Displaying 1,591 To 1,620 Of 16,275 Comments AdLib and that wasn’t in the news today now was it? Had the R’s been able to spin it, MSNBC would have made it a story, then talk about the spin making the spin the story. Either way the R’s would have captured the news and gotten their side of the story out leaving the real news lost in the floor dust. » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 8:14 pm VP Joe’s reply to Mitt on this: Joe Biden @JoeBiden The choice for the middle class is clear—Romney would cut jobs for teachers and first responders; the President would put them back to work. Good point Joe, the choice is clear. There is a commercial running on the telly right now saying “Would you want your doctor doing your job….” and then showing a doc figure doing an inept job. Is that what Mitts idea of the future is? Have the local appliance store send a big van to take you to the hospital when you have a heart attack? Well it is big big just like and ambulance and sorta looks like one. Well my aunt was a skool teecher, I guess I could teech psychics. And we all know k’es, so I guess that qualifies all of us a nurses, right? Fire fighters, get a bigger water hose. Someone robed your home, get ADM to protect your house! What a dismal future Mitt presents. If we hiring public sector jobs at the same rate as ‘small gubment GWB was hiring at the unemployment rate would close to 1-2% lower, now can you imagine with that much disposable income in our economy, how much the total economy would be? » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 7:32 pm Damnit! WHY, WHY, WHY, does MSNBC and others listen the R’s spin and make it into a story? WHAM! 2 hours later Mitt and the R’s come out with some stupid spin on the speech ” The president said the private sector jobs were fine! hang him!” Which any news department could/should see it was taken out of context and was not a story. Leave it to MSNBC to make it a story by discussing why it was spin, how it was spin, which way it was spinning, who said the spin, how many spun it, how they spun it. They got big enough that the presser itself and what PBO actually said was lost in the spin cycle like the always lost sock. So now lets argue about the anti-spin angle. » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 5:49 pm Sally, ICYMI: here are some more cases that are of the same shame: Five ‘Stand Your Ground’ Cases You Should Know About http://www.propublica.org/article/five-stand-your-ground-cases-you-should-know-about » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 5:05 pm Sue, this may come in handy if Mitt possibly wins. http://www.juancole.com/images/2012/06/bradbury.jpg » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 4:26 pm GOP presidential hopeful Willard “Mitt” Romney has called on President Barack Obama to arm the Syrian opposition, accusing the president of lacking leadership for declining to do so. Romney can’t decide whether he is afraid of Muslims or wants to give them sophisticated weapons. He once explained that he did not want to focus on killing Bin Laden because he was just one leader, and the problem was ‘Sunni and Shia’ and ‘the Muslim Brotherhood and … Hizbullah… etc.’ In other words, Romney looks at a fifth of humankind and jumps out of his skin in fright that there might be Muslims out there. [….] 2. The Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaeda affiliate, is among those fighting the Syrian regime. So far it is a bit player in that country, but it certainly would be among the groups receiving American weapons from Romney. Since ISoI has killed a lot of US troops and keeps blowing up Baghdad (its attacks left 18 dead in Baghdad yesterday) — is that wise? [….] 4. Syria is geopolitically too important to flood with powerful arms. It abuts Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey. A US-supplied war that spills over onto these countries is a nightmare for US policy. [….] 7. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood sympathizes profoundly with Hamas, the Palestinian militant group based in Gaza. A Syrian MB armed to the teeth with sophisticated US weapons would be tempted to share them with its sister organization, Hamas. Is that what Romney wants? He doesn’t even understand global affairs and he gives The President an F on foreign affairs? Mitt getting elected would be like making a third grader Secretary of State! He and his neo-con buddies will have us in a war if he is elected, bet on it! » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 4:09 pm Very few people like Citizens United; both left and right. » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 3:22 pm Sally, that does sound progressive, realizing their faults, finding solutions and moving forward, NN12 is probably quite good and productive, now if we could rid them of the self haters and squeaky wheels who also happen to be the ones most interviewed and quoted. » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 3:07 pm A couple of weekends ago, 40 – FOUR- ZERO black teens were shot and killed in in the City of Chicago with zero to none media coverage, but we were treated to “Prison” on MSNBC. THAT is news like your article. Where is the outrage? » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 2:56 pm One thing I need to mention, @Jeffersonobama, who is a twitter follower and who I trust on polls, has cautioned about Purple Poll, why, I don’t know and will try to find out, he compared it to Rasmussen. » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 2:41 pm And a little more piling on:
