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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Linda
November 4th, 2012
6:41 pm
If any liberal can explain how Bush’s policies led to our economic crisis, I would be interested.
Linda
November 4th, 2012
6:49 pm
Same Bureau of Labor. Different Labor Secretary appointed by a different president, one from Texas, one from Chicago.
Job numbers not improving. Went up. Hasn’t created one net job during entire term. Doesn’t want to create a job. Sooooooooooooooo obvious. Not what progressives do. Have no intentions to improve economy.
cc
November 4th, 2012
6:52 pm
“If any liberal can explain how Bush’s policies led to our economic crisis, I would be interested.”
Democrats refuse to admit the obvious, and they have never heard of Barney Frank or Christopher Dodd.
cc
November 4th, 2012
6:54 pm
“Have no intentions to improve economy.”
Collapsing the economy is the path to Marxism/socialism/communism.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 4th, 2012
6:55 pm
carlosgvv: Disagreeing with a Obama’s political actions does NOT make him a non-American.
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Actively working to destroy the foundations of America’s economic system DOES make him un-American.
Obozo: Not an American.
It’s OK to admit you made a huge mistake last time.
Vote American.
Linda
November 4th, 2012
7:05 pm
Voting for Obama proves liberals don’t love their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, great grandmothers, great grandfathers, etc.
Wonder where the love went. Should be a song written.
The president of the US has 2 jobs: CEO of the US & Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Do we elect a real, successful CEO or a community organizer?
carlosgvv
November 4th, 2012
7:08 pm
Barry – “Actively working to destroy the foundations of America’s economic system”
Has it ever occured to you, even once, that if this were true, NOBODY would vote for him?
I think you’re just making up this stuff as you go along.
cc
November 4th, 2012
7:14 pm
. . . and despite MarkV’s statement, Obama has been and is lying about Benghazi. A Commander-in-Chief Obama is not, and he has proven it beyond any objective and logical conclusion.
MarkV
November 4th, 2012
7:18 pm
cc @7:14 pm
. . . and despite cc’s statement, he has not been able to present any evidence of Obama’s lying,
Just a lot of hot air
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 4th, 2012
7:21 pm
carlosgvv: Has it ever occured to you, even once, that if this were true, NOBODY would vote for him?
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Unfortunately, a large percentage of citizens have been taught that profit is evil, and that capitalism is for meanies because some folks do better than others in such a system. Guess who teaches such garbage? Democrats and community organizers…rabble rousers. We’ve bred too many intellectual weaklings, and too many folks with poor work ethic. They’re plenty happy just getting their government check. That is Obozo’s base…the weak, the stupid, the ignorant, the aggrieved.
Be better than that.
Vote American.
Rightwing Troll
November 4th, 2012
7:24 pm
Obviously gas prices were so low in Jan 2008 because of the optimism the world had in the US finally running the moron in chief out of DC, and not electing McSame/Snowbilly. The world had hope for a few minutes, until the wingnuts started their treasonous campaign of obstruction, and continuing destruction of the world economy.
Rightwing Troll
November 4th, 2012
7:26 pm
“Actively working to destroy the foundations of America’s economic system DOES make him un-American.”
Too bad for you that never really happened…
cc
November 4th, 2012
7:33 pm
“Has it ever occured to you, even once, that if this were true, NOBODY would vote for him?”
Nobody?
How about the avowed socialists, such as Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Bill Ayers, and Bernadine Dorhn?
Maybe the OWS movement swine?
Maybe even those who have permanently attached themselves to the government teat and think it will last forever, even after the producers in our society have stopped producing?
Maybe anyone who describes themselves as a “progressive”?
Linda
November 4th, 2012
7:36 pm
“Actively working to destroy the foundations of America’s economic system.”
Is it lack of incompetence or deliberate?
Obama is America’s fourth consequential progressive president. Poet Archibald MacLeish, FDR’s choice for librarian of Congress, said America has “the abundant means” to create whatever world we have the courage to desire, & the ability to “take this country down” & “build it again as we please,” to “take our cities apart & put them together,” to lead our “rivers where we please to lead them,” etc.
You may call progressives whatever you want to call them, but they are NOT pro-American.
cc
November 4th, 2012
7:38 pm
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/email-alerts-describe-911-benghazi-consulate-assault-unfolding/
Serious Robuck
November 4th, 2012
7:42 pm
td, I’ll check in with you Wednesday morning.
