Today's edition of quick hits:
* Lebanon: "A huge car bomb explosion in Beirut on Friday killed a top Lebanese security official whose investigations implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri seven years ago."
* Malala Yousufzai's condition has improved to the point where she's now "able to stand with help and communicate," though she still shows signs of infection.
* The latest in the "Actually..." series comes by way of Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead, who address Mitt Romney's belief that corporations are people. (Some of the language in the video should be considered not safe for work.)
* Ezra tackles David Brooks' appalling column on the politics of green energy: "This isn't a story of overreach, misjudgments, and disappointment. It's a story of Republicans putting raw partisanship and a dislike for Al Gore in front of the planet's best interests. It's a story, though Brooks doesn't mention this, of conservatives building an alternative reality in which the science is unsettled, and no one really knows whether the planet is warming and, even if it is, whether humans have anything to do with it."
* Vice President Biden has a new prop on the stump: "Mocking Mitt Romney's 'binders full of women' remark at a campaign rally in Fort Pierce, Florida, Biden held up a black binder in the air as an example of the Republican candidate's solution to gender-based pay discrimination."
* An apology was obviously due: "Arizona Senate candidate Richard Carmona apologized Friday for joking at a debate that the male moderator was 'prettier' than Candy Crowley, the veteran female CNN journalist who moderated the presidential debate earlier this week."
* The folks at Council for a Livable World have a very hard-hitting video out this week, emphasizing Romney's inexplicable opposition to the New START treaty and poor judgment on counter-proliferation.
* It seems a little odd to have Fox News analyst Monica Crowley hit the campaign trail as a speaker at anti-Obama rallies, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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We are People. Human beings. We don't want to be corporations.
Thank you for the open thread ... now I can complain about something that's been nagging me for some time. Lucky you folks! ;-)
The picture that the Romney campaign released to "humanize" him, the one where he's laying on a beach inside a giant heart that says "I love Ann". That photo bugs me every time I see it.
Leaving aside the issue of the stupidity of the campaign releasing a photo that only emphasizes that Mittens ran off to France during the war, it's the actual drawing in the sand that makes me think it's not as heart-warming as it seemed at first blush.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/18/romney-equates-mormon-missions-with-military-service/
Note that the letters are all the same size, like he had a ruler out there. Plus, the heart itself is almost perfectly symmetrical. Here's my thing: how does one do that all by themselves? The thing is huge, a lone person couldn't "eyeball" it and get it so perfect by chance.
Here's my next thing: how did he get the picture taken?
I'm guessing, and yes, this is a trivial beef but tough ... he hired people to do it for him. And, obviously had the time and resources to also hire a helicopter to take the photo.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it or maybe it's just that he creeps me out so badly that everything is tainted by his creepiness. Anyway, there you have it!
Actually, I think you just nailed it! I couldn't put my finger on what bugged me about that (aside from the obvious draft-dodging aspects) until now. Well done.
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I tried to watch this "Ann Talk" yesterday. The girls had to be so careful with her. and her little joke about that mitt didn't call the girls sharped tongue and he wasn't going on their show.....speacks volums, when she tried to make a joke of it and say he said something else (What else id new?) "He said you were sharp and young". HE HE.....I wanted to throw up.....only thing snazzy about the women is the dress she wore.....but I think Micelle looked better in her pink number at the debate than Ann did.
Don't know much but here's the quote from Time magazine where the photo first appeared:
If you look closely at the photo you notice there's a faint "T" drawn to give guidance for the heart. The letters, on the other hand, do have strong symmetry. There's no wind from a helicopter evident, so I'm guessing they took the photo from a boardwalk.
As far as the "creepiness" you experience, no explanation there other than it was 1968 and things "cool" then are far from cool now.
Additionally,
The photo was taken in 1968. The draft did not happen until the end of 1969, by then Romney was back in the states and married.
The event never happened. The picture was created in PhotoShop.
That doesn't matter. Young men were still eligible for the draft until age 40 (help me, Vets). Isn't it odd that Mitt didn't even choose either the Peace Corps or Vista if he's so patriotic? There were still plenty of things to do for your country besides run off to France. And what about his lazy sons?
