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Subscribe to RSSSan Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will go after the Republican presidential ticket for its economic philosophy and try to paint the pair as out of touch.
Julian Castro is the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas and the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. He spoke to NBC News about the importance of family and their influence on his political beliefs.
"Republicans tell us that if the most prosperous among us do even better, that somehow the rest of us will too,” Castro, 37, will say, according to excerpts released by the Democratic National Convention Committee. “Folks...we've heard that before. First they called it 'trickle-down.' Then 'supply side.' Now it's 'Romney/Ryan.' Or is it 'Ryan/Romney'? Either way, their theory has been tested. It failed. Our economy failed. The middle class paid the price. Your family paid the price. Mitt Romney just doesn't get it."
Obama Senior Campaign Advisor Robert Gibbs join Andrea Mitchell Reports to preview day one of the DNC.
He will note the value of hard work, but add that the country needs to “invest” and help people along the way.
"Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps,” he will say, “and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone.”
He will add: "Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it. A few months ago he visited a university in Ohio and gave the students there a little entrepreneurial advice. 'Start a business,' he said. But how? 'Borrow money if you have to from your parents,' he told them. Gee -- why didn't I think of that?"
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He will also lavish praise on President Obama.
"Now, like many of you, I watched last week's Republican Convention,” he will say. “They told a few stories of individual success...we all celebrate individual success. But the question is, how do we multiply that success. The answer is President Barack Obama."
He adds: "Four years ago, America stood on the brink of a Depression. Despite incredible odds and united Republican opposition, our President took action. And now we've seen 4.5 million new jobs. He knows better than anyone that there's more hard work to do. But we're making progress. And now we need to make a choice. It's a choice...between a country where the middle class pays more, so that millionaires can pay less... or a country where everybody pays their fair share. It's a choice between a nation that slashes funding for our schools and guts Pell grants... Or a nation that invests more in education. It's a choice between a politician who rewards companies that ship American jobs overseas...Or a leader who brings jobs back home.
"This is the choice before us. And to me, to my generation, and for all the generations that will come after us, our choice is clear. Our choice is a man who's always chosen us. A man who already is our President -- Barack Obama."
For more, read: "Who is Julian Castro and can he deliver in the spotlight?"
*** UPDATE *** Ryan Williams, of the Romney campaign, responded this way: “Middle class families understand that they are not better off than they were four years ago because President Obama’s liberal policies have failed to turn around the economy. The president has wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on a big government agenda that has resulted in record debt, declining salaries and 42 consecutive months of unemployment above 8%. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a plan that will strengthen the middle class by reforming our tax code, reducing excessive government regulations and creating 12 million jobs over the next four years.”
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I hope he goes after Willard's line about losing your $22.50/hour job and taking two $9.00/hr jobs to take its place. That is what Bain does for you, ships out good paying facotry jobs and replaces them with stock clerk jobs at places like Sports Authority and Staples.
I ♥ Mayor Julian Castro!
I see where instead of getting a bump in the polls, Willard has actually lost a point! lmao!
Even his own party can't stand him!
Has that ever happened before in Presidential election history?
Romney also had the lowest scored acceptance speech of any nominee since Dole.
I've wondered how that was going to play out and now it appears everyone else is as well! Ryan had a defined plan, and Mittens just wanted to bring the country back to the days of Ike. Including the dress code and where women should be . . . .
Reposting from another discussion.
The comments (to be) made by Mr. Castro are exactly what I'm talking about. Speak mainly about your own party's virtues. Take a jab at the other party only when it serves to prove your points, but don't just go after 'em for the sake of tearing them down, like how they did at the GOP convention.
In other words, show the GOP who the real adults in the room are.
Ryan continues to be caught in lies - no mas pantalones
Democrats have removed mentions of “God” from their platform. When Obama said he wanted to fundamentally change the country, he wasn't kidding.
thetotas - why do you continue to make up lies? You just look pathetic!
Feisty - this is about to be fun!!!! Love Julian Castro!!!!!
Obama/Biden 2012
Based on this headline, I thought Romney was going to speak--with Castro going after him(!)
Kim,
Pffffffffft! LMAO!
It's like a sowna around him!
Seeking,
I am not that familiar with him but I have a feeling I will be after this evening! ;o)
hey thetotas, you know im not much into the god thing. Guess im not conservative (only fiscally) however i think its a non issue the leftwing drones use to create meaningless issues. I have never been pushed by anyone religious to do anything yet the left continues to cry loudly that's what's happening. Same thing with Race and just about every other virtually non existent issue.
Wait till Obama runs on his record
i dont really say this but a word of advice that wont be taken, Seeking STFU.
I would like him to address his mothers perspective on the Alamo. Honestly, her son is the Mayor of a city who's heritage she hates. I do see the connection between Castro and Obama...they both depend on lax polling regulations to win their respective public jobs...AG Holder must be counted as best friend to both and well both their fathers abandoned their mothers.
Should be an interesting speech...can't wait for the fact check.
?!?! Why doesn't wiltard run on his? as governor?
i dont really say this but a word of advice that wont be taken, Seeking STFU caesar.
This is just "trotting out a few brown faces". This will not get the vote without some concrete efforts in the community.
Chris I still think Romney had a better tenure as Governor in a blue waste state the Obamao has currently as POTUS. Thats a noteworthy approach that libbies keep doing. Hey look over there, just dont look at reality. Keep deflecting commie.
Seeking, if you are Republican, lying comes as naturally as breathing.
WTF man.
1)increased corporate taxes and state fees by $750 million a year,
2) adding some 49000 jobs under his tenure. Mass ranked 47th out of 50 states over the entirety of Romney’s four years as governor
Wow what a record. Conservative rejoice in the new prophet.
again, i don't really say this but a word of advice that wont be taken, Seeking STFU caesar.
