Obama - I Didn't Say What I Said, And Anyway, I Meant The Opposite

Who are you going to believe, Obama or your lying ears? Obama has a new ad out "explaining" his infamous "You didn't build that" Kinsley gaffe:

"Those ads taking my words about small business out of context - they're flat out wrong," the president says in the 31-second pitch. "Of course Americans build their own businesses. Every day, hard-working people sacrifice to meet a payroll, create jobs and make our economy run."

"And what I said was that we need to stand behind them, as America always has, by investing in education and training, roads and bridges research and technology," he says. "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message because I believe we're all in this together."

Stand behind small business? I think Obama means, kneel behind small business and wait for someone to deliver a push, so that money falls out of their pockets on the way down.

Let's have a bit more of that "stand behind" context:

But you know what, I’m not going to see us gut the investments that grow our economy to give tax breaks to me or Mr. Romney or folks who don’t need them.  So I’m going to reduce the deficit in a balanced way.  We’ve already made a trillion dollars’ worth of cuts.  We can make another trillion or trillion-two, and what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more.  (Applause.)  And, by the way, we’ve tried that before -- a guy named Bill Clinton did it.  We created 23 million new jobs, turned a deficit into a surplus, and rich people did just fine.  We created a lot of millionaires.

     There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back.  They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  You didn’t get there on your own.  I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.  There are a lot of smart people out there.  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.  Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.  (Applause.)

     If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

So Obama is going to "stand behind" these small businesses while waiting for them to "give something back", as if they are not already paying taxes?  Sounds like he intends to pick their pockets.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT THE NEWS OUTLET FORMERLY KNOWN AS MSNBC:

I thought he meant standing behind the small business owner and telling him to . . . lean forward.

Of course I am stealing that.

Comments

[Sue]

Clarice,

OMG, she accidentally took them. Can't you people leave her alone!

::grin::

[centralcal]

Republican Jewish Coalition is creating a new ad campaign called, Buyer's Remorse. The is the first of several ads to follow. I like that he a Democrat and a former fund raiser for Barry O. - maybe his friends will listen to him.

[Dave (in MA)]

I know this is hard to believe because the family doctor said hours after the crash that Kerry Kennedy had no drugs or alcohol in her blood, but the police tests say she was loaded up on Ambien.

She's a disgrace to the Kennedy name, not getting her first GUI until age 52. A Kennedy is supposed to be able to use his liver to pound in nails by then.

[Dave (in MA)]

DUI (too much time working with software)

[Extraneus]

Yeah, well I'll believe it when I see Jews voting for a Republican. Until then, I'll consider them dumber than I always thought they were. Present company excluded, of course.

[narciso]

Well Old Yella, became this rabid, they had to put him down;

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2012/07/25/msnbc-s-o-donnell-calls-nra-s-wayne-lapierre-blood-drenched-lobbyist

[Ranger]

Latest post at Instapundit:

ANOTHER HASHTAG FAIL: #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone ends up exposing President Obama’s failures. I like “Launched a political career in the home of an admitted terrorist.” Although “Visited all 57 states” is cute. And, of course, “attended more than 100 fundraisers while not meeting even once with his jobs council.”

You would think the lefties would learn at some point, but they don't.

[Chubby]

((Somehow, being pro traditional marriage is now a hate crime. The scum at the top of the Democratic Party have opened the floodgates to 1984 and for this I will never forgive them.))

its not just Democrats. who was it that was quoted in a post above, saying we are now seeing the train this new social innovation is pulling.

[Extraneus]

James O'Keefe says he has a lot more union corruption.

And that footage was just the beginning. This investigation is really a story about the connection between public money and union power—and we’ve got a lot more to come.

Project Veritas is a registered 501(c)3 organization. As such, donations are tax-deductible.

[Extraneus]

One of the elected officials we caught on tape, former New York Assemblyman Ronald Tocci, claimed he was just trying to be "courteous" by bragging about union corruption.

