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Subscribe to RSSLAS VEGAS -- First lady Michelle Obama brought her early vote message to another crucial battleground state Friday, telling about 1000 supporters inside a middle school gym to get out to the polls, and to pull others "into the fold."
"I need you all to go vote," Obama said, before urging the crowd to visit a polling station adjacent to the school, inside a nearby shopping mall.
An election official at the Boulevard Mall later told NBC News that about 300 people arrived to cast ballots in the immediate aftermath of the first lady's event.
Reuters, Getty Images
In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
Early voting began Oct. 20th in Nevada and will run through Nov. 2nd -- a 14-day period.
A call to action is not a new message from the first lady, but it came Friday amid more polling showing President Barack Obama facing a tightening race against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
NBC News-Wall Street Journal-Marist polls this week show President Obama with a 50-47 percent lead among likely voters here in Nevada, and tied at 48 percent in Colorado.
"There will be plenty of ups and downs over the next 11 days," Obama told the crowd here, encouraging them to keep working.
The event opened against the backdrop of a drama involving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), one of the president's most outspoken and powerful allies.
In the minutes after Reid's wife, Landra Reid, delivered remarks praising the first lady, reports materialized that Reid had been involved in an area car accident. Mrs. Reid seemed not to have been aware of the accident during her speech.
In a statement later Friday, Reid's staff said he was brought to an area hospital by his own security detail as a "precaution," with hip and rib bruises.
He was released from the hospital Friday evening, according to the NBC station in Las Vegas.
When Obama took the podium here she called Harry and Landra Reid "tremendous friends and supporters," but didn't mention the senate majority leader's accident.
"They are awesome champions for this state and for this country," Obama said of the Reids.
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Wishing a speedy recovery for Senator Reid!
Ol' Harry won't let a minor accident keep him down!
Harry does after all, have to deal with the GNOP's continued attempts to "rear-end" him at every turn! ;o)
Early voting here in IL has already broken the previous record!
WOOT! GET OUT AND VOTE!
Have a speedy and complete recovery Senator Reid!
...A few bumps and bruises won't keep a good man down!
Morning Feisty,
Thy wonks at Princeton and their Meta-Analyisis have the EC vote score as of 8 a.m.
Obama 297
Romney 241
updates to follow, however their trend line has stabilized over the past few days.
The issues that will rule the day are motivation and ground game.
Boy oh boy when I heard that Senator Reid had been in a car accident, it really shook me up. I was terrified for him. I so admire him.
As far as early voting, there are photos over at The Obama Diary of long lines in FLA this morning. People seem very excited to vote today.
http://theobamadiary.com/
I feel pretty confident that President Obama will carry NV.
Assuming President Obama wins re-election, I can't say enough for all the hard work Michelle Obama has put into this election. She is getting huge crowds wherever she goes. Joe and Jill Biden have been spectacular.
But no matter who wins this election, my MVP will go to Bill Clinton. No words can describe the wonderful positive impact he has had on the campaign trail. He's as popular as ever. He's as no nonsense as ever. And he has worked his tail off.
MVPs in the media - Bob Shrum for starting the process of defining Romney early on with his ads he gave us which Ted Kennedy has used against Romney. These ads were devastating and gave the nation as a whole a glimpse into who Romney really was.
David Corn with his 47% video was devastating as well.
I have had my issues with Ed Schultz the past few years. But I always come back. Just like Ed Schultz has had issues with President Obama, yet he always steps up to the plate when it matters.
His interview last night with Colonel Larry Wilkerson was breath taking and I thank Ed for allowing someone to say what needed to be said. That there are a lot of racists in his republican party.
GOTV. Hopefully the hurricane won't make much of an impact on this election, nor to property or people's lives.
COL Wilkerson gave a scorching rebuke of the new GOP/TP!
Good morning Pat,
As with Amy, I wish you safety from the coming storm.
The good Colonel was devastating in his description last night.
Thank you backcatwhitecat. Cloudy, but a beautiful fall day today. The leaves are just gorgeous.
Wishing everyone safety in the upcoming days.
To John Sununu's comments, I think the GOP should take a hard listen to the youth of today. They are all over MSNBC. They do not represent Sununu's outlook at all. They are smart, they are engaged and they want a progressive America.
CNN and Fox do not give voice to the young of today. MSNBC does. It is their future and they're taking it and running with it. They have completely different outlooks from what we're seeing in the GOP.
And to Bill Maher:
If the Mittmobile does roll into Washington, it'll be towing behind it the whole anti-intellectual, anti-science freak show. The abstinence obsessives, the flat earthers, home schoolers, the holy warriors, the anti-women social neanderthal, the closeted homosexuals, and every end timer who sees the Virgin Mary in the grass over the septic tank.
Mitt Romney might want a government full of sober gentlemen who discuss policy in quiet rooms, but he's also going to get a bunch of snake handlers who spout nonsense in antler-filled rooms. People like Congressman Ralph Hall (R-TX), who is Chairman of the Science Committee, and says we don't need to address global warming because: "I don't think we can control what God controls".
And to those who say, "Oh don't worry, Mitt Romney will stand up to the extreme elements of his party", there's just one problem with that. It has the name "Mitt Romney" and the words "stand up" in the same sentence.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/27/1151055/-Bill-Maher-warns-about-the-dangerous-people-Romney-would-bring-with-him-to-the-White-House
KUDOS to Colonel Wilkerson for confirming what many have long suspected;
When asked by Schultz what, if anything, the remark said about the attitudes of the Republican Party, Wilkerson said:
I knew you couldn't go a day without bringing out the race card...
The Democratic party is a party of racism. The harder they point the finger at the GOP with accusations of racism the more painfully obvious it becomes. Democrats are race obsessed. And why shouldn't they be? It worked last election. Obama was elected solely based on his race. He was supposed to represent a finale to the civil rights movement; to prove to the country that we've finally moved beyond the days of slavery and segregation. "Look how progressive we are; how far we've come. We elected an African American to be our president". Never mind the nation didn't know a thing about him at the time. He was charming and slick. And black. And that was all that matter.
However, we know him a little better now. We've observed his attack on religious freedoms, his inability to grasp the most basic concepts of financial prudence, his cronyism, his sympathy to Muslims, and his contempt for the unborn to the extremest extents. So naturally, when held up to scrutiny, Obama must return to the old working strategy of racism if he hopes to be re-elected.
How exactly are the Democrats playing the race card? With rousing games of "Look at all the white folks at the Republican National Convention – I knew they were racists".Oh, and intentionally not giving air time to speakers Mia Love, Condoleeza Rice, Susana Martinez and Arthur Davis. Because that would blow the whole facade; that the Republican party is a white man's party.
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No one has to point a finger at the gop to highlight the racism within their ranks, all one has to do is observe the actions of the rank and file, listen to the words of their spokespersons and the conclusion is quite clear.
Well stated and written Ticked off.
Ticked asks:
Wilkerson, as the former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, is hardly a Democrat!
.......He's been in a position to know and judge and speak.....Truthfully!
Why aren't you proud of your party, and do tell us what positions of Willard do you support. Willard has so many positions on every issue, your choices can be endless.
If you can't settle on a Willard policy position.....what's left?
If we keep winning elections, eventually the hate and ignorance of the Republican Party will die off completely......
Obama/Biden 2012
I am still going to wait and listen to see if there are two weeks of cover-up to see
At least there were rescue craft and personnel available for immediate action.
And they actually took action before waiting on the White House.
The people in trouble were removed from from the scene in a responsible way.
And they are still alive.
Romney / Ryan 2012
Amen Matt!
They are indeed a dying breed, just hope I live long enough to see the day they eventually become extinct!
Ticked and Hand, There aren't words to describe how poor of an argument that is. It lacks any logic or truth other than what is created by the Tea Party and Fox. The bottom line you can't escape is that there are elected Tea party officials, Sunnunu and Murdoch who have made statements that are Racist and Sexist. Quite oppressive. You obviously have never studied history or the constitution. Freedom of Religion/ Separtation of Church and State for example: Americans can practice religion as they please, however, in making decisions for the masses, clear isolated religious beliefs are weeded out, therefore allowing for laws that don't discriminate based on a Religious Belief. Because you have a Religious Belief, doesn't mean that it needs to be represented in law, no matter how strongly you feel. By passing a law that is rooted in a Religious belief, it discriminates against those who don't share that belief. However, Rape, Incest, Discrimination have laws against them because they are wrong when applied to society as a total entity. Hand Job and Tickle, you are a clear minority. Your beliefs are your right, however when you try to push the Religious based decisions, they don't pass the litmus test of being constitutional.
If Mooch-elle is beautiful, I just squeezed off a masterpiece.
This crap is news. How about the new reports out of Benghazi? No importance there, right msnbc.
msnbc are the stenographers of the Obama campaign. The National Enquirer of network "news".
You will go down with him, for the POS potus is going down hard and you all know it. Isn't it lovely?
The Moron Is Toast.
Jimmy Carter now comes in black!
give it about twenty years and they won't even be a blip on the radar screen. This is the last act of desperation from a dying breed. The old, white male domination is over and way past due. That is why this election is so very important. The nail needs to be driven into that coffin once and for all. The GOP/TP attempts to sweep it under the rug are failing. Keep it front and center. Vote straight Democrat for a better America for all of us.
