World cop or member of World community

Cut taxes on wealthy and hope for trickle down economy or re-balance graduated tax rates

Throw grandma under the bus or restructure delivery of medical care

Worship at the feet of Grover or do what's best for the most

Maintain obsession with bodily orifices or get out of our personal lives

Yes, lets talk about the issues, they are clear choices.

Booker's been playing 'Let's Make a Deal' with Christie... You get the VP nod, and I get your job...

Booker is absolutely right. The establishment has been relentlessly attempting to divert everyone's attention with superficial hogwash instead of focusing on the real issues. When you step back and just watch, it's truely pathetic to see what's going on.

I agree with Booker, in that, if this were a perfect world, negative campaign messages would be outlawed, and stiff jail sentences would come with comitting the crime.

This is a f---ed up world. Reasoning with the American public, as Democrats have tried to do over and over, is like reasoning with a 5 year old. It doesn't work. That means everyone has to come down to the level of average, "Joe Public," and roll in the gutter every election cycle.

It says more about our electorate then it ever will about the candidate that negative ads work and positive ads don't. We can only blame ourselves for the type of advertising that we seem to react to.

As a by product, I won't be watching any national air during 2012. The exception: PBS. We all have the choice to vote with our watching when it comes to these cess-pool commercial seasons. I can live on Netflix and PBS, and never see a political ad.

*repeated due to stupid seed collapsing by whiney readers*

I'd pay good money to see that. It would lend much needed comic relief to the political process.

Democrats need to stop:

1) Agreeing that small businesses create jobs. Jobs are created by consumer demand.

2) Agreeing that debts/deficits are more important then it really is. Most of all when it comes to entitlements such as Social Security. Shared sacrifice in regard to the rich paying their fair share in taxes, yes. But not Social Security -- this should never be on the table for spending cuts, at all, ever.

3) Agreeing that private equity companies are about anything other than profit for the private equity company -- And doing so by gaming government funds at the tax payer's expense is inexcusable! Private equity should NEVER be confused with real efficiency management experts, or venture capitalism for an idea to actually produce something. Never. Surely pension plans and others that depend on private equity firms can make money in a more honest way. Let's return to the days when banks and Wall Street provided capital for venture capitalism (now that is only about 16% of what they do).

The bottom line is Romney's "business experience" is not about helping Americans who are left behind in our current economic system. He doesn't even have empathy, and if he did, he would never have been good at his job as a corporate raider.

Romney's real "executive experience" was as governor of Massachusetts. Let's hear more about that. Otherwise, there is nothing to convince voters that Romney would be a good president. Certainly there better than what we already know President Obama can do.

@ Feisty - As much as I love reading some of your post, In my opinion, Booker was spot on initially with is comments. There is far too much negative campaigning going on and it is slowly turning voters off which is in his opinion, nauseating. His clarification concerning the "vetting" process was necessary. Unfortunately when you go and "clarify" your initial statements, the "media" calls it "walking back". When I watched the show yesterday morning and listened to his clarification, he pretty much said the same thing just put his statement in lamen terms. I know a lot of people will disagree with my interpretation but it's always better to be clear and concise than blurred and misunderstood.

I hope there is more on Paul Ryan's Meet the Press comments, rather than Booker's. Paul Ryan denied that his budget was "austerity." He tried to spin that his plan would prevent austerity. Maybe David Gregory should have used the term "starve the beast" and then Paul Ryan would understand. But of course Paul Ryan knows his draconian cuts in spending per percent of GDP is austerity -- He was just telling a baldfaced LIE.

Then he went on to spin about his outrageous tax cuts for the rich, saying that the plan would get rid of loophole tax credits, and thus tax rates could be reduced for everyone. Really!? So how about you get rid of loophole tax credits FIRST and then we'll talk. I trust GOP/TP douchebags like Paul Ryan about as far as I could throw them.

His plan is so vague on loopholes it can't be scored, so who knows what revenue this would generate. But why not pay down the debt instead? Why cut even more tax revenue when taxes are already at historic lows and the debt is at an historic high? Why give the rich even more breaks along with everyone else when the rich would gains so much more, yet are the ones who can afford to sacrifice more?

This is always the scam used to get tax breaks for the rich -- "But, but, but we're cutting everyone's taxes." Cutting everyone's taxes was the 2001 Bush tax cuts that already brought the top rate down for the rich, or has everyone forgotten? And that's not even taking into account the 2003 Bush tax cuts on dividends, capital gains, etc. that only benefited the rich.

What we need is a sh!tload of revenue, not "break even," or worse a further reduction in tax revenues that would add to the debt/deficits. Who believes this propaganda that Paul Ryan spews, who?

