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-Lurid Crime Tales-
US Debt Now At $136,260 Per Household
Fundamentally changing America thru financial ruin is going as planned by Hussein Obama.
(CNSNews.com) -The U.S. government debt, which topped $16 trillion for the first time at the close of business on Friday, now equals approximately $136,260 for every household in the country.

Just since President Barack Obama was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009, the debt has increased by $45,848 per household--or about 50 percent per household.
Posted by: Clirt tse Tung3617 || 09/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So when can America = Amerika, the OWG Mighty USSA versus OWG Weak USRA Global SSR, engage in glorious Commie/Soviet-style DEBT WRITE-OFFS.

["I SEE NOTHING" SGT. SCHULTZ here].

Methinks our sacred Commie-esque Debt-to-GDP ratio will have to be much closer to that of the then-USSR's, 2012 Greece or Japan, etc. than as at present.

Speaking of Nippon ....

* FYI WORLD NEWS > DAILY YOMIURI = AXING N-POWER COULD COST TRILYUHNS. Japan would need to invest as much as Y$50.0Trilyuhn in so-called "Green Techs", e.g. Solar + Wind, in order to cease its dependency on Civilian NucEnergy by Year 2030.

Corresponding massive increase in "Green Debt" per capita per individual Household.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/05/2012 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  $16 Trillion Dollars and Change ... Not the kind of CHANGE anyone HOPED for.

You can watch the DEBT expand HERE
Posted by: Hupush Phager5421 || 09/05/2012 3:22 Comments || Top||

#3  The debt will undoubtedly be higher in 4 years. No matter who wins the next election.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/05/2012 3:40 Comments || Top||

#4  When everyone has Food Stamps, homes, utilities, healthcare and medicine are paid for by the government.....dollars will no longer be needed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 5:13 Comments || Top||

#5  When that happens...
Everyone will be starving, living in tents, burning logs for warmth and sunshine will be the best (and only) medicine.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/05/2012 6:11 Comments || Top||

#6  This is additional to the
House debt
Student Debt
Credit Card Debt
Overdraft

If interest rates grow the west couldn't pay.
We are all Greeks now.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/05/2012 7:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Hey I can kick in $10.
Not sure where the other $136,250 for my family is coming from. I don't think that giving up Starbucks is really gonna free up a lot of extra cash :-)
Posted by: Raider || 09/05/2012 10:23 Comments || Top||

#8  You know besoeker, I know this guy, older fellow, brilliant mind...you don't walk into a chess game without your pads. Ever hear of Grodel, Escher, Bach...morons.

Must have been about five years back, he was talking about some reading he has done concerning alternate economies. I mentioned yeah, sure, there has always been - black markets, barter system. He looked at me like I was going the wrong direction.

What he was getting at is exactly what you are suggesting. Download your credits today citizen, use the Joe Biden Memorial Information Superhighway, installed for your convienance. Remember: love of governance is governance by love.

Like the video game system points. Earn additional points by watching advertisements and answering the questions korectly. Earn rank stars. Have an arguement? Enter the chimpokuman grievance arena, where after answering a few multipass questions your avatar will face off - using Familiar Understanding Knowledge Understudy system of gender, background, public service marks, etc as a multiplier - against opponents; credits will be redistributed accordingly for purposes of equality.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/05/2012 22:24 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Today's DNC Nazi Comparison
I was wrong. Not Himmler's turn today. Maybe tomorrow. But it is a midlevel Dem hack...
Oh, so only high level Dem hacks can invoke Himmler?
South Carolina Democratic chairman Dick Harpootlian compared his state's Republican female governor, Nikki Haley, to Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun this morning at a breakfast in Charlotte, North Carolina.

South Carolina's the State reports: S.C. Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian, never a loss for a quick quip, tossed a few stinging one-liners at the Wednesday delegation breakfast.
Yes, it's Dick "Laff Machine" Harpootlian. Let's give it up for him folks...
On Gov. Nikki Haley participating in daily news briefings in a basement studio at the NASCAR Hall of Fame: "She was down in the bunker a la Eva Braun."
Hey! Thank you!
I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing...