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Florida finds Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) approval rating has sunk back down to 31%, with 56% of voters disapproving of him. “One thing that hasn’t done his popularity any favors lately is his push to eliminate some people from the voter rolls. Only 34% of voters approve of that effort to 50% who disagree with it.” » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 2:20 pm Sally, the wrath was aimed at others and you got run over! 😆 Killing the messenger! » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 1:47 pm Sally, credit is due to Willy for pulling that up but since I never watch Slo-Joe I have to thank Jon, otherwise, I would have missed it. It was priceless, Joe complaining about it being in the “Home” section and Kerry’s being on the front page less than a month before the election. Just today PBO made an off-hand remark and the R and media are all over it, Mitt can make a speech filled with lies and contradictions and what do we hear? Tadpoles (that’s less than crickets) Thanks for the twitter H/T and one right back atcha, that is an interesting development isn’t it, Spain taxing the RC! » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 1:37 pm Sally, I think you may have received our reaction to the emo/fire baggers, not a reaction to what you said and I do understand what your point, we do need 100% of the vote AND a solid front against the Republicans. I have long sworn off criticizing emo-progs and defended blue dogs for that very reason — we need everyone. The R’s the media are quite good of divide and conquer, we don’t need to do it to ourselves. There probably a lot of good that comes out of NN12 and what we hear/see is often provided by the media and is usually the most outspoken and the most divisive. How easily we can be taken in when others are allowed to frame the question, when it’s the wrong question. We need to be focused not chasing squirrels. Thanks for posting the live link to NN12! » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 1:20 pm President Obama Holds a Press Conference on the Economy June 08, 2012 | 27:31 | President Obama calls on Congress to pass the bipartisan, paid-for ideas that he proposed last year to put construction workers back to work upgrading our roads and bridges, teachers back in the classroom educating our kids and police and firefighters back on the job keeping our communities safe, and addresses the state of the economy, including the situation in Europe, which continues to pose headwinds to our recovery here at home. » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 12:01 pm Reminds me of another group that don’t let those “pesky facts” to get in the way. 😉 » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 11:36 am Sue, same here from what I have seen. Some emo’s even want to re-argue Gitmo—boring. I have been trying to be nice and avoid the term emo-progs, because we need all the votes, but NN brings them out of the woods. » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 11:32 am Bingo, AdLib, I posted a small comment on this from another poll that was very similar a while ago, now another supporting it. And who has been saying it doesn’t work or that it’s “not fair, the beltway pudnuts, Republicans, and “Friends of Private Equity (FPE), that’s who. Perhaps the people out in the hinter lands aren’t offended by hearing “Is it fair to judge job applicants on prior work experience?” because so many have been having had to deal with that very same thing daily while looking for a job. I should let k’es take the Ohio poll, but I’m not surprised, K-Sick has sold off Ohio’s future to PE. Just as in WI, we let the R’s frame the question and we fight the wrong fight. IMHO » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 11:22 am Two words for Jane: Supreme Court. If NN12 needed a theme, it should have been “Why did we sit 2010 out and lose the House?/ how do we get it back?” *(speaking blindly– think about it. :lol:) » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 10:57 am AdLib, that was the best line! 😆 And what he did to Morning Slow on Kerry was a jewel. Like you, I wanted to post this as soon as they had the embed code up, it’s that good! » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 10:27 am Jon Stewart was perfect on this or did he really suck? 