Tampa and the invisible Southern white male
Cowboy-hatted Texas delegates were a strong presence on the floor of the Republican National Convention – but not so much on the stage. AP/Patrick Semansky
TAMPA — With Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the history books, and a three-day meeting of Democrats in Charlotte only days away, one bankable fact is clear.
The modern convention – at least the part you see on television — is less about what a political party is, and more about who it needs.
As a result, there were many dogs that didn’t bark at the just-ended Republican National Convention.
Same-sex marriage was never disparaged, except in the vaguest terms. Illegal immigration received only a rare mention. When it did surface, the word “illegal” had disappeared. The tea party – the most important political movement of this young century – didn’t exist in Tampa. At least, not by name, and not on television.
The edges were smoothed on anything that might offend skittish independents needed if Romney is to win in November.
But the biggest dog that didn’t bark in Tampa – perhaps “howl” is the better word – was the Southern white male. Of the dozens and dozens of personalities that populated an Isaac-shortened roster of speakers, only a handful came from the GOP’s most reliable and dominant voter base.
Ted Cruz, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Texas, was part of the non-stop parade of Hispanics on the stage.
Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, both U.S. senators from Kentucky, could be dismissed as mere border-state figures. To cite former Gov. Jeb Bush is to reignite the debate over whether Florida truly qualifies as part of the South.
And before you point to that Confederate veteran, the outlaw Josey Wales, remember that Clint Eastwood was once mayor of Carmel, Calif.
No, the only white males from traditional Southern states on the RNC’s prime-time stage were former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Attorney General Sam Olens, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich, and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
That’s actually less than meets the eye. Olens, Gingrich and McDonnell were required to share their podiums with women.
(This was particularly important for McDonnell, who this year introduced legislation to require some women seeking an abortion to obtain a transvaginal ultrasound. A less stringent version ultimately passed.)
“That’s bizarre,” conceded delegate and state Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, addressing the lack of people who look like him who were put before TV cameras. He quickly elaborated that it bespeaks a successful future for the GOP – despite the fact that, according to one study, only 2 percent of the 2,286 delegates to the convention were African-American.
“The strongest message out of this whole deal is the strength of our farm team. No pun intended,” he said. Black pointed to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, former Alabama Democratic congressman Arturo Davis, and Mia Love, an African-American candidate for Congress from Utah.
“I celebrate it as a great way to depict the strength of the party. I don’t celebrate it as a smart move,” Black said.
And yet it was that, too.
“[Romney strategists] are more concerned about their swing states now, and they should be. I don’t feel snubbed,” said state Labor Commissioner Mark Butler, a convention guest.
Might there be other reasons for avoiding Southern men? Probably.
“It’s who endorsed who. And most of the folks in the South went with Newt,” said state Sen. Barry Loudermilk of Cassville. Olens, he pointed out, was the most prominent statewide elected official in Georgia to step out front for Romney.
But Loudermilk also agreed that the presidential contest is essentially over in the South.
In an interview this week, GOP strategist Ralph Reed said much the same thing – though on a slightly different topic. The Tampa convention became the place where Romney finally felt comfortable enough to discuss his Mormon faith.
Reed maintains that anti-Mormon bigotry is a bigger problem among liberals. The founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition admits that it exists among conservatives, too, but says that this no longer matters.
“If you’ve got a grandma sitting in the third row of an independent Baptist, white sideboard church who can’t bring herself to vote for a Mormon because she believes it’s a heresy, she’s more than likely in north Georgia, upstate South Carolina or eastern Tennessee,” Reed said. “And we don’t need her.”
Similarly, Republican support from Southern men is presumed. The race has moved elsewhere.
Democrats are no different. They need to reach across from the other side of the chasm in order to re-elect President Barack Obama.
Consider some of the speakers scheduled to appear this week: former President Bill Clinton, Georgetown law school graduate Sandra Fluke, Carolyn Kennedy, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, and Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts candidate for U.S. Senate. An abundance of white faces will speak for a party whose base is largely African-American.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis will address the convention, but Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, who has become a semi-regular surrogate for Obama on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” currently has no televised speaking role in Charlotte.
The 2012 presidential contest isn’t about who is already in your corner. It’s about who isn’t.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Tom
September 1st, 2012
11:05 am
Can Fluke stop looking up at the ceiling long enough to deliver a speech?
Tom
September 1st, 2012
11:07 am
Hey, Elizabeth Warren……after you speak next week, the GOP will still be the only convention this season to have had an actual INDIAN on stage.
Faaarrr Right
September 1st, 2012
11:53 am
Personally, I can hardly wait until the final night of the Democratic National Convention when He steps forth from the background, bathed in iridescent lighting, with a pink/purple hue; slowly walking to the podium…checking His Tele-Palm-Ter and taking a sip straight from the waters of the Sea of Galilee. The crowd is hushed; you can hear a pin drop. He delivers his usual eloquent (but hollow) oratory. Every other word…the crowd roars! The crescendo is deafening! He drivels, uh, talks on, and on, and on about His accomplishments (no failures, just accomplishments).
It’s difficult..no, almost impossible to hear Him over the roar of the collected. After 45 minutes or more He finally wraps it up. The crowd is weeping with joy! He has Aris..NO, He has done it! He has – in one singular speech – outdone the likes of every, that’s right EVERY speaker who spoke at the Republican Convention in Tampa. All of the lapdog media outlets can’t wait to get on air and proclaim that this sermon (well…) was the “greatest ever given! To which the Republicans countered (meekly) that it may have been eclipsed only by another fellow that lived between 1 and 33AD. You be the judge.
jgalloway
September 1st, 2012
11:56 am
Keep on topic, Will.
newt schmoot
September 1st, 2012
12:04 pm
Good observations, Jim. But why does nobody in the media ever address that other barking dog – Southern white females? Is that demographic too all-over-the-place politically?
cc
September 1st, 2012
12:26 pm
Jim,
I am so looking forward to your coverage of the DNC. It will be fun to watch it and then read your ‘inside’ comments on it.
cc
September 1st, 2012
12:29 pm
Faaarrr Right @ 11:53 am:
An accurate prediction . . .
Bob Loblaw
September 1st, 2012
12:30 pm
Here that Christians? Ralph Reed? He doesn’t need you. So ask yourself why he keeps sending you information about how to vote for.
20/20
September 1st, 2012
12:41 pm
Bob Loblaw @ 12.30p; “Here that Christians?”
Here (adverb) indicates something “in this place; in this spot or locality ( opposed to there): Put the pen here.
Hear (verb) is to to perceive by the ear: Didn’t you hear the doorbell? Or, to learn by the ear or by being told; be informed of: to hear news.
I assume you meant “Hear.” Just a little help for the liberals that can spew but not write intelligently. Who is Ralph Reed? The one that’s so 20th. Century? Oh, I (mistakenly) got a flyer from the DNC that…you guessed it! told me how to vote! I am absolutely shocked!
Bernie
September 1st, 2012
12:43 pm
Jim, The premise of your title makes many want to fall in the Floor rolling in Laughter.
Do you really in the deep caverns of your blessed heart, really think that the readers are that stupid? or are just just trying to play with our heads today?
newt schmoot
September 1st, 2012
12:47 pm
Bob, it’s “hear” not “here.” You’re on target re scumbag Reed, who manipulates Christians in order to line his pockets every election year. He’s bound to have a special spot in hell for the hereafter.
But on another note, I missed the thread about Clint Eastwood’s monologue at Tampa – he was LOL witty, very intelligent take on the current situation, and flat out brilliant. The people who are denigrating him are showing what shallow thinkers they are.
