noticed about Romney in his primary debates was he had no idea what his superpac ads were saying. When questioned about negative ads he would blow it off as someone else’s work not his but he would check into it. Not too unlike how he is handling Bain. I was not in charge during that period despite the name being on the door, I was running the Olympics, I am not responsible. Is this the kind of president we want? Not responsible, excuses, letting other people do his talking, fight his fights, but if something totally by chance comes good out of any of this confusion he take credit or collects his money. How much money did he collect during this irresponsible time of Bain, 20 million a year. He is everything wrong with America. I take the money but I am not responsible for the results. I can’t wait for the debates.

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When you look at Romney and see what he did at Bain…… You have the Movie Wall Street all over again…….

Bain bought up companies loaded them with debt, part of which was payments to Bian, then bankrupted them for profit, and screw the American Worker.

No he is not for American’s, but for the few rich and himself.

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So Mitt’s gonna’ try to change the subject by announcing a Veep this week.

I must admit that I look forward to the public vetting of that
poor person.

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when I lost my job a couple years ago.. I started mowing lawns.. now my landscaping business clears over $ 50 K.. wife makes $40 in 35 hours a week at Out Back.. get off this Blog and GET to WORK !!

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So, now it has come down to the fact that if we don’t keep subsidizing the poor, they will starve to death. And their kids will get no lunch and they will certainly starve. Then if we don’t give them EBT cards, they can’t get manicures, lottery tickets, ammo for their guns, booze and cash from the ATM machine to subsidize their needs. And if we don’t continue to subsidize their housing, like we have done for the last 50 years, they will be stuck without a roof over their heads. And if we don’t provide Aid to Dependent Children, a crisis will occur.
This has become a culture of dependency that liberals just have to perpetuate. Since 1964, we have been led to believe that those without must receive from those that have or they will not survive. What a crock!! Hell, the black family was better off in the 1920’s with discrimination looming over their heads than they are now. 70% of children born out of wedlock. No family to speak of. No supervision of the thugs that roam Atlanta and Macon GA at will, shooting most anyone they please. And most are recipients of this culture that you are so proud of. Bookman, you are as full of it as always, but today, perhaps even more. When will this dependency end? This has become the norm that liberals seem to be satisfied with and certainly blame the Republican party for not being willing to perpetuate. This is insane.

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most of these libs on here al day are collecting Unemployment / Disability GET TO WORK !!

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kayker 71 – “Hell, the black family was better off in the 1920’s with discrimination looming over their heads than they are now.”

That has got to be the most moronic statement of all time.

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Butch@9:04

Nice post.

Also “I could care less about Romneys taxes or Obamas grades”

Obama could give all his grades from kindergarten and the Right would still not vote for him. Romney could release all his tax returns since he was 18 and the Left still wouldn’t vote for him. So why do they spend all day here asking for them?

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Steve Atl

July 17th, 2012
8:55 am
Reasons NOT to vote for Romney…

1) Historically, Republicans have been behind every major economic DECLINE in the US
2) Republicans don’t want health care reform.
3) Gas prices have always risen under Republican leadership
4) US debt under Republicans is off the charts….starting from Ronald Reagan
5) Republican Party is the party of “rich,white guys” who can”t relate to the changig American dynamic.
6) Romney wants to CUT Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps while giving the rich another $1250K tax break.
7) Romney wants to return the nation to Bush-era economic tactics…that got us into the bind that we’re in now.
8. Romney doesn’t want to face the fact that the Affordable Care Act is designed from MassCare….which ROMNEY designed…AND ADVOCATED for as a national plan
9) Romney is using Bush’s foreign policy team as advisors
10) Romney won’t release his tax returns to the American public as his father did….but when he showed his returns to the McCain campaign, McCain chose Sarah Palin…..which lends credence to the idea that Romney has something to HIDE!
11) Romney can’t relate to the American populace as a whole…….
12) Romney is pandering to the least in the base rather than espousing a policy that can ATTRACT a wider swatch of the constituency….

That’s MORE than enough NOT to vote for Romney…………….

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Hey Jay, no such thing as a free lunch.

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Then if we don’t give them EBT cards, they can’t get manicures, lottery tickets, ammo for their guns, booze and cash from the ATM machine to subsidize their needs.

When called out on this and many other remarks, kayaker admits that he’s full of pooh yet he continues to regurgitate. And by the way, that would be the poor Republicans wanting to get rich that would be buying the ammo for their guns, so they can stand their ground most likely.

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Tax returns equal school transcripts? huh?
An accountant laughs in your general direction.

bu..bu..bu..Heinz ketchup? or something

and “all these accusations are piffle..”

that’s it, cons? at 100 days before the election?
mon, when the other 80% outside the blogosphere starts
paying attention after Sept, Little Lord Fauntleroy is going
down faster than a kardashian on a rich guy.

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Butch, 9:08.

These are not my words. These are the words of Booker T. Washington in his book “Up from Slavery”. Have you read it, Butch? If not, you ought to.

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kayaker, quit yakking off please.

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Booker T Washington who died in fricking 1915???

sweetjeebus.

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or did he see 1920 and then retroactively die???

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This has become a culture of dependency that liberals just have to perpetuate.

Really you mean like what the Southern Company got from the government to create the new Nuclear Plant ?

Or what Halliburton got from the government with cost plus contracts ?

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46 percent of Mississippi Republicans not only oppose interracial marriage but believe it should be legally banned.

http://racerelations.about.com/b/2011/04/10/new-poll-finds-mississippi-republicans-oppose-interracial-marriage.htm

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And for all you Tax the Rich Moonbats, the latest calculations show the additional taxes on those making in excess of $250K would fund the government for about 8 days.

It’s political propoganda, not an answer to any of our challenges.

As much as Liberals don’t like it, the only way to fix the challenges is to cut spending.

And, you would be surprised how a reduced government check provides an incintive to work.

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the quote in its entirety:

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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kayaker 71

July 17th, 2012
9:04 am
“Hell, the black family was better off in the 1920’s with discrimination looming over their heads than they are now”

Have you ever thought that it was CONSERVATIVES and certain aspects of conservative systems that led to the decline of the black family?? In the ’20s, black males were HUNG by conservatives; now, black males are incarcerated at a rate 4 times greater than white males (the legal system)! Black men are UNEMPLOYED at double the rate of white men (the job market)! Those two CONSERVATIVE systems led to more single women-led families than any other issue….which led to the expansion of the welfare state!! Remember when it was ILLEGAL to educate blacks….now the decline in public education adversely affects ALL minorities……

Conservative systems……conservative applications…..conservative decline……

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Is this the guy the blogger talked about…….

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African-American educator

Perhaps it is one of his current friends with the same name ?

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Yeh, right Johnny Reb. The only economist to agree with that premise would be Grover Norquist!

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Yeh, right Johnny Reb. The only economist to agree with that premise would be Grover Norquist!

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Independent voter – get real. We’re working just like you. Where the heck do you get that info?

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so Obama is now 1/32 Cherokee too?

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“Then if we don’t give them EBT cards, they can’t get manicures, lottery tickets, ammo for their guns, booze and cash from the ATM machine to subsidize their needs.”

Why does the kayaker hate the second amendment so much???

