I blog on a MA site probably read by 30 countries. The political discussions seem 90% right wing rehtoric. It wears me out you cannot discuss or reason with people who have no ears or eyes?

Here is a good example of one of the most prolific bloggers daily has to be paid? I give up hope November solves this???

The obama administration
allowed murderous, Mexican drug cartels to buy American guns, forcing the gun
dealers to sell the guns to the mexican drug dealers, and let them cross the
border into Mexico where they were used to kill upwards of 300 innocent Mexican
men and women, and a U.S. Border Patrol agent. When asked to provide documents
that would explain why the Attorney General lied to the committee investigating
these murders and the justice department policies that allowed them to happen,
the President used the power of executive privilege to protect the Attorney
General from submitting those documents to congress, the branch of government
that has oversight of the justice department. Sooo... Romney has complied with
all legal requirements that deal with his personal finances, while obama is
using his power as President to cover up the deaths of innocent foreign
nationals and a federal agent....hmmmm....which is actually more serious, which
is more "moral?" Does the President and his minions really want this
particular debate on openness?

Where is the link for the segment on China - and Pres. Obama's complaints against it?

A man is known by his deeds not by how much money his corporate sponsors dump into his campaign.

We survived the Bush era and even though he bruised democracy I feel sure that people are awakening to the fact that the republican party is on a mission to undo what the founders created.

If Mitt buys the election we do not deserve freedom.

Romney is right that kick in the gut people have been getting from Romney and others like him for years has got to go and stop. It sure is something how Romney will try to twist facts, when people like him have been causing too many problems for years. They want to act like Romney is something good and really he is not. People get raised in far worse conditions than Romney has. And these people have turned out far better than Romney in realizing not to accept those bad things that happen in life and strife for better things for all people. Romney had his silver spoon in his mouth, but has done some pretty bad things. The excuse to use his rich childhood life as an excuse the way he is, is not an excuse. I don’t buy it, no matter how a person is raised it still gets down to what type of character a person is, regardless of how a person was raised. Romney was raised in a nice cushie life and got anything he wanted, but still that makes no difference to how a person will behave. Romney is still what he is and that is only for himself without the care and concern of others. And you can never hide that fact that Romney is worthless when it comes to caring about others and community. Romney is not capable of doing what would be good and right for all people, unless someone was trying to hold puppet strings telling Romney what to do. It shows outright Romney’s psychological profile and Romney is an emotionless droid and has no emotions or feelings about others, except to what he can gain for himself.

Romney talk's about bringing manufacturing companies back to the US.I would ask WHY, so his old buddies at Bain Capital can "invest"in them, fire everyone ,suck'em dry,pawn the employees pension's off on taxpayer's and make a fortune?

The conservatives get all this financial help to win, but the silence on what they are buying is deafening.

The whole lack of workable solutions to our most dire issues is why I will NOT be voting for any Republican. When they start working instead of just blaming and criticizing, I'll consider listening. Meanwhile, I will continue to support the man that is working for America, our president.

Obama is nothing more than a deflection of responsibility for Republicans. They set up a straw man, plastered Obama's face on it, and they use him. They use him as "the enemy", use him to keep their base inflamed because the usual election year buttons of abortion and gay marriage has worn thin. They use him as bait and switch to cover their own inept unproductive self-centered lives.

Obama has worked to recover our economy. The right offer nothing except criticism and pie-in-the-sky dreams about when THEY get elected. Well, we just went through the TeaParty Revolution and what have they accomplished. And a mere 4 years ago, we had 8 lovely years of those pie-in-the-sky Republican dreams and it almost destroyed this nation. That is the evidence. That is why Obama has been made the enemy, because he's made efforts to fix our country's problems and that makes the right look bad. So they rally their Fox-stupefied base and together the conservative lemmings will vote this nation off their personal cliff.

On the jobs front and its supposed deleterious effect for Obama. Wonkblog had a story yesterday on those who are 'gloomy' about the economy.

The only really gloomy people: those who are well off.

So Romney is speaking to THOSE people, the wealthy, when he harps on the economy. According to a recent poll most Americans don't think either candidate would alter the basic economy if elected, and so are decided on other issues.

The part that said that the Obama administration "forced" gun dealers to sell guns to Mexican drug dealers seems to be untrue. How does the administration "force" them to do this? Also, this gun-walking thing seems to have involved gun dealers legally selling guns to to people who are legally entitled to buy them. I do wish that better tabs had been kept on all those legally sold guns but the idea that this program was designed to sway public opinion towards more gun control is ridiculous.

I was not happy with Harvey Weinstein's reason that big donors to the Democratic campaign in 2008 were not giving as much now. We all know we have a better "product" in President Obama, but the effects of negative ads will be of huge import. We need the money to counter those adds. What are those moguls in Hollywood thinking?

HOLY COW! I guess this is how the right wing blogosphere treats people they disagree with. The title reads;

Idiot Reader Challenges iOTW Readers To Name ONE Bad Obama Policy That Impacts Them Personally

and the comments are even worse. Anyone can post on this site though.
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=140407

Tell it to Wisconsin, Weinstein.

Bill Koch is probably the funder of the astroturf anti-Cape Wind groups.

Neil

I guess all these anti-government folks realize that without a strong federal government to back it the dollar would not be worth a dime. Perhaps they think that in god we trust will be enough to support it?

Ooh ooh! Someone on TRMS, jump all OVER this story! It scares the PEEEEEE out of MEEEEEE!

Florida accused of concealing worst tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years

[source] (Stole that prettier link formatting style from JohnMesserly)

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According to the [Palm Beach] Post, the coverup began as early as last February, "when Duval County Health Department officials felt so overwhelmed by the sudden spike in tuberculosis that they asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to become involved. Believing the outbreak affected only their underclass, the health officials made a conscious decision not to not tell the public, repeating a decision they had made in 2008, when the same strain had appeared in an assisted living home for people with schizophrenia."

That decision now appears to have gone terribly awry, partly because the disease appears to have already spread into the general population but also because just nine days before the CDC warning was issued, Florida Governor Rick Scott had signed a bill downsizing the state's Department of Health and closing the A.G. Holley State Hospital that had treated the most difficult tuberculosis cases for over 60 years.

With health officials preoccupied by the challenge of restructuring, the CDC report went unseen, and an order even went out for the hospital to be closed immediately, six months ahead of schedule.

[...]

Now it is estimated that as many as 3000 people may have been exposed to the strain over the past two years, mainly in Jacksonville's homeless shelters, jails, and a mental health clinic. Only 253 of those have been found, of whom one-third have tested positive for TB exposure.

[...]

Now the strain has not only spread beyond the underclass but has started appearing in other parts of the state, including Miami