Feisty! are you here?...thought maybe you were at convention licking michelles....boots.
jag off that's still more than obama. Oh wait Obama shed tons, add a couple = success. Shut the c*ckholster Chris.
now you named a couple things on Romney lets talk Obamao Azzclown.
Tax cuts extended
patriot Act re-signed
Gitmo still open
Drone strikes increased
Debt climbing faster then a tingle then Shemp matthews legs
GDP continues its decent
unemployment still high despite his lie of it wont go above 8%
care to tell me why he wont run on his record of Noteworthiness?
Chris you are the weakest link
SS,
Its a blog do you really think I care what you think?
Al, I am not a republican and I wasn't lying.
Caesar, I get your point, I think I am a little bit of both.
The Weekly Standard -
God" has been removed from this year's Democratic party platform.
David Brody reports on this passage from the 2008 party platform:
“We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.”
It now reads:
“We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth – the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.”
I would be tickled pink if Castro rips Willard a new one and kicks him to the curb to bleed out.
To me, it's a much bogger deal that Jerusalem has been removed from the platform. Tells me all I need to know.
Speaking of platforms- looks like the problem of finding 74,000 bodies to fill the Bank of America stadium for "the speech" has been solved
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198206/Democrats-set-Obamas-big-speech-74-000-seater-outdoor-stadium-20-000-seater-indoor-arena.html
They're going to move it to the Time Warner arena. They only need 20,000 to fill that venue.
Be interesting to see if they can pull that off.
Caesar,
You didn't want tax cuts extended? I thought you all keep talking bi-partisan. They were extended in a compromise with the republicans for a greater cause than those.
Patriot Act re-signed, to keep you sorry azz safe. As well as it is imperfect, it is the best way to organize the flow of information to keep America safe from terrorists.
Gitmo still opened because the republicans blocked moving those prisoners to America for trial, where it is proven the punishments of those who do harm to America is punished more severely.
Drone strikes increased is a good thing, saves many more Americans lives. If Pakistan would cooporate, we wouldn't have to do this. Did you hear we are suspending aid to Pakistan?
$1.5 trillion more debt in Bush's last fiscal year. More than Obama's. AND the costs of the wars are now on the books.
If GDP continues it's decent, that would mean we are still in recession. We are for some, but more private jobs have been brought back than were lost on Bush's watch. Mind you, I am not bashing Bush, just making a few points. It is what it is.
Unemployment still high because civil servant jobs continue to be cut. We would be well under 7% if not for those cuts. All of those middle class jobs would have still been tax payers. Hey, where are the jobs the tea party promised in the 2010 mid-terms?
President Obama IS running on his record. Please take the cotton out of your ears and you would hear him.
Ceasar, you ARE the weakest link. Now go!
I am watching the DEM convention online. It is all the Presidents record and the Democrats record with NO GOP bashing like the GOP bashed the Democrats and President Obama last week. We have the record, we have the ideas to move forward and now it is time to make the GOP irrelevant so we can move forward without obstruction.
Obama/Biden 2012, Dem super majority in the house and senate 2012!
Al,I'm a Republican.I stopped waiting for Obama to bring jobs home and started my own business on a shoestring.It's still a shoestring but it's my shoestring.
Obama doesn't want to eliminate the tax cuts for those who'll actually spend it and stimulate the economy just for those at the top. Unfortunately those at the top are the only ones republicans care about so they refuse to allow anyone to get them if the rich doesn't also. I'd say better to end it all together rather than to give 80% to those who don't need it. To give them the meat while we get crumbs isn't worth it.
just a cleaning lady, good for you! You are a great American! Now just ask the GOPTP where the jobs they promised to create during the 2010 mid-terms are.
Will someone please tell me why just a cleaning lady's comment was collapsed? Her story should be celebrated.
Actually, I'm kind of flattered that the extremely-uptight-and-far-to-the-right types thought my post so "inflammatory" as to have it collapsed. Well, here it is again.
The comments (to be) made by Mr. Castro are exactly what I'm talking about. Speak mainly about your own party's virtues. Take a jab at the other party only when it serves to prove your points, but don't just go after 'em for the sake of tearing them down, like how they did at the GOP convention.
In other words, show the GOP who the real adults in the room are.
Just wondering, is Castro a repeat of Cisneros? Hummmm. Talk about a "real" adult.
I hope they don't make Castro speak in Spanish because he doesn't do a good job at it. For shame.
Caesar Augustus
Lolz
Tax cuts extended - Have you lost your mind?...Dems been trying to stop this.....LOLZ
Gitmo - You got him on that one...LOLZ
Drone attacks - Isn't that what you want? or your fiscal responsibility only goes so far?...troops on the ground...War is for national defense ....not drone attacks...LOLZ
I'm going to cut and paste this comment of mine that definantly applies to you
I started writing this large reply to your ignorant rantings......Then I just kinda stopped...Then backed up and ha! A troll is a troll.....your smoke and mirrors don't work here....You need to open a book and gain some understanding of the 08' devaluation of middle class wealth and how that impacts the economy in real terms......Blame whomever you would like...the over inflation of the real estate market due to the deregulation of the banks and the lack of regulation of the PMI insurer lead to something far more significant than what apparently you understand.......In other words if you weren't so __— stupid you would be kissing the ground Obama walks on thanking whatever God you believe in that the country isn't at 30+% unemployment with your idiot children starving in the street.....
WHY are so many comments collapsed that do not have rudeness or any other objectional things in them except THOUGHTs that some don't agree with.............?
