Friday Afternoon Thread: OBAMA

November 9, 2012 by Miranda 246 Comments

Filed Under: Open Thread Tagged With: Forward, President Obama

itgurl_29

Get ‘em, President Obama! Standing up for working folks like a BOSS!

I’m dedicating this song to you and the Democrats who have your back:
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney
by The Troubadour

Marc Ambinder has a brief piece up at GQ entitled “How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney.” The piece begins with this delicious opening:

At some point, early Wednesday morning, when Gov. Mitt Romney and family were tucked into bed, a quiet call went out on the radio channel used by his Secret Service agents: “Javelin, Jockey details, all posts, discontinue.”

Of all the indignities involved in losing a presidential race, none is more stark than the sudden emptiness of your entourage. The Secret Service detail guarding Governor Romney since Feb 1. stood down quickly. He had ridden in a 15-car motorcade to the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston for his concession speech. He rode in a single-car motorcade back across the Charles River to Belmont. His son, Tagg, did the driving.

MORE: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/08/1159254/-How-the-Secret-Service-Said-Goodbye-to-Mitt-Romney
- qosine
  
  First time for Romney: Went from 15 cars to 1.
  - Alma98
    
    LOL!
- rikyrah
  
  you know they were like
  
  WE OUT!!
  
  BOY BYE
  - Alma98
    
    LOL!
- Aquagranny911
  
  I shouldn’t laugh about this but BWAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA!
  - Alma98
    
    Yse AG HAHAHAHAHA!
- Aquagranny911
  
  Just had to add…
  
  I know that SS dudes don’t dish the dirt but I sure wish they could spill it about the Robmes. I would love to hear their opinions about the treatment they got. I bet they were all doing the Snoopy Dance of Joy when they got orders to stand down!
- Alma98
  
  I loves it! I loves it! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
- GOVCHRIS1988
  
  Secret Service to Mitt…….”Deuces!”
- Camille
  
  This was very telling because the Secret Service can hang around the candidate for up to a week.
  
  The fact that they jumped ship the very next morning says a lot. And it’s not good or flattering for the Romneys.
  
  Also I heard the Secret Service were already freaking out about having to provide service for a minimum of 30 Romneys had he won.
  
  But God took care of that too.
  
  I could not wait to see that smirk wiped off Romney, wife and sons faces, but the indignity of losing every apparatus that assisted in his phony “looking presidential” act, was the cherry on top of the delicious sundae.
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

UN Envoy Susan Rice Is Top Candidate to Succeed Clinton
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan and Flavia Krause-Jackson – Nov 8, 2012 8:40 PM ET

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is emerging as the favored candidate to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, even with the political controversy over her remarks about the fatal Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Six current or former White House officials, who all spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said Rice remains close to President Barack Obama and shares many of his views on foreign policy. They emphasized that the president hasn’t made a final decision, and Clinton may remain in her post for some months into Obama’s second term.

Former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley and other officials said Obama’s first move will be choosing a successor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. He also may need to find successors to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the officials said.

MORE: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-08/un-envoy-susan-rice-is-top-candidate-to-succeed-clinton.html
- Miranda
  
  As soon as the GOP bitchassness rears its head on this we need to be FIRED UP AND READY TO GO. I want to see if the Professional Left will have her back on this because I already know this will be a fight. We need to engage Rev Al on this early to get folks ready blow up the congressional lines on this.
- GN
  
  John Kerry would be excellent too.
  - goldenstar
    
    Apparently John Kerry does not have the allies/advocates as does Susan Rice.
    - GN
      
      Interesting (I know zip about the inner workings of the WH). I hope the best person rather than the most connected person gets the job, whomever that turns out to be.
  - Miranda
    
    Oh yes, I forgot about him. I want John Kerry to have some high up post for sure. He was a real “G” this election cycle.
  - Aquagranny911
    
    Yes he would but we would be losing an excellent Dem Senator with a lot of cred in Washington. I like the idea of Susan Rice better.
    
    Just my two pesos but I think it was a big mistake to pluck Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security. She was a powerful firewall here in AZ against the teapotty. 2010 in AZ would have been way different & there would have been no SB1070 plus I think we would have had a Dem governor now (Terry Goddard) instead of that evil bruja, Brewer. I think Kerry should stay in the Senate.
    
    This is just a really weird off the wall thought but what about old Billy Boy Clinton? He can glad hand with the best of them while twisting the knife. Probably his health wouldn’t hold up for it but this idea did give me a chuckle.
    - GN
      
      Excellent points! Such an embarrassment of riches, we as constituents really can’t lose with any of the names in circulation.
    - GN
      
      Excellent points! Such an embarrassment of riches, we as constituents really can’t lose with any of the names in circulation.
    - qosine
      
      Good point about John Kerry; I hadn’t thought about that.
- Camille
  
  Sorry, but I don’t want to ever hear from Bill Daley. Much of the nasty gossip about President Obama was courtesy of Bill Daley.
  
  Not trustworthy in the least.
  
  Valerie Jarrett called it about Daley. He is not to be allowed anywhere near President Obama ever.
GN

@NickHanauer:
Worst trade of 2012? Wall Street’s big bet against Obama.
- Ebogan63
  
  As somebody tweeted yesterday, now Wall Street is marooned, PBO ain’t studyin’ they asses.
GN

Blaming Gingrich for Romney’s Loss

Many Romney insiders blame Newt Gingrich’s attacks in the GOP primaries for Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential election, Fortune reports.

Said one consultant: “No one in the campaign believed that Republicans would attack business enterprise in a primary contest. That was, in hindsight, a big mistake.”

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/09/blaming_gingrich_for_romneys_loss.html
- qosine
  
  The List of Blame grows and grows and . . .
  - GN
    
    Sandy, Gingrich, Christie…next it’s going to be the man in the moon.
- Aquagranny911
  
  Sweet blushing baby Jesus! Don’t those goatfiggers know anything else but the finger pointing game? They had a nasty candidate, they ran a terrible divisive hate-filled campaign & their platform & ideas suck?
  
  There, I fixed that! Plus they smugly thought that $$$, cheating & stealing could buy the government for their corporate bosses!
  
  YOU LOST REPUGNANTS!!! BITE THE VERY BIG CACTUS!!!
- Miranda
  
  LOLOL…well they should know Newt dont give a rat’s ass. He only looks out for number one. He’d gladly throw his bighead wife under the bus and tell her “better you than me” before he actually started caring about Romney losing.
  
  Personally, I think he and Santorum both were giggling like school girls on Tuesday night.
  - AxelFoley
    
    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
- Camille
  
  LOL. Yeah.
  
