Atlanta’s Kasim Reed plays well on national scene

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I can’t watch video at work. Can someone provide a synopsis?

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Great job Mayor Reed. Thank you for correcting the record and making sure the facts are part of the debate.

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Damn, Kasim. That was a pretty epic burn. Wow.

He was blunt and to the point. No sugar coating. My kind of person.

*polite golf clap*

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I’m in the same boat as The Cat. Whom did Reed burn? Noonan or the Tea Party guy?

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Thanks Goodness that Jay posted another topic, I had to leave the earlier topic as I was tired of reading Ben S’s attacks…..
Great job Mayor Reed!

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He burned Cruz, the tea bagger, by asking about Ryan’s record prior to the last 24 months, when he voted for everything he’s against now…..

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Reed broke down Ryan’s historical voting record and that doesn’t match the mantra of the “new” Paul Ryan.

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I’ve been pleased with how Reed is performing as the mayor. Outperformed what I first thought. My only big disagreement with him was TSPLOST.

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WOW. Like him or not, he took them to task. Game, set, match for that segment of the program.

Jay: Not sure if he has aspirations for higher office nor do I know how well he would see at a higher level. I am interested to see what the mayors of San Antonio and Newark do in the next few years.

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Robert and Steve, thanks very much for the clarification. I’ll check it out on my tablet at lunchtime, and it sounds like I shouldn’t have any tea in my mouth when I watch it.

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Unethical cons and their sound bite lies get trumped (get it, birthers and trickle downers?) by a smart, decent man with the truth. As proven by verifiable, empirical facts

It works every time…

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Reed was stellar in that clip.

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Kasim Reed? Small potatoes. He should spend more time worrying about his employees driving around drunk and Atlanta’s myriad other problems.

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JHM – “Robert and Steve, thanks very much for the clarification. I’ll check it out on my tablet at lunchtime, and it sounds like I shouldn’t have any tea in my mouth when I watch it.”

Reed’s facts were only eclipsed by the calm, rational way he presented them. It was a piece by piece dismantling of the Ryan image.. So you’re correct…no tea.

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independent thinker,

You should change your handle to kool aid drinking far left thinker. No independent thought runs through your mind. I’ve seen quite a number of posts from you and every one of them is of a far left mentality. “Independent thinker” my ass.

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“how well he would sell”, not “see……..”

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Thulsa Doom

August 29th, 2012
11:03 am

Kasim Reed? Small potatoes. He should spend more time worrying about his employees driving around drunk and Atlanta’s myriad other problems.
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Really Doomy? That’s all you have to say? Where has Reed failed as mayor? And don’t ask me where he hasn’t lol, I haven’t paid much attention to him. I thought until now he was just another blow hard. Heck, I’m still trying to make up my mind about Burrell Ellis and he actually is someone I can vote for or against and someone who’s policies have a direct impact on my life.

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“Kasim Reed needs to go back and crawl under a rock”

U mad bro?

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Sure hope he gets to speak at the Dem. Convention. Between Reed, Biden, Obama and Clinton this campaign could change dramatically. Great Job – Kaseem.
Contrast Reed to tha turncoat token idiot last night-Artur Davis. GOP may as well put Clarence Thomas up there next Blacks would still poll at 0% for Romney.

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“Independent stinker” my ass.

I fixed that reference by the pompous one to his body part. I suspect it may be the only part that has “substance”

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fair and balanced

I would not worry about Artur Davis. He like Christie of FL is mad and upset because he didn’t get the party support he wanted. They both ran to the other side to claim how their eyes have been opened.

Either one will be making any huge impacts on the voters come November.

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Hey Jay? When are they going to force registration for the blogs? The asshat that always posts as Fred already stole my screen name.

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Ryan supported Bush . . to say he supported this and that without saying what was included…

Proud to be a neocon, go ahead and cover up for all of the inveterate liars in your beloved, diseased, profligate spending, Bushaholic GOP.

Too funny…

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Well check you out. That was cool to post the transcript Jay.

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Jay

On behalf of the video deficient here… thanks!!!

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I would not worry about Artur Davis. He like Christie of FL is mad and upset because he didn’t get the party support he wanted.

If Artur Davis were a true conservative, he would not have ran from a Conservative state to switch parties. Instead, he turned tail because he saw what happened to Parker Griffith in Alabama. In the eyes of the Alabama GOP, the expiration date of party switching has passed. If Davis wants to impress me, he’d run for any statewide position under the GOP in Alabama.

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The clowns entertainment exec driving around town in a loaned porsche while drunk

Yes, somehow that was the Mayor’s fault.

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In hindsight, it would have been better I Ryan had just voted “present” to shore up his stellar record of achievement.

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Exactly Keep, Milton Man shows his lunacy again. I can’t think of ANY politicians that weren’t supporting the TSplost including Milton mans beloved crook of a Governor, 2 senators and his Congressman.

The hypocrisy of the right is endless.

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Project Dreamz

August 29th, 2012
11:23 am

Are YOU registered to vote?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP6Mcvgdrtg
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Another hit and run by the Georgia on my mind dude.

Register by Oct. 6th to be eligible for the November election.

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peggy got pantsed!

been along time since i’m been proud of our local officials.

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Good for Mayor Reed for pushing back on the false notion that Ryan is a serious person. He proposed and passed budgets in the House that privatizes Medicare, privatizes Social Security, slashes Medicaid, cuts taxes for the rich, and raises taxes on the middle class…all without balancing the budget.

He’s not serious about growing the economy or balancing the budget. He’s serious about enriching the rich (that is, when he’s not busy working to take away women’s access to IVF, contraception, and health care).

Oh. By the way. Paul Ryan has “never seen the inside of a lemonade stand.” That seems to be important to Republicans…at least when they’re talking about Democrats.

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But he and libs need to make up their mind on TARP. How many times have we seen libs on here say that O saved the economy with TARP and stimulus. Then they turn around and say that W and in this case Ryan wanted wasteful TARP spending. Just the usual crap of libs trying to have it both ways. It really is breath taking to watch.

I see it a little differently Doomy. I see it as the libs bring up TARP as a “bad” thing whenever the Pubs try to say that all the debt is Obama’s fault. Or when the politico’s try to posture as “fiscal conservatives” like Ryan did. But maybe I’m wrong, I dunno. So much hypocrisy on both sides I get lost from time to time lol as to who did what and when.

I haven’t read your article yet but thanks in advance. My initial impression of Reed was that he was the typical Maynard Jackson/Bill Campbell/Andrew Young power elite thief using the airport for personal profit and gain.

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Well, I been hauling and lugging so much I never got the chance to post on the topic downstairs. Anyway, my buddy Jim Earl come over to the trailer last night and we got to talking about all these guvmint farm subsidies. I got a cousin that’s a farmer. He keeps poor-mouthing about how hard it is for farmers to make a living these days. He raises beef cattle on that little 50-acre farms of his when he’s not teaching school. Anyhow, Jim Earl looked him up in a list of federal farm subsidies. Turns out, he gets $14,500 a year from the guvmint for not growing a crop he never intended to grow in the first place. Next time I see him and he starts poor-mouthing again, I intend to spit some Red Man in that dude’s eye. No wonder we’re broke and 16 trillion bucks in debt!