WHO is collapsing these comments and HOW is that done????????? Is this an American board or run in a dictatorship?
NC62553
All pro Romney comments on this NBC FORUM will be collapsed whether objectional or otherwise. This is the same problem that happened at Fox News which unfortunately got so out of control that they now have only limited articles of which they allow comments. It IS interesting to read how ignorant and uninformed a lot of people are with our country teetering on the brink of disaster.
I have no idea?
@ NC62553, the reason of the collapsed comments is this, NBC is owned by Comcast.
Comcast is a huge donor to the Obama campaign.
Sweetheart... make sure to check under you bed tonight before you climb in...
Tell us again, who exactly is forcing you to participate here?
You don't like it, you are free to leave at anytime darling!
All i see here are a bunch of left winged losers. Go ahead and vote for the dictator and pray to God he loses. You are all a bunch of brainwashed idiots. GOD Bless America and the real Americans who want our country back....
Saw Castro's speech, and he kept it classy, which is what I was hoping for. So were the other speeches.
I don't care for negative politics. That's why I'd hoped the Democrats would keep it real, and not resort to lies and name-calling.
I wasn't disappointed. I hope they continue in this vein for the rest of the convention.
Al Visalia,Ca. clearly is a public employee.The Republicans in this area have created more jobs as they are on the side of the the agriculture industry.Without the Ag industry there would be no need for the many public sector jobs in Visalia,Ca.The other main industry is the prisons which are manned by union correctional officers,who vote on the Democratic ticket.Having a huge prison industry is not something to be proud of in California.
Two words for Castro - NAILED IT!! If there was ever a doubt who the Hispanic vote was going to, there isn't now. Good job Mr. Mayor. The Republicans don't know what hit them. They talk to empty chairs.
You mean the white ones, right pardner? How about all you old farts do us a favor and die off so we don't have to carry your sorry a$$es on our backs.
Hmmmmmmm...... Castro...... not a poor Hispanic that has fought his way through school.... the son of COLLEGE EDUCATED community ORGANIZERS......... make you have the saem questions we had about Barry going to college..... How did he get in? And how did he PAY for the education?
Why not share that with the rest of us? Whether you are black, brown, white, yellow, pink or purple.... we'd all like to know how to achieve the status he's gained in this world.... is it truely for EVERYONE?
Or just for the chosen few..... regardless of which side of the ballot box you come from.
He benefited from Affirmative Action - Castro got in to Stanford with a 1210 SAT Score. They should research more about him before the paint him as a golden boy. I am Hispanic -- and his speech did not secure my votes. He has same agenda as Potus --
cleaning lady --- congrat's on the business , good luck , I hopes it grows for you . An old RINO .
Funny how Republicans are looking for that token Hispanic, woman and black hero supposedly that will get them their represented votes. Sort of like the awkwardness of a super rich person trying to be cool by having a lemon-aid with the lawn man.
I'm from San Antonio and we're so delighted with the job Julian Castro is doing here. He's a great mayor and I hope is brother is half as good in Congress. These brothers are good for America.
I like up rising stars like Julian Castro, I wish him the Best !!!!!!!!!!!
I doubt that includes the 1950s tax rates or middle-class share of GDP...
Perhaps their "national" counterparts should take notes. The Republicans blocked the AG bill before they left town to campaign...that doesn't sound like being on the side of agriculture to me.
look they have Rubio ..the fake mexican ..we have a real mexican
lol actually Rubio is cuban...but still a funny comment
thanks
great comment. fits right in with the KKK
Fun fact...Rubio worked for what he has and Castro admits openly that he is a child of affirmative action and was able to take a place at Stanford that could have go to someone who actually had the SAT scores to get in on merit.
mitt's entire career has been based on the total failure of companies he made the "big promise" towards. cooking the books, propping-up the walls from collapse, then selling off the human collateral as "off shoring" the labor to foreign investors while reaping high rewards for his investors at home ie the 1%. his big braggadocio the winter olympics was to go to DC abscond the hundreds of millions of dollars from the feds and then he claims he was savvy in his business ethics and hero to the USA for saving the olympics. how do you believe in a tax evading, (no tax returns yet). and a draft dodging coward for six years (who by the way said, "gosh i really wished i could have been with all the guys in vietnam." no doubt he might have been wounded in as young lieutenant by "friendly fire" while attempting to rally his troops. ie shot in the back!
is that you Obama?
Romney IS a real Mexican!
Hmmm - that's right. Should Willard self-deport himself?
Absolutely .... ASAP!
racists
It makes total sense that Fidel Castro would bring the Keynote in Charlotte; as Socialism is the Left's end game.
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
By Matt Taibbi, August 29, 2012 7:00 AM ET
A man makes a $250 million fortune loading up companies with debt and then extracting million-dollar fees from those same companies, in exchange for the generous service of telling them who needs to be fired in order to finance the debt payments he saddled them with in the first place. That same man then runs for president riding an image of children roasting on flames of debt, choosing as his running mate perhaps the only politician in America more pompous and self-righteous on the subject of the evils of borrowed money than the candidate himself. If Romney pulls off this whopper, you'll have to tip your hat to him: No one in history has ever successfully run for president riding this big of a lie.
http://Bruce-1628250.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/04/13660654-greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital
Your ignorance is shining brilliantly.....
LMAO oh my..READ THE ARTICLE MORON. You will clearly see his name is Julian Castro, the San Antonio Mayor.
And reading comprehension is WAY above your game, oneman.
Obama/Biden 2012
Thanks everyone for taking it hook, line and sinker. Irony you idiots...
What part of your statement was irony oneman? The remark about calling Julian Castro Fidel? Or the part that Socialism is the Left's end game?