  It’s everyone’s fault but lousy Mitt’s.
aleth

Here is a message to people who worship the media: the president has not listened to their nonsense and he won reelection. What makes them think he will listen to them now? The Obama coalition does not give two shits about any of these media entities
- qosine
  
  Yep.
- GN
  
  They ran against him and lost. OFA is more persuasive to moderate voters than the beltway meda, which has lost even more credibility due to their lies about an ultra-tight horserace. I’m sure the WH will talk to any and everyone to get their message across, but the beltway pundits’ relevance and credibility with the American public has never been lower IMO.
  - Aquagranny911
    
    Co-Sign!!! I’ve been boycotting most of them for ages & will continue to do so. The only reason I know what any of them say is because of some of our brave posters here at POU listen to & call out their caca.
- TyrenM
  
  “the president has not listened to their nonsense and he won reelection.”
  
  LOD spoke on this talking to new Senators. Fuck the beltway media, keep up with your local reporters. I like that.
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Oh, this is VERY interesting. I bet Dems wish they hadn’t done this:

They may also reverse what many see as an error in 2008: keeping “Organizing for America,” as the successor to that first campaign was known, on the sidelines. After their historic victory, Obama aides recognized that they had amassed a heap of political capital in the form of millions of e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers of marginal or swing voters, as well as an army of loyal volunteers and staffers. At one point in 2009, the group mobilized hundreds of thousands of calls to Congress to pass health care reform, inundating the switchboard.

But the White House quickly sidelined the organization at the request of congressional leaders, who resented the president’s early attempts to apply pressure on them inside their own districts. And Obama campaign aides also privately acknowledged that supporters weren’t as engaged as they would have liked in the group “because of the Jesus effect”: the belief that Obama’s election would magically solve all problems.

MORE: http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/the-obama-campaign-wont-go-away

I would LOVE to know who these congressional leaders were. I bet one of them was Russ Feingold.
- Miranda
  
  OFA would have been the perfect antidote to the foolish tea party mess. Wuss ass “sensitive” Dems in congress are as much to blame as emprogs and the Professional Left for 2010.
- Camille
  
  I despise most of these folks. I do not want to be on the same team with them ever again.
  
  Once President Obama completes his second term, I’m so done.
  - AxelFoley
    
    This can’t be repeated enough.
- JojoRaze
  
  Diane Feinstein was one. I remember after the first election PBO told people to call Congress for something and Feinstein was upset that folks were in her hallway screaming at her to do something.
- Ebogan63
  
  This is why you hear Messina and PBO talk about keeping OFA in their front pocket this time round, so wayward dems and PL/emoprog assholes betta take notice!
GreenLadyHere

Good Afternoon miranda/POU FAM.♥– -***BIG HUG*** :>)

- -Ohhhhhh—- WHAT a BEAUTIFUL ACRONYM!! –:>)- – OBVIOUSLY!! :>)

- – –SOME EVIDENCE: – - -:>) – –

- — -Gallup: Gender Gap In 2012 The Largest In Its History

—-In Gallup’s final pre-election poll earlier this week, President Barack Obama led among women voters by 12 points while Mitt Romney held an 8-point edge among men.

That, according to the national research organization, created the largest gender gap “since it began compiling the vote by major subgroups in 1952.” The chart below, courtesy of Gallup, illustrates how the gender gap in this year’s campaign stacks up historically.
— – SNIP – –

Notably, Obama’s 12-percentage-point advantage among women is slightly less than the 14-point advantage he had over John McCain in 2008, while Romney improved on McCain’s performance among men by eight points. Thus, the narrowing of Obama’s winning margin between the two elections, from seven points to two points, can be ascribed mainly to men’s shifting more Republican.

- – - — – -CONGRATULATIONS – — MR. PRESIDENT – -4 SETTING HIGH BARS! – — :>)
GN

@AP:
BREAKING: White House: Obama will veto any bill extending tax cuts for those making more than $250K.
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  SHOTS. FIRED.
  - GN
    
    Shorter PBO to the teaparty re: tax cuts for the rich, “fuck your couch!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJkhSUSnek
    
    I had been convinced that I’d be tuning out of politics on November 7, but I’m still hooked!
    - Aquagranny911
      
      LOL! Me too but I think we still need to be in the game to support President Obama. I sure won’t leave him to stand alone. I’ve always got his back!
      
      Besides I am totally enjoying watching the Repugs & media implode. I’m vengeful like that.
      - Ebogan63
        
        I haven’t gotten enough of telling these Repubs to f off, so I won’t not be PBO’s wingman anytime soon!
      - Aquagranny911
        
        That’s okay. Enjoy yourself. I’ve got PBO’s 6. And even though I’m short, I’m really mean & I fight dirty. I also have a really big cactus on wheels sort of like “have gun (cactus) will travel, lol!
        
        Note: You are probably way too young for that reference to an old TV western but maybe you get it anyway.
      - Ebogan63
        
        AG, I was big on TV westerns as a kid, and saw reruns of ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ and many others. Watched alot of ‘Gunsmoke’
      - Aquagranny911
        
        Gunsmoke is a total classic!
      - Aquagranny911
        
        That’s okay. Enjoy yourself. I’ve got PBO’s 6. And even though I’m short, I’m really mean & I fight dirty. I also have a really big cactus on wheels sort of like “have gun (cactus) will travel, lol!
        
        Note: You are probably way too young for that reference to an old TV western but maybe you get it anyway.
    - Alma98
      
      HAHAHAHAHA!
    - Camille
      
      No GN, we are all going to keep vigil with our great President. We will be by his side throughout this second term. You and I and all people of goodwill.
      - GN
        
        Amen.
      - Aquagranny911
        
        Si.
GN

Now what could possibly give us silly negroes the idea that the GOP is racist as hell:

@StopRush:
Limbaugh: Cubans aren’t “popular in overall Hispanic group” cuz they’re not “as dark” and are “oriented toward work” http://mm4a.org/PJP86j
- rikyrah
  
  he can’t help himself.
  
  he’s racist and on drugs.
- Aquagranny911
  
  FU Rumbag! Some Latinos don’t like Cubanos because they have always had preferential immigration treatment & voted Repug in big blocks every time even if that hurt other Latino groups. And FYI, lots of Cubanos have “dark skin” so suck on that you bloated scum sucker!
  
  I despise this racist pendejo with the heat of 100,000 suns. He better keep his ugly mouth off my peeps before someone hands him his teeth! Doesn’t he live in FL?
- Aquagranny911
  
  FU Rumbag! Some Latinos don’t like Cubanos because they have always had preferential immigration treatment & voted Repug in big blocks every time even if that hurt other Latino groups. And FYI, lots of Cubanos have “dark skin” so suck on that you bloated scum sucker!
  
  I despise this racist pendejo with the heat of 100,000 suns. He better keep his ugly mouth off my peeps before someone hands him his teeth! Doesn’t he live in FL?
  - PBomb
    
    When I work for an Immigration Law Office, that is the story I got on why Cubans were disliked in the Latin Community, is because they get preferential treatment in regards to immigration.
    
    I was told Colombians aren’t well-liked either… don’t know how true that is.
    - Aquagranny911
      
      The ugly drug wars that spilled over into other Latin American countries plus the murders of Catholic bishops, priests & nuns who spoke out against the violence & evil.
      