Anyhow, if this Orwell was so smart in 1984 how come he’s never been elected to office? I never heard of him till I read Bookman’s column.

I guess somebody will tell me how things went at the convention. I got so bored last night I started watching pawn shop shows. Then Sooth sent that picture of Michelle Bachmann and it kept me up half the night. Have a good Hump Day everybody.

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How many times have we seen libs on here say that O saved the economy with TARP and stimulus. Then they turn around and say that W and in this case Ryan wanted wasteful TARP spending.

What dishonsent nonsensical tripe. Apparently the lack of oxygen from having his breath taken away has impacted comprehension again. TARP and stimulus were want was needed to save the economy…so when the conned start harping about it being “wasteful” the question is why did W implement TARP and Ryan vote for both if the Republicans are the protectors against “wasteful” and “conservatives” and….

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Thanks for posting the exchange, Jay. Can’t wait to actually hear it!

And right on cue-there is Doomy coming to poop on the floor.

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Republicans sure do manage to whip up their amnesia of convenience–their Milk of Magnesia for all that does not fit with their new and improved “truth”– whenever anything prior to Obama is mentioned.

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getalife

I assume all is well or at least as good as it can be for your family, friends and yourself.

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Fred

Not sure if Reed is getting any personal gain from the airport, however he sort of overlooked a few things in regards to the vendors or at least his office did. Granted not all of those who contributed to his campaign and bid on those contracts were awarded one, but several were. The way several of the vendors were designated in their bid alarms me more than the fact that they gave to his campaign.

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Both,

No problems yet but it just got here.

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getalife,

You can at least be encouraged by the fact that Governor Jindal has already asked for Obama’s help with the hurricane. In fact Jindal has even criticized Obama for not giving him enough federal tax dollars yet. So, Jindal may like to put on a Republican facade for the camera but he knows that in reality, his ability to pull on those bootstraps depends on the fed’s delivery of a couple of really big helping hands.

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“Someone needs to go back and point out all the LIES O’Bama has said in the past years”

So, what’s the matter? Cat got your tongue? Or are you like a lot of cons and too lazy to do the work yourself?

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“Atlanta’s Kasim Reed plays well on national scene”–JAY BOOKMAN

Yeah that’s great Jay. But what about staying focused on governing Atlanta and the people in your chain of command….

Special events director in Atlanta mayor’s office resigns after DUI arrest
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/special-events-director-in-atlanta-mayors-office-r/nRMfM/

-Popped for DUI while driving a Porsche… What are they paying these buffoons down at city hall?
Is this from the hidden funds and ownerships from the Airport???

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Keep

I forgot about that one.

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getalife

Take good care of yourself. I’d hate for you to have to be rescued by a federal public sector union member and Crimson Tide fan. I would hate to put that kind of permanent stigma on you.

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Mayor Reed is the antithesis of Governor Deal.

Kasim is smart, principled and does not speak in vacuous sound bites…

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The ParkAtlanta contract was signed by Mayor Franklin, not Mayor Reed.

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Typical ATL BS!! Atl is a disaster, crime rampant(murders, robberies every day), transportation, and city deep in debt. Reed needs to stay home and handle his own problems, before criticizing others! I would not live in ATL, even if you paid me!

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Cons aren’t saying the debt is all Obama’s. Only about 6 trillion of it occurred under his administration. And if I’m not mistaken tarp or at least part of it was attributed to W and his debt numbers.

And that’s still not being completely honest as not a single “Con” has come up with a tally of Obama Administration policies that added $6 Trillion to the Debt as you say. If “Cons” were truly honest, they would acknowledge that debt would have been added regardless to whomever won in 2008. Then again, some “Cons” wouldn’t know honesty if it grew fangs and bit them in the ass.

Mind you, that’s just how I see things.

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“Mayor Reed is the antithesis of Governor Deal.”

Deal was voting YES on everything right along with his House buddy Paul Ryan.

Deal got a promotion and Ryan is up for one.

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Doom — “Well now of course big gubment does everything better than private enterprise. North Korea and the Soviet Union say so…”

Have you been following the news about North Korea since Lil’ Kim took office, Doom? Not like he’s going to open the place to capitalism or anything, but he recently appeared at the opening of an amusement park (remarkable for NK) and a new *shopping mall* opened in Pyongyang not long ago.

From what I’ve been able to piece together, the Chinese (pretty much the Norks’ only friends) have been saying ‘look, you can have a better quality of life, happier people and the Americans will stop riding your azz if you just do what we’ve been doing for 20+ years.’ And maybe it’s starting to penetrate their skulls.

IMO, anything that gets the Norks shopping for clothes, teapots and crayons instead of standing guard on the DMZ is something I can get behind.

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Bro

Spending surely has to be decreased, but I keep wondering how Obama is by passing the House to get all of those checks cashed.

Must be new procedures that I am not aware of and need to look up.

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Waiting for the list of Obama lies y’all keep promising. Haven’t heard one yet. Or are you going to start with that Birther/Muslim nonsense lke Romney did thinking it was a joke.

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Well now of course big gubment does everything better than private enterprise.

Well, in the context of the original argument here, the “big gubment” has ParkAtlanta, and the private sector has ________? The original poster complained about the contract that Park Atlanta has. If the Conservative rhetoric held any truth, then since there is an overwhelming desire for parking downtown without booting, why hasn’t the private sector swooped in and built ample parking downtown themselves, made everybody happy, and made a handsome profit to boost?

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JHM

You have loftier expectations on NK than I do.

While I find Doom’s hyperbole slightly disingenuous about NK in regards to relating it to anything going on in the US, I do not have much hope for that regime and how it operates.

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They BOTH

You know Obama is “All Powerful” when it comes to spending. He don’t need no steenkin’ Congress.

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“jindal crying for more welfare? Figures.”

What are the offsets Jindal is proposing to go along with the spending?

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Of course, Reed plays well on the Bookman scene. He’s lying about Republicans and Paul Ryan. He adequately deflected the subject of Obama’s awful performance to the vice presidential nominee’s would-be performance as would be subject to tea party criteria.

Sorry, Mr. Bookman, but this “logic” won’t play anywhere. Your liberal blog pretending that it can provide information on a conservative is a bit like Fidel Castro being fair and balanced about Cuban dissidents in prison, quoting them verbatim for the public good.

No one’s believing you.

Lying about republicans, deflecting the subject away from Obama’s poor leadership–those are the requirements for “playing well”; those are the requirements–democrats believe–to reelection for Obama.

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One of you knuckleheads said Reed should run for governor. I hope he does, only voters in ATL, the fine intelligent voters of Clayton County and a few of you liberal-heads on this blog would vote for him!

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Sure seems like a complete failure of thought when the only response to the ParkAtlanta failure is to make up a lie that says any other response is “Big Government” and referencing N Korea and the non-existent Soviet Union.