D'oh! Forgot the picture was from '68. OK. Still creepy.
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I don't know what country you currently live in, but the draft was in effect from 1948 until 1973.
RobDon,
Look at that picture again. Have you ever tried carving a picture on the beach? I have, and you always hit rocks or sand that won't cooperate and have to backtrack, etc. That was professionally done - or photoshopped!
As far as the draft staring in 1969 - not true at all!! I lived in a liberal college town in 1967 and I can't tell you the number of guys who had a deferment to go to college. Also, I can't tell you the number of guys then who were planning to go to Canada if their number came up. I remember that CLEARLY - even if I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday!! By 1969, I had moved out of that town so I do not have my dates mixed up!!!
Typical Whoopie.....Open mouth insert foot. She really boned up on Mormonism before she TRIED to take a shot at Ann. I'm surprised she didn't pull her usual racism BS...after all Ann doesn't have "We love Panthers" tattooed on her butt.
The picture that the Romney campaign released to "humanize" him, the one where he's laying on a beach inside a giant heart that says "I love Ann". That photo bugs me every time I see it.
I know what you mean. I'd rather see something progressive like a pic of Obama's friend and adviser , Bill Ayers, killing a NYC cop or bombing our servicemen.
I'm sure THAT wouldn't bug you, would it?
Another attempt at false equivalency.
Errrr. Roscoe,
Obviously you aren't too bright and missed how subtly Whoopi got her point across - which was there was NO REASON for Romney NOT to serve his country! She also got Ann Romney to admit that they have NO UNDERSTANDING AT ALL of what a person in the military goes through - she thinks it is the same as "serving a mission" in a horrible jungle like France!!
I thought Whoopi did an wonderful job - she foiled Queen Romeny AND Queen Romney could NOT keep up her silly little harp that Whoopi was "sharp tongued"!
Sheez, you are not only stupid, you are a really sick puppy, aren't you!!!
Roscoe, are you so pathetic that you VOTE for yourself??? AMAZING!!!
It looked like Whoopi stayed up all night trying to figure out a way to nail Ann, so she picks the military thing because Ann's kids didn't serve. Whoopi failed. Ann has been coached on that subject for years.
btw Ann isn't running for anything. The only people that care are jealous liberals.
Don't tell me, tell Ann. She thinks she is running for office. Don't you remember her comment about if Romney loses, "we" won't run for office again?
Why do you keep posting this drivel??? I know you aren't real smart, but REALLY?????
even if we assume this is true (which it is not) why did Romney not get drafted from 69 on? By your own logic he was in the country and eligible for draft. So please, Robby, explain why he isn't a draft dodger here
Who cares what happens on the View???
I was with you RobDon until the draft thing, you are completely wrong. The draft got a small break (it's president's discretion) after WWII because we were drawing down, but it never actually ended until 1973.
Now, 80s Girl, the heart. It was drawn with reference to a bisected square. And it's not symmetrical. The I LO A side is clearly drawn about 1-1/2 ft outside the reference square and the center bifurcation comes much closer to the center ref line. It probably looks more even because Mittens is laying in the the left side and our human brains suck at estimating area. One reason some people hate pie charts.
Beaches are all different. The broad reach and coarse sand of Santa Cruz, CA eroded from granite is completely different from the shells and jade and agate pebbles of the much narrower Moonstone Beach in Cambria, CA north of SLO-town and way, way different than the rocks and stones and silty sand of Moonstone Beach in Humboldt. Here, the sand looks like it was heavily trafficked before the tide came in and partially filled the foot prints and was probably quite firm. No helicopter needed. Many beaches have things like boardwalks and cliff side homes fronting them.
Miracle, this may not be scientific, but I actually measured the widest part of the heart, on my computer screen, from that bifurcation line, right under the "love" word, and the distance from that middle line to the outer edge is exactly the same on both sides. The words are what are placed off-center to fit in Mitt.
As for the symmetry using that center bifurcation line, unless you can fold the beach in half, it doesn't do much good. Unless of course, you have measuring tools on hand.
Now, I'll grant that the picture may have been taken from the top of a lifeguard station or some other tall structure and not a helicopter.