The comparisons of Nazis and Hitler to the Republicans seems to be an emerging theme from this Democratic convention. Yesterday, a top Democratic delegate from Kansas compared Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to Hitler. The day before, a Democratic delegate from California compared Ryan to Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Followed by the obligatory half assed apology, and let's move it along, nuthin to see here...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/05/2012 15:42 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They keep digging, don't they?

And people wonder why the two parties are so polarized these days.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/05/2012 16:12 Comments || Top||

#2  It was the National Socialist Workers Party. Now what party by self definition by word and deed is closest to that description? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2012 16:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Never trust a man named Dick Harpootlian.
Posted by: Shinter Javirong9154 || 09/05/2012 17:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Republicans should always reply indignantly. "How DARE you call me socialist!"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/05/2012 19:09 Comments || Top||

#5  ...Harpootlian is the Democratic godfather down here. A more obnoxious and arrogant Donk you couldn't imagine, and that's saying something. I MIGHT p*ss on him to put him out if he was on fire...but I'm not making any promises.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/05/2012 19:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Mike - make sure you have a high enuf BAC that it's flammable, k?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/05/2012 20:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, it's Dick "Laff Machine" Harpootlian. Let's give it up for him folks

Here 'til Thursday. Try the veal.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/05/2012 20:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe he can't try the veal, may he's going to need a root canal too.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/05/2012 21:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Second day in a row, does NASCAR need the rent money THAT bad? (yes the NHoF is in the red due to low attendance, maybe due to no jobs)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/05/2012 21:38 Comments || Top||


Obama Speech Moved Indoors From Stadium For Fear Of Lightning
NOTE: The Dems fear of lightning strikes occured shortley after removing God from the party platform.
"We have been monitoring weather forecasts closely and several reports predict thunderstorms in the area, therefore we have decided to move Thursday''s proceedings to Time Warner Cable Arena to ensure the safety and security of our delegates and convention guests," convention committee CEO Steve Kerrigan said.
Posted by: Uneatch Angaviger3508 || 09/05/2012 10:54 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Also due to ease the paranoi of the possible invasion of thousands of empty chairs at the stadium.

HAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Uneatch Angaviger3508 || 09/05/2012 13:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Eastwood strikes again
Posted by: Frank G || 09/05/2012 14:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I would like to know how they chose who would be able to enter the Bobcat's arena, since that has not been covered yet, certainly expecting more than the 20k seating, minus some for signage and decor, of such a smaller venue.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/05/2012 14:25 Comments || Top||

#4  apparently 50,000 disappointed and angry attendees willbe screwed out of seeing Teh Won™ in person. I bet NBC, et all could find a couple thousand to interview if this were Romney. Bet they don't find any tomorrow?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/05/2012 14:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Kind of ironic, don't ya think? Removing all reference to God and then moving inside because they are afraid of lightning.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/05/2012 14:33 Comments || Top||

#6  If they do have interviews look for NY skylines and/or labor union shirts.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/05/2012 14:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Crisis. The only way Hussein and the communists will be able to stay in power. A crisis that will drive up gas prices to where people are paralyzed. A crisis that drives up food prices to where people have to either depend on the government for food, via food stamps. A crisis that allows them to go after anyone that gets in the way of the "resolution of the crisis", political enemies. Its the marxist way of taking over America.
Posted by: Uneatch Angaviger3508 || 09/05/2012 14:37 Comments || Top||

#8  And when the treasury is far too broke, the go after the farms, first.
Posted by: Uneatch Angaviger3508 || 09/05/2012 14:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Heh, that was.... a good call.
Posted by: newc || 09/05/2012 15:15 Comments || Top||

#10  No Uneatch, they'll go after the 401Ks first. They made that clear in late 2008.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/05/2012 16:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Spot on Doctor Steve. If Champ is re-elected, there WILL be a massive run on 401k's and stock portfolios. It will NOT be pretty.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 16:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Oh rat farts!
Posted by: Shinter Javirong9154 || 09/05/2012 18:00 Comments || Top||

#13  I understand fire and brimstone are next. The Ayes did not have it, but....
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 09/05/2012 20:46 Comments || Top||