I suggest a more thoughtful response is that there are some things that local, state and federal governments do much better than private enterprise, especially when the objective should be focused on fair and balanced rather than profit motivated and temptations to use unfair means.

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“If the Conservative rhetoric held any truth, then since there is an overwhelming desire for parking downtown without booting, why hasn’t the private sector swooped in and built ample parking downtown themselves, made everybody happy, and made a handsome profit to boost?”

Something tells me the city of Atlanta has something to do with this and that you, I , and others aren’t seeing the big picture. One thing you will notice is that in many dense office parks in other areas of metro Atlanta there is not a parking problem.

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Obambarrassment

Based on the clip presented, I am sure you can list all of Reed’s lies, right?

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“One thing you will notice is that in many dense office parks in other areas of metro Atlanta there is not a parking problem.”

By dense do you mean 2 or 3 12 story buildings?

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Road, what? You did not see that asterik by the debt clock posted at the RNC convention….why I am sure them kiddies are being nuanced about that $15 trillion.

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I personally know some businessmen that are working with Kaseem on a reservoir deal north of Atlanta and they have said repeatedly that Reed is a snake and worse than Bill Campbell. I agree he comes across well, but watch this guy closely.

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“Then I am beyond help because no one in the US is advocating a NK type economy. It is nothing more than an hyperbolic straw man.”

they both suck,

No. You’re missing my point. My point isn’t that anyone is advocating a Stalinist state although there are some on here that certainly seem to advocate socialism over capitalism- welcome to the occupation as an example. Too often many on here think the govt has to solve something or do something and as a result we have govt doing things it was never intended to do and now comprising 25% of the economy. And my point is simply that if there is a market solution to a problem than that should be the chosen route over a govt solution which in and of itself is rarely if ever more efficient than a market based solution.

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“Bro, the dems can’t come up with any Bush policies that caused the housing collapse either, but that hasn’t stopped anybody from blaming him even still today has it?”

What housing collapse??? I thought the billboard you saw was evidence that the housing collapse was just liberal imagination.

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TD @ 12:11

Got you. see my 12:13

Have a great afternoon

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Jay, please don’t tell me the truth. I can’t stand it!

I want to continue living in a fantasy Fright-Wing World where the past disappears in the Memory Hole.

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they both suck,

You’re focused way too much on my NK USSR point. The only point there is simply to magnify in an easy to see illustration the difference between what top down centralized planning brings people and a free wheeling capitalist state like Singapore, Hong Kong, or what the U.S. used to be back in its heyday.

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Need to check with Clueless Joe to see if Reed might be the second mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.

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Good day Jay. Where do we start. Just from your transcript I would say that as usual there were two against one. The biased media and Reed double teamed and interrupted constantly . Next, Reed refused to comment on what he couldn’t defend. Next, Obama voted for more spending than any one else in Congress except for his self confirmed socialist comrade Bernie Sanders. I’m sure that you are proud of the skyrocketing increase in gub’ment enrollment in disability under Prez Obama? As Obama sees it one more on gub’ment disability is one more off of the unemployment stats and one more Obama created job. It’s also giving one of his major contributors, lawyers, work signing them up off of their TV ads touting how they can super size your gub’ment check. . Let Obama take credit for making lawyers richer too. That’s one thing he definitely has a right to claim.

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No one has yet been able to factually show where Reed lied when speaking of Ryan.

Coincidence?

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“Someone needs to go back and point out all the LIES O’Bama has said in the past years. They are too numerous to mention.”

or they’re too imaginary for me to actually cite.

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getalife

Heard this morning that several areas will be getting upwards of 20 inches of rain. Make sure you have your floaties on.

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Obviously Reed takes the democrat kool-aid intravenously, or maybe he prefers the nasal spray like they do for the flu shots.

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I will say that Reed is an improvement over that long line of crooks Atlanta has elected mayor in the past. Brain dead Zombies vote Obama. All brain dead zombies will now be eligible for disability ’cause they are brain dead.

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Reed for President!

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**the dems can’t come up with any Bush policies that caused the housing collapse either**

How’s about the ownership society, home equity lines exploding because of lack of regulation – credit default swaps…funny how the savings and loan scandal in the 80’s cost us a half a trillion all because of the similar lax regulatory oversight. Repubs are the foxes guarding the the hen house…

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This is who Mitt Romney really is ? Tell me that the Repub standard bearer isnt this. This is a must read…………

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829?print=true

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“especially when the objective should be focused on fair and balanced rather than profit motivated and temptations to use unfair means.”

“fair and balanced”? Hmmm. And who determines that? The “fairness” committee? The subcommittee on “balance”? Fair and balanced means different things to different people. More gobbledeegook from the kook left.

“profit motivated”? Hmmm. Something wrong with being motivated by profit? It is after all what made this country great. Only in the world of the kook left is “profit motivated” bad.

“And temptations to use unfair means?” I believe what we need is a Judicial review board to monitor “temptations to use unfair means”. Probably need a thought police force to back them up. Just more kook left gobbledeegook based on kook left utopianism and worldview of what constitutes “fairness”.

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getalife – That’s why it’s a category I hurricane. See the higher the number the worse they get. Do I have to explain everything to you? Oh, never mind.

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Too bad Reed has the stink of Obama bundler Mack Wilbourn associated with him. I had high hopes for Reed until he awarded Wilbourn airport concessions worth $300mm under Atlanta’s minority business program. WSB has reported that audits confirmed that Wilbourn’s application did not conform to the minority business development program because he is worth in excess of $50mm- but he was awarded the franchise anyway. Reed clearly has higher political ambitions and hopes that by taking care of an Obama bundler today, he will be remembered tomorrow. That’s how it works in Chicago and that’s how Bill Campbell did it. The sad part is that other eligible minority business people were screwed because they didn’t host a fund raiser for Obama. To continue your Orwellian theme, in Obamaland, some people (Obama bundlers) are more equal than others.

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Jay, by default you’re going to agree with Reed because he takes liberal positions but I’m not impressed at all. Other than the respondents on this blog who serve as your echo chamber, who cares what Kasim Reed thinks at this point? He was simply repeating the talking points that were given to him in the green room. You know that.

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He’s lying about Republicans and Paul Ryan.

Talk about an embarrassment! This guy lives up to the name.

Even the Republicans on that program all knew Reed was telling the truth. But I suspect that they all had an IQ over 75.

THIS is the magnitude of delusion that dominates southern Republicans with permanent ODS.

Neocons around the country are reeling.

From the depraved, dead beat dad Joe Walsh to the embarrassing McCarthyite, Alan West to the disgusting, mysogynist Todd Akins.

Keep ‘em on the run, guys and gals…

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“Your failure to accept personal responsibility is noted.”- keep up

lions and tigers and bears. Oh my! I’m being charged by the personal responsibility police.

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Disability from the gub’ment is what they are claiming to help you get on ’cause it’s your “right”. Disability from Social security if you qualify or through other channels if not. It’s a check from the gub’ment they are promising to get you…… actually our tax dollars. Why do I have to explain all these simple things over and over – brain dead zombies for Obama – that’s why.

