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Subscribe to RSSGOFFSTOWN, PLYMOUTH, and DURHAM, NH -- Just days after Mitt Romney's New Jersey surrogate, Gov. Chris Christie, hit the road for Romney in Iowa, another New Jersey leader, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, yesterday campaigned for President Obama here in New Hampshire, where he criticized of Romney's oft-cited "private sector experience" and issued a few jabs at Christie himself.
"I like to punish people with facts," Booker told students at University of New Hampshire on Friday. "The other side often tries to distract you from the facts. Look at Mitt Romney's first ad! Blatant lies. You can't let people get away with that."
Booker, seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party, questioned the flagship credential of Romney's campaign: business and private-sector experience.
“There is no natural correlation between private sector business experience and how you’re going to do,” Booker told reporters in Plymouth.
“Unfortunately New Jersey is seeing that right now with the private-sector business experience of our former governor and the challenges that he’s facing right now,” Booker added, citing former New Jersey Gov. and Sen. Jon Corzine (D), who has found himself in the epicenter of a controversy surrounding MF Global, a brokerage firm. “Is it the private -ector business experience of a Bernie Madoff?”
“Now, I’m not comparing Romney to those folks with all due respect," Booker said. "But I'm saying to you if you look at the presidents we all respect: Abraham Lincoln was a failure at business, was one of our greatest presidents. FDR didn't have private-sector business experience, but did a great job. John F. Kennedy was a phenomenal president that didn't have business experience. Those are false arguments. The reality is who has the better plan for the United States of America."
The Newark mayor, who has been considering a run for Senate and New Jersey governor, also jabbed his state's chief executive, Gov. Christie. Booker joked with students in Durham, "There's a very shy governor of my state -– you probably haven't heard of him because he's very soft spoken."
"My governor is a very pugilistic man, and he's up here punching at my president like crazy, saying outrageous stuff," Booker added. "I can't believe.. that the president is an 'appeaser.' I'm going to keep punishing people with the facts."
The Romney campaign was quick to respond to Booker's comments.
"The Obama Campaign’s decision to deploy a top surrogate to disparage private sector experience is insulting to New Hampshire small business owners and reminds voters of how out of touch this Administration is," Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said in response to Booker's comments.
Booker did not stop at Romney. He bluntly criticized the entire Republican presidential field.
"Most of them don't even believe in global warming. The other side doesn't believe that we should have expanded Pell grants," he said at Plymouth State University. "The other side doesn't believe that we should have greater equal rights for all Americans. The other side is attacking things that would help the middle class like having a payroll tax cut.
At each stop, Booker implored students and voters across New Hampshire to get out and fight against a "state of sedentary agitation" that he sees in the United States. He admitted Obama's health-care plan "was not perfect," but reminded voters that "change" required a sustained effort and a second term for Obama. His three-stop tour of Saint Anselm College, Plymouth State University, and University of New Hampshire was an effort to help win back young voters Obama may have lost during his first term.
"But I'm not just here to say vote for this guy," Booker said. "This is a state where we need people to get more organized, more involved. Wherever this state goes, it could take the whole country as well. The leadership in this state is critical in the coming months."
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The choice is real clear, do you want a country that is only for the 1% for do you think America is for all the people?
Do you want a party that instead of education thinks we should teach the poor how to clean a bathroom in school?
Do you want a party that thinks our environment is only for trashing? That somehow our grand-kids won't need clean water to drink or clean air to breath.
Especially do you want a party that has supported the killing of medicare?
Do you want a party that would raise taxes on the working poor and middle class while fighting to protect the rich from investing one thin dime in their own country?
For the love of America Obama/Biden 2012
Americans First--- Answer: No,No,No,No and No.
More thoughts on the kind of party we want to run America.
Do we want a party that is determined to start another war?
Do we want a party that lets faux smear fear to once again push a war in which our youth die and Haliburton and war profiteers gets rich?
