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Stinkles

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The_Technomancer said:
Right, exactly. Obama's record hasn't been so great that I think he'd be safe from a competent challenger, but against Romney....
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The reason they can't even field a good candidate is the Tea Party, which in turn only exists because of Fox News. Good job Murdoch, you really have your finger on the pulse these days.
 
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Oblivion

Fetishing muscular manly men in skintight hosery
So I learned that the "retroactively retired" line from Ed Gillespie was even dumber than I originally thought. He said that shit TWICE on Sunday, meaning that no one told him that it was a retarded excuse the first time around. The dude was probably even proud of himself once he came up with it.
 
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Oblivion

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Did Jon Stewart just compare the people asking for Romney's tax returns with the birthers?

Kosmo a writer for TDS confirmed.*


*affirmative action hiree, of course
 
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tranciful

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Mario said:
Assuming this is who he meant, prepare to be infuriated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFjoEgYOgRo
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Puddles

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Got this from my grandfather today. It might be old, but it's the first time I've seen it. Absolutely incredible. I don't even have any words.

Lou Pritchett Update

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America ’s true living legends --- a former P & G executive, an acclaimed author, a dynamic teacher, and one of the world's most highly rated speakers. It was he who changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "Partnering".

You may remember a previous letter he wrote in 2009 to Obama and the New York Times, which went viral.

From a speech given by Lou Pritchett April 15, 2012

"I was born in year two of the Great Depression (1931) and spent the first 10 years of my life, influenced by the extreme hardships of the depression. --By today’s standards my family was about a mile below today’s so called ‘poverty level’; but if you never ‘had’ - - doing without was not so ‘bad’. Borrowing shoes to graduate from the 8th grade didn’t seem at all demeaning because most of the 8th graders did the same thing.

In June 1944, my only brother, Joe, was killed in action on Utah Beach in Normandy, France during the D-Day landings. Exactly one year later, my father died and left me, my mother, and my sister to go it alone - - and alone we went. My mother went to work at a department store, my sister dropped out of school and joined her, and I went to work shining shoes on the streets of Memphis for a dime a shine. Government assistance was not available, and if it were, I am confident my mother would have refused it, because she never wanted the government involved in our lives.

I mention this bit of personal history to help you understand that millions of Americans, including your parents and grandparents, grew up like me during the Great Depression and never expected nor wanted the government to offer them anything other than an opportunity - - and now to see what Obama is trying to do to our country tends to make you crazy.

As some of you know, my “Scare Me" letter went viral with millions of hits on the internet during the past 3 years. I have now written a follow-up letter, which I will now share with you.

To the editors:

"In April 2009, I sent President Obama and the New York Times a letter titled "You Scare Me" because, as a candidate, he promised to "fundamentally transform America ." Now, after observing his performance for over three years, he no longer scares me - - he terrifies me for the following reasons:

FIRST: He has done more to damage America 's standing in the world, to lower
the standard of living in America, to impoverish future generations, and to shake our faith in the country's future than any other American president in history.

SECOND: With a compliant Democrat congress, a lapdog media, and a weak,
almost nonexistent Republican opposition, he has shattered the American dream of job security, home ownership, and rugged individualism for millions of Americans and has poisoned and divided our civil society with his politics of envy, class warfare, race warfare, and religious warfare - - which he is using as fundamental building blocks for his 'socialist' agenda.

THIRD: Culturally, he remains totally out of touch with traditional American
values. This has absolutely nothing to do with race or where he was born, rather it has everything to do with where, how and with whom he was raised, schooled, educated, trained, and associates with - - still today.

FOURTH: He has surrounded himself with naive academicians, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats, and socialist leaning czars who arrogantly think and behave exactly as he does. People who offer no balanced suggestions, or devil’s advocate positions, and think in lock step with him that big government is the answer to all our problems.

FIFTH: He not only encourages, but aids and abets the unionization of all American industry, the albatross around the neck of the free market. In turn, they provide the money and muscle to intimidate his opponents.

SIXTH: He has increased the national debt by over 30% in just three years. If re-elected, and this rate of increase continues, America will be burdened with an unsustainable 20 trillion dollar debt which will result in the country's financial death. Recovery will be impossible - -America will be the Greece of 2016.

