Sunday’s Music Brunch-Open Thread

May 20, 2012 by PBomb 193 Comments

Happy Sunday P.O.U. Family and Lurkers! Sit back and enjoy the sounds of EVogue. Since artists from my childhood and adolescent are dying off, I thought I would dedicate a thread to a group that is still alive.

En Vogue is an American female R&B vocal group from Oakland, California assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy.

The group has won more MTV Video Music Awards than any other female group in MTV history, a total of seven, along with fourSoul Train Awards, six American Music Awards, and seven Grammy nominations. According to Billboard Magazine they were the 18th most successful act of the 1990s, and one of the most popular and successful female groups of all time. En Vogue have accumulated over 2,800 weeks on various Billboard charts.

My Lovin’

Free Your Mind

Hold On

Filed Under: African Americans, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Open Thread Tagged With: 90's Girl Groups, EnVogue, Free Your Mind, Hold On, My Lovin', Sunday Open Thread

GreenLadyHere

- – - — GOOD SUNDAY MORNTIN’ POU FAM. ***BIG HUG** :>) LET’s RISE –SHINE annnd GIVE GOD the GLORY! – —HE IS WORTHY of ALL OUR PRAISE. HE HAS BLESSED US IN MANY WAYS. :>)

– - – -ENJOY–YOUR BREAKFAST/BRUNCH—AT YOUR LEISURE. :>)

——Ohhh —WHAT a SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL MOMENT 4 OUR BELOVED
PRESIDENT. :>)- —A -FIRST!—-Woo! Hoo!!

——Watch Live from the NATO Summit in Chicago

- ——-This week, leaders from the 28 member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will gather in Chicago for a summit aimed at discussing international security and the war in Afghanistan. This will be the 25th time NATO has held a summit and the first time the United States has hosted the event since 1999. It will also be the largest such event in the organization’s history.

Throughout the day on Sunday and Monday, the U.S. State Department will broadcasts events with President Obama and foreign leaders. Click here to watch.

——WE R soooooo PROUD of U—-MR. “INTERNATIONAL” PRESIDENT!!

B BLESSED—POU FAM annnd—MR. PRESIDENT. :>)
GreenLadyHere

GOOD SUNDAY MORNTIN’ PBOMB. ***BIG HUG*** :>)

Woo! Hoo! – —GR8 SONG SELECTION. :>) How I remember them!! – – –

“FREE YOUR MIND” – —let’s dedicate that one 2 the PL’s —who R TRAPPED in – -THEIR SHALLOW – - -WANNABE PUPPET-MASTER MENTALITY. –

–MR. PRESIDENT – –is NOT YOUR PUPPET.! – - -

– – -THANK U 4 the MUSIC –PBOMB. – - -:>) Have a BLESSED DAY. :>)
GreenLadyHere

PBOMB – – - -FROM MR. PRESIDENT – –”THAT’S A WRAP”!! – — -:>)

– - – - Wrapping Up the G8 Summit at Camp David – - -

– – –This weekend, the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia joined President Obama at Camp David for the annual G8 Summit. The leaders met to address major global economic, political, and security challenges, including energy and climate change, food security and nutrition, Afghanistan’s economic transition and transitions taking place across the Middle East and North Africa.

– –☻ -Energy and Climate Change:
– – - — -At the Camp David Summit, G-8 Leaders recognized that the development of and universal access to environmentally safe, sustainable, secure, and affordable sources of energy is essential to global economic growth and to their overall efforts to address climate change.

Statement by the G-8 on Global Oil Markets
Fact Sheet: G-8 Action on Energy and Climate Change

– -☻ -Food Security:

– - ☻ -Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa:
THERE IS MORE.

– - -COMMENDATIONS 2 OUR BELOVED LEADER. :>) – - -
- http://winthemarket.com/the-spontaneous-healing-plan/ woody45
  
  It will be interesting to see what happens on the austere front as well. I’m not down on Merkel for proposing what she did. Having to bail out other countries in the EU because of their own mismanagement would stick in anybody’s craw.
  
  The problem is they tried it her way and it does not work. Europe is sliding back into recession. How much she modifies her position if any remains to be seen.
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    GOOD SUNDAY MORNTIN’ woody45. ***BIG HUG**** :>)
    
    – –Good points –woody45.
    
    MR. PRESIDENT was ENCOURAGING 2 her: – - -
    
    — – -Angela Merkel Answers Obama With a Shrug
    ‘Well, you have a few things on your mind,’ he responds – - – -
    
    – —President Obama is huddling with other G-8 leaders today at Camp David, with Europe’s financial crisis expected to be the main topic of conversation. More precisely: Whether Obama can persuade Germany’s Angela Merkel to ease up on her austerity strategy and mix in some stimulus, reports AP. If their greeting last night is any indication, some friction might already be apparent: When Obama asked how her how she has been, Merkel shrugged instead of responding, notes the Wall Street Journal. “Well, you have a few things on your mind,” Obama said.
    THERE IS MORE.
    
    Like U – - -I Hope that he can – -”convince” her that – — AUSTERITY —is NOT a viable solution during THESE ECONOMIC TIMES.
    
    Good 2 C U — woody45. :>)
    - http://winthemarket.com/the-spontaneous-healing-plan/ woody45
      
      I wish the press had taken the time to tell us exactly what she had on her mind namely austerity is leading Europe back to economic collapse and Merkel knows it.
      
      But more immediate is the election disaster last week
      
      “German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted Monday that a heavy state election defeat for her party won’t weaken her as she grapples with Europe’s deepening debt crisis.
      
      “Facing an emboldened opposition at home as a national vote looms next year, Merkel made clear that she was sticking to her emphasis on budget discipline. However, she said “no one on our side has anything against growth.”
      
      Merkel, who this week must start building a relationship with France’s new Socialist president, saw her Christian Democratic Union suffer its worst election result Sunday in North Rhine-Westphalia — Germany’s most populous state — since World War II. Voters strengthened a regional government run by Germany’s main opposition parties that her conservatives portrayed as irresponsibly spendthrift.
      
      Merkel conceded that it was “a bitter, painful defeat” but was at pains to downplay it as largely a regional event. Voters, she told reporters, saw that “I was not up for election there.”
      
      But while a popular center-left governor and a poor campaign by the conservative challenger played a part, it was the latest in a string of poor state election showings over the past two years for Merkel’s infighting-prone center-right national coalition with the pro-market Free Democratic Party.”
      
      http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/merkel-election-loss-alter-europe-policy-16340950#.T7j1R8WD8_s
      
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      She still remains popular inside of Germany as does her austere but the bottom line is it’s going to be hard for her not to compromise with other countries who don’t see it that way. Germany being economically strong means nothing if everybody on her street is living in poverty.
  - Aquagranny911
    
    I think this is another good example of what may work for one country does not work for all. Our PBO gets this but I think Chancellor Merkel is still struggling with that. Europe tied themselves together with the Euro & this is going to hurt no matter how they handle it from now on.
GreenLadyHere

PBOMB – - — -BREAKING – – -

– - – - -The Lockerbie Case – -

– – -Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi (01/04/1952 – 20/05/2012)
[The BBC News website reports that Abdelbaset Megrahi has died. The BBC’s obituary can be read here. On the occasion of Megrahi’s repatriation, Eddie MacKechnie, his Scottish solicitor at the time of his application to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission issued the following statement:]

– - – -OVER 200 people were killed by his actions. – –CONDOLENCES 2 THEIR FAMILIES.
GreenLadyHere

PBOMB – - – - -FACTS! – -CHARTS! – –GRAPHS! — -TRUTH! – - -OH – -MY! – :>)

– - –The Truth About the President and the Deficit – –

– — –Arguably the biggest lie coming from the Republicans and the Romney campaign is that President Obama is a tax and spend liberal who’s responsible for record deficits and a crushing national debt.

Not only is Mitt Romney telling his supporters that President Obama continues to spend out of control, but that the president is responsible for doubling the budget deficit since he took office. This is not a new attack. Republicans who blindly greenlit trillions in Bush-era spending have been engaged in this nonsense practically since the minute the president was inaugurated.