      I blame Regan for a lot of this that hurt so many in South & Central America.
    - Aquagranny911
      
      The ugly drug wars that spilled over into other Latin American countries plus the murders of Catholic bishops, priests & nuns who spoke out against the violence & evil.
      
      I blame Regan for a lot of this that hurt so many in South & Central America.
      - PBomb
        
        Interesting…. thanks for info.
- Daltex82
  
  I though his fat, drug infested ass was leaving the Country! What a shame that he continues to have a platform to spew his hate.
GreenLadyHere

miranda — –ON – –DAY 3!!- —

- – –White House Spox: Obama Would Veto Bill Extending Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy- -

- —White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Friday that President Obama would veto a bill that extends the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.- – -Woo! Hoo!

– - – –TAKE DAT!!- – - -RE-THUCKERS!!- — HAH! -
rikyrah

ok

cool as hell graphic.

thank you
rikyrah

John Cassidy, in the New Yorker, on “A Victory for Obama and Obama’s America“:

… For the fifth time in the past six Presidential elections, the Democrats have won the popular vote. For the second time in succession, Americans have elected a black man as President. Throughout the country, Republican extremists like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock have been repudiated. Residents of Maryland and Maine (and probably Washington state, too) have voted in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage. The United States of 2012 hasn’t turned into Scandinavia, but it isn’t the United States of 2010 and the Tea Party either. To the extent that the election was about anything more than negative advertising and relentless micro-targeting, it was a triumph of moderation over extremism, tolerance over intolerance, and the polyglot future over the monochrome past…

Though the day-to-day exchanges were often trivial, the underlying dynamics of the election were deadly serious, and everybody knew what they were. As both candidates repeatedly said, it was about what sort of country we want to be. Now the American public has rendered a judgement. By a small but significant majority, it has rejected the insular, backward-looking, feed-the-rich, extremism of today’s G.O.P., even when that extremism has a standard bearer who is relatively moderate—or, at least, flexible. It has reëlected to office a President who, for all his failings, tried during his first term to address some of the biggest problems facing the country, and did so in a spirit of pragmatism and civility that the Mitt Romney who governed Massachusetts would have appreciated.

More rancor and gridlock may well lie ahead. But yesterday the right side won.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/11/victory-for-obamas-america.html#entry-more
- Camille
  
  Sorry, but these attempts at presenting Mitt Romney as a one time honorable moderate is so bogus. The people of Massachusetts know better and have said so.
  
  If Romney were even remotely like these generous descriptions of him, he would be beloved in Massachusetts – and we know he isn’t.
  - Ebogan63
    
    Folks in MA came out just to stick the shiv to Rmoney, that’s how much that man is hated.
  - Aquagranny911
    
    Most absolutely hate him there. This is why he didn’t even try for a second term. He would have lost so bad.
goldenstar

Are any of you watching White House Press Briefing now being broadcast live?

1. Jake Tapper posed a series of offensive questions. He is not a water carrier. He is a straight-up right wing offensive idealogue. I hope that this video can be posted so folks can see this creep in action.

2. The female reporter asking questions immediately after him is more of the same. She asks why is PBO not keeping tradition and holding a press conference? Why is PBO kicking Americans to the curb with these fiscal cliff measures?

This crap is unbelievable.
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  What did Tapper ask?
  - goldenstar
    
    BENGHAZI. NO INTERVIEWS. BENGHAZI. NO RELEASE OF SCHEDULE ON 9/11. BENGHAZI.
    - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
      
      Good grief! He’s STILL trying to make Benghazi happen?
  - goldenstar
    
    BENGHAZI. NO INTERVIEWS. BENGHAZI. NO RELEASE OF SCHEDULE ON 9/11. BENGHAZI.
  - GN
    
    I don’t blame PBO one bit for not wanting the beltway media there for what was a genuine and kind of intimate moment between him and some of his most vigorous, loyal, young supporters. Good for him!
  - Camille
    
    Sorry where have these media folks demanding access to Romney’s taxes and interviews?
    
    Fuck them all.
- Town
  
  Obama must be “punished” for getting re-elected after all of the pundunces claimed, wished and hoped he’d be tossed out. They had a ton of “boo boo you lost” questions ready for him and now they can’t use them and worse, they have to endure him for ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. What they don’t realize though, is Obama has NO MORE F*X TO GIVE.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    THIS!
    
    The media carried Romney’s water for months and PBO STILL beat dat ass like a drum! Now they’re on some get back bitchassness.
  - TyrenM
    
    I love how u just took a Rockism about Bush and flipped it for PBO!
- GN
  
  Jake Tapper is the same one who on the eve of the first debate, circulated an old, public speech by President Obama and claimed that PBO’s southern diction was evidence of a blackety black black black code talk.
  
  IMO Tapper is a not so closeted regressive, as well as a thin-skinned infotainer who will block non-sycophants who call him on his bs on twitter.
  
  And on Tuesday night, this asshat was ethered alongside others in the beltway media. President Barack “TwoTermz” Obama can do whatever the fuck he wants to do; he saved this country from a Depression. I hope that he’s enjoying some wonderful, restful, mellow days with his beautiful family after working so hard to help this country make the right choice during the elections.
rikyrah

Racist Teens Forced to Answer for Tweets About the ‘Nigger’ President

There was an abundance of hate speech on Twitter after Obama’s reelection, with people hurling violent and racial epithets. Many of those tweeters were teenagers whose public Twitter accounts feature their real names and advertise their participation in the sports programs at their respective high schools. Calls were placed to the principals and superintendents of those schools to find out how calling the president—or any person of color, for that matter—a “nigger” and a “monkey” jibes with their student conduct code of ethics.

We contacted their school’s administrators with the hope that, if their educators were made aware of their students’ ignorance, perhaps they could teach them about racial sensitivity. Or they could let them know that while the First Amendment protects their freedom of speech, it doesn’t protect them from the consequences that might result from expressing their opinions. (For example, an adult woman is currently being investigated by the Secret Service for calling President Obama a “nigger” and suggesting he be assassinated on her Facebook page.)

