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TAMPA, FL – President Barack Obama referenced an Indiana Republican candidate's controversial comments about rape on Thursday, looking to inject the controversy into the presidential campaign.
The president's campaign has been looking to link comments by Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock -- in which he suggested a higher power intends pregnancies that result from instances of rape -- to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, though Obama himself stopped short this morning of drawing a direct connection.
“As we saw again this week, I don’t think any politician in Washington, most of whom are male, should be making health care decisions for women,” Obama said.
Earlier Thursday, the Obama campaign did the work of linking Romney and Mourdock more directly, blasting an email to reporters titled, “Mitt Romney and Richard Mourdock” that said Romney hasn’t reconsidered his endorsement of the Republican Indiana Senate nominee or “ever once stood up to the most extreme elements of his party.”
And Wednesday during a taping of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Obama reiterated his stance on rape that he previously articulated during the dustup over Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin’s comment on “legitimate rape.”
“Rape is rape,” he said.
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President Obama discussed this last night on Jay Leno's show, also. His comment was "rape is rape" and we don't agree with this sentiment. He went on to explain how no one has the right to tell a woman what to do with her body. He said they respect women and know that a group of men isn't the group to be telling women what to do; that women are more than capable of making their own decisions. The applause he received was deafening!
Obama/Biden 2012
Obama Biden scare tactics , hate comments are old now .
And their crying wolf too much in showing in their plummeting poll numbers .
That's a no brainer.
Tell it as it is because these guys are real. We don't want a "talibanised" society. I don't want our women terrorized by some supposed saints.
Obama/Biden 2012
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how funny, im trying to figure out what talk show Obama HASNT been on. Because remember the Media and talk shows are completely impartial and balanced. This Admin is a joke and his hardcore supporters are no better. We need a leader not a Movie star for president.
Richard Mourdock comment is endorsed as GOP platform but when light shines on it, they all run.
Who are these cowards?
2 weeks out and this is Obama's closing argument?
Really?
Obama reiterated his stance on rape
Does anyone really need to ever clarify there stance on rape?
SeekingSanity: Sometimes I swear the coolest people in this country are the democratic men who stand up for and beside women. God they make me so proud.
What happens when men tell women and young girls what they can and cannot do?
Look at Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Mourdocks comments are not surprising because this is the republican platform. Woman, they if elected republicans will force rape victims to carry a rapists baby. 31 states still give parental rights to rapists. Its what god intended.
Talk shows? Only a fool would bypass a large audience. Who was that again?
SeekingSanity
SeekingSanity,
Our President also spoofed the tidy righties with his Kenya remark.
Obama pokes at Trump on Leno show: Beef dates back to their Kenya days
President Barack Obama pokes at Donald Trump on the Jay Leno Show on Wednesday. Trump on Wednesday said he would give Obama $5 million if he released his college and passport records.
According to the pool report, Obama told Leno that the beef dates back to when he and Trump were growing up Kenya.
"We had constant run-ins on the soccer field," Obama said. "He wasn't very good and resented it. When we finally moved to America I thought it would be over."
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2012/10/obama_pokes_at_trump_on_leno_s.html
Oh MY
What does fox think about kenyan remake
I am so excited to see our fellow Chicagoan come home the last before his second coming as USA President.
Obama/Biden 2012
Did they talk about Rape-Rape???
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/kristen-shaal-rape-redefinition-protects-americans-from-money-rape-video.php
Watch that video it's right on and fun to watch.
Lyin Ryan says rape is "a method of conception".....and therefore, no exception!
CantAffordNoMore - You can run, but you cannot hide, Barack Obama, and you owe our country answers and you definitely owe the families of these brave people
How much do Bush owe us for 9/11 and Iraq senseless invasion?
blackcatwhitecat
hey Ikarus perhaps if youre really lucky you can see the movie star President Obama on the Graham Norton show with Lady Caca.
Breaking News..!!
5 MILLION people will give one dollar each to charity if Romney releases ALL his Tax records starting with 2009.
https://www.facebook.com/5millionfortaxreturns
This GOP's War On Women has to stop...
Voters, you can kick these GOP rascals out.
End WOW NOW - WOW=war on women
This message is approved by NOW - national organization for women.
Pat in Boston -- I concur! Well said!
BO 2012 -- Love it! Once again the people speak!
Breaking News? you guys are really trying. Hey im sure there is a parallel FB page for obama releasing his college transcripts.
Desperate men take desperate measures. Obama is about to become unemployed and now he is desperate.
No more plane and perks. Oh my
Obama's dismal poll numbers are a great sign of people speaking .
As another poster noted, this is just more republican "crocabalone (pronounced crock-a-baloney)"
ONTOR - The only one plummeting in the polls is Romney. Better try again!
Can't Afford No More - perhaps you should actually show some real concern for the truth instead of the Republican fodder you post.
10:27 AM ET
The real Benghazi lessons
By Brian Klein, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: Brian P. Klein is an economic consultant and former U.S. diplomat who blogs at Klein’s Commentary. The views expressed are his own.
The recently publicized series of State Department emails laying out in harrowing detail the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi have provoked another round of finger-pointing and more politically-motivated pabulum.
At 4:05 p.m. on September 11, 2012: “The Regional Security Officer reports the mission is under attack. Embassy Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well.”
Ambassador Christopher Stevens and four other personnel, according to the same email, are at this time in the safe haven and the 17th of February Militia is providing security support. Based on this early assessment, it appears the situation is under control. Diplomats are safe. Armed entities are defending.