Linda
November 4th, 2012
7:53 pm
Rightwing@7:24, I assume you meant Jan./09 rather than Jan./08. Pray tell how “the wingnuts started their treasonous campaign of obstruction, & continuing destruction of the world economy,” when the Dems. controlled the White House, the House & a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Also, can you explain how Bush destroyed the economy when it was predicted by the NYT before he was even elected, in 9/99 that a govt. rescue would be requited to bail out the banks the GOVERNMENT required to make sub-prime loans?
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 4th, 2012
8:02 pm
cc, your 7:33 nailed it.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 4th, 2012
8:05 pm
Remember how Obozo’s handlers had to beg him to wear a U.S. flag lapel pin back in 2008?
Linda
November 4th, 2012
8:16 pm
Obama wrote Dreams From My Father. He also wrote a budget I call Dreams from My Speeches. He incorporated every idea he’s been spouting on the campaign trail for how many years now? 4? 5?
He incorporated raising taxes on those he deems “rich” & not paying “their fair share,” teachers & firemen in expensive areas of the country, & guess what? His budget takes the USA into oblivion. Despair. Bankruptcy. It decimates Social Security & Medicare & Defense.
His budget was as radical as he is.
The votes he received from the House & the Senate were exactly ZERO. Not one Democrat in either body voted with him.
That’s all anyone needs to know about this man.
His intention is to systematically destroy the United States of America. His budget proved it.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 4th, 2012
8:30 pm
For the first time in my life, I’m proud of my country. Would an American chose to be married to someone who said that?
We put a man on the moon, defeated the Nazi’s, the Japanese, the Soviets, overthrew dictators, freed the enslaved, protected the Muslims in Kosovo, and have the greatest standard of living in the world and she has never been proud of her country?
Linda
November 4th, 2012
8:49 pm
Obama took our men off the moon & deprived our space exploration, gave in to the Muslim Brotherhood (the political arm of the Islamic radicals), pushed the wrong reset button with the Russians & promised compromise after his “last election,” collaborated with dictators abroad to interrogate captured terrorists, freed terrorists, protected the Muslim terrorists & brought our standard of living to the lowest it’s been for decades.
Who’s proud now?
MarkV
November 4th, 2012
8:51 pm
“Remember how Obozo’s handlers had to beg him to wear a U.S. flag lapel pin back in 2008?”
“For the first time in my life, I’m proud of my country. Would an American chose to be married to someone who said that?”
Looks like some people feel the need to fight and lose the 2008 campaign twice.
Rafe Hollister, suffering through Oblamer's ineptocracy
November 4th, 2012
8:52 pm
http://washingtonexaminer.com/november-surprise-epa-planning-major-post-election-anti-coal-regulation/article/2512538#.UJcMym872Ah
More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.
The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.
He doesn’t quit in his efforts to bring the country to its knees. 700 billion more damage to our economy.
Linda
November 4th, 2012
9:11 pm
Obama has declared a war on coal, which fires almost half of our electric plants. He said, “If someone wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw
Serious Robuck
November 4th, 2012
9:15 pm
Linda, take a pill and go to bed. Good gracious.
cc
November 4th, 2012
9:22 pm
LBB:
Just telling the truth!
cc
November 4th, 2012
9:25 pm
Serious Robuck:
Take a pill and get off my planet. Good gracious.
cc
November 4th, 2012
9:34 pm
“But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.”
Unless those regulations are in the form of law and subject to the whelm of the courts, executive orders should be able to handle that situation. After all, look at what Hussein has been able to do via executive order!
The communists found their home in the environmental movement. It was and is a perfect place to handle redistribution of wealth on a global scale. Cap and Trade is a perfect example of that attempt. Hussein has had to proceed without that single piece of legislation, but he has been effective.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 4th, 2012
9:34 pm
MarkV: Looks like some people feel the need to fight and lose the 2008 campaign twice.
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Looks like some people are ignoring that Obozo is an America-hating Marxist again. Or embracing it.
Let America be America again. Fire the liberal fascist.
cc
November 4th, 2012
9:43 pm
“Let America be America again. Fire the liberal fascist.”
. . . and vote the American!
JamVet
November 4th, 2012
10:05 pm
Obama has declared a war on coal…
Better than a war on women!
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 4th, 2012
10:15 pm
Remember how much ink was spilled over Valerie Plame? And she’s living comfortably in the D.C. suburbs.
Our ambassador in Benghazi? Nothing to see here, folks.
MarkV
November 4th, 2012
10:18 pm
“Looks like some people are ignoring that Obozo is an America-hating Marxist again. Or embracing it.”
It does not just look like, it is certain that some people think that using a stupid, ignorant name-calling is an argument.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 4th, 2012
10:37 pm
No, MarkV, I just don’t ignore the obvious–the redistribution, the wealth envy, the lack of respect for private property, the cronyism…Obozo’s a Marxist. And his adoration of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers–he’s an America hater, born and raised.
Vote American. Even Democrats are doing it.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
November 4th, 2012
10:52 pm
Ive always wondered what its like to live in a fantasy world where reality can be ignored. A world where every fact is dismissed and ignored simply because it doesn’t make MarkV ’s candidate look good.
What’s that fantasy world like MarkV?
MarkV
November 4th, 2012
11:52 pm
Tiberius @10:52 pm
I appreciate your wondering. I have absolutely no interest in your distorted view of the reality, in which lies can be presented as facts without any evidence..
MarkV
November 4th, 2012
11:56 pm
TruthBe @10:27 pm
Words from a total ignorant, as you are showing yourself to be by your post, mean nothing to me. Just wallow in your stupidity.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 5th, 2012
12:09 am
How many times did Obama or someone from his administration go on TV in the days following the murders and say, “the best information we have is that it was a spontaneous demonstration” brought on by that idiotic video, MarkV?
Answer: DOZENS of times.
Except we now know that the CIA Chief of Station reported that it was a coordinated attack less than 24 hours following the murders.
We now know that the ambassador himself sent cables to the State Dept. (and directly to SOS Clinton) 3 weeks beforehand, stating his belief that his Libyan “protectors” were likely infiltrated and that the consulate was under surveillance.
We now know that the murdered ambassador identified at LEAST 10 terrorist cells operating in the Benghazi area weeks before he was killed.
Continue to stick you head (and other orifices) in the sand and deny the FACTS that only one news organization has had the wherewithal to ferret out, but you cannot change the REALITY of the FACTS, MarkV.
He may be the most incompetent boob to ever reside in the Oval Office, but regardless of that opinion I have of him, there is NO denying he and his administration has lied about Benghazi.
Unless your IQ has dropped below 30, or if you’re a liberal, which is about the same thing these days.
Cherokee
November 5th, 2012
12:13 am
Ive always wondered what its like to live in a fantasy world where reality can be ignored. A world where every Fox lie is trumpeted over and over again simply because it makes Tib’s candidate look good.
There, fixed it for you.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 5th, 2012
12:20 am
It’s always ironic to read when someone who won’t accept reality calls another poster “ignorant”.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 5th, 2012
12:22 am
“A world where every Fox lie is trumpeted over and over ”
Really, Cherokee?
Please specify what part of Fox News’ reporting on the murder of our ambassador in Libya is considered by you to be a “lie”.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
November 5th, 2012
12:46 am
Note how the liberal weasels scurry for cover when exposed.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 5th, 2012
9:09 am
If sufficient numbers of real Americans vote, it’ll feel a lot like November 2010.
MarkV
November 5th, 2012
10:02 am
You, Tiberius, and the other moral cowards, cc, Lambeau and others, stop pour weaseling and squirming, and man up! You have accused the President of lying. If you stand by that, it should be obvious what to do:
1. Quote the President word by word (Provide a link or accurate information, so that it can be checked. If his is an answer to a question, make sure you include the question.)
2. Provide evidence, that the statement was a falsehood.
If you cannot do that, take the accusation back. Not that I expect that from people like you, who have only the “courage” to insult and accuse, not to admit, they were wrong.
MarkV
November 5th, 2012
10:29 am
Tiberius @12:46 am
A stupid post by the King of Obnoxiousness.
independent thinker
November 5th, 2012
10:44 am
OBAMA WINS – Stock Market predicts winner on Tuesday (absent Republican shenanigans)-
“”"”"”"”"There is a 94% chance you’re going to read that headline on Wednesday morning.
That’s because the direction of stocks has been a solidly reliable predictor of prior presidential elections.
For Mitt Romney, this is grim news indeed.
Though I’ve discussed the market’s ability to predict elections before, here’s a quick review:
When the stock market sported gains in the two months before the election, the incumbent was re-elected 15 of 16 times. Conversely, when the stock market declined during that time, the opposition won 10 of 12 races. The combined data, which InvesTech Research compiled, shows that the stock market predicted the next president a mind-blowing 25 of 28 times (89.2%).”"”"”"”"”"”"”
http://www.wyattresearch.com/article/obama-wins-