Another, current Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver, who was also implicated in the footage, said our investigation "doesn't even rise to the level of a comic strip."

[AliceH]

For daddy: Goatman Mystery Solved!

[Clarice]

I love O'Keefe. Great guy--creative and gutsy.

[Some guy]

--I guess 'Bam really is slipping with AA voters.--

Well, you'd have to be drunk to vote for him, so that kind of makes sense...

[Rick Ballard]

"You would think the lefties would learn at some point, but they don't."

Ranger,

They're doing fine. I see no need to criticize lefties or the magnificent efforts of the Pinhead Troika. A close examination of the Gallup Voter Enthusiasm article reveals a fine grasp of political strategy and tactics unequaled since the McGovern or Mondale campaigns.

They're heading for the history books and we should all wish them success in attaining their proper and well earned place.

[Captain Hate]

It's called The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans - to be established by Executive Order.

Maybe Stedman will establish quotas targets goals for the deans list.

[Extraneus]

They're heading for the history books and we should all wish them success in attaining their proper and well earned place.

If so, we may never hear another powerful lefty say what they really think in our lifetimes. (Not that many are dumb enough to do it.)

Therefore, the full video should be preserved for all time. Obama will go down in history - chin up, followers egging him on, telling it like it is.

[rse]

I will take a look at what bo announces tonight.

But excellence is yet another defined term that has an unappreciated true meaning.

And I have the original document with its new definition and why. It was a long time ago. The author was in fact the same person who said approvingly that if Americans understood Obama's ed policy they would be more angry than they are about healthcare.

[rse]

http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/list/hispanic-initiative/index.html

looks like he already established this for Hispanics. I do remember reading a report on this and wanting to gag.

[matt]

were those two New York pols quoted from their cells at Sing Sing or the halfway house?

[Captain Hate]

The author was in fact the same person who said approvingly that if Americans understood Obama's ed policy they would be more angry than they are about healthcare.

Thanks to you I'm already there. I'm convinced that we will recover from the health care disaster that he's trying to put in place. The education system has already damaged the future of the country.

[pagar]

Chick Fil a not the only place leftists gone wild are hassling.

http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/25/america-soldier-denied-service-at-california-gas-station-cashier-saus-i-didnt-belong-in-their-country/

Unbelievable!

[Ignatz]

rse,
In your opinion how much of the damage to education would be reversed, or at least stopped, were the Feds no longer involved in education?

[Extraneus]

Mitt Romney's Fundamental Flaw

He doesn't have one.

Richard Nixon was born into poverty, and two of his brothers died early in life. He gave up a grant to attend Harvard University in order to stay at home and care for his ailing brother Harold. He suffered a narrow defeat for president in 1960, and the humiliation of a lost election for Governor of California in 1962, before ascending to the presidency.

Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer of humble means who lived for a year as an adult in subsidized public housing.

Ronald Reagan -- the son of an alcoholic shoe salesman -- was America's first divorced president. His second daughter, Christine, lived just one day. And it took him twelve years and three tries before he won the presidency.

Like Kennedy, George H.W. Bush was born into a prominent family. But also like Kennedy, Bush was shot down and nearly died in World War II. Many of Bush's family members were killed in the war.

Bill Clinton's father died when he was an infant. He was raised by an alcoholic stepfather who beat his mother and stepbrother.

Etc.

I don't know about others here, but I didn't know most of this.

According to Klein, the Obama's marriage was on the rocks and Obama confided in friends that he and Michelle were talking about divorce. Michelle even had divorce papers drawn up, one Obama friend told Klein. Obama's friends said he was so depressed they feared he was suicidal.

[Captain Hate]

This is the wonderfulness of the IOC http://www.examiner.com/review/greece-track-star-voula-papachristou-kicked-off-2012-olympics-over-racist-tweets

Read the comment and show me the "racism"

[windansea]

Debate schedule

The first, which will focus on domestic policy, is set for Oct. 3 at the University of Denver in Denver, Colo., the city that hosted the 2008 Democratic convention. A second meeting in a town-hall format will take place Oct. 16 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., and the final meeting, focusing on foreign policy, will be held Oct. 22 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.

