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GINGRICH: NBC’s Ali Weinberg reports that Gingrich’s campaign told NBC that it would soon run an ad in South Carolina hitting Romney over the Planned Parenthood provision in the Massachusetts health care law. And he even went after Romney on this: "He raised taxes so much that he even raised taxes on people who were blind.”
“Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich returns to South Carolina next week in advance of the state’s Jan. 21 primary. The former U.S. Speaker of the House also made a $250,000 statewide TV ad buy Friday,” The State newspaper reports.
“Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said today that he still can’t release his contract with Freddie Mac (FMCC) -- even though the mortgage finance company gave him permission to do so -- because the decision is up to his business partners in his consulting firm,” Bloomberg says. “Gingrich’s comments came after Freddie Mac told Bloomberg News yesterday that the former U.S. House speaker was cleared to make the documents public. Before that, Gingrich said the reason he couldn’t release the contract was that Freddie Mac wouldn’t waive a confidentiality agreement.”
“The Super PAC backing Mitt Romney says it’s keeping its New Hampshire radar on Newt Gingrich — revving up to unleash its newest attack ad on Monday — a move experts say suggests that, for the Romney camp, Rick Santorum’s recent surge poses no political threat,” per the Boston Herald.
PERRY: “Staking his presidential hopes on South Carolina, Gov. Rick Perry has 14 days to stage a political resurrection in a state once considered tailor-made for victory,” the Austin American-Statesman notes. “But like elsewhere, Perry's support in South Carolina has evaporated, and several Republican strategists give him little chance of mounting the comeback needed to save his campaign.”
“Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s visit to South Carolina on Sunday will kick off a 15-day tour of the state as the Texas governor seeks to resurrect his candidacy in the state that initially vaulted him to the forefront,” The State newspaper reports.
“Gov. Rick Perry has named embattled Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio his Arizona campaign chairman, despite a recent Obama administration report condemning alleged discriminatory practices in Arpaio's office,” The Texas Tribune reports.
ROMNEY: And the Bain scrutiny begins… Reuters profiles a Kansas City steel mill that had been operating since 1888 that Bain bought, dumped, and profited from. “Workers were denied the severance pay and health insurance they'd been promised, and their pension benefits were cut by as much as $400 a month. What's more, a federal government insurance agency had to pony up $44 million to bail out the company's underfunded pension plan. Nevertheless, Bain profited on the deal, receiving $12 million on its $8 million initial investment and at least $4.5 million in consulting fees… The Kansas City millworkers, meanwhile, are still fuming, after being left with no health benefits and a reduced pension check. ‘Romney cost me lots and lots of sleepless nights and lots and lots of money,’ said Ed Stanger, who worked at the plant for nearly 30 years.”
The New York Times’ Krugman wrote the other day that Romney’s “claims about the Obama record border on dishonesty, and his claims about his own record are well across that border.” Romney claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain, but using only current employment figures for some of the companies that created jobs. Romney is “ignoring those that reduced their work forces or went out of business. Hey, if pluses count but minuses don’t, everyone who spends a day playing the slot machines comes out way ahead!”
And his bigger point: “The real complaint about Mr. Romney and his colleagues isn’t that they destroyed jobs, but that they destroyed good jobs. When the dust settled after the companies that Bain restructured were downsized — or, as happened all too often, went bankrupt — total U.S. employment was probably about the same as it would have been in any case. But the jobs that were lost paid more and had better benefits than the jobs that replaced them. Mr. Romney and those like him didn’t destroy jobs, but they did enrich themselves while helping to destroy the American middle class. And that reality is, of course, what all the blather and misdirection about job-creating businessmen and job-destroying Democrats is meant to obscure.”
MoveOn has an ad up highlighting Romney’s Bain years and layoffs. “He’ll raid this country the way he raided this company,” one man says in the ad, adding, “I know what he says; I also know what happened.” Greg Sargent writes: “[T]he battle to define Romney’s Bain years will be epic, as central to the general election as the war over the meaning of John Kerry’s war service was in 2004. And it’s already looking like there will be a cast of the layoff victims themselves who will be willing tell the story. Indeed, if Dems have their way, these layoff victims will be this year’s version of the Swift Boat Vets.” (Hat tip: GOP 12.)
