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A lot of party heads are shaking today, very few are smiling. "Mitt the Twit" was not the headline the Romney campaign hoped for, and that was one of the kinder ones.
The current thinking is well summed up by Ed Rodgers, a long time Republican Operative "Let's face it, Romney can't win, but Obama can lose." If he can just get through the next 3 months without opening his mouth, Governor Romney may just have a chance for a tie. Being his own worst enemy, I'm pretty sure Mitt is not looking forward to the debates.
In England, he criticized the olympic preparations because he's an Olympic expert right? The rest of us will never really know about his expertise because somehow all the records from the Salt Lake city olympics were destroyed right after they closed. Massachusetts can tell us that records have a habit of dissapearing when Mr. romney leaves. Campaign aides assure us that the destruction of those internal communications and other records was not Mr. Romney's responsibility. Nor for that matter were the workings of his company Bain capital during the same time, although he did manage to draw a hefty salary.
During his visit to England Mitt also managed to leak his secret meeting with the Head of MI6, a kind of farewell flub before leaving for Israel. That visit really didn't go that well either, the Palestinians called him a racist, he inflamed local tensions even more (if that's possible) between Israel and the rest of the Arab world and then finished up with a few astounding statements.
At a special dinner for wealthy contributors Mitt remarked that "Culture and a few other things" were responsible for Israel's economic power. He lavished praise on Israel's low health care spending which he may not have understood is socialized. The former Governor closed with noting that Israel's per capita income was more than twice as high as the Palestinian's and they should be proud of that. I find it difficult to believe that our candidate doesn't know that Palestine, what's left of it, is an occupied territory. After quickly recommending that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel, and promising to move the American embassy there, he was off to Poland to try his presidentially hopeful wiles on them. Luckily, most of Israel was mystified but only vaguely insulted.
Poland wasn't too bad. Lech Walesa gave the candidate a pep talk on being successful and they shook hands smiling all the while. That was in Union country too, the Gdansk shipyards is where the Solidarity movement was born. Solidarity's current leadership was not as pleased as Lech seemed to be. They reported in the press later that they had since regretted learning of Mr. Romney's attacks on the 12 million workers of the AFL-CIO and roundly criticized the meeting. I'm pretty sure Mr. Walesa will be ok though.
We lucked out that the Govenor did not take the opportunity to call Poland's neighbor the Soviet Union "America's greatest geo-political threat" again. I'm sure the Polish would just as soon let that sleeping bear lie, one revolution every hundred years is plenty.
All in all, the campaign aides were glad the trip was over, you can only use the words "Vastly misconstrued" and deny what just took place 5 minutes ago for so long. The Romney campaign is home now, and really glad that only one percent of Americans called foreign policy the most important issue of the campaign. All the Polish voters in Wisconsin and other states weren't going to vote for him anyway.
Poland was not too bad, England is used to bombings, but was Israel a success? Mitt sure wanted it to be. But it's hard to beat a President who's given more to Israel in aid and support than any other in history. Still he did manage to scrape up some more wealthy contributors and no one actually threw anything at him. I just wonder what's going through his dinner guests' minds right now. I guess they're hoping that Mitt will deliver whatever it is they want from him. That probably doesn't include advice on international politics.
2:39 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I want to see those tax returns! His father released 12 years worth. What exactly is he hiding that "you people" don't need to see?
3:42 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Why do you think U.S. Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy has moved his entire personal estate assets to an offshore trust located in Tortola, BVI? Possibly because BVI has no estate or death tax? Kennedy has few personal assets in the U.S. The family pays an annual rent (to cover property taxes, insurance, maintenance, operations, etc.) to his BVI trust for his considerable luxury compounds located in Martha's Vineyard, Palm Beach and elsewhere. I am a man of modest means, but when we both die I suspect my death tax bill will be larger than his.
VietNam Vet
1:00 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Gee Kristie, why don't you tell Odumbo/Osama that you would like to see his hidden college records and why he uses a fraudulent social security number and where is his real birth certificate, and why is everything covered up about this moronic muslim nit wit.Why is it everytime someone starts getting to close he threatens to put them in Jail or he is always paying people off to shut up. Get real kid.
Kevin Nedd
1:05 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Your ignorance knows no bounds. Do everyone a favor and STFU!
Prentiss Gray
2:45 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Another not very smart thing to do, withhold financial information. My son believes that they will show he took advantage of the IRS's amnesty for Swiss and foreign accounts and paid his back taxes. A lot of people did that who had foreign accounts that they had not reported.
Kevin Nedd
2:48 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
You left out the part in Poland where one of Mitt's aides told the press to kiss his ass and to shove it! Very presidential indeed!
Michele Guttenberger
10:36 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
KMN - I had to confirm what you said was true because it seemed to unreal to be true. How true it is - Here is the link to this story http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/romney_aide_an_act_qaYQRyeKZAzvSga9mpHaUM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
Just goes to show you money can't buy you everything - like aides with at least an average IQ
Robert Simpson
4:16 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
KLM: Are you saying that Romney's aid is running for president? I suppose when you hide your true ID you can say anything.
Kevin Nedd
5:59 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
I didn't say his aide was running for president. But who one chooses to serve on their campaign staff is a reflection of one's leadership skills.
As for hiding my true identity? My picture is in my profile, don't be so lazy.
VietNam Vet
1:05 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
And I suppose you believe that Odumbo/Osama is a real inocent little angel, come on if someone was a jerk I would tell them the same thing, and you know damn well you would do the same.
Kevin Nedd
1:16 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
I know you would Paul. But we already know you are an ass. We're talking about a guy representing someone running for President. Even if you think it, you don't say it no matter how much someone pisses you off.
Ron Soussa
2:52 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Two years of tax returns is plenty.
I want to see Obama's college transcripts, his loan applications as a foreign student, and the passport he used to travel to Pakistan while in college. Virtually everything about Obama's past is sealed. What's he got to hide?
3:05 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Oh yeah, school records from 30 years ago is more relevant than income earned 3 years ago??? And why would you think Obama would have any problem getting a passport while in college? You're not one of these idiots who things Obama was born in Kenya and his birth certificate faked, are you???
Kevin Nedd
4:58 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The man has been President for close to 3 and half years. You can vote for him or choose not to vote for him, but he doesn't have to show you anything else. Mitt on the other hand needs to meet the standard set by all of his predecessors and release more tax returns.
Ron Soussa
5:11 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
By not releasing his transcripts, Obama has not met the standard set by other candidates.
He was an admitted slacker and drug user at Occidental, yet somehow he gained a scholarship to Columbia, where he was a virtual unknown. He then magically was admitted to Harvard Law and became editor of Law Review, despite never having published a thing, or being recalled as beyond ordinary.
In retrospect Obama's lack of scholarship foreshadowed his complete failure as President. It is quite clear what he is hiding.
Kevin Nedd
5:59 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
When was the last time you were on a college campus? Smoking pot isn't that unusual.
GWB was an admitted alcoholic and cocaine abuser. I don't recall you asking to see his transcripts from Yale. Nor do I recall you questioning how he got into Harvard Business School?
Also the President was elected editor of the Law Review by his peers. Obviously they knew more than you do and were comfortable with their choice.
Your debate skill are weak…
Ron Soussa
9:30 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Try to keep up. We saw GWB's grades from Yale (he did better than Kerry). And Obama was an admitted cocaine abuser too.
The question is, how did he get a scholarship into Columbia? Affirmative action, no doubt.
Kevin Nedd
10:42 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I have no idea how the President got a scholarship to Columbia. Maybe it was based on merit. I got a full scholarship to a service academy, based on a nationwide competition. My entire Columbia MBA was paid for by a former employer, based on my performance and leadership potential . You probably think because I'm black I got into good schools based on affirmative action as well.
1:42 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Ron, do you object to Bush-43 having gotten into the Ivies based on affirmative action of the privileged and well-connected sort? Or do you just object to affirmative action for black folks? Dude, your biases are screaming. But you can't hear them.
No one who's paying attention has doubted Obama's intellectual abilities. W, on the other hand, cannot even wrangle an invite to the Rethug convention because he was such an embarrassment to your party. Yet, I suspect that you voted for him, not once, but twice. Because merit, intellect, scholarship and performance are such a priority to you.
Robert Simpson
4:26 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Obama wrote his biography. Dreams of my Father. Turns out it was fiction
VietNam Vet
1:16 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Well it seems that Mitt is suppose to follow all the rules and show everything but Odumbo/Osama doesn't have to show his real birth records and prove that he was really born here, because there is NOW real proof that he was NOT and is in fact an illegal alien and doesn't belong in the WH. He doesn't have to say why he uses a fraudulent soc. sec. number and where is his real college records and his tax returns. What is it the news media and the democraps don't want eveyone to know. What is he hiding? Get real dude you can't demand something for one person but not the other moron that you think is an angel. He is a born lier and a cheat and a thief and he selling us out to Iran because he thinks they are our friends. Thats a real ignorant moron. What happened to the $535 million dollars he gave to Solyndra, money that we'll never see again.
Kevin Nedd
1:20 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
What proof Paul?
Looking forward to you making a bigger fool of yourself, if that's possible.
Ron Soussa
2:56 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Romney stated the obvious about the palestinian arabs lack of achievement. And it has nothing to do with Israel.
"The claim that the depressed Palestinian GDP per capita is the result of Israeli restrictions is overstated. There are many other Arab countries that do not suffer this disadvantage, and most of them are nowhere near as prosperous as Israel."
Prentiss Gray
3:15 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Which other Arab countries are being occupied by Israel?
Ron Soussa
4:20 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
That's exactly my point, Prentiss. The palestinian arabs lack of achievement is no different from the same low standard of arab countries in the area.
Romney is right. Hopefully he will start a trend of stating the obvious.
10:17 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Ron, it amazes me that our president is a coke head. Those who vote for Obama are those in need of gov't assistance. Anyone with a brain realizes how much he is hurting the middle class and small business owners.
Kevin Nedd
11:37 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Let's see....in 2008 a majority of American voters cast their ballot for the current President. In 2012, there is a high probability, the same will occur. So by your logic, most Americans are in need of government assistance. The pure ignorance of many who post on this site is astounding.
Prentiss Gray
2:56 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Romney really does need better people. Better advisors, better handlers and definitely better press intermediaries, although he's quite a handful. that's a tough job.
Al Iervolino
3:22 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
It's tough when the cards are stacked against you. Obama gets a free pass from the media.
VietNam Vet
9:11 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Prentiss, I'm afraid you are in need of a better brain. The records have showed now that this moronic muslim maniac has no idea what he is doing and has put more people out of work than any other President in history. Yo an K can only throw up the race card all the time. When going gets tough pull out the race card and shut people up. Well as I always told people take that and stick it where the sun won't ever shine.
Al Iervolino
3:18 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Hookerman, that's not the point. By not releasing them does that mean he has something to hide? Also do you have to immediately resort to name calling?
3:42 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
So based on your own logic, Romney must have something to hide by not releasing his tax returns. And if they're both hiding something, which should we be more about.... what Obama got as a final grade in 1979, or where Romney's income came from 3 years ago???
3:54 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Hey birthers, how come you are not all over this? You are letting a perfectly delicious conspiracy go unchallenged. Maybe it's not the money he made or the taxes he paid. Maybe it's the number of "spouse" deductions he took.
4:27 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Romney was never my first choice but anyone is better than re-electing BHO.
4:29 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Maybe Willard has been deducting his "magic" underwear!
Kevin Nedd
4:48 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
It really doesn't matter because Mitt is getting killed in the toss-up states. As much as the media wants to make this a close race with references to national polls, when it comes to the Electoral College, it's not even close. No one has yet to lay out a plausible plan for Mitt to get to 270.
John Schmelder
4:53 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
This is absurd. It's amazing how many mindless Obama lovers are out there. Open your eyes everyone this country is being dug into an even greater hole than it was in before. Stop focusing on his tax returns and start focusing on who has the greatest chance of turning this country around.
Kevin Nedd
5:04 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
How is the country in a "greater hole" when over 4 million jobs have been created in the past 25 months vs. the 4.6 million jobs loss in the final 12 months of the Bush Administration?
5:26 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
KMN, black unemployment is 15%, black teen unemployment is near 50%.
Al Iervolino
5:30 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
the country is 5 trillion more in debt, the unemployment rate is still 8.2% the under employed is 14% there are 1 million fewer people working then when he took office there are more people on assistants than ever before. By the way most candidates only release 1 or 2 yrs. of returns that is the standard not 10 yrs. Like you said he's been in office 3 ½ yrs that is all I need to know and I wish people would focus on that and how bad it's been.
Dan Grant
5:50 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Al, $3.5 trillion are the result of the Bush hang over of 2 wars and an unfunded Bush tax cut. You know that so I assume you are just trying tto deceive people. You also know that McCain was the only Presidential candidate to release only two tax years in fourty years but he also files financial forms for his seat in the Senate so again your are deceiving people.
Dan Grant
5:43 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Even more critical is the Romney release of the fact that he met with MI6. It will cast along shadow over trusting Romney with other intell if he couldn't even hold this back. The simple fact is that he failed in 3 different countries. Poland's labor movement had more to do with the breakup of the old USSR than Reagan and Romney and his party hates unions. He stood and praised Israel's healthcare system without knowing it is Government run and even has a mandate. England goes without saying and jingoistic Americans who think that the respect of other leaders isn't important ought to think back to George W. Bush's joke of a "coalition of the willing." Telling the Palestinians they have an inferior culture is just the icing on the cake as was his racist remark about sharing Anglo-saxon beliefs with England. This man is much more confortable lording over a Board Room of like minded cutthroats deciding the future of workers he will never have to face. The President has to think about all Americans and what the result will be as to their lives. Romney has never thought once about such things.
Wasim Khan
12:27 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
'Cut-throat' is the word. That's why he is so uncomfortable being nice. Just doesn't come naturally to him.
VietNam Vet
9:24 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Dan, why don't you stop telling lies. You talk about Romney giving things away, look at this moronic idiot who has given secrets away a number of times and has little secret deals that the democraps are know for. And you talk about the two " Bush Wars" if you don't like it maybe the next time the arab bastards hit again, maybe you and dumbo/osama would feel better calling for the muslims to come and help your stupid butts. Its a know fact that the dems don't have the stomach for war, they are afraid to declare war anywhere, they leave that to the republicans and then they come in the next election and say all kinds of crap. Why don't you get off you cowardous high horse for a change. If the only thing President Bush was guilty of was not wiping Iraq and Afganastan of the face of the earth. If he did we would be in half the shit we are right now with you cowards spewing out a bunch of bull crap. Why don't you go back to school and get some smarts and then grow a freaken pair.