Further reassurance comes at 4:54pm: “Embassy Tripoli reports the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared. A response team is on site attempting to locate COM personnel.”
Unfortunately, all was not under control, the compound was overrun, and Stevens died along with three other personnel.
The spin machines have been busy politicizing this tragedy since its onset. The same Congress people that cut State security funding hauled up department officials to berate them over the lack of high security at the consulate (the same happened after the disastrous 1998 bombing of the U.S Embassy in Nairobi.) In the second presidential debate, Mitt Romney berated President Obama for taking so long to identify the attack not as an unruly mob, but the work of a specific terrorist organization (even though Obama did characterize the attack as an act of terror shortly after events unfolded).
In another email released by CNN, Ansar Al-Sharia appeared to claim responsibility on Facebook and Twitter. Aha, go the conspiracy theorists, proof the administration knew but didn’t say anything for weeks. But no, actually, that doesn’t prove a thing.
On any given day in the complex world of threat analysis, people and groups make all kinds of claims. It isn’t as if terrorists are holding a press conference for the world’s media to ask questions. Individual bits of information are simply that – single puzzle pieces that tell very little about the full picture of what happened until amassed and reconstructed. Details must be verified, cross-checked and analyzed before informed assertions are made.
This very small selection of emails give the impression of control, but solid information is often hard to come by at the beginning of any situation that eventually transpires. No single account could immediately identify a specific attacker. Even establishing the facts of a traffic accident requires a police report and potential review by a judge or jury. It’s a process. An armed assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission, thousands of miles away, in a far flung province recently freed of civil war is an infinitely more complicated undertaking. It requires – indeed demands – time to assess and judge.
There are ways to address the serious issues involved in the loss of our diplomatic personnel. Inquiries can and should be made. Did the rush to set up a presence in Benghazi trump normal security procedures? Why was a rosy picture being portrayed of a post-uprising Libya, when in fact serious threats remained. How critical was it to set up a new consulate in the first place?
But using the attack in Benghazi as fodder for more November electioneering serves only the short-term interests of those who benefit by not giving the security of our diplomatic missions the thorough review (and funding) it requires. This does nothing to ensure the future security of our diplomatic personnel. They deserve better.
Brian Klein is right - they deserve better than the garbage you and other Repubicans are spewing before all the investigations are done and all the facts known. But then, Can't Afford No More, you are a lying Republican who it appears would sell his own family if it suits his purpose. You have no integrity; no morals, no character; no nothing and would use anyone to make a point that doesn't exist.
Obama/Biden 2012
BO 2012
BO 2012, MYTH didn't worry. Even though It's chump change to MYTH. However, no matter how many $$$ Myth receives it doesn't matter.
Looking at the swing states and Ohio, the number of absentee ballots and early voters MYTH is losing it (pun intended).
The right wing has lost the election of 2012.
The evidence for this is overwhelming, yet it is the year’s best-kept secret. Mitt Romney would not be throwing virtually all of his past positions overboard if he thought the nation were ready to endorse the full-throated conservatism he embraced to win the Republican nomination.
The right is going along because its partisans know Romney has no other option. This, too, is an acknowledgement of defeat, a recognition that the grand ideological experiment heralded by the rise of the tea party has gained no traction. It also means that conservatives don’t believe that Romney really believes the moderate mush he’s putting forward now. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if the conservatives are forgiving Romney because they think he is lying, what should the rest of us think?
http://www.reflector.com/opinion/election-letters/dionne-conservatism-losing-2012-1293079
4 more years 4 Obama/Biden
That didn't convince me .
Try again maybe .
In my opinion Obama is the worst president ever .
EDIT: YUP, THIS IS RIGHT.
MYTH needn't worry. Even though It's chump change to MYTH. However, no matter how many $$$ Myth receives it doesn't matter.
Looking at the swing states and Ohio, the number of absentee ballots and early voters MYTH is losing it (pun intended).
Soon we will see the second coming of President Obama on Nov 7th 2012
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
ONTOR
i imagine now a certain poster will respond with either ignorant, idiot, stupid or liar. Because that is really a sign of intelligence when discussing anything.
SS,
Then let Obama come out and tell us, his last formal White House news conference was on March 6th. Dont you think its time to clear this matter up.
For the record I am not buying into this article. One way or another Obama will be held accountable.
thetotas - Investigations that are done well take time. Again, the stupidity of the people thinking a complete investigation can be done so quickly is beyond reason. Brian Klein has it right. It takes time to do a thorough investigation. Even a murder here in this country often takes months. Your lack of reason shows you also lack credibility with your being offended. It is totally political. You don't want the truth - just to make it look like the President did something wrong.
It says nothing about him but everything about you!
Obama/Biden 2012
Funny thetotas, you'd think as 'smart' as seeking claims to be, you think she's have more intelligent dialog. But what we get from seeking is calling people dumb when she has no defense or argument. Captain of the Debate team eh? says a lot about Seeking
see Seeking has a crummy defense. shes the same person that calls bush a war criminal and liar and used false evidence to go to war yet the 'investigation' supports the opposite. she will continue with that because shes smart and it was a lie. nothing but a hack she is
Cut the BS Insanity ! They were murdered on 9/11/12 ... over 6 weeks ago ! Obama is stalling with the truth but that didn't prevent him from LYING REPEATEDLY and blame it on a 17 minute film clip when he knew better ! You Obama leg-humpers simply don't want the truth to come out now before the election !!
Hide the truth just like you did with the FAST and FURIOUS program ... Obama invoking "executive privilege" to coverup who authorized that debacle !
