US Election 2012

[bjmdds]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 33806.html All 1 percenters from Hollywood. Clooney is now open game for this election.

[Kristatos]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304543904577397330920533806.html All 1 percenters from Hollywood. Clooney is now open game for this election.

Michael J Nelson, of MST3K and Rifftrax fame tweeted this earlier:

Obama and Clooney raised 15 million last night, most of it thrown on stage when the prez waterboarded him for making "Batman & Robin"

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The Washington Post was already skating on thin ice with its fantastically convenient hit piece on Mitt Romney, published in perfect synchronization with President Obama’s embrace of gay marriage.

Designed to paint Romney as a mean-spirited homophobic bully during his prep school days – which, let us remember, occurred over seventeen thousand days ago – the ridiculously bloated and overly-dramatic 5000-word Post “expose” related the story of how Romney allegedly led a gang of high-school hooligans and forcibly cut the hair of a “presumably gay” fellow student named John Lauber.

The piece does a great deal of mind-reading to insinuate homophobia, and in an amazing set of concluding paragraphs, heavily implies that Romney essentially murdered this poor kid with his scissors – it just took his body four decades to collapse around his broken spirit. John Lauber died of liver cancer in 2004, an even the Post dramatically contrasts with Romney accepting the Distinguished Alumni award from the Cranbrook prep school, concluding with a melancholy salute to Lauber’s hair, which he never stopped bleaching blond.

The Post based this hit on testimony from five men who “mostly lean Democratic,” including one who was a volunteer for the 2008 Obama campaign. No one else seems able remember the incident taking place.

Including, as it turns out, both a friend of Romney’s that the Post openly and fraudulently asserted had “long been bothered” by the haircut hazing… and the “victim’s” own family.

Romney friend Stu White dropped the first bombshell on the Washington Post’s phony story, telling ABC News “he was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair, and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post.” The assertion that he was “long bothered” by Romney’s alleged display of full-contact barbering was entirely false, and there is no way to claim it was not a deliberately false impression inserted into the Post story, since they knew perfectly well that they are the ones who told White about it, just a few weeks ago.

Much worse for the Post was a statement released by John Lauber’s sister Betsy, which reads, in full: “The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda. There will be no more comments from the family.”

Wow. Just… wow. The Post apparently didn’t bother clearing their smear job with the victim’s family, even though they interviewed both Christine and Betsy Lauber for the piece. They thought they were contributing to a respectful tribute, not an ugly partisan hit.

Christine Lauber told ABC News that her brother never mentioned the allegedly life-destroying traumatic incident related by the Washington Post, and “probably wouldn’t have said anything” even if something like it did happen, because he presumably was not the fragile character he has been portrayed as. Furthermore, she tearfully insisted that “if he were still alive today, he would be furious” over the Post story.

But wait! This gets worse. Someone at the Post apparently panicked after Stu White spilled the beans to ABC News, because they committed one of the greatest sins in journalism: they quietly edited the Romney hit piece without publishing a retraction, as Breitbart.com requested in writing. The false statement about Stu White has been changed to read as follows:

“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and said he has been “disturbed” by the Lauber incident since hearing about it several weeks ago, before being contacted by The Washington Post. “But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks.”

This was a colossally stupid move on the Post’s part. How often do people have to be reminded that the Internet never forgets? That caches and screen grabs of dishonestly edited material rest comfortably in the hands of media watchdogs?

ABC mentions that some other, as yet nameless, classmates of Romney are eager to dish dirt on his teenage misbehavior, although no one seems ready to corroborate the Lauber hair hazing incident. That effort will misfire badly, and solidify support for Romney from a public sick unto death of attempts to distract from Barack Obama’s record in office. MSNBC has spent 3 days hyping this fake story. Obama knows he is in big trouble to have his media cohorts fabricate junk like this.

[Kristatos]

I checked on the WaPo site and they are still standing by their story. Breitbart.com and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber who are reporting on this non-existent retraction are obviously counting on the fact that their readers would never dare check the mainstream media for fear that it would contaminate them with socialism (and sap and impurify their precious bodily fluids).

[Dr. No]

I don't think Romany was picking on the gay kid as some media wants it, I think he is strait laced guy and the long hair at a private school bugged him, if he is the one who did it. A high school a friend went to had the kids gang up a the end of the year to cut a rat tail off one of the other hick students. Rat tail is not a pony tail a few hair twisted in a braided the kid had it for a lot of hair but it was too different from other hicks he went to school with. I think this is what the Romney rat pack did. The Long hair was too Hippyish.


