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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has adamantly insisted that presidential politics are the furthest thing from his thoughts during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, though that hasn’t stopped some from filtering his praise for President Barack Obama through a political prism.
The pugnacious New Jersey governor, who supports Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney over Obama this fall (and delivered the keynote address at Romney’s nominating convention), has heaped effusive praise on Obama’s handling of Hurricane Sandy, the massive superstorm to wreak havoc in the northeast, and especially the Jersey Shore.
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President Barack Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie talk with survivors of Hurricane Sandy in a community center while touring damaged areas in Brigantine, New Jersey, October 31, 2012.
“I want to thank the president for coming here today. It's really important to have the president of the United States acknowledge all the suffering that's going on here in New Jersey and I appreciate it very much,” Christie said this afternoon as he and Obama toured the devastation. “We're going to work together to make sure we get ourselves through this crisis and get everything back to normal.”
Obama was similarly complimentary, telling people at the Brigantine community center that Christie, who is up for re-election next year in deep-blue New Jersey, “is working overtime to make sure that as soon as possible everybody can get back to normal.”
The two appeared together, along with the New Jersey congressional delegation, following their tours to give similar remarks on camera.
Mitt Romney has continued to push full-speed ahead with his campaign in the battleground state of Florida this morning. The president's campaign team is charting the political course ahead while he tours some of the worst damage in New Jersey. Jen Psaki, Obama traveling press secretary, discusses.
The mutual praise is an outgrowth of both leaders’ handling of a natural disaster, but it coincides with a crucial juncture in the presidential campaign, with just days to go until Election Day. Obama is trying to preserve an advantage in swing states as Romney barnstorms the country in an effort to subsume the incumbent president.
Christie rebuffed suggestions on Tuesday that there were political implications to his work with the administration.
"I've got 2.4 million people out of power. I've got devastation on the shore. I've got floods in the northern part of my state,” he said on Fox News. “If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics then you don't know me."
And the Romney campaign gave Christie a pass for his work with Obama on Wednesday, dismissing a question about whether the GOP nominee was annoyed by the New Jersey governor’s praise for the president.
“Gov. Christie's doing his job. He's the governor of the state that's been hit by a very, very horrific storm,” Romney adviser Russ Schriefer said in a conference call with reporters. “He's doing exactly what he's supposed to be doing as governor of New Jersey. And the president is doing what he needs to be doing as president.”
That won’t necessarily stop observers from searching for political implications in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, especially so close to Nov. 6.
“I am hesitant to kind of make political calculations about the impact of an event that resulted in the deaths of 50 people and the loss of $50 billion in property,” senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said on a separate conference call this morning. “This was a disaster of huge proportions, and the president is doing what his responsibilities require -- and that includes going to New Jersey, as is what he's done in the case of every major disaster during the course of his presidency, to offer the support of the people of our country, to tour the scene himself, to speak firsthand with the first responder and the elected officials at the scene.”
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
Obama will return to the campaign trail on Thursday after canceling three days’ worth of political events. And Romney on Wednesday was mostly tentative in attacking Obama, opting instead for a softer tone and words of encouragement for recovery efforts in the northeast.
Axelrod suggested that the storm essentially washed out several days of campaigning, during which point there was no movement in the jockeying between Romney and the president.
“Wherever you think this race is, it tended to freeze the race because people are focused on the storm,” he said. “That's what's been in the news; normally the election would have been in the news. So I think it's fair to say that that is the case.”
But as a series of polls suggest Romney is trailing in some battleground states, those days might also be crucial opportunities lost.
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What kind of profit margins does Mittwit have in mind for privatized disaster relief?
He'd have to meet with the other investors...
So when a whole state is wiped out by a natural disaster, how exactly is that wiped out state supposed to handle command and control for its own relief efforts Mr. Romney?
Ed, I asked the same question. It's like telling a critically ill person to be their own doctor.
It's called readiness. The policies and procedures would be in place and emergency communication would be first and foremost. Need I remind all of you libs once again, FEMA is nothing but a figurehead and concentration point for a lot of private contractors coming to help. Not to mention the inflated dollars they receive for being on the ready to respond.