Additionally, several of the teens use imagery of their high schools’ sports teams on their Twitter accounts and Facebook pages. If nothing else, it’s reasonable to alert administrators to the behavior of the students who are publicly representing their schools.

http://jezebel.com/5958993/racist-teens-forced-to-answer-for-tweets-about-the-nigger-president?utm_source=io9.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation
- Miranda
  
  They gonna learn….its gonna be a HARD lesson..but they gonna learn.
- http://oldhollywood.net/ woody45
  
  Do these young dimtwits understand that the Black Guy they so freely hurled racial slurs at is the reason they are going to be able to afford college instead of working on the Paul Ryan wienermobile?
- Tafr
  
  LMBAO that these idiots had the nerve to have all the info on twitter and facebook. They should know that many colleges check facebook and twitter when it comes to admission. Oh well let them live in their parents basement, working at the local dairy queen, for the rest of their sorry lives. Hell that is where most of them are heading anyways.It does my heart good to know that they are young enough to really experience the browning of this country.
rikyrah

found this in the comments at Balloon Juice:

the Conster Says:

My takeaway after reading all of the delicious schadenfreude conservative postmortems is the dawning reality that they lost not just the election fair and square, but the argument. There’s no real place to go for them now, because they didn’t lose with Gore style shenanigans that would give them the victim mentality they’re so good at exploiting. Obama ran on pro-choice, gay marriage, tax increases and healthcare, so people knew what they were voting for, and just told all the old white men, you’re not the boss of me.
rikyrah

November 09, 2012

Obama’s newser

President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to fiscal balance while splendidly applying some intense heat on the GOP House. He said he was open to “compromise” and “new ideas”–two concepts vigorously rejected by tiresome tea partiers–and he reiterated the electorate’s recent demand: “cooperation, consensus, and common sense.” You will note in this C triad the pregnant omission of John Boehner’s “common ground,” which has become famously synonymous with GOP entrenchment.

Perhaps the highlight of Obama’s news conference was his repetition of “I will not, will not” reduce the deficit the Republican way, and by that he meant, of course, piling more burdens on the backs of those least able to bear the load. Obama’s kicker, the highlight of the highlight: The electorate just ratified this choice. A delicious moment.

What’s more, Obama reminded that electorate that Damocles’ sword awaits us. Congress can do nothing, and watch everyone’s taxes go up, or it can follow the dictates of Election Day and simply reimpose Clinton’s rate on upper-income taxpayers. This, Obama more than merely implied, is the House GOP’s choice.

So do get back to us, won’t you, dear Republicans

http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/
- Miranda
  
  Obama’s kicker, the highlight of the highlight: The electorate just ratified this choice. A delicious moment.
  ________________________________
  
  I wish he had said “332..deal with it”
- Miranda
  
  Obama’s kicker, the highlight of the highlight: The electorate just ratified this choice. A delicious moment.
  ________________________________
  
  I wish he had said “332..deal with it”
- AxelFoley
  
  Shorter PBO: Please proceed, Congress.
rikyrah

Headscratching, Part II

Speaking of cluelessness:

“We didn’t think they’d turn out more of their [African-American] base vote than they did in 2008, but they smoked us,” said one Romney operative. “It’s unbelievable that that they turned out more from the African-American community than in 2008. Somehow they got ‘em to vote.”

You fool. YOU got ‘em to vote. Your voter-suppression tactics motivated and mobilized like nothing else could have. You fool. You absolute fool.

http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/
rikyrah

Headscratching, Part II

Speaking of cluelessness:

“We didn’t think they’d turn out more of their [African-American] base vote than they did in 2008, but they smoked us,” said one Romney operative. “It’s unbelievable that that they turned out more from the African-American community than in 2008. Somehow they got ‘em to vote.”

You fool. YOU got ‘em to vote. Your voter-suppression tactics motivated and mobilized like nothing else could have. You fool. You absolute fool.

http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/
- Miranda
  
  Ain’t that some shit? Cant stand these mofos.
- goldenstar
  
  Like we DON’T vote???? Pulleez. Blacks make up the most loyal and determined sector of the Dem voter coalition since Blacks have been in the party.
  
  Yikes.
- GN
  
  In addition to this, I’d like to thank Van Jones, Travis, Corny, Bitter Boyce, Black Agenda Report, and the whole sole patrol crew for leading the national media and the Republicans to falsely believe that we had abandoned this President and his beautiful family or in any way shape or form have ever subscribed to the PR/marketing “meme” “narrative” stuff that is these guys’ bread and butter.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    OK! Team Romney was too busy listening to those fools and got played like lotto.
    - Kennymack1971
      
      Bingo. The Romney campaign thought these suckers were the voice of AAs and like you said ended up playing themselves by listening to them.
    - Kennymack1971
      
      Bingo. The Romney campaign thought these suckers were the voice of AAs and like you said ended up playing themselves by listening to them.
  - Miranda
    
    BTW, what became of those ministers who were gonna get their congregations to not vote for PBO because of same-sex marriage?
    
    *snicker*
    - Camille
      
      LOL.
      
      Singing and counting their Romney dollars.
      - GN
        
        Exactly–cashing their checks lol. That was a hustle from start to finish.
- Daltex82
  
  The Shmitt campaign staff = Too dumb for words.
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Tuskegee Airman Herbert Carter dead at 95
by Ugonna Okpalaoka | November 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM

Retired Lt. Col. Herbert Carter, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, died Thursday at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, according to Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford. He was 95 years old.

Montgomery Advertiser reports that Carter was one of only four from the original group of 33 fighter pilots still alive. He was also one of the most vocal about the legacy of the African-American World War II pilots. They’ve been credited for their instrumental part in not only breaking down racial walls in the military, but helping to win the war. Their mission was to protect bombers as they tried to attack enemy troops.

MORE: http://thegrio.com/2012/11/09/tuskegee-airman-herbert-carter-dead-at-95/
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Tuskegee Airman Herbert Carter dead at 95
by Ugonna Okpalaoka | November 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM

Retired Lt. Col. Herbert Carter, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, died Thursday at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, according to Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford. He was 95 years old.

Montgomery Advertiser reports that Carter was one of only four from the original group of 33 fighter pilots still alive. He was also one of the most vocal about the legacy of the African-American World War II pilots. They’ve been credited for their instrumental part in not only breaking down racial walls in the military, but helping to win the war. Their mission was to protect bombers as they tried to attack enemy troops.

MORE: http://thegrio.com/2012/11/09/tuskegee-airman-herbert-carter-dead-at-95/
- Miranda
  
  RIP – he got his permanent wings now.
goldenstar

Now, Tapper is acting like a REAL ASSHOLE @ the press conference!!!!
- Kennymack1971
  
  For real. He’s coming off like he is taking Mitt’s loss personally and taking his anger out on Jay Carney.
  - http://oldhollywood.net/ woody45
    
    Criminy how many suckers um I mean reporters did Romney promise the press secretary job to?
    - Kennymack1971
      
      Ya know? These clowns seem as butthurt as Mitt Romney is over the election results. Get over it, Barack Obama is the President of the United States for FOUR MORE YEARS. Deal With it.
  - Camille
    
    Jake Tapper *is* taking Romney’s loss personally. I have never seen Jake Tapper work so hard to protect and elevate a politician.
    
    The thing about the Jake Tapper’s and Chuck Todd’s is that their blatant racial resentment and racial contempt of the brilliant, dignified black man who occupies the White House has only returned with a vengeance and an increased hostility especially with the President’s effortless humiliation of their great white hope – Romney.
    
    Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd did their part in the making of a Romney presidency that will never be.
    
    Where Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd continue to *demand* things from President Obama, they treated the Romney campaign with such undeserved respect.
    
    Deferring to and simply accepting Romney on everything – unreleased taxes, lack of access to media and when rare interviews were offered ground rules set including what not to ask, taking every blatant Romney generated lie on it’s face and leaving conveniently unchecked – no fact checking, no snark or disrespect in speaking to or about Romney, his wife or family, no desire to upset the Romney’s in any way.
    
    Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd and the rest of the Romney for white president crowd will in the end be treated to a well-deserved Karma hug.
    - majii
      
      I think what really chaps their asses, Camille, is that he’s smart and they know he’s smart. They were expecting to be able to rollover over him and were stunned when they discovered that he wasn’t having it. PBO is transmitting a very clear message to them everyday, and the message is: I’m the POTUS, bitch*s! They’re playing games, but he’s for real.
    - rikyrah
      
      The thing about the Jake Tapper’s and Chuck Todd’s is that their blatant racial resentment and racial contempt of the brilliant, dignified black man who occupies the White House has only returned with a vengeance and an increased hostility especially with the President’s effortless humiliation of their great white hope – Romney.
      
      effortless humiliation of their Great White Hope…
      
      HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  He’s not acting.
- Miranda
  
  He is so full of bitchassness. I hope the President neva talks to their asses again. He can continue to do interviews with local stations. Which was a strategy of Plouffe and Axelrod and a brilliant one.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    Carney said PBO is gonna have a press conference on Wed., then said, “Did you hear that Jake Tapper!”.
    
    I so enjoy Carney’s press secretary shade. LOL
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    Carney said PBO is gonna have a press conference on Wed., then said, “Did you hear that Jake Tapper!”.
    
    I so enjoy Carney’s press secretary shade. LOL
    - goldenstar
      
      Yeah, he’s really really good especially since he was one of them a few years ago. He knows their foibles.
    - qosine
      
      Jay Carney has to stay on for Term 2.
    - Miranda
      
      Now watch them ask the most juvenile, asanine questions this side of a spoiled child on Santa Claus’s lap.
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

What the fizzle????

Ryan J. Reilly ‏@ryanjreilly
MSNBC reports Petraeus resigned over an affair.
- itgurl_29
  
  Well, there go his presidential ambitions, lol!
- aleth
  
  Oh wow…isn’t he too old for that..but expect GOP talking point that he is taking fall for Benghazi. Times is interesting
  - goldenstar
    
    I bet you’re right but he’s been the golden child of the R’s.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    They’re already pushing that talking point. Toure’s silly ass is joining in, too.
    - goldenstar
      
      Who is telling Toure that he has cred? He is so irrelevant and stoopid.
    - goldenstar
      
      Who is telling Toure that he has cred? He is so irrelevant and stoopid.
    - aleth
      
      Well he should take the fall toure if he was wrong and did not do his job…he is the head of the fucking CIA…
      
      I am just saying if toure… A music guy turned pundit with no fucking credentials says that ..that would be my response and you can’t have extramarital affair as head of a secret organization. Further more his wife holly is in the consumer department and team warren Obama all the way
    - Camille
      
      Can we just have Toure kidnapped by and kept by the Somali pirates as their bitch for the next 5 years?
      
      I can’t take much more of that asshole and his shallow, ridiculous ideas that have no basis in anything besides Toure’s lame attempts at sounding profound on matters he has no business weighing in on.
      
      Better still, Toure can go hang out with his fellow shallow, self-important, self-serving, empty loser “business man” Mitt Romney– he might even figure a way to outsource Toure to line his pocket.
      - AxelFoley
        
        I keep tellin’ ya’ll, Toure’s got a punchable face.
  - Aquagranny911
    
    LMAO! You ain’t ever “too old for that” until they close the coffin. Just saying….
  - majii
    
    He’s one of the reasons the GOPers are so willing to restrict contraception choices for us but are more than willing to allow him to buy all of the Viagra he can get his hands on using the health insurance we help him pay for.
- GOVCHRIS1988
  
  Well, I think the Republicans no longer have an Eisenhoweresque vision of General Petreaus now.
  - sagittarius
    
    Well, I don’t know, since Ole Ike was supposedly kicking it with Kay Summersby during the war… just sayin’
    - GN
      
      It’s uncanny how many of the best leaders this country has had have been hoes. Not everybody can be Abraham Lincoln or Barack Obama. /shrugs shoulders
      - Aquagranny911
        
        It’s the power that seems to go to the wrong head.
      - GN
        
        True that!
- GN
  
  I can understand the hazards of a superspy engaging in an affair and the extortion issues, but I just find it so hard to give a damn about the sex lives of strangers I’m not married to. What an odd story.
- sagittarius
  
  If men could get their d@#^s not to wiggle with women they don’t belong to…
  - GN
    
    Human nature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZVMT_itVC4
GreenLadyHere

miranda – — – Annnd- – -the —WAR ON WOMEN — -CONTINUES — -in OHIO!!- – — SAD!! — DEY — -di-ent learn NUTHIN’!!!- —-

- — War On Women Continues: Ohio Revives Extreme Anti-Abortion Bill- -

— -Last year, anti-choice advocates in Ohio pushed extreme legislation to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected — which often occurs as early as six weeks, before many women may even know they’re pregnant. So-called “heartbeat” bills like HB 125 are so radical that they often divide the anti-abortion community, and this particular legislation has been stalled in the Ohio Senate since June 2011.

But now, thanks to significant pressure from the anti-choice groups who were the biggest proponents of the heartbeat bill last year, HB 125 may be up again for consideration in Ohio’s Senate as early as next week:

Mired in the Ohio Senate since June 2011, HB 125 is getting another look, Senate President Tom Niehaus, R-New Richmond, told The Enquirer Thursday. He said a substitute bill is being prepared. [...]

- – - -SNIP – –

Update

The heartbeat bill isn’t the only anti-choice measure up for consideration in Ohio next week. A Planned Parenthood affiliate in Ohio notes that the Ohio House Health Committee has also scheduled a vote next week on a bill that would defund Planned Parenthood clinics in the state.
THERE IS MORE!!

- — – C’MON —-KARMA!!- — – — THESE PEOPLE R- – -EVIL/VILE!!!
- goldenstar
  
  State Sen Nina Turner is gonna have sumpin’ to say!
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    HEEY GOLDenstar – — ***BIG HUG**** :>)
    
    - – - -***fist bump*** —– LOL —- U! – -AIN’T! – - NEVA!- -LIED! -
    
    - –***handin’ out BAND AIDS*** — B4 she gets started! LOL
    
    Good 2 C U. :>)
- Miranda
  
  These people got hard heads.
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    miranda —–IT IS WRITTEN: – - -A hard head makes a
    
    soft behind!!- — LOL
    
    My Mommy —USTA DEMONSTRATE — THIS ONE!! —LOL
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    miranda —–IT IS WRITTEN: – - -A hard head makes a
    
    soft behind!!- — LOL
    
    My Mommy —USTA DEMONSTRATE — THIS ONE!! —LOL
- GN
  
  They’re making the case for 2014, one bill at a time.
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    HEEY GN. ***BIG HUG*** :>)- – -
    