Dirty Harry brought a fresh touch to what’s usually much too predictable convention formats, and I’ll bet Joe Six-Pack (and Jolene) voters loved it! He got the delegates laughing and in a great mood, set the stage for Romney to deliver a stem-winder acceptance speech. Memorable is always the goal, and memorable is what they got.
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
12:57 pm
@faaar right
Obama is better than jesus because OBAMA is real and jesus is a myth
Bernie
September 1st, 2012
1:02 pm
White males are never invisible and cry as they may always and pretending to be a VICTIM. when it is ALL of the rest of Us including white women, who are the REAL VICTIMS of all of your Brothers DASTARDLY and DIABOLICAL plans. Which has of late have been ALL going to yours and their favor, through vicious and hateful passed enacted Legislation since 2010 on ALL excluding the White MALE.
Mayor Reed has no Right nor does anyone care about his NON invitation to speak after the stunt he pulled earlier in that arrangement on T-splost and siding with Gov.Deal. Its a decision that is rightly made, in light of his BOOT LICKING on the T-SPLOST and then to be quiet as a CHURCH MOUSE as Gov. Deal, throws Mayor Reed and the entire State of Georgia and its citizens under the BUS on the OUTRAGEOUS DENIAL of the Medicaid Expansion set and approved under the HealthCARE Afforable Act this week.
Mayor Reed will spend more than any other elected Mayor in Atlanta’s history in an SAD attempt to be re-elected for a SECOND TERM. This will all occur under the watchful eyes of a very apprehensive and wary citizenry.
Stick a FORK in HIM he is DONE!
If President Obama is smart, He too will put a lot of distance in between Mayor Reed as well. The Man is DAMAGED GOODS politically! He can go Back to his Big Business and financially connected friends and the Cronies down at the DOME from now on. He would better serve Atlanta by going ahead and resigning EARLY!
The sentiment among the citizens of this GREAT CITY is just that BAD! A severe loss of CONFIDENCE to LEAD.
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:10 pm
the southern white male loves college football football, which is dominateed by black males..ironic isnt it…THE SOUTH GONNA RISE AGAIN…with black athletes leading the way….lol…
cc
September 1st, 2012
1:12 pm
Bernie @ 1:02 pm:
You’re so funny!
Lee
September 1st, 2012
1:23 pm
these conventions are stages and a waste of time why anyone would find importance to either one
and the media? wasted wonder why people are turning away from Network news? If asigned to convention coverage must go why me god
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:26 pm
Condileeza Rice looked like a fool trying to lecture the president on foreign policy…she was part of the most inept administration in history who couldnt protect AMERICA…after OSAMA made BUSH look like a total idiot in front of the world they tried to save face by lying about WMD’S in IRAQ. Thousands of Iraquis died as a result of the american christian terrorists invading their country for no reason…and thousands of american soldiers are dead and crippled because of their lies. The world laughed at CONDI and BUSH administration because they didnt know their a@@hole from their elbow. Now go back and sit down CONDI you’ve been used by white christian racists who dont like blacks or gays, which we know youre both.
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:29 pm
they trot out CLINT EASTWOOD…a phony tough guy…but then again MITTENS THE MESSIAH is a phony tough guy himself who was riding a bike in FRANCE spreading mormon bs instead of fighting for his country
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:35 pm
why would any woman with a shred of intelligence cede her reproductive rights to the government?
wendy
September 1st, 2012
1:35 pm
metrosexual men will be the end of mankind.
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:36 pm
why would gays vote for the gop when the gop says gays have no right to marry? when a party dehuumanizes you why vote for them?
cc
September 1st, 2012
1:40 pm
liberalefty @ 1:26 pm, 1:29 pm and 1:35 pm:
You’re a funny guy, too!
Bernie
September 1st, 2012
1:41 pm
Speaking of another Reed named Ralph is another ONE that needs a total and complete disregard from all of the citizens of Georgia. A disgraced political appointee wannabe, who is only interested in his own hateful and personal advance politically and the financially connected. Never the citizens and yet you, JIM and the AJC continues to throw this bag of meat with EYES before us. We are ALL wondering just when YOU and the AJC, are going to wake up and smell the COFFEE? of a seed like Ralph Reed. He is not looking out for any of the REAL interest of Georgia and its citizens. as stated, Ralph is for what Ralph, can get on behalf of Ralph and no else.
back to that all elusive and Invisible WHITE MALE. The issues, concerns and worries that are facing the American White Male is ONE of of his OWN making. By stomping on ALL of the entire population of America because of his much sensitive and bruised EGO by America electing a Black President. Through that Invisible White Male anger, we all have been the VICTIMS of his imperial wrath since he election of President OBAMA.
The restricting of Women”s Healthcare rights and the choices that must make about their OWN BODIES, that have already been fought and WON years ago. The Women of America now find themselves now even dealing with the definition of the CRIMINAL ACT…RAPE!
is it Forcible RAPE? or just plain ole RAPE? Then to have THE WRITER of such a turn in definition on the Presidential TICKET as the Vice Presidentical Candidate.
A Heartbeat from being President!
We must also remember the mean and nasty Talk and threatened, as well as archaic enacted laws, specifically aimed and the Hispanic and Latino population of America as well as the Immigrant relatives and family members.
Do you also need a reminder of the hateful talk and decisions on the LBGT community that has been waged now for years?
We also can not forget or FORGIVE ALL of the SLIMING of President OBAMA as well! TRULY disgusting and OFFENSIVE from Day ONE of his Administration. Not only is it DISRESPECTFUL to the President, but to the Office of THE President of The UNITED STATES as well. HOW DARE YOU! Even just this week with that OLD FART CLINT EASTWOOD! using foul language in reference to OUR COMMANDER in CHIEF in front of the ENTIRE NATION….without even a word of REGRET or Apology for such offensive and LOW RENT behavior?
This so called Invisible WHITE MALE is also responsible for the CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER of the rollback of the VOTING RIGHTS of all things!
Jim, many want to know, Do you guys NOT have even an OUNCE of INTEGRITY or SCRUPLES about fairness and HONESTY at ALL? We really want to know? TRULY!
Come ON, no One is FOOLED At ALL here. Except maybe for you and the Invisible WHITE MALE. America must complete its JOB and if a BEAT DOWN of the Invisible White Male is required for you guys to stop the Hate in November. Then SO Be IT! You have deserved THAT and MORE!
Trust me….We ALL are quite disappointed and upset with YOUR BEHAVIOR TOO!
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:42 pm
why would blacks vote for a party whose main platform is birtherism aka racist pandering to appease their vile christian base? the repubs arent about less spending because BUSH doubled the deficit and turned a surplus into a deficit.. the repubs arent strong on defense remember 9/11?the repubs dont care aboutr the poor because theyre trying to gut the ACA …the repubs are trying to stop blacks from voting by enacting JIM CROW style voting laws…
Bernie
September 1st, 2012
1:42 pm
cc @ 1:12 pm – I am NOT LAUGHING….and neither is America!
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:43 pm
cc
thanks
cc
September 1st, 2012
1:43 pm
wendy @ 1:35 pm:
“metrosexual”?
Does that mean they engage in sex with a city? How kinky is that?
Ashley
September 1st, 2012
1:45 pm
Like most Americans, maybe the southern white male was busy trying to find a job or provide for his family, most people don’t need a convention to convince them who to vote for. We have been hearing the same dribble from both sides for so long rehashing it at a 4-day convention won’t change much, besides when it’s being broadcast at 10 p.m. and then is the lead in to 11 o’clock news and once again in the morning, who really needs to lose sleep. Conventions are just a place for the political engine to give themselves a pat on the back and a kiss to the ass, being phony rules the night.
