Michelle Obama and modern American identity
Last night, Michelle Obama delivered what by many accounts was the best speech not just of the opening night of the Democratic Convention but of either convention to date. As David Gergen put it on CNN, “If they have two more nights like this, they can probably break this race open.”
Gergen’s enthusiasm aside, statements by spouses do not swing elections. (The exception may have been Hillary Clinton’s 1992 rescue operation on “60 Minutes,” in which she stalwartly defended her husband against philandering charges.) But in her well-written, well-delivered speech, the current First Lady nonetheless accomplished something important, reminding a rapt audience in Charlotte and tens of millions watching at home that she and her husband are very much in the modern American mainstream, drawing upon this nation’s traditional values to guide both their private lives as well as their political sentiments.
Even those who disagree strongly with those political sentiments should be able to acknowledge that Obama and his wife are quintessentially, honestly American, and that Obama’s story reflects much of what is best about this nation. Whatever their final verdict of his presidency, for example, historians will marvel that the first black person elected to the White House was elected just seven years after the attacks of 2001, and that he was named Barack Hussein Obama. They will attribute that success, quite accurately, to an American generosity of spirit, a true example of American exceptionalism, even as they are also forced to note the sour paranoia that it inspired in some quarters.
As Obama himself put it in a 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention, “I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on earth is my story even possible.”
That’s the part that some conservatives cannot accept. To acknowledge that Barack Obama is just as American as they are is to acknowledge the ways in which their America has changed, and they cannot bring themselves to embrace those changes. In their minds, to do so would be to lose an America that has already gone, transformed into something still true to its roots but recognizably different, as it has always been different.
Instead, they flock in large numbers to the demogogic “2016: Obama’s America,” seeking reassurance — no matter how absurd — that this Obama is indeed something different, something unAmerican and even anti-American, and that their own deep-set suspicions are valid.
That is not the Obama that most of their fellow citizens see. It was certainly not the person whom his wife described to them last night. And it’s sad. Those who instinctively reject not just Obama’s policies — which are of course subject to fierce and honest debate — but Obama as an American are in fact alienating themselves from their own country. They are defining themselves out of its mainstream, and by doing so they lose what they are trying so passionately to retain.
– Jay Bookman
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Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:13 pm
http://www.inquisitr.com/321491/are-you-better-off-hashtag-backfires-on-gop/
Joe Hussein Mama
September 5th, 2012
2:13 pm
Billybob — “mick, classic that a dem like you now blames the republicans for obamacare….very enligtening”
Dude, you haven’t been paying attention. The public mandate was originally Newt’s/Heritage Foundation’s idea. Romneycare is simply Obamacare on a state basis. Other than that, there’s no substantive difference.
Even further, cap-and-trade was a Republican idea, but now that the Democrats have warmed to it, the GOP can’t run away from it fast enough.
You really need to do some reading and thinking of your own, IMO — instead of just buying into what you’re told. Some of the Democratic programs you’re raging about were *Republican* ideas *first.*
And y’all said you wanted us to listen to and adopt some of your ideas. But see what y’all do when that happens?
Aquagirl
September 5th, 2012
2:13 pm
Google I am just a bill on capital hill and learn something
And after that we can all sing the Preamble.
Mister.Earl
September 5th, 2012
2:14 pm
Billy Bob – wrong again. I graduated from Cornell. You know, one of those Communist, elite, snobby places with an unranked football team.
SFX; imitation barking. Go Dawgs!
Watch Fox News for the truth. You guys slay me.
Is it just me or is Paul Ryan a dead ringer for Eddie Munster?
Obama 2012
jms
September 5th, 2012
2:14 pm
People are tired of the grandstanding, Getalife
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:14 pm
make light, i want to protect unborn babies and your side wants and advocates the right to kill them based on ‘whatever’ they deem the reason to be……
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:16 pm
obama and the dems instituting a gov’t takeover of 16% of our economy, called obamacare,
Debunked:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/dec/16/lie-year-government-takeover-health-care/
(Before they started in on “fairness bias”)
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:16 pm
huh,
Killing is killing.
You can’t be pro life and pro war .
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:16 pm
Billybob: i can define every term you wrote adam…..
Oh, by all means, please DO.
DON’T WAIT FOR THE GOOGLE! DO IT NOW!