I see that Barack Obama dressed up like a president for Halloween. Even had the same old "I am on your side" quotes for the 1%'ers that live on the coast he toured with Governor Christie. "No red tape, No beaurocracy and I have ordered a 15 minute rule that no call from states, counties, or cities will go unanswered for more than 15 minutes". And Romney is the only one still playing politics? He has said the same thing no less than four times over the last two days when in front of a camera. Almost like he had a teleprompter. I can see him on AF1 repeating it over and over and over so he wouldn't forget.
I would really like to see the results of records on those not over 15 minutes calls after this is over. Typical liberal, because I dream, say, believe, it will be so. What a maroon (misspelling on purpose). If you buy it people and think it will be so, well, good luck. They may get call backs but it will be of a "form letter" type to assure them that he is "on it".
Where were those "no calls will go unanswered" mandates for Benghazi? Oh that's right, they got their response. "Stand down."
And like I said before, this is not the first natural disaster the president has had to deal with. Last year republicans tried to hold up relief efforts with upfront offsets for emergency spending. I suppose that is preferable to you. Or how about Bush's response to Katrina? Let's just turn all relief efforts around at the state line. It's hardly the first time president Obama has acted presidential. Bush couldn't pull it off once in 8 years.
But hey, Bush was good on that MegaPhone at ground zero after he let the terrorists hit us on 9/11.
Bet it reminded him of his cheerleader days.
And you have the nerve to call yourself BrainCandy? Is that a code word for LSD? You are hallucinatory.
I've been thinking about how badly W would have screwed up this storm disaster by now and seeing as how Romney is hiring every Bush employee he can find, particularly in foreign affairs and economics, I'm waiting for him to announce that he's going to hire Brownie to take over FEMA again.
W would still be sitting on his ass congratulating everyone for doing a great job two days after the disaster.....
Hey owen, short memory huh? The reason for Katrina slow response was the fact that the mayor of NO and the Governor of the state failed to follow protocol for ASKING for intervention and help (and did WAY too late). Both Democrats, they felt they had the best solution and could handle it. Next talking point please.
And there were WMD's in Iraq, right?
"I'm goin on vacation to Texas for the month of Sept. 2011, I'll let you know later when I plan to come back, see ya!"
Mushroom clouds. Aluminum reactor tubes.
"He tried to kill my Daddy"
Katrina was everyones fault except W's?
Makes about as much sense as all the rest of the nonsense.
Things may have been better if the Mayor and the Governor had asked FEMA for help sooner. Also if they would have ordered a mandatory evacuation when the they were warned 2 days before Katrina hit some of those people who died may have been saved. Don't forget that the Federal Gov't can't do anything until an emergency is declared by the Local Governments.
And you see that owen has to deflect to Iraq. Typical liberal. "Aw sh!t they proved me wrong, plan B".
Oh and don't make me bring out the list of Dems who were quoted as supporting the whole WMD thing. Including your other messiah Bill Clinton as well as Madeline Allbright.
I wonder how well It's gonna work if Romney gets elected and he does away with FEMA like he said he would.
Once again he would empower the states to be ready on their own, much like they are now. They have to ask as is protocol. And once again (since you have a comprehension problem) FEMA is a figurehead for a LOT of private contractors to come together and help. On a state level, it would work much the same way. Line them up and make them committ to being ready to answer to the call. Much like a volunteer fire department exept on a much larger scale. At a state level, it would probably cost a lot less. Contractors have a tendency to charge the FEDS a hell of a lot more simply because it is..............wait for it..................the FEDS.
By the time Katrina reached NOLA, it had diminished to a Category 3 hurricane. The city rode out the storm just fine, but the decrepit levies could not handle the increased water levels of Lake Ponchartrain and the canals. As for blame, no one distinguished themselves. However, given the magnitude of the catastrophe, it's ridiculous to imply that Bush and Brownie would have been fine if only Ray Nagin had picked up the phone.
BS pk. Pure BS and I believe it went from 5 to 4 to 3 once inland. They got the warning as a cat 5 two days before. That should have been enough knowing the city was well below sea level.
And it wasn't only Nagin, the Governor should have over ruled that pompous ass and made the call. After all, NO is in Louisiana.
I wonder how well It's gonna work if Romney gets elected and he does away with FEMA like he said he would.
im in nj and the visit by the prez and governor christie was a huge lift for everyone.
