Gallup documents good post-convention jump for Obama
Mitt Romney got what you call a dead-cat bounce coming out of the 2012 Republican Convention in Tampa Bay. According to the folks at Gallup, Barack Obama has done a whole lot better.
His job approval number now stands at 52 percent, a nine-point jump since late August. Nothing in the news cycle — other than the convention — could account for an improvement that significant. The same is true of the head-to-head contest with Romney, where Obama has transformed a two-point deficit into a four-point advantage.
In the battle of the conventions, in other words, Obama and the Democrats are the decisive victors. Nonetheless, I expect the race to tighten again as the post-convention aura fades, with the next possible inflection point coming on Oct. 3.
That’s the date of the first presidential debate at the University of Denver.
– Jay Bookman
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Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
7:42 pm
How do you go from 8.3% unemployment to 8.1% and only add a paltry 79K jobs to the economy? Answer? More people have quit looking or are taking that part time dead end job just to stay off of the dole.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The drop in the unemployment rate in August isn’t particularly good news for the economy — it’s driven mostly by nearly 400,000 people dropping out of the labor force, rather than more people finding jobs.
But those dropping out aren’t so much the discouraged 30-, 40- or 50-year olds. In fact, the Labor Department said there was a modest decline in the overall number of discouraged job seekers.
The drop is because so many young adults, aged 16 to 24, are no longer looking for work.
There were 453,000 fewer young adults with jobs in August than in July. But despite that plunge, only 27,000 more young people were looking for new jobs. Most apparently stopped looking and left the labor force. And those numbers take into account seasonal factors such as younger workers returning to school.
As a result, the percentage of young people who are counted in the labor force fell to its lowest level since 1955.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/07/news/economy/young-adults-jobs/index.html?iid=HP_LN
If you think those young people are going to go vote for Romney and Ryan, the very two who are intent on “reforming” the very programs they have to be employed to provide for current and near future retirees, then it’s not the entire electorate that’s stupid. I’d say it’s more of a subset within that electorate.
I don’t have the statistics, but I’m willing to wager it’s been a long, long time since the GOP has captured the majority of the young vote in a presidential election. It’s probably been long enough that the entire DNA of the GOP has morphed since.
Again, Bookman, the American electorate is not that stupid.
Ok.. Your post is “wishful thinking” then since the American electorate is not that stupid.
td
September 8th, 2012
7:42 pm
yuzeyurbrane
September 8th, 2012
7:37 pm
” The more difficult task is to punish the Republican Party for being taken over by right-wing extremists.”
It is the Democratic party that has been taken over by the extremist. Where are the Blue dogs? Are there any left in the party? The Blue dogs were the biggest caucus in the house less then 10 years ago and there may be 10 members left now and the Progressive (socialist) caucus was very small and now they are the biggest group.
TaxPayer
September 8th, 2012
7:43 pm
I’m a trekkie,
You’re a Trekkie.
We’re all Trekkies,
Yeah! – SpongeBob, Stardate 09082012
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
7:43 pm
Its amazing to me. A “real man” is secure enough to know that a strong woman would compliment him by making him become a better man.
Well yeah. And the inverse of that is also true.
But I’ve fallen for the ones that wanted me to compete against them and took my lack of interest in any such competition against them as a sign of weakness, or as the last one put it, I “needed to grow a set.”
Soothsayer
September 8th, 2012
7:44 pm
If you look out to the North and West you can see the clearing line. Watch the beautiful sunset.
Grab a blanket for tonight.
DebbieDoRight - Prez. O = 2.5M Jobs; Repug Congress = 0. You do the Math
September 8th, 2012
7:45 pm
Adam- thanks for the link– i’ve saved it to use again and again. I may have to visit Kyle’s blog to mess with his clients a bit. Anything for a laugh…
Bro – Mayweather IS dumb; one too many shots to the head.
Bro, Keep & Common – thanks for feeding the puppy. At least now he can stop whining for attention.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
September 8th, 2012
7:45 pm
The GOP has been taken over by Flag-Waving, Bible-Beating Fascists.