FYI: The MoveOn ad buy is a small one, however.
“Newt Gingrich labeled Mitt Romney’s economic plan ‘timid.’ Rick Santorum told voters not to ‘settle for less.’ And Jon Huntsman urged them not to support a ‘coronation’ of the former Massachusetts governor,” the Boston Globe writes. “But Romney felt no need to mention his rivals here yesterday, training all of his fire on President Obama. He was so confident about his standing in the Granite State that he left for a short sojourn to South Carolina.”
The Boston Globe goes to South Carolina: “If a conservative rebellion is going to stop Mitt Romney from rolling to the nomination, Republicans say it is likely to start here, in this redder-than-red battleground state in the heart of the South.”
To that point, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports that social conservatives have been on the phone since Iowa talking about how to get Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry to drop out before it is too late to stop Mitt Romney. These social conservatives will be meeting in Texas next weekend -- and he said they would be talking to Gingrich and Perry at some point about coming together behind Rick Santorum before it is too late. But they acknowledge, however, that it's unlikely they can persuade them to drop out before South Carolina, which means their effort to unite against Romney could come too late.
SANTORUM: Channeling First Read, the AP writes, “Losing his Senate seat might have been the best thing that ever happened to Rick Santorum's bank account. In 2006, the Republican presidential hopeful earned about $200,000 from his Senate salary and book royalties. From January 2010 to August 2011, he earned at least $1.3 million as he cashed in on his 16 years in Congress by working as a corporate consultant, political pundit and board member.”
“Rick Santorum is loaded for bear at the GOP presidential debates tonight and tomorrow,” the New York Post writes. “Santorum was in his element yesterday as he browsed hunting rifles and compound bows at a sportsman shop in rural New Hampshire, saying he couldn’t wait for his rivals to come gunning for him at the debates. ‘This is how I prepare for debates,’ Santorum quipped amid a crush of reporters during a campaign stop at Pelletiers Sports in Jaffrey.”
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Will Bain be the bane of Mitts existence?
...you betcha...wink wink..
This just shows the sad state of affairs our politics is in... use race to beat up on a black president, because you know his hands are tied behind his back on this issue. Job well done GNOP.
Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom says the 100,000 figure stems from the growth in jobs from three companies that Romney helped to start or grow while at Bain Capital: Staples (a gain of 89,000 jobs), The Sports Authority (15,000 jobs), and Domino’s (7,900 jobs).
This tally does not include job losses from other companies with which Bain Capital was involved — and is based on current employment figures, not the period when Romney worked at Bain.
Bain Capital has been responsible for thousands of layoffs at companies it bankrupted, such as American Pad & Paper, Dade International, and LIVE Entertainment, which Romney’s stat completely leaves out. He’s also taking credit for jobs created long after he left the firm to launch his political career. To sum it up, the stat Romney uses is incredibly dishonest, like much of his jobs rhetoric.
One of Romney’s Bain business partners has said that he “never thought of what I do for a living as job creation.” “The primary goal of private equity is to create wealth for your investors,” he added. And Bain has certainly done that, maximizing earnings “by firing workers, seeking government subsidies, and flipping companies quickly for large profits.” Due to a lucrative retirement deal, Romney is still making millions from Bain, as he goes across the country saying that he is “middle class” and joking about being “unemployed.”
[This just shows the sad state of affairs our politics is in... use race to beat up on a black president, because you know his hands are tied behind his back on this issue.]
Tunde,
I don't think Obamas' hands are tied on this issue. The GOP/Tea Party fixation with race will only serve as a wedge issue that they are currently losing ground on. Simply put, whites are slowly but surely becoming the minority in this country.
For the GOP/Tea Party, it's evolve or die.