Do you really want a president who was caught being bought off by Murdoch, the head of the faux propaganda machine? He had to give back the money and was thrown out of congress and lost his role as speaker of the house. I guess republicans had more ethics in those days.
I sure hope that Newt's entire jobs plan isn't putting poor children to work as janitors.
Somehow it seems fitting that slime like Newt would represent the republican party.
Here's an article from yesterday brought to my attention over @ The Obama Diary:
The Washington Monthly/Keith Humphreys, {snippets of article}
Jonathan Chait’s much-discussed essay in New York magazine indicted the left for being perennially, loudly and unrealistically disappointed in Democratic Presidents. In Chait’s view, much of the left ignores the constraints on Presidential power (e.g., Congress, of which Drew Westen et al seem to be in ignorance) and doesn’t have the stomach or attention span for the slow, daily grind of governance. He also charges the left with crippling their own leaders with faithlessness and then blaming them when they are thereby forced to compromise with the other side. Chait sees these patterns as almost entirely independent of Obama, being instead a style, outlook and set of norms among liberals that goes back for decades. In short, liberals are dissatisfied with Obama because liberals, on the whole, are incapable of feeling satisfied with a Democratic president. They can be happy with the idea of a Democratic president—indeed, dancing-in-the-streets delirious—but not with the real thing.
But all that said, my own question of why Blacks so love Obama elides the broader reality evidenced by their very high approval ratings of a white Democratic President, Bill Clinton. Blacks have a special place in the hearts for Barack Obama, but fundamentally, if you are a Democratic President, Black people in this country have your back.
What Some White Liberals Could Learn From Black Liberals
Many white progressives have remained loyal to the President they elected. But imagine the situation if all white liberals were as consistently supportive of their Presidents as are Black liberals. President Obama would currently be assured of easy re-election and the Congress would know it, making his negotiating hand infinitely stronger. Democratic donors could re-direct money to Congressional races secure in the knowledge that Obama’s re-election was a lock. Instead, like all Democratic Presidents, Barack Obama knows he is leading an army in which some of the troops (as Chait notes) were calling him a traitor even before he got sworn in and an increasing number are looking to abandon the field. In that situation, a rational commander looks for an accommodation with the other side because he can’t win with a half-committed army versus a fully-committed one. A subset of white liberals are thus creating the conditions for their own disappointment, and for that of those white and black liberals who have kept the faith.
Why aren’t white liberals as consistently supportive of their Presidents as Black liberals?
Despite massive, heroic progress in racial equality in the United States, white people still get their way more often or not. And it’s easy to get used to that. Black people, even highly accomplished Black people, are more aware that all change is resisted, good things don’t happen without years of sustained work, and that often you have to work twice as hard to get half as much. They don’t expect a yellow pony for a birthday present and thus they don’t feel that someone has failed them when it isn’t delivered giftwrapped to their door.
That makes them the grown-ups of the American left, whom the hold-your-nose set would do well to emulate.
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I think if either Romney or Gingrich get elected this country is never going to recover. Look how long it has taken to attempt to recover from the GWB years.
And if the left, who believe btw that they are the only ones who matter, don't help to get President Obama re-elected and fix Congress, then they are going to prove once and for all that they were never really that important anyway. We saw what happened with the 2010 midterms.
Barack Obama's election was supposed to be an ongoing process, election by election. But as the article points out, the left have no stomach for disappointment. They are quitters. Black Americans were never quitters.
I still often wonder what sort of stories they grew up with when speaking with their grandparents. Their stories don't in any way, shape or form compare to White Americans' histories.
I grew up not really poor, but I and my siblings went without a great deal only because we were from a huge family. Disappointments and let downs were there of course. It's part of being a child. It goes with the territory.
But we had a ton of fun, we got good public educations and had the freedom to do what we wanted. Neither I nor my family members or friends were ever barred from voting, from where to live, from pubic transportation, from trying to find a job.
