a cheap shot yes...but, who the fuck straps a dog on top of a roof?!
The same guy who likes to fire people, the same guy who makes $10,000 bets with the mentally challenged like Rick Perry, the same guy who defends corporations as people, the same rich guy who knows how it feels to "fear" losing his job, the same guy who wants to beat the Taliban by winning, the same guy who pays only 15%...no 13.9%...no 40-50% tax!
The same guy who the night after kicking Newt's fatass all over Florida and should be basking in that glory, he goes vintage Mittens on national TV this morning with his newest bonehead comment:
Regardless that this line was taken out of context, why can't he THINK BEFORE HE TALK? He should've smacked himself on the head Mark Harmon style once he said ""I'm not very worried about the very poor. There's a safety net there." Almost makes me nostalgic for Dubya. At least when he said something stupid, we all laughed about it and moved on. Nobody ever called Dubya an asshole for saying "misunderestimate."
This is a difference between the Republicans and Democrats. GOP likes to nominate such people to top of the ticket. Democrats dump them to the VP slot, to be seen but not heard. (Imagine if Biden was President.)
Originally Posted By: BAM_233
i hope obama likes his next four years of dealing with the gop hissing fit over losing the election.
He'll be too busy planning his Presidential library to worry that much about them. Just Barry, don't follow Bubba's advice and rent out the Lincoln Bedroom. It won't end well.
Speaking of Presidential Libary's LOL . Did you see Obama's ( a Outhouse) 2 holer running over ! Hope they don't put it out here.
Also seems Newt. really got neutered, wonder if he had what ya call it a Barmvitza , but he never has grown up just rich off alot of people. And they talk about the so called mafia, mob it there is one they oughta check out these sandbox's.
I gotta go have a selcer ate to much. Goodnight !
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Speaking of Presidential Libary's LOL . Did you see Obama's ( a Outhouse) 2 holer running over ! Hope they don't put it out here.
Also seems Newt. really got neutered, wonder if he had what ya call it a Barmvitza , but he never has grown up just rich off alot of people. And they talk about the so called mafia, mob it there is one they oughta check out these sandbox's.
I gotta go have a selcer ate to much. Goodnight !
I know I just read something supposedly written English, but I can't comprehend anything posted here. So I'll just wing it in replying back.
RE: Presidential libraries are multi-million dollar shrines to hubris and re-writing history. Worse the accounting books are kept private, since these are not public institutions (i.e. federal funded), so we don't know how much did party A give to this President, or what favors in exchange might've been done by a President while in office to score those funds. (I read a book recently alleging that the Saudi Kingdom gave Clinton $10 million for his library. And what did he do to return the favor?)
Also, have you noticed how ugly these libraries tend to be? All that money, and in architecture they tend to stand out as memorials to trends or worse, bad taste, tacky in their self-importance. (see Clinton's Library.)
As for Newt, well he got away for decades for being Newt. What kept him from great political heights are the same ones that have doomed him.
As a general rule, I try to avoid topics about politics and religion on these boards. But I would hope that the people here who roll their eyes at the obvious bias of Fox News do the same with MSNBC on the other end.
I'm sure we all know that the Romney video above is edited in order to be taken out of context. I point that out, not because I'm attempting to stump for Romney, but because the misrepresentation, distortions, etc. are just one of the many problems with politics today. It's the equivalent of one of the Romney PAC's taking Obama's "We're going to lose if we keep talking about the economy" comment out of context in their ad.
Mods should mind their own business and leave poster's profile signatures alone.
As a general rule, I try to avoid topics about politics and religion on these boards. But I would hope that the people here who roll their eyes at the obvious bias of Fox News do the same with MSNBC on the other end.
Any person with decent taste and intelligence would absolutely agree with you. Yet this polarized nation, both sides sure love their mindless ideological porn. Yeah I said it, PORN. You're not enlightened what so ever about the world and current events, as much as your previously held views are re-enforced in entertainment masquerading as "news." Goebbels would be impressed.