Classics from two Republican would-be candidates:
http://m.npr.org/story/144613385?url=/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/01/03/144613385/santorum-explains-his-comments-about-black-people-and-entitlements&sc=fb&cc=fp
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/05/144764130/gingrich-to-blacks-seek-paychecks-not-food-stamps
This kind of crap isn't going to get them elected.
Tunde -
From the State web page...
Read more here:
http://www.thestate.com/2012/01/07/2104360/rivals-using-racial-code-critics.html#storylink=cpy
The hopefulls may not be politically correct in their generalities, but neither is obama in many of his attitudes regarding the right, business and the 2% among other comments he makes.
Ever since LBJ's "war on poverty" and his desire to create a "great society" the media has created an emphasis on the blacks. Even their references to 2nd and third generation welfare recipients suggests it.
Santorum should indeed have paid closer attention on the people of iowa and iowas media practices before he uttered the black reference.
BTW - the article implies that the hopefuls attack obama on his policy statements, not his race. Overall, it was an interesting article that pointed out the foibles of anyone running for political office
Since you also block quoted this...
what part of this don't you understand, even unemployment bennies have limits.
There is a simple, one word-one company, in fact- answer to the "Bain attacks".
Staples.
We're done talking.
Of course you are done talking because you really don’t have anything good to say about Bain other than Staples. Overall they reduced more jobs than they created. They were and are nothing more than a corporate raider.
Mitt is trying to take personal credit of jobs created by Staples well after he left Bain … at best he is being disingenuous.
Dennis, nojo just makes @!$%# up as she goes along...best leave the old hag to her own devices.
And Dennis how many jobs were 'saved' by restructurings. Remember, these companies in a bad position or failing.
This prompts me to wonder what makes the GOP Tea-Retards tick, they lost their way. Let's not make another mistake. Vote the Koch paid Bums out.
What is the problem with the GOP and Planned Parenthood? Do they even know the great women's services it provides?
[What is the problem with the GOP and Planned Parenthood?]
It's probably because they have no idea what the Hyde Amendment is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amendment
Well, reading is a problem with the GOP. They need to read up the services Planned Parenthood provides. I know women of ALL ages (even those past child-bearing years) that take advantage of the services provided!
hmmm,planned parenthood receives federal funding and despite what the hyde amendment suggests the following has been reported...
http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jan12/Art_Jan12_18.html
or in planned parenthoods own 2010 report
http://issuu.com/actionfund/docs/ppfa_financials_2010_122711_web_vf?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage
Co-mingling of funds, regardless of slight of hand accounting, has never resulted in good results. Just look at where SS is today after LBJ co-mingled the SS trust fund with the general fund.
Of course you will never believe that the abortion funds are not co-mingled with Federal funding. The federal law requires them to only use funds from non Federal sources (contributions) for any abortion related procedures. They are required to provide recordkeeping showing where funds come from and how they are used – any violation is a Federal crime.
dennis just pointing out the effects of comingling, there will always be someone to dispute how the money is spent and on what regardless of recordkeeping.
Ergo, planned parenthood funds abortions and government funds PP which is a violation of the hyde amendment.
Logically one can make the paperwork argument, however we both read political blogs and both know that arguments there are based more on an emotional/ideology opinion rather than facts or needs. Can it really be said that the right is against PP in toto as phine suggests or just specifics?
Regardless, if this is a concern for the right and theirn supporters, let the PP abortion clinics be spun off from PP and act as a totally seperate entity with its own funding source not connected with PP. End of any conflict.
The Hyde amendment states that Federal funds may never be used for abortions. It does not say it cannot provide funds to facilities for procedures other than abortion that may or do provide abortions.
If that were the case then Medicare could never pay bills to any hospital for other services if that hospital also provides abortions.
Dennis - this is America, set any rule, any definition and we will find a creative way to do precisely that activity. Well, our representatives are lawyers and are just as good as anybody else at bypassing what is law.
On the HCL, you heard about the Louisiana purchase and the Cornhusker deal. You cannot do this and name them directly. What was done was each state's demographics were described in such a way that only those states would benefit from whatever moneys Reid agreed to send only went there.