SEVENTH: Given his fanatical beholding to the 'environmental' and 'man-caused global warming' fringe, he has deliberately discouraged U.S. fossil fuel exploration and production, while wasting billions of tax payer dollars on solar, wind, and algae experiments. He refuses to accept that oil, gas, and coal are not America’s enemies, they are America’s assets - - which, properly managed, could make us energy independent within a generation.

EIGHTH: He views the U.S. as a power in retreat which abused its World dominance. Therefore, he systematically apologizes round the world. This past March, he whispered to Russian President Medvedev - - "This is my last election. After my election, I will have more flexibility". Just what is the secret that Obama and Putin are concealing from the American people until after the election? With what other leaders has he made similar secret agreements?

NINTH: And finally, after all his miss-steps, bad decision-making, poor management, and zero leadership, the fact that he has the audacity to seek
re-election should terrify every American.

I predict that if re-elected, future historians and political interpreters will look back at the eight-year period 2008-2016, and conclude "the 44th President of the U.S. allowed the takers to overpower the payers, which resulted in the greatest economy in history vanishing from the face of the Earth". Farewell America, the World will really miss you!!"

Lou Pritchett April 15, 2012

It is my hope and prayer that this letter will also go viral and serve as a 'wake up' call to Americans of all political leaning - - convincing them that never before in U.S. history has so much depended on Americans understanding that we are facing one of the greatest crises in U.S. history. Convincing them that this election will be won not by letters to the editor, political speeches, or radio and TV sound bites.

No!! It will be won by those with a conviction, with a belief, and with a willingness to pay the price in helping put the most enlightened voters in the polling booth on November 6.

Let me end on my favorite quote - - which I think is very appropriate for each of us today:

"TO EVERY MAN, THERE COMES IN HIS LIFETIME, THAT SPECIAL MOMENT, WHEN HE IS PHYSICALLY TAPPED ON THE SHOULDER AND OFFERED THE CHANCE TO DO A VERY SPECIAL THING, UNIQUE TO HIM AND FITTED TO HIS TALENT; WHAT A TRAGEDY IF THAT MOMENT FINDS HIM UNPREPARED OR UNQUALIFIED FOR THE WORK WHICH WOULD BE HIS FINEST HOUR."

Those words spoken by Winston Churchill over 70 years ago are very appropriate for all Americans today.

For, if each of us is prepared and is qualified, then 6 November 2012 just might be our, and our Nation's, finest hour as we reclaim this "shining city on the hill" from the ravages of Obama Socialism.

IT IS NOW OR NEVER FELLOW PATRIOTS!! GOD HELP US IF WE FAIL!!

"The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."

Emerson, 1833
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Measley

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Puddles said:
Got this from my grandfather today. It might be old, but it's the first time I've seen it. Absolutely incredible. I don't even have any words.
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In other words they're saying if you put minorities in charge, they destroy America/Civilization. Kind of like Pat Buchanan's racist diatribe about the end of "white America".
I found this one pretty amusing;

THIRD: Culturally, he remains totally out of touch with traditional American
values. This has absolutely nothing to do with race or where he was born, rather it has everything to do with where, how and with whom he was raised, schooled, educated, trained, and associates with - - still today.
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Anytime you need to put a disclaimer that you're not saying something racist, you're saying something racist.
 
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speculawyer

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Puddles said:
Got this from my grandfather today. It might be old, but it's the first time I've seen it. Absolutely incredible. I don't even have any words.
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What a bunch of retarded shit. I understand they don't like the guy. But facts are facts and when something is so filled with completely false information, don't people start to question it?

Given his fanatical beholding to the 'environmental' and 'man-caused global warming' fringe
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I guess scientists are 'fringe' people to the right. But fanatical beholding? He's basically told the climate change people to fuck-off.

he has deliberately discouraged U.S. fossil fuel exploration and production
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Yeah, and that is how oil production increased more than at any time in the last 30 years!

while wasting billions of tax payer dollars on solar, wind, and algae experiments
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Wasted? We have had the largest drop in panel prices and the fastest rise in solar installations.


It's just crazy.
 
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Black Republican

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Romney closes gap in Virginia poll to a tie according to Quinnipiac:

Mitt Romney has closed a 12-point gap to tie with President Obama 44-44 in the latest Quinnipiac poll released Thursday.

This compares to a 50 – 42 percent lead for President Obama in a March 20 survey by the independent Quinnipiac ...University and a 47 – 42 percent Obama lead June 7...