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:46 pm
the hate direc ted at the president is all because of his color…we know a lot of white men fear black men and that fear is manifested in the hate of thre confident president…but guess what, these same white males love jock sniffing black athletes on their college football teams
cc
September 1st, 2012
1:47 pm
Bernie @ 1:41 pm:
That’s a riot! I laughed so hard I was almost crying! You are definitely a talented and funny writer!
cc
September 1st, 2012
1:50 pm
liberalefty @ 1:46 pm:
Another good one! Between you and Bernie, I can hardly catch my breath for laughing! Great stuff!
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:52 pm
jock sniffing southern white males will be cheering on their predominately black football teams today all across the south…lol..yet they say the black president isnt tough enough for them..lol
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:54 pm
cc
heres somethjing else amusing, OSAMA made a fool of BUSH and OBAMA made a fool out of OSAMA…now that should really make you laugh…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:55 pm
cc
WHY would a woman cede their reproductive rights to the government
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
1:57 pm
cc
heres something else funny; the SCOTUS declared ACA legal…HAWHAW HAW HAW HAW HAW…lol
cc
September 1st, 2012
2:03 pm
liberalefty:
You’re a scream! Keep ‘em coming!
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
2:06 pm
cc
answer the question. why would a woman cede her reproductive rights to the government?
gm
September 1st, 2012
2:11 pm
The white convention looked like a bunch of old white men trying to reinvente the 50″s.
what is sad people around the world have been asking why would Americans bash the President of the United States for trying to assist other Americans.
Simple answer, these people dont care about Americans, Mitt Romney company bain has laid off more workers who are receiving these benefits, yet the hypocrite on the right turn their head and give him a pass, why are these people different from other terriost groups, they are our inside terrorist.
5 days of bashing the President never one mention of our men and women serving in afghanistan, the war that has cost billions started by GW Bush, please angry white males watch the Dem convention and watch what America looks like”””’
cc
September 1st, 2012
2:11 pm
liberalefty @ 2:06 pm:
No way will I answer! I know I can’t be as funny as you and Bernie! I’m not even close to being in the same league!
cc
September 1st, 2012
2:15 pm
gm:
This must be All-Star Day! Bernie and liberaleft are just cracking me up and I thought it couldn’t get any funnier! Now, here you are!
gm
September 1st, 2012
2:17 pm
cc
The truth will do that to you”””””’
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
2:20 pm
@cc
ok birther
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
2:23 pm
gm
the klan rally did have a black gay woman speaking on foreign policy,but it didnt work out to well for AMERICA..9/11…2 wars etc..
A message being sent to the invisible Southern white male (you are to extreme)
September 1st, 2012
2:24 pm
“The 2012 presidential contest isn’t about who is already in your corner. It’s about who isn’t.”
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If people are not on board by now, they were never going to be.
.
A message being sent to the invisible Southern white male (you are to extreme)
September 1st, 2012
2:29 pm
@Faaarrr Right
September 1st, 2012
11:53 am
Personally, I can hardly wait until the final night of the Democratic National Convention when He steps forth from the background, bathed in iridescent lighting, with a pink/purple hue; slowly walking to the podium…checking His Tele-Palm-Ter and taking a sip straight from the waters of the Sea of Galilee. The crowd is hushed; you can hear a pin drop. He delivers his usual eloquent (but hollow) oratory. Every other word…the crowd roars! The crescendo is deafening! He drivels, uh, talks on, and on, and on about His accomplishments (no failures, just accomplishments).
It’s difficult..no, almost impossible to hear Him over the roar of the collected. After 45 minutes or more He finally wraps it up. The crowd is weeping with joy! He has Aris..NO, He has done it! He has – in one singular speech – outdone the likes of every, that’s right EVERY speaker who spoke at the Republican Convention in Tampa. All of the lapdog media outlets can’t wait to get on air and proclaim that this sermon (well…) was the “greatest ever given! To which the Republicans countered (meekly) that it may have been eclipsed only by another fellow that lived between 1 and 33AD. You be the judge.
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“The 2012 presidential contest isn’t about who is already in your corner. It’s about who isn’t.”
The 2012 presidential contest IS about who is already in our corner.
Not who isn’t like Faaarrr Right.
And we aint mad about it.
cc
September 1st, 2012
2:44 pm
“And we aint mad about it”
How could anybody be mad about anything after reading all these hilarious posts by liberalefty, Bernie and gm? If you have a sense of humor at all. you just have to be laughing too hard to be mad!
liberalefty
September 1st, 2012
2:53 pm
cc
i heard that CLINT had to get his diaper changed after his speech…now that toooooo funny
20/20
September 1st, 2012
2:56 pm
CC: Please don’t say anything else to liberalefty and Bernie! Every time you do they come back with quips that are now making me cry I’m laughing so hard. Please! These two living (?) vacuums are indeed riots! It’s taking me almost three minutes to write this – I have to keep wiping off my keyboard and taking deep breaths to keep from passing out from laughing!
liberaleftie: Your comments about jesus not being real vis-a-vis The Anointed One may be (and definitely is) well received by the leftist socialists on this blog but to mainstream America you would are a pitiful fool. Politics are great for debate; religion are deeply-held personal beliefs that only fools will give into pernicious attacks upon. You are, indeed, a vile and disgusting person.
rlm
September 1st, 2012
3:02 pm
I suppose the Republican party trying to be inclusive was a bad thing according to you. Afterall the candidate and the vp candidated are white males. You say they have to be Southern? This is really stretching it to complain.
newt schmoot
September 1st, 2012
3:12 pm
Has anybody here seen the new documentary about Obama’s life “2016″ in local theaters? A blurb in the AJC this morning said it is #7 at the box office nationwide – the highest any documentary has ever ranked. Sounds like a lot of Americans are trying to find out more about the President, don’t really know his life story. I’d be curious to know what your thoughts are, if you’ve seen it.
Bernie
September 1st, 2012
3:28 pm
rlm @ 3:02 pm – Pray tell where the Republicans have been inclusive, other than with the hand full of Billionaires of America. As a matter of fact Mitt despises his OWN Party! You little people of the Republican party, do not deserve to even see his taxes or provide to you any of his plans or intent other than MORE WAR for OUR Son’s and daughters. And that’s OK with All of YOU!
Surely he would never DO such a thing for his Fair headed precious BOYS! IF he is to make to the White House. Your hatred and disdain for the Black Man that currently occupies that residence, you reject more than anything even the obvious wrong FIT for America in Mitt! You are even willing to sacrifice the financial Welfare of this Great Nation in order, to try to prove what a failure President Obama is. When even that does not work, you and Mitt have resorted to age old VICE of LYING! Lying with a straight Face and looking directly into OUR EYES!
Despite ALL of your many FOUL actions and numerous attempts. President Obama has still managed to be ONE of the GREATEST PRESIDENTS that will be remembered IN American HISTORY. just the thought of such an accomplishment, makes Many of the Invisible White Males CRAZY! SELAH! ( That is the TRUTH)
You Guys need to get a grip on reality. Grow up and become an Adult. You need to stop being such pubescent children throwing tantrums. we are experiencing One of the greatest financial disasters created wholly by one of your most beloved ONES. W & and the torturing VAMPIRE, who seems to still live and continually to spew Hatred, even with another’s Heart!
I forgot to add that in the choice of Vice President was well, Who is the Author and CREATOR of the “GET GRANDMA MEDICARE PLAN”. Just throw Grandma and GrandPA and the rest of Us over the CLIFF. Without a care or second thought and YOU think That is a GREAT achievement! And Then on TOP of THAT…LIE ABOUT IT…and then say its NOT SO! They NOW say, they ARE THE ONES, who WILL SAVE IT!
