The weekend before Nov. 6, what else would we talk about?
I may as well bow to the reality that y’all will spend the entire weekend talking about the election regardless of what topic I write about, so here it is: Your weekend-before-the-election open thread.
The rules still apply — it’s an open thread, not a no-holds-barred thread — but otherwise, have at it.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Uncle Billy
November 3rd, 2012
7:58 am
The DOD is hauling gasoline to New Jersey, Mayor Bloomberg cancelled the Marathon yesterday, Obama will win big and I will stay in America where I was born you right wing nuts!
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
7:59 am
The Dow was at 14,000 under Our President Bush. Obozo isn’t even keeping pace with inflation.
Glad to see you’re so excited about Wall Street doing well though.
Uncle Billy
November 3rd, 2012
7:59 am
Lil’ Barry-Time to bail out.
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
8:23 am
Rev. Lowery, from the pulpit, told a racist joke about white people going to hell. While some have called him out on this, you may be sure the establishment press will essentially give him a free pass. For his part, Lowery has professed suprise that anyone would be offended by his remarks.
Imagine an elderly white, retired leader making a joke from the pulpit about all blacks going to hell. Do you think Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would ignore it? The establishment press? Absolutely not! They would come down with both feet on this white man.
This is what’s known as a double standard. It’s been around for some time now and is one of the reasons civil rights progress has not only come to a halt but is starting to go backwards. Many blacks know this but, hang on to their double standard “rights”. Why, you ask? Because these “rights” give them the opportunity to stick it to whitey, and not have to worry about whites having reciprocal rights.
So, the next time any of you complain about your “civil rights”, I will give your whining all the attention it truly deserves.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
November 3rd, 2012
8:28 am
Anybody who cites the DJIA as an indicator of an improved economy, doesn’t know squat about the economy.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
8:40 am
Feds, States Waive More Rules to Help Get Fuel to N.Y., N.J.
The federal government waived a shipping law and the states of New York and New Jersey waived fuel restrictions Friday as they ramped up efforts to quickly move diesel and gasoline supplies into the two states hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy.
http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=30538&t=Feds-States-Waive-More-Rules-to-Help-Get-Fuel-to-NY-NJ
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I love it. An admission by the government that their own rules create inefficiencies and raise prices for American families.
Skip
November 3rd, 2012
8:56 am
500,000 jobs lost, 168,000 jobs gained. Too complicated for cons to understand?
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:00 am
January 2009: 7.8% unemployment
October 2012: 7.9% unemployment
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
9:05 am
Uh, Skip?
7.8% last month. 7.9% this month. Too complicated for you to understand?
Ryatt Wang
November 3rd, 2012
9:07 am
The leftwingnuts unceasingly decried Bush for his lack of involvement after Catrina, all Obama does is a photo opportunity (political as hell) after Sandy and the same unhinged loudmouth lunatic’s are all deaf-mutes on the empathy issue.
Keep up your double standards liberals, cause without those double standards you liberals would have no standards at all.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:08 am
Four years and $800 billion later, and unemployment is…up?
Your guy failed, Skip.
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
9:08 am
Tiberius and Barry
Since Romney has flip-floped and done 180’s right and left, there’s not a shred of evidence that he would do any better than Obama, or, even as good.
Too complicated for you to understand?
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Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 3rd, 2012
9:08 am
Carlos
You are right for once, a close example of what you are talking about is the ruckus raised with Trent Lott jokingly said of Strom Thurmond, on the eve of his retirement, that maybe America might be better off if Strom had won the Presidency in 1948. Strom had run as a Dixiecrat. It was said in humor and as somewhat of a complement for 100 year old Strom. The race pimps jumped on this and the bruha went on for weeks. It probably was a poorly thought out complement, but the fuss raised, far exceeded any harm.
Lowery wasn’t joking when he said white people were going to hell. He had made that comment before.
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
9:10 am
Ryatt Waing
Liberals DO have standards.
All you have is an empty suit running for President.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 3rd, 2012
9:12 am
Since Obama has flip-floped and done 180’s right and left, the second term will be more of the same.
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
9:12 am
Rafe Hollister
Thanks. If you think, on occasion, I’m right, you say so. That’s certainly more than most of the others here would do.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
9:12 am
LBB, it’s way more than $800 billion.
