Displaying 151 To 180 Of 9,743 Comments EXCLUSIVE: New Video Clip From Romney Fundraiser! Amen to that K. Romney sounds like a early 20th century Tory to me. He really thinks the working poor are just dirt on his shoes throwing in a reference to Kes’ picture as well. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 18, 2012 @ 4:31 pm The thing that is really making me furious now is the Romney and the right’s reaction to what Romney said. They are not just doubling down on all the lies about the 47% but are adding every piece of trash they can think of to throw at the 47%. This is the debate they obviously wanted all along. Meanwhile like Ezra Klein said 60% of the 47% are working poor that pay more in payroll taxes than Romney does in all federal taxes because tax law so favors capital over labor. Of course the biggest bullshite is that here’s a guy that made his millions off of loading up companies with debt and then bankrupting them. Yet he’s the MAKER not the TAKER in the sick minds of the right wing. The truth is for once Romney spoke from his rusty crusty excuse of a heart and showed he despises the very hard working people he put on governmental assistance for his own personal greed. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 18, 2012 @ 12:44 pm PlanetPOV’s Rogue’s Gallery #1 – Parody Artwork of Romney & Friends Ah some names almost wrote themselves and I got a few names from the Planet crew as well. Thanks to AdLib you can even get it on a poster or t-shirt. *shamelessplug* http://www.zazzle.com/periodic+table+of+dangerous+elements+gifts » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 17, 2012 @ 7:23 am Definitely worth » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 16, 2012 @ 9:32 pm Never Trust a Politician with Thin Lips 😮 MG that’s so funny. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 15, 2012 @ 3:45 pm 😆 you really got me on the Reagan reference, ‘And when he became a Republican, they fell off:’ Priceless! » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 15, 2012 @ 8:56 am I counter with Lincoln our best president. During Lincoln’s presidency the south accused him of being a secret negro. Sound familiar? After Obama’s presidency is done hopefully in 2016 the parallels with Lincoln’s presidency will be so obvious. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 15, 2012 @ 7:52 am 😆 Ah AdLib don’t you know if your family does not come off of those two islands next to socialist continental Europe you can’t be a Republican. Thin lips sink ships. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 15, 2012 @ 7:41 am With GOPTEA Congress Broken Fed to the Rescue I just read where the new program has already helped 825,000 keep their homes in less than six months with the HAMP program. Of course people are complaining another 1 million did not but most of them just failed to follow through with the program and some did not qualify. But still it’s ahead of pace because it’s suppose to help 3-4 million homeowners in two years. The real bottom line is this has been far more successful than past programs and the main reason is the government is making up for some of the principle this time. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 14, 2012 @ 9:39 am It’s monetary policy not a bailout. This is not money that comes out of the hands of taxpayers at all. It’s expanding the money supply and as long as interest rates and inflation are low there is little downside. There is a relatively new program to help homeowners and for the first time home owners can get refinanced with reduced principle. It’s been the most successful program so far for that reason. The real reason QE3 it’s necessary is congress has not acted on jobs plans. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 14, 2012 @ 7:47 am Indeed, the full effects of the great recession will end only when the full effects of the housing bubble ends. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 13, 2012 @ 11:07 pm Excellent assessment of the short term and long term challenges. I think another mid term challenge is the amount of student loan debt out there. The Obama administration alleviated that some by pinning student loans to income but still the debt loads are a drag on the economy. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 13, 2012 @ 9:08 pm The Fed did exactly what they should in this case and of course the GOP is playing politics. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 13, 2012 @ 8:56 pm Indeed it’s a bit late but still welcome. Like Murph said it has short term and long term benefits. Really the last fundamental part of the economy that needs to get over the hump is ending the housing crisis. We are seeing signs that it’s happening and QE3 should help that the most. Interestingly Ezra Klein had about the same take as I do that this move takes away the excuse that businesses have used to drag their feet on new hires. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 13, 2012 @ 8:53 pm Romney Hates America (under President Obama) Absolutely no single aspect of Romney’s matches the biggest error McCain made like you said. But when it comes to personal gaffes and strategic mistakes Romney has done worse. Even the way McCain conducted his convention was much better than Romney’s and McCain’s over all campaign was much more disciplined. Then again now learning a bit more about Steve Schmidt, McCain’s campaign manager, from his commentary on MSNBC he’s a pretty sharp guy. In fact I think the Lehman moment was McCain’s doing not his campaign’s. While I’ve heard Romney is his own biggest adviser and we all know how unintelligent he is now. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 13, 2012 @ 9:41 pm Cheers I was hoping my foray into the social networking thingy would help promote the Planet. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 13, 2012 @ 9:33 pm Limbaugh would hate this picture for sure. This graph of polls almost made me giddy because President Obama is approaching the magic 50%. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/09/is_it_real.php?ref=fpblg » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 13, 2012 @ 10:21 am I think you can still be a boring person like Romney and have a radical and reactionary thought process. Hard campaigns reveal a politician’s true character in that way. On the contrary that’s why when the right wing tries to portray President Obama as this left wing radical it never works. Romney failed the 3am call test in a huge huge way like McCain did with his Lehman moment. Now we’ll see if voters pass the test and realize Romney simply does not have the stable temperament you need to be Commander -in-Chief. In general the right is far far more radical than the left now, especially within the organized parties. Of course the first thing you leave at the door when you’re radical is your ability to reason and problem solve. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 13, 2012 @ 9:31 am I was just reading tonight that undecideds are moving towards Obama in droves. Remember what I said the other day when I found out 55-60% of undecideds are women. If it’s possible Romney has now run a campaign much worse than McCain did in 2008. I even think McCain’s Lehman moment was not this tone deaf. We are passed the anything can happen stage. Anything did happen today and Romney completely blew it. We are going into the something incredible has to happen stage for Romney to win. I still think the debates are the only thing that can move DICK (morris’) needle anyway. What we are finding is the GOP in full meltdown mode. They are attacking the pollsters and media because they can’t handle reality. They nominated someone much more like themselves than they will ever accept. A guy who thinks America is Faux News and right wing radio and nothing else. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 12, 2012 @ 9:12 pm Cheers for the kind comments Sue. I just call ’em as I see ’em. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 12, 2012 @ 2:54 pm All I say to those right wingers is ask Osama Bin Laden or Qaddafi if Obama apologized to them. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 12, 2012 @ 2:53 pm I was pretty proud of Sullivan this time around. Yup Terry Jones is the ‘Christian idiot’ in the tweet I posted. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 12, 2012 @ 2:51 pm Inline with what you said Romney’s behavior is exactly what terrorist want. Just like Putin is leveraging Romney’s epic fail on calling Russia America’s #1 geopolitical foe. Romney is doing more damage to American relations around the world than any political candidate in history. “Romney blew it and revealed how seriously maladroit he is when it comes to foreign affairs and national security,” said Steve Clemons, the founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. “An attack on an Embassy, the murder of U.S. officials including an Ambassador, is an attack on all Americans and the idea of America — and Romney gave terrorists what they want — a divided country still torn emotionally and politically by the events of 9-11. Romney talks of leadership but with his reckless commentary when events were fragile and still unfolding, he belly-flopped.” » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 12, 2012 @ 1:33 pm A tweet sums the whole situation the best. John Lundin A Jewish idiot makes a film, a Christian idiot promotes it, Muslim idiots kill over it, and Republican idiots condemn Obama. I hate the Twitter 140 character limit but sometimes it helps boil things down to the basic truths. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 12, 2012 @ 1:22 pm Indeed many spot on points AdLib. This is unAmericanism on an unprecedented level since the hot Civil War. I didn’t want to get into the politics in my initial post but I hoped you and others would discuss it. This is simply Romney’s ‘I’m suspending my campaign’ moment. Just like McCain was reactionary and inept in the face of an economic disaster Romney has shown similar weaknesses in dealing with an international disaster. The point is not that Romney and other Americans don’t have a right to criticize the president. But the time is not now. That’s the main reason why both sides are criticizing Romney’s outrageous reactions. A greater point is it shows Romney’s true character or lack thereof. The fact that he’s grinning says it all and should be looped over and over in the media. We have seen in a very tough four years that Obama’s biggest strength is being cool under fire. He always gets all the facts and has a reasonable response no matter how dire the situation. When he’s wrong he acknowledges and moves on like an adult. Probably the sickest part of Romney’s behavior is doubling down and trying to parse his attacks. He is simply a child incapable of accepting any blame. Like most in the modern GOP Romney is a radical thinker and hardly conservative in that way. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 12, 2012 @ 1:15 pm The GOP, Mitt Romney and The Five Stages of Grief The best part is the money bump was before the DNC so September should look even better for Obama. So many Romney donors have maxed out and Obama is adding thousands of new donors all the time. I also think Romneyshambles will lead to more big business donations because they will start hedging their bets with Obama. Of course the beauty of the Obama phenomenon is no matter how much one big business or any one interest group gives Obama he absolutely cannot be bought. There simply is not even a single industrial or special interest group segment that holds enough power over him to influence his decisions. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 11, 2012 @ 2:32 pm Ditto, AdLib truly has a gift for describing aspects of the human condition in a unique and extraordinarily insightful manner. The example you give exemplifies that statement very well. The GOP has so many layers of denial with their echo chamber they just can’t even do basic reasoning. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 11, 2012 @ 2:25 pm Ouch! Counting your chickens a bit too early AdLib but another witty gem nonetheless. The GOP has definitely gone through the first four stages in fact they continue to go through them constantly because they can’t reach stage five. Of course like you describe acceptance really is not part of the process in the GOP mind then again they have always come up short in all things intellect. But I’ll do you a solid AdLib and show most conservatives are thinking what you are thinking at least when it comes to the fact that they think Romney will lose. Gotta love some quotes I read today as well. “He may as well be Elmer Fudd as far as we’re concerned,” Limbaugh said. “We’re voting against Obama. I don’t care who they put on the ticket, we’re voting against Obama. That has not changed, and there are more people now than in 2010 who are gonna vote against Obama.” Limbaugh described the epitome of the modern GOP mind. They are not for anything anymore and only live to be against Obama and the Democrats. They are not even trying to develop new ideas or reach out to other demographic groups. They are simply the nihilist party. Kristol said that it’s time for specifics. “When a challenger merely appeals to disappointment with the incumbent and tries to reassure voters he’s not too bad an alternative, that isn’t generally a formula for victory. Mike Dukakis lost,” he wrote in this week’s column, headlined “Speak Up, Mitt!” The truth is that Romney and Ryan know if they speak specifics they will lose because what they are selling is a pile of steaming shite. Columnist George Will, appearing on Ingraham’s show, returned to an earlier theme — that Romney simply isn’t a born conservative. “Mitt Romney does not have the feeling, the visceral, philosophically sound feeling for what’s wrong with the progressive movement in this country,” Will said. “He’s a good man, a good fellow. He’d be a much better president than the one we’ve got. But he doesn’t — what I’ve said before about him is conservatism is a second language for him. And he is still learning it. And it’s hard to learn this thing in the midst of a high-stakes presidential campaign.” If Romney had a core conviction it would be a surprise to anyone. Trying to make the conservative case would be another loser for Romney because he does not believe it. “I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but I don’t happen to think he represents the best vision for Romney on camera,” Ingraham said of Fehrnstrom. “Election after election, we hire people who have lost previous campaigns, who’ve run campaigns that have failed, who have message campaigns where the message fell flat, and they keep getting rehired … I don’t understand that. I don’t know why those are the people you hire.” My contention is that this fills the right wing self fulfilling prophecy. The reason they have a dearth of talent in the GOP is because they treat politics like a bastard step child. They really hate government and governing so the talent pool they draw from is getting smaller and poorer. John Podhoretz, writing in the New York Post, slammed the Romney campaign’s tepid response to its tailspin. “The Romney campaign seems to have settled on an argument that Obama’s poll strength is just a post-convention ‘sugar high,’ as its pollster Neil Newhouse said in a strikingly infelicitous memo,” Podhoretz wrote. “It’s interesting Newhouse hit on the dismissive description of a ‘sugar high’ — because a sugar rush is what Romney’s side needs.” Again Romney and his team of Keystone Cops is out of touch. It’s not a sugar high as much as people have seen the first real difference between the parties. On party is looking forward to the future and wants to lead the country in that direction. The other party is cynical and crass that just wants to go back to some previous date in time, some want to go as far back as medieval times where all the workers are surfs and the plutocrats have a divine right to rule. “This is a very close race and one that still could go either way,” Cook wrote in National Journal. “But the odds of Romney capitalizing on this economy, and the opportunity it affords, seem lower than they were before the conventions. If Republicans and Romney supporters are growing nervous, they should be.” This is probably the take I agree with the most. Romney is still very much in this because of the economy. Sure he’s 0-1 on the big stage but he still has three debates to impress people. The press still could really screw Obama if he does not meet their expectations game or Romney comes up with a few good lines. We’ll see Obama could have turned the corner like Bush did with his effective convention in 2004. Bush had bad debate performances and still beat Kerry on his likeability over Kerry. Obviously I have much more faith in Obama’s debating skills but anything can still happen. The bottom line is Obama now has a definite lead at a very good time, actually almost the same time he had a definite lead in 2008. I see this election being much more like 2004 with for Bush than 1980 for Carter even though it’s not over ’til it’s over when the fat Limbaugh cries. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 11, 2012 @ 2:20 pm Weekend Music Thread – Fired Up and Ready to Go Well we gotta celebrate the DNC Obama BOUNCE don’t we? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/08/1129347/-Quick-DNC-convention-bounce-update Reuters/Ipsos (4-day rolling sample) Rasmussen (3-day rolling sample) Gallup (7-day rolling sample for horserace, 3-day for favorabilities) Obama bounce: +4 JAY-Z featuring JA RULE – Bounce With Me
» Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 8, 2012 @ 5:45 pm The Pointer Sisters – I’m So Excited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LbvFckptY BTW AdLib I have not been participating in Music Night that much of late not because the themes are bad, they’ve been great, but because my laptop with the new Flash does not play videos that well at all anymore. In fact Flash usually crashes. But fortunately I should be getting a new laptop soon so that will be rectified. The one I have now is about 7 years old. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On September 8, 2012 @ 5:23 pmComments Posted By KQµårk 死神
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Obama bounce: +6
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