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No Precedent for This President – OPEN THREAD

By 1124 on September 25, 2011 at 8:00 PM in Current Affairs

It’s funny and ironic that our group knew from the start that Barack Obama didn’t have the depth and gravitas for the presidency, and now all of a sudden, the mainstream media is catching on.  Now he’s at that tipping point where it seems totally unlikely he will win a second term.  I don’t think there are many knowledgeable political observers who expect him to win.  It all seems to be coming to a head very quickly.  Here today, gone tomorrow.

Assuming Obama has little chance of winning re-election, I think the main question is whether he will step aside, either voluntarily or by order of his handlers.  And if this happens, will it occur in time for another Democratic candidate to get organized and positioned for a serious run?  Is it already too late?  Probably.

As disinterested as he is in the affairs of state, I find it astonishing that Obama even WANTS to go for a second term.  It seems to me he is only in it for the prestige and occasional adulation, but he’s going to find himself with neither very soon, the way it’s going.

I find it interesting, in fact I find it confusing, that we always want to compare what’s happening in current events to historical precedents.  For example, we keep hearing speculation about Obama “doing an LBJ” because President Johnson was the last president to change his mind about re-election and take himself out of the race.  Precedent aside, Johnson was getting old and tired, and retirement was appropriate for his age and length of service in politics.  Obama is still relatively young and there’s really nowhere for him to go except on speaking tours.

Here’s another comparison to history that’s not working out:  the primaries and convention.  It’s been quite awhile since the candidate was decided at the convention by multiple ballots.  States are competing for having their primary elections as early in the year as possible.  We don’t seem to have the patience for indecision.  We want our candidates chosen ASAP, then we complain all year about how long the process has become.

With the candidates selected by March or earlier, that puts us smack dab up against it already.  We should know in about four or five months who the nominee will be for the Republicans, and if Obama is to step aside, it will have to happen pretty soon for a replacement to have a chance.

Of course, it’s highly unlikely he will step aside, even with his approval ratings at historic lows, about 36% approval at this writing.  Narcissism always trumps common sense.  And Obama doesn’t have enough sense, as my grandpappy always used to say sometimes, to pound sand in a rat hole.

  • Fygsmom

    Take a look at Herman Cain.  He is an American success story worth looking at.  He certainly couldn’t be worse than what we have in Obama–everything he has touched has turned to Gold.

    He is a real American from the ground up.

    • Anonymous

      I also think Herman Cain is an exceptional individual – he is EVERYTHING Obama is not. Cain has proven that he is smart – he is very successful in business and finance – and he should be a tole model to the African American youth of this country who desperately need to turn away from leaches like Obama, Sharpton, and Jackson. 

      • Wbboe

        Precisely.

      • Anonymous

        with all due respect i am way past color. in fact i am sick of hearing about color. i am not a racist. herman cain has real gravitis to me because of who and not what he is. he should be a role model to ALL AMERICANS.

        • JustMe

          I want a President who believes in America, not one that asks America to believe in him.

    • Anonymous

      One of my favorites, the man is awesome.

    • BINKY

      Be interesting to watch the liberals play the race card if the choices were Cain and Obama.  I personally like Herman Cain but I’d like to know his position on the UN.  With the right Congress, I can see him truly reversing the downward spiral of America.  I’d like to know his position on Czars.  Will he continue with this taxpayer drain or will he build a Cabinet with the expertise to help him put us on the right track?  America has slid down to #9 in Economic Freedom (Stossel tonight), headed straight toward the 3rd World Category.  I tried to register on his web site to ask some questions and the Verification thingy was the worse I’ve ever encountered.  I finally gave up.

    • Scottymac54

      “Mr. Cain is national chairman of the Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute.”

      Ah, NOW I understand his sudden, mysterious mass appeal!

    • Scottymac54

      “Mr. Cain is national chairman of the Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute.”

      Ah, NOW I understand his sudden, mysterious mass appeal!

  • Anonymous

    The tragedy of the Obama experience is “why” this country elected him and “how” it ignored all the signs that he was completely unqualified.

    The other tragedy is that the most incompetent President in American history will have been known as the first African American President. To me that is tragic given how many other highly educated, highly successful, and highly talented African Americans should have been the “first.”

    • Scottymac54

      I see Cain in a far more positive light since the last debate, but not enough to support him for president.

      I still think he’s being trotted out for the color of his skin, though….it’s even unconsciously evidenced in your comment, where the African American angle is noted.  I see this constantly here, where every comment somehow touches on his identity categorization (even people who claim to “hate identity politics” fall victim to this, LOL.  His achievements may be relatively impressive but nothing about running a fast food company applies directly to the problems we are having, so his “business acumen” is overblown because he is an older black man from the South and, in some minds, he wasn’t “supposed to have reached that level of success”, even though it’s really unremarkable and would be from any other candidate, I

      If he were white, he’d be liked but still cited for lack of specificity in experience, and they’d be right to question it.
      But whatever credibility the “Tea Party” may still have is blown away when you recall the focus earlier last year on the Federal Reserve,  because they have NOT questioned or publicly examined Cain’s role with the Fed as closely, or even really at all, as they would have with a nonblack candidate who served in a similar capacity.

      He’s immune from scrutiny on so many levels, just as Barky as. 

      To me, that’s a shame, because, even though I am opposed to just about every position of his, many of his ideas at least have merit (simplified tax code, etc.) and should be looked at, for consideration, way down the road.

      No candidate should be promoted that way, only to be quietly dismissed, yet the real reasonon is never spoken, or used politically as race-based fodder.  That should not be, in a colorblind society, as we claim to be.

      And the same double standard shouldn’t be tolerated in consideration of Rubio, Martinez, or any other candidate.

      I even thought Hillary’s gender was overemphasized in 2007 (although the forthcoming attacks the following years made it impossible to disregard).

      I really believe that, if you are a great candidate, you will shine, and who and what you are should not matter. 

      Folks want Christie too, and I like my governor, but many are buying into because of an image.   That doesn’t always yield the desired results, as we’ve observed over the last several years.

      • Anonymous

        I haven’t made up my mind who I’ll support in the primary. But it sounds like you haven’t read Cain’s complete bio. I don’t think anybody could “trot” him anywhere.

        The more I see what’s going on in DC with all these fools with “experience” in politics, the more I like the idea of a real outsider.

        • Anonymous

          This doesn’t sound like a man that can be “trotted” anywhere.
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WP5dYfBBzU

          • Scottymac54

            Like I said, I like him a lot more since the last debate….

            But I sensed almost a wistfulness in his eyes, as if it was running through his head that this is all a game with a predetermined outcome, and if only this were for real….

            I wonder if he would wind up VP.

            If Romney and he served together, I could totally see epic battles, LOL!

            At least they would be intelligent battles, unlike what I envision between Barky and Biden.

            • Anonymous

              scottymcnutt  we don’t give a damn what you think since clearly you don’t think.

            • Scottymac54

              Stod…

              Thank you for sharing with us your deep, heartfelt feelings, which any other person would have had the dignity to conceal.

            • Anonymous

              scottymcnutt, you fail as sarcasm. here if your F.

        • BINKY

          I sure agree with “I don’t think anybody could “trot” him anywhere.  Having listened to him on his radio show a few times, I believe him to love this country and he has a healthy dose of common sense as well as intelligence.

          • Scottymac54

            I definitely believe he holds the US of A in high regard.

        • Geoff C. The saltine

          I wish that Hash Fanatic aka Smac would trot on outa here.

          • Scottymac54

            You can’t always get what you want..

          • Anonymous

            Geoff, you know how it is here, year in and year out, someone trying to earn their badger patch. Same arguments, different screen name. Oh well, keeps our chops up.

            • Scottymac54

              Ironic, since the couples usually are paid more handsomely…

            • Scottymac54

              Ironic, since the couples usually are paid more handsomely…

          • Ferd_Berfle

            LMAO

      • Anonymous

        If Cain can elevate into the top tier I have no doubt he will be scrutinized and more than most because he is a Black Republican much the same way Female Republicans are more heavily scrutinized because they are not liberals.

        What I like about Cain and Rubio is not only their positions but how well they articulate them and are convincing. I care less what their color or ethnicity is.

        • Anonymous

          I never cared what anyone’s color was, until I was told by my former party, that it was more important than the most qualified candidate. That would be the only time I became concerned over ethnicity, but now it doesn’t matter anymore~instead of worrying over said color, I just left the party-y’know seemed they didn’t like/need me anymore.

          • Scottymac54

            Who, from the party, was the one who contacted you and gave you the bad news?

    • Anonymous

      I agree……
      and to have questioned his eligibility, 
      you were branded a birther.

      I questioned his birth and his qualifications, 
      this was a serious matter to me and I felt that 
      people were treated as if their were racist nut jobs.

      The BC was only released to squash state
      by state eligibility, some states are
      requiring proof of BC now.

      If nothing, his associations should have been enough
      but everyone seem to be blinded by Hope and Change.

      The Obama administration
      is good at word games, but that is all.

      • Scottymac54

        Actually, I branded MYSELF a birther.  A birther, and a truther.

        I realized nothing could be done to me at that juncture and, being upfront was the best way to go, particularly since the unnecessarily dangerous aspects had begun to fade.

        Now, the left will use the “birther” label as an accusation, largely because they know what the media doesn’t, or does, and will not say….that those who question are far more in number than they ever imagined.

        Not disclosing his BC (OR school records, medical records, etc.) might not be the worst mistake he made politically, but it definitely was the worst mistake he made at the onset with a huge number of Americans, who would not have withheld the benefit of the doubt they ordinarily would have extended to any new president, if he did come off so shady.

        And reinforced MORE stereotypes, in the process.

        • Docelder

          NQ was the epicenter of the “Whitey” tape… not the birther controversy… most here knew the birther controversy was bait dropped by Barry’s own people… He was just waiting for somebody like Trump to take the bait… so he could stand before us all showing off his new found  crucifixion marks… poor little Barry.

          • Scottymac54

            The problem with that theory was that the BC he finally displayed to the media was no different than what was thrown down before, in that it was not his original birth certificate.

            The stories he laid down in places like his book to provide cover for his reluctance to produce anything only reinforced that he was hiding something, something IMPORTANT.

            The fact that he was reluctant to provide school records, transcripts, health records, etc., when it would only make sense that he would be proud of these things, just reinforce that he was not who he said he was.

            • Docelder

              Barry never said who he was… he has two books. Which means now you have to read his book to know who he is… because books never lie… right. Just like academic types are always right… right. He is a damn brand… sold like a shamwow to unsuspecting fools… except shamwows actually are probably somewhat useful. 

          • Anonymous

            Bravo Doc, but I thought he said those were from his own personal stigmata.

          • Anonymous

            Bravo Doc, but I thought he said those were from his own personal stigmata.

      • Anonymous

        As Hillary said, “zeroxed words”, at that.

        • Anonymous

          I think Hillary’s quote was: 
          ” ‘Change’ you can Xerox”

          And she said it here in Texas, during the Austin debate…I thought is was the best line in the entire campaign, and couldn’t believe my liberal friends thought it was SO offensive!  Offfensive? Can you believe that?!

    • Anonymous

      I believe because he’s such a lousy POTUS, his “blackness” will be a footnote to his arrogance, incompetence and idealogy–just like it is today.

      He will not be hailed as the first black POTUS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1043075750 Gary Pratt

    I really don’t get it either.  There is nothing about Obama that compares to
    anything our country has dealt with in its history.  I have watched them come and go since Eisenhower
    and never have I seen anything so scrued up in so many ways as what we have
    been witness to with Obama.  

    • Scottymac54

      That’s because there have always been course corrections, based on successes, failures, public opinion, etc, in past administrations.

      This is something Barky & Co. have had total difficulty in implementing.  I believe this is because he has the sense not to disappoint his left-leaning base (difficult, because he’s in no way “left-leaning” in the sense that they are), and he repeatedly fails.

      He also tried to cater to the right wing at first, but that stopped during Obamacare because they learned he would NEVER appease them, and they were dedicated to Barky only as a one-termer (ego-driven nutcases are the last to comprehend these little realities).

      And that’s why it’s been utterly screwed up, and there is NEVER a respite.  They are just not content to serve the people, and if they are blocked, well, they tried.  They HAVE to have it their own way (and I include Meechelle, Jarrett, Axelrod, Daley, etc. in that category).

      We’ve been lucky, in a way.  This particular “fresh hell”, we’ve never had to put up with (no matter how many foolish comparisons to Carter, etc. are made by one-issue voters).

  • Dorinda

    It’s hard to see him stepping aside because of his huge and growing need for adulation but because the powers that be, whomever that is, won’t let him.  He’ll have to melt down, show his dark side before he’ll be out.  That begs the question…who is there to step in.  Who’s big enough, respected enough and truly capable of winning? 

    • Scottymac54

      I personally believe the powers that be conceived him, selected him, groomed him, and introduced him with all intention of building him up into a messiah-like figure who would only, at any given time, appeal to certain segments of the population who could be repeatedly and independently be trotted out and rolled back at will, based on the need of the government-media complex and unforseen events…

      I believe his failure was predetermined, as well, in order to set us up for the puppet’s replacement.

      I absolutely believe every minute of his fall from grace is as planned out as his rise to superstar was.

      His new official job description will be that of scapegoat for every single event and their aftereffects, because he is perfect for the job.  The blame for that which he actually presided over and that to which he had absolutely no connection can be piled on en masse, because he will eventually be liked by no one, and so many of our problems will require “fresh starts”.

      Fair or not, I welcome this expectantly, because there is little to nothing I’ve appreciated from this administration, and I endorse anything that will help us put this national disaster behind us.

      • Anonymous

        I personally believe the powers that be conceived him, selected
        him, groomed him,
        ***********************
        They obviously did enough to get him “selected.” But this guy began deflating almost immediately.

        • BINKY

          I can never keep up with my links, but early in the 2007 primary, I read a speech given by Louis Faarakhan (sp), and his words were that Obama had been “groomed” to run for President.  I’ll never forget the cold chills that hit me as I read that…it sounded sinister.  If I were a dog, I’d have said the hairs raised up on my back.  That link should be revisited.  I’ll post it if I can find it.

          • Scottymac54

            Sure.  Look at who’s saying it.

            Farakkhan, of all people.

            It begs the question, who exactly is doing the “grooming”?

            • BINKY

              Exactly!

          • BINKY

            I found the link to the Farrakhan interview where he says:  

            Barack Obama has been very careful not to position himself as Reverend Jesse Jackson or Reverend Al Sharpton as a promoter of “The Black Cause.” He has been groomed, wisely so, to be seen more as a unifier, rather than one who speaks only for the hurt of Black people. In this, he has tapped the dissatisfaction of many Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians across the spectrum, because who cares what color you are if you can save them from the mess that they find themselves in.

            http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4256.shtml

            • Anonymous

              Binky–many thanks for this link!

      • Lupe

        That Obama is a puppet seems to me unquestionable. Who did the grooming? And what is the end game? What will be the role of the puppet Obama’s puppet replacement?

        Are the Neocons behind this or is this the Perestroika Deception?

        Years ago when a few people started crying in the wilderness about the NWO, they warned of the influence of the non-profit foundations and the co-opting of organized religions. And who was always lurking in the shadows? The intelligence agencies, of course…the shadow government. What better excuse to hide Obama’s background without a peep of protest from the so-called opposition than ties to “national security”? We need not only to kick Obama out of office but the entire US Congress as well.

        • Scottymac54

          “Are the Neocons behind this or is this the Perestroika Deception?”

          My guess is that the controllers are actually all-encompassing, and that each “sub-group” is used in conjunction with the media to further erode our liberties, from different angles.

