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FILE - President Obama stands with Jon Huntsman at a town hall style event with Chinese youths at the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai in 2009. (AP)
This isn't the first time Jon Huntsman's work for the Obama administration has been an issue. And it won't the last, especially if Huntsman -- who is leaving his post as U.S. ambassador to China -- ends up running for the GOP presidential nomination.
The Daily Caller reports:
“You are a remarkable leader,” Huntsman wrote to Obama in an Aug. 16, 2009 note, underlining the word “remarkable,” “and it has been a great honor getting to know you.”
The letter thanks Obama for “the graciousness and kindness you have shown me and my family – particularly your confidence in my ability to represent you in China.” Huntsman said he was “leaving behind a state we love – but anticipating an extraordinary experience in Beijing.”
The response from Huntsman's camp:
Reached for comment about the letters, a political strategist who supports Huntsman tried to pin their release on the Obama White House.
“Need further proof that the White House fears Jon Huntsman? I think not,” the source said.
The person who sent the letters to TheDC did so on the condition their identity not be disclosed.
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No where to run to baby... no where to HIDE! lol
I would like to take this opportunity to also thank Mitt Romney & his model that gave us Obama Care!
You guys are too kind! ;o)
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
No where to run to baby... no where to HIDE! lol
The GOP/T-BAGGERs hide behind a veil of lies. I mean else do they besides birthism, fake budgets, sticking their noses in a womam reproductive organs, gays rights, guns, the mysterious Koch brothers.and unholy alliances?
After all that it's a wonder the fleecers are still here.
They really need to go away
I wonder if there were little hearts in the margin? Did he swoon?
Hmmmm?
Hi Clara KCMO
I wonder if there were little hearts in the margin? Did he swoon?
Hmmmm?
I think so. After all, l like I said earlier what else do they have besides birthism, fake budgets, sticking their noses in a womam reproductive organs, gays rights, guns, the mysterious Koch brothers.and unholy alliances?
Swooning is easy; even if they LIE about it.
The GOP/T-BAGGERs hide behind a viel of lies. I mean else do they besides birthism, fake budgets, sticking their noses in a womam reproductive organs, gays rights, guns, the mysterious Koch brothers.and unholy alliances?
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Bev, have you ever considered taking an ESL course??
Joe in Albany
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Bev, have you ever considered taking an ESL course??
Why should I when I have ole Joe in Albany?
Clara, that's perfectly said! Best laugh of the day.
KINKY. Can I YouTube this?
I understand that Obamacare was modeled after Mitt Romney's healthcare plan. What I don't understand is why, since Romney is a highly repected republican, the republicans want to kill it.
Is forming then ignoring debt commissions Obama's new hobby?
Remarkable!
Or is the most remarkable thing about Obama his complete refusal to produce records of his admittedly shady past and use of the Justice Department and Executive Orders (his first day as President) to make it impossible for citizens to find out anything about Obama except what he says?
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Under my energy plan prices necessarily will skyrocket -- Barack Obama
this is so FRICKIN AWESOME:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/pandemonium-dems-jam-panic-republicans-with-even-more-conservative-budget.php?ref=fpa
This proves without ANY doubt that Republicans don't even believe the crap they peddle on a daily basis.
Oh, and it further proves Nancy Pelosi, even in the minority, is a MORE effective leader than Boehner can ever hope to be!
I love my party right now. Please share in the AWESOMENESS!
LoL Whoever says Pelosi doesn't know what she's doing should eat their words.
My own are mighty tasty, I must admit. ;-)
What's a womam? Is this some form of bestiality? Did you get the youtube link?
Now, Joe- don't be 'glib'.
Say Clara did you happen to see the approval/disapproval ratings on the right side of the page?
Interesting, no?
And come on ESL would be of no benefit for Bev. K-8th grade, that'd be a different story. Certainly would help her with her math skills.