Tonytard................................That's what you all said in 2010. How did that work out for ya?
Obamasucksonit
The Democrats held onto the senate and will repeat that this year. The Tea Party will maintain strength in State level red-state politics. Texas will in eventually turn blue and possibly as early as 2016 if Hillary runs.
I never knew the Democratic Party was in charge of the Republican Convention schedule. I guess that explains why that doddering old fool was cussing out a chair.
Besides, the Republican party isn't a white man's party. It's a low information white man's party that's run by rich white men who are experts at race-baiting to manipulate the votes of the aforementioned low information white men. When in doubt, play any or all of the following race cards: Rev. Wright, Acorn, Kenyan birth certificate, food stamps, welfare queens, ad nauseum. That keeps the low information white men in the fold and keeps them voting against their own economic self interests. Meanwhile, the rich white men steal billions more that could have gone into providing better economic conditions for the low information white men, and they retire to their board rooms, light up victory cigars, and laugh at the stupidity of the tea party.
Obama 2012/Romney 1040
The only time Fiesty pulls her head out of the sand is to stick it up Obama's a$$.
Sand and crap. Sand and crap. Sand and crap. Sand and crap. Sand and crap. Sand and crap.
Obama: Making Jimmy Carter look better and better every day.
Blackcat.......................keep sucking the kool-aid. You are a few ounces short of lobotomized.
The monkey cage is alive and well, only now they call it the Democratic party.
The head monkey (branch manager) is toast.
Jimmy carter now comes in back.
I see a rereg has already spawned today, pinching or should I say passing himself off as an artist. Not sure when he has time to rereg after spending most of his time starting into the toilet to admire his "masterpieces".
One rarely acknowledged kudo we owe to the military is the important role they played in stamping out racism in this country. They pioneered and adopted policies early on to end racism in the ranks. While they have been slow to react to discrimination based upon gender or sexual identity (a different discussion topic), they led the way on racial equal opportunity with corporate American following suit. The General knows what he is talking about when he points the finger at the GOPTP party and accuses them of racism. How else can we explain simple things such as:
The White guy wants medical insurance for all - good policy; the Black guy - bad policy.
White guy wants defined exit strategy for Afghanistan - good policy; the Black guy - bad policy.
White guy raises the debt - good policy; the Black guy - bad policy.
And the list goes on and on.
P.S. Thankfully we have ignore - to remove the fecal fetish master from the board.
Gosh, how charming! Your mother must be so proud of you; I'm sure you're the hit of her Garden Club luncheons.
Once agin, I notice that you wrong-wingers scream and cry whenever we Progs bring up Bush, on whose watch the United States took the worst damage to our economy and to our international standing in seventy years... but you keep on throwing rocks at Jimmy Carter, who was an honorable and a decent man, and who left a better country behind him that the one he inherited.
So just knock it off, you hypocrite. Go back to your Playstation, or some pursuit that doesn't require you to construct complete sentences.
Mrs. O gave the same appeal in Ohio. Less idolatry here, thank God.
Here's new voter fraud in Columbus, OH---van loads of Somali residents driven to polls w/Dem interpreters helping them vote. Where is the media? http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/26/is-voter-fraud-being-committed-in-ohio/
For all those that are in the "Frankenstorms" way please stay safe.
Obama/Biden 2012
I am amazed and astounded at the Republicans of today. Instead of condemning the obvious racism expressed by THE senior adviser to Mitt Romney, you complain that the media is hyping the race card.
This year there is before the Supreme Court of the United States a case which has the core question of whether the race of an individual should be considered in the admissions policies of a state university.
Over 140 years after the passage of the amendments which ended slavery in the US and, presumably, truly made "all men equal" we, as a nation, are STILL making decisions based on the color of a persons skin.
It is purely disgusting that more than 50% of the Republican party will not vote for anyone who is not a white male, purely on the basis of the fact that they are not a white male. Those few token minorities (Marco Rubio, Michael Steel, Nikki Haley and the few others) only go to prove that the GOP truly is the "stale, pale, male party."
Give 'em Hell, Harry, and God Bless
From the article above:
God Bless you, Harry and your lovely wife Landra.
Any accidents at that age for ANYONE can be cause for concern. The Senator needs to relax and take his time to make sure he recovers fully. We will bring home this election for the President.
You can just hear the Tea Party Conspiracy Monkeys foaming at the mouth ready to pounce again complaining that the President didn't say anything or act quickly enough, even though it's obvious, yet again, that all the information wasn't available of the Senator's condition at the time.
Sickening, isn't it?
Don't worry mi amigos.
President Obama is well on his way to re-election. He will win Nevada, Colorado, Ohio, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and yes, even Florida.
BTW, ALL the polls after Monday's Debate shows President Obama won the Debate Handily and his numbers are going UP and the Governor's numbers are going DOWN.
Don't let the Conspiracy Monkeys fool you.
Just remember; Karl Roves strategy is always to make sure there is a PERCEPTION that the race is close, so that Republicans have chance to STEAL yet another election from the Democrats.
Finally, to reiterate:
General Colin Powell endorses President Obama.
A poorly singing Meat Loaf endorses the Governor.
Just reinforces again the type of mentality of a person who would vote for the Governor.
Salud.
TomasGrande, re: polls by republican leaning pollsters who always seem to dampen down the president's poll numbers.
Someone this morning wrote quite humorously that as far as republican pollsters are concerned, if they call you and you tell them you are a democrat and voted for President Obama, they mark you down as an unlikely voter.
Tears in my eyes laughing when I read that. So so funny.
There are two photos going around as well, comparing Meat Loaf to Bruce Springsteen. No words are necessary to describe the differences in the two.
Yep, better listen to Mrs. Obama.
After all, she indicated in Providence, R.I. last year, that Mr. Obama's grandmother was discriminated against because she was a WOMAN at that bank in Hawaii even though she was the FIRST female to be selected for a senior position at that bank.
And, when Mr. Obama was elected for his only term in office that the first time in her adult life she has never been more proud of the United States.
Or, when she announces racism in public:
And the Progressives love it.
Yep, get out to vote.....vote for Romney~Ryan to take back America from the Progressives and the RADICALS.
Salud.
tempt us,
From your link @ 1.26 …
A source, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a volunteer outside the Morse Road polling center. She has witnessed Somalis who cannot speak English come to the polling center. They are brought in groups, by van or bus. The Democrats hand them a slate card and say, “vote Brown all the way down.” Given that Sherrod Brown is the incumbent Democrat Senator in Ohio, one can assume that this is the reference.
So a “Poll Watcher” could understand what was said in a foreign language. Is that correct?
Additionally what was done is not illegal or in violation of any Ohio or Federal election laws.
The “Brown” refers to a selection of choices that are highlighted in brown and is similar to “Voter Guides” that are legally offered to any and all voters that approach the polls as long as the “volunteers” remain at least 100 feet from the polling center entrance. Sen. Brown is one selection on the ballot and would not be "all the way down."
Ticked off in Ohio
You do go on. My brother is a proud Republican and a proud racist. He is also a dedicated rush Limbaugh listener. Since he has become a Rush devotee, he has become increasingly angry, although he has never been better off financially.
Throughout my life here in Pennsylvania, the only racists I have known have all been staunch Republicans. So, I beg to differ with your comment since it does not reflect the world I have seen.
Donald Trump exploits racist attitudes. John Sununu chooses to exploit racist attitudes. Sarah Palin chooses to exploit racist attitudes. Whose racist attitudes are they trying to exploit? Part of their Republican base. It's pretty obvious.
EAST-COASTERS: PLEASE VOTE EARLY, IF YOU CAN!
. . . WATCH OUT FOR Sandy, The FrankenStorm, and stay safe y'all! :-)
And don't let your vote be BOUGHT - A vote for O & Joe is a vote against Citizen's United!
A vote for The Myth & The Lyin' is a vote for voter suppression & intimidation;
VOTE O & JOE & DEM's down-ballot!!! Democracy lives! :-)
Yup. This about sums it up.
Father of Tyrone Woods (seal killed in Libya) is interviewed.
http://www.lvrj.com/multimedia/national/23859032
Warning to Liberals: The information revealed in this video may cause your head to explode. Watch at your own risk.
I have a brother in law who is identical to your brother. The ironic thing is that he retired from General Motors, has a great pension because of the UAW and now rails against it. His obsessive hatred of Obama borders on sickening and he constantly puts stuff on Facebook about it. It's too bad because i've known this guy since I was about thirteen and we've been really close for over 40 years. Now I can't stand talking to him because every conversation reverts back to the same old "blame Obama" crap. And his son, my nephew, is worse than him. He is extremely radical and talks of armed revolution if the president wins reelection. That's disturbing. I'm sure there are many of us who have similar stories.
Jonny R Goode -- Correct. It even has a name -- the Southern Strategy. By 2016 it won't work as well just based on changing demographics, but buckle-up for voter suppression and fraud (e.g., Republicans throwing out Democrat registration forms) like you've never seen before.