The President DID do something wrong ... he lied about causality ! If the investigation is still ongoing, why did Obama and his administration already spread the lies about it being related to an anti-Mohammed film ? You can't hasve it both ways .... either he lied for 2 weeks or he is lying now !!!
Funny how there aren't many republicans commenting on the substance of this particular discussion, which is their party's indefensible platform that rape and incest victims should be forced to bear their attacker's children.
To address a few of the tangents, Fast and Furious is an ongoing criminal investigation. It really doesn't make sense to make information used for a current investigation public. If you really want to address the culprit, look no further than right wing Arizona and their NRA backed lax gun laws. Had the state not blocked prosecuting obvious cartel funded purchasers, those guns wouldn't have made it to Mexico and the purchaser would be facing criminal charges.
Also, consider how many THOUSANDS of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been needlessly killed due to Bush's lies, all for a war for profit. Maybe Bush would have been able to claim he got Bin Laden had he not diverted our military out of Afghanistan (a country we were justified in attacking) to fight a nonexistent threat in Iraq.
Oregon Pat Nancy Reagan said to just say no. Try it.
Ontor It is not your opinion that Obama is the worst President ever. It is fact. And the sad part is these people showing their complete ignorance to the fact and trying to keep the most failed President ever in office.
SeekingSanity doesn't know anything about about overseas missions/consulates/embassies, and neither does Obama. It doesn't take months (unless an election is pending) to investigate what happened. Islamic Terrorist attacked our consulate at Bengalizi, Libya. What happened is not rocket science, but is a deflection by the Obama Administration because of the election.
I am willing to bet, before the end of October, you will see a drone attack on some Libyan village, and the President claiming "we got them, we got them, I'm a hero, vote for me." It will be called Obama's OCTOBER SUPRISE!!!!
Romney's afraid to go on talk shows. He might face some tough questions and even tougher followup questions to his evasive answers.
Romney is scared we will see the real Mitt Romney like we did in his 47% comment video. Romney has lied so often that he would have a very difficult time trying to talk his way out of his lies in a one-on-one interview with a non-conservative talk show host.
Poor Mitt, the lies do catch up to you.
shaak322,
That's probably why Obama last formal press conference was March 6th. Everything you just wrote can apply to Obama as well.
shaak322 - The reason Obama likes the late evening talk shows and shows like the View is because they are taped, can be edited and he can get 2d takes if the first sound bite doesn't play well. Now when is Obama going to give a press conference and when is Obama going to address the American people as to the Islamic Terrorist attack on our Consulate in Bengalizi? When is Obama going to admit that the attack on Fort Hood, TX was not "work place violence" and actually an Islamic Terrorist Attack?
Obama claims he has Al Qaeda back on their heels, but Al Qaeda is an strong, if not stronger, today than at anytime in the past 30 years. Al Qaeda is still in Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, and now in Mali, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and a number of other ME and North African states.
I now see that Hollywood is going to release the movie about the killing of Osama Bin Laden on Nov 4th, 2 days before the election. They had originally said they would wait until after the election, but Obama is in trouble so Hollywood is going to try and help out.
How nutty is Faux?
Jay Leno brought the subject up, and asked for the Presdent's comments.
He said 'Rape is rape". GOP is piling on other ideas about it. GOP wants to make their basic premise look sound, but it is not.
A woman has had the right to choose for decades.
And - the guys trying to litigate women are GUYS.
Rukidding
Typical, you can't justify your political party's sick fascination with forcing suffering onto already raped women, so you try to insult me personally. By the way, I live in a state that already has medical marijuana laws on the books (along with 1/3 of the country), as I'm sure you know. We also have a ballot initiative for all out legalization of the harmless herb that's been unjustly vilified (maybe the republican problem with it is that its buds grow on female plants...). Just like the republican party itself, you're stuck way in the past. Time to stop watching Refer Madness and join the rest of us in the 21st century.
The Republican Party's stance on the issue of rape, has remained the same throughout my lifetime. It has almost always "been the woman's fault". The only time that I have ever heard anything different, is if it happens to a child under the age of 17! The way these men think is truly Stone Age, especially that IDIOT from Indiana."If a woman becomes pregnant from that horrible act of rape, it was what God intended", sounds like a Neanderthal to me! And complete and total ignorance of biology. If his school even taught biology, if so he sure as hell did NOT pay attention. "It was what GOD intended"? Sorry, but I don't think that GOD, if he were truly caring and compassionate, would allow something like that to happen.
You know he's desperate when he no longer has anything substantial to talk about in his speeches.
Yes, Mr. President. Everyone in America agrees that Rape is Rape. So what else do you have to say?
I really can't understand how any woman could possibly vote for Rush/Rove/Romney/Ryan considering the hostility the Republicans have shown to women and privacy/health issues. Moreover, I can't understand how any man could see how cavalierly the Republicans have moved to remove Individual Liberty to give government power it does not have - and vote for that political party.
Add to that the fiscal and foreign policy nightmare of Romney, and the easy way he spinelessly changes positions to suit an audience, the Supreme Court nominations, the tax returns, etc. etc. Romney is just no good.
Saw this on Facebook, it describes perfectly the party of pale, male & stales position of women's reproductive rights!
Keep the creepy white guys out of my "bizness"!
Feeling a bit racist this morning ?
so redheaded slut - an excellent cocktail...
as a democratic candidate is it ok for me to ask for votes while your being raped? or should i wait until its over.