That Earthquake and Tsunami that Hit Japan were pretty REMARKABLE too. but they werent that great for that Country either.................. Just Saying...
Bev - I rarely agree with anything you say...but I laughed my ass of with your line "sticking their noses in a womam reproductive organs".
Feisty- think President Obama might want to take his new date on over to the malt-shop??
(now, Steve- don't be 'glib'.)
Not Being Glib.. Just pointing out the Fact that Obama has been as good for this Country as an Earthquake and Tsunami were for Japan...
Both Remarkable.. Neither that good
Voting with no comment.
I would also like to thank Gov.Romney and his model that gave us Obama Care.
From the Berg v. Obama federal lawsuit "Obama went by 5 different names with the lawsuit naming him as the defendant who is or was known as Barack Hussein Obama, Barry Soetoro, Barry Obama, Barack Dunham, and Barry Dunham.” Five different names, refusal to provide transcripts, school records or applications, travel records, refusal to provide hospital records or an official birth certificate, executive order prohibiting production of Obama's records his first day in office, $$$ millions (paid for by whom?) in legal defense costs, Justice Department prosecution of anybody asking questions, firing Inspector Generals who question his friends, random acts of murder by over 100 missles in Libya plus ongoing covert CIA operations on the ground, hires avowed Communists and Maoists, does "blow" "whenever he can get the money", buzzes NYC with AF-1 and Fighter Jets for photo ops, spends more money and has more people on food stamps than any president in history, enjoys forming deficit commissions then ignoring them, ran up higher deficits in 2 years than all prior presidents combined, loves hoops, golf and expensive travel LET'S FACE IT Obama is one EXTRAORDINARY DUDE!
Huntsman will never get the nomination. Remember former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist? All it took was one photo of him being friendly toward President Obama and the ultra-right immediately detected the smell of sulphur. Huntsman will be considered to carry lumps of the stuff in his pockets.
His spokesperson's response is as lame as the righties' typically useless comments here are. but I must say, once again, after a LONG absence, our screech owl, Madison, has migrated to deliver another fine little steaming pile. Swoop and poop, Madison. Your evil malice sets such a nice contrast to the others in the room.
Madison from Beckinstan.
Madison, Madison, Madison......
For once - just once, that's all we ask! - could you please include the part about how that lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge as being "frivolous and not worthy of discussion"?
Or maybe the part where a second judge dismissed a similar case in 2009 as follows:
"This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that America has too many lawyers with not enough to do. Even in its relatively short life the case has excited the blogosphere and the conspiracy theorists. The right thing to do is to bring it to an early end.
The plaintiff says that he is a retired Air Force colonel who continues to owe fealty to his Commander-in-Chief (because he might possibly be recalled to duty) and who is tortured by uncertainty as to whether he would have to obey orders from Barack Obama because it has not been proven -- to the
colonel’s satisfaction -- that Mr. Obama is a native-born American citizen, qualified under the Constitution to be President. The issue of the President’s citizenship was raised,
vetted, blogged, texted, twittered, and otherwise massaged by America’s vigilant citizenry during Mr. Obama’s two-year-campaign for the presidency, but this plaintiff wants it resolved by a court.
The real plaintiff is probably Philip J. Berg, a lawyer who lives in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, and who has pursued his crusade elsewhere, see Berg v. Obama, 574 F. Supp. 2d 509 (E.D. Pa. 2008), invoking the civil rights statutes, the Federal Election Campaign Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the law of promissory estoppel. That case was the subject of a scholarly opinion by a judge who took Mr. Berg’s claims seriously –- and dismissed them.
Mr. Hollister is apparently Mr. Berg’s fallback brainstorm, essentially a straw plaintiff."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
Boy, there are some crazies out there.
These Tea bagger- birther racists types will believe anything bad or lie said about the President.
Now here is something I want you to know, and that many will hold against Obama, Clinton and the Democratic party tomorrow.
THERE IS A GENOCIDE TAKING PLACE UNDER ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC WATCH!!!!!