Also the Yaker left tattoos, gold teeth and iPhones off the list…

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How many visits has Obama made to Mississippi to check on his “people” ? Truth be known, rednecks and poor blacks ain’t on his radar………..Why just look at their plight under his wonderful leadership in 3 1/2 years.

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“BLAME SOMEONE ELSE, AND ASK THEM TO PAY FOR MAKING IT RIGHT.”

As opposed to the George W Bush methodology which is to leave a big, unfunded, steaming pile of poo in the middle of the floor and get the heck out of there…

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If Romney ever deigns to release his tax returns, dollars to donuts there will be years he paid ZERO income tax and possibly some wherein he received a refund.

All hail the new aristocracy.

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Ho hum… More ridiculous tripe from Jay…… LOL… I realize that you fruits on the left are in somewhat of a tizzy right now.. You just can’t seem to understand why the polls aren’t moving with all the negative ads about Romney… It’s because most folks take it for what it is.. Smoke and mirrors to cover for Obama’s failed policies… Think about it… Obama has forced more people out of the middle class in to gubmint dependency… As a direct result of his policies… Small business’s are not going to hire until they see how Obamacare will effect them… They will not hire until they are assured how much of a tax burden they will have… Its a fact Republicans are pro business.. Middle America see’s that and they realize that’s where the jobs are…

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98% of Mississippi Republicans support marriage between First Cousins.

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johnny reb, nice moniker, the wealthy have made more gains since the 2007-8 debacle, and i’d bet their sons and daughters are not serving in the military, so they need to pay a little more but maybe raise the thresold to make sure small business owners not hurt.

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“the quote in its entirety:”

Yes I’ve read the entire quote before I posted my comment. Your point?

Obama’s made bonehead comment/decision after bonehead comment/decision the past month or so. Job numbers aren’t even keeping up w/ the population. And Romney? Just no.

Nobody’s winning in November (I mean voters). So sad….

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“If Romney ever deigns to release his tax returns, dollars to donuts there will be years he paid ZERO income tax and possibly some wherein he received a refund.”

So what? Romney never held an office that could make changes to the Federal Tax code. Even Warren Buffett said Romney would be a fool to pay more taxes than he was obligated to.

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Are YOU a registered voter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP6Mcvgdrtg

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zeke – check this out, then tell me how the Moonbat claim the rich don’t pay their fair share holds water?

http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/how-your-income-stacks-up.html

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Asked if he thought choosing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — who describes herself as “pro-choice” — as Romney’s vice presidential pick would be a mistake, Santorum thought it would make a Republican victory less likely, “this is non-negotiable for a vice presidential pick.”

Santorum piled on the fiery comments, comparing Obama to Italy’s former dictator Benito Mussolini and urging Romney to attack Obama’s “imperial presidency” on the stump.

Well the Repub’s continue to shoot themselves in the foot !

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I assume AJC management is aware that Jay’s Blog is nothing more than a campaign site for Obama.

But then ………. that’s what makes it a liberal newspaper.

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“Difference being, Warren says the rich can afford to pay more while Mitt promises to cut his taxes even more if elected.”

Nice deflection, that has nothing to do with PAST tax returns in the post I responded to.

Having said that I agree with your point looking forward.

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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.

Speaking or moronic statements

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Steve and fake liberal dude: If you don’t see how the optics of Romney not paying taxes in a given year will play out with the 10% – 15% of the electorate that will actually decide this election, you are too far gone for any substantive debate.

Seeing as that’s the case here’s some red meat for you:

Romney hiding behind Teresa Heinz-Kerry skirts proves he is a Nancy-boy.
It’s all Bushes fault.
Obamacare will save money over time.

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Bain…Bain…Bain

Bill O’Reilly hit the nail on the head last night comparing Obama’s attack on Mitt and Bain Capital versus Obama’s embrace of Jeffry Immelt and GE.

GE has over 300K employees with less than half in the USA.

GE has been the benefactor of government loans and green energy subsidizes.

GE keeps the profits they make from overseas operations overseas, it does not come back to benefit Americans.

GE paid zero federal income tax in 2010.

Obama choose Immelt to head a committee on increasing employment. Was that increase in Europe/China?

Point being, the whole attack on Mitt is BS. Who has taken more jobs overseas? Mitt or GE? Who is Obama’s buddy?

Moonbats – grow up.

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“So, tell us libs…how many years on government assistance does it take for somebody to stop being poor?”

The answer is…78.2 years.

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Peadawg: So we have a choice between Romney, who comes off as condescending, flip flopper, and a total hypocrite, and Obama, who lately has weekly bonehead quotes like this gem: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Out of the entire United States…these guys are the best we could come up with. Really?

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Sigh! Been my thought more than once this election cycle.

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JohnnyReb@9:41

Stomping of feet and crying “but..but..that’s not the same thing” in 3-2-1

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“Prominent business groups condemn President Obama for saying, ‘you didn’t build that,’ in speech suggesting business owners owe their success to government investment.”

Yep …………… he’s a socialist if there ever was one and if the truth be known worse.

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What is the deal on Romney and the mom jeans ? Is he trying to look more “common” or “cool”, the dude is play dough.

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‘without the government funding the democrats cannot pay for all their programs’

Like the military…

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Romney will wipe out the poor and middle class by eliminating all Goverment support. Food stamps for the poor, gone. health care everybody, gone. public education for the poor and the middle class, gone. This guy has people around him who don’t know how to run a country and are hell bent and determined to crush everybody but the rich…..

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I hate rich people!!! Except on payday!

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Kayaker

Are you sure that was Booker T Washington and not Freddie “Boom Boom” Washington from Welcome Back Carter?

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I hate rich people!!! Except on payday!

talk about out of touch.

I think it’s safe to say that those who genuinely hate rich people ESPECIALLY hate them on payday.

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Hey Repubs – Time to wake up – no tax returns – no nomination. It is not too late. How did that 401 K grow so enormously???????????????

”””””””””””’The most mysterious of the unexplained mysteries about Mitt Romney’s considerable wealth is how he was able to amass between $21 million and $102 million in his individual retirement account during the 15 years he was at Bain Capital LLC.

How did he do it, given the relatively small amounts that the law permits to be contributed to such a plan on an annual basis? Romney has not explained this conundrum, and seeing as he wants to become president, he would be wise to start talking — if for no other reason than there might be many Americans who would like to emulate what he did. “”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”

Huffington Post July 15 2012

You Repubs capable of pulling that off? A little government loophole or plain old tax fraud on the value of the investments put in it? Or is that just something the little people can’t do because of Obozo?

“”"”"

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also, Willy @ 9.49–

“In every one of those little stucco boxes there’s some poor b@stard who’s never free except when he’s fast asleep and dreaming that he’s got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.”
–George Orwell

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Erwin’s cat

July 17th, 2012
9:39 am
“‘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.’ Speaking of moronic statements.”

Not quite moronic….quite ACCURATE!! Remember..the Internet was created by DARPA…and expanded upon when commercial applications were developed; the Interstate Highway System was developed by the government for the expeditious movement of military personnel…but expanded upon when commercial applicatons were developed; TANG and freeze-dried foods were developed by NASA….but the technology was expanded upon by General Mills for commercial use!!

Better think again…….

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I like the way the Romney campaign is running… Yes many Republican pundits are criticizing them for not being more forceful but that’s the way they ran their primary campaign… Sit back and let the Oblama campaign spend spend spend to no avail. The needle hasn’t moving and they’ve reportedly spent $100 million dollars the last 3 weeks on negative campaign ads. Wait till September and October and unleash the beast… LOL… Just like 1979 all over again with an epic landslide….

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One in five people in Mississippi — again including much of that wait staff, I’d suspect — have no health insurance.

Mississippi, dead last.

Health Care is Worst Where Republicans Poll Best
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/health-care-worst-where-republicans-poll-best

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Has Steve Miller sued him for playing “Take The Money And Run” at
campaign rallies yet?

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A little government loophole or plain old tax fraud on the value of the investments put in it?

I think the former is a) most likely, and b) equally if not MORE damning than the latter, because it only reinforces the notion that the system is rigged to favor those who’ve already go theirs.

There’d be a lot of voters who could forgive outright fraud. And before y’all get shocked,shocked at that… who hasn’t ever, in their lives, fudged some deduction (”I had a receipt somewhere, I’ll just guess what that contribution was…”) or maybe forgot to include some income that’d be a PITA to bother reporting?

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You don’t say – 9:50 – since he went radio silent after being called out on it, I wouldn’t hold my breath for a response.

although that is funny.

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stands for decibels (SfBA) :

You’ll never admit it because you are probably one yourself.

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stands – 8:43

Of course, you must know that, sometimes, they really ARE out to get you.

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USinUK – “I wouldn’t hold my breath for a response.”

I know, I can see k71 now hopelessly scouring the internet for just a shred of evidence to back up his comments. Some one needs to tell him not to take it so hard, we all end up with our head up our a$$ at one time or another.

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The real entertainment value on Jay’s blog is reading you people defending this guy everyday. If you base grading a president by past ones down through history, the guys gets an F. ” it could of been worse if not for me” is not much to hang your hat on. He;s really just over matched by the job with advisers around him that are clueless other than “making it right” with the current power to do it.

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Oh and watch John Stewart from last night. He also gives insight into what a great business man he is/was. The tape of Romney explaining what a blind trust is is priceless. He stated that he didn’t do anything to influence his investments…and then contradicted himself..twice. He then said he did nothing. So a business man who does nothing is really the person I want to run this country…right?

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“but Obama believes in giving away fish rather than teaching people to fish”

Stuff and nonsense.

Balderdash.

Piffle.

President Obama knows (like all wise folks) that while learning to fish one still needs to eat to stay alive.

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K71

Appears you super sized that WHOPPER meal..

Not sure If I would have said all that

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Granny:

Most people I see out there need to be on a diet !

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Jay, I grew up in poverty as the government would define it but I didn’t know it at the time. I never heard my parents complain about what someone else owned whether they earned it or not. We never accepted government hand outs although we would have qualified. I don’t get your line of reasoning with regard to your view of Romney and I don’t see the “condescension” that you mention. It seems that it’s fine for a liberal democrat to be successful but not for a republican. Liberals didn’t have an issue with John Kerry’s wealth in ‘04. This country is upside down right now. We voted a president in office who had zero experience and now we’re supposed to believe that Romney isn’t the better choice because he’s been too successful? I don’t think the way you do and I’m thankful for that.

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independent thinker:

Do you know the difference between tax avoidance and tax fraud?

One is legal ………… the other isn’t.

Everytime you take a smart deduction on your return you are committing tax AVOIDANCE !

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The employee working in the ballroom is paid to do a job. He or she does that job, it is black and white, drink ordered, drink delivered, job done. It seems to me he or she has more business lecturing Romney about such matters than Romney lecturing them. Romney derives his satisfaction making money, these employees get their satisfaction completed the job they were paid to do. Seems we could use more of the job completion and less of the money grabbing and if I was there I think I would have told the bore exactly that. Romney is the problem not the answer!

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straitroad – “now we’re supposed to believe that Romney isn’t the better choice because he’s been too successful?”

No, you’re supposed to accept the fact that Romney sucks plain and simple, and that he drags a load of BS behind him that could fertilize the Sinai. John Huntsman was a superior candidate in every way, but unfortunately, the party faithful decided that the man who lost to McCain who eventually lost to Obama was going to be their favorite draft pick.

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Granny, you are wrong about the fish give away. If he cared about people getting off free fish, he would approve of school voucher choice…………..But we can;t have that. a well educated kid might turn out to vote something other that a life sitting on a dirty couch on a front porch in Sec 8 housing waiting on the next fish delivery.

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I waited tables a long time ago: Nothing wrong with that. It helped me pay my own way through school and if I’d been satisfied with being a waiter, I’d still be a waiter. Bookman’s righteousness gives me a headache

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Reasons to vote for Romney

5) Obama is a divider
Romney will be the Multiplier. (just multiply the Misery Index by 2 or 3)

7) Obama appoints Immelt as his Jobs Czar who is the poster child for outsourcing.

Romney will replace him with 2 poster Adults, Hubbard of Columbia U, and Mankiw of Harvard.
Both recycled Outsourcers from Bush 43.

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Has 50+ years of social spending expansion (including Social Security/Medicare and Medicaid) really worked to improve the lot of average (and particularly poor) people in this country? Would be nice to have someone create one of those nifty charts that tells us how the trillions and trillions of borrowing has helped those in need by relieving the chronic problems in our society. There are certainly plenty statistics of how things have become worse, so will the standard Dem fair of “more and more of the same” help?

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willard helping the middle class is the biggest fairy tale this cycle.

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Amen, Straitroad…

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Has 50+ years of social spending expansion (including Social Security/Medicare and Medicaid) really worked to improve the lot of average (and particularly poor) people in this country?

Yes.

(THBAEOSATSQ.)

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Damn Jay, I can’t believe you did this piece on a high-price fundraiser in Jackson, MS…and, tone-deaf Mitt even mentioned the waiters and waitresses…and nobody here referred to em as THE HELP. And if Mitt thinks that any of them, The Help, blame Obama for the economy’s problems, then he’s just as off-key as he sounds singing America The Beautiful. By the way, I hope to hell they served chocolate pie at that event…nothing else could have been more appropriate.

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Stimulus 1 and 2 have not worked and perhaps have had a negative effect on the economy.

Where “worked” would equal “all the nasty stuff we don’t like has been auto-magically made to go ‘poof’ and we now all have ponies!”

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All I hear Jay is “boo-hoo, wa-wa-wa-” You sound like a little girl,,”Sally has a better doll than me, I hate her” Disliking people b/c they have more money than you, really? It’s gonna be a long hard life for you if that’s how you feel. Quit complainig and pandering to a bunch of poor hands-out saps that are just upset someone has outperformed them in the game of life.

wealth envy=misguided & dumb

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A majority of America doesn’t want the real facts. This leaves what we got. I dealt you could go into the darkest most uneducated jungles or caves and come out with more rubbish than what we Americans subscribe to. It is almost a national passage to not care about the truth any more. The great thing about the truth is doesn’t go away just because we have lost interest. It is outside your door conducting the real world and like the poor it will always be with us.

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Cynthia Tucker needs someone to rub her feet

Just tell me when and where. I am there!