[matt]

It figures it was the bluidy Scots who fecked it all up at the Olympics befaer they aeven staerted.

They raised the South Korean flag instead of that of the North. I believe that the newly wedded Supreme Leader and BFF of the Bashar Assad has already threatened to rain down a storm of destruction on Edinburgh and Seoul just for good measure.

[rse]

"will to improve equity in education and access to college," remarked Ivory A. Toldson, Ph.D., a Howard University professor who is also contributing education editor for The Root."

I suspect this will call attention to what he has already done with DoED and the Justice Dept which is to assert civil rights violations for disparities in classes taken, grades, and otherwise encourage the move away from content. In college it is already being pushed hard as learner outcomes.

http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/credential-inflation-how-reforming-higher-ed-with-learner-outcomes-can-damage-all-degrees/

is the piece I wrote on what this does to higher ed. I have not yet written up precisely what the Lumina Foundation Diploma Qualifications Protocol lays out. It is quite heartbreaking.

For the Bill Ayers watchers the Global Perspectives company set up to run the govt monitoring with the accreditors and Lumina of the huge shift in higher ed, even worse than what I described in that post, is a company set up in 2008 by the Dean of the ed school where Ayers taught for years.

It is mostly social and emotional learning being pushed. Where it is allowed to be cognitive it is not knowledge but that metacognitive getting to know and understand yourself crap that is getting pushed on K-12 through UDL as I described in the LUN.

I am also concerned about the cradle to career aspect. The idea becomes prenatal visits to home visits of infants to offering day care and making Head Start even earlier.

Have I told you Head Start has added an explicit social and emotional mandate?

[Danube of Thought]

"it will start showing in the polls especially when they start using likely rather than registered votes in those polls."

I don't think it will start showing until they begin to weight their samples in accordance with a rational turnout model, rather than using the D/R/I figures from 2008.

[narciso]

Where did Allott, get that factoid about George Bush Sr, he was a war hero, maybe he got confused with the Kennedy's for relatives
who died in the war

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/sarah-palin-to-campaign-with-ted-cruz-in-texas/

[narciso]

Double standards, yadda, yadda;

http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/25/report-billionaire-donor-to-obama-super-pac-made-fortune-outsourcing/

[Extraneus]

Yeah, I was going to post about her earlier today, CH. I didn't see this as racist, either.

On Sunday, while attempting to make a joke/mockery about the sudden appearance Nile-virus-carrying mosquitoes in Athens, she tweeted: “With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!”

What if the mosquitos were those bird-sized ones from Alaska? Would she have been booted for anti-Aleutian bias?

[rse]

Ignatz-most of what has been taught in colleges of ed for 20 years is factually untrue and frequently the Marxist theory of the mind camouflaged as learning theory. That is 100% what is in the ed Leadership or curriculum degrees. So many of those credentialed administrators have no business making decisions affecting children. They have been credentialed to use ed to steal money and harm children and thus eventually destroy capitalism. It's not even accidental.

So you need the feds out of it, get rid of the behavioral labs. The state apparatus is largely funded by feds. About 75% typically.

I am not looking forward to the school year as the diva starts high school. The principal came in last year to take our money and harm our children. Understanding quite rightly that the more aggressively he imposed the ideas that the teachers were no longer to teach content, the faster he would gain a promotion to the Central Office to make even more off our taxes.

It's a corrupt model and intentionally so.

[Captain Hate]

He was raised by an alcoholic stepfather who beat his mother and stepbrother.

If this is according to Slick, undoubtedly it's all a crock.

[Janet]

Read the comment and show me the "racism"

That is what I thought, Captain. I guess a person can't compete in sports if they hold the wrong beliefs or say the wrong joke.
Are Islamic countries competing? Any problems with their beliefs?

