June 18, 2013

Sunday Jazz Brunch: Dexter Gordon

September 9, 2012 by 122 Comments

Good morning Pragmatic Obots.

 Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor (Round Midnight, Warner Bros, 1986). He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone.

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  • dannie22

    good morning!

    • MonieTalks

      Good morning dannie, POU, everyone!

      Fired up and ready to go. Canvassing for the first time later today in my home state of VA!

      • Tafr

        Stay safe Monie and have fun!

      • dannie22

        proud of you

      • rikyrah

        go Monie!!!

      • conlakappa

        Are you one of the folks going to Cantor’s district? Hope it went well.

    • GreenLadyHere

      Good Sunday MornTin’ dannie22. ***BIG HUG*** :>)

      Have a BLESSED DAY. :>) –

    • GN

      Morning, POU! Love you guys.

  • GreenLadyHere
  • MonieTalks

    Jay-Z knocks Occupy Wall Street
    In a new interview, the legendary rapper says he never threw his support behind the protest movement because he didn’t understand what it stood for.

    By Rich Schapiro / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

    Jay-Z says Occupy Wall Street had a fatal flaw: Its 99 messages.

    The legendary rapper, in a new interview, says he never threw his support behind the protest movement because he didn’t understand what it stood for.

    “What’s the thing on the wall, what are you fighting for?” Jay-Z told The New York Times in a wide-ranging interview.
    …“I’m not going to a park and picnic — I have no idea what to do,” Jay-Z said, recalling a conversation with Simmons about joining the movement.
    “I don’t know what the fight is about. What do we want? Do you know?”

    …He said Occupy Wall Street’s blanket demonization of the rich is un-American.

    “I think all those things need to really declare themselves a bit more clearly because when you just say that ‘the 1 percent is that,’ that’s not true,” he said.

    “Yeah, the 1 percent that’s robbing people, and deceiving people, these fixed mortgages and all these things, and then taking their home away from them, that’s criminal, that’s bad.

    “Not being an entrepreneur. This is free enterprise. This is what America is built on.”

    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/jay-z-knocks-occupy-wall-street-article-1.1155236#ixzz25yXWM0kI

    • GN

      I’m a Nas partisan, but Jay Z is really really growing on me; riding for PBO, saving the Fela musical. starting to really like this guy:

      …“I’m not going to a park and picnic — I have no idea what to do,” Jay-Z said, recalling a conversation with Simmons about joining the movement.

      Sorry, he’s simply right.

      • gc

        I don’t know who or what “Nas” is, but Jay has always imptressed me, for the flimsiest of reasons. I see intelligence in his eyes.
        But it is not just music from the AA scene. I listen to Classical (yeah, I know – how old IS she/ :) )

        • crazycanuck

          I love Classical music.

    • Tafr

      Hold on to your horses Jay Z. You are black and you support this president. The occupy nuts are going to talk about you, your wife, your baby and your mama.

      Oh and I am not one bit surprised that the idiot Simmons would be an occupy dumb ass. This is a man that said Trump is not a racist.

    • itgurl_29

      He said nothing but the truth.

    • Miranda

      Thank you Jigga….I have no idea what the hell the Occupy Movement is about either.

      • Admiral_Komack

        …I got nothin’…

      • conlakappa

        Nor do people in the Occupy “Movement.” I haven’t recovered from the trauma if them camped out in McPherson Square. That is a scent memory that won’t leave me any time soon.

  • MonieTalks

    Some Ga. Schools Make Mandarin Mandatory
    by Adam Ragusea

    Public schools in Macon, Ga., and surrounding Bibb County have a lot of problems. Most of the 25,000 students are poor enough to qualify for free and reduced lunch, and about half don’t graduate.

    Bibb County’s Haitian-born superintendent Romain Dallemand came into the job last year with a bag of changes he calls “The Macon Miracle.” There are now longer schools days, year-round instruction, and one mandate nobody saw coming: Mandarin Chinese for every student, pre-K through 12th grade.

    “Students who are in elementary school today, by 2050 they’ll be at the pinnacle of their career,” Dallemand says. “They will live in a world where China and India will have 50 percent of the world GDP. They will live in a world where, if they cannot function successfully in the Asian culture, they will pay a heavy price.”

    read more: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/08/160028396/looking-to-future-ga-schools-require-mandarin?sc=tw&cc=share

  • GreenLadyHere

    – GOOD SUNDAY MORNTIN’ ALEXANDER2!! – - –***BIG HUG***

    – - WHAT an EXCITIN’ JAZZ ARTIST!!. [new 2 me :>)] – –Annnd a FIRST – - -in the field. :>) Woo! Hoo! :>)

    Thank U 4 brangin’ him. :>) GR8 MUSIC!! :>)

    – — U HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!! :>) – -ENJOY. :>) – - –

  • MonieTalks

    Great article out of Canada..this one’s for you crazycanuck:

    An Island son and his White House buddy

    …The president has a particularly strong fan club in North Saanich, home to Liz Beatty, the mother of one of Obama’s closest White House aides, Marvin Nicholson.