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” – Sinclair Lewis.
pogo
September 8th, 2012
7:46 pm
Obama is now officially a shoe in. No reason for his lazy minions to even get up from in front of the TV and go vote. Keep it up Jay.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
7:48 pm
DDR
you’re welcome, now where the hell is my samich, and I need a beer now too.
TaxPayer
September 8th, 2012
7:50 pm
Has Romney tried reaching out to the young OWS voter, like his constituency has. Mitt should send an emissary to make peace and court that vote. Someone like scout. Then, I’m thinkin’ Mitt has the right man in Todd Akin to send to sway the women voters.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
7:51 pm
pogo
According to Yaker the Repubs can stay home since Richie Rich is the shoe in. LOL
kayaker 71
September 8th, 2012
7:51 pm
Brocephus, 7:42,
It’s all spin. Do you think that the Labor Dept or CNN Money would publish a report on jobs numbers that would hurt Bozo’s chance for re-election? Read the WSJ for their spin. Sounds a lot more convincing and a lot more credible. Nothing but liberal airheads would base their vote on Bozo’s likeability or whether or not Sandra has her BC pills. This electorate is hurting and jobs are the number one thing on their list. To quote the most famous liberal spinmeister, “It’s the economy, stupid”.
getalife
September 8th, 2012
7:53 pm
pogo,
I think Americans are going to send the gop a message.
Disband the gop party.
Radicals.
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
7:53 pm
Man invented sliced bread so he could tell his wife to get him a samich LMAO
I know someone who’s sleeping on the couch tonight. LOL!!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
7:54 pm
Read the WSJ for their spin.
The Rupert Murdoch owned WSJ?
Too funny!
TaxPayer
September 8th, 2012
7:54 pm
If this were 2010, I’d campaign on jobs! – Mitt
DebbieDoRight - Prez. O = 2.5M Jobs; Repug Congress = 0. You do the Math
September 8th, 2012
7:54 pm
Common @ 7:39 – This ones for you. Seriously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HYTd1DTbik
josef
September 8th, 2012
7:55 pm
Well, now that Big Daddy has broken his own rule and identified me…yes, I wrote Shakespeare’s plays,
but as I in one of my characters would say to him…
” I am not bound to please thee with my answer…What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
7:55 pm
Bro
I ain’t sleepin on no couch. I’m not married any longer sadly.
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
7:59 pm
It is the Democratic party that has been taken over by the extremist. Where are the Blue dogs? Are there any left in the party? The Blue dogs were the biggest caucus in the house less then 10 years ago and there may be 10 members left now and the Progressive (socialist) caucus was very small and now they are the biggest group.
Such bollocks, and on a Football Saturday. Do you not have any shame at all?
If you really want to know what happened to the Blue Dog Democrats, then look no further than the State GOP caucuses. As more and more states end up with GOP leadership, they are gerrymandering moderate Democrats out of the House in an effort to try to lock up a “permanent” majority.
The thing is, the idiots fail to realize there is no permanent majority, ever, in politics. Why not post the number of Blue Dog Democrats who resigned vs those who lost to a far-left Liberal. Then compare those numbers agains the number of RINO’s who resigned vs the number who were defeated by far-right Conservatives.
Whether anybody wants to admit it or not, the political gamesmanship being waged by the far-right is completely screwing up the political landscape. No system ever runs right when you knock it out of balance. In their attempts to rig elections by re-districting, Republicans have thrown the political system way out of balance.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
8:00 pm
DDR
you keep wanting me to watch some SOCIALIST DOG video.
Bad girl, I ready for another beer dear
Adam
September 8th, 2012
8:03 pm
kayaker: Basis for the 320?…… That jobs report.
Heh.
And I based my theory that gravity wasn’t real on a feeling of lightheadedness I had this morning.
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:05 pm
Do you think that the Labor Dept or CNN Money would publish a report on jobs numbers that would hurt Bozo’s chance for re-election?
Are you talking about the very same CNN where I heard Wolf Blitzer brush aside Paul Ryan’s factual indescretions in his convention speech so he could talk about how well Ryan’s speech was?
Are you talking about the very same CNN where Erick Erickson, of RedState and Macon, GA, regularly shows up as a commentator?