5:47 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Remember four years ago when Obama was running against McSame and the repugs had their pink panties in a knot over Obama's use of teleprompters? You don't hear them complaining about that now because Mittens Robme can't string two sentences together without one. When he does open his unscripted mouth publicly, as he did several times in the UK for example, it's a disaster and his handlers have to issue "reinterpretation" statements. I can't wait until the debates, Obama will run circles around him, but I do love Willard's "deer in the headlights look!"
The Stig
6:07 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
If I were the Dems, I wouldn't be laughing too loud, given that their candidate is "Mr. U Didn't Build That!" Has to be the Foot-in-Mouth moment of the decade, even trumping "Mission Accomplished."
Al Iervolino
6:47 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
dan, that is all noise get to the real issues. just like all the obamacare costs will not kick in till he is out of office.bottom line is dems and Obama blame everyone else. he will not own his presidency. we are not better off now than when he took office.
Dan Grant
7:06 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Stig, You really want to take a line out of context for a comparision and remind people of a lie that went on to cost over 5000 lives and untold amounts of money? Really? You want to do that?
Al, do you really believe that a man who spent his life using other peoples money and ruining lives in the process and can't hold his own in the real world with other leaders is a better choice? Well both of you and all the other Obama haters here in Morris will have no effect on his re-election or his loss. NJ is going to vote for him and you guys just don't matter. Morris County won't but that is a given but NJ will and because all that matters are the electoral votes, you guys just don't count.
Kevin Nedd
7:43 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
You just nailed the central problem of Mitt's campaign. Relying on an out of context misquote is a bad sign for any candidate's future fortunes.
8:19 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
One of my favorite Mittens Robme quotes, "I enjoy firing people!" And with all his outsourcing business expertise, exactly how is he qualified, experienced, or able to work his economic magic? He certainly has no commendable record from his time as MA governor. What exactly is his plan, I must have missed it!
The Stig
8:27 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
How was it "out of context," and what did Obama really mean?
The fact is, Obama believes that everything flows from the government.
Unfortunately for him, most Americans have a dim view of the government, so pretending that all will be well if we just tithe 100% of our Income to Obama and his Socialist friends, isn't a winning strategy.
Kevin Nedd
9:45 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
It's very simple.
The President's "you didn't build that" comment referenced the fact the private sector didn't build the infrastructure that transports workers and goods. Nor did it build provide the primary education system where many employees initially gain skills to their jobs. These advantages are provided by the public sector and thus are in line with the President's comment correctly stating private industry "didn't build that."
The Stig
1:46 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Wrong-O. The following seems pretty clear, the campaign's attempt to walk it back notwithstanding, "If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Even if you go with the theory that Government made it all possible, who's already paying for over half of the cost of the US and state governments . . . the RICH! Ergo, the Rich really are responsible for their own success.
And lest we forget, remember this other recent BO doozy - "the private sector is doing just fine." And the Obama campaign is trying to make Romney into Mr. Gaffe?
Obama is O-fer the Summer.
Kevin Nedd
5:29 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
The campaign isn't trying to walk anything back. The President's full quote is as follows:
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."
A five year old could tell the "that" in his 5th sentence was in reference to things he mentioned in the previous sentences related to education and infrastructure. He wasn't referencing someone's business.
The fact Mitt chose to put out ads that selectively edited what the President said says a lot more about Mitt than it does about the President. Perhaps this is why Mitt is trailing in virtually all of the swing states.
Al Iervolino
7:22 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Dan we see things differently and we are not going to change that. No need to keep going back and forth on it. What I want for this country is not what you want. People have died for my right to vote so my vote will always count as will everyone else that votes. I pray that Obama doesn't get re-elected and you will never change that.
Kevin Nedd
7:41 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
You have the right to pray and vote for whomever you want. Based on the how the Electoral College Map is trending, Obama will win. You might as well get used to it now.
Kevin Nedd
9:09 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
When you say "felons" are you referring to people arrested for felony crimes along the lines of those comitted by these two local GOP operatives?
10:09 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Felons and illegals, BHO is counting on them. I doubt it will be enough.
Dan Grant
9:43 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
No felons can't vote but they can buy guns in many states. Isn't that a fine state of affairs.
Kevin Nedd
10:48 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Neither group is allowed to vote in federal elections. So why would the President count on them? Do some research before making such stupid statements.
7:53 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
To 1819 and KMN,
As I understand it, individual states determine a felon's right to vote. There are several states e.g. Florida, where felons are not allowed to vote. Voting is investing in the future of your country, influencing its well-being. My belief is that after a person has served his time and made reconstitution, he should be allowed to participate in the rights and responsibilities of society. What purpose is served in doing otherwise? For example, think about a 20 yr old who steals a car, or maybe money from his employer. Do you really think he should continue to be ostracized when he is 70, even if he's made restitution and has lived a decent life in between?
Kevin Nedd
3:08 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
I wasn't offering an opinion; just stating the fact felons are prohibited from voting in federal elections.
3:29 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
The laws governing convicted felons & voting rights are pretty complicated. Basically, felons lose their rights when convicted BUT individual states take over at that point. The laws vary from state to state, so I can't accept your claim that they are not allowed to vote. The best source of info I could find for you is at http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=286
6:42 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
A study conducted by the Florida Sun Sentinel in late October 2008 found:
More than 65,000 ineligible and duplicate voters on Florida's registration rolls.
600 dead people on the list.
32,000 multiply-registered voters.
More than 33,000 convicted felons who should not be eligible to vote.
In the final five weeks before voter registration closed Oct. 6, Florida added more than 2,600 ineligible felons to the rolls.
Dan Grant
7:57 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
G, Check the Morris County voter records. Do a first class mailing and 30 percent come back because these people either moved or are dead but that is just the incompetance of the Board of Elections. That doesn't mean a single one of these votes are cast. Bad record keeping doesn't translate into voter fraud.
VietNam Vet
9:28 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
For you Dan, if they don't allow felons to vote, then how come they let the democraps vote?
10:52 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Redistribution of wealth. Call it what you want. Did you know that almost 70 percent of those in poverty have 4 flat screen tv's in their home? Also the GSA just paid out 40million in bonuses? Do we really need or can we afford 4 more years of this stuff? Vote him out. And if we can't, at least let's have a divided congress so we can block his agenda.
Kevin Nedd
11:14 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
"Did you know that almost 70 percent of those in poverty have 4 flat screen tv's in their home?" Even if this were true, what does it have to do with the price of tea in China?
7:56 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Where are u getting your purported "facts"? From another anonymous vomitous post circulating on the Internet? Don't believe everything u read.
Wasim Khan
12:17 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Mitt, the twitt is a spoilt brat who has not come of his adolscence yet. He is so rich, he can afford to be arrogant as hell. And if he wins my sense is that he would be even greater disaster than Black-Hole Bush, - which is saying a lot. But why he would be even greater disaster than Be-etch Bush coz he astonishingly seems to care even less than Bush and even more arrogant! Simply put.
6:23 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Here's another favorite Willard quote, "I don't care about poor people." Remember that one? Why should he, he's got so much money he can't even keep it here in the United States! Yep, another good repug "job creator" creating jobs in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and Switzerland! Fess up Mittens, let's see those tax returns, even the right wing whack jobs in your own party and National Review say you're going have to sooner or later.
10:56 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
typical lib, you take a snippet of the entire quote and spin it the way you want.
Stephen Harris
8:39 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Hello Prentiss (C&F days!)... I didn't think he embarrassed the Israeli's - but the Palestinians. In both cases - Olympics and Palestinians = he was directionally correct. Yet he needs to know how to moderate his response.
BUT why not be an embarrassed democrat - whereas the President and esp. his VP have made many gaffe's both home and abroad. Why it is about Romney?
As for Taxes - I am satisfied that he has released his taxes... people know he is wealthy and they know he had an offshore (so did the head of the DNC - and am sure many others)... It is just a way to distract from the real message on jobs & economy....
Dan Grant
9:49 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
And if he released his taxes and it showed he paid nothing or a very low percent would it still mean nothing? His off shore accounts say a lot about his lack of faith in American and his desire to avoid the taxes paid by most Americans. He may get away with this but it is people like you that make up the difference. Does he at least send you a Christmas Card?
10:22 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
There's a difference between making silly verbal gaffes, like saying that there are 57 states (or the hundreds of 'Bushisms' that GWB uttered), and making statements that show the true nature of your thinking, like saying that London is not ready for the Olympics, or that Israel is prosperous because of their cultural superiority.
As far as Romney's taxes go, it is also a distraction that he refuses to release them (especially since his father set the example of releasing 10 years of his own). If nothing more will be garnered about Romney through their release, then why does he continue to refuse???
Prentiss Gray
10:22 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Why not an embarrassed Democrat, because I'm a republican. I took a look at the line up of candidates this year and turned pink. Romney was the best of that sad group, but he just the best of the worst candidates Ive seen in my entire lifetime. The party has gotten so stuck we're the reason nothing's getting done in washington. We're fighting battles no one can win, and all of the parties energy is being bled away by posturing. Plain and simple Republicans need to get to work.
3:33 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
The dems want class warfare. They are not happy that someone can make millions and stay within the tax code.
9:00 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
See, we are supposed to believe that all this talk about a person's financial worth is more important than their ability to do the job, because the current job holder has done such an incredibly poor job that there are only two explanations for such performance -- incompetence or intentional misguidance. Neither of those speaks too well of the current officeholder, so the Dems keep the focus on ANYTHING BUT the economy, the lack of jobs, the green scandals, the extraordinary spending of the GSA -- I could go on. So as I read this string, I have to say I am not surprised at the number of "Obama Lovers". In case you haven't figured it out, this entire enterprise is another Obama re-election vehicle. I fell for the concept of a local website too, but as soon as I started saw the prominence of features like 'the embarassed republican', it became obvious I had signed on to another rag with a political agenda. Don't forget that that Ariana Huffington sits at the top of this organization and every page is stuffed with Obama ads. You are participating in a string that is intended to make you feel you are the minority if you support anyone but Obama. Don't fall for this.
Dan Grant
9:52 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Well you haven't been paying attention then. More posts are anti-Obama and in fact the vote of Morris County will have little effect on the State wide vote.
10:16 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Once again… the ole liberal-biased media at work. Conservatives love to pull that one out whenever stories or opinions don't go their way.
Prentiss Gray
10:43 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
"Another Obama re-election vehicle" Do you even realize how insulting that is? By the way, which of us is using the pseudonym here? In case you haven't been actually watching the campaign, the subject has been almost nothing but the economy. If you are one of the many "anyone but Obama" Republicans, I don't agree and I think it demeans us as a party and as voters to think that way. The President has done a few things I don't like at all, but a lot more things I do like than I ever suspected possible. He's a centrist, in most respects, and we need a lot more of that right now. Right now we have a bad attitude as a party and a terrible candidate to boot, and I'm going to go right on calling them as I see 'em.
10:30 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Today's FDU poll of NJ: Obama 49, Romney 36. Republicans will, of course, blame the messenger. But look on the bright side--since NJ (and NY) are not competitive, we won't have to endure nearly as many campaign commercials as those poor folks living in swing states.
Roll Back Our Tax
10:42 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Here's the deal. No matter who you vote for in 2012, we're going down due to all the debt.
Bush added 5 TRILLION in 8 years.
Obama added 5 TRILLION in 4 years.
The next guy whomever elected will do it in 2 years.
Prentiss Gray
4:26 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
I disagree with your math here. Under the Obama administration we have increased the federal deficit 1.47 trillion, not 5 trillion. The figure for the last President Bush is essentially correct. Check it here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/obamas-and-bushs-effect-on-the-deficit-in-one-graph/2011/07/25/gIQAELOrYI_blog.html
2:35 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Are they really the bush tax cuts when Obama has extended them? And lest we not forget the unfunded wars as you libs like to reference were authorized by congress? Stop stealing from the people. Look no further than the GSA. And now the govt wants more of our money? No way!
2:38 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
At least he has paid taxes. Unlike 50 percent of the freeloaders in this country.
Prentiss Gray
4:38 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
You mean the "50%" who don't make enough to qualify for federal taxes? they still pay state taxes, sales taxes, water taxes, property taxes etc. etc. etc. I have great difficulty buying the whole "freeloader" argument. If your job only pays minimum wage are you a freeloader?
The Stig
5:51 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
If the benefits you are receiving are greater than the taxes you are paying, by definition you are a freerider (or freeloader).
As for the gas tax, in NJ, they aren't even covering the cost of current road construction or repair. They are simply going to pay debts run up by the last half dozen governors.
And the famous Payroll Taxes that Liberals keep harping on were supposed to be covering their eventual retirement costs, but we all know that FICA and Medicare taxes are simply going back out the door to cover current retirees.
Dan Grant
6:41 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
The whole Freeloader myth is based on what you might call the Mrs. Romney Myth of "You people" because the simple truth is that average people are considered of lower stock than the wealthy. The main problem is that us "You people" haven't yet caught on to the fact that we are no different than their servants. The peasents have surrounded the castle but have pointed their pitchforks on each other. Make the REpublicans happy as heck.
The Stig
6:56 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
There are no serfs in America, as Liberals would have us believe. But we have reached a tipping point where almost half the people in America are now getting some sort of direct financial aid from the government, and once you're on the dole, it's hard to say no to politicians who promise you even more.
Dan Grant
8:08 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Stig, If a family moves into a town like Montville and pays $10,000 in property taxes but has two children in the school system costing $24,000 per year by your definition they are freeloaders? What you really hate is a race based belief that those who are not paying taxes or their fair share are minorities. Do you also feel the same way about Romney's 13 percent payment?
Prentiss Gray
3:23 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
What's your point about the GSA (General Services Administration)?
3:29 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Government waste. Until govt gets its house in order and there is some oversight and accountability, the government should not even think about taking more money from the american people. Obama was quick to criticize wall street bonuses but has been radio silent on the 40 million paid in bonuses to GSA employees. The community organizer needs to get organized.
Prentiss Gray
3:45 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Ah, I see. The big conference in Las Vegas certainly seemed wasteful. I'm not so sure about the 40 million in bonuses, need to know more. From what I've read most of it was in $500 and $1000 individual bonuses. Things like setting up meetings and conferences on their own time would earn a bonus of $500. Still, accountability is key.
3:32 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
speaking at the Olympic Park, Mr Cameron insisted Britain had to take the chance to show off the country and be proud now that the Olympics are beginning.
LONDON — Hoping to quell controversy after large swaths of seats appeared unfilled, London Olympic organizers said British troops and schoolchildren had been given free tickets Sunday to fill many of the vacant rows.