Many in our country are having meaningful, intelligent discussions about Europe and lessons for the US. And when it came time for Paul Ryan to have this discussion, he was completely uninformed, idiotic, and lying through his teeth.

If the GOP/TP enjoy any victory in 2012, the first thing they will try to do is pass the Paul Ryan budget, which would destroy our nation. Throw Paul Ryan and the Tea Party out! SOS!

I agree with Mayor Booker's original comments and am sorry some Democrat "enforcers" got to him and "encouraged" him to take them back. Mayor Booker has been a great leader for the city of Newark, something it has needed for as long as I can remember. It should never be a problem for a leader to speak his or her mind, the truth can sometimes hurt, but it can also set you free !!

TruePatriot

Its hard to look at Romney's executive experience as governor of MA. He lost interest after a year in office and started running for president. The only thing that he came up with is the individual mandate in RomneyCare. He threatened to veto it if it wasn't put in. The rest of this private insurance based so called "universal healthcare" plan really came from our hopelessly corrupt legislature.

Sam 22.........That is an interesting comment about Bain draining pension funds, I had never heard that claim before. Could you point me towards more info on that ? Thanks

"This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity, stop attacking Jeremiah Wright," Booker said during a roundtable on the program, referencing also the plan mulled by a Republican super PAC to link the president to a controversial pastor.

God knows we can't have the man speak his mind and for that matter the opinion of the voting public. That wouldn't do. What I find hilarious is the thought of them sitting this honest man down and telling him he needs to walk his comments back. Then he comes out with the statement about how it is appropriate to fully vet Romney's private sector record. LOL! If only the media had attempted to vet the big eared jug headed Constitutional scholar's record.

Hey Obama if you'd let us see some of your record, God knows we've seen enough of your public record, we wouldn't dwell on Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Andy Stern, ACORN, etc... Open up your college transcripts. Open up and let us see some of your writings. Please explain your publisher's booklet from 1991. I know, I know, it was a mistake. A couple of things Big Ears. If it was a mistake that's fine. It just shows you have very poor attention to detail. If it were an article on me I think I'd catch the mistake since I consider myself very fortunate to have been born in this great Country. The thing that bothers me most is that having seen examples of your immense ego I can't for the life of me believe that you didn't notice it. That leads me to another question. If you did catch it why didn't you have it corrected? I can only guess that you thought it made you more exotic and worldly and because of that more marketable. This is a direct reflection of your honesty. I'm thinking this has to be the real answer. Individuals with such huge egos have the tendency to have very low self-esteem. Here's an image for you President Obama. One I think you can identify with given your familiarity with Kenya. Imagine a dung beetle with very low self-esteem. He find a piece of elephant dung and rolls it around combining it with other pieces of elephant dung until he has a huge ball of feces. When he's no longer able to move the poop because of its size he jumps up on top of it and yells to the world; LOOK AT MEEEE!!!!!!

True Patriot, how small a business are you talking about? 8, 50, 125, or 175 employees, I can picture many kinds of businesses from a small coffee shop to a small manufacturing company making products. If nothing is moving above the coffee shop than it can't grow. So at what point does consumer demand start job growth. If there is no money you cannot have consumer demand. I feel that these two steps are linked together, can't have one without the other.

Romney's role at Bain was not to create jobs, it was to create profits by any means possible.

It's antithetical to believe that Romney was thinking of "the big picture" when working at Bain. He was thinking about himself.

Taking credit for creating jobs, when that was not your purpose is like taking credit for the sun coming up in the morning.

booker is convinced, like everybody in the media, that the correct answer is centrism and false equivalences. that the correct answer lies dead center between two opinions. that, if one person says the sky is blue and another says the sky is red, then the sky must, obviously, be purple.

the equivalency here is that both candidates are using the past to attack the other candiate. but it is a false equivalency because, whereas romney has made bain front and center to his campaign, obama has done nothing of the sort with jeremiah wright.

All that is missing behind Booker, in the "hostage" video...is the newspaper with date, showing he is still alive.

Imagine the gun, real or implied, pointed between his eyes from the camera man in front of him?

God help us, if Obama wins reelection!!!

Booker's initial reaction expressed what was in his mind and in his heart. His subsequent backtracking was due to political pressure and threats leveled at him. How obvious can you get?

The Democratic party is really losing it's composure when their OWN is speaking out against their head honcho.

Gotta love the "counter" Liberal remarks defending Mr. Obama.

