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Subscribe to RSSWith recent polls showing low levels of excitement among college students for President Obama's re-election, NBC talked to attendees at all three of his college town rallies to see just how enthusiastic they were about voting in November.
By NBC's Ali Weinberg
President Obama won 66 percent of the college-age vote in 2008, but young voters seem to be losing enthusiasm for his presidency, which could mean lower turnout on election day. At each stop on the president’s three-college-town swing Tuesday and Wednesday, NBC caught up with students to talk about just how excited (or not) they were to vote this November.
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Here's a man that can relate to students struggling to get through college. Unlike Mitt, who's only answer is "borrow the money from your parents." Real, compassionate guy. Obama wins overwhelmingly with young people.
Tony, don't be silly...
Don't you remember that today's GNOP believe college is for "snobs"? lol
The only way these Yahoo's will be able to grow their base is to keep them stuck on stupid!
Canada has 10 of the top 100 Universities in the world. Canada's population is 10 times smaller than America's. University fees in Canada are 10 times smaller than those in the USA. Yup, we are taxed for it, but then we have 10 times more movement within the economic classes. We have absorbed enough of that evil socialism to elevate the evenness of the playing field by 10%. And yet, we remain rabid capitalists with 6 or 7 Marxists wandering in the hinterland. Oh, our individual wealth has surpassed America's. The Children of the wealthy are mostly deadbeats.
The only way these Yahoo's will be able to grow their base is to keep them stuck on stupid!
Feisty,
A while back, I asked a RWNJ on FR why he thought O was a communist? One of his reasons, among others) was that Obama attended and taught at Harvard U. Need I say more?
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O&Joe 2012
I didn't know that. Thanks for the information. Canada is more and more appealing...
Right. And I bet Mitt had to really struggle to get through college. He was only been able to afford a 5 bedroom high rise instead of a mansion. And Lord have mercy, he even had to drive his own car. Now that's roughing it. Every time I see him try to connect with ordinary folks, I wanna puke. Can't believe anyone in the real world would consider voting for him.
bcwc - Canada's children are most likely 10 times smarter and better prepared for entering either a university or the workforce than American kids are. Other than that, there isn't much difference. Same with the U.K.
Hey Tony,
What happened to your old Avatar? I was getting used to watching Michelle suck on that corn dog....LOL
tonybeeerm
tony, it is the same bs with healthcare and especially within a single payer system. Yes your taxes go up, but then you are not pissing money into private insurance companies pockets, and more of it comes out of your pocket in the US because someone has to make a profit. The US spends twice as much as the rest of the world and ranks near the bottom when it comes to health outcomes. You don't need to fix your current system, you need to throw it out the window.
Marcus has her beat... hands down!
I have to give him credit, he knows how to caress a corn dog... ;o)
I still have it, but I got tired of it. I'm diggin' Sarah right now and I'm mad she wasn't allowed at the convention. Never thought I would say this, but I think she would've given a more effective speech than Clint Eastwood did. Wonder why she wasn't invited? Never really heard an official reason.
I have to give him credit, he knows how to caress a corn dog... ;o)
That's nothin! You ought to see him ride a "Baloney Pony"...
bcwc - I know all about Canada as I lived in a border town for nearly 20 years. I did a lot of business across the border and got to know some of it's citizens. They are similar to US citizens in so many ways, but they really think we are crazy for some of the things we do and hold on to. One is health care and the other is the gun culture. But that's another subject. I love Canada and haven't been back there in over a decade. When I get more time, I will definitely visit again. Toronto rocks!
BCWC,
i know that the University of Toronto is at the top of the list for Philosophy.
What would be the tuition for a student say for undergraduate at the university?
Canada's hinterland is really that!! Got any radicals in Provincial government?
I loved the clip of the young women voting this year for the first time.
I remember my first election. We had the kind of voting booth with a curtain, little levers that showed your vote for a candidate, and then you pull the red handle and your vote was recorded and the curtain opened.
Tony,
Obama is out there promising to pay off college loans. He is trying to buy votes, plain and simple. College students are brainwashed liberals upon graduation. A 25 year old gets an MBA and thinks he should be making $1Million a year... reality always kicks in.
