On election night, a reality check looms for someone
The multiplicity of modern media has made it possible to create worlds within worlds, realities within realities. You can, for example, choose a reality in which Barack Obama is up by 3.5 percentage points, with an 80 percent chance of being re-elected, or you can choose to live in a competing reality in which “unskewed” polling reports the happy news that Mitt Romney is actually up almost eight points in national polls.
However, a time will always arrive when your created reality must be “trued up” against actual reality. You can delay that moment, you can dodge that moment, but eventually it must come. Media technology, with all of its magic, has not yet created a work-around to that harsh exercise.
In the runup to the Iraq War, for example, the Bush administration created a reality in which Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, American forces would be greeted as liberators, ethnic differences in Iraq were of little consequence and the invasion would more or less pay for itself. Actual reality proved to be quite a bit different, but it took several agonizing years for our leaders to admit just how delusional their created reality had been, and to realign their policies accordingly.
Election days also have a way of realigning created realities to actual reality. On the evening of Nov. 6, we will not only have an answer to whether the polls or the “unskewed polls” had proved more accurate, we will learn a lot more about the American people as well. Each political party entered this campaign season confident that it had the backing of the majority of Americans; each believed that its message was more true to American values and more responsive to America’s needs.
The election is going to tell us which reality was correct, and which is in need of alteration.
In my own personal created reality — and given human limitations and our imperfect understanding of the world, we all live in created realities of varying accuracies — Barack Obama should and probably will be re-elected. In my reality, those conservatives who have been pouring into movie theaters to see “2016: Obama’s America” may have to come to grips on Election Night with the fact that a majority of their fellow Americans simply do not see the world as they do, that in fact they, not the president and his supporters, are the minority that is out of touch with the American mainstream.
I understand that would not be easy to accept, and that most will employ any means available to avoid doing so. The process is already underway and is easily observable. For example, the claim that current polls are biased against conservatives is at root a defense mechanism that allows them to deny in public, and for a while, an outcome that many of them in private now fear to be looming.
And should that argument fail, fear not, because this is a defense in layers. Conservatives are already preparing a fallback defense blaming their loss on the media. Beyond that they have prepared a defense in which they blame it on Mitt Romney, and beyond that on the Republican establishment that forced the selection of Romney on a party base that knew better.
All of those layers of psychic defense are designed to defend the inner sanctum, the holy of holies. Whatever happens, blame must not be allowed to fall on the conservative message. Blame it on those selected to spread the message, blame it on those who distorted the message, blame it on those too stupid to appreciate the message, but whatever happens, do not blame it on the message.
Because if the message is wrong, it forces a readjustment to reality that is too painful to be considered.
Read, for example, Erick Erickson, the CNN analyst and Redstate.com founder:
“There are a lot of elitist Republicans who have spent several years telling us Mitt Romney was the only electable Republican. Because the opinion makers and news media these elitists hang out with have concluded Romney will not win, the elitists are in full on panic mode. They conspired to shut out others, tear down others, and prop up Romney with the electability argument. He is now not winning against the second coming of Jimmy Carter. They know there will be many conservatives, should Mitt Romney lose, who will not be satisfied until every bridge is burned with these jerks, hopefully with the elitist jerks tied to the bridge as it burns.”
Read his conservative colleague, Ben Domenech:
“There will be very negative consequences for a Romney loss for the power of center-right elites who are largely viewed as foisting him on the base despite the latter’s objections. A Romney loss almost certainly pushes the 2016 nominee rightward, and I doubt the megaphones will be powerful enough to frame the 2012 contest, as they did in 2008, as one where the conservative Veep choice dragged down the ticket.
“Like it or not, the money and opinion elites on the center-right own Romney’s failure from the perspective of the base — they need him to win. And the reality is that if Romney loses, it will have little if anything to do with Paul Ryan’s big ideas, tactical choices, or elite misgivings — and far more to do with the simple fact that Romney is still disliked by most voters.”
Both men insist — and on this they are correct — that the battle is not yet lost. There is still time — barely — to turn the race around, although at this point something major would have to happen to do so. I have yet to see such anguished handwringing from anyone on the left, which tells you something.
The thrust of the argument from Erickson, Domenech and many others is equally telling: Should we fail, our failure can be explained only by the fact that our movement has been insufficiently pure, that our message is insufficiently pure, and that we ourselves have been insufficiently pure. Move farther right, ever farther right, for there lies true salvation.