Time for FLASHBACKS on Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign broken promises and the folks/voter bases he has thrown under the ObamaWagaon. Maybe he can get Rev. Wright and Oprah to make a go "Forward" to complete my "past incomplete promises" campaign ad. Nah, not such a good idea since they are still bushwhacked in the middle of the road.

Rev-1240041

Its hard to look at Romney's executive experience as governor of MA. He lost interest after a year in office and started running for president.

I suppose that's better than half-term Gov. Sarah Palin, but I find it odd that the media hasn't done more investigative reporting on this. Romney decided to ignore the Olympics too, because negatives were coming out about him being a jerk toward volunteers, and most of all government handouts he finagled. Which brings us to this:

MM-584706 -- Here's one example:

The story of Bain's failed investment in the Kansas City mill offers a perspective on a largely overlooked chapter in Romney's business record: His firm's brush with a U.S. bailout.

His supporters say the pension gap at the Kansas City mill was an unforeseen consequence of a falling stock market and adverse market conditions. But records show that the mill's Bain-backed management was confronted several times about the fund's shortfall, which, in the end, required an infusion of funds from the federal Pension Benefits Guarantee Corp.

Romney's career at Bain included both successes and failures. That is not unusual in the private equity business, where investors buy troubled companies and try to turn them around, often through aggressive use of debt.

Under-funding pension plans was/is a common tactic used by private equity firms to increase their own profits. But it's even more egregious when the government (tax payers) get stuck with the bill. And this is only one way that private equity companies game government funding.

Speaking of which, forget about Jeremiah Wright, why does Joe Ricketts need tax payer money to build a stadium? This "corporate welfare" of privatizing profit and socializing debt has been going on a long time in many ways -- Not just the TARP bail out of banks. Who hasn't had a stadium deal in their town, or pension funds/401k decimated by Wall Street or a private equity firm?

Svenolafson -- How many times do we need to post that the president graduated summa cum laude? Go away and don't come back.

6dogs -- It doesn't matter, that's the whole myth:

Nick Hanauer excerpt:

I'm a very rich person. As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, I've started or helped get off the ground dozens of companies in industries including manufacturing, retail, medical services, the Internet and software. I founded the Internet media company aQuantive Inc., which was acquired by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in 2007 for $6.4 billion. I was also the first non-family investor in Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)

Even so, I've never been a "job creator." I can start a business based on a great idea, and initially hire dozens or hundreds of people. But if no one can afford to buy what I have to sell, my business will soon fail and all those jobs will evaporate.

That's why I can say with confidence that rich people don't create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is the feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion a virtuous cycle that allows companies to survive and thrive and business owners to hire. An ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than I ever have been or ever will be.

Go here to read the full text: http://nick-hanauer.com/

The feedback loop is consumers spending money. As Nick says, he buys three cars, but the middle class buys thousands of cars, so they are the ones creating demand not the rich. The demand forces business to hire. The more jobs--good paying jobs--the more the economy grows. This is why a living wage pays for itself over the minimum wage. If a living wage was a federal labor law, and all business had to do this, everyone would benefit. Research show this to be the case as well.

For Deville. Well..... with a population as dumb as the average American.... what do you expect but attack ads. You'd be crazy and stupid to not use them in an election. It's also why tv commercials interrupt your daily viewing, why pop-up adds are all over the place, and why the first question you're asked when you have computer trouble is if you remembered to plug your monitor in.... Just look at many of the posts for this article for an example of the average Joe and you'll start to see why politicians do it....

Did MSNBC even cover the criticism.... or did they decide it was only "newsworthy" when he apologized to overlord Obama?

Other sites covered it.

Cory Booker slams Obama campaign ad attacking Romney’s Bain Capital record

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/cory-booker-slams-obama-ad-attacking-romney-bain-200058987.html

Mr. Booker was taken to the wood shed when he spoke the truth. He was advised he would be cut loose and denied any further support of the Democratic Partly if he continued to persist in his honest assessment of the situation. He knew his political career was over unless he complied.

gary-309869.....

Sounds like the then running for Illinois Congress, Mr. Obama, who quietly took care of the opposition through digging up dirt. Or, the little "secret" Bilderberg meeting in Northern Virgina with Mrs. Clinton during the Presidential election, then Mrs. Clinton immediately exiting from the race after giving her the opportunity to be the next SofS....again taking care of the opposition.

Either you are slammed out of a race, or you are given an "opportunity" behind closed doors by Mr. Obama or the Democratic Party.

Expect Mr. booker to be retired sooner than expected. His days are numbered.

Yep, the end justifies the means for Democrats.