Will you please pass the Clorox, I need to wash my eyes out! lol
Northstar
5 to 6 thousand a year at the most since she is out of country, ... maybe push it to 7
Yes we have radicals ... the tea party has opened up offices ... your worst export ever.
Tony, every one in Canada who does not live in Toronto thinks it sucks!
Hey Wake up now, don't you think it's wise to invest in our future? I would much rather see our money go towards education then throwing it down an endless sinkhole like the over bloated defense budget that really only benefits those already way too wealthy corporations that suck off of the government. It really is a crime that students not born into wealth, like one Mitt Romney was, have to mortgage their life away just to get through college and get a better job. We should be helping these kids instead of thwarting them and then turning around and calling them lazy. Of course, you probably didn't graduate high school, so why waste my time explaining anything to you.
Our young people will continue to support Obama no matter what.
Obama tried and succeeded in getting low college loan rate only recently, we all remember that.
LOL....The only way the Loonbat Left are able to grow their base is to let every illegal in and give them a welfare check!
..........just like crack to a crackhead in da 'hood!
Obummer - Keepin' America on welfare!
Since the 26th Amendment (1971) that gives the vote to those 18 to 21, 2008 was the first time our young people voted in overwhelming numbers --- and overwhelmingly for Obama whom they could relate.. and still can.
Yes We still Can.
...Together we can move FORWARD...
Yeh yeh, Michael, and who put them there? Feel free to lie, it's a 1st Amendment thing with the GOP.
Tony,
You didn't explain anything to me. When you walk into a room do you feel sorry for everyone because they are not as smart as you? The defence budget is $700 Billion and interest payments on the national debt is $600 Billion. Glad to see that you are so anti-military. Last time I checked the presidential oath requires the security and defence of the nation. There is nothing in there about giving people a free education. If you want something, you work hard and earn it. Nothing in this world is free.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.......you should know better than to TRY and 'splain dat to Looney Liberal. Health care is free, Sandra Fluke's rubbers are free, food is free, a single-family home is not only free, it's a RIGHT!...lol
LOL...hell, next they're gonna try and convince you that people not from this country have a right to all of our safety net programs!.........oh wait......
Liberals ~ Compassionate with OTHER people's money!
I love the liberal mindset that they are for the 'oppressed'. Here is a brainteaser, is it ok to oppresses one person in order to make another person not oppressed?
Well lookie here, the latest gabbers have a clean white sheet on. 0ooie ... the reverse racism card.
That makes absolutely no sense to anyone but yourself.
Whoaaaaa, what a shocker!
A liberal accusing a conservative of racism?!?!??!?!?? NO WAY!
Shut up! I CANNOT BELIVE IT!
You tools are so predictable, you don't even make this hard.
Be happy ~ tomorrow's the first of the month.....go stand by your mailbox
See now Michael, that's what you guys don't get. See single payer healthcare is not free and Dems understand this. Everyone pays. Tell me Michael, if let's say your kid has cancer, do you really think someone should profit from that? Almost akin to selling grandma's dead body.
What makes you think that dolt has children? It's pretty near impossible to get a blow up doll pregnant.
Awww, TonyBeeeeeeee da homo strikes again!
What is it about you liberal loonbats that get you excited about playing with dildos all of the time?
Try and follow along now...this convo is THAT complicated
Please bottom line this for me.....
Are you telling me you're okay with the government dictating what procedures you can & cannot have? What medicines you can or cannot have?
Which doctor to see?
Whether you can have an MRI?
You're okay with that?
I don't have a beef with any liberal that is fine with the above.......just be honest about what your asking for.....'cause that's what it is
Michael1969
What is it about you repub ratpigs that gets you all excited about pretending to be black? There are at least 100 of you on the vine.
Ooooh- so THAT'S what Obama was doing instead of visiting storm ravaged areas of the country.
He was too busy campaigning to go. Got it. And he needed, desperately, to make an appeal to the most emotional voters.
Cause, that's what a president should be doing in times of national disaster.
Reminds me of his initial reaction to the Fort Hood shooting. Fifteen minutes of inane blather- followed by a throwaway line.