I like to do this from time to time, so consider this a one-stop source for debunking what the Republicans are claiming about the Obama administration’s fiscal record. Before I do, however, I’d like to note that Republicans often confuse the national debt with the federal budget deficit, not unlike the way they scramble the stimulus and the bailouts. They’re not interchangeable things. The federal budget deficit is the annual difference between what the government spends and what it collects in revenue. It’s often similar, higher or lower, than the previous fiscal year’s deficit. The debt is the total amount of money the United States owes to creditors, and this much larger figure accrues from year to year. A lot of people don’t know the difference, and I’ve even heard cable news people mix them up, too.

So let’s start from the beginning — prior to 2009. While’s it’s true that, in a general sense, the deficit and debt are higher than ever before, it has less to do with President Obama, and more to do with the previous administration’s careless spending, ridiculously large tax cuts for the super-rich coupled with the globally massive economic depression from which we’re still extricating ourselves.

The following chart, using Congressional Budget Office numbers, precisely illustrates the sources of the federal budget deficit.
THERE IS MORE. – - -TRUTH. :>)
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Love, love, LOVE me some EnVogue! The best thing about them is that all of them could sing and they each had a chance to showcase their vocals.
- GreenLadyHere
  
  GOOD SUNDAY MORNTIN’ Sepia. ***BIG HUG** :>)
  
  **fist bump** – –EACH one – - a MEGA-TALENT! :>) – - -Their SONGS neva —disappointed!! :>)
  
  Good 2 C U –Sepia. Have a BLESSED day. :>)
- Miranda
  
  I still know their full routine to the remake “Giving Him Something He Can Feel”!!
  - nellcote
    
    OMG! The first time I saw that video I thought my teevee was gonna melt.
    - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
      
      It was a sexy video without being vulgar.
      
      And the men were fine as hail!
lockewasright

These songs bring back memories. I graduated high school in 1993. These ladies were part of the soundtrack of my youth too. Their genre is definitely not the stuff that I was into at the time, but their voices were fantastic. They certainly didn’t need any fancy software to make the vocals sound good!
- isonprize
  
  Lockewasright, if you liked En Vogue, you’ll also like “The Emotions” They also sang backup for Earth WInd and Fire.
  
  Take a listen…
  - lockewasright
    
    Best of my love is familiar to me. I have always appreciated the sentiment. (What can I say? I am a mushy romantic. Shh… don’t tell the other dudes.) Don’t ask my neighbor is new to me though. This is really very good stuff.
    
    My taste in music has mostly been a fascination with people who have reached incredible skill levels on their instruments. I love jam bands, and blues, and some of the upper echelon on classic rock among other things. The vocals here sort of scratch that same itch for me. Vocals like these cannot be achieved without a ton of sweat equity first. These singers clearly have spent countless hours practicing and honing their control. There is obvious natural talent. There is also hard work. Then there is natural talent that’s been honed with years and years of hard work. That’s what this is. The result is beyond what talent or work can reach alone.
    - lockewasright
      
      A little jam band music for you. For me, this is the stuff right here:
GreenLadyHere

PBOMB- —MR. PRESIDENT 2 CONGRESS – — -DO YOUR JOB!! – –

– - – -Quote of the Day – –

— – -“Unless you run a financial institution whose business model is built on cheating consumers, or making risky bets that could damage the whole economy, you have nothing to fear from Wall Street reform.”

– President Obama, in his weekly address, calling for stricter reform after J.P. Morgan’s multi-billion dollar loss.

Here’s the video:
THERE IS MORE.

– –[Gotta "bounce". Sorry. MISSIN' U/ CARRYIN' U ---IN MY ♥. B BLESSED. :>)]
isonprize

This may be a repeat, but it bears repeating!!

Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III is the CURRENT pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Chicago. Watch the video – AMEN!!! (h/t relellit at TOD)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hey, did ya’ll see this?

The Rev. Otis Moss III, the senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, read a letter to his congregation on Sunday defending Obama and the quest for marriage equality enemy.

“Gay and lesbian citizens did not cause the economic crash, foreclosures, and attack upon health care,” Moss said. “Poor underfunded schools were not created because people desire equal protection under the law. We have much work to do as a community, and to claim the President of the United States must hold your theological position is absurd. He is President of the United States of America not the President of the Baptist convention or Bishop of the Sanctified or Holiness Church. He is called to protect the rights of Jew and Gentile, male and female, young and old, Gay and straight, black and white, Atheist and Agnostic.”

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-17/news/chi-local-reverend-defends-obama-on-samesex-marriage-20120517_1_marriage-equality-union-between-one-man-civil-rights

A video of Moss talking about Obama’s statement is available on YouTube:
- rikyrah
  
  it was wonderful.
- Aquagranny911
  
  I ♥ you Pastor Moss! Thank you!
- conlakappa
  
  But… but…
  
  ::crickets::
  
  The editors of the Wash Post are in my bad books this weekend: first the NAACP support of gay marriage was headlined as no big deal, when we know a-well it would have been a BFD had it been the opposite, and there’s a chastising piece on the First Lady not carving out a strategy for her role in the campaign or having much to say about health care or woman-critical issues. Um, have I missed somthing? Past pieces on what Laura was doing in a re-election bid? Miss Ann being asked about anything beyond being wealthy and raising her kids with the help of a full-time staff? The writer tried to be cute it and couch it in terms of the First Lady’s law degree and previous job. Surely, I was asleep when they asked Ms. Moneybags, head of an international, heath-related foundation, about such, right? The icing on this very stank cake was referring to her as an “innocuous cheerleader.”
- GreenLadyHere
  
  HEEY isonprize. ***BIG HUG*** :>)
  
  The REV. DR. MOSS – –is the STR8 “BOSS”!! – - -
  
  – - – -“Poor underfunded schools were not created because people desire equal protection under the law.
  
  DANG!! — -THAT STATEMENT: – - -BEYOND ANALYTICAL annnd LOGICAL!! – –Whew LAWD!!
  
  THANK U – - -SIR!! – - -SUNDAY SCHOOL is OUT!! :>)
  
  Good 2 C U. isonprize. :>)
rikyrah

Good Morning, Everyone
rikyrah

I loved that En Vogue was an actual group. All the members got turns singing.
Alexander2

(Cher will cut you.)

Cher and Grover Norquist engaged in Twitter warfare
By Suzi Parker
May 19, 2012

Cher is a household name. Grover Norquist is not.

Cher, the singer, actress, activist and gay icon, never holds back. She has often come under fire for her outspokenness, and her boldness is no different on Twitter, where she has more than 600,000 followers. . .

On May 3, Cher tweeted: “Whats the difference between Mitt Romney & a Jellyfish??? NOTHING ! Whats the difference between Grover Norquist & the Devil ?? SAME THING !”

Norquist, who only has 22,000 followers, responded Friday night: “Hi Cher. get some sleep.”

On that same day, Cher tweeted, “Saw mitt Romney & wife on tv(He Takes Her With him Everywhere He Goes..She’s like His MOMMIE) She was wearing 1000k TShirt,Lota $$ 4 a tshirt.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/cher-and-grover-norquist-engaged-in-twitter-warfare/2012/05/19/gIQARS4obU_blog.html
rikyrah

Michelle Obama’s campaign strategy: Steering clear of the hot issues
By Krissah Thompson, Published: May 19

As the presidential campaign ramped up earlier this year, Michelle Obama presented poet Maya Angelou with an award and a hug at the BET Honors award show. Two days later, she danced on an episode of iCarly, a tweens sitcom.

In late January, the first lady began a tour of the late-night television circuit that culminated in mid-April with a visit to Stephen Colbert’s show to promote her work with military families. She has appeared on the talk show “Ellen” twice this year, doing push-ups and joking about her high school photo, and made a cameo on “The Biggest Loser.” She is on television almost as much as her husband.

But as ubiquitous as the first lady has become, she also has carved out a distinct role in President Obama’s reelection campaign and in the country: innocuous cheerleader, steering clear of the tough, hot-button issues and carrying no hint of political liability that occasionally worried the campaign in 2008.