    • Boonies

      Dorinda you ask well “who is there”…I wonder who could make up for the self-inflicted  loss of at least 50% of the black vote by drawing in the “middlin’ middle” and moderate R’s?
      And if it was HRC who we agree SHOULD’ve had the nomination….as a conservative I doubt anything could get more of the conservative base out to vote in Nov. ’12 than Clinton” Part Trois”. A perfect storm?
      Wouldn’t it be Karmic Justice if the Inside Power Brokers force Obummer out (with a threatened exposure of whatever needed to be leaked to Fox News) and THAT caused riots BEFORE the election?
      Take that Bloomberg!

  • Anonymous

    I believe he will only step aside if the reason has 
    to do with some kind of illness or personal family crisis, 
    it will not be political.Will he change running mates, it is possible?The stain on Obama’s place in history can be only loser, not quitter. His ego will not be able to handle quitter..I am hoping there is a October surprise.Lets hope its not on us.

    • Scottymac54

      “I believe he will only step aside if the reason has to do with some kind of illness or personal family crisis, it will not be political.”

      I believe Obama is this nation’s 100% staged presidency.

      The past fifty years have just been “training”.

      That said, is Barky so low that he would permit one of his children to be used as an excuse to bow out (meaning, serious illness, psychological disorder, undisclosed “difficulties”)?

      • Anonymous

        Is he that low? “YES”.

        • Anonymous

          Didn’t he or he and Michelle have two versions of a medical episode with one of the girls years ago?

  • DS

    Obama won’t step aside. He seems to truly believe the issue is Republicans in Congress rather than him. Just like Bush… “the job is hard”… “it would be easier if I was a dictator”… never accepting responsibility for their inability to accomplish anything nor for the messes they made.

    Even if Obama did step aside, Biden would be in the seat so quickly… and just as convinced as ever that he had the ability to handle the position and a shot at winning. Unfortunately, I don’t see a scenario where Hillary runs, and she’s the only Democrat for whom I would vote.

    • Anonymous

      The scenario is that the major Democratic Party donors and leaders quietly convince Obama to step aside for “x” reasons in a dignified and positive manner and then immediately have Hillary announce her candidacy and by pass Biden and others.

  • Anonymous

    Spain recognizes Israel as Jewishhomeland, for first
    time

    Haaretz [Israel], by Barak Ravid   

    9/25/2011

    Spain’s Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez presented a
    new policy for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on Saturday, declaring Israel as
    the homeland of the Jews for the first time and saying that the issue of
    Palestinian refugees should be solved in such a way that it does not compromise
    Israel’s current demographic makeup of a Jewish majority. Jimenez’s speech
    before the United Nations General Assembly is particularly dramatic in light of
    the fact that Spain is considered the leading EU country to support Palestinian
    rights. Adopting such a pro-Israel stance may lead to other countries to follow
    suit.

    • Scottymac54

      “Adopting such a pro-Israel stance may lead to other countries to follow suit…”

      This is true, but it’s also likely that Spain, which is in dire financial straits, could be courting trade with Israel, particularly the tourist trade.

      Israelis were, until very recently, until the tension, HUGE vacationers in Turkey. 
      If you are an Israeli who can no longer have an affordable vacation in Turkey, chances are you’ll take a chance on a holiday in Spain, whose resorts are hurting.

      • Anonymous

        You are absolutely right about Turkey. In fact I believe Israel now has either travel restrictions or warnings. But vacationers don’t go there anymore.

        What I cannot figure out is that Israel is having economic growth particularly in techological and medical industries. Any of these Arab countries would benefit economically with an alliance with Israel. Do they want to stay poor? Don’t they understand that their leaders are not helping them?

        • Scottymac54

          There’s too much animosity for even business to be conducted.

          Turkey was very different because of the whole secular attitude that dated back to Ataturk.

          They understand fully that their leaders are out for themselves, but their leaders still call all the shots that matter, “Arab Spring” or no (in fact, I’ve heard it’s actually worse now).

          I believe Spain will be a perfect match for vacationing secular Israelis, because the resorts are truly beautiful, affordable, and offer a lot that Turkey never could.

          The Israelis will mix well with the hotel staffers and fellow vacationers in places like Ibiza, because the “ideologicals” and the troublemakers, people who argue on a recreational basis, tend to gravitate to the cities.

          Turkey has historically had a tendency to turn eastward, and I wonder if this is just another rare occasion where it’s being reinforced politically.

          I have another practical concern.  AFAIK, Israel has gotten a substantial amount of its fresh water supply from Turkey.

          I know of no historical precedent for the effects of elemental trade concerns on both Israel and Turkey’s current political discomfort, but I suspect any lasting ramifications will be very expensive for all involved.

  • Anonymous

    Stevereeno—-You’re right…Sometimes it IS  a surprising thought that he wants to run again—even with that ego- Because it’ll require more work (“work?!”) for him if he does run again.
    Being the lazy ball-dribblin’, golf bag totin’ , NFL watchin’ piece of excrement that he is, I believe his laziness transcends even his ego at times.
    Thanks so much for the excellent post……….and open thread..

    • Anonymous

      Thank you, Cindy.  Reading the comments, I was momentarily confused and thought I had accidentally posted something about Mr. Cain!

  • Anonymous

    I really like Cain, too.  Love hearing him speak! 
     Call me old-fashioned, and possibly a teensy bit selfish, but I really want a Southern accent in the Oval Office—–but am fully aware I may have to settle for a Southern accent rug.

  • Anonymous

    Cin

  • Anonymous

    The above comment  was a reply to SAMB

  • annie65

    He believes that he is right about everything and we are all wrong. He tells the african americans to do what he says and start marching (wow) does he think that we are all brain dead…….He cannot leave fast enough for me…..

    • Anonymous

      From a commenter elsewhere. I haven’t checked Yahoo, but glad to hear it.
      ********************
      Maybe someone already noted this, but did anyone click over on to the
      Yahoo story on this speech from Drudge? There are over 10,000 comments
      and they are 100% critical of Obama. It is a bloodbath in there. People
      have had it with the race crap. Just had it. You have got to see it to
      believe it. I don’t think there is a single comment there that isn’t
      negative — out of more than 10,000!

      • Anonymous

        I always believed that sooner or later he and his minions would play the “race” card one too many times. Since much of his 2012 campaign is based on doing just that and class warfare he is in deep trouble all ready. I like to start the day off with good news. ;)

  • Anonymous

    I have been reading here and there that his sneaky trip on Labor day was to meet ‘The Powers’. Now at that meeting he was told he had until January to get the numbers for the party up or he will be exposed.
    I`m not sure if this is real or somebody`s wishful thinking, but interesting none the less.

    • Anonymous

      Obama going to meet “The Powers”:

      • Anonymous

        Image for above comment

        • Anonymous

          It’s time to call an exorcist to Pennsylvania Ave. Stat!

          • Anonymous

            Either an exorcist or an Emily Post type to tell the POS to keep his damn feet off the Resolute Desk. What a clod!

            • JustMe

              The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria. Surprised it hasn’t been shipped back in a box~

            • Anonymous

              I’ll bet he has already carved his romance initials into the hardwood: B.O.+ R.L.

    • BINKY

      I heard that he had a secret meeting around that time with the backers and promoters of the Day of Rage.  Wish I had kept that link.  You don’t hear much about that movement, but it’s happening.  There’s to be one in Kentucky, Lexington I think, very soon.

  • Anonymous

    I have always believed that the O presidency was an attempt on the part of the DNC and many  Dems in the Senate and House at a coup, a takeover of the administrative function of government.  NP, who hated that Hillary, a smarter woman, might not do her bidding; HR, a dimwit who likes his position, and many others put O in under the agreement that they would do all the work and he could play as if he were in control.  Think about the whole HC fiasco that took up all that time when a good administrator would have instead been dealing with the economy.  NP and HR went ahead with their idiotic idea and stupidly thought everyone would be thrilled to death that a HC bill was passed.  Neither one of those idiots lives a life that is normal and neither has an idea of what’s going on in the real world–and neither does their little marionette.

    On top of all that, we have a large population of the totally uneducated who were stupid enough to believe his promises.

     And we have a large population of people who have moved up to positions that give them easy lives not through hard work but by being the “right” personality type, who dress the “right” way, who say the “right” things and believe that because they can spout the drivel they learned in their pretentious college classes taught by people who have never in their lives lived outside of academia that they are highly educated and capable, though they never had to have a job before they left college.

    And we have another group of people who didn’t realize that the media had turned rotten to the core.  They still believed in the fourth estate.  And they began not to see the blurring of lines between journalism and entertainment.

    In short, our country simply and quite nearly imploded–ior maybe it did impolode.  I am waiting on pins and needles to find out if it can pull itself together and survive.

    There is no precedent for this.  This is the point at which we live or die as a country.  And sadly, I see no Lincoln rising up from the backwoods.

    • Anonymous

      No Lincoln, Diana?  We are the ones we’ve been waiting for….

      And here we are!

      • Anonymous

        Right – we’re the “Planet of the Abes”!

        • Anonymous

          LOL  Rewired!

  • Anonymous

    If Obama wins re-election  I will literally just give my house away and run for the border…
    The only way that Obama could win re-election would be by using the Chicago ganster method …
    If Obama can employ Chicago methods to the degree he need to to win  the election then that means its time to get the H3LL out of this country.

    • Scottymac54

      “If Obama can employ Chicago methods to the degree he need to to win the election then that means its time to get the H3LL out of this country.”

      It might sound tempting, but, by now, there’s a practical roadblock.

      Our currency is devalued and it might be cost-prohibitive to set up in another country.

      Also, it could be argued that, unless you change to a dramatically different life, ex. agrarian/agricultural, etc., it’s hard to escape America’s influence.     

    • Anonymous

      Well, if you heard his speech to the CBC, that’s exactly what we should expect– telling his “peeps” to stop complainin’, take off those bedroom slippers and put on the marchin’ boots!!

      POTUS is melting down–seriously. I have never heard a president talk so divisively. And members of the CBC should be embarrassed that he degraded them, to their faces as well.  

      • Anonymous

        The CBC didn’t appear to think they were being degraded, they cheered.

    • Anonymous

      K, when you run for the border, head north instead of south….

  • Anonymous

    New item: Bernanke and the Fed are soliciting for their own AttackWatch service to closely monitor dissent on the internet:

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/here-comes-fiattackwatch-bernanke-goes-watergate-prepares-eavesdrop-everything-mentioning-fed

    • Scottymac54

      Odd concept.

      I guess, they think, because they are a private bank, they are immune from the criticism Barky gets, from launching the same tactics under the auspices of our government.

      • Anonymous

        The difference is that this is a solicitation for surreptitious information gathering.  Obama’s AttackWatch was right out in the open for everybody to laugh at….

        • Ferd_Berfle

          And they’re STILL laughing at it.

    • Anonymous

      Nothing surprises me anymore with this administration..
      But it is sometimes getting to the point that is is really scary.  When you think that so much of the media is still feeding the American public with the Obama propaganda

  • Anonymous

    -
    FROM FREE REPUBLIC:

    Herman Cain bio:

    Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.
    Master’s degree in Computer Science.
    Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics (making him a rocket scientist).
    Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.
    VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation).
    All achieved before reaching the age of 35. Since he reached the top of the information systems world, he changed careers!
    Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia area, which were the company’s poorest performers in the country. Spent the first nine months learning the business from the ground up, cooking hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets. After three years he had turned them into the company’s best performers.
    Godfather’s Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather’s Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it profitable in 14 months.
    In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather’s Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the ladder of another industry.
    He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time. This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from the non-politician side. Having reached the top of a second industry, he changed careers again!
    Adviser to the Federal Reserve System. Herman Cain went to work for the Federal Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes would affect American businesses.
    Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a regional Federal Reserve bank. This is only one step below the chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking position in the country).
    This position allowed him to see how monetary policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that impact the monetary system. After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!
    Writer and public speaker. He then started to write and speak on leadership. His books include Speak as a Leader, CEO of Self, Leadership is Common Sense, and They Think You’re Stupid.
    Radio Host. Around 2007—after a remarkable 40 year career—he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).
    He did all this starting from rock bottom (his father was a chauffeur and his mother was a maid). When you add up his accomplishments in his life—including reaching the top of three unrelated industries: information systems, business management, and banking—Herman Cain may have the most impressive resume of anyone that has run for the presidency in the last half century

    • Anonymous

      I have liked Cain from the get go…
      It just seems that no matter how many milestones he makes, polls he leads in he seems to get very little news coverage.
      He has admitted that he has a lot of work to do on Foreign affairs..On the show he said that it seemed that he was willing to do the work and was doing just that.
      Cain’s economic background is quite impressive…
      I will have to say that when you compare Cain to Obama, Obama looks like a kindergarten student and Cain a College graduate.

    • William L. Donlon

      FIBreeze:

      Thank You for posting this on Herman Cain.

      The more I see and hear of Mr. Cain — The more Impressed I am. There is Real There, there. with this man.

      I was not surprised when he won the Florida Straw Poll This weekend.

    • wwwild

       RED FLAG: “Adviser to the Federal Reserve System.”

      I can’t vote for Cain – just another tool of the ruling class.  No thanks.

      • Anonymous

        And I am guessing you are just another tool of obamaCo…

        • wwwild

           LOL – how did you conclude this!!!???

          Barry S. is about as seemless of a continuation of Bush as anyone can possibly imagine – specifically I’m thinking of his continuation of the Goldman Sachs “dynasty” by insisting on the appointment of Turbo Tax Timmy.

          Look, if you want to waste your time playing R vs. D games, fine by me.  I’m just trying to point out the utter foolishness of people jumping from one (Won’t Get Fooled Again) to another. 

          Wake up!  This new guy, yes will be different, but IMO will be much the same as has gone before.

          (I did not vote for Barry Soetero and I refuse to vote for anyone who is likely to continue the status quo.)

          • Scottymac54

            It’s all about the false left/right paradigm, and the gatekeepers keeping the scales balanced.

            They hate the Fed, except for when they love it.

            They hate the establishment, except for when they love it.

            They hate tyranny, except for when they love it.

            They hate corporatism, except for when they love it.

            They hate corruption and graft, except for when they love it.

            They hate the “lamestream media”, except for when they cover them favorably.

            They hate the Mexicans, except for when they are mowing their lawns.

            They hate global warming, except for when they can babysit their kids with another penguin movie.

            And they LOVE property rights…until a mosque buys the building and moves in.

      • Anonymous

        oh give it a rest please. while you sit on your backside complaining the dems will steal the rest of the country and leave you a row boat with a leak! geez

        • JustMe

          Oh, and without a paddle!

    • Anonymous

      I have “liked” Herman Cain since the first time I ever heard of him on the Neal Cavuto show. But I had no idea he had such an impressive resume’. Kind of puts the POS in the White House to shame doesn’t he?

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, compare that to Obama’s one page padded resume and it just makes you want to cry, doesn’t it??

      • Anonymous

        Actually I was thinking, it is a thing of beauty, a real resume, and real history, a real life that was and is lived out front, not created for a novel by a ghost writer. There is a really touching video on Herman Cain’s webpage for 9/11, where he is the voice singing “God Bless America”; granted the video’s may need some help, and the actual video I am referring to may be a bit sappy, but I admire this man for living the life of one who worked hard, attained his goals, shouldered his responsibilities, and has a fantastic head on his shoulders.His perspective alone from surviving a fatal disease, you know is different ` he doesn’t mince words, and may make a stumble in explanations, but I like his genuiness -I’m not getting any register on the phony meter.