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I perceive no condescension in Mr. Romney’s plain talk, although I understand that the PC Police and the Perpetually Offended disagree. The leftists have yet to grasp that “activist” government is the enemy of job growth and economic progress. But, if your intention is to keep the little people in their place, and to preserve the power of the overlords, something like Obama’s programs make sense.

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If people spend their whole life trying to qualify for a free luch programs and welfare chacks and food stamp cards and relief form this and relief from that, all they will ever be is low to middle class at best. The rest of us strive for more, take chances, invest in ourselves, stay our of trouble, avoid spending on junk we don’t need or can’t afford, respect others and ourselves, don’t have too many kids and we live much better lives. Too many people are brainwashed into thinking the govt owes them more, always more. Thye’ll never break these shackles as long as they keep voting for wealth evnying, class warefare politicians who in theend keep them down like dumb little sheep.

I’m glad you support this Jay, you’ll be on the govt dole soon as well.

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Mitt’s next speech will highlight how this is Obama’s fault.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/17/bernanke-could-signal-fed-next-step-in-hill-testimony/

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“We have Democrats now that no matter if they benefit in any way from other people’s money they still want other people to have less. Just for spite Democrats actually want other people to have less. That is sickening…”

Wall Street now are Democrats I had no idea.

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“Of course you Repubs do not want Obama and the IRS to allow the rich to commit tax fraud?”

What exactly has Mittie boy done illegal? You “CNN crack heads” are hilarious. And how soon it is forgotten that Obozo’s boys are criminals: Geitner, Ron Kirk, Nancy Killefer, Bill Richardson, etc., etc.

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JohnnyReb

July 17th, 2012
10:34 am

You do realize that oppostition to this is as misguided as believing GOP Leadership has your best interests at heart, right?

You understand that the US Navy and Coast Guard and Merchant Marines are in favor of this, right?

You understand that your knee-jerk reaction is based purely on you not understanding what is going on here, right?

Sheesh…

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Mitt received his college degree in sophistry.

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dB – 10:41 – unfortunately, more people were taken out by his advice than were helped by it

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I think it’s time for The Mitt to get behind the “living wage” proposals that have been voted down all these years… maybe then those waiters may have a reason to listen to how the GOP “cares” about them.

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I love how Democrats think families making 250K and higher aren’t “hard working” Americans.

Do they realize how incredibly stupid that makes them look?

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“its funny now, but will become more & more unhinged
i believe November is gonna push the wingnuts over the edge”

comparable to the 2010 elections pushing you guys over the edge?

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Can the entire GOP retroactively retire now?

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unfortunately, more people were taken out by his advice than were helped by it

yeah, ya think?

Greenspan also said U.S. household finances appeared generally sound, despite rising debt levels and bankruptcy filings. Low interest rates and surging home prices have given consumers flexibility to manage debt, he said.

“Overall, the household sector seems to be in good shape,” Greenspan said.

So those nice people who seem incredibly motivated to give you an ARM on that big house that seemed out of your league? the Chairman himself says it’s smart. Let’s do it.

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(and no, I wasn’t an ARM-twistee, myself.)

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July 17th, 2012
10:09 am
Granny:

Most people I see out there need to be on a diet !

Well….

Huckabee managed it. Christie will die early if he doesn’t and
Trump is looking chunky.

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“So those nice people who seem incredibly motivated to give you an ARM on that big house that seemed out of your league? the Chairman himself says it’s smart. Let’s do it.”

and let’s not forget, it was the esteemed chairman who said that banks should come up with more “creative” mortgage products … and we see how well THAT turned out.

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I’m a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with…cause we’re smart and they are not

July 17th, 2012
10:16 am
Granny, you are wrong about the fish give away. If he cared about people getting off free fish, he would approve of school voucher choice…………..But we can;t have that. a well educated kid might turn out to vote something other that a life sitting on a dirty couch on a front porch in Sec 8 housing waiting on the next fish delivery.

Utter Nonsense.

Gutting the public school system would be such an incerdibly stupid thing to do.

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Recon

How long were you subjected to the rigors of
combat and do you need
assistance with subsequent
problems?

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Mitt Romney is a draft dodger.

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Mitt Romney is for universal Healtcare and 50 abortions.

I think you meant $50 abortions.

(Or maybe you were thinking about 72 virgins, but that’s the wrong belief system, methinks.)

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Mitt Romney has insisted that he gave up all control of Bain Capital in February of 1999, right before the company invested in firms that sent jobs overseas and laid off thousands of workers. But on Monday, Romney’s senior adviser couldn’t say who was running the company in his absence. “You should check with Bain, but it wasn’t Mitt Romney,” Eric Fehrnstrom told Reuters’ Sam Youngman. Romney claims to have turned over day to day management of Bain to a management team after he left for the Olympics, though the company continued to list Romney as its CEO well into 2002.

What a genius…. he does not know who ran his company while he was taking a salary for doing the same? I am sure he has a dirty couch in his son’s unfinished basement where he lived.

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$50.00

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Granny:

You forgot Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnel ………. to name a few.

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To be fair, retroactive abortions were $75.

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Mitt Romney wants to be prsident so he can do what bushie did , rape the country.

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independent thinker:

If your “cats” are part of a breeding business from which you earn income you probably can. Or ……………… work harder and get some horses.

In any case, quit being jealous of the rich. I am middle class but I wish there were a million more millionaires …………….. that would only make it better for the country.

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Little People have a plan for
Mitt Romney in place since
2008.

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Tax returns = Mitts Waterloo…..lmao..

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More poor people equals more Democrats. Obama has a smile.

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If Mitts has so much money why does he want to be President?

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They couldn’t shake this with the Condi Rice deflection Friday, sooo..
watch – here it comes – this week on wingnut radio & teevee –
anger-porn gold –

a) the gestapo, gestapo, gestapo (repeat) wants his taxes!
b) Abolish the IRS!

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Headlines:

“IRATE CABBIES SHUT DOWN LONDON”

” Cops pulled off beats for Games security duty…”

It’s hard to imagine a worse Olympics than Atlanta but let’s give London a chance.

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lovelyliz:

Is that why heaven’s streets are pure gold ?

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Jay and his band of liberal followers have their “particular way of showing it” also.

Let’s call it for what it is. Low class, low character, and the Democrat way.

Can’t campaign on the merits of Obama’s record. Can’t use hollow words like Hope & Change anymore. Can’t brag about employment being under a whopping 8 percent. Can’t justify not balancing a budget in 3 years. Can’t justify spending more money than all of the past presidents collectively. Can’t justify why Obama won’t release any of his sealed personal records. Can’t explain why they oppose capitalism. Can’t explain why their empty suit leader’s popularity numbers are in the toilet.

Based on the above demerits, the only thing left for the liberal establishment to do is character assassination, foment action of class warfare, and low class misinformation.

When Obama unseals his personal records Romney should let you hypocrites look at his tax returns. When Obama stops his never ending pandering fund raisers Romney will will do the same.
When Obama explains his Chicago house buying deal with an indicted fund raiser Romney will explain his off shore investing.
When Obama stops eating dogs Romney will stop putting his dog on the family car roof.