Might be a reason why I have strong fondness for the New York Post. They're biased as hell, yet like Daily Show (if different format) they have an inescapable sense of humor that cuts through the narrative. More than that, both are free of the offensively pretentious self-applauding "Journalism" that MSNBC and Fox News both claim to be practicing. Both in fact are insults to real journalists.
(Also, remember when CNN wasn't useless?)
Originally Posted By: IvyLeague
I'm sure we all know that the Romney video above is edited in order to be taken out of context. I point that out, not because I'm attempting to stump for Romney, but because the misrepresentation, distortions, etc. are just one of the many problems with politics today. It's the equivalent of one of the Romney PAC's taking Obama's "We're going to lose if we keep talking about the economy" comment out of context in their ad.
It is taken out of context, just like the "like to fire people" PR blip. In context, that "fire" line was an argument for private health insurance, supposedly you "hire" or "fire" your plan. (Even though in my insurance, its more like they fire you, but whatever.) Either way, rhetorically it made sense.
But that one line was a poor choice of words to make that point. You could argue instead "I like to practice liberty" or "I believe in freedom of healthcare" or something to that effect which would make the same argument without it coming back to haunt your ass and completely blur your original argument.
A rule of politics: Don't give your enemies ammo. Democrats 24/7 have a gun to Mittens' head, and he's repeatedly recently given them bullets, which they without hesitation pull the trigger with glee. Mittens' HQ is continuously forced to try to mop up that spilled blood that you could easily confuse them for a morgue crew.
I don't like the guy, I aint voting for him, but objectively I'm saying he needs to quit fucking up.
Mittens blips, you know Newt can't resist like he can't resist a buffet.
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"I am fed up with politicians in either party pitting Americans against each other. I am running to be the president of all the American people, I am concerned about all the American people."
Give fatass credit: he has no shame in courting painful irony.
EDIT - in other news before I go to bed, Sharon Angle is endorsing Santorum. Also Mittens campaign co-chairman/former MN Governor Tim Pawlenty can't guarantee that Mittens will win next week's Minnesota caucus anymore.
Pawlenty, fix it pronto or you won't get your promised Cabinet gig.
The Left weren't the only ones miffed about that Mittens gaffe. Erick Erickson at RedState pretty much sums up that Conservative collective partisan facepalm:
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This morning Mitt Romney said he wasn’t concerned about the poor. The poor, after all, have food stamps and Medicaid. But don’t worry. If the safety net is broken, Patrician Mitt Romney will fix it so the poor can stay comfortably poor. After all, just look what he did in Massachusetts. The poor can now wait 44 days to get in to see a doctor. Excelsior!
After making sure we all understood the poor were for the Democrats to be worried about, Romney decided to keep digging his hole even bigger. By the end of the day, Jim DeMint had to rebuke him.
Romney, digging his hole deeper, said his remark needed more context. The context, according to Romney, is that we have government programs to keep the poor . . . well . . . poor but comfortable.
Oh, but that’s not all. If you misunderstood patrician Mitt Romney, he trotted out the other New England patrician, John Sununu — the man who advised George H. W. Bush to go with David Souter — to dig the hole even deeper. Sununu told the National Review that their candidate has no intention of changing policies to those that might actually lift the poor out of poverty into the middle class.
EDIT - CNN is reporting that Donald Trump won't endorse Newt, but Mittens after all. I'm sure Mittens is ABSOLUTELY THRILLED by securing this key endorsement. Wouldn't you be?
Romney's statements about the poor and about being able to fire people were misrepresnted by those who had an interest in misrepresenting them. However, those who don't care about misrepresentation, don't want to take the time to sort through those misrepresentations abound. Thus, politicians have to be careful about what they say. Romney should heed that advice and parse his words. But that's hard to do when you are making extemporaneous statements on the campaign trail. Just wait until the general election gets underway.