GOOD GRIEF!
Willie
September 1st, 2012
3:41 pm
Galloway is just part of the hypocrite media too busy humpung Obamas leg in ratured joy to actually tell the truth. This column is another secretly coordinated obedient offering to Galloways’ masters.
The truth is the there are millions of republicans of color and that their ranks are growing as more and more folks see that the lumbering big government “solutions” of the democrats have utterly failed.
cc
September 1st, 2012
3:59 pm
20/20 @ 2:56 pm:
liberalefty said, “Obama is better than jesus because OBAMA is real and jesus is a myth”
This statement echoes the beliefs (non-beliefs) of a vast number of the socialists (formerly referred to as ‘libs’ when I was nice), and is truly a sickness in our nation. The Bible tells me that I am not to judge but that I would know them by their fruits. Unfortunately for liberalefty, there WILL be a judgment before one far more powerful than the Kenyan. Liberlefty will not be allowed an attorney or any protesters with signs showing their solidarity with him/her. He/she will face that judgment alone and hear the words, “Depart from me, I know you not.” There is one unpardonable sin and I believe you know what it is.
cc
September 1st, 2012
4:06 pm
newt schmoot @ 3:12 pm:
I haven’t seen it yet but am looking forward to it. Friends from other parts of the country have emailed me telling of long lines at the theaters where it is being shown. They have all commented on the number of young people and people of color forming those lines.
Apparently the Kenyan is finally being ‘vetted’!
cc
September 1st, 2012
4:08 pm
Bernie @ 3:28 pm:
Another pearl, Bernie! You are so funny!
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Bernie
September 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
cc @ 4:08 pm – It Would be funny, if it were not So sadly True……:)
Mark
September 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Enter your comments here
honested
September 1st, 2012
4:45 pm
cc,
I’m sure you can find backwater little towns where a movie about a failed blowhard will sell a few tickets.
Pick dismally hot places with dark theaters and good A/C.
Nothing like taking a good nap while pointless drivel drones on from the screen.
honested
September 1st, 2012
4:46 pm
The simple truth is, it doesn’t matter what the repugniklans trotted out on the stage for their 5 share rated hate-fest, nobody cares.
Now they can look to 2014 and determine if they will have any sort of National presence, or just be a hate filled southern party.
honested
September 1st, 2012
4:48 pm
And to be clear, the ‘failed blowhard’ I referred to is not the President, but the producer.
20/20
September 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
A letter to the leftist/socialists who are constantly whining about the Republicans interfering with women’s rights, e.g., abortion, etc. Let me clear this up for you:
Point 1: An overwhelming majority of non-believers (atheists, agnostics, humanists, animists, seculars, etc.) are of the pro-choice faction; they believe it is a woman’s right to have an abortion -that it is a matter of a woman’s “health,” yada, yada, yada and so on ad nauseum.
Point 2: The above, in almost unanimous lock-step are Democrats and vote Democrat – come hell (no pun intended) or high water. They, almost unanimously, will not or will never vote for a Republican.
Point 3: A great majority of conservatives, i.e., Republicans are church-going believers in God and hold true as they can to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible;
The Republican Party is no more anti-woman than Hitler was a Sunday School Teacher. The media and Deborah Wasserman-Schultz, et al., have foisted that lie on the media which is all too happy to grab and run with it.
Liberals, Socialists have a person trying to get re-elected who has failed to get the American economy moving and has not created enough jobs to make a difference. He and the Democratic Party cannot let anyone go near his horrible record ergo the constant shift away from that and the national debt. As long as the Democrats deflect criticism and/or questions about the failed bin Obama presidency, they will have a fighting chance to win the re-election.
Libs, you really need to get away from the tired discussions of women’s rights, war on women, bin Obama’s accomplishments, etc. Get away from yesterdays tired non-argument about bin Obama “getting” bin Laden. I guess the Navy Seals were there to shoot a documentary.
Another blogger posted 80+ things that bin Obama promised he would do when he was elected and has failed to do. The count is growing. Fortunately for our Republic, not all voters are as ignorant of the actual facts as you on this blog are and they will vote accordingly…Romney.
cc
September 1st, 2012
5:02 pm
honested @ 4:45 pm
“a movie about a failed blowhard”
That accurately describes the movie. It is indeed “about a failed blowhard” soon to be exiting the White House. You finally admitted it so I guess there may be hope for you after all!
Congratulations for having the courage to speak the truth! You finally have lived up to your screen name!
cc
September 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
honested, Bernie and liberalefty:
If the Kenyan is so sure of his re-election, why is he selling his Chicago home and buying another in Hawaii in anticipation of a January, 2013 move? Could it possibly be because his private polls tell him he has lost already?
http://hillbuzz.org/the-obamas-already-preparing-for-move-to-hawaii-in-january-2013-hyde-park-neighbors-talking-about-chicago-house-being-sold-soon-63935#comments
cc
September 1st, 2012
5:18 pm
honested @ 4:48 pm:
Forget it! Movies/documentaries are not about the director. You stated it correctly the first time, and you stated it very clearly.
20/20
September 1st, 2012
5:36 pm
Willie: may I say a big AMEN! to what you just said? The Democrats think they have all the black voters in their “plantation” where they can keep an eye on their voting. They don’t give a rat’s A$$ about the black folk except to get that almighty vote. I guarantee the Republican Party will treat black Americans like everyone else and ask them to join in saving this republic from financial ruin.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
September 1st, 2012
5:41 pm
“Millions” of Blacks vote GOP? Without a man of color vying for the office, nine percent of Blacks voted GOP, the same nine percent of Blacks who are Roman Catholic. Get it?
A message being sent to the invisible Southern white male (you are to extreme)
September 1st, 2012
5:45 pm
@newt schmoot
September 1st, 2012
3:12 pm
Has anybody here seen the new documentary about Obama’s life “2016″ in local theaters? A blurb in the AJC this morning said it is #7 at the box office nationwide – the highest any documentary has ever ranked. Sounds like a lot of Americans are trying to find out more about the President, don’t really know his life story. I’d be curious to know what your thoughts are, if you’ve seen it.
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If you don’t know Obama by now, you will never know him.
God Lord, he’s been president for over three years.
BTW, this hatchet man who made the movie NEVER spoke to
Obama so how can he make a movie about him?
This is just Republican negative propaganda.
But guess what, Obama supporters are STILL HIS SUPPORTERS.
We are going all the way with him.
Come h*ll or high water.
An observer
September 1st, 2012
5:46 pm
Jim Galloway, are you a southern white male? Feeling lonely and forgotten?
cc
September 1st, 2012
5:56 pm
“BTW, this hatchet man who made the movie NEVER spoke to Obama so how can he make a movie about him?”
I have watched documentaries about Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, John Brown, George Washington Carver, Eli Whitney and literally hundreds of other people. The directors of these documentaries “NEVER spoke to” the subjects of their documentaries, either.
What the hell is your point?
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
6:07 pm
So, what will Todd Akins say on behalf of all real Dixiecrats?
cc
September 1st, 2012
6:11 pm
“We are going all the way with him.”
You’re all moving to Hawaii in January with him?
Bernie
September 1st, 2012
6:20 pm
CC: @ 6:11 pm – I have some DEPENDS coupons I have collected for Clint. Those things are expensive too! Do you have an address for Clint, so that I can make sure he gets them. Or should I just send it care of OVER THE HILL, Movie STARS, Los Angeles, Ca.