Britain's Home Secretary says the government was warned last month about Olympic security manpower issues -- far earlier than has previously been admitted.
Olympic security has been in crisis after contractor G4S made the last-minute admission that it hadn't recruited enough people to guard London's sensitive games sites.
The development forced officials to call in the military to fill the gap, embarrassing ministers who had earlier insisted that everything was on track for the games, which begin July 27.
In a letter to an opposition lawmaker, Home Secretary Theresa May wrote that she was told of a "possible temporary shortfall" in staffing numbers by G4S as long ago as June 27.
Was the UK ready?
3:56 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
The UK was ready for the Olympics
The biggest overseas ticketing agency for the London 2012 Games has been besieged by complaints after hundreds of buyers were forced to wait in queues for more than six hours on Monday and others received groups of tickets that were not seated together.
Tens of thousands of ticketholders are failing to show up to Olympic events, organisers admitted last night.
On the second day of competition, up to 14 per cent of those who obtained tickets – some 67,000 – did not bother to attend.
On other days, the stayaways amounted to an equally disturbing 58,000 and 50,000 – meaning the average no-show figure is nearly 60,000.
following the failure of private contractor G4S GFS.LN -0.36% PLC to provide enough security guards.
The deployment of the 1,200 troops means 12,200 U.K. military personnel will guard Olympic venues.
Was the UK ready for the Olympic games???
Prentiss Gray
4:16 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Looks like they are. Why do empty seats equate to the UK not being ready? They sold or gave away all the tickets it's just that 14% of those who have tickets aren't using them. It's an unexpected problem, they happen.
Simon Danczuk, the MP for Rochdale, said: 'When I hear that corporate hospitality tickets are going to waste and companies are not using them, it's an insult to hard-working people who have applied unsuccessfully and desperately wanted to go and take their place in the stadium and cheer on Great Britain.'
Looks like they are on it now though. They are taking tickets back by the thousands and re-selling them or giving them to people who will use them.
Roll Back Our Tax
4:51 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Prentiss...debt figures I used did NOT include carryovers from Bush to Obama. Also, your article is a year old. Here's the real picture.
Prentiss Gray
9:02 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
First that's the Heritage foundation, whom I trust very little. Second, that's deficit not debt. However, neither are created by presidents without the full cooperation of congress. I'm afraid we all have to share the blame on both.
The Stig
6:01 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Another Obama administration "success" story - http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/general-motors-2q-profit-falls-41-percent-as-european-losses-cut-into-north-american-earnings/2012/08/02/gJQA2zyQRX_story.html
It's time for American Stockholders to take a hard look at the 3 1/2 years they given Obama to turn things around. Most believe that the US is still headed in the Wrong Direction, and come Election Day, will vote accordingly.
Kevin Nedd
6:22 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Look at the latest swing state polling. You and Karl Rove are going to have a long faces on the night of the election.
The Stig
6:53 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Check the date, it's August 2, not November 6. Still a looooonnnnngggggggg way to go until we vote, and lots of bad economic news on the horizon. By late October, very few will be chanting, "Four more years."
Kevin Nedd
9:26 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
I am aware of the date. We had this same discussion a month ago. Guess what...swing state polling is more in the President's favor than it was a month ago. Things are clearly going in the wrong direction for Mitt. But you keep holding on to the dream!
The Stig
10:31 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
You were wrong then, and you're wrong now, but at least you are consistent.
Kevin Nedd
10:58 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Try and keep up:
Swing state trending shows my prediction is more probable now than it was a month ago.
But you just keep telling yourself otherwise.
6:49 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
How polling works
1948: The Great Truman Surprise
New York Times declared, "Thomas E. Dewey's Election as President is a Foregone Conclusion." Top pollsters predicted a Dewey win, as did leading national political writers. In fact, with the exception of Truman, everyone else was certain Dewey would be elected. Months before the election, Life ran a cover of a picture of Dewey with a caption that read, "The Next President of the United States." Headline after headline screamed Dewey as President.
6:54 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
His Full Name Is: Willard Mitt Romney
He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is 65 years old.
His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the State of Michigan
He was raised in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan
He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they five children.
B.A. from Brigham Young University,
J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University
After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as an attorney.
In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .
7:53 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Our President, Barack Obama, was a member of a radical communist party, called the Illinois New Party and/or the Chicago New Party, which has Chicago Mob and Black Communist Activist roots.
He admits receiving Marxist training (Marxism is the ideology of using law as a means of oppression and control).
Prentiss Gray
9:13 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
You should google "Marxism," No reputable source defines Marxism that way. You obviously are invested and committed to your views, but I do think you need to look outside your regular sources for better information. You'll make better decisions that way.
7:56 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Senate Democrats lashed out at the Obama administration on Wednesday, saying its stimulus wind energy program creates jobs overseas instead of in the U.S., and they're calling for the administration to put a stop to it.
"Today, we are demanding the Obama administration suspend this program immediately," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
The program has already spent $2 billion, funding enough projects to power 2.4 million homes. Any wind farm created in the U.S. is eligible for stimulus money to put up wind turbines, regardless of where those massive structures are made. Each turbine costs about $3 million, and reaches 40 stories into the sky.
An investigation by ABC News and the Investigative Reporting Workshop found that 79 percent of the program's money has gone to foreign companies, money that Schumer said was "federal tax dollars, the stimulus, which was sold as jobs in America."
The senators are especially alarmed about a project highlighted by ABC News in West Texas that uses turbines manufactured in China. The Texas wind farm is eligible for up to $450 million in stimulus funds.
Dan Grant
8:21 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
When you strip away all the hatefull rhetoric that the posters here, Stig, Sir, G, Soussa and the rest you see it isn't about any policy because most of their facts are wrong and that is why they keep going back to 30 year old records and jobs as an excuse for the one thing they can't say. This President is a black man and they don't like it. It is a theme that has run through the Conservatives since Joe Wilson shouted "You Lie" at the President of the United States during his first State of the Union Address. While they will say that I am playing the race card, I couldn't play it if it weren't in the deck in the first place.
Wasim Khan
6:02 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Dan, you are right on the mark! America is lucky to have this brilliant man with his heart and sharp mind totally focussed on his job to get us out of massive mess created by Black-hole Bush utter incompetence which was driven by his mendacity, lack of sincerity and contempt for ordinary Americans. Romney is as insincere as Bush was. Why the hell does he want to be in White House? For Romney, it is just a rich man's game. It is a trip to grandiosity. He he wins, he will outsource Americans as slaves to China where in anycase they have shortage of labor, - they now want to send their only child (per family) to university. So we shall be needed to work on cheap product factories. A hundred years of progress for Amreican workers, it wil be an ultimate irony for us to be looking for jobs in Communist China!
VietNam Vet
9:30 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
As always when they have nothing else to say, bring out the race card again. Just like a pig!!!!!!
Prentiss Gray
8:54 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Most everything "green" is made in China these days, because the Chinese government underwrites those industries. They got the jump on us in wind turbines and solar panels, that's the fault of American business. We developed these technologies and then didn't pursue them. The Chinese see the opportunity are are serious about exploiting it. We, on the other hand, got (and continue to be ) lost in a battle defending fossil fuels. Therefor it doesn't suprise me at all that the wind turbines mostly come from china, they make the most economical equipment. However, don't forget that someone has to build them and maintain them and that means US jobs.
Thomas Lotito
9:39 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Hey Kevin Millhouse Nedd....Your defense of Obama's remark, "you didn't build it" is out of context. Obama said it, and he said it to hard working Americans who built businesses and worked hard to achieve the American dream. Obama's remark will go down in history as the dumbest thing ever said in a presidential campaign in the history of the Republic.ROFLMAO
Prentiss Gray
10:09 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
That "quote" has about the same amount of truthfulness as the "I like to fire people" quote. Both are out of context and ignore the points being made at the time. Neither are valid representations of the candidate's intentions.
Kevin Nedd
10:14 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
As I explained above, based on the full quote, a five year old could discern what the President meant by his remarks. All you have done is prove beyond a reasonable doubt your cognative intellectual capabilities are less than that of a five year old.
Bell well my friend. I realize making it through the day without hurting yourself is a challenge!
Truscha Quatrone
10:44 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
The many comments about this article have nothing to do with the article.
The majority of the comments are made by people who are afraid to use their names, why I can't figure that out.
Someone should make a collection of all of these comments and in the future, if we have one; allow people to see just how divided we were, how much we really didn't trust one another.
How as Americans we focused on petty personality likes and dislikes of our Presidential candidates. Never focusing on the important issues; jobs, climate change and how before our eyes it is affecting our county, education and why America is not number 1 any longer. We are no longer cohesive in our approach to the future of our county. Until "we" get back to unity of America we will continue to decline regardless of who is in the White House.
Kevin Nedd
11:10 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
It's called free speech, if you can't "figure it out" I suggest you read some other thread. Our country was founded on our ability to voice our descent with our political system.
VietNam Vet
9:33 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
I wouldn't trust an embarassing democrap to tell the truth about anything.
Truscha Quatrone
11:25 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
KMN Pretty sure that there was no internet,blog and other electronic stuff back then. Are your saying that this medium is a way of expressing public sarcasm ?
11:41 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Do you know your history? Do you know about the Federalists and Republicans, which were the first 2 political parties? Do you know about the fierce political battles between Jefferson and Hamilton, and their supporters? Things were pretty divisive way back then, long before any electronic media.
Kevin Nedd
11:45 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
I don't recall the Constitution making a 'medium' distinction in stipulating our free speech rights.
Truscha Quatrone
11:56 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Okay I guess that I come from a different time frame in history. Back at the formation of our country very few Americans could read or write. During the 19th and 20th centuries when someone commented on a news article or opined piece, you had to give your full name and keep on message about the piece you were writing about. I am not suggestion nor would I ever suggest that anyone should not express their political beliefs. I am merely suggesting as you read through 112 comments on this article you see a total disconnect about the article and more about individual ideology.
Kevin Nedd
12:38 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
I disagree. The comments with respect to Mitt's incompetence are on point.
VietNam Vet
9:36 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Yeah K talks about incompetence but he doesn't want to tell you how stupid and incompetent this muslim jerk is.
Thomas Lotito
12:12 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd, get the party hats and the ice cream cake, time for your wake up party...There's no way you can defend Obama's remarks, he's written off small business people and threw them under the bus. President Obama's remarks are anathema to American culture. Obama's remarks are who he is and it's time for you to accept it..
Kevin Nedd
12:36 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
You are entitled to interpret the President's comments anyway you chose. In November, the American people will decide the merits iof reflecting the President. Current swing state polling continues to move in the President's favor.
Just as in 2008, the probability is INCREASING you will have a long face on the morning after the election.
Thomas Lotito
12:54 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd, Interpret this: Obama doesn't have an economic plan and believes that the private sector is 'doing fine. If that' the case Why have we now gone 42 consecutive months with the unemployment rate above eight percent???
Further, If Obama is doing such a greet job with the economy and jobs why are his Job Approval numbers slipping in the poles?
Obama Job Approval Slips to 44%; Matches 2012 Low
Kevin Nedd
1:26 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Why have we had 26 consecutive months of private sector job creation to the tune of 4.5 million net new jobs? Why did we lose this many jobs in the final 6 months in the Bush administration?
Kevin Nedd
1:30 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
...by the way Tom, we dont elect presidents based on approval numbers. It's based on the Electoral College. To this end, these numbers should be of concern to you:
Thomas Lotito
1:41 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd, If you're best is not good enough, you still lose. Likewise, Obama's best efforts have FAILED to grow the economy. 1.5% GDP just isn't good enough..
In sports the team with the lower score made their best effort to win the game, but, if the other team outscores them, they still LOSE! 42 months the unemployment rate was over 8% at some point you'll have to admit hope and change ain't working out!
Dan Grant
12:52 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
KMN, You and Truscha are on the same team. Tom wants to accept the Romney/Faux version of what the President said and reasonable people will understand that they are lying. Romney knows nothing about regular people, the ones his wife with the dancing horse ( with the tax deduction of more than the percapita income of Morris County) refers to as "You People". The fact is that the SCOTUS made the distinction of medium when they passed Citizens United. They said the most money can be the message. You can stand on Patch and post away but if you can spend $100 Million on a message of hate chances are you will win, unfortunately.
Thomas Lotito
1:32 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Romney's economic plan starts with energy independence. Remove burdensome regulation from businesses, low tax rates. And relinquish power to the states.
Romney will also give waivers to all 50 states to STOP Obama-care.
Basically Romney's plan is to REVERSE Obama's rationed energy NO GROWTH green agenda.
Kevin Nedd
3:26 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
What you stated are desired GOP outcomes, not an economic plan. It's no wonder Mitt is getting his clock cleaned in the swing states.
Thomas Lotito
3:55 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd, Of course you can't come back with anything but hyperbole because you know in your heart Obama has no viable economic plan to turn the economy around. Game over, I win the debate!
The Stig
4:40 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
I'll see your one Obama.com sponsored chart, and raise you two -
Team Obama has no idea how drive a real recovery. Time for them to go.
Kevin Nedd
5:15 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
...and I'll raise you the link to a chart showing the primary difference between the 2007 recession and prior ones.
It's a lot easier to pull a country out of recession when public sector job growth is one of the pistons in the engine.
2:16 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
People on this site seem to be dense. Obama has created 2+ milliom new jobs. He hasn't last any jobs.
If you can prove me wrong please do.
The Stig
3:46 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
The number of jobs that Obama has claimed he "created" don't even cover the number of new employees who have come into the workplace in the last two years. Overall, the percentage of people working is almost 10% lower than it was through the last decade before the crash - http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000.
That's why this is the worst economic recovery ever, and it can all be laid at the feet of the President. He's more worried about expanding entitlements, and bolstering public sector employment, than he is reviving America's economy. And no Dan, that isn't "hate,' it's a FACT.
Thomas Lotito
4:00 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
g if Obama created 2 million new jobs; why is unemployment over 8% for over 42 months?
And if Obama created 2 million new jobs; why is GDP only 1,5%? Which is little to NO growth in the economy.
Numbers don't lie,unless of course, your name is Kevin Millhouse Nedd.
Kevin Nedd
4:12 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Over the past 26 months, the economy has created 4.5 million private sector jobs. That is a fact. Unfortunately we lost more than this amount in the final six months of the Bush administration. Given the size of the hole left by GWB, its not hard to figure out why the percentage is where it is.
3:57 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Come on Mittens, prove Harry Reid wrong! Prove that you've paid your taxes like the loyal taxpaying American you claim to be. Do it now! Shut us up! No....I didn't think so! BTW, this magic economic plan you have...is that anything like your magic underwear?