"Generosity. That was my first mistake." "Experience must be our only guide; reason may mislead us." "Instagram is Twitter for people who can't read."
With an all-time-record of dirt being thrown by the GOPs at each other, one gaffe is highly unlikely to be believed, much less fatal.
Interestingly, Romney's dad made a fatal gaffe in '68, when he was the governor of Michigan and the GOP front-runner for the presidential nomination. Like almost all other politicos, he'd started out as a strong supporter of the Vietnam war, then started criticizing it after the famous Tet offensive. Asked by a reporter why he'd been so optimistic and supportive just a couple of years earlier after a Defense Dept.-sponsored tour of Vietnam bases, Romney replied, fatally, "I was brainwashed."
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
Well we soon should all be able to rest easy. I hear The Donald will hold a press conference very soon to endorse "Romney." Weren't you all wondering who he was gonna endorse? One rich guy endorsing another rich guy.
TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
I'm torn. The Cain endorsement; the Trump endorsement. Which one to follow?
I laughed earlier that Mittens might've wished he didn't get the Trump endorsement, but apparently reports claim he actively courted The Donald's support and even did a press conference with him.
Why? Mittens is not going to lose the nomination. It's his, is he really worried of losing the Tea Party vote to Newt? Is he that desperate?
Newt, as disgusting of a human being as he is, he has some political symbolic power as a former Speaker of the House and former leader of the Republican Party. Trump...is Trump. He has all the baggage of the world, with no net positives for Mittens. Even GOPers mostly don't respect Trump. (Why would they?)
Not to mention Trump has no qualms of being Trump and saying something stupid that'll be tied to Mittens, or try at least. Me and Jennifer Rubin actually agree on that point.
I heard a good one today, regarding Newt's space program idea and starting a space colony......."Newt was trying to appeal to the people in area 51."
TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
The campaign is asking Florida to award delegates proportionally based on the primary results. The campaign is sending a letter to the Florida Republican Party and are supposed to post it on Newt.org tonight.
Asked if Gingrich campaign would be doing this if Gingrich had won Florida, Hammond said, "Probably not."
Remember when I said politicians should THINK BEFORE THEY TALK? Don't worry, it's not Mittens this time.
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On the eve of Saturday's Nevada caucus, Ron Paul sits down with Piers Morgan for a revealing interview, during which the Republican from Texas shares his views on rape and abortion: "If it's an honest rape, that individual should go immediately to the emergency room, I would give them a shot of estrogen."
"Honest" rape? What does that mean? Is that like a Honest murder or Honest theft or Honest stalking? Is Date Rape "honest"?
I understand (I think) what in context he was trying to say, but that won't be the story if the media bothers to bring this up.
Brett O'Donnell, a Republican operative "who won plaudits for bolstering Mitt Romney's recent debate performances is not being retained by the frontrunner's campaign, an apparent victim of internal tensions over staff receiving too much credit for the candidate's comeback," Politico reports.
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"After O'Donnell was identified last week as advising Romney and then highlighted in subsequent news accounts as being one of the reasons behind the former Massachusetts governor's improved debate performances, Romney campaign officials grew uneasy. O'Donnell received phone calls late last week from two Romney advisers... where it was made clear that there was severe discomfort about how his role was being portrayed in the media and that he ought to tread lightly."
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Ha ha ha ha! That is absolutely hilarious. Such appropriate roles. Perry - Gilligan and Newt the skipper. Ha ha ha ha. Poor Ron Paul tho, having to wear a dress & pearls. So funny!
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"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
Ha ha ha ha! That is absolutely hilarious. Such appropriate roles. Perry - Gilligan and Newt the skipper. Ha ha ha ha. Poor Ron Paul tho, having to wear a dress & pearls. So funny!
And they talk about the so called mafia, mob it there is one 
they oughta check out these sandbox's. 