Convention devoted to women celebrates Ted Kennedy unironically
I've got to say, in all sincerity: I appreciate their brazenness in building a convention around the theme of a "war on women" while not only inviting Bill Clinton to be a headline speaker but having a video tribute to Teddy to start things off. They're all but admitting that their pretense of moral superiority really is just a pose taken for political effect. If John Edwards had walked out onstage to a standing ovation after this clip ended, it would have been one of the most honest moments in recent convention history. Alas, a missed opportunity.
Posted by: Beavis || 09/05/2012 06:45 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ms. Kopechne, Ms. Mary Jo Kopechne to the white courtesy phone please.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  What you and many others don't get about this is that it is totally in line with the whole Democrat philosophy as spotlighted by such as "you didn't build that" and "we all belong to the government".

Bill "pervert" Clinton and Teddy "foul stench" Kennedy are foul only when looked at as individuals. If you look at the principles of the big picture statists it is only what policies you tout (to be paid for by others) not your behavior that matters.

This is just more of the statist attitude along the lines of Stalin's "one death is a tragedy, 1 meillion is a statistic".

Our betters are not to be judged by their individual actions, that's for the little people.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/05/2012 10:27 Comments || Top||

#3  The hypocritical state party machine keeps chugging away.

Orwell would be proud.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/05/2012 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Did they serve wild turkey sandwiches?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/05/2012 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  We all just assumed the "war on women" was an accusation against the Republicans and not a long-standing Democrat party platform.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/05/2012 14:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Sniff, sniff, is there no love for ex-POTUS Candidate Senator Hart + 1980's "Bimbogate"???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/05/2012 23:55 Comments || Top||


O Gets a Failing Grade for "Donor Maintenance"

A long article in the New Yorker. Two nuggets:
(1) Soros declined to comment for this article. But several people familiar with his thinking suggest that Soros is currently preoccupied with other issues, such as the fate of his fortune the European Union, and is not inclined to take an outsized role in the 2012 Presidential campaign. As an advocate for greater government transparency, he is reportedly uncomfortable with the burgeoning role that secret donations now play in U.S. elections.
I don''t find a foto of an irony meter. I guess it''s worn out.
In addition, confidants say that, although he still supports Obama, Soros has been disappointed by him, both politically and personally. Small slights can loom large with wealthy donors. When Soros wanted to meet with Obama in Washington to discuss global economic problems, Obama's staff failed to respond. Eventually, they arranged not a White House interview but, rather, a low-profile, private meeting in New York, when the President was in town for other business. Soros found this back-door treatment confounding. "He feels hurt," a Democratic donor says.
The rich and powerful like to be treated like they''re rich and powerful, not a colonialist.
(2) "There's been no thanks for anyone!" the major Democratic donor says. He adds that in 2008 he gave "multiple millions" to groups working to elect Obama. But, he notes, although he has attended various White House functions, and has met Obama on several occasions, "I don't think they have a clue who I am. I don't think they even know how much I gave." He says that he has been introduced twice to Jarrett, "and neither time did she remember who I am." Instead, he says, "she seemed to think she was blessing me by breathing in the same space."

Despite repeated pitches, he has not yet given money to Priorities USA. In his view, the Obama White House has not followed the fundamental rule of donor maintenance, which he himself has practiced while fund-raising for other causes: "You have to suck up!" With Obama, he says, "I don't know if it's a personality thing, an ego thing, or an intellectual thing. I just don't get it. But people want to be kissed. They want to be thanked."
They want to be remembered for their generosity. How plebian!
Posted by: Bobby || 09/05/2012 05:58 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf

#1 
Part of the second nugget, and a hat tip to Weasel Zippers -

“They pissed on him,” a confidant says. “He didn’t want a fucking thing! He didn’t want a state dinner, or a White House party—he just wanted to be taken seriously.”