[daddy]

Re: TM's excellent title for this post:

"Obama - I Didn't Say What I Said, And Anyway, I Meant The Opposite"

By chance came upon a quote in Historian Bernard Lewis' new autobiography, that beautifully pertains:

"In the Soviet Union, the most difficult task of the historian is to predict the past."

In light of Obama's "That's not what I said even tho' it's exactly what I said ", and the MFM's "That's not what he meant, even tho' it's exactly what he meant", and DiFi pulling a Bookerism in backtracking today etc, here's the full paragraph from Bernard Lewis (page 157) that I found so pertinent:

"HISTORY AND THE PRESENT"

The primary concern of the historian is the past---to study it, using whatever evidence he can find, and then to communicate the results of his study to others by means of writing and teaching. For some reason, historians are often asked to say what will happen next. Most of us reply that our business is in the past, not the future; that we are historians, not prophets. But that is not usually enough to put off the persistent questioners. I remember a meeting of historians in Rome where we were discussing whether historians should or should not attempt to predict the future. That was when the Soviet Union was still alive and well. A Soviet colleague among us remained silent through the discussion and then we turned to him to ask him what his view was. He said, "In the Soviet Union, the most difficult task of the historian is to predict the past." He was of course referring to the constant rewriting of the past by the Communist hierarchy."

Feel free to substitute Obama and the MFM for "Communist hierarchy" in that last sentence.

So far an excellent book.

[Ignatz]

--Yeah, I was going to post about her earlier today, CH. I didn't see this as racist, either.--

Especially since most of the Africans along the Nile are Arabs who are, even with a little racial mixing, the same frickin race as Greeks.

[centralcal]

I think the following might be from a Brian Williams, NBC - London interview with Romney. Good stuff from Mitt:

Sam Stein ‏@samsteinhp

Williams asks Romney if he's looking for an "incredibly boring white guy" for vp. He responds: "You told me you were not available."

[Extraneus]

Anyone try the sexy girls link?

nedenki.net/holiday-cheer?

Heh. I'm not trying it unless it's recommended by at least two people here, who still have their PC's at least five minutes after the fact.

[Danube of Thought]

Progress: the Marlantes babe from the CS Monitor (on the FNC All-Star panel) acknowledges that "you didn't build that" has the incumbent shitbird on the defensive.

[daddy]

"GUI"..."DUI".., How about we just call it a "KUI" (a Kennedy under the influence).

Think that pretty much covers all the bases.

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

"The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans"

Does anyone wonder why they still call it the WHITE house? Should that be changed to make things more equal?

[Sara]

Peter: Nearly everyone in So. Calif. lives in a tract home and most of them sell for over $400,000.

Last night I priced a mobile home in Palm Springs. It is selling for $329,000.

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

Well, you'd have to be drunk to vote for him, so that kind of makes sense...

Insty takes it from there:

Guy goes into a bar in Louisiana where there’s a robot bartender! The robot says, “What will you have?” The guy says, “Whiskey.” The robot brings back his drink and says to the man, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says,” 168.” The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology.

The guy leaves, . . . but he is curious . . . So he goes back into the bar. The robot bartender says, “What will you have?” The guy says, “Whiskey.” Again, the robot brings the man his drink and says, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says, “100.” The robot then starts to talk about Nascar, Budweiser, the Saints and LSU Tigers

The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time. He goes back into the bar. The robot says, “What will you have?” The guy says, “Whiskey,” and the robot brings him his whiskey. The robot then says, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says, “Uh, about 50.”

The robot leans in real close and says, “SO, . . . you people . . . still happy . . . with Obama?”

[GMax]

I don't think it will start showing until they begin to weight their samples in accordance with a rational turnout model, rather than using the D/R/I figures from 2008.

If I didnt know better, why I would have said that is a realistic and optimistic man! Smirk.

Actually, If I had posted that, someone would have patted me on the head and told me how they loved my optimism!!!!

[Melinda Romanoff]

Janet-

The LGBT community in Chicago is a voting block unto itself, and are heavy local donors. Ald. Moreno is a freshman on the City Council and is looking to improve the heft of his clout swing, and Chick-Fil-A is the perfect punching bag. Either they pay him, I mean contribute to his campaign/pet project, or there's no second store. He knows the other store has a line around the corner every hour it is open, so it's not about the tax revenue from a 19.5% recreation levy. It's ALL about Moreno.

Just a check, and it all goes away.

Until next year, when he does it again.

It has absolutely nothing to do with any belief system on anybody's part. It's just about the money.

[Ignatz]

--Actually, If I had posted that, someone would have patted me on the head and told me how they loved my optimism!!!!--

If come November it actually turns out to be Dems+ 8 somebody may be trying to pat you and Rick on the head with a stick. :)

[Rick Ballard]

"until they begin to weight their samples in accordance with a rational turnout model, rather than using the D/R/I figures from 2008"

DoT,

Not even then. There isn't any historical background for this level of collapse in Democrat Partisan ID. We're going to be seeing crappy "maybe they're just kidding" skews until mid-October.

AFAICT - The Wisconsin recall provides the best clue to the probable outcome.

[Extraneus]

EXCLUSIVE: Movie massacre suspect sent chilling notebook to psychiatrist before attack

The source said the package had been in the mailroom since July 12, though another source who confirmed the discovery to FoxNews.com could not say if the package arrived prior to Friday's massacre. It was not clear why it had not been delivered to the psychiatrist. The notebook is now in possession of the FBI, sources told FoxNews.com.

Can you imagine what university mailrooms are going through today? Anyone looking for this type of job, today's your day.

[daddy]

Jane,

Beautiful! Ha! (and that ain't the Guinness talking, tho' he is kibbitizing a bit today.)

Outside it's 103 here in Indy. I feel like Johnny Torch of the Fantastic-4, just waiting to explode into flames but I'm lacking something incendiary. Perhaps this...

[Thomas Collins]

I clicked, Extraneus. It's hard core porn. Well, at least according to my definition it's hard core. With deviance being defined down today, who knows. My computer is fine, but I'm on one with a take no prisoners anti-virus system.

That interracial dating site spam still reigns as the best JOM spam.

[narciso]

Maybe this offers some clues;

ttp://www.gallup.com/poll/9898/2000-Presidential-Election-MidYear-Gallup-Report.aspx

[Extraneus]

TC's computer set to self-destruct in 5... 4... 3... 2...

[rse]

I was thinking about that AA ed initiative some more while I stirred and chopped. Arne had already announced he was going to push the UN created Social Dimension of the higher ed restructuring. I'd be willing to guess someone might think it was a good idea to publicize that further.

It really does destroy the value of anyone's degree. And those NCLB waivers he and Arne are so proud of shafting Congress to give out, Really do say that not being able to read should no longer be a reason to hold someone back.

There are few minority parents who would go along with deliberately limiting literacy and then keeping the extent of the repurcussions from them.

Scamsters.

[Extraneus]

Sure, it sounds good, but polygamy is tough!

Five 'jealous' wives rape Nigerian man to death

Uroko Onoja, a wealthy businessman, was having sex with his youngest wife when the other five women attacked him with knives and sticks, demanding that he have sex with all of them at once.

Onoja, who resisted their attack, was overpowered by the women who ordered that the sex march begin with the youngest wife and to continue in that order to the top, Nigeria's Daily reported.

Onoja stopped breathing when the fifth woman was making her way to the bed.

[Extraneus]

Who knew? Muhammed was probably right to limit it to four wives after all!

[Extraneus]

If that's not news you can use, I don't know what is.

[linearthinker]

Megan Rapinoe

[Threadkiller]

If you have 9 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aCfR8rmrw&feature

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

I wonder if Onoja was happy to see those 72 virgins?

[Extraneus]

If only he hadn't had that 4-hour erection, the poor man would be alive today.

[Threadkiller]

How could he resist?

[MarkO]

"Obama's friends said he was so depressed they feared he was suicidal."

Dang it.

[Ignatz]

--Dang it.--

Heh. Glad I wasn't the only one that thought that.

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

Tomorrow on my show I am interviewing a guy who is trying to get the democrat nomination to be my congressman. He is running against Richard Neal. (My guess is he is running to the left of Richard Neal, if that indeed is even possible.)

I'm concerned because he is a progressive and I'd prefer not to completely beat him up on air.

I've already outlined a bunch of questions, but can anyone think of anything that might be interesting to ask?

[Sara]

"Obama's friends said he was so depressed they feared he was suicidal."

Dang it.

Obama has friends?

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

What are those white spots TK. And where did the "Obama is so depressed" quote come from?

[Danube of Thought]

As you have probably noticed, I have become far more optimistic over the past month--in fact, I think it's a done deal. And I like Romney a little more almost every time I see him.

[narciso]

This fellow, Jane, he does seem to believe that Red Liz, is on the right track, in the LUN

[GMax]

There isn't any historical background for this level of collapse in Democrat Partisan ID.

That is true, since Zero apparently has been quite effective in convincing a huge swath of his party to say AMF to the party. Someplace around 20% went poof, if RAS partisan ID polls are reflective.

Still there is plenty of historical evidence that special elections and state elections ( as you rightly point to Wisconsin ) being quite predictive.

Lets put it this way, if Iggy wants D + 8 I got under and will cover every single buck or looney he wishes to put up.

[Rick Ballard]

Wait until the likability sub-program is activated. Sure, it's just an add-on but the test runs have been fantastic.

[Threadkiller]

"What are those white spots TK"

Bird shit.

[GMax]

Jane

You might ask if he ever had any head trauma as a child.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Rick-

I'm willing to wager that the Congressional elections, difficult as they were to conduct, from 1866 through 1870 might have some comparisons.

[Ignatz]

--Lets put it this way, if Iggy wants D + 8 I got under and will cover every single buck or looney he wishes to put up.--

I don't want D+ 8, I just always think back to the 1988 Oakland A's when things start to sound inevitable.
Orel, Kirk and Tommy put an indelible spot in my brain

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Beliebte Frau Lenya -- I could go for some Kurt Weill though.

[narciso]

I don't know maybe ask him what he thought of NFIB v. Sibelius, I suspect he probably believes it didn't go far enough;

[matt]

" When did you stop pimping?" is a good icebreaker, Jane.

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

You might ask if he ever had any head trauma as a child.

It will be an interesting test of my professionalism which I suspect will be sorely tested. The trick is to get my message across without being rude or insulting.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Figures. Has the "body armor" been verified or dis-proven yet? That report helped argue against anyone having a chance at taking him out if they'd been carrying.

Definitely wasn't true -- he was wearing a black nylon "tactical vest", which is to say a fishing vest playing ninja.

[Gus]

"WE CREATED MILLIONS OF JOBS"

This fuktard has created a clusterfuk of epic proportions. He is incompetent, he is a Marxist, and he is lying sack of shit.

[Threadkiller]

Jane, ask him why blacks overwhelmingly voted for prop 8 and watch his head fall off.

[Sara]

Wow, I hardly recognize Glenn Beck on O'R right now. Slightly longer hair, very grey, very very dark tan and about 20 lbs lighter.

[Threadkiller]

"The trick is to get my message across without being rude or insulting."

I can't help you then.

;-)

[Ignatz]

--which is to say a fishing vest playing ninja--

Perhaps Jeralyn Merritt can look into why just any old civilian can walk in off the street and buy a fishing vest without a waiting period and a background check.

