Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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Clint Eastwood cuts an ad for Romney




A.B. Stoddard:  Panic in the Democratic Ranks

The Fox News All Stars looks at the President’s Plan for Jobs.  Do the Democrats have a substance problem?  Krauthammer thinks they’ve got nothing. 



Is this the October surprise?

Mitt Romney was heavily involved in the extremely messy divorce of one of his key supporters ... and the Boston Globe is going to court first thing Wednesday morning in an attempt to unseal the court file as well as lift a gag order ... TMZ has learned.

If it is it’s pretty pathetic.  But if Romney’s testimony in a divorce case is pertinent, don’t you think Obama’s college transcripts are even more pertinent? 





CNN finds Obama won the debate

CNN found Obama won the debate by 8 points but also found 24% were more likely to vote for Obama after the debate while 25% were more likely to vote for Romney.  But I found this to be interesting.

The sample of debate-watchers in the poll was 34% Democratic and 30% Republican.
"That indicates that the sample of debate watchers is about five points more Republican than polls taken among all Americans throughout 2012, so the debate audience was more Republican than the general public," added Holland. "This poll does not and cannot reflect the views of all Americans. It only represents the views of people who watched the debate."

If you are a democrat and you are sitting on the edge of your seat because the polls are so close, you need to realize they are only close if the Democrats come out in greater numbers compared to the Republicans than they did in 2008.  In short, you’ve been lied to and this election is going toward Romney.  The leftwing pundits are not going to be shocked when Romney wins.  They will be crushed, upset and angry, but they know what the actual state of the election is. 



Romney comes across strong in Debate

In a debate about who should be commander-in-chief, Mitt Romney was just as much in command as the man in the job now.

President Obama came into the debate with a record to boast of, and he used it to play offense. He poked and prodded Romney, even tried to bayonet him at one point, and sought to lecture his opponent on what it’s like actually to be president.

The president accomplished what he needed to, particularly by taking the role of the aggressor that his base has wanted so desperately this debate season.

But Romney also had a strong debate, in pursuing different goals than the president. He sought to come across as reasonable rather than confrontational — a candidate comfortable with the campaign’s trajectory.

“Attacking me is not talking about an agenda,” Romney said at one point.

You could sense Obama’s frustration with Romney’s rope-a-dope strategy.  Refusing to take the bait, Romney looked presidential. 


When no one is looking

Obama hit back at Romney by stating that when he visited Israel in 2008, “as a candidate, I didn’t take donors. I didn’t attend fundraisers.” Romney held a Jerusalem fundraiser during his trip to Israel this summer.

Obama continued: “I went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself [of] the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable.”

Asked why the Republican candidate chose not to mention his own Yad Vashem visit when the subject of the Holocaust museum was raised by Obama, sources in the Romney campaign said that they were not going to comment on what Obama had said, and that Romney’s deep commitment for and many experiences in Israel are well known.

You get a measure of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney with this story.  President Obama let us know in that debate, that “the nation, me” did something important.  Mitt Romney doesn’t proclaim to the world all the good deeds he’s done.  Character is what you do when you think no one is looking.  Mitt Romney has great character.  





Romney’s best quotes from Monday’s debate 

My favorite is #4.  It lays out the case against Mr. Obama.


Obama changes strategy

The Obama campaign has changed their strategy at the last minute and will actually put forward a plan for a hoped for second term.  This was resisted by the campaign since in reality their only plan is more of the same.  Obama also didn’t want to be constrained by a plan in his second term.  I guess he was planning on having much more flexibility. 



What is the source of Obama’s anger?

One might ask what exactly about cancer, a disease whose progress is generally referred to in stages in that manner, is so funny? But even if we are ready to give him a pass for showing bad taste, one has to question the strategy being employed here. For several months, the entire Democratic campaign seemed predicated on derision and demonization of Romney. But in the first presidential debate the GOP candidate blew that effort out of the water, changing not only the direction of the race but rendering much of the Obama campaign’s material obsolete if not completely irrelevant. Yet despite that, the president keeps playing the same losing hand aimed at denigrating an opponent who strikes most Americans as inherently reasonable. That makes one wonder whether the president’s condescending attitude as well as his sarcasm has a lot more to do with his anger at Romney’s strength and staying power than it does with any tactical political plan. More and more, it’s sounding as if President Obama is just plain mad at Romney because of the growing possibility that he’s going to lose the election.