I also have some Buttermilk flavored Ensure too! YUMMM……
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
6:25 pm
Thank the Lord. A Dixiecrat admits that Hawaii is a State; I think. However, the address will be 1600.
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
6:27 pm
Ralph Reed should be sharing a federal prison cell with Karl and Nathan, but noooo…
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
6:34 pm
Elizabeth Warren may or may not have Native American blood, but Ralph Reed certain lytried to bleed them dry.
cc
September 1st, 2012
6:34 pm
Bernie @ 6:20 pm:
Oh, Bernie, give me a break! My sides hurt now from laughing and here you are making me laugh again! You’re so funny!
To answer your question, though; just mail them to Whoopi Goldberg and tell her to share them with Joy Bahar.
cc
September 1st, 2012
6:35 pm
Enter your comments here
cc
September 1st, 2012
6:37 pm
Attack Dog:
Yes, Hawaii is one of the ‘57 states”. Kenya, however, isn’t one of them.
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
6:48 pm
Nope Kenya is not one of the “57, but will some Dixiecrat explain why Matt Romney stumped for his dad in Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands?
honested
September 1st, 2012
7:05 pm
cc,20/20,et.al.
THERE ARE NO KENYANS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!
Do you guys have no attachment to reality whatsoever?
honested
September 1st, 2012
7:06 pm
Attack Dog,
Second the call for ralph reed to pay the piper!
Then someday, we’ll find out why casey can’t tie his shoes!
honested
September 1st, 2012
7:09 pm
January 2013 should be a hoot.
The Obama Second Term will begin and the Public may awaken to the reality that both the GA One Party and conserrrrrrrrrrrrrvatives in general have nothing whatsoever to offer them.
Did the conserrrrrrrrrrrvatives leave the holes they crawled out of open so they could quickly scurry back in?
cc
September 1st, 2012
7:12 pm
Attack Dog:
You are totally clueless and not worth the effort . . .
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March 8, 2012
Matt Romney will stump for his dad in Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands.
Matt Romney is hitting the beach. For work, that is.
His dad’s campaign announced Thursday that Matt, 40, would be traveling to the Northern Marianas Islands and Guam to meet with local GOP groups with an eye on securing the support of the handful of delegates up for grabs way off in the Pacific Ocean.
Source: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ballot-2012/2012/03/08/romneys-son-sent-to-pacific-islands-in-search-of-delegates
honested
September 1st, 2012
7:15 pm
cc,
Delegates?
How many Electoral Votes does the Marianas have?
I didn’t think so.
cc
September 1st, 2012
7:17 pm
honested:
“January 2013 should be a hoot.”
It will be! That is when the “failed blowhard” obama (as you so aptly called him) will depart the White House forever.
honested
September 1st, 2012
7:20 pm
cc,
Please, hold your breath as you await what will not occur!
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
7:23 pm
It is rather funny that ” even Dixiecrats can explain what “57″ is, but can’t comprehend what it means.
cc
September 1st, 2012
7:24 pm
honested:
Pretend you have a brain capable of actual reasoning! The first clue is the date, March 8, 2012. The second clue is the wording, “meet with local GOP groups with an eye on securing the support of the handful of delegates”.
Hmmm . . . “GOP groups” and “delegates” . . .
By Jove, they must be talking about the convention and the nomination!
Attack Dog: dumber than the average dog!
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
7:25 pm
Ralph Reed should be in jail, and Rick Santorum should have been the Dixiecrat nominee, whuh people and all.
cc
September 1st, 2012
7:30 pm
Attack Dog @ 7:23 pm:
It means that the Kenyan didn’t know how many states comprise the United States. Actually, if memory serves, he believed there to be more than 57 becuase he said he had been in 57 states and would have been to all of them before th campaign ended.
After your delegate fiasco, I believe I’m done with you for tonight.
cc
September 1st, 2012
7:46 pm
honested:
Your description of obama as a “failed blowhard” says it all. It matters not whether you intentionally wrote that or if it was a ‘Freudian slip’. We now know exactly what you really think.
You’re finished as a defender of the Kenyan.
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
8:11 pm
It is amazing how Dixiecrats lose their own argument and then pretend they made a serious point. “Mission Accomplished!” I guess that was a Freudian Slip too! Ralph Reed and Karl Rove should be in jail, and Rick Santorum should have been the GOP nominee.
honested
September 1st, 2012
8:43 pm
cc,
I left out a sentence, there was no slip.
Just like there is no ‘Kenyan’ in this discussions, just the delusions of a pathetic fringe in the soon to be evaporated repugniklan party.
Attack Dog
September 1st, 2012
8:45 pm
…anti-Mormon bigotry is a bigger problem among liberals? That’s like saying real Dixiecrats do not have a problem with Jewish and Catholic. I don’t remember any Dixiecrat Freedom Riders or many voting for JFK.
hiram
September 1st, 2012
9:45 pm
Did td change his name to cc?
cc
September 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
hiram:
No, he didn’t. If that was meant to insult me, it failed. td is one of the few people blogging here who knows what is happening in this country. It’s a cinch that none of you socialists have a clue . . .
honested
September 1st, 2012
10:05 pm
cc,
‘What’s happening to this country’ is a reflection of the dangers of letting the hopelessly deranged continue to vote.
We need look no farther than our current and previous governors to see just how dangerous that ‘deranged voting’ can be!
A message being sent to the invisible Southern white male (you are to extreme)
September 1st, 2012
10:09 pm
@cc
September 1st, 2012
7:46 pm
honested:
Your description of obama as a “failed blowhard” says it all. It matters not whether you intentionally wrote that or if it was a ‘Freudian slip’. We now know exactly what you really think.
You’re finished as a defender of the Kenyan.
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cc defend this:
Mitt Romney – a man whose own father built cars and nurtured communities, and was one of the old-school industrial anachronisms pushed aside by the new generation’s wealth grab – has emerged now to sell this make-nothing, take-everything, scr*w-everyone ethos to the world.
Mitt Romney is Gordon Gekko, but a new and improved version, with better PR – and a bigger goal.
A takeover artist all his life, Romney is now trying to take over America itself. And if his own history is any guide, we’ll all end up paying for the acquisition.
cc
September 1st, 2012
10:25 pm
A message being sent to the invisible Southern white male (you are to extreme) @ 10:09 pm:
Cite your source.
hiram
September 1st, 2012
10:26 pm
cc
September 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
hiram:
No, he didn’t. If that was meant to insult me, it failed. td is one of the few people blogging here who knows what is happening in this country. It’s a cinch that none of you socialists have a clue . . .
I don’t believe you – you and td both have a three word vocabulary, and it’s the same three words. I think that you are actually employed by the ajc as an agitator, because it’s difficult to believe that anyone can be so dense.
cc
September 1st, 2012
10:34 pm
honested:
‘What’s happening to this country’ is a reflection of the dangers of allowing people dependent on the government the privilege of voting in Presidential elections. There is no Constitutional right allowing citizens to vote for the President.