    – —That’s 2 BAD 4 THEM.- – -”CAUSE THIS STILL APPLIES:- –
    
    - – - – - – NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST HIM SHALL PROSPER – — IT WON’T WORK!!– -
    
    Good 2 C U GN. :>)
GreenLadyHere

BREAKING; CIA Dir. Petraeus submits letter of resignation. He had an “extramarital affair”
- TyrenM
  
  Damn. Is our girl Shonda (Sp?) (Scandal) up in DC? How did this get out? Petraeus all up in the Kyber Pass huh? Let me quit.
  - sagittarius
    
    Those bad lounge passes from Aquagranny expired at midnight on Tuesday… just saying
    - Aquagranny911
      
      LOL! I just reminded someone else of that. I ordered in lots of extra snacks and more adult beverages so we should be okay.
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    HEEY TytrnM. ***BIG HUG**
    
    – - -LOL —Seeeee —-Down the HALL annnd TURN LEFT
    
    – — -PIZZA /HOT WANGS.SODA —O.K.????- — –
    
    Good 2 C U. :>) – - – -
- http://twitter.com/#!/JamilaJP QOakaJP
  
  Hmmm. Keep an eye on this one. Someone of his stature resigning over an affair? Seems like another shoe is gonna drop.
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    HEEY QOakaJP- – —***BIG HUG*** :>)
    
    ***fist bump***- — -Some-in ain’t right!! — FULL ON RESIGNATION???
    
    DANG. WHAT does – - SHE HAVE on HIM?? —Hmmm. . .
    
    Good 2 C U. :>)
Alma98

I love that pic it’s kinda Dark Knightish.
Alma98

I love that pic it’s kinda Dark Knightish.
Miranda

Allen West-Patrick Murphy update: Judge denies request to impound voting machines, count ballots

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Palm Beach County Circuit Court judge has denied a request by U.S. Rep. Allen West to impound voting machines and recount ballots after election results showed his bid for the 18th Congressional district was headed for possible defeat.

The election results, which had not been certified by supervisors of elections in Martin, Palm Beach and St. Lucie counties as of Friday afternoon, showed Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy had about 2,400 more votes than West — more than the one half of one percent required to trigger an automatic recount.

Read more: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state/allen-west-patrick-murphy-update-judge-denies-request-to-impound-voting-machines-count-ballots#ixzz2Bl8d7NM5
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Another restaurant to boycott…

Zane Tankel, Applebee’s Franchisee, Says He Won’t Hire Because Of Obamacare (VIDEO)
Posted: 11/09/2012 10:37 am EST Updated: 11/09/2012 12:02 pm EST

An Applebee’s New York area franchisee is the latest CEO to go public threatening drastic plans to avoid costs associated with the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

“We’ve calculated it will [cost] some millions of dollars across our system. So what does that say — that says we won’t build more restaurants. We won’t hire more people,” Zane Tankel, chairman and CEO of Apple-Metro, told Fox Business Network on Thursday.

Apple-Metro, which runs 40 Applebee’s restaurants, employs from 80 to 300 people at each of its locations. Obamacare mandates that businesses with more than 50 workers must offer an approved insurance plan or pay a penalty of $2,000 for each full-time worker over 30 workers.

[...] Darden Restaurants, owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, said that it would increase the number of part-time workers to skirt the law, while Jimmy John Liautaud, founder of Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches chain, also recently told Fox Business News that he is considering cutting workers’ hours.

MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/zane-tankel-applebees-obamacare_n_2094568.html
- Miranda
  
  Evil ass trolls….so I guess it would be better to have employees that can’t go to the doctor hacking all over the cheesy fries?
  - BoomerGal
    
    LMAO!!!! I’m sorry but that shit is funny! LOL!!!!
- Aquagranny911
  
  BOYCOTT!!! I never ate at those places much anyway. Hubby & I prefer our local joints where maybe they hire undocumented workers under the table but they are decent to them.
- Daltex82
  
  When the time comes I hope the devil sits these mofos in the hottest part of hell.
- qosine
  
  The “service sector” gets busted.
  
  Let’s see: I quit buying a) Koch products b) Papa Johns pizza, and c) never liked Applebee. I reeaaly like Olive Garden and Red Lobster, but I like people having healthcare better. So bye.
- PBomb
  
  Darden Restaurants owners are huge Republicans. Nobody gives a shit about Jimmy Johns either.
  - BoomerGal
    
    Thanks for that. I’ll never buy another samich!
- lamh36
  
  Good thing I never go to Applebee’s then.
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Don Lemon vs. Jonah Hill

http://imgur.com/6zsdb
- sagittarius
  
  Yeah, I peeped that full-throated bitchiness yesterday… smdh
  - Aquagranny911
    
    Well…if they are pretty but mute…maybe……..
- itgurl_29
  
  Team Jonah. Don Lemon’s on that “don’t you know who I am” inflated msm beltway media personality bullshit. No, outside of news junkies, no one knows who you are. And why are you waiting outside of a public bathroom to talk to someone who doesn’t even know you? Because they’re famous and you think you’re famous as well?
  
  Not feeling sorry for Don at all and I don’t even see what Jonah did wrong. He wanted to be treated like a star. Instead, he was treated like a weirdo waiting outside a public bathroom for another grown man who doesn’t even know him.
  - AxelFoley
    
    Thank you. One thing you don’t do is try to communicate with a straight man in or just outside of a public restroom. We don’t do that.
- goldenstar
  
  How can he be an anchor and act like this IN PUBLIC????
  
  Shameful.
- Camille
  
  Jonah Hill has seen and heard Don Lemon again and again sell his soul to the devil on CNN;
  
  If Don Lemon in his words and actions continued as he has in the past several years to participate in the demeaning and disrespect of the extraordinary black man in the White House, how incredibly delusional of him to actually presume that he Don Lemon was in the least entitled to an respect not just as a black man, but as one of the most embarrassing and shameless flunkies in the media.
  
  Jonah Hill responded only as Don Lemon himself has set up America to respond to a mediocre black man in the public eye. Whether the mediocrity is real or imagined.
  
  In Don Lemon’s case– real.
- GOVCHRIS1988
  
  Good then Nigga! You act like the help, licking the nuts of white politicians. Why you mad at someone pointing YOU out.
  - BoomerGal
    
    *DEAD*
  - AxelFoley
    
    BAM!
- Kennymack1971
  
  Um Don…no one cares.
- Admiral_Komack
  
  …and I thought Joe Scarborough was a bitch…
GreenLadyHere

miranda- — – –LEOPARDS- — ->SPOTS:- – –NO CHANGE!!!- – –

- —VIDEO: Mandate schmandate, GOP still in obstruction mode- –

- –Who was it that made the claim that President Obama was the one who refused to reach out and “find common ground” despite his efforts to compromise? Oh that’s right, Republicans.

Who was it that, on Inauguration Night, conspired to obstruct and destroy President Obama? Oh that’s right, Republicans.