At any rate, it's not really a big thing, it's just that the perfection of it seems so staged and that's what puts me off. But, hey, who am I to judge? Maybe Ann Romney loves that about the guy. But, for me, that kind of effort and extra help to make it perfect ... make it less so. One of my favourite bands has a great song in which there's a line about a couple driving to the beach ... "he wrote her name in the sand, never even let go of her hand." If he'd just drawn a crude, imperfect heart in the sand with her name in it, that would be so much more impressive. And so much more human.
This photo seems more like a sales pitch than a love letter. But, that's just me.
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Sorry, I meant the draft lottery. Upon Romney's return the draft lottery was how the non-volunteer servicemen were selected. I think he would have only been eligible for the one in December 1969, which is why I put in my comment "the end of 1969." But, you are correct, he would have been eligible under the normal selective service/draft process. My carelessness.
Screw the politicians and big oil, profits over planet will leave their grandchildren on a desert planet,,,, Thanks Grandpa!
Since the laws based on racial discrimination are more powerful, the GOP have to find other scapegoats so women's rights are now under attack. Anti-choice is anti-women, it is a slap at equality, degrading in its blatant disregard for fairness and it exposes women to the absolute worst instincts of the self-righteous men of the right-wing. Fair pay and protection from domestic violence are too liberal for the pseudo protectors of self-defined godliness. It may not effect you directly but it attacks mom, your sisters and your daughters. The GOP already attacked Mom and Chevrolet. Apple pie is next. WTFU
All fundamentalists are anti-women and such scared little men they can only feel secure controlling everyone else.
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Didn't you get the memo from the DNC???
"The War on Women" campaign isn't working. Try something else!!!!
Yeah, right roscoe'schickenandwaffles:
The war on women campaign isn't working except:
In Pennsylvania, women prefer Obama to Romney 57 percent to 39 percent, and Obama leads among women nation-wide by about 8.5 percent.
Looks like you are wrong again, roscoechickenandwaffles.
You forgot about Baseball. The National Pasttime? There's a big thing going on now with it?
rosco. So you claim Aires was all those things. Please provide your sources and links for his trials and convictions. Didn't think you could. There were none. More right wing BS
Ayres made it clear 1,000 times that he bombed the Pentagon and tried to kill NYC cops....in other words he claimed to be a good liberal.
I see the nerve is struck about women. We have folks here telling us to try something else, so they must feel the sting of unhappy women. Women are saying well, I am not going to vote for a pair of men that do not think women should be paid the same as men for the same job.
They either voted against Lily Ledbetter (Ryan) or will not say they are for it. Sam Stein recently asked outright. The answer was "we'll get back to you". The 2008 McCain running mate said those same words.
Even worse was the "I recognized that if you're going to have women in the workforce, that sometimes they need to be more flexible".
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/us/politics/transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate-in-hempstead-ny.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
(That part is almost halfway down)
So WOMEN (not men) need flexible hours … because??? IF we're going to have women in the workforce… his example was
"My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school. She said, I can't be here until 7:00 or 8:00 at night. I need to be able to get home at 5:00 so I can be there for — making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school. So we said, fine, let's have a flexible schedule so you can have hours that work for you."
I bolded words for emphasis to my point.
It sounds to me like it was a burden to hire women since men are able to work late(?) and not a word about pay equality.
Oh and some folks are repeating rumors and such, so here's a site to check out those wild claims made in emails: http://factcheck.org/hot-topics/
Steve, I don't even have to look because I know driftglass.com will have a the best review of that David Brooks column along with hysterical photo shopped photos of DB as a baby on the toilet. He deserves mention every time DB's name is even mentioned due to his "centrist" nonsense. Give it a peek and you will see what I mean.
Romney has already demonstrated his inability to deal with foreign policy or international affairs with his 'insult' trip abroad. Romney will be a disaster as President and if he manages to steal the election (the only way he can get elected) it will be the downfall of us all.
I've already started building and stocking my bomb shelter.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting a little tired of politicians telling their insult jokes about the family and friends of people running for office, in office and making personal insults about the moderators because they have sour grapes over the results of the debate. It only shows they have no class, no pride in themselves and no respect for anyone including themselves.