Despite a fierce national debate over policies affecting women, with the Obama campaign driving a conversation on issues such as abortion rights and renewing the Violence Against Women Act, Michelle Obama has been quiet on these divisive subjects.

A Harvard-educated lawyer and one-time executive at the University of Chicago Hospitals, she has largely sidestepped the pending Supreme Court decision on health care, instead focusing on the importance of seeing three women on the court’s bench and the benefits of the law to American families.

Although President Obama said he leaned heavily on his wife’s counsel before making his decision to endorse gay marriage, the first lady has left it to her husband to talk about the details in public.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michelle-obamas-campaign-strategy-steering-clear-of-the-hot-issues/2012/05/19/gIQA949ibU_story.html?hpid=z3
- crazycanuck
  
  I didn’t realize Michelle was an elected official.
- Town
  
  The premise of this article is stupid, it’s warning Michelle Obama not to be controversial while at the same time chastizing her for not being more controversial.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    WaPo always gets Krissah to do their dirty work.
- conlakappa
  
  Sorry, I didn’t see this before posting my take on this. I will add that ever since the ombudsman wrote a tortured piece on the First Lady being fair game, the Post seems to be going out of its why to justify that position with stupid pieces like that. Notice that it is under “politics” while being puffy and pointless enough to merit being made out of meringue.
  - Aquagranny911
    
    I used to get so pissed at BS like this against our FLOTUS that it made my BP go ballistic. Now I realize that it is just one more piece of the disrespect and caca that women face from Repugs. We are all just supposed to shut up & suck it up like vacuum cleaners. Michelle has to be like one of those whole house vacuums sucking up all the vile & the nasty every day.
    
    I still get pissed but I see how she handles all the demands on her with such grace, dignity & patience that it makes me work to be a better person. And also resolve to kick Repug ass!!!
    - conlakappa
      
      Indeed. It is all part of the same nonsense, it is true. The Post writers need to grow up; that rag hasn’t moved the ball much down the field since Sally Quinn’s whine about the First Couple not throwing parties. Wah.
rikyrah

Mitt Romney fails to see America
By Colbert I. King, Published: May 18

After a third reading of Mitt Romney’s Liberty University commencement speech, I still fail to see how my Post colleague Michael Gerson could have described it as “more than good.”

Romney’s address struck me as standard fare for a college graduation. He hit all the familiar notes: gratitude to school and a nod to parents for sacrifices made; celebration of the virtues of hard work, devotion to principles, individualism, service, family. There was even a little shameless politicking, with Romney telling the audience “what the next four years might hold for me is yet to be determined. But . . . things are looking up, and I take your kind hospitality today as a sign of good things to come.

It was the kind of speech that could have been delivered — sans the pandering and the references to more-contemporary figures (the late Chuck Colson; the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded Liberty University; and the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) — to college graduating classes in the 1950s or even in 1900.

The Liberty remarks, as seems to be true of many Romney speeches, reflected a rather constricted view of the country. Perhaps it’s because Romney chooses to deliver most of his lines to narrow audiences.

Missing in his Liberty offering, as with some other Romney speeches, is any recognition — not praises, mind you, but simple acknowledgment — that 21st-century America is more than a white, middle-class country.

He revealed no sense whatsoever of knowing that the overwhelming majority of Liberty grads will, in their adult lives, inhabit an America in which they will be the minority.

Romney’s speeches seem tailor-made for audiences that look pretty much like him.

At least that is what one is led to believe after observing where Romney chooses to go and what he has to say.

I tried to imagine Romney’s Liberty address being delivered to the graduates and their families at the 2012 commencement exercises I attended a week ago at historically black Howard University in Washington.

I cannot believe, however, that the Romney campaign apparatus would have allowed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to tell an African American audience numbering in the thousands that Falwell was “a gracious Christian example” and a “courageous and big-hearted minister of the Gospel who . . . never hated an adversary.”

Indeed, Romney lauded Falwell, who famously said: “I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-fails-to-see-america/2012/05/18/gIQAwJLWZU_story.html
rikyrah

John Boehner is an Orange Muppet

by BooMan
Sun May 20th, 2012 at 10:54:01 AM EST

I’ll give Dana Milbank partial credit for taking John Boehner to task over his intention to revive the crisis over the debt ceiling and create another avoidable fiasco that needlessly harms the economy. I don’t understand, however, why Milbank can’t see what is staring him straight in the face:

As I watched [Boehner] defend his position in the House TV studio Thursday morning, I had an uncomfortable thought: Does Boehner want the economy to tank?

My instinct says that he does not, that his concern for Americans’ suffering trumps his party’s interests.

Dana, you have terrible instincts.

I think your mistake may be that you are looking at this as a matter of what John Boehner wants. But the Speaker is not in control of his caucus. He could have tried to exert control over them at some point, and he might have succeeded. But he’s been too afraid of a coup to take the chance. Remember when he tried to negotiate a grand bargain with the president and then discovered that he didn’t have that authority?

He knows that his caucus won’t let him approve a hike in the debt ceiling without a second round of brinksmanship. He doesn’t feel like he has a choice in the matter. He’s not pulling the strings here. He’s like an orange muppet.

The second Debt Ceiling Fiasco isn’t going to happen because the Speaker is a cynic who wants to tank the economy. It’s going to happen because the Speaker is weak and ineffectual and he likes his job more than he cares about other people being out of work. The Second Fiasco is going to happen because his caucus is functionally insane.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/20/10541/9243
rikyrah

North Carolina is Going To Be Tough

by BooMan
Sat May 19th, 2012 at 06:14:25 PM EST

I can’t think of a plausible scenario where North Carolina would decide the presidential election. But it sure would be nice to win it again. Recent polls there have been mixed. Public Policy Polling had Obama up by one point, SurveyUSA had him up by four, and the pro-GOP Rasmussen had Romney up by eight points. Of course, the Democratic National Convention will take place in Charlotte, for whatever that’s worth. I think it’s clear that the Obama campaign thought a state they won by less than 15,000 votes needed a little boost. But it’s not going to be easy:

One senior North Carolina Democrat, who insisted on anonymity because of involvement in multiple statewide and legislative campaigns, said private polling in a variety of state races shows that white voters and independents are trending toward Republicans in an alarming way.

“The biggest thing Obama has got to overcome here is his problems with white independent voters, those middle-of-the-road voters,” the Democrat said. “If he doesn’t, we are going to get our asses whipped like I have never seen in my 20 years of doing politics.”

The Democrat predicted a “bloodbath” for the party in November if those numbers fail to tighten.

Holding the convention in Charlotte, this person said, might make for an exciting week but will do little to push the state in Obama’s direction: “I’m glad that it’s here for sheer state pride, but is it going to make much difference at Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro?”

In 2008, Obama lost independents to McCain in the Tarheel State. He won because the Republicans had 31% turnout and he turned out a massive amount of new voters, including hordes of college students. He was also more convincing with North Carolina’s students than he was nationally:

The share of voters under 30 was the same in North Carolina as it was nationally.

But thanks in large part to the stout organizational efforts of the Obama campaign on more than 100 college campuses across the state, voters between 18 and 29 chose Obama over McCain by a stunning 74%-26% margin.

If that split more closely resembled the youth vote nationwide — 66% for Obama and 32% for McCain — roughly 60,000 North Carolina votes would have swung to McCain, handing him the state and its 15 electoral votes.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/5/19/181425/571
- http://winthemarket.com/the-spontaneous-healing-plan/ woody45
  
  Wasn’t this the case last time?
  - Desraye
    
    Exactly, he barely won it last time.
- Town
  
  Were white independent voters the ones who flipped NC last time or was it all the black folks?
  
  Are the state NC Democrats talking to folks drumming up support or are they just relying on Obama to pull them over the top?
  