You people are pathetic in your character and your methods of operating. You go out and get an unknown liberal radical elected for president. He has no job skills in the world of reality. He was elected to the Senate by means of Chicago corruption. He chooses a VP because the fool said that Obama was clean and well spoken. He gets to the Senate and votes “present” 85 percent of the time. His past associates are radicals, racists, convicted felons, academia elitists, and union thugs. His last presidential campaign was handled by the convicted ACORN. And his administration is filled with left wing kooks in energy, justice, labor, and treasury.

With that said, no wonder his experience and leadership is the result of a country in such bad shape. He has nothing. You have nothing.

His only skills, one might say, is that he is “present” in his every day on the job. Your skills, one might say, is that low class attacks and low character accusations are your only measure.

Shameful and disgusting.

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Where’s Orly hanging out these days.

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“If Mitts has so much money why does he want to be President?”

Bushs Fault– great question! Why exactly does The Mitt want to be Prez, other than to stuff his and his pals’ coffers with more $$$$$$$$…

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scout

Why so cynical? I like his work and the passion of his views…

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And Donovan admits in his own unique way that Romney cannot campaign on his merits.

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Let’s just take one little line out of Donovan’s post @ 11.11:

Can’t justify not balancing a budget in 3 years.

Can you please explain how a McCain/Palin administration would’ve got us to a balanced budget in 3 years, had they taken office in Jan. 2009?

I ask this virtually every time some guy cries about our debt. I am still waiting to hear how the 2008 alternative would’ve played out with a lower debt load.

So go ahead, Donovan. Enlighten me.

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If Mitts has so much money why does he want to be President?

That is a great question , i agree, Goldie.

It’s one of many questions he just refuses to answer.

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donovan

Geez, you need to get your hemaroids nipped and tucked, sour is not a good place…

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Sheldon needs to funnel some more of that Macau money to MittPac. He needs all the diversions that money can buy.

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Woodstock Mike – “Mitt Romney has provided a great living for hundreds and hundreds of families over the years that worked for his companies…

Mitt Romney has given more money back to his community and to charities than Obama has ever made in his life…”

So has John Hunstman, plus he is experience in dealing with China, and has no baggage to speak of and no record of flip flopping like Mitt. And yet, you went with the third string option.

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“You people are pathetic in your character and your methods of operating.”

Donovan– “you people”??? Are you just another angry white man who’s been so discriminated against for so long and you just can’t stand “you people” who get out and vote for someone you spend 24/7 hating hating hating???

I hope you find some medication for your problem Dude!

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1811

I’m ok with your opinion, I like him and think he is on message with things that need to be said…

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Jay’s MYTH: There are no “little people”……. today’s divergence from “The Great Divider” (Oblama) – CLASS WARFARE. This election is about the economy, unemployment and this alarming Fed debt. Obama wants to create smoke and mirrors. Sex Warfare/ Race Warfare/ Age Warfare/ Victim Warfare/ Class Warfare, etc, etc., etc., – talk a bout ANY thing but the economy , an Oblama loser. And now I knight Jay “The Great Enabler”. He is a strong and faithful member of the smokescreen for Oblama.

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I want to retroactively unretire and get $100,000 a year in unretirement pay. Oops. What’s that. I can get $100,000 per year in back pay by retroactively retiring. Well that’s even better.

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Think about what George Bush Jr did for America…..

Bankrupt the US, and create wealth for a few…..Halliburton and the War industry, and guys who bankrupted American companies like Mitt.

This is what the Republican’s bring to the table.

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Obama informed us over the weekend that there is no such thing as a self made man in America. The Government was responsible for the success of all small businesses. Apparantly the Axelrod talking point was that the financial services industry needs more regulation as reflected in Jay’s weekend column. The “Volker rule” which is the portion of the Dodd-Frank act added by Obama to regulate propriertary trading goes into effect on July 21st. The only problem is that this piece of legislation, written when the Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate, has not filled in the blanks on how the rule is supposed to work. Obama has had two years to make sure that the details were in place, yet next week, evil empires like Coca-Cola will have no idea what taxes, rules ,and regulations will apply to their hedges of purchases of sugar and vanilla beans. In the meantime, last week the parents of a 15 year old African American boy turned him into the police after seeing his picture on WSB. He had kidnapped a guy in Grant Park at gunpoint and was photographed at an ATM forcing the victim to remove money. I guess Obama would tell that young man that his best chance of fulfilling dreams in the future lies in Government assistance because no one in America can achieve success without it. In this case government assistance must mean prison. Teenage African American unemployment is currently at 39.3%. Thanks Obama, you are doing a fine job.

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Oh fer crying out loud, UK…. if Scout read it in some fearmail, it must be true. The fearmail never lies…. I mean its not like you have actual experience and information that contradicts fearmail.

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Let’s balance this, shall we…
“What’s perhaps more startling—and ironic, given the Obama campaign’s frequent bashing of Mitt Romney’s private equity record—is that the Obama Administration is keen on bringing back a similar approach that led to disasters like L Capital. It’s launching two new funds of $1 billion each that put money into early-stage companies, in concert with private funds. Except this time the government gets no potential upside.”

Read about it here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/07/17/barack-obamas-2-billion-investment-fund/?partner=yahootix

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To say that Romney is a tax cheater is like calling Kerry the same when he moved his yacht to another state to avoid taxes.

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Most of drudgey is wishful thinking.

President Obama by 10 again.

Brace yourselves for this inevitable fact cons.

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Jm – “So let’s hope you’re intellectually honest and don’t criticize romney’s tax strategies or tax returns or offshore accounts”

I haven’t criticized him yet. However, I would be curious as to how he got $100,000,000 into an IRA. That’s a loophole I would love to take advantage of.

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What is out of whack was the global economic collapse.

He needs another term to recover the 9 million jobs the gop lost.

Not that complicated cons.

Don’t ignore it cons.

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income taxers!

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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” — Winston Churchill

Authors of the following unknown (but it’s a good bet they were not Liberals).

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.

2. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

3. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

4. The government cannot give to anybody anything, that the government does not first take from somebody else.

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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Why would anyone vote for someone who only represents a group of people (very wealthy) who are already doing incredibly well, AND someone who ships jobs overseas? Why?

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Reb , you also cannot multiply wealth by stealing and hoarding it.

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“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.

So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for president – because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.”– President Obama

Thank God for Our President today!

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It comes down to this fact.

If you want to finish our recovery, vote dem.

If you want to finish off our country vote gop.

Expecting a different result cons?

You might be insane.

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Authors of the following unknown

Scout’s favorite author.

(probably some skank-ho working in Karl Rove’s boiler room, if truth be told.)

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Recon — “The Democrat solution is to get more people beholding to the federal government, so they can buy votes through food stamps and other government provided sustenance programs.”

I’m sure you know that vote-selling is a Federal offense, but it’s not like you ever let facts get in the way of your rants before.

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Class warfare: I have to have a state issued I.D. to vote . But the millionaire capaign money bundlers remain anonymous?

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Turn out the lights the parties over

Romney is toast.

He allowed Obama to frame him as the guy shipping jobs overseas and refusing to release his tax returns will in the long run be worse than just releasing them and taking the hit for the stuff in there.

Its all over.