Posted by: Bobby || 09/05/2012 6:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The Judenrat were much, much kinder.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  "He feels hurt," a Democratic donor says.
Awww, poor baby. Get a f*ckin' clue!
Posted by: Spot || 09/05/2012 9:18 Comments || Top||


Michelle's Speech - Transcript
Near the conclusion
If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire...if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores...if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote...if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time...if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream...and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love...then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
And the final tug at your heartstrings -
But today, I have none of those worries from four years ago about whether Barack and I were doing what''s best for our girls.

Because today, I know from experience that if I truly want to leave a better world for my daughters, and all our sons and daughters...if we want to give all our children a foundation for their dreams and opportunities worthy of their promise...if we want to give them that sense of limitless possibility -- that belief that here in America, there is always something better out there if you''re willing to work for it...then we must work like never before...and we must once again come together and stand together for the man we can trust to keep moving this great country forward...my husband, our President, President Barack Obama.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
Does that mean she''s still proud of this country?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/05/2012 05:45 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I clicked back to the posting and found an apostrophe in Michelle's.

I tell ya, there's a glitch in the Berg! Other posts have quotes where there should be apostrophes!

Don't you see it? Can't you hear the voices?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/05/2012 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2  if we want to give all our children a foundation for their dreams and opportunities worthy of their promise...if we want to give them that sense of limitless possibility

To include $ 30m fly-away vacations (at taxpayer expense) to Messico with 18 or 20 of their closest friends ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Theater, Dream along with me we are on our way to the stars... This was expected and media response.

Bill Clinton is the one to watch in my opinion.
Posted by: Dale || 09/05/2012 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Snow Jog FLOTUS, followed by Blow Job Slick, followed by....No Job Barry. I think I'll just pass.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 7:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Among the dark complected population I am hearing over and over "he needs more time". Like he hasn't had a chance. That the problems are too many and difficult to sort out so soon. I believe he has been given plenty of.. oops!, almost.:-)
Posted by: Dale || 09/05/2012 7:48 Comments || Top||

#6  I clicked back to the posting and found an apostrophe in Michelle's.

I tell ya, there's a glitch in the Berg! Other posts have quotes where there should be apostrophes!


Thank you, Bobby. Fred has been informed, and in the meantime the moderators are manually fixing the problem for the key areas -- images and hot links in the text.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2012 8:09 Comments || Top||

#7  transcript doesn't show what she was wearing for that speech

pink sleeveless dress, blue nail polish, pink shoes

yum
Posted by: lord garth || 09/05/2012 8:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Mother State wants you to know Uncle Obama is pure at heart and pious in his deliverance.

For some reason, I prefer the ambitious jerkweed motive to love is governance and governance is love.

Garth...at first, I thought it was one of those sheer-like fabrics...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/05/2012 9:25 Comments || Top||

#9  I anxiously await his acceptance speech and the closing, where he will be patting the heads of throngs of multi-cult five and six year olds, while those in the auditorium rise to sing "We Will Overcome" and inflated condums fall from the ceiling.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 9:34 Comments || Top||

#10  "If farmers and blacksmiths..."



Dogma straight out of the failed communist experiment of the 20th century.
Posted by: Maggie Sproing7942 || 09/05/2012 10:03 Comments || Top||

#11  while those in the auditorium rise to sing "We Will Overcome" and inflated condums fall from the ceiling.

I thought the inflated condums were after for Sandra Fluke's speech.

I mean they wouldn't want her to run out as works her way out of the stadium.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2012 10:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Sorry Maggie,

the dogma is straight out of the 19th century. Granted that the symbol may be 20th, the dogma is earlier than that.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/05/2012 10:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Fixed the double apostrophe in the headline.

double single quotes "escapes"* a single quote as the this is also used to denote text to the language used by the database.

*technical word for encodes
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/05/2012 11:12 Comments || Top||


#15 
I thought the inflated condums were after for Sandra Fluke's speech.


Those will be used.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/05/2012 11:51 Comments || Top||

#16  Empty rhetoric from a empty chair.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/05/2012 11:56 Comments || Top||

#17  I figured the farmers and blacksmiths reference was suggesting she knew something about the Revolutionary War. But Mrs. Bobby is the history major.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/05/2012 18:07 Comments || Top||

#18  Truth be told I miss the radical Michelle of old - its disconcerting to see how Marriage, Motherhood, + being FLOTUS, etc. has turned Sign-N-Molotov-carrying Michelle into the establishment Political, Femme stereotype she'd once vehemently railed against.