I just got off another post where the pubs were telling me i should have washed off into the ocean or drunk my obama koolaid for help. I was shocked at the insensitivity and mean-spiritedness.
The thought of romney being in charge in a situation like this is frightening. President Obama has been all over this since before the storm struck, and help is pouring in from all over (which is very comforting after watching the Atlantic pouring in). The most immediate need is to get the power up again, I have friends and family stuck up in high rises with no power, no water and it's cold. There's no elevators, but even if they took the stairs they cant go out because the water surrounding them is loaded with sewage and electrical wires. The good news is the National Guard is there and is getting people out building by building. It's slow going, as it's hard for the elders to take getting down all those stairs......
I grew up in NJ. Everything that is beloved to myself and my family and lifelong friends is GONE. It is surreal. We are grateful we are alive, and understand that is the most important of all things. The governor, the president, FEMA, the National Guard, have been swift in their response. I've heard workers from power companies all over the country are coming, and we need them. Too much work to do, the more the better.
Please pray for the people who are stuck and cant get out. Please pray for those whose homes have literally disappeared from the face of the earth. On the other post, pubs told me that most of the people who lost their homes were part of the 1% and could financially rebuild....not true, hundreds of thousands of ordinary people with ordinary homes are now homeless.....their cars are gone or submerged.....the buildings their jobs are in are devastated....the kids's schools need to be repaired or rebuilt.....
I believe Christie and Obama came together to do their jobs and to help the people of NJ and the other states who are suffering. Politicize it all you want, it's what people need. We are grateful they are teamed up. For those obama haters who took the opportunity to attack me at a time like this, I say thank you for showing your true colors, romney would be proud of you. To those who have responded with kindness and compassion, thank you, truly.
I'm proud to be a dem, and confident of the leadership the President will provide for the next 4 years.
You and me both Julia!
Chis Christy has done everything but convert to Democrat. Not sure if there's room for him in the party though........
I agree....but he is a "jersey boy" first, and is proving it!
Gotta give credit to Christy, he's in there fighting for his folks. I like it.
Ahhhh and even though he is helping you still resort to the fat jokes huh owen. Disgusting. Of course, you are a liberal.
Talk To The Hand, Christy is a lard-a$$. I don't think he would dispute that himself. He's also obnoxious and insensitive. But there's nothing wrong with giving him credit for doing a good job when that's what he's doing either. Unlike republicans who will always manufacture some reason Obama is performing his duties as president other than the fact that 'he's performing his duties as president'.
Anybody else see Romney performing for the cameras at the fake food distribution photo-op?
Romney picked up a couple of cases of water and handed it to someone else.
Job well done Romney!
Reminded me of the fake pot scrubbing the Ryan did a while back. Hilarious. If you haven't seen the full video, don't miss that one. Heelarious!
But back to Romney's fake food distribution photo-op, it was supposed to be to benefit the Red Cross, but anyone who knows anything at all about the Red Cross knows that they don't want cases of bottled water, they want CASH.
The bottled water and canned food drives are for local emergencies for the most part.
In fact, giving cans of food and cases of bottled water is actually a burden for the Red Cross when they are trying to deal with a regional or national disaster.
I guess Romney hasn't ever helped out in a disaster before, if he had, he would know that.
Which is odd, because when he was Governor of Mass, there was a disaster about 3 miles from his house, but he didn't even drop by.
Get off it owen. You are discredited. As for you Brainlacking, I love Christie. He isn't obnoxious and insensitive. He tells it like it is and most people don't want to hear it. It gives them a wake up call they don't think they need when indeed if they would listen, they really do. But you don't have to make the fat jokes, demean the man when it seems suitable and you DON'T need him to be a leader, and then turn around in the same paragraph and deem him a saint. That in itself is hypocritical at its lowest form. You like what he is doing or you don't. He has the state's best interest in mind every minute of every day from what I see and you can't pick and choose and support one day and disrespect the next. He has shown his integrity from the very beginning. Some just can't take the truth.
He looks good in a disaster and he gives good speech but he hasn't been a very good governor.
I wonder how well It's gonna work if Romney gets elected and he does away with FEMA like he said he would.
What do you think?
waiting...........................