What I am still very concerned about is fraud from voting machines, especially in swing states. The FACT is the results in prior elections (most notably 2000) from voting machines were statistically impossible, always in favor of Bush and not remotely close to exit polling.
To the young voters in particular, as well as all you single women, YOUR votes matter a lot. Florida was stolen by Bush with only 500 or so votes. Don't let anything stop you from voting including Hurricane Sandy. Imagine how much better off we would be now if Gore had become president instead of Dubya!
And not just in this general election, but let's spank the rightwing radicals in the next mid-term election as well. If the 2010 takeover by the crazies didn't teach us all a lesson, we too must be crazy. But in this upcoming election on November 6th, the Supreme Court is at risk with repercussions throughout your lifetime. It is a VERY important election, so get out the vote!
Obama/Biden - Four More Years!
Agreed, and one has to wonder where they find these Losers. Sununu is who, and relevant how exactly? And need we say anything more about Palin? Neither Limbaugh and Glenn Beck were capable of completing college, not to mention substance abuse -- And in the case of Rush he is an obvious bigot, and in the case of Beck he is a Chicken Little Drama Queen -- all for a buck. Heck even Meatloaf (Ted Nugent's replacement?) is the best the Republicans/Romney can get.
I have ZERO respect for any of these douchebags, and in the case of Romney and those who should know better, I have nothing but disdain. They disgust me beyond anything Ticked Off above will ever grasp. I'll take endorsements from credible folks like General Powell any day of the week!
I'm so sorry to hear this, but glad it wasn't worse. Feel better soon, Mr. Reid!
dirp -- Good point, and in keeping with Joe Biden's speech referring to Romney's endorsement of religious radicals like Mourdock, in which he said:
This is the delineation that conservatives can't wrap their heads around, even though it is very simple and clear. Furthermore, because Romney lacks a "compass with true north" on behalf of ALL the American people, he will always cave to the more extreme elements that have taken over the Teapublican Party. Haunting.
The dems are floating the idea that Romney wins the popular vote while BO wins the electoral vote. That will never happen because Romney has the lead and will not spit the bit. That is wishful thinking and sounds like code for "We know we're getting our clocks cleaned."
Rear end him is he gay to sorry and Obama uses a bus just ask hillary she just got hit by one.
and red it's about jobs
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and Not MTV ,Jay Leno or Hip Hop
Romney 2012
And we are all Happy that Harry is ok get well soon like nov 14 or something.
See, here is another example showing that conservatives don't have a clue what a credible source is. This website Human Events, sub titled "Powerful Conservative Voices" is per Wiki as follows:
Ann Coulter, Ted Nugent, really? Sweet Jeebus!
Source please.
The crowd was NOT 1,000 people strong. Maybe 500 + the press. People no longer are supporting the
Obama regime. Their base is almost non-existent.
Romney/Ryan
I understand that the Obama campaigners are in panic mode and are now using .50 cent Chinese twitter sensors who have a call center in Bejing for the Chinese to find out how they can donate to Mr. Obama via his web site using non-traceable money cards.
dennis your post1.32 is scary if you don't see the problem with how you think. sounds like the masters rounded up the slaves saying now ya'll vote as told and there won't be no whippens when we gets back to the plantation and if you check the plantation owners were dems so what say you
We cannot afford obama's wife Michelle much less obama for another four years;
But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances.
White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.
Branding her ‘disgusting‘ and ‘a vacation junkie‘, they say the 47-year-old mother-of-two has been indulging in five-star hotels, where she splashes out on expensive massages and alcohol.
The ‘top source‘ told the National Enquirer: ‘It’s disgusting. Michelle is taking advantage of her privileged position while the most hardworking Americans can barely afford a week or two off work.
‘When it’s all added up, she’s spent more than $10million in taxpayers’ money on her vacations.’
The First Lady is believed to have taken 42 days of holiday in the past year, including a $375,000 break in Spain and a four-day ski trip to Vail, Colorado, where she spent $2,000 a night on a suite at the Sebastian hotel.
And the first family’s nine-day stay in Martha’s Vineyard is also proving costly, with rental of the Blue Heron Farm property alone costing an estimated $50,000 a week.
That is 2.5 million a year for Michelle's vacations.
Here is exactly why we cannot afford Romney and nobody talks about it. If you do not study history you are doomed to repeat it.
Fact: Right now Obama has the lowest level of violent crime in 40 years.
Fact: Crime follows poverty and not all people receiving benefits are able to work.
Fact: Romney has vowed to leave tens of millions with no medical, food or income. Romney will:
1) Repeal Obamacare, which would immediately kick about 17 million low-income earners and their family members off of Medicaid.
2) Create block grant Medicaid issued by state and cap its growth. Conservative governors and legislatures would limit enrollments and cut benefits substantially. Eventually it would lose 15-20 million people within a decade.
3) Reduce food stamps by more than $100 billion over the next decade. This would reduce enrollment by at least 8 million people.
4) Cut funding for Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health organizations. More babies born to poverty.
Fact: Reagan made cuts to welfare and food stamps. but they were far less than Romney who will put tens of millions on the streets in a few short years.
Reagan caused robbery, assault, theft, vehicle theft, larceny, drug related crime to go up. It did not slow down until Clinton.
Reagan holds the 60 year high for violent crime that followed cuts to the poor. WARNING - Romney will far exceed that with his deep cuts!
FACT: Under Romney, the poor who have NOTHING will victimize those with money. The middle class schools, neighborhoods, the cities, anywhere money is, crime will flourish!
Vote Obama / Biden 2012 to maintain the 40 year lowest crime rate.
Please spread my above words about crime wherever you can. I cited my source.
It shows the trajectory of crime under Reagan! I am old enough to remember how many people - entire families - went homeless. Those who did not find jobs had no other recourse but crime.
Many people hypnotized by Romney were not around then. We must get this warning out! We must tell people Obama has the lowest violent crime rate in forty years and we need to keep it that way.
I've cast my ballot for President Obama. It seems to me, the same people who gave us two terms of George Bush, are fixin' to make Obama a one term President. My God, we just got out of the recession caused by an unfettered Wall Street, are we really so stupid we're going to elect a Bain Capitalist CEO, President?
Morning Amy,
I am sure you are tracking FrankenSandy ... prepare and stay safe
Looks like we will have 40 mile an hour winds Monday. Woke up to zero visibilty due to fog today. Going down to the market for snacks, er batteries and bottled water, later!
Amy B. Portland-
Hang in there, Amy.
By next Tuesday, the storm will have passed, and America will flock to the polls to Re-Elect the President.
Salud
I voted for Romney~Ryan to take back America from the Progressives and the RADICALS.
Yep, the uniformed voters who voted for Mr. Obama has no idea of politics:
Salud
Hmmmmm, funny isn't it?
Wasn't Obamarrhea telling everyone "don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas" in 2010?
Now he and Moochelle are begging for all that mean, nasty, rich, fat-cat money.
HYPOCRITES!!!!!
I hear Hairy Reed got "rear-ended" in Las Vegas and had to go to the hospital. Do you think his sexual preferences are "evolving" much like Barrack Husseins?
Maybe he and Barrack Hussein can understand how Americans feel being "rear-ended" for 4 years by their incompetence.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©
When you go to vote, remember...BENGHAZI.
Remember the lives lost in Benghazi and WHY.
Is this the leadership the AMERICAN people want.
Romney/Ryan 2012
We cannot afford obama's wife Michelle much less obama for another four years;
But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances.
White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.
Branding her ‘disgusting‘ and ‘a vacation junkie‘, they say the 47-year-old mother-of-two has been indulging in five-star hotels, where she splashes out on expensive massages and alcohol.
The ‘top source‘ told the National Enquirer: ‘It’s disgusting. Michelle is taking advantage of her privileged position while the most hardworking Americans can barely afford a week or two off work.
‘When it’s all added up, she’s spent more than $10million in taxpayers’ money on her vacations.’
The First Lady is believed to have taken 42 days of holiday in the past year, including a $375,000 break in Spain and a four-day ski trip to Vail, Colorado, where she spent $2,000 a night on a suite at the Sebastian hotel.
And the first family’s nine-day stay in Martha’s Vineyard is also proving costly, with rental of the Blue Heron Farm property alone costing an estimated $50,000 a week.
That is 2.5 million a year for Michelle's vacations.
Getting your news from the Enquirer Jerry? Typical.
I ORDER YOU TO STAND DOWN! IT'S ONLY 4 LIVES. IT'S NOT "OPTIMAL" TO SAVE THEM!
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.I AM BARACK OBAMA AND I'M COVERING UP THESE MURDERS TO GET RE-ELECTED
PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS!!!
that has nothing to do with this story, dumb@ss. Take your fascist right wing propaganda somewhere else.
Whats the matter tony?
You afraid somebody's gonna pay attention?
You should be afraid because obumbo is going to lose the election and then I hope he serves time for this cover-up!
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To you? That should be awarded "joke of the day" lol. No, it's called staying on topic. I know that's hard for someone with ADD.
The last gasp of Willie Horton politics.
Hey tony,
In my opinion it IS on topic....You libtards come in and feign concern for harry reidtard, YET none of you show concern for the 4 lives lost in Benghazi.