Thomas Lotito
4:14 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
uh-oh, the care takers have gone away for the weekend, here come the nut cases....
4:30 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Yep, those right-wing whacko, tea bagging nut cases are back!
Thomas Lotito
4:33 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
LMAO--I told you so, they're anonymous and so anal retentive they always have to have the last word.
Thomas Lotito
4:36 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Hey Kevin Milhouse Nedd, then why is GDP only 1.5% growth? And unemployment remains steady at 8.3%. Here's your big chance to show us, don't blow it.
Kevin Nedd
4:54 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Here is a pretty good summary on why GDP is at 1.5%:
The 8% unemployment figure is a result of the steep job losses that began in the last year of the Bush presidency which carried over before the current president's policies, which have added 4.5 million jobs over the past 26 month, took effect. When you factor in the impact of new job seekers into the market, it's not hard to see why we are at 8%.
But here is a more important question for you...if the economy is doing so poorly, why is Mitt getting killed in the swing states that will ultimately determine the election? Why isn't he walking away with the election? While the answer is simple, I'm sure it's a bitter pill for you to swallow.
Thomas Lotito
8:27 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd, Your NYT's article agrees with me more than you.. here's a quote."Growth was not strong enough to drive down the unemployment rate, which has stalled above 8 percent in recent months." ( 42 to be exact )
Were talking about Obama's economic policies, stimulus & deficit spending, are not strong enough to grow GDP. Which was point my to you in the first place...
And now I ask you; why are you so willing to put up with such a poor performance from Obama? Your'e an intelligent man, Why wouldn't you want to see 3% 4% 5% 6% growth form this administration? Why are you settling for second best and making excuses for Obama?
At what point will Obama to take a leadership role and stop blaming Bush? ( I'm rolling my eyes)
Kevin Nedd
8:48 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Once again you failed the 5 year old test. Predictively you zeroed in on the symptoms of low GDP growth as opposed to understanding the root cause, which has a lot to do with a lack of consumer spending due to the residual effects of the slow recovery of the housing market. Now I realize you tune pianos for a living which doesn't require much intellect, so perhaps further discussion on this topic is futile.
4:39 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Why should anyone blame Democrats for the housing finance crisis?
Because they laid virtually all the landmines that would eventually explode in the first place, and then they wouldn't allow Republicans to reform or even regulate the impending disaster before it occurred, that's why.
From the New York Times in September 30, 1999:
"Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits. . . .
Under Clinton, bank regulators have breathed the first real life into enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act, a 20-year-old statute meant to combat "redlining" by requiring banks to serve their low-income communities. The administration also has sent a clear message by stiffening enforcement of the fair housing and fair lending laws. The bottom line: Between 1993 and 1997, home loans grew by 72% to blacks and by 45% to Latinos, far faster than the total growth rate.
Lenders also have opened the door wider to minorities because of new initiatives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–the giant federally chartered corporations that play critical, if obscure, roles in the home finance system. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from lenders and bundle them into securities; that provides lenders the funds to lend more. . .
4:40 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Continued from above:
Another article in the New York TImes from September 11, 2003:
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. . . .
This reform – and another in 2005/06 – were blocked by Democrats who threatened to filibuster the bill in the Senate.
In that 2003 New York Times article, we find the extent of Republicans' concerns, and of Democrats' intransigence:
Fannie Mae, which was previously known as the Federal National Mortgage Association, and Freddie Mac, which was the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, have been criticized by rivals for exerting too much influence over their regulators.
"The regulator has not only been outmanned, it has been outlobbied," said Representative Richard H. Baker, the Louisiana Republican who has proposed legislation similar to the administration proposal and who leads a subcommittee that oversees the companies. "Being underfunded does not explain how a glowing report of Freddie's operations was released only hours before the managerial upheaval that followed. This is not world-class regulatory work."
Prentiss Gray
2:43 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
If your point is that the economic crisis was caused by "bad loans" you're a bit off track. That added to it but the actual proximal cause was trading in bundled loans and buying credit default swaps as insurance. Unregulated derivative trading without sufficient understanding of what was being sold, by both buyers and sellers, caused the crisis. Blaming people who got subprime loans is a lot of baloney. But I'm glad to see your research, that bodes well for you.
Kevin Nedd
2:53 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Great posting! A few of the regular contributors won't be able to fully comprehend, but it was spot on!
4:43 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
And they blame Bush.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich critiques President Obama's handling of the economic crisis and the Clinton administration's repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, a key deregulatory move that ended the separation of commercial and investment banking and is widely seen as having helped lead to the financial collapse.
Economist Robert Kuttner has criticized the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as contributing to the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.
Prentiss Gray
2:38 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
You mean back when there was a republican majority in congress? President's don't repeal laws, congress does. The President gets to sign the bill, they write very few themselves.
Thomas Lotito
9:46 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Stuttering, Kevin Millhouse Nedd, you lose again, learn this:what I do for a living is irrelevant! The only thing that matters is people's pocket books. And under Obama people's pocket books are not doing so well. BTW, take a moment to educate your- self about piano tuners, because this piano tuner just educated you...LMAO
Kevin Nedd
10:41 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
In this case Tom, what you do for a living is relevant. I should never have expected someone who tunes pianos for a living (a job that clearly doesn't require a college degree) to understand basic macroeconomic principles and comprehend a well written NYT article on what actually impacts GDP growth. Here are a few root causes from the article you failed to grasp:
"A slowdown in household spending is still hampering economic growth. Consumers increased their savings rate, a sign of increased uncertainty about the future. Governments also continued to cut spending. Exports accelerated in the second quarter despite more recent signs of diminishing demand, but the gain was canceled out by a larger increase in imports, which count against the gross domestic product. Economists expect exports to shrink as the dollar rises against other currencies, making American goods less competitive."
In honor of your profound ignorance, please continue to "LMAO" and enjoy your limited income potential.
Thomas Lotito
11:12 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Obama's Refi Plan Is Another Bank Bailout, Stockman Says: "The Worst Kind of Crony Socialism"Obama's Refi Plan Is Another Bank Bailout, Stockman Says: "The Worst Kind of Crony Socialism"
Thomas Lotito
11:24 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd, by now you're throwing things at your computer screen because you're learning the truth about Obama...here's a factoid for you....Obama is George Bush's third term.
Obama Hints at New Mortgage Refinance Program; Expect More Failure
White House suggest Obama may soon announce a new mortgage refinancing program for people who owe more on their loans than their houses are worth.
Thomas Lotito
10:59 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd, carefully read your post again....this is why you only had one term on the township committee...I hope some day you get the help you need. BTW, thanks for telling everyone on the Patch about my business. I got two calls tonight resulting in jobs from people who read your posts....Get Well .ROFLMAO!!!
Kevin Nedd
11:25 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012
"I hope some day you get the help you need." Please spare me.
Happy to hear you have the opportunity to earn a little scratch. Don't spend it all in once place.
Hattori Hanzo
7:24 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I can't wait to re-elect President Obama and I am a registered Republican, just shows you how out of touch the GOP has gotten with some of their base. Going to be funny to watch how mad all these staunch GOP'ers get as well!
9:24 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Apparently, you just love what Obama is doing to the country:
Barack Hussien Obama is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
Barack Hussien Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands.
Obama's game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?
It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).
A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America.
Dan Grant
11:29 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
g, during the shameful period of internment for Japanese-Americans during WW2 there were actually internal publications by Japanese internees that claimed that Japan was winning the war and would soon come and rescue them. It went on almost the until the end of the word. I bring this up because that is you. You just keep chasing falsehoods and writing about them. Of course they were held captive and you are free to seek real truth and choose not to. You just keep spitting up all over the subject. There are none so ignorant as those unwilling to learn.
10:58 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
GOP…..Grumpy Old People! It's true that exposure to stress and anxiety can cause high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attacks. I promise to do my part!
Thomas Lotito
11:14 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
That's the most evil comment... I'm praying for you. I hope you find peace.
Roman's 10:13
Hattori Hanzo
11:27 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Religion and politics should not and do not mix. Please don't pray for me, pray only for yourself, unless of course someone asks you to pray for them. Your assumption that I do not already have peace, is arrogant. And there is nothing evil about anything anyone is saying on here, just different opinions, that's all. Different is good, it's what this country is supposed to be all about.
Dan Grant
11:35 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Thomas don't bring the bible into the discussion because when you realize that Jesus was a liberal and went against almost everything the current crop of Republicans believe you might give up on the new Testement and that would be a shame. There is much there about the arrogance of power and how you should treat the poor as well as accumulating wealth. PS, I have never heard a Republican say "Blessed are the poor."
Thomas Lotito
11:56 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Dan- Republicans have done more for the poor than any other group in the history of the world. Capitalism has taken more people out of poverty than other system ever created.
1 Timothy 5:18For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain," and "The worker deserves his wages."
Dan Grant
2:32 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Thomas, Please. The greatest advances for working people came about through the blood and strength of the Labor Movement. You apparently don't know much American history. Capitalism needed a gun to it's collective head figuretivley and litteraly and now we have a population of working stiffs that have forgotted that and are going backward. From indentured servitude through slavery up though the company store and creation of child labor laws and OSHA, Capitalism has always need a hand at thier throats to give workers an even break.
Hattori Hanzo
11:24 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Glad to get such staunch republicans upset, seems to me there are a lot of peple that see the letter R next to a name and vote for the person regardless of who they are and what hey stand for. No joke, I am a registered republican, who will not be voting for Romney. The GOP is too wrapped up with the religious right for me to vote for them. I received a questionaire from the GOP the other day, and I answered their questions about repealing Roe v Wade, etc... which I hope never happens. The GOP needs to drop the religious right thing, stop crying about abortion, and be more friendly towards the gay and lesbian community. Again, registered Republican in my mid-thirties. Perhaps it is a generational thing.
And g, stop with the scare tactics, you sound like Anne Coulter with them and the ever present "Hussein" in Obama's name. Just because someone shares the same name as a now dead and debunked dictator does not make me like them any more or less. Is the name "Tim" forever besmerched because of McVey?
Thomas Lotito
11:52 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I'm praying for you. Mathew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Hattori Hanzo
12:35 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I am un praying all your prayers. Tebow 3:16, Blessed is he who is 250 pounds and can score in the red zone, for he shall find the promise land.
12:55 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Dan Grant, why is it that liberals always use innuendo to dispute facts.
Please tell me what facts presented below are not true.
9:24 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Apparently, you just love what Obama is doing to the country:
Barack Hussien Obama is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
Barack Hussien Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands.
Obama's game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?
It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).
Hattori Hanzo
1:55 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
WAIT! His middle name is Hussein!!! Oh wow, I am definitely not voting for him!!!
Dan Grant
1:58 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
g, all any reasonable person can do is laugh at the silly propositions you call facts. If Obama has a fault it is that he tried too hard to work with a Party that hated him from the start.
2:23 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Dan Grant you evaded the question. Again, why don't you tell me what facts are incorrect. I don't think you can.
GiGi Richards
2:01 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Repubs got to be the despicable party they are now because of the religious zealots. In my opinion, the religious have a form of retardation to still believe and expect our society to govern from a book of "stories". The US is such a primitive society because of this. We are only a wee step above those who follow Islam in the grand scheme of things when we choose our leaders because of their "faith" or lack thereof.
2:32 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Democrats are the party of hatred. It is in their DNA:
Democrats enacted a century of "Jim Crow" laws, and the Ku Klux Klan was a Democrat invention to win by terror what they could not win through politics or war.
The South was solidly Democrat for a century, due not only to Jim Crow laws enacted to disenfranchise Blacks, but political terrorism practiced against anyone, Black or Republican, who dared to vote against the wishes of the entrenched Southern Democrat political Machine.
1865-1877: Over 3000 Freedmen and their Republican Party allies were killed by a combination of the Ku Klux Klan and well-organized campaigns of violence by local whites in a campaign of terrorist violence that overthrew the reconstructionist governments in the American South and re-established segregation.
Glenn Greenwald wrote about the Obama administration's "presidential assassination program," whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they're involved in Terrorism.
The following week, Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair, acknowledged in Congressional testimony that the administration reserves the "right" to carry out such assassinations.
Which party is the despicable party??
GiGi Richards
2:39 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Oh, let me rephrase my post "g". I should say the Repubs have been despicable since Nixon but really kicked it up a notch since Reagan and his destruction of the middle class and his allowance of the evangelicals to hijack the party. At one time I admired Republican fiscal policies, however their current party is despicable and then some. By the way - I am an Independent, so you can call the Dems whatever you like.
3:00 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I guess blow jobs in the white house might also be classified as dispacable especially when they involve interns.
Dan Grant
9:02 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Sir, Clinton didn't have Senator, "Family Values" Vitter's list of hookers and he couldn't take the Secret Service with him to meet escorts.
Hattori Hanzo
3:02 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I love when republicans, and again, I am a registered republican, reference things from the 1800's, and early 1900's. Things change, and indeed the two parties have switched. The Republican paarty actively works to keep the middle class down, while further enriching the upper class, all the while pumping a religious agenda. The GOP does not want me to suceed, they want me to sit quietly, content with what I have earned. They don't, however, want me to suceed too much, to reach the same lofty heights they have, as I would then be taking some of what they have.
Thomas Lotito
3:15 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Without free market capitalism unions would cease to exist...Unions have outlived their usefulness.. Take Wisconsin for example, when given the opportunity to opt out of union dues 60,000 workers did...
Dan Grant
4:26 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
No Tom , the people bought into the myth of being in the 1 percent and now they are being kicked to the curb because Corporations found cheaper slave type labor in other Countries. Now they have a scared population who will work for almost any wage and forego any benefits. In fact this is not my fathers generation. This is a generation that would sell America's soul for the false belief that they too can be as rich as Romney and it doesn't matter how they get there.
3:21 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
The President's media apologists are attempting to carry water for Obama and shift the blame for the budget mess squarely at the feet of President George W. Bush. Specifically, they argue that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, and the recession are all to blame for today's deficits. It's an argument we heard before from Obama since the days of his campaign, and it's an argument that is as flawed today as it was then. One simple number explains it well: the budget deficit figure in 2007, the last Bush year prior to the recession. The tax cuts were in full effect, both wars were raging, and the recession had not yet struck, yet the budget deficit in 2007 was $160 billion, or about a tenth of Obama's deficit this year.
Kevin Nedd
3:51 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Glad you don't want to hide from the facts. So let's put some on the table.
1. 2008 FY budget deficit - $438 Billion. All owned by GWB.
2. 2009 FY budget deficit - $1.4 Trillion. 7 months GWB/5 months Obama.