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MR. REED: He wasn’t serious under President Bush. Why wasn’t he serious when we were funding the war in Iraq? Why didn’t he say America should pay for the war in Afghanistan? Why didn’t he– why didn’t he say that when we have a TARP program, it needs to be available to folks on Main Street? He was for the automotive bailout.

MR. CRUZ: And, you know, I’m curious, did– did Barack Obama say any of that?

MR. REED: He– he was for that. No, no.

MR. CRUZ: Did the Democrats say any of that?

MR. REED: The Democrats did not.

So is he saying Paul Ryan, Barack Obama and the Democrats are one in the same?

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Jam

The Republicans came on the show expecting and ready to speak about Ryan is the context that is being framed today, ie the last two years.

They were dumbfounded when Reed brought up his entire record.

Even Stevie Wonder could see the blank stares on their faces when Reed was speaking

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This didn’t happen….

http://news.yahoo.com/abc-news-hot-mic-romneys-happy-party-black-154623693.html

…another Orwellian rewriting of history.

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BOTH, they are intellectually and morally bankrupt.

They HATE this country, especially our awesome government of the people, by the people and for the people.

To the point where they want to drown it in a bathtub.

And to the people who hide behind names like morality I say the following;

Air Iran is ready when you are.

(They have tons of Uncle Sam haters there…)

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So is he saying Paul Ryan, Barack Obama and the Democrats are one in the same?

If convenient for the exigencies of the moment, yes.

The message is, “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” and “Obama’s a nice guy.”

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Take a typical Bain transaction involving an Indiana-based company called American Pad and Paper. Bain bought Ampad in 1992 for just $5 million, financing the rest of the deal with borrowed cash. Within three years, Ampad was paying $60 million in annual debt payments, plus an additional $7 million in management fees. A year later, Bain led Ampad to go public, cashed out about $50 million in stock for itself and its investors, charged the firm $2 million for arranging the IPO and pocketed another $5 million in “management” fees. Ampad wound up going bankrupt, and hundreds of workers lost their jobs, but Bain and Romney weren’t crying: They’d made more than $100 million on a $5 million investment.

To recap: Romney, who has compared the devilish federal debt to a “nightmare” home mortgage that is “adjustable, no-money down and assigned to our children,” took over Ampad with essentially no money down, saddled the firm with a nightmare debt and assigned the crushing interest payments not to Bain but to the children of Ampad’s workers, who would be left holding the note long after Romney fled the scene. The mortgage analogy is so obvious, in fact, that even Romney himself has made it. He once described Bain’s debt-fueled strategy as “using the equivalent of a mortgage to leverage up our investment.”

Please tell me this is not the Repub nominee………….

Fair? Hardly not.

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Hey Jay when are you going to write some tripe about how great the Obama economy is doing??

http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/labor/us-economy-grew-at-17-percent-rate-in-2nd-quarter/nRMyh/

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from downstairs, sorry to change the subject but I bring up a point I’d like Jay to answer…..

Martin the Calvinist

August 29th, 2012
12:43 pm

So Jay, what about those businesses who failed, they had the same resources if you will as those businesses who have suceeded, they have hard working folks working for them, the entrepenuer had a great educator influence their lives, they had the same road and bridges infrastucture offered them, they had the same police and fire protection. Why did they fail? They failed on their own accord, that’s what you’d say. So how about having a little integrity and admit it is the business man or woman that builds their businesses and are sucessful…..

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Today’s invitation and repost for anyone here who wants to argue with an idiot comes from JamVet:

Air Iran is ready when you are.

(They have tons of Uncle Sam haters there…)

Please address all attempts at today’s AWI attempts to JamVet and expect meaningless and unconscious bombast in return.

Good luck.

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Joseph,

Obama? Economy?

What were we talking about?

Ooo, look! There’s something shiny over there.

What are we talking about?

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BOTH, of course nobody is saying they want to be like north Korea, but what NK is, and the same is true for Cuba and others, is what happens when you get down the road we’re on. I doubt most Italians want to live in 1,200 sq ft apartments with 3 generations of their family either, but the have to. And we’re headed down that same path.

As I’ve said here before, liberal policies sound good on paper, but the real world side effects are devastating to an economy. Nobody is ever willing or able to separate those in need from those who scam the system and those on the brink eventually see scamming the system easier and as lucrative as working. And besides, everybody else is doing it..

So, which 16 family members do you think you can live with in a shoebox?

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Brain Dead Zombies have more fun according to a recent Obama Poll. Vote Obama and rest that brain.

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to the current topic, the Atlanta mayor brings up a good point that points out a lot of hypocrisy. Good for him, I wish conservative leaders would say the same thing. I also like to point out the good mayor’s hypocrisy in this, if Rush Limbaugh had said what Joe Biden had said about placing people in chains and said it was the gov’ts plan to keep those on welfare and medicaid in chains, there would be a freakin’ national uproar. Jay would write about that in a heartbeat and there would be multiple cries to get Rush of the air.

I also like to point out that the Mayor kinda sorta said that Obama has no plan to trim the deficit. He only pointed out that you can’t take Ryan seriously as a budget cutter and that is a rather fair assessment.

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RB – I doubt most Italians want to live in 1,200 sq ft apartments with 3 generations of their family either,

WTF??…Have you actually spent any time in Italy?

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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/romney-party-yacht-flies-cayman-islands-flag/story?id=17105028

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Reed…just another crooked Atlanta Mayor that should be investigated by the Fed’s, but, that’s not likely to happen with brother Holder at the helm.

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Alternate Arguing with Idiots Post in italics below.

Note: we’re not sure whether this post comes from an idiot or someone physically and mentally addled, but analysis continues. After brief review, we concluded that most “words” used herein manifest simple anatomical obsession and plumbing profession.

Being pompous is a difficult job mind you. It aint easy sustaining a level of pomposity that redefines the pomposity Richter scale.

Need to git to the gym and lose some weight- run a few thousand times around the block, and git back into those tight ass speedos so that keep has something to fantasize about. And so that those speedos don’t get caught in my butt crack mind you.

Good luck with this one.

–the Jay Bookman blog, your Arguing with Idiots host.

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Obambarrassment

August 29th, 2012
12:53 pm

What the heck was that? A brain burp?

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Obambarrassment

August 29th, 2012
12:04 pm

[...]

No one’s believing you.

No one?

Where did you get the idea that you could speak for anyone other than yourself?

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Randian rube at 12;58, the cleaners called.

Your sheets are ready!

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TP – I’m going to send out a link to that Rolling Stones article to all my friends.

I’ll bet the love you for it

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I began to take a particular interest in Reed’s appeal when he debated Handel(?) for the Mayorship of Atlanta. Amazingly, Reed also seems to work with Deal very well.

He appears to be very close to Obama, but I am surprised he is not going to be speaking at the DNC convention.