You see, an abortion can be outlawed in name, but it can be given a different name, or described in detail and still be legal and paid for. On the surface the pro-life people think their money is not paying for abortions, and underneath the people who want an abortion and cannot afford it, get one paid for by the Fed.
Here's the other kicker. Other money could be contributed other than government funds to pay for all Planned Parenthood Abortions, and there is almost no way to prove it actually paid for the abortions.
Yeah money for the may be paid to cover the cost of abortions, but the facility used for the abortion is paid for with taxpayer funds.
90% of all of Planned Parenthood's funds come from contributions - only 10% from the Government.
You have no solid ground to stan on.
Dennis, I kept my comments specifically to the abortion procedure and the vagaries of how co-mingling can be perceived.
Your argument of comparing medicare with hospitals is weak as medicare reimbursement relates to a specific claim and assumes that a hospital performing an abortion receives general federal funding. However your point is taken. If the hospital does receive federal funds for general services, then I will expand my comment for them to also provide a seperate entity to perform abortions within the context of what the hyde amendment provides.
Personally, it is primarily the decision of the woman and secondly the father that should decide what actions to take, but government funding should be better isolated from the cost of the abortion per the constraints of the hyde amendment.
This brings us back to my original question. Does the right and their supporters want to eliminate PP in toto or just as a means to reign in spending?
They want to eliminate it.
All you have to do is look at legislation in several States that will eliminate contraceptives.
There are many university hospitals that receive Federal and State funds that are directed to the Hospital general funds.
dennis at 10 % ($75 mill per 2011 budget) it seems that PP would hardly benefit from federal money and in reality should not even request government funding outside of medicare/medicaid. It would seem that if this funding is so critical to their operations that they should have no problem in spinning off a discrete 100 % privately funded abortion clinic system to maintain federal $$. Then again PP should consider not seeking federal funding as their fair share contribution in these times of economic stress.
Heck, based on their 2009-2010 annual report the non profit PP shows a profit of just over $18 million. Of course I do understand that it doesn't hurt a non profit to have a rainy day fund and by for profit standards this profit is less than 2% on revenue after taxes
dennis - thats cool, they only want to eliminate federal funding for it, but not wipe it off the face of the earth. Other organizations have stayed operational with a 10% revenue cut, why shouldn't PP follow suit in these challenging times? You know do their fair share...
Do the university hospitals do abortions outside the constraints of the hyde amendment?
Do you understand the variability in contributions? Just how man TV ads do you see asking for contributions for PP or for that matter any type of mailers, phone call, newspaper ads, magazine ads?
Like a household that lives paycheck to paycheck a 10% cut will cause them to reduce services. Out of the 90% of income from contributions only about 5% is used for abortions. Again the people that use PP are low income people so why do people want to eliminate counseling that helps them prevent pregnancy. Preventing pregnancy does reduce abortions.
By eliminate it I meant ... wipe it off the face of this earth.
Thanks for the discussions, but I am getting hungry.
ok dennis i didn't notice your last comment before I posted 2.14, searching the net on hospitals and abortions.
Yes, fundraising does suck in tough times.
Sorry I don't buy off on the argument that a $75 million reduction in revenue will create a disaster for a $1009 million organization. Or that it will adversely affect those seeking help. Just to many avenues to pursue to make organizational and program adjustments to minimze any cut back effects.
Just so you don't read me wrong, I also have no problems with government reducing business subsidies in hard times either. Neither do I have a problem in letting the obama (bush) tax cuts expire across the board in 2013. Just make sure that the vast majority of the revenue is used to paydown debt.
To suggest that government spending is not to be addressed as well, ignores the fact that revenues alone won't support the growth of government spending. Sorry, some programs will just have to lose some funding. Personally I wouldn't have any problems with funding cuts across the board on the discretionary side of the budget. The only exception may be in regards to military programs not covered by the defence budget.
Why shouldn't PP do their fair share in reducing government spending and reduce our public debt? Isn't that what tough times imply, that everyone do their fair share?