    You might recall Nicholson’s story: From St. Michaels University School and jobs at the Cordova Bay and Prospect Lake golf courses to caddying for Sen. John Kerry in Nantucket.

    Worked in Kerry’s office, then on his 2004 presidential campaign, then got picked up by Obama’s team at the beginning of 2007. The two-passport Victorian and the Chicago senator hit it off.

    Nicholson became the guy who keeps Obama loose, the one with whom he chooses to golf or shoot hoops.

    “He and the president are extremely close,” Beatty says. “They’re the best of friends.”

    Appointed White House trip director after the 2008 election, Nicholson assumed the duties of Obama personal aide Reggie Love after the latter left for business school last winter.

    “Marvin now has an office just outside the Oval Office,” his mother says.

    read more: http://www.canada.com/sports/football/nfl/Island+White+House+buddy/7213818/story.html

    • crazycanuck

      HaHa. Thanks for the link. Yup we love your guy here. We wish we had him as our very own. Was Nicholson born here, or moved here? The article wasn’t quite clear. Nevertheless we taking him lol.

  • MonieTalks

    she lavishes in the protection of complexion and entitlement..help us all.

    Ann Romney Says Mitt Is Much Maligned, Emphasizes ‘Goodness of This Man’

    NASHUA, N.H. – As night fell on a baseball stadium here in New Hampshire, Ann Romney rallied a crowd of thousands, hinting that with two months to go until the election, she’s already got her eye on an inauguration party in January, even if she believes her husband is “being maligned.”

    “Let’s see what Mitt can do, and we’ll have this great joy together in January, and have a wonderful party in Washington, D.C., and celebrate the next president of the United States,” said Mrs. Romney, who introduced her husband this evening at the rally. The couple was positioned just behind home plate on the baseball diamond.

    read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/ann-romneys-says-mitt-is-much-maligned-emphasizes-goodness-of-this-man/

    • conlakappa

      She’s gross. Maligned? In what respect, Miss Ann? Asking your husband to provide his tax returns isn’t maligning. Asking him what his policies woud be is not maligning. Asking him to take a consistent stand on anything is not maligning him. Or would you prefer that the nation just shut up and eat our brioche, Marie-Antoinette? For someone whose life is so steeped in privilege, the persecution complex runs deep.

      • Ebogan63

        Asking him to stop being a lying sack isn’t ‘maligning’ either, it’s callin’ his azz out!

        Know the difference Miss Ann!

        • conlakappa

          I do not think the word means what she thinks it means.

    • GN

      lmao. They *stay* copying the Obamas.

    • jds09

      This is the “White Horse Prophecy” stuff again. She’s been with the Bishop since she was a teenager surrounded by a culture that believes Mitt is “The One”. “This great joy together in January” and “a wonderful party in Washing, D.C.” sounds like she’s in fantasy land. We will witness a meltdown of epic proportions as reality intrudes. It’s not gonna be pretty.

      • TyrenM

        If u wanna ride, don’t ride the white horse!

    • Tafr

      Very telling that all she can think about is the inauguration party. I tell you Miss Ann wants this more than her husband. She must have fits thinking about our beautiful first lady in the white house. I bet she obsessively thinks about living in the white house. They do not want to govern they want that status of being the first couple. Too bad for her the people of this country have other ideas.

      • JojoRaze

        I think she wants to be Michelle, I really do. She always dresses like Michelle even though it doesn’t look right when she does. She’s a rich woman, she can’t get a personal shopper to get her a style that fits her?. That bright yellow dress in Poland and even the Oscar de la Renta shirt dress with the belt around it (a clear, though unnecessary nod to Michelle) was so transparent. And Michelle just knocked it out the park with a new look and a dress that Ann couldn’t ever pull off.

        • aleth

          she is obssessed with the couple in the white house. Mitt will do anything to give her what she desires even if it means stealing an election.

          They are weird and creepy people

      • conlakappa

        I am having a different interpretation of her focusing on the inaugural party [go 'head, Miss Ann, say ball]: Mormon insecurity when it come to the social aspect. Any celebration of a true adherent wouldn’t have caffeine products, meat, or alcohol. Sounds like a hoot, doesn’t it? I have been to a Mormon wedding reception that was made very fun by the music. Somehow, I don’t think the tunes at a Mitt-a-bration would be as interesting or danceable.

