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Maryland Makes Showing at DNC

Here's a roundup of convention coverage that hits close to home.

 

As we did last week with the GOP convention in Tampa, we're digging up items of local interest out of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. We'll be updating this post with other items as the convention continues this week. Follow along with full coverage of the DNC on The Huffington Post.

O'Malley speaks tonight: Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley landed a primetime speaking slot: 10 p.m. Tuesday, when major networks will start broadcasting. The Baltimore Sun reports that the stage in Charlotte could be a launching pad for the 2016 presidential race. WBAL caught up with the governor on Monday.

Better off?: O'Malley may have gone a hair off message on Sunday's Face the Nation on CBS. Bob Schieffer asked if Americans were better off than they were four years ago. O'Malley answered: “No, but that’s not the question of this election. Without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recessions, the Bush deficits, the series of desert wars, charged for the first time to credit cards — the national credit card."

Conservative bloggers and pundits quickly seized on the remarks.

The cheap seats: Maryland's delegation is seated toward a far back corner of the Time Warner Cable Arena, Maryland Reporter reports. But it was the first stop for Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who addressed the delegates in a breakfast meeting on Monday.

LGBT community looks to be heard: The Metro Weekly in Charlotte reports that the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Charlotte wants to use this week's opportunity to speak to Maryland delegates. One lesbian-owned Irish pub, the paper reports, is hosting an afterparty for Maryland's delegation following President Barack Obama's speech on Thursday. Maryland's same-sex marriage law faces a referendum challenge on the ballot this fall.

Related Topics: Democratic National Convention and participate 2012

M. Sullivan

10:00 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Hahahahahahahaha! King O'Malley really screwed up in his interview with Bob Schieffer. I'm surprised that CBS didn't cut out that interview out of deference to their man Obama. I'm even more surprised that the democrats are still letting him give a speech.

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John T.

10:04 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

With his mis-step on the Sunday talkshows, maybe it's an indication that he talks too much. As far as tonight, I hope he doesn't blow it like he did at the last convention that he spoke - too long, too rehearsed and too boring!

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Joe

10:23 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Little Martin in 6th grade.
Teacher: "OK class, who was the first President of America?"
Little Martin: "That's not the question Mrs Jones."
Little Martin got a F for the days class.

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Joe

10:30 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Maybe little Martin can talk about the success of the Obama Food Stamp Program.
"Food-Stamp Use Climbed to Record 46.7 Million in June, U.S. Says"

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Parkvillehoney

5:22 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Joe, Google "Food Stamp Parties." The USDA is sponsoring Food Stamp parties to enroll more people in food stamps. Bad enough our deficit is thru the roof. Obama needs these government program dependent voters. The Obama administration has only made CHANGE for the worst. As far as O'Malley goes, anyone stupid enough to vote for him deserves what he gets. He is the biggest waste of a politician. I put him in the same class as Nixon and Carter.

Joe

11:06 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

President Deja Vu Obama? Repeato Obamo. President Re-Run?
And there are people who will listen to these lies again and give him one more chance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fZgQhnNRSuw

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Steve

11:28 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Governor is playing a gig with Jeff Bridges. This should be good!

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Joe

11:41 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

They will sing Owe'Malley's new song, How I got Bookered!

Joe

11:52 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Owe'Malley can tout the LIES on the DNC website of Debbie Wasserman Schultz Pinhead.
"Lie Number One: Check the "Our History" section, found here of the DNC's website. See it? The history section -- now written to reflect the history of the Obama administration -- begins with this breathtakingly bold lie:

For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights…..

Lie Number Two: Then check here to see the DNC's "Issues" section on civil rights. That section begins with a second bold lie. This one:

Democrats have a long and proud history of defending Civil Rights and expanding opportunity for all Americans."

Nothing like changing the facts of history to suit your new election campaign is it?

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Joe

11:53 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

"The party made another version of this same lie when redoing their website for 2010, saying, as captured by the Romantic Poet's Weblog:

"Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws….""

Seeing as how Liberalism is a mental disorder, they may well beLIEve these lies as they are pushed by the DNC.

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Steve

11:57 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

LOL You are stooping so low as to be quoting Anne "The Man" Coulter??

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Joe

12:04 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Do you see Coulter's name anywhere? I would need to quote you, the man who lives in a glass house with many panes broken to get lower than that.

Steve

12:08 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Do you just Parrot things without actually knowing where they came from?

LOl This was pretty funny.

"Regarding a later stop on the GOP nominee’s itinerary, O’Malley added: “When Mitt Romney was in Israel, I’m told they asked him if he’d like to visit the West Bank. Governor Romney said, ‘No, that’s ok, I do all my banking in Switzerland.’”

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Joe

12:18 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Fricking idiot! YOU seem to be confused where the post came form not me. You saw someone's name that is not there! Hallucinating ? On bath salts?

Steve

12:23 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Speaking of which....where was Ann Coulter at the RNC Convention???? I didn't see him anywhere.

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Charley

11:07 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

You must be talking about Rachel Madcow!

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Joe

12:48 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

No! It's because they can't fill the big stadium with Hopium smokers.

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Phil Dirt

1:24 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Uh, Steve... where are they going to put the other 54,000 rabid supporters?

Steve

12:53 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

What a Maroon!
You can't have a convention in an open air stadium during a Tropical Storm.

Bloody Priceless! You have to go to a British tabloid to find out what the weather is in Charlotte!

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Joe

1:12 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Obama press will not report that so yes, must resort to a British source who is not in Obama's campaign.

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Steve

1:15 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Crowd size is only an issue with the Neocons. If the DNC was really worried about it they could take a page out of Fake News's playbook and show the crowd from the Panthers playoff game. The Repugs evidently are too dumb to know when something has been doctored anyway. At lease Hannity thinks so...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/jon-stewart-catches-sean_n_353447.html

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Joe

1:22 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Now I understand why your such an idiot! You get your "news" form a short comedian on Comedy Central.

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Honeygo Hal

4:29 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Does being "short" make him less of a comedian? Oh, only in Joe's bigoted mind. And that comedian tells more truths about politics than most talking heads on the other channels.

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Joe

11:21 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Of course a short comedian is less of a comedian than a tall comedian! Geeez.

Joe

1:05 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Racist MSNBC Host Tells “Girls”: Get Your Abortions Now in Case Republicans Win
Last month MSNBC host Toure accused Mitt Romney of engaging in the “niggerization” of Obama.

Today Toure told “girls” to “get your abortions now” in case Republicans win.
https://twitter.com/Toure/statuses/242996905024573441?tw_i=242996905024573441&tw_e=details&tw_p=tweetembed

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Joe

1:05 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Kills dem babes now befo dem hicks get in the wh.

Joe

1:21 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

"Thousands Turn Out for Obama, But Ohio Arena Goes Unfilled"

"Obama Launches Campaign to Empty Seats; Unveils Ad That Should be Called "Just Go""

"Democrats fret over empty seats during Obama’s stadium convention speech"

"Obama Launches Campaign in Empty Arena "

People are not drinking the kool aid any longer from Repeato Obamo.

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Tillie Diesel

4:16 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

"Its hard to tell when the republicans are telling the truth"
"Republicans pull stats out of the sky"
"We want less government regulations for corporations, we want to regulate women's bodies because they are too dumb to take care of themselves"

Steve

1:41 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

No matter how many times you parrot it, that dog ain't gonna hunt.

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Parkvillehoney

9:54 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I voted for Obama in 2008 because I foolishly believed he would bring my son and other soldiers home. I thought he would end this miserable war. My son was serving in Iraq in 2008-2009. My son is in Afghanastan since June 2012 for a 15 month deployment.

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Sean Tully

11:21 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Obama said he'd end the war in Iraq and he did.

As far as Afghanistan (which I consider a legitimate war), Obama promised:

"Obama has promised, soon after becoming president in January, to begin scaling back the 156,000 US troops in Iraq and Kuwait, and to shift the focus to Afghanistan."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/15/barackobama.usa1

I understand your concern for your son, but if you did not understand Obama's position on the Afghanistan War that really isn't his fault.

Joe

2:05 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The hunt is over. The dog eating man is going home.

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Steve

2:14 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Not after the Republicans dropped that big clanker they called a convention. Then they have the problem of Ryan lying every time his lips move and then the next day he has to recant his lies. That has to be embarrassing to the Repugs.

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Joe

2:19 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

NO lies can match these on the Democrat Platform
"For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights….."
"Democrats have a long and proud history of defending Civil Rights and expanding opportunity for all Americans."

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Parkvillehoney

5:27 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

A lot of people were fooled in 2008 by Obama's CHANGE. So far, many people I have spoken to that voted for him in 2008, refuse to be fooled a 2nd time. I am one of them.

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Steve

5:39 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Suuure yoiu did PH Suuuure you did.......

Steve

2:27 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

With Rmoney it's just not 1 or 2 lies, it's 533 lies he has been caught in.

http://3chicspolitico.com/2012/09/04/willard-romneys-lies-of-the-week-28/

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Joe

3:10 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Used the Ku Klux Klan as what Columbia University historian Eric Foner calls "a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party." Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease's description of the Klan as the "terrorist arm of the Democratic Party." Nor is there mention of the infamous 1924 Democratic Convention -- the "Klanbake" as it is known to history because hundreds of the delegates were Klan members. The Klan-written platform mixed the traditional Democratic message of progressivism and racism in the Klan-written platform.

Repealed the Civil Rights laws enacted by GOP Congresses and presidents, already damaged by the Supreme Court. When Democrats gained control of both Congress and the White House in 1892, the Democrats' President Grover Cleveland signed the repeal on February 8, 1894.

Joe

3:10 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Past Democrat Party platforms.
Supported slavery in 6 platforms from 1840-1860.

Opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution that successively wiped out slavery and gave both legal rights and voting rights to black Americans.

Supported segregation actively or by silence in 20 platforms from 1868-1948.

Opposed anti-lynching laws, specifically supported by the GOP in four platforms between 1912 and 1928.

Opposed the GOP-sponsored Civil Rights Acts of 1866, which focused on legal equality for blacks.

Opposed the GOP on giving voting rights to blacks in the District of Columbia in 1867. The legislation was passed over the Democrats' objection.

Nominated an 1868 presidential ticket of New York Governor Horatio Seymour and ex-Missouri Congressman Francis Blair. The Democrats pledged they would declare the Civil Rights laws passed by the GOP "null and void" and would refuse to enforce them. They lost to Ulysses Grant.

Opposed the Enforcement Acts, three laws passed by the GOP between 1870 and 1871 targeting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and making it a federal crime to block the right of blacks to vote, hold office, serve on juries and have equal protection of the laws with whites.

Opposed the GOP Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination of blacks in public accommodations.

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Other Tim

7:24 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I am a died in the wool Republican. Always have been, probably always will be. But this is just nuts, Joe. You are showing platforms that are between 64 and 172 years old.

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Joe

11:23 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

yup. To show the platforms form now as I posted to then. Who is the racist party?

Steve

3:19 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Another Verbatim "Cut and Paste" from the Parrot. "SQUAWK!" At least give credit where credit is due.

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/04/the-dncs-bold-lies/print

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Joe

3:32 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Hey idiot, do you want me to re-type it instead? Don't you have some nooses to tie up and hang?

Why give credit when those as stupid as you can find the source?

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Honeygo Hal

4:26 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Yes - a chance to see how he looks as the Democrat to succeed Obama in 2016.

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Paul W. Ross

6:05 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Governor: "We are not better off than four years ago:. Oh, wait a minute, "we are far better off than we were four years ago". What an Idiot!

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Steve

6:06 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

That's not exactly what he said Pops but I think you already know that.

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Paul W. Ross

6:12 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I like being called "Pops" because I've been around long enough to have some real knowledge. On the other hand, I think I will start calling you Junior, because your comments show a total lack of knowing anything. Steve, it's time to change your dirty diaper.

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Steve

6:28 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Here is what the Governor actually said. It's far different than what you posted.

"Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley yesterday on CBS was asked if Americans are better off than they were four years ago. ”No, but that’s not the question of this election. The question, without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recession, the Bush deficits, the series of desert wars — charged for the first time to credit cards, the national credit card.”"

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FIFA_archived

6:57 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Ross, you might have knowledge, but you have zero wisdom. You are a fool, bought by the American Taliban, it is that simple.

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FIFA_archived

7:01 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

O'Malley's comment of "No",was stupid.

When one considers the 750,000 jobs per month being lost the day Obama took office and a Dow Jones that saw 6,800 six weeks later, to say we are not doing better now is absolutely ludicrous. A 13,000 Dow and job growth is obviously better than the day he was inaugurated.

Honeygo Hal

4:23 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

For those that have heard the question "Are You Better Off Than Four Years Ago?"
Your chance (or not) to vote for one who is:

http://news.yahoo.com/one-person-whos-better-off-under-president-obama-173017737.html

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Tillie Diesel

4:24 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I will vote republican against my best interest because I want to pretend I'm rich.
I will pay more in taxes so I can pretend I'm wealthy.
I will vote republican because I like to pretend I'm part of the 1%.
I will vote republican because winter is coming and I like Mittens.
I will vote republican because I hate females having the ability to think for themselves.
I will vote republican so we can enter into 2 more wars that we cannot pay for and lose more soldiers.

Obama in 2012!

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Sean Tully

8:22 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Anyone in the Arbutus area who votes for Romney needs their head examined. Arbutus was built on strong unions, strong government regulations, strong communities. The GOP is in favor of none of those.

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Tim

8:26 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

pretty good.

don't forget you'll vote Republican because you believe in religion, versus science.

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Sean Tully

8:29 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The GOPers amaze me. They don't believe that man can cause environmental changes due to pollution, etc., yet they believe that "signs of the end times" are all around in the guise of heat waves, floods, burning forest fires. Amazing.

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DARRELL HAMMERBACKER

8:34 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I thought his Kingship was going to close Gitmo bring the Troops home bring back 2 dollar gas cut unemployment walk on water and don't even say Bush was the problem when the Democrats and his Kingship had both House and Senate Majority in 06 07 08 09 when they started Gangbanging the Middle Class

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Sean Tully

8:50 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

DARRELL HAMMERBACKER said:

8:34 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I thought his Kingship was going to close Gitmo (do you think he should have?)

bring the Troops home (does Iraq ring any bells?)

bring back 2 dollar gas (link please?)

cut unemployment (he did)

walk on water (silly)

and don't even say Bush was the problem when the Democrats and his Kingship had both House and Senate Majority in 06 07 08 09 when they started Gangbanging the Middle Class (Bush was the problem.)

Anonymous

4:48 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

http://havredegrace.patch.com/articles/havre-de-grace-crime-drug-warrant-arrests-bike-stolen#comments_list
Please read the comments on this page about what happened to my friend. Her story will be sure to shock you.

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Sean Tully

8:21 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

And this has to do with the Democrats how?

Sean Tully

8:20 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I am so proud of Marland and the way this state has stayed true to the ideas of the Democratic party. We are among the bluest of blue states. We are even more blue than Mass. and PA. Great job, Maryland!

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JCT

11:37 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The democratic party in Maryland today is so bloated with competing interests that it's ideas are diluted to the point of being irrelevant. Your faith in being the bluest of the blue is nothing to brag about. This is my observation for the last 30 of the 55 years I have been a registered democrat.