Booker was dead wrong. Why don't you explain to us why Massachusetts dropped from being in the 37th place in job creation when Romney was sworn into office and wound up under his policies in the 46th place in the nation in job creation. Might that have something to do with Romney's penchant for outsourcing American jobs?

Sam22

Don't forget that the State Legislature was controlled by the Democrats. THEY held the purse strings and passed the Budgets.

Have you rightwingers even listened to the entire discussion? You can go to Meet the Press and stream it via the Internet -- just go to the website and launch that part. It's obvious you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

Me either, Romney will be embarrassed. Obama is going to wipe the floor with him!

It's not like he needs to though, President Obama has a commanding lead on the electoral map. Romney has no viable path to 270.

Romney will be hard pressed to defend his flip flops...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/15/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-evolved-significantly-his-position-abo/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/17/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-once-distanced-himself-ronald-reagan-n/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/17/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-rejected-state-tax-pledge-signing-nati/

Romney's lies will also haunt him in a debate...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/mar/07/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-iran-released-hostages-1981-becau/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-repeats-claim-obama-went-around-world-/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/mar/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-barack-obama-ending-medicare-we-k/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/mar/05/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-president-ignored-debt-problems-s/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/18/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-us-navy-smallest-1917-air-force-s/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/08/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-once-again-says-us-inches-away-no-long/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-obama-said-if-we-keep-talking-abo/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/oct/18/mitt-romney/romney-says-barack-obama-has-no-private-sector-exp/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/07/mitt-romney/romney-says-his-health-care-bill-affected-far-smal/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/may/13/mitt-romney/romney-calls-obamas-health-care-law-government-tak/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jan/06/mitt-romney/amnesty-amnesty-amnesty-amnesty/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/08/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-repeats-claim-repealing-health-law-sav/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/dec/12/mitt-romney/romney-says-only-obama-has-cut-medicare/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jan/18/mitt-romney/campaign-is-ankle-deep-in-lobbyists/

Words are just words meaning nothing when coming out of the mouths of politicians. Too bad we can't have a third choice, one that wants to make our country great again instead an embarassment. I don't see this in either of them & Obama has already showed us his strenghth by bowing to such as the Afghan leaders & the Mexican pres/cartels. This Peace & friendship will only as long as the payoffs keep filling the enemy's pockets.

An election to select which sock puppet will sit in the Oval Office and make speeches wherein his handlers wave to their families every time he opens his mouth. Let's face it, the two party system was lost when the two sides became so partisan that the good of the Nation no longer entered into the equation. A third party would be nice but probably wouldn't succeed. Since the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were individuals the floodgates of corruption and greed have broken. Only those with a price tag have a chance. The men who framed the Constitution would be so proud.............

DKJ-4 -- You do have other choices. Aside from Gary Johnson running as a Libertarian, go to Americans Elect and check out Buddy Roemer. Or you could write in a name, like Jeb Bush. But if you vote, vote for someone.

I believe him to be, however that doesn't automatically mean that everyone in the congregation is. If your boss is a Mormon, does that make you one by default? no...

The Wright story didn't fool voters in 2008 and it won't fool them now. Neither will Arizona's resurgence of the birther debate....

Who said everybody in his congregation is a racist? Just because you sit in Wright's church for a decade listening to his racist rants and dropping money in the collection bowl doesn't make you racist. But it sure makes you suspect.

WOW, You sure are dumb, so all the other Religions, when they say, help the poor their suspect?

Bill, I admit I'm too dumb to understand what you mean by that.

Ray, just thought of something. Based on your statement, I guess we can't say that everyone that attended the KKK meetings with those hoods on their heads were racist either. Somehow your statement just doesn't make sense to me.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not now, and has never in the past, run for elected office, so far as I know.

Willard Romney, the vulture capitalist, is running for an office his father couldn't get.

But, I think his father was more qualified and a better man.

He just wasn't a good enough liar for national politics.

How is he a racist. I'm white, but in my opinion he told the truth about what Europeans did when they got here. Have you ever actually READ his statement beyond the GD America bit?

sorry falconsomething

slavery existed LONG before "Europeans got here" , and yes I have checked out ALOT of Racist Wrights BS , and if you are down with it then you are in fact a racist as well

when every conversation a person has and every decision they make is based on race , then that person is fact a racist , every Rap (or Crap) star that uses the dreaded "N" word is a racist , every person who buy , listens to , and condones it is a racist , liberals and their claim to be "of the minorities" is in fact a racist attitude

if you have to ask, Wow, you made a lot of stupid statements/assumptions in a pretty short post. First off, nobody's talking about how long slavery has been around. The context is Americas part in slavery. You know... the country we live in. The country that was built on stolen land. Secondly, being black in America and going to schools that were at least 50% white, I've always had almost as many white friends as black. But the society I live in is still controlled by white men with racist backgrounds. At least 50% of the attacks from the right against Obama have been based on his race. And if politicians are bold enough to still try and debate his qualifications in arguments around his race, or patriotism due to his lineage, then there is even more racism that the average black person is subjected to regularly, and more of a reason to weigh the effect of race during a lot of interactions with white people. The majority of black peoples feelings on white people is from first hand experience. Most white people's idea's about blacks or black culture is based in stereotypes and a media machine that runs off of sensationalism and a war for ratings.