What Obama is doing concerns me more than what Romney might of done as a punk briefcase carrying school robot. In a way both Romney and Obama are robotic, cool cold characters.

Obama's evolution is a joke, he held this position years ago and evolved away from it when it was politically expedient and now it an election year and he needs money so he devolves?

Gay marriage, I don't care what anybody does but to define down what marriage is historically and what it mean to religion is wrong. I believe people who were never married legally or in a church can be married to each other though their attachment to each other if not also through God's eyes (who recognized Adam and Eve? not the church or state). Not just partners but children "born on the wrong side of the sheets" far as I'm concerned no child is born on the wrong side of anything, innocent before God and we must do our best to help them no matter who they are (race creed whatever) or who they were born to.
People who chose a partner to share their life with should be able to recognize their loved one, there are still major issues with this for heterosexual and gay couples. I don't think most American care anymore what gay couples do, I think most of us would rather leave the tradition of marriage alone, open up a new option through the secular powers, churches if they chose can have ceremonies, call it whatever they want but not trampling on the term defined by marriage through most of mankind's existence. Its insulting the the cultural traditions and religious aspect of it. It doesn't respect the believers, who have the faith.

[Kristatos]

Obama's evolution is a joke, he held this position years ago and evolved away from it when it was politically expedient and now it an election year and he needs money so he devolves?

Pretty much, althought I think Biden kind of forced his hand by coming out (no pun intended) in favour of gay marriage. I'm guessing Obama would have preferred to sweep it under the carpet.

[bjmdds]

http://news.yahoo.com/romney-leading-ob ... 26566.html This time Kris, from outrageously liberal CBS/NY Times polling data. If they say this with their liberal bias, it's much worse for Oh-bama. Dr. No, we celebrate November 7 morning with a newly elected President Romney hopefully

[Kristatos]

The two most recent polls on RCP were both published Monday. One had Obama one point ahead, the other had Romney two points ahead. I wouldn't like to predict the results of an election 7 months away when the polls are that close. Where I disagree with you is when you say that this favours the challenger. When people are faced with (to steal a metaphor from South Park) a choice between a giant douchebag and a turd sandwich, many people will opt for the devil they know, as they did in the 2004 election that the aforementioned South Park episode was satirising.

[bjmdds]

In every Presidential election since 1964, the incumbent lost all undecided voters the last minute except during Bush 2004. If they are deadlocked at the election, it bodes well for Romney but now the electoral map is better for Romney with Oh-bama's latest gay marriage charade for the little O might have lost additional swing states and a LOT of African-American religious support, who might just stay home. "Mitt Romney has moved out to an eight-point lead over President Obama in North Carolina after the two men were virtually tied a month ago." One sixth of Oh-bama's bundlers for his campaign are homosexual lobbyists. He screwed himself over this. To those who it does matter, 26% will NOT vote for him, and only 13% will vote for him, on this one issue. The homosexual talking heads on the news shows REFUSE to state what would happen to bigamists or polygamists, if same sex marriage was allowed, which it won't be nationwide, except for liberally legislated states where those in charge are bought off as was in NYS. 31 out of 31 states, including liberal California, voted against it, yet you would think the way the media has it the entire world wants it. Just the contrary........fact. Let the little O slink away into oblivion now and be buried by this politically motivated EVOLUTION he has had, where 67% of the public deems it a politically expedient act by him.

[Kristatos]

it bodes well for Romney but now the electoral map is better for Romney with Oh-bama's latest gay marriage charade for the little O might have lost additional swing states and a LOT of African-American religious support, who might just stay home.

At the moment, the electoral college map favours Obama, with 243 votes for Obama, 170 for Romney and 125 toss-ups. It remains to be seen how much support Obama's gay marriage stance will cost him. I suspect it will be a couple of months before the effects start to show, since state polls tend to be less frequent and numerous than national polls. A lot of the support lost will be in states that probably would have gone for Romney anyway, I suspect.

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QE3 cavalry: Will the Fed finally roll out QE3 money printing that will rally markets again for a while? It is a pattern we have seen before over the past few years. Oh-bama will count on this fake propping up of the economy and the stock market. What is even more unfair and embarrassing is that Obama ignores his own record of putting people out of work.
A recent analysis by economists Timothy Conley and Bill Dupor finds that Obama’s $862-billion stimulus, “created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs.” That’s a net loss of more than half a million jobs—all from the private sector.
Then there are Obama’s unfair and embarrassing boasts about how his bailout of General Motors and Chrysler saved the auto industry. But, as Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer has pointed out, “Within the first six months of the bailout, the auto industry lost 140,000 jobs. And three years later it has not recovered the employment level. It’s still minus 20,000. At the same time, one in ten auto dealerships evaporated—were wiped out. We started with 20,000—it’s about 17-and-a-half thousand right now.”
Speaking of 20,000, that’s the number of “direct jobs” said not to be created because Obama blocked construction of the Keystone Oil Pipeline from Canada. That estimate comes from TransCanada, the company that wants to build the pipeline, which also projects that the pipeline would create nearly 120,000 “indirect jobs” in industries like restaurants and hotels supporting the construction.
An analysis by finance professor Joseph Mason of Louisiana State University finds that Obama’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico cost an estimated 19,000 jobs and $1.1 billion in lost wages. There’s additional unfairness and embarrassment in this loss. The House Natural Resources Committee has uncovered new evidence that Obama’s White House justified the moratorium only by rewriting and distorting a study of the Gulf by outside experts.
Then there’s the estimate by the Congressional Budget Office that the implementation of Obamacare would destroy 800,000 jobs by 2021. And Reuters recently did an in-depth investigation of Obama’s “green jobs” initiatives, finding that they have wilted in results. Reuters reports that, “The wind industry, for example, has shed 10,000 jobs since 2009 even as the energy capacity of wind farms has nearly doubled, according to the American Wind Energy Association.”
And therein lies an appropriate trope for Obama’s real jobs record: it is just so much wind with little energy produced.
So here's my advice for President Obama going forward: before you attack Mitt Romney again about jobs, Mr. President, remember that people who live in glass Oval Offices shouldn’t throw stones.

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timst ... -a-kenyan/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Portman#Elections_2 The probable VP pick by Romney, if not Pawlenty, Christie or Rubio. Portman has LOADS of experience in congress in both houses and is VERY popular in Ohio, a must win state with Florida for Romney.

[Kristatos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Portman#Elections_2 The probable VP pick by Romney, if not Pawlenty, Christie or Rubio. Portman has LOADS of experience in congress in both houses and is VERY popular in Ohio, a must win state with Florida for Romney.

I've never heard of him, which is probably a point in his favour. VP picks do seem to come out of nowhere most times.

[bjmdds]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHQluNyJgxQ This bum is the quintessential Liberal prototype on MSNBC. If people like him and Bill Maher committed suicide I would not feel bad at all for them. Dr. No..........it's war .........vote MITT in November and spread the word to all of your family and friends

[Dr. No]

Obmam knows he is a one termer why else give the presidential medal to the people he did

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I'll believe it when I see the networks call the election for Mitt that night in November. We need to get out the vote. He gave a medal to a committed socialist. Romney has inched ahead of Obama in Ohio, taking the lead in the key battleground state after the president has led there for several months. This also marks a continuing shift in the critical Core Four states – Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia – with the Republican now leading in all four for the first time in Rasmussen Reports polling this year.

[Kristatos]

An unintentionally hilarious piece of media puffery here. Conclusion: either Obama or Romney will win in November, in a race that may or may not be close. Punditry at its finest!

[bjmdds]

http://economywatch.msnbc.msn.com/_news ... n-may?lite Great news for Romney. It further shows Oh-bama's policies have failed miserably. You cannot hid from the facts. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/05/2 ... eath-camp/ "Within hours, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski posted a message on Twitter declaring that the White House “will apologize” for the “outrageous” statement, and promising that Prime Minister Donald Tusk will make a statement about it in the morning. He also said that it was a shame that the “important ceremony” had been overshadowed by “ignorance and incompetence.” The Obama administration has tried to downplay the incident. According to ABC:
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement, “The President was referring to Nazi death camps operated in Poland. The President has demonstrated in word and deed his rock-solid commitment to our close alliance with Poland.”
Weasel words from the White House will do little however to calm Polish anger. After all, these were carefully scripted remarks by the president reading off a teleprompter. Six millions Poles died at the hands of Nazi Germany during World War Two, including three million Polish Jews during the Holocaust. The president’s use of the term “Polish death camp” is hugely insulting to the Polish people, and will reinforce the growing image across Eastern and Central Europe of an American presidency that cares little for key US allies, especially against the backdrop of its controversial and weak-kneed “reset” policy towards Russia. For a US administration that likes to boast of “smart power,” this was an act of staggering historical ignorance as well as crass insensitivity.

[Kristatos]

http://economywatch.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/01/12006830-us-job-market-all-but-stalls-in-may?lite Great news for Romney. It further shows Oh-bama's policies have failed miserably. You cannot hide from the facts.

The fact that you would see news about the job market stalling and your reaction is "great news for Romney" sums up Romney's negatives in a nutshell.