  I personally think Obama is going to lose NC big time, but he still has a chance IMO with VA. Although there’s a whole lot of white folks fired up to get rid of Obama, there’s a whole lot of folks fired up to get rid of transvaginal and homophobic Republicans too.
  - conlakappa
    
    Why is NC any more unsure than VA? Though in my Wahoo heart i am loathe to admit it, those sister States have more in common than not, with NC having an edge with more pockets of higher ed and research. The argument might be being framed now about so-called independent whites but it started out with Rove stating without pretense or obfuscation that the objective in the State was to peel off 1% of the black vote to get to victory,
    - Town
      
      I would say that VA would flip back to the GOP BUT too many people here are pissed off at the Republicans crawling up in women’s vaginals with their transvaginal probes and blatantly voting against a gay guy because he’s gay. The governor had the State Police dragging away unarmed protestors like storm troopers while the Tea Party got to protest with their guns waving in the air. Instead of wringing their hands about white independents who are going to vote for Romney anyway, they need to be drumming up the black and youth vote and I don’t see them doing that, I see them kicking back whining and when things don’t go their way, blame Obama.
      - conlakappa
        
        Very interesting. But thanks for the visual of the probes!
        
        The key is will those folks in VA come out to vote because of Even Dumber George? Will Bobby McD be on the national ticket’s undercard and thus garner interest and support in his State? Could be that while all eyes are on Kooky an’em in the Old Dominion, the young folks are getting in step and in check in NC.
        
        Hey, a Human Rights Campaign person just came to our door collecting signatures in support of same-sex marriage. My husband answered the door. Us being a black couple meant we totally told the person off and screamed that the person get off our lawn!! Oh, wait, that is not what happened: my husband brought it up stairs to get my signature so that we both will have signed.
    - nellcoe
      
      The NC state dems are dealing with some kind of sexual harrassment scandal. They’re in “disarray” right now.
      - conlakappa
        
        How coincidental. /eyeroll
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Bibi does not care about African people.

Netanyahu warns of infiltrators ‘flooding’ Israel
By JPOST.COM STAFF
05/20/2012 11:56

Interior minister Yishai says African migrants should be jailed or expelled; Aharonovich to request emergency meeting.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Sunday of the need to prevent “illegal infiltrators flooding the country,” Army Radio reported.

“If we don’t stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and that threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state,” he said at the weekly cabinet meeting, held this week at Ammunition Hill in honor of Jerusalem Day.

The fence on the border with Egypt would be completed by October, Netanyahu added, with the exception of a mountainous area near Eilat.

MORE: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=270682
- crazycanuck
  
  Sounds remarkably familiar
- Aquagranny911
  
  Border fences…how remarkably unique & useless! When, when will the sane people of Israel send ‘Nut’n'yoohoo to rock on the patio with his grandkiddos?
KeepitCleva

Love me some En Vogue.
rikyrah

GOP leader denies Democratic claims that he’s hurting the economy to hurt Obama’s election bid
CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press

Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama’s re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes, pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth.

The latest Democratic complaint came after House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that when Congress raises the nation’s borrowing cap in early 2013, he will again insist on big spending cuts to offset the increase. Boehner, R-Ohio, continues to reject higher tax rates, which Democrats demand from the wealthy.

That led Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to say Boehner is virtually assuring another debt-ceiling crisis as bad or worse than the one that shook financial markets nine months ago.

“The last thing the country needs is a rerun of last summer’s debacle that nearly brought down our economy,” Schumer said in a statement. In an interview, Schumer added: “I hope that the speaker is not doing this because he doesn’t want to see the economy improve, because what he said will certainly rattle the markets.”

Boehner responded in a statement: “Republicans have passed nearly 30 bills that would help small businesses create jobs and we are waiting on Senate Democrats to vote on these common-sense measures. The failure to act on these jobs bills, as well as our crushing debt burden, is undermining economic growth and job creation.”

Democrats say Republicans loaded their jobs bills with provisions certain to doom them in the Senate, such as restrictions on unions and on regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency.

Regardless of whether Schumer’s suspicions are right, there’s evidence that unceasing partisan gridlock and the prospect of big tax increases and spending cuts in January are causing some companies to postpone expansions. Even small economic slowdowns are bad news for Obama, who is seeking re-election amid high unemployment.

The Washington Post this past week compiled a list of military contractors, hospitals and universities that are delaying hires and bracing for cuts, partly because of fears that Washington’s partisan divisions will not abate.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-bc-us–economicsabotage,0,158017.story
- conlakappa
  
  Pray tell, did Johnny Orange cite those bills? Even one? Funny that we haven’t previously heard of them. He isn’t taking his case before the cameras or lobbying citizens to call their senators. Kinda feeling like a lie, innit?
Alexander2

(wtf?)

Cory Booker ‘Very Uncomfortable’ With Attacks On Bain
1:22 AM EDT, Sunday May 20, 2012

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday, Newark Mayor and Obama surrogate Cory Booker said he was “uncomfortable” with the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s career with Bain Capital.

“It’s a distraction from the real issues,” Booker said, of both attacks on Bain and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. “It’s either gonna be a small campaign about this crap, or it’s gonna be a big campaign about the issues the American public cares about.”

“I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” Booker added. “If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses — to grow businesses. And this to me, I’m very uncomfortable.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/cory-booker-uncomfortable-with-attacks-on-bain
- danadevin74
  
  What?
  Maybe the publicity is gone to his head
- Town
  
  The American public cares about Bain. Especially the ones who lost their jobs because of Bain.
  
  Mitt Romney claims Americans should kick Obama out as president and vote him in is because he’s ~~white~~ a “businessman” who will run the country like he ran Bain Capital, and that Obama doesn’t know anything about running a country because he’s never run a business.
  
  #1, when did America become “America, Inc.?” There’s a lot more to running a country than just the economics of it. What about social issues, foreign policy, the health & general welfare of the country?
  
  #2, if Romney’s running on the premise that he should be president because he ran Bain, then his Bain record needs to be examined up, down, rectally and sideways.
  
  Cory Booker needs to stop being dazzled by Republican jelly bellies and support the President.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    Booker is too busy running for Governor of NJ.
    - conlakappa
      
      I think he will see a Bradley effect there.
  - Scopedog
    
    Yeah…I remember the last time we had a “businessman” running the country.
    
    He actually ran it into the ground, but in the nearly four years since he left office, it appears that the MSM has completely forgotten this. It also appears that some liberals have also forgotten too.
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  Booker done fukked and folks are letting him know about it on Twitter.
- crazycanuck
  
  Wow! Cory is slip sliding away.
- lamh35
  
  WTF is right. That right there should be the end of Bookers surrogacy duties. Cory’s obviously to the NJ guv office on his mind and he’s been chummy with Christie lately too
- lamh35
  
  BTW, now I’m readin that Bookers’s trying to walk it back on twitter. Too damn late! Expect to hear this shit all day tomorrow.
  
  Did he really make a point of saying that he knew the campaign talking points,but then he went all “leave Bain alone”
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    Yep! He tweeted POU that he’s going to issue a statement to clarify. In other words, he just got finished listening to PBO and David Plouffe cuss his ass out for effin’ up their message and if he wants PBO’s help to be governor of NJ, he best clean up the mess he made.
    
    At least, that’s how I read his tweet.
- Aquagranny911
  
  WTF!?! I used to like Booker. My Sis went off a while back about how he was was a “snake in the grass” a “viper in the house etc…” I did argue with her assessment but now I may have to eat “sister crow” for that.
- gc
  
  I am so tired of not being able to count on people. Let’s see, we have Rev Al (BTW, my equally pigmentation-free husband came home from work the other day “Hey there is somebody I like in the media. Remember the Rev Al….” “I know, honey.”)
- GreenLadyHere
  
  HEEY ALEXANDER2 – - -***BIG HUG*** :>)
  
  Uhhh – - –YA MEAN — -the cory booker who was JUST SHOVELING SNOW – –annnnd NOW he’s – -SHOVELING – - “ELEPHANT EXCREMENT??
  
  - -YA MEAN – -the cory booker who –made a DARING RESCUE FROM a FIRE? – - -annnnd NOW he DARED 2 JUMPED INTO OUR FIRE – -where we –”SHOOT DOWN FIREBAGGERS”???
  
  – — YA MEAN the cory booker who just played the – -“TOM” – - -annnd jerry routine with – –”krispie kreme”???
  