Has the MSM started to turn on President Obama?

Well they don’t think much of his Plan for Jobs at CNN.   But neither does the Wall Street Journal. 



Over at Morning Joe we have them discussing the petty attacks of the President. 

Russell Gold from ABC news told Politico “If you’re President Obama, you know you pushed the sarcasm envelope at Monday night’s debate when even Rachel Maddow describes the way you spoke to Mitt Romney as being in ‘very, very overtly patronizing terms.’”


BTW, Obama was wrong in his snarky comments.  There are over ½ million bayonets in the US Military, ships that are underwater are sunk, while boats that go underwater are submarines.  And just to make sure you know, port is left, starboard is right. 



If Obama has lost David Letterman….

It appears Letterman did what Romney asked people to do regarding the GM bankruptcy and read the op-ed piece he wrote.  Romney was telling the truth much to Letterman’s chagrin. 



If you want something to get better

Talk about it.  That line comes from the book In Search of Excellence.  So who is talking about the problems with poverty in the country?  It’s not Barack Obama but Mitt Romney.  In fact other than the rich not paying their fair share, what is BHO talking about?

 

Congressman Jim Moran’s son caught on tape teaching vote fraud techniques

A new undercover video from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas shows Pat Moran, son of longtime incumbent congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) and field director for his father’s re-election campaign, instructing a supporter in how to use fraudulent documents to cast a hundred illegal votes:  Click here for more.





Pew Poll:  Once again finds Republicans smarter than Democrats

And has found this every year since they started checking back in 1987on political knowledge.  Not only that, Pew found Tea Party members are more educated than the average US citizen.



Democrats decry “low information” voters

“Low-information voters” are really being attacked for failing to be politically tribal, for failing to do what the experts and high-information media set believe they should do – which, in essence, is vote Obama.

Behind the PC-sounding lingo of “low information”, there lurks a very old, elitist contempt for the mob. What we’re really witnessing is the rehabilitation of the idea that certain sections of the electorate are just too ill-educated or unenlightened to be trusted to vote properly. 

Actually the left is unhappy with Republican low information voters but cultivate their own low information voters.   It was Obama who posited that the Democrats could forge a winning coalition of welfare and the working poor voters.   




MSM may go into mourning in November

Watch the faces of the CBS reporters after  :29 seconds in.  They look like they just heard a relative has died when they get the results of their Ohio focus group on the last Presidential debate. 




Why the left hates gay conservatives
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the left doesn’t hate me because I am mean or brash or too aggressive – the same label can be applied to many of my critics. No, the left hates me because I have the audacity to stand up to them. They hate me because I am a conservative who happens to be gay. They hate me because I won’t be bullied by them. They hate me because I have dared to wander off the liberal plantation, because I refuse to play the victim card, and because I have rejected their failed big government, single-issue, tunnel-visioned agenda.”
Heretics are always a greater threat to their supposed faith than are simple non-believers.  Gays and blacks who fail to toe the party line (and to a lesser extent women) are vilified because they are dangerous. 




Thursday, September 6, 2012

Tomorrow we get unemployment numbers



 Best Quotes from RNC

“The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.” — Cardinal Timothy Dolan

“Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.” — Chris Christie

”We believe ‘we’re all in this together’ is a far better philosophy than ‘you’re on your own.’” Bill Clinton

In describing Mitt Romney: “a person who said in four words, ‘Let Detroit go bankrupt.’” Rahm Emmanuel  (note:  Romney never said this.  An editor created a headline with those words for an op-ed Romney wrote)

Gallup:  Unemployment in August not likely to improve

The BLM’s July unadjusted unemployment rate was 8.7% last month.  Gallup is expecting the that number to remain the same or go up in August.

CBO: Under Current Law, Unemployment Will Rise Next Year to 9.1%

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is projecting that if changes in federal taxing-and-spending policies already enacted and set to take effect at the beginning of next year do in fact take place, the unemployment rate will climb to 9.1 percent.