It's time we had a class called Adulthood 101 and Respect 101 for these politicians. Maybe, if they can pass a test that they are adults and have respect, can they have their elected seats. We'll skip the Truth 101 because that's a class they will all flunk and never pass.
If you haven't seen the movie "The Stepford Wives". Now might be a good time to rent it. I think Fox news and other subsidiaries have become the new "Stepford News". This is starting to feel more and more like the move Fahrenheit 411, again. That movie was like having a nightmare. I wonder if anything significent ever happened on April, 11th. I will find out.
Roseanna Rosanna Deanna says, "nevermind, it was Fahrenheit 451. Looking at famous dates, was way interesting, though. Did you know that Che Cuevarra died on the same date John Lennon was born?
On that date in:
1890 - Joseph Merrick dies, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)
1901 - Adriano Olivetti born, Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1941 - Ellen Goodman born, American political columnist
1945 - US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald"
1951 - Pres Harry Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
1956 - Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1961 - Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel
1962 - New York Mets make a losing debut
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Pres Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1970 - Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1976 - The Apple I is created.
1986 - Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1987 - Joss Stone born, English singer
1987 - Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
2007 - Kurt Vonnegut dies, American author (b. 1922)
2011 - Minsk Metro bombing
2012 - 8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
Above a very partial listing from the fun web site www.historyorb.com.
Angel
Rosanna Roseanna Dana never said "never mind" That was Emily Letella. Roseanna Roseanna Dana said "You know it's always something. If it isn't one thing it's another" Both were the late great Gilda Radner
Hey neat site. I just learned all the neat things that happened on my birthday and all the horrible ones too. But I had no idea that my interest in the Victorian era was spurred by the fact that Punch (of whose Victorian cartoons I always save when I run across them) was founded on my birthday. But my favorite was congress first authorized paper money exactly 100 years before I was born...no wonder I find the "gold-bugs" so amusing (yeah I know they were gold and silver certificates, but they weren't the real metals which of course lead to the decline and fall of the U.S.A. right?).
I think it's pretty much synonymous to say "Sarah Silverman is in this video" and "NSFW" -- don't think you need both.
*** Lebanon - local politics? A spillover of the ongoing trouble in Syria? So sad... it was once such a beautiful country.
*** Wonderful news about Malala, though!
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Oh... God... I love Sarah Silverman (and Lizz Winstead is pretty awesome, too)!
*** Green energy - to some extent the Rape-Public-CON position on global warming is them pandering to the theocrats who think we're all going to Hell anyway...
*** New prop - I'm guessing it was an empty binder.
*** Apology due - obviously, Carmona didn't feel the need to be concerned about getting the moderator "on his side" (LOL).
*** liveableworld.org - I believe my comment re "green energy" would explain Willard's position on this one, too - who needs to control nukes when Armageddon is all part of the plan?
*** Monica Crowley - she retorts, you decide... (BTW, I noticed the web site to which this was directing me, which read, in part, "fox-news-ethics-contributor-monica-crowley" and, before I reached the site and realized what it was saying I found myself thinking, "Surely Crowley doesn't contribute much in the way of ethics, and why am I calling her Shirley?"
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No series of non issues oriented small talk is going to replace the real story of the day. Four of our men are dead due to a Terrorist Attack in Benghazi on Septmeber 11th. And Obama's administration officials and the President have acted in a manner which could easily lead many Americans to believe there is a concerted effort to cover up the facts. All the assistance Candy Crowley can muster nor all the insignificant under lying story lines that msnbc or Maddow or her Blog Author are not going to change that.
If Big Bird and references to "binders of women" are important, how much more the death of four of our people? Is it just "Not Optimal" as Obama said on John Stewart's show to you here?
You can run but you can't hide. Benghazi will be a bigger story as attempts by the Obama Administration to hide disclosures about the revelations of that event goes on.
It's the economy stupid and you can add, ..... It's Benghazi Stupid will follow after Monday night in Boca Raton.
I'm certain Obama secretly ordered Al's Quesadillas to strike our people down there after conspiring with Republicans to decrease the State Department budget so Hillary Clinton and NATO could somehow take away our guns! That's the Real Story Patty-cakes! I'm certain everyboy is clutching their rosary beads in trepidation now, yesiree!