Your Liar in Chief meanwhile is on a dead run trying to keep the cover-up under wraps until the election is over.
What a bunch of hypocrites you are!
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George Bush Jr. covered up the murder of 3000 plus civilians.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/26/14727960-obama-campaign-romney-momentum-narrative-not-grounded-in-fact?threadId=3598506&commentId=71481454#c71481454
Not going to repost...read if you want to. Was addressed to nojoe on the previous topic...
Hey, Ticked? Speaking of hypocrisy- where were you when President Cheney and his mouthpiece George Shrub knowingly and repeatedly lied to Congress, to our allies, and to all of us about why they were so mad for a war in Iraq?
Where were you when 5,000+ coffins came back from Cheney's wars of choice? Did you ever say one word about the million or so Iraqi civilians who were either killed directly or died later because of hunger, disease or injuries? Have you ever said a word publicly about the thousands of American warriors who are now disabled for life, my lifelong best friend among them, so Georgie-boy could show his daddy that he's really a man?
Sir, you, of all people, have no business calling anybody a hypocrite.
dangerfield
re-read ... your argument still holds as does I am a hammer and all I see are nails syndrome.
BCWC-
Off topic I know (and we NEVER do that!) but were you serious about an impending surgical "procedure"?
One would hope not...
FoxTrotsky, this posted by another poster on Newsvine on Thursday.
I say minor you say major quad bypass on the coming 9th. 6 hours of anesthetic oblivion followed by 24 on morphine ... perchance it will be bliss, have not done shape shifting drugs since the 60's.
TTTH:
First of all, no, I actually don't blame Shrub much for the war in Iraq; it was ultimately not his decision to make. Very little that happened on his watch was. I had that silly, shallow dingbat for a Governor for six years before his brother Jeb (the sorta-kinda smart one who's never been publicly accused of multiple felonies) conspired with Karl Rove to steal the '00 election for him. The decision to go to war was made by Cheney, Wolfowitz and Abrams- that last one still privately seething over his very public humiliation in the Iran- Contra hearings and positively burning for some payback.Seriously, I wouldn't give Bush credit for any decision that required a greater exercise of the intellect than picking his favorites for the BCS (college football, for you non-sports fans). Colin Powell is far more circumspect than me- man's gotta make a living, after all- but it's pretty clear that he didn't view his Commander-in-Chief as another Teddy Roosevelt.
As for all of the Democrats being on board with the decision: uh, yeah, and your point is...? At that time, publicly supporting military action in the ME was just a cheap applause line thrown out to right-leaning audiences who were still feeling the afterglow of Desert Storm and would gladly support bloodshed and ruin anywhere in the world, as long as they could just watch it on TV and not have to actually go and fight it.
After 9/11, if your name didn't happen to be Sanders, Wellstone or Kucinich, it was political suicide to even hint that you were less than 100% supportive of military action against Saddam; I can remember Hillary making statements that were so bellicose I half expected her to turn up in war paint and a red bandanna on her forehead. Always with an eye to the future, as soon as thing started to go south, all of the usual suspects were saying, "OOH OOH! TOLD YA SO!" Because dude... that is what politicians do. Are you actually going to try to argue that this was a Democratic war because most of the (minority) party went along with a then- irresistible political tide? If so, then I assume you're prepared to take your fair and legitimate share of the blame for Viet Nam.
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012
Wow, bush had the support of the congress he lied to. What an endorsement?
Bush was in such a rush to get us to their chosen war in Iraq, he threw the weapons inspectors out of the country before they could discover there were no weapons of mass destruction. Which were never found because they didn't exist and yet were the reason for war.
How about the fact that the republicans voted to cut the budget for safety for our diplomats overseas against Hillary's protest and now want to blame President Obama for their bad judgement.
Or the fact that the republicans voted for both war and tax cuts that created the largest deficit in our history and now want you to blame the democrats for what they did to our country.
Making a woman or child who is raped carry the rapist child is the republicans neanderthal way of making children. Especially when I found out that in most states the rapist get visitation with their child.
No woman I know is stupid enough to vote to make herself into a second class citizen with voting for a republican for anything.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
Hey Uses His Hand or Mr. cut and paste. Why is it when Saddam had been removed and there were WMD's found did we stay on and fight a war against insurgents? Five years later and we were still there with no exit strategy. Who's fault is that? Certainly not all of those people in your little cut and paste response. You can run but can't hide. The Iraq war lays completely on the Bush administration's shoulders and as far as i'm concerned, there are about twenty individuals that need to be investigated and possibly brought up on charges for war crimes and treason.
quad bypass on the coming 9th.
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Noting the date. You'll be in my thoughts...
dangerfield
Well,
NOBODY-
Knows!
Reid wasn't even hurt. The hospital trip was a cautionary one only. My God you liberal drama queens. Get a life. He left the hospital three hours after the crash. Really, speedy recovery? From what the trauma of having to go to a community hospital instead of one in DC?
You people are soooo............OMG.
Talk to the Hand: We HEARD Sen. Reid was in a car accident. We had no details at the time. Just that he was in a car accident.
Okay?
Have you voted yet Talk to the Hand? If not, please vote for President Obama. Did you know he is up in Ohio thanks to support from WHITE MALES. Obama's iead with women is double digits. Please vote for Obama, if for no other reason than to send a message to the Republican Party, they need to nominate moderates like Mitch Daniels, or Bob McConnell, or Jeb Bush, not wingnuts.
Pat, it was frigging yesterday!!! And you just heard? I suggest you look at other sources than FR for your breaking stories. Would do you good to see what the world is really like.
Amy, No I haven't voted yet and it isn't going to be for Mr. Obama. Sorry. Just don't see things the way he does and cannot.
Both of you are in my thoughts with the impending "Frankenstorm" headed your way. I do not want to miss reading your posts and having the opportunity to banter our obvious differences in opinion.
Talk, I'm surprised at you- your last to Pat and Amy was downright civil! Lord knows we could use a whole lot more of that in our politics.
If we could start viewing the people on the other side as just that- people, and not as categories or stereotypes- and realize that after a certain point, we're all on the same side- the side of a safe, peaceful and prosperous America- well, we just might be able to make some progress together!
Hey, I am totally on board with that idea. What say you? Peace!
Talk, no I didn't just hear.
I read yesterday when I was leaving work that Sen. Reid was in a car accident. It shook me up. By the time I got home, yesterday, I heard he was fine. I was relieved.
Other than that, thank you for your thoughts re: the hurricane.
I agree, too many times it comes to exchanging verbal blows and demeaning comments on others' thoughts. Do I like it? No. Do I condone it? No. Do I resort to it sometimes? Painfully yes. Some people just can't be excused with their convictions and closed mindedness. It is truly sad but it is what we have become. I welcome differing opinions from mine but when it carries "moron", "idiot", "Teabagger", "Neocon" and "Racist" with it, it is hard to take "sitting down".
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Talk to the Hand
Perhaps the righteous path to follow is to first list the sins of your team. You will find many admonitions to do so in whichever tomb of scriptures you read.
BCWC: Best luck in your upcoming surgery. As my British forebears might have put it, "Keep a stiff upper lip"- at least for as long as you're conscious.
TTTH, I have also thrown out some pretty brutal epithets- in fact, as mean and nasty as I thought I could get away with, within the limits of what we used to quaintly call "a family newspaper." Let the record show, however, that if I see a sign of humanity instead of just raw, mindless hostility on the part of my opponent, I am always ready to sheath my rhetorical sword and look for common ground, such as you and I appear to be finding.
Because that is the very bedrock of what makes us Progressives- the belief that peaceful progress is always a better choice than futile bloodshed.
I do fancy myself a bit of a brawler, a true descendant of my ancestor Teddy Roosevelt (no, really! Es verdad!), and I like to flatter myself that I'm teaching some people that "Liberal" is not a synonym for "wimp." But, again, in the words of my hero, Winston Churchill:* "Jaw-jaw is better than war-war!"
*Yeah, yeah, I know, Sir Winston was a Conservative for much of his political life.
FoxTrotsky, helluva post.
Because that is the very bedrock of what makes us Progressives- the belief that peaceful progress is always a better choice than futile bloodshed.
Beautifully stated.
Of course, Woodrow Wilson, who was the Father of the modern progressive era, was reelected on the slogan'
"He Kept Us out of War"...(Spoiler alert!)
not so much...
History is more complex and subject to generational revision. The Most quoted peacenik was the Hero of Normandy, A GENERAL who warned (and his words are as true today as when he uttered them over half a century ago)
"Beware the Military Industrial Complex"...but he said a lot more...
"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war -- as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years -- I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight."
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html
Pat Boston MA......"Talk to the Hand: We HEARD Sen. Reid was in a car accident. We had no details at the time. Just that he was in a car accident. Okay?"
Sounds like the continuing Obama Administration saga of what happened in Benghazi. Maybe Mr. Obama will hold a press conference in the Rose Garden and let the American people know the truth about his FAILED leadership.
NAH, never happen since that would make his poll rankings in EVERY AREA nose dive.
Get healthy you old fool. We want you to be fully recovered when Romney kicks you to the curb.