From my version of reality, that response dooms you to perpetual minority status. From theirs, it represents pursuit of the true faith. And one of those realities is very very wrong.
– Jay Bookman
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Martin the Calvinist
September 26th, 2012
5:52 pm
I have to add my two cents worth before I help celebrate my sweet baby girl’s 6th birthday.
I would believe the polls if they were not weighted 7% heavier democrat, 10% heavier democrat ect, I am probably going to offend someone but If this country is the way Jay says it is, I don’t want to live here, yes I can leave, I get that. But philosophically, I do not want a gov’t that provides health insurance for it’s citizens, retirement pay for it’s citizens, and in some cases basic sustenance like food, shelter clothing. My problem is that Gov’t can not and will not protect, provide, and serve the interests of all its citizens. I don’t see how raising taxes by 4% on those who make 200/250 thousand will give that many more people prosperity, I don’t see how cutting 20% of a military budget will bring people out of poverty, you are going to have to raise taxes by 10 maybe 15 percent on those income brackets and you are going to have to raise taxes by 10% on those who earn 100,000 dollars. I don’t see the math on how you can (using gov’t) to create economic equality. It isn’t happening. Its naive for you to believe that. If this country is going the way the polls say it is, we are in trouble…end of story
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 26th, 2012
5:53 pm
The EU is a neoliberal wet dream, hardly socialist.
“neoliberal”
Heh, heh, heh.
Doggone/GA
September 26th, 2012
5:54 pm
“I would believe the polls if they were not weighted 7% heavier democrat, 10% heavier democrat ect”
Got proof?
JamVet
September 26th, 2012
5:55 pm
Yep, all of the many polls are rigged.
Romney is way ahead on all of them but nobody knows it because of the vast left wing conspiracy to hide it!
Welcome to the Occupation
September 26th, 2012
5:56 pm
Kamchak:
On the other hand, the EU, and its wildly inflation-obsessed central bank, is socialist in one sense:
For the bankers.
Brosephus™
September 26th, 2012
5:58 pm
USMC
That’s the matchup I would love to see in the Dome.
JamVet
September 26th, 2012
5:58 pm
Still think there is a chance he goes AL next year for DH to 500HRs.
Jamvet says 0% chance.
He and Jeter will likely be the very last players ever to go into the Hall having worn exactly one uniform their entire careers…
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 26th, 2012
5:59 pm
Brosephus™
If I wake up and see some white buttocks, then something has gone horribly wrong.
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We KNOW you and TBG are white.
Josef is Morman.
Geesh. Keep up with the program
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 26th, 2012
5:59 pm
Welcome to the Occupation
I know what neoliberal means, but I would’ve used the term neoclassical to avoid confusion. But I suspect you were just baiting the hook.
kayaker 71
September 26th, 2012
6:01 pm
There are a gazillion was that a poll can be rigged. Asking questions in a certain way, calling only those with land lines, sampling only those who encourage a certain result, asking registered voters instead of likely voters, depending on exit polls as reliable sources of data, etc. It would work either way for liberals or conservatives depending on who was wanting to skew the result. And it happens all the time. There is not a single poll, Rasmussen included, that I would believe short of two weeks before the election and then only a jaundiced eye. Our polarization has led us to this and I guess we have to live with it. That doesn’t mean we have to like it.
TaxPayer
September 26th, 2012
6:02 pm
The University of California system announced Wednesday they will pay $30,000 in damages to each of the 21 students and alumni who were sprayed at a peaceful protest against budget cuts and tuition hikes last November.
Brosephus™
September 26th, 2012
6:03 pm
NoCom
If I wake up and see white buttocks, I’ll be praying that the wife spilled baby powder all over the place. Otherwise, I’m gonna have to enter the witness protection program.
TaxPayer
September 26th, 2012
6:03 pm
Funny how polls are suddenly rigged when they were not such a short time ago.
Mr_B
September 26th, 2012
6:06 pm
“Well, I see what josef has to say about Abraham Lincoln, so you can rule Springfield IL out. He’s just a little nastier to Lincoln than he is to me.”
yeahdat
USMC
September 26th, 2012
6:08 pm
“That’s the matchup I would love to see in the Dome.”–Brocephus
Yessir, Brocephus. That would be a game. But I still insist that my Bulldawgs need to prove it on the field, like they did against Vandy(I know, Vandy isn’t a powerhouse, but we at least didn’t play down to their level like we usually do).