He was smart and on point during the debate with Handel. That was what put him over the top. In fact, the Handel-Reed debates were some of the substance based debates I had watched in a long time. I hope the Dems put him on the National stage soonest.

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RB — “Joe, I don’t suppose you’d care to support your claim Bush blocked states attempts to tighten mortgage rules which were mostly put in place by Clinton would you?”

No, I certainly wouldn’t. Because that’s not what I said.

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TaxPayer

August 29th, 2012
12:59 pm
You know not what you are talking about. “Rolling Stones”, a bastion of journalistic tradition, integrity and conservative values. What’s next, Playboy?

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The Blamer-in-chief is in a free fall…..

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

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Joe. I think that Matt Drudge broke the Monica story.

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The cons heads are exploding again.

Seems like a daily occurrence now.

Good blogging times.

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Atlas @ 1258,

On a side note, it was just implied by someone I met that I was a racist because I supported Kem Kimbrough, who was the incumbent and most importantly the anti-Victor Hill, candidate for Clayton County Sheriff. This despite the fact that Kimbrough is every bit as African American as Hill.

The moving definition of racism by the left is… well, any discussion with them is futile.

The persistent truth is that the left is trying, through the “objective news” media and pop culture, to destroy the right.

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“Fishy forgets that the Monica Lewinsky story was first broken by that bastion of journalistic integrity, The National Enquirer.”

I haven’t forgotten that. What makes you think that I have?

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Thomas,

But do Romney and Ryan care about the budget and spending as much as liberals think Obama cares about black and brown people?

THAT’s the real question.

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“Headline: GALLUP: PRESIDENT APPROVAL RATING IN FREEFALL…”

You would think Drudge would have run with their favorite, Rasmussen.

Maybe, “Headline: Rasmussen: PRESIDENT APPROVAL RATING CLIMBING, NOW AT 50%”

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Actually I think that was John Edwards.

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JHM – everybody has their 5 minutes of fame and in the old days (pre LBJ/Nixon), journalists looked the other way, the same way sports writers didn’t report on off field behavior. The NE is the type of rag that would go looking for that type of story. Too bad they found it, it didn’t do anything for the national debate but stir up animosity.

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Ken — “Joe. I think that Matt Drudge broke the Monica story.”

That might be, but I was speaking of traditional media; print, TV or radio. Lots of people weren’t web-enabled back then.

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F. Sinkiewicz — “I haven’t forgotten that. What makes you think that I have?”

Because you’re deriding outfits like Rolling Stone. If a joke rag like the Enquirer can scoop the nation, why couldn’t Rolling Stone (or for that matter, Creative Loafing) do the same thing?

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I didn’t build that. No, Really. I’m telling the truth this time. I only destroyed for profit. I never built a damn thing in my entire life. – Mitt Romney, Exposed and Ugly.

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Oops, not interested.

(Multitasking..)

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… try fincherstew.com

Ummmm, no.

I’ll stick with McClatchey

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Peadawg — ““Fishy” and “Monica Lewinsky” in the same sentence. Eeeeewwwwwww.”

Oy. I did not realize I was posting that and I apologize if anyone was offended by it.

But it is kinda funny, now that Peadawg has pointed it out. Huh huh huh huh huh.

/beavisandbutthead

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He has done absolutely zero for Atlanta .

Who needs ANY facts, data, evidence, quotes or links?

I’m a Republican and I will absolutely take this blogger’s word for it!!

(Besides, it is so much easier than actually reading anything credible!)

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All it takes to make the con’s heads explode is speak the truth.

Great job Mayor Reed.]

Self deport cons.

Love it or leave it.

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THAT’s the real question.

The real question in my mind is will you stomp your foot and walk off in a huff vowing to never return again like you did on four other occasions, or will you commit blog suicide like you did last time?

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I told you facts don’t matter this cycle.

The Mayor speaking the truth is just more proof.

This election is the sane Americans vs the insane cons.

Sanity will prevail.

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And I’m certain that not a single con here will read that Rolling Stones article and even attempt to debate its contents. To do so would require more than they can muster, collectively.

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The DHS better get ready after the cons lose again.

Just look at their heads exploding on the truth.

Wait until they lose again to see them go all the way off.

Good blogging times.

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“TAMPA – President Obama is tapping Senator John F. Kerry to deliver a speech focused on national security issues during the closing night of next week’s Democratic National Convention.”

Huh?

I thought Joey B. was the foreign policy genius.

I guess he’s still at an undisclosed location…

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“And I’m certain that not a single con here will read that Rolling Stones article and even attempt to debate its contents. ”

You’re right about me.

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Ok, say you get what you wish for! What is the President goals for the next four years? Please list them with sources. I am eager to read what is in store for America..

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More spineless Republican’s in action !!!!!!

Two people were ejected from the Republican National Convention when they threw nuts at a black CNN camera woman and said “this is how we feed animals,” the network said Wednesday.

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RB, this is what I’m speaking about.

http://www.examiner.com/article/unc-study-bush-administration-blocked-efforts-to-control-housing-crisis

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/study-bush-administration-blocked-att

I objected to your earlier construction because I didn’t bring up President Clinton in regards to this, and AFAIK, he wasn’t involved in it anyway.

In any event, I think you know that I didn’t vote for Clinton either time. I voted for Perot in ‘92 and Dole in ‘96, so bringing up Clinton won’t get you any traction with me.

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I think the dems should mention bush every five minutes at their convention since the gop refuse to even say his name.

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Jefferson

August 29th, 2012
1:45 pm
Do you have a job? If you are working what needs do you have?

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…how does he expect anyone Jack to take him seriously?

Even when he speaks the absolute truth about the Teab@gger’s fave darling, Paul “Spendaholic” Ryan.

Like I said, morally bankrupt…

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“President Obama is tapping Senator John F. Kerry to deliver a speech focused on national security issues during the closing night of next week’s Democratic National Convention.”

Yes, Kerry will be discussing how best to provide aid and comfort to the enemy.

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Let’s hear it for Yahoo news capping their BIASED Washington DC news director for his hot mic comments about the Romney’s last night. Typical crap from the left. Make it look like the Repubs are the party of the rich, white people. How? By not showing Mia Love and Artur Davis speak at the convention. QUICK…cut to Rachel, Chris and Al for a quick roundtable discussion. That’s what I call dog whistle racism..if we don’t show it…it didn’t happen. Check the NBC Politics video page from last night and please link either Love’s or Davis’ speech. Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Rolling Stone is about as a legitimate news source as US magazine. I guess they forgot to ask Bill Clinton about his opinion on Bain Capital and Romney’s record there. Of course they did. IT DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE.

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This is the GOP today…

http://www.thenation.com/blog/169619/liars-poker-gopers-make-stuff-how-will-media-respond

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Recon — “Yes, Kerry will be discussing how best to provide aid and comfort to the enemy.”

Why on earth would you say something like that?

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“Why on earth would you say something like that?”

Consider the source

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Another huge accomplishment for our President is being reported today.

“Obama pushes fuel economy way up

A formal agreement with automakers and unions sets a nearly unthinkable goal for mileage in 2025.”

Can’t run on his record is just another con lie.

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“He b– he voted for every budget b– busting measure under President Bush.”

Way to keep it classy, Reed!

Throwing around the “b” word right and left sure doesn’t make you or Atlanta look any better.

I guess he just hates women…

Please submit an apology by day’s end.

Thank you,

moonbat betty

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Joe “RB — “Joe, I don’t suppose you’d care to support your claim Bush blocked states attempts to tighten mortgage rules which were mostly put in place by Clinton would you?”

No, I certainly wouldn’t. Because that’s not what I said.”

 
Joe at 12:15 “I do wish that he hadn’t intervened when states tried to implement tougher mortgage documentation policies before the meltdown…”
 
No need to reply Joe.  We all know your routine when you get caught lying here just about every day. (laughing, pointing…..haha)  You’re a joke, Joe.  And not a very smart one.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2012-08-29/donors-invest-millions-in-romney-for-billions-in-returns.html

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John kerry – fought in vietnam, small boat
Previous president – MIA in alabama guard reserve unit, grounded

Who’s the hero and who’s the pet goat?

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RB — “No need to reply Joe. We all know your routine when you get caught lying here just about every day. (laughing, pointing…..haha) You’re a joke, Joe. And not a very smart one.”

Once again, RB shoots himself in the foot. (laughing)

Sorry, RB. As I already pointed out, I made no claim in reference to Clinton — that was wholly and completely an add-on that you made. As you are, of course, wont to do, given your oft-demonstrated dishonesty.

Bush *did* block attempts by states to implement tougher mortgage lending standards. However — and I already said this in-thread — AFAIK, Clinton had nothing to do with it. See my 1:49 for details.

You even obligingly reproduce my quote, clearly displaying the fact that I didn’t bring up Clinton — you did. Well done! (laughing, pointing)

When you’d like to man up and apologize for trying to misrepresent what I said, RB, I’ll be right here waiting.

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Bush is gone!

But loser Republicans, like the ones on this forum, would vote his sorry, incompetent ass right back in tomorrow if they could. And not think the first thing about it.

Right?

Of course you would, Williebeblind.

That is how little credibility YOU have.

Kam. LOL at Jm’s new “disguise”.

He’s the blog’s Inspector Clouseau, but without any of the wit or charm…

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Granny, do you still beat your husband?

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Compromise, not to mention he kept thowing around the “b” word like it was a Ludacris rap.

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So Reed skewers Ryan for supporting the $700 billion bailout of the banksters, the bailout of the loathed (by cons) General Motors, the two unfunded wars – one of choice alone, not necessity – and
Compromise thinks they are rehearsed talking points???????

Spenadholic Republicans trying to be taken seriously on economic matters.

If not so damn tragic for the republic, it would all be comical…

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Sounds like we’re gonna need some Barry White in the blog.

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Compromise — “These comments come off as jibber jabber if you are trying to say Ryan isn’t a serious minded person. You can be for the auto bailout and be serious. He should say that America should pay for the war in Afghanistan? Not serious when we were funding the war in Iraq?”

President Bush routinely funded both wars via “Emergency Supplemental Spending Measures” each year he was in office (and this continued through most of 2009), and Congress let it happen. Don’t you suppose that Congress realized that the wars were going to have to be funded? Why then, didn’t they insist on having those items in the budget instead of funded by some damnfool “emergency” measure. Did they think the wars were going to end by the last day of September each year?

I am just as upset at Democrats who went along with that douche-baggery as I am at Republicans who did.

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Kam. LOL at Jm’s new “disguise”.

Brother AmVet

I’m still LOLing at she who has stomped off in a huff four times before.

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Meeting. Back later. RB, see if you can develop some ethical standards while I’m away, willya?

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Sometimes it’s b-troll, and other times it’s B-troll.

Again — if you’re gonna do the sock-puppet thingie, it’s always a good idea to check the spelling when you sign back in.

Just suggestin’.

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………………. and how about that African American who seconded Obama’s nomination during the 2008 Democrat Convention speaking at the Republican Convention ! Pretty cool huh !

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moonbat betty

liver onions and sauerkraut….

Of german ancestry?

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Could there be a better example of super-rich arrogance than the image of millionaire Romney donors partying on a mega-yacht registered — for tax avoidance reasons — in the Cayman islands… during the Republican convention? Come on — simply as metaphor, the very notion reeks so egregiously of entitlement and elitism that one can’t imagine Romney’s campaign managers allowing such a thing to happen. Right? But ABC News has the scoop, and it’s a good one:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/romney-party-yacht-flies-cayman-islands-flag/story?id=17105028#.UD5nC8EiZ8H

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Brave Brave Sir Digits, I am always glad to hope for the parties embracing more diversity. Hopefully the GOP will make this a real opportunity to truly consider diversity. The GOP’s record is not good as your post clearly recognizes.

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Compromise, countless hard working, tax paying, play by the rules, patriotic American citizens – some of them veterans who were also Occupy protesters – asked the question, “Why a bailout for Wall Street? When they CAUSED the meltdown. And where is the bailout for the people on main street and the victims of those crimes?”

As for the not serious part, it was pretty obvious that Reed was damning Paul and his willfully ignorant acolytes for NOT being serious about fiscal responsibility.

The GOP’s disgraceful, documented track record over the past thirty years or more speaks for itself.

And it is much louder that the endlessly echoed claptrap contending otherwise.

Yep Kam, fortunately that one is done for good over here.

Now if the always valorous Jm will just self-immolate in support!

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They BOTH suck:

I have to disagree with your analysis and prefer to say he “saw the light” !

That said, I can’t watch much of the Conventions either. Both sides tell you want they think you want to hear ………….. there is little pure honesty.

I would love to see a presidential candidate stand up and say, “this is what I believe ……………… and if you don’t like that don’t vote for me” ………….. and mean it !

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Good Fight:

Never (NEVER) substitute random diversity for truth ………….. not matter the cost.

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Yep Kam, fortunately that one is done for good over here.

Au contraire, brother AmVet. She has returned.

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Scout

We will just agree to disagree. They both just so happened to “see the light” after being pushed to the back by their respective parties.

Of course I do not know either one, however the timing is a little strange for me.

Thanks for the exchange

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Will someone Please tell Me why it took ” BIG BOY” last night (18) eighteen whole minutes before he even said “MITT”. if I did not know any better the incarnate of the Republican Elephant Christie, was speaking for HIMSELF!

Then to see Mitt sitting to the left of Condi ” I see Mushroom Clouds ” Rice sitting there as if she was extremely CONSTIPATED. Which I have no doubt that she WAS!

That Photo was worth a THOUSAND WORDS of them together!

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I was never gone, Francis.

Talk about having zero powers of observation.

So the B-Grade actor/troll Jm took on this dufus new name because people were making fun of him?

Jeez, I have seen it all now.

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The BOTH suck:

You’re welcome sir.

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and why do you guys always call each other “brother blogger name”?

Are ya’ll in some kind of religious cult or something?