I always felt like one of the fortunate ones when I was old enough to comprehend fully what had happened with Black Americans throughout their history here in America.
And you learn that if you want to fight for a cause, if you want to fight for progess, then you have to literally get up and fight. No matter how long it takes.
Instead we get "Dear Obama, I worked for you in 2008...you lost me because ... whatever" nonsense.
Where's the fight? All we get is whining. Especially on tv.
If the GOP gets the White House, we're done as a democracy.
Everybody will have to do their part, together as one, in 2012. Not just vote.
But work to GOTV. For both the presidency and Congress.
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I spent some time recently looking at some old youtubes of Hollywood musicals. Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, June Allyson, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Kathryn Grayson, Donald O'Connor, Jane Powell, Eleanor Powell.
They are truly marvelous movies with a boat load of talent. But look at them. All white. These movies were from another time.
Look at the crowds who go to see President Obama. They are so diverse. They are the America of today.
So absolutely we have come a long way. It took a long long time.
Progress and social and equality justice is not something you pick up whenever you're in the mood. Democracy is hard to maintain. People are literally banging at the front gates to take it away.
We let this happen. By not paying attention. Or just giving up.
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Per a story by Think Progress, Rick Perry said his tax plan would help the wealthy and raise the taxes of working Americans. His reply when confronted?
I don't really care about that.
He admitted it. But Romney and Gingrich are no different.
@Pat Boston - what the hell are you rambling about? I voted for Obama and not because of his color - I am a white female AND an independent. I was sick of Bush and his destruction, and now the TPGOP seems to be WORSE than ever. The fanatical extreme stances and crazy candidates that they have paraded in front of us one by one are embarrassing. The ONLY reason I am unhappy with Obama is that he doesn't just become as abstinent as the TPGOP.
The Republicans ONLY plan is to get rid of Obama at the cost of our country and I, for one, have had enough of the obstructionist and greedy bastards.
H8theHYPE, the article above WASN'T about independents. It was ABOUT Democrats and their desire to sit out getting out the vote if they don't get what they want.
You as an independent are probably prone to change parties each election.
Democrats are supposed to be in it to vote Democrat. Black Democratic Americans understand that.
That's the point of the article. It has nothing to do with independents.
It is the WHITE liberals on tv b!tching & moaning. They aren't helping this country one iota even though they think they are. It's all in their overbloated, over sense of self-importance heads.
Huffington Post - Voter Fraud
PUTIN OUT
MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of people held the largest anti-government protests that post-Soviet Russia has ever seen on Saturday to criticize electoral fraud and demand an end to Vladimir Putin's rule. Police showed surprising restraint and state-controlled TV gave the nationwide demonstrations unexpected airtime, but there is no indication the opposition is strong enough to push for real change from the prime minister or his ruling party.
Putin "has stopped being the national leader – in the eyes of his team, the ruling political class and society," analyst Alexei Malachenko of the Moscow Carnegie Center wrote on his blog.
I am prone to look at the facts and make a decision. You are right that Dems vote for Dems as Pubs vote for PUbs. I do NOT change every election. I voted for Bush Sr and have not voted for a Republican President since. I USED to agree with many of the ideals of the Pubs but they have become too fanatic for me. IF there were a good independant out there AND I thought voting for them would make a difference then I would vote for them. The problem is that this go around I think voting independent would be a lost vote. I am TOTALLY against the TPGOP and what they NOW stand for.
I also think BOTH parties need to go at this time but I take the Dems over the Pubs at this juncture. I have to many executive friends without jobs after years of hard work...............laid off and many of their jobs overseas......I could be next at any minute.
This is too funny... Romney gets support from a governor and Obama gets support from a mayor.
That mayor is a better man than that governer could ever dream of being...Actually that governor doesn't care he is in it for him and the rich just like you B-B-B-B-Brian..