We can talk plenty of smack, good natured of course, when the big game approaches.
Geaux (tribute to Getalife) Dawgs!
USMC
September 26th, 2012
6:10 pm
“The University of California system announced Wednesday they will pay $30,000 in damages to each of the 21 students and alumni who were sprayed at a peaceful protest against budget cuts and tuition hikes last November.”–Taxpayer
I went through the stiggin GAS CHAMBER at Parris Island and got nada!
But boy what an experience!
They BOTH suck
September 26th, 2012
6:12 pm
USMC
Did you retire from the service?
Jack
September 26th, 2012
6:12 pm
Hey. lets all just be happy there’s no sex freak in the white house like Clinton..
TaxPayer
September 26th, 2012
6:12 pm
Romney’s budget plan would lead to a net loss of 554,000 jobs by 2014, while President Barack Obama’s budget plan would lead to the net creation of 1.4 million jobs, according to a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. Moreover, if Romney makes his budget revenue-neutral, as he has promised, then his plan would lead to a net loss of 1.9 million jobs over the next two years, largely because of deep spending cuts, the report found.
USMC
September 26th, 2012
6:13 pm
“If I wake up and see white buttocks, I’ll be praying that the wife spilled baby powder all over the place. Otherwise, I’m gonna have to enter the witness protection program.”–That African-American Guy
ROFLOL! screen cleaner please!
USMC
September 26th, 2012
6:14 pm
“Hey. lets all just be happy there’s no sex freak in the white house like Clinton..”
Yeah, that President was IMPEACHED… imagine that.
RAMZAD
September 26th, 2012
6:14 pm
That is right we don’t like Romney.
Republicans do not like Romney. Right Wing fanatics do not like Romney. Newt Gingrich does not like Romney. Rick Santorum does not like Romney. Rick Perry does not like Romney. Romney is a creature of lies, propaganda, disinformation, personal insults to people of all stripes. Romney is a
rich straw man for moderate Republicans who are guided by hate for Obama.
Welcome to the Occupation
September 26th, 2012
6:14 pm
As you know, Kamchak, I don’t have much use for subtlety. My instrument of preference is a meat cleaver here more than butter knife! Terms that conflict with existing understandings of concepts are all the better.
USMC
September 26th, 2012
6:15 pm
“Romney’s budget plan would lead to a net loss of 554,000 jobs by 2014, while President Barack Obama’s budget plan would lead to the net creation of 1.4 million jobs, according to a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. Moreover, if Romney makes his budget revenue-neutral, as he has promised, then his plan would lead to a net loss of 1.9 million jobs over the next two years, largely because of deep spending cuts, the report found.”–Taxpayer
Yet we have NEVER seen an OBAMA PLAN.
The strategery is pure Genius!
kayaker 71
September 26th, 2012
6:15 pm
Taxpayer, 6:12,
If Bozo is such a whiz at creating jobs, why is our unemployment number still at a reported 8.2%? For every job he “creates”, someone drops out of the work force. It’s a wash, my friend….. always was.
Paul
September 26th, 2012
6:16 pm
TaxPayer
And the idiot security cop who sprayed them – did the article say if he got canned?
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Has anyone yet explained how national polling organizations, operating in a competitive marketplace, who get paid for their services, whose reputation is enhanced the more accurately their polls and analyses turn out to be, who have a wide variety of clients paying for their services.
can all get basic polling procedures so horribly wrong?
Listened to a bit of Rush today. According to him it’s all a conspiracy. That aside, anyone have any theories that actually make sense?
Curious Observer
September 26th, 2012
6:16 pm
I went through the stiggin GAS CHAMBER at Parris Island and got nada!
But boy what an experience!
Me too, but you never forget the smell of that stuff or the experience of “clearing” the gas mask and then waiting for the gas.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 26th, 2012
6:17 pm
Joe Hussein Mama:
http://www.va.gov/oig/publications/semiannual-reports.asp
Brosephus™
September 26th, 2012
6:18 pm
USMC
I think the East is Georgia’s to lose. I hope they prove me right. It’s about time for Georgia to string a good year together. As to smack talking, you’d better believe I’m gonna bring it.
Paul
September 26th, 2012
6:18 pm
Jack
Therapists dealing in sex obsession are ready when you are.
USMC
September 26th, 2012
6:18 pm
“If Bozo is such a whiz at creating jobs, why is our unemployment number still at a reported 8.2%? For every job he “creates”, someone drops out of the work force. It’s a wash, my friend….. always was.”
It’s not even a wash. The true unemployment number is said to be as high as 15% to 16% when including people who have dropped out of looking for a job.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 26th, 2012
6:18 pm
Jm:
Sons of Vietnam Veterans ?
getalife
September 26th, 2012
6:20 pm
A vast left wing conspiracy?
Funny, the Clintons said it was a vast rw conspiracy against them.
I guess that is karma.
getalife
September 26th, 2012
6:24 pm
I hate to say this but I can’t lie.
The Dawgs are good but not good enough to beat Alabama this year.
We are praying for an upset.
They BOTH suck
September 26th, 2012
6:24 pm
Bro
GA has SC and FL in the next 4 weeks?
As USMC stated, they need to do it on the field. The overall schedule sets up nicely for them, but they have a way of not showing up at times.
Z57
September 26th, 2012
6:24 pm
Brain Damage……. Wait let me say it again. Drain Bramage… Here we have a Left biased article saying that the right is delusional….
Please. Conservatives are just that. Conservative….Most care not to make a lot of noise about how the left is that ….or this….. or whatever. They aren’t paying attention to self professed poll analysts. Indeed….It always cracked me up when I watch a Theorhetical Physicist….Just what it says…. A highly educated individual that gets paid to theorize reality.
Wake up.
JamVet
September 26th, 2012
6:25 pm
Neocons, your RINO is screwing up!
Romney’s favorable rating is underwater. Almost two-thirds of voters approve of Obama’s decision to bail out the auto industry, a staple of Ohio’s manufacturing economy. The president leads Romney by a wide margin on the question of who would do more to help the middle class.
And when voters are asked which candidate would do a better job handling the economy, Obama has a sturdy lead, undercutting the thematic premise of Romney’s candidacy.
Prepare for your second straight McCaining…
USMC
September 26th, 2012
6:25 pm
“I think the East is Georgia’s to lose. I hope they prove me right. It’s about time for Georgia to string a good year together. As to smack talking, you’d better believe I’m gonna bring it.”–Bro
Well you have plenty of ammunition, based on what you guys have done the last few years; especially last year. (the Mich beat down this year was enough for all SEC fans to feed on, and leftovers)
I will never forget the year that UGA was preseason #1. I was screaming at the top of my lungs for them to get their heads out of the clouds.
Bama came to Athens and beat the tar out of Stafford and Moreno and company.
Before the game, the Dawgs were practicing their ChestBumps without helmets on, while on the Bam side of the field, coach Saban’s team was buckled up running through drills like a fine tuned, well disciplined team. It made me want to grab CMR by the collar.
Tundra Dude
September 26th, 2012
6:27 pm
Reds Win! Reds Win!! _132 to 5_
Since ‘88 , in state prez elections, there’s been a dramatic increase in discrepancies between the exit polls and final “count”.
Must be divine intervention, that Republicans won 132 times…..
None Dare Call It Vote Rigging
Bob Fitrakis, Ph.D. in political science and a J.D. He is an election law attorney, professor, and has written four books on election integrity.
(snipped)
A couple of private companies count our votes with secret proprietary hardware and software, the most notable being ES&S. Every standard of election transparency is routinely violated in the U.S. electronic version of faith-based voting. How the corporate-dominated media deals with the issue is by “adjusting the exit polls.” They simply assume the recorded vote on easily hacked and programmed private machines are correct and that the international gold standard for detecting election fraud – exit polls – must be wrong.
(snip)
In any other election outside the U.S., the U.S. State Department would condemn the use of the these highly riggable machines based on the discrepancy in the exit polls.
http://bit.ly/OQxJ8C
getalife
September 26th, 2012
6:29 pm
The got Chipper good after the game. He loved it.
I think Saban coached them to not celebrate to save their energy for the fourth quarter.
He is out recruiting the SEC and the country.
USMC
September 26th, 2012
6:30 pm
“I hate to say this but I can’t lie.
The Dawgs are good but not good enough to beat Alabama this year.
We are praying for an upset.”–Getalife
Maybe you, Bro and whoever wants to can meet up at a great bar or my house and watch.
We can grill, drink beer, smoke our cigars and watch some SEC football!
We will all pitch in and send you a Greyhound ticket to get up here to the ATL. (joking)
Jm
September 26th, 2012
6:30 pm
Scout 6:18
Important one. I don’t know that that one opens any magic doors though….
Sons of the battle for the conch republic?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 26th, 2012
6:31 pm
Jm:
Sons of the Little Big Horn ?
Paul
September 26th, 2012
6:32 pm
getalife
“We are praying for an upset.”
One of the best things about college football: on any given day, anything, that is, absolutely anything, can happen.
Krystal'sBalls
September 26th, 2012
6:32 pm
That’s why I said before, that some people will definitely have to come to grips with the fact that whoever wins this election will have an implied MANDATE that the country should be taken in a certain direction…because this election is merely about that. It’s no longer about “jobs, jobs, jobs”. Sounds good, but it stopped being about that long ago. People know who they are voting for and why at this point. All else is posturing. So become a true “patriot” and get with the program come Nov. 7th, or consider moving to a new country. It’s that simple I think.
F. Sinkwich
September 26th, 2012
6:34 pm
“U.S. chief executives’ view of the economy deteriorated sharply in the third quarter and is now as bleak as it was in the immediate aftermath of the last recession, with more planning to cut jobs over the next six months, according to a survey released by the Business Roundtable on Wednesday.”
Go O’bozo! You da man!
This is what happens when a community organizer who knows nothing about business becomes POTUS.
O’bozo and his media sycophants like Jay are strangers to America:
“… it is probable that a press which maintains an intimate touch with the business currents of the nation is likely to be more reliable than it would be if it were a stranger to these influences. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. ”
Calvin Coolidge
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 26th, 2012
6:35 pm
Welcome to the Occupation
As a trim carpenter I carry around a 12 oz. Rocket TruTemp hammer because if I drive a nail, it’s usually a 2″ 6p. nail into material that’s usually less than ¾ inch and that hammer is perfectly suited to the job. On occasion, it’s a 10p. or 16p. nail into something thicker, but my hammer can handle that also.
I get grief sometimes from the younger studs that wave their 24 oz. waffle head framing hammers like it means something, but when they start leaving waffle marks on trim work, I make ‘em take it down and do it all over again.
Now sure, you can spread butter with a meat cleaver, and you can’t easily cut meat with a butter knife, but tools are made with a purpose in mind.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 26th, 2012
6:35 pm
Interesting (to me at least)
Why would Gingrich’s supporters vote for Romney(NEWT will beat Obama in the debates)?
Or, Perry or Cain or Bachmann (remember her and the corndog 47% of the people in this country are MEN) LOL
These are all people who looked at Romney and found him WANTING as a candidate.
I think I will wait for Newt to debate Obama. Wait, you say Newt wasn’t NOMINATED. WTF
Anybody but Obama brings nothing to the table. Romney is running on Ryans budget balancing plan, but then sends Ryan to talk to the AARP. WTF were they thinking (or are they)?
getalife
September 26th, 2012
6:37 pm
Paul.
You got that right.
One bad game and a few lucky breaks is all it takes.
You have to stay undefeated.
They BOTH suck
September 26th, 2012
6:37 pm
Sons of Grenada
Paul
September 26th, 2012
6:39 pm
If it hasn’t been posted, Andy Williams, RIP. Succumbed after a year-long battle with bladder cancer.
Saw him a little while back in Branson. He still had it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 26th, 2012
6:39 pm
Conservative….Most care not to make a lot of noise about how the left is that ….or this….. or whatever.
And I spent last night with the Dahm triplets.
At a Holiday Inn Express.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 26th, 2012
6:41 pm
So since we are now trying to count the TRUE unemployment nubers (which we never have).
The jobs losses under Bush were MUCH worse than we though. I guess we need to adjust Obama’s numbers to account for the comeback from ALL those other jobs lost.
Paul
September 26th, 2012
6:42 pm
Sinkwich
Yeah, right. I was just looking at one corporation. CEO’s pay went up 27% this year. Makes a couple tens of millions. Corporation paid zero US corporate income tax.
These guys ought to be lovin’ Obama.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 26th, 2012
6:43 pm
Jay
SONS OF WEST VIRGINIA VETERANS
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 26th, 2012
6:43 pm
Sons of the Peloponnesian War veterans!