By a narrow 47 – 44 percent, voters say Romney would do a better job on the economy. But voters support 59 – 36 percent Obama’s call to raise income taxes on households making more than $250,000 per year. Support is strong among all income groups – except voters in households making more than $250,000 per year, where 48 percent support the idea and 51 percent oppose it.

In the presidential race, Romney takes Republicans 91 – 4 percent while Obama takes Democrats 92 – 4 percent. Independent voters are divided with 40 percent for Obama and 38 percent for Romney. The president leads 46 – 41 percent among women while Romney wins with men 46 – 42 percent. White voters go to Romney 55 – 33 percent while black voters back Obama 88 – 1 percent.

“Virginia voters are sharply split along gender and political lines about the presidential race. The two candidates equally hold their own political bases and are splitting the key independent vote down the middle,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
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War Peaceman

You're a big guy.
If the people of that time had an effective government then they would have been taught that there is no god and the flood would not have happened.
 
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The Technomancer

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Plinko said:
I'm always totally blown away by how the GOP has snookered old people who get Medicaid and all the other benefits that people do from the government into thinking that the government giving money to its citizens is bad.
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"Obama's government wants to regulate who can and can't drive! Its a slippery slope from here to a totalitarian state in which every citizens movements are controlled, friends"

I personally have contacts inside the White House that assure me that "walking licenses" are the first thing on the agenda if he gets re-elected
 
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Wolfgunblood Garopa

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moop2000 said:
this just about sums up everything that could possibly be wrong with these shitheads.
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The gamesmanship from the right is so transparently cynical, so paranormally stupid, it's almost unbelievable that educated, civilized adult human beings could be responsible for such embarrassing nonsense. A sense of humor only goes so far when trying to stomach these drooling fucks.
 
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Jackson50

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PhoenixDark said:
Actually his numbers decreased due to lowered GDP forecasts
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...-17-obama-odds-fall-on-gloomy-g-d-p-forecast/

Silver obviously has a stellar record but the current rosy picture for Obama almost seems ridiculous. The economy is horrible right now
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The economy is languid, but it's improving. And as many have iterated in this thread, which is often lost on the more defeatist posters, the relative trajectory of the economy is determinative. Further, it's essential not to reduce your analysis to a single variable. As Silver notes in his explanation of the economic index of his model, a single measurement can heavily skew your analysis. So, no. It's not ridiculous. It's a realistic projection.
The_Technomancer said:
Kerry lost against a president who perpetrated what much of the country percieved as a massive fuckup. Obama hasn't had anything nearly like the Iraq war.
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Had the election occurred in 2005, Bush might have lost. But in 2004, although opinions were intensely polarized, a majority probably still supported the effort. And with moderate growth, he was in a fairly secure position.
cartoon_soldier said:
Obama has unemployment above 8%. More people will be worried about that than Iraq war.
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The economy is always salient. The operative question is who benefits from the economy. And given the growth rate, which is positive, Obama has a moderate advantage.
 
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Stinkles

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AlteredBeast said:
You are delusional or out of touch. These are lockstep the right wing talking points of the last 3 years. I am more shocked that he didn't sanctify gun ownership...
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I am talking about the piece, not the content. The content is a rehash of the usual shite, I was referring to the fact that this "beautiful letter" itself wasn't viral.
 
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PhoenixDark

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PantherLotus

Professional Schmuck
I disagree that this is the kitchen sink and you should too. When we start seeing attacks on Romney's leadership at the Olympics, then you'll know we're in silly season.
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
Romney's wife went full retard yesterday. They are so out of touch it's amazing to me that her handlers actually let her talk. These were my favorite bullets:

* "We've given all you people need to know" - re. finances.

* "Do you think he's the kind of person who tries to hide things?" - re. Mitt's indisputable hiding of things.

* "We give ten percent of our earnings to the (Mormon) Church every year." - I don't care about which church personally, I am just refering to the fact that right wing Fundies will think that.

* "Mitt never took a salary as Mass Governor" - he would actually have had to pay proper taxes on that, for once.


Eventually they will have to go Palin-quiet during the Campaign because everything out of their mouths sounds like Thurston Howll IIIrd from Gilligan's Island.


Reminds me of her classic from April.

* "Mitt and I struggled in college, Mitt had to sell stock."
 
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