Funny how you don't want to talk about what happen during GWB's recession.
3:29 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
GIGI: the faux idependent.
Failures of Obama and the democrat party:
No debt ceiling plan of their own.
No budget for well over 800 plus days.
No leadership from their President.
No jobs.
No economic growth.
It seems the only thing Democrats are capable of these days is doing nothing. And killing any and every idea that comes from Republicans.
And whining. A lot!
So President Obama and the Democrats were given carte blanche to fix the mess the country was in.
But rather than fix it, they have made things worse in their quest for absolute and eternal power.
A wholly unpopular ObamaCare bill was shoved down the throats of a public overwhelmingly against it.
Kevin Nedd
4:08 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Let's put more facts on the table:
1. Under Obama, 4.5 million private sector jobs have been created in the last 26 months. Bush lost more than this many in his last six months in office.
2. Average GDP growth under GWB was 1.7%. Average GDP growth under Obama thus far has been 2.2%.
GiGi Richards
9:36 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
"g" if you're calling me a faux independent, why I am deeply hurt. I mean after all you obviously have seen my voting records since I was 18 and would know, huh?
Seriously, I am amazed at the lack of comprehension skills of supposed adults on the Patch. Nowhere did I support the Dems. I dislike both parties. At the moment I am not crazy about either candidate, but the lesser of the two evils...unfortunately that is often how one must choose in our political elections.
3:33 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Who said the following?
1) "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel "
2) "I've now been in 57 states I think one left to go."
3) "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today.
4) "What they'll say is, 'Well it costs too much money,' but you know what? It would cost, about. It it would cost about the same as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We're going to do it. It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about hold on one second. I can't hear myself. But I'm glad you're fired up, though. I'm glad."
5) "The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."
(6) "I bowled a 129. It's like - it was like the Special Olympics, or something."
3:34 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
continued from above:
7) "Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time."
8) "Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven't had much sleep in the last 48 hours.
10) "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
All of the correct answers are the same person. Each of these quotes are directly from President Barack Obama.
Kevin Nedd
4:09 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Patch severs don't have enough storage space to host all of the gaffes made by GWB and Romney!
4:57 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Sounds like some Grumpy Old People spend way too time listening to that admitted drug addict, Brush Lintball and waste way too much time watching Faux News!
5:09 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Obama in Dream of my father: AN ADMITTED DRUG ADDICT!
"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.
In high school, Obama, according to his yearbook photo, was part of the "Choom Gang." Chooming was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot.
5:10 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
How many states? Barack Obama made a more elementary flub when, during the 2008 campaign, he said: "I've now been in 57 states—I think one left to go.''
Abraham Lincoln: Obama identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party.
Lincoln did not join the Republicans until 1856, over two years after the party was founded. The first Republican convention was held in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854.
STATUE OF LIBERTY: Obama does it again. Not only does he blow a line from Emma Lazarus' famous poem called Obama claimed that Emma Lazarus was
"inspired by what she saw and heard, she wrote down her thoughts and donated a piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statue – the Statue of Liberty which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America."
A little problem with Obama's statement. It's blatantly incorrect. According to the National Park Service, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France. Something you learn about in Elementary School (even those infested with progressive teachers)
Hattori Hanzo
5:12 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Wow, a president that smoked pot! Wow that has got to be a first! Oh wait, no, no it's not. Every president has their vices and skeletons. BRINGING BACK BARRY O!!! Man I can't wait for election night when Romney loses, going to be so great!
Wasim Khan
5:44 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Bush's brain was in an alcohol jar. He was so demented by the time he was 40 that he could barely complete a sentence. Republican's were treasonous in hoisting mentally ill Bush to White House. Republicans did not seem to have had their fill with destroying America for last 8/11 years that they want to have a go at it again, now with a robber baron, Romney, - the grand larceney! This guy is slicker than Bush but is as contemptuous of ordinary Americans as Bush was. Vote for Romeny, and watch America descend into utter destruction 4 years later! Only 1% of 1% like Koch brothers will survive to boast about their billions! Republicans should follow Black-hole Bush's advice about not being fooled again. Or may be for smart alec Rape-publicans, Bush was too foolish to heed!
5:20 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
As of July of 2011, Obama has indicated "reams of papers and printouts on his desk" and yet has failed to introduce any enumerated spending plan to reduce the debt and deficits.
At this point in the nations spending history, the public debt has risen to over $ 9.75 trillion dollars.
In the latter part of 2010, and just prior to the 2010 election shellacking , Obama stated this: " Belief in Capitalism is blind faith,this philosophy of letting people fend for themselves has failed" ~President Barack Obama, October 2010
We are on the verge of a global transformation; all we need is the one major crisis and the world will accept the New World order.~David Rockefeller, United Nations Business Council,1994
And that is the Obama way of governing, do nothing.
Wasim Khan
5:52 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Dear letter 'g': Get a personality, some humanity and then some brains! Where were you for 8 long years of Bush? Why did you not count dollars wasted on Iraq war? Did you complain why Black-hole Bush was increasinng the deficit by letting rich rob national treasury with larger tax deduction. Bush was burning the candle on both ends.
5:40 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
It's absolutely amazing how poor the typical repug memory is, it must be the age thing! They forgot that Dugya was a admitted cocaine user and how about that DWI conviction in New Hampshire then the mysterious gap in his military record as a reservist! Of course they never mention anything about Laura's driving record. Didn't she kill some poor slob when she blew a stop sign?
6:58 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
With your amazing memory, you probable know the foolwoing but are to ashamed a to admit it:
President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a "lawyer". He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. A "Voluntary Surrender" is not something where you decide "Gee, a license is not really something I need anymore, is it?" and forget to renew your license. No, a "Voluntary Surrender" is something you do when you've been accused of something, and you 'voluntarily surrender" your license five seconds before the state suspends you.
2 Michelle Obama "voluntarily surrendered" her law license in 1993. after a Federal Judge gave her the choice between surrendering her license or standing trial for Insurance fraud!
3. So, we have the first black President and First Lady - who don't actually have licenses to practice law. Facts.
Source: http://jdlong.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/pres-barack-obama-editor-of-the-Harvard-law-review-has-no-law-license/
7:01 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager. Mr. Biden never mentions his asthma, recounting an active childhood, work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school.
According to the documents, Mr. Biden, 65, received several deferments while he was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University.
A month after undergoing a physical exam in April 1968, Mr. Biden received a Selective Service classification of 1-Y, meaning he was available for service only in the event of national emergency.
"As a result of a physical exam on April 5, 1968, Joe Biden was classified 1-Y and disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager," said David Wade, a campaign spokesman.
In "Promises to Keep," a memoir that was published last year and became an instant best-seller after he was tapped as Mr. Obama's running mate,
Thomas Lotito
7:01 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
What a bunch screwballs! g laid it out perfectly for you and you don't get...and you never will..Obama is the worst president in the history of the Republic....it's going to take a little time for you to adjust to this.....get well.
7:10 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Wasim Kahn:
Whatd about the cost Clinton incurred before the Iraq war?
The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq dropped far more bombs during the sunset of Bill Clinton's presidency than under President George W. Bush in the run-up to war in Iraq..
Between 1999 and 2001, the U.S. and British-led air forces in Iraq dropped 1.3 million pounds of bombs in response to purported violations of the no-fly zones and anti-aircraft fire from Saddam Hussein.
The details of the bombings, provided by the British ministry of defense to parliament in February 2002, markedly revise a picture painted by critics of Bush's airstrikes
At the conclusion of the NATO bombing campaign (instigated, like the bombing of Afghanistan and the War on Iraq, by the United States and Britain, and planned and carried out by then General Wesley Clark) several thousand Yugoslavs had been killed, about 1600 of them civilians. Not a single NATO soldier died in action. As with the Gulf "War", this was not a war but a campaign of destruction and murder carried out from a safe distance (and under the hypocritical pretence of conducting a "humanitarian war"). It was in fact a terrorist campaign directed against the Serb people and its political leadership.
7:15 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
When Barack Obama took the oath of office twice on Jan. 20, 2009, CBS' amazing number cruncher Mark Knoller reports, the national debt was $10,626,000,000,000.
That means the debt that our federal government owes a whole lot of somebodies including China has increased $4,247,000,000,000 in just 945 days. That's the fastest increase under any president ever.
Remember the day the Democrat promised to close the embarrassing Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within one year? That day the national debt increased $4,247,000,000. And each day since that the facility hasn't been closed.
Same for the day in 2009 when Obama flew all the way out to Denver to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill that was going to hold national unemployment beneath 8% instead of the 9.1% we got today anyway? Another $4,247,000,000 that day. And every day since, even Obama golfing and vacation days
Obama is saying yes, we can get control of the national debt. But ominously every time he says that he adds that trillions of dollars in infrastructure repairs are badly needed across the country. And with interest rates so low, according to the thinking on Obama's planet, now is an excellent time to borrow even more money.
So, it looks like not too long before Americans learn what comes after 1,000 trillions.
It's quadrillion.
7:20 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Wasim Kahn:
HIS HOW OBAMA FIXES THE DEFICIT:Pres Obama is playing golf today on the course at Joint Base Andrews, his 48th time out of 104 rounds of golf.
7:35 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Many leftists view Hillary as a sell-out because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is simply following Alinsky's counsel to DO and SAY whatever it takes to GAIN POWER.
Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite. Trained by Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation, Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project. Later, he worked with ACORN and its offshoot Project Vote, both creations of the Alinsky network. Maude Hurd is current President of ACORN.
7:37 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I guess the democrats wanted war with Iraq more than G. Bush did:
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002-Truth!
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ..."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan.23.2003-Truth!
Truscha Quatrone
8:06 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
I don't usually like to take part of these posting, but I must correct statements that have been made regarding Michelle Obama and the President. Her law license has NEVER been surrender. She and the President both put their law licenses in inactive status. Get your facts straight.
1:30 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
WHY DID THEY PUT THEIR LAW DEGREES IN INACTIVE STATUS?? you don't mention that.
Barry still could not get a real job, because he was still a fraud, even with his Harvard degree in hand he could lie and take the Bar exam, but he could not work as a lawyer for a major law firm without a back ground investigation and he would never pass one.
Since Barack Obama fraudulently applied to the Illinois Bar. Obama had 17 unpaid parking tickets from his days at Harvard. Obama omitted his aliases of Barry Soetoro and Barry Obama. Obama admitted to drug use when he was younger and there is strong reason to believe he was still using drugs
So, Michelle got Barry a job at her law firm. Barry never filed a case alone and never filed a motion. He wrote lots of memos according to the law firm where Barry worked. (I think they know Barry is a fraud and don't want to be sued by previous clients) Barry rescinded his law licenses, so as not to be disbarred for fraud. The Bar knows Barry lied on his application. Michelle also had to turn over her law license for her involvement in corruption with the Chicago mayors office. "
Kevin Nedd
8:33 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Thanks for providing the facts on this issue.
These idiots have no shame.
Hattori Hanzo
8:43 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Great post Truscha, can't wait for the November to remember, when we re-elect the Prez!!!! OBAMA!!!!!!!!!
9:25 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
There goes that Grumpy Old People memory again. Just another repug brain fart I guess. They forgot that DICK, Darth Vadar, Chaney had FIVE (that's 5 for the tea bagging set) deferments from military service during the Vietnam era while more than 50,000 American heros died. Yet DICK, who almost killed his friend hunting, was able to claim American victories. I think we call that kind of scum a chicken hawk! Maybe someone will discharge his Frankenstein heart!
Kevin Nedd
9:45 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
The best way to have these GOP types STFU is to ask a very simple question.
What's Romney's path to 270 Electoral College votes? What specific swing states will he win? Let's hear it guys? Time to put up or shut up.
And yes your answers will be recorded so I can show Patch readers in November how delusional you were.
Thomas Lotito
9:35 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd--Think Obama has the electoral college locked up? Read it and weep-- from the NYTImes.....ha ha ha ha ha......http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/july-28-missouri-slipping-away-from-democrats/
Over all, Mr. Romney's chances of winning the Electoral College improved somewhat in Saturday's forecast, to 32.6 percent from 30.9 percent on Friday, according to the model.
One reason for Mr. Romney's improvement — in addition to his strong Missouri poll-- was that we went back and double-checked our polling database for cases in which polling firms had reported both registered voter and likely voter results within the same survey release.
Kevin Nedd
12:44 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
The NYT fivethirtyeight source you quoted updated their prediction on August 1st. The President's chances of winning increased to 70.9%, while Mitt's chances dropped to 29.1%. The fact you just quoted something a week old that I already sourced above, albeit the most recent update in my case, reminds me of a great metaphor that essentially describes your existence.
"A day late and a dollar short".
Thomas Lotito
1:41 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Romney Up Big in Indiana....
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds challenger Mitt Romney picking up 51% of the vote while the president earns just 35%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and 11% are undecided..
Kevin Nedd
1:56 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
The NYT 538 and RCP Electoral College projections already factor Romney having the edge in IN. Both sources show the President winning the Electoral College handily.
You haven't brought any "news" to the table with your lastest posting. If anything you continue to show the world just how desperate, clueless, and incompetent you are.
VietNam Vet
1:24 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
No matter what he does or what anyone says I'll still vote for ROMNEY, he will be a hell of alot better than the job stealing, lying jerk we have now. At least he will get people back to work and stop Iran and be a friend to Isreal. This moron is building a legacy of lies and putting more people on unemployment and in favor of gays marrying just so he can get their votes. It just proves he'll do or say anything just to get re-elected and keep that lavish job he has [for now].
Kevin Nedd
1:40 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
You can vote for whomever you want. While the President will win NJ hands down, it give me great pleasure to know my 20 year old daughter, a senior at the President's alma mater, will vote for the first time and essentially cancel yours out!
VietNam Vet
2:07 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Dude you really are an idiot and aren't worth my time stupid.
Hattori Hanzo
7:28 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Why is the GOP and its followers so concerned about gay marriage. If you are against gay marriage, then number one, don't be gay, and number two, don't get married. It doesn't affect you in any way.
Like abortion. If you are anti-abortion, then don't have one. GOP'ers are always talking about small government and not dictating peoples lives, well then stop trying on these two issues and you will start to get my vote back.
VietNam Vet
8:41 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Hat, that would be impossible because once a democrap always a democrap.
Hattori Hanzo
9:19 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
You suck at life at your response makes no sense. You sir, are literally the worst.
Prentiss Gray
8:31 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
After seeing g's comments and lists of presidential errors, crimes and misdemeanors I did some searching myself. I found those "facts" and theories pretty quickly, and I'm pretty sure I know why they seem irrefutable, but I'm not sure you do. As an experiment do any google search on your regular computer, any one at all. Write down or print the results. Now go to a library computer and do the exact same search. You will find the results are markedly different.