        Has anyone seen promos of Marie Osmond’s new show? She’s practicaly unrecognizable. I get the feeling that she went to Miss Ann’s, um, face doctor.

    • JojoRaze

      The comments on the article are good, too. This one in particular just brings up something about Mitt I havent thought of.

      From commenter, The Women’s Vote:
      At 200 million a year, they should have bus loads of stories and philanthropic foundations of the way they have made this a better planet, a better country . —-aaannddd…..he has none. He’s done nothing, he’s not created a single foundation, he’s not helped a single kid go to college, he’s not help fight a disease, he’s done NOTHING. He’s Mr Potter from Its a Wonderful Life. He’s just greedy and selfish. period.

      All rich people from Oprah, to Bill Gates to Warren Buffett–even David Koch has his name on the Lincoln Center building here–have foundations to show their philanthropy. Oprah has a school and you know 99% of the anonymous donations to HBCUs is Oprah and Warren Buffett is engaged in ending hunger and disease all over the world, and Bill Gates is involved in education and hunger and disease as well, and Mittens has nothing like that despite his vast riches. The Mormon Church does count because as the Lord said if you only give to those who give to you, you haven’t engaged in true charity. It is telling that Mittens doesn’t engage in philanthropy.

      • Miranda

        I think it is absolutely profane that Mitt and Ann tout their tithes to the Mormon church as some kind of great noble gesture on their part and actually seem offended that people are not impressed by it. There are elderly black people on fixed incomes that give till it hurts to their small humble churches that can barely keep the doors open. I know plenty of them. There are people that make a way out of no way to help those in need all day every day and here come blonde Leona Hemsley to tell me how they are so charitable? Heifer please.

      • rikyrah

        fabulous comment you found, and that you made.

        I will remind folks once again that, for all the money Mormon, Inc takes in..

        they give LESS THAN ONE PERCENT TO THE NEEDY.

        and no, I’m not counting what they give to Mormons.

        what kind of ‘church’ gives LESS THAN ONE PERCENT TO THE NEEDY

        • cosine

          I did not know this about donating less than 1% to the needy. Franchise religion, free “volunteer” labor, with propagation of selves and cash as it’s only purpose.

      • dannie22

        WHY WONT YOU PEOPLE LEAVE US ALONE!!!!!!!!!!

    • creolechild

      “Positioned behind home plate,” huh?

      STRIIIIIIIKE……and you’re out!

      BTW, Ann, there’s no crying in baseball.

    • rikyrah

      see, she’s asking for folks to hurt her fucking feelings. man in a vulture capitalist, and you are nothing but a spoiled, entitled woman who has never worked a day in your life, after being dropped off at 17 to the Romneys like a sacrifice to the altar.

      • BoomerGal

        On point! This strikes me as “Comment of the week.”

      • cosine

        Gooood – “like a sacrifice to the altar” . . .

    • JojoRaze

      Makes me appreciate Michelle more. I wished Michelle would have whined more about how the media was treating her and Barack but you know black people can’t whine.

      BUT Michelle straight up said, “Buddy, you signed up to run for president, you have to take the punches, cause this job ain’t no joke. I wouldn’t vote for you Barack if you don’t know how to take the punches.”

      People, esp black people also asked Michelle if she wasn’t fearful that people would assassinate PBO, implying they’d be scared to vote for Barack since they were scared white folks would kill him. She always said “This is politics and people will say what they want to say, we have the secret service but we will keep it moving by clearly articulating our policies, which I can talk about well, and the American people will make a decision as to who has their best interests at heart.” Michelle NEVER whined, whinged or complained in public, EVER! She told people to kick Barack’s tires and ask for receipts because that’s what she would do.

      With Ms. Ann, everyday is call the wahmbulance day. I mean really, Becky Sue in Tennesse and Lynette in Arkansas is not gonna feel this entitlement at all, since they had a child at 18 with the man giving them grief and they’ve had to work at the Waffle House or IHOP since she was 21 because they had to care for her kids. Let Bill Clinton come around them and remind them what PBO did for them, making sure their child got access to SCHIP, or making sure that extra $40 per week was in their check from 2009 until now and how starting in 2014, THEY’LL finally get health insurance from Medicaid or so cheap since the goverment is giving them money to get it and it’ll get dicey for Mittens. They are not gonna win the white women’s vote at all even in the South. I’ll put money on that!

  • GreenLadyHere

    ALEXANDER2 – - – –Woo! Hoo! – –MR. PRESIDENT is ALL UP IN FLORIDA!! — –

    – - -President Obama Campaigns In Florida

    – - – - -President Obama is on a two-day bus trip across Florida. On Saturday, he made stops in St. Petersburg and Kissimmee. On Sunday, he visits West Palm Beach and Melbourne.