Glad to hear Senator Reid is on the mend and not seriously hurt. First Lady Michelle Obama is awesome and doing a spectacular job! Here's hoping that reason and real American spirit overcomes greed, racism and self interest to defeat the party of the Grumpy Obnoxious Plutocrats.
Fluff stories like this get printed while the criminal cover-up about Benghazi goes unmentioned.
And Moochele attracted a whole 1000 people? How much per person did her majesties trip cost us to fly her fat azz down there?
I would love a "fluff story" about all the people who call the First Lady "Fat azz Moochelle" and what it says about them and the future of the Republican Party. The USS Demographics has set sail.
@ Obama does not lie;
Cover up? If you truly think our POTUS and SOS are involved in a cover up over Bhengazi, you are sadly mistaken, they care about every service man and woman sincerely,to say different is just false.
They do not even know who gave the stand down order, yet you know so much to blame Obama?lol. YOu also do not mention two generals , and the SOD agreed that night, that there was not enough info to send troops in, right or wrong this is not Obamas fault. Would you as president go against the advice of two generals and your SOD. I do not think so.
Now relevancy. Michelle has been a great first lady, she is poised ,gracious, and sincere in her efforts to help the youth of America to lead a healthier lifestyle, as obesity has basically became an epidemic among children in America.
Your a real class act talking about the first lady like this. No wonder you hide your true avatar, I would be ashamed also. Like her or not it is very unAmerican to insult the first lady. I do not believe you are a true American.
coral, please open your eyes. Because you say obama cares about our servicemen does not make it true. Did you hear Mr. Woods take on this? The father of one of the deceased. Are you calling his statement false. He spoke to our dear leader and you say his statement is false. Just by saying it is false does not validate your assertion. Mrs. Clinton said they would get the movie guy, not the islamic terrorists. Maybe they like the servicemen from the other team better. The general incharge of africa was not consulted, please step back and take in some facts from someone other than Carney/Rice.
@julio;
To say an American president and SOS does not care for its service men and women is more ignorant than to say the opposite sir. They both work hard for America, and keeping our cards close to the vest is what kept some of the palyers in Bhengazi from running away sir.
Umm I never even brought Mr.Woods up sir,lol And North Korea is about 7 thousand miles that way--->>
I believe it is there you will find a "dear leader" sir.Typical trying to put words in my mouth I did not say.
Are you taking something sir? When did I say anything like this.
I do not get my info from news shows sir, I do not rehash media outlets,I form my own opinions.
Umm no sir you step back and take in some facts sir
General Ham was consulted sir, he was one of those that agreed there was not enough info to send in troops. He is in charge of Noth Africa sir.
Say it with me Julio down in the schoolyard, General Ham, General Ham.lol You see you offer your word only ,I offer my word and back it up.
Not much to say now eh Julio. Now who needs to open their eyes?
"If Mooch-elle is beautiful, I just squeezed off a masterpiece."
Funny that some Republicans even try to say their supporters aren't racist. Then one of them pops off and proves them wrong.
Hey Obama Lies, better go to the restroom and adjust your clothes, your racism is showing !
For once, can ANY one of you democrats explain to all of us just how the comments of Obama Lies is racist?
ANYONE?
I see these type of comments from everyone in these forums...so just having an opinion and expressing it in a negative way makes you a racist?
If that's true then EVERY single person on these forums is a racist!
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Racism? You Libs defiantly over use that Term, Obama is either Inept or an Enemy to the State, That statement does not make me Racist, That is just how I see it.
Yo Indie...exactly where was the racism if OL's comments? Moochele...a pun on their mooching on the American people and her weight. The Azz is self evident, much as it is on the posterior of the first lady.
Let's start with "Moochelle" and remember the song Old MacDonald had a farm ... we end up with cow and the slur that Michelle is less than fully human. Some stuff like that still resides in the 'Great Document'.
I wonder if That big ass Michelle Obama will still be Proud of this Country when we Show Her and her Inept Husband the Door this November ?
PC enough for you?
@ticked;
You are kidding yourself. Most here abide by the COH, if you do not think call Michelle ,"moochelle is not racist or derragatory you are just a lost puppy, the "moo" is short for the insultive word "mooslims" which should be Muslims. YOu defend someone who has no respect for our first lady, and hides themselves wisely to spew their insults.
You call President Obama inept and yet it was the republicans who destroyed our economy. I know Romnesia is a tough disease to fight yet you have the Internet and could know the truth if you wanted to.
President Obama has only worked to fix the messes that the republicans left, from a bad economy to wars of choice. Somehow President Obama who fixes the messes is inept but not bush who made them.
But of course being a republican you wouldn't let the truth get in the way of your hatred for our president and his beautiful wife.
As a white woman I am ashamed of my race. How on earth could you think you are better or smarter because of the color of your skin which is only .01% of your genetic material having nothing to do with the brain and only to do with the skin color.
With what Sununu said it made me want to crawl out of my skin and use some of that spray color that Romney uses to pretend I am not white. Bush based the legitimacy of his non won presidential race on Colin Powell because he was such a respected man. Now the republicans would have us believe he thinks with nothing more than the color of his skin because of the color of his skin.
VOTE FOR ALL HUMANS...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012
Americans First-
Bravo!
Sununu is quite dispicable.
Tea Party Conspiracy Monkeys have simply forgot the founding principle of America.
"That All Men Are Created Equal....."
They simply are filled with Rascism and Hatred for anyone of color.
They are the one's who are Un-American.
Salud
Thank you, my emotions come from being born into segregated Arkansas and being raised by a racist republican father.
After hearing them from my father most of my life all the racist republican dog whistles drive me crazy as I know the kind of hateful backward thinking behind them.
He even told me the aspirin joke in the 1960's only then it was a can of tomato juice in those day that you kept between your legs to keep from getting pregnant. Shameful to say that is still where the mentality of the republican party still lives. In the way past when white men were kings and to never be questioned.
Funny it just hit me that it has been Romney's whole campaign about not releasing his tax returns, I am white you can trust me. I am white, people know where I was born, right here. Unlike President Obama who has released several birth certificates and 10 more years of tax returns than Romney, just where are those college grades and passport applications, we want to vet you?
Harry Reid FIRED ME UP when he asked mitt for his tax returns(and said a reliable source had said mitt paid nothing) right before the Senate went on summer recess! Harry the old boxer punched mitt right in the jaw with that one comment. He was and is a one man wrecking ball when it comes to the mitt! I know Harry will box his way out of this accident and he will keep boxing away for the middle class. Obama/Biden 2012 Vulture/crying 1040's???????????
If Harry Reid's insecurity detail had obeyed the traffic laws he would have made his appearance. Bulldozing through freeway traffic meant he spent that time in the emergency room. Who doubts he jumped the line there too.
What a total asinine statement-Really,that's all you got !!!!
I figure Harry actually caused the accident. He had a reaction to Viagra, and rear ended the car in front . Similar to his plans for America....
Just another RWNJ 'bulldozing' their way through facebook and twitter for intel and calling it factual. But we really shouldn't expect anything differently from the vapid followers of the Right, after all, their leader Romney uses the same methods to get their intel, like the whopper that Chrysler is relocating assembly lines to China.
Wow it sure seems to be that to be a republican you have to hate your fellow man. All that the republicans for years now has been spewing hate.
Just the fact that twice as many republicans today think President Obama is a Muslim than four years ago shows just how much hate and lies the republicans spew.
Almost daily some ignorant republicans comes on here and tells us that all democrats are living on the government dole and that is the only reason we are voting for democrat. The republicans tell us we need to run out and get our food stamps or welfare checks or get out of our mother's basement because that is a lie they have been told over and over.
A democrat is just like you, we work, we pay taxes, we own our home, drive a car, have computers to state our views. The only difference is that we care about our fellow man and are not willing to destroy America to pay for more tax cuts for Romney and his rich campaign donors.
Can't forget we think women are smart enough to decide for herself about her own body and don't need men in government forcing unnecessary vaginal probes on women to satisfy the religious wackos who now seem to run the republican party.
Then the republicans reply "what war on women, we are just trying to take your rights away and there is only a war if women fight it".
Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Janis Lane (leader of the Central Mississippi Tea Party) have all stated that women shouldn't be allowed to vote. I don't hate Republicans; I hate that they are doing nothing to reform their party and rein these hate-mongers in. These nitwits are the ones talking the loudest (along with the worst of the Republican trolls on here), and lately, they're the only ones we're hearing.
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.... SHAME SHAME SHAME COULTER ..... and yet another Republican racist against down syndrome ... he blasted her and gave her what she deserved .... SHAME ON COULTER .... SHAME ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ... WHO ELSE THEY GONNA INSULT .... so far, 47%, women, blacks, hispanic, veterans, elderly, hardworking middle class, ..... but getting put in your place by a down syndrome child of god takes the cake .... Coulter needs to go hide ... and takes romney, ryan, mourdock, akin with her ................................................................................................................
A Special Olympian with Down Syndrome castigated right-wing flamethrower Ann Coulter for calling President Obama a 'retard' after the final presidential debate.
A Special Olympics athlete with Down syndrome has shamed conservative pundit Ann Coulter in an open letter after she called President Obama a “retard” this week.
“Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren't dumb and you aren't shallow,” wrote John Franklin Stephens in a blog post. “So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?”