DARRELL HAMMERBACKER

8:42 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Can't wait to watch OMalley's nose grow right in front of the World.Oh yea what did he say about thats not the Issue? Uh Unemployment,deficets?Wow he should know first hand.Maybe Cummings,Carden and Mikulski should give him some tips on how to Lie without fumbling so much.

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RARE MARYLAND INDEPENDENT

10:09 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I thought Obama had it locked up because let's face it, Romney is not that strong. But the more I watch Obama, he seems to have no interest in working. Regardless of his academic credentials, he does not seem to have the interest to understand what is going on. He struts around like he wants to host America's Got Talent. Presidents should not be giving "shout outs" or saying "he's in the house." The problem is those in his administration also seem to have no interest in working. Bush was just as bad - if not worse. It seems the more Democrats come on to explain their positions, Republicans surge. When Republicans come on to explain their positions, Democrats surge. Both sides would do better if they stayed away from the media as they both have no clue. It will not matter in Md, but will enough people burned by both Bush and Obama return to Romney or stay with Obama? As an American, I fear a second Obama term much more than Romney, but Romney also scares me. You don't make the kind of money Romney made in the business he was in without being ruthless. I don't think that is a quality we want in a President. The offshore accounts bother me more and more. It is not illegal, but if you have the sums of money he has and want to run for president, he could have gone so many other ways to invest and could use that as a selling point. Regret the Bush years, so many kids coming back with lost limbs and other problems - this needs to stop now. Third party for me.

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Parkvillehoney

11:55 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

@Rear, in the future a third party may be a factor. I have always believed a third party only helps Democrats. Last election, Ron Paul received a number of votes that may have went to John McCain. The majority of my family voted for Ron Paul. They said they would have voted for McCain but they liked Ron Paul's platform.

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Sean Tully

12:05 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

I would vote for a third party candidate that was against NAFTA and WTO trade agreements and had some kind of chance to win. I am not wasting my vote and having Mitt Romney win this election. I'd rather have the soft support of labor that the Dems provide then no support that comes with GOPers.

Joe

10:50 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Democrats won the House in the 2006 election. The unemployment rate for November 2006 was 4.5%. Democrats controlled both houses in 2007 until 2010.
The unemployment rate in November 2010 was 9.8% .
The Republicans took control of the House in 2011. November 2011 the unemployment rate was 8.7%. Today it is 8.3%.

Unemployment rate dropped through most of the year of 2006 from 4.7% to 4.4%.
As son as the Democrats and Pelosi took control in January 2007, the unemployment rate went from 4.6% to 5% that year then year ending rates of 7.3% 9.9%, 9.4% and 8.5% in 2011. The numbers speak for themselves.

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Sean Tully

11:14 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Joe said: "Unemployment rate dropped through most of the year of 2006 from 4.7% to 4.4%.
As son as the Democrats and Pelosi took control in January 2007, the unemployment rate went from 4.6% to 5% that year then year ending rates of 7.3% 9.9%, 9.4% and 8.5% in 2011. The numbers speak for themselves."

So, it is apparent Joe believes in alternative universes.

Joe

10:57 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

When Bush took office in 2001 the unemployment rate was 4.2%. It averaged around 5.5% for his 2 terms.
The unemployment numbers started to climb just after Obama was elected. From October to December of 2008 the rate went from 6.5% to 7.3%. It pretty much kept going up until the Democrats lost the House and then things started to calm down.
Job producers were afraid of Obama and his radical policies form election day 2008. Watch the economy kick off as soon a we know we will be saying President Romney.

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Joe

11:19 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Deny these numbers? Deny the dates?
If not then STFUAH!

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Sean Tully

11:36 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Joe, your numbers may or may not be right, but it is your conclusion that is dislocated from reality. For example, this sentence: "The unemployment numbers started to climb just after Obama was elected." The unemployment numbers were rising "just after Obama was elected" because the damage was done to the economy just before Obama was elected, by Bush.

I could go on from there, but I know in my heart it would be useless to even discuss this with you.

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Joe

7:52 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Fifi, it is far easier to make false empty claims than to actually dispute the numbers. The conclusions are open for debate but the dates and numbers are all accurate.
The numbers speak for themselves.
When you can show me any of the numbers or dates are wrong you will then have the opportunity to call me a liar. Until then you show yourself to be quite ignorant.

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Joe

7:55 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Discussing anything at all with someone so chock full of rabid rhetoric like you Sean is fruitless. Anyone who claims the GOP "want to impose American Sharia Law on the nation" is not playing with a full deck.

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Honeygo Hal

8:12 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Joe thinks that unemployment happened overnight in response to the election? So people were immediately fired, and companies just folded up shop? Methinks Joe is the one not playing with a full deck. Then again, perhaps his simple mind cannot handle complex issues like the time it takes for things to ripple through the economy. His world is much more one dimensional than the one I live in - maybe he should not venture out from it as much as he does.

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Tim

8:39 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Your numbers lack common sense context, and you know it. That unemployment number Bush inheirited was thanks to Clinton.

Reality: Bush's policies took a crap on the country and left Obama with the doggie bag. There's a reason you didn't see him at the RNC. It's not because he did such an amazing job.
Unless you consider it amazing that he destroyed everything Clinton left him. I guess in that sense, it is pretty amazing.

Want reality? The unemployment rate was around 10% in mid 2009. You know, the time when Obama had absolutely nothing to do with the problems from previous failures of management.

Today? it's down to 8.1 -8.3%. Jobs ARE being produced, unemployment - both U3 and U6, are dropping (although there's been a mild uptick the past two months of reporting).

It's one thing to believe that Republican president, or Republican management would produce MORE jobs then our current president and lower unemployment.
However, no conservative can ignore the fact that it was Republican leadership - yes, I said leadership - that brought us into this mess to begin with. Unless that conservative is just being wantonly ignorant of the truth.
Even IF we could look 10 years into the future and see that in fact Republican ideas would work better....that's a hard sell based on past evidence.

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Sean Tully

5:09 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Joe, the GOP says that they are against same-sex marriage because it is against "God's law". That sounds like Sharia Law to me.

Sean Tully

12:15 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Fox News is really concerned because the Democratic platform doesn't contain the word "God" in it. Unlike the GOP, the Demcrats don't want to impose American Sharia Law on the nation.

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Joe

9:12 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"O’Malley’s Not Working MD governor Martin O'Malley's tenure marred by job losses, population loss, scandals"
Martin O’Malley has been able to enact the Democratic Party’s dream economic policy, as Democrats control the Maryland legislature as well as the governor’s mansion. Under Governor O’Malley, Maryland has enacted more than 20 fee and tax raises and increased government spending in an effort to revive the economy.

The result has been 30,000 lost jobs since O’Malley’s inauguration in 2007—and 30,000 lost taxpayers, many of whom moved to escape higher taxes.

Unemployment sits at 7 percent, 1.8 percent higher than in Republican-controlled, nearby Virginia. The states typically have similar unemployment numbers, but this is the largest gap in 10 years. Despite higher taxes, Maryland has still faced fiscal challenges, with the legislature coming into a special session this May to raise taxes to close the deficit. Maryland’s Comptroller Peter Franchot, a Democrat, slammed this special session. He said in a letter, “My final objection to this strategy of resolving our fiscal challenges through tax increases … is that it simply won’t work. … We must also remember that Maryland’s fiscal well-being depends entirely on the strength of our economy, and that a true economic recovery cannot be achieved through state government spending, but rather, through meaningful private sector growth.”

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Joe

9:13 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"O’Malley’s alleged ethical lapses are as troubling as the economic woes facing his state.

Governor O’Malley secured $28 million for highway access to a business development in 2008 owned by a campaign donor. The donor was fined $55,000 for illegally funneling over $25,000 to O’Malley’s campaign through his company’s vice presidents.

Late last year O’Malley had to return the campaign donations given by a convicted tax evader. Instead of paying $3.9 million in taxes, O’Malley’s appointee to the state redistricting commission gave about $75,000 to Democratic candidates, including Barack Obama—and Martin O’Malley."

http://freebeacon.com/omalleys-not-working/

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Joe

9:16 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Obama Economy Leaves Women Behind
Unemployment rates of women, young women, and single women have all increased since O took office"
"A recent Pew report found that women are the only demographic group for which employment growth fell short of population growth between 2009-2011, and have consistently lagged behind men.

“By this yardstick, the economic recovery has proceeded in opposite directions for men and women,” Rakesh Kochhar, the report’s author, told the Hill.

“Where have all the women’s jobs gone?” CNN asked in April 2012, noting that the “mancession”—during which men lost twice as many jobs as women—has since turned into the “hecovery,” during which men have gained back four times as many jobs.

Even strong Obama backers concede that women are struggling. “Though we are seeing some recovery, we have not seen it in a recovery of jobs for women,” Heather Boushey, a senior economist at the left-wing Center For American Progress, told CNN."
http://freebeacon.com/obama-economy-has-left-women-behind/

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Joe

9:16 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Democrats have cited Republican opposition to legislation such as the “Paycheck Fairness Act,” which would make it easier for trial attorneys—an industry that gives overwhelmingly to Democrats—to file class action lawsuits and reap lucrative fees, as evidence that the GOP is waging a “war on women.”

Such accusations are “insulting” to women, Schaeffer said.

“The idea that there is a war on women is, in my view, simply a way of demonizing anyone who questions big government policies,” she told the Free Beacon. “It’s an inherently sexist idea, and belittling of women by positioning them as victims in need of special treatment.”

That tendency to characterize women as helpless drones, Schaeffer said, is epitomized by the Obama campaign’s “Julia” project, a website that documents the fictional life of a woman from birth to death, noting the myriad ways in which President Obama has personally helped her along the way.

Obama’s personal attitudes towards women in his administration have been well documented, and the evidence does not reflect positively on the president.

Ron Suskind, author of Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, quoted former White House communications director Anita Dunn as saying the Obama White House “actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”"

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Joe

9:25 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Just 47 percent of registered voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll see Obama favorably overall, down 7 percentage points from his recent peak in April, while 49 percent rate him unfavorably. He’s numerically underwater in this group for the first time since February. #####3The decline has occurred entirely among women registered voters#### – from 57-39 percent favorable-unfavorable in April to a numerically negative 46-50 percent now. That’s Obama’s lowest score among women voters – a focus of recent political positioning – in ABC/Post polls since he took office. Unusually, his rating among men, 50-47 percent favorable-unfavorable, is numerically better than it is among women, albeit not by a significant margin.

The result is not the only sign of the work ahead for Obama among women. In a separate ABC/Post poll last week, he led Romney among women registered voters in vote preference by just 6 points, 49-43 percent. In 2008, Obama won women by 13 points, 56-43 percent."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/obamas-popularity-dips-underwater-for-romney-a-faint-favorability-bounce/

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Joe

9:32 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultzbot caught in another blatent lie on national television. And SHE is the head of the Lying Party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VVEpKQHs6Ac#!

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Honeygo Hal

10:55 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

I'm not going to defend the chair of the DNC, but I would note that her use of the word "dangerous" was appropriate.

As an analogy, it is "dangerous" to drive on a road covered with a sheet of solid ice. It turns into "bad" if you lose control and crash into something. Like it or not, most politicians (on bothe sides) are very skilled in using suggestive wording (weasel words?) to make their point. Also a skill ascribed to many lawyers.

Joe

9:33 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"John Sununu: “The President Is Right. He Gets an Incomplete Because He’s Failing” (Video)"
"“Lanny, this president when they asked him what his grade was said “incomplete.” I used to teach at Tufts. The students who came in and asked for incomplete knew that they hadn’t done anything all term. The ones that failed in their responsibilities. The ones who didn’t deliver what they were expected to deliver. In that respect the president’s right. He gets an incomplete because he’s a failure.”"
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/09/sununu-the-president-is-right-he-gets-an-incomplete-because-hes-failing-video/

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Honeygo Hal

10:44 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Of all the Romney surrogates, John Sununu is the most outrageous and the least credible. Just another World Wide Windbag.

FIFA_archived

10:09 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Joey is lying and a distorter. Let alone part of the American Taliban.

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Tim

10:10 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Can't go with the last part, but he's definitely distorting reality to suit his own delusions.

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Honeygo Hal

10:49 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

I don't know about the American Taliban, but it seems that Joe has become a rapid-fire cut-and-paster. He must have an app to help him do that, or help from Glenn Beck telling him what he should repost (and what he therefore believes).

He also hasn't learned that just because it's on the Internet, that doesn't make it fact - only the repubs follow that creed.

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FIFA_archived

10:54 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Not only that but his continual references to pedophilia have me thinking he is a pedophile as well.

He has no original thought or opinion, just cut and pastes copyrighted material.

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Joe

10:55 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

And honey pot gal seems to always attack the poster and never says anything about the post. Too ignorant to do so honey pot gal?

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Honeygo Hal

11:23 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Joeblob, Joeblob - Nothing beats a Joeblob.

You cut & paste, and cut & paste, and I can certainly read those things someplace else. How about assimilating some of that and responding on your own? Was that word too big for you? It seems to me that all you are doing is creating posts with your name on them - why, so you can print them, cut them out, and make wallpaper out of them? Most folks know the sticky mess that results from a Joeblob can be used to replace wallpaper paste.

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FIFA_archived

2:27 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

We need to give Lil' Joey his favorite toy, some balloons.

Joe

10:14 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Point the distortions out in the posts I didn't write. I'll wait.........

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FIFA_archived

10:36 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Joey, your obvious silly distortion is that Obama gets elected causes unemployment to go up, and Republicans get elected causes unemployment to go down.

Just false, it is a lie, and you know it. Your comments waste my time as does your copying of copyrighted material from other websites. You preach to your choir and you are part of the American Taliban.

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Joe

10:50 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Fifi, the NAMBLA member with little ones locked in his basement waiting for their turn.
Your conclusions are your to make and mine are mine to make,. The numbers and dates are accurate.

Now go molest some of your children.

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FIFA_archived

10:52 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Joey, are you a pedophile? Sound like one.

Joe

10:29 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Rivlin: Obama doesn't understand realities of the Mideast
Knesset speaker says Democrats' removal of Jerusalem as Israel's capital from platform is a bigger problem than disagreements on Iran, may have far-reaching consequences; Ariel: Obama's true face is revealed.

US President Barack Obama's administration does not understand the realities of the Middle East, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Wednesday, amid ongoing speculation of a rift in US-Israel relations.

"The fact that the Democrats removed a united Jerusalem as Israel's capital from their platform is more worrying than the argument over Iran," Rivlin told The Jerusalem Post. "The change may have far-reaching consequences. According to Rivlin, anyone who thinks that dividing Jerusalem will bring peace is mistaken, and does not understand the Middle East. "A united Jerusalem will help bring peace and stability," he stated.

The Knesset Speaker added that "rumors of a rift between Israel and the US are wrong," and that the two countries have a "sharp, unambiguous understanding" on Iran, whose nuclear ambitions threaten not only Israel, but the whole free world.

Uri Ariel (National Union), chairman of the Knesset Caucus for Jerusalem, said Wednesday that "finally, Obama's true face is revealed."

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=283920

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John T.

10:29 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Obama told us that after he spends approximately 1 trillion dollars (with a "T") that unemployment would get down to under 8%. Has not happened, and for that I hold him responsible because that was his policy and he owns it.

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FIFA_archived

10:43 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

If economists were good at forecasting they would all be billionaires. You get advice, you either follow it or you don't. Everyone knows that the government spending money boosts an economy, simple economics, clearly it did not boost it enough. But when you go from losing 750,000 jobs a month (that is a rate of 9 million a year with a big M) on the day you take a job and within a year the bleeding has stopped, you have accomplished something, just maybe?

PS nearly 50% of the 1 T as you call it was tax cuts.

M. Sullivan

10:34 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

I watched about 2 minutes of O'Malley's speech until I couldn't stand any more. He was certainly perky, wasn't he! I Guess he was trying to make up for his earlier screwup. He kind of reminds me of Sheldon on the show "Big Bang Theory", the consummate know-it-all who gets hyper excited when he starts telling you what he thinks is good for you. Even looks a little like him!

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Joe

10:42 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

CNN Fact Check: About those 4.5 million jobs ...
"Anyone watching the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night heard the number 4.5 million several times.

The facts:

The number Castro cites is an accurate description of the growth of private-sector jobs since January 2010, when the long, steep slide in employment finally hit bottom. But while a total of 4.5 million jobs sounds great, it's not the whole picture.
Watch full speech of Julian Castro
Photos: Best of the DNC Photos: Best of the DNC

Nonfarm private payrolls hit a post-recession low of 106.8 million that month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figure currently stands at 111.3 million as of July.

While that is indeed a gain of 4.5 million, it's only a net gain of 300,000 over the course of the Obama administration to date. The private jobs figure stood at 111 million in January 2009, the month Obama took office.

And total nonfarm payrolls, including government workers, are down from 133.6 million workers at the beginning of 2009 to 133.2 million in July 2012. There's been a net loss of nearly 1 million public-sector jobs since Obama took office, despite a surge in temporary hiring for the 2010 census."

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Joe

10:42 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Meanwhile, the jobs that have come back aren't the same ones that were lost.

According to a study released last week by the liberal-leaning National Employment Law Project, low-wage fields such as retail sales and food service are adding jobs nearly three times as fast as higher-paid occupations.

Conclusion:

The figure of 4.5 million jobs is accurate if you look at the most favorable period and category for the administration. But overall, there are still fewer people working now than when Obama took office at the height of the recession."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/05/politics/fact-check-obama-jobs/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

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FIFA_archived

10:48 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Another Joey distortion, do you really think people are that stupid?

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Joe

10:54 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Since I didn't write it I have not distorted anything you lying child molester.

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Joe

11:46 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Fifi, an intellectual lightweight with nothing but slander and slurs.

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FIFA_archived

11:57 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Joey, did you stop sleeping with that horse yet?

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Joe

12:01 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Why are you calling your wife a horse?

Joe

10:44 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Some Obama programs embellished by Democrats "
"HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: "Instead of sending your checks to your insurance companies, your insurance companies are sending a check to you. ...If you already have health insurance you like, you can keep it."

THE FACTS: Under the new health care law, insurers must issue rebates if they fail to spend at least 80 percent of premiums - Sebelius incorrectly said 50 percent - collected on medical care and quality improvement. But mostly it's the employer, not the worker, who gets the check.

The Obama administration says that about 13 million people will benefit from health insurance rebates averaging $151 per household. But the number of families actually getting a check will be much smaller, experts say.

For one thing, employers can plow all the rebate money - including the worker's share - back into improving the company's health plan. For example, they could reduce the premium for the following year.

Employers typically pay 82 percent of the premium for a worker, and 72 percent for a family plan.

Most workers and their families are covered by job-based health insurance, and the new law does not stop employers from changing their plans from year to year, as they do now."

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Joe

10:44 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"CHICAGO MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL: "I remember when the president received a report that the auto industry had a few weeks before collapse... And because (he) made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today."
THE FACTS: Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff at the time, makes it sound like Obama was the one who saved General Motors and Chrysler. (Ford never applied for federal help). But, actually, the auto bailout program was started by President Bush, then extended and expanded by Obama."

REID: "We learned he chose Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island tax shelters over American institutions."

FORMER OHIO GOV. TED STRICKLAND: "Mitt Romney has so little economic patriotism that even his money needs a passport. It summers on the beaches of the Cayman Islands and winters on the slopes of the Swiss Alps."

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Joe

10:45 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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WOMEN'S EQUALITY ACTIVIST LILY LEDBETTER: "...doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars."
THE FACTS: These are references to a $3 million account that Mitt Romney held for several years in a bank in Switzerland and investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. A trustee handling Romney's blind trust said that the Swiss account was active from 2003 until it was closed in 2010. The trustee said the account had been opened for "diversification." Romney still has active investment funds based in the Caymans, Bermuda, Luxembourg, Ireland and other foreign sites."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CVN_DEMOCRATS_FACT_CHECK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-04-23-35-49

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FIFA_archived

10:51 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

“You can always tell the blind trust what it can and cannot do,” Romney had said. “You can give a blind trust rules.”

Like as if he has no control. The sole reason for Swiss Bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts is tax avoidance/evasion.

Joe

10:52 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

FIFI you lie and molest children for fun times!

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Joe

10:58 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Breaking: DNC Moves Obama Speech From 75,000 Seat Stadium to 15,000 Seat Arena.

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Honeygo Hal

2:03 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Earth to Joeblob - there is a waiting list for tickets to the stadium, so the change is not about low turnout. Whatcha got to cut & paste now?

Joe

11:00 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Stupak: HHS Mandate Violates My Obamacare Compromise"
"Former Congressman Bart Stupak admits a compromise he made with Barack Obama to pass the Affordable Care Act is invalidated by HHS's controversial mandate for taxpayer-funded contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs.

Today Breeanne Howe of RedState and I attended a Democrats For Life panel during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. An attendee stood up and asked Bart Stupak and a panel of pro-life if the HHS contraception mandate has put them in a difficult position.

Stupak responded, “I am perplexed and disappointed that, having negotiated the Executive Order with the President, not only does the HHS mandate violate the Executive Order but it also violates statutory law.”"
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Stupak-President-Played-Me-with-Obamacare-Deal

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Steve

11:14 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

LOL More "Cut and Paste' from the Parrot. At least now he post's a link instead of trying to pass it off as his own.

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Joe

11:57 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"
Numbers Never Lie
Dana Bash reports OFA distributed 65,000 tickets while graphic shows stadium capacity at 73,298 seats.."
"The Obama campaign announced Wednesday that President Obama will speak Thursday at Time Warner Cable Arena, downsizing from Bank of America Stadium.

The campaign claims the change was due to concerns over threats of thunder and lighting.

According to the Weather Channel, there is a 20 percent chance of precipitation during President Obama’s speech. In 2008, the campaign proudly promoted speeches of Obama speaking to crowds in rain storms.

The new venue holds around 20,000, while the Bank of America Stadium holds more than 73,000. Campaign officials told Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein that there was no doubt they were going to fill Bank of America Stadium; the campaign claimed to have a wait list of 19,000 people. The campaign has said 65,000 were set to attend the speech.

According to the Sandy Springs Patch, the Obama campaign was still giving away tickets to the speech as late as Sept. 2, just four days before the event. North Carolina field offices were handing out tickets to the speech just last week.

It is unclear if the people who got tickets four days ago were part of the 65,000 or the wait list."
http://freebeacon.com/numbers-never-lie/

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Joe

11:59 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

S.C. Dem. Chair Compares GOP Gov. to Hitler's Mistress.
"South Carolina's the State reports:

S.C. Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian, never a loss for a quick quip, tossed a few stinging one-liners at the Wednesday delegation breakfast.

On Gov. Nikki Haley participating in daily news briefings in a basement studio at the NASCAR Hall of Fame: “She was down in the bunker a la Eva Braun.”

Braun, along with her lover Adolf Hitler, committed suicide in a bunker as World War II was coming to an end.

The comparisons of Nazis and Hitler to the Republicans seems to be an emerging theme from this Democratic convention. Yesterday, a top Democratic delegate from Kansas compared Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to Hitler. The day before, a Democratic delegate from California compared Ryan to Nazi Joseph Goebbels."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/sc-dem-chair-compares-gop-gov-hitlers-mistress_651728.html

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Joe

12:01 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Both are Narcissists in Chief!
"Michelle Says “I” or “Me” 83 times

In her address to the Democratic Convention Tuesday evening, First Lady Michelle Obama used the words “I” or “me” 83 times, an average of more than three self-references a minute during her 25 minute speech.

The emphasis on herself is of note not only because of the strikingly personal nature of the speech, but because of the remarkable suggestion by the first lady that her political views and those of her husband arise much from their own experiences than a reasoned assessment of policies and facts.

Time and again in her remarks, Michelle cites examples from her life and President Obama’s that lead to policies they have tried to implement during his presidency."
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/09/05/michelle-83-times/

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FIFA_archived

12:01 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Does lil' Joey have crayons to go with his scissors and glue?

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Joe

12:14 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

DWS Caught in Web of Lies.
"As DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Ambassador-gate scandal deepened last night, political observers were left wondering how someone who lies so frequently could be so bad at it.

The DNC chair appeared on Fox News to defend her claim that the Israeli ambassador to the United States said Republicans are “dangerous for Israel.” Earlier, the ambassador had rebuked her by releasing an unusual statement—ambassadors stay out of domestic politics unless they’ve been dragged into them by unscrupulous politicians—”categorically denying” having said any such thing.

Instead of clarifying or backing down from her remarks, DWS doubled down, choosing to smear the person who originally reported her words as a liar.

“I didn’t say he said that,” she contended. “And unfortunately, that comment was reported by a conservative newspaper. It’s not surprising they would deliberately misquote me.”

What she must be surprised to learn today is that reporters carry tape recorders, and the reporter she accuses of “deliberately” misquoting her—the Washington Examiner‘s Phil Klein—had her entire speech on tape. So he has posted the audio, proving that his quote was flawlessly faithful to her words."

http://freebeacon.com/dws-caught-in-web-of-lies/

Obama's entire single term is based on lies distortions and coverups and fraud.

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Honeygo Hal

2:11 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Joeblob, they have services that do what you're doing - they're called clip services. They will find items in the media on subjects that you are interested in, cut them out, and send them to you. You are doing such a good job at it while not adding anything of your own, you should start one yourself. Suffice it to say I don't think The Patch is a repository for that sort of thing - just sayin'.

OBTW, the one above would qualify as the second cut & paste you've done on this topic. Why don't you try to read them and develop your own perspective - if that is possible - or just continue to let Rush, Glenn, and Faux News tell you what you think.

Joe

12:36 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Obama is God to some.

"While introducing President Obama in June, Mayor Rahm Emanuel joked to Chicago Democrats that when Obama is in town the weather improves.

“The president arrives, the rain stops, the sun comes out.” Emanuel said. “Coincidence? I think not.”

Emanuel added that last time the president visited, the “it was 71 degrees and beautiful.”

“He arrives, the sun comes out, and things are beautiful again.” Emanuel concluded."

He said he would stop the oceans form rising and heal the planet. What happened?

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David Taylor

12:43 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Who wants to read these pointless echo-chamber debates among these 6 weird guys here??? Not me... you folks need to get real and get some mental help with your issues... wow.

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Joe

12:52 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

DEMOCRATS DISENFRANCHISE THE MILITARY VOTERS

"Pentagon fails to comply with law to help overseas soldiers vote, watchdog says
The military services haven't created offices on all overseas bases to help soldiers cast their ballots, citing money shortages

With another election lurking around the corner, the Pentagon is getting a bad review for its efforts to comply with a new law designed to make it easier for overseas military personnel to cast their ballots.

The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act was passed by Congress in 2009 and signed into law by President Barack Obama and was supposed to make it easier for both soldiers deployed overseas and U.S. citizens living abroad to cast ballots back in their home states.

One of the key provisions required each military branch to create an installation voting assistance office (IVAO) for every military base outside an immediate combat zone.

But the Pentagon’s inspector general, the military’s internal watchdog, reported Tuesday it got a disappointing result when it tried to locate such voting assistance offices on each installation earlier this year.

“Results were clear. Our attempts to contact IVAOs failed about 50 percent of the time,” the inspector general reported. “We concluded the Services had not established all the IVAOs as intended by the MOVE Act because, among other issues, the funding was not available.”"
http://www.washingtonguardian.com/ballot-buck-passing

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Joe

2:23 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"GAO: Obama Admin. Did Change Work Requirements In Welfare Law
On the eve of Bill Clinton’s address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday confirmed that President Barack Obama did in fact change the rules in Bill Clinton’s landmark Welfare Reform Act despite the Obama administration's claims to the contrary.
The GAO said the Obama administration should give Congress an opportunity to block the tweaks it made to the law.

"It must be submitted to Congress and the comptroller general before taking effect," GAO general counsel Lynn H. Gibson wrote to lawmakers on Tuesday.

In July, the Obama administration gutted the work requirements in the welfare law by giving states more latitude to get waivers for the work requirements or define “work” in a way that would allow those on welfare to receive benefits while doing things like going to fitness classes, which states could define as "work."
"This analysis is unequivocal that any changes must be submitted to Congress," Hatch said. "Circumventing Congress, as this White House has done, is a flagrant abuse of our system of checks and balances and an insult to American taxpayers.”

THE Imperial President.

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Joe

2:26 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Of course, this comes amid what had been building concern over whether the Democrats would be able to fill the large stadium. Convention staff had recently been aggressively offering tickets to anyone. There were also plans to bus in thousands of supporters from neighboring states to ensure a full stadium. Fortunately, the Democrats won't have to worry about that now.

Democrats had months ago taken the unprecedented step of canceling the first day of the convention, mostly due to problems with fundraising. A giant celebration at the massive Nascar track in town was also scrapped, replaced by a quaint "street-festival."

2012 is looking increasingly like the year of diminishing returns for Democrats."

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Steve

2:41 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Michelle Obama's speech was awesome. She looked pretty smashing too. She made Antoinette Rmoney look like chopped liver.

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Paul W. Ross

5:30 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Such comments about the families of those running for President shows a total lack of class.

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Steve

5:42 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Ha Ha Ha Try again Gramps.

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Paul W. Ross

5:50 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Junior, you show your utter desperation when you have to talk about Romney's hair, face and such stupid crap. You are a perfect example of a low life. Those lumps in your diaper are growing and we can smell them right through the internet.

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Paul W. Ross

5:56 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Junior, don't forget to read the Huffington Post story that I linked. Just "smashing"

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Steve

6:10 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

I am not the one wearing the diaper Pops.

I think it is important for a person running for POTUS not to take orders from imaginary planets. (or wear MAgic Underpants for that matter)

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Paul W. Ross

6:22 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Junior, you need to put the diaper over your mouth, for that's where the excrement is coming from. Keep trying though, it shows everyone how desperate and totally inept you are.

Joe

2:56 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"DNC 2012 Video: “The Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To”"
Liberals now are making Lincoln roll over in his grave.