Since discussing rape is obviously an acceptable way to get votes.. or Obama seems to think so.. i just would like a timeline on when i can starting pandering for votes because a woman got raped..
joshua w morris
Its cool that Obama didn't even TRY to condem rape, heck he didn't even bother to mention it as a violent act.. hes calling rape a "health care decision". If he's linking Romney to the rape comments then he also discards rapes as nothing but healthcare decision - since he failed to condem them.
i personally think rape should be punishable by death. or at least carry the same sentance as a hate crime AND a violation of civil rights. I also think a women being raped NOT an acceptable reason to even DISCUSS politics much less pander for votes.
Rape should be discussed on how to stop it, how to punish those harshly who commit the violent act, not to accept it as a forgone conclusion and to plan for it, rally about it, fund raise on it, and pander for votes becuase of it. .. disgusting.
Violence toward anyone, much less women. should not be viewed as an opportunity for advancement
Why is it that the creepy white guys want to tell women what to do with their bodies?
I am white, is it racist for me a white woman to call the men in the republican party creepy white guys? Republican men have shown over and over that they don't even understand how a woman's body works and yet they want a religious government in charge of our bodies.
Just like Trump, he wants President Obama's school grades when Romney won't even release the same amount of tax returns that President Obama already released when he ran for president.
The republicans lied about wanting to create jobs in 2010 and just voted against jobs for veterans and they are lying to you now.
I find it appalling that any woman would vote for a republican to make herself into a second class citizen with all the rights of a slave.
VOTE FOR WOMENS FREEDOM...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
Feisty
Especially, my uterus!!! It's so offensive.
4 MORE 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Mitt has business acumen..he even sells ad time during the moment of silence when he attends a funeral.
The thing of it is, as more criticism comes on on Mourdoch and with McCain, Scott Brown already denouncing him and Kelly Ayotte cancelling a campaign trip on Mourdoch's behalf, it will be inevitable that Willard will lead from behind and denounce Mourdoch. Either that or allow Obama to portray him as the "severely conservative" Willard, not that genial empty suit they saw at the debates.
Feisty Keep the creepy white guys out of my "bizness"!
Don't think you have anything to worry about... but be careful what goes up in that BIZNESS of yours!
..... VOTE OBAMA ......
"LEGITIMATE RAPE" “If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," Todd Akins - Republicans who went to show support Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee .....
Republican candidate Richard Mourdock suggested that pregnancies resulting from rape are "something that God intended to happen," despite the "horrible situation" from which they derived. Romney endorses Mourdock day before .... and says he disagrees with what mourdock says but will STILL SUPPORT HIM.
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Mitt Romney
WOMEN YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR THIS PARTY ??
MEN IF YOU HAVE A MOTHER, WIFE, SISTER, DAUGHTER, GRANDDAUGHTER, FEMALE FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS ... YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR THIS PARTY ??
YOU want the future generation to believe that these are the men who should be in charge of this country ???? Seriously you want to put your stamp of approval on this party ? Even it you take the "party affiliation" out of the equation - would you vote for someone who believes this garbage - is that the legacy you want to portray in 2012 ? Good grief ! What has become of us ? I coulda understand one blunder but TWO ... and yet the republican party still supports and endorses these idiots ??? Give your head a shake !
OBAMA 2012
When someone tries to convince you who to vote for, ask them who they voted for in 2000 and 2004?
If the answer President Bush, say thank you, but your judgement is not worth my time.
President Bush left office and America was losing more than 750,000 jobs per month.
President Obama came into office when we were on pace to lose more than 9 million jobs a year.
That's a pace to lose more than 36 million jobs in 4 years when President Obama came into office.
Don't trust the judgement or advice from anyone who voted for President Bush.
Their advice resulted in an economy that was on pace to lose over 36 million American jobs from 2009-2012.
Obama voted for Bush in 2004.
Don't trust this man!
Nice try Sirie.
You should read the Ten Commandments.
;~)
sirie - only low life people with no brains voted for Bush - either time! Unfortunately that makes up most of the Republican party! And, no, Obama DID NOT VOTE FOR BUSH EITHER TIME!
Obama/Biden 2012
I GUESS that Obama did not indeed vote for Bush, but he may have. I just love general statements that people put out -- DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE THAT VOTED FOR BUSH -- yet many who voted for Bush also voted for Obama, or Obama would not have won the last election by the numbers that he had.
So, that said it is true that some people that voted for Bush also voted for Obama!
It is also true that the downfall of our economy actually started when Democrats were elected into both the House of Representatives and Senate, yet BUSH takes all the blame from liberals...
SeekingSanity
maybe you should Seek Help. you are a weak individual and have low self esteem.
sirie - no it isn't actually true that the downfall of our economy started when Democrats were elected into both the House of Representatives and Senate. As usual, Democrats have to fix the problems the Republicans start!
Obama/Biden 2012
Oh, I stand corrected. What I meant to say was that it started when the Democrats took MAJORITY of the House and Senate.
Didn't the recession start immediately after that?
SeekingSanity - The only war on women is the one that you have against any woman that is not a mindless Liberal like you. I say mindless because only a minority of Left of Left Liberals are like you, thank God for that.
Go back to Mama and ask for her approval. Do not attack me on race or culture or gender, I know that the liberal best defence is to use this all the time when they are loosing it.
I dont understand the liberal 'logic'. Yeah people who voted for bush were dumb and yet in 08 became geniuses when voting Obama and now that Obama's numbers are nowhere near 08, they're back to being dumb. Republicans are so stupid yet they have outmanuevered the smartest president ever or should i say third smartest. I'll let liberals roll that around in their 'smart' brains for awhile. lets see what excuse or poor attempt at spinning they will come up with. should be fun
sirie - nice try but wrong again.