Stephens, 30, told Coulter that he has “struggled with the public's perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow.”
“I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night.”
Coulter used the offensive term when commenting about the final presidential debate on Twitter.
“I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard,” Coulter wrote Monday night.
Will Schermerhorn/Special Olympics, INC
John Franklin Stephens is a Special Olympics athlete.
Despite widespread outrage about the tweet, Coulter doubled down on her word choice on Tuesday.
“If he's ‘the smartest guy in the room’ it must be one retarded room,” she wrote about Obama.
In his open letter, Stephens wondered whether Coulter had used the word to suggest that President Obama was “bullied as a child by people like you” or that he “has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says.”
“After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me,” he wrote. “You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV.”
“Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor,” he said.
Stephens invited Coulter to attend the Special Olympics, challenging her to “walk away with your heart unchanged.”
Coulter has not yet publicly responded to the open letter, which Stephens signed “a friend you haven’t made yet.”
The conservative commentator has a long history of using inflammatory and offensive language.
Her latest insensitive remark comes just weeks after she was criticized for joking that national “coming out” day would be followed by national “disown your son” day.
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I can't remember who but when someone in the democratic party used that term, Palin became unglued due to her new son.
I wonder where is Palin's outrage now?
With most people who have already blogged and commented on here, there's no way of pursuading who your going to vote for and I don't intend to sway you either or party. One thing I will tell you ALL about is what I've seen during the last 10 yrs of Presidents and Congress.
First former Pres. Bush (Jr.) put 2 wars on America's credit card, that wasn't started by Pres. Obama. Former Pres. Bush (Jr.) created the program known as TARP, not Pres. Obama. America's Big 3 automakers were going downhill in 2006, under Bush (Jr.), and received TARP money in 2008-09 under Obama. Most of America's huge financial institutions in banks and lenders were going downhill in 2006-07 under Bush (Jr.) and received TARP money under Obama.
If Pres. Obama HADN'T loaned out taxpayer money to our automakers, banks, and lenders, where do you think our American economy would be at today? Unemployment would still be hanging above 11% nationally, probably closer to 15% nationally. We wouldn't have a $16 trillion dollar deficit, but at the same time America would have over 12 million workers still unemployed. That's only if Obama hadn't loaned out TARP money to the automakers. It's not just the Detriot factory workers up there, its all the other plants around the country including the ones overseas, Mexico, and Canada that would all be affected.
Not to mention the other millions of jobs through suppliers, auto parts companies, the automaker's spin-off affiliate companies, they would have ALL been affected if Obama hadn't loaned taxpayer money. GM and Chrysler would cease to exist today and Ford would be the last to stand and can jack up their prices on everything with a Ford emblem. So take a typical 2012 Ford car as example. Say brand new, will cost the new owner $30k, now say Ford was the last American automaker to stand, no more GM or Chrysler. Ford, being the only automaker can jack up their prices for everything they have since now they are in a monopolistic market. Now that typical 2012 car from Ford is going to cost you $40-60k.
When it comes to banks and lenders. Many have fallen, many have withstood the crash of 2008. When 1 bank falls, another bank or the govt has to step in and buy out that fallen company, otherwise your going to have those bank's customers in lim'bo not knowing about their money. So everytime a bank or lender fell and another bank or lender took over, they also took over that bank or lender's debts, which increased that bank or lender's debts. Example; if US Bank had $10 million in debt and say Wells Fargo went bankrupt and had debts of $30 million, the gov't would ask US Bank to step in and buyout Wells Fargo. So now US Bank has a total of $40 million in debts.
Let's just say that Pres. Obama hadn't loaned out any TARP money to ANY banks or lenders. Fannie and Freddie would be gone. AIG gone. Wells Fargo would have stuck around for a few more yrs, but they would be teedering over the edge of bankruptcy. We would have witnessed about 20 of America's largest banks and lenders go bye-bye, along with all their workers' jobs too. So now the gov't would have all this defaulted/bankrupt debt in the trillions already and they would have to try and find a way to spread it around to other banks and lenders or countries who are able to afford the acceptance of the debt.
If 20 of the largest banks and lenders in America went bankrupt and their trillions of debt that they accrued, now this debt solely belongs to that bank or lender, IT IS NOT America's debt to anyone, were to be spread around to others to take possession of, the other banks CAN charge their customer's extras in fees for anything they want. The FDIC would approve of these changes and soon the financial market would slowly turn monopolistic as well since the BIG BOY PLAYERS are nomore. It would be even harder, if not nearly impossible for people to obtain a loan for anything.
The one KEY difference between Obama and Romney is that Romney came out and told the crowd he would have NOT stepped in with TARP money to save anybody. Let'em fall. So now Romney would have created his own trillion dollar deficit by letting companies go bankrupt and millions of jobs lost while all he had to do was loan out taxpayer money. Without those TARP loans 3.5 yrs ago, we would be nowhere today fast or better. It would take us the next 30 years to get America back to the promising days of the 90's if TARP money was never used.
I know that Obama hasn't been able to make good on his word on multiple issues. I know that most American's don't like him because he's a Democrat, he doesn't have an ordinary American name, he's black, he's this or that. Look people. You have the right to think of him however way you want, but I think of him as someone who was damned if he did, damned if he didn't. He knew that if he became President that he was probably in a lose-lose regardless. Now one thing that irritates the hell outta me about my fellow Americans is that they blame Obama for everything wrong.
A president can only do what his/her Congressional leaders present to them. Yes Obama may not have done enough to end the DC gridlock beyond his control, but our DC leaders in the Senate and House are at least 70-80% to blame for the crap mess we've been given. Congress doesn't want to work for us, the PEOPLE anymore, they want to work for themselves and for their campaign donors. If my fellow Americans want Romney in office, fine, watch and see what won't happen, but let's make a deal.
You get Romey in the WH while I want our career politicians in Congress, the ones with 30+ years in office rid of. They are the real crooks not Obama. They only work for themselves. They preach, promise, and campaign to the voters promising this and that, and when they get re-elected back to DC...its to their own benefit not yours. All those promises and preaching, there only words to these people and don't mean anything to them. Funny how Obama has a better approval rating today that this Congress has huh...? Gee I wonder why?
For Romney, a guy that I have YET to hear of any plan or course of action as to how he's going to do this or that beyond his "5 point plan," he is sure full of himself. If many of my fellow Amercians believe that Romney can get both parties to cooperate better than Obama has, WHY is that? Why can't Congress work better with Obama right now? Why does House Majority Leader John Boehner insist on doing nothing until after the election? Why can't he work with Obama right now and avoid all this standing around waiting bulls**t? Why does he want Romney besides the man being a Republican?
ALOT of unanswered questions still linger and keep us Americans puzzled. In true gov't form, we can't know in order to protect us from whatever there is to be protected from. They treat us like children that we won't be able to handle the truth, that's why deep questions will never be answered. That's why politicians stick to the script and can NEVER answer a question. They always answer a question with a question or talk about something else.
I'm voting to re-elect Pres. Obama because he's the lesser of two evil party spokesmen.
Again, a libtard/turd proving that You Just Can't Fix Stupid.
Get a job and pay some taxes.
Obamasucksonit
If I compare writing skills and the amount of thought put into both posts I am led to the conclusion that even if both of you are unemployed, only one of you is employable ... care to make a guess as to which one?
Must be the one employed.
Get a job and pay some taxes. I hear it's a miracle cure for the dreaded disease libtardism.
Work is not so bad. Republicans do it all the time.
Look at the polls. You're going to need a job in about 10 days.
You have heard the lie so often you are here repeating it.
Republicans need to get over themselves as if they think they are the only one working and paying taxes.
I think that the people in Ohio who are working because of President Obama is the reason they are voting for him. But hey it makes you look so much more intelligent when you bold face lie.
I get weekends off, sitting in my own house and it is raining outside so I think I will just stay here for a while and refute your lies.
If Mooch-elle is beautiful, I just squeezed off a masterpiece.
This crap is news? How about the new reports out of Benghazi? No importance there, right msnbc.
msnbc are the stenographers of the Obama campaign. The National Enquirer of network "news".
You will go down with him, for the POS potus is going down hard and you all know it. Isn't it lovely?
The Moron Is Toast.
Jimmy Carter now comes in black!
Don't worry.In the end.Obama can't run and hide forever.
You mean like your last conspiracy theory that was proven wrong about fast and furious.
For months and months republicans have been whining about that cover-up and then we find out after they have been shooting their mouths off they have no actual bullets. It was proven Holden and President Obama had no prior knowledge therefore had nothing to cover up.
But go ahead you just run with the lastest unproven hateful republican lie.
To all the people in the path of Sandy,Good luck and God's Speed! NOW back to the President's continual lie about Behghazi and everything else that comes out of his mouth.Someone needs to ask Obama why he lied? It's terrible to think 4 Americans were sacrificed for the Arab Spring.
What did Romney say about Jeep Chrysler ... what did Jeep Chrysler say about Romney?
Ooooomigod, this Benghazi stuff, over and over and friggin' over. You don't think that if Romney had a leg to stand on with this, he wouldn't be exploiting the hell out of it?