Pat in Boston
You can put Chris Matthews on the list of quasi Democrats who think it makes them look smart to attack a Democratic President, just because they haven't been invited to enough state dinners, or something. God, these faux liberals burn my butt. There need to be more voices like Mayor Booker, out there, battling the right wing smear machine. I'm with you Mayor Booker!
Brianb and sw philly, Gov. Christie and Mayor Booker actually work very well together.
Amy,
No one will ever meet Matthew’s expectations other than
Jack Kennedy or whomever life story Chris is trying to sell.
Remember the “tingle”? His new theme song is “After the Thrill is Gone” by the Eagles.
I know Lisa, Booker is an easy man to get along with they say in the papers....And Newark is always important these days to the Money Interests like Christie supports, because of the revitalization going on there with all the investment there is alot of contracts for the GOV to handout and stuff so yes of course Fatty gets along with Booker....Not when Fatty cut back on police though there was a little tension between them then..
Amy, I agree with you. The problem with cable is that the only "democrats" we see are from the left. Not everybody in the Democratic party is anti-Obama. Most of us aren't.
Obama supporters aren't really welcome anywhere. We've been replaced with big mouths who have no clue how we, the President's supporters feel and they don't care. Because they truly believe they know everything. Most of them are former Republicans.
They weren't the ones hurt because of the GWB years. We were.
So we the people are screwed. Simply because we have a cheapened version of "news" these days. And have for a long time.
It's how we got Iraq.
Do you really believe David Gregory knows what he's talking about? No one I know thinks he does.
Pat the decline of the newspapers was the decline of the truth.....There will be no more DEEPTHROAT type informers because there are no longer pros out there and an informant would be scared they would put him on MSNBC......And look at what is happening at WIKI-LEAKS they are putting that ORG through the ringer....You are not allowed to report the truth anymore...I hate to be a conspiracy theorist but most of the BILL of RIGHTS has been thouroghly eroded...
sw philly, I like to look for any bi-partsan co-operation on either side. I don't think this polarization is doing this country any good.
That's great news!
Mayor Booker is a strong consistent Democrat!
We need every voice we can find out there promoting OUR President!
Obama/Biden 2012 - for the sake of the middle class!
The clowns have taken over the party formerly known as Republicans.
TeaPeople have engulfed our political process.
Todays word ladies and gents is "Coulrophobia"= Fear of Clowns.
Be afraid of them, be very afraid!
Obama/Biden 2012
Agreed Chilled. If there was a moderate "common sense" Republican that had a believable message on how to get the economy growing and create jobs, I would have to consider him/her. However, all we have is a spineless flip flopper who needs a focus group to tell him what to think, a career Washington insider with a history of corruption and whose focus while in power was to take down a sitting President, while dividing the country and a bunch of extremist tea bagger loons that should not even be allowed near the White House on a tour bus. Then there is Huntsman at 1%.
Absolutely, Al.
It really is sad to watch these candidates twist themself into knots, constantly changing positions, as they betray whatever core principles they may have had.
Instead of speaking the truth to their base, the base pushes for more insane principles and litmus tests that the wannabees can't possibly meet.
Even Hunstman has been shifting to the far right.....and I really thought he was the intelligent candidate.
Chilled, Feisty, and Al:
Thank you for your support. Finally, maybe America will realize how Obama helped this nation and how the GOP is trying to destroy him. I've heard a lot about you feisty, especially from all the threads. Man, you are a natural debater!!
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
GOP EXTINCT 2012
LOL!
*gulp*
I'm sure it wasn't all positive! ;o)
Carry on the fight for the right man at the right time for the right job, Freshieee!
Obama/Biden 2012!
Sort of like some threads on this vine...
Right Spanky, jas1, nojonh, kirk, wca, and your ilk?
Hey... no disrespect, but if the shoe fits...........
Let me punish you with a few facts. . .