What Obama inherited from Bush:
AAA credit rating
7.1 % official
unemployment rate
$1.85 gas prices
10 trillion dollar debt
2 wars
26
week unemployment benefits
a budget
304,761,895 population
13,524,982
actual unemployed people
People on food stamps ----------------31.79
million
Debt per CITIZEN $33,600
Debt per TAXPAYER $94,360
Numbers
Don't Lie.
.
---------------------------------------------------------Jan
2009-------Sept 2011
.
Price/gallon
gas--------------------------------------$1.83 ------------$3.69
Crude oil
(barrel)-------------------------------------$38.74-----------$115.34
Corn,
No.2
yellow------------------------------------$3.56-------------$14.33
Soybeans----------------------------------------------$9.66-------------$13.58
Raw
Sugar
cane,lb----------------------------------$13.37-----------$35.39
.
Unemployment
rate, non-farm--------------------7.6%--------------9.1%
Unemployment rate,
blacks-----------------------12.6%------------16.7%
Number of
unemployed----------------------------10,616,000------14,500,000
.
Number
of fed. Employees------------------------2,779,000--------2,840,000
Real
median household income-----------------$50,112-----------$49,777
Number of
food stamp recipients
---------------31,983,716-------43,300,878
.
Unemployment benefit
recipients----------------7,526,598--------9,393,838
Number of long-term
unemployed---------------2,600,000--------6,900,000
.
Poverty rate,
individuals----------------------------13.2%------------15.1%
People in
poverty in
U.S.---------------------------39,800,000------46,200,000
.
Economic
Freedom World Ranking------------------5------------------9
Failed
banks-------------------------------------------140-----------------170
Dollar
vs Jap yen exchange rate-----------------89.76---------------76.15
National
debt, in
trillions---------------------------$10.627------------$15.052
.
In
Obama’s first 2.5 years, we accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27
times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history. Over 27 times
as fast! Metaphorically, speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65
MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane 27 times faster . . . it would
be doing 1,755 MPH! This is a disaster!
.
Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy
Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor
Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8)
Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and
WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S.
Treasury
AND NOW WE HAVE LIBYA, BENGHAZIGATE, SOLYNDRA, LIGHT SQUARE, THE
FAST AND FURIOUS FIASCO...
Another idiot who has the right to vote....I guess you spawned some little idiot @!$%#sticks too...didn't ya. Your cock should be cut off.
really...??? you run with that one rynee.....Mitt's chances of being President are "Gone with the wind".........
You forgot a bunch, here are two:
A crashing economy.
A country headed over a cliff.
Just a bit on the harsh side there WisconsinDad, don't you think?
Yep they also forget these facts.
DO YOU REMEMBER JANUARY 3, 2007?
I've been saying this for years, but this probably explains it
better and more clearly.
Remember that on October 9, 2007, 11 months before our "economic crisis" occurred (that was actually created), the Dow hit its highest point ever, closing at 14,164.53 and reaching 14,198.10 intra-day level 2 days later. Unemployment was steady at 4.7%. But things were already being put in place to create the havoc we've all been experiencing since then. And it all started, as this email explains, on January 3, 2007. --LFL
I'm sending this to each of you regardless of your party preferences
because I believe it is something you may not have considered.
This tells the story, why Bush was so "bad" at the end of his term.
Don't just skim over this, it's not very long, read it slowly and let
it sink in. If in doubt, check it out!!!
The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was
actually January 3rd 2007, which was the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the
first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy
that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.
At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH
Remember the day...
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress.
So when someone tries to blame Bush. REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007....THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush
entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running
until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a
massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the
last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five
years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After
that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that
includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a
nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted
for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since
January 20th.
Gas prices!!!??? Really! Who are you? Bachmann? Gas was that low in Jan 09' because the stock market crashed. 6 months earlier gas was over $4.50/gal. Credit rating? Well look to the report that credit rating agencies put out in respect to our credit rating being lowered. They put the blame on republicans and their talk of default just to default. They talked about the unwillingness of the right to work out a reasonable economic plan with the president. They are not in favor of the policies being proposed by the GOP. They are in favor of the presidents policies but specifically point to right-wing opposition to get what's needed done. You can't make a point by selectively choosing your facts.