Sigh.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/05/2012 20:06 Comments || Top||


OWS protest at DNC calls for arrest of Obama
More than 120 protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement turned up outside of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Tuesday calling for the arrest of President Barack Obama. The crowd consisted mainly of disaffected young voters who had eagerly cast their ballots for Obama in 2008.
Suckers!
"I wept in the street when this guy won [in 2008], but he hasn't gotten the job done," one protester told an Obama supporter outside of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
If we arrested every politician who didn't get the job done...
An Occupy protester from Atlanta who goes by the name D-Rocket turned up in Charlotte after sitting out the Republican National Convention last week. He said that the protest's presence at the DNC was even more important since Obama has failed to carry out many of the policies he advocated on the campaign trail in 2008.

"Even the healthcare bill was a massive kickback to pharmaceutical and insurance companies," he said. "The one that eventually got passed is essentially a requirement that everybody purchase health insurance ... I'm not very happy with it."

Mr. Rocket roamed the streets of Charlotte with a life-size replica of a Reaper drone that Obama has used to kill terrorists, including American-born Anwar al-Awlaki. Obama has made his counter-terrorist operations the center of his foreign policy credentials to demonstrate his toughness to the American people. However, that strategy received a sour response from protesters in Charlotte, who decried the high civilian toll drones have taken in Afghanistan.
Not a word was spoken about violent men who hide among the innocent.
The crowd carried a more militant attitude than D-Rocket into the soaked, barren, caged-in "Free Speech zone" that Democrats and the city of Charlotte constructed for the protesters. The crowd chanted "arrest Obama" and held signs that called the president a "fucking traitor" as they assembled outside of the zone surrounded by dozens of bicycle cops. Several police helicopters circled overhead.
See, this is why we can''t have nice things.
"Thanks a lot Gestapo," a protester snarled at a police officer as he joined his compatriots.
Comparing one''s foes to the Nazis: has this tactic ever not worked?
"There's not been a lot of progress," D-Rocket said.
Posted by: gromky || 09/05/2012 02:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not sure why we emphasize "american born" when it comes to Anwar al-Awlaki. I mean he actively took up war against his nation. It's not like he was a tourist caught in the cross-fire.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/05/2012 8:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Mr. Rocket roamed the streets of Charlotte with a life-size replica of a Reaper drone

Just a guess, but 'life-size replica', means a little model since the real thing is 36 feet long with a 65 foot wingspan and I can't picture the OWSers working that hard.

As for "I wept in the street when this guy won", yeah, me too. But I had the good manners to do it indoors.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/05/2012 11:44 Comments || Top||

#3  "Who let the dogs out?"
Posted by: mojo || 09/05/2012 13:13 Comments || Top||


Democratic, Republican Platforms Reveal Stark Policy Differences
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See also WAFF > SHAMELESS: FIVE UGLY THINGS WE SAW AT THE RNC.

D *** NG IT, I thought I 'd read the DemoLeft came up wid SEVEN???

* Also from SAME > EIGHT COUNTRIES WHERE ATHEISM IS ACCEPTED, EVEN CELEBRATED.

All seven described in Artic are Western except for JAPAN, WID THE "USA" GETTING "HONORABLE MENTION".

Our sacred National Communism is almost there - USSA, USSA, USSA, ....!

FRANCE + SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES are there, but NOT - I repeat, N-O-T-T-E - GERMANY.

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [PressTV = Randy Short] US IMPLODING FROM WITHIN.

Send the Message to Gorbachev - TORA! TORA! TORA!

* TOPIX > [Daily Star] US BLACKS FEAR LINGERING RACISM IFF OBAMA LOSES.

* SAME > A DIVIDED US AWAITS NOMINATION OF OBAMA.

HHHHHMMMMM, HHHMMMM, 2012 = NOT-THE-VAMPIRE-SLAYER ABE LINCOLN AND PRE-CIVIL WAR POTUS ELECTION OF 1860???