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

What a difference in a true American and a fraudulent American.
Well Abe, if we continue it will have perished from this Earth.

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Joe

2:58 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Obama and the Progressives platform remove not only God but the government OF the people. According to the Progressives, we are all nothing but subjects of the government.
Thank you Mr Lincoln for all you dis, but it may all be in vain.

Steve

3:10 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

I think if people really wanted to know what Bret Fart had to say they would go to their website not depend on you mangled regurgitations.

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Honeygo Hal

3:20 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

(psssst - Steve. Don't - it only encourages him...)

Joe

3:26 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Obama helped the housing meltdown which led to his recession.

Obama: Giving loans to people that cant afford them A good Idea!

"Obama's own word about how giving loans out to people that cant afford it is a good idea.. "

"Obama Sued Citibank Under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans – UPDATED"

"Congressional Report: ACORN/SEIU a Criminal Conspiracy – Connected to White House – Played roll on mortgage collapse! UPDATE: Obama lies on camera about ACORN affiliation."
http://web.archive.org/web/20010308083915/nbcin.nbc5.com/tvsd/inside/news/PixOfWeek/PixWk1_03_00.shtml

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=431_1314157066

http://iusbvision.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/obama-sued-citibank-under-cra-to-force-it-to-make-bad-loans/

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Joe

3:27 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"In 1994, Barack Obama was one of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit, alleging that Citibank had engaged in practices that discriminated against minorities. The lawsuit forced the bank to ease its lending practices.
The Daily Caller reported:

President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186 African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices…

…Obama has pursued the same top-down mortgage lending policies in the White House.

Obama’s lawsuit was one element of a national “anti-redlining” campaign led by Chicago’s progressive groups, who argued that banks unfairly refused to lend money to people living within so-called “redlines” around African-American communities. The campaign was powered by progressives’ moral claim that their expertise could boost home ownership among the United States’ most disadvantaged minority, African-Americans."

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Joe

3:27 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

" Then there’s Bush…
On the flip side, President George W. Bush warned the Democratic Congress 17 times in 2008 alone about the systemic consequences of financial turmoil at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and also put forward thoughtful plans to reduce the risk that either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac would encounter such difficulties.

Unfortunately, these warnings went unheeded, as the President’s repeated attempts to reform the supervision of these entities were thwarted by the legislative maneuvering of those who emphatically denied there were problems.

To this day Barack Obama blames Bush for the 2008 economic meltdown.
The truth is, it was Obama not Bush who destroyed the economy."

Joe

3:37 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

President Repeato Obamo recycling his 2008 speech for 2012. Same old whine, different day.
Fool em once, shame on them, fool em twice, they are pure inbred idiots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fZgQhnNRSuw

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Joe

5:55 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

God AND Jerusalem are back into the Democrat Platform after so much noise from those in the Democrat party and thanks to Brett Baier questioning Rep Dick Turban from Illinois.
Even thought he floor vote of delegates clearly showed they STILL wanted to keep God out of it. The chair then took another vote and it was again clear that God had no place in the Democrat platform. But the Chair said he heard 2/3 want to put him back and viola! Magic elections like they how for in 11-2.

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Sean Tully

6:50 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

The GOP and God are tight, aren't they Joe? (Sharia Law, my man, Sharia Law.)

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Joe

7:13 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

See the "vote" Sean. Is that an example of "voter fraud"?

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Paul W. Ross

7:05 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

The camera shot of the teleprompter showed that it was all prearranged. Phoney to the max.

Joe

5:57 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

correction before the language nazis whine "like they hope for...."

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Sean Tully

6:49 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Just how screwed up is America? The Dems are bringing in one of the major authors of our current economic condition (Bill Clinton, who I blame almost as much as George W. Bush for our current econony) to try and convince us to vote for perhaps the greatest modern president this country has had (yes, that would be Obama).

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Joe

7:01 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"the greatest modern president "
Of course he is if modern means since 2008.

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Joe

7:02 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Sean, see Mayor Villigrossa dictate his own vote as they do in the democrat way.

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Sean Tully

12:45 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joe, the only modern president that has accomplished more than Obama is FDR, so he is actually our greatest modern president. Obama is probably second. LBJ got a lot done but Viet Nam will always be a ball and chain around his legacy. Obama has no Viet Nam.

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Joe

8:34 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Obama has Afghanistan where his radical ROE are allowing the trainees to murder the trainers.

Joe

6:52 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

THIS is the Obama Progressive America. Watch and defend it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cncbOEoQbOg

Oh, for you rabid libs, the source is youtube so he is a good rich guy.

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Joe

6:55 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"In the opinion of the....let me do that again."

Give me 4 more years...

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Joe

6:56 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Villigrossa is a corrupt dictator as his home country is used to.

Joe

8:33 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

All we hear form Sean and Steve and the other Hopium smokers on O'Malley's speech and the voter fraud perpetrated on the DNC Delegates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg

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Joe

8:42 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"DNC's Wasserman Schultz, Gaspard cancel interviews amid platform debacle"
"Democratic National Committee chiefs Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Patrick Gaspard cancelled interviews with local media outlets tonight, amid controversy surrounding the party's decision to reintroduce "God" and "Jerusalem" to the platform.

Jon Ralston, host of the Las Vegas-based "Face To Face" news program, told POLITICO that he was sitting in the chair waiting for a 2:45 p.m. PT (5:45 p.m. ET) interview with Gaspard when he was told that his guest had cancelled, without explanation.

Blair Miller of WSOC TV, ABC's Charlotte, N.C., affiliate, also tweeted that Wasserman Schultz cancelled her interview with him, without explanation. "After my Romney intv today, we were planning to interview @DWSTweets live," he wrote. "However, she did not show up. Her staff not answering calls."

DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse did not respond to a request for comment regarding the cancellations, which came after reports that the party had put "God" back on the platform and affirmed Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Wasserman Schultz went on CNN tonight and denied reports of “discord” with the White House over the party’s decision to include the terms, claiming the party had "a two-thirds vote" on the issue."

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Joe

8:43 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"”Did you really think that it was two-thirds? It seemed like a lot of people felt like it wasn’t quite there,” CNN's Brianna Keilar asked.

“It was absolutely a two-thirds,” Wasserman Schultz said.

After the interview, CNN host Anderson Cooper said Wasserman Schultz's version of events was "an alternate reality."

"From a reality standpoint," he said, "to say flat-out, there was no discord, is just not true."

UPDATE (10:09 p.m.): Regarding the cancelled interviews, a DNC official emails:

At the time these interviews were scheduled, the DNC Chair and Patrick Gaspard were implementing the President’s directed changes to the platform and were unable to make the interviews. We are working to reschedule both interviews."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/09/dncers-scrap-interviews-amid-platform-debacle-134624.html#.UEfyca1axzU.twitter

RUN RUN RUN like the Democrat Senators in Wisconsin ran to Illinois when confronted by hard choices.

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Joe

8:45 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

DWS is a bot programed to say anything regardless of what others hear and see with their own eyes and ears. She lies as easily as Obama puts on his golf shoes.

Joe

8:45 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Anderson Cooper's reaction to @DWStweets' CNN performance: "That's an alternate universe."

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Tim

8:55 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Bill Clinton didn't just hit a home run last night - he hit a grand slam. I know conservative blogs agree, the best Drudge Report could come up with for a headline was "they booed adding God to the program"

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Tim

8:57 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"The Republican argument against Obama is basically this:
We left him a total mess, and he didn't clean it up fast enough"

I lol'd.

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Joe

9:03 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Why no comment on the blatant voter fraud and dictatorship on that vote Tim?

The GOP has a war on women and the Dems put up a One Man Woman Molester Machine and admitted serial adulterer. "Kiss it sweety, kiss it."
Have a flavored cigar Tim, courtesy of Bill and Monica.

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Tim

9:56 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joe: Maybe if you stopped spamming dozens of articles, instead of coming up with your own conherent, rational arguments, I might pay attention?

The sheer fact you have to resort to personal arguments against Clinton's arguments shows exactly the quality of your arguments. When you have nothing, you throw molotov cocktails. Just like some of the liberal idiots on here as well.

At whatever point I find you intellectually worth my time, I'll get back to disproving your biased and irrational commentary.

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Joe

3:37 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

OMG Tim. If I post my thoughts you call me names. If I post nationally reported stories you call me names. If I do not meet your posting standards you will call me names.
I apparently overwhelm you with the negative stories you never read on your favorite sites or see on your favorite news shows. TFB !

Joe

9:07 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"There are all sorts of strange excuses for being a child pornography buff, but sometimes the excuse just isn’t good enough and you have to ‘fess up.

Albert Abrams, the former Los Angeles City Commissioner who was appointed by Antonio Villaraigosa, was charged with possessing child pornography one year ago and initially blamed it on having a split personality. Not content with that as enough of a plausible explanation, Abrams elaborated that he had the split personality because of a tumor on his spine.

The FBI had raided his Tarzana home, finding hundreds of images of child pornography on his computer. He was arrested in February and pleaded not guilty.

Now Abrams has signed a plea agreement, pleading guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography. Abrams is scheduled to stand before a federal judge this Friday. He may be sentenced to from five to more than eight years in prison.

As Arnold Schwarzenegger said in Kindergarten Cop, “It’s not a tumor.”

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volunteer mom

9:08 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I still will never forget when Clinton was president and he addressed the nation, repeatedly waving his finger at the camera and said he did not have sex with Monica Lewinski. Again last night he addresses the nation, staring in the camera, waving the same finger and lying once again!! Everyone knows how he feels about Obama, as he has stated for the past three years, so why lie?? All about the politics and his wifes future!!!

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Joe

9:10 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

And people still beLIEve the words spewing forth from his pie hole.

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John T.

9:32 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

My son and I watched the speech last night and my son compared his fingers to that of ET in the movie. But these guys will do and say anything. The entire time he was speaking, I kept wondering how much was the payoff for his speaking for Obama? He had to be getting something.

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Honeygo Hal

12:21 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

volunteer mom - whether you know it or not, Romney & Ryan are waving a different finger at the American people...

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volunteer mom

3:24 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Yes I believe Romney is waving his thumbs up to the American people and Obama is waving his middle finger while he is destroying the American people!! Clinton just uses his pointer to reassure us of his lies!

Joe

9:09 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"A few years ago this man would be carrying our bags."
"A few years ago this man would be getting our coffee."
William Jefferson Clinton talking about Barack Hussein Obama.

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Joe

9:18 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

More wonderful Democrats speak out.
"Anti-Christian Hate Speech Spews From The Palm Beach Dem Chair"
"Democrats returned the words “God” and “Jersusalem” to their DNC platform on Wednesday afternoon. The vote was controversial and actually booed by many in the hall.

Shortly after that content change, Mark Alan Siegel, the Palm Beach County Democrat Chairman spoke with Scottie Hughes of Patriot TV and made some rather pointed and anti-Christian statements. Mr. Siegel was wearing a “Jews for Obama” pin. Ms. Hughes spotted the pin and asked the chairman about his support for Obama despite the administration’s record with Israel.

Here are a couple of the offensive comments made by the Palm Beach Democratic Chairman:

“I’m Jewish, I’m not a fan of any other religion than Judaism.”

“The worst possible allies for the Jewish state are the fundamentalist Christians who want Jews to die and convert so they can bring on the second coming of their Lord.”"

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Buck Harmon

9:23 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Here's the deal...both Democrats and republicans have played an equal role in screwing our Country into the ground.
The vast majority of Americans are dumbed to apathy, and remain in the realm of not really caring about what goes on in the corrupt political arena....corruption fuels apathy.It's all a blur to the majority and both parties seem to prefer it that way.
Our Country needs to completely bottom out, much like a drug addict has to before any degree of recovery can begin.
Once we have successfully achieved the point of rock bottom the masses will begin to wake up and pay attention....problem is, both parties fear this and will continue to project false information about perceived recovery. If either party were capable of leading our country properly, we would never have fallen to this point.
A vote for either of these candidates will only prolong the agony and continue to perpetuate the American illusion...straight or phillips?...that is the question...

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Buck Harmon

9:25 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

We currently live in a Humpty Dumpty country....

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Tim

9:53 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Exactly. Europe is bottoming out now. Thing is, I don't honestly believe our country will.

It just really bums me out when neither party has the will to do what's actually needed to save this country fiscally. It starts, by working together on the 3 R's I've mentioned before:
- Revenue generation: Via tax increases and investigation into new income sources - legalizing marijuana and dealing with it much like alcohol comes to mind.

- Reduction in spending and federal government size (both domestic and military)
- Reform of the tax code to something much simpler. way less exemptions for all. I'm not against a progressive tax scale, but all these exemptions have to go both corporate and personal.

Joe

9:36 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Bill Clinton: Obama Played Race Card On Me"
"ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: Bill Clinton accused Barack Obama’s campaign of "playing the race card on me" and told a Philadelphia radio station that the Obama campaign took his Jesse Jackson comment and "twisted it for political purposes."

And as the interview concluded, Clinton turned to an associate and said, "I don’t think I should take any s–t from anybody on that, do you?"
"No, no, no, that’s not what I said," Clinton told a reporter who asked about the radio comments, "You always follow me around and play these little games. And I am not going to play your games today. This is a day about election day, go back and see what the question was and what my answer was. You have mischaracterized it just to get a another cheap story to divert the American people from the real urgent issues before us, and I choose not to play your game today.""
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4703716

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Joe

10:09 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"
Jarrett, Axe Say Obama Didn’t Know About Jerusalem Exclusion
Obama campaign first says president saw platform before convention, then changes positions, says he didn't.
Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod and White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Thursday that President Obama was unaware of the removal of language declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel from the Democratic Party platform until Wednesday.

ROSE: Why was it necessary for the president to have to make a phone call to change what the platform said about Jerusalem?

JARRETT: He just thought it was important to put back in the platform Jerusalem being the capital, and so he put it back in.

ROSE: He didn’t know it was not in?

JARRETT: He was not –

AXELROD: Charlie, he was counting on others — he has some other duties and responsibilities and so when he learned that — what had been in the platform had been taken out, he said put it back in.

ROSE: He learned yesterday?

AXELROD: Yes.

The Obama campaign first said Wednesday evening that the president had seen the language before the convention.

An Obama campaign source told Politico that “Obama had seen the language prior to the convention,” but that he “did not seek to change it until after Republicans jumped on the omissions of God and Jerusalem.”

But the campaign later revised that position to Politico, and said Obama did not hear of the omission until Wednesday morning."

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Joe

10:14 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"I wanted to alert you to this investigative piece in The Daily Caller that shows a possible correlation between a Justice Department lawsuit against Gallup and the failure of Gallup to come up with poll numbers satisfactory to the White House.

From the piece:

Internal emails between senior officials at The Gallup Organization, obtained by The Daily Caller, show senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod attempting to subtly intimidate the respected polling firm when its numbers were unfavorable to the president.

After Gallup declined to change its polling methodology, Obama’s Department of Justice hit it with an unrelated lawsuit that appears damning on its face.

Axelrod in April tweeted that there were methodological problems with a Gallup poll giving Gov. Mitt Romney a five point edge over President Obama. The White House has long been concerned that, in its view, Gallup tilts against Obama.