If Cory Booker is a rising star in your party, the sun's going down faster than even I thought. One of his top people just got sent to the slammer for corruption, (Booker was 'shocked'), and, in his latest display of exemplary leadership, every single parcel of property in Newark, New Jersey was advertised as delinquent on taxes.
Every. Single. One.
How? Well, it seems that the city made a decision- moving up the date for the quarter's taxes.
They did not notify anybody. Booker's own home was listed as up for tax foreclosure sale.
So, big mistake, right? No tax sale was held, the city apologized, all good, right?
Wrong. It cost half a million taxpayer dollars to run the ads.
I think you guys ought to be worrying more about your own mental health next year this time. Seems none of the polls coming out have any good news for your idol- and I don't think petulant statements more appropriate from an immature twelve year old, (go ask bin Laden if I'm an appeaser), are going to do anything to change the minds of the 54% of people who do not think he deserves another term.
Added to the fact that 66% in the latest CBS poll have no idea what Obama plans for another term, and I really think "fairness" is going to backfire.
People voted for hope for change last time- but the change they got was nothing at all what they were expecting.
The change they're hoping for this time is coming in the form of a new president.
Obama shelved in 2012.
Trying to PROVE you know what you are talking about and failing is only punishing yourself.
How about ALL the ALREADY negative ads that the TPGOP have started already to the tune of 3TRILLION Plus. If Obama is so bad and your ilk think he is history why all the money to TRY and discredit him? See you are just another right wing bag of wind................
Where did you get that felonious 66% number, Obama's approval rating is FAR higher than the GOP approval rating of 13%.................yikes!
Obama 2012
Rassmussen has Obama at a -21 today. Now I realize that Rassmussen isn't the favorite polling company of the left, even though they predicted Obama to win 3 months in advance of the elections... even though Rassmussen has the highest prediction rate of any polling company.
When MSNBC shows him at a -60, he really doesn't stand much of a chance. Take a look at the politics page and you will see for yourself. There's not much confidence in Obama when your own liberal source shows how bad he is rating.
That's OK, liberals can keep on claiming he's going to win... that's not necessarily the way it will turn out though.
Feisty said: We need every voice we can find out there promoting OUR President!
Why would you find the need to say this Feisty? Because too many people see through him and know how bad he is for our country? Because so many people are against his Marxist policies? Because so many people feel he's weak and ineffective as our leader?
It sounds to me like you are fishing for support for Obama. That is a position of weakness. If he were such an outstanding leader, many voices would be there to support him not just the liberals.
B-B-B-B-Brian and Blow job from NJ: On the regular when you wing-nuts disagree with the democratic party you are just being aholes but when it comes to Booker and Obama you are being aholes and racists don't lie no black person can get you through the screen...
I'm independent and I support him as well as many other independents. As a right winger you, of course took "need" out of context.
Since you are full of facts you should know that of all people Obama has plenty of supporters AND money to back him up.
GO FISH
See Brianb & nojo...
Your posts are EXACTLY what is being discussed.
You post your illeogical, negative, RNC half-truths & spin as fact, when, IN FACT, they are no such thing.
Garbage.
e.g.:
I say again, ALL GARBAGE; yet you insist on repeating the lies praying some voters will believe you are telling the truth and not recognize it is just your off-center opinion.
You may have gotten it to work for you before - twice, but that is why I do not believe voters will be so apathetic in 2012, and that is why Feisty posted the statement you take exception with. Most of us voters who have our eyes open and are able to think recognize your ploys AND WE WILL NOT FALL THEM 11/12! LIVE WITH IT!
p.s.
OWS is here to stay until changes/improvements are effected. (I know that galls you to no end, but too bad.)
Hmmm...too early for polls to be predicting a general election winner. Lot's to come. We haven't even had the first primary. Much will depend on whether or not the Republican Party can hold itself together. Everytime someone leaves the race, most people realign themselves, but some simply drop out. And, the more extremist that departing candidate, the more followers they have/had who will refuse to vote for anyone else - i.e. dropouts.
