The Obama team isn’t going to try to get into a fight about whether their guy was on his game. There’s no point. (This is what I meant a couple days ago when I said Obama is not a great debater. Not a great night. But I’ve never seen him great at debating.) What I fully expect, what they’ll do if they’re smart is go full court press on Romney’s numbers and press for details about his budget plan.
The numbers simply don’t add up. Over a few news cycles that can build up really fast. He says he’ll push massive upper income tax cuts and those have to come at the cost of much higher deficits or big tax hikes for middle income people. His campaign agenda is based on a massive deception.
That’s the vulnerability Romney brings out of this debate. And it may be bigger than people realize.
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Raine check ya email
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Raine check ya email
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Say, Mitt never landed a "zinger" last night, did he?
Swing and a miss!
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Raine check ya email
Dear Mr. President:
I will be very direct; the time has come for you to resign as honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America.
I am a lifelong member of this organization myself, and I have had a very difficult time over the last few years reconciling the tolerance, compassion, and service that I teach to our youth with the blatant hate and homophobia espoused by our national leadership.
You have been a true leader in the LGBT community…from defending civil rights, to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tellâ€, and working for marriage equality via the DNC’s platform this year.
It’s inexplicable to me how you can remain, even as an honorary member of the Boy Scouts. These things that you defend as President are incompatible with the current direction of the Boy Scouts. This has happened to me recently – I’ve had my own honour and integrity questioned by the mere fact of wearing the uniform. People will slowly begin to see the same thing in the Oval Office, and this cannot happen.
Additionally, it is perhaps time for you to ask Congress to rescind the Boy Scout’s national charter. As I’m sure you’re aware, every year the Congress charters the BSA to operate in the United States. It may be more symbolic than anything else, but for the government of the United States to continue to annually sanction the operating principles of what has become a hate group is utterly astonishing to me.
Please consider this strongly, Mr. President. This will send a clear message to the Boy Scouts, as well as other exclusionary and hateful groups that such discrimination is not allowed or tolerated in these United States.
Sincerely, ME!
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Going to the White House now:
Dear Mr. President:
I will be very direct; the time has come for you to resign as honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America.
I am a lifelong member of this organization myself, and I have had a very difficult time over the last few years reconciling the tolerance, compassion, and service that I teach to our youth with the blatant hate and homophobia espoused by our national leadership.
You have been a true leader in the LGBT community…from defending civil rights, to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tellâ€Â, and working for marriage equality via the DNC’s platform this year.
It’s inexplicable to me how you can remain, even as an honorary member of the Boy Scouts. These things that you defend as President are incompatible with the current direction of the Boy Scouts. This has happened to me recently – I’ve had my own honour and integrity questioned by the mere fact of wearing the uniform. People will slowly begin to see the same thing in the Oval Office, and this cannot happen.
Additionally, it is perhaps time for you to ask Congress to rescind the Boy Scout’s national charter. As I’m sure you’re aware, every year the Congress charters the BSA to operate in the United States. It may be more symbolic than anything else, but for the government of the United States to continue to annually sanction the operating principles of what has become a hate group is utterly astonishing to me.
Please consider this strongly, Mr. President. This will send a clear message to the Boy Scouts, as well as other exclusionary and hateful groups that such discrimination is not allowed or tolerated in these United States.
Sincerely, ME!
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Mala, this is the VA absentee voter reg form.
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Once again:
Eligible Virginia registered voters generally can download an application here or contact your local Voter Registration Office to request an absentee ballot application. You can return the completed application to your local voter registration office by either mail or fax. The absentee ballot application must be received in your local voter registration office by 5:00 PM eastern standard time on the Tuesday prior to the election day in which the applicant wants to vote.
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Mala, this is the VA absentee voter reg form.
yes, you'll notice the official Richmond addresses at different from what's on the mailer.
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Once again:
Eligible Virginia registered voters generally can download an application here or contact your local Voter Registration Office to request an absentee ballot application. You can return the completed application to your local voter registration office by either mail or fax. The absentee ballot application must be received in your local voter registration office by 5:00 PM eastern standard time on the Tuesday prior to the election day in which the applicant wants to vote.
am I interpreting something wrong then?
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Mala, this is the VA absentee voter reg form.
yes, you'll notice the official Richmond addresses at different from what's on the mailer.
Quote by Raine:The mailer is asking people to send the application into the GOP office.Quote by wickedpam:Quote by Raine:
Once again:
Eligible Virginia registered voters generally can download an application here or contact your local Voter Registration Office to request an absentee ballot application. You can return the completed application to your local voter registration office by either mail or fax. The absentee ballot application must be received in your local voter registration office by 5:00 PM eastern standard time on the Tuesday prior to the election day in which the applicant wants to vote.
am I interpreting something wrong then?
Now let me ask you this, was the person who got this in the mail a dem or a Republican?