Around the time of Axelrod’s tweet, in an archetypal Obama White House intimidation tactic, the White House asked a Gallup official to come over and “explain” the firm’s methodology."

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Joe

10:15 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

" A third senior Gallup official said he thought Axelrod’s pressure “sounds a little like a Godfather situation.”

“Imagine Axel[rod] with Brando’s voice: ‘[Name redacted], I’d like you to come over and explain your methodology…You got a nice poll there….would be a shame if anything happened to it…’

Axelrod at the time was already with the campaign, so the pressure on Gallup was being brought to bear from Chicago and the White House.

And then in August, the Justice Department signed on to a lawsuit against Gallup that had been brought by a former Gallup employee in 2009.

Go figyah."
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/09/06/report-doj-gallup-suit-axelrod-complaint/

Joe

10:18 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Democrats booed putting God and Jerusalem at their convention yesterday.

Not only did Democrats boo God and Jerusalem at their national convention, they banned Christian gift baskets.
Todd Starnes at FOX News Radio reported:

The Democratic National Committee banned dozens of Charlotte churches from distributing gift baskets to delegates because the congregations hold values that are contrary to the party platform, according to local religious leaders.

They told us our views on women’s rights are contrary to the Democratic party platform,” said David Benham, the lead organizer of the Charlotte714 religious movement.

Charlotte714 is a group of more than 100 churches across the region that mobilized to pray for the Democratic National Convention. More than 9,000 people gathered last Sunday for a time of worship and prayer in advance of the convention."

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Steve

10:45 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

LOL The Democrats are making the Republicans look like cardboard cutouts.

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Joe

11:00 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

What do ya think of that vote on the Platform Steve? Overruling the Delegates vote to strip God and the capital of Israel from the platform and then Obama and his Choom gang blaming others.

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Honeygo Hal

11:18 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Even without Bill Clinton's Home Run the DNC is putting on a much better convention than all of the "Don't Forget About Me" speeches at the RNC.

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Joe

12:24 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

How many interns did Zipper Clinton molest last night? Any stained dresses under the stage? Any reported rapes?

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Honeygo Hal

1:20 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joeblob - No reports in yet on dress stains, but there is this about last week in Tampa:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/tampa-rnc/sugardaddy/prweb9860380.htm

Joe

11:05 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Steve, no comment on O'Mally's bomb of a speech?

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Steve

11:09 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

O'Malley gave a great speech. Every review I read of it said the same. (With the exception of the usual knuckle dragger sites like Fake News and Bret Fart)

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Tim

12:16 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

What speech were you listening to? O'Malley's speech was hands down the worst of the bunch so far.
Of course, I don't have much negative to say about the rest of them. On the whole, they've been pretty good, and the fact checkers are finding the facts presented more along the lines of 'exaggerations, some gross" compared to the Republicans " out and out lies"

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Joe

12:47 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Sycophants only hear what they want.

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John T.

3:15 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

He spoke as though he was rehearsing for a part in Shakespeare. He over does it with his facial expressions, voice and he looks a bit crazy-eyed.

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Other Tim

7:04 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

All the reviews you read said it was a great speech. Except the ones you don't agree with. Brilliant.

Karl Schuub

11:56 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I think Rush Limbaugh said it best "expect to see something right out of the bar scene from Star Wars" and you know, I looked at all the faces when the cameras panned the crowd and danged he got it just about right. The classic was the close up during the God/Jerusalem fiasco - all those people booing God only helps illustrate the freak show.

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Honeygo Hal

12:17 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Why do you think Rush has a radio show? If people saw his audience they would run for cover, and buy body armour.

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Tim

12:20 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

would it be a freak show if you found out God never existed?
Who'd be the freak then?

Just saying - no one knows.

Seriously, who listens to (and worse, quotes) Rush Limbaugh and considers themselves intelligent, anyway? That'd be like a liberal spouting off stuff from Rachel Maddow.
There are other, more rational, conservative talk radio options out there that won't result in your brain metling.

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Karl Schuub

12:38 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Whether you like or dislike Limbaugh; whether you believe in God or not is immaterial - the convention is theatre and may only change the minds of a very few. Given this limited number of independents get to decide the next election and given most live in a Peoria world - it needs to play to Peoria. Booing God was classic...trust me your "team" lost support and yes, it looked exactly like a freak show.

Steve

12:10 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Does anybody really still take Limbaugh seriously? Years and years of drug abuse are really showing nowadays.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/06/limbaugh-obama-doesnt-have-slave-blood-and-isnt-authentically-black/

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Joe

12:20 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Obama admits in Dreams From My Father; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling papers and a matchbook.” One of Obama’s close friends was arrested for drug possession during high school.

In his memoir, Obama talked about routinely getting high. “Junkie. Pothead,” he wrote. “That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” But, according to Obama, he only got high because he was contemplating deep matters: drugs could “push questions of who I was out of my mind.”

Obama told students in 2007 that this activity constituted “goofing off” and “wasting time”:

"I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof off in high school as my mom reminded me," Obama said. "I went to high school in Hawaii, so there's a lot of opportunity to goof off because the weather is really good all the time …

"You know, I made some bad decisions …. You know, got into drinking and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't apply myself. It wasn't until I got out of … high school, and went to college that I started realizing, man, I wasted a lot of time.”

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Tim

12:20 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Apparently, some do. The dumbing down of society in 2012 occurs through mutliple avenues though, both from the left and the right.

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Joe

12:21 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Does anybody really still take Obama seriously? Years and years of drug abuse are really showing nowadays.

Obama was in the Choom Gang of drug users in high school using cocaine pot and spending his last few years in high school "in a haze".

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Joe

12:22 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Upon finishing high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he enrolled at Occidental College, where he describes living a "party" lifestyle of drug and alcohol use."

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Joe

12:22 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Showing more of your own glass house Steve.

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Tim

12:23 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Probably just temporary. He'd be a fool to give up on states of this size. Romney's a lot of things, but a fool isn't one of them.

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Honeygo Hal

1:14 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I heard that the Dems made a huge purchase of Miracle Gro for trees earlier this year - LOL

Joe

12:25 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Does anybody really still take Obama seriously? Years and years of drug abuse are really showing nowadays. Apparently, some do. The dumbing down of society in 2012 occurs through mutliple avenues though, both from the left and the right.

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Steve

12:27 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

George Bush couldn't pass the drug test. That is why he deserted the Texas National Guard.

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Joe

12:37 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

The Democrats were for God before they were against him before they were for him again even thought they voted him DOWN!

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Karl Schuub

12:46 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Can you imagine...booing God. If it wasn't so pathetic, it'd be laughable. First they stepped in it by lining it out, then they knew it was very, very bad PR so they attempted to put it back into the platform, and the process was feeble and hideous - it only fully illustrated how far left the party has become - way out of the mainstream. Who boos God? My lord if there were no better example of how disorganized liberals tend to be...good Lord they can't even manage to arrange for balloons. Maybe they can get one of those giant beach balls and bat it around the crowd and then when Obama is done speaking they can dim the lights and everybody raises their lighters up high in salute - a stoner salute...it'd be almost like Obama-pallozza.

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Joe

12:54 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I wish I knew what they were booing. Was it Jerusalem or God? Or BOTH?
Either way the silence from the sycophants here is deafening.
Vote fraud, dictatorship, overruling the Delegates, all typical of the party.

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Honeygo Hal

12:56 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I bet you morons burned your Beatle albums, too. So shallow - get the facts, not the Faux News talking points.

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Karl Schuub

1:14 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I think they were booing both; some were against God; others apparently against Israel - the camera zeroed in on a couple of delegates with Muslims for Obama signs...they roundly booed and thumbs down for the Jerusalem vote. They pretty much covered thier collective abhorence for a cross section of religions...except the Muslims of course, but they'd be self-described as a minority and that pretty much gets anybody into the democrat freak show.

Joe

1:08 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Once you Vote black, you never go back. Campaign pins at the DNC.

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Joe

1:14 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Last night Chris Matthews’ legendary leg thrill shifted from Barack Obama to Bill Clinton, and then rocketed out of this world:Chris Matthews, reacting to Bill Clinton’s convention speech last night, said, “I always figured that if Bill Clinton landed on Mars, he would know how to do it with them, he would know how to reproduce, he would know everything. He’d just instinctively know how to talk to people.”

“I always figured”? As if Matthews has worked through this scenario on multiple previous occasions — possibly for a little adult sci-fi feature he’s plotted out in his head entitled “Bubba Does the Borealis Basin.”

This is disturbing — probably even more so if you’re a Martian:"

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/09/06/chris-matthews-clinton-martians/

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Karl Schuub

1:22 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

LMAO. He seriously suggested that Clinton would instinctively know how to reproduce with an alien? He said that out loud? We all have "thoughts"; but honestly can't say I've ever fantacized a pin-headed bald, bug-eyed martian. Matthews joins the bar scene from Star Wars - see Limbaugh was right. They can't stand the truth.

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Joe

1:30 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Karl, there is video some will insist is somehow unbelievable because of the source I used. They don;t believe their eyes and ears.

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Joe

1:33 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

At 1:10 on the linked video. That "thrill up his leg" has turned to Martian porn with Zipper Clinton as the porn star.

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John T.

3:09 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Nothing like objective reporting

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Joe

7:20 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Now that I look at that comment by Thrill Man For Obama, where are the damn comedians? "“I always figured that if Bill Clinton landed on Mars, he would know how to do it with them, he would know how to reproduce"

Knock knock! Who's there? Willie. Willie who? Kiss it sweety. Zap him Gorschuq.

Joe

1:39 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"DNC delegates: Let’s ban corporate profits!
Are you surprised?

At the Democratic National Convention, where one speaker after the next swears they love free enterprise, delegates and attendees (maybe some media, who knows?) were asked by Peter Schiff, posing as a anti-corporate activist, if they would support capping or banning corporate profit.

Well, there seems to be plenty of enthusiasm for the idea in Charlotte this week — and not from the fringe. “We deliberately avoided speaking with the occupy protestors camping outside in tents to get a more “mainstream” Democratic perspective,” writes Schiff.

And remember, it’s the Tea Party that’s supposed to be radical."
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/06/hey-lets-ban-corporate-profits/

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Karl Schuub

1:49 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Sounds not so unlike Obama...remember when he leaned in to Russian President Medvedev and suggested "more flexibility later" in terms of unilateral disarmament. So the delegates pretend to be centrists and Obama pretends to support the military. At least they're smart enough to understand Peoria isn't buying what they're selling in either case and that's exactly why booing God was such a huge mistake. When did vitriol for christianity and disdain for Israel become centrist and concern over looming economic collapse become extreme right wing?

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Honeygo Hal

2:36 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

More partisan editing of the issues - the question that was asked included the term "capping" as well as the word "banning", but they sure got Joeblobs attention with the "ban" part.

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Joe

2:50 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Capping banning whatever it is it is not American but honey pot gal hates America and profit if it is not his own.

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Karl Schuub

2:53 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Everyone's partisan to varying degrees...we all see things through the lens of our own eyes; that's expected. Wanna explain how booing God isn't what we heard and saw with our own eyes? No amount of spin gonna make that turd float...

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Joe

2:56 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Karl, these sycophants will not even discuss that debacle much less admit it happened.

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Joe

2:57 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Begala: Platform Problems ‘Beyond Awkward,’ ‘Embarrassing,’ ‘Stupid’"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xq1h25GZQwg

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Honeygo Hal

3:24 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Karl, God is discussed in a different sub-thread - try to stay focused.
Joeblob, I wouldn't necessarily agree with "capping" corporate profits, but excluding the option from a headline about the discussion changes the entire topic and draws radical right-wingnuts directly to it.
Just another example of wingnut distortion, and Joeblob cannot ethically dispute that. (However, Joeblob seems to think that Ethics is on Eastern Ave., just down the road from Middle River.)

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Karl Schuub

6:19 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Understood that liberals think as if they have a right to police thought...but I'll put whatever I want, wherever I want without your guidance. Thought you people were all about free speech...it's glaringly obvious it's much more typically quite the opposite.

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Joe

6:34 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Now the radical bigot honey pot gal is making fun of those with speech impediments! Who DON'T you insult honey pot gal?
"that Ethics is on Eastern Ave., just down the road from Middle River."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkhPuH8G5Hg

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Joe

6:43 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I don't hold it against you honey pot gal. Your just following your leader in insulting groups of people. You take his lead so your not responsible.
"I bowled a 129, the president said. "That’s very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically. It’s "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said."

Joe

1:40 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Romney Claims Clinton in Latest Ad"
"Here's the transcript:

VOICEOVER: “As the economy gets worse, Barack Obama calls on Bill Clinton to help his failing campaign.

VIDEO TEXT: “Obama Economy Even Worse”

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: “It’s about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment.”

VIDEO TEXT: “Obama TV Ad”

VOICEOVER: “He’s a good soldier—helping his party’s president. But what did Bill Clinton say about Barack Obama in 2008?”

VIDEO TEXT: “What Did Clinton Say About Obama In 2008?”

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

VIDEO TEXT: “23 Million Americans Struggling For Work”

VOICEOVER: “23 million Americans struggling for work.”

VIDEO TEXT: “‘The Middle Class Falls Further Behind’”

VOICEOVER: “A middle class falling further behind.”

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: “Give me a break.”

MITT ROMNEY: “I’m Mitt Romney and I approved this message.”"

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/romney-claims-clinton-latest-ad_651835.html

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Joe

2:55 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

SHOCKING AD Exposing Obama’s Support for Infanticide to Run During Thursday’s Speech (Video) That is a real war on humans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gwFIEprF_9Y

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Joe

3:29 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Your moral equivalency of an investment and infanticide Obama is typical of the immoral class.

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Karl Schuub

3:38 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

The very idea that a human being with an ounce of decency would sanction the active killing of a premature infant; prohibit taking any steps that would otherwise result in a healthy human person - insist the nurses stand down knowing the ultimate result of inaction is supremely unconscionable. My nephew; now a 12 year old, baseball playing, awkward, long-legged kid was born weighing less than 3.5 lbs. My sister of course wanted him; but another woman of lessor morals, linked to a politician with even less would have enjoined each other in the common purpose of killing a child.

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Honeygo Hal

4:03 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joeblob, buying shares in a Mutual Fund that owns stock in a company like Stericycle would be one thing; But Mittens OWNED THE COMPANY. Now, to him it wouldn't really matter because the only thing that mattered was how much profit it made, and how big the fees were to Bain.

Your reduction of this to "an investment" illustrates the 'You're on your own' thinking of the radical right - a fairly despicable trait.

Joe

2:58 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"DNC Delegate Issues Romney Death Threat"
""The Secret Service may have its first death threat investigation at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and it comes from an unlikely source.

While police have concentrated on Occupy protesters that are calling for Obama’s arrest, an official Democratic delegate issued a death threat against Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday.

The Blaze released a video of New York Delegate Julia Rodriguez saying “I would like to kill [Romney].”

The full video can be found here."

http://nation.foxnews.com/2012-democratic-national-convention/2012/09/06/dnc-delegate-threatens-kill-mitt-romney

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Joe

2:59 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"White House, Biden Talk Slaves"
"The White House Twitter feed seems to agree with Vice President Joe Biden that there are elements in the country who want to “put ya’ll back in chains.”