There is a little known country where people are good, generous and welcoming, and life is relatively good....It is Ivory Coast, a former French colony.....but STLLL very much so, ie a COLONY. You see, The French have NEVER taken their needles out of the arms of their former colonies and are bleeding them dry.
With the help of the UN, they have just rigged an election. in order to place their puppet at the helm, and America had played a very significant role in this. The French VERY ILLEGALLY invaded, bombed and killed thousands on civilians (MORE than 09/11), and KIDNAPPED the President that was constitutionally elected to put him in the arms of the rebel opposition, a bloody group of illiterate killers who have already eliminated more than half the members of one of the most competent and honest governments in African history..
The Ivory Coast has become a killing field where ethnic cleansing and genocide is going on in silence....the UN has deposited (I DID say the UN forces there) hoards of rampaging, illiterate KILLERS from neighboring countries in the Sahara,that are wiping out entire villages....the crimes are horrendous (slit throats, cutting open the bodies of pregnant women, burning entire villages, throwing living and dead in wells, pursuing those who flee with hound dogs, placing land mines around churches that serve as refugee centers.).In the capital Abdijan, thousands are killed, houses illegally occupied while their owners are fleeing or hiding, the contents of others are emptied and carted away.
WE (the US: Obama, Hillary, Rice) support the bloody leader of this rebellion.....who has been trying for the past 20 years to overthrow the legal government.
He is NOT even Ivoirian but was accorded nationality by the sitting President , to appease the tense situation. He is from Burkina Faso, his wife is French....President Sarkozy married them when he w as Mayor of Neuilly, France in the 90s. He is the French puppet candidate to facilitate the plunder of Ivoirian resources as has been the case forever. France and Burkina Faso have been very active in this coup d'etat and the destabilization of the Ivory Coast. The countries CANNOT develop under this system of plunder and enslavement.
Obama has preferred pushing a part of Africa back in the hands of colonialism....Africans across ALL Africa are angry and VERY disappointed; they just expected something better, more honest.
Amazingly, it is a REPUBLICAN Senator, Inhofe of Oklahama, who has decided to bring this GRAVE injustice to light; unfortunately, he is in the minority and Obama thinks it is in the US best interest to hope it goes away. Believe me, it wont.
THE FRENCH AND THE UN ARE GUILTY OF VERY GRAVE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AS WELL AS GROSS INGERENCE IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF A SOVEREIGN NATION. AND WE ARE BACKING THE WRONG CANDIDATE, A BLOODY BUTCHER, AND AN ILLEGAL PRESIDENT. AFRICA DESERVES BETTER>
Here is an article containing some images of what is taking place....and there are more horrible ones yet....like 800 burnt bodies (RedCross, HRW, Amnesty Int'l).
SEARCH YOUR CONSCIENCE!!!!!...even
www.cameroonvoice.com/news/news.rcv?id=3547
www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=119142914828410
Was he saying remarkably good, or remarkably bad? It could be used either way.
You want to know what is TRULY remarkable about Obama? The fact that Wikileaks busted him and his admin paying terrorists to start uprisings in the Middle East, and he is so loved by the liberals and their media outlets that the story is buried. Hell, I can't even find it on MSNBC. That's TRULY remarkable. Fall at the feet of the Great Obama, for he is infallible!
Seriously laughing my balls off over here on this one. :o
yep dragon, gotta agree. Wonder what happened to obamas leadership since aug 2009?
Sure, whatevs, bro. Laughing more at the big picture, here - how on earth this qualifies as newsworthy; how the hell Hunstman does an about-face; endless quarrels over the caliber of the present administration in all its myriad forms.
Laughing. And choking, to some extent, on the great, big, meaty, cheesy, putrid enchilada of hypocrisy and absurdity that constitutes the age in which we live.