Ray - you're just a little spark of Sun aren't ya???? Love it!!!!
oneman - In spite of your little attempt at "irony", it looks like most everyone had low expectations for you, buddy.
kimH-1330542
you're liberals it was to be expected
Caesar - Could you please make some sort of a valid point for a change instead of just yaking up nastiness? Additionally, you need to seek some professional help regarding your obsession with Feisty? Have you ever been arrested for stalking? You are a joke!
kimH-1330542
you first Cap'n as for stalking Fisty, how so? that dolt is the first one to post irrelevant crap daily. In fact ive been pretty light today with the old harpy. what valid point would you like me to make? won't matter what i say to the likes of you, it will be rebutted with liar, or stupid or someother caca from your mouth. How bout this why isnt Obamao running on his record?
KimH: Troll alert. CA is simply a troll, not worth your time! He is the fellow that you see in the supermarket, staring at a can of frozen orange juice, because it says "concentrate"...
Hope all is well with you!
So Willard Mitt Romney asked for a government bail-out when Bain got into trouble? WOW!
How bout this why isnt Obamao running on his record?
He is. Everyone knows what Obamas done as president the same as most are aware of what Romney did as governor, it's all public record. What people want to know is which party has the best plan for the future. Why is it that only republicans are more concerned with the past than the future? What I'd like to see is how Romney can sell a 5 trillion tax cut as being good for the country when we have a 15 trillion dollar debt other than just being good for rich people.
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
By Matt Taibbi, August 29, 2012 7:00 AM ET
Four years ago, the Mitt Romneys of the world nearly destroyed the global economy with their greed, shortsightedness and – most notably – wildly irresponsible use of debt in pursuit of personal profit. The sight was so disgusting that people everywhere were ready to drop an H-bomb on Lower Manhattan and bayonet the survivors. But today that same insane greed ethos, that same belief in the lunatic pursuit of instant borrowed millions – it's dusted itself off, it's had a shave and a shoeshine, and it's back out there running for president.
http://Bruce-1628250.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/04/13660654-greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital
I see your weekend lobotomy wasn't successful Bruce... your still a delusional lunatic.
Name calling usually comes from those who are out of ideas and or are deflecting when thier lies are exposed.
Bruce,
Your article is an opinion piece, not a fact piece and a waste of peoples time.
I have followed up on the "failures" of Bain and none of it matches the whole trail of facts.
If Barack Hussein Obama had kept his campaign
promises, he would have closed the Guantanamo
Bay detention center. Two thousand of the worst
terrorists in the world would be eating
American food on American tables in air conditioned
comfort on Rykers Island in NY City. If left to
Biden and Obama, they would be watching cable
television and waiting twenty years for their
lawyers' motions and objections to clear the
American judicial system, before they ever saw a day
in court.
If left to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, District
Attorneys wouldn't be able to interview Sheik Khalid
Mohammed and the terrorists without their lawyers
present, to say nothing of FBI and CIA
interrogation. If left to Biden and Obama, Mohammed
would never have given the CIA the name of the
Kuwaiti who lead them to bin Laden. Over the
strident objections of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and
the entire Democratic Party, Guantanamo remains
open, Mohammed was interrogated and did give up the
Kuwaiti, and the Navy Seals, despite the objections
of Biden, Obama and all the Democrats, took out
Osama bin Laden.
If Barack Obama had been President of the United
States on 9/11, Saddam Hussein would still be
running Iraq, the Taliban would still be running
Afghanistan, and the United States would still be
running from Osama bin Laden.
LMAO you idiots put Bush back into office to help destroy our Country on an ad about flip flops, and boats...dont get me started.
Ps If Bush is never President, 9-11 likely never happens! Think about that one...if he had been doing his job and read his briefing report, instead of getting hammered at his ranch (Bush took more days of vacation than any other president in the last 40 years! FYI), then maybe we could have been prepared. Of course to be fair, Clinton wasnt much better acting on the intelligence, but he wasnt the President at the time, and wasnt friends with the family of the man who orchestrated it either!
Jerry, let's recap the facts.
Hmmm. let's see now . . . President Obama that gave the go ahead to kill bin Laden. And wasn't it President Bush that decided to wage a war based on lies and decide not to go after the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks after saying he that bin Laden wasn't important?
And wasn't it Congress that refused to fund the transfer of the prisoners so that Gitmo could be closed? Durn that Constitutional "check and balance" thing!
Clinton and his team warned- SPECIFICALLY about Al Quada on the transition of administrations- and still the dumb ass couldnt connect the dots.
The damm Congress voted to keep Gitmo open- because no one wants to take released pissed off prisoners who have been jailed for 10+ years without evidence to convict.
Why don't we go one step further back in time and say if President Bush had been paying attention to the CIA or if the CIA had been doing their job 9/11 may never have happened. We may not have had to invade Iraq or Afghanistan and Osama Ben Laden might still be living in the United States. What ifs and buts don't get it done! Just as everything a President wants to do isn't done. Something's a person doesn't find out until he/she becomes President and that's how it should be. So if a promise is made you can't expect congress to see it's done or a President to know it's even possible. I for one may have or not voted for President Obama but I do know that having terrorist on American soil isn't something I wanted. Guantanamo needed to stay open in order to keep that form happening!
Hey Jerry,
Which is it? One minute you are blaming President Obama for not closing Guantanamo as promised, and the next minute you are blaming him for trying to close it! Hate to tell you, but Osama bin Laden isn't running anywhere. I don't want to hear how Ex-President Bush started the whole process and you Republicans want to give him the credit for that enemy being taken out. Mostly, because the facts show otherwise, but also because in seven years your guy never got near him and stopped looking for him.