The official White House Twitter account retweeted a statement that working people were “slaves” to Wall Street.

“RT @deafear: @HildaSolisDOL WE NEED NATIONAL WORKERS UNION! LABOR LAWS 2 FEW 2 WEAK! WORKING PEEPS SLAVES 2 WALL ST! #HappyLaborDay,” the tweet read.

The person in control of the White House account quickly recognized the gaffe and deleted the tweet after six seconds, according to the Sunlight Foundation."
http://freebeacon.com/white-house-biden-talk-slaves/

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Joe

3:02 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Robert Rector, who played a major role in crafting the 1996 Welfare Reform Act which Bill Clinton signed after having vetoed it twice, debunked Clinton’s claim Wednesday night that Obama actually changed the welfare law to require more work.

This is the second major instance -- the first was when liberal and mainstream media fact-checkers failed to call out the Obama administration for having asserted they had not made any changes to the welfare law when they did -- when a liberal has told a falsehood about welfare and received a complete pass.

Rector wrote the Obama administration “will put in mothballs the formal purpose of welfare reform—to reduce the number of people dependent on government benefits” and will “abandon the legislative performance goal that encourages states to reduce welfare caseloads.”

“It will weaken the ‘work participation’ standards that require some 30 percent of able-bodied Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients to engage in work activities for 20 to 30 hours per week,” Rector wrote. "

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Joe

3:04 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Dogged fact-checkers, who have obsessed over every word Republicans have uttered throughout the election cycle, gave Clinton a pass like they did Obama when he claimed his administration made no changes to the welfare law.

On Tuesday, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) determined Obama did make changes to the welfare law and thus should give Congress an opportunity to block the changes.

Again, the mainstream media was silent, as were the “fact-checkers” the GAO overruled.

And still, Clinton, who lied to the American people about his “relations” with Monica Lewinsky and tried to make up new definitions for what the word “is” meant, tried to spin the country on Obama’s changes to the welfare law.

“The claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true,” Clinton said.

Clinton said “when some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama administration listened, because we all know it's hard for people to get jobs today, so moving people to work is a real challenge.”

As Rector notes, though, Clinton's claims were based on the Obama administration's assertion that states will be exempted from work “participation rate requirements” if they raise the number of individuals leaving welfare for work by 20 percent. This is referred to as “employment exits.”

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Karl Schuub

3:15 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Depends on what the definition of "is" is...or better yet, Mr. Clinton knows how to get dirty with aliens. Wonder how Hillary feels about that. I'm betting she hasn't let him near her in years - God knows where that thing has been.

Joe

3:41 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

More of the parade of sluts liars and racists at the DNC
"Steelworker Featured at DNC Didn’t Work for Bain"
"The Democratic National Convention on Wednesday featured three speakers billed as “former employees of companies controlled by Bain Capital.”
But it turns out one of those employees never actually worked for a company controlled by Bain Capital.
David Foster was supposedly one of those former employees on the convention schedule. He told the story about 750 steelworkers who lost their jobs when the Bain-controlled company GST steel filed for bankruptcy in the early 1990s.
But Foster, according to a former spokesman for GST Steel, never actually worked for the company.
“David Foster was never an employee of GST Steel’s Kansas City plant. He was employed by the United Steelworkers of America as their regional union director to represent GST Steel, but was not employed at our facility,” according to BC Huselton, who was head of HR at GST.
Instead, Foster was a union organizer, who negotiated for workers that did work for the company."

What is the source some will ask? ABC NEWS!

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Joe

3:42 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Foster was prominently featured in an Obama campaign video, “Romney economics,” where he is identified as lead negotiator for workers at GST Steel. In the video he explains that Bain executives took bonuses even as the company flailed.
Politifact rated that Obama video “mostly true.” Read their assessment.
An Obama campaign TV ad based on the story of a GST worker who suggests that his wife’s death from cancer years later was due in part to losing health insurance when the plant closed got a “false” from Politifact and drew criticism for being misleading.
But the Romney campaign has released its own version of what happened at GST Steel. The video features a former executive, Huselton, who says that Bain’s actions actually saved the company.
“There’s this vampire story that Bain comes in and shows it’s teeth and sucks the blood out of the operation,” says Huselton. “It’s really quite the opposite. We went out looking for a blood donor. Bain came in, and the way I look at it actually gave us a blood transfusion.”"

Joe

3:43 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Foster was prominently featured in an Obama campaign video, “Romney economics,” where he is identified as lead negotiator for workers at GST Steel. In the video he explains that Bain executives took bonuses even as the company flailed.
Politifact rated that Obama video “mostly true.” Read their assessment.
An Obama campaign TV ad based on the story of a GST worker who suggests that his wife’s death from cancer years later was due in part to losing health insurance when the plant closed got a “false” from Politifact and drew criticism for being misleading.
But the Romney campaign has released its own version of what happened at GST Steel. The video features a former executive, Huselton, who says that Bain’s actions actually saved the company.
“There’s this vampire story that Bain comes in and shows it’s teeth and sucks the blood out of the operation,” says Huselton. “It’s really quite the opposite. We went out looking for a blood donor. Bain came in, and the way I look at it actually gave us a blood transfusion.”"

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Joe

3:45 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

More of the Obama Brown Shirts.
"Justice Dept. Gallup lawsuit came after Axelrod criticized pollsters"
"Internal emails between senior officials at The Gallup Organization, obtained by The Daily Caller, show senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod attempting to subtly intimidate the respected polling firm when its numbers were unfavorable to the president.

After Gallup declined to change its polling methodology, Obama’s Department of Justice hit it with an unrelated lawsuit that appears damning on its face.

TheDC is withholding the identities of the Gallup officials to protect them from potential retaliation from Obama’s campaign and his administration.

In April, Axelrod tweeted that a poll showing Mitt Romney with a 48-43 percent lead over Obama was “saddled with some methodological problems,” directing his Twitter followers to read a National Journal story criticizing Gallup polls showing a Romney lead.

In that National Journal piece, Ron Brownstein wrote that the polls showing Romney leading the president had “a sample that looks much more like the electorate in 2010 than the voting population that is likely to turn out in 2012.”

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Joe

3:45 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Internally, Gallup officials discussed via email how to respond Axelrod’s accusations. One suggested that it “seems like a pretty good time for a blog response,” and named a potential writer.

In response to that suggestion, another senior Gallup official wrote — in an email chain titled “Axelrod vs. Gallup” — that the White House “has asked” a senior Gallup staffer “to come over and explain our methodology too.”"

Joe

3:46 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Secret Service looking into DNC delegate who wants to ‘kill’ Romney

" A spokesman for the Secret Service told The Daily Caller that the agency is aware of video showing a delegate at the Democratic National Convention expressing a desire to “kill” Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

“We are aware of it,” Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie told TheDC on Thursday.

He said the department is “taking the appropriate follow-up steps” with the woman.

Video surfaced on Wednesday of a woman identifying herself as New York delegate Julia Rodriguez telling The Blaze, “If I see him” — in reference to Romney — “I would like to kill him.”

In the video, Rodriguez says she’s from Puerto Rico but she now lives in New York. She expressed her desire to kill the Republican nominee after saying “Romney will destroy this country.” (SEE ALSO: Puerto Rico’s governor: Romney ‘looked me in the eye,’ promised statehood)

The Daily Caller couldn’t immediately reach a spokesman with the New York Democratic Party."

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Joe

3:47 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Ahhhh, the tolerant big open tent party strikes again.

Joe

3:51 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Obama attacks Romney on outsourcing but jobs council includes big importers "
"Commerce Department import records reviewed by the Washington Guardian show the companies affiliated with the 23 active and 3 ex-officio members of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness imported 12,366 shipments from China alone -- totaling more than 20 billion pounds in weight -- during the 18 months since they began advising the White House in January 2011.

Just over half the council members were affiliated with firms that reported Chinese imports ranging from bulk steel and furniture to airline parts, appliance electronics and cosmetics.

The Made-in-China track record of the Jobs Council members has frustrated some labor unions key to the president's re-election, and could complicate Obama's strategy against his Republican opponent by illustrating that outsourcing is increasingly inevitable in a global economy.

“Why is stuff outsourced? The answer is, in those cases the work abroad is much cheaper than it is in the United States,” explained James T. Bennett, a George Mason University economics professor. “It’s market forces that create outsourcing of jobs, and it does not matter who is president. It is going to continue.”"
http://www.washingtonguardian.com/outsource-outrage

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Steve

4:02 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

President Obama is the smallest spending President in recent memory. (and this is coming from a conservative new source)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/

This will get all the Fiscal Phonies Magic Underwear in Wads.

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Other Tim

6:39 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

You said "and this is coming from a conservative new source".
The writer's credit says "Rick Ungar, Contributor Writing from the LEFTon politics and policy". Not quite a conservative point of view.
You believe your "facts". I believe my facts, because they are facts. Obama has increased the national debt to 6.3 trillion dollars, more than all the other 43 presidents combioned. What did he do with the money if he did not spend it?

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Joe

6:47 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I saw that OT and since Steve never reads his own posts I thought that pointing it out was piling on. The chart used as the basis of the story is not for "spending" at all. It is for "Annualized Growth of Federal Spending" What was that about lies and statistics?

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Joe

6:50 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Go the the Brady Bunch with Panties in a Wad against guns site and look ath ther "reports" Few if any give actual numbers, they give you percentages.
A 23% increase in child deaths form accidental shootings. 7 to 9 in the actual numbers. The lies are now exposed by the new media.

Joe

4:03 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

And tonight's speakers? The highly adored ex Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm who oversaw the collapse of the state and it was so bad they elected a Republican Governor in that deep blue state to fix her failed liberal policies.

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Joe

4:05 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Also on the dais will be Eva Longoria as a follow up to serial adulterer/rapist Bill Clinton.
It is quite appropriate since she plays the female Bill Clinton on Desperate Democrats, er I mean Desperate Housewives.

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Joe

4:07 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

At least Granholm has actually held elected office unlike the slut Fluke and the Faux Indian Warren.

Joe

4:18 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"DNC Proves Vote Integrity Not a Priority to Left"
"Yesterday, the nation watched in shock and amusement as Democrats stole a vote--from themselves.

Against clear evidence to the contrary, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa declared that proposed amendments to the Democratic Party platform--re-inserting “God” and a commitment to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital--had passed with the necessary two-thirds majority.

It was fraud, pure and simple; even CNN wasn’t buying it.

Nonetheless, Democrats and their allies continue to insist that voter fraud is something that never happens.

The NAACP, for instance, has just issued a statement declaring: “There's a greater chance of being struck by lightning” than that voter fraud will occur in a federal election.

(Not the best analogy, given that one of the excuses for moving President Barack Obama’s speech indoors was the supposed threat of lightning.)

Yet Americans witnessed fraud in broad daylight at the Democratic National Convention. The cause may have been just; the changes may have been good and necessary; but the fact was that the amendments did not pass by voice vote, and the delegates ought to have taken a roll call vote.

The country deserves to know whether Democrats support their own declared policies and which Democrats, in particular, support or oppose them."

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Joe

4:18 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"The potential for fraud--and the actual commission of fraud--occurs far more often than Democrats want to admit.

In April, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas showed that it was easy, without photo ID laws in place, to obtain the ballot of Attorney General Eric Holder himself.

Cheating is also a bipartisan phenomenon: four former staffers working for Rep. Thaddeus McCotter were charged recently for handing in false ballot signatures.

In the 2008 election, Democrats likely committed acts of fraud--both in the close primary fight between Obama and Hillary Clinton, and in the November general election. In North Carolina--where the DNC is being held this week--four residents were charged in 2001 with voting twice for Obama in 2008. In Ohio, activists brought homeless people to the polls for early voting--some of whom apparently lived as far out-of-state as Chicago.

Several organizers from groups supporting Obama were also convicted for crossing into Ohio--a key swing state, in 2008 and again in 2012--and voting fraudulently. There were similar stories (confirmed and unconfirmed) from other battleground states as the Obama campaign and its Chicago tacticians threw everything they could into delivering a win. In January, a former Obama campaign official was arrested for identity theft.

Today, eyebrows were raised during a women’s caucus event at the DNC when First Lady Michelle Obama told supporters: “If you don’t live in a battleground state, get to one!” "

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Joe

4:19 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"She was likely referring to ongoing volunteer efforts in swing states--which the Romney campaign is also organizing--and yet given the history of fraudulent efforts to pump up the vote in swing states, her statement had potentially negative implications.

As John Fund notes in his new book, Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy, voter fraud may be rare but it is also very real. The suspicion of fraud itself, he writes, is a danger to public trust in democracy.

That danger is not lessened by naked displays of manipulation such as the nation witnessed at the DNC yesterday. If our political parties will even defraud themselves, why wouldn’t they defraud the nation?"

Joe

4:21 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Ark. lawmaker pleads guilty to election charge. A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the lawmaker's campaign bribed absentee voters and destroyed ballots in a special election last year.

Prosecutors said Democratic Rep. Hudson Hallum of Marion, Kent Hallum, Phillip Wayne Carter and Sam Malone acknowledged that they participated in a conspiracy to bribe voters to influence absentee votes in the Arkansas District 54 primary, runoff and general elections in 2011. The four were released pending a sentencing hearing."

"Mississippi NAACP Official Convicted for Casting Deceased's Absentee Ballots. A Mississippi NAACP executive is in jail after being convicted of voter fraud for fraudulently casting absentee ballots, including for four dead people.

Lessadolla Sowers, who is a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee, was convicted and sentenced in April for what a judge said were crimes that cut “against the fabric of our free society.”

She was given a five-year sentence for each of the ten counts of voter fraud for which she was convicted, but the sentencing judge allowed her to serve the terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times. "

Voter fraud never happens until it happens and we see it with our own eyes. YET some still refuse to see.

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Honeygo Hal

4:30 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joeblob, do you get paid by the article for posting on Patch? Or perhaps by the word?

Frank Zappa discusses you in a Mothers of Invention song (Let's Make The Water Turn Black): "Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day"

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Joe

4:43 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

He wrote about you too honey pot gal.
"Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit" or the old favorite for you on the night of 11-2, "Broken Hearts are for A$$holes"

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Joe

4:44 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I am amused you do not even know what those words mean honey pot gal. Too funny.

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Honeygo Hal

4:57 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joeblob, I know exactly what they mean, and it's not about cut and paste. You are a waste of Patch data storage.

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Honeygo Hal

5:06 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joeblob, I must admit you have me stumped - What is the night of 11-2?

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Joe

5:53 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

You have no clue what those words mean since they do not comport to the post.

11-2 is election day duhhhh, just ask Michelle Obama.

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Honeygo Hal

8:29 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joeblob, you truly are a moron. Just like a true wingnut you try to confuse people, spam-blast articles that have nothing to do with the topic, and generally make a fool of yourself.

I refer you again to Frank Zappa, as you spend all day posting your drivel, wasting many people's time, not to mention, presumably your employer's time. You get your buddy Ronnie to help you burn your poots away.