Obama/Biden 2012
What have the Democrats fixed ?
Medicare is headed towards financial disaster with Social Security not far behind ... kick the can, kick the can !
The national debt was $10.8 trillion when Obama took office, now it is over $16 trillion ... kick the can, kick the can !
Unemployment was at 7.8% when Obama took office, it is reported at 7.8% today... kick the can, kick the can !
The number of people on food stamps when Obama took office was 32 million, today it is 47 million ... kick the can, kick the can !
Play the blame game all you want... there is one thing you absolutely cannot ACCUSE Obama of doing ... FIXING ANYTHING relevant to our economy !
Dear Jim, Bin Laden is dead. Car company saved and debt repayment well underway saving 1M+ jobs. Oil & natural gas production the highest ever. Ghadafi dead, no American lives lost and other countries involved in helping. Troops home from Iraq. Afghan war troop withdrawl in sight. Cost of unfunded wars decreasing there by putting money back into the Treasury. Pre-existing conditions allowed, and lower prescriptions for seniors and students' insurance on parents til 26. Equal pay for women bill signed. Housing market starting to stabilize. Unemployment below 8%. Bush: 8 years of tax cut revenue taken from the treasury and 2 unfunded wars to pay for, 750,000 jobs lost ea. month and only 4 yrs to make the repairs and the entire surplus gone from the 90's and unbid war contracts awarded during Iraq and Afghan Wars. Over 4,000 Americans killed and over 50,000 wounded for life, plus 100,000+ Iraqis killed during the wars. If Romney did such a great job helping out MA., how come he only served one term? Romney also forgets to mention the 600M dollar bailout for the Winter Olympics by the U.S. GOVERNMENT AND TAXPAYERS! He also just completed a video ad to help Mourdock get elected. Sorry I forgot the "inelegantly stated" 10 minute rant about the 47% moocher, American voters, and Mourdock's "inelegant" wording of "God's Will".
To all the old, white men who are Mitt Romney's "base", and the rest of the Republicans on Capitol Hill....Keep your hands, nose and Neanderthal laws out of my vagina and uterus!!
Our debt has risen $200 billion in just the past 60 days .
But this Pied Piper guy will still get votes .
Considering you voted for President Bush twice, your judgement has some serious problems.
President Bush left office with American on a pace to lose over 38 million jobs from 2009-2012.
So you psychically know who I vote for .
You're so talented .
Ontor you need to check your facts! Figures released last week show the deficit DOWN by $200 billion, because of decreases in government!
ONTOR, it seems that some people don't know the difference between debt and deficit.
You should go take a peak at our debt clock .
It has never stopped or even slowed down under Obama .
U.S. debt .
I hear you Oscar Rules .
Ontor, you might just ask yourself who was it that voted for tax cuts and wars that created this deficit in the first place?
You might even ask who was in charge of our government when the republicans broke our economy? I know republicans want to pretend the crash was not their fault and yet at the same time want to blame President Obama who was not even elected yet when the crash happened.
What party is demanding that tax cuts for the rich create jobs instead of debt?
The actual deficit has been lowered by President Obama and Romney promises to increase the deficit to pay for his tax cuts for himself.
I know Romnesia is a terrible desease that makes you forget what your party has done and said. It is the republicans that keep bringing up rape and how the women need to be punished with carrying the rapist child and then allowing the rapist visitation.
Just like in the cave men days, you want a woman just grab her, impregnant her and the republicans will stand up for the rapist.
Since Obama promoted to keep those Bush tax cuts .
Will he admit that he liked what Bush did ?
ONTOR, vote for Romney, you two are peas in a pod, taking liberty with the truth seems to be a mantra of the republican party. This leads into the new republican mascot, the elephant has been retired and as one poster put it replaced by a hybrid animal. "crocabalone (pronounced crock-a-baloney)"
Geez if Pres. Bush did such a great job, how come he isn't out on the campaign trail to help out his fellow Republicans? First election I've seen where the past president wasn't out there stumping and doing videos endorsing his fellow party members. He didn't even show up at the Republican National Convention! About the "movie star" connection rant. Have we forgotten that beloved Reagan WAS a movie star and had a lot of support financially from other stars to help garner the presidency! And he raised taxes 11 times.
here is a thought. Why not tell us about your awesome record the last 4 years and what you plan to do in the next four. Oh wait... you would rather run a smear campaign?? It is turning off a lot of voters, keep up the good work. Priceless!
Come on now, if you don't know the achievments of this president and he has laid out plans, if you had watched his acceptance speech at the DNC convention you would know. But true to republicans everywhere that are engaged in a campaign of not only smear but also mis-statement you come across as a "crocabalone (pronounced crock-a-baloney)"
I have watched, no plan!
No you haven't, Obama has place his plan in a booklet that he is distributing at campaign stops. Seems like you are blinded by hate. Do you hate him because he has cleaned up the mess that Bush left behind?
He has cleaned up nothing of relevance ... see post #3.12 !
Romney and the Republicans are trying to separate women's reproductive rights from economic concerns - as if the two are separate issues. Don't they realize that forcing a woman to carry the spawn of her rapist has significant economic impacts - from loss of wages (if the victim is employed) to prenatal care to birthing to the emotional devastation and resulting depression - all of these bear economic costs in terms of healthcare and income which, if the Republicans succeed in repealing Obamacare, would become the responsibility of the victim and her family. Republicans' santimonious positions that they value life so highly is the eptiome of blatant hypocrisy. They only value it if it is pre-born, as evidenced by their policies and platform: the post-born can starve, be shot to death by unregulated firearms, be executed and be sent to die in war.