We Love Our First Lady - The FLOTUS with the Mostest
September 5th, 2012
2:17 pm
@Jm
September 5th, 2012
2:00 pm
Obama: all hat, no cattle
***************************************************
Romney: all religious (bloomers) underwear, no subtance.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:18 pm
jms,
People are sick of the lying gop and you cons never hold them accountable for collapsing the global economy.
Huh?
September 5th, 2012
2:18 pm
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:16 pm
Who’s pro war?
U been drinking today?
jms
September 5th, 2012
2:19 pm
“The Cons love to say that Our President was “dealt a bad hand” back in 2008 — they don’t want to say that he was given a DISASTER because of the Cons’ DISASTROUS policies for 8 years:
— 2 wars that were not paid for;
— 2 tax cuts to the wealthy that were not paid for;
— losing 700,000+ American jobs every month…”
Bush was irresponsible to support tax cuts and spending hikes. We need to reverse the tax cuts and slash spending.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:19 pm
Go ahead and tell your children they are worse off because you could not hold your party accountable cons.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 5th, 2012
2:20 pm
billybob — “make light, i want to protect unborn babies”
By telling women that they can’t make their own medical decisions?
I’m pretty sure the Taliban use that “protect” excuse to justify making women stay home, keeping them from school and clothing them in those gunnysacks. That’s some interesting moral company you keep, billybob.
We Love Our First Lady - The FLOTUS with the Mostest
September 5th, 2012
2:20 pm
@Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:14 pm
make light, i want to protect unborn babies and your side wants and advocates the right to kill them based on ‘whatever’ they deem the reason to be……
**************************************************************************************
BILLYBOY
When was the last TIME you SAVED A LIVING CHILD?
When was the last TIME you FED A STARVING CHILD?
When was the last TIME you CLOTHED A LVING CHILD?
If the answer is NEVER…….YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:20 pm
“Bush was irresponsible”
w was a disaster and ryan voted for it.
Hold your party accountable .
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:21 pm
no thanks adam…..
an innocent unborn child and terrorists or enemies that want to kill us are totally different things getalife
mister.earl,
are you still in the bubble? i have many friends who are and acknowledge they are and stand by it. do you?
Peadawg
September 5th, 2012
2:22 pm
“Bush was irresponsible to support tax cuts and spending hikes.”
Yup. And so was Obama.
Goldie
September 5th, 2012
2:23 pm
The Cons are not really “pro-life” — they are pro-fetus… and that’s different because once that baby comes out of the womb, lotsa luck to his family because that baby is on his own to make his way thru their Con world, with no public school or school lunch, no food stamps, no medical care…
There’s a very clear choice in 2012 about where we want America to go next — Forward! We Won’t Go Back!
DannyX
September 5th, 2012
2:24 pm
“an innocent unborn child and terrorists or enemies that want to kill us are totally different things getalife”
Those terrorist Iraqi babies are just plain evil.
jms
September 5th, 2012
2:24 pm
“People are sick of the lying gop and you cons never hold them accountable for collapsing the global economy.”
No I think you’re sick of the “lying GOP, blah, blah, blah.” You’re too partisan to realize how ridiculus you and Jay sound always harping about how the GOP is evil and always wrong and the Dems are good and always right. It’s not that simple.
As I said, people are tired of all the talk from this administration. They want a leader.
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:25 pm
no thanks adam…..
Billybob, this is what we call not “putting up” when challenged. I have every reason to believe that you do not know the definitions of most of those words.
I’ll throw you a freebie. What’s a capitalist? No Googling….
Goldie
September 5th, 2012
2:25 pm
“i want to protect unborn babies ”
Of course you do — as long as they stay unborn! Admit it Con.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:25 pm
You are a con huh.
cons love war.
DannyX
September 5th, 2012
2:26 pm
“As I said, people are tired of all the talk from this administration. They want a leader.”
If Republicans truly believed that they never would never have nominated flip flop Romney.
Goldie
September 5th, 2012
2:26 pm
America is definitely better off today than we were 4 years ago — disastrous times in 2008!
Donovan
September 5th, 2012
2:26 pm
I don’t know which was more brutal to watch…the Braves last night or your convention. Mommy-in-Chief? Oh, good Lord! Please, stop with all the love fest gimmicks, y’all.
I know that it was all about preaching to the choir, but the American taxpayers deserve better than the shallow hype given by the DNC. Mainstream theme? Since when is Marxism and Obamacare mainstream? When was the last time you saw Godzilla cheerlead well past her morning blog?