Watch the Obama speech this evening, and get used to the idea that you will be seeing him and Joe Biden for the next 4 years, while Paul Ryan joins Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley in those Total Gym infomercials, and Mittsy starts a new round of American Express commercials (Remember me? I once ran for President)

Joe

4:23 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Today, eyebrows were raised during a women’s caucus event at the DNC when First Lady Michelle Obama told supporters: “If you don’t live in a battleground state, get to one!” ""

Vote early and often in your state and the battleground states!

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Joe

4:26 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

" Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) blasted Republicans for including a plank in their convention platform targeting Shariah law in an interview with Mother Jones Wednesday, blasting the language as “an expression of bigotry.”

“There has never been any legislation offered to establish Shariah law — not at the federal level, not at the state level. There’s not been a municipal ordinance opposing this, there’s not been anything,” said Ellison, the nation’s first Muslim member of Congress.

The Republican platform included language demanding “no use of foreign law by U.S. courts in interpreting our Constitution and laws.”

“Nor should foreign sources of law be used in State courts; adjudication of criminal or civil matters,” the platform continues in a section championed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has been outspoken in his concern that the moral code of Islam could be playing a greater role in the American justice system.

Ellison blasted Republicans as “the party of hate” for having “demonstrated hatred towards Muslims” in adopting the language.

Meanwhile, Democrats just banned and booed God."

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Joe

4:35 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

On tonight's speaker list, FINALLY someone will talk about jobs and not abortion and free sex toys.
"What the Democratic Convention Talks About When They Talk About Jobs
The Black Eyed Peas's will.i.am travels to the Democratic convention to offer his thoughts on job creation. "
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/what-democratic-convention-talks-about-when-they-talk-about-jobs_651843.html

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Joe

4:38 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Why won't we see the man speaking who Joe Biden went to for advice on the economy? MF Global head Jon Corzine who stole $1.3 BILLION form his investors and who AG Holder refuses to investigate? Where is the DNC Economic adviser talking about where to put your money? No wonder Romney invests overseas like Pelosi and Reid etc, so a Democrat like Corzine will not steal their money.

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Paul W. Ross

6:12 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joe, keep hitting them with facts. Thier only replys are childish prattle. They have no answers, so they throw insults. The only way they know when they cannot reply thoughtfully. They are doomed. Did you notice how Junior when to his porta potty? They are scouring the internet to find something to post. Maybe they will find something about Romney's hair color to rebut Obama's failed Presidency. We all know the left votes for the candidate with the best hair. LOL

Joe

6:17 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Devastating video of why we can't survive 4 more years as America under the Great Fraud Obama. Some of you may not like the sources of the words, but I guarantee you will not call me names for using bad sources.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o8R5GvwUFU8#!

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Joe

6:25 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

The words spoken in this video are THE most devastating words against continuing the Obama Biden progressive government.

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Other Tim

7:27 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Every person in America should be required to watch this video before being allowed to vote.

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Honeygo Hal

8:31 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Oh yeah, I saw it on the Internet so it must be true...

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Sean Tully

11:44 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

More restrictions on the right to vote, Other Tim?

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Joe

9:20 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

So now honey pot gal is denying the very words of his President. He closes his eyes, covers his ears and denies the truth.

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Other Tim

10:02 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Sean Tulley, I am simply suggesting that people should be required to be informed before they vote. If after watching this video, they believe Obama is still the best man for the job, so be it.
Honeygo Hal, are you suggesting that none of this video is true? You see Obama. You see his lips moving. You see him lying. You see him exaggerating. You see him twisting.

Joe

6:59 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

I am at a local restaurant enjoying an adult beverage and some appetizers sitting among a bunch of Hopium smokers awaiting President Obama's acceptance speech. What a wonderful evening. I can't wait to see the looks on the faces of the beLIEvers when we hear the same speech as we heard in 2008. Repeato Obamo. Watch this video and then go to the polls on 11-2.
Wait till the Hopium Smokers see their new bumper stickers in the light of a new day. Not the Light Obama brought us. The Light God brought us. Daylight.

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Honeygo Hal

8:33 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

So you are now into vandalizing cars by putting your own bumper stickers on them? Or is God doing that for you...

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Joe

8:55 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

I have never been witness to a group Ogasm before. I was waiting to see the kool aid drinkers start to roll around in the deep fried fat cakes as a tribute to Munchelle Obama.

Joe

7:09 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

If I have accomplished nothing here now or until the election, I have stopped the cyber bullies who stalked me from my first posts. I know I will hear from them after they come down form their ObamaChoom Gang high. The Hopium Smokers are around, they will be back.

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Joe

7:26 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Muslim Democrats Not Happy About Platform Flap
Keith Ellison to WFB: "“Step off, man, I don't like your attitude""
http://freebeacon.com/muslim-democrats-not-happy-about-platform-flap/

Radical Islamist Congressman wanted God and Jerusalem out of the Democrat Party Platform. Lashes out at a citizen reporter. Tolerance? Open to ideas?

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Dennis Gilpin

10:26 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

As A registered Republican I would like to believe what Romney says. Maybe he is right in his belief that he is the better candidate.On the other hand Obama thinks he can project what will happen in the next couple of years. We are lead to believe that either party can convince the public that they have a crystal ball that forecasts the future. As you saw, Obamas projections fell short but he wants four more years.More promises that may not come true. What I have a problem with is that people feed into all the rhetoric and can't see the real truth.If we rely on the politicians to solve our problems we are in real trouble. If we expect to get our nation back we have to work together and forget politics.Now an independent

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Honeygo Hal

8:16 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Dennis, elections are always a bit of a crapshoot. Did we know how bad this recession was going to be back in 2008? We are not where we would like to be, but we are on the road to recovery. Taking just the housing bust, there have been predictions that it could take 10 years to fully recover from it.

I'm comfortable with staying the course. Mittsy will give the country what the corporations and the rich want - is that what's best for you?

Steve

11:10 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Joe is proof that the Republicans are in desperation mode. There is no need to Spam multiple forums the way he has.

Stick a fork in them. They are done.

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Joe

8:02 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

So one person on a local website shows the entire Republican party is is "desperation mode"? More indisputable proof liberalism is a mental disorder.
Proportionality seems to be beyond the mental grasp of some.
The Republican party just 2 years ago Steve won a huge historic election which swept the Swamp Queen Pelosi from her gavel. We took more state legislatures and Governors seats. We won the recall elections in Wisconsin.
NOTHING at all has changed that would reverse that momentum, nothing at all. If anything, Obama and his Choom Gang have increased the chances of even more seats come 11-2.

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Steve

10:39 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

....and who did you replace Nancy Pelosi with?? A besotted old Eunuch with a Bourbon tan. He's incapable of getting anything accomplished.

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Joe

10:49 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"....and who did you replace Nancy Pelosi with??"
A big Boner!
But still better than the woman all proud and smiling to say "we must pass the bill for you to see whats in it." And to run the "most ethical and honest Congress in history, and we are."

Sean Tully

11:27 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Americans have a real choice this November. Do we put in office and control of Congress what amounts to the American Taliban or do we re-elect President Barack Obama and continue on our road to recovery? I choose Obama in 2012.

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Sean Tully

11:33 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Americans have a real choice in 2012. Do we return to the days when Wall Street is so deregulated that they bring the house down or do we continue down this road...

"Nasdaq Reaches Highest Level Since 2000."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/sp-500-ecb-europe-stocks-nasdaq_n_1862256.html

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Sean Tully

11:36 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Americans have a real choice in 2012. Do we want leadership that has said:

" It's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person" (Romney in response to the hunt for bin Laden)

http://washingtonexaminer.com/what-romney-said-about-bin-laden/article/1257496

Or do we want this:

"bin Laden is dead." President Barack Obama

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Sean Tully

11:38 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Americans have a real choice in 2012. Do we want a leader in 2013 and beyond who believes this:

"Mitt Romney: 'Russia is our number one geopolitical foe'"

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/27-03-2012/120899-mitt_romney_russia-0/

I think not.

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Honeygo Hal

8:19 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

I like the clip from Ted Kennedy, during his campaign with Mittsy - regardless of the issue. "I am Pro-Choice; My opponent is Multiple Choice."

You truly don't know where he stands on any issue.

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John T.

8:34 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Do you think Russia is a friend of the U.S.? Only when it suits them and that's not very often. Look at their votes in the United Nations Security Council.

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Joe

8:45 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

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Honeygo Hal

8:47 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Russia is not our "friend" but the Soviet Union no longer exists. I would no longer put them at the top of the threat list - on it, sure, but not at the top.

Sean Tully

11:40 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012

Romney was for ObamaCare before he was against...heck, along with the Heritage Foundation (a right wing think tank), Mitt invented ObamaCare!

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Joe

7:53 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Obama: A Pedestrian and Overconfident Speech. by Michael Tomasky The Daily Beast.

"Let’s be blunt. Barack Obama gave a dull and pedestrian speech tonight, with nary an interesting thematic device, policy detail, or even one turn of phrase. The crowd sure didn’t see it my way. The delegates were near delirium; to what extent they were merely still feeding off the amassed energy of the previous two nights I can’t say. This was the rhetorical equivalent, forgive the football metaphor, of running out the clock: Obama clearly thinks he’s ahead and just doesn’t need to make mistakes. But when football teams do that, it often turns out to be the biggest mistake of all, and they lose.I didn’t like the lack of specifics at all. "

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Honeygo Hal

8:07 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

So let's contrast what Obama said, just last night, with what Mittsy has said (during THIS campaign, we all know he holds every position on every issue):

- Military (Obama) - Maintain the strongest military in the world
(Mittsy) - Increase defense spending
- Education - (Obama)- Good schools, affordable college
(Mittsy)- We're spending too much on teachers
-Healthcare - (Obama)- nobody should have to lose their home because they got sick
(Mittsy)- Vouchercare, repeal Obamacare, replace it with(???)
Veterans - (Obama)- You fight for your country, your health and rehabilitation is covered.
(Mittsy)- (???)

And that, for Mittsy, is during the whole campaign. He didn't even mention the military issues last week.

So Joeblob, we start this day with you posting someone else's responses - do we get another day of cut & paste?

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Joe

8:46 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Lets compare what Obama said last night to what he has been saying for 4 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o8R5GvwUFU8

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Honeygo Hal

9:02 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Mittsy - Every position on each issue. No partisan YouTube required to make that claim.

Joeblob - cut and paste, cut and paste - the new Patch format according to Joeblob.

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Joe

9:09 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"partisan YouTube"?

youtube is all for the O. The video honey pot gal is Obama and friend's own words. Their OWN words that you are afraid to listen to. His own words are THE most devastating to his re-election. Wait to see how many campaign ads use ONLY Obama's words against him. 61 days until we get a true American in the WH.

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Joe

9:12 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

So honey pot gal. I have reduced you to your last defense of making claims of "cut and paste" as that is somehow wrong. Next thing you know you will be posting vile name calling which is what you do best.

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Honeygo Hal

10:00 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Joeblob - I never changed your name until you changed mine - you can look it up.

The fact remains that you post what other people say with very little of your own. Then you buy off on criticism because you didn't say it. You hide behind the right-wing media machine. Simple strategy, but cowardly.

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Joe

10:14 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

I will say it again honey pot gal, if I post my words you cal me names. If I post someone else's words you call me names. If I post Obama's own words you call me names. If I cut and paste you call me names.
It is the way you roll. But continue on......

Joe

7:57 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

'Honey Boo Boo' and Bill Clinton's DNC Speech Tie in Ratings

One is cute cudley and a redneck, the other is a serial liar and adulterer.

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Joe

8:47 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Sean, give it a few days before you come down off your Ogasm so you can see clearly again.

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Joe

8:57 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"Payrolls in U.S. Rose 96,000 in August, Jobless Rate Fell"

"368,000 Americans left the labor force"

"Factory employment fell by the most in two years, temporary-help companies eliminated positions for the first time in five months and the share of the working-age population in the labor force slumped to the lowest since 1981. "

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Joe

9:00 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

FAIL. Unemployment Rate Above 8.0% for 45th Straight Month

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Karl Schuub

9:00 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Jobs report came out this morning weaker than expected...a palty 96,000 jobs created - well under expectations and doesn't even meet population growth, plus most of jobs being created are low wage jobs. Go Obama, go Obama...eventually we can all work at McDonalds. Hope, change and flippin' burgers.

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Tim

9:45 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

if flippin' burgers is all one is capable of...

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Karl Schuub

10:01 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

And in all honesty flippin' burgers is an honest living and pays for groceries but it won't feed a family, nor provide for any form of upward mobility. It's a sad and grey future when the new jobs in this country will not provide for families - no health care, no retirement, no gas in the car...kids on food stamps and the school breakfast program. Pathetic.

John T.

9:05 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Forget what they say. They say what they think the sheep want to hear. Most of what they say is at best misleading and distorted. What I look at is actions and results. What I see is that Obama promised to lower unemployment to under 8%, reduce the deficit and improve the economy. What I see in the last 3 years, allowing time for his policies to take effect, is none of his attempts have worked, and that is taking into consideration that he infused $1 Trillion into the economy in the form of investment, better known as stimulus. Whether you agree with his policies or not, they have not worked. I've never seen this before where the President has been ble to get away with blaming the guy he replaced this far into his term. I pay my employees for results, and when I don't get them, I do not expect to hear excuses or requests for do-overs. The question, whether democrat or republican, and taking emotion out of it is, has President Obama earned a second term based on the results of his policies? In the private sector, he probably would be let go.

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Honeygo Hal

9:55 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

John T. - You state "I've never seen this before where the President has been ble to get away with blaming the guy he replaced this far into his term."

I know I wasn't around for the Great Depression, I don't know about you. But we are coming out of the most severe recession since then - perhaps that makes a difference? Where are your employees in the housing market? In a house and comfortable? Trying to buy one? Trying to get out from being underwater? Or have they given up on trying to buy one because they got burned?

Anyone, Ross Perot, Mitt Romney, or anyone else who tries to equate the Private Sector with Government is naive, at best. Some things equate, but the full set of rules are very different.

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Joe

10:12 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"the Great Depression" will be 11-3 after the votes are a tallied up and the Democrats go into their very own Great Depression.

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Joe

10:19 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

I can say with comfort that what I lived through with gas lines and empty gas tanks and 15% mortgages and no jobs under Carter was far worse for me and most people I know than this one under Obama/Carter II. I was never without a job them but many were. 15% mortgages were keeping the housing market slow.

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Honeygo Hal

10:36 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

EXTRA! EXTRA! Fact for Joeblob!

You have repeatedly referred to 11-2 & 11-3. I have been holding back, but it just became too hard to resist (like a good Joeblob) :

You don't even know when Election Day is.

What a flaming maroon...

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Joe

10:45 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

What a flaming maroon..."Michelle Obama, speaking yesterday at a campaign event in Florida: "So that one new voter that you register in your precinct -- think about it -- that one neighbor that you get to the polls on November the 2.
I want you to understand, that could be the one that makes the difference. That one conversation, that one new volunteer you recruit, that could be the one that puts this over the top. "

hehehehe hehehe.