[Hmmm...too early for polls to be predicting a general election winner.]
Why, that can't be! FOX-mussen says so, so it must...be...so...or some crap like that...right Brianb-lotsa numbers?
You & your unrelenting hate of our President 24/7 is punishment enough!
Poor dear, wouldn't recognize a fact if it slapped her in the face!
The 66% who have no clue what Obama plans to do if he gets another term comes from the CBS poll.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Poll_Obama_120911.pdf?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Go to page five. In fact- read the whole poll. There is not much good news in there.
I can't really tell if you're all just whistling past the graveyard, or truly delusional. The fact is,
Obama shelved in 2012.
Obama has no plan or record to run on. I don't care how many supporters the liberals can muster up, he has lost a huge majority of independent support. It's not the liberals that are going to decide the election, it will be the independents. A lot of them bought his rethoric, promises and speeches in 08. Many of those same people have seen what Obama is all about and they are going to abandon him. There's not a thing he, you, or Allah can do about it... Obama had his chance to bring hope and change. Somewhere along the way a lot of hope was lost and the changes he managed are Marxist in nature.
If you have a problem with this, speak to Obama about it, he brought it upon himself.
What about killing bin Laden, helping the economy recover, and helping us in Afghanistan and regaining the trust of our allies?
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
blojonj & brianb:
And you just refuse to stop
e.g. 3.11 & 3.12 above
Great job Mayor Booker! We have to be all in to beat the Tea-baggers/Republicans!
Want to see the results of decades of the same welfare statist policies being pushed by Mayor Booker and President Obama?
Look no further than the city of Newark.
That is the future that Booker and Obama want for the entire country.
Lot's cheaper than the continued corporate welfare........
Newark is being revitalized unlike you old angry white men....The truth is slums were created by the system, not the people who have to live there, Mr. Silver Spoon AKA Booby
Booby doesn't get out past the cozy office on Wall Street. God forbid he tread near the slums to see things as they are or to help another............that would be to compassionate. AND that's what government money helps with revitalization not helping Waldo upgrade his 300 BMW to a 500 or maybe even 700 series.
phillycheesecake is delusional. I build low income housing. It's built well. When the buildings are turned over, they are as perfect as they can be made. When the tenants move in, it's only a matter of time before the buildings go to hell. The Government subsidizes 2/3's of the rent to those that work. Time frames go from 3 months to one year and the buildings look like a war zone. Walls are spray painted, common areas are all messed up, asphalt is torn up, concrete is broken, childrens playgrounds are torn up...
You blame the system... what about the people living there? The problem is, they don't care what it looks like... they don't have to pay their fair share. If the buildings get torn up, they live in squalor. Projects don't start out being projects, they become projects due to lack of respect. Many of the people don't work... and they get full rent. They also get free utilities, free cable, free internet and free cell phones all courtesy of my tax dollars. Since everything is handed to them, there is no ownership value and since they don't have any skin in the game, they simply don't care.
Just last week, someone took spray paint to the brick walls of the office/laundry. A brand new beautiful building and it was vandalized. People are just starting to move in and already this sort of thing is occuring.
System philly? I don't think so.
H8thehype - what do you know about it? Do you know how many people in these projects own Cadillacs? Do you know how many large screen LCD TV's I see move in with the furniture? I don't even own a large screen TV. These are people that are living off of taxpayers money. I can tell you don't even have a clue... but yet you proclaim yourself as all knowing and insinuating that those of us on the right don't have first hand knowledge of your stupid claims.
That's the problem with the left. They appear to know it all but the simple truth is... they don't. They have false compassion about those who are poor and want the government to help them. What they don't know is those that are being helped are taking advantage of a system the democrats created simply so people will vote democrat. It's the democrats in Washington that don't ever, ever want to cut social programs at taxpayer expense. Tell it to the folks driving cadillacs, owning several large screen TV's and buy their food with government credit cards.