Although I have a few problems with Obama, I still admire him. I mean, he's inspiring, bold, and has helped our economy (check 22 months of job growth). I hope he gets re-elected in 2012. And then maybe Joe Biden or hopefully Hillary could get in 2016, and then we can tackle the other problems on our agenda. And I also wonder why the GOP hates funding for Planned Parenthood while they also send billions into the paychecks of hedge-fund managers, corporate jet owners, etc. Check the People's Budget on http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/The_CPC_FY2012_Budget.pdf
I hope either Obama or the Democrats offer up this plan soon, so we can start cutting our debt and getting our nation back to work.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
AMERICA 2012
After all the vitriol about President Obama's Birth Certificate, where is the outrage about Mittens' reluctance if not failure to produce his tax returns?
What is Mitten trying to hide?
I'm still waiting to see Thee Most Intellectual President Ever elected, BHO, make his college transcripts public. What is Barry trying to hide?
Did you ask for George Bush's college transcripts?
@ssmithlg
That would be President Barry, at least try to show some respect!
chilled, If I was romney I would only release what my taxable income was and the taxes paid. only a tax professional and the IRS would understand the legality of the details. BTW - the birth certificate issue went to if obama was borne in the US or not (a constitutional requirement). What constitutional requirement is there for having to produce a tax return? Regardless, didn't congress accept the fact that obama was born in the US?
Actually democrats should be happy that the constitutional requirement didn't include having to be raised within the boarders of the US.
ssmithly, while curious about obamas transcripts I find it better and more telling to look at his political record as POTUS and US senator
@american-2051576
A certain segment of the populous, "Birthers", questioned the legitimacy of President Obamas' birth. Has this ever been an issue that was pursued so vigorously about any other President? I think not!
As for Mitten and his tax filings......Constitutional requirement or not, open records should encourage Mittens to be transparent. Show the people he expects to vote for him, what he made, what he paid or didn't pay.
Go Houston Texans!
Actually, there was a several court cases over the years, one in the 1800's for certain and one in 1978 that affirmed the 1800 case. The case defined "natural born" to be of both parents having to be US Citizens.
Currently references to that case are being methodically erased from the on-line case law service. Unfortunately for them, there is another service that was taking periodic snapshots of their data . . . and comparing past snapshots to the current - until the service blocked them from backing up their database.
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT [U.S. Constitution] adopted on July 9, 1868
'SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Chilled, I understand that and realized that obama would have been vetted on this before he was nominated in 2008.
Right or wrong, look at obamas biography and his reluctance to publicly show the hospital birth certificate among other asked for disclosures. Were the birthers foolish? Of course they were. Should GPA's and tax returns matter? I personally don't think so and I will leave it to the IRS to decide on who to audit.
Once the Anglo-American public sitting of the fence about Romney gets past the fact that he's white and looks the part and then finds out more about his job and town destroying escapades while at Bain Capitol, his serious flip flops, and more on his bizarre heritage, and more flop flips and replay that footage of him squirming in his seat on that Fox News interview, they will run from him like black folks running from the KKK the night Jack Johnson won the boxing World Heavy Weight Title in 1908. That would be how fast they would will come to they will be coming to their senses about Willard.
I suspect the Dems don't want to see much print about TwoBit Mitts' career at Bain. This s**t is too good to be used now. It will be worth a lot more in the final months of the real campaign.
Loyal Texan, are you supporting Governor Perry?
ssmith
I support his staying in the hunt since it keeps him out of Texas. Actually, his nomination attempt is a good thing since few people in TX really understood how dirt dumb he is. He relied on gauzy commercials and flinging mud paid for by his TX cronies to get elected and stay in power.
Yes, I believe that's a good strategy, but don't worry, LoyalTexan. Those issues will be raised soon. Mitt will be squirming in his seat some more and tripping up himself soon enough.
The "culture of entitlement" that has harmed this nation is not that we have social safety nets but that the wealthiest are entitled, by virtue of their money & bought political influence, to rape the land, poison the water and give nothing back to the society than has enabled their success..... that they are entitled to lie, cheat & steal because of the size of their inheritance....on which they feel they should not have to pay any taxes. Men should be judged by the content of their character, not the size of their trust fund. We may be saved by Grace, but what we do matters.