The point is…Elvis has left the building. The dew is off the rose. Ratings for your convention is rock bottom. America has had enough of your elected failure. As of yesterday, Obama was to give his acceptance speech in Bank of America Stadium , which holds 70,000 seats, Rain or Shine. As of today, that speech will now be moved into an auditorium of 20,000 seats. No, it’s not because of weather. It’s because of not being able to fill the stadium with enough Democrats who want to hear an empty suit.
Hey, I can’t make this stuff up. Read the writing on the wall. You guys are the only ones with blinders on and the diminishing ones who are in denial. Just like the Braves chances of winning the WS, it’s time for you all to join them in singing, Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over.
TaxPayer
September 5th, 2012
2:26 pm
I see the Akin supporters are here today.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:27 pm
pea learned nothing as usual.
YOU DON’T CUT AFTER A COLLAPSE OR YOU MAKE IT WORSE.
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:27 pm
jms: always harping about how the GOP is evil and always wrong and the Dems are good and always right. It’s not that simple.
Right on!
As I said, people are tired of all the talk from this administration. They want a leader.
….and you were doing SO well….
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:27 pm
jhm,
so by not wanting an unborn child to die and by telling women to step up to the plate and take responsibility for their ‘mistakes’(obama’s words)….that leads your thinking to compare me to the taliban…….that is awesome…..you may want to rethink that thought….either way you’ve got nothing except blindly following the killing of unborn babies in the name of ‘not taking responsibility for your actions’…nice job
Goldie
September 5th, 2012
2:28 pm
Romney/Ryan: “Ready to take our country back… to 1959!”
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:28 pm
Donovan: Since when is Marxism and Obamacare mainstream?
No Googling…. tell us all what Marxism is. Then explain how it’s mainstream now.
jms
September 5th, 2012
2:29 pm
Come out of your bubble Adam. There’s a whole wide world out here.
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:30 pm
goldie….good one….?
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:30 pm
adam,
i’ll send you webster’s if you need it
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:32 pm
people are a product of their environment to a certain point…..
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:33 pm
Billybob: You’re the one who doesn’t know what the terms are. Without Googling OR using your old school paper copy of a dictionary, you should have easily been able to define at least a couple of the terms. You did not. I doubt your ability to do so. But thanks for pretending that you knew. It shows you care…. or something.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:34 pm
“compare me to the taliban”
Radical cons have much in common with the taliban.
The taliban are radical cons too.
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:34 pm
jms: What makes you think I’m in a bubble, and how am I not to conclude that you thinking I am in a bubble is nothing more than psychological projection?
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:35 pm
i can’t wait to see if all the libs here continue to support barrack hussein obama mmm, mmm, mmm after he is no longer in the white house and he is free to travel the world and tell the world his true views of america and its people……
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:35 pm
Jay, we didn’t really expect you to say her speech was anything but glowing. To those of us who are not governed by sheer emotion it doesn’t really matter, nor does anything else that Obama says at this point. I look at results Jay. What Obama has produced is garden variety misery and this country needs someone with experience in something besides agitation.
TaxPayer
September 5th, 2012
2:36 pm
Sounds like the cons need to learn to keep their weiners in their pants in order to insure that no little wigglers die needlessly. The power to save those wigglers is in your hands, cons. Don’ be a bunch of jerkoffs.
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:36 pm
adam,
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:36 pm
-Ideological purity
-Compromise as weakness
-A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
-Denying science
-Unmoved by facts
-Undeterred by new information
-A hostile fear of progress
-A demonization of education
-A need to control women’s bodies
-Severe xenophobia
-Tribal mentality
-Intolerance of dissent
-A pathological hatred of the US government
They can call themselves the Tea Party. They can call themselves Conservatives. And they can even call themselves Republicans. Though Republican’s certainly shouldn’t. But we should call them what they are: The American Taliban.
Goldie
September 5th, 2012
2:37 pm
[CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In a politically savvy move, Democrats on Tuesday used clips from Mitt Rommey's losing 1994 campaign for Senate against the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) in a moving video tribute to Kennedy, who served nearly five decades in the Senate.
Clips shown during the first night of the Democratic National Convention included Romney's now infamous reiteration of his pro-choice position, in which he assured voters, "You will not see me wavering on that." ]
Bwaaa! Romney is not a LEADER — he simply shakes his Etch-A-Sketch whenever necessary for the next election!
