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Ron Paulist "seat them now" versus the GOP Convention "USA"...
Talk about bad timing...bet the representative from Puerto Rico felt like shit
Meanwhile...An attendee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday allegedly threw nuts at a black camerawoman working for CNN and said “This is how we feed animals” before being removed from the convention, a network official confirmed to TPM.....
You have to love the unity of this convention :lol
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...-drama-at-rnc/
The RNC in 100 seconds..
Republican governors tout job gains -- to Obama team's delight
They could not resist. One by one, Republican governors of three presidential battleground states took the floor at the party’s national convention and touted recent job gains in their states – not Mitt Romney’s preferred message.
First up was Gov. John Kasich of Ohio: 122,000 jobs created since he took office last year, he boasted, and a state that has leaped from 48th to fourth in job creation.
INTERACTIVE MAP: Tally up the battleground states
Next came Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia: “Over the last two years, with Republicans and Democrats working together, our unemployment rate is down 20% to 5.9%," he said. “We've added 151,000 net new jobs.”
Finally, there was Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. “Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010,” he said. “Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%. But because of our reforms, Wisconsin has added thousands of new jobs, and our unemployment rate is down from when I first took office.”
Obama’s reelection team was delighted – particularly with Walker.
“Highlighting how unemployment is dropping, the economy is growing, and small businesses are adding jobs, his message tonight was vastly at odds with how Mitt Romney talks down the economy,” Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in an email to the media.
Her subject line: “We Couldn’t Have Said It Better Ourselves, Gov. Walker.”
But not all was lost for the Republican presidential nominee, whose joint appearances with all three governors in their states have showcased the clash between his political needs and theirs.
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
:lol
How the Republicans Built It
It was a day late, but the Republicans' parade of truth-twisting, distortions and plain falsehoods arrived on the podium of their national convention on Tuesday. Following in the footsteps of Mitt Romney's campaign, rarely have so many convention speeches been based on such shaky foundations.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, in the keynote speech, angrily demanded that the American people learn the hard truths about the two parties, but like most of those at the microphone, he failed to supply any. He said his state needed his austere discipline of slashed budgets, canceled public projects and broken public unions, but did not mention that New Jersey now has a higher unemployment rate than when he took over, and never had the revenue boom he promised from tax cuts.
"We believe in telling our seniors the truth about our overburdened entitlements," he said, but his party has consistently refused to come clean about its real plans to undo Medicare and Medicaid. "Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on a path to growth," he said, but Mr. Romney has consistently refused to tell the truth about his tax plan, his budget plan, and his health care plan.
It was appropriate that "We built it," the needling slogan of the evening, was painted on the side of the convention hall. Speaker after speaker alluded to the phrase in an entire day based on the thinnest of reeds - a poorly phrased remark by the president, deliberately taken out of context. President Obama was making the obvious point that all businesses rely to some extent on the work and services of government. But Mr. Romney has twisted it to suggest that Mr. Obama believes all businesses are creatures of the government, and so the convention had to parrot the line.
"We need a president who will say to a small businesswoman: Congratulations, we applaud your success, you did make that happen, you did build that," said Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia. "Big government didn't build America; you built America!"
That was far from the only piece of nonsense on the menu, only the most frequently repeated one. Conventions are always full of cheap applause lines and over-the-top attacks, but it was startling to hear how many speakers in Tampa considered it acceptable to make points that had no basis in reality.
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, for example, boasted of the booming economy in his state, never mentioning that he and Mr. Romney opposed the auto bailout that has played an outsized role in the state's recovery. (Apparently Mr. Obama's destructive economic policies do not apply everywhere.)
Andy Barr, a Congressional candidate in Kentucky, made the particularly egregious charge that the president was conducting "a war on coal," ruthlessly attacking an industry and thousands of struggling miners.
He was apparently referring to the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions and prevent power-plant pollution from drifting through the East Coast states. The country desperately needs to reduce its reliance on coal, which is far more polluting than natural gas, but that goal gets harder to achieve every time someone like Mr. Barr makes it out to be an attack on a way of life.
Considering how Mr. Romney has conducted his campaign so far, most recently his blatantly false advertising accusing Mr. Obama of gutting the work requirement on welfare, it is probably not surprising that the convention he leads would follow a similar path.