Any valid criticism of this President is found to have some "hidden code' , proving racism.
Pathetic. The race card seems to make Obama impervious to any critique.
"The unemployment rate is excessively high under this failed President"
Secret hidden racism in that statement, correct?
Meanwhile, the hateful moonbat posters in here have open hatred and vicious nasty personal attacks on Republicans. No 'hidden code' needed for the lefists.
Well said Comrade P.Sells, let the Revolution Begin!
The U.S. needs to be just like Cuba !
The "culture of entitlement". The implication seems to be that the majority expect to be supported by the government, and that that group is mostly populated by the poor. Research shows that the percentage of the budget (tax dollars) that go to housing assistance, food assistance and welfare for the poor is 6%. If you eliminated all assistance to the poor, it would have very little effect on the deficit. And we also lose our credibility on the moral superiority we claim as a country that cares about the welfare of it's citizens.
This RACE BAITING article from MSNBC is quite interesting since it was Democrat operatives, in compliance with THEIR Main stream media that DESTROYED the GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. (Everyone knows that the Democrat Party thinks they OWN the blacks, therefore they couldn't have an attractive candidate like Cain confusing those living on THEIR Plantation) Here are some examples of how the Democrats have perverted our language, they call it "code":
They will never say Raise Taxes, the code is "increase revenue".
Liberals are thought of as Marxist/Socialists. Their new name? "progressives"
Their term for taxpayers with jobs? "Millionaire Fat Cats".
Their word for grandma & grandpa who are healthy & retired? "Greedy Teabaggers".
When they fight for the "middle class" that means ALL of those being paid by the government in one form or another. (an exception would be the military who they hate)
I could go on & on, but you get the idea....
unless you're a liberal Democrat progressive whatever.
Have you compiled a similar list of the conservative terms designed to produce similar emotional responses? Google Frank Luntz.
so·cial·ism [ sṓshÉ™ lìzÉ™m ]
1.political system of communal ownership: a political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles
2.movement based on socialism: a political movement based on principles of socialism, typically advocating an end to private property and to the exploitation of workers.
3.stage between capitalism and communism: in Marxist theory, the stage after the proletarian revolution when a society is changing from capitalism to communism, marked by pay distributed according to work done rather than need.
@ssmithlg, Progressives are at which stage?
ssmith
So who do you like in this contest?
Romney is “ignoring those that reduced their work forces or went out of business. Hey, if pluses count but minuses don’t, everyone who spends a day playing the slot machines comes out way ahead".
Did the socialist liar Krugman care whether "pluses count and minuses dont" about the squirrely figures used for the failed stimulus?
At least Romney didnt use "jobs saved" .....from the weasely liars in the Obama Administration, whose skewed figures on the benefits of the failed stimulus count only 'new jobs created' , fictionally claim milllion of "jobs saved" and ignore the millions of jobs lost.
Years ago, Bain would have been referred to as a "Corporate Raider". I worked in the airline industry for 32 years and witnessed first hand the destruction of TWA by Carl Icahn. He sold off their equipment, routes, and anything else of value. Lifelong, dedicated employees were thrown out in the interest of making Icahn and his partners huge profits. I then worked at Convergys when The Janas Group ("Janas's Piranhas") bought in as the majority stockholder. They installed one of their own as president, fired the CEO, and rapidly began to assert their control. They sold off the HR division and then under the guise of "corporate reorganization" terminated higher paid employees. My $40,000 Trainer position was eliminated. I was replaced by a 21 year old with no experience at a $27,000 salary - he quit after a few weeks when he had a nervous breakdown after his girlfriend broke up with him. The Training Manager position at the Erlanger Ky site states a basic qualification as having a college degree. It is now held by someone with no college and 5th grade grammar skills. Jobs under contracts with AT&T and Macys.com were outsourced to India, the Philippines, and Colombia, eliminating thousands of American jobs. So yeah, vote for Mittens if this kind of mindset is what you want in a president.