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:38 pm
bilbob,
After his second term he will continue serving like Presidents Carter and Clinton.
Where is w serving?
jms
September 5th, 2012
2:38 pm
come on out Adam. You’ll be OK. I promise.
Joe Hussein Mama
September 5th, 2012
2:39 pm
Billybob — “jhm, so by not wanting an unborn child to die”
When you fight as hard for children that are *actually* drawing breath, then I’ll care what you have to say about feti. And not before then.
“and by telling women to step up to the plate and take responsibility for their ‘mistakes’(obama’s words)…”
Who the hell are *you* to ‘tell women’ ANYTHING? Who do you think you are?
“that leads your thinking to compare me to the taliban…….that is awesome…..you may want to rethink that thought…”
I’ve rethought it. You and the Taliban share some similar views on women. And I imagine that you’d treat women the same way if you thought you could get away with it.
“either way you’ve got nothing except blindly following the killing of unborn babies in the name of ‘not taking responsibility for your actions’…”
What a pathetically foolish statement.
What I’ve *got* is greater freedom — the freedom for women to make their own medical decisions. We already know that the GOP’s against that, since they banded together to use state power to FORCE one man — a Mr. Schiavo, of whom you may have heard — to not act in his wife’s best interest.
“nice job”
It’s good to know that you’re in favor of allowing government to interfere in individuals’ private medical decisions. I’m glad we found that out about you before the election, billybob.
JamVet
September 5th, 2012
2:39 pm
Abortion….it is murdering a fetus.
Made up, nonsensical Republispeak.
No educated person takes this kind of stuff seriously….
Seriously.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
September 5th, 2012
2:40 pm
“No one EVER cut their way to prosperity”
-Ronald Reagan
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:40 pm
straitroad,
You failed party focused on getting our President after a collapse.
When will you hold them accountable for this unAmereican action?
Butch Cassidy (I)
September 5th, 2012
2:40 pm
billybob – “either way you’ve got nothing except blindly following the killing of unborn babies in the name of ‘not taking responsibility for your actions’…nice job”
Wow, are you actually trying to blow the election for Romney?
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:40 pm
Brilliant Adam,
you have defined another condition that obamacare can now cover….CADUUAAASTIA…..take a bow!
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:41 pm
No jms,
When will you man up to your failed party?
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:41 pm
And for a video montage of the American Taliban, as explained by a newsman that cannot truly exist in today’s world for fear of being fired: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGAvwSp86hY
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:41 pm
the truth hurts….at least that’s what the sundance kid thinks….
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:42 pm
jms: come on out Adam. You’ll be OK. I promise.
As I thought. Projection. Plain old “I know you are, but what am I” talk from jms.
Butch Cassidy (I)
September 5th, 2012
2:42 pm
straitroad – “this country needs someone with experience in something besides agitation.”
So by experience you mean someone who’s “career” for the last 6 years has been desperately trying to win the Whitehouse?
JamVet
September 5th, 2012
2:42 pm
Donovan: Since when is Marxism and Obamacare mainstream?
Since Joseph McCarthy went Republican mainstream in 1952, and since our fake conservatives are still hopelessly stuck in that year.
Need proof?
Look no further than the mental midgets here AND at that embarrassed and embarrassing loon, Alan West.
Stuck on commie stupid…
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:42 pm
getalife,
when you man up to your failed leader and party….
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:43 pm
getalife,
What are you referring to?
Goldie
September 5th, 2012
2:43 pm
The Grand Ole Party is a misnomer today — they should change their initials to AWP. Get Real!
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:43 pm
The gop and w destroyed our country and the cons are not adult enough to hold them accountable.
Worthless and weak.
Go ahead and tell your children what you have done to their future.
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:44 pm
Butch,
No, that’s not what I mean. Why do you ask?
St Simons - he-ne-ha
September 5th, 2012
2:44 pm
Adam – big fan, but “-Tribal Mentality”?
they’re certainly mental, but they don’t have a shred of tribal in them
Huh?
September 5th, 2012
2:44 pm
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:25 pm
Who the f-ck are you to tell me who or what I am.
Get off your high horse, you preach to everyone here daily about how cons should hold their party accountable. That’s fine but when are you going to hold your party accountable for anything?
I’ve seen you rant multiple times today about how cons lie. That’s great but did your hand cramp when it came time to hold last nights speakers for accountable for the multiple exaggerations and mischaracterizations? Or are those not lies?