Before you socialist howl, cite precisely in the Constitution where you THINK you are afforded such a right. Any post failing to cite such will be duly ignored.
yuzeyurbrane
September 1st, 2012
10:37 pm
Jim, who is surprised that the Republicans put all their crazy uncles in the back room? My only question is how did they fill the convention floor after so many had to be packed out of sight and sound. Pretty effective except for the 2 delegates who hurled racists insults and peanuts at the black CNN camera-person. My gosh, if we applied the same rule to your blog you would lose almost all your so-called “conservative” commenters.
hat
September 1st, 2012
10:42 pm
By the way, I keep noticing how Bernie refers to the WOMEN OF AMERICA. I myself know many women, and I have come to the conclusion that you don’t know women, or you have a mis-interpreted view of your own gender. The women I know are focused on issues such as the economy and foreign policy. Of course they pay attention to their own reproductive rights, but that is not the only issue at which they pay attention. Women are now slowly, but unmistakeably, starting to favor the Republican Party. They know that the far-right Tea Party is only a small faction of the Republican Party, and most understand that America has not improved economically and in terms of foreign policy in the past four years. In fact, I am starting to believe that the Democratic Party is only using this abortion fiasco as a desperate ploy to reach women; does anyone notice how a few far-left posters have milked this excessively? Anyhow, with regards to swing states and fundraising, I have come to the conclusion that Romney/Ryan will win the election by a slim ,margin, thanks to the increase of support by women.
cc
September 1st, 2012
10:43 pm
hiram:
“I don’t believe you”
I’ll probably lose 1.5 seconds of sleep over your ‘beliefs’. The only relevance you have in my life is the absolutely insane vote you will cast in November. I can’t expect otherwise from people so easily deceived.
hiram
September 1st, 2012
10:57 pm
cc
Why are you concerned about who I vote for? Galloway’s point is that neither candidate is concerned about the Southern vote – in other words, the South has no relevance in presidential elections. Both Democrats and Republicans know that the majority of Southern voters are morons, so neither of them has to waste their time or money campaigning here.
cc
September 1st, 2012
11:03 pm
Hat:
I believe you to be correct in your assessment. I would only add that women also are seeing the Republican Party as the political party advocating for individual success and against the ‘herd mentality’.
All of these issues such as the non-existent war against women, abortion (already decided by SCOTUS Roe v. Wade) and other false issues to attempt to keep the focus off the Kenyan’s failures. He cannot run on his record and he owns the economy, no matter how he wants to assign blame elsewhere. These diversions are an attempt to place Romney on the defensive and take him ‘off message’. Romney is staying ‘on message’ and the dims can’t stand the heat. You read right on this blog the Kenyan’s sycophants parroting the dims party line, just like the good little mush-minded socialists that they are.
I personally think that the Kenyan has had an enormously successful first term. He is well on the way to destroying America as was his intent. The second term, which he will not get, would have finished this nation. It will take decades to repair the damage he has already done . . .
cc
September 1st, 2012
11:09 pm
hiram:
I don’t think that was Galloway’s point at all. He wrote, “But Loudermilk also agreed that the presidential contest is essentially over in the South.”
Romney knows he has won the South by default, and obama knows he can’t win it.
hiram
September 1st, 2012
11:13 pm
cc,
If the men behind the curtain in Georgia decided to run Charlie Manson, with his forehead swastika tatoo and all, as the Republican Candidate for any office – dog catcher to governor, he would be elected. The voters know nothing, and don’t want to know anything about the candidates beyond their party.
cc
September 1st, 2012
11:14 pm
hiram:
“Both Democrats and Republicans know that the majority of Southern voters are morons”
Your assessment isn’t valid, but I’m through playing for today. Suffice it to say that the dims lost the South forever many, many years ago because the South is conservative and the dims are looney.
hiram
September 1st, 2012
11:15 pm
cc
September 1st, 2012
11:09 pm
hiram:
“I don’t think that was Galloway’s point at all. He wrote, “But Loudermilk also agreed that the presidential contest is essentially over in the South.”
Romney knows he has won the South by default, and obama knows he can’t win it.”
Do you not realize that you just said exactly what I said?
cc
September 1st, 2012
11:25 pm
hiram:
I can’t speak for anyone but me. I study the candidates very carefully. If they have authored books as obama did, I read their books. I knew more about obama one year before the election than 90% of the population knew about him on election day, 2008, and that includes most of the people who blog here.
If nothing else, I would look at this election as a bus terminal with two buses about to leave. One has a destination sign “Hell” on the front of it and the other is unmarked. I have to go and I have to make a choice; I can either get on the bus bound for “Hell” or I can take a chance on the unmarked bus. I know I don’t want to go to “Hell” so . . .
20/20
September 1st, 2012
11:25 pm
CC: Hey pal, don’t waste time arguing with anyone who is still sealed in a time warp…you know, those who think we still have “Dixiecrats (that term is so18th Century). The Libs are mad at us for exposing them not as “Progressives” but as Socialists – an endearment term for the left by the way. They should know (but don’t) that the term “Dixiecrat” is usually morphed into Democrat which was their natural progression (itself morphed into Progressive). So, you see: Dixiecrat begets Democrat that progressed into Progressives. None of which makes any sense ideologically.
hiram
September 1st, 2012
11:26 pm
“Suffice it to say that the dims lost the South forever many, many years ago because the South is conservative and the dims are looney.”
The Republicans could have dominated the South, but they shot themselves in the foot by recruiting in hundreds of thousands of illegal laborers. Unfortunately, for the Republicans, their progeny(all Democrats) will vote in future elections.
cc
September 1st, 2012
11:27 pm
hiram:
“Do you not realize that you just said exactly what I said?”
Sorry, I’m tired, sleepy and headed for bed!
hiram
September 1st, 2012
11:31 pm
20/20
September 1st, 2012
11:25 pm
” So, you see: Dixiecrat begets Democrat that progressed into Progressives. None of which makes any sense…”
Couldn’t have said it better….
cc
September 1st, 2012
11:33 pm
20/20:
I’m beginning to accept that this blog is a waste of time. One always hopes that an intelligent but confused individual might be helped, but that apparently isn’t the case here.
I’m pretty sure that ‘Attack Dog’ will have to be ‘put down’; it’s obvious that he has rabies!
cc
September 1st, 2012
11:39 pm
hiram:
“Unfortunately, for the Republicans, their progeny(all Democrats) will vote in future elections.”
I’m not convinced of that. obama’s attack on the Catholic Church is going to hurt him and the dims far more than they suspect. Hispanics are predominantly Catholic, strongly family oriented and do not favor abortion at all.
morn
September 1st, 2012
11:41 pm
no doubt which party the racists belong to. No one would have been shocked to see white hoods and sheets and a cross burning on the convention floor. Ignorant and very proud of it, that’s the gop
Goodgrief
September 2nd, 2012
12:00 am
After reading this thread, you people are stuck in the 50’s and 60;s civil rights era. Wake up and join 2012. Things have changed a a lot. Look around, join the reality of today.
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
12:46 am
hat @ 10:42 pm – of course you will make such comments when YOU are ALL hat and NO VAGINA!
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
1:25 am
There are TWO words that will make the Invisible White Male visible every time!
GUN CONTROL!
They will come out of the woodwork like ROACHES! screaming like little girls All over the PLACE.
Don’t YOU DARE, Touch…. MA GUN!
This is Their ABORTION ISSUE……..LOL!
Buckhead Boy
September 2nd, 2012
5:30 am
Some earlier asked about the Dinesh D’Souza movie. I caught it at Phipps; give it a rating of five electric shocks; and will recommend it to anyone regardless of their political persuasion or grip on sanity. Its a hoot — kind of like Harold and Kumar Go Down the Rabbit Hole, but without Harold. Its clearly among D’Souza’s best performances. Probably better than when he appeared on the Colbert Report in one of those segments where they do the mock interview of the deranged. Maybe even better than when he tried to debate Christopher Hitchins on faith. If you don’t know anything about D’Souza, he’s the former consort of Ann Coulter and runs a fundamentalist “college” that moves around in office space in NYC. He likes to be referred to as a scholar and political or religious theorist, but holds only a BA in English; although I think that he’s been associated with some of the Koch fronts in the past.