      • Anonymous

        Actually I was thinking, it is a thing of beauty, a real resume, and real history, a real life that was and is lived out front, not created for a novel by a ghost writer. There is a really touching video on Herman Cain’s webpage for 9/11, where he is the voice singing “God Bless America”; granted the video’s may need some help, and the actual video I am referring to may be a bit sappy, but I admire this man for living the life of one who worked hard, attained his goals, shouldered his responsibilities, and has a fantastic head on his shoulders.His perspective alone from surviving a fatal disease, you know is different ` he doesn’t mince words, and may make a stumble in explanations, but I like his genuiness -I’m not getting any register on the phony meter.

  • Anonymous

    -

    Two of Herman Cain’s archived writings can be found at the

    latter part of the last Open Thread:

    http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/61939/breaking-chris-christie-is-considering-2012-run-open-thread/

  • Anonymous

    Just found this on Yahoo Front News Page and Pakistan wants to be admitted to the UN..They are the ones hiding and apparently training the terrorist…
    British police: 6 charged in terror plot
    Nasser and Khalid are also accused of traveling to Pakistan for terrorism training including bomb-making, weapons and poison-making, as well as making a martyrdom film, police said.
    http://news.yahoo.com/british-police-6-charged-terror-plot-003056119.html

  • BINKY

    From Hillbuzz:  Tea Partiers are, for the most part, middle-aged Americans who are angry with the out-of-control spending going on in Washington, the increase in taxes, the increase in punitive regulations, the class warfare, and the mandates, rules and restrictions being forced upon everyday Americans.  We just want to be left alone to raise our families, pay our bills, earn our livings, and worship as we choose.  We want the America that our founding fathers gave us.  We sing the National Anthem and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at all of our meetings.  This is apparently the “hateful rhetoric” of which we are guilty.  We aren’t violent, we aren’t profane.  We are Americans who love our country and want it back.Read more http://hillbuzz.org/

    • Scottymac54

      First off, I just want to say I went to HillBuzz, and….I’m glad that they’re still a lot of free dialogue there, but, I can’t help it, I was saddened to see so much “TP” content there.

      I just want to say what turned me against the “TP”, and by extension, the Republicans, WAS hateful rhetoric.  TPers speak of Democrats, moderates, paleoconservatives, mainstream Republicans, etc. in such perpetually angry, vicious, rabid terms and language, that it’s as if they and they alone plan to run the country!  They push ideas and concepts that are sure to get Obama re-elected, they jump on bandwagons that are politically unwise (Ryan/Social Security, debt ceiling, etc.) and push “spending cuts” to an unwise extent.  At the same kind, hypocritically, there is not a war they don’t like (which is the OPPOSITE of the original movement’s noninterventionist libertarian attitude) and they commit to unlimited financial support and blind loyalty to the Netanyahu regime in Israel.

      They try to have it both ways with immigration, depending on how far from Texas and Mexico they get.

      And they ARE racist, although not particularly to blacks or Hispanics.  They are RABIDLY racist toward anyone of Muslim, whether Arab, Persian, etc.  The Muslim is to blame for every and any problem in creation, Islamic terror threats are either exaggerated or distorted, if not completely made up.  I have heard them happily declaring this or that country or people ready to be “vaporized”, and the natives so demonized or disregarded as human altogether.  Every slur, physical, verbal, sexual, etc. is permitted and even encouraged, and, at one “TP” gathering, I saw a kindergarten-age kid exhorted to join his dad in the fun. 

      Far worse than anything ever witnessed in the American South during the middle of the twentieth century, and the final culmination of what the Bolsheviks after Lenin brought the world, or their Stalinist offspring. 

      To your face, they speak of “freedom”, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, just like the neocons before them.  Amongst themselves, in little kaffeeklatsch-like pods, it’s all about who’s after them, who’s going to stab them in the back, who among them is not to be trusted, etc.  It’s psychotic.  One or two in each group is the opinion ruler and anyone who questions or challenges them is forever mud (I have witnessed this, time after time, on these comments).

      Is this what America is supposed to be like?

      There’s no positivity or optimism, EVER.  There’s a constant cloud of unresolved anger and bile in the air.  The “TP” has, except for the “Founding Fathers”, who are inappropriately and erroneously quoted on a constant basis, become fervently “anti-intellectual”, with any cultural reference right up till basic food groups or scientific events like falling satellites, etc. being thoroughly denounced and ridiculed.

      This is the “Tea Party”‘s function for the Republicans right now.  They are there to highlight the underside of the Republican platform, whether it be an unmet desire for nation building, an uncomfortable run toward integrating minority candidates into the once lily-white party while derailing the “racist, militia, tinfoil” Constitution Party, doctrinal differences between evangelical, mainstream Protestant, and Catholic faith traditions, the preservation of the bloated, failed military machine, and the furtherance of bizarre talk show hosts and blogs running the gamut from “the Blaze” to “WND”.

      This is not exactly what I and others like myself had in mind when we first heard of the “Tea Party” movement.

      It’s solely about bringing down Obama, and bringing down the country’s economy down with it, Americans be damned.

      Consider this from someone who is not a conservative, not a Republican, and never had any desire to put down the “Tea Party” in any way (in fact, I thought it was good for the country!)

      When do we see something from the “Tea Party” that is not about attracting attention and is not just emulating thuggish subcultures from other countries?

      When does the hatred and willingness to blame end?

      When does the “Tea Party” contribute to the country, something non-”Tea Party” Americans might actually benefit from?

      • Anonymous

        Well John Pardo, let’s tell Scotty what he has won….Scotty has won an express lane ticket to replicate Greece.
        Seriously Scotty, you are so misguided on your views of the Tea Party, but, I know convincing you of that would be harder than nailing Jell-O to a tree.  As for your racist allegations, respecting other’s sensitivities, I will only add ….bullshit.  But, as for radical Islamists, I am firmly in the camp that believe that if they kill us, we kill them back. 

        • Scottymac54

          Sybill, remember that I am not a political scientist.  All that I’ve written are based on three extended meetings/discussions at “TP” groups in my general area, and I realize there are variances.

          I’ll be convinced when I see the “Tea Party” as trying to bring Americans together, rather than cause separation and foster anger, for no good cause whatsoever.

          I believe, there is racism toward blacks, but only among some of the Barky-haters (and they’d be against blacks no matter what).
          I didn’t come across any such people, but I know the Tea Party is where they will go, because they’ll in turn be treated hatefully by the left groups and these “anti-fascist” people.

          When it comes to Hispanics, “TP”ers in my area seem the same way I am…there is disgust with the illegals and the policies that foster them.

          But…I’m sorry….there are NO “radical Islamists” or “Islamofascists” marching around our streets that add up to any sort of a threat, so that’s just manufactured outrage invented by right-wing bloggers and special interest groups, financed by bloggers, to provide a convenient common enemy that is certainly not in any position to fight back.

          None of this is my invention.  I invite you to visit any “Tea Party”, or “Tea Party”-sanctioned, or friendly blog or message board, and you will almost immediately see anti-Muslim rhetoric, over-the-top comments and sheer invective and hate, well represented without apology or shame.

          If that is your idea of what the United States of America and patriotism is about, I cannot stop you….freedom of speech prevails.

          But don’t then turn around and whine, as “Tea Party” people are wont to do, about how you’re being persecuted in the media.

          They’re only feeding off the hate and fury they are getting from good “Tea Party” members and giving it right back, which seems like fair turnabout to me.

          It’s not that I’m “misguided”, it’s that I can see that none of that sort of fevered, hateful bigotry is of America or Americans, so, until it changes, I will continue to find it difficult not to accuse it of being something alien, or of another people, not of America.

          • Anonymous

            With all due respect, your rhetoric sounds like it was cut from the CoffeeParty group, or the retread NoLabels group.  At least you had the good sense to put the issues of which you have no firsthand knowledge in “quotes”.  In the blue city I live in, our Tea Party proudly put up a viable black woman to challenge our seated Senator.  I worked her campaign, and attend the monthly meetings, and I stand by my stance that you know not of what you speak.  Practicing Muslims have never been discussed at our meetings, but radical Islamist’s have,  seeing as the Little Rock at the Army recruiting shooting happened not far from here.  With that, I bid you adieu.

            • Scottymac54

              I don’t know who the “Coffee Party” is (please, not another one?)

              NoLabels….I like a few people from that….dislike others.  But I never hear anything from them.  And, I think they are FROM here, LOL!  So, no, this is based on impressions I’ve formed from actual “TP” meetings, family members who claim allegiance to it, and internet sources, places like here.

              “At least you had the good sense to put the issues of which you have no firsthand knowledge in “quotes”‘…

              Sybil, none of us “know”, what each other “knows”!

              I’ve been to their gatherings, I’ve been to a barbeque, I’ve read their material throroughly, and I was not predisposed to WANT to not like the “Tea Party”.  It just wasn’t for me, and lately, my perception has worsened, because they are actively causing problems for us all, IMHO.  I also saw the tone change, and I began to see that my side had legitimate complaints and criticisms, which I had previously scoffed at, because I couldn’t stand Obama and associated opposition to “TPers” exclusively with the bots.

              “In the blue city I live in, our Tea Party proudly put up a viable black woman to challenge our seated Senator.”

              That’s good!  I guess my problem is that I’d thought we’d reached a point where you could put “a viable woman” without the ”black” clarifier to make her a worthy contender.

              I just hate identity politics in general, and any “patriot” movement I’d want to be a part of would just take it for granted that everyone’s equal, ALREADY.  Without having to prove PC bonafides, under a “Tea Party” banner. 

              “Practicing Muslims have never been discussed at our meetings, but radical Islamist’s have, seeing as the Little Rock at the Army recruiting shooting happened not far from here.”

              Oh, I’ve had terrorism rather near to me, as I’m sure you’ve heard.

              But we both know that the line between “practicing Muslims” and “radical Islamists” have been more or less erased by the “Tea Party”, as the propaganda and the insane, irrational ranting and manufacturered fear surrounding the alleged “War on Terror” is identical to that of the Republican Party proper, and the neocons within.

              Thank you very much for your civilized manner of discourse and some revealing points for me to ponder!

          • Anonymous

            geez scottymcnutt back to copy paste again. never a real creative thought based on true critical analysis from you.

          • Anonymous

            You are one of those deliberate types tring to incite hate against a group of people. You want to see what a racist/bigot/xenophobic assumptive person looks like, take a long one in the mirror. We know the game, many have played it here before; and you have to do far better at name calling than this to wipe out a thread, which will not happen here. You make no effort to truly have a discussion, you just come to disagree, lay out the talking points, then run. I am just curious when you will be able to articulate your opinions, not replicating someone elses? Sounds like part of the reason you don’t “get” the Tea Party- just regular people, dissatisfied with their government, and expressing it. Herman Cain understood this, early and easily, and didn’t have to reach to agree with it. I guess its always easier in politics to try to create a Boogeyman so you can have an enemy; last time we were Hillary supporters, then we were to be pitied, for being lowly racists, now same terms different group not belonging to either party, but here for the taking for the candidate who gets it.Herman Cain has always had Tea Party support`not because of how he looks, but because of what he has done. The man does not strike me as someone who would ever put up with racist bull$hit, I guess thats why he isn’t a dem.

            • Scottymac54

              :You are one of those deliberate types tring to incite hate against a group of people. You want to see what a racist/bigot/xenophobic assumptive person looks like…”

              Oh, boy….shades of “Obamamania, 2008″!

              Wait for it…”RAY-CESS”, LOL!

              Which would rather prove my point about this week’s latest flavor of the week, no?

              Well, I don’t mean to offend you by actually defending myself during your latest infatuation, but….

              “You make no effort to truly have a discussion, you just come to disagree, lay out the talking points, then run.”

              Not really, and you’re not exactly an eager participant when it comes to exchanging ideas…you respond only to throw out baseless allegations that will be well received with your social network here, or accuse me of lying, which is ludicrous on an opinion blog.

              It can never just be an ordinary conversation (probably because you’d never hear the end of it).

              “Sounds like part of the reason you don’t “get” the Tea Party- just regular people, dissatisfied with their government, and expressing it.”

              It’s not that I don’t GET it…I just reject it for its fraudulence and scorn it for its self-righteousness and point out WHY, which is a far cry from what you would here from the “Daily Kos” set. 

              “Herman Cain understood this, early and easily, and didn’t have to reach to agree with it.”

              Sure he does, and he has the good luck to have superficially demonstrated characteristics and values that conservatives will fall for.

              Forget any sort of long-term analysis, or critical evaluation.

              No, “He’s OURS, he’s PERFECT, we wouldn’t change a THING!”

              Well, the only thing I’d agree with is that nothing has changed…the teams have just changed sides.

              “I am just curious when you will be able to articulate your opinions, not replicating someone elses?”

              Katmoon, I’m not one who has experienced a total political transformation.

              If you can tell me who I’m supposed to be quoting, I’ll tell you if I’m familiar with their work…

              Otherwise, stop blowing smoke.

              “…now same terms different group not belonging to either party, but here for the taking for the candidate who gets it.”

              Sure, he’s this week’s messiah.

              Last week, it was Perry.

              Week before, Bachmann.

              Maybe McCotter should have waited for HIS turn!

              Forgive my skepticism with voters who want spiritual leaders in a secular realm.

              “Herman Cain has always had Tea Party support`not because of how he looks, but because of what he has done.”

              See above comment.

              “Tea Party Support” is an undefinable term in a political sense, because it has proven to be fickle, difficult for the average person to define, and even more personality-driven than Obama in 2008, IMHO. 

              And the fact is, whereas his resume is respectable, there’s nothing there that would correlate well to the experience required for president…it’s all about “feelings” and “image” again.

              He’s been given to making some intemperate and undiplomatic remarks that might be red meat for his base, but don’t exactly indicate that he’d be much of a foreign policy wonder (or a statesman, for that matter).

              “The man does not strike me as someone who would ever put up with racist bull$hit, I guess thats why he isn’t a dem.”

              That’s your own overcompensation and rationalization based on your own unresolved contradictions and need to manifest your own political “high road”, despite preexisting prejudices.

              Nobody else needs to feel obliged to take responsibility for that.     

               

          • candymarl

            I have never made my choices, political or otherwise, based upon fear.

            I’ve voted for members of both political parties based on how closely they echo my views and job performance.

            Do I agree with every stance this person may take?  No.  But I am not a one issue voter.  I can see beyond my own backyard and the suffering and plight of my fellow Americans.

            I can even sympathize with views of people from countries whose governments I despise.

            My point was I have had DIRECT EXPERIENCE WITH TERRORISM. 

            It’s neither purely philosophical or political to me..

            Gunfire can provide a moment of complete clarity.

            I’m of the “content of character” school.

            That’s where my ability to decide what I like and don’t like begins.  But it doesn’t end there.

        • JustMe

          No need trying to blame The Tea Party on the way muslims act……

          Muslims attack buses carrying Catholic school children in Bradford.
          The joys of forced integration in schools……Conflict between two faiths at a Bradford catholic school must be stopped before it escalates into full-scale gang war, a councillor has warned.
          Durotrigan The National Secular Society (NSS) today published a report on an outbreak of violence between religious gangs at Bradford’s St Bede’s School on Monday. Whereas Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus was somewhat coy about revealing the identity of one of the two factions, insulting the intelligence of its readers by referring to ‘Conflict between two faiths at a Bradford catholic school’ thereby singling out Christians,
          http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/

          • JustMe

            Given time…..coming to a town near you!

          • JustMe

            Given time…..coming to a town near you!

      • BINKY

        You’re so wrong about the Tea Party.  Hillbuzz attended some Tea Party rallies and made their mind up that it was a positive movement.  

        Do you think you won’t benefit from the goals of the tea party?  How many rallies have you attended?

        • Scottymac54

          Three.  And I had some great conversations.

          For hours.  I came across some great people.