Thank God we still have some laws in place that protect us from your kind of justice. like waterboarding, torture,etc. That's the tactics of the Nazi's back in the 30's and 40's. Are you saying you Republicans believe in those kind of tactics?
Everyone now knows why Ex-President Bush went after Saddam, and it wasn't for what he claimed as a reason. History has a way of showing what the facts really are.
Oh little Jerry - two can play this game.
Had President Obama been President on 9/11/2001 the World Trade Center towers would still be standing. The rest of your post is moot!
Obama/Biden 2012
Is that because he would have called up Bin Laden and ask him pretty please dont do it?
Jerry: Ryker's Island that would be cruel and unusual punishment, and Sanity you are on the money. ☺
Obama/Biden
I'm certain it's true if Obama or any democrat had been president they wouldn't have attacked Iraq looking for imaginary WMD. We'd have over 5000 American and allied soldiers still alive and 200,000 Iraqi's that weren't killed. As most Americans since the facts came out believe invading Iraq was a mistake you hardly make a worthwhile point.
As for Afganistan the Taliban wasn't our enemy, Bush demanded they hand over Bin Laden and if they had we wouldn't have gone to war. Al'Queda had maybe 10,000 fighters being trained in camps. If we'd merely fired a dozen cruise missles we'd have crippled Al'Queda, maybe have gotten Bin Laden then or later and gotten our revenge. Either way we'd have 4000 less dead and 4 or 5 trillion less debt.
No Caesar you d-bag it's because he may have actually listened to the briefing Bush got from the CIA 4 weeks before 9/11,you know the one that Condoleeza Rice admitted to being titled "Al Qaeda seeking to strike in US" when questioned under oath,and actually DONE something more than telling the briefer "OK,you covered your ass" and then going back to clearing brush.
BTW,if we're going to take Jerry's path into conjecture then you Right wing azzhats try THIS one on for size...
...maybe if the SCOTUS hadn't handed Bush the Younger (aka The Shrub) the Presidency Al Qaeda may not have even attempted 9/11,since their aim was to drag us into quagmire military encounters to deplete our economy and they may have surmised that Gore wasn't nearly the idiot that Bush was,nor Lieberman a cheap $2 whore for the military industrial complex like Cheney,so therefore we would not have gone into Iraq so 9/11 wouldn't achieve it's aim.
Oh and as a side note...where are all the Right Wing whining pussies crying about MSNBC being racist by not showing Cory Booker's speech live tonight,just like the didn't show the GOP under card speakers last week? Seems like an equal treatment scenario so far,but you'll never here the Righties acknowledge that being the lie like it's Gospel,curse the truth like it's the plague scumbags that they are.
sure kenny, in libfantasia sure. Obama the peace prize can't even get us out of Afghan. Something tells me Obamao would have done nothing different, just like Clinton. I thought seeking posted stupid crap.
August 6th. Bin Laden determined to strike the US, IGNORED
9/11. Bush reading My Pet Goat for 7 minutes AFTER THE ATTACKS!!!!!
9/12-14. Relatives of Bin Laden and other Saudies flown out of the country w/o questioning.
ANY REPUBLICAN WANT TO EXPLAIN WHY REAGAN AND REPUBLICANS FINANCED BIN LADEN IN THE 80'S.
Except in the REAL WORLD Obama DID do something different moron. He upped the commitment in Afghanistan and went after Bin Laden,JUST LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD IN THE CAMPAIGN (you know,when you Right Wing idiots answered McCain's clarion call when he said Obama was "naive" when he presented this 180 degree reversal from what we were doing under Bush...).
Don't let the facts interfere with that movie running 24/7 in your dull little Bagger head Caesar.
Jesus you people are stupid.
And AGAIN,where are the DumFux is "fair and balanced" clowns this week when MSNBC is doing EXACTLY the same programming at the Democratic Convention as they did at the Republican one last week,while it's actualy DumFux that HAS switched how they're covering this week compared to last?
Crickets from you pukes when the truth is out there...
Par for the course.
Hey Jerry,
You do know the Republicans blocked the closing right? Try to research. Unless of course you're hoping everybody is as dumb as you and they'll believe you. Well, you're in the wrong forum chuckle head. Maybe the cons believe you but us folks know you're a lying tool.
Jerry-450822
Wow Jerry, where to start?
1. My, you certainly are frightened of terrorists aren't you? It must be hell to be so frightened (google "conservative brain"). You don't even trust the US Justice System to keep us safe from convicted terrorists. Of the convicted terrorists in prison on US soil how many have escaped? ...or, that's right, none. Still you're frightened.
2. Definitely the ramblings of an unsound mind. Let's see, according to you Biden, Obama and all the Democrats objected to taking Osama bin Laden. So what you are accusing the US Navy SEALs of is mutiny (punishable by death under the UCMJ). Obama gave the order genius and it seems to me it was Republicans, not Democrats who objected to bin Laden's death. Probably because their "great neo-con hope" GW Bush was too inept to get him.
3. Perhaps Hussein would perhaps the Arab Spring would have dealt with him. Over 4,000 more American Service Members would be alive who died in GW's war. And as soon as we leave, more likely than not the Taliban will be running Afghanistan again. Do you even know who the Taliban are? They are a fundamentalist religious militant sect of the Pashtun (ethnic Afghans). As a member of the American Taliban you certainly should understand religious fundamentalism. The only way the Taliban will ever be kept in check is by the Pashtun. You're last comment is absurd...Obama killed bin Laden.
lol i loved how the GOP just tried to ignore Bush and his failures at their convention..except his brother Jeb, who told this whopper "he kept our country safe"..lol yea, except for that one day when........