"stolen land"...hahahaha...do you mean the land that Asians stole?...since you are the expert , why do blacks ( no black man ever walked the planet , varying shades of brown I'll give you, but black , don't think so) kill each other with such zeal and obvious disregard? It doesn't appear to be "whitey" killing blacks , it appears to be you and yours. You let me know when you talk to a slave because I would like to here about it. I am more inclined to beliee that "blacks" are slaves to the liberal democrat politicians and the entitlement slavery plans that they have put in place . In other words I don't think you know what you are talking about.

oh , and please link you proof that "50% of {attacks}are because of his race , and Wikistupedia , CNN , MSNBC , the Grio , Rev Wright , Jesse Jackson , and Al NotSoSharpton don't count....thanks

and before you "go there" , I went to a high school that was 50% of each , and I saw a hell of a lot more "blacks" kicking "whitey's" asses , also interesting eh'?

Why is it whites kill themselves and everyone else they come into contact with? Impoverished areas, regardless of race, generally have more killings and more crime period. You'll always find this in places where the divide between the haves and the have nots is greatest. And what do I need to prove about the republicans and race? Do you listen? Or do you just not see it the same on the other side? How does say religious organizations who provide health insurance have to cover birth control (for those members that want it) constitute a war on religion in the eyes of the right, but the constant "Kenyan world view", "tar baby", "non-American" (in the context of his views based on his lineage), "isn't the 'type' of person we think should be in the White House", makaka (or what ever the word was), "better under slavery than under the Obama administration", etc, comments are based in what if not his race? How do you plot to unsit a president from election night, and blame it on his views and policies, when he's just won the election on his views and policies? You have a the republican party ready to take out any of it's own that agree with or help this administration to pass laws for the good of the country, because it goes against the opposition strategy they agreed upon before Obama was swore into office. Look at elections over the past 2 years! Look at republican politicians who had not only been around for a while, but who also had very high approval ratings and won their past elections by wide margins. But because they worked with Obama to pass good legislation the RNC dumps huge amounts of money into demonizing them and misrepresenting the record that has gotten them re-elected time and again.

And as for your high school, possible true that that may have been the case at yours, but rarer still nowadays than for the opposite to be the case in American high schools nationwide. And one of the very very few social settings where that could be the case. And unlike whites, blacks here in America have hundreds of years of social injustices supported by the law of the land to oppress them. Weather you want to consider it right or wrong doesn't negate the fact that there is a real justification for some animosity many blacks have towards their white counterparts here in the US. Racism is just as pervasive as it was 200 years ago, plus you have right-wing politicians trying to rollback laws aimed to protect minorities from discrimination. Not surprisingly, still sticking to right-wing fashion, they're doing the same with womens' rights too. The party that claims to be for smaller, less intrusive government only applies that doctrine to corporations and big business. They can't find enough ways for government to regulate the average citizens personal lives though.

a lot of words in a post with no point and no real facts , oh , "justified animosity" , so that means that I have " justified animosity " because a 16 year old black kid shot my cousin right between her eyes , cool I had never thought of it that way , thanks for showing me the light

"They can't find enough ways for government to regulate the average citizens personal lives though."

haha , you just described the entire liberal agenda for the last 60 years...since democrats have been in charge of Congress for the majority of the last 75 years I think your gripe about "regulation" should be focused on them , besides , I am under the impression that you libs think that "regulation" is the very duty of the federal government. Looks like you need to brush up on some of the "rules" in the liberal little red book

Yes! Justified animosity. As in you could feel justifiable animosity using your example, and blacks and America could feel justifiable animosity against the descendants of the people who kidnapped and enslaved them, who still have many of the same views as generations past and still push for the same social agenda. Yes, it is justifiable.

Brain...So brilliant brain, when you step into a room full of people, you divide them up into oppressors(white) and victims(black).....?? It is that simple for you is it? There is no grey area? Nothing but hate those evil white people....Do you have any idea that you are wasting your life with your hatred...But, maybe you get enjoyment out of that..

