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Melissia wrote:
whembly wrote:t's not just that Barack Obama's father was a Marxist economist or that his mother Stanley came from radical far-left roots.
[and other such trash vomited out in this thread like that old "obama doesn't salute" rumor]
This is such a blatant, idiotic, and imbecilic set of lies and misrepresentations that I have to wonder on your mental connection with reality if you honestly believe this gak.

Every single one of them are outright lies...???

You must believe there's a vast-rightwing agenda control all those writers from different sources...

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AustonT wrote:No fething way?!
Hey guys we can watch clips of important events on YouTube now!
Really guy...really?
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
You did not know that the VP debates were televised. I was giving you an honest friendly suggestion and you respond with sarcasm.
What are you trying to accomplish?

AustonT wrote:BS, capital B capital S bull gak. It's absolutely true. If anything the Democrat electorate told the rest of us they could stomach a black man before a white woman in the 2008 primary.
That's a very short-sighted view of the 2008 primary.
   
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Melissia wrote:
Our earlier assertion stil holds: that Ron Paul may yet emerge as the last person left standing at the Republican convention.
Political compass has really lost track of reality.


It's called hope. Scant, self deluded grasping hope maybe, but hope.

That said the Poli Compass chart revealed a pretty solid truth, we don't have a two party system in this country any more. Democrat and republican are mirrors of each other and both are continuously pushing for more and bigger government to solidify and expand their personal power bases. It's the Big Government party and who ever wins we lose.

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By the throne... Obama is so far left field, he's not in the stadium.


You breathe Fox News, don't you? Obama is right of center from the last two democratic presidents outside of his stance on gay marriage. On almost every single stance and position he publicly holds and has acted on he's right of Clinton.

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whembly wrote:From his BIO, Barack Obama came into politics from the precincts of the Harringtonian left wing. He was a member in Chicago of the socialist New Party, which grew out of the activism of the Democratic Socialists of America.
I posted a list of policies, not background. Where someone comes from does not dictate their current actions.
If you look at what Obama has done since hes been in office and what policies he runs on they are not extreme.

Edit : As someone mentioned, Romneys dad could be viewed as a hippie.

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whembly wrote:
Melissia wrote:
whembly wrote:t's not just that Barack Obama's father was a Marxist economist or that his mother Stanley came from radical far-left roots.
[and other such trash vomited out in this thread like that old "obama doesn't salute" rumor]
This is such a blatant, idiotic, and imbecilic set of lies and misrepresentations that I have to wonder on your mental connection with reality if you honestly believe this gak.

Every single one of them are outright lies...???

You must believe there's a vast-rightwing agenda control all those writers from different sources...

Dang Rupert! Where's my check! *shakes fist*


Romneys father was a Mexican national with views that would be considered radically left by modern American standards. I guess Romney's a socialist too huh? Mormonism was a highly sexist religion until the mid 70s. Guess Romneys a sexist.

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labmouse42 wrote:
AustonT wrote:BS, capital B capital S bull gak. It's absolutely true. If anything the Democrat electorate told the rest of us they could stomach a black man before a white woman in the 2008 primary.
That's a very short-sighted view of the 2008 primary.


The long sighted view is that Hilary has been more popular than Obama; her acceptance of a position within Obama's cabinet has at the same time given herself more credentials for a future presidential bid and absolved herself of the current president's failings (perceived and real) through keeping a long distance relationship (in the public eye) from him and his politics through her constant globe trotting and side projects.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57429515-503544/hillary-clinton-from-divisive-to-mostly-beloved/

ShumaGorath wrote:
whembly wrote:
Melissia wrote:
whembly wrote:t's not just that Barack Obama's father was a Marxist economist or that his mother Stanley came from radical far-left roots.
[and other such trash vomited out in this thread like that old "obama doesn't salute" rumor]
This is such a blatant, idiotic, and imbecilic set of lies and misrepresentations that I have to wonder on your mental connection with reality if you honestly believe this gak.

Every single one of them are outright lies...???

You must believe there's a vast-rightwing agenda control all those writers from different sources...

Dang Rupert! Where's my check! *shakes fist*


Romneys father was a Cuban national with views that would be considered radically left by modern American standards. I guess Romney's a socialist too huh?


For FoxNews "standards," it should be.

I could just see the talking points if Romney wasn't Republican:

How can we elect a person president who is so radically leftist not only in nature but in origin? He sat on his father's knee and in his home for decades, being exposed to the Marxist teachings of left leaning radicals who wanted to give away free homes to undeserving nonworking Americans and immigrants at the cost of honest tax-paying citizens? Further, isn't it odd that the Romney family is descended from radical polygamous Mormons who ran away from the United States government? What kind of man would be such a president whose family not only is a long lineage of class warfarists and rebels, but also has the audacity to impose upon the people of his own state a mandate stating they must buy healthcare? What about their rights and freedoms? Where does the Constitution state that people must be forced to buy healthcare, huh Mr. Romney....if that is even your real name....

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KalashnikovMarine wrote:That said the Poli Compass chart revealed a pretty solid truth, we don't have a two party system in this country any more. Democrat and republican are mirrors of each other and both are continuously pushing for more and bigger government to solidify and expand their personal power bases. It's the Big Government party and who ever wins we lose.
There are some major differences between the candidates in policy, but they are very close when compared to other countries in the world.
   
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AustonT wrote:There's a thread(this one) ELEVEN pages long about how dangerous and scary Paul Ryan and HIS ideas are and how that makes Mitt's ticket also dangerous and scary. But Joe Biden being a racist, or a moron, or both is of no consequence.
/doublestandard
Do they even televise VP debates, or have them anymore? If so hopefully Biden is more articulate than Rep. Wasserman. Which shouldn't be hard.


You didn't get the memo? Biden gets a pass on all statements by the MSM, because, despite being read from a teleprompter, 1) he's just speaking off the cuff; 2) He's just getting carried away; 3) There goes Joe again.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Frazzled wrote:
AustonT wrote:There's a thread(this one) ELEVEN pages long about how dangerous and scary Paul Ryan and HIS ideas are and how that makes Mitt's ticket also dangerous and scary. But Joe Biden being a racist, or a moron, or both is of no consequence.
/doublestandard
Do they even televise VP debates, or have them anymore? If so hopefully Biden is more articulate than Rep. Wasserman. Which shouldn't be hard.


You didn't get the memo? Biden gets a pass on all statements by the MSM, because, despite being read from a teleprompter, 1) he's just speaking off the cuff; 2) He's just getting carried away; 3) There goes Joe again.


There's a difference between a gaffe that could be construed as having racial tones (wasn't racist) or idiotic (he's an idiot) and a submitted and a supported budget proposal that the presidential candidate supports which would tear the American economy to shreds. There are differences between things you guys. Ants aren't telephones. You don't have to equivocate everything all the time ever because it's fun or because thinking is fething hard.

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mattyrm wrote:Does that even count as a "gaffe"

He said "unchain wall street!... he's going to out you back in chains!"

Its not like he didn't do it on purpose, I reckon he probably thought it was pretty funny.

It wasn't, but its hardly a gaffe. I also don't think its even remotely a big deal.

Saying that using those words makes you a racist for example, is clearly absurd.


Of course it was on purpose, unless in your view, reading a speech from a teleprompter is not on purpose.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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I am really glad Obama invented the teleprompter.
   
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KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Melissia wrote:
Our earlier assertion stil holds: that Ron Paul may yet emerge as the last person left standing at the Republican convention.
Political compass has really lost track of reality.


It's called hope. Scant, self deluded grasping hope maybe, but hope.

That said the Poli Compass chart revealed a pretty solid truth, we don't have a two party system in this country any more. Democrat and republican are mirrors of each other and both are continuously pushing for more and bigger government to solidify and expand their personal power bases. It's the Big Government party and who ever wins we lose.

There's certain truth to that... but historically the parties are drifting further apart, see the last graph on this page:
http://voteview.com/Clinton_and_Obama.htm


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ShumaGorath wrote:
By the throne... Obama is so far left field, he's not in the stadium.


You breathe Fox News, don't you? Obama is right of center from the last two democratic presidents outside of his stance on gay marriage. On almost every single stance and position he publicly holds and has acted on he's right of Clinton.

Fair enough...

But, I consider Clinton (Hilary that is) as leftist as well.
Edit... don't watch that much news... I'd rather watch sports.


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whembly wrote:From his BIO, Barack Obama came into politics from the precincts of the Harringtonian left wing. He was a member in Chicago of the socialist New Party, which grew out of the activism of the Democratic Socialists of America.
I posted a list of policies, not background. Where someone comes from does not dictate their current actions.
If you look at what Obama has done since hes been in office and what policies he runs on they are not extreme.

Edit : As someone mentioned, Romneys dad could be viewed as a hippie.

We'll need to dig deeper, because it's systemic of the whole Democratic party.

Republican party has the same sort of problem to... (when I get home, I'll tell ya why)

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ShumaGorath wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
AustonT wrote:There's a thread(this one) ELEVEN pages long about how dangerous and scary Paul Ryan and HIS ideas are and how that makes Mitt's ticket also dangerous and scary. But Joe Biden being a racist, or a moron, or both is of no consequence.
/doublestandard
Do they even televise VP debates, or have them anymore? If so hopefully Biden is more articulate than Rep. Wasserman. Which shouldn't be hard.


You didn't get the memo? Biden gets a pass on all statements by the MSM, because, despite being read from a teleprompter, 1) he's just speaking off the cuff; 2) He's just getting carried away; 3) There goes Joe again.


There's a difference between a gaffe that could be construed as having racial tones (wasn't racist) or idiotic (he's an idiot) and a submitted and supported budget proposal that the presidential candidate supports which would tear the American economy to shreds. There are differences between things you guys. Ants aren't telephones. You don't have to equivocate everything all the time ever because it's fun or because thinking is fething hard.


Nope. I don'[t buy that, at all. When has Biden been called on any of his statements by anyone other than Fox?

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Someone seemed to left out where it was at, the history of the city. and what race half the general population of the city it is. Also the racial half of the audience. Some words and phrases have a lot of power. "Put you all in shackles" is right up there with using the "November" word in general public.

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d-usa wrote:I am really glad Obama invented the teleprompter.


I find reading from cue cards more honest actually.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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mattyrm wrote:I love this gak..

My missus drips about wanting to go back to the US at some point, the more of this I read the more I am convinced she will just wrap and stay here.. family and friends be damned.


Wait till after Nov...then we'll calm down.

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Frazzled wrote:

Nope. I don'[t buy that, at all. When has Biden been called on any of his statements by anyone other than Fox?


That is like asking why the crazy guy walking around with an "The End Is Near" sandwich-board is the only one person to speak the truth.
   
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Frazzled wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
AustonT wrote:There's a thread(this one) ELEVEN pages long about how dangerous and scary Paul Ryan and HIS ideas are and how that makes Mitt's ticket also dangerous and scary. But Joe Biden being a racist, or a moron, or both is of no consequence.
/doublestandard
Do they even televise VP debates, or have them anymore? If so hopefully Biden is more articulate than Rep. Wasserman. Which shouldn't be hard.


You didn't get the memo? Biden gets a pass on all statements by the MSM, because, despite being read from a teleprompter, 1) he's just speaking off the cuff; 2) He's just getting carried away; 3) There goes Joe again.


There's a difference between a gaffe that could be construed as having racial tones (wasn't racist) or idiotic (he's an idiot) and a submitted and supported budget proposal that the presidential candidate supports which would tear the American economy to shreds. There are differences between things you guys. Ants aren't telephones. You don't have to equivocate everything all the time ever because it's fun or because thinking is fething hard.


Nope. I don'[t buy that, at all. When has Biden been called on any of his statements by anyone other than Fox?


I listened to the racism story on the BBC and NPR seperately yesterday.

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mattyrm wrote:Does that even count as a "gaffe"

He said "unchain wall street!... he's going to out you back in chains!"

Its not like he didn't do it on purpose, I reckon he probably thought it was pretty funny.

It wasn't, but its hardly a gaffe. I also don't think its even remotely a big deal.

Saying that using those words makes you a racist for example, is clearly absurd.


Was it two or four years ago that one party called a female candidate's idea "like putting lipstick on a pig," only to have only to have said female candidate's campaign claim the other called her a pig?

"Gotcha" politics is the name of the game at the moment. Candidates try to win a day or a week instead of an election. Having said that, I do understand that perception is often reality...if you're perceived to be winning, you often win because you suppress turnout for the other side and attract more of those sad people who vote based on who they think will win.

Still, is the whole system absurd? Absolutely. The previous posters are correct that Obama is hardly a far left politician in a global sense, just like Romney isn't exactly a fascist. But both sides will go on and on about how deadly dangerous the other side's policies are (and recently bizarrely even refuse to work together), even though they're only fractionally different.

What has Obama really done for the middle class? I mean, I can point to a laundry list of items that show the GOP aren't the friends of the middle class, but what have the Dems actually done to address the growing disparity between the rich and the middle class besides words?

I would probably need to save a couple million for retirement to be able to equal my parents' standard of living in retirement, just because they had things called pensions. And I'd have to do that using IRAs and 401Ks -- the latter a failed experiment if I've ever seen one -- while my generation (X) bears the heaviest burden of paying for the Baby Boomers' entitlements. That's the largest generation in history pushing through the system, and a generation known for its selfishness, so I hardly see them as willing to take one for the team in their golden years.

So while I think (getting back on topic) Ryan's proposal isn't the answer and is more of a talking point than anything else, it at least takes a HARD LOOK at real issues we'll face in the future, something that neither party seems especially keen on doing. I give him credit for at least trying to start a conversation. And that's why some Dems were talking with Ryan. THEY would like to have their "Jerry McGuire" moment too, they're just scared to do so for fear of losing their jobs.

Seems to me that's a real problem for a modern democratic republic. What happens when the voters become almost completely self-interested and allergic to the truth? Politicians should be in the business of dealing with reality; instead, their role now is to create artificial realities and insulate us from problems.

Can't raise taxes because people will b*tch. Can't cut budgets because people will b*tch. So let's do neither. And there you go.

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d-usa wrote:I am really glad Obama invented the teleprompter.

okay... that's pretty funny.

In regards to Biden's gaffe recently... I didn't think it was a gaffe per se. But, he does says some funny stuff.

We need some levity here... the best gaffes is in sports... particularly the Cardinals' beloved broadcaster Mike Shannon... I dub these, Shannonisms:
Broadcasting from New York under a full moon:
"I wish you folks back in St. Louis could see this moon."

Referring to Japanese pitching sensation Hideo Nomo:
"He's is the biggest thing to hit Japan since they dropped that bomb on Nagashima!"

Referring to a questionable ruling by the official scorer:
"Well, no one’s perfect. Only one guy was ever perfect, Jack, and they nailed him to a tree!"

Referrinng to ex-Cardinals outfielder Bernard Gilkey:
"Gilkey was originally born in University City."
"He's faster than a chicken being chased by Ronald McDonald!"

Referring to Mike Schmidt:
"...the longtime, and soon-to-be, Hall-of-Famer."

Referring to a Home Run by Ted Simmons:
"Well, that's the bread on Simmons's butter."

Broadcasting the day before Easter:
"I just want to tell everyone Happy Easter and Happy Hanukkah."

When the Cubs' Derrick Lee took 2nd base late in the game without a throw from the Cardinals' catcher:
"Lee runs into second...they'll just let him go. They call that runner's indifference...or something like that. Hah. "

Urging Scott Rolen to take a pitch on 3-0:
"You don't kick that dog as he's sleeping on the porch, you don't step on his tail, you just walk on by. If you step on his tail, he might jump up and bite you on the ankle or the kneecap."

Talking about a road game in Montreal:
"This game is moving along pretty quick, it must have something to do with the exchange rate."

Referring to a young fan who was hit with a foul ball:
"And that youngster will leave the stadium with a souvenir today. Not a ball, but a nice looking bruise."

After closer Jason Isringhausen lost his command of the strike zone:
"Izzy's like a wild hare in March, running all over the lot!"

Referring to the Busch Stadium organist:
"Ernie Hayes is up there playing with his organ.”

After a batter leading off the ninth inning with his team down by three took a mighty swing but missed:
"He was trying to hit a three run homer with the bases empty. To my knowledge, no one in the history of the game has ever done that. But it could happen someday. You never know in this world of baseball."

After ex-Cardinals outfielder Brian Jordan was hit by a pitch for the fourth time on one road trip:
"Jordan must feel like a Ouija Board."

Referring to former manager Whitey Herzog:
"The key thing is, he has that photogenic mind."

While Mike and Joe were discussing unflattering photographs of players that had been flashed on the screen at another ballpark, Mike's take on the quality of the photo selection:
"Some of those guys look like the picture was taken while they were seeing their first UFO."
After several seconds of laughter, Joe adds:
"As opposed to their second or third."

The TV lights were on in the press box and the umpire stopped the game until they were turned off:
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"It's raining so hard I thought it was going to stop."

"I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it."

"He's madder than a pig caught under a barnyard gate."

"He ran to second faster than a cat in Chinatown."

"Well, folks, this game began as a tiny worm and is blossoming into a large cobra."

"Brad Penny...they should have named him half-a-dollar. Whoa he's big! Heh heh heh."
"It's raining like a Chinese fire drill!"

"Don't bite your head off to spite your nose."