Why? Because search engines taylor your results to please you. They want your to get the results that meet your expectations. The result, each of us can end up living in our own little bubbles of particular "world view". Our own thoughts and predictions are constantly reinforced by the very sources of our information. It's the same with the news we watch and read, our own views seem irrefutable, because that's what makes us happy customers. If you don't know this it's easy to drift away from actual reality.
P.s. it's not just a conservative thing, it happens to everyone..
1:37 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
It seems to be a liberal thing: accuse the person of making false accusation but never show which facts are incorrect. Please tell me which facts I presented are incorrect.
Dan Grant
9:14 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Prentiss, congrats on a a great blog, It is always interesting when a person strays from the "Regular Political Party" to express their own independent thoughts, They usually get condemned by their party because independent thinking isn't a part of the program. I have seen your comments on a number of forums and it is clear that you are about as rational a Republican as we are going to find.
Thomas Lotito
1:38 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
. Hattori Hanzo 16th centruy Ninja...was a character in the movie Kill Bill...
I bet you post in full costume....LMAO
Hattori Hanzo
2:00 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Attention everyone!! Ol' Tommy L has done it again. Once again he has showed everyone his prowess at google searching on the internet, by cutting and pasting a users fake name and conducting a google search. Well, I guess the game is over huh Tom? You found me out!
Lets flip the script here and google search your name... page loading, give it a minute... some buffering going on. Oh man, you are not going to believe what it says! A google search of your name returns information about an out of work/rarely employed piano tuner.
And it is a safe bet that I post in full costume. I know, I know, this is all recorded, your going to sue, and bring everyone to court, we got it.
Thomas Lotito
4:07 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
HH, I've never laughed so hard in my entire life, you are funny. I respect your right to voice you opinion, even though we disagree. Peace.
Thomas Lotito
2:26 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
.....Although l give you credit for not choosing a pseudonym that is sexually perverted. i was just pointing out how shallow and unimaginative you are.. However, you're probably too frightened to put your real name up because you don't want to be known as a bigot and a hater of traditional Christian values...that makes you a double minded individual.
Hattori Hanzo
3:49 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Why do you always have to bring up sex or sexual stuff... weird. Anyways, I don't know, I find my pseudonym quite creative and imaginative. Now, since you are continuing to argue with a fake name, I will keep this rolling. Hattori is my real name, and I really am a samurai from the 16th century. Since I have been around for so many years, you should listen to the wisdom that I possess and post on the patch. Several hundred years of existence will give you quite the persepctive on politics.
Now, you are right, I will not post my real name, however, it is not because I am scared of being known as a hater of Christian values. I will say it right now, I hate Christian values, traditional or otherwise, so there it is; known hater right here folks!. This, by the way, should come as no surprise as I practice Shinto. I am not a bigot though, but that is quite an accusation! Why do you hate the Japanese culture Tom? I am of single mind, body and, soul and remember Tom, yantra, plus mantra, equals tantra.
Thomas Lotito
2:31 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd.....Obama didn't build that--over sampled Democratic polls...........http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/02/new-pew-poll-obama-wins-by-10-if-democrats-lead-in-turnout-this-year-by-um-19-points/
Kevin Nedd
2:35 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
This is beyond embarrassing. Take your meds like the doctor ordered and lie down before you hurt yourself.
Sam Slobo
6:05 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
You spelt " you " wrong Tom. I guess your education did not stick either.
Thomas Lotito
3:00 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Like you did when the judge told you to quiet down in the Netcong court and then was convicted of harassment?
Kevin Nedd
3:23 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
No Tom....I simply paid the fine for my misdomeaner which didnt prevent me from getting a job earning multiples of what you clearly make. Which is why you and your family continue to be a net drag on the hardworking taxpayers of Washington township. Is it true you pay less than $7K in property taxes, yet have at least one kid in our public schools which costs at least $12K a year? Who do you think makes up the other $5K? Who do you think pays for all the municipal and county services your family consumes? For all the time you spend posting, you should be working as many jobs as you can find so you can payback the people who have to shoulder your existence.
Thomas Lotito
3:58 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Kevin Millhouse Nedd.. Keep it up ....a misdemeanor is also punishable with up to a year in jail. BTW you spelled misdemeanor wrong, so much for affirmative action....
Hattori Hanzo
4:03 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Whoa Tom! Why do you have to get racial... way out of line.
Thomas Lotito
4:15 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Hat - but you're OK with KMN to ridiculing me with Fabian socialism? Please cut the double standard nonsense. Do yo realize that Kevin has been convicted of harassment?
Kevin Nedd
5:52 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Wrong again. My "petty offense" misdemeanor carried a maximum sentence of only 30 days. But the judge only issued a fine. Do you ever get any of your facts straight? Here are some facts you need to chew on. You paid less than $7K in property taxes, while having at least one kid in our school at a cost of at least $12K. Thus again you and your family are essentially on the public dole, so to speak. I on the other hand, paid over twice that amount (over $15K) and have had no kids in our public schools in over 10 years. And since you want to go racial, quite frankly, as an educated hard working black man, I'm a bit tired of carrying poor white trash like you!
3:21 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Tuna fish...no, no, he tunes a piano! How absolutely enthralling to have such a compelling career! That's got rank all the way up there with those other in-demand careers like being a farrier. I guess it's really hard to find a few free moments between "tune-ups" to make up the stuff you post. Don't forget where you put those forks in case another job comes along some day.
Prentiss Gray
4:45 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
I think Thomas may have tuned my piano at one time. It's a skill and an art, and a rare one at that. If you've ever seen a piano tuner work, shape hammers, level the keys, get an old action to pop and glide again......you'd be amazed. Let's keep the personal stuff out, we don't need it.
Kevin Nedd
6:16 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Tom still tunes pianos for a living. It's his only source of providing for his family other than mooching off hardworking taxpayers.
Sam Slobo
6:00 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Hey Prentiss - How about suggesting that this JO not inject a RACIAL overtone in his response to KMN ! This guy is a dangerous guy - a sick guy. Not dangerous by any means in the physical sense, but he is a non-contributor. A non-contributor with a profound opinion ( in the negative sense ). I'm happy Piano Tuners are skilled. So are people who juggle, saw women in 1/2 and ride a unicycle. Lotito is a lonely guy who NEEDS to get a life
Thomas Lotito
6:32 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
mis·de·mean·or (msd-mnr)
1. A misdeed.
2. Law A criminal offense that is less serious than a felony and generally punishable by a fine, a jail term of up to a year, or both.
Sam Slobo
6:47 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
[mis-kree-uhnt] Show IPA
depraved, villainous, or base.
Archaic . holding a false or unorthodox religious belief; heretical.
Thomas Lotito
6:49 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Before this thread deteriorates any further, I would just like to ad this is what Kevin Millhouse Nedd does when he loses a debate. It's personal attack after personal attack. But when someone defends themselves, Kevin can't take it.
This is also why Kevin Millhouse Nedd is couldn't get reelected. he doesn't know how to make friends, keep in mind I was once a supporter.
All of this said, I'll leave it up to Kevin to do the right thing and make friends. I'm ready to make friends and let bygones be bygones. Kevin and I have a bet from another thread that if Obama loses he owes me Burger King and a game of basketball- and by the way things are going looks like I'm going to win....Peace Kevin, let's show the community that we can do the right thing.
Kevin Nedd
6:59 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Not interested in being your friend. When you write me a check for all the years I have been subsidizing you and your family we can talk about being cordial. So for now, at $7k a year by my calculation you owe me at least $70k for the last ten years. And that's giving you a discount for the fact you had 2 kids sucking the township dry for a portion of the ten years.
Kevin Nedd
6:53 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Once again you demonstrate your profound ignorance by posting a generic "misdemeanor" reference that a five year old could have found using Sony PSP. A little more mental effort would had led you to discover in NJ, misdemeanors are called petty offenses and are punishable by a maximum 30 day jail sentence, a fine, or both. In my case the judge levied a fine.
It's not like I served a year in jail for federal income tax evasion or served two years probation for violently assaulting a public employee on school property along the lines of GOP bretheren you associate with.
6:58 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Fight the good fight, but it's never appropriate to incorporate racial overtones, references, or innuendo in any debate. I can make my case without that stuff.
Kevin Nedd
7:03 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
You are correct. I regret and retract using the word "white" in my post above referencing Tom. Poor trash is poor trash, no matter what color it is.
Llama Tostito
7:10 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Agreed, this debate is about politics, not race, shame on you Tom!
Thomas Lotito
7:25 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Kevin, I forgive you. Let me know when you are ready.
Kevin Nedd
7:50 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
I didn't ask for your forgiveness. I simply stated I regret using the word "white" in my posting above. Your race has nothing to do with you being poor trash and having to mooch off other taxpayers. I do however believe your profound ignorance is a major contributing factor.
Thomas Lotito
7:12 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Prentiss thank you for the kind words. I want you to know, I really don't care what the other posters think of me or my business. It's laughable at best. M. Scott Peck, in his book, "The Road less Traveled" called my Patch fan club's behavior, group evil. Also keep in mind my fan club own houses in the neighborhood and maybe have have kids in the school system and hold high paying positions with high profile prestigious area companies like Merk etc...I'm sure it wouldn't go well for their careers if they were taken to court and get their name in the papers for internet bullying.
7:34 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
In the same way that racial, cultural, and ethnic references are completely out of bounds, so are threats of any kind. Make your points with facts, humor, irony, etc. not the kind of personal attacks that debase the forum and bring disgrace upon yourself.
Thomas Lotito
7:50 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
You're right Kristie, so I offer you a truce and an apology, let's stick to the issues. I'm willing if you are. And that offer extends to all.
Slobo & Llama
7:39 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
I'm Slobo & Llama, I'm two people on the patch and I lead an empty, vacuous life. I'm very angry as you can tell because in local politics I'm a loser. I can't follow a conversation because I have the IQ of a 12 year old. I know that because everyone I talk to about my obsession with Mr. Lotito has told me that makes me a moron and a troll and I should stop before i get in some type of trouble. I know I need help and it's time for me to grow up. But I can't help myself. I guess I'll put my Batman costume on and post a little more on the Patch..
Sam Slobo
1:48 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
I can"t imagine ANYTHING more empty and vacuous than tuning pianos for a living. That in conjunction with spending your remaining waking hours glued to the Patch. There is no conversation to follow. You are an insecure, frail human being. You quote scripture .... you drop proverbs ..... you regergitate columns from the NY Times. Its not original. You have lacked identity your entire life, and continue to do so. Go police some political signs somewhere.
7:25 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Prentiss Gray
8:31 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
After seeing g's comments and lists of presidential errors, crimes and misdemeanors I did some searching myself.
Which facts are incorrect?
Prentiss Gray
10:32 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Do I want to spend the time verifying the slew of "Facts" you posted, no really. It's not the truthfulness of the ponderous lists you post, it's the relevance. More than that it's the dubious reasons you slip into the conversation.
Take the law licenses, what proof do you have or can fid that the Obamas suspended their licenses due to pending disciplinary action? It's common for lawyers to go to an "inactive" status when they plan to not practice for a while, I don't know why they do that but they do. Probably to avoid having to pay annual fees or something. The President went "inactive" when he began to run for President and then changed his status to "retired" when he was elected. There's no reason to suspect any malfeasance here.
However if you are one of the people who received a particular email about 3 years ago, which continues to circulate, accusing both obamas of changing their statuses to avoid criminal proceedings, then dude, you've been duped.
Try the experiment I suggested, see what you find.
3:00 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
After seeing g's comments and lists of presidential errors, crimes and misdemeanors I did some searching myself.
What did you find?
I can't believe it. Someone puts himself out to be the authority on what Romney said, and then makes up excuses why he can provide facts about comments I made..
Prentiss gray, please watch and listen to the following video and then tell me what Charles Krauthammer said. Or are you afraid of the truth?
Kevin Nedd
3:41 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
What does Krauthammer's defense of Mitt's comments have to do with your bogus lists of presidential errors, crimes and misdemeanors?
4:13 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
For those who have trouble reading.
This is the teaser used by Prentiss Gray:
The Embarrassed Republican: Romney Bombs Europe
If you are being critical of Romney please include everything.
If you are critical of "g" please include your findings. You say you did the work to dispute my facts, why waste all that energy.
Show me the money.
4:14 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Please tell me what items are bogus. If you have trouble reading them, I will help you.
Kevin Nedd
4:19 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
"Our President, Barack Obama, was a member of a radical communist party, called the Illinois New Party and/or the Chicago New Party, which has Chicago Mob and Black Communist Activist roots."
Where is your proof of this claim?
Kevin Nedd
4:23 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Barack Hussien Obama is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
Where is your proof of this claim?
Kevin Nedd
4:26 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
"No jobs"
A bold lie as 4.5 million jobs have been created over the past 26 months.
Kevin Nedd
4:28 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
"No Growth"
Another lie, as the average GDP growth under GWB was 1.7%. Average GDP growth under Obama thus far has been 2.2%.
Kevin Nedd
4:34 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
"President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a "lawyer". He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application."
Another lie that had been proven false by Factcheck:
Kevin Nedd
4:42 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
"A wholly unpopular ObamaCare bill was shoved down the throats of a public overwhelmingly against it."
Another lie. A Rassmussen report, published today, shows opposition to repealing the health care law at an all time high. With only a 6 point spread, the public clearly isn't "overwhelmingly" against health care reform.
4:29 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Through the fog of the debt limit negotiations, President Obama has attempted to shift the blame for America's deficit crisis to politicians at large, claiming that "neither party is blameless for the decisions that led to this problem." Though the culture of overspending is endemic in Washington, don't let the President fool you—some are a lot more guilty than others.
The fact is that Obama's budget would set America on a dangerous fiscal course that leads to massive deficits well into the future—hitting $1.2 trillion in 2012 and, after dipping slightly, rising back to $1.2 trillion again by 2021.
As analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office, even after the massive tax hikes included in Obama's budget, federal deficits total $9.5 trillion. In other words, under his budget, the President would more than double the national debt in just 10 years. Simply put, Obama's budget (which didn't even win the support of his own party in the United States Senate) would push America over a fiscal cliff.
4:32 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
KMN- More proof:
The President's media apologists are attempting to carry water for Obama and shift the blame for the budget mess squarely at the feet of President George W. Bush.
Specifically, they argue that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, and the recession are all to blame for today's deficits.
It's an argument we heard before from Obama since the days of his campaign, and it's an argument that is as flawed today as it was then.