Thank heaven we are about to be delivered from this disaster by a real president- not one who seems to think the job consists of playing one in TV, campaigning, playing golf, and going on cool trips.
Sorry, my bad homey-G....I was trying to do my best Uncle Joey impression....
"They're gonnnnnnna put y'all back in chainssssss"
There....is that better now that a liberal did it?
Gee Michael, that just does not happen in any country that I have lived in. You somehow think that the private insurance company has no decision in this? That is a part of lifetime limits down there. What happens when you lose your job? Sell the house and after that get your parents to sell theirs. Gee more people profiting.
NoJo,
How many responders would a Presidential visit take out of the front lines? It's about them, not him, his shorts are dry. Why don't you hop on a plane yourself if you are so concerned about appearances?
That poor bast-rd gets re-elected...
He's going to inherit one h-ll of a mess!!
The middle class can't afford 4 more!!
Way to answer the question.....no prob, I wasn't holding my breath.
You libs have been ducking this one since Jan 2009 and beyond.
I'm just fascinated at the liberal fear of standing on your own two feet. Why do they always need/want a crutch (government)?........another hold-your-breath question I guess
ooops....way to go NoJo.
Now you done woke up da Obummer Apologists.......I don't understand the problem, it's not like he'd be in the way.........
........He can walk on water!
ps.....just like the ummm, ?11 days? after the oil spill he put his boot on somenes neck?!?!
Michael
I answered, you just didn't like it. Ah Repubs and the Virtues of Mendacity.
If that's your "answer" then I apologize but you are clueless.
We can be now, I'm sure your head is hurting
George Bush was called an uncaring racist for giving the exact same reason.
The left are not worth the spit from real Americans mouths. They are only worthy of scorn and ridicule. Low life scum is what they are. That includes their messiah, the great mocha hope.
Its never happened to me or anyone in my family either.
So, bcc-did you have the same philosophy about presidential visits and first responders when Bush was president and Kateina hit the area?
Do you even see the irony of your post?
I do, so, love liberals- they are so easily caught in nets of their own making.
Conservative Rebellion: and your side calls OBAMA divisive?
Come on...get a clue. You must have a mirror somewhere in your house.
...especially if she's "legitimately" raped!
Romney in Louisiana:
"Romney got out of the vehicle and had an informal roadside conversation with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and U.S. Sen. David Vitter, both Republicans.
“I’m here to learn and obviously to draw some attention to what’s going on here so that people around the country know that people down here need help,” he told Jindal."
Right.....because without Mitt Romney showing up, we wouldn't have had a clue how bad things were.
"Jindal told the former Massachusetts governor about relief efforts by the Red Cross, Salvation Army and other organizations. Romney inquired about how many people were out of their homes or in shelters. “Did the water come from the sky, or the rivers, or the ocean?” he asked. The answer could not be heard."
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-hurricane-20120831,0,2951507.story
That's okay, I think we can all imagine what the answer to that one was.....
Yeah, that's interesting,JoAnne, but the funniest part of all is O is going there on Monday.
Seems like just last week he said he was not going to go.
Guess that's just more leading from behind.
And golly No Joe - these libbies sure do sing a different tune now days, eh?
Presidential visits to Hurricane zones, who is/is not responsible for the price of gas, a warmongering President...
JoAnne,
How about this … New Orleans (08/31/2012): Jodie Chiarello talked to Mitt Romney, after Hurricane Isaac left her home underwater.
"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there. He said, go home and call 211" (a public service number).
** Remember, her home is underwater **
More Romney in Louisiana:
"Romney and Jindal spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.
"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states."
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-08-31/romney-to-visit-storm-damaged-louisiana
"Go home and call 211"????? Which part of "lost her home" didn't he understand?????
Edit: Oops, sorry, Dennis - you beat me to it!
You couldn't make this stuff up no matter how hard you tried!
Well, Joann, you obviously know nothing whatsoever about why knowing where the water came from is important.
If the water came from the sky, it FELL- and that means homeowners covers it.
If it came from the ground, it ROSE-and that means flood insurance covers it.
If it came from the rivers, unprotected by levees, it means that the Army Corps of Engineers interfered with the flow of the river, and if that is not addressed, it will happen over and over again.