...@!$%#, now I want Taco Bell. :|
It gets better, he also hearts Hillary and Bill:
That's going to cost Huntsman a lot of Tea Party votes. But that's what happens when Huntsman tells the truth.
I would say something snarky, but it's hard to find the motivation to type when I'm stuffing my face with Double Deckers and Potato Burritos. :|
Exodite Dragon - how the hell Hunstman does an about-face
I guess the same way Obama does, like on his vote as a Senator to not raise the debt ceiling but now tell others they must vote for raising the debt ceiling, like on his promise to never extend tax cuts for the wealthy, like on his commitment to close Gitmo.
It's really quite easy to do an about-face, if your name is Obama. No one seems overly concerned about his flips.
@BigGov-3321680:
Did you miss the line about absurdity and hypocrisy overall?
Do you people just zero in on key words? Do I need to just get the phrase, "I HATE EVERYTHING" burned into my forehead with a welding torch?
"It gets better, he also hearts Hillary and Bill"
Amy,
Jon Huntsman is a rational moderate guy, who doesnt think his political opponents are the devil incarnate.
You could do well to learn from him . Say something nice about the Governor of Maine.
Aw come on ED cut 'em all some slack, its Friday.
And by golly it must be newsworthy if it's here on First Read.
Just think Murray actually took the write it [or at least cobble together some cuts and pastes] up.
I'd say he's definitely ready for the head anchor desk on the TV.
"..welding torch?"
Subtle, E.D.
Subtle.
Perhaps TOO subtle for this venue?
Yes, Bob, he is, and the reason we're all laughing is the IRONY (look it up) that his own party -- and yours -- will now reject the "rational moderate guy" in favor of another, more extreme, not rational, and not moderate person.
Just goes to show, and thanks for pointing it out.
I admit it, bag boy. Using a welding torch on your forehead is always a bit too subtle an image for me to absorb.
Lower might work. ;-)
@MB:
Well, if, for the sake of annihilating all doubts, I said, "Giant Orbital Laser Array of Death," someone might liken that to the Star Wars Initiative and misconstrue me as a Reagan Republican. I can't allow anything to paint me as being politically aligned, whatever the degree.
I need to maintain that image of a misanthropic eel at all costs. :|
Don't listen to Anna Molly, E.D.
Stick to the forehead.
Unless you want your vocal range to extend to falsetto.
I wasn't talking about ME, Bag Boy.
And isn't "false-etto" the voice conservatives always use?
Exodite Dragon,
All this controversy about Huntsman, and Chocodiles still not available on the East Coast.
It is unfortunate that Ambassador Huntsman will be relegated to the ranks of the also ran long before mid-summer next year. An intelligent, moderate, conservative patriot. When asked to serve his country, he did. Very few politicians would put aside their party affiliations and political ambitions for one day, let alone 2+ years.
The nice thing about an Obama vs. Huntsman campaign would be that no matter who won, the country would be well served by the debate. Both are highly intelligent gentleman who would not have to get down in the gutter with the birther, kenyan, mao-mao crowd. Raising the level of political discourse alone would be worth seeing Ambassador Huntsman as leading the Republican ticket.
Only the political comedians would suffer, but they can always find the likes of Walker, Barbour, or LePage to do or say something foolish.
Huh? A letter in which Huntsman calls Obama a "remarkable leader" is supposed to be a signal that Obama fears Huntsman? Uh, okay.
In a related story, 2 + 2 now equals a bushel of potatos.
Awesome, made me laugh lol.
Good one, Da Noid! One of the best laughs of the day.
The fact that he considers President Obama a "remarkable leader" is, in and of itself, reason enough to disqualify Huntsman for the Presidency.
Poor judgment...questionable analytical skills.
They're trying to spin it so that Obama maliciously released the private emails in order to discredit Huntsman... Yeah... don't think that's working.
They're all part of the old boy's club. Politics is just a game to them. You say the right things, pander to the right groups, and whoever is best at it gets the prize -- a government position they can use to enrich themselves and their buddies. Even politicians who in public oppose each other are simply playing different strategies in their personal games. They don't take it personally and are often quite friendly with each other in private.