I don’t want to ruin the movie for you by going into detail, but the main theme is D’Souza’s sojourn around the world to prove that the President’s policies are influenced by Obama’s father’s anti-colonialism, and that this will result in the end of the American Empire. He even accuses the President of dreaming of a world without nuclear weapons, if you can immagine such a thing. And, if you thought of the founding fathers as the original anti-colonialists … . But, don’t go to the movie as fact-checker or you’ll miss some of the best humor, as his interviewing comes-off much like those Colbert segments that I mentioned.
Contrary to much of the mis-information escaping the fringe right bubble, there were no lines to see this movie. At times my lady friend and I comprised from 25 -50% of the audience. There was a young couple for awhile, but they didn’t seem that interested in the movie. And, its got a long way to go to overtake Moore’s and Gore’s documentaries at the box office.
catlady
September 2nd, 2012
8:38 am
Gotta pic some nits, Jim. Isn’t it Caroline Kennedy?
I truly cannot see why any person making under $200,000 per year would vote Republican. I truly cannot see why any minority would vote Republican. I truly cannot see why any woman would vote Republican. I truly cannot see why anyone with an IQ over 90 would vote Republican. If you are not in these groups, go ahead and vote Republican, but don’t blame us for your mistake!
cc
September 2nd, 2012
10:12 am
catlady:
What a crock . . .
Going Right
September 2nd, 2012
10:53 am
catlady: If you would substitute the word “Republican” with “Democrat” you will get an equal 9or more, I might add) number of people who feel the exact same way.
A message being sent to the invisible Southern white male (you are to extreme)
September 2nd, 2012
10:53 am
@cc
September 1st, 2012
10:25 pm
A message being sent to the invisible Southern white male (you are to extreme) @ 10:09 pm:
Cite your source.
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Public Policy
In Mississippi only 12% of voters think Obama’s a Christian to 52% who think he’s a Muslim and 36% who are not sure. In Alabama just 14% think Obama’s a Christian to 45% who think he’s a Muslim and 41% who aren’t sure.
Southern voters were more inclined to have an extreme dislike for Obama from the outset, so the percentage believing that Obama is a Muslim among each ideological group is somewhat higher in the south.
Web News
In Alabama, 45% of those polled believed Obama was Muslim, with 14% correctly identifying him as Christian and 34% unsure. To the west in Mississippi, 52% believed the President as Muslim, 12% identified him as Christian, and 36% were unsure.
The poll also asked subjects whether they believed in education (Alabama: 60% No, 26% Yes, 13% Not Sure; Mississippi: 66% No, 22% Yes, 11% Not Sure),
cc
September 2nd, 2012
11:03 am
A message being sent to the invisible Southern white male (you are to extreme):
I wanted the specific links in order to read them . . .
honested
September 2nd, 2012
11:08 am
cc and going wrong,
As usual, when confronted with the truth all you guys can do is deflect and project.
I am better off than I was when gw bush slithered back into his hole and cheney returned to his secondary throne in hell. (I have ample documentation to prove it).
I make enough money to be viewed as stupid enough to vote for a repugniklan, but I have a conscience that prevents me from such a terrible betrayal to my fellow Americans.
I heard all the code bubbling up from the rethugliklan convention and I know it means stomping on women and forcing ‘tolerance’ of superstitions to which I recognize as having no legitimate authority.
When will you wipe the dirt off the window or even walk outside and feel the sun?
Your misguided ideas of America died with strom thurmond.
20/20
September 2nd, 2012
11:17 am
I’m working on a new mathematical algorithm (MA) that will be applied to human neurosystems. Quite practical as you will see. I have given it away free (as you will note below). The algorithm will be administered through a series of inter-connected electrodes beginning at mouth, transposed through the brain, back again and ending again at the mouth. Don’t get ahead of me now. Yes, you guessed it: The mouth, once activated and spewing insipid remarks, will have the remarks filtered through a screening process (anticipated mathematical variances) and will cause smoke to be blown from the aural cavities. The darker the smoke, the more insidious the remark; the lighter the smoke, the more believable. Of course, those in close proximity of the speaker are warned beforehand that they should immediately put on and wear appropriate masks in order to prevent inhaling damaging and polluted air in and around the speaker(s).
I should have the Beta version ready and will test it in real time at the Democratic Convention. There will be 60, giant, 100” fans exhausting the putrid, toxic air during the proceedings. The MA will be stationed prominently below each Tele-Promp-ter so as to catch the maximum spewing.
My guess is that the black smoke will become known as the political equivalent of “Global Warming”.
Following the convention – and after the unit is thoroughly cleaned and all putrid goo that was collected and removed using the bloviating, I will donate it to the Smithsonian Institution.
Going Right
September 2nd, 2012
11:23 am
.(Dis)honest (@11,08a);
“ As usual, when confronted with the truth all you guys can do is deflect and project.
I can’t speak for cc (though I think he agrees), when we see the “truth” we will respond. What you imagine is the truth – and for you it no doubt is – is not what we think the “truth” is. Which “truth” is right? Oh, I see. It’s YOUR VERSION. Do I have that right?
honested
September 2nd, 2012
11:30 am
Here’s the deal, you call me a ‘Socialist’ (as if that is some sort of crippling slur) and I don’t care. As a lifelong committed socialist small business person, I am honored.
At the same time I can refer to your guys as demented, backward looking, fearful, wrong-wing, racist, religiously misguided fascists, and you probably take comfort in the accusation.
I know far more people that approve of the first definition and find the second one horrific.
There’s your TRUTH, it ain’t in you guys.
honested
September 2nd, 2012
11:35 am
going wrong,
The economic truth is the economic truth.
During 2001-2008, my employee base shrunk by 45% due to customers becoming unemployed and unable to afford our products and services.
Since 2009, that trend has reversed (not as fast or as much as I would have liked) but stable footing has returned.
This is a national trend and no matter how hard the wrong-wing nuts in the House tried, they couldn’t prevent it from occurring.
So now you go full on crazy with expanded birther nonsense, step from ’socialist’ (he’s not although I really wish he was) to Marxist and even Communist (so far from any hint of reality to be both hilarious and terrifyingly insane).
Get a grip. You might have to find new friends that aren’t bald-running nuts, but you would see an entirely different world than the one you tried so hard to invent.
cc
September 2nd, 2012
11:43 am
20/20 @ 11:17 am:
I can see only one flaw. Why not send the bovine effluvia that is removed to the Kenyan? He can then re-use it without straining either his or his advisors’ brains developing new bovine effluvia to feed the dim masses.
Going Right # 11:23 am:
You speak precisely for me!
cc
September 2nd, 2012
11:48 am
This is meant for conservatives ONLY! You dims are not to read this.
http://townhall.com/columnists/douglasmackinnon/2012/09/02/romney_needs_to_defend_eastwood
cc
September 2nd, 2012
11:53 am
honested @ 11:35 am:
“During 2001-2008, my employee base shrunk by 45% due to customers becoming unemployed and unable to afford our products and services. Since 2009, that trend has reversed (not as fast or as much as I would have liked) but stable footing has returned.”
So, the black market food stamp and lottery sales business is up, huh?
honested
September 2nd, 2012
11:58 am
cc,
Nope, over 8,000 regular happy middle class customers purchasing legitimate products and services for nearly 30 years.
Again, the TRUTH just isn’t in you.
Of course, since you draw from the public teat daily, you probably wouldn’t understand.
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
12:20 pm
cc @11:03 am – First, You need to Try and find the nearest MIRROR, if it will ALLOW you to stand in FRONT of IT!
cc
September 2nd, 2012
12:23 pm
Bernie:
There you go again. You’re just too funny!