    The Republicans finished up their convention in Tampa a little over a week ago, and Florida is expected to play a large role in the November election. President Obama is fresh off his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

    TODAY – - -MELBOURNE!! – -:>) FIRED UP!! – - -Movin’ – - -FORWARD!! :>)

  • GreenLadyHere

    ALEXANDER2 – - – -HAH! – -He betta – - -RECOGNIZE! – - –

    — -Romney Campaign Concedes Obama is Ahead – –

    – - —President Obama “heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt Romney privately concede,” Politico reports.

    “The Romney campaign, while pleasantly surprised by Obama’s lackluster prime-time performance, said the post-convention bounce they hoped for fell well short of expectations and privately lament that state-by-state polling numbers — most glaringly in Ohio — are working in the president’s favor.” – - -[IGNORE the NEGATIVE TONE.]

    – - – - -THEY KNOW!! —HAH!- -

  • MonieTalks

    wow…..Rmoney/Lyin Ryan are scarily dysfunctional and all over the place and yet the PL is still wallowing in their own feelings of inadequacy and being good “foxy white liberals”..smh

    Paul Ryan Won’t Reject Debt Deal Mitt Romney Dismissed

    Putting himself at odds with his GOP presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan this morning on “This Week” refused to tell me that he would reject a hypothetical debt reduction deal — composed of spending cuts and tax hikes by a ratio of ten to one – that Mitt Romney famously rejected during a presidential primary debate last year.

    “You know, it depends on the quality of the agreement. It depends on the quality of the policy. Our negotiators in the super committee offered higher revenues through tax reform. John Boehner did as well. So George, what really matters to me is not ratios but what matters is the quality of the policy,” Ryan said.

    ….I also pressed the Wisconsin congressman to tell me what specific loopholes a Romney White House would attempt to close as part of their tax plan. Romney has not specified which deductions and exemptions would be eliminated. Ryan declined to outline those, but said there was no “secret plan.”

    read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/paul-ryan-wont-reject-debt-deal-mitt-romney-dismissed/

    • JojoRaze

      I’m loving how the media is straight offering their shilling services for free to RR and they still mess it up. Bret Baer teeing up the “troops are unimportant” question to Mittens and Mittens still messing it up has the media in shock that these people are this inept and unfeeling!

      And I saw it again this morning with Candy Crowley double-teaming the Obama surrogate the CarMax(dot)com, with the Bush Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. Shills all of them

    • rikyrah

      He was on the commission and voted against it.

      get outta here with this bullshyt

  • GreenLadyHere

    ALEXANDER2 – - – -HAH! THEY needta STOP – - -LYIN’ – - – –

    – - –Romney campaign unveils first TV ad for swing-state Wisconsin – –

    – — — SNIP — -
    – -Ads in other states also promise to create a specific number of jobs, ranging from 100,000 in Nevada and 200,000 in Colorado to 340,000 in Virginia and 350,000 in North Carolina.

    – — -LOL – — CHECK WITH the former BAIN EMPLOYEES! — -

  • GN

    @BorowitzReport
    New polls show Obama widening his lead. Maybe voters are forgiving him for giving them healthcare.

  • GN

    People are really acting out, lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol.

    Larry Flynt Offering $1 Million For Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns http://huff.to/TvWlIw via @HuffPostPol

  • GreenLadyHere

    ALEXANDER2- – - — – -MITT-TWIT – - -doesn’t do MATH. – - –LOL – - -

    – —Mitt: Math does add up —

    —–Mitt Romney is trying to rebut Democratic attacks on his tax proposal by vowing that he would not raise taxes on the middle class – but again declined to go into specifics.

    Pressed by NBC’s David Gregory in an interview that aired Sunday on “Meet the Press,” the Republican presidential nominee said he would be able to lower individual tax rates and remain revenue neutral, since he would limit tax deductions for high-income earners that would not change the amount of taxes that the wealthy would actually end up paying. Under his plan, the middle class would not be affected, he insisted, and that would also spur economic growth.

    “Governor, where are the specifics of how you get to this math?” Gregory asked. “Isn’t that an issue?”

    “Well, the specifics are these which is those principles I described are the heart of my policy,” Romney replied. “And I’ve indicated as well that contrary to what the Democrats are saying I’m not going to increase the tax burden on middle income families. It would absolutely be wrong to do that.”
    THERE IS MORE

    – - –HUH!!???? – - – -”WORD SALAD” – - –:>) – —-

  • GreenLadyHere

    ALEXANDER2 – - – CALL ‘EM OUT! —– —

    – — Black senator criticizes Oklahoma Democratic Party

    – — -A state senator says the Oklahoma Democratic Party has used blacks as workhorses for the party, but officials haven’t reciprocated in promoting blacks for leadership positions.

    Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre spoke during a breakfast meeting with Oklahoma Democrats at the delegation’s hotel on the final day of the national convention in North Carolina.

    The Oklahoman reports that Eason-McIntyre was upset that black Oklahomans weren’t asked to help with the roll call, a convention ritual in which party leaders boast about their state.

    Humorist Will Rogers and musician Woody Guthrie were mentioned during the speech, but no black figures were named.

    Party Chairman Wallace Collins stood up after Eason-McIntyre finished speaking and apologized to her.
    THERE IS MORE.

    — Good on her!! – –

  • GreenLadyHere

    POU FAM♥ – -Gotta “bounce” early. :>) MISSIN’ U/CARRYIN’ U –IN MY ♥ — – Fired UP! – –Movin’ — -FORWARD. :>)

  • GN

    Why am I reading Romney referred to as “Money Boo Boo”–they should have NEVER given yall social media.

    • JojoRaze

      “Money Boo Boo”???? Are y’all trying to kill me before the week has started???

      ______________________
      Here lies Jojo; she flatlined at 10:17 EST upon hearing Monocle Mitt called Money Boo Boo!

      • Miranda

        I was trying to bake a pound cake to take to your family and just saw a commercial for Honey Boo Boo and pictured Mitt

        ______________________________________*its ova*

        • JojoRaze

          They would have appreciated that pound cake too in their time of mourning!

          ___________________*I love y’all on the Twitter!*

          • Aquagranny911

            STOP! I am laughing so hard it hurts!

      • TyrenM

        JoJo. It’s been 8 hours and I’m still cracking up over “Money Boo Boo.”

    • rikyrah

      BWA HA HA HA AH HA

    • trose1

      that is funny

    • Aquagranny911

      I saw this and ROTFLOL! I read somewhere that ratings for that “Honey Boo Boo” reality show beat out the RNC ratings.

      Will the person here who came up with this please stand up so I can award the gold medal & appropriate prize!

  • jds09

    Twitterverse is all in on #MTP….there’s blood in the water. lol

    ray kitty ‏@jraykitty

    More politically informative and unbiased than #mtp @meetthepress..,that would be the food network re: David Gregory #p2 @dnc

  • jds09

    I’m I crazy? I remember Tim Russert asking a hardball question then having NO FOLLOW UP questions. I remember him consistently letting folks off the hook after receiving a classic politician pivot bullshit answer. This deification of Tim Russert on twitter is driving me nuts.

    Thank you, I’m done.

    • aleth

      agreed…..100%

    • nellcote

      yeah, Tim Russert was the godfather of gooper fluffing in the modern age. Luke is following in his footsteps.

      I’ll never forgive Timmy for participating in Cheney’s bamboozeling the american people. Cheney would “leak” a bs story to the NYT then Timmy would ask Cheney about it on sunday on MTP becuse it’s “out there” and let him just fucking lie his ass off.

    • http://oldhollywood.net/ woody45

      And I see it on this side of the aisle too. Russert was the epitome imo of the lazy Beltway journalist. All he ever did was scan the front pages of the NYT and Post to get his questions.

      I’ll never forget Bill Moyers asking him why didn’t he call Cheney out for his lying. He said nobody ever came to him with the information. Hello? Journalist? Right then and there NBC executives should have fired him.

      Oh and let’s not forget him asking every Black Person he met what they thought of some comment (negative of course) some other Black Person made.

      Russert was not a serious newsman in the least. He was a guy who relished the seat he was sitting in and the ability to hold court with his Beltway buddies.

  • Ebogan63

    Thanks for Long, tall Dexter, Alex 2! Always loved the tone of Dex’s tenor playing. Got to see him in ’86 at the Keystone Korner in SF after he got that Academy Award nomination.

  • creolechild

    Ah, the circle is now complete. All that’s missing is an appearance and/or endorsement by David Duke…

    Pat Robertson joins Romney at Virginia campaign stop

    As Mitt Romney hit the campaign trail in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Saturday, sitting in the front row, very quietly, was televangelist Pat Robertson. Robertson did not appear at last month’s Republican National Convention, but WAVY-TV’s account of Romney’s speech suggests the GOP presidential nominee’s remarks were tailored to reach out to Robertson’s Christian fundamentalist fanbase — particularly a knock at the Democratic Party’s disagreement over whether to include “God” in its platform at its own national convention this past week.[....]

    Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/08/pat-robertson-joins-romney-at-virginia-campaign-stop/

    H/T Arturo Garcia

  • creolechild

    Obama Camp Touts Romney’s Debate Strength September 4, 2012, 11:47 AM

    Raising expectations for your opponent ahead of a debate is an ancient political art, and a supremely confident Obama team almost pulled it off on Tuesday.