They had an INCREASE for their budgets. You are incorrect sir.
Please get your facts straight. Don't be "Obama like" screwing up the details and misleading others. Have a nice day
"Benghazi Stupid" - :D
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can't disprove the facts so just villanize the messenger. Typical fascist antics.
One thing you & I, and I grew up in Celtic's dynasty country Mass, Go Sixers
Since the days of Hal Greer and Luke Jackson and Wilt Chamberlain and Billy Cunningham and Wally Jones etc, I have always been a Sixers fan.
I am sure there were many who called folks "Watergate stupid" back in the 70's when Watergate hit in 72. . As a matter of fact I know they did because I witnessed it. Nothing different here. It's not that people are all emotional about Libya. It's that our President has misled us. It was not a viral video that caused this. it was a Terrorist attack.
just get your facts straight yourself pretzel.The commision
s study has already revealed there were INCREASES in Libyan Embassy's budget.
Go Sixers
Republicans Have No Shame
That's the New York Times editorial board writing. Not a Brietbart blog or The Blaze or Hot Air
And for all of you that say "our President has misled us", do you honestly believe the US is the only country with TV and iternet? You believe he should jump up and tell the world what we're doing. Why not? It's stupid that's why not. Maybe the word "classified" or maybe "clearance" rings a bell. Not the ones already in your head.
Classified and LYING are two distinct and different factors larry boy
Ask The Nixon Administration.
And you can be CLASSIFIED a LIAR
Most likely the Al Queida were behind the making of the movie too.
No apology due. Candy Crowely is again given angelic, untouchable status (elsewhere in my interpersonal encounters as well) wherein she is not a sensationalist hack for the Corporate News Network? Honestly, how much respect is she entitled to as opposed to anybody else? God damn-it people, get the @!$%# over the Miss Manners bullcrap already!
The NY Times is, all indicators apparent, taking the lead on this Benghazi story. msnbc must follow that lead IF it wants to suggest it has ANY credibility.
It's Benghazi Silly. Sounds nicer than using the word "stupid". But it is STUPID to pretend Benghazi is not THE story. It is a HUGE scandal. Don't compound it by ignoring it for really benign and stupid topics such as "Binders of Women".
Is anyone else baffled by the fact that the NY Times can find the person behind the Benghazi attacks but Obama's Intelligence Community cannot? Gives me great confidence in Obama and VP Biden who said, "Intelligence tells us there is no bomb in Iran".
Benghazi is no laughing matter VP Biden, nor for you Mr President. It's far froom being not "optimal"
Why is it a scandal? What story are you talking about? What does this have to do with Binders of Women? How is this not a red herring argument? Who is behind the Benghazi attacks and what evidence do you have that the 'Obama Intelligence Community' doesn't have knowledge of this person? What evidence do you have that there is a bomb in Iran? What bomb and what evidence? Who laughed at the issue of Benghazi? Who said it was optimal? What does this have to do with the thread topic?
What does this have to do with the thread topic?
From Steve's "thread" above (which is in every mini-report):
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Cartoonman you remind me of the television ad where the guy peeks his head out from under a rock and calls to his neighbor under the next rock as says "hey you gotta see this".
Glad I did not depend on you as any resource while Watergate was on going and evolving.
That is what you get for watching msnbc.
Yo get Benghazi Stupid. Hear no evil see no evil speak about nothing but "Binders of women." and other totally insignificant stuff.
Get out from under that rock fella. You have a LOT to learn!
Last night Obama said, "When four Americans get killed it's not optimal" while appearing on the John Stewart show. The rest of your questions are just well, ....cartoonish.
There is a whole new world outside the girth of that rock you live under.
Until you do so, you are in deed Benghazi Stupid.
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When Stewart asked Obama, "Is part of the investigation helping the communication between these divisions? Not just what happened in Benghazi, but what happened within. Because I would say, even you would admit, it was not the optimal response, at least to the American people, as far as all of us being on the same page."