  – - – -OH — – — -
  
  – —- — “BU – –by-eeee – –BOY!!” – –
  
  Good 2 C U – - -ALEXANDER2. :>)
rikyrah

Jim Lee: GOP faithful in a state of denial
By Jim Lee | 0 comments

When considering the most ardent supporters of the two major political parties, I have to say that Republicans are in a perpetual state of denial and are doing the country more harm than their Democratic counterparts.

The talk this past week about how Republicans are going to mount another major battle over raising the debt ceiling is just the latest example. Perhaps it is just that their thinking on the issue has evolved, like President Barack Obama’s thinking on the gay marriage issue, but Republicans had no problem raising the debt limit seven times during the Bush years, and it is the policies of those Bush years that drove us to the brink of depression.

Last year, the Center on Budget Policy Priorities had a story highlighting how policies put in place in the Bush years would be the biggest contributor to projected deficits for the next decade. In a May 10, 2011 story highlighting the conclusions, Kathy Ruffing and James R. Horney wrote, “If not for the Bush tax cuts, the deficit-financed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the effects of the worst recession since the Great Depression (including the cost of policymakers’ actions to combat it), we would not be facing these huge deficits in the near term. By themselves, in fact, the Bush tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will account for almost half of the $20 trillion in debt that, under current policies, the nation will owe by 2019. The stimulus law and financial rescues will account for less than 10 percent of the debt at that time.”

But point out to Republicans that it was under their watch and it was their policies that put us in the current economic condition, and the response will more often than not be something along the lines of “that’s just the liberal pro-Obama media pushing the socialist president’s agenda.” Complete denial.

Contrast that to Democrats and their response to media criticism of Obama’s “evolving” gay marriage views before he actually came out and supported it.

Those stories and opinion pieces almost all fault Obama for trying to play politics and remain on the fence about a contentious issue. But do you hear waves of denials from Democrats? No.

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/columnists/opinion/jim_lee/jim-lee-gop-faithful-in-a-state-of-denial/article_19c0ff6c-0198-5ce2-8b73-7fb8031d1b47.html
rikyrah

Paul Ryan Claims Romney Budget, Which Adds $10 Trillion To Debt, Will ‘Prevent A Debt Crisis’

By Travis Waldron on May 20, 2012 at 11:04 am

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s budget would add $10.7 trillion to the debt and reduce federal revenues to just 15 percent of GDP, exploding the “prairie fire of debt” Romney warned the nation about in a speech last week in Iowa.

Romney isn’t the only one decrying the debt while ignoring that his budget would make it worse. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), in an appearance on Fox News this morning, made the laughable claim that a budget that explodes the debt will simultaneously prevent a debt crisis:

RYAN: More to the point, though, the kind of budget Mitt Romney is talking about is one that prevents a debt crisis.

Watch it:

Ryan praised Romney’s 20 percent, across-the-board tax cuts that are paid for, he claims, by closing loopholes that primarily benefit the wealthy. The only problem with that, of course, is that Romney hasn’t laid out such a plan, and even if he did, it wouldn’t make up enough revenue to avoid adding trillions to the national debt.

This isn’t anything new from Ryan. Though he paints himself as a very serious person who is trying to reduce the debt, he authored the House GOP’s radical budget plan, which manages to add to the debt despite cutting spending on programs that help the poor and middle classes because, like Romney, he gives away trillions in tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/20/487285/ryan-romney-budget-debt/
- Aquagranny911
  
  Have all these Repugnants failed basic math? So much for education in this country but maybe they were all “home schooled” by bubble heads.
  - Scopedog
    
    I don’t think so, Aquagranny– although it is a thought.
    
    I honestly believe that they know damned well that this will royally screw things up on a level never before seen….but they don’t care. And worst of all, they know that the MSM will not hold their feet to the fire and call them out, and that the MSM will play the “both sides do it” game.
    
    Mann and Ornstein were right.
rikyrah

if you twitter folks have some time, maybe you could light Corey Booker’s ass up about his bullshyt about Bain this morning on MTP.
- lamh35
  
  They already are.
  
  Rikyrah u need to get in twitter.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    Yep! There is strength is numbers!
- crazycanuck
  
  I just checked, they already are
- Rhoda
  
  I just posted about this in the comment thread, I’ve been giving him the eye since he’s been paling around with Christie. He doesn’t seem to see Christie is doing to him what POTUS and Rahm did to Gov. Huntsman.
  - crazycanuck
    
    He’s trying to backpeddle, don’t think it’s working though
rikyrah

Day After IPO, Mark Zuckerberg Marries Longtime Girlfriend Priscilla Chan

What a week. After eight years, Mark Zuckerberg takes Facebook public at a $104 billion valuation. His longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan gets her medical degree from the UC San Francisco. He has his 28th birthday.

And to top it all off, they get married today! Mazel tov.

Apparently, the wedding had been in the works for four to five months, according to a source authorized to speak on behalf of the couple. It wasn’t tied to the IPO, but rather Chan’s graduation from medical school on Monday.

About 100 of their closest friends and family showed up at the backyard of their Palo Alto home, thinking they were going to celebrate Chan’s graduation. When they arrived, they were told it was a wedding. “It was a surprise,” the source tells us.

Zuckerberg gave her a ruby ring he designed himself, which Chan had never seen until today. The food came from their two favorite restaurants, Palo Alto Sol and Fuki Sushi, and they shared it family style. For dessert, they served Burdick chocolate mice (which is what the pair ate on their very first date!)

Chan and Zuckerberg met more than nine years ago while at Harvard. In this cute story from the Harvard Crimson seven years ago, Zuckerberg asked her, “Hey Priscilla, do you want a job at the Facebook?”

“I’d love a job at Facebook,” she responded, offering him a Twizzler.

How things have changed. What an amazing ride for the pair and for the company, and hopefully a lot longer to go too.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/19/day-after-ipo-mark-zuckerberg-marries-longtime-girlfriend-priscilla-chan/?ncid=webmail2
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  Get That Money Girl!
  - Aquagranny911
    
    LOL! This woman does have great timing unless there is a pre-nup. Maybe she really loves him. Sorry, I AM a real sap for love.
    - crazycanuck
      
      should of been me lol
sagittarius

Good afternoon, POU Fam!

I hope all is well. I am enjoying the free Twitter entertainment watching folks go H.A.M. on Cory Booker. If Goldie Taylor doesn’t watch out, she’s gonna get her some, too!
- Aquagranny911
  
  LOL at “free Twitter entertainment” Some folks are just brilliant in 140 characters, imo.
  
  Hows by you, Kiddo? Doing okay at your casa? I think I keep bumping & missing you. I’m glad to have you back here.
  - sagittarius
    
    I’m good, AQ and it’s always wonderful to be able to chat and not simply lurk. Congratulations to your DIL on the new position!
    - Aquagranny911
      
      Thanks! It’s not just the more money but her hours will be regular & daytime. So much better for her to be home with her kiddos in the evenings.
- lamh35
  
  Alright what mess is Goldie trying to sell?
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    Herself.
    
    *goes to The Bad Lounge* Hey Sagi! Wait for me!
    - sagittarius
      
      ROFL!
    - Admiral_Komack
      
      Isn’t she past the expiration date?
      
      Make way, I’m coming through!
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  Afternoon, Sagi!
  
  I see she’s blaming folks on Twitter for calling out Booker, saying it fuels the opposition. Um, no. The opposition isn’t retweeting our pushback against Booker, they’re retweeting Booker’s comments on MTP. So, she can have several seats along with RoRo’s trying to play Captain Save-A-Booker ass.
  - sagittarius
    
    I do like Dannie’s description of her: ‘broke-down Eartha Kitt’.
    