"We owe you a station break, this one's for the folks listening in Paris...Tennessee. You thought I was going to say Paris... Kentucky! No such luck. Heh Heh Heh."

"A couple of strips of bacon at breakfast and he’d a busted that ball out of here."

"Like Spring makes the rain come, so does the edge of the plate grow."

"You know, these professional hitters make it look easy, sometimes they just stick the bat out and spank the baby!"

"Boy, a cold frosty Budweiser would be great about now. (Long pause) Ahhhhh."

"One run in this ballpark (Wrigley) is like a grain of salt in the Sahara Desert."

"Jeff Bagwell finally drove in a run after 75 at-bats without one. That's like crossing the Sahara.....Backwards!"

"GRAAAND SLAAAAAM! Nope nope nope, it's gonna be caught at the warning track."

"He’s bringing the ball up there 95 mph or better. It’s powder river. You like fastballs…munch on this."

"Everyone’s on a pitch count now, you people down on the farms don’t let major league baseball on your place or they will have the cows on a pitch count."

"So Taguchi, who wears number 99, unless you stand him upside down and then it’s 66."

"Well that’s the life of a reliever. It’s either a mountain or a valley, there’s no in-between. You either get all of the glory or all of the goat hair."

"Acevedo tried to sneak that pitch past Pujols on the inside corner. That’s like trying to sneak the sun past the rooster."





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Wait till after Nov...then we'll calm down.


Then everybody worrying about stocking up for the coming collapse of the economy in the US. best start preparing. I remember...you only need 2K calories perday to survive. Over 3k calories if active shooting looters and raiders.

How many calories would I need dealing with Zombies

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d-usa wrote:I am really glad Obama invented the teleprompter.

Me too, he really should never speak at all without one. Because he sings...and sounds like a robot without it.
With it he is without a doubt one of the best speech makers in the world, that man could convince you down is up and the sky is made of blueberry juice. I don't care for his politics but man can he work a crowd.

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Melissia wrote:
whembly wrote:t's not just that Barack Obama's father was a Marxist economist or that his mother Stanley came from radical far-left roots.
[and other such trash vomited out in this thread like that old "obama doesn't salute" rumor]
This is such a blatant, idiotic, and imbecilic set of lies and misrepresentations that I have to wonder on your mental connection with reality if you honestly believe this gak.
Every single one of them are outright lies...???
Lies and misrepresentations, as I said (in case you didn't read, which is apparently the case).

For example, only a single source indicates that Davis was an early influence on Obama, trying to capitalize ont he fact that there was a "Frank" character in Obama's memoir (even though Frank and derivative names are quite common). And despite that, the "influence" that Obama described was listening to "Frank" tell him about how bad things were during the era of Jim Crow laws.

The claim that his father is a "marxist economist" is unsubstantiated. Even if it is true, to quote Obama: "I only remember my father for one month my whole life, when I was 10." And the things he does remember? Basketball, Jazz, and his father absence in his life making Obama want to be a better father than him.

Obama's previous pastor (he has since gone to a different church due to disagreeing with Mr. Wright, not that you care) was no more an "America-Hater" than many of the extremist conservative evangelist preachers, whom constantly say that America is damned by God because we don't all follow his particular brand of evangelistic preaching. Or perhaps you have forgotten that many of these same pastors were claiming that the September 11th. 2001 attacks were caused by God's wrath against "the gay" or "them liberals"? I don't expect you to remember, but I certainly do. Tell me then, if evangelists are "america-haters" like you would claim, then why the hell should we want Paul Ryan, a rather public and vitriolic evangelist who attempts to enforce his evangelism on others through law, as VP?

Michelle Obama has stated she is proud of her country. Numerous times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/us/politics/26dems.html?scp=6&sq=Michelle%20Obama&st=cse
http://web.archive.org/web/20080829130245/http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1126753,CST-NWS-dem26.article
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/26/reaching_back_to_her_chicago_roots_obama_tells_an_american_story/
Shame on you for believing this claptrap.

The Obama saluting the flag nonsense has long since been disproven. As have thousands of other lies spread on the subject. Shame on you for still believing this claptrap.

Ayers made both public and private apologies for his participation in the 1969 Chicago riots, and condemned the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Not exactly an unrepentant terrorist. Even ignoring that, Obama has long since denounced Ayers and Dohrm's actions. Are you going to vomit out the idiotic nonsense about Republican claims-- without any proof or evidence, including lying about how they hired someone (who stated that they were not in fact hired) to try to prove it-- that Ayers ghost-wrote Obama's memoirs, as well?