    “Gov. Romney did about 30 debates last year, we expect him to do very well,” Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt said at an ABC News/Yahoo forum here Tuesday. But his grin was so broad as he delivered the line that the audience broke out in laughter.[....]

    Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/obama-camp-touts-romneys-debate-strength-almost-keeps-straight-face.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

    H/T Benjy Sarlin

    • Miranda

      ROFLMAO There is no actor that has ever lived that would be able to say that with a straight face!

    • gc

      Frankly I’m sick of all Belway cw and memes and past practices. Obama has turned that world upside down. The media is chasing ghosts. There is no there, there. Which, by some metaphysical paradigm only my Big Bang Guys could elucidate. the media is no longer sentient.

  • creolechild

    Two Pictures Shatter the Mainstream Media Myth of an ‘Obama Enthusiasm Gap’

    Check out all of these totally bummed out, unenthused Obama supporters in St Petersburg, Florida today for Obama’s rally. Man, if only Obama had passed out free mitts! He mighta been a contender.[....]

    The mainstream media is very busy concern trolling the clearly hyper patriotic and all-American Democratic Convention, which managed to take back foreign policy, social issues, the military, the troops, and keeping Americans safe from the Republicans. It wasn’t just that the Democrats put on a good show, it was that the show was a joyous celebration of the last four years of their policies. This administration has been champions of our veterans, taking care of our troops, protecting women’s rights, getting rid of DADT, giving DREAMERS a chance, trying to put American back to work, championing and protecting our manufacturing industry, honoring the American ideals of opportunity and hard work, civic responsibility — including taking care of the weakest among us — and economic fairness.[....]

    Hands waving, people crying, women cheering, chants of “four more years” — it’s all so flat, according to the media. I mean, heck, wouldn’t you rather be on Ford field with Romney and his woebegone, angry and confused followers who still don’t know who he is or what he stands for, but they do know that he is their only choice if they really, really hate what they’ve been told about the fictional Obama.

    Bad chair.

    Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/mainstream-medias-obama-enthusiasm-gap.html

    H/T Sarah Jones

  • Miranda

    Excuse me, but why did the Cleveland NAACP find it necessary to invite Kasich to their celebration?

    Cleveland NAACP celebrates 100 years with a focus on its continuing work for rights, applauds Kasich
    http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/09/cleveland_naacp_celebrates_100.html

    • dannie22

      trose and i are trying to figure that out.

      • trose1

        All the bs going on with the Kasich administration and NAACP invites him to their dinner.
        For some reason the NAACP wants to invite GOP in to their homes. Why is my question.

    • trose1

      Did u read Roland’s tweets on the great Gov Kasich? He should be ashamed of himself.
      Roland was a keynote speaker so u know the “party” was going to be dud.

      • conlakappa

        Better in the sense that they’re willing to walk back the minimums made mandatory by their odious brothers in the same party? How, pray tell, can a governor have a heavy hand in sentencing reform–beyond commuting sentences? You gonna toss it out there, Ascotty, attribute immediately.

      • dannie22

        WHAT KIND OF BULLSHITIS THAT? I speak to ex-felons on the regular, registering them to vote. they are all in agreement that ohio does NOTHING for re-entry programs for ex-felons!! UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!!!

    • dannie22

      So now ascotty wants to hv a twitter argument with me! hes such a useless tool

  • creolechild

    Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. So, what does Mitt mean when he says, “It’s up to the Supreme Court”– other than if he’s elected he will try to repeal it.

    Romney: It’s My ‘Preference’ That The Supreme Court Reverse Roe V. Wade

    Mitt Romney was diplomatic in his response to questions about abortion and Roe v. Wade in an interview on “Meet the Press” Sunday, saying he is pro-life and prefers that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe. Democrats made their pro-choice position a centerpiece of their convention in Charlotte earlier this week.[....]

    [....] “And I believe that people of good conscience have chosen different paths in this regard. But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies.” Romney declined to say he would “fight” for Roe v. Wade to be overturned, saying instead it was up to the Supreme Court.

    Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/romney-its-my-preference-that-supreme-court-reverse

    H/T Pema Levy

    • malletgirl02

      He think he is slick with this “up to the Supreme Court nonsense”. Of course he wants it overturned.

  • Miranda

    I really wish Keith Boykin were invited to more shows as a surrogate for PBO.

    Keith Boykin ‏@keithboykin
    GW Bush August jobs record from 2001-2008: (-5,000 jobs). President Obama jobs record for August 2012: (+96,000 jobs). pic.twitter.com/ocqmeh2v

  • lamh35

    Not political news, but cool just the same. A while back, I was wondering is Sean Connery was alive, I think I was watching a James Bond marathon or something. Everyone told me that he was still alive, but even if they hadn’t, I need wonder no more.