With this question, Stewart is critiquing the President's handling of the tragedy and asking for how he plans to fix it. Note that he used the word "optimal" in his initial question, but not necessarily in a humorous way.
Obama replied, "Here's what I'll say. If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal."
This is more than a poorly worded off-the-cuff response. This is an insight into a president who does not have the same respect or regard for life as the majority of Americans do. And this is our Commander-in-Chief.
Obama proceeded to explain his answer, stating that there would be an investigation and that the administration would "fix it."
"We're going to fix it. All of it. And what happens, during the course of a presidency, is that the government is a big operation and any given time something screws up," Obama said.
Yet, this is not acceptable. The government should not "screw up" in a way such as this. This was not the case of a triplicate form not making it to the appropriate inbox because a clerk mishandled it. Rather, there was a deliberate choice made to deny additional security for our people because President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were afraid it would upset the locals.
Just why locals would have a problem with the presence of a few additional Marines, restricted to an ambassador's compound is a question that remains to be answered.
However, two things are clear. First, that Obama bears primary responsibility, a point he made clear during the debates, and second, he may not be fully capable of handling the job of Commander-in-Chief.
Obama's roots as a community organizer in Chicago may qualify him for certain jobs, however there is no indication that he is qualified to make security decisions when he makes mistakes that cost American lives, then refers to that loss in such a cavalier manner.
The size of the government is no excuse for a "screw up" that costs lives.
Ultimately, it was not the situation or the loss of lives that's not optimal.
It's the President himself.
There is televison out from under that rock there cartooner. Obama was "yuckin' it up" pretty good on Stewart's show. That after HIS "optimal" comment.
This from the clowns who brought us 9/11 and the iraq debacle , tomorrow you well be calling the NYT a commy rag , because your a brainless gop puppet coward who runs and hides when the truth knock you down for the 1000th time , the gop today
Does it bother anyone that the news is reporting early voting results? All be it, they are using exit polling and such, this seams to be a bad idea. I didn't vote for Carter, because he had already been declared the loser before I got to vote. The reporting of early vote totals smells similar.
I wonder why the very people who promoted and grew rich from a bogus war that has had over a hundred thousand casualties(and still counting) are so comfortable condemning Benghazi. The death of any American in service to our country is a tragedy but the maiming of multitudes of Americans and Iraqis is conveniently not mentioned by those same sanctimonious hypocrites.
And I wonder why everyone in teapubistan keeps putting our business out in reporting land so everyone world wide can see it. Someone should tell the teapubs that the world has access to and uses the internet and the news media from our country. Why do they have to demand facts the next day and spew what they think they know world wide and put other diplomats from our country at risk? Especially Issa.
Issa and his ilk leave out the fact that the ambassador chose to have a light security detail, because he did not want a heavily armed security detail to separate him from the people of Libya with whom he felt quite comfortable.
The right wing effort to discredit and obstruct President Obama on every issue through rhetoric in the media weakens America in the eyes of foreign leaders, not the statements and actions of the president.
Bushnesia is almost as rampant as Bushphobia by the GOOP.
I hear it's the leading cause of Romnesia in America today.
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. St. Carlin. I wonder how much faster death will happen if you swallow the bullfeces excreted by Mitt and his fertilizer factory.
The most important reason why Mitt Romney should NEVER be allowed to be President of the USA, is that he is a bully. Anyone, who would attack another person, completely unprovoked and cut his hair, is a bully. Period. It doesn't matter why, or when, or if the person it happened to ever complained. We have to hold the person who becomes commander in chief to a higher standard. No other issue, not the economy, foreign policy, domestic agendas, or religious beliefs are as compelling reasons to not vote for Romney. His bullying demeanor is still evident. Our society has become increasingly aware of the tragedy of bullying, yet we are are within a statistical dead heat of electing a despicable human being to the office of President.
I agree. He was a bully in high school (cutting the hair of his class mate) and college (arresting friends dressed up in a police uniform) and he is a bully now. He succeeded in business because he was a bully. People don't change and he would be a bully as President. For some strange reason, people think being a bully is a sign of strength. It's really a sign of weakness. Just look at his performance in the second debate. The moment, President Obama stood up to him, he turned into a raging bully. The look on his face when he was proved wrong about the "terrorist" comment told me everything I needed to know about him.