I just heard Obama is claiming Pearl Harbor was a Japanese training exercise.
Your Explanation of the Tragic Mistake you are about make Voting for a man that has Circumvented Laws in this Country, Lied and has used Executive Privilege to hide the Truth from the American people is moot point with your Reasoning so in fact you are unpatriotic and inept?
You want to vote for a man who is totally not vetted who is hiding his tax returns from the people.
You want to vote for a man whose company he owns stock in today is moving jobs to China today. Did you see him try and stop his own company from moving jobs to China? Or did you see him telling lies about another company using the republicans tried and true scare tactics?
You want to vote for a man who supports senate members that thinks that if you are raped and get pregnant, you as a woman should be forced to carry that child to term and in most states give visitation to the rapist father.
So now you think I am unpatriotic if I don't buy into the republican conspiracy lies you are trying to spew here?
guess the main stream media are still having a blackout on the lybia story:
Sen. John McCain, one of the leading critics of the Obama administration's handling of last month's terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, accused the Pentagon on Friday of not having enough military reinforcements in place to respond to such an attack.
"After three weeks of investigation we have concluded that there was no way that the military could have intervened because they were not ready," McCain, the Arizona Republican, told Fox News. "They were not prepared and there was no alert of any kind that would have enabled them to reach a state of readiness that they could not have intervened."
McCain's comments come as sources tell Fox News that CIA operatives twice asked for permission to help Ambassador Chris Stevens and his staff and were told to 'stand down' — while a later request for military backup was denied. Stevens and three other Americans died in the attack on Sept. 11.
A senior defense official at the Pentagon immediately pushed back against McCain's criticisms, saying his claims "would just be wrong."
The Pentagon says assets were ready but "there were never any requests to deploy assets from outside the country," another senior defense official told Fox News.
The officials, echoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's comments Thursday, said that even if military reinforcements could have gotten there in time, there was not a clear enough intelligence picture to do that.
But McCain's office defended the senator's statements.
"Based on documents provided to Senator McCain's staff by the Joint Chiefs that provide a detailed lay down and readiness status of U.S. forces ... as well as follow-up conversations with senior DOD and military officials, it is clear that there were no forces in the region on a high-enough alert status that could have arrived in Benghazi before the fight ended," a statement from the office said.
McCain has asked that these documents, and video taken from a drone flying over the diplomatic compound, be declassified. There have been no responses to that request yet.
"I find it astounding," McCain told Fox News. "I find it a lack of leadership, a lack of understanding, either before or during this attack."
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There should have been a helicopter, pilot and more security in the area to safely remove our people. There looked like there was plenty of area to park a chopper. There should have at least been an armored personnel carrier left on location. The loss of the lives with all of the early warnings would have been cause for at least a minimal evacuation plan.
All embassies should have a minimum of an armored personnel carrier on location just in case of terrorist attacks. It does not matter in what country. While it may be the responsibility of the host country to provide security, it is up to the United States to ensure that there is plenty of safety and security, in the long run.
Do all people just automatically depend upon a doctor's opinion, or do they get a second opinion? We are all responsible for our own health and safety. The 4 people in warned ahead in the week that there was danger coming. Who was responsible for ensuring their safety? The state department and Mr. President Obama. Who kept giving out a wrong diagnoses for 2 weeks that caused the loss of life? The same people. I just do not trust them.
Romney / Ryan 2012 Please go vote.
Too bad the republican voted to lower funding for security against Hillary's objections and now want to blame the President for what they did.
Just like the deficit they want you to forget that Ryan voted to create the deficit and want you to blame President Obama for Ryan's vote and ensuing mess the republicans created with our economy.
Yes and do pretend that the war of choice in Iraq that the republicans lied us too and over 4000 Americans died was nothing. Yeah, lets puts those trusted by you people back in charge because of a horrible event in Benghazi and the republicans ensuing conspiracy theories.
Wasn't that a whopper that Romney told about Jeep factories? That is who you trust?
Barbara Walters to Donald Trump: Stop making a FOOL of yourself
Oct. 25, 2012, 2:01 PM EST
Entertainment Tonight
Barbara Walters has joined the chorus of criticism of Donald Trump after the billionaire's "big announcement" he promised could change the presidential election fizzled out on Wednesday.
Speaking on her show "The View," Walters bluntly made her point despite saying that Trump remains her friend and is "a brilliant businessman and fascinating personality."
"Donald, you're making a fool of yourself," she said, getting heavy applause from the audience. She added, "You're not hurting Obama, you're hurting Donald, and that hurts me because you're a decent man. Stop it. Get off it, Donald."
On Wednesday, the 66-year-old real estate magnate, who has long attempted to prove that Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii, offered President Barack Obama $5 million for the charity of his choice if he agreed to release his college records and certain passport information. The offer was widely seen as a huge publicity stunt with no impact on the presidential race between Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.
On Thursday, Trump tweeted a response to Walters. "Barbara, unfortunately you've missed the entire point of my announcement -- you just don't get it!" He also predicted Walters would eventually "apologize to me just like she did when I was right about @Rosie. Besides, I get great ratings on 'The View.'"
TRUMP BACKING MITT DA TWIT SHOULD PROVE TO EVERYONE - THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH 2 MEN ....
OBAMA 2012
Yeah, BaBa WaWa is the definition of fool.
Look up fool in Webster's. Her picture is there.
Obama should just prove he is a fool and give $5mm to a deserving charity.
Right? If not why?
That as impossible as telling Romney to quit lying. It'll never happen.
Or telling Obama to do something good for America. It'll never happen.
@Obamarocksonit;
Do you have anything valid to say, something insightfull,or positive about your candidate?You just seem to be lobbing one liner insults on Obama, and trolling along. We get the fact you do not like Obama. Please without writing a diatribe(I wont read it),could you just give me couple of examples why you despise Obama so much?
Blue-Barbara Walters to Donald Trump: Stop making a FOOL of yourself
I'm still waiting to hear if Trump accept's Colbert's 1M offer,lol.
Or,if Romney accept's Frank Rich's 10M offer,to donate that much to Romney's favorite charity if he releases his tax returns. What you hiding in there Romney. Inquiring minds want to know.
OS-Or telling Obama to do something good for America. It'll never happen.
How about him giving you a one way ticket to Gitmo. That would be good for these boards,and America.
When Mitt Romney chose not to directly engage President Obama on Libya in last Monday’s third presidential debate, the mainstream media wrote it off as over-caution on the Republican challenger’s part.
That might be true. Certainly a lot of Republicans think so.
But what is the mainstream media’s excuse for cautiously engaging the president on Libya? Aren’t we supposed to be watchdogs? The ongoing story is story focused on whether the Obama administration provided, or refused to provide, adequate protection for the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya when it faced the threat of attack on Sept. 11. The attack left the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead. Subsequent conflicting accounts coming from the administration on how the White House responded, or didn’t respond, are tailor-made for a full-blown media feeding frenzy.
Yet, the so-called media watchdogs so far have been mostly toothless.
Case in point: On Friday, FoxNews.com reported that it “learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA chain of command... -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.”
That’s a very chilling story. And if correct, it could be very damaging to the President Obama’s re-election chances. But looking at the websites Friday of other major news outlets, the story is mostly ignored.
It was not picked up or reported by The New York Times. The Washington Post didn’t cover it either. Same for USA Today. Neither did NBC, CBS, CNN or ABC.
CNN had a link on its Website front page to a story that says “doubts surface” on whether claims of responsibility for the Benghazi attacks was the work of terrorists. The story mostly supports administration accounts and refutes Republican critics such as Sen. John McCain, (R-Ariz.)
NBC’s only Friday story on Libya said in its headline. “Libya Disappears from Romney Stump Speeches.”
CBS’s latest story on Libya had House Speaker John Boehner asking Obama for “answers” about the attacks.
On Thursday, the major media were loaded with stories and videos in which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta defended the administration saying that the US military did not respond to the attack because in did not have adequate “real-time information” to put American forces at risk. Not much follow-up on that.
Also on Thursday, NBC’s Brian Williams interviewed Obama on “Rock Center” asking him what can only be described as a “softball” question on Libya: "Have you been happy with the intelligence, especially in our post 9/11 world? The assessment of your intelligence community, as we stand here, is that it still was a spontaneous terrorist attack and were you happy with what you were able to learn as this unfolded?"
A tougher question might have been, “Why have the administration's explanations of what really happened, and how you responded, been all over the map?”
So what’s going on here? Are the media just protecting Obama at a critical time in this election campaign, or are they just not following the latest CIA story because they would have to give credit to Fox News?
Whatever the reason, it is not good watchdog journalism.
This article is part of our ongoing series of "bias alerts" which focuses on calling out bias in the media. For additional bias alerts click here.
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OK, everyone I live in Vegas. Here's some news for you. Senator Reid's entourage caused the accident. After his security staff insisted that he go to the nearest hospital ER. They closed it down to everyone who later wanted to get it. In other words turned away legitimate injuriesfor security reasons. I don't care who you are, that's inappropriate.
Another news flash, Senator Reid is fine, I wish no harm to anyone, I'm glad no one was injured.