Did you throw away all the mirrors in your house or do you just simply avoid them?
Billybob
September 5th, 2012
2:44 pm
jam,
no fake conservative here…..that’s where we are taking the republican party the next few years…..and probably some of the reagan democrats conservative as well…..obama is definitely helping
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:45 pm
getalife,
How is the country destroyed? What did the GOP do to destroy it?
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:46 pm
St Simons: they’re certainly mental, but they don’t have a shred of tribal in them
“With us or against us” binary thinking.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:46 pm
“when you man up to your failed leader and party….”
They are sick of cleaning up your party’s mess.
JamVet
September 5th, 2012
2:47 pm
Please, stop with all the love fest gimmicks, y’all.
No wonder you detest her. A brilliant, wonderful, kind and charming woman. An incredible mom doing GREAT stuff for our wounded warriors and today’s obese children!
She came form an awesome American family! Did you see her mom and brother speak. They are great people!
A wonderful story of very modest people achieving the American dream.
No wonder you are revolted….
Butch Cassidy (I)
September 5th, 2012
2:48 pm
straitroad – “Why do you ask?”
Curiosity mostly. I can understand the Right not wanting Obama to get re-elected. Hell, I wouldn’t be that jazzed myself. But since the alternative is Romney, who’s been shown the door twice previously by his own party but contunues to come back for more, I’d like some insight into the revelation that now makes him the savior of the free world.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:48 pm
“How is the country destroyed? What did the GOP do to destroy it?”
Dang that is ignorant.
Go back and look at the big pile of stinking crap w handed our President and learn something.
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:48 pm
getalife, something tells me after viewing some of your rants that you might be too emotional to reason with. Blaming others in life for your failures will get you no where.
jms
September 5th, 2012
2:49 pm
“jms: come on out Adam. You’ll be OK. I promise.
As I thought. Projection. Plain old “I know you are, but what am I” talk from jms.”
Maybe you’re projecting projection onto me? Hmmm….this could get confusing.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:49 pm
huh,
Melt down.
JamVet
September 5th, 2012
2:50 pm
No fake conservative?
Yet you voted for George and Dick, twice??!!
The biggest fake conservative Republicans ever??!! The spendaholics uber-liberal neocons who are widely viewed amongst the Jewish American community as mental lightweights?
And now you are going to vote for another? The socialist RINO from Massachusetts?
Oh my goodness, talk about mass confusion out there on the fringe…
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:50 pm
Butch,
Romney wasn’t my ideal choice but in presidential elections the choice is usually bad and worse. I’ll take Romney in this scenario.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:50 pm
straitroad ,
You have no clue about you are talking about.
jms
September 5th, 2012
2:51 pm
“No jms,
When will you man up to your failed party?”
I wouldn’t exactly call them my party but I do think they have a better grasp of the economic fundamentals.
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:51 pm
but did your hand cramp when it came time to hold last nights speakers for accountable for the multiple exaggerations and mischaracterizations? Or are those not lies?
Of the so called “fact checking” lists, I found only ONE fact check to have any real merit: the 4.5 million jobs claim.
It is actually TRUE that women make 77% of what men do. The fact checkers would have us believe that this FACT isn’t real because not everyone who pays women less INTENDS to pay women less. That’s absurd.
It is TRUE that during Romney’s tenure as governor MA was 47th in job creation, but a focus on wordsmithing and semantics makes it somehow not true and intentionally makes Romney look better as a governor than he actually was (in his last year MA was 28th, let’s forget where he was before that).
FURTHER:
-Democrats say Romney will increase taxes on middle class families, based on a Tax Policy Center report that said it is one of his possible choices if he is to keep his impossible promise, but since Romney PROMISED that he wouldn’t do that, we take him at his word and Democrats are lying.
-”Gutting” Pell Grants, mentioned only once, we take Ryan at his word that he wouldn’t reduce the max amount even though he has also said he would leave it up to Congress to work out the details and THEN CBO could score it, but not before. We are also to believe that the word “gutting” when used by Democrats is different than the word “gutting” when used by Republicans to describe Medicare cuts and defense sequestering. What I’m trying to say is that the media fact checking on this particular thing seems like a reach based on their handling of similar statements from the Republican side, in which they basically agree that “gutting” is accurate for them, but not for Democrats.
-Romney’s government bailout – not speaking to it. Requires more research. But probably not worth much as a talking point and unlikely to remain as a major force anyway.