"descendants of the people who kidnapped and enslaved them"

hmm, that would make me think that their beef should be with the African "blacks" that "kidnapped" them and sold them to dutch slave traders , or do those "blacks" get a pass from you because they were "black"? , interesting that those who cry for reperations don't utter a single word about the African slave traders that did the actual "kidnapping", and who is pushing for "the same "social agenda" ? , names please not rhetoric , because most "white" Americans don't go for the BS from the those that practice the social agenda that you speak of , and the list of names should not come from your liberal propaganda websites or fish wrap newspapers as they are fraught with the real racists and that might be considered "bad info"

You people.... No I don't walk into a room full of people and divide up into oppressors and victims. I also don't ignore the way this society is structured. It is what it is.

That would be interesting

If your boss is a Mormon, does that make you one by default? no...

No it doesn't, but if my preacher is a Mormon it means I'm probably a Mormon as well.

...and why in the world did Mitt & staff need to take the hard drives after his term as governor ended? There's something sinister to that act. Why should you, just because you're the governor of ANY state, be allowed to take public property? Not even the President of the United States has that authority when they leave office. How was he able to accomplish that? This is the typical duck walk performance...you know the one--if it walks like a duck, etc.,...yes, THAT one!

Mittwitt avoids his term as governor for a very specific reason... he was a failure. 47th in jobs created. Wouldn't even run for a second term because he knew he would be defeated and that would blow him up as a presidential candidate. He also knew he could lie about job creation with Bain because records would be hard to verify. He may fool the Sheeple but he's not fooling anyone with a brain.

WAYFARER: The difference being that no one in the GOP would dare speak out against the party line. Hell, there's not a single member of the GOP caucus who has the balls to condemn that hedious, fat slob Rush Limbaugh. Remember when he called that young woman a "slut, whore, sex maniac, has so much sex she needs way more contraceptives than a "normal" woman.

And what did Willard say when asked about those comments? "Those are not the words I would have chosen". Ah, now there's a real Profile in Courage. Mittens would not have called her a whore, but rather a harlot, a street walker, a strumpet, and a lady of the night. How empathetic of Mitt. He's a real champion for the average American.

Fluke is a slut. What else do you call someone who prostitutes herself to the progressives and pelosi.

well Paul, if my perception is that you just prostituted yourself to Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove on this message board, that must make it okay for me to call you an unscrupulous whore right? (um, the answer to that is NO, btw. in case you weren't sure. do you get what I just did there? probably not.)

If you have to be so obscure and not just say what you mean I can understand because you probably don't know what you mean. Do not try to be cute. You aren't pulling it off. You assume people "get marching orders" from other people. It never occurs to you that these people are successful because they voice ideas a lot of other people already have. Fluke, in many peoples thinking, (notice it is not an opinion), is an immoral, selfish woman who can only think in terms of self gratification and having other people pay for what she will not take responsibility for. You progressives do not see the correlation between behavior and a healthy society. The government war on religions, family values, the promotion of perverse lifestyles such as homosexuality and the idea that students have "rights" and parents do not has led us to a crime and drug infested society in which STDs are rampant and poverty is out of control because of federally subsidized welfare. It is going to crash and it will not be pretty. Oh well.

Paul...

You seriously need to pull your head out of both your own ass and Rush's. Miss Fluke is NOT an immoral, selfish woman who can only think in terms of self gratification and having other people pay for what she will not take responsibility for. She is in fact an intelligent woman seeking a law degree and only pushed for greater access to contraceptive coverage for women who can't afford it. Rush, like many Repukes, wants it both ways.... doesn't support abortion rights and doesn't support contraception either, yet has NO problem with obtaining illegal Viagra scripts for himself. Typical right wing BS.

OneOfTheSane - I wouldn't waste my time trying to converse with Paul. He is in the back pocket of Rush and thinks the man is brilliant. He can't get anywhere with women so he calls us all sluts. It's all he has. Frustrated I think!

well Paul, sadly I did say precisely what I meant. and you were to dense too get plain English. and your further comments proved it. you didn't listen to/read Sandra Flukes actual testimony- you let Rush spoon feed you his opinion, and now you you puke it up onto the faces of people who can actually think, just as the 'marching orders' he gave you told you to do. no facts, no actual thinking engaged in on your part, just regurgitating what some yap on the tv/radio/internet told you was the party line. not to mention doing the old rabid conservative trick of throwing labels at people you don't even know and have no clue about, just because they don't agree with you, so that way you can tell yourself that they are wrong, and therefore you are better. it is sad and pathetic. you are the reason this country is in trouble- because you can't think

Ditto...spot on

Well the problem with that is that Romney is going to fight dirty, and the only way to fight back in a dirty fight is to fight dirty yourself. John Kerry proved what happens when you take the political high road against a lowdown dirty bastard that has no moral fiber.