          But that wasn’t enough to wipe away my skepticism of the group itself.

          I’ve mentioned before, the “Tea Party” response to the debt ceiling fiasco and even a few postings crossed a line with me.

          I definitely won’t benefit, for two reasons.

          First off, I was initially excited about what I thought was going to be a movement dedicated to challenging the left, the right, and everyone in between.

          That’s not quite what I found.  They’re mostly focused on advocacy for conservative causes, defeating Barack Obama, and a “return to traditional values”, which was precisely the sort of social conservatism I’ve always found repellent.

          Secondly, I really wonder if they’re not going to fizzle out, particularly if a Republican wins in 2012.

          I am somewhat to the left of the “Tea Party’s”
          baseline on most issues, so I’d probably held my hopes up too high.

          I heard NONE of what I’d describe as “Napolitano’s evil little hive” described, the “lone wolf” stereotype that is really just reverse racism in code.

          I did, however, hear a disconcerting amount of disturbing anti-Muslim rhetoric, probably heightened because of the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy we had here.

          It, and what I felt was blind adherence to conservative conditioning, was enough to convince me it just wasn’t for me.

          • Scottymac54

            Binky, I’m not just tossing out bromides to be contrarian.

            BTW, thank you for your spirit!

            • Docelder

              No… it’s a concern troll thing. We wouldn’t understand. But you come here and do the hate thing against Obama… then of course hate all the alternatives worse… which means you love the asshole. I get it.

            • Docelder

              No… it’s a concern troll thing. We wouldn’t understand. But you come here and do the hate thing against Obama… then of course hate all the alternatives worse… which means you love the asshole. I get it.

            • Scottymac54

              No, Docelder.

              I get that, for you, this is all about “blue” camp, versus “red” camp, and that’s as far as it goes.

              Any idea that doesn’t fit into the neat little black-and-white world you’ve crafted for yourself since Reagan landed, is a thought crime waiting to be stamped out.

              At some point, Barky will be a footnote to history, and it will be time to pick up the pieces.

              If your dour cynicism serves you well, go ahead and revel in it….you will have many fans here.

              Just do me a favor, and don’t fault me for suggesting a different way forward.

            • Ferd_Berfle

              No… it’s a concern troll thing.
              ==============
              Nah, Doc, he’s just a contrary caterpillar.

          • Scottymac54

            Binky, I’m not just tossing out bromides to be contrarian.

            BTW, thank you for your spirit!

      • candymarl

        That’s funny. I’ve seen more than one video with middle eastern immigrants featured.  They are full on Tea Partiers. No one was taunting them or driving them away.

        People holding up pro-USA signs were standing directly behind them waving, smiling, and encouraging them.

        There are idiots in every group no matter their ethnicity. I’m a Tea Partier.  I guess that means I’m a vicious racist that hates all Arabs/Muslims.

        Funny racist, racist, racist is the latest MSM/government line about the Tea Party.  Before that we were all terrorists. Wouldn’t that mean we’d be sympathetic toward Arabs and Muslims? 
        Wish they’d make up their minds.

        However, I have zero sympathy for people, no matter the ethnic group, who blow up themselves  injuring/killing others. I also have zero sympathy for those that blow up planes, buildings cars, or school buses full of children  If that makes me a racist – so be it..

        • Scottymac54

          “That’s funny. I’ve seen more than one video with middle eastern immigrants featured. They are full on Tea Partiers. No one was taunting them or driving them away.”

          Maybe that’s because the cameras were rolling?

          “People holding up pro-USA signs were standing directly behind them waving, smiling, and encouraging them.”

          That all means nothing, because it’s easy to find someone who belongs to any particular group, and objectify them as “one of the good ones” at feel-good moments.

          That’s part of the image the “Tea Party” people are urged to cultivate, and display in public, but there’s another, more sinister message shared behind closed doors.

          If you are not one of us, you are not a “good American”.
          That’s the only part of it that runs across the board.  Muslims are just an easy target because they tend to be low-profile and they are blamed for the wars and the problems in the Middle East.  There’s no reason to believe the next scapegoats couldn’t be selected from any other group the powers that be push the “TPers” to target.

          “There are idiots in every group no matter their ethnicity. I’m a Tea Partier. I guess that means I’m a vicious racist that hates all Arabs/Muslims.”

          No, it just means that you’re an American with a perspective that’s different to mine.

          The “Tea Party” is not the only group that wallows in self-pity and manipulates public opinion by claiming perpetual victimhood.

          It’s only the latest.

          “Funny racist, racist, racist is the latest MSM/government line about the Tea Party. Before that we were all terrorists. Wouldn’t that mean we’d be sympathetic toward Arabs and Muslims? Wish they’d make up their minds.”

          The “terrorist” meme was fostered by Janet Napolitano’s twisted mind and is a direct result of the right-wing’s baseless obsession with nonexistent Islamic terrorism.

          It draws on specific stereotypes of libertarians, nationalists, patriots, militia members, etc. and seeks to paint the TPers with a radical, extremist brush that is white and racist.

          Are “Tea Partiers” racist?  How can anyone really know?  Is it our business?

          I still say blacks and Hispanics are exempt, because they are actively being courted, and the Republicans have a specific role for them to play, to insulate the larger conservative movement from allegations of racism.  But Muslims are hated, because they are distrusted and their cultural norms are alien to us, and a Muslim “Tea Party” member is unlikely to carry much influence with their radical brethren.

          “However, I have zero sympathy for people, no matter the ethnic group, who blow up themselves injuring/killing others. I also have zero sympathy for those that blow up planes, buildings cars, or school buses full of children If that makes me a racist – so be it..”

          Candymarl, do you honestly know such a person?

          Do you really know anyone in real life, who delights in such savagery, outside the usual media entertainment sources, movies,  partisan radio talk shows and bloggers?   
          You can’t very well have sympathy for a manufactured terrorist unless you understand that is all he is.

          • candymarl

            Do I personally know people who blow up things/people?  What a strawman!

            Why would I hang out with folks like that?

            I lived through the terrorism of the eighties in Europe.  These were terrorists.

            They were white Anglo Saxon, Germanic etc. crazies.  WE WERE SHOT AT BY THEM.

            I didn’t like them anymore than this current group(s) of crazies.

            Color, ethnic group means nothing to me.

            Terrorism in one form or another   (see Vlad the Impaler) is as old as time.  Doesn’t make it any less evil.

            • Ferd_Berfle

              Nevermind the little troll, Candymarl. He, too, shall return to his bridge abutment where he will set up his tent and bother passing goats.

            • Scottymac54

              Candymarl,

              Who likes a terrorist?

              It’s hardly earth-shaking to declare, “I have zero sympathy for terrorists”, because, who does?

              To allow unfounded fears to govern your political choices is a sad tradeoff that the powers that be depend upon you making, IMHO.

              Americans have been governed by a spirit of fear for too long.  It’s all a sham.

  • Anonymous

    Gaffetastic!… Obama Thanks “Mark” Shirley For $35,800-a-Couple Dinner… His Name Is Jon Shirley

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/gaffetastic-obama-thanks-mark-shirley-for-35800-a-couple-dinner-his-name-is-jon-shirley/#comments

    • Anonymous

      Puts his damn foot in his mouth nearly as often as Biden. Lucky for him the press doesn’t report the gaffes. Or much of anything else negative. But that is about to change I think and that is the change I’ve been wating for.

    • Anonymous

      Surely, he jests.

      • Anonymous

        Stop calling him Shirley.

  • Anonymous

    This worries me.  I was absolutely convinced that George W. would not win re-election in 2004 and almost absolutely convinced that Obama would not win in 2008.  I can’t handle going through another round of that, because the immediate depression and long-term cynicism just gets deeper and deeper.  So I’m going to proceed on the assumption that the crazies will succeed at putting Obama back for another term, while at the same time doing everything I can to support his opponent; then, if beyond my wildest expectations, we pull it off and are rid of He-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed once and for all, I’ll content myself with being ecstatically happy after the fact.

    • Anonymous

      If I remember right George W had higher approval ratings going into the election.
      What has been piled on our unemployment numbers and deficit numbers makes the numbers during George W’s terms seem like chunk change.

    • Scottymac54

      There’s got to be more to hope for than this, for all of us.

      Regardless of party.

      • Anonymous

        Sorry Scotty – I am usually an optimist; but Obama has completely ruined the concept of “hope” for me….

        • Scottymac54

          I hear you.  I find myself thinking exactly that way, more often than I care to admit.

          There is reason to be hopeful, though, for the first time in a long while.  Obama is no longer invincible for growing legions of Americans, and at least a second term is no longer a given…in fact, it looks like it might go either way.

        • Docelder

          Same here… maybe our “hope” is picking up the pieces and starting over… hopefully smarter next time. In the interim we are probably looking at a lost generation.

  • Anonymous

    Gonna check out early——and leave ya’ll with Brahms—-not his lullaby, but one of his other greats. 
    Good Sunday evenin’, everybody.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4-_DiaF-RA

  • Craig Della Penna

    I find it very interesting that Bubba played a round of golf today with Bo(zo) – along with Daley (the newly installed CoS  – and Nanny for Bo(zo) direct from the DNC) and Brand (Bubba’s old CoS)…

    I can’t think of any reason for this (Bubba truly despises Bo(zo))…
    I wonder if he and Daley were there to deliver some bad news…

  • Anonymous

    Bush at least tried to look like he worked and was a leader.  Barry doesn’t even pretend to be at work and everyone KNOWS he’s NOT a leader.

    Different man, different scenario.  If Obama gets back in, Joe Citizen  will be EXTREMELY unhappy.  Psst:  There’s a lot more  pissed off citizenry than several little voting blocks can beat.

    If Barry even looks like he may win, may all the dirt on Obama see the light.  There’s tons.

    • Anonymous

      My take….I think gwb and obamadinejad are both intellectually lazy.  BUT I do think gwb loves America and barry does NOT.

      “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

    • Anonymous

      The fact that Obama’s personal aide is a former Duke University basketball player (Reggie Love) should explain where Obama’s priorities are.

      • Scottymac54

        If it comes to pass that there is any sort of improper relationship there, it will do this nation’s standing in the world irreparable harm, and Barky’s own personal values will matter not one iota, if he takes the same sort of liberties with the office that Clinton did with Monica.

        It will bring social, political, and even financial tensions previously not up for public debate, to a boil.

        It may seem inconquential, even to the most fervent sexual libertarian, but the aftermath cannot even be imagined.

  • Anonymous

    I like Cain.  Actually, IMHO, the GOP is really lining up the next administration’s cabinet through the debates.  Huntsman, sec of state, Cain sec of the treasury, etc.

  • Anonymous

    He has finally lost what little mind he had.

    Obama: “Don’t Compare Me to the Almighty, Compare Me to the Alternative”

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/obama-dont-compare-me-to-the-almighty-compare-me-to-the-alternative/#comments

    • Docelder

      At least he’s not Bush… right? LMAO… it’s all he has… all.

  • AbigailA

    Open Thread item:

    We were listening tonight to Mark Walters of Armed American Radio and one of his guests, Dave Codrea, was saying that he has in his hand the information, the documents themselves, that prove that ATF was, in some cases, not even using straw man purchasers but buying and walking the guns themselves.  Codrea went on to say that this coming week he will have some kind of evidence that links F&F to the State Dept. in a significant way.

    I came in to the middle-end of the show and couldn’t tell if this was a live discussion between Walters and Codrea or if it was rebroadcast from earlier in the week.  Sundays are his regular show, so I don’t think it was a rebroadcast, but he doesn’t have an archive of tonight’s show yet and I couldn’t find anything through Bing.  Did anyone else hear about this?

    I’m not a regular listener to Walters, but we listen to Freedom 1590/KPLF Seattle regularly.  All the good shows: Preger, Miller, Levin, etc.  Conservative talk radio is making a comeback here.

  • Wbboe

    Steve, I used to wonder how the leaders of the
    Democratic Party and their Big Media allies could presume to label Tea Parties
    racist, without a shred of evidence?  Or
    how Jim Webb feels about that?  Or how
    could they trash the Constitution and Bill of Rights which are the glue that
    holds our nation together and defines who we are as a people?  Or how they could blindly support a man who is
    doing incalculable harm to the living and to a posterity who has no vote.

    Then, finally, I came to the realization I was
    asking the wrong questions.  Those
    questions are political in nature, whereas the problem we see here is clinical.
    It is a desperate attempt by his supporters in the party, the media and the
    public at large to cope with the phenomenon of “A God That Failed”.  Therein lies the root cause.

    By now, they surely know that they have been
    lied to by Messiah Obama, that he is NOT the one they have been waiting for, that
    he is in fact the antithesis of it, that he is simply a brand marketed by the
    corporate elites to the unsuspecting public and that he is betraying the very
    values which they claim to stand for. 
    Now that is reality.  To deny reality
    is self delusion.    

    Here then is what I believe to be true.  We are in the throes of the worst economic
    crisis in eighty years, and before it is over it will have touched the lives of
    everyone and adversely affected millions of Americans.  It will affect an entire generation like the
    Great Depression of the 1930s did, and the memory of it  will last as long as they live.  

    In fairness, this crisis began before Obama took
    office, but when he became president, whether he knew it or not, he assumed a
    non-delegable duty to solve it, or at least mitigate its adverse effects. Instead
    he has made it worse by promoting unsound economic policies, enriching his
    cronies, playing the race card, living the life of Riley and elevating politics
    over governance. Thus, the weight of the evidence proves that he is not only
    incompetent but self serving, devious and corrupt.   Hence, Messiah Obama is now The Great
    Shrinking Obama.

    This places his supporters in an awkward if not
    untenable position.  On the one hand,
    they still believe he is the Messiah, and harbor in their retentive memory all the
    euphoria they felt when he was elected. 
    For many of them this was their first campaign.  Hence, they continue to defend him, and
    attack his perceived critics. On the other hand, to keep their belief in him
    alive, they must deny larger and larger aspects of reality.  Even worse, they must support positions
    beneficial to him, but detrimental to their own career, their party and our
    country.   This irreconcilable conflict
    between what they want to believe about him vs. what they know to be true has
    produced in his media supporters a state of mind and set of behaviors which are
    symptomatic of mental illness.

    That theory is now corroborated by voices in the
    medical community.  Granted, most doctors
    are not devotees of Obama care.  But it
    is their medical insights on Mr. Obama and his supporters, rather than their
    politics, that interest me.  Nobel Prize
    winning doctor and pundit Charles Krauthammer has labeled Obama a “narcissist”.
      Recently, I ran across comments on Red
    State Blog, by Doctor Robert Skarloff MD, which provided fresh insight on this
    question of the mental state of Big Media and the Democratic Party.  He said: 
    “I have concluded that BHO and his supporters are beginning to exhibit
    the signs of psychotic behavior, specifically Bleuler’s Syndrome, which is characterized
    by ambivalence, associative disturbance, autistic thinking and affective
    incongruity.”

    To prove his point, he cited one example after
    another that big media journalists and pundits who defend Obama have “lost
    contact with reality and live in a fantasy world”. They push emotional buttons,
    hide behind false data bases, cite phony polling, censor relevant information,
    practice push polling,  are easily
    agitated, offer self reverential explanations for Obama’s betrayal of their
    values, and when all else fails they proclaim that the country is ungovernable.
     Thus, it is readily apparent that Messiah
    Obama, the sum of their hopes and dreams, their touchable god, is driving his
    supporters absolutely batty.