They BOTH suck
September 26th, 2012
6:45 pm
Son of a Son of a sailor
Brosephus™
September 26th, 2012
6:45 pm
getalife
I’m still looking forward to the weekend when Bama rolls down I-20. That one’s definitely going to be a prime time showdown.
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They BOTH
It might just be me, but I sense a bit of difference in this Georgia team. I think those kids have their heads on pretty straight.
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USMC
That was the infamous “Blackout” game, wasn’t it? I looked at the demeanor of the players before the game and told my friends that something bad was about to happen to Georgia.
kayaker 71
September 26th, 2012
6:47 pm
Kamchak,
When I have done finish carpentry, I usually use a nail gun. Eliminates a lot of waffle marks on the molding and much easier to use.
They BOTH suck
September 26th, 2012
6:48 pm
Bro
They look pretty good so far, plus getting two D starters back this week.
Bro I think it was the 2nd “Blackout” game…….. The 1st was the year before against Allbarn if I am not mistaken. The 2nd was GA getting “knocked out” game
G Mare
September 26th, 2012
6:49 pm
Paulo, thanks for “Moon River.” RIP, Andy.
getalife
September 26th, 2012
6:50 pm
Bro,
If it is a low scoring game, we have a chance to beat you again.
Your quarterback is still better this year. Mett is inconsistent.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 26th, 2012
6:52 pm
kayaker 71
And I got a dozen or so nail guns from framing guns to .18ga.brad nailers , but every now and again, I have to drive a nail by hand..
F. Sinkwich
September 26th, 2012
6:56 pm
“Yeah, right. I was just looking at one corporation. CEO’s pay went up 27% this year. Makes a couple tens of millions. Corporation paid zero US corporate income tax.”
You are a stranger to America too, Paul.
getalife
September 26th, 2012
6:57 pm
filky,
The wealthy will be fine if we cut their welfare.
Stand up and stop bowing down filky.
You look silly.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 26th, 2012
6:58 pm
Kam
When your nail guns start to wear out what do you do with them?
Where can I go for hard to find parts?
I have a few I have to rebuild, but can’t find all the parts I need.
TM
September 26th, 2012
7:05 pm
Jay why don”t you and your family take a trip to the holy land where I am sure you will fell safe
Brosephus™
September 26th, 2012
7:09 pm
They BOTH
I forgot about the Auburn game, but then again, it’s only Auburn.
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getalife
I’m willing to wager that game will have a 7 or 8pm kickoff. If there’s any single stadium that’s hard to win a night game as a visitor, that would be in Death Valley. I think Les Miles has only lost 3-4 night games in Baton Rouge. That’s a hell of a record, especially considering the conference foes. I always get nervous when we have to visit Baton Rouge.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 26th, 2012
7:09 pm
Common Freaking Sense
I got a Paslode MU212 that worked 15 years ago, but I have retired ’cause I can never get it fixed again. A great all around trim gun, but notorious for going through driver blades.
I got high regards for Stone Mtn. Power Tools for my repairs, but I doubt they have a satellite office in Pa.
Since you’ve been out of the biz for a few years to be a wimpy azz IT pro, Senco has become the big name in power nailers, and makes a damn fine product that I only have to have fixed ’cause I dropped ‘em.
Donovan
September 26th, 2012
7:10 pm
Thanks Jay for that in-depth journalistic opinion from the left. However, I must remind you of your confidence in assuming that Al Gore would be elected in GW’s first election. I believe it was yours truly that set you straight when you replied to me that there would be a smile on your face when all the votes were cast in favor of Gore.
I consider myself well educated, successful, pragmatic, and old enough to see that conservatism always trumps fantasy liberalism. However, I am not cocky or prideful in my political beliefs that I under estimate my political opponents. That I leave to you and your rabble.
Obama should have never been elected, based on his credentials and his ideology. None the less, the stars and the moon were aligned for his victory with the massive help of your Democrat Party’s misinformation, the liberal media’s full court press, and a war against terrorism that required massive funding. Hats off to your masterful handling of propaganda, union contributions, and organized efforts towards dumbing-down the American public (poor entitlement seekers-blacks-young people-house wives-Hollywood liberals-Latinos-union members-educators-ignorant people).
What we now have is another election cycle where the outcome is more acute. There is a president who is a Marxist leaning misfit vying for re-election against an opponent who has the real credentials to move this battered country towards a successful path. Jay Bookman is trying his best, along with the liberal media, to destroy the challenger and I am trying to persuade the American public to see through the BS that the liberal establishment is perpetrating.