Oh David you are sooooooo right, the Left is so righteous ! Infallible , without fault and..............making our children and grandchildren destitute.
what what day..????? was it when he was reading bed night stories to children..and look confused
oneman- one party left the other with a balanced budget and a path to paying down the debt. Even Greenspan the FED chair went to Congress to plead that they NOT pay down the debt too fast.
Your side for the FIRST time EVER cut tax during a war. We have been at war for ten years and it is TOO much to ask that the richest Americans help contribute more and as your side loves to preach SUPPORT OUR TROOPS by paying 3% more in tax on REPORTABLE net income(line 31 from your tax return- AFTER deductions) above $250,000.
who is UNPATRIOTIC?
Simply boils down to this, I trust the man, I see in the mirror, more with my future than The faceless and wasteful "Borg" that is the Federal Government. Thats all.
Demtothebone,
Indeed, "we'll do everything we can to make him a 1-term president" ....the American public be damned....who's unpatriotic?
Yeah, I can hardy wait for Jimmy the peanut farmer carter to give his one cents worth...how pathetic the only other president that was as bad maybe worse as barry hussein, gives his speech via video feed, pathetic, he's probably afraid to leave the peanut gallery....Ol jimmy boy had such an impressive record....
Ex President Clinton is a key note speaker and doing advertising campaigns while Bush is remaining silent. Not hard to guess why. What is hard to guess is why so many people realise the disaster Bush was as a president yet can't see the harm electing someone running on identical policies.
Sure Elvis, Bush was suppose to jump to his feet throw the book down and start sceaming, "we've been attacked!" You are Romney's biggers asset, it's people like you that will encourage people to vote for Romney.
You Barry subjects get me, I read between the lines,"You Republicans don't have anything on us we have our token Mexican too!"
Hey SHORT bus owner, you are delusional. You Repubes are worthless lying sommmamabitghes
COYOTEHUNTER .. At least Jimmy Carter can leave the country...unlike Bush/Cheny as they have international arrest warrants for war crimes against them.. Also...You do know that Jimmy Carter is one of two presidents to balance the budget (Bill Clinton was the other) don't ya..
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Oh David you are sooooooo right, the Left is so righteous ! Infallible , without fault and..............making our children and grandchildren
destitutesecure and prosperous....there, I fixed it for you...no need to thank me.
A wise Republican once said "-- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth". That Republican initiated a war to prevent the dissolution of the United States of American. It's a shame that you see the government "of the people" as a faceless "Borg".
Here's a thought; why not move to Virginia where some citizens are threatening violent revolution when Obama is re-elected. In fact, if all of you that feel that way would move there you would save us a great deal of tax money. A consolidated target is much less expensive for our military to take out.
I've liked Mayor Castro ever since he went after Charles Barkley!
http :// content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2012/05/san-antonio-mayor-julian-castro-charles-barkley/1
Now if fairness, I like the round mound of rebound a lot too (he's honest and speaks his mind) but this was priceless!
I never knew they had illegals in office in Texas huh tea nuts
Mr. Castro is going to be fun to watch tonight better get home right now.
Jerry, Obama is President, and was President when Ben Laden was killed, where were you ? Still trying to help Romney get the auto industry to go bankrupt? You know, we are still fighting the talaban, guess you missed the train
Texas better guard there borders because Texas is Republican state..the will sneak over here and vote republican all the time
Romney--Ryan--2012...our only chance to fill that empty chair.
I see it as an empty suit we need to fill. But I agree with you.
Joe66 and tlins - dummies, the empty suit IS Romney!
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Hey Joe (the smoe) if Romney were sitting in Eastwoods' chair it would still be empty.
When an elderly man pretends or thinks he's talkin' to an invisible person in a seat right next him, and the crowd actually "connects", ya gotta wonder about the crowd. Do they ALL have Dementia....is it contagious??. My God. I watched some of the GOP convention, and the first night of the Dem convention, and what a stark difference. One was full of starch, lies and some fresh and some stale BS, and the other full of enthusiasm and hopefulness for OUR future. Guess which one was enthusiastic, and if ya guessed GOP, you're way off target pal. Romney couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag without help, because he's always HAD it. That idiot never really worked a day in his life, born with the silver spoon and all, and the last blister he had on his hands was probably while digging a grave for an illegal immigrant gardener he had to literally "cover up". If you vote for this idiot who just wants the job for the sake of adding to his trophy showcase, go right ahead, and feel proud that you helped ruin America, and your neighbors life, and your childrens future.....ALL of our futures. At this time in America, the GOP is dangerous and misguided at best, and Romney and his handlers are the worst of the worst. OBAMA-BIDEN 2012 if you want a free country and a free and real future and a REAL President to lead us forward!!
Well that's one freak show down and one more to go, starting tonight.
We have just heard everything that is wrong with the Democrat party and with Barrack Obama. Now we will get to hear everything that is wrong with the Republican party and Mitt Romney.
And so it goes.
Castro comes from a state that is going to Romney in a big way. Texas is also the state that is enduring this terrible economic situation in the US better than most, because of strong conservative policies and a business friendly atmosphere. Castro may be a big deal to the left, but he is not on anyones radar here in Texas. Guess thats what you get when you recruit a bunch of mayors to speak for the party. Less experience than we got with this president. Good luck with that!
like ranking 48th in education, like the highest number earning minimum wage, like having the worse air quality in the nation? R these the results of good conservative policies?
The constitution does open with WE the people and not The wealthy among us to constitute a more perfect Union ....
tlins - Texas is one of the most ignorant states in the US. That's the reason they're behind Romney. They also gave us Bush. 'nuff said!