HA HA HA!!!

Wm., debunking Romney's lies about being a "job creator" is not negative. Negative is destroying a person who fought in our politicians' wars while making heroes of those who took every deferment in the book. Bain kept some companies alive - true. Those companies are making money for their execs and shareholders while at the same time they destroyed the workers' jobs by shipping them overseas for profits. The part-time, minimum-wage workers selling Chinese-made goods at Staples and Sports Authority is not "job creation" to be proud of. One last note, Bain/Romney used our tax dollars to accomplish their wealth acquisition.

How do you know he was "blasted"??? You think he got a call from the White House? Possibly but just as possible, Booker reflected on his words and thought he might have gone over the top. And if you want to talk about a party that marches in lock step and stays on message ad nausea, I suggest you look to the GOP.

Booker has a problem. He's a reasonable black mayor who will get thrown under the bus by obama. Booker realizes that progressive politics will not solve the problems of his city. Only getting most of his welfare sucking citizens to go to work and to lay off all the lazy municipal workers he can, then he may save his city. He got out of line. He should have just called Governor Christey. At least he would have gotten support instead of a reprimand for being "uppity".

I guess New Mexico produces a fair number of idiots.

Paul? Are you really suggesting that Booker can only save Newark by becoming a Republican?

Typical progressive socialist reply. One with no ideas just calls others names. Pathetic as usual. You guys will just keep driving the us into the dirt. Good job.

Why are you complaining Paul? Didn't President Obama say he affirmed the position of allowing the LGBT to marry?

Only getting most of his welfare sucking citizens to go to work and to lay off all the lazy municipal workers he can, then he may save his city.

Yes, because firing people is the best way to fix unemployment.

Usually, a prerequesite to go to work is to have a job to go to.

Decreasing demand for goods and services by firing people is a very stupid way to encourage development of additional jobs.

There is a reason FDR was a 3 term president, and it was not because he slashed public sector jobs during a period of economic malaise.

Feisty Redhead, the consumate liberal, has a whole book of wonderful name calling but absolutely nothing of substance. Like our current one term president.

Lloyd,

You think if you say "one term" enough it'll happen? lol

That's the absolute least likely scenario! The electoral College is the sole means by which we elect presidents, and on the electoral map, President Obama holds a commanding, insurmountable lead. Romney has no viable path to 270.

Really VirginiaDem? Then why has Obama been franticly canvassing the swing states for the last year on the taxpayer dime? Methinks Ohio, Va, NC, Ind., and Fla are a clear path to Romney's 270, and Obama knows it all too well. Heck, Obama may lost Wis too.... those voters seem to have pulled their heads out of their gloomy orifices....

Hey Lloyd S. I nominate Feisty the Readhead to run againstthe President. She will probably do a better job. No kidding. She is Divisive and Elites, insultive and Liberal, and heck shr thinks she is Queen of the Hill here at MSNBC.

Hope you're being sarcastic wakani. Rev Wright married the Obama's and Barack sat in his pulpet for 20 years.

Oh, then why not link the two?

Lloyd - then you have no problems with Willard being a Mormon Bishop?

Barbara - Then you have no problem with Hussein - sorry, President Hussein - bestowing his church's highest social achievement award upon Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam, racist, and Muslim.

I can just picture the phone call. "Uh, Mayor Booker, this is David, David Axelrod. Do you like being in politics? If your answer is no, have a great day. If your answer is yes then I might suggest you dust off the video camera and get a YouTube login."

David "Puppet Master" Axelrod is at it again.

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
-- Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with the National Journal, describing his goal in retaking the Senate.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/10/25/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

Obama has been an almost total failure and Democrats (predictably) blame lack of Republican cooperation for his ineffectiveness. They then suggest that since it wasn't his fault, we should give him a second chance - sort of a "do-over".

But it doesn't matter who is to blame. Obama couldn't make progress in his first term for whatever reason; why would anyone imagine that a second would be any different.

Bob,

And you don't engage in the same kinds of attacks on Democrats? Of course you do.

By the way, I would once again like to extend the usual invitation to come watch the election results at my house here in Charlottesville, so I can see you cry when the networks call Virginia, and eventually, the election, for President Obama for the second time!

Bob in VA--- Fiesty is not using personal attacks on you Republicans, she's calling you idiots because you are idiots.

Good point, Tom. Well put.