It's easy to think a question is stupid if you do not understand the basis behind it. Those who have never lived on the water do NOT understand these things, and think their ignorance passes as superior knowledge.
Telling that woman to call 211 was actually good advice, by the way. She will be led to shelter, and services, and helped to fill out the myriad forms necessary to get her insurance, and whatever FEMA aid is available to those impacted by the storms.
Geez, you people simply don't think things through.
Sourse for this? Or did you leave yourself wiggle room with the "seems"?
No Joe,
Just keep making excuses for Mitt Romney while you are critical of our President for similar things and are critical of those that defend President Obama. I’m sure you understand what that makes you.
Telling her to call 211 is a good idea but telling her to go home was thoughtless and cruel.
Uh, Dennis- you are so far out of the loop it is no longer funny. You do realize that, we're it not for Obama, that woman would not be flooded out of her home, do you not?
You don't? Oh- pardon me
This is fascinating
Isaac Renews Debate Over Levees
APThough the floodwalls and levees protecting New Orleans did their job as Isaac barreled into the region as a Category 1 hurricane earlier this week, rural sections outside the city didn't fare as well. Plaquemines Parish, where the storm came ashore, flooded quickly and forced emergency crews to conduct search and rescue operations. After Katrina hit in 2005 the Army Corps of Engineers used $14 billion to beef up the levee system around New Orleans, but didn't use the funds for outlying areas. Plans to build a $1 billion levee system that would protect rural areas was scrapped last year after the agency decided the cost could not be justified, considering the low probability of flood events and small population in the region. Now residents and politicians are pushing for more protection. "These people don't deserve this," Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu told WVUE-TV near Braithwaite, and area flooded to the rooftops by Isaac. "We have to fight harder and stronger for protection for everyone."
Get More at NBC NewsÂ
http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/us-world/
I especially like the part where the Obama administration decided that building the levee system in that area was not worth the cost- because it never flooded.
Oh- while you're checking out the site, please note the latest from our brilliant vice president.
"I'm Joe Bidenopoulis". Â Let's all, please, take a moment and consider the outrage if a republican had said it.
Speaking of Mary Landrieu and the Army Corps of Engineers and their budget.....
"Mary Landrieu, the Democratic senator from Louisiana, made a political point directed at Romney during a news conference in Plaquemines Parish. She said she hopes the Republican nominee will realize the importance of the Army Corps of Engineers and its projects that tackle hurricanes and storm damage. She called the agency's budget "underfunded."
"Two billion dollars is not nearly enough new investment in core infrastructure for our nation, so one of
the things I hope (Romney) sees firsthand when he's here is that," she said. "I realize he's all about cutting the federal budget, but this is one agency that absolutely cannot take any additional cuts," she said."
http://us.cnn.com/2012/08/31/us/weather-isaac/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Romney wants to be Commander-in-Chief
America is at war.
During Romney's speech he never mentioned the war
or the troops.
PATHECTIC !!
i am more convinced that ever that being bound to a cult dramatically reduces I.q. How else can one explain the patently transparent lies that come forth from their lips?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/30/matthews_claims_to_live_in_black_majority_dc_but_lives_in_md_suburb.html
Oh, and Joann? You're welcome. At least now you are informed about the importance of knowing where the water came from.
Uh, sandy?
More transparent lies
His trillion dollar cuts to our military will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, and also put our security at greater risk;
Every American was relieved the day President Obama gave the order, and Seal Team Six took out Osama bin Laden. But on another front, every American is less secure today because he has failed to slow Iran's nuclear threat.
Everywhere I go in America, there are monuments that list those who have given their lives for America. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation, or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag, fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the UNITED States of America.
Do yourself a favor- go read the whole speech
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/30/mitt_romneys_acceptance_speech_at_the_republican_national_convention_115280.html
no joe, if you really want to persist in defending that idiotic question from Romney, be my guest. I'd have thought that since those same homes weren't underwater a week ago, when the rivers and the ocean were just sort of sitting there like they always do, it was pretty obvious that if all that rain hadn't fallen from the SKY, there'd have been no flooding, Romney wouldn't have been rushing to his meaningless photo op and asking stupid questions, and we wouldn't be having this childish conversation in the first place.