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J. Reb — “Bill O’Reilly hit the nail on the head last night comparing Obama’s attack on Mitt and Bain Capital versus Obama’s embrace of Jeffry Immelt and GE.”

“Obama choose Immelt to head a committee on increasing employment. Was that increase in Europe/China?”

“Point being, the whole attack on Mitt is BS. Who has taken more jobs overseas? Mitt or GE? Who is Obama’s buddy? Moonbats – grow up.”

What a patently stupid argument. Why would you hold a candidate for President to a LOWER standard than the standard you’re holding a non-candidate to?

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Its all over.

Cheesy, they still have plenty of cards up their sleeves. Hire some terrist to blow up a Mickie D’s, organize a cabal to do some well-timed corporate layoffs that they can blame on “Obamacare” — I’d put nothing past these thugs.

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Steve I think we will find Romney made money off his Olympic contacts. All of a sudden he is dealing in off shore deals, not before 1999 but after. Then like a criminal defense he says those were not his decisions. He took over a ghetto in Salt Lake City, fixed it they say. I am betting the books will show Enron type accounting and he fixed it off the books with off shore investments tied into the Olympics and its already dirty dealings and in doing so made himself richer than ever along with the characters he is said to have fixed.

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“mandate a living minimum wage”- looks like someone hasn’t done much studying on the minumum wage and employment.

“improve workers rights”- well of course because so many of them are being forced at the point of a gun to work 18 hours a day with no potty breaks in 3rd world wretched conditions.

Libs do love they emotionalism they do.

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Who can relate to Romney? Rich people? Mormons? That’s about it… it is over.

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Anyone wanna bet Anne’s horsey gets booed at the Olympics?

C’mon Brits, I know you got it in you.

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There ya have it. The perfect example of the difference between libs and cons. Jay laments the large number of out of wedlock births and then complains about the loss of a govt program- as if the govt program was having any success whatsoever to begin with. Typical liberal thinking. An argument can be made that the govt caused the whole single mother problem- the liberal Patrick Moynihan’s book details this govt destruction of the black family through govt dependency. And then people like Jay and other libs on here thinks only the govt can solve a problem that they created to begin with. God help us from these do gooders who make more problems then they solve.

Typical conservative nonsense. They create the problem with silly ” Abstinence ” programs and wont let condemns be passed out in schools then blame liberals and a program designed to actually help for the problem.

Pure idiocy. One of the biggest reasons for all the out of wedlock marriages in Mississippi and the south in general is the belief that ” Abstinence ” works. It doesn’t.

Start passing out condemns in high schools like liberals want to do and you’ll see that number come way down. But the Christian conservatives will never have that. No way.

Just when I think you cant get any dumber Thulsa. You set a new standard almost daily.

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Our President ran over weak wiilard

Weak willard did not even put up a fight.

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“One of the biggest reasons for all the out of wedlock marriages in Mississippi and the south in general is the belief that ” Abstinence ” works. It doesn’t”

Let’s be accurate here. Abstinence DOES work, if you actually practice it. It’s thinking that “Abstinence only” programs work that is false.

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JohnnyReb @ 11:31

Most of the libs. on here don’t care about what you posted because …………. they “want” to be socialists.

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“But the millionaire capaign money bundlers remain anonymous?”

Not really. It was pretty well publicized about Clooney’s 35k a plate dinner. Same with the big money bundlers of the nation’s largest private equity firm Blackstone when their boss and his buddies were forking over 35k a plate for Obama. What’s up with Mitt that he’s only raising 2-5-10k per person at these events. He needs a few more millionaire friends- like Obama.

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C’mon Brits, I know you got it in you.

That’s a pretty tone-deaf thing to hope for.

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TaxPayer — “Where’s Orly hanging out these days.”

I heard that she got her dentistry license pulled for some reason, but I haven’t been able to find confirmation of that.

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This would make a great SNL! The stiffest white guy in America first giving a speech at the NAACP, telling them what they need is more stiff white guys like him. Then he is chasing the help around a ballroom explaining if it wasn’t for my silver spoon, ivy league, good looks and rich daddy, and that I am a heterosexual white male, I would be exactly like you. I feel your pain so vote for me, one of us has to live large, sorry it is not you. I need your vote.

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looks like someone hasn’t done much studying on the minumum wage and employment.

Such “studying” generally ends in the devout belief that a $0/hour floor would lift all boats.

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“Because his church obliges him to do so.”

And Obama’s church doesn’t oblige him to do the same. I’ve never seen one Christian church of any denomination that doesn’t believe that its flock should tithe 10%. And the church can’t force you to do the tithe. Ultimately it comes down to the character of the man as to whether or not they want to follow church teaching and do the 10% tithe. And that difference in character between O and Romney is plainly obvious- as is their historical difference in charitable giving. One gives generously and always has- the other is a cheapskate and always has been.

And as for Joe Biden- very nice of him to give his usual paltry $1,000 again. Shameful. Shame on you Joe Biden.

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East @ 11:51

“I hereby profess to reform the filibuster (unless of course I lose the next election and need to use it as much or more than (if that’s possible) than the Republicans are using it now.) “

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Doom — “looks like someone hasn’t done much studying on the minumum wage and employment.”

Then share your knowledge with us.

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Romney/Dr. Redneck 2012.

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stands for decibels,

Lemme know when you’re ready for the private tutorial on labor economics and the minimum wage. Because clearly you need some learnin on this particular topic.

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Last night’s events for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee included a dinner at Cheney’s home outside Jackson Hole in Wilson. The $30,000-per-couple gathering wasn’t open to the media.

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Swiss banks help Swiss.

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“That’s right, Doom. It was them damn FOOD STAMPS what got all those women pregnant. (laughing)’

Rejected. No pertinence or relevance to the central point I was making. Nice deflection though.

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““looks like someone hasn’t done much studying on the minumum wage and employment.””

looks like someone doesn’t understand the marginal propensity to consume.

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GT
July 17th, 2012
11:52 am

Somehow that gave me flashbacks of the closing of a Benny Hill show with the goofy music in the background.

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“Then he is chasing the help around a ballroom explaining if it wasn’t for my silver spoon, ivy league, good looks and rich daddy, and that I am a heterosexual white male, I would be exactly like you. ”

bwaaaa — I think you nailed it, GT!

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“Admit it Cons — the real reason you’re all so angry is that ONCE AGAIN, you’re gonna have to “hold your nose” while you vote for the “R” candidate on the ticket for POTUS in November! You just went thru that 4 years ago, and now you’re having to do it again!”

I’d say that goes for the Democrats too. Neither one of these candidates are worth a dam.

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Hey TD, having grown up in Utah in a very small LDS town, I can promise you that the 10% tithe really isn’t an option.

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Jefferson @ 12:00 — and I wonder how many “jobs” Ole Mitt has created while his millions have been invested in offshore accounts… like our VP says, he’s been “creating jobs” overseas!

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Doom — “Rejected.”

Denied.

“No pertinence or relevance to the central point I was making. ”

Rejected. If you’re going to cry about liberal policies being behind that sort of social damage, then either come to the table with some evidence or be prepared to take the same kind of retort you just put out.

“Nice deflection though.”