That’s just for Stimulus I. Let’s not forget Little Stimulus II, Cash for Clunkers, the GM bailout and various and sundry other spending bills touted to create jobs during Obama’s first term. CNN even estimated that total spending to create jobs was well over $2 trillion.
When you’ve lost CNN, you know you haven’t done very well.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:12 am
Doubling down on failure, carlosgvv?
I’m voting for change.
The evidence is that Romney knows how to manage large organizations successfully, knows how to turn around failures, and knows how to and is willing to work with the other side to get things done.
I think we all know how Obozo compares.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:14 am
Oh I haven’t forgotten, Tiberius. Add to that the debasement of the dollar through Fed action and the total cost is much, much more.
Ryatt Wang
November 3rd, 2012
9:14 am
You’re correct Rafe and it is the one and only time that low life buffoon has been right about anything.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
9:14 am
“Flip-flop”:
A term used by ignorant liberals who get their talking points from the DNC and don’t bother to inform themselves about what really happened.
Skip
November 3rd, 2012
9:17 am
Romney does know the right height for trees, I’ll give him that.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:17 am
Romney also knows there aren’t 57 states, Skip.
Liberal Pariah
November 3rd, 2012
9:27 am
“Today Obama asked his supporters to vote for revenge.Instead, I ask the American people to vote for Love of Country.”-Mitt Rommney in Ohio
Desparate much Mr President?
Liberal Pariah
November 3rd, 2012
9:28 am
I heard a rumor that the people in NY are fueling their cars with renewable wind energy.
Liberal Pariah
November 3rd, 2012
9:29 am
I am confused, if Obama wins the election, will he have inherited the bad economy from Bush or himself?
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:33 am
Not sure, Liberal Pariah. We know Obozo blamed Romney for Benghazi.
Nothing is the Idiot Messiah’s fault.
cc
November 3rd, 2012
9:36 am
Liberal Pariah:
“I heard a rumor that the people in NY are fueling their cars with renewable wind energy. ”
You heard wrong . . . they are refueling their cars with solar energy, and Obama has announced another $200 billion grant to a political contributor to develop another Volt!
I can’t wait until Tuesday when our long national nightmare will begin its swan song.
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
9:37 am
Ryatt Wang – 9:14
I know you think that’s profound. Unfortunately, levels of intelligence and learning prevent you from knowing just how pathetic it is.
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
9:38 am
Barry
Big Business, Romney, The Republican Party and TV preachers truly love simple tools like you.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:38 am
Car of the Year: Chevrolet Volt
Nobel Prize winner: Obozo
Two statements that never fail to make me laugh.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:39 am
Always good to hear from the occasionally-coherent carlosgvv!
Verbal Kint
November 3rd, 2012
9:40 am
Bill Maher must be PISSED that his $1MM campaign contribution to this clown of a president is going right down the tubes. Anybody catch what that dip$h!t said last night? Pathetic. That’s a scared libtard for you.
Wednesday is going to be fun, people.
Verbal Kint
November 3rd, 2012
9:41 am
Here’s the Maher link:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/03/maher-if-you-vote-romney-black-people-know-who-you-are-and-will-come
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:42 am
Big Business, Romney, The Republican Party and TV preachers
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I guess all those things frighten you, eh, carlosgvv?
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
9:43 am
Barry
You need to hope, with all your heart, that Obama wins. For, if Romney wins, then, before long, you’ll be forced to look in the mirror and see the real source of all your problems.
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
9:46 am
Barry – 9:42
Since all these people care about is money and power and, since they could not possibly care less about the people, you’re darn right they frighten me.
JamVet
November 3rd, 2012
9:47 am
Niiiice.
Kyle’s Larry, Moe, Curly, Shemp and Curly Joe all are fired up this morning!
Get ‘em, stooges!
But where is the big Amazon woman that slaps all of them silly?
Their impending nookyaler meltdowns and the tossing to the curb of the moribund Mitt are gonna be something to see.
Enjoy your little pukefest here, boys!
And better luck in 2016…
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
9:48 am
I’m not in denial about the source of any of my problems, carlosgvv. I can’t think of anyone who’s done me wrong. I am who I am and where I am today because of my own choices.