Who is it that continues to obstruct and refuse to reach out? Oh that’s right, Republicans, never mind that pesky mandate:
- – — SNIP – -

- – - -Who lost the election? Oh that’s right, Republicans.
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

BREAKING NEWS!!

Voting Rights Act Challenge Gets U.S. High Court Hearing
By Greg Stohr – Nov 9, 2012 3:13 PM ET

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider overturning a core part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, taking up a racially and politically charged challenge to one of the signal achievements of the civil rights movement.

The justices today said they will hear arguments that the law’s “preclearance” provision, which requires all or parts of 16 mostly Southern states to get federal approval before changing their voting rules, is no longer warranted.

Along with a clash over university affirmative action, the case makes this court term a potential watershed for the legal rules governing race. Chief Justice John Roberts has questioned the constitutionality of the preclearance rule, which the Obama administration used this year to stop Republican-backed voter- identification laws in Texas and South Carolina from going into effect.

MORE: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-09/voting-rights-act-challenge-gets-u-s-high-court-hearing.html
- aleth
  
  This court
- Miranda
  
  No rest for the weary……gotta put our boots back on y’all!
  - AxelFoley
    
    My Timbs stay ready to connect to someone’s ass.
- Alma98
  
  I said yesterday they were gonna come at us hard. And a message for the NAACP “get yo shit together”.
  - GN
    
    What happened to the NAACP? They seem so unfocused and MIA.
    - Camille
      
      Ben Jealous has been awful at the helm. Too busy trying to be friends with all the wrong people and trying to be a media star. Too much show, Not enough nitty gritty work being done.
Miranda

ROFLMAO….twitter is like crack.

adept2u‏@adept2u
Is my Timeline back now? I’m tired of sitting in the corner shaking.
- Aquagranny911
  
  ♥ to you adept2u!
jds09

The Republicans are starting to remind me of Monty Python’s Black Knight.
GN

‏@sherifffruitfly:
welp media has its sex scandal. no need to tune in for a month or two.

***********
/pundit clears throat, looks asshattically serious: “And how many times did General Petreaus pump her for information…in and out…harder and faster…no, I’m not trying to be salacious; just trying to get the facts, Mr. Carney.”
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  *DEAD*
- Aquagranny911
  
  Dang! Be careful those free passes from the Naughty Lounge have expired. But I love it!!!
  - TyrenM
    
    Cool I won’t be alone.
- Admiral_Komack
  
  “Mr. Carney, about David Petraeus; who stroked who for information?”
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

I don’t watch Homeland. What does she mean?

gwen ifill ‏@pbsgwen
I have been watching too much Homeland. That is all. #Petraeus
- Tafr
  
  Here is the first season recap of Homeland
  
  I think Gwen is talking about the affair between Congressman Brody and a CIA agent. Homeland is an excellent show. As Olivia Pope says juicy stuff.
  
  http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/television/gail-pennington/homeland-a-season-recap/article_919cf688-0672-11e2-812d-0019bb30f31a.html
- TyrenM
  
  Gwen. U need to stop.
  Homeland on Showtime. CIA agent does military former pow (who has a congressional seat) who has been turned into a double agent…
  - Tafr
    
    LOL Gwen has to know she was being extra with that tweet.
GN

@Arianna8927:
MSNBC reports inside info tells them Benghazi has zero 2 do w/Petreaus resignation then spends 1 hour discussing if Benghazi played a factor
- Miranda
  
  The downfall of the fourth estate continues.
- goldenstar
  
  I’ve been watching MSNBC and Martin Bashir is having none of this. Arianna needs to take a seat and watch so she can understand how a media outlet should work.
  - Aquagranny911
    
    Dang! I so wish that woman would fall into a pot hole while they are re-taring a street.
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Breaking News ‏@BreakingNews
Senate Intelligence Committee says Petraeus will not testify at next week’s closed hearing on the events in Benghazi – @markknoller
- BoomerGal
  
  That answers my question and confirms my suspicions. I’m glad he’s gone.
- nellcote
  
  Petraeus will not testify
  ===
  Why not?
Camille

In praying for President Obama and his family, I have always asked God to remove from his and their lives and sphere of influence, any and all things and persons that are not of God–and any and all things that seek to cause President Obama and his family pain, sorrow or harm—

God continues to be God.

Goodbye General Petraeus. More to follow.
- GreenLadyHere
  
  HEEY SisCamille; ***BIG HUG*** :>)
  
  - –Aaaaaa-MAN annnd Aaaa-MAN—-
  
  BLESS U. :>)
GN

@LOLGOP:
If President Obama does NOTHING, his second term will have more accomplishments than both of Bush’s combined. http://fb.me/z7GTxsLf
Admiral_Komack

…and put them up someone’s ass!
- Alma98
  
  True that!
- Aquagranny911
  
  Could I just bring out my big cactus and push them on it? I’m concerned that if I put on my boots & tried to kick someone I might fall on my own ass instead. I’m not as steady on my feet as I once was, lol.
  - Admiral_Komack
    
    Focus, young one.
GN

@Keethers:
Being reported Obama tried to talk Petreaus out of resigning.
GreenLadyHere

miranda – - -Petraeus!- – -Ain’t he da one who SAID DIS?- – –

— Petraeus Throws Obama Under the Bus

- –Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”

So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.

It would have been a presidential decision.

- — –SHOULD some – -☻ – –☻- – B CONNECTED?? – –

– - -Watchin’ — -
- Ebogan63
  
  Sorry GLH Weekly Standard nothing to see here. They full of shit on a fishing expedition. PBO sent Spec Ops to help case closed.
- BoomerGal
  
  I think the ‘extramarital affair’ is bullshit. I think he just didn’t want to testify about Bengazi. Then again, what’s to keep him from testifying even if he resigned?
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    Resigning doesn’t prevent the Senate Intelligence Committee from calling him to testify.
  - lamh36
    
    I think the affair was real. the FBI had an investigation opened because his biographer, the alleged mistress, tried to acces Petraeus email and could have been able to see confidential information.
aleth

http://jezebel.com/5958993/racist-teens-forced-to-answer-for-tweets-about-the-nigger-president?post=54144231

Tells a lot about the parent that raised them. Priviledge, entitlement and bigotry ingrained so young
- GN
  
  I couldn’t agree more; it’s all about the parents. Kids that age are simply repeating what they hear at home and parroting statements that they are used to receiving approval for. 100% indictment of their parents.
Miranda

Romney ‘Shellshocked’? Naw, That’s Just The White Privilege Gas Face

Even in defeat, Mitt Romney and the GOP still reek of unmitigated White privileged.

Somehow, Romney, his team and the rest of GOP thought that they had the election so in the bag–and in their pockets: GOP candidate outspent Obama during the campaign–that the governor “was shellshocked” over his defeat, according to an aide interviewed by CBS News.

more here
http://newsone.com/2078379/mitt-romney-shellshocked/
- rikyrah
  
  he felt he was ENTITLED to be President
GreenLadyHere

miranda— — – -WOW&1.!! — -”Little – RUDY” Gows up —annnd DOES THIS!! —:>) — -

- –Keshia Knight Pulliam Helps Raise $1M for Spelman- — -

- —*Keshia Knight Pulliam helped to raise more than $1 million for her alma mater, reports the YBF blog.