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Honeygo Hal

11:07 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Joeblob - You are an epic fail. 11-2 is a Thursday. You said the votes would be tallied by 11-3. Presidential Election Day is always a Tuesday - First Tuesday in November. You can look that up, too. Go ahead, cut and paste that for us so we can all see what a maroon you are.

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Joe

11:14 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

hehehhehe you fell for it honey pot gal like a fly to a poo pile. Michele Obama said it and I just repeated it. I am well aware of election day. And well aware of what will get you riled up.

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Honeygo Hal

11:25 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Riled up? I'm actually amused. But I guess I sometimes do lose control over a Joeblob.
Nice try - "Michele Obama said it and I just repeated it." Blame it on somebody else.
Classic right-wingnut voter suppression tactic. If you can't win within the rules, make them show an ID they've never needed to show before. Tell them Election Day is a different day.

Joe

9:07 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Carville: Not Obama's Best Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rfVVOh7uJzU

Compare to the soaring God like rhetoric of 4 short years ago. From Hope and Change to Hype and Blame.

Form Greek columns and "stop the rise of the oceans and heal the planet" to "we have to pay for this sluts birth control".

Obama may be the second black president, but because of him he will be the last in a long long time.

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Joe

9:18 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

One "big fu...ing deal" was missing in the Ogasm of the DNC. ObamaCare!
No talk of ObamaCare, $1,000,000,000,000+ deficits 4 years running, no talk of $16,000,000,000,000 debt hit during the DNC Ogasm kickoff. No talk of that "3 letter word" J O B S.

More talk about free birth control and killing your offspring because you want to.

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Joe

9:22 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Not one Obama supporter here would comment on much less admit the truth about the God and Jerusalem vote, now the man who overruled the Delegates is denying the truth we all can see on video.

"Villaraigosa on God DNC Platform Ruling: 'That Was My Decision...No One Protested'"

Wow! The party that lies as easily as Obama puts on his golf shoes.

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Honeygo Hal

9:46 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Okay, Joeblob - Ultimately, the DNC did the right thing.

You, on the other hand, are doing the "right" thing, but not the correct thing. We can read the drivel you post elsewhere, but you persist in cut and pasting it on the Patch.

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Joe

9:54 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"Ultimately, the DNC did the right thing."
By overruling the clear majority of the Delegates who voted to keep God and Jerusalem out of the DNC Platform. Thanks for being so honest even if it shows how little you believe in the voting process. Now I understand why your type says there is no vote fraud. Because you have no concern about it and it is something you feel comfortable living with. Your a good subject of the Democrats honey pot gal. Voting be damned! Your leaders will do as they please and you say "the DNC did the right thing."

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Honeygo Hal

10:29 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Joeblob -
1. I don't have a say in DNC votes.
2. It's only a platform. It has no practical effect on me or my life.
3. When it comes to voting on the candidates I will exercise it patriotically.

What else did Rush tell you to think?

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Joe

10:35 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"..... you call me names.
It is the way you roll. But continue on......"

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Honeygo Hal

11:29 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Joeblob,

"..... you call me names.
It is the way you roll. But continue on......"

Rush told you that? Or did he just post it on one of your cut-and-paste-gasm galleries?

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Joe

12:39 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

One day honey pot gal you will grow a pair and become an educated adult and then able to compete in the real world.

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Honeygo Hal

1:42 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Joeblob - one day you might be able to visit the real world, as you don't reside there now.

Joe

9:23 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"Five NC Delegates Ditch Obama Nomination Vote"
"In a sign of how unpopular President Barack Obama is becoming in North Carolina, five North Carolina delegates did not show up to the Democratic National Convention to cast votes for Obama's nomination.

North Carolina cast 152 votes for Obama, despite having been awarded 157 delegates to the convention.

North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David Parker brushed off the missing votes and said the five missing votes merely reflected logistical mishaps.

Parker said some of the delegates missed a breakfast and he "tried to run them down" throughout the day but could not track them down by the time North Carolina delegates had to cast their votes. "
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/06/Five-North-Carolina-Delegates-Fail-to-Show-Up-Vote-For-Obama-Nomination

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Joe

9:59 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

The New Normal in an ObamaNation.
"Record 88,921,000 Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’—119,000 Fewer Employed in August Than July"
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/record-88921000-americans-not-labor-force-119000-fewer-employed-august-july

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Joe

10:23 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

"Obama Said That Unemployment Would Be Much, Much Lower By Now
In 2009, advisers to President Obama projected that the unemployment rate would be close to 5 percent at this time."

"Workforce participation rate for men 69.9% - lowest since 1948..."

"Are you better off? Just 96,000 jobs added in August as 368,000 people LEAVE the workforce in bleak employment report dealing blow to Obama re-election hopes

Lowest workforce participation rate since September 1981
Jobless rate drops to 8.1 per cent but only because workforce shrinks
President Barack Obama knew of figures before big speech" and SAID NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT.

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Joe

11:22 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Hey honey pot gal, as much as you want and work to make this all about me, it is about the DNC Convention and the election in 11-2.
Your infatuation for me is getting creepy.

Joe

10:29 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

This is absolutely devastating coming from Obama's very own damn press offices!

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “A Lot Of Stuff We’ve Heard Before.”CBS’
Bob Schieffer: “It Just Didn’t Have That Spark.”
NBC’s Savannah Guthrie: “An Excitement Gap Between The President’s Speech And Bill Clinton’s Last Night.”
CNN’s Brianna Keilar: “Don’t Think I’m Going Out On A Limb To Say Clinton Was Wayyyyyyy Better Than Obama.”
Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo: “Lacked Clinton’s Magic.”
NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell: “Wasn’t A Whole Lot Of New Policy…”
CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “A State Of The Union, Almost, In Terms Of Kind Of Going Down A Checklist…”
ABC News’ Rick Klein: “Strange Silence Prevailing In The Arena.”
Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo: “Lacked Clinton’s Magic.”NBC News’
Andrea Mitchell: “Wasn’t A Whole Lot Of New Policy…”
CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “A State Of The Union, Almost, In Terms Of Kind Of Going Down A Checklist…”
ABC News’ Rick Klein: “Strange Silence Prevailing In The Arena."

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Honeygo Hal

11:13 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Cut and paste is bad enough, but now you have turned into a real sloppy Joeblob. In one cut-and-paste-gasm you have included several quotes twice or more. You should put your cut-and-paste machine in for some maintenance - or maybe just turn it off...

Joe

10:39 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Was The Who singing about a pinball wizard or today's Democrats under Obama when they wrote about the "deaf dumb and blind"?

"
Obama Labor Secretary Solis: ‘I See a Report That Tells Me We Are Steadily Healing’
Dismal jobs report missed expectations, saw decrease in labor participation, manufacturing decline, and downward revisions"

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Joe

10:53 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week

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Steve

11:11 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

First he is talking to chairs and now he is talking to Pine Cones.

Time for the Nursing home.

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Honeygo Hal

11:26 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

A man's got to know his limitations.

Honeygo Hal

11:45 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

There is a pause in the Joeblob drivel because he is out to lunch. No, really, we already know he is whacked, but he seems to be on his lunch break every day this time.

I wonder what employer pays him to cut and paste all day - or do they even know how much time he spends doing this?

To answer Joeblob ahead of time - I'm at home. No boss to worry about.

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Joe

12:08 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Hey honey pot gal, as much as you want and work to make this all about me, it is about the DNC Convention and the election in 11-2.
Your infatuation for me is getting creepy.

I will say it again honey pot gal, if I post my words you cal me names. If I post someone else's words you call me names. If I post Obama's own words you call me names. If I cut and paste you call me names.
It is the way you roll. But continue on......

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Joe

12:16 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Keeping track of my hours IS as creepy as it gets. I believe you may be an internet stalker honey pot gal! I better keep and eye out for you lurking in the shadows.

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Honeygo Hal

12:41 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Joeblob, I'm not keeping track of anyone's hours. But after a while one notices patterns - like rapidfire responses in the morning, then a pause in the middle of the day, then more rapidfire responses until the end of the typical work day, and perhaps more rapidfire responses in the evening. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out - you are the one establishing the patterns...

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Honeygo Hal

12:46 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Joeblob, I said it before, and I'll say it again - I gave you a new screen name after you refused to provide a minimum of respect for mine. One thing I can do, that sometimes I'm proud of and sometimes not - I can hold my own in an a$$hole contest.

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Joe

1:09 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

CREEPY dude REAL creepy. I am going to keep an eye out for you lurking in the dark corners of the alleys.

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Honeygo Hal

1:39 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Joeblob - so who is riled up now? LOL

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Joe

2:09 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Not riled up but REALLY creeped out by a stalker with a fetish for me who keep track of my hours.

John T.

12:03 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Hal. Maybe that is the problem with government and our reliance on it to solve our problems. Maybe what we need is the government to be more like the private sector, you know, concerned about efficiency and profit, or maybe you don't know. The comparison between private sector and public is a good one to demonstrate how poorly the public sector runs in most areas that it tries to control. But I know people like yourself, that would vote party line no matter how they are performing. Also, those same people would vote for a farm animal if that animal had a "D" or "R" after its name.

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Honeygo Hal

1:36 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

John T. - Geez an actual thoughtful response on the Patch - I have to reboot my head.
First of all, I have voted across the aisle, both locally as well as nationally. But with the current climate, I feel like I have to pick a side because the sides are moving farther apart. I could have voted for McCain, but not right after Bush, and not with Palin.

One of the things I have noticed is that there are different rules in the Public sector. Take the Post Office - right up front, there is a lot of waste, etc. but consider that UPS, FedEx, etc. could pick and choose where they delivered to until their business was established. The USPS MUST be able to deliver to every home and business in the country. I havde not followed their current money troubles, but there seems to be some large financial burden imposed on them.

Social Security - it is the largest insurance company in the country (perhaps the world) and there is no competition - you can't take your Social Security dollars down the street. That results in issues good and bad.

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Honeygo Hal

1:37 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Part 2

I have seen first hand how government agencies can be whipsawed around by Congress. They hold out (we've seen that lately) or some Member has a sweetheart deal, and the agencies have to respond. Weapon systems that start out as one thing, fairly well thought-out by the military, get changed into something else entirely by folks in Congress that have no fricking clue what they are doing, but it will generate jobs in their district.

I thought Ross Perot was onto something at first, but he said he would only serve 1 term, and I realized that some career bureaucrats could stall him off for 4 years - no problem. He could have been a great King, but not a good President.

Elected officials learn early on what they need to do to make it through the next election. Some are able to do their job well, but some succumb to the lobbyists and take the easy road.

Some government workers in some agencies find that if they want to get a better job it may often be with a company that they regulate or oversee - where is the market for someone who knows all about - pick one - weapon systems, food & nutrition, clean air, forest management, etc. So they feel like they can't antagonize the private sector, or maybe they get chummy.

How's that for a start?

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Joe

1:43 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

"I have to reboot my head. " by kicking yourself in the ass!

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Karl Schuub

1:50 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Local politics are much different than national and no way you can convince me your middle of the road or independent. I just read through just the several things you've written on this thread...by the way when calling someone a "moron" you need to be sure to at least spell "moron" correctly or you really look like a "maroon", which I think is a mix of red and black.

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Honeygo Hal

1:56 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Karl - You have never seen Bugs Bunny? What a maroon you are too!

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Honeygo Hal

2:01 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Karl - Luckily, its not important for me to convince you.

OBTW, Please note that, despite our differences, I refer to you by your screen name - a lesson Joeblob has yet to learn.

Joe

12:36 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Can someone help me remember if THIS was Recovery Summer or was it 2009, 2010, 2011 or this summer?

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Joe

1:59 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

"White House: ‘Important Not To Read Too Much Into’ One Monthly Jobs Report"

We don't Mr Fraud. We read the last 12 months and they are all the same.
Time to pack your bags and move to your new house on the beach in Hawaii. There you can write your book on your accomplishments, the shortest book in the world.

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Honeygo Hal

2:12 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

Yeah, Joeblob - it's short - 1 inch tall, but it will have 250,000 pages. What a maroon!

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Paul W. Ross

2:47 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012

I heard he was offered a job with O'Malley's band as a roadie.

Steve

12:33 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012

ROTFLMAO Jon Stewart nailed Faux News on his show last night for their phony Convention coverage.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/fri-september-7-2012/hope-and-change-2---last-week-this-week

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RARE MARYLAND INDEPENDENT

1:51 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012

Both parties at their worst.
Republicans - must distance themselves from George Bush. Did not. No mention of overseas wars. They must think the kids with lost limbs, eyes and other problems will heal themselves. A tax CUT - the dumbest idea I have ever heard. How about no change in the tax code and lower spending?
Democrats - boo god. Clearly against any type of religion and lacking in morals. Dems committed fraud in their own convention! The most hideous women worried about birth contol Ladies - no worries in getting pregnant with the way you look . Joe Biden - actually a very good speech. He did give great insight to the President's thoughts. Pres and Mrs. Obama - we have heard the speeches before, - but we see your actions. Your actions are now front and center - you have a track record. Had you just moved a little to the middle, we would be talking landlsde for you. Now you are in a dogfight because you listed to folks like Axelrod.
In the meantine, kids are not learning in school, in part because of the culture but also because of the behavior of both parties. If our leaders have no morals, why should our kids?

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Steve

2:27 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012

"Hideous women"??? Scarlett Johannson, Eva Longoria hideous???

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John T.

9:25 am on Monday, September 10, 2012

Hal. Maybe that's the problem in the public sector. If they play by different rules then maybe the rules need to be changed. The post office still has a monopoly on the regular 1st class mail and can not be profitable. Agreed, they have to deliver to everyone, but that is less of an issue today than in the past with improved transportataion and population growth and sprawl.. The post office's main problem is the same problem that many failing private sector companies experience - not controlling your overhead. With the rise in the internet, may consumers have moved to sending that way, and raising the cost of a stamp only increases the use of the internet as a response by their customers. The large financial burden becomes increasing costs, primarily union labor and fuel while experiencing a loss of customers. Social Security is a whole other issue. The "trust fund" that politicians talk about is empty, loaded with IOU's. They pay the social security benefits owed today with the monies that they collect today. Example: Pay your payroll taxes (fed/Soc. Sec.) a day late and you'll get a threatening letter from SS immediately. Social Security's main problem is the drawing of benefits by people that never paid into it and if our elected officials didn't spend the money SS would not e where it is today.

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John T.

9:41 am on Monday, September 10, 2012

Gov. agencies that are manipulated by members of congress is an issue and if the media did their job and reported those instance to the public, that could have an impact, but the media today doesn't perform its main job, which is to report news and in turn they become the publics watchdog. Instead they report news selectively and bias it with their opinion. The main problem with Gov.agencies are that their is no incentive to save money and retain a surplus, because they will not receive more money in next years budget. If they don't spend it they lose it. Lack of oversight perpetuates the problem. In the private sector, not many companies would stay competitive for very long using that approach. Ross Perot looked like he was onto something - an alternative to the 2 party system that we have become. His quote: "They (politians) buy our vote with our money", is so true and continues to get worse. Gov. employees, as well as retiring politicians, should be restricted from working for any companies that they were involved with while representing the public for a period of 5 years. If you do not agree with that then you simply do not work for the public sector and offer your services in the private sector. Very simple.

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