Why Palmer (who is accused of being a communist propagandist without proof, for some reason) is mentioned, I don't know. She supported Hillary, not Obama, and in fact she ran against Obama personally when he was running for state senate office. Hardly the setup for a "political mentor", and even if they were, obviously they soured quite a bit.

The "New Party" was not a radical socialist party . They were a party who advocated Electoral Fusion, and were basically a single-issue party. Attempting to conflate the New Party with the Peoples' Party is disingenuous, especially since the latter dissolved 88 years before the former ever formed. Obama, however, wasn't a part of the party. They endorsed him for his state senate run.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is not a "radical-left" organization. ACORN itself is a non-partisan organization, but it has a legally separate political action arm that endorses causes and candidates such as Obama. The political action arm is a lobbyist group, but ACORN itself is most well known for its voter registration drives, its push for education reform, its philanthropy in the wake of natural disasters, and attacking predatory lending practices. Hardly radical left. The legally separate lobby group typically, though not always, supports Democrat candidates, but again, that doesn't define it as radical-left.

So all in all, it's just a bunch of idiocy. The sort of stupidity in the article you posted is nothing more than shameful scaremongering by pathetic, desperate talking heads.

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AustonT wrote:
d-usa wrote:I am really glad Obama invented the teleprompter.

Me too, he really should never speak at all without one. Because he sings...and sounds like a robot without it.
With it he is without a doubt one of the best speech makers in the world, that man could convince you down is up and the sky is made of blueberry juice. I don't care for his politics but man can he work a crowd.

Giving credit when it's due... Obama is good, if not better than Clinton during a campaign.... and good ol' BIll rocked it out.

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AustonT wrote:
d-usa wrote:I am really glad Obama invented the teleprompter.

Me too, he really should never speak at all without one. Because he sings...and sounds like a robot without it.
With it he is without a doubt one of the best speech makers in the world, that man could convince you down is up and the sky is made of blueberry juice. I don't care for his politics but man can he work a crowd.


My problem with the whole teleprompter thing is that is just pretends that every President before him made up every speech on the spot. They all rehearsed their speeches, practiced them, and had a copy of their speech on the podium when they spoke. Nothing has changed except the technology and the result that we can see the speech now instead of not being able to see the paper.

   
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labmouse42 wrote:
AustonT wrote:No fething way?!
Hey guys we can watch clips of important events on YouTube now!
Really guy...really?
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
You did not know that the VP debates were televised. I was giving you an honest friendly suggestion and you respond with sarcasm.
What are you trying to accomplish?
Something like 40 minutes and 5 posts before this I also said:

AustonT wrote:I'm shy of 30. I also don't watch loads of television, never did. The Internet has somewhat addressed my relative ignorance of what goes on in television. But I can't say I'm particularly plugged in especially to notice a debate between Biden and Palin or *shudder* Cheney and Edwards on Cspan8.


AustonT wrote:BS, capital B capital S bull gak. It's absolutely true. If anything the Democrat electorate told the rest of us they could stomach a black man before a white woman in the 2008 primary.
That's a very short-sighted view of the 2008 primary.

ORLY, give me the long sighted version.


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You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.

Come check out my Blood Angels,Crimson Fists, and coming soon Eldar
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391013.page
I have conceded that the Eldar page I started in P&M is their legitimate home. Free Candy! Updated 10/19.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391553.page
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Jihadin wrote:
Wait till after Nov...then we'll calm down.


Then everybody worrying about stocking up for the coming collapse of the economy in the US. best start preparing. I remember...you only need 2K calories perday to survive. Over 3k calories if active shooting looters and raiders.


I am sure that even as the states are being called for one candidate or another, CNNBCBSFOX will already be talking about "what this means for the 2014 mid-term elections". It never stops.

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They're already talking about that.


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KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Melissia wrote:
Our earlier assertion stil holds: that Ron Paul may yet emerge as the last person left standing at the Republican convention.
Political compass has really lost track of reality.


It's called hope. Scant, self deluded grasping hope maybe, but hope.

That said the Poli Compass chart revealed a pretty solid truth, we don't have a two party system in this country any more. Democrat and republican are mirrors of each other and both are continuously pushing for more and bigger government to solidify and expand their personal power bases. It's the Big Government party and who ever wins we lose.
So they're hoping that a politically right wing, highly conservative states right activist that lies to people telling them that he's actually a libertarian to get votes will be elected?

I'm not sure that's really any better.

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