The problem, in my estimation is context:

Economic Conservatives should be conservative and promote fiscal responsibility....during a financial boom.

Liberals should bulwark long term investment, social programs, and investment in emerging technologies...during periods of financial difficulty.

In reality, though, people tend to do the opposite, even though the historical record has shown that it does not work. Each speculative boom that lasts a year or two becomes a "new economy" and those who warn against a bust are alarmists who want to stifle the economy, and long standing safeguards are removed that worsen the subsequent crash (Glass-Steagall, the 89 S&L crash, subprime lenders, etc.)

It is as if a person has not had an accident in a year, so they quit wearing a seatbelt.

During economic hardship, the recent response is to cut everything, which increases unemployment and lowers demand for goods and services. People once classified as examples of community service are now lazy leeches (teachers and police).

It is as if a person sells the wheels off their truck so they can afford gas.

To get out of this recession: Get past rigid ideology, don't cut anything that directly has a job attached to it, reinstate glass-steagall (because it worked for the better part of a century), and regulate banks to the point that that they realize they are not speculators. Break up monopolies (Reagan did it to AT&T, so it cannot be that socialist).

Implement harsh, and long term tariffs and penalties on importers that import substandard products (Why should the American taxpayer be paying for additional inspectors to ensure that childrens toys, dogfood and medicine are not going to poison someone) If an importer wants our market, they should pay enough to ensure we are safe. If they can't I guess the US will have to make it domestically. This ensures that either the US gets cheap safe imported goods, or they have a ready market for domestic production.

Every infrastructure project should be entirely domestic. Roads, bridges, telecommunications, energy, should be handled by domestic contractors. It is a matter of national security that production capacity in this nation is maintained, even though it has shifted to a service economy. When rural electrification was implemented, it did not primarily produce profits for foreign nationals, it produced America jobs.

I'm not agreeing that either party is really in favor of a dictatorship, but I kinda suspect that there are plenty of liberals who would also like to see one party dominate all others.

I agree; Bain and Wright are apples and oranges. Romney planned to use his business experience as his resume` but without asking for references from all the people affected by the deals that were made. Romney wants voters to buy the job-creator image and think that his personal wealth is indicative of his competence.

However, the ads now being aired give the perspective of workers who lost jobs and/or pensions - and how companies Bain left on life support hurt workers and their communities. That is not a job creator; that is a social INSECURITY creator. And voters should be concerned that if Romney were elected he is likely to dismantle programs that help people in hard times because he focuses on the bottom line and keeping his 1% supporters happy. Romney will cut taxes for the wealthy and cut programs for the health and welfare of the majority. Look for more hard times and low wage jobs.

really well said, WI. Anyone who still believes the mainstream media is slanted to the left just isn't paying attn anymore. To try and lump looking into Bain as the same as looking into J Wright is laughable.

Good luck next month on your recall.

Romney says "He is not worried about the poor people, the Safety NET will take care of them, and anyone who gets laid off will fall into that Safety NET, like they did when he help close some large corporations and companies when he worked as a Vulture/Venture/Capitalist for the Bain Capitalist Corporations."..

If elected Mitt (the flip/flop) Romney will promote the following safety net for everyone who needs a job, and those who lose their jobs from the companies he sell out to wealthy USA and overseas vulture capitalist: Mitt (flip/flop) Romney's safety NET will take care of you, and you want need a Degree or any work experience to qualify for this, keep them Fat, Dumb and Happy system.

Burger king, McDonald, Watt-burger, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza-Hut, Dominoes Pizza, Wal-Mart, HEB, Seven Eleven, K-Mart, Sears, Etc..etc.. And anyone that doesn't fit into this net will be taken care of by private welfare groups like, all the many churches, and the Worldwide Mormon Churches, Goodwill, Salvation Army, Etc..etc...etc... And you want need affordable heath-care (Obama-care???) All of the many hospital emergency rooms will provide you with your welfare-healthcare emergency needs. (Death will solve all major catastrophic injuries or illness, to include no more wasting funds on old age, or women's heath care. No more birth control will also replace these deaths.) This is the same Social Insecurity system created by former President G.W.Bush, and later the obstructionist (Vagina controlling, war on women, T-Republican Congress) They crashed the economy, lowered the USA credit rating, and tried to shut down the government twice, and is threatening (Cong. Boehner) to do it again in 2013, if they get total control, and we know how that worked out the last time.

""BUNCH OF DUMB ASS FAT DUMB AND HAPPY PILGRIMS""WAR FIGHTER OUT"""HOOAHhhhhhhhhhhhhh""""""""""""