Voters looking for a few nuggets of truth would not have found them in Tampa on Tuesday.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=...&sub=Editorial
ALL LIES, ALL THE TIME :lol
The putrid stench of Karl Rove's "reality" permeating the Repug choreography.
The Secret Weapon: All of Us
The Republican National Convention opened by smacking President Obama with the theme "We Built it."
To pound that message, Republicans turned to a Delaware businesswoman, Sher Valenzuela, who is also a candidate for lieutenant governor. Valenzuela and her husband built an upholstery business that now employs dozens of workers.
Valenzuela presumably was picked to speak so that she could thunder at Obama for disdaining capitalism.
Oops.
It turns out that Valenzuela relied not only on her entrepreneurial skills but also on - yes, government help. Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, documented $2 million in loans from the Small Business Administration for Valenzuela's company, plus $15 million in government contracts (mostly noncompetitive ones). :lol
In a presentation earlier this year, Valenzuela described government assistance as an entrepreneur's "biggest 'secret weapon.' " :lol
Someone has set up a parody Web site, using the name of Valenzuela's company, First State Manufacturing, to mock the Republican message. The site, FirstStateManufacturing.com, declares, "Thank God government was there for me."
employment data for the 64 years from the beginning of Harry Truman's presidency to the end of George W. Bush's. ... an average of two million jobs were created per year when a Democrat was president, compared with one million annually when a Republican was president.
for Romney himself. He built his Bain empire partly because he was smart and hard-working, but also because of a great education and because of tax breaks for debt financing. Tax loopholes helped him build his fortune, and other loopholes gave him the low tax rates to retain it.
If the Republican convention wishes to highlight and explain Romney's success, it should have a moment of silence to honor our infernal tax code. :lol
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=...&sub=Columnist
GOP Platform Lies About Abstinence Education’s Effectiveness
enshrines a misguided approach to sex education that will actually lead to more unplanned pregnancies:
We renew our call for replacing “family planning” programs for teens with abstinence education which teaches abstinence until marriage as the responsible and respected standard of behavior. Abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is 100 percent effective against out-of-wedlock pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS when transmitted sexually. It is effective, science-based, and empowers teens to achieve optimal health outcomes and avoid risks of sexual activity. We oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for abortion and contraception.
Touting abstinence-only education programs as “effective” and “science-based” is simply not true. In fact, abstinence education curricula often lack very basic facts about contraception, pregnancy, sexual assault, and effective barriers against sexually transmitted diseases. Some abstinence-only courses, such as the health class in California that instructs students to prevent STDs with “plenty of rest,” teach blatant misinformation.
Abstinence-only education is based on the specious theory that teenagers shouldn’t be taught anything about sex because they shouldn’t be having sex. But promoting abstinence hasn’t worked in religious communities — a full 80 percent of evangelicals report having sex at least once before marriage — and won’t work in schools, either. The approach fails to take into account the fact that 70 percent of teenagers are sexually active by the time they turn 19, and sitting in a health class that pushes junk science won’t dissuade them otherwise. To achieve the goals the Republican Party puts forth, schools across the country need to implement comprehensive sex education that will have honest conversations with young adults about sexuality.
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2...effectiveness/
Repugs, ALL LIES, ALL THE TIME :lol
Gay Marine Beaten To Bloody Pulp To Fire Up RNC Crowd
http://o.onionstatic.com/images/17/1...9/635.jpg?1564
http://www.theonion.com/articles/gay...-rnc-cr,29352/
Boutons, did you watch any of the speeches last night? God bless
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Talk about trying to spin it! The point is that across the board, states with republican leadership are doing better than states with democratic leadership.
"In states with Republican governors, the average unemployment rate is a full point lower than in states with Democratic governors. It makes a difference. Republican governors lead seven of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates. And 12 of the 15 states that have been ranked 'best for business' have Republican governors."
Ironically (not really), the Obama administration fought reforms in those states (most notably Wisconsin and New Jersey) that resulted in the gains experienced in Republican-led States.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
So, I guess, Republican Governors could claim credit for the job gains for which Obama keeps taking credit.
The blatant strategy of the Repugs since 2009 has been to block economic stimulus, to deeepen and extend the Banksters' Great Depression, counting on high unemployment to defeat Obama.