    Connery and Fergie surprise Andy Murray

    Sir Sean Connery and Sir Alex Ferguson shocked Scottish tennis star Andy Murray by making an appearance at his after-match press conference in New York.

    Murray had just won through to the final of the US Open when the two Scottish legends gatecrashed his news conference, much to the tennis player’s delight.

    • Joy

      Always preferred Sean Connery as James Bond over Roger Moore. Very sexy old man.

    • sagittarius

      Sean Connery is still fine at 82 years old. To quote Miranda last week, ‘he could get it’. Yep, I’ll stand in line and wait my turn.

      • rikyrah

        sag,

        I thought it was only me and Mr. Connery.

        I felt the same way about an older Cary Grant.

        couldn’t help myself…LOL

        • sagittarius

          rikyrah -

          There is only one James Bond – and that is Sean Connery. Daniel Craig may come close, but the rest are pretenders to the throne. That. Is. All.

          • rikyrah

            I still remember the story from the Bond Producer – he didn’t know if he had chosen right with Connery. He put his wife in a screening room, by herself, and told her to watch the movie.

            He said the way his wife looked when she came out of the movie – told him all he needed to know about whether Connery was the choice.

          • Aquagranny911

            Si, Si! I read some of the Bond books before the first movie came out & Sean Connery fit my metal image of Bond perfectly.

  • creolechild

    A political cartoon that contrasts PBO’s approach to Medicare with Ryan’s.

    http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/09/08/cartoonss-of-the-day-paul-ryans-plan/ryansplan3/

    H/T M. Wuerker and Paddy

  • lamh35

    Ryan was on This Week and Romney was on MTP and they kept contradicting each other.

    Romney refused to eliminate deductions for the wealthy.
    Ryan says in a Romney administration, he’s going to make sure as VP he gets congress to eliminate tax deductions and loopholes for the 1%.

    Romney doesn’t plan on ending the Afghan war soon. Ryan on This Week said he and Romney support Pres. Obama’s 2014 Afghan war deadline.

    Romney says he would keep some provisions of ObamaCare but still completely eliminate ObamaCare. Ryan says he and Romney would 100% repeal ObamaCare.

    The funniest thing was Ryan said Pres. Obama has no foreign policy record. Stephanopoulos had to remind him about Osama Bin Laden.

    On MTP, Romney says he’s not running to slow the rise of the oceans or heal the planet. He’s running for people…um Mitt slowing the rise of the oceans and “healing the planet” does help the people.

    • malletgirl02

      Regarding the last part of your post. I needs to be explain to people if the oceans rise and the environment is the destroyed the earth will be able to heal itself over a period of thousands and millions of years. However, if the worst happens it will be the end of humanity, humans won’t bounce back like the earth itself will. We can see the impacts of climate change right now. famines and weather disasters.

  • lamh35

    Yall David Gregory wants to know what we thought of MTP! Twitter warrrior should light his ass up!

    David Gregory ‏@davidgregory

    My thoughts after this morning’s #MTP http://nbcnews.to/RA2du9 – with a writeup from @mpoindc – what did you think of the program?

  • Miranda

    Ann Romney flip-flops: ‘We have not had a financial struggle in our lives’

    During her Republican National Convention speech last month, Ann Romney suggested that she and her husband had once been so poor that they “ate a lot of pasta and Tuna fish” and their “dining room table was a fold down ironing board.”

    In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC, Ann Romney distanced herself from that version of history.

    “Mitt and I do recognize that we have not had a financial struggle in our lives,” the Republican presidential nominee’s wife explained. “But I want people to believe in their hearts that we know what it is like to struggle. And our struggles have not been financial, but they have been with health and with difficulties in different things in life.”

    more here
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/09/ann-romney-flip-flops-we-have-not-had-a-financial-struggle-in-our-lives/#.UEzDjuWQH1U.twitter

    • Town

      Wait, I thought they were “livin’ on the edge”?

      • Miranda

        That line wasn’t working so they’re gonna try this one.

        • rikyrah

          you two are cracking me up

      • conlakappa

        Sounds like someone came up with photos from that basement apartment that don’t quite reflect her story, doesn’t it?

        • rikyrah

          when you can pay for school with STOCK OPTIONS, don’t nobody believe you’re having a hard time

          • conlakappa

            We had already heard about the stock options though. Team Mittens might not be able to pivot with any ease or grace but they are all about the reactions. Maybe the maid from that era didn’t have the confidentiality agreement that the more current ones do and was about to spill it.