🙂 He also did an interview with an “author” from Bain Capital, Edward Conard that is very good, this fellow lives in a separate reality — Is this how Mitt thinks? http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-7-2012/edward-conard » Posted By bito On June 8, 2012 @ 10:03 am Good hashtg: #mittisconningyou 😉 » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 10:37 pm Sally, You’re right, ACORN was acquitted of all charges and the video’s were said to be fraudulent. What did he say, that they “saved” taxpayers 2.8 billion dollars by shutting down ACORN, only in his very weird reality. » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 8:50 pm From under what rock do these hippocritters crawl out? “We’re going to show you young people who don’t do acid, who don’t do ecstasy, who have a rip-roaring good time, and you know what? They maintain their traditional values. I don’t know if that’ll appeal to the little metrosexual who’s tweezing his eyebrows” Hannah Giles, From ACORN Stings to Reality Television Playing dress up as a prostitute and then lying about it, must be one of those wholesome conservative values that go over my head. Wonder if Sister S’arah is going to a guest appearance? http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/06/06/495316/hannah-giles/ The “Call of The Giles” Reality Show Sizzle Reel. » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 8:03 pm Don’t know if I agree with the headline Romney Just Making Stuff Up Now (What do you mean ‘NOW?’ But I have to admit this is a whopper! Mitt says: A book that was written in a way that’s apparently pro-President Obama, was written by a guy named Noam Scheiber and in this book he says that there was a discussion about the fact that Obamacare would slow down the economic recovery in this country and they knew that before they passed it. But they concluded that we would all forget how long the recovery took once it had happened, so they decided to go ahead. The idea that they knowingly slowed down our recovery in order to put in place Obamacare, which they wanted and they considered historic but the American people did not want or consider historic, is something which I think deserves a lot of explaining … The lies. Let us tote them up. First, and most importantly, at no point did anybody in the Obama administration ever believe that passing the Affordable Care Act would “slow down the recovery.” Nothing close to that is ever described. Romney presents the book as revealing that Obama believed health-care reform, through its “big gummint” regulations, would harm the recovery, but cackling that he wanted to pass it out of some belief that Americans wouldn’t notice mass economic suffering. This bears no relationship to anything the book says. [….] read more >>>> http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/romney-just-making-stuff-up-now.html Maybe we just need to count the times he tells the truth and consider the rest lies, it will save a bunch of keystrokes. » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 7:02 pm The guy who ran against Gabby held a raffle for an AK-47 as a fundraiser along with some very questionable remarks, so nothing really surprises me about AZ, sorry to say. » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 5:21 pm Sally, that was really weird ❗ Where does it stop, gets deferments, denies that and then says “Man, I really do wish I couldn’t go to Nam.” Hey Mitt it’s called raising your right hand and joining starting at age 17! Chickensh*t ChickenHawk! » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 5:09 pm Thanks Sally, I sure missed it pre-election. » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 5:00 pm Sorry Sally, i didn’t see your link but it seems we are in agreement. Using only one data point trying to prove your premise is fraudulent and misleading when attempting to show cause/effect. » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 4:55 pm Sally, When did you hear this? The first time I heard it was last night, after the election, on Maddow? » Posted By bito On June 7, 2012 @ 4:35 pmComments Posted By bito
The example from today: the President’s presser. It was hardly news but it was being reported that Congress needs to get off it’s ass and pass some real jobs bills and his jobs bill (that and the leak story.) OK that was fine, they were reporting.
It’s maddening.
Forget about the sock, let’s discus the spin cycle.
Is this fair, AdLib? 😉
Top Ten Reasons Romney Shouldn’t Arm Syrian Rebels
by Juan Cole
Now for my pet peeve when they throw Unions in the mix. While it’s true that they can spend unlimited funds under CU, they are under a whole ‘nother reporting law, something corporations are not.
Those numbers represent an epidemic. A lost generation?
Scott’s Approval Sinks in Florida
Now if we had some reporters doing that to Mitt and his lies/speeches and interviews! “But Mitt you said last month/year….” But is that Fair? 😀
I am “speaking blindly”* here because I haven’t watched any of NN12 this year, but I am with you on this AdLib. Just from the articles via twitter, which has picked up on emo news, many of them seem unable to state their wants/proposals with out a dig on the President. They like most of the pudnuts on the MSM, the other two branches of government seem to disappear. Obama needs to…. Obama should….. What we need is____ Why doesn’t Obama do that?
A little introspection, not what can we get from Obama. Give him a Congress he can work with, and then see what you get.
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