If you think any politician believes what he says, you're fooling yourself. The more genuine and sincere they seem, the better they are at manipulating you.
The best us regular people can do is recognize that this is what they're doing and try to vote for the guy who is most likely to pander to your own interests. Everything they do is all for show, but you might as well pick a show that benefits you.
As compared with .... oh, say .... Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Mitt the flip-flopper Romney (nice well-poisoning, eh?), Mike Huckabee, that silly judge guy, or ... whom?
Gotta love the box you're in now, doncha, Bag Boy? Not much left to pick from, is there?
You got me, Anna Molly...
Palin, Gingrich, Trump, and Bachmann aren't much better than President Obama, are they?
But, AM...not to overstate the point...
Isn't that the problem?
Da Noid:
Hys-ter-ical!!!
LMAO!
No, not much better. Much worse.
Beats me. I'M the loony liberal. YOU'RE the analysis guy.
Seems I done died and gone to heaven. Time to quit while I'm ahead, Bag Boy. ;-)
You need to build a better box, AM.
That was easy.
Yes, I do. Maybe Al Gore would show me how.
Because I think a lockbox would be VERY nice.
And it isn't even the "silly season" of politics yet. Jon Huntsman's staff is doing him a disservice by trying to deflect the letters as a plot by the other side. What they should do is simply say that Mr. Huntsman meant what he wrote. The public would perceive that honesty as a breath of fresh air. That's what leadership is. Finger-pointing, fist pounding is not leadership--it is, however, remarkably similar to Senator Kyl's office claiming that Kyl's comment "was not intended as a factual statement".
Jody - seems that you missed obamas campaign speech the other day, talk about finger pointing!
Agreed.
Did he write the words, or did he not? And is he willing to stand by them?
If he wants to land on his feet, and he's really the classy guy he seems to be, he'll take credit for the words. If he doesn't, he will come off as being two-faced and disloyal, a fawning sycophant to political expediency -- on both sides.
Either way, we'll know him.
Now this is the representation the Republicans need and are now about to get. President Obama is a remarkable leader. I second that.
Actually, it is pretty pathetic that the President of the United States would waste time leaking a little suck up letter of thanks by a guy he gave a job to a year and and a half ago when the unemployment is still above 9% after a couple years, we are now in 3 wars, the Mideast is getting ready to explode, the world is rebuking his economic policies, he can't come up with an economic plan, gas prices are exploding, food prices are skyrocketing .........
Is the guy this insecure?
Sheez. Do we ever have problems when he has to leak this.
What next ...... a letter from mom telling little Barry what a fine son he was? (Must not exist, ...... probably got lost in the international mail between Indonesia and Hawaii.)
Really bugs you, doesn't it, bob, that a distinguished, rational guy like Huntsman sees President Obama for what he really is and is willing to say so.
So what does that say about you?
And that's what you really don't like about it, isn't it?
Bob--I felt your pain for 8 years under the Bush Jr. Administration, when most of the problems you mention began.
Anna,
I couldn't care less about Huntsman, or what he thought about Obama 1 1/2 years ago.
What bugs me is the economy needlessly still being in tank, doing nothing to help the unemployment situation, gas prices needlessly being driven up, food prices needlessly being driven up, needless waste of Libya, .......
I don't know ....... I'm not a partisan, gullible idiot.
Actually, you are. And that's EXACTLY what it says about you.
You're way too much fun today, bob.
Bob,
Since most of the gas and food price increases are driven by speculation you should question the Republicans that refused to fund the new financial reform law that puts restrictions on speculation.
About unemployment the Republicans promised to make that their #1 issue prior to last year’s elections but since they took office not 1 single bill to improve the climate for job creation.