[Clarice]

If you hair isn't on fire already.http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/07/25/Pentagon-Islamic-Adviser-Reappears-as-Political-Leader-for-Syrian-Muslim-Brotherhood-Dominated-Group

Jane, ask him what value there is in being a Democratic congressman in a Congress which looks like it will be overwhelmingly Republican, no matter who wins the White House. How's he plan to "fight for us" from such a small back bench.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Perhaps Jeralyn Merritt can look into why just any old civilian can walk in off the street and buy a fishing vest without a waiting period and a background check.

Bought it on the Internet. I expect fishing vest registration to come up in Congress next week.

[narciso]

It's a bit of a poser, because he seems to think that Neal is too conservative, but how does he feel about free speech issues,

[Danube of Thought]

My brother and his oldest son took their wives to see Glenn Campbell in Alexandria Monday night. They loved it. They said he is clearly suffering from the Alzheimer's, and needs help from his kids getting through the program, but the music is in his DNA--he hasn't lost a smidgen as a guitarist or singer.

[GMax]

Geraghty points out two data points. First Zero approval with white voters per Gallup is 37% and then this small and probably insignificant fact:

New Hampshire is 92 percent white, Iowa 89 percent, Wisconsin 83 percent, Ohio 81 percent, and Pennsylvania 79 percent.

[Ignatz]

--Bought it on the Internet.--

Well then, he didn't do that. Al Gore bought it for him.

[pagar]

Jane, would it be rude to ask him what in the world would cause an American to admit they were a Democrat.

[Janet]

The trick is to get my message across without being rude or insulting.

Ask him questions, Jane. Make him explain his beliefs.
*Do you support "green" technologies? How will our cars run on solar energy? Why won't the Kennedy's let wind turbines be built in their "viewing area"? Do you support wind turbines? What IS the correct global temperature?
*Do you support AA? Can individuals lie about their ethnic origin to get AA preferences? How would you ensure people don't lie?
*How do you feel about Obama's relatives living off of the people of Mass.?
*On Obama's "likability"...Do you "like" Obama? Do you think he is smart? Why? Do you care that Gitmo is still open? Do you oppose waterboarding but are okay with blowing the insurgents the hell up?

[Sara]

An hour on Facebook:

ForAmerica Yesterday, when discussing the economy at a campaign stop in Oakland, President Obama said: "We've tried our [economic] plan, and it worked." LIKE if you agree that Obama is a fool!

35,128 people like this.
7,035 shares

[GMax]

Fixed?

[Clarice]

Glad Janet's not interviewing ME!!

[Rick Ballard]

"Orel, Kirk and Tommy put an indelible spot in my brain"

Ignatz,

I understand the concept behind the analogy but Orel, Kirk and Tommy possessed talent. The Pinhead Troika just spent a month and tens of millions of dollars hammering their opponent to reveal the full extent of his undeniable success. They're just not the sharpest marbles in the drawer.

[Threadkiller]

Jane, I hope my comment did not come across the wrong way. The joke was that I could only help with rude and insulting questions. On reread it looks like I am saying I can't help because you are rude and insulting.

I did not mean it that way.

[GMax]

I would ask his if nuclear power had the lowest carbon footprint of any of our energy sources and why shouldnt we be building more of them?

Then ask him if he knew that the US carbon output reductions far exceeded Europe's achieved reductions? Tell him that its entirely due to nat gas, and then ask him if we should not be doing everything we can to encourage fracking given significant environmental advantages and the jobs that fracking creates?

[Janet]

The left never have to explain where they are going.
If he is a "green" nut...really, ask him about his car. Will he be taking an airplane to his office in DC if he wins, or riding a bike? Perhaps walking...to save the planet.
Does he support Planned Parenthood funding & NPR/PBS funding? Why should taxpayers fund these businesses? These businesses make profits...why can't they stand on their own like other businesses?

[GMax]

As long as you dont accuse her of not being natural born, TK I bet she will be good with it...