-$6,400, an accurate “up to” amount based on Ryan’s 2011 plan, which he and Romney SAY they have redone and have made “more generous.” No evidence exists to support their counter to this, and playing word semantics on whether or not we mean the current plan or Ryan’s last plan which is also basically the same as his 2010 plan seems like a deliberate “benefit of the doubt” argument again, leading us to believe that somehow, after two solid plans that show this exact figure, Ryan changed his mind and Romney/Ryan are totally with you all now.
-Democrats vs Republicans in historical references to racism and social issues – more semantics. Attempting to pick this one apart is an attempt to make it seem as though the Democratic Party of now is the KKK embracing party of old, while simultaneously giving the Republican party of now credit for ending slavery and a few votes on the Voting Rights Act. It blurs the line between conservative and liberal ideals. Liberals intend to include more people in voting and citizenry and conservatives, historically and some today, seek to exclude or diminish voting rights and citizenry.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:52 pm
“grasp of the economic fundamentals”
Funny.
Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:53 pm
jms: Maybe you’re projecting projection onto me? Hmmm….this could get confusing.
Don’t hurt yourself….
“You see, I knew that he knew that I knew that I would switch the glasses, so I put the poison in his glass! But if he knew that I knew that he knew that I knew…..”
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:53 pm
getalife,
We just have different outlooks on life. I don’t think you’re very well versed past what you read on this blog or what Obama tells you. But that’s ok.
Huh?
September 5th, 2012
2:55 pm
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:49 pm
Nah I’m good
But apparently you don’t like me telling you the truth about yourself.
As evident by you once again projecting what you think about others as fact.
Still not ready to hold your party accountable?
Or are you just a self appointed republican police?
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:55 pm
straitroad ,
You know nothing .
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:57 pm
getalife,
Do you have a job? Do you work? By the way, I do not belong to the Republican part.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:57 pm
huh,
You deflect blame to our President and never hold the gop accountable.
You are part of the problem and your party has no solutions.
Ewrin's cat
September 5th, 2012
2:57 pm
Adam – With us or against us” binary thinking.
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Adam
September 5th, 2012
2:58 pm
Do you have a job? Do you work?
Let’s cut to the chase. What are you getting at by asking these questions? Is the implication that somehow one who does not currently have a job has no right to an opinion?
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
2:58 pm
getalife,
I do know some things. I know you come across as one angry individual. Not everyone is going to agree with you in this life….no need to get all out of sorts.
getalife
September 5th, 2012
2:59 pm
straitroad ,
It is not about me, it is about a better future for your children.
It will never happen until you cons hold your failed party accountable.
Got it?
Joe Hussein Mama
September 5th, 2012
2:59 pm
E. Cat — “0111100101101111011101010010000001110011011010000110111101110101011011000110010000100000
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That’s easy for YOU to say. :p
JamVet
September 5th, 2012
3:00 pm
I wouldn’t exactly call them my party but I do think they have a better grasp of the economic fundamentals
Two laughs for the price of one!
Spendaholic Republicans pretending to be non-spendaholic non-Republicans!
Goldie
September 5th, 2012
3:01 pm
Deval Patrick at the Dem convention:
“Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he’s fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn’t one of them. He’s a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.”
and
“This is the president who delivered the security of affordable health care to every single American after 90 years of trying. This is the president who brought Osama bin Laden to justice, who ended the war in Iraq and is ending the war in Afghanistan. This is the president who ended “don’t ask, don’t tell” so that love of country, not love of another, determines fitness for military service. Who made equal pay for equal work the law of the land. This is the president who saved the American auto industry from extinction, the American financial industry from self-destruction, and the American economy from depression. Who added over 4.5 million private sector jobs in the last two-plus years, more jobs than George W. Bush added in eight.”
Woo-hoo — We Won’t Go Back!
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
3:01 pm
getalife,
Have you researched the bills drafted by Republican members of the house and senate regarding job creation? Those are solutions that were offered.
Ewrin's cat
September 5th, 2012
3:01 pm
Adam-It is actually TRUE that women make 77% of what men do.
in blanket terms (money made by women vs money made by men) yes it’s true, but females with the same human capital as a ma gets the same pay….there is nothing lopsided in men vs women pay
straitroad
September 5th, 2012
3:02 pm
Adam,
No, that is not the implication but it does give me some insight on how someone might form an opinion.