    Heading to the bad lounge now… I’ll see a few of you in there later!
    - rikyrah
      
      I do like Dannie’s description of her: ‘broke-down Eartha Kitt’.
      
      can never get past that description
      
      LOL
    - GreenLadyHere
      
      HEEY sagittarius. ***BIG HUG** :>)
      
      – –A litte L8 – -BUT – - -right behind U. :>) – -
      
      – –I got the PIZZA. – — LOL
      Good 2 C U. :>)
      
      ***waves @ dannie22*** :>)
  - Ebogan63
    
    Ro-Ro is invoking the ‘nobody black can disagree with PBO’ straw man argument. He can miss me with that horshit.
    - Admiral_Komack
      
      Maybe Thurston’s ascot is too tight.
rikyrah

ok, watching a guilty pleasure – anyone else love School Ties with Brendan Fraser ?
- JojoRaze
  
  School Ties & Encimo Man are my jam! Only Brendan Frasier movies I love!
Alexander2

John Legend ‏@johnlegend

@CoryBooker I don’t think it’s beneath the president to examine the Bain “job creation” record when Romney makes it center of his campaign
- Lisa M
  
  And here is the Obama campaign’s response courtesy of the Caucus blog:
  
  The Obama campaign declined to comment, directing reporters instead to Mr. Booker’s Twitter account, in which the Newark mayor told angry followers that he would be issuing a statement to “clarify” his comments on television.
  
  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/an-obama-surrogate-criticizes-campaign/
  - itgurl_29
    
    Boom. Let him get himself out of this mess.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    PBO Campaign to Cory Booker: “No, my brotha. You’re on your own”
    - sagittarius
      
      Hi, Sepia… you are one of my sheroes. Wanna know why? Around 2010 you said this:
      
      “Twitter is going to be game changer in the 2012 election”
      - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
        
        I can’t take credit for that prediction. I wish I could remember who said it, tho. If they’re reading this, I raise my mouse to ya!
      - rikyrah
        
        I, too, remember that post from you, Sepia.
      - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
        
        I remember saying, “Whoever said Twitter is gonna be a game changer was right”.
      - itgurl_29
        
        That was me. I said that on Wee See You.
      - sagittarius
        
        You are my shero, itgurl… not just for this comment, but also for your fierceness on Twitter
      - itgurl_29
        
        Thank u. We all need to be on twitter.
      - rikyrah
        
        You were on point
      - GreenLadyHere
        
        HEEY itgurl_29. BIG HUG*** :>)
        
        **lifts MOUSE 2 U!*** :>)
    - Scopedog
      
      So how long will it take for the PLs to howl that the President threw Mayor Booker “under the bus”?
- GreenLadyHere
  
  ALEXANDER2 – - –Ummm – - – -is THIS a semi-, quasi-, – –FAUX-pology??? – -LOL
  
  – –UHH – - – -NO! UNACCEPTABLE!! – –
  
  We – -THA-ROUGH!! — -”BOY – -BYE!!” :>)
rikyrah

Willard Romney says that he is qualified to be President of the United States is because he knows how to take care of the economy and President Obama doesn’t.

He’s not saying that he had executive experience because he was the Governor of Massachusetts – something that he has completely run away from. Look at Willard’s campaign – it’s like his time as the Governor of Massachusetts just doesn’t exist.

He’s not running on foreign policy experience – remember the articles from last week about him ‘forming a foreign policy after the election’.

No. He’s staked his claim on why he should be President because he’s a rich White man, and the crux of that is Bain Capital.

I’m fine if he wants folks to judge him on his time at Bain Capital.

LET US DISCUSS HIS TIME AT BAIN.

Let us discuss the American workers that were given the shaft by Willard and Bain.

Let us discuss the fundamentals of how Bain made money. They weren’t about making jobs. They were about making money.

But, they don’t want to discuss that. They don’t want to talk about:
1. the jobs he shipped overseas
2. the companies he bankrupted
3. the people whose economic lives he ruined.

They wanna bullshyt and call that the President’s attempt at ‘character assassination’.

Just once I wish someone from the Obama campaign to retort – you’d actually have to HAVE CHARACTER in order for it to be assassinated, but I know they can’t.

It’s not character assassination to break it down to the American people that Willard and Bain didn’t give a rat’s ass about ‘creating jobs’. They were all about ‘ making money’. And, they rigged the game, so, whether the company succeeded OR FAILED – Bain made money.

The whole 99% vs. 1% isn’t about the 99% being ‘envious’. They just know unfair bullshyt when they see it.

People understand – if a company is doing successful, then yes, people should make money.

But, it’s hard to explain, in anything other than 1% ridiculousness, how, if you run a company INTO BANKRUPTCY, how your ass should walk away with MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

And, that is EXACTLY what Willard and Bain did – time after time.

Time after time, bankrupting companies, walking away from the pension and medical benefit obligations of employees and retirees, while making MILLIONS for themselves.

On top of that, not only walking away from those worker and retiree obligations, but putting the AMERICAN TAXPAYER on the hook for them.

All while Willard – AND BAIN – walked away with MILLIONS.

THIS is why Bain is fair game.

Willard has said he should be President because of his ‘ business experience’.

Therefore, every inch of what was done at Bain is part of what the American People have a RIGHT TO KNOW.
lamh35

From Boo-ker on twitter:

“I’ll always prioritize my nation over a political party. & right now crass divisive partisan politics is not serving the citizens of my city”

Cory Boo-ker can kick rocks.
- itgurl_29
  
  This negro still painting President Barack Obama as some petty politician who can’t get shit done.
- Admiral_Komack
  
  Is this fool sharing a bean pie with Tavis and Corny?
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

Zora Neale Hurston was so right when she said “All my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk”:

rolandsmartin‏@rolandsmartin

@MWJ1231 @goldietaylor and I bet if I told u what was said by OFA about Texas voters, including YOU, you would be shocked. So carry on

If RoRo knows something, then he needs to say it. Anything less and he sounds like a gossipy teenager with an axe to grind.
lamh35

Ugh…freakin’ Boo-ker.

John McCain ‏@SenJohnMcCain
Thank you Mayor @CoryBooker for the straight talk this morning – “Boo-ker Calls Obama’s Bain Attacks ‘Nauseating’” http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mayor-cory-booker-democrats-and-republicans-shouldnt-be-making-election-about-crap/
- MonieTalks
  
  This is Booker’s “satan sandwich” moment…his “unleash” misstep.
  
  This disappointment is not even about “protecting” the President as some media whores like RoRo Martin try to claim.
  
  Booker and many like him are always concerned primarily with trying to stay in that inner circle of certain politicos (of both parties), and other well-heeled people. People like Reps. Cleaver and Waters could care less about constituents. It has always been about using their political office as a springboard for power, connections, and prestige.
  
  Even with Mitt Romney’s abysmal record as a POLITICIAN on job creation in Massachusetts, he is still awarded the title of an expert on the economy because in his private equity life,he simply bought out companies which in the majority of cases, either outsourced jobs and left people jobless.
  
  And yet the President is not supposed to talk this. This is CENTRAL to the issues of this campaign. Did the President misrepresent Romney’s record…hell no.
  
  Meanwhile, Corey Booker and his ilk will be the same mofos who in a millisecond flat will blurt out “The President does have some weaknesses…has not restored America to what it was”, even though the disaster he inherited was decades in the making. Republican members of Congress were meeting during PBO’s inauguration to specially craft a plan to manipulate the legislative process and destroy the economy further.
  
  Booker is a brown-nosing, out for self, talk-show seeking, front-page headliner hoping politico ho. He’s been snuggling under that ol sweaty teddy bear Chris Christie too long…they have made a pact for sure.
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    He’s been snuggling under that ol sweaty teddy bear Chris Christie too long…they have made a pact for sure.
    
    THIS! But what kind of pact did they make?
    
    Cory better ask Sheila Oliver about what happens when you make a deal with Christie.
    - MonieTalks
      
      Good tidbit.
      
      It’s real interesting to see all these appearances they are making together, especially in this election year….and the viral video that just released this past week of them as frenenmies…pure PR campaign from 2 politicos who have been discussing their future endeavors.
      