Democrats split, but put God and Jerusalem back into Party Platform

Having taken out of the Democratic Platform any mention of God and the acknowledgement of Jerusalem being Israel’s capital, the Democrats did an about face as it became an issue.  But it took three votes to get the approval and many in the audience booed the decision.

This is turning out to be a festering sore for the Democratic Party.  When they tried to change the platform it appeared the chairman ramrodded the changes through.  This vote brought to mind the 1930s as the idea of putting Jerusalem back in the platform as the Capital of Israel was supported by no more than half the delegates (and probably not even half).  There were boos after the chairman said it carried.

But as a Republican it is fun to watch the Democrats start coming apart.


Featured Steelworker at DNC didn’t actually work for Bain

“DavidFoster was never an employee of GST Steel’s Kansas City plant. He was employed by the United Steelworkers of America as their regional union director to represent GST Steel, but was not employed at our facility,”   But he was a speaker at the DNC passing himself off as a former Bain employee.  

From his speech:  In 2001, with GST bankrupt and Romney still CEO of Bain, I stood in front of hundreds of steelworkers in their 50s and 60s, and retirees in their 70s and 80s, and told them Romney and Bain had broken their promises. Jobs, vacation pay, severance, health insurance and pension benefits that were promised—they were all gone.

Except Romney was no longer at Bain Capital.  He was busy saving the Winter Olympics and had been there for over two years at this time. 



A New Democratic Idea:  Ban corporate profits

If you want to see how ignorant the Democrat delegates can be, this will scare the devil out of you. 



Woodward’s latest book reveals Obama’s deal breaker

Bob Woodward’s new book, The Price of Power, is coming out September 11 and that timing is not good for Obama.  Woodward details out the negotiations between Obama and Boehner who came up with a deal to reduce the deficit only to have President Obama insist on increasing the new taxes by 50%.  That was a deal breaker and Boehner went to his plan B which kept the government from defaulting on its debt.  Obama did not have a plan B and it was Boehner and Reid who kept the government out of default. 
From the write up it appears Obama doesn’t like the Republicans in congress or the Democrats and the feeling appears to be mutual.  He relates the story of inviting Paul Ryan to an address he was making where he tore Ryan’s budget apart.  Ryan related to one of the Whitehouse staff “I can’t believe you poisoned the well like that.”  It appears Bill Clinton was right when he called Obama an Amateur.

As for Obama putting out an open hand to try to get the Republicans on board that appears to be left wing spin.  On his first day in office, Obama sent a message to congress telling them he wanted a stimulus of between $800 billion and $1.3 trillion.  It was well received by both parties who were serious in their desire to work with the President on this.  Three days later, Obama invited the congressional delegates to the White House and basically rejected all the Republicans proposals.  Woodward says as if to almost rub it in, Obama told Eric Cantor, “Elections have consequences.  And Eric, I won.”
Cantor told Woodward he was “surprised how badly the White House had played what should have been a winning hand.  Though Obama won the vote, he had unified and energized the losers.” 




Obamacare summarized in one long sentence



DNC viewership down

While Michelle Obama was praised by the media, viewership was down significantly from 2008 and Ann Romney actually had400,000 more viewers than did the first lady. 



DWS refuses to apologize after being caught in a lie

Rep.Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) told the Washington Free Beacon Wednesday evening that she will not be apologizing to Washington Examiner reporter Philip Klein after she falsely accused him of “deliberately misquoting” her.



Phony Injuns

A top five list of people who claimed to be Indians without a drop of Indian blood in them.  ElizabethWarren takes top honors but you’ll be surprised about the others. 



Whatever happened to Climate Change as a political issue?
The whole Climate Change “issue” seems to have slipped away from the left.  In the first two days of the Democratic National Convention, it was mentioned only once in 80 speeches.

Democrats and abortion

Why has the party removed the sentence “Abortionshould be safe, legal, and rare” from its platform? It was in the 2004 document but not in 2008’s or this year’s. Can’t Democrats just throw a crumb to the many millions who are pro-choice but not pro-abortion?



Democrats and Poverty

There is a striking absence of any mention of poverty at the Democratic National Convention.  If you want to know why look here. 



Government vs Corporation

"Government" is just a word for things we do together. "Corporation" is just a word for things we do together voluntarily.  David Burge


At Last an Honor Killing we can support

They got the right person this time.





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