When was the last time a women in America had trouble finding a place to go and get an abortion ?
it is all scare and fear. All the libs have left. They will still be able to kill their babies, regardless who is Pres.
Recent enough that I can still remember! I live in the present and don't want to go back to that era!
Claudia62 - Recent enough that I can still remember!
Having an abortion will probably never leave your memory Claudia... sorry you had to go through that!
Let's try to keep any memory as far away from back alleys and clothes hangers as possible.
sirie, I didn't go through it, I planned my pregancies and welcomed my children, BUT I remember the stories of back alley hacks and coat hanger abortions and I fought hard to preserve the right to choose for my daughter!
I was raped when I was five by a white male and didn't get pregnant. I am now 64 years old and that has caused untold suffering to my well being my entire life. I can't even imagine being old enough to get pregnant and the government forcing me to carry a child to term so some republicans can feel better about themselves while I would suffer the rape every day for 9 months.
I was told by my rapist babysitter that he knew my mother's beliefs, they went to the same church, and that he knew how my mother felt about virgins and she would get rid of me if she found out I was no longer a virgin. As a five year old I believed him and never told a soul until I was 19 due to the shame and sadness.
So you can imagine I get real angry when the republicans try and push that the pregnancy from a rape is a gift from God. If men were the ones who could get pregnant, you wouldn't see all the silly laws making them into second class citizens.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
JAY LENO: One of President Obama's winning points last night was about how sanctions against Iran are crippling their economy. And believe me, if anyone knows how to cripple an economy it's President Obama.
OMG - That is FUNNY!
Sad, but true, sirie. Straight out of Leno's mouth.
I find that very hard to believe. Oscar, I think you made that up.
"Romney campaign stands by Mourdock".
Women.. For Goodness sake.. WAKE UP..
If ever there WAS a sign from God, this would be one of them.. These 'men' who are completely uneducated and ignorant about a woman's body, want to be in charge of the laws that Govern YOUR body. There is no other way to put it. Welcome to the year 1642 where science and medicine take a back seat. Don't even dare mention the earth revolves around the sun.
The Governor has said if he wins the Presidency that he would sign legislation if presented, that bans abortion. And you have GOP senators and Congressmen who have now said that women who get raped have no medical worries as they can't get pregnant if they are 'really' raped, and now with Mourdoch, it is 'God's Gift'.
Seriously..
Vote like YOUR life, your daughter's life and health depends on it.. It's not playtime anymore, they are playing for keeps and total control.Have no doubt, this is 'the big grab'.
So you are saying that you may die if you don't vote for Obama ?
Sorry, that emotional claptrap doesn't hold water ... the "big grab" is Obamacare with Uncle Sam in charge !
Interesting that men who can't get pregnant seem to think that taking rights from women to decide about her own body is emotional claptrap.
The rest of the first world countries already give health care to their citizens. With Romney and Bain moving our jobs to China, the republicans seemed determined to make America into a third world country that would let its children die of starvation.
I don't understand why the republicans want every egg to be born when they love to deny that same child food and education after it is born. Republicans cheer at executions, cheer let them die without health care and lied us to war where over 4000 died in Iraq and then want us all to believe they are pro life.
The republicans lied in 2010 when they ran on jobs, jobs, jobs and have voted against every jobs bill, including one recently for our returning veterans. But they have passed 55 bills limiting a woman's rights and the states have been busy limiting women's rights and your right to vote.
Yet we are all suppose to be very afraid because we don't want to watch our fellow Americans die without health care.
The real scary thought is that the republicans are poised to take women's rights back to the 1950's. This is nothing more that the American white men's version of a burka. You got to keep women in their place while you claim their is no war on women.
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I did say that it was "Kitchen-sink" time in the campaigns...
You're right .
We wish we could wash away the last 4 years and send it down the disposal .
ontor, But its God's will that Obama is President. Just ask your guy Mourdock. Don't you believe in God?
Seeing as you stepped on MY metaphor...(No respect! No respect at all!)
Is that like a nurse's "we", as in "And how are we feeling today" or the imperial "we" Like the Queen of England?
Are we washing our years before we dispose of them? Seems like a waste of resources...
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Both campaigns will be carrying on a "whispering" campaign that is a step-child of the "dirty tricks" school of electoral politics. It is both obvious and simple to deduce what those "campaigns" consist of...
Are you looking for an apology from that feeling you got of being stepped on ?
You'll get over it .
Give it some time .
mirror, mirror on the wall
the fool looks twice and takes a fall.
Actually,
Actually, t's called sarcasm...Thanks for the apology...
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Its been a rough day. I got up this morning, put a shirt on and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase, and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.
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I only asked if you were looking for an apology .
But that reply got a smile out of me .
I thank you for that .
Here's a vote for that one .
"Hey, Hey ..... I got a beautiful new puppy ! No, really, I got a beautiful new puppy .... what can I say, my wife's a REAL DOG ! "
Where is Rodney Dangerfield when you really need him ?
Hussein: Gimme that straw! I can almost reach it! I don't have a good record to run on, so I'm trying to reach that straw!!
Funny how Obama talks about everything but his dismal record and a plan for the economic future.
Tax payers shouldn't find it very funny at all .
Because we are so overtaxed, right?
mike--feel free to pay all the taxes you want. You can send the IRS more, go ahead.
As a southern moderate leftist, the entire notion of people voting against their own economic futures is not entirely unknown to me. After all, I have seen people in my region excoriate unions my entire adult life, despite the fact that the companies that open plants here pay them $10-12/hour for the same jobs that people in union states are doing for $25/hour or more. And somehow, despite the fact that these companies are just out and out screwing them, the people in the southern states will continue to somehow hate unions even though they really have no experience with them and live in relative poverty almost solely because they will never, ever organize and demand at least equal wages to those in the north and the west.
And I am completely cynical, so the behavior of people in general does not surprise me.
But even I have to admit that I have been a bit surprised by the behavior of women in recent weeks during this campaign. Maybe it's that they have lived for so long that they have no frame of reference of being forced to bear children throughout all of their childbearing years as was prevalent during earlier decades. Maybe the notion that contraception and family planning could become illegal under a 'Personhood Amendment' seems so unrealistic to them that they cannot intellectualize the ramifications of having their entire economic life thrown into chaos because of other people's religious beliefs.
I am not even talking about abortion here. I am talking about bills that have been introduced by this congress that would be signed by a President Romney and that would be upheld by the supreme court that a President Romney would appoint. I don't often talk about social wedge issues or at least try not to, but like I said, the reduction of the gender gap during a time when the congress is the most radically right wing it's ever been and the 'middle' of the abortion argument has shifted to what few exceptions the given candidate would support, and the presidential candidate has indicated in the past that he supports giving property rights to an embryo... well, all I can say is that despite my southern moderateness, the capacity of people to vote against their own interests is just stunning once more.
When people say these things, it's not a mistake. It's not inelegantly spoken or somehow just that the person wouldn't actually try to craft policy around these things. It's that they believe them. And there quite a few of them. There has been an average of 1 vote every three weeks trying to restrict abortion rights in the House of Representatives since 2010.
So, I guess all I would have to say to women is this: if you really want to chance having life as you know completely destroyed, then go ahead and vote for Mitt Romney. I can almost guarantee you that in five years, it will be one of the decisions in your life that you regret the most.
Michael---every time I try to figure out how people vote against their economic self-interest, I end up thinking of the Civil War, where the South was able to persuade people to fight and die for a system that was not in their economic interest (let alone the morality of it).
As far as women are concerned, I wonder if we women have made a mistake in not telling our daughters and granddaughters how bad things were and how far we've come. I can't believe we are fighting wars we already fought--over women's economic rights, over contraception, over abortion. Maybe we need to paint a better picture of how things were.
Would someone please pass out the BARF bags now... after reading these last two posts, I think I am going to gag and throw up !! Bring a libbie to stand in front of me ! RAALLLPPPPHHHHH !! EAARRRLLLL !!!
The ugly liberal mantra rears it's ugly head once again " ... how people vote against their economic self interest" is merely an example of the haughty "we are smarter than you, so you should let us make all your decisions for you" EXTREME ARROGANCE of the lefties !!!!
When will reality smack you between your eyeballs and give you the realization that you are NOT SMARTER ... you have only convinced yourself of that fallacy ???
JIM--I feel the same.
Jim if there was ever someone who needed to read and listen to their own post it is you.
A 2.2 grade point average ON A FOREIGN EXCHANGE SCHOLARSHIP/GRANT vs. graduating cum laude from Harvard is all you need to know. That President Obama's step-father raised him in Indonesia and adopted him, giving him his last name Saetoro is no disgrace. I guess Trump was trying to show Barry Saetoro on his passport is not the name he goes by now. I don't have as big a problem with that as the impeachable offense of covering up the assassination of an Ambassador. That is an act of war. "Shoot first and aim later" is what he said to Romney. Romney was right. Wasn't about a movie and he knew it. Impeach him. Then he and Clinton will be impeached.
Sharon - okay, you've officially proved you are a lunatic! No cover-up is being done - just a thorough investigation - as is necessary in any act like this. But, of course, don't let facts get in your way!
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Hillary releases e-mails and Sharon calls it a cover up. I think she is as another poster has mentioned. a "crocabalone (pronounced crock-a-baloney)"
The e-mails prove the State Department knew what was going on in Benghazi within hours. The follow two weeks of lies by Obama, lies by Rice, lies by many others in Obama's administration prove Obama and his administration have weakly attempted to lay blame elsewhere.
Obama is either lying now, or he lied for 2 weeks after 9/11/12 ! Why the coverup of a sad situation ?
What happened in Bengazi wasn't immediately known. Different people had different takes on the event. We are begining to sort things out at this time.
Suppose, just suppose the Administration is lying it won't be the first Administration to do so. Reagan had Iran- Contra and Nixon had Watergate. Others are Clinton's dalliances with the bimbos and the best whopper of all, the one that got way more than 4 people killed is George W. Bush's lies (more than one) about Iraq and her envolvement in the 9/11 incident.
By comparison the GOP has nothing so they are making much ado about nothing by comparison to other Administrations.
Democrats--the party of low expectations. Screw the American dream!
Republicans the party of exclusion, screw them.
sharon: Wouldn't you say President Obama embodies the American dream?
After all being president is all Mitt has dreamed about for years and years....too bad it will never be realized.
Republican--the party of hypocrites. "Gov should stay out of people's lives... umm, except for a woman's Vag". Pathetic
President Obama embodies the American NIGHTMARE ... an incompetent in the White House with rising U.S. National Debt, an NO BUDGETS, NO PLAN and NO CLUE !!
So tell me what was so great about the bush administration?
Did you like that over 4000 Americans died in the Iraq war that bush and cheney lied us too?
Or was your favorite the tax cuts for the rich that are now a reason for a third of our deficit?
Maybe your favorite was the deregulation of Wall Street and the crash that nearly brought down the world?