One simple number explains it well: the budget deficit figure in 2007, the last Bush year prior to the recession. The tax cuts were in full effect, both wars were raging, and the recession had not yet struck, yet the budget deficit in 2007 was $160 billion, or about a tenth of Obama's deficit this year.
When Barack Obama took the oath of office twice on Jan. 20, 2009, CBS' amazing number cruncher Mark Knoller reports, the national debt was $10,626,000,000,000.
That means the debt that our federal government owes a whole lot of somebodies including China has increased $4,247,000,000,000 in just 945 days. That's the fastest increase under any president ever.
4:34 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
When Barack Obama took the oath of office twice on Jan. 20, 2009, CBS' amazing number cruncher Mark Knoller reports, the national debt was $10,626,000,000,000.
That means the debt that our federal government owes a whole lot of somebodies including China has increased $4,247,000,000,000 in just 945 days. That's the fastest increase under any president ever.
Remember the day the Democrat promised to close the embarrassing Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within one year? That day the national debt increased $4,247,000,000. And each day since that the facility hasn't been closed.
Same for the day in 2009 when Obama flew all the way out to Denver to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill that was going to hold national unemployment beneath 8% instead of the 9.1% we got today anyway? Another $4,247,000,000 that day. And every day since, even Obama golfing and vacation days
Obama is saying yes, we can get control of the national debt. But ominously every time he says that he adds that trillions of dollars in infrastructure repairs are badly needed across the country. And with interest rates so low, according to the thinking on Obama's planet, now is an excellent time to borrow even more money.
So, it looks like not too long before Americans learn what comes after 1,000 trillions.
It's quadrillion.
4:37 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
KMN- Your move.
Kevin Nedd
4:55 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
I never contested the increase in our national debt. It's an objective figure that's very easy to verify.
However, the national debt has nothing to do with the lies I outlined above. So how about you quit ranting and specifically address the six lies where I called you out?
VietNam Vet
5:13 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
G, no matter what you do or say you will never change this jerks mind because he is going to vote for this idiot again only because of his skin color. It doesn't matter that he can't do the job or not. He votes because of color only which in and of itself, is as idiotic as anything I have ever heard. So you are only wasting your time and breath on this idiot. Its like a black comedian said one night," we don't care if he can do the job just get him in there , he's black ain't he" " We'll worry about who cam do the job on the next black man, lets get the first one in now".
Kevin Nedd
6:05 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
You certainly have a lot to say. The next time you need a haircut how about coming over to Mo'town's Hair Affair on Abbott Ave in Morristown and sharing your opinions with the brothers? I'm sure we all would get a kick out of your salty opinions on the first Black president. I'll even pay for the haircut.
Hattori Hanzo
7:50 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
I am voting for Obama because I agree with his view points and his parties view points on certain issues, not because he is black and I am white. Of course you are not going to change Kevins opinion Paul, or anyone elses, that is a fuitless quest. If you log on here with the intent of chaning minds, instead of stating your own, then you are sorely mistaken.
Paul, you presume to know why Kevin is voting for Obama and you may be right, but you are most likely wrong. Your presumption and subsequent quoting of some comedian just shows how fixated on race you actually are. Perhaps you won't vote for Obama because he is black, or even worse, not white! Duh duh duhhhhhh. Look, I have just as much evidence to say you are voting for Romney because he is white and you are white, as you have evidence to say Kevin is voting for Obama because they are both black.
Keep it about the issues and the politics.
Hattori Hanzo
7:53 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
These GOP'ers have zero sense of humor by the way, what an uptight party. Relax a little, have some fun. You guys kind of suck.
VietNam Vet
8:56 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
HH, I am not voting for him because he is an idiot and an incompetent moron who couldn't fix a flat tire, he is a walking disaster and is trying to turn this country into his view of what it should be in his eyes, a muslim country. Not going to happen!! You people have no idea what you are doing, oh you think you do but you really don't because everyday you are giving away our rights and someday you'll wake up an be sorry. I could care less about who he is or what COLOR his skin is. Most black people are voting for him because of race nothing more, they have already told me. If anybody is fixated on race it is the black people, thats the only reason they voted for him. I personally don't care for Romney, I would rather see someone else in there, but not this idiot. You see I do use my brain on things, I don't go around an say I'm voting for that guy because he's white or red or blue. The fate of the whole country lies on this and I take that serious. Use your head once in awhile.
Kevin Nedd
1:53 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
You claim to use your brain for things? When in all of your moronic postings have you demonstrated this? All you do is bitch about how much you hate the President. Any moron can do that! You have yet to provide any evidence to substantiate your bigoted opinions, especially the ones about "most black people".
It seems you like to come across as a tough guy who is wiser than everyone else. In reality, you're nothing more than a poor, bitter, old man.
I can't imagine what happened in your life that has left you so bitter.
Hattori Hanzo
7:09 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Hmmm... lets see who is really using their head here. First off on several posts you keep calling Obama a Muslim, and while his name may sound perplexing to your bigot ears, he is, as we all know, a Christian. So whatever he is trying "turn" this county in to, I doubt it is a Muslim Republic or theocracy as you claim.
You also state above, "Most black people are voting for him because of race nothing more, they have already told me." Most black people have told you that? You have heard it from them personally as you claim? Lets take a look at some numbers here. There are approximately 38,929,319 black people in the US according to the most recent census, or about 12.6 % of the population. Now since most means a majority, we will divide that number in half, 19,464,659.5 and then add one, so 19,464,660 (ok we added 1.5 in all honesty, but hey that helps your argument). So, if you are to be believed above, you have personally heard from 19,464,662 people that they are voting for Obama! And, that their only reason for doing so is because he is black! Well sir, I don't know where you find the time to make all those phone calls or personal visits, but congrats on the hard work.
Oh wait, you didn't talk to all those people? Right because doing so would be an impossibility right? You were just using a figure of speech based upon your opinion and not fact, I got it. So in essence you were talking out of your ass, nice work sir.
12:12 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
KMN please leave race out of your comments. You are better than that.
Dan Grant
7:23 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Race is at the heart of the lack of respect for this President. Race is at the heart of most of the negative comments of g, Paul and Sir. The only thing most of these people have lost is a white president. Just look at the type of "Dog Whistle" comments you see in many of the posts on this blog. There hasn't been such a direct assault on the respect for the Office of the President since Lincoln. There hasn't been the quest to prove this President is actually an affirmitive action President ever and of course that is because he is black. Why else would someone, as was asked here, want his college transcripts from 30 years ago and not want the Tax Records of Romney for the past 10 years. Instead of bringing in a post racial America, this President has brought to the surface the real racist feelings and fears of a white power structure that is threatened by him. The daily diet of racism that comes from drug addicted racist talk radio hosts like Limbaugh have found a huge market and much of his venom is quoted here. Of course you can't leave race out of it.
9:56 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Dan Grant you are hate monger. You try to spread you vicious lies but Americans look at the sewer we are now in and can see it was the policies of Obama and his radical socialists democrats. The liberals with Obama as their leadere are succeding in destroying America. . You make excuses for Obama's failed policies by playing the race card. You and your cadre of vacuous liberal are reprehensible and out right discusting.
If you can read my comments you will notice that all of may comments were about his failed policies, not because he is black.
For your edification Mr. Obama is not Black! He is 58% White, 38% Arab, 2% Egyptian and 2% African. He is less than 2% Black! His skin color is not from the Black genes but from the dark brown Arab color! His hair is no different than those who have Mediterranean genes! Mr. Obama, is not black and he has been telling the black community that he is black because he looks the part.
You and your vacuous liberals are disgusting.
VietNam Vet
5:15 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Dan, you have become a very bitter old ex-politician over the years since I last saw you at church, I think you do remember that don't you? Thats when you professed to be a real Christian a God fearing man, remember those days?
11:05 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Dan Grant wrote:"Why else would someone, as was asked here, want his college transcripts from 30 years ago "
Here's why:
If anyone should have questions about Obama's record at Columbia University, it's me, Wayne Allyn Root, we both graduated (according to Obama) Columbia University, Class of '83. We were both (according to Obama) Pre-Law and Political Science majors. And I thought I knew most everyone at Columbia. I certainly thought I'd heard of all of my fellow Political Science majors. But not Obama (or as he was known then- Barry Soetoro). I never met him. Never saw him. Never even heard of him. And none of the classmates that I knew at Columbia have ever met him, saw him, or heard of him.
Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News randomly called 400 of our Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.
Now all of this mystery could be easily and instantly dismissed if Obama released his Columbia transcripts to the media. But even after serving as President for 3 1/2 years he refuses to unseal his college records. Shouldn't the media be as relentless in pursuit of Obama's records as Romney's? Shouldn't they be digging into Obama's past–beyond what he has written about himself–with the same boundless enthusiasm as Mitt's?
11:16 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The daily diet of racism that comes from drug addicted racist talk radio hosts
Here's the passage from his book, Dreams from My Father, where OBAMA discusses his drug use: "I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.
In high school, Obama, according to his yearbook photo, was part of the "Choom Gang." Chooming was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot.
The vacuous liberals pretend to have virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that they do not actually possess.
Don't you mindless loons have any sense of decency?
11:24 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
the following are Obama documents that we, the people, have just never gotten a look at due to Obama's decision not to let us look.
Sure, there's (1) the original, long-form 1961 Hawaiian birth certificate. Then there's:
2) Marriage license between Obama's father (Barak Sr.) and mother (Stanley Ann Dunham) — not found, not released
3) Obama's baptism records — sealed
4) Obama's adoption records — sealed
5) Records of Obama's and his mother's repatriation as US citizens on return from Indonesia — not found, not released
6) Name change (Barry Sotero to Barack Hussein Obama) records — not found, not released
7) Noelani Elementary School (Hawaii) — not released
8) Punahou School financial aid or school records — not released
9) Occidental College financial aid records — not released. (These records were, however, subpoenaed but Obama lawyers succeeded in quashing the subpoena in court. No other Occi records have been released.)
10) Columbia College records — not released
11) Columbia senior thesis — not released
12) Harvard Law School records (not mentioned below, but not released)
13) Obama's law client list — sealed
14) Obama's files from career as an Illinois State Senator — sealed
15) Obama's record with Illinois State Bar Association — sealed
16) Obama's medical records — not released
17) Obama's passport records — not released
This is truly a double standard which is only practiced by liberals
11:43 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
g, since all these documents seem very important to you, can you please link Romney's so we can all be assured that he is not hiding anything?
1:40 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
B.A. from Brigham Young University,
J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University
Mormon - The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
Working Background:
After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as an attorney.
In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .
Kevin Nedd
3:23 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Funny....but I don't see federal income tax returns on your list?
So what's Mitt's excuse now?
6:52 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
No, no, no g.... I didn't ask you to list his credtials... I could do the same with Obama. I asked you to link the actual documents. If it's very important that Obama release these docs, then it must be equally important to Romney does too. Please provide them for us all to see.
Prentiss Gray
9:08 am on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
heres the real deal on these supposedly sealed documents:
1. both long and short form have been released
2. not sealed
3. not sealed
4. of course they are
5. re-patriation? Once a US citizen always a US citizen.
6. Never happened, so there's nothing to seal
7. Not "Sealed," school records are private by federal law. No presidential candidate has ever volunteered their school records.
8. same
9. same and are you kidding? What business are financial aid records of yours?
10. same
11. no copies exist, even his professor doesn't have one.
12. same
14. not sealed and is a matter of public record.
15. Obama did release a full list of his law firms clients while serving in the state senate, but he hasn't released a list of the 30 or so personal clients, it's called attorney client privilege.
16. They were released to his doctors before he became President
17. He has the same passport he always did
11:25 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
g, "Don't you mindless loons have any sense of decency?"
No, they really don't. You're wasting your time with them. Let's just pray we outnumber the "mindless loons" come November.
Truscha Quatrone
11:27 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
G I don't know where you get your information from, I am inclined to think you make it up.
President Obama is Caucasian and African his father is from Kenya his mother is from the United States. No Arab, No Egyptian, did you do a family tree and find somewhere in the presidents tree someone came from Egypt and Arab not sure where that is exactly.
1:51 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
OBAMA the great falsifier:
-Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of the most
corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
- My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga
has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in
Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in Decades.
- My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her daily " Salat "
prayers at 5 a.m. according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity
wouldn't allow her to have been 'one' of 14 wives to 1 man.
- My Name is African; Swahili - LIAR, your Name is Arabic and 'Baraka' ( from
which Barack c ame ) means 'blessed' in that language . Hussein is also Arabic, and so is OBAMA .
-I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you
were Registered as a MUSLIM and kept that Faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so You could run for Office.
- My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were Registered as MUSLIM
there, and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for 'making faces' ( check your own book ).
- I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not One teacher says, You could speak that
- Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR, You
were There from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language.
What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch Cartoons ?
When will it stop?
Prentiss Gray
2:37 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
This is what i'm talking about. these are from the "list of 50 lies" that the president supposedly told. It's been debunked, check Snopes. But just for fun:
Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - never said that
My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - Ralia Odinga claims to be a cousin, but there's no proof
My grandmother has always been a christian - wrong grandmother, everyone has two, remember. He's talking about his maternal grandmother.
My name is African: Swahili - many Swahili words including his name have arabic roots.
I never practised Islam - The school Obama attended was a public school with buddhists, christians and muslims.
My school in Indonesia was Christian - Obama also went to a catholic school in Indonesia
I was fluent in Indonesian - The president speaks Bahasa as the indonesians who've visited are thrilled to report.
Because I lived in Indonesia, I have more foriegn experience - yup I think so too
Dude you are being fed half-truths and outright lies. Check the rest of the examination of the letter on snopes.
Prentiss Gray
2:55 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Dude, you don't see that the list you posted is totally bogus? That none of the claimed "lies" in the list are real?
3:18 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Prentiss, you say that the list is bogus but you never tell me exactly why they are bogus. Can you suport your claim that the list is bogus?
2:43 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
President Kennedy proposed across-the-board tax rate reductions that reduced the top tax rate from more than 90 percent down to 70 percent. What happened? Tax revenues climbed from $94 billion in 1961 to $153 billion in 1968, an increase of 62 percent (33 percent after adjusting for inflation).
What Democrats are doing – deceitful liars that they are – is giving Americans "tax credits" and calling them "tax cuts."
A tax cut is a reduction in the percentage or amount of taxes that is being imposed on a citizen. The government is cutting the amount it had been collecting from taxpayers. A government cannot "cut" a citizen's taxes unless that citizen had been paying taxes in the first place.