The LAST THING the Repugs want now is increasing employment in ANY state, even in Repug states (but of course, the govs want credit for increasing employment in their states.
lol boutons
So their strategy is to block economic stimulus (except for when they don't).
I'm sure the employment increase was just an oversight. Any day now we'll have legislation in R states banning hiring. http://homerecording.com/bbs/images/...s/facepalm.gif
I'd be interested to know how many of these GOP governors pulled a Paul Ryan and used stimulus funds to create/save jobs and then hypocritically railed against it.
Roughly, all of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmanyr2k
Low Favorability Trails Romney Up to the Convention Dais
http://news.yahoo.com/low-favorabili...-politics.html
And since dumbed down Americans think electing a President is a personality/beauty/beer-partner (so easy, fun, superficial!) contest rather than policies/platform contest (too hard and serious! NOT fun!), Gecko is pretty much fucked.
If there's only a tiny Gecko bounce, in the next 10 days, then Gecko is as dead as Nate Silver says he is.
Looks like wooden, empty NoWhereMan Gecko is outshone by both Queen Ann of "You People Can't Know Our Tax Returns" fame, and sociopath and fiscal fraud Ryan.
Most likely all of them. Except, according to boutons, they are against economic stimulus, so I guess by extension of that "logic", none of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitmanyr2k
And right on cue, a change of topic from boutons. :lmao
:lmao
An essay on wooden, empty NoWhereMan GeckoQuote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
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CG :lol
TB :lol
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
They SAY they were, are against economic stimulus,Quote:
Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue
"Govt is the problem"
"Govt CAN'T create jobs and wealth"
yadda yadda yadda
BUT
many of them have taken the $Bs and claimed full credit when HUSSEIN's stimulus landed in their constituency. FRAUDS, all of them
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
So boutons, which one of your two alter-egos is the liar?Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
:lol
I often wonder what cruel act of fate created Boutons.
LOL I try to picture him every once in a while (curiousity is a bitch), is he some young kid who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, or an embittered middle aged man who finds no joy in life. (yes there are dozens of other possibilities, but on the seldom occasions I put any concious thought into it this is what I come up with)Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
MSNBC abandons GOP convention during every speech by a minority
Take a look at the diverse MSNBC panel:Quote:
One of the left’s favorite attacks on the Republican Party is that it is the party of old white people, devoid of diversity and probably racist.
With the exception of Nikki Haley (of Indian descent -- and only because they probably didn't know), NBC's page of video clips, from the Convention, only carried speeches by Whites. Mia Love and Artur Davis gave two of the most impassioned and dynamic speeches of the evening yet, nothing...No Davis, No Love.
Video: Tuesday night's RNC speeches
Maybe this explains it:
Republican National Convention puts a brown face on a white party
Todd: GOP Putting Minorities In Front At Convention To Appear Diverse
I think it was rabid Chris Matthews that used the term "racist dog whistle" to describe what he viewed as the nuanced way Republicans express their racism. And, every time a minority represents the Republican Party, they're called sell-outs, ignorant, tokens, or worse.
Ask Mia Love, Artur Davis, Nikki Haley, Brian Sandoval, Sher Valenzuela, Ted Cruz, or Luce’ Vela Fortuño if they are tokens or if they are conservatives.
Because of new media, political forums and social networks, tactics such as were exhibited above, have less impact but, are telling, none-the-less.
A couple of days ago, James Taranto, at the Wall Street Journal, countered by saying something to the effect of, "If you're hearing a dog whistle, that means you're the dog."
It's becoming increasingly apparent, to me, that people such as Chris Matthews are the racists.
I'll go with embittered middle age man. Probably in a dead end job, a grotesquely fat wife, and was always last to get picked in elementary school when they divided up sports teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drachen
What's the problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by coyotes_geek
the two "alter egos", the frauds, are the hypocritical Repugs who trash govt, Keynesian counter-cyclical stimulus, and Obama, but LOVE when govt $Bs fall in their districts so they can claim credit and pander for votes.