    Fortunately, there is a remedy. When these
    people become too untethered from reality, then in the spirit of good Christian
    fellowship, we should offer to provide them with psychiatric help.  The comedienne Jean Garafulo is a prime
    example of someone who desperately needs it. 
    She claims that the reason that Obama is not succeeding is not because
    he lacks the will and capacity to govern the nation, and not because he
    elevates politics over governing, and not because he is interested only in
    himself, but because white racists (whom she fails to identify by name) are
    furious that we have a black president. 
    Yes, she could use psychiatric help and so could Matthews, Schultz, Dowd,
    Krugman among others. (I realize Ed gets it at home from his psychiatric nurse wife,
    but judging from his floridly delusional behavior it is not enough.)

    If you think about this for a minute, you will
    see that such help would be beneficial not only to them, but to all interested
    parties. Why?  Simple. If we fail to
    provide these wretched souls with qualified psychiatric help, then we may in
    the end lose our own sanity trying to explain the facts of life to people who no
    longer live in the same world as the rest of us.  For if I am right, and they suffer from acute
    mental illness, then we should not hesitate to call their babbling what it is, rather
    than treating it like it is some kind of quasi legitimate political position to
    be analyzed and rebutted.  That would be the
    best therapy of all.

     

     

     

     

    • Scottymac54

      “The comedienne Jean Garafulo is a primeexample of someone who desperately needs it.”

       It’s not a spiritual problem with her.  She’s gone so far, she’s that rare person that cannot find her way back.

      (Although, I guess if someone were to pray for her, that would be nice.)

      She’s in a lot of pain, and is very lonely.

      • Wbboe

        She’s in a lot of pain, and is very lonely.——————-
        The Christian fellowship line was a joke.  How many Christians do you know that prescribe psychiatric care.  They believe in the power of prayer.  How do you know she is in pain and lonely.  You don’t mean lonely, you mean loony. 

        • Wbboe

          Scotty go forth and read A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. Satire.  That is the tack I was taking in the above.  It is supposed to be humorous Scotty.  Stop being so serious.

          • Scottymac54

            I read it more years ago than I care to admit.

            Your humor eludes me in this instance, wbboe.

            I do apologize.

            I did not mean to harsh your mellow.

            • Wbboe

              Scotty: go forth and be happy.

            • JustMe

              LOL Wbboe, so glad you never said…… multiply~

        • Scottymac54

          “How many Christians do you know that prescribe psychiatric care…”

          Many!  If they require it, or think they may.

          “You don’t mean lonely, you mean loony.”

          No, not at all.  I mean “lonely”.     

    • Anonymous

      Excellent analysis, wbboe!  You’re right, they all need shrinks!

      The way I see it, the left calling the right racist is nothing new.  It’s a gambit that’s been played over and over through the last few decades, possibly starting or growing exponentially during the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s and early 70s, when so many southern Democrats switched to the Republican party in protest over Democratic policies about integration and other civil rights issues. 

      The recent thing about the left calling the Tea Party folks racists is easily illustrated by people like Morgan Freeman stating in an interview http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/26/morgan-freeman-tea-party-racism-obama?newsfeed=true
      that the Tea Party is racist, and the proof is that they want Obama held to one term, and the only reason he can think of for that is the color of his skin.

      Another example is Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver of Kansas City walking up the steps to the Capitol during that huge Tea Party rally in Washington during the vote on Obamacare.  He walked so close to the white people lining the barriers to the steps, when there was ample room for him to have walked up the steps yards away from those people.  As he passed by one white man who was yelling something like “Stop this bill”, a drop of spittle left the man’s mouth accidentally and landed on Cleaver’s lapel.  Cleaver immediately stopped and turned back to confront the man and accuse him of “spitting on him.”  The media picked it up and ran with it as if the man had hawked up a lugie and launched it into Cleaver’s face.

      So these are two examples showing two different types of blame.  One is a persecution complex where people feel that no other president has ever had this much opposition, which is complete nonsense.  The other is the “chip on the shoulder” – “I dare you to know this chip off my shoulder” – of people looking to pick a fight on false pretenses.  Both are examples of playing the victim, but the latter is aggressive, the former is passive-aggressive.

      BTW, they are both racist in nature.

      • Wbboe

        Yes.  It is the ugly underbelly of the civil rights movement. The quest for legal equality degenerates over time into tribalism. Love of the in group–hatred of the out group.  The pattern of all history..

        • Ferd_Berfle

          The quest for legal equality
          =================
          Actually the quest has morphed into a quest for equal outcome, irrespective of such things as how much work one puts into one’s future. This sort of equality at all costs is a disincentive to any sort excellence. But then, excellence is not the focus of those who make a living through unfounded agitation.

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s recent speech to the CBC, telling them to “put on their marching shoes” is nothing but a dog whistle to more racist confrontation.  That, in addition to Morgan Freeman’s assertion that it is racist for people to want Obama out as president, is quite disturbing.  It is a definite signal that racism is going to be thrown about as Obama’s ultimate defense against opposition to him because of incompetence, corruption and just outright wrong-headed direction he has set for the country.  San times indeed.  I hope that the majority of Americans can liberate themselves from this guilt inducements enough to be objective in deciding whether Obama deserves a second term or not, and whether the country can afford four more years of the same.

    • Anonymous

      “Morgan Freeman’s assertion that it is racist for people to want Obama out as president . . ”
      -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
      What is interesting about Freeman’s remark about “racism” is that he had previously been heard to say that the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it.

  • Anonymous

    Since he is so extremely thin and has to spend most of his time upstairs perhaps he is not at all well?

    • Scottymac54

      Sometimes he almost looks as though he’s on some sort of psychotropic or anti-seizure medication.

      On the other hand, if he is, as I believe, a puppet of the New World Order, I would think that the contradiction of living this lie would have to have some sort of cumulative effect.

      I would think some sort of depressive order might set in.

      Or maybe he would self-medicate.

      Everything about him and them is just so bizarre that you just look for reasons, signs, causes….

      It’s not obvious, like Amy Winehouse.

      • Anonymous

        MM. Miichelle seems to keep him at an arm’s length away from her while acting out intimacy publicly, it’s not very convincing though.
        He wouldn’t release his medical records either. The way he describes the success of his presidency is so far removed from reality that he is saying such weird things like Stop complainin’ Keep on marchin’ and if you love me that don’t measure up to I’ve been to the mountain top or I have a dream. The MSM is perplexed but ignore the desperate plight of the people who got tornadoed, flooded, ravaged by fires and drought and hurricanes etc, not to mention the oil spill which has ruined the waters of the gulf and is leaking to this day, and FEMA is broke? Meantime he get’s the go ‘head for more of Libya warfare and allows Bernanke to run a swap window for the EU toxic assets and talks about Peace is Hard in the UN with his Nobel Peace Prize self. Whatever’s wrong with him we just need to get him out of the WH and he can work it out with Valerie and Michelle in Chicago or wherever they want to use for rehab.
        We need to get on with restarting the US and world economy by reverting to our Constitutional credit system, dump the oligarchs’ monetary system and retire all their unpayable debt by putting all the too big to fail banks into bankruptcy protection. Bretton woods,
        NAWAPA to employ millions here and the NAWAPA principle in Africa with Lake Chad etc and in Asia too, and the building of the bridge to link Siberia with Alaska to realize the Eurasian American Land Bridge which would allow goods to be transported from Africa to Europe to the Middle East and India, China Russia and North America Canada and South America. One of the
        reasons Netanyahu is being so awkward may be that Egypt has built a railroad
        right up to the Israeli border, which if it was linked to the Israeli
        railroad would open up the trade corridors and free up so much freight
        traffic for countries to do business with one another. One of the terrible
        things that happened to Greece was that the EU shut down a lot of their
        railway so they can’t trade very well any longer, they are prohibited by
        quota not to be self sufficient foodwise by the EU and are forced to spend
        billions on importing things like milk from the Netherlands which they could
        easily produce at home, and there’s talk now of shutting down their cotton
        business because the Cargill cartel wants to grow cotton in Africa, and says
        that Greece would be unfair competition to that. What???????? No wonder
        Greece is in trouble, the same thing is happening to the US in subtle ways,
        even though we are not governanced by the EU regime, it’s the same
        oligarch’s fooling with our economy and Obama is going along for the ride,
        hob nobbing with Queen Elizabeth and underwriting the EU as lender of last
        resort. Nutter or traitor?
        Either way we do need a change and then some.

        • Scottymac54

          Netanyahu is a maniac and I still say the world would be a safer place if Hillary and Tzipi Livni were securely in place.

          I love railroads and would love to see a resurgence in America.

          The only thing I would prefer is if Amtrak were broken up and privatized.

          Wouldn’t our transportation system be modernized and tailored to suit our nation’s unique needs if we’d introduce a bit of competition into the mix?

          Think of the varied railroads we could have and the jobs that programs cannot “create”.

          And the whole network could be rehabbed in less than ten years.

          • HELENK

            before Amtrak when freight railroads ran passenger service, the freight end of it paid the way of the passenger service. The freight railroads were glad to get rid of passenger service due to the expense.
            With Amtrak the government covers the cost and this government pays much less than many countries toward the cost.
            The freight railroads get the contract and get paid to run the passenger trains over their railroad. The Northeast corridor is the only rail that Amtrak owns and has the expense of the upkeep.
            The freight railroads do not want the passenger service back.

            unemployment needs to start in DC asap

            • Scottymac54

              Perhaps my envisionings of it are clouded by living in the Northeast, being a rail fan and my memories of what was….

              I actually wasn’t even hoping for enhanced rail service, because I can’t see how Amtrak will escape the long arm of the budget slasher.

              I’ve noticed steadily increasing volume of freight traffic over the past year.

              In your opinion, are the rail-sharing agreements of the smaller private companies, in the past, sustainable in today’s business environment?

              Thanks!

          • Anonymous

            I’m not defending AMTRAK funding one way or another, but for train lines, the money is in freight, and passenger service is a money-loser.  Making stops in every podunk so a handful of passengers can get on or off makes freight delivery slower and forces trains to route themselves through every small boonie town on the map.  If you live in a highly populated area, this may be harder to understand, but take a look at “fly-over country” and it’s a little easier to grasp why railroads don’t want to bother with passenger service unless the Feds guarantee they won’t lose money on it.

            I would probably be tempted to agree with cutting support for AMTRAK along with corn alcohol subsidies and other unnecessary spending.  I’d have to study the pros and cons before making a commitment.

          • Anonymous

            Netanyahu who described himself in his speech in the UN after Abbas had spoken said that he was likely the “descendant of the Netanyahu whose name was inscribed in the ancient ring he saw once somewhere” and “Benjamin is an authentic hebrew name, isn’t it?” showed an amazing lack of interest in theological history upon which the occupation of Israel by the Jews hangs supposedly,. Then later on Meet the Press I think it was, he complained about Palestine’s idea to have their own legal state and one of his reasons, was, I kid you not, “they are mainly a bunch of muslims and Christians, and they keep talking about that Bible thing. The Old Testament contained in the “Bibile Thing” contains the basis for Israel’s present day claim on that part of the Holy Land annexed by the Balfour Treaty between the Rothschilds and the British Prime Minister at that time, and it only goes to show that they are not believers in anything other than money, which is not quite what God had in mind when he called Abraham to leave his home and took him to Palestine, or when he parted the Red Sea for Moses and the Nebrew slaves a nd the mixed multitude. I wonder what all the members of Congress who are Zionists and are celebrating Rosh Hashana and entertain the AIPAC lobby etcetc think about the Bibile Thing? They all seem really busy eliminating the Ten Commandments and making friends with Mosque builders.
            and encouraging same sex marriage, none of which are relevant to
            the question which is, what gives anyone the right to phosphorux bomb innocent children?

            • Scottymac54

              It’s the Scofield Bible that got American Christians off track, IMHO.

              • Anonymous

                Yeah, it was commissioned to set the stage for precisely what we’re seeing played out right now. However, from what I understand from the OT prophetic utterances were warnings and oftentimes were heeded and the catastrophes were averted. Time for the church to “Arise!” ASAP.

          • Anonymous

            Netanyahu who described himself in his speech in the UN after Abbas had spoken said that he was likely the “descendant of the Netanyahu whose name was inscribed in the ancient ring he saw once somewhere” and “Benjamin is an authentic hebrew name, isn’t it?” showed an amazing lack of interest in theological history upon which the occupation of Israel by the Jews hangs supposedly,. Then later on Meet the Press I think it was, he complained about Palestine’s idea to have their own legal state and one of his reasons, was, I kid you not, “they are mainly a bunch of muslims and Christians, and they keep talking about that Bible thing. The Old Testament contained in the “Bibile Thing” contains the basis for Israel’s present day claim on that part of the Holy Land annexed by the Balfour Treaty between the Rothschilds and the British Prime Minister at that time, and it only goes to show that they are not believers in anything other than money, which is not quite what God had in mind when he called Abraham to leave his home and took him to Palestine, or when he parted the Red Sea for Moses and the Nebrew slaves a nd the mixed multitude. I wonder what all the members of Congress who are Zionists and are celebrating Rosh Hashana and entertain the AIPAC lobby etcetc think about the Bibile Thing? They all seem really busy eliminating the Ten Commandments and making friends with Mosque builders.
            and encouraging same sex marriage, none of which are relevant to
            the question which is, what gives anyone the right to phosphorux bomb innocent children?

        • Scottymac54

          Netanyahu is a maniac and I still say the world would be a safer place if Hillary and Tzipi Livni were securely in place.

          I love railroads and would love to see a resurgence in America.

          The only thing I would prefer is if Amtrak were broken up and privatized.

          Wouldn’t our transportation system be modernized and tailored to suit our nation’s unique needs if we’d introduce a bit of competition into the mix?

          Think of the varied railroads we could have and the jobs that programs cannot “create”.

          And the whole network could be rehabbed in less than ten years.

  • Anonymous

    “Don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the Alternative.”
                                                                  -Barack Obama

    Priceless!!

    Gateway Pundit

    • Anonymous

      ..and that would be, who/what? Satan?

    • Anonymous

      So that would make him the Antichrist?  He is such a marooooon!!!!

      “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

    • Anonymous

      I want Herman Cain to get the Republican nomination just to hear Obama say that again. Then watch every blog and paper in the country post his resume against Mr. Cain’s. The comedians would have a field day with this one!

  • Docelder

    Well guess who is also tied to Solyndra? Like Gomer Pyle would say… surprise, surprise… surprise. It’s Godman Sachs… who knew?

     ”Goldman was the IPO’s lead underwriter”http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-25/solyndra-meltdown-may-hit-goldman-s-reputation-william-d-cohan.html

    • Anonymous

      This just keeps getting better and better. But the NYT and Salon keep telling us this is a nothing story. Perhaps to excuse themselves for not covering it as they should. That won’t last for long as they get “scooped” again and again.

  • Elliott

    tip·ping point
    The
    point at which a series of small ineffective changes acquires enough
    pressure or importance to cause a larger, more significant change- a kind of tipping point in society, where X number of criminal types gets the edge on Y number of honest citizensThe point at which the buildup of minor incidents reaches a level that causes someone to do something they had formerly resisted

    Obama reached the tipping point probably a month or so ago and the media and pollsters are just now mentally processing it. Obama’s problem is that the hits will continue and every single one them is self inflicted. The pettiness of scheduling his jobs speech at the same time as a Republican debate was something that even junior high kids could understand. His inane and empty Jobs Bill that did not exist except in mind of his speechwriter was probably the last straw. The scandal hearings on his corruption will continue as will his increasingly impotent ass chewing of vital Democratic constituencies.
    When is elite financial backers realize that he is not going to win irregardless of how much cash is thrown his way, Obama will go away.

  • Anonymous

    Obama takes shots at
    Perry, GOP debates

    Associated Press,
    by Staff
    9/25/2011
    WOODSIDE, Calif.

