Hey Pat - At least now we know where Jody, JohnB & Drive-By are! lol

Color me impressed with those WHOPPING turnouts! ;o)))

Think Progress:

GINGRICH: [Immigrants] need to pass a test of American history. And candidly, it wouldn’t be bad to have a test like that for young Americans before they start voting.

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Need to pass a test? Doesn't this sound similiar to what happened in the south all those years ago. Voter suppression is real. Did you see the video on Ed's program last night of what happened in Wisconsin? Horrible. Just horrible.

This afternoon I took a walk, mainly because raindrops weren't falling on my head for the first time since like - October - Anyway, two gentlemen approached me to ask if I could direct them to where the Tea Party took place.

They were from the Middle East. And they couldn't have been more gracious. I think it was a father, with his son and then his daughter. Three generations. It made me a little sad to see how people are reacting to President Obama's speech yesterday, especially the uneducated fools - from Newt's party mostly. And they're not immigrants. Just haters of anything that sounds new or different in ideas.

So when they start the testing, sign up Romney first. He's not aware that President Obama did not throw Israel under the bus. btw, who is going to write up the tests? And what if someone fails? Does that mean they can't vote?

Anyway, I hope this family I ran into today enjoy their stay here in America and are treated with kindness wherever they go. Meanwhile, President Obama will see if he can get people to have a fresh outlook to Israel/Palestine. Here's hoping he does.

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A number of Jewish groups have responded positively to Mr. Obama's remarks - particularly in light of his comments calling for a non-militarized Palestinian state and denouncing Palestinian efforts "to delegitimize Israel."

"We support the President's vision of a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian settlement with strong security provisions for Israel, and a non-militarized Palestinian state," said the Anti-Defamation League's Robert Sugarman and Abraham Foxman. "We appreciate his direct rejection of a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state and his understanding that the Hamas-Fatah agreement poses major problems for Israel."

David Harris, the Executive Director of the American Jewish committee, also praised the call for revived negotiations.

"President Obama has sternly warned the Palestinians, and the international community, to stop this senseless drive to try to achieve a state without any negotiated agreement with Israel," he said on Thursday. "The parameters of a two-state solution are just as clear today as they were when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walked away from the peace talks last September...The Palestinians must return now to close the deal."

J Street, a pro-Israel, pro-peace organization, added that it "wholeheartedly endorses" the president's proposal.

"[Mr. Obama] is correct in saying that Israel will only find security through granting the Palestinian people their freedom, and the Palestinian people will only achieve freedom if Israel finds security," said J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami in a Thursday statement.

And Noah Pollak, the executive director for the Emergency Committee for Israel, said via Twitter that Mr. Obama's remarks should come as no shock to Netanyahu.

"I don't think there's anything in this speech that Netanyahu will find surprising or even disagreeable," he Tweeted.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20064466-503544.html

Well, whether yo agree with the President or not, you still have to give him credit for putting it out there knowing he was going to catch all kind of flack for it.

I really feel for Newt. the guy was just stating the obvious about a catastrophic bill passed in the congress only to be clubbed by his unforgiving brethrens. I wish you, Newt, well in your journey to nowhere near the presidency. Please, just keep busting the teabaggers lies.

Uh, yeah, sure, Feisty- I coudln't decide whether to get drunk, or go bowling. Then I remembered our special visitor.....

Retired, I agree. I remember when President Clinton was dealing with Northern Ireland. It was tough and I never thought anything would come of it. President Carter too at Camp David. I think I read that Begin and Sadat were literally heading for their respective automobiles, with nothing accomplished. But President Carter called them back.

So it takes a lot of tenacity, a lot of rethinking outlooks, etc. I hope the same thing happens here. If people sincerely want a good outcome, they will get it. Eventually.

Pat, Boston, MA..

...and from the people that are actually part of the process..from Salon.

Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu issued a swift rejection of Obama's remarks. He called the 1967 lines "indefensible." Netanyahu said today after meeting with Obama there is no going back to the 1967 borders.

Although Obama's remarks have been read as a concession to Palestine, Hamas has already spoken out against the president since his speech. According to Ynet News, Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Sami Abu-Zuhri said:

The (Arab) nation does not need a lesson on democracy from Obama... Rather, Obama is the one who needs the lesson given his absolute endorsement of Israel's crimes and his refusal to condemn Israel's occupation.

This has been the Arab reaction for years and still some people are foolish enough to think they are going to change it.

Then I remembered our special visitor.....

Don't leave home without your pixie dust! ;op

I agree, but some people want to keep traveling down the same road, even though it leads to no where.

"People are turning out in big numbers," Tyler says. "If anything the turnouts would have been bigger if the media coverage was positive and not negative."

Geez, could you at least wait until you drop out before you blame it all on the "lamestream" media?

Maybe the media coverage is all negative because.....oh, never mind.

IntheMiddle, TX..

I'm not for him either, but even if he pulled 1,000 people a stop in these rural communities, they'd ridicule him anyway.

Evidently you never venture out of Boston

Evidently you're still a moron!

If you ever actually bothered to READ what Pat post's, you would KNOW she has traveled the world!

Go sit down!

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

Evidently you're still a moron!

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Aren't you the one that criticizes everyone for name calling?

What do you think calling someone a moron is?

Aren't you the one that criticizes everyone for name calling?

Wasn't me - you must be thinking of someone else...

POPULATION in the city limits only:

Dubuque – 57,637
Cedar Rapids – 126,326
Des Moines – 203,433
Mason City – 28,079
Waterloo – 68,406
Marshalltown – 27,552
Ames – 58,965
Carroll – 10,106
Atlantic – 7,112
Council Bluffs – 62,230
Onawa – 3,091
Sioux City – 82,684

ITM:

Evidently you never venture out of Boston. There are a lot of little small towns that only have a population of 1000 or less. 200 people is big for these little towns.

You are such a funny blowhard. There may be a lot of such little towns, but the article doesn't mention any of them. As I see that Dennis has pointed out in the post immediately above this one.

Evidently, you never venture out of your own delusions.

Groucho Marx:

What do you think calling someone a moron is?

For you? About right.

Sorry. Way too easy. Consider it unsaid. ;-)

Well, as Newt said -

Some people need an education before they vote. Sign ITM up first please. All he seems to have is a big mouth around here.

Wow Dennis....

Des Moines only 200 folk out of 203,433 wasted time to see the Newt......doesn't look good or maybe it is good, not to waste time!

ITM......???????

Total population of towns mentioned about 700,000, total turn out for Newt about 1500 that is about .2% of the population.

The only people that saw Newt were the ones that could not escape the gravitational pull of his huge fat ass and planet sized head.

I think he had more people come to his book signings. People like his books because they are about things that never happened, like the Confederacy winning the Battle of Gettysburg. Now he wants live in the White House. That will never happen either.

Bingo.

"I think some people will come out to see anyone they consider to be famous."

.or, even dumber than that one lady from up in Alaska. The one with the big glasses and screech-y voice.

Bingo to you, too, drive-by-observer!

Maybe if Newt played soccer....

Honestly, he might have a better chance at making the 2014 Uruguayan World Cup team than winning the Presidency in 2012. I just don't see him being competitive in the primary.

Newt would make a hell of a goaltender! He would fit right in, and nothing else could get past him.

Wow, The Dingaling Brother's and Sister's Family Values Circus. A 3 ding extravaganza propaganda event...the only problem is they are charging $5,000 per ticket to watch, proceeds to their favorite charity: The Koch Brothers Astroturf Program....