I'm pretty sure it involves a couple of out work Atari programmers who blame Ronald Reagan and IBM for their misfortune and a malicious virus program that lay dormant on an early model cassette drive until Al Gore came along and unleashed the boutons 1.0 program upon the world by inventing the internet. George Soros and the kooks at thinkprogress did a re-write and left us with the boutons 2.0 program that we see today.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
So there isn't a blatant strategy by republicans to block stimulus programs.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Glad we've got that settled.
you're still confused.Quote:
Originally Posted by coyotes_geek
Repugs SAY they hate govt and stimulus, and will block it if possible (when they are NOT the initiators of the stimulus).
But Repugs LOVE when the $Bs of stimulus (they couldn't stop) fall in their laps.
Boom goes the logic bomb.
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Originally Posted by Moi
Gotcha. Repugs hate stimulus and want to block it, yet they get very happy when their efforts to block stimulus fail because they love stimulus so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
lol boutons
IIRC, Fox Repug Propaganda network refused to carry HUSSEIN's State of the Union speech.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
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Originally Posted by coyotes_geek
TB :lol
you got nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by coyotes_geek
eg, Repugs voted against THEIR TARP, knowing they couldn't stop it if they wanted to. And then they could "blame" TARP on the Dems and claim they voted against it.
But not one of the Repugs would have allowed the TBTF fail. They would have bailed every one of them out just like the Dems did.
Pretty tricky, huh? You probably aren't capable of "gotcha" it, but stick with it.
The GOP can roll out as many African Americans and Latinos as they want at their convention, but that floor of delegates was about as whitebread as they come. That's an issue for the GOP and will continue to be an issue as long as they attempt to cater to the right-wing fringe of the party of which you are a part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...mera-operator/
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Two people were removed from the Republican National Convention Tuesday after they threw nuts at an African-American CNN camera operator and said, “This is how we feed animals.”
Multiple witnesses observed the exchange and RNC security and police immediately removed the two people from the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
The convention released a statement saying, “Two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated."
Romney party yacht ‘Cracker Bay’ flies Cayman Islands flag in Tampa
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-conten...9a-615x345.jpg
Romney came under fire earlier this year when it was revealed that he had millions stashed in the Cayman Islands, a notorious tax haven. In August, Vanity Fair reported that Romney still had a personal stake in at least 12 of Bain Capital’s Cayman Island funds, worth up to $30 million.
The candidate recently insisted to Fox News host Chris Wallace that “there was no reduction — not one dollar reduction — in taxes by virtue of having an account in Switzerland or a Cayman Islands investment.”
“I think it’s ironic they do this aboard a yacht that doesn’t even pay its taxes,” a woman who lives at the marina where Cracker Bay is moored told ABC News.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/2...=Google+Reader
In your moocher faces, you 99%ers. :lol
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
One of you is a liar. Both of you are idiots.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
lol boutons
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
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Originally Posted by coyotes_geek
CG :lol
Too complex for ya, obviously
The Congressional and Gecko election posse Repugs WANT a horrible economy to get rid of HUSSEIN.
The governors NEED to show how they are job creators/economy stimulators to their "all politics is local" states.
the thread is GOP Convention, a VERY BROAD topic.
CG :lol
Uhhhh....you got that it's not Romney's boat, right? More than 30% of the superyachts are registered in the Caymans.
That's not the Cayman Islands' flag.
If by complex you mean bat shit crazy, then yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
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Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
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Originally Posted by Yonivore
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Originally Posted by BoutonsDeux
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Originally Posted by TeshaBlue
Is it Manitoba?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
Bermuda.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
cant tell from here, could be that or bermuda, they are the same flag with different patches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Appears to be Bermuda flag.
Probably Bermuda. I doubt we would see Manitoba on a yacht.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drachen
Apparently broad enough to merit discussion of things that don't have anything to do with the convention whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Just keep moving those goalposts, liar.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
repugs just want people to think that's not the Cayman Islands' flag............Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
6 Big Lies By Republican National Convention Speakers, Day One
1. The "You didn't build that" deception. By now, Obama's rhetorical trip-up on the campaign trail is the stuff of legend, because in the construction of a series of sentences, Obama left an opening for Romney and his allies to suggest that the president meant something entirely different from what he said. At a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va., Obama said that a business owner's success requires government investment in infrastructure such as roads and bridges. "If you've got a business, you didn't build that," he said -- meaning, quite clearly, the roads and bridges. Republicans, however, pulled the quote from its context and ran with it. And Romney is determined to carry that ball to the finish line.
Never mind that even mainstream media have repeatedly refuted the meaning falsely imparted to the president by Romney and company. As of Tuesday night, the Obama quote was altered even further in the "Hands" videos to make it seem that he was shaking his brown finger in the face of lighter-skinned business owners: the audio track takes the words, "Let me tell you" from earlier in the speech, and sets them just ahead of the out-of-context quote to make it sound like this:
"Let me tell you, if you've got a business, you didn't build that."
Here's the actual quote in its entirety, with the Romney edit in bold:
"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
2. The welfare lie. The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that it would consider providing waivers to states from the implementation of welfare-to-work requirement in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program if the states could demonstrate that they had a more effective means of helping welfare recipients find work. Romney has seized upon this announcement to claim that Obama is "gutting welfare reform" and eliminating the TANF work requirement -- a blatant lie that has been reported as such by many news outlets.
If facts actually mattered to the Republican Party, and truth-telling actually mattered to Romney, that would have put an end to the promulgation of the lie. But when a lie feeds a false but effective narrative about a black president and welfare, Romney and his allies apparently can't bear to give it up.
Several convention speakers took up the theme, most notably Rick Santorum, who said:
"And this summer [Obama] showed us once again he believes in government handouts and dependency by waiving the work requirement for welfare."
Artur Davis, the former Alabama Democrat turned Virginia Republican, put it this way:
Bill Clinton took on his base and made welfare a thing you had to work for; this current crowd guts the welfare work requirement in the dead of night.
Davis' part in promoting the lie is especially sweet for the G.O.P. Because he's African American, he provides a certain amount of insulation from charges of racism, despite the obvious racial dog-whistle to those voters who see welfare as a black thing.
3. The "dependency" lie. The Republicans have found a useful corollary to the welfare lie in their invention of a Democratic dependency doctrine, which sells the false idea that Democrats deliberately seek to make people dependent on government benefits as a means of winning votes. It flows from the Republicans' emerging producerist narrative, which was a staple of the racist rants of President Andrew Jackson -- the idea that the world is inhabited by "makers" and "takers," with the "takers" characterized as anybody outside of one's own constituency.
The most juvenile articulation of this steaming pile of prevarication was delivered by radio host and former actress Janine Turner, who followed up a Ben Franklin quote with this:
Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death." Today Obama enables an entitlement society that says, "Give me liberty and gimme, gimme!"
Why? Because Democrats depend on dependence.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, whose entire political career is a creation of the Koch brothers' Americans For Prosperity enterprise, chimed in with this description of the outcome of progressives' attempts to recall [7] him from the governor's mansion after he gutted labor protections for public employees and slashed the education budget:
On June 5th, voters in my swing state were asked to decide if they wanted elected officials who measure success by how many people are dependent on the government, if they wanted leaders who believe success is measured by how many people are not dependent on the government, because they control their own destiny in the private sector.
4. The immigration lie. Back in the primary campaign, Romney encouraged undocumented immigrants to "self-deport [8]." And after Obama announced that his administration would no longer deport undocumented immigrants who, as children, were brought to the United States by their parents, the Republican right cried foul. But that didn't stop Ted Cruz, the Tea Party-backed candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, from claiming, in a head-smacking moment, that the Obama campaign was "going to try to divide America" by "tell[ing] Hispanics that we're not welcome here..."
5. The government takeover lie. It's an oldie but goody, the notion that any new program or regulation amounts to a "government takeover" of some aspect of the economy. Ted Cruz, who may easily take the evening's prize for packing the highest number of falsehoods into three sentences, appeared to claim that the Affordable Care Act and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Board amounted to "government takeovers of healthcare, of financial services and many aspects of our economy."
6. The regulations lie. Another favorite myth of Romney and the Republicans is that Obama has burdened business with an unprecedented level of new regulation when, in fact, the George W. Bush administration issued more final rules in its first three years than has the Obama administration over the same length of time. Nonetheless, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, N.H., claimed that "Under this Administration, the regulations are up and job creation is down."
7. The good guy lie. But perhaps the most blatant lie promulgated on the opening night of the Republican National Convention was uttered by Ann Romney, wife of the presidential nominee, who told the assembled delegates and the millions of voters watching the convention from their living rooms that her husband is a "good and decent man."
http://www.alternet.org/print/electi...eakers-day-one
Romney Is Lying Through His Big White Teeth
e're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers," says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster.