    — President Barack Obama is swiping at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, criticizing him as “a governor whose state is on fire, denying climate change.” Obama also poked at the audience reactions at recent GOP presidential debates, singling out those who cheered at the prospect of someone dying because he didn’t have health insurance — and those who booed a gay service member. The president said “that’s not reflective of who we are.” He made the comments Sunday at a fundraiser at the Silicon Valley home of John Thompson, chairman of Symantec Corp.

    • Anonymous

      What a maggot….

      • JustMe

        Wow, everyone who uses Norton Virus get rid of it.  

        Symantec – AntiVirus, Anti-Spyware,
        Endpoint Security, Backup …

    • Anonymous

      Breeze—I am in tears reading what Obama is saying about our state being on fire. That is like making fun of someone who is in a wheelchair.
      The massive Bastrop complex fire, which is right here where honestlawyer and I and our daughter, family, etc. live, was caused by an electrical pole that was blown down by a 40 mile-an-hour wind….The electrical wires fell into a dead tree, and that’s how it began…
      We live each day receiving DAILY updates from the Texas Forestry service (at A&M) The updates instruct us on whether our area has a moderate chance for fires that day, a very good chance, or an extrememly good chance for wildfires! That’s how we face each day—-knowing that if the wind is just right and someone flicks a cigarette out of their car, or if another power line falls, we could lose EVERYTHING….including our most precious of all posessions, life.
      I’m glad the excrement on the bottom of our shoes (Obama) thinks it’s cute to call-out our marvelous state and make a sarcastic remark about it… as we sit here daily, and wonder how perilous this particular day might  be  for our property, and god forbid, our family.
      I wouldn’t waste a good “Fuck You!” on that man.

      • Anonymous

        P.S. I would like to see Obama have to spend an hour in a face-to-face encounter here,  with a little 10 yr. old local boy who is grief-stricken, not only from having his house burn to the ground—but the fact that he couldn’t get the family dog out of the house. He was sobbing on televison…saying “I kept calling and calling, but he wouldn’t come to me—He wouldn’t come out…and we had to leave him so we wouldn’t get burned up!”
        It was so heartbreaking!  And there are so many stories like that.

        • Anonymous

          texan here, fxxx obama and the hype rapmobile that brought him and moochelle to the white house.

        • Anonymous

          -
          WHAT HEARTBREAK!!!

          It makes me feel lucky that here in Florida
          all we worry about is hurricanes…..

          As to thewon, where I come from his 
          ‘kind’ belongs to the tribe that

          “should BLEED a little”….

          so that they may learn such a thing as
          ‘feeling others’ pain’, the creature and
          his mate are the most insensitive
          creatures I have had the misfortune to
          encounter in my life.

          Do me a favor, when you get angry at
          him, close your eyes and throw it right
          back HARD into his ugly face!!!

          You’ll be pleasantly surprised and you’ll
          get rid of some of your anger that is NOT good for your health…..

          Hugs and blessings,
          B

          • Anonymous

            Thank you, Breeze!

    • Anonymous

      So now he an expert in science too. Just guessing, but do you think he got broke a “C” in science?

      • Ferd_Berfle

        He wouldn’t pass a survey course in How-Things-Work 101.

      • Ferd_Berfle

        He wouldn’t pass a survey course in How-Things-Work 101.

    • Docelder

      Makes you wonder who is actually setting the fires… doesn’t it? Who applauds at events to staged rhetorical questions? Who? Myself… I think I know.

  • Anonymous

    In Indiana, ripples of discontent with Obama

    Los Angeles Times,
    by Seema Mehta   
    9/26/2011
    Elkhart, Ind.

    — Since her husband lost his job at the RV factory, Lorena Rodriguez has been holding tag sales on the dry lawn outside
    their modest ranch house on the edge of town. As she hawked her four children’s outgrown clothing and bicycles on a recent Friday afternoon, Rodriguez said the family had to turn to food stamps briefly to get by.

    (Snip) All this has deeply colored her opinion of President Obama, whom she supported in 2008. “He promised so many things. He hasn’t done anything,” said Rodriguez, an independent voter
    who said she would not side with Obama…..

    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-indiana-20110926,0,3019346.story

    • AbigailA

      I would bet real money that Lorena had not only an “Obama/Biden” bumper sticker, but she probably also had his picture taped to the inside of her back window and a copy of his books on proud display near the front door of her house.

      Funny how so many who voted for him now call themselves “Independent Voters.”

  • Anonymous

    Obama Is Dangerous for Peace

    American Thinker, by James Lewis   

    9/26/2011

    The president of the United States has just destroyed
    the longest-lasting peace treaty in the Middle East. That Nobel Prize-winning
    treaty between Egypt and Israel was destroyed by Obama in broad daylight, right
    in front of God and everybody, with stunning audacity. The White House kept
    repeating the message that Mubarak must resign, and “now means now.” This is
    simply unprecedented, even during the height of the Cold War. American
    presidents don’t demand in public that their crucial allies resign.

  • Anonymous

    The UN House of Lies

    American Spectator,
    by Jed Babbin   
    9/26/2011

    Listening to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas address the UN General Assembly last week, I thought I heard a faint echo in the chamber. I heard it again when President Obama argued that he was for establishing a Palestinian state before he was against it. I thought for a moment that it was the shade of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the liberal Democrat who in 1975 stood up in the General Assembly to pronounce its “Zionism is racism” resolution an obscenity.But when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
    spoke, I recognized the voice I heard in the background.

    http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/26/the-un-house-of-lies

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s ‘Hate the Rich’ Campaign

    American Thinker,
    by Lloyd Marcus   
    9/26/2011

    In his so-called jobs speeches, Obama exploits class envy shrouded in fairness. President Obama continues to escalate his divisive assault on achievers, purposely pitting Americans against each other. Obama’s “Hate the Rich” campaign appeals to our lower nature and encourages the sin of covetousness. If Obama’s despicable campaign proves successful, it will be a sad
    commentary about who we have become as a people and how far we have fallen as Americans.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/obamas_hate_the_rich_campaign.html

    • Anonymous

      He is in full community agitating mode.

      • Anonymous

        Oh, well said!

    • Anonymous

      Obama is rich. If we hate him because he is rich, is that racist? Just askin’!.

      • Ferd_Berfle

        Perhaps That One will take the 1,000,000,000 he gets for his reelection bid and give it to the poor since he’s so altruistic

        Fat chance,

      • Ferd_Berfle

        Perhaps That One will take the 1,000,000,000 he gets for his reelection bid and give it to the poor since he’s so altruistic

        Fat chance,

  • Anonymous

    The Economy Needs a Regulation Time-Out

    The Wall Street Journal, by Sen. Susan
    Collins    

    9/26/2011

    Last year, the Food and Drug Administration issued a
    warning to a company that sells packaged walnuts. Believe it or not, the federal
    government claimed the walnuts were being marketed as a drug. So Washington
    ordered the company to stop telling consumers about the health benefits of
    walnuts. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new rule on
    fossil-fuel emissions from boilers that—by the EPA’s own admission—would cost
    the private sector billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.

    • Anonymous

      Good heavens has Susan Collins suddenly remembered that she’s a Republican? Imagine that!

  • Anonymous

    Obama gaffe: President says billionaires should pay ‘Jew’ tax rate
    Read more:

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/25/obama-gaffe-president-says-billionaires-should-pay-the-jew-tax-rate/#ixzz1Z41ECv1f

    • Anonymous

      Breeze—What a scream!! Thanks for posting this, and as always, all others.

    • Anonymous

      If there was no podium he probably would not have corrected that.

    • Geoff C. The saltine

      What he said was not a mistake

    • Anonymous

      I think they call that a “Freudian slip”. Hehe.

    • Anonymous
      • Anonymous

        ObamaDubya2—We LOVE that scene—-thanks!

    • Anonymous

      Stay classy there El prezidente.

  • Anonymous

    Serfs in Warrenville

    Canada Free Press, by Daniel Greenfield

    9/26/2011 

    If nothing else, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for
    Commissar of Massachusetts deserves to be credited for getting at the heart of
    the issue. And the issue is private property. Is there such a thing as private
    property? According to the Warrens, private property is a false construct.
    Property is generated, maintained and protected through the state. The
    individual is a sharecropper whom the state generously allows to retain the
    majority of his wealth and land.

  • Anonymous

    Maxine Waters:
    Obama remarks ‘curious’

    Politico,
    by MacKenzie Weinger   
    9/26/2011

    Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday called President Barack
    Obama’s comments to black Americans that they should stop complaining “a bit curious” and said she doesn’t “know who he was talking to.” The California Democrat told CBS’s “Early Show” the president would never have addressed other communities like gays or Jews or Hispanics in the way he did at the annual
    awards dinner for the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday when he told the audience to “stop complaining.” “I don’t know who he was talking to, because we’re certainly not complaining,” said Waters…..

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64405.html

  • Anonymous

    President Obama courting black people again

    Washington Post,
    by Courtland Milloy    
    9/26/2011

    Yippee! It’s our turn. Now that the presidential campaign season has begun, it’s okay for President Obama to openly court black
    people again. He even used the b-word recently. “Pass this jobs bill,” Obama said at the Congressional Black Caucus annual awards dinner Saturday, “and every small-business owner in America, including 100,000 black-owned businesses, will get a tax cut.” An electrified audience bolted to its feet in applause. The
    nation’s first black president had actually said “black.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/president-obama-courting-black-people-again/2011/09/25/gIQAXPTCxK_story.html

    • Anonymous

      Desperate times call for desperate measures….he okey doked the blacks so well in 2008, he feels he can do it again.

      “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
      http://www.saywhatyouwill.proboards.com

  • Anonymous

    [Milwaukee County]DA looking at voter bribery accusations
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 25 Septmeber 2011 | Daniel Bice Milwaukee County prosecutors have opened a John Doe investigation into voter bribery allegations stemming from last month’s state Senate recall elections, according to sources. Details of the secret investigation are sketchy, but it is clear the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office is investigating charges that Wisconsin Right to Life offered rewards for volunteers who signed up sympathetic voters in the recall races. Several people familiar with the investigation said subpoenas were being distributed “like candy.” Prosecutors had earlier acknowledged that they also were looking into complaints about get-out-the-vote block parties sponsored by a liberal group, Wisconsin Jobs Now. But Assistant…

  • Anonymous

    Bloomberg hasn’t given up on barry….he thinks he can win.

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

    • Anonymous

      Mayor Bloomers is a bore.

      • Anonymous

        Can’t disagree with that…

    • Ferd_Berfle

      BloomBorg.
      Resistance is futile

  • Anonymous

    Obama Focuses on Success
    During West Coast Swing

    FoxNews ^
    | September 25, 2011
    | Ed Henry
    September 25, 2011
    SAN JOSE, Calif.

    – As he kicked off a three-day swing through the West aimed in part at firing up his liberal base and raking in millions of dollars for his 2012 re-election campaign, President Obama claimed his first term has been a success even as he urged supporters for the second straight day to “shake off” their frustrations in order to help give him a second term in office. “I need you guys to shake off any doldrums,” Obama said Sunday at the second of…

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/25/obama-urges-supporters-to-shake-off-any-doldrums-during-west-coast-swing/

    • yttik

      “I need you guys to shake off any doldrums…”

      I don’t have any doldrums at all. I’m like a little kid on a playground and Obama is sitting on one end of a teeter totter. I’m really looking forward to jumping on the other end and catapulting him right out of office.

      • Anonymous

        Oh my, I suspect that this “doldrums” thingy is a mistake. You know like Jimmy Carter and “malaise” and now Oblahblah and “doldrums.”

  • A.Men

    Palin 2012.

  • yttik

    It’s too late for Obama to resign and a primary challenger to step forward. It’s not too late for Republicans to find more candidates, but for the Dems it is. Obama is the Dem incumbent. To run a real primary with caucuses, elections, a convention and everything, requires a whole lot of advanced planning and budgeting. The Dems have not done that, they are planning to have Obama as their nominee.

    As to Hermain Cain and this nonsense about how he’s being trotted out by Republicans like a little black puppet, It’s time for liberals, progressives, Dems, to put their damn racism back in the closet where it belongs. The man has a masters from Purdue and 8 more honorary degrees. Nobody “trots” him anywhere. Everything he has was earned on merit and hard work, including that straw poll in Florida. It pisses me off that people would try to claim he won because he is black. Bullshit, he won because he far out performed all the other candidates. None of them are rocket scientists to begin with and to make matters worse, they were all having a bad night.

    • Anonymous

      After a few caffeine-heavy refills at our corner table, I
      asked him about President Obama’s new effort to raise taxes on the
      wealthy, and Cain just about blew a blood vessel — especially when I
      mentioned the part where Obama says it’s about “math” not “class
      warfare.”
      “Can I be blunt? That’s a lie,” Cain said, before the sound of his
      voice began to rise noticeably higher. “You’re not supposed to call the
      president a liar. Well if you’re not supposed to call the president a
      liar, he shouldn’t tell a lie. If it’s not class warfare, it’s highway
      robbery. He wants us to believe it’s not class warfare, oh okay, it’s
      not class warfare. Pick my pockets, because that’s what he’s doing!”
      Cain paused, took a breath and looked at me.
      “I’m not mad at you, I just get passionate about this stuff,” he
      said. “I have to tell people because I get so worked up. . . . I’m
      listening to all this bull__ that he’s talking about, ‘fairness’ and
      ‘balanced approach’ to get this economy going.”

      Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/herman-cain/2011/09/26/herman-cain-obama-liar-his-class-warfare-rhetoric-bull#ixzz1Z4TgGRYu

      • yttik

        I’m not even a Cain fan, but he can be credited with blowing a huge hole in Clinton’s health care plan. I am a Clinton fan, but even I can recognize the truth behind Cain’s words back then and the power they carried with them. When you can challenge the Big Dawg and win the argument, you’re a smart man : )

        There’s a video of it somewhere on the intertubes, but basically Cain simply asked President Clinton what he was supposed to say to all the employees he was going to have to lay off if this healthcare plan passed.

    • Ferd_Berfle

      I concur with your comment in its entirety. Cain the retrogressives worst nightmare–a black candidate for president with an actual history that he is not only proud of but has in its entirety on his website. This man doesn’t run from his past, try to hide it, or even play it up. His history is fact and presented as such.

      He is the worst nightmare for the retrogressives and the obamacrats because if they go the Uncle Tom route, they will lose the center. If they go the route of the Republicans are “trotting him out”, the voters will be reminded by Republicans of the “real trotting” out of a candidate, which occurred in ’08 when the DNC took the nomination away from HRC and gave it to a no-account token whose only claim to fame was being a thug from Chicago with a gift for reading teleprompters.

      This is why shills like SnottyMac and others keep yapping about that Obama-Lite or -Pale Huntsman RINO as being such a good candidate. That One and his Chicago Gang would eat Huntsman’s lunch and them make him buy them a second one. The obamacrats/retrogressives are in panic mode right about now at the prospect of Cain pulling out a can of whoop-ass on That One as he did with Clinton back in the 90s.

      • Ferd_Berfle

        And make no mistake, SnottyMac would vote for Oblablah irrespective of the Republican candidate. His commentary is all just obamabot diversion, disguised as genuine “concern” meant to distract us from the chicanery going on…

        in the Obamacratic party.

        Snotty doesn’t like capitalism, exceptionalism, or individualism. Indeed, he hates it.

        • Scottymac54

          Yawn.

          “Retrogressives…32 years…obamacrat party…RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!”

          repeat 20x
          repeat 20x
          repeat 20x

  • AbigailA

    You are a sophist.
     
    You have been consistent in your projections about Cain and do not speak for the tea party sentiment.  Cain is and has been a tea party favorite, not a tea party or GOP selectee because of his color.  You are trying to give legs to your false stories about black Americans running for office.  Below,  your comment about Cain’s “wistfulness” is pure projection.
     