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > MENTAL ILLNESSES [Suicide, Anxiety, other Psychological probs] RISE AS EURO DEBT INTENSIFIES - YAHOO FINANCE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/05/2012 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  New polling indicates American voters no longer want change, they just want their money back.
Posted by: Titus and Company8868 || 09/05/2012 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Religion Warning: Lack of respect for Scriptures invariably leads to the lack of respect of Constitutions.

Posted by: Hupush Phager5421 || 09/05/2012 3:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, there is a "stark difference" between democracy and communism.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 4:38 Comments || Top||

#5  About what I expected. The first 4 are the much less important Democrat talking points, Abortion, Gay marriage, etc.

They leave the biggest one, the economy, to #5 and then barely mention it.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/05/2012 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Hopefully they keep comparing Bambi to Jesus. The more they do that, the better things will be. Come on, we ALL know that's what they think, they should say it openly and post it everywhere.

Why no, it doesn't offend people at all.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division || 09/05/2012 9:32 Comments || Top||

#7  You mean George Clinton's mom holding a pig balloon doesn't bring out the serious in you?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/05/2012 14:17 Comments || Top||


Obama 'incomplete' grade sparks Republican assault
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Republicans bent on disrupting Barack Obama
I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick...
's run-in to his big convention speech pounced Tuesday after the president gave himself only a grade of "incomplete" on fixing the economy.

The US leader was in politically contested territory in Virginia to hold his final rally before heading to the Democratic National Convention, which his wife Michelle was to headline with an opening night speech later in the day.

Republicans are trying to narrow the election into a referendum on Obama's economic management, and capitalized on several days of clumsy messaging by the president and his team, inserting themselves into convention news coverage.
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Time to get a real quarterback.
Posted by: Maggie Sproing7942 || 09/05/2012 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  several days of clumsy messaging by the president

Not to mention three years of economic buffoonery and outright villainy.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/05/2012 2:16 Comments || Top||

#3  I bet he thought he was just being clever - "I have to get re-elected, ho ho, not done yet!"

Not a thought in the world about how it could be interpreted differently.
Posted by: gromky || 09/05/2012 2:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Putin's post-election tears sold for five million dollars on eBay, rumored to have magical and political powers; buyer identified by initials B.O.
Posted by: Titus and Company8868 || 09/05/2012 2:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama's grade of "I" does not stand for "Incomplete". It stands for INCOMPETENT!
Gov. John Sununu
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 4:36 Comments || Top||

#6  FYI: The I changes to an F after 30 days.
Posted by: Perfesser || 09/05/2012 11:46 Comments || Top||

#7  If Obama's lost the Daily Nation, he's lost Kenya.
Posted by: Grunter || 09/05/2012 17:21 Comments || Top||


Israeli Ambassador Rebukes DNC Chair
The Israeli ambassador to America, Michael Oren, has released a statement rebuking the chair of the Democratic National Party.

Earlier today, Phil Klein reported:

Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed on Monday that Israel's ambassador to the United States has accused Republicans of being "dangerous" to Israel by criticizing President Obama's record.

The Florida congresswoman made the charge at a training session for Jewish Democrats held by the Obama campaign here at the Democratic National Convention, aimed at teaching Jewish Democrats how to convince their fellow Jews to vote for Obama.

Much of the session, which featured a string of speakers from the Obama campaign, was devoted to defending Obama's record on Israel. During her talk, Wasserman Schultz said that Republicans, who "can't get anywhere with our community on domestic issues" instead "do everything they can to lie and distort and mischaracterize this president's stellar record on Israel."

Ambassador Michael Oren just released this statement: "I categorically deny that I ever characterized Republican policies as harmful to Israel. Bipartisan support is a paramount national interest for Israel, and we have great friends on both sides of the aisle."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't let her over-gelled hairstyle fool you, Deb is a true Ruling Class Elite. She's been riding roughshod over peoples lives since she was 26. She knows what's good for you, and she's not afraid to crack some skulls to prove it.