          • Aquagranny911

            I bet they got everyone who ever worked for them to “self deport.” It’s hard to believe that no one has come forward to spill the real frijoles.

        • jds09

          Doesn’t that basement apartment thing sounds like it came from a movie? I’m thinking it was a Doris Day/Rock Hudson film.

        • Aquagranny911

          “Basement apartments” sometimes called “garden apartments” in some tony Boston neighborhoods don’t have rats or roaches. The plumbing, heating & cooling work & some have maid quarters.

          The “Money Boo Boo’s” (love that!) are so full of FAIL!

      • Admiral_Komack

        Why, they were so destitute…instead of Grey Poupon, they had to use…French’s…oh, the stigma…

  • TresL

    I was thinking about the difference in the two conventions and have surmised that when a party spends decades demeaning the arts and Hollywood, dismissing diversity, devaluing education, doubting science, denying facts and reality, using the troops, coddling racists and crackpots, engaging in magical thinking, worshiping at the altar of greed and selfishness, don’t be surprised when that party’s convention reveals that to the world and equally don’t be surprised that the opposing party who embraces all that they reject also reveals that to the world to devastating effect. (Sorry for the run-on sentence. lol)

    • sagittarius

      No apologies necessary. Comment of the week.

    • cosine

      The Reveal, 2012

      Your fantastic comment reminds me of the First Lady’s insight:

      “Well, today, after so many struggles and triumphs and moments that have tested my husband in ways I never could have imagined, I have seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are – it reveals who you are.”

      http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160578836/transcript-michelle-obamas-convention-speech

  • Miranda

    Cherokee Nation chief calls President Obama best president ever for American Indians

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker is here to help nominate President Barack Obama for a second term, and he doesn’t hold anything back in his praise for the president.

    Read more: http://newsok.com/cherokee-nation-chief-calls-president-obama-best-president-ever-for-american-indians/article/3707011#ixzz25zo6Ku1Q

    Obama, Baker said here Tuesday, “is the best president for Indian Country in the history of the United States.”

    Through the years, Indian tribal chiefs have met a lot of U.S. presidents, but the meetings with Obama have been more than just superficial photo opportunities, Baker said.
    “This president has made promises to Indian Country, and he’s kept them,” Baker said. “He is a promise keeper. And that needs to be recognized and rewarded.”

    Read more: http://newsok.com/cherokee-nation-chief-calls-president-obama-best-president-ever-for-american-indians/article/3707011#ixzz25znzmn00

    • conlakappa

      So did the CBC, CornFlakes, Juicymoufded Tavis, Ascotty, and whoever else have a massive sad about him helping the Indians and not the blacks?

  • sagittarius

    Afternoon, POU Fam!

    This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

    Let’s get our NFL and U.S. Open Final (Go Team Serena!) on today!

  • conlakappa

    Oh, Faux: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/09/09/fox-hires-romney-advisers-to-attack-obama-fails-to-disclose-they-work-for-romneys-campaign/ I should think that Chao being Mrs. Beard McConnell would disqualify her but whatever. Just one reminder of the lunacy and shenanigans.

  • lamh35

    Oh Lord, where was Secret Service.

    First the wrestler at Olympics with FLOTUS.

    Now some guy lifts POTUS.

    https://twitter.com/TUSK81/status/244879093294825472

    • Alma98

      The link doesn’t work lamh.

  • Miranda

    Afternoon thread is up!

  • creolechild

    B*tch, please! Stop embarrassing yourself…

    Ryan: ‘I Have More Foreign Policy Experience’ Than Obama Four Years Ago

    [....] “I have more foreign policy experience coming into this job than President Obama, who sat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, did coming into his,” Ryan said on “Face the Nation.” “I’ve voted to send men and women to war. I’ve been to Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve met with our troops to get their perspectives. I’ve been to the funerals, I’ve talked to the widows, I’ve talked to the wives, the moms and the dads. That’s something. That matters.”

    http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ryan-i-have-more-foreign-policy-experience-than

    H/T Pema Levy

    • Alma98

      Has he ever left the US?

      • creolechild

        Who knows? But since when does sending young Americans off to war, possibly to never return, become something to brag about.

        LOL! We’re on the wrong thread Alma.

        • Aquagranny911

          I wish he would say that to the face of my Sis. Her oldest daughter is a serving Marine, two tours in Iraq. Or to my brother whose oldest grandson,also a Marine who served two tours in Iraq & one in Afghanistan. Or to my many friends & neighbors who have or had children who also served.

          I’m trying hard not to hate Romney/Ryan but they have both gone past my threshold of endurance. They are just plain heartless & evil!

    • Miranda

      he stoopid.

    • Admiral_Komack

      Riight…and you ran a marathon in 60 seconds, right, Flash?