The Bain criticizing is fair game, since it's the base of romney's grand plan as a "job creater" . I beat those folks in Mo don't think much of him, even though they will vote for him.
Tie Bain Capital real tight around this a/h's neck and sink him once and for ALL TIMES !
It's news when a Republican says something honest. Racism is just one of their vices, but at least when they make racial slurs they aren't lying about what they believe. GOP - the people who love to hate.
anyone we chose will be better than what some have chosen last time. obama is leading us backwards. more welfare less troops to protect us. what do you all think he has planed for us? maybe a invasion of America where he will run with his dick between his legs or will he run to libya so the taliban will hide him and biden. come on folks you aren't stupid. he has something up his sleeve and it isn't good for America.
You want to provide some citations for what you claim, Michael? Because honestly..you just sound irrational.
~Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid~
This next election is not about the differences between Republican and Democrat's basic philosophies.
It is the differences between communist and Democratic ideology's!
All of his life obama has been mentored and supported by these people:
George Soros: Jew determined to destroy Israel and the U.S.A.
Anthony Van Jones: socialist/communist Hates the U.S.A.
Valarie Jarrett: Communist
Vernon Jarrett: Communist, Valarie Jarrett's father-in-law
Frank Marshall Davis: Communist obama mentor
Cass Sunstein: Socialist/Communist obamma tsar
Rev Wright "God Damn America"
Bill Ayres: Socialist/Communist, Weather Underground
Bernadine Van Dohrn Socialist/Communist, Weather Underground
Tony Rezco: Chicago crook
Andy Stern: SEIU
Dick Trumpka: UAW
Lil Jimmy Hoffa: That son of a bitch!
Acorn: Criminal enterprise big obama supporters
Black Panthers: Guardians of the Poll
Then there is:
Solyndra
Tonopha
Light Squared
Fast and Furious: BTW, obama Officer Terry's parents deserve answers.
obama your book has an ugly cover.
U.S.A./Capitalism, obamazuela, or Cuba --- You choose in 2012!!!!
Stop being a racist and a Commie-basher. The Democrats are proposing nothing of Communism. Do you even know what Communism is??? If you did, you'd know that the Democrats aren't pursuing it. I choose Obama and a chance at recovery. He helped the economy, and he is a god compared to the right-wing conservatwit idiots you call candidates for your pathetic party. You want an oligarchy??? Leave America. Go back to the 1980s and check out life for the lower class during your god Reagan's presidency. The man wasn't so great. In fact, he helped cause this damn recession.
He is a god, LMAO is he who ole rev wright sent to "damn America" looks like ole rev wright sent the right man!!!!
Rev. Who? Yeah, right, okay........, and the Republicans don't have and never have had any racist ties at all, right? Never ever ever ever ever ever ever! And the Republicans in both Houses are not racist towards this President, right? They are merely disagreeing with President Obama's policies. The Republicans are so clean and pure; just like snow and they are really thinking about the whole country's well being (or at least the top 1%) and they don't want to push the clock back 100 years. Yep, they are just some wonderful, thoughtful and inclusive people and their supporters are able to read the map of the world, and spell, too. Where is Rebeccastan, anyway? They really loved Herman Cain's shuffling and ignorance of the world, didn't they?
"Yes-sa, boass! Eyez 'gree witchya!"
Your system is down alright, All mouth an no substance!!!
Point to a racist comment, looser, oh that's right you can't!!!
Shove your racism up your azz, k???
lol...Gary KKK...it fits you perfectly.
Please, be original with the name calling, if you can't actually dispute the post!!!
I'll stop the name-calling when you do. You put down your gun, and so will I. I won't listen to a word of your right-wing BS or even your neutral comments until YOU be respectful.
frisszy I could care less what you or any other obama troll call me.
obama is surrounded by the list of communist and socialist I named and your good with that?????
You can call me all the names you want but you can't dis-associate obama from those people. Odd's are pretty good you have no Idea who they are.
You will be a blind sheep either way..
...........................Gary respectful, "When Pigs Fly"