I'm going to go do something constructive, like write a check to the Red Cross for disaster relief, and then I'm going back to work. I doubt that the good people in Louisiana really give a damn what either one of us has to say.
P.S. - I don't listen to Chris Matthews and he doesn't speak for me and I couldn't care less where he says he lives. Happy now?
So the government does create jobs !!
No Joe says: His trillion dollar cuts to our military will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, and also put our security at greater risk
To be honest these cuts are not the Presidents cuts they came from a bill passed with bipartisan votes in the House and Senate.
None of the Republicans ever talk about the damage that will be done to the underprivileged when the other half of the sequester funds are cut – they don't care!!
Somehow people on the Right have the idea that Liberals and the Left love Chris Matthews when we actually don't like him. We are as critical of him as we are some other pundits that some consider being Democrat because of the network they work for like David Gregory.
When Chris says something we like we point it out in the same way we pointed how Chris Wallace pointed out Paul Ryan's lies Wednesday night.
Wow
I just heard Romney say, "United we put a man on the Moon."
We the people and our tax dollars, and The Government BUILD THAT.
Well, how about we address one line in the article? I think this line is very telling and is probably the reason so many liberals are turning angry:
but young voters seem to be losing enthusiasm for his presidency
What a very telling line. Young voters can see right through him. I keep on telling liberals that 2012 is NOT 2008. For all the imagined reasons liberals think Obama has a chance... from false poll numbers to the lies spread by the democrats about Romney... Obama's chances are growing slimmer by the day for retaining his position. He needs to be fired... and I believe he will be.
Tony, Feisty and the rest of my liberal friends; Kudo's to Mellisa Harris Perry.
This bytche Monica Mehta at
Fox NewsBusinessFOX NOISE BICKERHEADS who has prejudices against poor people and Pres. Obama caused Mellisa Harris Perry to lose it. I mean she went off. She ripped that heifer's head off!!!I found the video and it really gets hot towards the end.
See that FOX heifer has false images of lazy and undeserving black folks. That piece of Republican BS was referenced by a book studying the issue, with data going back 20 years; yeah, basically Newt Gingrich in Congress-era BS, and it hasn't been forgotten.
It was when Monica Mehta defended the risk-taking of conservatives -- the rich investors, the business owners, the 'job creators' -- that MHP really let her have it. Melissa's point was that the risks taken by the rich, who enjoy multiple layers of protection, do not even compare to the risks taken by the poor who are just trying to not get shot in a bad neighborhood, who try to find a decent school for their kids. Considering the case of Mitt Romney in particular, whose company never seemed to risk or lose anything,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540#48870824
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Mellisa Harris Perry apologized though, stating her frustration due to losing her home twice in the hurricanes. Personally, I saw no need for an apology. I was happy to see Mellisa Harris Perry go off. I'm glad Dr Perry beat that heifer's a** ☺
Gee, Dennis- who knew?
The government funds defense.
It's not like it's in the Constitution, or anything.
My God, you ARE crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuM4eo-YZ-E
Those cuts are bi-partisan, and they could just as easily come from redundant and unneeded hardware, like planes the Congress has authorized but the Pentagon doesn't want.
Unless you're talking about some other cuts, in which case, I thought he didn't have a plan.
Which is it?
Whatever it is, I see that as better than a $2 trillion unfunded INCREASE, and 100,000 shiny new soldiers with no defined purpose, served up on a gold-plated platter for military contractors like Halliburton to outfit like perverse GI Joe and Josephine dolls.
As world history seems to have proven since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a nuclear "threat" is only good so long as you don't use it.
Good luck in finding a job in your field after you graduate. You will be eligible for that 5 year plan at McDonalds, before you ever get a job that pays anything.
All these graphics design and communications graduates.... good luck with that.