That’s exactly what I was thinking about your initial post on the topic, that you were just generally whining and complaining and didn’t have anything substantive to say on the matter at all. (laughing)

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so now we got an all out “rich donor” pissing match going on…chalk another one up to the “But my Sh#t doin’t stink in a glass house” school of reasoning.

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Lay it on us, Sonny Boy. And this time, include some actual *evidence,* whydontcha?

Not gonna happen other than what she can Google and cut and past in a few minutes.

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Class Warfare is a tactic of the Socialist movement. Their cry is that famous Obama philosophy “redistribution of the wealth”. Also fits with communism. So yes, you are a skank hoe for socialism.

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Thulsa

You could have at least made it more difficult than a initial entry google search

Republican candidate attends $50K per plate party at home of ‘morning-after pill’ executive. Little opposition voiced.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/romney-pharmaceutical-chiefs-fundraiser-doesnt-seem-to-phase-pro-lifers/#ixzz20teMH8ej

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Thulsa

Don’t run from your LIES

Romney Victory’s first $50k/head RNC fundraiser set for Palm Beach (and Naples?)

Darlene and Gerald Jordan, two of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s staunchest backers since his days as Massachussets governor, are holding a $50,000-per-couple fundraiser at their Palm Beach home Sunday — the first of the Romney Victory’s first fundraising operation with the Republican National Committee in Florida.

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/04/romney-victorys-first-50khead-rnc-fundraiser-set-for-palm-beach.html#storylink=cpy

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It was them damn FOOD STAMPS what got all those women pregnant.

It what happens after they become pregnant that the cons want government to control.

No abortions, no food stamps, no assistance at all. Just starve. But i hope you have a

problem free pregnancy without any health care. Just go to the emergency room.

Oh, here’s the asprin you can stick between your legs so this dont happen again. Got it ? !!

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Thulsa Doom seems to have gone silent.

Who would have guessed?

“At the evening fundraiser at the estate of Julia and David Koch on Meadow Lane in Southampton, the suggested contribution was $75,000 per couple — with funds going to Romney’s campaign, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee.”

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“Then share your knowledge with us.’- joe mama

I’ll share with you just one article to start with. Its been common knowledge amongst the majority of economists for a long time that minimum wage laws have the net effect of reducing unemployment- particularly among the lowest skilled among us. And historical employment among minorities- blacks in particular, bears this out. My mistake though in assuming that most people knew this as a matter of common knowledge. Apparently liberals don’t know it.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-11_15_05_TS.html

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Pat – “Assuming waiters and waitresses have achieved a “middle class” level in income is an alarming disconnect right off the start. Very few can live with just a job waiting tables, even in upscale restaurants.”

Kind of harkens back to the good old Bush days where he remarked that it was absolutely great that a woman could hold down 3 jobs in order to make a living.

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I know this is a stupid question, but since I haven’t gone to vote early yet, I would like to know WHY only the folks who are registered republicans get to have a say on this “Life” amendment? Why is their voices the only ones to be heard on this issue? Granted it is a non-binding vote, but I thought this was the United States of America and all of its voting citizens are suppose to have a say on matters of public concern, or has that changed under Neal and the GOP mafia in this state?

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Why didn’t those waiters go out and pick up one of the businesses that Obama says*just happened*?Then they could get rich and pay taxes and create jobs and beg the IRS to assess them even more taxes to be sure they are paying their *fair share.*

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” that the federal birth control programs have INCREASED out of wedlock births???”

Rejected again for lack of reading comprehension. Read Patrick Moynihan’s book or at least a synopsis of his central thesis ma’am- it deals with the breakup of the black family and the incentives of federal welfare programs for women to stay single as opposed to marrying the father. As an example did you know that there are surveys and census data showing that in 1925 that single mother households in the black community were about 19% but that starting in 1965 with the advent of the welfare state that single mother homes in the black community have now peaked at 72.5% in the latest stats. Mighty big correlation there ma’am. Just the facts ma’am. Just the facts.

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There are a lot of “hoes” out there promoting “redistribution of the wealth” for Obama. Guess they aren’t getting enough government checks already since the number of people on disability has tripled since 2002. Lawyers are all over the TV trumpeting how they can “Super Size” your payment and get you on disability. Feeling like you don’t want go to work doesn’t make you disabled. There is NO ONE checking to see if those on disability are STILL disabled months and years after they get on disability. This system of “government redistribution of the wealth” is broken. We need leadership and Obama has none.

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WHY only the folks who are registered republicans get to have a say on this “Life” amendment?

Why should the GA dems sully their ballots with this idiocy?

Unless they’re looking for write-in responses, in which case I’ll give ‘em something that’d make Rude Pundit blush.

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Why didn’t those waiters go out and pick up one of the businesses that Obama says*just happened*?

When did he say that ? I heard him say that nobody makes it on their own and that even a small business gets some help somewhere along the line.

Never heard him say businesses “just happen” though.

This another typical right wing distortion. Like Joe the Plumber.

Or like Al Gore saying he ” invented ” the internet. He never said that but the right wing media repeated the lie enough and the sheep bleated and followed.

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Thulsa

As you say “Just the facts.” Surely what you posted earlier about fund raising was far from all the facts and truth. Isn’t that right?

She doesn’t have much credibility left on here. But you have to admire her spirit.

It takes a lot to come on here and get the beat down laid on you daily.

Its almost sadistic.

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Butch 11:28

Putting carried interest equity positions into an IRA is legal

Romney made out very well on those carried interest gains due to the performance of the investments

- and I thought my IRA was large

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“All I can say is you don’t know much about the LDS, Doomie.”

Joe mama doing his mind reading again. I know lots of LDS folks Joe and they and the church do in fact take tithing very seriously- you’re not dispensing some secret info that people don’t know. You’re just trying to take a cheap shot at Romney by implying that he does it only because the church demands it. You’re not a mind reader Joe and you cannot see into the man’s heart to determine if he does it because its his free will or he does it because of the church’s strict adherence to it.

Last on that point is the fact that even after tithing Mitt Romney has given millions to various charities. In my world I judge people by their actions- not their words. And judging by the overall charitable giving of Romney vs Obama and the shameful Joe Biden I think the actions of the 3 mean speak volumes about their character.

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Hussein’s middle name is “socialism”. Nanny Pelosi, from her muti million dollar mansion, leads the socialist movement. When you were born a multi millionaire you should hand over your millions before spouting a socialist philosophy….. Pelosi we are waiting. Hussein isn’t exactly “one of us”. Obama has 4 mansions all run by staffs of servants paid for by YOU.

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They BOTH Suck – you have “evolved’ in to attacking only those commenting from the “right”….. Are you a closet Obama lemming?

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G.I. Joe – I called out SUCK a long time ago. Yes SUCK leans towards being a lemming even though SUCK refuses to give SUCK’s affiliation.

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TD: come on man, don’t be disingenuous. The last two lines in your post below is not a great defense to you not either lying, being naive or just didn’t know. It was quickly shown that Romney is having dinners at prices that are the same or than Obama. Yet you purposely tried to pass it off as 10k and less dinners are Romney’s norm. Yes he has them, but doing the high end for Obama and the low end for Romney is weak. You know that

“Not really. It was pretty well publicized about Clooney’s 35k a plate dinner. Same with the big money bundlers of the nation’s largest private equity firm Blackstone when their boss and his buddies were forking over 35k a plate for Obama. What’s up with Mitt that he’s only raising 2-5-10k per person at these events. He needs a few more millionaire friends- like Obama.”