    It’s easy to see through you.  You’re not as convincing as you are hoping to be.  Please stop with the total fabrication of attending tea party events.  Do you think there aren’t a lot of people who read and comment here who have very close ties to the tea party and know the reality of it?  The things you describe here are as phony and ridiculous as you are.  I won’t waste my time rebutting you on your descriptions of the tea party events you say you’ve attended.  They never happened and you know it.  You know it, because somewhere else in this thread you said that the tea party’s sensitivities to blackness changes on how near or far they are from the Mexican border.  That would require that you were either a) a first-hand observer at several tea party events at various locations around the country or b) blindly typing away with your eyes rolled to the back of your head as you imagined how you would feel if your organization was foursquare behind a black candidate.  I’m going with “b”. 

    • AbigailA

      this belongs under Snottymac54′s (google “hashfanatic”) comment about Cain and the tea party.

      Can we go back to the other commentary software, please?

    • Scottymac54

      Every single thing you’ve written here is either completely wrong or an outright fabrication or slander, but I’d expect that from someone who freely admits to covering up their entire alleged history as a “Democrat” as a matter of convenience.

      • JustMe
        • Anonymous

          ~JustMe~  That is sooooo funny!
          Great to “see” you, girl!

        • Anonymous

          ~JustMe~  That is sooooo funny!
          Great to “see” you, girl!

        • Ferd_Berfle

          I was thinking about linking a Frank Zappa ditty that fits our contrary caterpillar to a tee but he wouldn’t get it. Oh well.

      • Anonymous

        You are an outright liar, period, and we see you for exactly that. Don’t like it? tough shit.

        • Scottymac54

          Oooooh, look who’s coming down off the shelf, LOL!

      • AbigailA

        Calling you a sophist is not only NOT slander, it’s the best application of the word I’ve encountered in a long, long time.

    • Ferd_Berfle

      Spot on AA.

    • Ferd_Berfle

      Spot on AA.

  • HELENK

    Berkley tolerance
    affirmative action bake sale by republicans has Berkley students in an uproar.

    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.07e4e485d632e6bd3d802d6be0ffada7.1e1&show_article=1

    • HELENK

      this has to be one of the best comments I have read

      I get the affirmative action thing…your discrimnate to cure
      discrimnation…that way only the best and the brightest…errrr that’s
      not what happens….

      Best example I can think of is:
      Herman Cain—Affirmative EFFORT
      oblabby — Affirmative action

      See the difference!

  • HELENK

    it going to be a long election . the playing of the race card gets more stupid by the minute
    msnbc claims ap is racist for dropping “G: from backtrack speech

    http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/09/25/msnbc-ap-racist-for-dropping-gs-in-transcribing-obamas-speech/

    unemployment needs to start in DC asap

    • Anonymous

      As we all know, blacks are the only demographic group of Americans talk like dat.

      Southerners and westerners are known to drop their “g” in “-ing” and to change th to d among other colloquialisms.  So now, southern accents are “blaccents,” according to the thin-skinned. 

      Just axe anybody!

      • Anonymous

        Steve—you are so funny!

        The so-called Southern “black” accent is one that originated with the poor Southern whites….it’s actually a Southern poor white accent, as I’m sure you know…….the African blacks learned it from them.
        If you spent time over the years, listening to poor Southern whites, like some of my kin——-you could close your eyes and swear they were black.  “Wif” for “with”,  “Dat’ and “dis”, etc.
         Even my daddy, (when I was little and before we moved to Houston and became part of their “dignified” culture) would occasionally slip into his Louisiana talk and  ask people, “Hows yo’ Mama and dem?’” 

        I think regional language is fascinating!

        • HELENK

          I used to call crews from all over the USA. Listening to them speak was great.
          There is nothing more soothing then listening to a Virginia gentleman speak.
          or
          A New Yawker is great fun to have a conversation with.
          When I moved to California from Philadelphia, everyone kept telling me “You have an accent”. I replied, ” I never had an accent until I moved here.”

          One of the greatest things about this country is the difference in regions but the togetherness of a country.

          unemployment needs to start in DC asap

          • Anonymous

            I agree, Helenk—-And btw, i just posted upthread that I thought you lived in PA for some reason…now you’ve answered that for me!

      • Anonymous

        P.S.   Steve—-I’ve mentioned this before but my brother was with the FBI and was always assigned way up north—When he’d talk on the phone with informants, and arrange to meet them at a bar,  he’d arrive at the bar, and sometimes sit there for hours, waiting…Why? Because of his accent they thought he was black. They were looking for a black FBI agent.
        It happened several times.

    • Scottymac54

      “…”the Blaze” reported…

      No further comment necessary.

  • HELENK

    it going to be a long election . the playing of the race card gets more stupid by the minute
    msnbc claims ap is racist for dropping “G: from backtrack speech

    http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/09/25/msnbc-ap-racist-for-dropping-gs-in-transcribing-obamas-speech/

    unemployment needs to start in DC asap

  • HELENK

    this poll is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime.
    Look at the number who think government is a threat to the liberty and freedom of the average citizen.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/149678/Americans-Express-Historic-Negativity-Toward-Government.aspx

    unemployment needs to start in DC asap

  • BINKY

    James Carville must think I’m stupid.  I received this from him today via email (The DNC obviously never took me off their list)  
    Dear…
    There’s something in their tea.That’s the only
    explanation I can think of to explain the bizarre babblings of Tea Party
    Republicans.And the rants of these global-warming-denying,
    Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, job-cutting, Wall-Street-protecting
    tea party types would be funny if it weren’t for one thing:Money. Lots
    of it.Backed by millions of dollars raised by Karl Rove and the Koch
    brothers, what would pass for a cheap side show at a flea-bitten circus has
    become a dangerous political force that threatens the very future of our
    country.That’s why I’m asking you to drop whatever you’re doing
    right now and support Democrats’ $1 Million Rapid Response Action Fund before
    the big FEC deadline hits.Contribute
    $3 or more before Friday’s critical FEC fundraising deadline hits and help
    Democrats stand up to the Tea Party Republicans and take back the House Majority
    in 2012. 

    Anyone know how I can get in touch with James Carville so I know he will get my reply?

    • Scottymac54

      Binky, I have a stupid question (I know, I know)….

      I’m not a huge Carville fan.

      But what part of his statement above seems factually incorrect to you?

      Putting aside the blatant partisan rhetoric that everyone nowadays seems to engage in, what does Carville say that does not line up with the facts on the ground?

      I can see refuting the personality-driven aspects, but how can “Tea Party” people just deny the positions that the organization takes?

      • Anonymous

        I reread Binky’s post and I’m having trouble finding and factually correct information in Carville’s statement.

        • Scottymac54

          Ah.  No further comment necessary, LOL!

      • BINKY

        I know of no Tea Party platform that wants to cut Social Security.  It’s the Dems who want to gut Social Security and already made cuts in Medicare to fund (sh** I forget what they’re funding with it)…anyhow.  Republicans don’t hate clean air, are you kidding?  But to force extreme regulatory control for no other reason than to control from cradle to grave is the Dem agenda.  It’s the Dems regulations that are job-cutting.  (Both parties are guilty of the Free, not fair, Trade debacle.)  Face it, they want to tear down America so they can rebuild her to their specifications — and that’s not according to the US Constitution.  As for the wealthy backers?  Give me a break.  Check out Obama’s backers, beginning with Soros, Buffett, GE, Goldman Sacs, etc.  
        When Carville sent me the requesting begging for a donation against the Tea Party, he’s making the assumption that he can do my thinking for me.

  • HELENK

    highest number of shell companies is in Nevada.
    Hey Harry
    you and backtrack want to raise  taxes, how about starting in your home state, where they seem to have tax evasion down to a fine art

    http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre78p1y0-us-shell-games-nevada/

    unemployment needs to start in DC asap

  • yttik

    LOL today my local paper reports on Obama’s visit, “Dicks Greet Obama.” 

    It’s supposed to be a story about Senator Norm Dicks shaking hands with Obama, but I think they unintentionally got the headline right the first time.

    • Anonymous

      OMG–hilarious.

    • Anonymous

      Interesting how much truth is in that headline anyway that you try and comprehend it.

    • Anonymous

      Interesting how much truth is in that headline anyway that you try and comprehend it.

  • HELENK

    US will get stuck paying most of the freight for new UN building. This seems to be flying under the radar

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/26/un-to-buy-manhattan-playground-for-new-building-us-taxpayers-could-foot-bill/

    unemployment needs to start in DC asap

  • Anonymous

    Ok our country is really at an all time new low as far as I am concerned.
    We have the First Lady of our country on a reality show..
    Ok this show helped out a veteran, but I srry the head of any country on a reality show…That really scraping the bottom of hte **&$&%% bucket in my book….

    • Anonymous

      I usually watch “Extreme Makeover Home Edition”, especially when it’s about a vet. I didn’t last night. I may not watch it again. When I sit down to watch “entertainment” I don’t want any damn politics included.

      ABC ruined my enjoyment of this program with their frakkin obambmedia bullshit. I doubt I will ever go back.

      That’s okay, Mike Holmes is still inspecting and fixing homes on L & G so it’s not as if I don’t get to watch a fixer upper.

      • Anonymous

        Actually I have enjoyed some of the “Extreme Makeover” shows.
        Like you not anymore.
        However I do feel that this not the place for the first lady of our country. 
        Its getting to be where you don’t know where the office ends and entertainment begins anymore…
        So are we going to be seeing Obama and her on other reality shows…Maybe the real housewifes of ????
        I just dont feel that reality TV shows is the place for a sitting president…
        This is almost as bad, if not as bad aas Carter’s brother Billy.

      • Anonymous

        Actually I have enjoyed some of the “Extreme Makeover” shows.
        Like you not anymore.
        However I do feel that this not the place for the first lady of our country. 
        Its getting to be where you don’t know where the office ends and entertainment begins anymore…
        So are we going to be seeing Obama and her on other reality shows…Maybe the real housewifes of ????
        I just dont feel that reality TV shows is the place for a sitting president…
        This is almost as bad, if not as bad aas Carter’s brother Billy.

        • HELENK

          can I nominate them for Survivor? Think how fast they could be thrown off the island.

          • Anonymous

            Shame on you Helenk  — You are not known for surprise ROFLing statements….
            Good thing I always keep my windex bottle next to the monitor.  LOL

  • HELENK

    I would like some legal opinion on this story. I find it very weird. Insulting politicians used to be a national  pastime. Since backtrack things have changed and not for the better on free speech.

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/23/insult-obama-not-on-this-campus/

    unemployment needs to start in DC asap

    • Anonymous

      helenk– Although I have not done any recent research on the question, Papish v. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri (1973, U.S. Supreme Court) held that a state university cannot regulate the content of speech even though it can regulate the place and time.  In that case, a student newspaper (unofficial) published articles about political topics that had profanity in them, similar to the writings on the wall at Sam Houston State.  According to the Court, those writings are protected by the First Amendment.  So, the professor and the police were wrong.

      • HELENK

        thank you.
        All my life I was taught that in this  country you have the right to speak out against a politician
         When I read this believe it or not it scared me.
        It seems that slowly we are losing our right to speak out. Many use the excuse of race to stifle speech about backtrack, but it is still stiffing speech and not the American I believe in.

        I just read this article about a book on “The Night of The Long Knives” and it hit home.

        http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=22089

  • Anonymous

    With everything going so well,Obama golfs with a new
    partner

    Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Malcolm   

    9/26/2011

    Whenever a White House makes it easy to photograph a
    president doing something, the first question is always, “Why this?” Most of the
    scores of times President Obama has gone golfing with aides and pals, the media
    pool is kept waiting out of camera range in a food court. Some silly people have
    suggested that instead of staying secluded with well-paid staff who already like
    him, the aloof Obama could put such recreational buddy-buddy time to good
    political use by issuing prestigious presidential invites to a variety of people
    to come along and get to know each other better.

    • HELENK

      the LA times is finally printing something that does not make backtrack look good!!!!!!
      Every time they call me to buy a subscription, I tell them no because they did not do their job during the 2008 election and vet backtrack. Must be a lot like me and they need to build up the circulation so they are beginning to do the job they are supposed to do

      • Anonymous

        Helenk—I keep forgetting you’re in California—I always imagine your being in Pennsylvania, for some reason.

        • HELENK

          I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. I transferred to California with my job and retired here twice.
          It must be my “eastern attitude” that I keep getting told that I have , that makes you think I live in PA.

          • Anonymous

            Helenk—The only time I was ever in Philadelphia was when I was passing through on the train on way to NY—If you were working there at that time, i could’ve waved to ya! LOL 

  • Anonymous

    The Herminator, &c.

    National Review,
    by Jay Nordlinger   
    9/26/2011

    I was reading the news over the weekend about Herman
    Cain’s winning the straw poll. And I thought, “The Left has
    been telling you all your life that the Republican party is racist. The Left has been telling you all your life that conservatives are racist. The Left has been telling you for the last two and a half years that the Tea Party is racist.” Cain is, of course, a
    Tea Party favorite. This blogpost from Kate Trinko shows a picture of Cain signing a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag for a man dressed in Tea Party garb…..

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278294/herminator-c-jay-nordlinger

  • Anonymous

    Generation Limbo

    National Review, by Elise Jordan   

    9/26/2011

    There has been a crowded field of suffering created
    by the Great Recession, in which $14.5 trillion of American wealth vanished.
    Baby Boomers have lost retirement funds, while Generation X–ers have lost out on
    some peak earning years. The biggest losers, though, have been the Millennials.
    According to the 2010 census data released last week, many of them have
    literally lost their future. The media have taken to describing the 18- to
    29-year-olds who will ultimately bear the brunt of the economic downturn as the
    “Lost Generation.”

  • HELENK

    Dalai Lama refuse right to visit TuTu in South Africa.
    China’s influence felt

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hV-b1rJLaKNPwish43qT-KCn2F-g?docId=53497bfd7eb249ba9d10d490fb9f66a7

    • Anonymous

      Disgusting,having  these two men together probably scares the shit out them` “Heaven” knows what amount of goodness could be generated from their souls meeting.

  • Anonymous

    Americans Express
    Historic Negativity
    Toward U.S. Government

    Gallup,
    by Lydia Saad   
    9/26/2011 
    PRINCETON, NJ

    – A record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years. Majorities of Democrats (65%) and Republicans (92%) are dissatisfied with the nation’s governance. This perhaps reflects the shared political power arrangement in the nation’s capital, with Democrats controlling
    the White House and U.S. Senate, and Republicans controlling
    the House of Representatives. Partisans on both sides can thus find fault with government without necessarily blaming their own party.

    The findings are from Gallup’s annual Governance survey, updated Sept. 8-11, 2011.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/149678/Americans-Express-Historic-Negativity-Toward-Government.aspx

  • Anonymous

    Condescending ABC Dismisses
    ‘PizzaBaron’ Cain:
    ‘Nobody’
    Won the FL Straw Poll

    Newsbusters,
    by Scott Whitlock   
    9/26/2011

    Good Morning America’s John Hendren on Sunday dismissed the victory of Herman Cain in the Florida straw poll, condescendingly
    asserting that the ”big winner is nobody”. The ABC reporter made sure to repeatedly mention the business of the Republican presidential candidate:

    ”That’s right. The man who brought you Godfather’s Pizza at 37 percent”.

    Hendren arrogantly explained, ..What’s notable about the Florida straw poll is less who won than who lost…The week’s big winner in the Republican primary is nobody”. It’s odd for ABC to dismiss the straw poll’s actual winner as a
    ”nobody”.

    http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/09/26/condescending-abc-dismisses-pizza-baron-cain-nobody-won-fl-straw-pol

    • Anonymous

      -
      FROM FREE REPUBLIC:

      Herman Cain bio:

      Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.