This thread got me to thinking about my own first-time-voting experience in 1972 when I was a 20-year-old college senior and the voting age had recently been lowered to 18. You want to talk about excitement that turned into disappointment? I campaigned my heart out for George McGovern and then got to sit there watching the returns come in on Election Night as Richard Nixon swept every state except Massachusetts. Oh, the "agony of defeat"......and yet somehow, four years later I found myself voting for Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter. I'm not really sure what that says about young voters, other than they're a lot more impressionable and possibly more fickle than us geezers whose values have been pretty much set in stone by the time we reach a certain age.
That being said, I think college-age voters are also more idealistic, less jaded, and more willing to believe they can still change the world. More open-minded. More positive than negative. More inclined to still be looking forward rather than backwards. So this year there's still only one logical choice for them.
Obama. Obviously.
And I suppose you think that it's President Obama's fault, right? Why don't you share with us where you got that information from. Or did you just make that up all on your own? I'm going to take a wild stab and guess you yourself never attended college. Am I right?
I seem to remember Bush Baby on the trail saying how Walmart jobs were good jobs.
JoAnne said:
More open-minded. More positive than negative. More inclined to still be looking forward rather than backwards. So this year there's still only one logical choice for them.
Obama. Obviously.
Then tell me why they are not enthusiastic about Obama Joanne? Maybe they see things you don't... llike Obama's policies are failures for the success of the United States. Maybe they are looking at the piss poor unemployment waiting for them after they graduate. They might also have a real understanding of the additional $5.3 trillion in national debt they are facing as adults...
I dunno Joanne, It could all be that you never got over your idealistic fantasies from your youth and are trying to project your imagination on what you remember from all the peace rallies and love in's you attended. Think maybe it's time to grow up since you are close to 60?
Tonybeeerm said: And I suppose you think that it's President Obama's fault, right?
You're damn right it's Obama's fault. He's had 4 years to implement policies that could help small businesses grow and develop. He's had 4 years to open up our energy resources to produce jobs. He's had 4 years to meet with elements of manufacturing sectors to develop plans in growth. He's had 4 years to promote this country and represent business interests to bolster development of new businesses and provide avenues for those business to grow, hire people and expand. GM - He should have let the bankruptcy system work so they could emerge beyond it with protection and not our Billions of dollars in taxpayers money on the line... BTW GM is not doing good at all even with all the government's help. They don't generate enough money to pay back their loans. This will turn into an epic fail... nothing new for Obama.
But what has Obama done? Exactly the opposite. He's run around the globe telling every two bit dictator and despot how bad we are... He's told the American people that we don't build our businesses. He's done just about every negative growth thing under the sun. He's invested our taxpayer's money into businesses that could never have succeeded because the timing of their green products is off. What about the things he's done can't you see?
Tony B and Black & White - THANK YOU!!!
Lets hope you have made sense to some of those on this site that have been home schooled (or seem like they have been)!! FORWARD!
Just saw on Cenk Uygur show on current tv where a reporter was at the RNC Convention just asking goer-byers one easy question. ..."Can you say one nice thing about President Obama"....people replied courteously with differing answers.....then the untimate happened!
MTPs' own David 'hatchet hands' Gregory, passing by (swiftly).....refused to answer!
He could have answered in so many ways.......well, I guess he did!
Cmon - As the anchor on "Meet the Press" he has to stay neutral, unlike Rachel Maddow, who obviously is not unbiased. She cannot get Republican guests on her show because they know she will demolish them.
So true. She will not tolerate outright lies and distortions.
As for Gregory, he could have answered, as some did, with: great father, great husband, great basketball player......generic stuff, non-political, but an answer.
My husband is a great father, great husband and great (in his own mind) golfer. So What.
I wasn't aware that this was/is about your husband....So nothing!
What I'm saying is there are a lot of great fathers, and a lot of great husbands out there. Is Mittens special?
Absolutely not, but in trying to 'humanize' him they used the 'great father/husband' line!
I don't care for David Gregory, at all.....Even the folks attending the convention (obviously Republican), found something nice/generic to say about President Obama.
Gregory could not.
"[Rachel Madcow] cannot get Republican guests on her show because they know she will demolish them"
Why bother with a ranting loony socialist zealot who makes stuff up, attacks Republicans for their mere existence, and HAS NO VIEWERS, other than a few lefty kooks...
Good thing tingly lefty loon Chris Matthews didnt wander by to answer a question about his man crush Obama....