Also you can't talk about Bush's deficit being that the wars were never factored into government spending. The cost of these wars wasn't included in the budget or deficit spending until Obama came into office. By that time we had 7 years of spending on two wars that was never accounted for.
Yes! How quickly we do forget.
Brain you're spinning because you can't deal with the facts. Typical partisan liberal.
If in doubt, check it out. You won't because you're scared.
Spinning?! Really? You go check it out. Pull up some news articles from between July 08' and Jan 09'. Everything I mentioned was highly publicized news at the time. Hell, I'll help you...
news.consumerreports.org/cars/2008/07/gas-prices-1.html
money.cnn.com/2008/07/02/news/economy/gas/index.htm
usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2011-04-14-gas-prices-near-record.htm
the U.S. military has largely paid for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through emergency spending measures, in effect keeping wartime costs off the books. In addition to masking skyrocketing budget growth at the Department of Defense, this process has allowed the services to treat budget supplementals as a piggy bank for new procurement. Members of Congress may have grumbled about poor oversight, but they have largely acquiesced.
Obama’s message? Not anymore.
"That is why this budget looks ahead ten years and accounts for spending that was left out under the old rules – and for the first time, that includes the full cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan," he said. "For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price."
www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/24/1094556/-Obama-Presided-Over-a-Tax-Revenue-Drought-Not-a-Spending-Binge
Why don't you go check it out. Is it because you want to simply look for things that support your fantasies? Or do facts really matter to you?
That's your problem you read news reports as facts. The media is just a liberal spin tank. Go research the facts or put your head back in the dark spot to hide.
November 6, 2012, the end of an error. You libtards are all going to suffer from exploding brains in a few short days, I can't wait.
Romney/Ryan 2012
Here you go. Maybe this is more in line with your sensibilities...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEnKdBAb_o
Right-wing media is a washer on spin cycle. The big difference is if you watch right-wing commentators for a while you see them constantly spinning themselves into the ass end of their contradictory statements.
Oh well, as I've heard, you can't fix stupid.
Don't know any right wing commentators. I research the facts for myself. Registered Independent. Try again fool.
One and done
Romney/Ryan 2012 The end of an ERROR!
This is the PERFECT time for Romney to explain to the American people (and the residents of the states affected by Sandy) how the the states could pay for their own disaster relief. In the immortal words of Judge Smails..."Welllll...we're WAITING"
I pray for all effected by this horrible storm, but has opened so many eyes watching Christie and Obama working together while Mitt hawks Romney/Ryan stickers and Ryan fake washes dishes and fake stacks canned goods.....well now they can both go home and pretend they are fake President and Vice-President....have Trump,Sununu and Palin over and call it a tea party ....
Sandy...the BEST THING TO HAPPEN FOR OBAMA!!!!!
I praise Christie for standing up for what is the most important thing.....2016 !!!
Hey!!!....Ignorant conservatives.....will you PLEASE just put one through your foreheads on Nov 7th? It's the best thing for you. Your party is a @!$%# hole
I think our job here is finished Cowboy...I know mine is ;)
Anybody else see Romney performing for the cameras at the fake food distribution photo-op?
Romney picked up a couple of cases of water and handed it to someone else.
Job well done Romney!
Reminded me of the fake pot scrubbing Ryan did a while back. Hilarious. If you haven't seen the full video, don't miss that one. Heelarious!
But back to Romney's fake food distribution photo-op, it was supposed to be to benefit the Red Cross, but anyone who knows anything at all about the Red Cross knows that they don't want cases of bottled water, they want CASH.
The bottled water and canned food drives are for local emergencies for the most part.
In fact, giving cans of food and cases of bottled water is actually a burden for the Red Cross when they are trying to deal with a regional or national disaster.
I guess Romney hasn't ever helped out in a disaster before, if he had, he would know that.
Which is odd, because when he was Governor of Mass, there was a disaster about 3 miles from his house, but he didn't even drop by.
Today was a very telling day for this election in several ways.
We witnessed on one hand, the grown-ups putting aside politics and taking care of our fellow Americans as best as possible through bipartisan co-operation in a time of disaster. My hat is off to both Gov. Christie and our President for this.
On the other hand, we also saw an irrelevant Romney being both exposed for his fake "support" effort yesterday and his blatant lies about Jeep shipping jobs to China.