Preceded,
Everyone supported the Afghanistan action. It was a great iniatial success. The situation detoriated after a few years with the anti-war movement but it wasn't a lost cause. Obama said that was the war we had to fight, he would win it. He has been an utter disaster - losing American lives at six times the monthly rate as Bush. I didn't like the idea of the Iraq War simply because the media and left did not possess the ability to politics aside long enough to see it through. Oh well. Libya is absurd. We do not subordinate our military to the Arab League and the UN.
Bush spent to much. Obama is Bush on steriods. Bush was not tough on illegal immigration, Obama almost courts it in an effort to get the hispanic vote.
Bush tried to reform Fannie and Freddie, he failed - he should have tried harder. Obama almost instigated it, he was the third highest recipient of Fanny and Freddie money.
Bush opened drilling and prices dropped. Obama has wantonly destroyed the energy industry - prices have doubled and they aren't turning around till the idiot is gone. Likewise with food prices and the ethanol and farm subsidies.
Bush was big on subsidies. Obama is Bush on steroids. Bush was big government. Obama is big government on steroids.
Problems started with Bush. Yea Obama campaigned against him for years, still does. So why does Obama out do Bush? Why is everything so much worse?
Why don't you get it?
Anna,
To stupid to actually refute something? Come on - you're probably brighter than Bev, Feisty and Louis.
Dennis,
Obama has wantonly crippled the energy industry. FACT.
What is there to speculate except how high price is going to go because of Obama's policy to cripple supply?
Food prices? When you subsidize the farm industry, when you subsidize the ethanol industry and creat the incentive to put corn in the gas tank instead of on the table - what else is there to do but speculate how high it going to rise. Sheez.
The business world needs sane spending. It needs cost certainty. It needs the roll back of the rogue EPA and all the Obama czars. Everything the republicans are trying to do address these issues. Sorry if it seems over your head.
Gas up again, 24th day in a row. Inflation is here and its only going to get worst.
"To" stupid? Oh welp... but please, keep trying.
Giggidy
:^/
Louis,
Maybe the statement wasn't fair. I don't know.....Feisty never posts anything of substance or original. You and Bev post the most utterly ignorant and incoherent stuff day after day.
So is Feisty smarter .... knowing when she is over her head. Should she be there with you and Bev?
I don't know ...
yea....... giddyup and giggidy along now ....
louisj
bob 'kettle' just called anna molly 'pot' BLACK
do you think it had racial undertones
hehehehehehe
The White House leaked this to discredit Huntsman, that is obvious.
If a GOP candidate criticizes Obama, the moonbats complain the GOP is vicious, mean etc.
If a GOP candidate like Huntsman had worked with Democrats, you might thnk that would give him credibility
I'm not really sure why Ambassador Huntsman wouldn't welcome this letter -- it shows diplomacy, tact, and sincerity. Who wouldn't thank the person appointing them to a great job? If something as simple as a letter like this "disqualifies" Mr. Huntsman in the eyes of the GOP, the GOP is doomed.
Bob-1887910
The White House leaked this to discredit Huntsman, that is obvious.
Beck is trying to dispel a few of his conspiratorial myths. You really need to get out of Glenn Beck's head.
That would make living a lot easier for both you and Glenn Beck.
I would advice YOU to get MIA.
Huntman's problem is that he has too MUCH credibility. He's not a kook like MIchele Bachmann or Donald Trump, and he doesn't pander to the kooks like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty. He has less of a chance of getting the Republican presidential nomination than Trump does, and less chance than the Easter Bunny, for that matter.
Oh, I don't know. Their sort of wrathful, vengeful God wouldn't like Huntsman very much.
He should stay off the golf course during storms. ;-)
Houston - he is a diplomat.
Anna - flashing back to caddyshack? lol
Emphasis on "flash," american. ;-)
Discredit Huntsman with his own words? Exactly how do those words discredit Huntsman, Bob?
And be specific, please.
Because that accusation, on its face, says more about you than it does about Huntsman or the White House.