There would had to have been a cleanup crew needed after another Matthews spittle flecked rant about racism...
Sorry...gotta run and watch Rachel! LMAO.
Aside from the fact she's an idiot liar, why go somewhere that only seven or eight people will hear your argument?
Yes!
I saw Obama's speech in Charlottesville. It was like Obama was a first time candidate, he doesn't mention that he has been in office 4 years.
Obama as President asking for a second term reminds one of college student Bluto in Animal House..Bluto wanted to spend 8 years total in college ......with failing grades...
Obama wants another 4 years, after flunking Economics 101...
Drunk fat and stupid is no way to go through life, son".
"Being a total failure on your first term is no way to get a second term, Mr Obama."
Bob and Buck,,,,Thanks,,,,,Been a tough day and you guys made it better!
Republicans on these blogs like to point to the Polls and say, "Your Polls got it wrong on the Walker Recall!" And, they are right. A number of Polls did say Walker would be recalled, but he wasn't. However...
Nate Silver of Five Thirty Eight predicted Walker would NOT be recalled. Read it for yourself...
May 24, 2012, 2:12 PM106 Comments
In Wisconsin, Walker Is Likely to Survive Recall
By NATE SILVER
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican, is likely to survive a recall election on June 5, according to recent nonpartisan polls of the state.
Mr. Walker leads his Democratic opponent, Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, by an average of six percentage points in those polls and has not trailed in any poll since February.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/in-wisconsin-walker-is-likely-to-survive-recall/
Nate Silver and Five Thirty Eight say...
the election over
And ~ Republican Pundit George Will, seems to agree with Nate Silver, blasting Romney's flip flopping when he wrote in the Washington Post, October 2011,...
"Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles (Flip Flopper) who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate…
and Paul Ryan is the New Dan Quayle!
Bruce--I truly hope Nate Silver's predictions are correct. Many young people, especially those on college campuses, support Obama. Let's hope they get to the polls and vote! Women too.
You may be right about the Romney/Dukakis connection, but Ryan is no Dan Quayle though he is young. Paul Ryan is articulate and intelligent. He just has fringe-y views, like abortion should never be allowed, period.
NBC-speak for "Even college liberals are waking up to Obama's lies, divisiveness and incompetence."
Kannin,,,there is hope for change!
8.4% unemployment,2000 plus innocent Mexican people and a border agent murdered thanks to obama holder guns, one and a half GDP, America's security sold out for a obama vote or headline, foodstamps 3 fold in 3 years, welfare 2 fold in 3 years, 6 trillion in obama debt, welfare anytime or anyplace like democrat supported abortions, and a no class democrat campaign based on lies, bribes and fraud as any bills they have shoved down the American people's throats. Romney?Ryan 2012!
They're very excited to be given the chance to vote for Romney
Not so. They just wish Obama could have accomplished more of his agenda. Expectations were unbelievably high when he was elected, and unforunately, he couldn't do everything he promised, especially with so little cooperation from Congress. Romney is not better--he'd just take us back to Bush-like policies, which were epic fails (notice how Bush was absent from the Republican convention? R's know his name is toxic)
And Obama is taking us back to Jimmy Carter's policies. Ol' Jimmy can't wait to speak at the convention to thank Obama for replacing him as the worst president in history.
Things we know:
mark halperin is a dick(yea morning joe included)...well we've known that for a while.
romney and ryan are liars.
apparently, the Mormon church condones lying because romney is a bishop in the church but they will not tell him to tell the truth. Have we gotten so jaded and lying so commonplace that the media just repeats the lies as though they are facts?why will no media outlet just say sorry, but you are lying.
Do you really want a bishop of any church to be president? Really? Think about the potential abuse of that power.
oh yea, I'm speaking to an empty chair right now. you do realize bush started the fast and furious program right... see above about lies and liars.
If you see this have a great weekend Feisty. Getting by but in lots of pain and muscles have quit cooperating with me.
Same to you my dear friend, Leon!
They do so with impunity!
Apparently because their hatred of the black man in the white house they are willing to look the other way!
Have we sunk so low as a country, these people are willing to turn a blind eye on the truth?