The true character of both Obama and Romney could not have been more clearly displayed than it was today.
On a personal note... I could not have enjoyed anything more than listening to Limbaugh have a freaking stroke today trying to spin reality into even more hate to his brain dead minions.
It was a good day for Americans who truly care about America. For Romney... not so much.
Congratulations!!!! You now have your diploma to Sheepdom. Your share of wealth redistribution will be in the mail tomorrow. Don't confuse it with a Publishers Clearing House envelope that you would throw away as we have to disguise it to make sure it gets to you uninterrupted and undetected.
Oh and by the way, I am sure Rush would be glad to know you listen and then twist for your friends. BTW, do they know you listen? I guess they could have a seance to make you forget the truth.
LOL... I know that reality is lost on you... I've seen many of your posts.
FYI... I'm retired and could probably buy and sell your pathetic ass. Find a new argument for dissing Dems. Or don't.... it really doesn't matter because your airheaded phony candidate will finally be out of the way in 6 days. Buh-bye!!
MSN and CNN the propaganda arms of Progressive Democrats (socialists) instead of calling Rmney people, Rmney people, their headline on MSN reads, "
In crucial Ohio, anti-Obama activists out in force.
Pathetic bunch of anti-Americans.
By pathetic bunch of anti-Americans... You're talking about yourself and the anti-Obama morons... Right?
Joe, maybe it's time for some medication....... just saying.
Joe...the just stupid
OICY, no you got it right the first time, they're talking about you.
I'n not un-American. I don't want to charge people who just lost everything for a rescue. That's you! How un-American can you get, wgrider?
OICY this proves what an idiot you are. Everyone is already charged for these services. It's called taxes fool.
One and done.
Romney/Ryan 2012 The end of and ERROR!
I understand that Obama has a 79% nation wide approval rating for how he's handling Hurricane Sandy. That must be the worst of all possible news for you idiot f*cking republicans just six days before an election.
You can bet the Teatards were wishing for a lot of fresh corpses they could make political hay out of.
They've been dragging those corpses from Libya around so long they're showing some serious signs of wear and tear.
Of course...for the conservatives, the more dead Americans the better...it justifies killing more Americans...don't you get it stupid?
you know I'm @!$%#in with ya owen :)
Don't give it a thought.
If George Bush was our president today... He still wouldn't know a hurricane hit until sometime Friday afternoon. And by the middle of next week he would be congratulating everyone of his FEMA staff for a job well done. Not that any of them would have done anything to earn those congratulations. It sure is nice knowing Obama is on the job!
I have read news articles claiming that “nobody predicted” this historic tidal water rise.
Perhaps they should check into the episode of the Weather Channel’s TV program
“It Can Happen Here”, entitled “What if a hurricane struck NYC?”.
In that program, produced several years ago (which admittedly describes the effects of a much stronger hurricane in a somewhat sensationalistic fashion), geology Professor David Coch (of New York City’s Queens College) very accurately and precisely predicted the devastating consequences to NYC that would be produced by a hurricane taking the track that Sandy took,.... especially with regard to potential tidal flooding.
In that program, Professor Koch outlines the fact that we have an “L” shaped coastline, with the corner of the “L” being NY Harbor. Therefore, any hurricane coming inland into the New Jersey coast to our south, as Sandy did, would cause strong winds and waves to come in from the southeast off the ocean. This would push enormous amounts of water into the corner of the “L” (that is, into New York harbor), as well as -at the same time- pushing sea water surges down Long Island Sound into the East River. All of which would mean that the sea water would have no place to go except the streets, the subways, and the tunnels of low lying areas of NYC, causing devastating tidal flooding.
Which is exactly what happened.
IF Mayor Bloomberg had understood and heeded the realities of this kind of storm track and scenario (which was very accurately predicted by many forecasters days in advance) ---instead of relying on the erroneous and reckless decision of the Weather Bureau NOT to issue any hurricane warnings for this so-called “hybrid: storm (with 94 mile winds!)
....THEN....
we would have had a much earlier and a much more orderly evacuation - instead of a last minute rush to action by the Mayor and the City on Sunday (the day before the storm).
We of course need to harden our infrastructure. But ...both the Weather Bureau and the Mayor’s advisors absolutely need to get their act together for future situations like this, as they begin to occur more and more frequently....