That's going to leave a hickey..!
This guy is more "down with the black people" than Donald Trump and Michele Bachmann put together!
John Huntsmann to Republican base "Me and the Freshy Prez is bros, he hooked me up, thats what I'm talking about."
And an ex ex extraordinary one.
@!$%#, every time he talks to his blow hole Vice President it sounds like they survived the battle of the bulge.
No shame in spooning is the motto even though you sad and shameful @!$%#s have literally destroyed everything they made possible.
A job you jokes would be better qualified for since these professional actors (cough, cough Penetta) are becoming filthy rich as my citizens needlessly get killed or come home all @!$%#ed up because my country's puritan expectation is to never have any threat, but only from the very smallest threat to their real life, as people die everyday in their communities from ordinary, non foreign, gun crime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWjPvu9YsSc&feature=fvst
Huh?
WOW Jody! FINALLY something you and I agree on!
Uh.......no? or wait yes? I am not sure what you said Rich
I think he said "it could be if it was, but if it wasn't it might, but then again on the other hand, either yes or no, I don't know".
Or, he might have just been trying to be 'glib'.
Or just trying to get that letter off his desk because he had other letters waiting, like Scott Walker says he was trying to do when he accepted that bribe from the faux David Koch.
As far as the Republican base is concerned, it would have been better for Huntsman if he had written a letter admitting he kidnapped the Lindburg baby. The poor guy is toast.
Toast? Sounds delightful. Personally, I like my Huntsman on crispy crackers with a sparkling wine ... say a nice Prosecco.
After all, he sounds just like a cheesy, wannabe liberal elitist to me.
And just like my crackers, finished ... in a New York minute.
And that he also threw baby Jessica down the well.
Anna - being rather creative today, I see.
@ american ~ I'm creative every day, for those with eyes to see. And thanks.
I think. ;-)
@ Forrest Grump ~ Oh, no ... did he really?! The anti-abortion crowd will NOT like that.
But no matter. With a name like Huntsman, the NRA is sure to love him. ;-)
AM and company
First Read sets the standard so I am told for MSNBC. I guess there isn't much going on in the world today but I would bet most people leave here with a smile on their face for a change.
We live to serve, Maggie. :)
Did Trump mean 'The Blacks' thing be taken as a factual statement ?
I think it was Senator Tom Coburn (ok) who thought that obama was a wonderful guy as well and that he liked michelle and the kids as well. Ideology was quite another matter. 95% of what obama wanted was wrong.
Believe me Coburn never said that - you are trying to discredit him. Coburn wouldn't give 0b0z0 the time of day.
You're just saying that because JOHN KYL KILLED A GUY WITH HIS UMBRELLA IN AN AMPHETAMINE-INDUCED RAGE. #notintendedasafactualstatement.
Most excellent!
if we could 'fan' on this site, you just earned it with that quip!
I agree, he is a remarkable leader. Considering the times and the pressures and the opposition from the right and in many instances from the extreme left, remarkable!
Remarkably bad, corrupt and immoral!
Re-markable, yes, he (or at least his deceptiveness) is. Guess if one is 'serving' at the pleasure of the president he occasionally must issue statements that, if not read in there entirity might seem stupid. Far too much is being implied by those supporters of his excellancy, Mr. Obama, with the 'leaking' of these letters.
Really?! What's being implied, and in what sense was a letter written by an ambassador to a President, a public document not on a classified subject, "leaked"? Why should it have been kept secret?
I don't think Huntsman's statement seems "stupid," and I doubt it was taken out of true context. To me it seems sincere, and I applaud him for that. From everything I've ever heard, Huntsman is a classy guy, and you should applaud him, too. But you don't like it because it exposes you and your other ignorant conservative friends as being "stupid," not to mention petty and mean-spirited, for your ceaseless, mindless, baseless attacks on the President.
Personally, I think Huntsman is just making sure he lands on his feet, whichever way this turns out.