I know plenty I have had affordable housing for years now and you can't come close to knowing what I do. Of course there is a percentage that scam the system just like the wealthy that ABUSE the system to get even more. I am a huge proponent of reform but NOT abolishing - these programs were put into place for a reason and that has morphed into something that needs to be changed kinda like our politicians. I know of all the abuses trust me. There are more that do not have the Cadillacs and big screen TV's than do. There are MANY elderly that would be on the street if they didn't have housing. Not to mention depending on what "housing" you are speaking of - tax credit, bond, Section 8, home, etc.
So kiss my entire ASS Brianb - I don't know everything but I do know about Housing.
Why havent't your illustrous Republicans fixed these programs - they have been around a lot longer than Obama.
Tell me H8thehype if Jack helped you off the horse would you help Jack off the horse?
The republicans aren't my illustrious anything. They have tried cutting spending but the democrats won't allow them to. Everytime they attempt to cut programs the democrats want to increase taxes... raising revenue is only a stupid change in verbage... it still means raise taxes. Newspeak is alive and well in the democrat/liberal world.
There may be more that don't have Cadillacs but all the parking spaces are filled with tricked up cars, and vehicles that are not broken down and dilapidated... as the average joe on the street would think they are.
So what you are telling me is that you are living off of the taxes I pay into the system. No WONDER you support the democrats. You know that they are your bread ticket. Since you know so much about affordable housing and you live in it, why should you even begin to complain? You complain about the 1% that doesn't pay his fair share... well from my vantage point, you don't pay YOUR fair share. I have to cover all my bills without any assistance. I am a far cry from being rich but yet I work every day and make sacrifices in order to survive. I have to work hundreds of miles away from my wife and children in order to pay the bills and you never hear me complain about it or anyone except liberals that want to take from others that have, to give to those that won't earn it. And don't give me this crap that people can't escape from it because I know plenty of individuals that have and they are doing quite well.
Kiss your entire ass? Bend over... I have this red hot metal poker to kiss it with and there's a perfect place to stick it. The rays of the sun never shine there.
You don't read well do you OR you don't absorb what you read - which is it? I don't LIVE in affordable housing dolt - read my post. I OWN affordable housing..............dumbass.
You went off all half cocked about nothing because you didin't read what I said. Just goes to show you why you PUBs have such a problem.
We need a Booker Brigade--voices like Cory throughout the land! Can we find 25 vocal progressives to cover 2 states apiece? Step up you guys and gals! The only way to put the lie on the liar is to tell the truth over and over and loudly!
It's a damn shame but people believe lies easier than the truth for some reason.....They want to be lied to not me...I prefer the facts but you really have to watch out these days because there sure is alot of lies being told out in the airwaves...
That's right opajack - shut down the voice of conservatism. Do you know how much you liberals are sounding like the brown shirt brigade? Is Obama your new Hitler? Now that he has it approved to kill Americans through military action if they disagree with the government? I suppose you liberals totally endorse that move.
When a candidate's morals & character don't matter to you:
And you thought Romney was an American patriot? Yikes!
Romney’s Advisors Are Leftist Elites
R. L. Borosage: Huffington Post's Radical Marxist Blogger on Staff
Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records
The Irrelevance of the Republican Party
To attack Romney is to attack a weak candidate, someone that has no core for leadership and that has such an arrogant attitude that he probably believes he is president already. Romney's litany of flip-flops on just about every significant issue important to voters provides the president's supporters with a wide avenue with which to uncover the truth about Mr. Romney. How is Mitt supposed to be a true leader making real, nation-defining decisions when he cannot even articulate a coherent position in the GOP primary? http://www.sunstateactivist.org
Didn't I see and hear Obama and Biden both praising ex-senator Corzine as being the go to guy for guidance on the economy and the smartest man around when it came to financial matters? No wonder Obama keeps borrowing and spending with Corzine as one of his advisors, he even talked about appointing Corzine as Treasurer Secretary. What happened to all the jobs that GE CEO Emmet and the other CEOs picked by Obama to create jobs, can anyone tell me how many jobs they have created in the United States?