A half dozen fact-checking organizations and websites have refuted Romney's claims that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law and will cut Medicare benefits by $216 billion.
Last Sunday's New York Times even reported on its front page that Romney has been "falsely charging" President Obama with removing the work requirement. Those are strong words from the venerable Times. Yet Romney is still making the false charge. Ads containing it continue to be aired.
Presumably the Romney campaign continues its false claims because they're effective. But this raises a more basic question: How can they remain effective when they've been so overwhelmingly discredited by the media?
The answer is the Republican Party has developed three means of bypassing the mainstream media and its fact-checkers.
The first is by repeating big lies so often in TV spots - financed by a mountain of campaign money - that the public can no longer recall (if it ever knew) that the mainstream media and its fact-checkers have found them to be lies.
The second is by discrediting the mainstream media - asserting it's run by "liberal elites" that can't be trusted to tell the truth. "I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans," Newt Gingrich charged at a Republican debate last January, in what's become a standard GOP attack line.
The third is by using its own misinformation outlets - led by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his yell-radio imitators, book publisher Regnery, and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, along with a right-wing blogosphere - to spread the lies, or at least spread doubt about what's true.
Together, these three mechanisms are creating a parallel Republican universe of Orwellian dimension - where anything can be asserted, where pollsters and political advisers are free to create whatever concoction of lies will help elect their candidate, and where "fact-checkers" are as irrelevant and intrusive as is the truth.
Democracy cannot thrive in such a place. To the contrary, history teaches that this is where demagogues take root.
The Romney campaign has decided it won't be dictated by fact-checkers. But a society without trusted arbiters of what is true and what is false is vulnerable to every lie imaginable.
http://readersupportednews.org/opini...ig-white-teeth
boutons, why do you lie so much?
CG :lol
Is it because you're a bad person?
lol alternet.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
TB :lol
CG :lol
I :lol at your denial that your Repug assholes are blatant, exposed, incorrigible liars.
Well I almost called it.
I :lol at your inability to post a cogent, original thought. lol alternet. lol denial.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
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Originally Posted by moi
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...9&postcount=62
I :lol at the word incorrigible coming from you.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Convention: Lies and Dog Whistles
Well, here we go. The week has begun in Tampa, report Adele Stan and Peter Montgomery, with Ralph Reed, that great Christian casino gambling enthusiast, rallying the troops, advocating that the fall election be dedicated to "the Lord." This invocation comes in advance of what promises to be a toxic waste dump of hate and lies and race-baiting for the next four days.
Tom Edsall said it without quite saying it this morning in the Times, that this Romney-Ryan campaign is becoming among the most racist we've ever seen. The two key lies so far are totally about race--that Obama is soft on welfare recipients, and that he's "robbing" $716 billion from Medicare (77 percent of recipients are white) to "pay for Obamacare" (that is, to extend health care to black and brown people who don't deserve it, havent earned it, etc.).
Commenter Omegadon asked last week: "Michael: Is there any element of the GOP that you don't consider loathesome?" I've been thinking about this over the weekend. Having trouble coming up with much.
Let me answer this way. I may not have much good to say about today's conservatism and Republican Party, but I do have criticisms of Democrats and contemporary liberalism. As I've written many times over the years, they are too fixated on rights without enough corresponding emphasis on responsibility. But when I say responsibility I mean civic responsibility (behavior in the public sphere) more than personal responsibility (behavior in the private sphere). That is, I mean citizens behaving in a way that nurtures and sustains the common good.
Honest conservatism can be valuable. It can provide that counter-balance. But we don't have honest conservatism today. We have a radical party that is dedicated in essence to three propositions: the financial liberation of the top 2 percent; the need to start more wars as the way to exercise moral authority in the world; and the peddling of oogedy-boogedy nonsense that's a step or two removed from bloodletting and alchemy.
Actually, now that I think about it, it's dedicated to two other propositions, too:
the idea that Democrats aren't Americans who have different and worse ideas but are in fact un-American, which leads to this politics as perpetual warfare business;
and the idea that black people shouldn't really have the right to vote in the same way white people do.