I am so sorry to hear this!
Please know you are in my thoughts, and as always, if there is anything I can do, you know how to find me!
Thanks for your transparency, Odumbo! By now most of the college students know that your time in office was a wasted 4 years! I agree with Ryan on his statement about Odumbo and his statement about leaving their bedroom, go to college for 4 years, graduate, and come back home to their bedroom again just to stare at the faded picture of Odumbo on the wall, because of his failure to create more jobs. He tells them that he can promise extra food stamps for them. He still believes that there are 57 states and that he campaigned in them all in the last election. Search "obama's 57 states, and i'm sure all of the students will want to vote for this bozo!
Poll: Romney gets convention bounce, takes national lead
By Jonathan Easley - 08/30/12 07:58 PM ET
09/01/12 Gallup: Obama 47 – Romney 46 **Before the convetion Romney was in the lead !
08/31/12 RCP Average of 8 polls: Obama 46.4 – Romney 46.1
Sorry, No Bounce
Dennis - Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll 08/31/12: Romney 47 - Obama 44. Polls will change through out the campaign so I don't put a lot of stock in them. If I was an Obama supporter, the polls I would be concerned about was the ones showing: Direction of Country and the approval/disapproval ratings of the President. I would also be concerned that the President can't even break the 50% favorable mark.
Most elections are decided within the last two weeks of the campaign, after the debates.
Sarge,
Rasmussen is included in the RCP average.
The “Direction” issue has tracked (in inverse) the approval of Congress and its approval was in the mid 20’s until 2011 – remind me what happened in Jan 2011.
Where is the article to back up this assumed headline?
There are several things this country could do that would help greatly:
1. Force all our public owned corporations to pay our minimum wages wherever they go. This would show a little regard for workers and bring back many jobs. When the CEO of Disney made 600 million in salary and God knows what in bonuses he had children working in Haiti for 12 cents and hour. This is the evil that is destroying us.
2. Our big banks have been getting billions in 0% loans. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and one other control 80 percent of the oil futures. They are using our own money to rob us by manipulating the commodities market and driving up the price of oil and other essentials. Everyone in Washington knows this and nothing is done to stop it. Insane!
3. All government guaranteed loans should be made directly for a small interest. This would cut house notes by half or more and leave trillions in the hands of our people instead of thieving banks. Why should anyone pay 600k for a 200k house when the tax payer backs the loan. This is insane unless you are a big banker.
4. The capital gains tax,where most giant money is made is only 15%. Republicans want to eliminate it. This is insane, unless you are a wall street billionaire. In the one year I know about, the Saudi royal family made 250 billion on our rigged market while 401ks were tanking. The Emir of Kuwait has hundreds of billions in that same market. We have spent precious lives and billions defending these two tyrant monarchies. Insane!
The republican party would start a third world war before they would do any of the things necessary to save this economy. Too many democrats are owned as well. So, "we the people" will force real change or the pigs will soon have us in depression and chaos.
The average bump from a National Party convention is usually 5-10 points. The GOP got 2. LMAO
So well said. How these republicans have the nerve to go out and say they are the party of fiscal responsibility when they brought this country to the brink in 2008 and again in 2010 when they refused to compromise is appalling. When Ryan blamed the credit rating downgrade on Obama, I wanted to puke. Espeially when S&P said the reason they were doing it was because of the republicans refusal to compromise.
Yesterday, in a further attempt at hypocrisy, Willard suggest that a flood victim call 211 (a public agency) for help. Did he also tell her that his party has high hopes of getting rid of all these agencies that protect us from disasters such as Isaac? I'm betting not. BTW, if these hacks win, they intend to end the National Weather Service, are going after NOAH and would like to dismantle the Dept. of Energy and Education.
What a crowd! Political servants my a@#...more like political hacks.
The democrats got none.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150743/Obama-Romney.aspx
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/sep/21/romney-doubles-obamas-charitable-giving/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/21/obama-s-shaky-libya-narrative.html
Obama is looking stressed.
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It's tough out there for a young person trying to break into a weak job market.
Whether or not Obama believes the buck stops with him is irrelevant, they do believe it.