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We have an illegal immigration problem here in Texas which results in wage and education shortfalls. On a brighter note, 1,600 people per week are moving here for the high paying jobs that are plentiful in O&G, Medical and finance just to mane a few. And no state income tax to boot. Now I see that as a winner and so do most Texans.
Seeking Sanity....Does that actually make you feel better about a Latino Mayor, from a Sanctuary City, who's mother is part of La Raza in Texas, is the key note speaker at the DNC convention....Seems that you will be the one making tortillas for pesos while the trafficked children of Latin America get drivers licenses and better jobs.
txmom - every word of my post is accurate. Julian Castro is the exception - not the rule.
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But you forgot to mention that he was the exception not the rule....you seem to be back tracking which is really silly because he openly admits that he didn't do well enough on his SAT's to have gotten into Stanford had it not been for Affirmative action. As for Rankings...San Antonio schools typically rank among the lowest in the State and the Nation....Many of the Texas districts typically rank among the highest in the Nation...So I'm guessing you are just making stuff up as you go...which shouldn't be too far off from the plan for the DNC convention this week.
...And Slick Rick "Oops" Perry is a genius.........Pure genius!........
I agree stinking, oops I mean Seaking, Texas is ignorant for letting our tax money support your pathatic state.
RepubliCONS love to beat their chest and say if you want something done call an American. They yell we must support our troops. For the FIRST time ever we cut tax during war. We have been at war for 10 years. Asking those who have reportable income above $250k(line 31 on your tax form- the reportable income AFTER all deductions and credits) to pay 3% higher tax you would think would be the Patriotic thing to do.
These scumbags do everything they can to avoid going to war themselves, and will never let their children go off to war, why would they want to pay for it? GOP, the best. At getting deferments. At starting wars on false pretenses. At getting the 99% to pay for wars with their money and their children s lives. GOP. The devil incarnate.
Eric...read your history...vietnam was a democratic war, korea was a democratic war.....I'm a republican, not 99%er, served in two wars, have boys that served in two conflicts including the one we have now...whats your record?...
The extra 3% is only on the amount above 250K so it really only impacts a lot for those making a lot more, Like Romney. That's why they're opposed to it.
You do realise the parties have pretty much reversed since Johnson right? Up until Johnson who was considered a turncoat Democrats were anti blacks and minorities and the hawks, after Johnson it reversed. Byrd, Hollings and Wallace were all famous democratic bigots. Democrats evolved, republicans devolved.
Your right Larry, Democrats use to believe in working for what you get.
To Coyote.....maybe YOU need to check your history. Who was the Commander in Chief when the very first American went to 'Nam? It was dear ol' Ike. A Republican, a Military man who opened the doors for countless Americans to be killed by an enemy that wasn't even ours, and we STILL lost in spite of it all, and in spite of all the graves dug and families destroyed on both sides. Sound familiar?? It's the same thing G.W. Bush did to us in Iraq. Don't choose sides because of your political views, simply face facts. They speak for themselves as do the widows of brave men under the "leaderships" of a stupid President. I know, it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it is what it is
Tell me Jerry, how is Gitmo effecting you ? If this is your big concern in the world, you have lost your way.
Try figuring out how to help your fellow man, add some posative effort to rebuilding America. or maybe you were happy when we loosing 800,000 jobs a month under Bush, Banks were failing, Auto industry was collapsing, but Gito is more significant to you..Go figure
Republicans cheer an ever expanding military, ignore body counts and demand we get involved in every scuffle in the world. They demand the right to torture to "save lives" and had no desire to see gitmo shut down under Bush. Yet now they're outraged that Obama hasn't shut down this stain on America's reputation. Nect time maybe they should think more about not making the stain instead of whining because a democrat can't clean it up fast enough.
We can not close Gitmo down yet, we must first incarcerate all the right wing traitors, try them and sentence them; then we can close the place down.
BigB...so Obama should run on his record....closing Gitmo was just one of his many failures.
Romney's plan to reduce the deficit.
Popping red smoke
-Take away 30% of the deductions from Americans who make over $100,000 a year.
....but Romney won't so much as touch the illegal immigration issue trying to find a cure that reduce the deficit.
http://personalliberty.com/2009/02/11/how-much-do-illegal-immigrants-really-cost-the-united-states/
- If we take the amount down two an average of $5 billion per state that equals $250 billion spent on illegals each year in America. Money that is lost and does not generate taxes.
So why is Romney going after hard working Americans and making them give up their deductions when illegals immigrants are making close to a $500 billion a year deficit for America?
To cure the illegal immigration problem each state should round up the illegals make them citizens so that they will then have to pay taxes as well as being counted.
Otherwise the deficit that they create could reach the trillion dollar a year level.
How about that $30 BILLION for the military spent every 8 days excluding the wars. You know you could end world hunger for that amount.
But I digress. hunger causes instability in a society, which gives conservatives an excuse to send in the military, AAHHH that increases that untouchable budget, and the cycle repeats.
Why not take away all entitlements for illegals and get us out of these dopey wars too - imagine the savings.
This is going to be so much fun to watch! Each truth told by the Democrats equals more lies and stupid cover-ups by Republicans. This would include all the Republicans/Tea Party who comment here.
Republicans just refuse to live in reality. If they could, they'd outlaw it.
Hummm! Let me remember something about Clinton. "Got it." Clinton looking at the cameras and begins to speak with a crooked finger. "I had no sexual relations with that woman." Lie by a dem president. And up on charges to become impeached. Hummm! Let me remember something. "Got it. Ted Kennedy killed mary jo kapekne. Hummm! Let me remember something. Got it." "If i don't turn around this economy in 3 years, I will be a one term president." BHO. He lied. Running for re-election. Shall I remenber more about your party.