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Jay You would not Be “PIMPING” your Readers OUT on this article Today, would you?

A Pimp will tell the street walkers anything he wants them to believe.

There are many here, who remain silent but are paying Very Close attention to what is being reported and said “Here”.

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Kam, true but her visits here are as short as her intellectual honesty is small.

She is now relegated to the putrid world of Lil BB, Tibbydave and the other enraged sociopaths.

I did LMAO when the host recently told Dusty that he was gonna help her keep her word about never coming back her and kicked her out…

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Keep – “b” word:

That is not very nice thing to say (at least for some people).

Perhaps you should watch the video before making up stupid sh*t

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Kam, I would say its a bunch of whale vomit…but it turns out, whale vomit has real value. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/charlie-naysmith-whale-vomit_n_1837241.html

Not sure how that impacts the value of lox vomit.

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just a “b” sound…..

Puts me in mind of Rick “bla” people Santorum.

Classic.

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“Are ya’ll in some kind of religious cult or something?”

Blog power!

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Keep and Kam,

It was the auto-censor, b- brothers.

You know the blue nosed b- bot.

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They BOTH suck:

I hear you but I believe they leave an opening for extreme cases:

“Paul J. Surlis writes that Church teaching on the death penalty has been in transition.[1] The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that the death penalty is permissible in cases of extreme gravity. The Church teaches that capital punishment is allowed if the “guilty party’s identity and responsibility have been fully determined” and if the death penalty is the only way to defend others against the guilty party.

However, if there are other means available to defend people from the “unjust aggressor”, these means are preferred to the death penalty because they are considered to be more respectful of the dignity of the person and in keeping with the common good.[2](2267)

Because today’s society makes possible effective means for preventing crime without execution, the Catechism declares that “the cases in which execution of the offender is an absolute necessity ‘are very rare, if practically nonexistent.’”[2]

In his encyclical Evangelium Vitae published in 1995, Pope John Paul II removed this public safety qualification and declared that, in today’s modern society, capital punishment can scarcely ever be condoned.[1]”

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

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getalife, oh no!

Terrible, terrible news.

At least we have a competent, morally sound president in office this time…

Ahem, as depraved and disgusting as those comments are, they are NOT the words of a longstanding United States Congressman who has enormous power and influence in this country.

They are more typical of bloggers – including MANY Republicans at Cynthia Tucker’s and even here and Wingfield’s.

That is the difference.

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is that who I think it is?

Yes, and she has returned.

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is that who I think it is?

Sounds like (#-1)(#-1)

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Ruh, roh.

After repeatedly touting his business experience as an asset towards reviving the U.S. economy, Mitt Romney has been put on the defensive by Bain Capital workers who are fighting back against the outsourcing of their jobs. One hundred seventy workers at a Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport, Illinois — of which Bain is the majority owner — are calling on Romney to help save their jobs from being shipped to China. The factory manufactures sensors and controls that are used in aircraft and automobiles, but has been dismantling and shipping the plant to China piece by piece — even as it requires the workers to train personally their Chinese replacements, who have been flown in by management.

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NEWSFLASH–NEWSFLASH–NEWSFLASH

Another Libtard chokes to death on filet of sole. The bodies stack up as these loons come unhinged at the prospect of Obama’s defeat and the rise of a more conservative America. And as we know from statisical data; more Americans identify with being conservative than any other ilk.

David Chalian, the Yahoo News Washington Bureau chief, has been fired after getting caught claiming that “they” — Mitt Romney and his fellow Republicans — “are happy to have a party with black people drowning.”

“David Chalian’s statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo!. He has been terminated effective immediately. We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offended.”

But as we all know from the Todd Akin episode, this is clear proof that the entire Yahoo organization feels exactly the same as the idiot that made the remark, which Yahoo is trying to pass off as an off color joke.

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Thanks betty.

Now,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUlU105lkgs

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DAWG POUND – …The profits made from Wall Street banks and the Car industry specifically are in the 10s of billions which far covers the losses…

umm… GM stock has to about dbl for the govt to break even on that deal.

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lol, Kam!

“The Jags”

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Behave moonbat.

This blog needs at least one moonbat.

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get, Kam knows I’m just kidding.

We’re b- brothers.

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Well, at least Obama can add, “Saved New Orleans from destruction” to his resume (hopefully).

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If Eastwood is guest speaker at GOP convention, all I can say is: awesome

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““Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday said that it’s time to change leadership in the White House in order to restore American leadership on the world stage.””

Lol, by all means restore American leadership to the world stage Bush and Condi enjoyed.

The world was so thrilled to see Bush and Condi leave the world stage they gave Obama a Nobel Peace prize just for not being Bush.

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Seems not many are happy with Christie’s performance, Kam…. Chris Wallace especially.

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Cruz is pathetic. His responses would be right at home on this blog. Maybe that’s why so many conservatives identify with him.

“Paul Ryan was part of the profligate spending under Pres Bush, Mr. Cruz, so why does the Tea Party adore him when he was part of the problem?”

Cruz’s thoughtful response, “Well, Obama….”

eyeroll, eyeroll, eyeroll.

Followed by “the Senate, for three years, hasn’t had a budget.”

This guy’s gonna be my senator. I wonder if he’ll ever get around to reading the Constitution? I’m surprised Gregory let that one slip by.

So when Cruz kept asking “did Obama do any of that?” Reed should have said “No. So you’re happy with a VP who in your mind is just like Obama, eh?”

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Now HERE’s the Rpeublican Convention we all expected –
finally something typical happened at the Inclusion Illusion –

from AP & CNN
Two people were ejected from the Republican National Convention when
attendees threw nuts at a black CNN camera woman and said “this is
how we feed animals,” the network said Wednesday.

stay classy, Republicans

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During Tuesday’s trial [SC trial regarding voting right act], critics who charge that [SC] voter ID is designed to disenfranchise minority voters appeared to have scored an important victory when they presented the law’s author state Rep. Alan Clemmons (R), with racist emails he received while drafting the legislation:

Beeney asked Clemmons how he had replied to this email. Clemmons hesitated a moment before answering, “It was a poorly considered response when I said, ‘Amen, Ed, thank you for your support.’”

Now Brave Brave Sir Digits, this is what will get you labled a racist.

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“If Eastwood is guest speaker at GOP convention, all I can say is: awesome”

Funny how Republicans hate, hate hate, Hollywood.

That is of course when its not Ronald Reagan, Fred Thompson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sonny Bono, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Donald Trump, or Charlton Heston, .

I hear Honey Bo Bo will be speaking after Eastwood.

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RB — “Sorry Joe. Everybody can read what you posted and knows you once again got busted for lying.”

Nope. Once again you misrepresented what I said. It’s a shame that you can’t be honest about what I actually posted.

“No amount of your silliness changes that.”

No amount of your dissembling and dishonesty changes the fact that what I said was different from what you asked me to defend.

“If you’d still like to back up your claim about Bush, go ahead.”

Already did that ahead of you and already referred you to it. See my 1:49.

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” bush got re-elected as bad as he was..”