As I've said many times going back to the Guardian days, I'd be delighted to have a more-or-less honest, moderate-to-conservative Republican Party. Democrats and Republicans could then talk with each other. They could work together on outcomes like structuring a sensible carbon tax, an idea so socialistic and radical that Exxon's CEO supports it. But that isn't what we have.
So no, Omegadon, not much to admire. And as for the rest of your question, the "both sides" part, I've written it dozens of times--sure, the Democrats aren't blameless. They lie sometimes. But it's not part of their portfolio in the same way because their positions, taken one by one, are more popular. To take a timely example, Social Security and Medicare are popular. Majorities want them preserved, and strongly so. Democrats want to preserve them, so they have the benefit of being able to speak the truth on that point.
Republicans, however, have wanted to destroy Social Security since 1935 and Medicare since 1965. But the programs are popular, so they can't say that. Most government programs are in fact fairly popular, so the party that supports those programs just has to say "we support those programs," while the party that's against them has to lie.
We're going to be hearing a lot of those lies this week, and a lot of quasi-racist dog-whistling about how Obama doesn't feel the same way about America as "we" do. So no--still not sure what I should find non-loathsome about that.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ion.print.html
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Don't you already have a shitty thread for your op-eds?
Queen Ann lecturing Hispanic You People
Ann Romney Wants Hispanic Voters To Get Past ‘Their Biases’
You’d better really look at your future and figure out who’s going to be the guy that’s going to make it better for you and your children, and there is only one answer… It really is a message that would resonate well if they could just get past some of their biases that have been there from the Democratic machines that have made us look like we don’t care about this community. And that is not true. We very much care about you and your families and the opportunities that are there for you and your families.
Hispanic voters have so far remained skeptical of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party, who stood out as the most anti-immigrant candidate during the Republican primary and touted a plan to make undocumented immigrants so uncomfortable that they would “self-deport.” He has also promised to veto the DREAM Act that would give young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children a path to citizenship. Ann’s accusation of Democratic manipulation echoes comments made by Arizona governor Jan Brewer (R) earlier in the day, when she claimed Obama was “race-baiting” and pandering to Latinos.
Ann also offered a recent trip to Puerto Rico as evidence of her ties to the Latino community: “I had the most rocking time in Puerto Rico at a political rally than I’ve ever had in my entire life. You people really know how to party. It was crazy!”
http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...-their-biases/
Queen Ann :lol What a stupid, privileged bitch
oops, messages ALL OVER THE PLACE!
Jeb Bush: GOP Should ‘Stop Acting Stupid’ With Latino Voters
Bush repeated his criticism of his party’s immigration policies Tuesday:
Speaking at a panel discussion at the Republican National Convention, Bush repeated his frequent warning that the party must change its tone, an admonition he has frequently raised about the party’s hardline position on immigration.
“The future of our party is to reach out consistently to have a tone that is open and hospitable to people who share values,’’ he said, adding “the conservative cause would be the governing philosophy as far as the eye could see … and that’s doable if we just stop acting stupid.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...latino-voters/
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:lmao!
MSNBC Anchor: GOP Senator Likening Obama to Tiger Woods
Could it be McConnell is alluding to the fact Barack Obama has played more fucking rounds of golf, in the past four years, than most professional golfers -- including Tiger Woods?Quote:
MARTIN BASHIR: We have seen an early draft of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s forthcoming oration. Can I quote something from you? “For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation’s problems, he hasn’t been working to earn re-election. He has been working to earn a spot on the PGA Tour.” How about that?
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Well, we know exactly what he’s trying to do there. He is trying to align to Tiger Woods and surely, the — lifestyle of Tiger Woods with Barack Obama. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth. They find every way they possibly can to –
BASHIR: Lawrence — don’t you think — don’t you think that what he’s really trying to do is to suggest that the president is not paying attention to the central issues that come with the responsibility he has? Is he really – Mitch McConnell really making a connection with Tiger Woods who, of course, has become infamous for chasing various cocktail waitresses around Las Vegas and so on?
O’DONNELL: Martin, there are many, many, many rhetorical choices you can make at any point in any speech to make whatever point up want to make. If he wanted to make the point that you just suggested and I think he does want to make that point, they had a menu of a minimum of ten different kinds of images that they could have raised. And I promise you, the speech writers went through, rejecting three or four before they land order that one. That’s the one they want for a very deliberate reason. That — there’s – these people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches.