I have nothing against Republicans, I just wish they would go back to their alternate reality that they came from, because nothing they said happened in this reality!
I knew I had seen Willard a long time ago, just couldn't pin it down. Then I thought, Hymie! Google "Get Smart Robot". Hard to believe after all this time he still has a $10.00 gearbox for a heart. But that does explain a lot.
Romney's unprepared for anything but hiding profits and tax reports, outsourcing money to offshore accounts and bank jobs with them. The "liberal" governor of Mass, turned Rightie in the primaries, then morphing into a Centrist, then a Rightie reborn, later a whoknowswhat. Romney jerks like a windshield wiper. A capital liar on economy, jobs, health, immigration, defense, or anything.
I'm sure India, China and Mexico are backing Romney. They want more American Jobs and he's the guy to see.
HUMMM. Let me remember something. "Oh got it." Obama just gave 1.1 million ilegals work status and can't be arrested even for small crimes. Hummm! Let me remember something, "Oh got it." Obama gave from his stimulus package 1,2 billion to China for Green energy jobs. Maybe i'll remember more on Obama.
Why do GOPers keep saying "we have a plan?" The ONLY plan I have ever heard is to go back to Bush's plan. REALLY??? That was an epic fail and to WANT AND CHOOSE to go back to that is treasonous is UN-American to it's core. Tell me Republican's what plan do you have that does not include going back to failed policies of Bush.
Hey Jerry, Obama was not President on 911, but you seem to forget that Bush was, and we lost 3500 American Citizens..Wake up or shut up, you don't even have a clue about American history or politics.
Yeah, and then Bush dropped the ball and told us all that he really wasn't concerned or worried about the mastermind that nearly brought this country to her knees and changed the lives of every American in this country. It was President Obama who stated that if elected one of his priorities would be to take bin Laden out if we had the opportunity. He knew how much it meant to the American people that bin Laden pay for what he did to us. On the night that Obama announced that we had killed bin Laden many of the streets across this country drew flash mobs of people celebrating the death of the terrorist. You can't tell me that many of the celebrators were not Republicans. Why is it now that you people are so willing to down play what happened? Why? Because it was Obama who finally took care of it? You people do great disrespect to the thousands who died that day by now making it sound like it was no big deal. Any of you who do that should be so ashamed of yourselves, especially with the anniversary of 9/11 just a week away.
The threat of Sept.11 was reported to our government on Clinton's watch.He was too absorbed with his NAFTA agenda to take it seriously.NAFTA which is still costing American's good jobs.Clinton's arrogance which cost Americans their lives on 911.Clinton is a Democrat.
just a cleaning lady. Remember that intelligence report on 8/6/2001. Bin Laden determined to strike the US. What did Bush do, NOTHING. This is factual.
Just what do you expect could be done in 36 days? Did the Intelligence report say where the terrorist were? Did iy=t give a date and time for the attack? Did it mention how many planes would be hijacked? Just what do you think could have been done to stop 9/11 with any info at hand??
The GOP has figured out a great strategy. Screw up, let a Democrat fix things, then claim that you actually could have done better. They tried it with Clinton, and they are trying it with Obama. They are out of touch, and out of ideas. The only thing they do well is hate -- women, minorities, gays, students, the poor, the educated, the terminally ill, and on and on. In fact, if you're not a white male who is already wealthy, they probably hate you, too.
Awesome and so very true post-I LOVE IT !!
Valid, when you wake up every morning you need to fall on your knees and thank the Lord for the "rich" white male that provides you with a job so you can afford a computer and make stupid remarks.
Floyd = jcak sas. Nah I just get up in the morning and thank god that a rich japanese american man who got to start his company in 2009 and hire about 60 people up to now all on Obama's watch. Oh and btw most were without jobs doing flubyas rein
go figure
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This admin has added more needy, greedy new immigrant citizens than jobs. The government jobs that this admin keeps pushing for will go to illegals. It's enough and I will vote for Mitt,
I thought from the article's title it would be Fidel Castro. No big difference between Democrats and the Cuban Commie though !!
Actually, I have to correct the good Mayor. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan DO get it - they know exactly what they are proposing in making the wealthiest wealthier - including themselves. They hope that the rest of us don't get it. Change the name - as the Mayor will say - and hopefully there are enough suckers who will think it's a "new" idea. And those who don't will think somehow that the "1%" refers to them.... duh! It's a testimony to how many lemmings there are in this country - if they were paying attention instead of swallowing all the Republican garbage this election should be won by President Obama 99% to 1%....
Absolutely well said! Here is what I don't understand about the Republican voters. Most of them have to know who is backing Romney. They are at least 5 of the richest people in the country(that we know of.....SupPacs take care of hiding the identity of the others). Why does anyone suppose that these men are spending 100's of millions of dollars betting on Romney? Do the low end Republican voters really think they are doing it because they really care about the middle class? This country has become a plutocracy and those uber wealthy want to make sure that it stays that way, that they can continue to amass great wealth. Who pays for that? WE DO! That includes all you Republicans who will stand in line on November 6th. You are like sheep being led to the slaughter house and you are all going there with smiles on your faces. If you people truly think that the Romney wealth will rub off onto you, you are quite sadly mistaken, and you will take the rest of us with you......to a place worse than what this country saw in '08 and the Great Depression.
The 400 richest Americans wealth exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 60% or 190 million. It's not hard to see how quickly a 10% tax cut promised by Romney would pay back those big buck donations.
How many poor people have hired you larry?