Senator Reid is also LDS (Mormon), so don't complain that Mitt Romney is. (Side note I'm LDS and I don't plan on voting for Romney) I also don't plan on voting for Reid next election. He barely won against a nobody last time. He's on his way out.
Didn't Senator Reid win by 6%? I remember that race very well because everyone in the media assumed he was going to lose. I couldn't believe it, particularly considering who he was running against.
The polls got it wrong. They were way way off.
too bad about reid but at least i was hoping that he would not be able to serve anymore......if you call what he does serving.......and moochelle??........what a bitch......yuck
President Obama has declined to answer directly whether a CIA annex was denied urgent requests for military assistance during the deadly attacks last month on U.S. outposts in Libya.
The president said neither yes or no Friday when asked pointedly whether the Americans under attack in Benghazi, Libya, were denied requests for help during the attack.
Fox News has learned from sources on the ground during the Sept. 11 attacks that the CIA chain of command twice told agency operatives to “stand down.”
“The election has nothing to do with the four brave Americans getting killed and us wanting to find out exactly what happened,” the president said first in a TV interview with an NBC affiliate in Colorado.
When asked again, Obama said, “The minute I found out what was going on, I gave three very clear directives -- Number 1, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to,” the president said in a TV interviews with an NBC affiliate in Colorado.
The first attack occurred at the American consulate in Benghazi, killing U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and U.S. diplomat Sean Smith.
Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team that was at the CIA annex about a mile from the consulate when it came under attack. Upon hearing shots fired, team members asked higher-ups at the annex if they could go the consulate. However, they were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange.
Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and went to the consulate, evacuating survivors and Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack.
They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight. At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. Woods and fellow former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty were killed at the annex by a mortar shell at 4 a.m.
The CIA and Defense Department have denied claims about requests for support being rejected.
"The agency reacted quickly to aid our colleagues during that terrible evening in Benghazi," said CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood. "Moreover, no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need. Claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate.”
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said there was not a clear enough picture of what was occurring on the ground in Benghazi to send help.
"There's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here," he said Thursday. "But the basic principle here ... is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on."
Obama also said in the TV interview, as he said previously said, the administration is going to “investigate what happened to make sure it never happens again” and find out who was involved in the attack so they can be brought to justice.
“I guarantee you that everybody in the State Department, our military, CIA, you name it, have a No.1 priority making sure that people are safe. These are our folks. And we're going to find out exactly what happened but what we're also going to do is make sure that we are identify those who carried out these terrible attacks,” the president said.
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The POS potus is going to investigate it right AFTER the election. And monkeys are flying out of my butt.
Thats gotta hurt! Hope they're small monkeys!
Mitt Romney Tells 26,000 Americans They Didn’t Die
When he appeared on 60 Minutes in September, Mitt Romney shocked many Americans when he claimed that Americans do not die for a lack of insurance. “Well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance. If someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and die.”
Actually, at least 26,000 Americans die every year for lack of insurance, according to a study by the advocacy group Families USA. That number is up from a 2000 study that showed about 18,000 uninsured Americans die every year. Another study from Harvard University suggested that as many as 45,000 Americans die for a lack of health insurance a year.
Now Romney—who is echoing George W. Bush’s claim that all Americans do have access to health care in an emergency room—has doubled down on these comments. Wednesday, he made the same claim to the Columbus Dispatch:
Romney is referencing a law signed by Ronald Reagan that mandates that no hospital emergency room can turn away someone because they cannot pay. Of course, you can’t get dialysis or chemotherapy in an emergency room. And the law is only as strong as the president’s willingness to enforce it.
Romney’s brazen willingness to disregard the tens of thousands of Americans who die every year because they can’t afford care is quite minor compared to his pledges to repeal Obamacare and shrink Medicaid. All in all, this could increase the number of uninsured Americans by more than 50 million.
Romney has also said that idea of “free riders” getting care without coverage was one of the impetuses for Romneycare—the health care plan he passed as governor of Massachusetts and became the model for Obamacare.
In his recent comments, Romney is sounding nothing like the man who created the first nearly universal health care system in America and more like Sharron Angle, the former Tea Party Republican Senate candidate in Nevada, who often claimed that there was nothing wrong with our health care system.
Actually, he's wrong. When people do not pay their Emergency Room bill, no one magically 'picks up the tab' if they cannot pay. The hospital eats the cost and the person's life is destroyed as it becomes a nightmare of constant harassment from the collection agencies that buy the debt from the hospital when the hospital gives up on it. Their credit rating is obliterated. Because employers now look at credit rating, it destroys their chances of ever getting a decent job again. Having a low credit rating is now nearly as damaging to the temp agencies that companies now outsource their HR responsilibilities to than having a felony conviction. Lack of insurance doesn't just kill people. It destroys the lives of the people who actually do do what he suggests and just go to the emergency room.
Mitt needs to at least occasionally do a little research.
I'm thinking back to the 70's and 80's, trying to remember if Democrats have ever attacked any of the Republican first ladies the way that Republicans have viciously attacked the last two Democratic ones. If I recall, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Laura Bush were all sort of universally beloved by the American people.
We just live in dark times that are getting worse by the year.
Oh right, the libtards were so kind to Nancy, Barbara and Laura? Typical libtard/turd hypocrite.
Because they didn't feel so high and mighty as to tell our kids what to eat. Her "thighness" thinks it is her business. After all, her hubby is the king. LMAO.
You're apparently about 14 or 15 and have been raised by Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Uncle Sean Hannity. I forgive you for not remembering.
Really? Telling kids to lay off the Doritos and Code Reds every once is awhile is now somehow worthy of condemnation?
Wow. What utter p.o.s. scumbags you people are.
At least I do not have a POS as my messiah. And you libtards say Romney's religion is weird.
Who would worship a POS besides a libtard/turd?
Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews included.
Well Michael, if you indeed live in Charlotte, you know the "free breakfast" for those less fortunate in the CharMeck school system requires that the kids take everything on the menu. For instance, the school where my wife is a teacher assistant at charges the kids for the breakfast if they don't take the string cheese as part of the menu whether they eat it or not (and most don't). $1.50 goes on the account because they don't want to eat string cheese as part of the requirement for breakfast. Nice plan that GovCo diet eh?
Michael Thompson, Charlotte, NC
I believe that is what parents are supposed to teach their children. I taught my daughter the correct foods to eat and that she should take care of her body. She prefers the freedom of choice, but since she has been properly raised, she eats correctly and occasionally splurges on a bag of Doritos. She ate breakfast at home along with a proper dinner. Are the parents there failing in their responsibilities?
Michael in Charlotte (I live about 2 hours E of you): appreciate your posts . . .
I have been voting for 40+ years. I have NEVER seen anything like these comments! I can't even say how strongly I despised Bush II (although I had some respect for his father). I don't remember EVER seeing/saying/thinking anything nasty about their wives, or these other truly hateful remarks . . . .
"Moo-shell"???
"lib-tard/turd"
"ObamaSuckOnIt"???
FR should give us other options besides "inflammatory," "no value" and "advertising" . . .
how about "nasty," "disgusting" "hateful" and "spamming"???
. . . . VOTERS & POSTERS: STOP THE HATING: IT DOES NOT CHANGE PEOPLE'S MINDS OR VOTES!
O & JOE - for decency & integrity!!!
So who is your messiah obamasucksonit?
Reagan got his advise from Nancy who in turn got her advies from her astrology...
Santorum’s Racist Welfare Rant: ‘I Don’t Want To Make Black People’s Lives Better’ With Taxpayer Money
By Marie Diamond on Jan 3, 2012 at 1:10 pm
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum has been trying to pull off an upset in the Iowa caucus, but he’s drawing criticism ahead of tonight’s contest for racially charged remarks he recently made about welfare recipients:
It’s hard to say which part of the story is stranger — that Santorum spontaneously derided poor black people in response to a question about foreign money or his explanation of why he did it.
When asked about the comments in a CBS interview, Santorum bizarrely referenced a documentary about the education achievement gap, Waiting for Superman, to explain the context. “Yesterday I talked for example about a movie called, um, what was it? ‘Waiting for Superman,’ which was about black children and so I don’t know whether it was in response and I was talking about that,” he said. The movie actually portrays students of several races.
There had originally been some confusion about whether Santorum actually said the word “black,” which he appeared to clear up in the CBS interview by acknowledging that was in fact the statement he made. (The candidate seemed to think better of his words mid-sentence, so the line comes across garbled.)
CBS points out that only nine percent of Iowans on food stamps are black — and 84 percent are white. Nationally, 39 percent of welfare recipients are white, 37 percent are black, and 17 percent are Hispanic. So Santorum’s decision to single out black welfare recipients plays right into insulting — and inaccurate — stereotypes of the kind of people some voters might expect to want a “handout.”
Attacking families who receive government aid has been a theme among many of the Republican candidates. In nearly every speech, Newt Gingrich accuses President Obama of being a “food stamp president” and even said “really poor children” have bad work habits and no knowledge of how to make an income “unless it’s illegal.”
REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE RACIST .......... OBAMA 2012
When you go to vote, remember...BENGHAZI.
Remember the lives lost in Benghazi and WHY.
Is this the leadership the AMERICAN people want.
Romney/Ryan 2012