When you've got a lib like Bashir questioning your logic, you've gone around the bend.
:lmao
I didn't realize Lawrence O'Donnell still had a paying gig.
So, noticing that the president likes golf is now racist?
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gfy fucked and unfuckable TB :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue
TB :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by TeyshaBlue
Mods, plz rename this thread ":lol Boutons"
Ryan is spewing tonight, it's gonna be great fun to knock his fraudulent, sociopathic ass out of FL.
Race incident sees Republican convention expulsions
Two people were ejected from the Republican National Convention when they threw nuts at a black CNN camera woman and said "this is how we feed animals," the network said Wednesday.
"CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum" on Tuesday, the opening day of a gala at which former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will accept his party's nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in November's election.
"CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment."
Several witnesses observed the exchange, CNN reported, and convention security personnel immediately removed the two people from the forum.
The convention confirmed the incident in a statement late Tuesday.
"Two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated," organizers said.
The incident is surely not what Republicans wanted 10 weeks out from the election. Romney has struggled to attract African American voters as well as Hispanics, and he is also on the wrong side of the gender gap, with polls consistently showing women voters preferring Obama to Romney.
Current TV journalist and talk radio host David Shuster first tweeted about the incident Tuesday night.
"GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying 'This is how we feed animals,'" Shuster posted on Twitter.
http://news.yahoo.com/race-incident-...155400054.html
:lol Neocons
:lol Cheaters
:lol Election fraudsters
:lol Dumbass racists
If you weren't told which convention a "race incident" occurred at, would you really have to guess?
I would have thought this crowd would get a chuckle out of this story with all the trolling and name calling that goes on here. God blessQuote:
Originally Posted by DMX7
Ryan is up. God bless
Ok, that was pathetic.
We can do this! God bless
I thought Ryan gave a great speech. Now if we can just get some specifics on deficit reduction. We wont.
:toast Gotta say that is pretty well produced.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColinB
Have they named the speakers for the DNC convention, yet?
Because, with Nancy Pelosi advising fellow Democrats to steer clear and Hillary Clinton headed for the Cook Islands -- apparently to get a conceivably far away from Charlotte as possible -- I'm wonder who they're going to get to talk for two or three days. I know Bill Clinton, someone with no political future about which to be concerned, and Debbie Wasserman-Schmitt, and I'm guessing Elizabeth Warren and, :lmao , Joe Biden. But, that's all I come up with and those aren't exactly the caliber we've been witnessing at the RNC.
Is there an agenda out yet?
The mayor of San Antonio?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
I get a server error when I try to follow the link.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
Was working when I pasted it... now I get a blank screen... check later, I guess...Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
Here's another list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_De...ntion#Speakers
Wow, I'm pretty sure that is the best that the RNC could do - and it sucked. I was expecting much more from Ryan, but his obliviousness was overwhelming. I really wanted to come away thinking that he was going to make this race interesting, but the Republicans have no chance.
If Romney doesn't lay out some specifics manana, the DNC has an easy job ahead of them.
I'm assuming you live in Texas, but are you so seriously uninformed that you did not know the keynote speech was being delivered by Julian Castro?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
I agree that they need to lay out specifics, but I thought Ryan did a great job a selling an agenda with little substance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stringer_Bell
But all he basically said was..."vote for us, and we'll just undo everything Obama did to get everything back on track." Saying there was little substance is giving the speech too much credit, there was NONE. He's a good speaker, very articulate for a white man - but he didn't do much of anything except tell the base that Romney is running to repeal all things Obama.Quote:
Originally Posted by Th'Pusher
I wanna know what happens to all the 18-25 yo's that are working shit jobs that don't have benefits and are currently covered by their family's plan thanks to Obamacare. I wanna know what happens to all the people that had pre-existing conditions that got insurance plans. I wanna know what happens to all the people that didn't have insurance before Obamacare that are currently under some sort of long-term treatment. Go ahead, repeal whatever, but tell the American people what will replace it immediately after the repeal...to just repeal it and not have a plan is the height of injustice and one of the most un-Christian things I can imagine being done to lots of families.