      I think Booker may have his sights on running for the Senate in NJ…
      
      With Christie up for re-election in 2013, there is some talk of a Christie-Booker confrontation, a fight between two possible top-of-the-ticket leaders in the future. This would be a must-win for Christie if he hopes to run for president in 2016. But an electoral car-crash between these two would be a waste of talent from a national and New Jersey perspective. Better to have Booker replace–and primary if necessary–the state’s geriatric Senator Frank Lautenberg.
      
      http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/16/new-jersey-s-chris-christie-and-cory-booker-eschew-partisan-bickering-for-collaboration.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
  - rikyrah
    
    YEAH YEAH YEAH
    
    tell it, Monie and everyone else who has called out Booker
lamh35

I’m too freakin’ mad at Booker. First for being an idiot and second for doubling down with his “divisive” GOP talking point language.

Ugh!

This is spot on, IMHO. This was about Cory and I’ll admit I was naiive enough to believe that naked ambition wasn’t Cory’s M.O. but I shouldn’t be surprised.

“Cory Booker, surrogate from hell”
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/20/cory_booker_surrogate_from_hell/

If Cory Booker went on “Meet the Press” on Sunday with the intent of helping President Obama, then his appearance was an utter failure. But anyone who’s followed the enormously ambitious Newark mayor’s career closely knows he’s not one to pull a Joe Biden. He’s just too smart and too smooth to screw up so epically.

More likely, Booker went on the show to help himself and to advance his own long-term political prospects. And on that score, his appearance was a success

…Booker’s words on “Meet the Press” may have enraged the average Obama supporter, but to the Wall Street class they were probably close to heroic – finally, a big-name Democrat with the cojones to call out Obama on his class warfare!

The Booker calculation, in other words, is probably that the average Democratic voter’s memory of his outburst will fade long before 2014 – but that the average Wall Street donor’s won’t.
- Miranda
  
  Word on the skreet was that he got dealt with….he backsliding on those words like he one of the Pips.
rikyrah

Sunday, May 20, 2012 01:05 PM CDT
Cory Booker, surrogate from hell
What Cory Booker has to gain by calling President Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital “nauseating”
By Steve Kornacki

If Cory Booker went on “Meet the Press” on Sunday with the intent of helping President Obama, then his appearance was an utter failure. But anyone who’s followed the enormously ambitious Newark mayor’s career closely knows he’s not one to pull a Joe Biden. He’s just too smart and too smooth to screw up so epically.

More likely, Booker went on the show to help himself and to advance his own long-term political prospects. And on that score, his appearance was a success.

You’ve probably seen or are now seeing the headlines Booker generated by calling the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s private equity background “nauseating” and likening them to efforts by some on the right to inject Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the campaign.

“Enough is enough,” Booker said. “Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright.”

He added: “I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity. To me, it’s just we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America. Especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people invest in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses. And this, to me — I’m very uncomfortable with.”

Playing up Romney’s Bain record is, of course, central to Obama’s general election plan. Romney is running as a business-savvy “job creator” and relying on the public’s tendency to associate private sector success with economic competence. There is no overstating how vital it is for Obama and his campaign to break that link, and to establish that Romney’s real expertise is in making investors rich – not adding jobs and improving the quality of life for middle class workers.

In belittling this strategy, Booker isn’t just breaking with Obama, he’s breaking with just about everyone who’s ever run against Romney – including Ted Kennedy, who used criticisms of Bain’s treatment of workers to pull away from Romney in their 1994 Senate race. Essentially, Kennedy created the blueprint that Obama is now using. Booker is also providing Republicans with a dream talking point: A top Obama surrogate not only disapproves of Obama’s use of Bain, he finds it nauseating!

It wouldn’t be surprising if Booker has already heard from the White House, and surely he’s now in for a world of abuse from Obama supporters. But that hardly means he made a mistake, at least in terms of his own ambition. Financial support from Wall Street and, more broadly speaking, the investor class has been key to Booker’s rise, and remains key to his future dreams.

It’s easy to forget, but before the world met Barack Obama in 2004, many believed that the first black president would be Booker. Armed with Stanford, Yale and Oxford degrees and all of the invaluable personal connections he forged at those institutions, he set out in the mid-1990s to craft a uniquely appealing political biography, swearing off lucrative job offers to move to Newark’s Central Ward and take up residence in public housing. Within a few years, he won a seat on the City Council, where he showed an early and consistent knack for self-generated publicity, most notably with a ten-day hunger strike in the summer of 1999.

That set the stage for Booker’s 2002 race for mayor, an ugly contest against incumbent Sharpe James, an entrenched icon of the city’s civil rights generation of black politicians. James, as any self-respecting Newark mayor would do, leveraged his clout for campaign contributions from city workers, vendors and those who aspired to be city workers and vendors.

Booker, meanwhile, had hardly lost touch with his old classmates, keeping one foot in Newark and the other in Manhattan, where he built on the connections to elite donors that he already had. He called the millions of dollars he raised for the race “love money.” The press – and James’ campaign – took note that almost all of it was from outside Newark, nearly half of it was from outside New Jersey, and a quarter of it came directly from Wall Street.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/20/cory_booker_surrogate_from_hell/
- Camille
  
  Just fuck off Cory Booker.
rikyrah

Vanderbilt poll: Obama closes gap with Romney
Tennesseans don’t like focus of legislature

President Barack Obama has pulled into a virtual tie with presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in traditionally conservative Tennessee, according to a new Vanderbilt University pol..

The poll also found that Tennesseans weren’t thrilled with the Republican-led General Assembly’s frequent focus on social, cultural and religious issues this year. But Republican Gov. Bill Haslam managed to remain above the fray, winning approval from 61 percent of poll participants.

“Tennessee is clearly a red state,” said John Geer, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt. “But these data show that the public is much more moderate than our state legislature.”

The poll of 1,002 Tennessee residents who are 18 and older found 42 percent would vote for Romney and 41 percent for Obama if the election were held now. The survey, conducted May 2-9 by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for Vanderbilt, had a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

Geer cautioned that the registered voters among the poll participants favored Romney by a larger margin, with 47 percent saying they would vote for the former Massachusetts governor and 40 percent for Obama. He said that’s a more likely outcome in November.

“It’s not that close a race,” Geer said, predicting Romney would prevail with little trouble. “I suspect a lot of hard-core conservatives are still getting used to the idea of Romney as the nominee, and by the time the general election comes along, they’ll be in lock step with Romney. But right now there’s a small chunk that are still being cautious.”

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120520/NEWS/305170107/Vanderbilt-poll-Obama-closes-gap-Romney
- Miranda
  
  I’m sorry…….does this say T-E-N-N-E-S-S-E-E??
  - rikyrah
    
    yep….BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA H
MonieTalks

Romney Backer Defends Bain’s Money Making Mission

A top surrogate to Mitt Romney said making money — rather than creating jobs — was the primary goal of the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee when he was running Bain Capital LLC, saying he “acted responsibly” as chief executive officer of the private-equity firm.

“The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money,” said Tom Stemberg, the founder of Staples Inc. (SPLS) (SPLS), in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital,” airing this weekend. Bain also helped businesses grow, so “these things had redeeming social value, in addition to making Mitt and his investors a lot of money.”

Stemberg appeared with a top backer of President Barack Obama, Lawrence Fish, the former chief executive officer of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., who questioned Romney’s record at Bain while recognizing that the private-equity industry plays a positive role in the economy.

“The question about private equity — and this applies to Mitt Romney and his partners — specifically is,” when jobs are eliminated, “whether they have behaved fairly and whether they’ve behaved responsibly. Was fair and complete severance provided to displaced workers? Were their pensions honored?” he said.

read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-18/romney-backer-defends-bains-money-making-mission
- Miranda
  
  But Romney keeps saying his experience at Bain was about “creating jobs”………….we knew he was lying, and its nice that a surrogate confirms he lies.
- Camille
  
  While Cory Booker dances the jig for his corporate owners at the expense of selling out President Obama and middle America.
  
  Please no more of these self-serving, undedicated self-proclaimed “surrogates” who shit all over the Campaign and instead want us to look ahead to and support their own whatever future political ambitions.
  
  Please no more phony “surrogates” like Cory Booker, Gavin Newsom, Ed Rendell etc.
  