No you didn't see or hear that nonsense FOX NEWS did a JEDI mind trick on you so stop lying,nobody but booby and them believe you anyways and they are already voting for the GOP ticket because they are also angry old white men or their battered alcoholic pill popping,shopping wives
sw philly, you are a joke, and a really stupid person that can't even think for yourself. You know, maybe you are to stupid, that both Obama and Biden praised Corzine for having such a brilliant financial mind and one they could get advice from.
Hmmm...you're right. The environment isn't good for ex-investment bankers.
Oh brother, the racists are out in full swing today, Cory Booker is a very smart, intelligent man, who may one day be president. With his educational background and charming personality, he could have gone anywhere to work and make millions, yet he choose to try and make a difference in Newark, and he is.
He is dedicated to bringing the city back to being thoroughly livable, working hard 7 days a week, setting a good example, including out shoveling snowy sidewalks last winter to help the residents of his city. Show me another politician who did that. And that was as his Governor was vacationing at Disney World and didn't think it was important enough to return to make sure all the residents of NJ were being helped.
That is, I believe, the difference today, between a Democrat and a Republican. We believe in helping our fellow man, they believe in helping no one unless there is something in it for them be it financial or a salvation of sorts.
Yeah...Booker is someone to watch. But, he has to be successful in Newark...and that is a tough mountain to climb.
Christie? I wouldn't hold not shoveling sidewalks against Christie...it would have killed him. Expect Christie to shed a few pounds over the next few years, in prep for 2016.
Right on Mamma!!!!!
You know you've lost when you have to resort to the race card.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/newark_property_tax_ad_flub_co.html
I was off a little in my prior post. See, the $72,000 in this article? That's for the Star Ledger. That list went out to ten state newspapers.
Almost three quarters off million- for ineptitude.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
sw philly, I admire Cory Booker so much, he is a delight to listen to, very witty and so intelligent, someone I have faith will help makes this a better country.....for all.
I enjoy your posts, you bring great perspective to today's needs. Peace.
Stone6, you are right that Newark is a tough task to bring around, but it wont for the want of trying to make it happen and that is all that one can ask, try and with a little help from others in doing their fair share, he just may succeed.
Yes, it would be a good idea if Governor Christie shed a person or so, if for no other reason than, that he may live long enough to see his grandchildren...who knows, it may even sweeten his disposition or at the very least learn how to be a little humble. That attitude he has now may work in Jersey, but it wont work in lots of other states.
Booker was doing no such thing. Pointing out that there's no correlation between business experience and success as president does not "disparage" the private sector. It's true that Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents was a failure in business and G. W. Bush, the "MBA President" was a catastrophe as president. Those are the facts whether Mittens likes it or not. What a pack of liars Romney's flunkies are. Like Booker said, he's punishing them with the facts.
And even if some types of business experience would helpful for a president, Romney's particular brand of business experience is not. He was a corporate raider who enriched himself by firing American workers. How's that "expertise" of Romney's going help solve the jobs crisis?
Gotta love the "rising star"mayor. He puts forward an example as to what signifies failure because "private sector" experience does not necessarily leading to governmental prowess. His example? Jon Corzine!
We all know Jon.....inept Governor, inept CEO, inept thief. Jon Corzine the Democrat and good buddy to the Big O and Biden. Their "go to guy". A big, sad, ****ing joke. A guy who doesn't even have the common sense to wear a seatbelt as you're speeding down the highway.
BTW........how is Newark doing? And why isn't the left leaning media ripping this guy a new a$$hole over his uninformed comments? "FDR wasn't a businessman"? Really? Maybe he meant FDR wasn't a successful one.
Yes, we should continue with the succesful GOP middle-eastern policy. i.e. Bomb on any middle-eastern country that disagrees with you.