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
12:25 pm
Want to SEE cc and those invisible White Males shake & tremble with Fear.
……”America Needs Better GUN CONTROL LAWS right NOW!”
cc
September 2nd, 2012
12:29 pm
Bernie:
You’re a scream, Bernie! I hate to admit it but it took me a while to understand that you were only being humorous when you posted! Since discovering that, you have brightened my days!
Going Right
September 2nd, 2012
12:40 pm
(Dis)honest (@11,08a);
“ As usual, when confronted with the truth all you guys can do is deflect and project.”
Assuming you are answering my post of 11.23a, let me state:
In your apparent limited experience with the American educational system I doubt that you have the intellectual capacity to grasp what I attempted to say in that posting. Whose version of the “TRUTH” is right? As I said, I suspect (and have so for a long time) that it’s YOUR version that counts.
I, too, was a small business person and sold my business in 2006 (luckily it turns out). I built that business from gound zero to 39 employees and seven locations an – as you may appreciate – spent literally thousands of hours in the 19 years I had the business worrying about absenteeism, feelings, turnover, payroll and other issues that I doubt your Anointed One will ever experience (but he’s not the only one). The money I received for that business put me in the 1% class as you socialists despise so much. I guess to appease my mind and develop a “feel good” attitude, I should let the government steal as much as they wish to provide more food stamps and other give-aways. Nooo…I don’t think so.
I am the absolute antithesis of a socialist and, in fact, view that class as Communist Lite, but, I suppose, that won’t offend you.
What you call me (or us as you fashion in your post) doesn’t faze me in the least for, as Shakespeare so eloquently put it in one of many a soliloquy from Hamlet: Tibi ipsi dic vere. Yes…”To thine own self be true.” I know who I am and as you, am comfortable with that.
What do you mean when you state, “I know far more people that approve of the first definition and find the second one
cc
September 2nd, 2012
12:51 pm
Going Right:
Excellent post at 12:40! You should have left it at “Tibi ipsi dic vere”; 99% of the sicialists reading/posting here would have been able to use their heads for the only purpose they know, scratching as they tried to interpret the meaning!
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
12:54 pm
cc @ 12:29 pm – Glad You have found another source of entertainment for you other BASEBALL,FOOTBALL,NASCAR and hating on President OBAMA. the latter which
has become many of your Brothers favorite past time. However come November the Democracts are going to have the last Laugh. I will leave you with this joke…..
BARRY GOLDWATER – November…..1964 !
henryh
September 2nd, 2012
12:54 pm
“An abundance of white faces will speak for a party whose base is largely African-American.”
Jim –
African-Americans make up less than 13% of the population. To suggest that they are the Base of the Democratic Party makes it sound as though they are the majority, which clearly isn’t so – they’re not 25% of the Democrats in the House. You may have this impression in GA, in which black reps make up most of the House Democrats, but clearly, the Democrats base is much larger than the people of color.
The Parade of Knuckleheads go to Tampa
September 2nd, 2012
1:03 pm
They Built It.
The crooked Republicans BUILT the Worst Economy
since the Great Depression with Bush-Cheney
and now they have all the answers.
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
1:13 pm
My Invisible Brothers…..If you would only Pay your current and past CHILD support and Alimony. There would be NO FOODSTAMP give away! But NO, you want to deny the women of AMERICA BIRTH CONTROL PILLS. make them pay for it!
There are more White Females with children on the FOOD STAMP program because YOU will NOT do your JOB!
You will not take care of the women and YOUR Kids! Millions of them!
go and fact check the NUMBERS they are ASTOUNDING! and it has your FACE on it! BIG TIME!
honested
September 2nd, 2012
1:17 pm
going wrong,
Aside from breaking your arm patting yourself on the back what was the point?
I just hope in the Second Term when taxation returns to Clinton Era levels with no preferential treatment to the type of income and realistic reductions in the amount of money we pour down the military hole we will see acceleration in return to middle class prosperity.
Isn’t that what you would like to see as well?
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
1:31 pm
The Invisible Brothers certainly “BUILT” THE FACES of Millions of Children who get FOODSTAMPS! across America!
There is No DOUBT about THE BUILDING of that!
The majority of those Faces are INVISIBLE to them as well!
cc
September 2nd, 2012
1:37 pm
Honested:
“I just hope in the Second Term”
There will be no second term for the Kenyan.
“no preferential treatment to the type of income”
One would assume that you want to tax everyone equally, even the nearly 50% who pay little or no income taxes at present. That would be the “fair” thing to do, wouldn’t it?
“realistic reductions in the amount of money we pour down the military hole”
I’d trust a hungry dog in the smokehouse before I’d trust your judgment on this issue. Providing for the defense of America is one of the very few legitimate constitutional responsibilities of the federal government. Unlike many who post here, I live in the real world, understand the threat to freedom our enemies pose and know they must be dealt with from a position of superior strength.
chef
September 2nd, 2012
1:47 pm
God Bless Obama.
Amen,
chef
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
1:50 pm
cc @ 1:37 pm – So the Empty SUIT is a BETTER CHOICE? The one who fled to foreign soil, Paris France for missionary work! LOL! Please!
when it was his time to DEFEND AMERICA! he turned Tail and RAN….like a
chicken!
But Now it seems he has grown a PAIR? Yep and it will be your SON and not his that will go the next TIME! Really great CHOICE….CC.
what would we do without your INTELLIGENCE?
fido
September 2nd, 2012
2:05 pm
ryan lied about his marathon time, what else is he lying about?
Bernie
September 2nd, 2012
2:11 pm
fido @ 2:05 pm – EVERYTHING…..including his GET GRANDMA PLAN TOO!
Corey
September 2nd, 2012
2:19 pm
That memo that stated that Osama B.L. was planning to attack the U.S. with planes of which Dr. Rice said, “We viewed that a as historical document of little importance.” This is the same Dr. Rice who attacked Ms. Clinton’ s foreign policy acumen by going after her boss. Let Rice debate Hillary. Anyone up for that one?
newt schmoot
September 2nd, 2012
2:20 pm
Eastwood’s monologue was that of a guy who produces and directs Academy Award winning movies, plus has served as Mayor of Carmel, California – entertainer and politician, which is what we saw at Tampa. It’s pretty funny that people who consider themselves intellectuals could not get the nuance. Empty chair: symbol for person who most often voted “present” whenever he showed to vote at all, was absent most of the time during his brief legislative time; plus being missing in action during these last 3 1/2 years as president when he promised to turn our economy around in 2008, said if he didn’t we should not re-elect him. (I loved when Eastwood said, instead of setting a date somewhere out in the future re our troops in Afghanistan, “Why don’t you bring them home tomorrow?” Remember Obama promised to bring them home from Iraq and Afghanistan when he was elected…. didn’t happen.)
Speaking of 2008, Obama said then “It’s time for them to own their failures.” Well, with any honesty, it’s time for him to own his failures. Our nation is presently taxing at 14% and spending at 22% — he has brought us to a worse place than 4 yrs ago, and this borrow-and-spend is unsustainable.
I’m disgusted with both political parties, just want to vote for the best person of the two from which we can choose, regardless of party. That is looking more and more like the distinguished Romney, who proved as Governor of Massachusetts that he can deliver on job creation, paying off their $18 bil debt and putting the state in the black, put in place workable universal health care that is still running well, etc.
honested
September 2nd, 2012
2:23 pm
newt schmoot,
Then by the calculus you stated, I welcome you to team OBAMA 2012!!