Likes: Central Planning, making false accusations, groupthink, and deep-fried Snickers.
Dislikes: Mean people aka Non-Liberal/Progressives, the unborn, 2nd Amendment, and self-reliant people.

Her words of wisdom: Speak derogatorily and carry a cute smile; you will go far.
Posted by: Hupush Phager5421 || 09/05/2012 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Wasserman Schultz, Axelrod, Rob Dead Fish.... there really is a pattern.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing in today's hard copy WaPo or NYTimes about this (at least the editions I have).

Most important of all will be how the Florida dailies and the NY Jewish weeklies play this because the Jewish population of Florida reads these and, in Florida, if Obama loses even 25% of the Jewish vote, he almost certainly loses Florida.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/05/2012 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  The Jewish Telegraph Agency has the story, lord garth, so it should hit the next issue of the local weeklies.

CHAFRLOTTE, N.C. (JTA) -- Israel's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, "categorically denied"  that he specified the Republican Party  when he described as harmful making Israel a partisan issue.

"I categorically deny that I ever characterized Republican policies as harmful to Israel," Oren said in a statement emailed Tuesday to reporters. "Bipartisan support is a paramount national interest for Israel, and we have great friends on both sides of the aisle."

Rep. Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in a training session Monday for Jewish activists at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., said Republican efforts to depict President Obama as insufficiently pro-Israel were a salve to those who longed for a wedge between Israel and its most powerful ally.

"We know, and I’ve heard no less than Ambassador Michael Oren say this, that what the Republicans are doing is dangerous for Israel," she said.

Oren has repeatedly said attempts to make Israel a partisan issue are detrimental to the bipartisan support the Jewish state has for years enjoyed, but he has never singled out one party as more responsible than the other for promoting such divisions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2012 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  And Politico, not exactly a conservative site, if I understand correctly, has the entire back and forth, including Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz's claim that she was deliberately misquoted and a link to the Washington Examiner video of her saying exactly what was claimed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2012 10:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Fox News has the back and forth, but misses the key link to the original Examiner video.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2012 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  as of a few minutes ago both Haaretz and JeruPost have the story about the change in the Dem platform but neither have the story on the Wasserman-Schultz lie

so we'll see

a lot may also depend on the coverage on local Florida TV news
Posted by: lord garth || 09/05/2012 17:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Democratic platform... "Incomplete".

Fox just announced the DNC will restore the God and Jerusalem language to the platform. Cock-up soon to be repaired.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 17:34 Comments || Top||

#9  The reversal of the platform and the boos upon the adoption of the amendment should guarantee coverage in the dailies. Even the WaPo and NYTimes will now be forced to mention it - even if they don't do it honestly.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/05/2012 21:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
How Obama abandoned Bill Clinton''s winning coalition
Posted by: Frozen Al || 09/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  With so many dead voters to assimilate into the party, it is an obvious necessity.
Posted by: Titus and Company8868 || 09/05/2012 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting piece, but Champ and the dems have not certainly not abandoned their quest for a permanent, one party system populated by unchecked immigration and the nanny state, food stamp and condom entitlement crowd. For a representative democracy to operate properly, the ability of an electorate to migrate between political parties must be present. Social engineering destroys the host culture (western faith based family structures) and seeks to establish a permanent, centrally controlled, strong-man, single party tyrany like that of Zimbabwe or North Korea. Where a permanent majority exists, democracy ends.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2012 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3 
Minorities, in fact, have done far worse under this administration than virtually any in recent history, including George W. Bush. [Blacks account for] 12 percent of the nation’s population, [but] 21 percent of the nation’s jobless.

Latinos, the other major part of the party’s “downstairs” coalition, have also fared badly under Obama. Overall, the gap in net worth of minority households compared to whites is greater today than in 2005. White households lost 16% in recent years, but African-Americans dropped 53% and Latinos a staggering 66% of their pre-crash wealth.


The crucial part of this article is that the Democratic party has become the party of the urban elite. Blacks and Latinos are playing the role of suckers (along with the middle class). Anyone who supports the democrats and does not have a trust fund is about be scr*wed.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 09/05/2012 12:05 Comments || Top||



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