I'd call that savvy.
Fine, but I call it hypocracy, something that all liberal and socialists are familiar with. The concept that you, who have never met me, know what is good for me and my family.
Where on earth did that come from? So typical, and yet ... so typical. No answer on Huntsman, so you change the subject and accuse me of caring about you and your family.
Well. Guilty as charged.
Just like conservatives who have never met me presume to know what's best for me in terms of my reproductive rights, my right to affordable health care .... and so on.
I guess you and I have a lot in common, if you think about it that way.
I would prefer not to, if you don't mind.
Even tea party patriots find Obama "remarkable" but what remarks?
There is no way in heck that Huntsman would ever win the Republican nomination. The Republican party has a more conservative make-up at the moment, and Huntsman is acctually a progressive Republican. He's not centrist, but much farther left.
I actually have a theory about the whole Huntsman thing, and I'm keeping it close to the vest to see if it will play out. So far I haven't heard the political talking heads bring it up. I don't want to give them any ideas. See if they come up with it on their own.
"Remarkable" can mean sarcasm! too. Obama is remarkable incompetent and anit american. But, then he was not born here.
The words were "remarkable leader."
By the way, what does "anit american" mean? And don't you know that "American" should be capitalized?
Or maybe your failure to capitalize "American" signals you're not from America, either, and you don't believe in American exceptionalism.
And now that I look more closely, your name seems a little suspcious, too. Could we please see YOUR birth certificate "edwardo"?
This why American politics has gotten so smelly. I am not all that old, but I remember a time when it political opponents respected each other. Anyone who sunk so low as to attack his opponent personally, e.g, questioning his patriotism, was looked on with disdain by those with better judgment.
This is the difference between political hacks and statesmen. Our current debate is dominated by the hacks. The statesmen, who decline to sink so low, need not apply. I don't know much about Huntsman, but the fact that he is able to compliment a man who might be his political opponent suggests that he is a statesman. Hence, the Republicans will have no use for him.
This should have a hundred votes.
Robert Burnside, I agree with you 100%. That is why Ambassador Huntsman should get a fair shake at the nomination on the Republican side. He is, in every sense of the word, a statesman. Any politician who allows the "birther" bs or any blatantly false attacks to take place without responding does not deserve to get a vote.
Ambassador Huntsman is no Republican - he is a RINO - same as a DINO. If he wants to be POTUS it will have to be running against 0bummer for the Dem nomination. I doubt the people of Iowa would let him in the state.
Does anyone think that President Obama didn't know there was an open mic at the fund raiser. It would not be hard to spot Mark the CBS radio guy who left the mic open. If you ever watch the press briefings, Mark is the big man who almost takes up two seats, and the President did not see him, give me a break.
Not for a second, dottielou! ;o)
This is the best MSNBC can report,an employee brown nosing his boss?
I have been taking some time off this site for awhile to clear my head, just occasionally reading something from Feisty or Bev to remind me how the world is just as loony as ever, but I have had to come back to say, I have fallen in love with Anna Molly.
As loony as they come.
I could bring myself to cross party lines to vote for Huntsman. Unfortunately, his chances of securing the Republican nomination in 2012 brings to mind the Biblical adage about the chances for a rich man to get into heaven. It's a shame, really.
Maybe he and all the moderates from both parties can come together to form a Moderate Americans Party, for 2016. There's a MAP for that for both iPhone and Android.
My guess is this was leaked by Huntmans' own campaign. Most people don't follow the news on Friday because they are already to busy thinking about the weekend. Also, the Sunday talk shows have already decided what to talk about by Friday so Friday news usually doesn't get covered. If you have something that will hurt you best to minimize the damage by releasing it Friday. It will be old news by Monday.
Your a remarkable leader... there has been no leader on Earth that leads as poorly as you do.
it's (you're) a remarkable leader.....there has been no poster on Vine today that spells as poorly as you do.