The Cosby kid, who graduated in 2001 with a B.A. in Sociology and a concentration in film, teamed with Spelman College Board Members to host a Fall Fashion Presentation and fundraiser at SAKS in Atlanta.

Among the attendees: Ne-Yo’s fiancee Monyetta Shaw, Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Tatum, actress LaTanya Richardson and Andrew Young’s wife Carolyn Young.
THERE IS MORE

- — –Ohhhh- – —-BLESS U 4 your GENEROSITY!! :>) STUDENTS will B sooo – - –GRATEFUL!! :>)
GreenLadyHere

miranda— — – -WOW&1.!! — -”Little – RUDY” Gows up —annnd DOES THIS!! —:>) — -

- –Keshia Knight Pulliam Helps Raise $1M for Spelman- — -

- —*Keshia Knight Pulliam helped to raise more than $1 million for her alma mater, reports the YBF blog.

The Cosby kid, who graduated in 2001 with a B.A. in Sociology and a concentration in film, teamed with Spelman College Board Members to host a Fall Fashion Presentation and fundraiser at SAKS in Atlanta.

Among the attendees: Ne-Yo’s fiancee Monyetta Shaw, Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Tatum, actress LaTanya Richardson and Andrew Young’s wife Carolyn Young.
THERE IS MORE

- — –Ohhhh- – —-BLESS U 4 your GENEROSITY!! :>) STUDENTS will B sooo – - –GRATEFUL!! :>)
GN

Fauxgressives have no idea how much ground they’ve lost.

And Now It Starts Again from the Left

[video of Cenk Ugyar and Alan Grayson talking smack]

…So I really can’t explain Alan Grayson’s misinformation, except to wonder if it’s nothing more than sour grapes.

This is the President’s second term. He’s got nothing left to prove to anyone like Grayson and less to prove to the Professional Left. Grayson would be wise to refrain from all the extracurricular television activity he enjoyed before and stick to representing his constituents. And let the President get on with governing the country.

http://emiliawahoo76.blogspot.com/2012/11/and-now-it-starts-again-from-left.html?showComment=1352497379907#c6855177825860686851
- Aquagranny911
  
  I wonder if Grayson’s big head is actually filled with the idea he could run for prez in 2016?
  - GN
    
    lmao Grayson would be curbstomped; I love my POTUS but seeing him in action, he will not hesitate to clear the Democratic field for whomever he thinks can carry on OFA’s work in 2016.
    - qosine
      
      Yes. I can imagine what PBO thinks of Grayson. lol He doesn’t.
    - Aquagranny911
      
      “Grayson would be curbstomped”
      
      I know this is evil but if DK got behind that caca I would really laugh because I got this vision of one of those roller trucks that tamp down the tar in a new road taking them all down.
      
      Grayson has a huge ego so we will see. Could be fun for days.
    - qosine
      
      Rafalca could help.
      
      PBO: Racalfa, how many stomps for Grayson?
      Ralfalca:
      PBO: OK, no stomp of confidence. Next.
      - AxelFoley
        
        Cain’t…breeve…
- Camille
  
  Alan Grayson better step the fuck back. He is only back in the House because of the President.
  
  We won’t let him pee on the coattails he road in on again.
  
  As for Cenk Ugyur. Fuck the wannabe relevant piece of shit.
  - Tafr
    
    LOL tell them how you really feel!
  - Aquagranny911
    
    Sing it, Sister!!! This member of the choir says AMEN!!!
GN

Another prostituationwhooa resigns /flips table like Real Housewife of New Jersey.

@colinclarkaol:
Chris Kubasik, anointed incoming CEO for #Lockheed, forced to resign after “lengthy and close personal relationship with a subordinate.”

A lot of hoing going on, America; tighten it up lmao…
- GOVCHRIS1988
  
  Damn, this is just ho day.
  - GN
    
    @goldietaylor:
    RT @NBCNews Waffle House CEO demanded sex acts, woman alleges http://nbcnews.to/TzALjf << Prayers for everyone involved.
  - Miranda
    
    DEAD
GreenLadyHere

miranda — – Jus’ MUSIN’: – - – -I gotta question 4 da TWITT: –

R U BETTA OFF – –2-day — -than u WERE- —- -4 DAYS AGO??—

- –STOMP[Gc] — –4 TIMES IFF U R —missy RAFALCA!! –LOL.- –
GreenLadyHere

miranda – — STILL GLOATIN’ — LOL – -

— –☻Greg Sargent ‏@ThePlumLineGS
Obama’s chief pollster: Romney campaign lost b/c they never understood how voters see the economy: http://wapo.st/STRuQK
Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin
View summary –

– –☻WSJ News Graphics ‏@WSJGraphics
Home prices rose in 120 out of 140 metro areas during the third quarter, compared to the same quarter a year ago http://on.wsj.com/VVnMbs
Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin - — -[HAH! ---CONGRATS --MR. PRESIDENT:>)]

- —☻CNN Political Ticker ‏@PoliticalTicker
Photo: David Cameron congratulates Obama – http://wp.me/p4HKM-16zK
Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin
View media

- — -☻allanbrauer ‏@allanbrauer
By the way, @politico is jerking your chain with their Cabinet shortlists, peppered with lightning rods for the left.
Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin

- – - -☻The Washington Post ‏@washingtonpost
The website that Romney’s team published, then took down: http://wapo.st/Z6MObg
Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin [LOL- - DAT PHOOL was DREAMIN' -- LOL]

- —- -Soo MUCH 4 NOW. LOL — — -MORE — -L8R. LOL- -
- Ebogan63
  
  ☻Greg Sargent ‏@ThePlumLineGS
  Obama’s chief pollster: Romney campaign lost b/c they never understood how voters see the economy: http://wapo.st/STRuQK
  Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin
  
  And Greg doesn’t understand how voters see the economy either.
GreenLadyHere

miranda — -From MY — -”SHEro”- –:>) – -

- — -☻Joy Reid ‏@TheReidReport
Most, least accurate polls: http://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/graduate_schools/gsas/elections_and_campaign_/poll_accuracy_2012_presidential_election_updated_1530pm_110712.pdf … cc @redstate
Expand- -LOL. GUESS Who’s at da BOTTOM? LOL.]

- – - -☻Blue DuPage ‏@BlueDuPage
President Obama ran on platform of ending Bush tax cuts for wealthy. Voters ratified it. Case closed. #4jobs #p2 #tcot
Retweeted by Joy Reid

- — -☻Joy Reid ‏@TheReidReport
I’ve never met her, but I love EdithChilds. @TheLastWord
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- — – –MORE L8R. :>)- -
Miranda

Evening thread is up!
Mr Samtheman

Another uneducated idiot who supports an icon and an icon only..

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