Are you talking about the very same CNN that has a Breitbart editor, Dana Loesch, hired as a regular commentator as well?
To answer your question, yeah, I think they would publish a report like that, if that were the factual truth.
td
September 8th, 2012
8:05 pm
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
7:59 pm
OMG, You come on and talk about Gerrymandering in the South but fail to mention the gerrymandering that has been going on for years in places like NY and CA in the favor of the far left.
bman
September 8th, 2012
8:10 pm
I don’t see all the constant “Obama saved GM” talk. They are really touting that as something successful
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
8:11 pm
you want to talk about Gerrymandering that has cobb county (heavily Repub) extending into North Ga.
Both parties were and are guilty.
In Ga after the Reagan landslide more and more districts were moved so that votes were pretty much diluted.
josef
September 8th, 2012
8:13 pm
BROSEPHUS
Is that the same CNN with Anderson Cooper doing the b*tch slap on Debbie Wasserman-Schutz?
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:13 pm
This electorate is hurting and jobs are the number one thing on their list.
And you think the American electorate is stupid enough to vote en masse for the very same party that ran on “jobs, jobs, jobs” in the last election and don’t have piss in a pot to show for their campaign rhetoric? If jobs are number one and that’s what people are going to vote on, then neither party would get a single vote. They both suck at job creation, and that’s because neither party can do a damn thing about it.
Tax cuts don’t create jobs. Demand does.
Cutting regulations don’t create jobs. Demand does.
Increasing fuel standards don’t create jobs. Demand does.
Until people quit trying to give politicians power they don’t have, we’ll continue to end up being screwed by the system.
josef
September 8th, 2012
8:14 pm
Gerrymandering has a long, long history in North America…
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:15 pm
td
Project much? Care to point out where I placed blame on any specific geographical location? You make the mistake that far too many “conservatives” make. You’re listening to the voice in your head and not reading what’s in front of you.
If you’re gonna question what I say, then question my words and not yours.
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:16 pm
josef
Yep, that’s the same CNN showing their liberal bias.
kayaker 71
September 8th, 2012
8:20 pm
Bozo should be further ahead at 60 days out. If he had had a successful first four years, he would be. Enthusiasm is gone except for the diehards and the far left. The ones in the middle still don’t have a job. The press, the blogger radicals, the OWS thugs, gays, those on the dole, blacks on the government teat….. anyone with an interest to get as much from their country as they can without doing much to earn it. It’s going to be up to conservative, white America to save this country. No one else seems to have the sense to do it.
DebbieDoRight - Prez. O = 2.5M Jobs; Repug Congress = 0. You do the Math
September 8th, 2012
8:20 pm
St. Simons – Reminds me of Jekyll Island. I visited there once, years ago, i was very interested in its history, (african american). They tell the stories of how before the “businessmen/pirates” came and took over the island, how they used to catch gators and fish and stuff for food.
Is that where you grew up – on one of the islands?
====================
Kam: But I’ve fallen for the ones that wanted me to compete against them and took my lack of interest in any such competition against them as a sign of weakness, or as the last one put it, I “needed to grow a set.”
Those are just hyper competitive women. These type of women make everything a personal battle. They have no concept of the word “compromise”. To be in a relationship, any type of relationship, you have to know how to compromise.
IMO these type of women always end up as a “dominatrix” and in “S&M” type of relationships. They always have to be in control….
josef
September 8th, 2012
8:22 pm
DDR
If you ever get the chance, go to Sapelo…still the real deal…
BIG DADDY
Unmentionable says to tell you I’m not a victim, but I do play one on the blog!
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:22 pm
Bozo should be further ahead at 60 days out. If he had had a successful first four years, he would be.
Well, explain why he’s ahead of Romney then? If the enthusiam is gone for the left, as you suggest, what explains why the Right is a soup sandwich right now?
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
8:24 pm
Yaker
when they move the capital of Ga to Macon with THEM people, where you gonna move?
josef
September 8th, 2012
8:25 pm
DDR
“Is that where you grew up – on one of the islands?”
Ssshhh…don’t ask, don’t tell! We don’t want to go shaking THAT family tree and digging in the woodpile! And thass all I’m gonna say about that…
DebbieDoRight - Prez. O = 2.5M Jobs; Repug Congress = 0. You do the Math
September 8th, 2012
8:25 pm
…yes, I wrote Shakespeare’s plays,
My GOD you’re old!!!!
http://tinyurl.com/8avo7er
Soothsayer
September 8th, 2012
8:25 pm
“It’s going to be up to conservative, white America to save this country. No one else seems to have the sense to do it.”
Well, there you have it. And, come to think of it, why would you ever doubt it?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
8:26 pm
It’s going to be up to conservative, white America to save this country. No one else seems to have the sense to do it.
Whitey, Whitey he’s our man
If he can’t do it
Nobody can!
Gimme a W!
(W)
Gimme and H!
(H)
Gimme an I!
(I)
Gimme a T!
(T)
Gimme an E!
(E)
Gimme a Y!
(Y)
Whatta ya got?
WHITEY!
td
September 8th, 2012
8:26 pm
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:15 pm
You are the one that talked about it was the South and its gerrymandering that has caused an out of balance. I just pointed out that maybe it is the Democratic controlled areas of the country that has caused just as much out of balance.
td
September 8th, 2012
8:29 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
8:26 pm
“Whitey, Whitey he’s our man
If he can’t do it
Nobody can!”
Even though I know you were being a smarta$$ with your statement, it is pretty accurate.
josef
September 8th, 2012
8:29 pm
DDR
You’ll pay for that. boa or no…
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
8:29 pm
DDR
was that the picture of josef that you had in your wallet?
Oh yeah, were the hell is my beer, I’m getting thirsty
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
8:30 pm
IMO these type of women always end up as a “dominatrix” and in “S&M” type of relationships.
Yeah, not gonna play that game.
josef
September 8th, 2012
8:30 pm
The difference between Southern gerrymandering and Northern gerrymandering is that Southern gerrymandering has to get Federal approval….
Jack
September 8th, 2012
8:32 pm
Obama won’t have a prompter on Oct. 3rd.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
8:34 pm
Jack
I’ll bet you $10,000 he won’t need it LOL
Soothsayer
September 8th, 2012
8:35 pm
“Obama won’t have a prompter on Oct. 3rd.”
Neither will Mitt Dumbney so it’ll be a fair fight!
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:38 pm
td
You are the one that talked about it was the South and its gerrymandering that has caused an out of balance.
Ok, cut and paste the exact post where I said the South. I triple dog dare you.
You heard the voices in your head say the South. I made no specific mention of geograpical area because it’s not just the South where gerrymandering has added to the polarization. I also never stated the Democratic party was innocent. However, I will not try to paint an issue as an objective issue if that’s not the truth.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
8:38 pm
It’s goona be funny when Obama asks Romney why he doesn’t have a plan but is using Ryans, since Mitt has SO MUCH BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:42 pm
Kamchak
I think kayaker may have read this opinion piece earlier today…
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/08/opinion/obeidallah-white-protestants/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
CNN) — Attention white Anglo-Saxon Protestants: Your days of running things are over. You have jumped the shark.
But there’s no need to feel bad for WASPs.
They’ve had an amazing run. Every single president in our nation’s history, except for John F. Kennedy — a Catholic — and Barack Obama, has been a white Protestant. Except for a handful of exceptions, for over 200 years the presidential nominees of both major political parties have been WASPs. WASPs had almost as many victories in a row as The Harlem Globetrotters.
But it’s over. Look at this year’s presidential tickets: A Mormon, an African-American, and two Catholics. Even some of the keynote speakers at the Democratic and Republican conventions were not WASPs. The GOP featured Italian-Irish Catholic Chris Christie and the Democrats tapped Latino-American, Julian Castro.
In all seriousness though, given the fact that White America will lose their majority status within a few decades, the fact that someone would post a statement such as, “It’s going to be up to conservative, white America to save this country. No one else seems to have the sense to do it.” gives me pause to wonder if we won’t see some last ditch effort to cling to that power with something resembling apartheid. The fact that someone seriously thinks it’s up to any particular race to “save” America speaks volumes anyway.
Soothsayer
September 8th, 2012
8:44 pm
You mean kayaker didn’t thunk that hisself? Say it ain’t true!
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:45 pm
It’s goona be funny when Obama asks Romney why he doesn’t have a plan but is using Ryans, since Mitt has SO MUCH BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
LOL!!!
I wonder if this will be Romney’s reaction if he ever gets serious pressure from anybody in the media to lay out specifics for anything he’s suggested so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ApNedgj3HBs&feature=endscreen
td
September 8th, 2012
8:46 pm
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:38 pm
“State GOP caucuses”
Ok, technically you did not say the south but since most of the Blue dogs were in the south then that was your intent.
DebbieDoRight - Prez. O = 2.5M Jobs; Repug Congress = 0. You do the Math
September 8th, 2012
8:47 pm
Bro – it looks like CNN is prostituting itself to the right for viewers. I noticed the same thing during the RNC & DNC coverage. CNN was trying to make a big deal out of the Israel & God thing at the Dem conference. Every other sentence was laced with veiled innuendo. It was sickening.
Common – I spit in your beer! You can drink it if you want…..
josef: If you ever get the chance, go to Sapelo…still the real deal…
I would LOVE to go to Sapelo!! However, i had read somewhere that it’s mostly closed to everyone but scientists and the few families that still lived there.
bman: I don’t see all the constant “Obama saved GM” talk. They are really touting that as something successful
Yep. Obama saves jobs in America; in cons eyes that is NOT successful. MItt saves jobs in China and India. In cons eyes – SUCCESS!
KState beat DOWN Miami!! The final score looks like a basketball score, not a football score. Dang! I was hoping Miami was back!
josef
September 8th, 2012
8:47 pm
BROSEPHUS
I guess I need to be giving TD some lessons in how to get your Cross of St Andrew panties in a wad, eh?
Soothsayer
September 8th, 2012
8:48 pm
Well, eventually, all of us are going to have to take that last train home like Joe South.
Enjoy!
Off to watch UGA beat? Mizzou? Let’s hope.
josef
September 8th, 2012
8:52 pm
DDR
It is, but you can make arrangements. I had the opportunity to get a “study visa” relative to the Gullah language angle. There are a highly limited number of “tourist visas.” Most are only for a day trip since the academic ones for longer stays take precedence.
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
8:53 pm
Ok, technically you did not say the south but since most of the Blue dogs were in the south then that was your intent.
Intent my ass. If I have any intent, I state it. If I didn’t state it, that was not my intent. Moderate Democrats were from all over the country and not just from the South. You also have to remember that, except for Texas, redistricting was last done in 2000 when Bush was elected. Redistricting only happens every 10 years when we take a census count.
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josef
You might need to put him in your class and give him some reading for comprehension lessons. I love people who can’t debate for themselves without trying to fix the position of the person they’re debating against. He’s a classic example of that. He has not once offered anything in relation to what I actually said. Instead, he’s off jousting against strawmen that he’s painted brown to look like me.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
8:54 pm
Bro
Let’s hope they don’t have smellavision that night.
DDR
you spit in my beer the night before my b’day. You’re lucky I love you
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:01 pm
BROSEPHUS
Don’t you just love them little boxes? I mean, how would us (whatever the label in question) know what to think or how to act if somebody didn’t tell us. Be grateful and know your place…
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
9:03 pm
josef
That might be a good name for a blog… “Little Black Boxes”. I’m gonna sit on that one for a while. I’ve been debating on starting up one so I can vent.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
9:05 pm
josef
that’s why us old white guys make those boxes by the millions, just to keep you guys in them
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
9:09 pm
Bro
you call anything little boxes you gonna end up as a kiddie porn site.
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:09 pm
BROSEPHUS
Let me know how it goes…I’ve been thinking of going that route myself on the Southern thingie. Unmentionable says I might should call it, “Beyond Yankee Sharia…”
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:10 pm
COMMON SENSE
Well, truth be told and said only in half-jest, we do seem to keep buying them ourselves…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
9:13 pm
The fact that someone seriously thinks it’s up to any particular race to “save” America speaks volumes anyway.
What speaks volumes to me is that since, “[n]o one else seems to have the sense to do it” , you and yours apparently don’t have what it takes to stop any kind of apartheid move anyway.
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:14 pm
BROSEPHUS
On that white minority thing…I’m nearly 60 and except for my 2.5 years in the high white Pacific Northwest, I’ve never lived anywhere I wasn’t a skin-tone minority…I didn’t realize myself just how “not white” I was until I moved up there…
DebbieDoRight - Prez. O = 2.5M Jobs; Repug Congress = 0. You do the Math
September 8th, 2012
9:16 pm
Common –
I heart u 2
josef – study visa? They still have a lot of gullah speakers there? I went to a gullah festival in South Carolina once, to me they sounded just like the cajuns of louisiana. They talked fast, blurred their words together and basically said stuff that didn’t sound anything like english! It would be interesting to visit there then to see if the georgia gullah culture is the same as the south carolina gullah culture.
Common – Ooops tomorrow is your birthday? Happy B-Day Common!!!
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
9:16 pm
josef
we all have certain boxes we have placed ourseleves in over the years, as the adults in the room we are breaking through them and reaching out a hell of a lot more than 20 years ago.
where were we when we were growing up? Times were different isn’t an excuse for the things that were happening in my opinion.
There are a lot of dumbasses all over , but eventually they will all die off. Me I plan to live forever
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
9:20 pm
you and yours apparently don’t have what it takes to stop any kind of apartheid move anyway.
I don’t mean this to sound bad or unsympathetic towards the victims of violence, so if it comes of as such, that is not my intent. However, for someone to think Blacks are so inherently bad and criminal, if we’ll kill our own with little remorse, does he think those same people will hesitate to kill someone from a different race?
I honestly and seriously hope that we don’t get to the point of anything violent happening. When I see stuff said like that, it comforts me to hear people from within that same racial group to speak out against that bullsh*t. I personally have no problem at calling out stupid things said by Blacks and I won’t defend dumb sh*t either.
bman
September 8th, 2012
9:20 pm
“: I don’t see all the constant “Obama saved GM” talk. They are really touting that as something successful”
“Yep. Obama saves jobs in America; in cons eyes that is NOT successful.”
Toyota production was hurt badly after the tsunami. GM sells how many more models of cars, trucks and SUVs? Here’s 50 billion (or whatever the # was). Wht do you see happening?
1-Toyota
2-GM
Let me know where I’m wrong.
G Mare
September 8th, 2012
9:20 pm
“Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same. And there’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.” May not be the exact lyrics, but pretty close….
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
9:24 pm
SoCo/Bro
I had not intended that to be about violence, since the quoted sentence had to do with whites being the only ones with sense. My point was that you and yours weren’t smart enough to see it coming.
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:28 pm
DDR
It wasn’t English…it’s various African dialects and languages. If you are interested, check out Lprenzo Turner’s studies. It would sound similar to the “untrained” ear, the cadences and rhythms are very similar. The Black Creole of Louisiana is a similar thing. The dialects of the Sea Islands are marked by the vocabulary, grammar, syntax and pronunciation patterns of the Gold-Slave Coasts and those of Louisiana more by the Congolese. Both are mostly Bantu but as different as, say Russian and Spanish…both Indo European, but distinct. What I was working on was the influence of the two (Gullah-Geechee and Black Creole) on the Southern dialect(s) in general.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
9:29 pm
I think the inherent problem was that blacks thought that the population as a whole would follow the law when the Civil Rights Acts were passed.
The racists in any society follow their own rules and it takes a dying out of that genetic flaw before everyone can be equal in their eyes.
I hope its not a gene transferred between too many generations
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
9:30 pm
My point was that you and yours weren’t smart enough to see it coming.
Ok, that was worded awkwardly
Take 2
My point was that apparently according to the quote, you and yours weren’t smart enough to see it coming
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
9:30 pm
Kamchak
Ok, I gotcha. Stevie Wonder would see it coming from miles away if something like that were to happen. If one thinks people are not ready to come from the trees, that same person would never acknowledge the intellectuals in that same group. I’ll admit that we have more than our fair share of dumbasses though, and they tend to get far more publicity than their true percentages would dictate.