History has shown us the foibles of past liberal presidents. Jimmy Carter was elected on the same propaganda tactics as Obama was elected. Jimmy Carter was a failure in his governance as Obama has been. Each were surrounded by academics and fools. Economic governance was a disaster under each. Foreign policy has been a disaster with each. Iran was lost with Jimmy Carter. The American embassy in Iran was overrun with Jimmy Carter. The consulate in Benghazi was overrun and American lives were lost with Obama (a bump in the road). It’ s in your face and in the news.
Jay Bookman now claims victory again for this worthless liberal dream of a liberal president. The liberal news media is in full disparaging news of Romney’s failing numbers. The AJC is doing their part, the liberal TV stations are doing their part, the DNC is doing their part, and the liberal polls are doing their part.
Let’s just see how this plays out on Nov. 6. It boils down to the effectiveness of your propaganda upon the American public or the pragmatic view of the American public’s intellect. You fooled the American public once before, but can you go for a repeat?
As far as the polls go…you are insistent that no matter how bad the economy is and how bad the unemployment is, the public wants 4 more years of Obama’s incompetence? Yeah, RIGHT!
JamVet
September 26th, 2012
7:10 pm
On Wednesday, former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum and Sen. Jim DeMint, a tea party star, announced their support for Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin.
Missouri women who know that their place is in the kitchen and bedroom agree…
TM
September 26th, 2012
7:14 pm
from the NYT Jay’s paper of record
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated for the first time on Wednesday that there was an explicit link between the Qaeda franchise in North Africa and the attack at the American diplomatic mission in Libya that killed four Americans, including the ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens.
JamVet
September 26th, 2012
7:15 pm
“I consider myself well educated, successful, pragmatic…”
What is it Kam writes?
Oh yeah.
And, I stopped reading…
saywhat?
September 26th, 2012
7:15 pm
If Romney loses the election, the only poll that matters, it will be cause they oversampled Democratic voters.
liz
September 26th, 2012
7:17 pm
sons of draft dodgers-when danger reared it’s ugly head mighty sir robin turned and fled…
saywhat?
September 26th, 2012
7:17 pm
“… it will be because….”
there, I fixed it.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
September 26th, 2012
7:18 pm
Kam
A friend gave me a Paslode. I can’t find the parts anywhere LOL. No wonder
Wimpy azz IT pro
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That be me, I only use my other skills during my contract breaks.
I’ll look at Senco when I drop my running one
F. Sinkwich
September 26th, 2012
7:18 pm
Poor Jammie, his BFF has been outed:
“It’s no surprise that Ralph Nader isn’t a fan of former President George W. Bush. After all, the longtime activist ran against him in both 2000 and 2004. But Nader’s even less a fan of President Barack Obama, if only because he thinks Obama was capable of so much more.
On issues related to the military and foreign policy, Obama’s worse than Bush, “in the sense that he’s more aggressive, more illegal worldwide,” Nader told POLITICO, going so far as to call Obama a “war criminal.”"
Worse than the worst president EVER???
Bummer.
Doggone/GA
September 26th, 2012
7:19 pm
“If Romney loses the election, the only poll that matters, it will be cause they oversampled Democratic voters.”
Got proof?
Brosephus™
September 26th, 2012
7:24 pm
If Romney loses the election, the only poll that matters, it will be cause they oversampled Democratic voters.
Thomas Heyward Jr
September 26th, 2012
7:25 pm
Commenting on the war criminal——–
Nader gave Obama this much: He’s the lesser of two evils when compared to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. But he said Obama is “the more effective evil because he brings credibility, he brings the democratic heritage to it, he has legitimized the lawless war-mongering and militarism abroad of George W. Bush.”
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Nader = Honesty
AmVet= hypocrit
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LOL.
Thomas Heyward Jr
September 26th, 2012
7:26 pm
I meant…………….
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AmVet= Neo-Con Hypocrit.
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lol.
Mighty Righty
September 26th, 2012
7:27 pm
The Nazification of America continues under Obama. The government dictates which food items children are allowed to eat or starve which most are choosing to do. Any parent knows that food cannot be forced on chldren but this simple fact escapes the president and first lady.. The overweight first lady’s equirement of food rationing for children will undoubtedly soon be expanded to force audults to eat as she wishes. Easy enough to do by just forcing grocers to carry only governent approved items.