Yes, he destroyed our country and cons voted for it.

Not too bright are they union?

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“Attendees Shout Down Delegate from Puerto Rico in Rude Incident”

Incident? doesn’t that imply ‘incidental’? atypical of the norm?

i’d say “stay classy Republicans” again, but well, you know…

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Danny, paradoxically, they hate the Hollywood and TV actors, yet they FLOCK to their movies and programs and line those actor’s pockets with gold!

As for Eastwood, it was only a scant few months ago that Lush Rimjob and his millions of minions were all puking at the sight of Clint.

Remember this one, fake conservatives?

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/02/07/the_clint_eastwood_ad_is_right_it_s_time_to_come_together_and_defeat_liberalism

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TOM

A new twist on class warfare, eh?

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Clint Eastwood belongs to the SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS…

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Reed is playing to his base by parroting the days liberal talking points. He knows they aren’t intelligent enough to understand the intricacies of American politics today and no matter what “side” you are on, there is always another side. Jay, judging by your and Luckovich’s last few contributions to the sheets it certainly appears you two are getting really, really nervous. In fact you appear to be absolutely shrill. In the end Jay, this time, no matter who the winner is, they will in the end turn out to be hated losers because of the damage that Obama and his band of dim witted advisors have done in 3.5 short years. I also blame Bush and the damage he did by his capitulation to a liberal congress.

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Where are the partisan rangers?

Why, we’re hidin out in the deep woods of an island off the coast
of New Somalia, just waitin fer the signal…
with our Che’ berets on…
whoaa! look out!….incoming!
its one of those little white balls again!

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Tom(Independent Viet Vet,USAF)

August 29th, 2012
4:32 pm
I hope the Repubs are more gracious to Michelle Obama than the Democrats were to Ann Romney but I guess we already know which side has more class!

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You have seen what has been said about FLOTUS by some of the GOP correct?

You’ll have to show us a link where Mrs Romney has had to deal with
that same level of treatment or your just blowin’ smoke.

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And Jay, if I were you I would never write a piece in support of an Atlanta mayor. Corruption seems to be intrinsic and to be a pre-requisite for that position.

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I guess if Obama wins, more jobs building roads, bridges and govt work will be available. College degrees will not be necessary! If Romney wins, my guess is more jobs like IT positions, engineers, etc in private market requiring degrees. Which is the educated work-force of the future? I guess my biggest concern though, is that Cons think of the future of their children and grandkids and the National Debt. Libs(correct me if I am wrong) think of RIGHT NOW IT IS ABOUT ME) and no concern over our exploding National Debt?

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,i>If Romney wins, my guess is more jobs like IT positions, engineers, etc in private market requiring degrees.

Yep.

In Bangalore. Mumbai and Delhi…

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Tom

Got news for you on the IT jobs (edumicated ones) have been offshored to the cheapest labor.

If they couldn’t be Bush has allowed about 750,000 H1b visa holders here to fill them (until they can be offshored).

Do you speak Hindi?

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Jam

Don’t forget Manilla. Another one that is starting to be a recipient of off shoring

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Jamvet – Good one, can I send you an application for a position in one of those countries? Or is your heart set on still residing in Iran?

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Kasim does very well in this type of format. Obviously, Mr. Ryan is being over touted as some kind of reformer when the proposals he is making in slashing the top tax bracket is utterly ridiculous in terms of fiscal responsibility. If you can’t balance the budget until 2040, then you can’t even begin to pay the debt; ironically, the Republicans have the stupid number increasing on a board during the convention; why don’t they just show the number if the Ryan budget were to pass, it’s astronomical! When is anybody going to give a truthful, honest proposal for any of these things. I could propose balanced budget rather quickly, but all of the interest groups would howl and the members of both parties would run for shelter. Remember, we not only need to balance the budget, but we actually have to pay the debt! That can’t even start until you balance the budget…Ryan’s some kind of hero for balancing the budget in 2040 and giving the fat cat supporters of the Rove fund a huge tax break in the process? That’s worthy of a two syllable PUH-LEEEEZE!

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getalife — “Yes, they have a flood up to their roofs like Katrina. Rescuing people from their roofs again.”

I heard Billy Nungesser (?) interviewed on NPR about 6:30 this morning and the flooding had apparently already commenced by then.

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getalife
August 29th, 2012
4:47 pm

“Funny, if we want to know how to lose two occupations, collapse the global economy, blow out a balanced budget with a surplus we will give you a call con.”

the eu is doing all they can to benefit the global economy.. but i digress.. (you know what they say about never arguing with an idiot) also.. never assume someone is something they might not be.. its not polite to profile..

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but i digress.. (you know what they say about never arguing with an idiot)

The very reason I generally ignore your drivel.

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Joe

Are you as offended as I am that Tom didn’t choose us along with Jam And Both.

BooHoo I’m crushed LOL

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Oh, and SHEETS!

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Rescuing white folks this time.

Were the white Republicans standing on their rooftops yelling to the rescuers to just drop them a new pair of bootstraps to replace the ones that got washed away.

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union,

Whaaa.

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K’CHAK

It worked!

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Tom, I love everything about this country. I have great things to say about her all of the time. Her people, her government, her natural resources, her future.

You on the other hand have never once writeten anything good about her at all.

Enjoy Teheran, you’ll find tons of fellow Uncle Sam haters there!

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You go Reed, the backwood rep Georgians conservatives dont get, just maybe the other states will, somebody has to stand up to these hypocrites of the tea party””””

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Kasim Reed has an unusual and unexpected solid punch in his debating posture. I first notice it when he would come to the television station to answer questions when most of us would have wanted to hide. O has a lot of this, let get it on spirit in him, he went to a Republican retreat, a few years ago, practically by himself to discuss the Congress passing some bills. Romney is a hider who takes his meals in a closet. Obama and Reed truly look like they enjoy the heat, not worried they are going to be trapped saying the wrong thing. I have said often this contest is over when O debates Romney, the contrast in mental ability of the two is way in the favor of Obama. Reed ain’t bad either. Seldom will you catch these nuvo politicians on the right taking on someone in the middle straight up, I think the “mayor” title fooled Ted Cruz and again after watching Perry debating doesn’t seem to be a Texans strong point. anyway

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In terms of foreign policy, Romney/Ryan would be total disasters.

As has been pointed out repeatedly, he even has some of the (W)orst Ever’s “advisers” on his staff.

More deadly stupidity and utterly botched invasions and occupations emanating from Washington is EXACTLY what this country does not need right now.

The lives of America’s children cannot be trusted to men like these.

Unfit to lead…

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No, and that is why I voted against him and will do so again in November.

But the fact is, he is MUCH less deadly and incompetent in those matters than the Bush/Romney/Chambliss neocons…

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Kasim is the guy that can not get a one percent sales tax passed, right? But now he is an expert on national politics. That is funny. Giving Bugs Bunny a hard time as VP would be hilarious when your guy is Biden. And by the way, Biden’s racist comments were exceedingly condescending towards blacks; that is obvious to any sentient being.

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