Brosephus™
September 8th, 2012
9:34 pm
I think the inherent problem was that blacks thought that the population as a whole would follow the law when the Civil Rights Acts were passed.
In my opinion, if we were truly a Christian nation, we wouldn’t have to legislate such things in the first place. After the 60’s, I think many Blacks naively though that would be the case. As we have come to find out, if we are indeed a Christian nation, we are in dire need of a revival and a return to true Christian behavior.
JamVet
September 8th, 2012
9:34 pm
To be a drama queen, or not to be!
That is the question.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
9:37 pm
Bro
AMEN
Jay, you still SUCK
September 8th, 2012
9:37 pm
Jay, you are still a steaming pile, and always have been…no matter who gets elected.
JamVet
September 8th, 2012
9:38 pm
The ones in the middle still don’t have a job.
Ye the independents are heavily aligned AGAINST Mitt.
Strange, huh?
But then maybe sheer stupid hatred like this is the answer?
…the OWS thugs…
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:39 pm
ZamVet
You oughta know one when you see one…
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:42 pm
Jay, you still SUCK
“Jay, you are still a steaming pile, and always have been…”
Which, I assume, is to say he’s hot sh*t as opposed to a cold t^rd like you?
JamVet
September 8th, 2012
9:42 pm
Odd, that I’m NOT the one being called out for it, though.
Unlike more than a few here, I do not play the victim.
I find it particularly unbecoming…
Gman
September 8th, 2012
9:43 pm
The GOP = (Grummpy Old [White] People). Neither Mittens or Eddie Munster are good debaters. The GOP bar for debates has been set so low!
Soothsayer
September 8th, 2012
9:47 pm
Turn that air off and open those windows! It’s wonderful outside!
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
9:48 pm
Bro
Not having grown up in a community with blacks, but having gone to Catholic Schools with a few who were the children of professionals shaped my opinions.
Working construction with hard workers of both races shaped my opinions.
Working as a professional with both races has convinced me that there is no difference in the races.
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:49 pm
ZamVet
And self rightousness is equally unbecoming…but, hey, you know what the difference between me and you is? I don’t deny it, but wear it as a badge of honor…and, uh, Huh? called you out on it just the other night…the rest of us are used to it…
josef
September 8th, 2012
9:51 pm
Common Sense
“…there is no difference in the races.”
If there were, we wouldn’t have been interbreeding so freely for lo these millenia…
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
10:00 pm
Jo
One day I will tell you the story of a high school friend who had the prettiest sister.
His father was a mortician.
Need I say more LOL
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
10:05 pm
DDR
Since you spit in my beer I don’t even want to know what you did to my samich
josef
September 8th, 2012
10:05 pm
COMMON SENSE
@ 9:16
Which is why I can still be an optimist AND a drama queen!
But, seriously, we are after all, a product of our time and place and, in all humility (well, at least as much as my ancestrally uppity self can muster) we’ve not done such a bad job of leaving it a better place for our having passed through.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 8th, 2012
10:09 pm
I ain’t passing through. I’m staying till the job is done
getalife
September 8th, 2012
10:17 pm
“Jay, you still SUCK
September 8th, 2012
9:37 pm
Jay, you are still a steaming pile, and always have been…no matter who gets elected.”
Are you trying to get banned con?
romney finally told the truth:
“Mitt Romney heaps praise on Bill Clinton:
The GOP nominee says the Constitution may be the only thing blocking the ex-president from a third term.”
I agree
josef
September 8th, 2012
10:20 pm
Common Sense
Plan on being here December 21, 2012, eh?
josef
September 8th, 2012
10:24 pm
ZamVet
And BTW, the Imam puts me in the category with Sir Laurence Olivier and the recent emigre says I’ m le Petit Prince, so I must be doing something right!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 8th, 2012
10:24 pm
If the world is coming to an end on Dec 21, does that mean I don’t have to do the Xmas shopping thingie?