Republicans don't watch shows like that. What they are trying to tell you is that FOX News and Rush Limbaugh didn't predict this. The fact that 99.99% of every scientist on the planet did... well, that don't prove nothing!
but..but...it can't be SO! No one predicted Honey BOO BOO would be such a hit with the Tea-Tards so it can't be SO.....no one can predict.
OK... I've been hearing a lot of republican morons telling me how much they love Honey Boo Boo. What the F*CK is a Honey Boo Boo? Some kind of deep fried snack cake you get at Golden Coral or something?
well...many of the tea-tards at work have mentioned eating honey boo boo...but I find that abhorrent
I hope you meant to type "Meeting" honey boo boo
So... Who was the first republican to blame this storm on Gay Marriage?
I'm on the phone with Pat Robertson right now.
He says he's been gay for 70 years. He's surprised no one ever noticed.
He asked me to promise not to tell anyone. So I'll only tell you guys.
Lets keep it an internet secret only.
You forgot to mention he's also your loverclown.
Gay? really? I thought he was just happy. LOL. But seriously, being a con artist must be hard work. I mean you have to find all those morons first and then get them to mail checks, etc.
I have another window open and I'm reading Real Clear Politics.com.
Not looking good for Mittens
I'm gonna be so sad if he won't be able to complete his bucket list.
doo do do do de de dee de de de de......tears of a clown do do
It shouldn't be all that hard to bilk morons like wgrider out of his money. Just tell him unless you mail me your paycheck, Baby Jesus will make an anti-Christ Obama commie Muslim Nazi appear under your bed tonight to turn you into a fag. That should to scare wgrider out of every cent the government welfare agency will send him for the rest of his life.
Yes Oneof, he told me that the woman who sits with him with the big blond wig who cries a lot is really a man.
He said he's going to announce on Sunday.
Seeing more and more Democrats for Romney/Ryan bumper stickers around Cleveland.
You sound like you're in a panic. Are you about to wet your panties, little girl?
It shouldn't take a disaster to pull us together but it does! Here's an idea that might answer our question of why Romney is who he is and who he thinks we are:
http://www.chasingglennbeck.com/homeblog/2012/9/24/can-the-gop-overcome-its-electile-dysfunction.html
Does it sound like the Republican Party hard at work?
Yes, no mater how this election turns out, it's near the finish line for the Republican party. The demographics are changing against them. More minorities are being born than white babies and minorities tend to vote Democrat.
Also, a large portion of those minorities are Hispanic and the GOP has gone to war against them and very very few of them vote Republican.
Also, younger people are going more and more to the Democratic party.
Don't forget the war on women. You go girl!
So every GOP funeral gets us closer and closer to a better world. Thanks for helping (dying) out GOPers!
So it's over for the GOP. Buh bye!
For the first time in this election cycle, as of today's averaged polling numbers from Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight, I've come to the conclusion that Obama's re-election is a certainty... barring, of course, Adelson and the Koch Brothers buying the electronic tabulation in just enough swing states to make the difference.
It's been fun, Righties, but you should have gone with Huntsman...and you should have cut loose the Tea Party and all that it has grown to represent.
At least that way, you might have salvaged part of your national reputation in preparation for a fight with Hillary in 2016.
Check out the most accurate pollster of the 2008 campaign for the real truth. Then start crying, cause it's over.
One and done.
Romney/Ryan 2012 The end of an ERROR.
Subsume means to include or involve. It is not used correctly in this article. The intent is to takeover control of the presidency or the race, not to involve him in the race. Caught you using big words that you don't know.
Me? I never use big words. I can't sling insults fine by using little words that GOPers understand. Why would I want to confuse them further?
Good night Gracie
Good night Dad
Stick a fork in this thread, its done.
nite
Yes, owen, I do believe that it is.
Stick a fork in Obama, he's done.
There fixed for you.
Romney/Ryan 2012 The end of an ERROR!
Nitey Nite.
wg,
Try not to wet the bed...
Love, mom.
Gee mom thanks, try not to crap your drawers on the 6th.
One and done.
Romney/Ryan 2012 The end of an ERROR!
Stick a fork in Obama, he's done.
There fixed for you.
Romney/Ryan 2012 The end of an ERROR!
Nitey Nite.