Paradoxical Quote of The Day From Ben Stein:
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”
Now add this, “Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens
will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance
because they are citizens.”
JamVet
September 26th, 2012
7:28 pm
But as always the laugh’s on you, filthy . Here’s the rest of the quote…
Nader warned that the former Massachusetts governor is not to be trifled with either, calling him the greater of the two evils and that he is “basically a corporation running for president masquerading as a human being.”
TM
September 26th, 2012
7:28 pm
If Romney loses the election its because you blind bats believe that Stevens died because of some short film
cc
September 26th, 2012
7:29 pm
The following is excerpted from an article, “Do Americans truly understand ‘redistribution of wealth’?” By Virginia Prodan. The link is posted below if any of you libs want to take the time to read it. If not, you may continue on your ignorant way . . .
“I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody’s got a shot. How do we pool resources at the same time as we decentralize delivery systems in ways that foster competition, can work in the marketplace, and can foster innovation at the local level and can be tailored to particular “ – Obama addressing students at Loyola University in 1998
Your work and your wealth will belong to the government “in the name of society”; in other words, it will belong to the collective. Actually, though, your work and your wealth will belong to the elite of the government, who will decide who and what is given your money. This is what “redistribution of wealth” means in Obama’s philosophy; it is also the basic principle of communism.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/do_americans_truly_understand_redistribution_of_wealth.html#ixzz27caF6qIh
JamVet
September 26th, 2012
7:30 pm
When Romney loses the election its because he blamed our embassy personnel for sympathizing with their attackers.
And you idgits agree with him…
Doggone/GA
September 26th, 2012
7:34 pm
“The Nazification of America continues under Obama”
Oooooh! Someone IS getting desperate
Dharma Bum
September 26th, 2012
7:35 pm
Since Obama winning the election is clearly a foregone conclusion for Mr. Bookman, does that mean we won’t have to read any more opinion pieces from him about it?
I would also like to know, since Mr. Bookman is so confident in his ability to see into the future… why hasn’t he booked a ticket to Vegas?
TM
September 26th, 2012
7:35 pm
When Romney loses the election its because he blamed our embassy personnel for sympathizing with their attackers. Tell that to Steven’s family. No its became the president spent a week bragging about killing a certain 9/11 terrorist and did not increase security at our State office in the area om 9/11
Thomas Heyward Jr
September 26th, 2012
7:36 pm
JamVet
September 26th, 2012
7:28 pm
But as always the laugh’s on you, filthy . Here’s the rest of the quote…
Nader warned that the former Massachusetts governor is not to be trifled with either, calling him the greater of the two evils and that he is “basically a corporation running for president masquerading as a human being.”
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Bookman and AmVet………………………………………Comedy gold.
Doggone/GA
September 26th, 2012
7:38 pm
“Since Obama winning the election is clearly a foregone conclusion for Mr. Bookman”
Reading comprehension’s not your strong suit I see
saywhat?
September 26th, 2012
7:40 pm
Doggone, read my 7:15 again. Brosephus got it.
Mighty Righty
September 26th, 2012
7:40 pm
I knew a brain dead out of touch with reality democrat would dispute the president and his wife forcing anerican citizens to eat only their approved food. Age, size, weight, excercise have nothing to do with it it is a one size fits all stupidity. An 18 year old football player gets the same amount of food as a fourteen year old female invalid. Think about it.
http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2012/09/23/complaints_mount_against_michelle_obamas_new_lunch_menu
Doggone/GA
September 26th, 2012
7:42 pm
“Doggone, read my 7:15 again. Brosephus got it”
and what makes you think I didn’t?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 26th, 2012
7:43 pm
The American Thinker?
Couldn’t you have just linked AmSpec, or Powerline or Hotair instead?
saywhat?
September 26th, 2012
7:44 pm
Mighty Righty. I hear they plan on shooting people who don’t eat their vegetables. Its why the Social security deopartment bought all those millions of hollow point bullets.
Brosephus™
September 26th, 2012
7:45 pm
The Nazification of America continues under Obama.
I think I have officially heard it all…
Remember your rants about school lunches when the US is incapable of fielding a military because of obesity in about 20 years.
saywhat?
September 26th, 2012
7:45 pm
“and what makes you think I didn’t?”
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7:19
saywhat?
September 26th, 2012
7:46 pm
The American Thinker is barely either.