      Master’s degree in Computer Science.

      Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics (making him a rocket scientist).

      Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.

      VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation).

      All achieved before reaching the age of 35.

      Since he reached the top of the information systems world, he changed careers!

      Business Manager.

      Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia area, which were the company’s poorest performers in the country. Spent the first nine months learning the business from the ground up, cooking hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets. After three years he had turned them into the company’s best performers.

      Godfather’s Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather’s Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it profitable in 14 months.

      In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather’s Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the ladder of another industry.

      He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time. This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from the non-politician side. Having reached the top of a second industry, he changed careers again!

      Adviser to the Federal Reserve System.

      Herman Cain went to work for the Federal Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes would affect American businesses.

      Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a regional Federal Reserve bank. This is only one step below the chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking position in the country).

      This position allowed him to see how monetary policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that impact the monetary system. After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!

      Writer and public speaker.

      He then started to write and speak on leadership. His books include Speak as a Leader, CEO of Self, Leadership is Common Sense, and They Think You’re Stupid.

      Radio Host.

      Around 2007—after a remarkable 40 year career—he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).

      He did all this starting from rock bottom (his father was a chauffeur and his mother was a maid).

      When you add up his accomplishments in his life—including reaching the top of three unrelated industries:

      information systems,
      business management, and
      banking

      —Herman Cain may have the most impressive resume of anyone that has run for the presidency in the last half century

      • Anonymous

        -

        NOBODY?  NOBODY?

        • Anonymous

          That’s infuriating!

      • HELENK

        from a comment I read and posted earlier

        Cain = affirmative EFFORT

        backtrack = affirmative action

      • Anonymous

        Exactly, and what is o’s resume, oh I forgot, we just have to take his and the DNC’s word for it. My ass.

        • Scottymac54

          Bush!  Bush!

    • Anonymous

      The “nobody” is Hendren. Cain has done a lot with his life. Hendren can only carp. Not much of a resume’.

    • Anonymous

      The “nobody” is Hendren. Cain has done a lot with his life. Hendren can only carp. Not much of a resume’.

  • HELENK

    backtrack is great at pontification and lecturing people but not too great at doing anything useful

    Obama says debt crisis in Europe is ‘scaring the world,’ European leaders are dealing with issue but not as quickly as needed – @Reuters

  • Ferd_Berfle

    Narcissism always trumps common sense.  And Obama doesn’t have enough
    sense, as my grandpappy always used to say sometimes, to pound sand in a
    rat hole.
    ======================
    LMAO. That sums it all up very nicely, Steve.

  • HELENK
    • Ferd_Berfle

      No holding–bad call.

  • JustMe

    My response to President Obama’s comments at the CBC dinner…
    by Congressman Allen West

    President Obama’s comments at the CBC dinner Saturday evening telling the black community to “stop complaining” were disrespectful and reprehensible. With unemployment in the black community at 16.7 percent, food stamp enrollment up, and our national poverty rate at epic proportion, the people have a constitutional right to redress their grievances to the government. If President Obama believes he is above criticism and reproach for his failed economic policies, then he should either change his policies or step down. Regardless, as a Member of the Congressional Black Caucus, I admonish President Barack Hussein Obama to apologize to America for his callous remarks.

    • Anonymous

      You just can’t Obama anywhere .  .  .  .  .

      I heard far left black pundits upset with how Obama talked down to these people. First, his audience were people who have had real careers and real jobs. Second, his audience were primarily people who grew up in underprivileged circumstances – some who risked their lives during the civil rights era – while Obama grew up in relatively privilged circumstances and not in ghettos or inner city projects. And third, these people represent a group who have extraordinary unemployment and it is Obama who needs to take off his flip-flops get on his suit and tie and go to friggin’ work.

  • HELENK
    • HELENK

      from the story

      Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow
      and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel —
      the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic
      weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns
      disappeared. 

      This disclosure, revealed in documents
      obtained by Fox News, could undermine the Department of Justice’s
      previous defense that Operation Fast and Furious was a “botched”
      operation where agents simply “lost track” of weapons as they were
      transferred from one illegal buyer to another. Instead, it heightens the
      culpability of the federal government as Mexico, according to sources,
      has opened two criminal investigations into the operation that flooded
      their country with illegal weapons. 
      Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/26/us-government-bought-and-sold-weapons-during-fast-and-furious-documents-show/#ixzz1Z61rGOYi

      • Docelder

        Yes… but remember the mantra is that guns are evil… not the people who helped put 2000 of them into drug runners hands. At least that was the plan.

    • HELENK

      from the story

      Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow
      and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel —
      the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic
      weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns
      disappeared. 

      This disclosure, revealed in documents
      obtained by Fox News, could undermine the Department of Justice’s
      previous defense that Operation Fast and Furious was a “botched”
      operation where agents simply “lost track” of weapons as they were
      transferred from one illegal buyer to another. Instead, it heightens the
      culpability of the federal government as Mexico, according to sources,
      has opened two criminal investigations into the operation that flooded
      their country with illegal weapons. 
      Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/26/us-government-bought-and-sold-weapons-during-fast-and-furious-documents-show/#ixzz1Z61rGOYi

  • Anonymous

     -
    HELEN K:

    “the LA times is finally printing something that does not make backtrack look good!!!!!!
    —————————————————————————————

    Andrew Malcolm’s immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.

    Follow him on Twitter.

    ——————————————————————————————-

    Helen,

    I LOVE Andrew Malcolm.

    He writes at least one column a week for the LATimes and I
    always post them here.  I am surprised you never noticed
    before.

    • HELENK

      during the primary the  LA  times covered up and did not vet backtrack. They were one of many newspapers that did so.

      • Anonymous

        -
        I know that, Helen.

        I guess that’s why they must have hired Malcolm.
        There must have been big losses in subscription,
        which is why the NYTimes and the WaPo are
        publishing some anti-’messiah’ articles, too…..

  • Anonymous

    -
    By Izzy

    A few points about the African American voting base.
    – Warning sweeping generalizations.

    In general black Americans who can vote will not vote for the Republican party. There is an unfortunate myth that is pervasive that the republicans party is the party of slavery. Time and time again I have heard this from otherwise intelligent seeming persons of color.

    Herman Cain has a fantastic personal story that is far superior to Obama’s and there is an actual verifiable record (as well as birth certificate). But moreover Herman Cain has a unique trump card in terms of people of color. Herman Cain has single handily done more to advance people of color by providing job opportunities and business ownership than any other candidate. If Cain plays that trump card in the black community he will pull over a handful of voters from the Democratic ranks, but at the same time he will decimate Obama’s minority turnout. The reason is very simple, while Democratic people of color will nto vote fro a republic in general, even is a person of color they will not vote against one who has done so much for what they see as their community.

    It is one thing to go around like Robin Hood giving Section 8 housing, Link cards and other forms of public assistance and another to give people a job they know they can perform and successful at leading to a potential ownership opportunities. It is easy for a person growing up under what is considered disadvantaged circumstances to see themselves landing ajob delivering pizzas, moving into the kitchen, up to supervisor, then manager and then finally saving there way to an ownership opportunity. That plays very, very well in the lower economic minority community where Obama has his base.

    Cain can decimate that base by keeping them at home. The coattails could be tremendous. If the GOP is not really looking at Cain now they are nuts.

    Read more
    http://hillbuzz.org/2011/09/24/florida-straw-poll-voters-give-lamestream-media-the-finger-give-herman-cain-the-win/#idc-container

    • Scottymac54

      “If the GOP is not really looking at Cain now they are nuts.”

      They’re not the only ones……..LMFAO!! 

    • Scottymac54

      “If the GOP is not really looking at Cain now they are nuts.”

      They’re not the only ones……..LMFAO!! 

  • Anonymous

    -
    By behonest

    Here is a new canidate just heard him on Aaron Klein WABC podcast you are not going to believe this, his name is Abdul Hassan, FCC already approved him.

    Obama really opened a can of worms. This Abdul was not born in this country either were his parents!!! This country is in a whole world order of trouble
    http://abdulhassanforpresident.com/

    Read more http://hillbuzz.org/2011/09/24/florida-straw-poll-voters-give-lamestream-media-the-finger-give-herman-cain-the-win/#idc-container

  • Anonymous

    Govt Won’t Seek Appeal
    in Atlanta on Health Care

    Associated Press,
    by Staff   
    9/26/2011
    Washington

    — The Obama administration has decided not to ask a federal appeals court in Atlanta for further review of a ruling striking
    down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul. The administration’s decision makes it more likely that the U.S. Supreme Court would hear a case on the health care overhaul in the court’s current term, and render its verdict on the law in the midst of the 2012 presidential election campaign. In a ruling in August, a divided three-judge panel of
    the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta concluded Congress
    overstepped its authority when…..

    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/09/26/business/AP-US-Health-Overhaul.html?_r=2&hp

  • Anonymous

    Govt Won’t Seek Appeal
    in Atlanta on Health Care

    Associated Press,
    by Staff   
    9/26/2011
    Washington

    — The Obama administration has decided not to ask a federal appeals court in Atlanta for further review of a ruling striking
    down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul. The administration’s decision makes it more likely that the U.S. Supreme Court would hear a case on the health care overhaul in the court’s current term, and render its verdict on the law in the midst of the 2012 presidential election campaign. In a ruling in August, a divided three-judge panel of
    the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta concluded Congress
    overstepped its authority when…..

    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/09/26/business/AP-US-Health-Overhaul.html?_r=2&hp

  • Anonymous

    Google turns right:
    Liberal tech giant in ‘bipartisan phase’
    as it starts donating to Republicans

    DailyMail [UK],
    by Mark Duell   
    9/26/2011

    It’s long been the left-leaning search engine that believed in supporting the Democrats and ignoring the right-wingers. But
    now Google is entering a ‘bipartisan phase’ as it recruits Republican operatives and donates to GOP groups, reported the Huffington Post. It has given money to the Republican Attorneys General Association and co-sponsored a GOP presidential
    debate with Fox News last week. Google has also donated to other GOP groups such as the Republican Governors Association and the Republican State Leadership Committee.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041867/Google-turns-right-Liberal-tech-giant-bipartisan-phase-starts-donating-Republicans.html

  • Anonymous

    Google turns right:
    Liberal tech giant in ‘bipartisan phase’
    as it starts donating to Republicans

    DailyMail [UK],
    by Mark Duell   
    9/26/2011

    It’s long been the left-leaning search engine that believed in supporting the Democrats and ignoring the right-wingers. But
    now Google is entering a ‘bipartisan phase’ as it recruits Republican operatives and donates to GOP groups, reported the Huffington Post. It has given money to the Republican Attorneys General Association and co-sponsored a GOP presidential
    debate with Fox News last week. Google has also donated to other GOP groups such as the Republican Governors Association and the Republican State Leadership Committee.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041867/Google-turns-right-Liberal-tech-giant-bipartisan-phase-starts-donating-Republicans.html

  • Anonymous

    Who Says HermanCain Is Unelectable?

    Investor’s Business Daily, by Staff   

    9/26/2011

    2012 Election: The various attempts to explain away
    Herman Cain’s victory in the weekend’s Florida straw poll all stem from the same
    underlying assumption: The guy is unelectable. Really? Based on what? One
    political blogger summed up the general reaction to the Florida vote best:
    “Rather than a legitimate outpouring of support for Cain, or a specific
    rejection of Rick Perry, this victory represents a resounding cry of ‘who else
    ya got?’” The implicit message is that voters couldn’t have been legitimately
    backing Cain, since he has no chance of getting the nomination, much less the
    presidency.

  • Anonymous

    Who Says HermanCain Is Unelectable?

    Investor’s Business Daily, by Staff   

    9/26/2011

    2012 Election: The various attempts to explain away
    Herman Cain’s victory in the weekend’s Florida straw poll all stem from the same
    underlying assumption: The guy is unelectable. Really? Based on what? One
    political blogger summed up the general reaction to the Florida vote best:
    “Rather than a legitimate outpouring of support for Cain, or a specific
    rejection of Rick Perry, this victory represents a resounding cry of ‘who else
    ya got?’” The implicit message is that voters couldn’t have been legitimately
    backing Cain, since he has no chance of getting the nomination, much less the
    presidency.

  • Anonymous

    Sarah Palin Threatens
    to Sue ‘Rogue’ Book Publisher

    ABC News,
    by Shushannah Walshe and
    Jonathan Karl    
    9/26/2011

    Sarah Palin’s family attorney John Tiemessen has written a letter to Maya Mavjee, the publisher of the Crown Publishing Group, a
    division of Random House, that Palin may sue her, the company, and the book’s author Joe McGinniss

    “for knowingly publishing false statements”

    in his book released last week, “The Rogue,” ABC News has learned. The book was widely panned by critics for using unnamed sources to criticize Palin and her family.

    Tiemessen cites an email they have access to in which McGinniss writes that attorneys from Crown Publishing told him…..

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/sarah-palin-threatens-to-sue-rogue-book-publisher/

    • Anonymous

      FROM THE COMMENTS:

      Sarah is even smarter than I thought. First by threatening to sue, she garners interest in the book. More books are purchased. The more books sold the greater the damage and hence the damges to which she’s entitled. If a jury awards her 10x in damages on a book selling for $25, (more likely she’ll get closer to 4x or maybe 5x the damages) then she gets $250 per book sold. A million copies equals $250Million. Even at only 4x in damages she’ll make a cool $100Million. You go Sarah. Imagine have a $100Million on which to spend to hound McGinnis for the rest of his miserable life. Gotta love it. And the precedent will be established that some conservatives actually do fight back. I think I’ll go buy that book just because every dollar invested returns 4 to 10 dollars in returns. America! What a wonderful country.

      For the first time in my llife I’m actually proud of America’s trial lawyers.

      • Scottymac54

        It’s all about the money, you know.

        • Anonymous

          WHY NOT?

          GOD KNOWS SARAH AND HER
          FAMILY HAVE PUT UP WITH
          MORE THAN ENOUGH IN THE
          LAST THREE YEARS.

          I HOPE THEY BANKRUPT BOTH
          THE PUBLISHING COMPANY AND
          MCGINNESS.

          THAT WILL BE A WARNING FOR
          ANY MORE OF THE SAME IN
          THE FUTURE!

          KARMA TIME!!!
          (and she’s a ‘female dog’)

  • Anonymous

    Senate reaches deal
    to avert government shutdown

    The Hill
    [Washington, DC],
    by Peter Schroeder   
    9/26/2011

    Senate leaders struck a late deal Monday night intended to
    avert a government shutdown. Under a last-minute arrange-
    ment reached by the two parties, the Senate agreed to pass a measure that would fund the government for six weeks, through Nov. 18. The Senate also was set to approve a one-week stopgap measure that would fund the government through Oct. 4. The
    House also would have to approve that stopgap measure by
    unanimous consent later this week in a pro forma session.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/184011-senate-reaches-deal-to-avert-government-shutdown

  • Anonymous

    Chris Matthews: GOP Congress ActingLike Government About to
    BeOverthrown in Military Coup

    NewsBusters, by Kyle Drennen 

    9/26/2011

    Appearing on Saturday’s NBC “Today,” MSNBC “Hardball”
    host Chris Matthews proclaimed that efforts by House Republicans to pay for FEMA
    disaster relief by making budget cuts elsewhere was akin to “what parliaments do
    right before military coups in other countries.” He then declared it was a
    “Complete disaster, complete failure to do their job.” [Audio available here]

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    Ron Paul Interview Today On Fox News Sunday

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcgjF-IINNw&feature=youtu.be