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GI Joe

Just last night I said Harry Reid was a weak Senate leader. He is not a Democrat? And for the record, I thought Pelosi shouldn’t have been the SOH.

Democrats made bad choices with those two.

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“Addressing 300 contributors who paid $2,500, $10,000 or $50,000 to hear him speak in Jackson, Miss.,”

they both suck and other liberals,

In my comments about Romney’s fund raising I never said he has never had big plate fund raisers- he has and will certainly have more. I simply referenced Jay’s own comments from above about the small plate fund raiser Romney was doing that day. Are ya’ll having joint reading comprehension issues today?

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What’s up with Mitt that he’s only raising 2-5-10k per person at these events. He needs a few more millionaire friends- like Obama.”

Owned

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G.I. Joe – You have to realize that Jay is an Obama lemming and this is Jay’s blog…… his fans tend to have a “redistribution of the wealth” big government knows best and you can’t think for yourself belief. They also think they are brilliant and any opinion different than theirs comes from haters and ignorant hicks and should be shouted down and vilified.

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pass the cheesy grits,

Sorry dude but I was just borrowing from Jay’s own article. Take it up with Jay ma’am.

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they both suck,

Apology accepted. Only an idiot realizes that Romney hasn’t had or won’t have his share of big money fundraisers. When I saw Jay use the 2-5-10 k plate fund raising that Romney was doing at this particular event I just decided to run with it and razz some folks like cheesy grits on the hypocrisy of fund raising. They all got their share of big money donors. What I can’t believe is that folks like cheesy grits and the other guy don’t think that everyone already knows that Romney has already had big fundraisers himself. Sheesh.

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his fans tend to have a “redistribution of the wealth” big government knows best and you can’t think for yourself belief.

No. Not at all. Just like a fair shake for everyone. Instead of the rich like Romney getting all the breaks and handouts.

Is it fair Romney pays 13 percent in taxes but a blue collar guy pays double that ?

Explain how that is fair ?

I know the jobs will “trickle” down. Well ive been hearing that trickle down crap my whole life. Its BS. The rich just get richer and the money stays at the top.

All we want is for everyone to have a fair chance. And for people to EARN where they get in life. Instead of it being handed to them ala Romney and Bush.

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Obama may be naive about economics but he has a good idea of how to use the government to further his socialist “redistribution of the wealth”. A very destructive philosophy that takes away one’s incentive to work to get ahead. Obama is not a big fan of “the American dream”.

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So if 47% of all Americans pay no federal income tax

That number is incorrect so its pointless to argue with you. Your a clown.

The truth is that 86% of Americans pay taxes. In one recession strapped year (2009), less than half of single filer taxpayers paid federal income taxes.

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Oblama- I don’t see Cheesy Grits going for a flat tax………. more like tax the “rich” that aren’t Democrats for every dime they have and give it to those that vote for Obama.

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The capitalist will never go for a fair or flat tax as they would pay way more than they do now. Don’t raise the income tax, just raise capital gains tax to 40%.

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I came to this country for a fair chance. Being illegal I can’t pay income taxes but I will pay taxes when I am made legal. I have applied to enter the country legally but it takes so long for the government to act and I have a family to feed. What is a flat tax?

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Tiredofit – A lot of people that aren’t “rich” invest in the stock market and real estate. A 40% cap gain ta would cause the stock market to take a nose dive. There would be no incentive to invest. I understand that you are out to punish the “rich” but your plan would be a disaster. Obama is rich and you have my blessing to take 40 % of everything he has.

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Doom — “Joe mama doing his mind reading again.”

Oh, stop crying.

“I know lots of LDS folks Joe and they and the church do in fact take tithing very seriously- you’re not dispensing some secret info that people don’t know.”

“You’re just trying to take a cheap shot at Romney by implying that he does it only because the church demands it.”

FAIL, mindreader. (laughing)

“You’re not a mind reader Joe and you cannot see into the man’s heart to determine if he does it because its his free will or he does it because of the church’s strict adherence to it.”

Well neither can YOU. (laughing)

“Last on that point is the fact that even after tithing Mitt Romney has given millions to various charities. In my world I judge people by their actions- not their words. And judging by the overall charitable giving of Romney vs Obama and the shameful Joe Biden I think the actions of the 3 mean speak volumes about their character.”

And there you have it. Doom measures character by the size of the donation.

And you know what they say about people who are obsessed with SIZE. (pointing, laughing)

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Doom — “But all you have to do is look at the empirical evidence of the minimum wage on a historical basis and like most economists you would probably agree that it has the net effect of overall harming employment levels.”

That’s the theoretical effect. There’s no objective, empirical evidence of it.

You know how conservatives sometimes get about scientific “theories?” I treat this conservative theory of Minimum Wage the same way. Show me evidence or take a hike.

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Illegal alien – good luck with becoming a legal citizen. We would welcome you paying income taxes like the rest of us. I will try to explain how a flat tax would work for you. With a flat tax every income producer pays the same percent of taxes – say 10%. There are no tax shelters, no deductions and no loopholes (created by politicians). If you earn $50,000 you will pay $5,000 in taxes. If you earn $5,000,000 you will pay $ 5,000,000. No exemptions, no deductions, no loopholes. The average person would not have to hire someone to prepare their taxes. Politicians would no longer be able to use the tax system to punish those that oppose them or reward those that support them. Thousands of lobbyists would flee D.C. like rats running from a flood. That would be a good thing.

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HOT AIR good name, have you seen how few people in this country pay taxes? The poor haven’t got money and the rich just say we don’t play that game. Now you have found someone willing to work for slave wages so the rich can get richer and not pay taxes and these guys take the jobs the poor can’t do but the poor legals get their food and services cheater because of them. Seems to me the illegals are doing more than most of us.

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Oblama – Thanks for correcting those that call republicans conservatives. The reason some conservatives vote republican is because they vote for what they consider to be the least destructive candidate towards the economy and that wouldn’t be Obama.

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As for class warfare – our topic today – I believe that a flat tax favor the lower income and middle income people equally. Tax cheating would be greatly reduced.

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Lucifer the Republicans have done a job on us. They have us looking at Obama and his weakness and not comparing what we have in store if Obama is voted out of office. We are comparing O to some perfection that doesn’t exist, and in fact we are talking about substituting him for someone with weak character as shown in Romney’s flip flopping to please and soft upbringing. He is another Bush, nothing is ever his fault, which is is making loud and clear as people are escaping burning buildings or drowning in the streets of N.O. You seen any of that in this administration, but this adm. is paying for the ghost chasing of that administration, the mistakes of mass weapons of destruction and “we will get to the health issues next year”. Bush had eight years to do something about the health care, subject never came up. These people don’t do they just tell ya what the other guy is doing, like a nosy old neighbor peeping out windows.

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July is pretty early to run out of things to talk about, Jay, and have to resort to this.

President Kardashian has already done more things to destroy the poor and the middle class than Romney could ever think of in ten lifetimes, and the Supreme Leader has more in store for us prior to the election.

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