Usually when one stands up to a bully, the bully gets all flustered and their idea to pick on someone perceived weaker is met with a response that ruins their preplanned vision of them running and hiding.
They envision a certain response to their attack. How I wish that kid would have stood up to Rmoney and taken the scissors and cut Rmoney's hair.How I wish his back up gang would turned away from him. But he has never really had anyone stand up to him, and when they do he gets all flustered.
Absolutely NOT what is a good quality. As we saw in the Iraq insurgency and all those IEDs.
I find myself wondering if all the misdirection regarding Benghazi was to serve a larger purpose: That if those responsible believed the US thought it was a protest instead of a planned attack, they would relax their guard and thus be easier to find. When it comes to the ME, nothing is as it first seems.
Well, first it's obvious that the Republicans have no clue about diplomacy. They have done everything they can to destroy the gains of the administration diplomatically with our allies and the world. They really don't care how far they drag this country into the ground to obtain their power over us all.
Secondly, I am sure that President Obama did and still is working through what happened, who is truly responsible and how to deal with "bringing them to justice". The reality is that the American citizens really don't need to have every blow of the knock down, drag out fight to know it happened.
Maybe the whole brouhaha by the Republicans is to hide the fact that they commissioned the movie to be released just before the election to create exactly the kind of demonstrations that occurred. Understand that that is a just my postulation, not a factual accusation, but considering the actions of the Republicans to steal the election, not totally beyond reason. After all, they brought out their ugly, propaganda movie "2016" at almost the same time.
There are 2 destroyers heading to Libya, or already there.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/africa/libya-us-ambassador-killed/index.html
They want to have the U.S. go bankrupt in the Middle East and I am not violent, but I have faith that they will target those responsible and instead of declaring a war on Libya, get those that were responsible for the attack.
When nitMitt received his intelligence briefings he did not see any dollar signs so ignored it as unimportant..
A co-worker came to work this morning distressed over a phone call she received from her son in Ohio. Her son, who is about to become a father told his mother, (my co-worker,) that his company sent him a letter that stated he had to vote for Romney or he would lose all health care benefits beginning January 1, 2013. With a child on the way the company threat, warning, blackmail, extortion, or intimidation letter carried enough weight with him that he called his mother on the other side of the country. I told his mother that her son's vote is secret so her son has nothing to worry about, but was upsetting to him was that his company would apply such a tactic against he and his family.
Apparently the republican leadership is desperate and finds this tactic within the realm of common decency. They are so wrong in more ways than one.
Produce the letter and prove it...
just saying...
If Mitt thinks its fair ground to show a picture of his past, then I think its fair game to show him in his police outfit and sadistically arresting his "friends" and planting booze in their trunk. All this deviant behavior (and I'm sure there are tons more) was covered up by his powerful father. There was a time when character mattered. This police impersonation act is indicative of a socially deviant personality. I think that all of his flip flopping, say anything to win behavior is just the police impersonality, cutting the hair of "gay" class mates in the grown-up version of Mitt. I am totally disgusted with the polite characterization of him as a nice guy. He's not a nice guy. He's a viscous, amoral human whose only core is to make money. What completely astounds me is how any woman can vote for him. Regardless of a person's stand on abortion, how he can support taking away a woman's right to have birth control paid for should be a red flag for what he would do as President. My theory: he doesn't really want to be President; he wants the title of President and, as Grover Norquist so eloquently requested, he will just be a hand to grip the pen to sign the bills. He will do anything and sign anything to ensure that he gets re-elected to a second term. Don't be fooled. He won't change. He'll just get a bigger garage.
correction to above comment
"...but what was upsetting..."
Right wing talking points are selective outrage by consistent hypocrites.
I am wondering if foreign leaders are a put off by Mitt's ever changing beliefs? How will our allies, much less our enemy's going to be able to negotiate with Mitt if he wins. His policies change every time the wind changes directions. It's so bad that his campaign even labeled him Etch-a-Sketch. He doesn't say what he means and he doesn't mean what he says. This does not bode well for foreign relations.
Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead, give these two their birth control free please.