How many in Obozo’s base would say the same?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
November 3rd, 2012
10:15 am
Romney spoke to a crowd of 30,000, according to West Chester Fire Chief Tony Goller – making it the largest rally of the Ohio campaign, said Romney spokesman Chris Maloney.
Um, obozo drew a crowd of 2,800.
Cherokee
November 3rd, 2012
10:30 am
I hope the ’significant others’ of all the cons on this site have locked away your ‘weapons’. Tuesday night and Wednesday morning will be dangerous times for you – wouldn’t want you to hurt yourselfs when your world comes crashing down.
Could still be that all the polls, including Fox and Rasmussen, are wrong, and that Romney will snow enough people to sneak through.
But I doubt it.
Cherokee
November 3rd, 2012
10:31 am
oops
’selves’
carlosgvv
November 3rd, 2012
10:31 am
Barry – 9:48 “I’m not in denial”
I’m glad to hear that, Barry. What makes you think some in Obama’s base could honestly blame him for their troubles? And before you reply, think of all the suffering family members of those killed in Iraq because of Bush’s and Cheney’s lies. And, explain to me, if you can, why Romney is not just another Bush clone who will get us into more useless wars.
Just Saying..
November 3rd, 2012
10:34 am
The Con meme:
“I know a lot, and Nate Silver is a dummy:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/nov-2-for-romney-to-win-state-polls-must-be-statistically-biased/?hp
Cherokee
November 3rd, 2012
10:35 am
Basically, Romney thinks Americans are dumb.
‘How did you get your wealth?’ “We’ve given ‘you people’ enough of our tax returns.”
‘How are you going to balance the budget, while giving more tax cuts to the rich, and increasing military spending?’ “By eliminating tax deductions, but I’m not going to tell you which ones.”
‘How are you going to improve the economy?’ “I have a five point plan; you’ll like it when you see if after you elect me.”
Sorry, Mr. Romney, but a majority of Americans are likely smarter than you think we are.
MarkV
November 3rd, 2012
10:37 am
“The weekend before Nov. 6, what else would we talk about,” asks Kyle.
For the cons on this blog the answer is obvious: To hurl worn out, pathetic insults on the President and make stupid comments they mistake for witticism so that they would not have to talk about Gov. Christie’s praise of the President.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
10:39 am
Cherokee, in case you haven’t been paying attention, each and every pollster (while standing by the “accuracy” of their polls) have all stated they need to re-think the way they poll. Too few landlines are not representative of the electorate as we move to a cellular society. Not only that, early voting is skewing all the numbers, if they’re even included at all into the poll (a majority of them don’t use those numbers).
This is to say that it will be a minor miracle if ANYBODY’S polls are accurate following Tuesday’s election. Best bet is that one or two national polls will be with the margins, but state polls will be off considerably.
I will be disappointed if Obama wins re-election, but I won’t be surprised no matter who wins.
mike
November 3rd, 2012
10:39 am
“It’ll all come out in the wash.”
That’s what this older gentleman used to tell me all the time. Especially when I told him about something that was worrying me.
Tuesday night “it’ll all come out in the wash” as Romney suffers a humiliating defeat. Then, he can go back to what he does best: shipping jobs to China a la Sensata Technologies. He can go back to hiding his money in offshore accounts to evade paying taxes. He can go back to not having to worry about releasing his tax returns. But, most of all, he can go back to not having to worry about making up the “correct” lies for whichever audience he happens to be addressing at the moment.
You cons can go back to trying to some other imbecile that you think has a minute chance of being elected by old white people by 2016. Good luck!
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 3rd, 2012
10:42 am
“so that they would not have to talk about Gov. Christie’s praise of the President.”
Oooooh, Chris Christie praised the President!
Big frikkin’ deal. You’re supposed to praise people who perform their duties (you also don’t bite the hand that is going to feed you, either), but don’t think for a moment Christie is voting for anybody but Mitt Romney.
This issue has been blown out of proportion by both sides. It means NOTHING.
Very much like your posts, MarkV.
MarkV
November 3rd, 2012
10:48 am
go @10:42 am: “pathetic?”
I agree, it is not an adequate description of the pitiful nature of those insults.