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Mala, this is the VA absentee voter reg form.
yes, you'll notice the official Richmond addresses at different from what's on the mailer.
Fairfax?
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Mala, this is the VA absentee voter reg form.
yes, you'll notice the official Richmond addresses at different from what's on the mailer.
Fairfax?
Isn't that your county?
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Mala, this is the VA absentee voter reg form.
yes, you'll notice the official Richmond addresses at different from what's on the mailer.
Fairfax?
Isn't that your county?
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That it was sent to a mixed home tells me something. I think they are hoping to get dems registered -- possibly illegally.
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MAla I am forwarding this information to a friend that has contacts with the VA Board of elections.
Would you like to be included in the e mail?
Alternet/ By Adele M. Stan
Why That Crappy Presidential Debate Won't Change Anyone's Mind
With only a sliver of the electorate undecided on its candidate, the 2012 debates are not about persuading voters.
October 4, 2012 |
By most accounts, Wednesday night’s presidential debate was one of the worst anybody could remember. Moderator Jim Lehrer, anchor of the PBS NewsHour, seemed largely absent, President Barack Obama brought little fight to the game , and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, presented a pile of lies that were left either unchallenged or ineffectively countered.
Add to that the barrage of numbers issued by each candidate, and you have the recipe for a very boring and dispiriting debate. And it was.
This first presidential debate in a series of three (heaven help us), which took place at the Magness Arena on the campus of the University of Denver, probably didn’t change many minds. Election 2012 finds a more highly polarized electorate than normal; only 6 percent or so of voters are deemed “persuadable†by pollsters, and it’s unlikely that a majority of those undecided voters were even watching the debate.
On our highly polarized political landscape, debates are fought for the amusement of media industrial complex, and not for the voters. It’s part of the media’s jobs program for campaign consultants and former consultants who become ubiquitous on television as “expert†interpreters of what viewers witnessed on the debate stage.
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MAla I am forwarding this information to a friend that has contacts with the VA Board of elections.
Would you like to be included in the e mail?
Sure you can cc me.
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MAla I am forwarding this information to a friend that has contacts with the VA Board of elections.
Would you like to be included in the e mail?
Sure you can cc me.
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Raine, thanks for a great blog after a painful debate.
I think that a ground squirrel or an empty chair would have been more effective than Jim Lehrer. Romney bullied his way to victory, and Obama needed to respond with facts and passion.
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Now that I have a few minutes to think and comment, here's what I've got to say.
Mitt likes Big Bird, but wants to cut the subsidy for PBS? That .010% cut of the discrectionary budget is gonna come back to bit Mittbot on the backside. Frankly all of the shit Mittbot was spewing the 36 minutes I managed to watch (don't judge me! So I wanted to see the Sox flame out in the last get of the season) is going to be lovingly crafted into ads. Those adds are going to have Mittbot's BS and then the finely fact checked reality. Mitt might have looked like a winner, but in the cold light of day, not so much.
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*ting*
Hmm....So, Mitt is the St. Louis Cardinals to Obama's Yankees?
(Of course, that was NL "small ball" at it's best when Tony La Russa was managing, but you get the idea.)
"Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president."
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This was really inappropriate:
Deploying Twitter-speak, KitchenAid sent this message:"Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president."
WTF?
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This was really inappropriate:
Deploying Twitter-speak, KitchenAid sent this message:"Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president."
WTF?
and now I"m glad my mixer is a kenmore
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New 'conservative seniors' group formed to challenge AARP
Uhh, yeah, whatever.
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This was really inappropriate:
Deploying Twitter-speak, KitchenAid sent this message:"Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president."
WTF?
and now I"m glad my mixer is a kenmore
They blamed it on an employee accidentally using the corporate login. They apologized and said that person won't be tweeting for them anymore. I'll take them at their word on that.
The health insurance industry presented itself as a key ally of President Barack Obama’s health care law while at the same time making hefty contributions to members of Congress who are trying to get rid of it, according to contribution records.
Between January of 2007 and August of 2012, the political action committees of the 11 largest health insurance companies and their primary trade group gave $10.2 million to federal politicians, with nearly two-thirds of the total going to Republicans who oppose the law or support its repeal, according to the Center for Public Integrity’s analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.
The 11 top companies, according to the Fortune 500 list, controlled 35 percent of the industry in 2011, according to data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The top industry trade group is America’s Health Insurance Plans.
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Good day, folks: I stuck through most of the debate although towards the end I just left it on the radio while I surfed through what was left of baseball season and saw the Yankees kill the Red Sox in a blaze of glory and the O's having to accept having to go through the one and done round on Friday for the chance to play the Yankees in what was considered the first round of the playoffs:
While Romney won the debate, he won it through bullying and lying his ass off while Lehrer basically sat there (note my comments last night about the potted plant): I guess the only question is how many people also followed the fact-checking after the debate where Romney did not fare so well: