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Grading the Great deceiver
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:36 AM
KANEMAN
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:50 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:04 AM
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:01 AM
DREAMTROVE
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:15 AM
HARDWARE
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:44 AM
PIRATENEWS
John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:28 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:39 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: AND YET....with all the endless carping, berating, blaming and bashing of Obama on every single national and world event, there still isn't ANY Republican with a prayer of beating him next year. More than that, the Republicans have gone full-tilt batshit crazy since November's election, and they have failed utterly to capture the imagination of Americans. The so-called "front-runners" are a motley collection of has-been losers, clueless ideologues, and Fox News whores. Show me the leadership! You need to get out more. Anyone can beat Obama in 2012...even Christine Odonell....anyone!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:56 AM
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: AND YET....with all the endless carping, berating, blaming and bashing of Obama on every single national and world event, there still isn't ANY Republican with a prayer of beating him next year. More than that, the Republicans have gone full-tilt batshit crazy since November's election, and they have failed utterly to capture the imagination of Americans. The so-called "front-runners" are a motley collection of has-been losers, clueless ideologues, and Fox News whores. Show me the leadership!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:51 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Hardware: Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: AND YET....with all the endless carping, berating, blaming and bashing of Obama on every single national and world event, there still isn't ANY Republican with a prayer of beating him next year. More than that, the Republicans have gone full-tilt batshit crazy since November's election, and they have failed utterly to capture the imagination of Americans. The so-called "front-runners" are a motley collection of has-been losers, clueless ideologues, and Fox News whores. Show me the leadership! On the other hand, maybe this is the best chance a 3rd party has to finally win one. But, are you defending 0bama by attacking criticism of him? Or are you just attacking the other side? I'm confused if you are running a false flag operation or if you are one of the drunk the cool-aid faithful.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:35 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:AND YET....with all the endless carping, berating, blaming and bashing of Obama on every single national and world event, there still isn't ANY Republican with a prayer of beating him next year. More than that, the Republicans have gone full-tilt batshit crazy since November's election, and they have failed utterly to capture the imagination of Americans. The so-called "front-runners" are a motley collection of has-been losers, clueless ideologues, and Fox News whores. Show me the leadership!
Quote: The most recent Chief of Staff for Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann says he intends to support former Minnesota Governor, Tim Pawlenty in the GOP race for President. Ron Carey served as Bachmann's fifth Chief of Staff before resigning last summer during Bachmann's reelection campaign. "I hope the Republican faithful connect their heads with their hearts. You have candidates to get people fired up, but can they actually build a coalition? That's why I'm supporting Pawlenty, " Carey says. Here’s what she thinks the GOP’s political philosophy should be when they won the majority in the midterm elections: “I think that all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another. And expose all the nonsense that is gone [sic] on. And it’s very important when we come back that we have constitutional conservative leadership because the American people’s patience is about this big. So we have to make sure that we do what the people want us to do.” Yup, that’s what we want in a President, fer shore! Bachmann went on to claim that while prior to President Obama’s election, “the private economy was 100 percent held in private hands,” while “today 65 percent of the economy is now held in government’s hands – either through direct ownership or control.”
Quote:Before President Barack Obama backed the use of U.S. force to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, Gingrich had favored such a move, saying "this is a moment to get rid" of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. But once Obama ordered the U.S. military into action, Gingrich declared, "I would not have intervened." On March 7: “Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. … It’s also an ideological problem. The United States doesn’t need anybody’s permission. We don’t need to have NATO, who frankly, won’t bring much to the fight. We don’t need to have the United Nations. All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we’re intervening. And we don’t have to send troops. All we have to do is suppress his air force, which we could do in minutes,” he said on Fox. But then, less than 24 hours after Obama took action — Gingrich claimed that “it is impossible to make sense of the standard for intervention in Libya except opportunism and news media publicity.” That morning on the Today Show, he said plainly, “I would not have intervened”: Gingrich ran the risk of complicating his attempts to show why Republican voters should view him as a more steadfast leader than a host of other Republicans considering a run to challenge Democrat Obama in 2012. He told the crowd "obviously there were contradictions" in his statements but that he had changed his analysis as a result of Obama changing his position. "Now, I believe the only rational objective of the current intervention is to defeat Gaddafi as rapidly as possible," Gingrich said. "I would do it by using Egyptian, Moroccan, Jordanian, and Iraqi ground forces as advisers and as air controllers, with the rebels, using all of western air power as decisively as possible."
Quote:"Since World War II, the world has looked to America for leadership. But we haven't provided leadership in this administration," Barbour, the Mississippi governor, said Thursday on the Gallo Show on Jackson-based WFMN radio. Barbour told reporters Tuesday in Nevada that Obama "dithered a long time" before taking military action in Libya.
Quote:Haley Barbour is not well equipped for the age of Obama. Just look at the man's office. The Republican governor of Mississippi keeps a large portrait of the University Greys, the Confederate rifle company that suffered 100 percent casualties at Gettysburg, on a wall not far from a Stars and Bars Confederate flag signed by Jefferson Davis. Then there's the man himself. Rather than walking across the street from his office to the state capitol, he rides a hundred or so yards in the back seat of a large SUV, air conditioning on full blast...
Quote:“My dear friends, we face a spiritual war in this country, and the idea of this wonderful nation built on a Judeo-Christian principle that we are accountable and answerable to a holy God is on the line.” Daniel Wright, a 49-year-old truck driver who said he watches “Huckabee,” the former governor’s show on Fox News, every Saturday. “He goes by what the Bible says, and we need someone strong that way.”
Quote:This is troubling enough for a man who may one day be asked to make momentous decisions based on facts. It also shows that Huckabee will stir the same poison pot about Obama to please a Republican primary base in which half the voters think the president is not an American citizen. But an even bigger fiction is the one Huckabee tells about the violent felon Maurice Clemmons. After being asked about having granted Clemmons’s plea for early release: “There was a kid who was 16 years old, he committed a burglary, he was aggravated, but not armed. And for that he got 108 years,” Huckabee said. “One-hundred-and-eight years.” All lies: Clemmons was facing eight felony charges at the peak of a crime spree, not one. He was 17. During a reign of terror, he broke into the home of a cop, stole guns, assaulted and robbed a woman, and broke into the home of state trooper. In prison, he committed a half-dozen assaults, harassed guards and had sex with inmates as part of a pattern of preying on fellow convicts. Despite his bad behavior, he would have been eligible for parole after serving 18 years, not 108, The Seattle Times reported. But he got out early, serving 11 years, because of Huckabee. While saying he was under “the watchful eyes of the Lord,” Clemmons assaulted two inmates. “God bless you,” Clemmons wrote Huckabee, a Baptist minister, in his plea for mercy. “It is so prayed!” In that same plea, he claimed to be a model prisoner. In fact, he’d been disciplined 29 times. Had Huckabee checked with prosecutors, prison guards or victims, he would have found grave concerns about letting Clemmons loose on the community. The prison system risk assessment categorized him as “most likely to return to violence.” And he did, sadly, in late 2009, murdering four officers who sat drinking their morning coffee. Clemmons was later killed during a massive manhunt. During more than 10 years as governor, Huckabee granted twice as many requests for clemency as his predecessors had over 17 years. Some of the most hardened convicts played the religion card, and went on to further violence. The pattern here raises two major concerns. He constructs alternative views: a convict is saved by Jesus, instead of using Jesus to get out of jail, or, Obama is a bad president because he’s not really an American. The pattern here raises two major concerns. He constructs alternative views: a convict is saved by Jesus, instead of using Jesus to get out of jail, or, Obama is a bad president because he’s not really an American. The second question is about judgment, always the most crucial thing to consider in a person who wants to be president. If Huckabee can’t see past a crude convict ploy to his heart, how can he judge the North Koreans?
FREMDFIRMA
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:49 AM
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 10:15 AM
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:34 PM
RIONAEIRE
Beir bua agus beannacht
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:40 PM
PENGUIN
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:48 PM
Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by RionaEire: ... Also good points from John Straw and everyone else here.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:10 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Quote:Originally posted by RionaEire: ... Also good points from John Straw and everyone else here. Riona, I've been called a lot of things over the years in this forum, but you have come up with a new twist. Niki, No big, but I wrote the post you attributed to Hardware. And to my fellow Conservative friends including Kman who perhaps think I've switched sides or something.....Even Karl Rove says there are no Republicans yet who can beat Obama according to his poll numbers. Many traditional Conservatives like Sean Hannity and others are themselves calling the House Repubs under Boehner gutless and ineffective. How many more continuing resolution compromises are they gonna make with the do-nothing Dems? They have to take a stand. Their $60 billion in cuts is only a pubic hair less absurd than the Dem's $10-$20 billion in budget cuts. We're borrowing $5 billion a day, and all the so-called fiscally responsible Repubs can come up with is a pathetic 2% budget cut? It's an insult to Americans that elected them.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:20 AM
Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:46 AM
Quote:Truth is, I'm as or more upset and disappointed with current Republicans than ever before for many reasons.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:50 AM
Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:11 PM
Friday, April 1, 2011 6:27 PM
Saturday, April 2, 2011 1:53 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: No, I like it! We all end up "nicknaming" one another one way or another, and that one's cute. And I forgot to mention GAWD, I miss Bloom County! Thank you, Penguin. We stopped getting the local paper long ago, and Doonesbury and Bloom County were the two I missed te most. From what someone wrote: Is Bloom County no more?!? Bummer, if so.
Quote:Breathed became published first when he was hired part-time by the Austin American-Statesman to draw editorial cartoons for the newspaper. This job was short-lived; he was dismissed shortly after one of his cartoons caused outrage.[2] His first comic strip published regularly was The Academia Waltz, which appeared in the Daily Texan, in 1978 while he was a student at the University of Texas. While at the University of Texas, Breathed self-published two collections of The Academia Waltz, using the profits to pay his tuition. The comic strip attracted the notice of the editors of the Washington Post, who recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip. On December 8, 1980, Bloom County made its debut and featured some of the characters from Academia Waltz, including former frat-boy Steve Dallas and the paraplegic Vietnam war veteran Cutter John. In the beginning, the strip's style was so similar to that of another popular strip, Doonesbury, that Doonesbury's creator Garry Trudeau wrote to Breathed several times to indicate their similarities.[3] Breathed has acknowledged that he borrowed liberally from Doonesbury during his early career. In the Outland collection, One Last Little Peek, Breathed even put an early Bloom County side-by-side with the Doonesbury comic strip from which it obviously took its idea. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning during 1987.[4] The strip eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world until Berkeley retired the daily strip in 1989, stating that he wanted to terminate the strip while it was still popular. At that time, he said, "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators".[5] He replaced this strip with the surreal Sunday-only cartoon Outland in 1989, which reused some of the Bloom County characters, including Opus the Penguin and Bill the Cat. He ended Outland in 1995. Eight years later, Breathed began the comic strip Opus, a Sunday-only strip featuring Opus the Penguin, who was one of the main characters of Bloom County. He colored the cartoon himself with Adobe Photoshop, claiming that the advances in technology since 1990 have created an opportunity to draw "something that 'looks' cool on a comic page".[citation needed] In June 2007, Salon.com announced[citation needed] it would carry new Opus cartoons by Berkeley as a weekly Sunday feature. Several newspapers chose not to run the August 26, 2007, Opus cartoon because it might offend Muslims.[6] On October 6, 2008, Breathed announced plans to discontinue all work on comic strips with the final Opus strip to run on November 2, 2008.[7] Breathed plans to focus on writing children's books.[1] Breathed explained that he felt that the United States was going to face "tough times", and that he wanted to end the saga of his most memorable character "on a lighter note". The last Opus comic strip appeared on schedule, but in what may be a comic first the final panel required an online link. The final panel the strip showed Opus sleeping peacefully in the bed depicted in the classic children's book, Goodnight Moon. This panel was available only online, and the Humane Society page that displayed it no longer exists. Breathed said that he had no regrets in leaving political cartooning, as he believes the atmosphere became too bitter for him to make quality cartoons.[8]
Sunday, April 3, 2011 10:57 AM
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Monday, November 23, 2015 4:45 AM
JAYNEZTOWN
Monday, November 23, 2015 1:25 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:Originally posted by dreamtrove: He's a total disaster. His own agenda has been overrun with that of his friends, and that is a disaster. I actually think he's headed for a position as one of the great disasters of human history, I suspect his was will lead to world chaos, and the end of his empire. Such leaders aren't always the most flawed individuals, look at Gorby, but they will always be remembered for what fell on their watch. That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
Thursday, November 26, 2015 3:47 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: Approval rating polls tell the answers, he's gone from highs of 70s to the lows of 30s that's 76 >>>>37 a huge swing there are very few who rank lower today, maybe Nixon, Carter and Bush jnr Gallup Poll recorded approval highs and lows for each President since 1937, his average score is in the 40s You can plot the approval using a graph see Bush Jnr and Obama have a very similar story, the graph starts high and numbers plumet as the Presidency continues...I suppose the political success story is how both got re-elected
Thursday, November 26, 2015 7:20 AM
REAVERFAN
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