I know you loved the part when we were bleeding hundreds of thousands of jobs every month? The best side effect was all the people losing their homes.
Surely you like the part that you lost half of your 401K?
You have a terrible case of Romnesia if you don't remember that being the nightmare. Yes, the nightmare we are still trying to recover from. I know your Romnesia keeps you from knowing that the recession started before President Obama took office and that Ryan actually voted to create the deficit.
Returning to the same policies we are still recovering from is beyond stupid. Good thing I am not smart enough to fall for the republicans con job.
John in Battle Creek - Republicans - the party of no brains; low values; and no integrity - screw them, no, you can do better!
Obama/Biden 2012
Your right S.S. I did do better, I married a democrat. But I was talking about screwing a republican without the kiss. Know what I mean?
John in Battle Creek - even THAT would be bad! Glad you married a woman with brains!
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Rape/pregnancy/god... U know what is even more sick than male politicians having the "god's will" view is the huge number of "conservative" women with the exact same views. I think it is time that THEY show their faces instead of letting "men" do all their hard work.
Once in the voting booth with curtains closed and not showing her ballot to anyone a woman can vote however she wants. She can say she voted one way but actually vote another. Who's going to know. Willard may find himself in big trouble with the ladies.
Apparently the Republicans seem to think they have an exclusive audience with God. He intimately tells them all sorts of things He won't share with the rest of us. Such egos to think one can second guess the Almighty.
Well then if a male is impotent or "can't get it up" then that is god's will too, therefore viagra should be taken off the market...right Repubs????
The Right is panicking.. The look of fear on their face is priceless..
pretty sure that is the other way around. Obama will not win re-election!
After the paid posters lose their jobs working for The Kochs, their moms will kick them out of the basement.
plsthink90,
You just keeping living in your own reality..You'll be happier that way
Brad - you can almost smell their desperation. But, it's all they have.
Obama/Biden 2012
The desperation is in the Obama camp since his term in office is a record of repeated economic failures !
"It's the economy, STUPID".
Did you hear that 'silent thud'?? - that's the sound on Nov. 7th of billions of corporate dollars hitting the ground after having had NO impact at all on who occupy's the presidency!
Gotta love it when good triumphs over evil!
Obama/Biden 2012
- We begin the take back of our Democracy from the corporate thugs that have held it hostage starting January 1!! Change we will fight for even if it takes 'Peaceful Revolution'
Millions of engaged supporters have your back Mr. President!
Maybe if these republican politicians wouldn't keep bringing it up, people would see it for the non-issue that it really should be.
It's about the economy and JOBS stupid!!!
Republican voters can skip this artice. They are already convinced to degrade their wives and daughters.
Ask yourselves this, if Romney wants Mourdock in the senate, who's he going to want in the Supreme Court!
President Obama should be a shame of himself for not running on his record instead his running on his opponent proposal. it would be nice if he said my record state that I got the best health coverage any American could have. But it seems that he is afraid of his health bill. I don't understand. Stop the attack it's only hurting him. Talk about your accomplishment even if it was only two thing but you did it. you accomplished the Obama care, Gay and Lesbian legality, you manage to go around the world and speak worlds leader including Muslim leaders. Go ahead make the folks out here day.
Urban vs Suburban-Rural vote in Ohio. Urban voters with their housing projects and dependence on government vs independent Americans who have moved their families to the suburbs or the country for quality of life issues. This represents the battle nationwide in the microcosm of one state Ohio. The kicker in Ohio is the blind, militant union vote-Will they stick with Obama or vote for the future of American like when they switched to put Reagan in office in 1980? What the union voters do in Ohio could well determine the fate of America. It is a heavy burden and each union voter must decide what is more important "following the mandate of his/her union bosses or doing what is best for the future" and they will make that decision privately in the ballot box! Pray they do what is best for our Country!
This is only out done by the housing developer who told his employees to vote for Romney or you'll lose your job. The nice part about America is that the act of voting is a very private matter and no one else needs to know how you voted! I belonged to the NEA and voted for the person I thought was the best candidate to hold the office whether they be a Republican or Democrat and whether the "union" supported a certain person. That's why everyone should be an independent voter and not follow like sheep and be told to "vote this way or else".
hot daddy my a$$ you are just another gutless bigot that say you are now a "tea party" what happened your wife left you so now you are part of the woman hating political party or are you just kind of small down there and never really could be a real "hot" dadday. You don't live in the suburbs you are just more of the white trailer trash that now represents the republican party, I was the GOP 55 year old white man that makes 6 figures in private business but I don't want to associate with trash like you and the rest of the GOP and any of you that stay in that party and don't or haven't stood up to the extreme then you are even worse than them, trash. I am old but I still shoot straight and it is trailer trash like you that I am going hunting for.
I mean after you have heard the descriptions of the factories and wages in China where they have no unions, how can Americans not want to be in the same boat?
Union jobs grew America and the middle class. While you may not agree with everything they do, America would not be the great country it is without them fighting for worker rights. If you like unemployment benefits or 40 hour weeks, safe working environment or paid vacations, or paid holidays thank the unions.
The rich and corporations want it more like China where the people suffer and the rich get richer. The rich have spent millions on the republicans that have promised them just that.
Good hunting Dan.
Are you kidding me?! Why did the author use this phrasing? It's not Obama's responsibility to protect Romney's character, that's Romney's job. Romney supports this Senatorial freak, and should answer for it. Does anyone believe Romney will protect a woman's right to privacy? No, none of you do, so it begs the question, "how far is Mitt willing to go to violate women?".