A tax credit is when you give someone money that has been collected from another taxpayer. It is redistribution of wealth. It is what Karl Marx described as "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Do you notice that "to" in the middle? It means, "transferring the wealth from one government-penalized group of people TO another government-privileged group of people."
It is what Obama described as "spreading the wealth around."
Prentiss Gray
2:46 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
There are plenty of reasons not to like the President, as there are with all Presidents, but let's stick to actual facts.
3:09 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
As African-American unemployment remains at over 15 percent, the Black community questions whether placing hopes on Obama was a mistake.
While the US marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the African-American community is knee-deep in an economic nightmare.
"There is no question that black America is worse off than it has been in at least the last 30 years," said Glen Ford, the executive editor of the Black Agenda Report.
The official unemployment rate for African-Americans has been hovering at around 16 percent for the last year.
"Number one in high unemployment, number one in home foreclosures and number one in populating the prisons of our country," explained renowned civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson.
New York's Harlem neighborhood is one of the places that celebrated the most, when Barack Obama stepped into the White House. But two years into the presidency, the cracks in the dream for a better life have become too wide to hide.
Extreme unemployment with resulting poverty has created a pandemic of millions who need to be helped within black America.
"It has been a nightmare looking for work," an unemployed African-American woman commented.
Kevin Nedd
3:18 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
So what you have the President propose, that would pass Congress right now, which would significantly enrich the lives of all Americans, no just blacks?
Truscha Quatrone
3:02 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I could answer everyone of your crazy allegations. Is it you asking these institutions for this information? Public entities are not allowed to release information to just any nut case. None of this information is sealed you just don;t know who to go about finding it. I started to answer your list of crazy allegations and realized what a waste of time, you would still not believe it and the rest of the sane people all know that what you are stating is just tea party email crazy stuff.
3:13 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I've been looking all over the place for someone who can interpreter what you wrote.
I've been askeing teachers starting with the first grade and I am now up to the fifth grade.
All the teachers are perplexed at what you wrote. Try again but use small words.
VietNam Vet
4:32 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
No Truscha, this is all based on fact. What one good thing did this moron you call a pres. do for this country that has made peoples lives better? We're going into another recession, unemployment is still above 8%, we're paying more taxes, wasted 800 Billion in stimulus, didn't produce hardly any meaningful jobs and a 1 Trillion dollar deficit for 5 years in a row. His plan is really working isn't it.
Hasn't attended a briefing in over a year, hasn't met with jobs council in more than 6 months, but he did attend over 110 fundraisers and played 10 rounds of golf so he has revealed his true priorities really are. Instead of fighting for jobs for Americans he is fighting for his own right now, while 23 millionAmericans are fighting for work. Oh sure he is really doing a wonderful job and the economy has really picked under him like he said it would. He was going to millions of Americans back to work or as he said " He didn't deserve another term". His words not mine! So Truscha why don't you keep telling us how good he is doing and how many millions of jobs he has created.
Kevin Nedd
5:21 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
You haven't stated any facts Paul.
1. What defines a recession Paul? Do you even know? How about 2 consecutive quarters of negative GDP? Has that happen lately, Paul? How about you STFU until you know what you are talking about?
2. What "more" taxes are we paying Paul? The president has cut income and payroll taxes multiple times since he's been in office. He has taken heat from liberal for extending the Bush tax cuts for two years. SO WHAT SPECIFIC TAXES HAS THE PRESIDENT RAISED THAT YOU ARE NOW PAYING?
3. The stimulus didn't produce any jobs. Here is a CBO report that says otherwise. Do you have a degree in economics and thus can better inform us? If not, again STFU! http://www.cbo.gov/publication/25099
4. 4.5 million jobs in the past 26 months. Are we where we want to be? Of course not. Is there more work to do? Absolutely! But it's a hell of a lot better than losing 4 million jobs in the last months of a term, an honor only GWB can lay claim.
Kevin Nedd
3:24 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Which teacher pointed this out to you? Was it before or after naptime? LOL!
VietNam Vet
7:29 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
K, you seem to be spewing so much crap around and telling people to shut the F up all the time and always saying prove it, when are you going to shut up and prove some of the lies you've been telling. Besides I wasn't talking to you! When I say jobs I don't mean the phony ones he has been telling about people who can't collect unemployment because their benefits have run out, and he counts that as someone that went back to work. Thats a real joke, sorta like you. Stop listening to the lying news media, for you stories, I get the facts.
Kevin Nedd
8:45 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I have provided sources for all of the facts I have referenced. If there is a particular fact you question, identify it and I will post the source.
Now with respect to your moronic comment on jobs, the numbers are easily verifiable via the BLS website.
There is no evidence that remotely suggest the BLS includes people whose have lost their unemployment benefits as having a job, when they remain unemployed. If you have evidence indicating otherwise, I am sure everyone here would love to see it. Until then you really do need to STFU! And yes, I am talking to you Paul.
3:52 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Just how are minorities (the very ones democrats claim to want to help) faring under the current regime? Not really well.
The unemployment rate for African Americans has jumped to 14.4%
There are 780,000 more unemployed woman today than when President Obama took office
The unemployment rate for Hispanic Americans is 11.1%
If this is the change Obama promised, VOTE FOR OBAMA
Kevin Nedd
4:07 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
How well did minorities and women fare during the last six months of the Bush administration when the economy lost over 4 million jobs?
I'm pretty sure minorities and women are included in the 4.5 million jobs gained over the past 26 months.
Thomas Lotito
6:31 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Moon batt--Hit hardest were the unemployed in the black community, where the unemployment rate increased from 13.6% in May to 14.4% in June. For black youths aged 16 to 19, the unemployment rate is now an astonishing 39.3%, up from 36.5% last month.
4:06 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Behavior of all the vacuous liberals making comments on this site is reminiscent of the sheep in George Orwell's classic novella Animal Farm.
To prevent opposing views from being heard, the sheep would bleat loudly, drowning out all other sounds.
They paraded around mindlessly reciting expressions like "Two legs bad, four legs good!"
4:21 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I would have asked President Obama but he has trouble with the english language
If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps
as if it were the Marine CORPSE, would you think him an Idiot?
In addition Obam doesn't like to read:
If any other of our presidents had criticized a State Law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot Head?
Kevin Nedd
5:03 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Did you really want to go there? George W. Bush was well-known for occasional problems with language, often including mispronouncing words.
1. Added a syllable to words. One of George W. Bush's most common ways to mispronounce a word is to insert an unnecessary syllable into the word. This is also one of the most common ways people make fun of the president. Famous examples of President Bush adding extra syllables to words include "misunderestimate," "hispanically" and "subliminable."
2. Removed a syllable. This method of mispronouncing words is a less common mistake by George W. Bush. However, there are examples of him doing it and you can still use it to make people laugh. An example from a President Bush quote is saying "unceptable" instead of "unacceptable."
3. Made words plural which should not be plural. Another of George W. Bush's most famous mispronunciations is using the word "Internets" in a debate. Simply saying "Internets" will cause many people to think of President Bush.
4. Mispronounced words dealing with foreign policy. One of the topics George W. Bush discusses most frequently is foreign policy, so several of his most famous mispronunciations are in this area. Examples include pronouncing the word nuclear "new-cue-ler," the word terror like the word "tear" and the word terrorist like "tearist."
You walked right into that one, pal! LOL!
Kevin Nedd
5:25 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Instead of spewing more sewage, when are you going to provide some proof for the 6 specific lies I called you out on above?
GiGi Richards
5:33 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
George W. Bush > Quotes > Quotable Quote
"Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."
― George W. Bush
Sorry, but I have to add one of my all time favorite Bushism's. I suspect if Romney's elected we can look forward to similar stupidity.
Kevin Nedd
5:37 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I can't believe g had the nerve (or stupidity) to open the door!
5:59 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
My favorite Obama display of his intellect:
STATUE OF LIBERTY: Obama does it again. Not only does he blow a line from Emma Lazarus' famous poem called Obama claimed that Emma Lazarus was
"inspired by what she saw and heard, she wrote down her thoughts and donated a piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statue – the Statue of Liberty which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America."
A little problem with Obama's statement. It's blatantly incorrect. According to the National Park Service, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France. Something you learn about in Elementary School (even those infested with progressive teachers)
6:02 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Special Olympics insensitivity: The President called and apologized to the head of the Special Olympics, after making this insensitive comment following a game of bowling: "No, no. I have been practicing. ... I bowled a 129. It's like—it was like Special Olympics, or something.'' Maybe he should have also apologized to bowlers for his feeble effort
6:08 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Please, please don't close the door. It gives me a chance to let the truth in and stupidity a chance to escape.
The truth will set the vacuous liberal mind free from the hatred that's in their DNA.
Again thanks for opening the door.
6:45 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
GiGi this is just for you and KMN
Obama's greatest gaffe:
"I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps," Obama said, slowly and methodically. "And the story in my family is that when he came home, he just went into the attic, and he didn't leave the house for six months. Alright? Now, obviously something had affected him deeply, but at the time, there just weren't the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain."
That may be a fact, the RNC noted gleefully -- but only if Obama's uncle served in the Red Army of Joseph Stalin, which liberated Auschwitz Jan. 27, 1945.
5:54 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries." --Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010
"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009
Look at the map: Not only does Obama not know how many states there are, he also doesn't know where they are. During the 2008 primary campaign, he explained why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky: "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle." Obama's home state of Illinois, and not Arkansas, shares a border with Kentucky.
6:13 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I hope you don't think I forgot you on purpose, I didn't:
So here are a few gaffes by Obama just for you:
No wonder so many Americans are unsure of the President's faith, as he seems to be confused himself. During the 2008 campaign, during an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Obama said, "What I was suggesting—you're absolutely right that Joh n McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith," before Stephanopoulos jumped in to help, saying ''your Christian faith."
Health care inefficiencies: During the health care debate, President Obama explained all the benefits of ObamaCare, saying, "The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."
Mr. President, we already have enough inefficiency in health care and, yes, your "reforms" will only make it
6:27 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I see the door is stil open and I owe it all to you KMN:
More Obamaism,
Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965.
6:30 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Another Obamaism:
Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: "Here's something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I'm not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don't know exactly what's going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I'll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport."
a staffer reminded him, during the ride, that he's voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the "costs, schedules, and technical issues" dealing with the nation's most contaminated nuclear-waste site.
Hattori Hanzo
6:37 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
So much republican anger on here. You know what I sense when I read the angry words of you conservatives? I sense fear, a lot of fear. The fear that you know deep down inside your man can't win. You are fighting an unwinable war. Don't worry you can still party with the Obama supporters after election night, we are not as quick to judge, ridicule or expel certain demographics of the population like some conservatives.
GiGi Richards
7:06 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Really "g", do you have carpal tunnel yet? Even if you're just copying & pasting. Relax, pal. All these politicians misspeak, but Bush just had that special something...
Kevin Nedd
8:36 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Copying and pasting where the President may or may not have misspoke isn't making the Electoral College map situation any better for Mitt. So please continue to cut and paste away!
Al Baron
8:54 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Just examine the facts and VOTE! The economy is in the toilet, socilism is on the rise and the Obama camp is running around trying to keep the focus off his poor managemnt and political payoffs. Stinks of subversion and anti-Americam sentiment.
SOLINDRA-IMMIGRATION-HEALTHCARE-GAS PRICES-DEFICIT-FOREIGN POLICY-CHICAGO-HOUSE PRICES-BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT-REID-NASA-FOOD STAMPS-NO WORK REQUIREMENT FOR WELFARE-COKE HEAD-CLASS WAR. And on and on and on !
VietNam Vet
10:46 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
K, what is your problem, anytime anyone thinks different from you, they are called a loonie? We just happen to see the real truth behind what is going on in America today. Like jus because a pastor had people over to his house and held a Bible study group in his home he was arrested and put in jail for 60 days. This kind of stuff was never illegal before, why only now. And anytime anyone asks questions about dumbo they receive threats against their lives and called all kinds of names. This is not the America we grew up in years ago or the America we knew before. Why is it that eveything about this guy is a cover up. Something is not right, but you are to wrapped up in him to see the real him, or maybe you don't want to see it.
Kevin Nedd
11:32 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I have a problem with idiots like you who make wild ass unsubstantiated claims, who when asked for proof never provide any. Yeah, I think that just about sums up my beef.
Al Baron
10:19 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
kmn(lower case for a reason) You seem a bit defensive! Tell me, how many people do you know who are "on the dole" ? I don't know any! They all work for a living. Especially my friends from Latin America!!! They want to make something for their families. They don't ask for handouts like the low life Obama supporters. My friends actually work. Some even work 2 jobs. And yes I know of at least one friend, Thomas who works 3 jobs and only sleeps 3 hours a day. No food stamps, no welfare. Just hard work !!!!!!!
VietNam Vet
2:13 am on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Al, K is talking about himself who is "on the dole", because I'm not there waiting for a welfare check or food stamps { a handout for uncle dumbo maybe} thats why he loves him so much, the food stamp pres. thats his legacy to man kind. The only pres. to take jobs away from people and put them on food stamps, and then make people believe he is doing so much for them.
Al Baron
10:20 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
And, calling people names shows just how ignorant you are!
Kevin Nedd
11:40 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
My definition of someone on "the dole" is anyone who constantly bitches about the current government, yet pays 30% less than the median property tax bill in their town; has a kid(s) in the public schools (which they also complain about); all resulting in their fellow neighbors subsidize their existence to the tune of thousands of dollars, as they suck far more benefit from the system than they clearly contribute.
Remind you of anyone?
9:52 am on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Report: Chinese Companies Building America's Bridges
ABC News reports that US roads and bridges are being built or rebuilt, not by any of the millions of Americans out of work, but by Chinese companies using Chinese workers. One project alone was worth more than $7 billion and could have created 3,000 American jobs.
The companies are owned by the Chinese government, which among other things means they don't pay their workers as much as American workers make. There's a suggestion in that, that the unions have priced US companies out of these jobs, but ABC doesn't follow up on that possibility.
copy the following to your seach link: You will be amazed.
Kevin Nedd
2:12 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
You bring up a good issue. Having watched the video, I too wonder how the decision makers are able to bypass laws requiring "made in America". Are the Chinese bids that much cheaper? If this is the case then one has to wonder at what price are taxpayers willing to fully support the notion of "made in America"?
2:55 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Obama is too busy playing golf and playing with the celebrities to care about where goods are made. Impeach the organizer.
3:33 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
The following is the theme song of all politicians. They are required to memorize the lyrics immediately after they are sworn in.
Sung by: Ella Fitzgerald - Who Cares
Let it rain and thunder,
Let a million firms go under.
I am not concerned with
Stocks and bonds that I've been burned with!