  They should all just fuck off and go build up their destined to fail future run for office.
rikyrah

Obama Goes to War With Romney on Vets’ Issues

By: Jenée Desmond-Harris | Posted: May 17, 2012

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has launched Veterans & Military Families for Obama, a “campaign within a campaign” to tout the president’s commitment to these groups — and to draw stark distinctions between his record on related issues and those of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

“It really seems like Romney just doesn’t care about our community,” said Rob Diamond, the Obama campaign’s outreach director for veterans and military families, in a conference call with reporters today. Romney, he said, cut veterans services as governor of Massachusetts and supports a House GOP budget that would “slash” veterans funding by $11 billion.

Republicans struck back, with Virginia Rep. Randy Forbes saying that the troops returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are struggling to find jobs and are waiting too long to receive disability claims and mental-health services; he also said that there is “absolutely no matrix, no calculation you could use, that would lead you to believe that Obama’s policies have not failed veterans and military families.”

Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, the nation’s highest-ranking elected official to have served a tour of duty in Iraq, and Sgt. Maj. John Estrada, the second African American to obtain this rank, explained their stakes in the effort to re-elect the president on a call with reporters.

“I’m very excited about the re-election of President Obama and the reception in the veteran’s community … what I hear, what I feel, what I sense in this community is that we’ve got a president with a very strong commitment to veterans and military families … I’m really excited that we’re going to build on the president’s success from 2008,” Brown said.

Estrada praised the president’s delivery on the campaign promise to arrange for electronic exchange of records between Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to decrease the delay in veterans’ receipt of benefits. “We no longer have veterans who wait so long that some of them end up passing away without getting their benefits,” he said. “I think that’s a true sign of a great leader.”

Obama is planning to travel to 16 states over the next few weeks and participate in outreach events including phone banks, house parties and press conferences to reach military voters.

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/obama-goes-war-romney-vets-issues
- Aquagranny911
  
  A big flying rotten FIG YOU to Repugnants everywhere. WE KNOW! You people only ‘care’ about the military when you are sending them off to war. “Kiss the flag & die sucker!” Don’t ask for body armor, decent supplies or any help when you get home because you just ain’t getting none. FU YOU REPUGNANTS!
dannie22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsdD3AvSgVQ Did every1 see this? Booker speaking more about his MTP comments
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  Somebody got a phone call from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
  - Miranda
    
    Somebody got a phone call from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
    ____________________________
    
    I equate it to “go get me a switch”.
  - dannie22
    
    Yes, it does seem as if our breakup is having an adverse affect on Booker lol!
    - JojoRaze
      
      I hope his boo Gayle King tells him to reverse his hearse and stay on message. She’s a FLOTUS-stan and she wants FLOTUS Michelle to remain FLOTUS, no?
- Lisa M
  
  Wow! That was quick!! He need to take his nauseated self and be on all the morning talk shows walking back what he said about PBO and his Bain ads.
- isonprize
  
  Cory knows he stepped in it. He’s not stupid, not by a long shot. That was a calculated move to show his $$men that he won’t just “go along to get along” with Pres. Obama. He overplayed his hand. He didn’t think as many people would be paying attention like they were.
  
  Hey Cory, WE SEE YOU.
Miranda

POU WILL LIVE CHAT THE 2012 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS TONIGHT!
Miranda

From what I’m reading…sounds like Cory Booker got on TV and showed his ass….and just like what happens when you show your ass on a nice Sunday morning….you get dealt with.

now who among us hasn’t tried to show out in church and be regretting it the whole time you being dragged out knowing what’s bout to happen. Same thing with Booker…he showed out and before he could leave the set he was probably thinking “ummm…maybe I shouldn’t have done that.”
- http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
  
  Exactly. I’ve seen where some folks disagree with Booker being called out, trying to paint those who pushed back as the villains. Since when did Booker become above reproach? The man basically said the PBO ads about Bain were lies, but folks were wrong to call him out?
  - Miranda
    
    Who the hell was trying to protect Booker other than right wingers? I know not the damn emoprogs that claim they hate Wall Street and vulture capitalists and hedge fund bettors. I know they didn’t do a two-face and try and stick up for Booker.
    - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
      
      It wasn’t EmoProgs nor Right wingers.
      - Miranda
        
        oooohhh, noooo……who? *shudder to think*
      - dannie22
        
        kinda shocking who stuck up for booker
      - Ebogan63
        
        Yeah, and I clapped back at them on their blog. I couldn’t care less how much you have ‘studied’ Booker, other folks think he’s full of shit and will and have the right to fucking say so!
  - rikyrah
    
    no. he shouldn’t have said he was a spokesperson for the Obama campaign., and then said the bullshyt he said. you don’t undercut the message like that and not be expected to be called on it.
- GreenLadyHere
  
  miranda – — -CORY – — -who???
rikyrah

Robin Gibbs of the Bee Gees has passed away at 62
rikyrah

Night Fever
rikyrah

Night Fever
rikyrah

How Deep is Your Love
- Miranda
  
  I loved the BeeGees. Heck, still do. I love me some Disco.
http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

They should’ve never given ya’ll ninjas photoshop!

http://twitpic.com/9ng0j8
- Miranda
  
  Obots DO NOT PLAY! LOL
Miranda

I convinced myself that I was the missing 5th member of EnVogue….favorite song to sing all outta tune but LOUD: Don’t Go.
GreenLadyHere

Sepia – - -SAD ENTERTAINMENT NEWS [Apologies iff a dup]: – - -

– - –Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62 – - -

– - – Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his spokesperson has confirmed via a statement. Gibb was 62 years old.

“The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery,” reads the statement. “The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.”

Two years ago, Gibb battled colon and liver cancer, but despite making what he called a “spectacular recovery,” a secondary tumor recently developed, complicated by a case of pneumonia in April. The singer was hospitalized last month and fell into a coma at one point, although he was later said to have regained consciousness and communicated with family members.

Gibb was born in the Isle of Man in 1949, along with twin brother Maurice. (Maurice died in 2003 of complications from a twisted intestine; eerily, Robin had surgery for the same medical issue in 2010.) Along with their older brother Barry, the brothers began harmonizing as a trio in Australia, where the family moved in 1958. Although the Bee Gees had some success in Australia – they hosted a weekly variety show there – they didn’t truly arrive until they returned to England and signed with manager Robert Stigwood. Robin’s quivering, vulnerable voice was featured prominently on several of the group’s earliest and most Beatles-eque hits, including “New York Mining Disaster 1941,” “I Started a Joke,” “Massachusetts,” and “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You.”

– - -RIHEP annnd THANK U 4 YOUR UNIQUE MUSIC – –ROBIN GIBBS – –

– -CONDOLENCES 2 FAMILY/FRIENDS/FANS[***raises both hands***] – AMEN
Miranda

Folks should understand that the main problem with what Booker said is not that anyone thinks all of a sudden he’s a “traitor”…but that Booker was really saying what he said because HE got the big head. The statements were more about him than PBO or his campaign. He didn’t say that because its been weighing on his mind. He wanted a “moment”…and that moment backfired.

The message for the day is STAY IN YOUR DAMN LANE….MAYOR Booker…you getting some attention, but you better remember how to act when you GET that attention…if you need help understanding….see one Mayor Kasim Reed. Always on message and understand his role!!!!
- rikyrah
  
  The message for the day is STAY IN YOUR DAMN LANE..
  
  if you’re tweeting Ro-Ro, tweet him this. he’s ALWAYS talking about ‘ staying in your lane’ on his tv show.
- Ebogan63
  
  What I don’t get, is why the sudden tut-tutting of some liberals for folks getting mad at this fool? Shit like this is why we lose elections, because some folks would rather act like they are St John the Baptist – politics are for stratagies for winning freakin elections, it’s not tiddlywinks.
  - Aquagranny911
    
    “shit like this is why we lose elections..” Nailed it! I’m getting damn sick and tired of this kind of BS! Just once, JUST ONE DAMN ONCE I want Democrats to stay together, on message & in lock step like the Repugs. JUST ONCE!
    
    After this election they can happily go back to beating the crap out of each other like my brothers used to do when no one else was around. I just want some loyalty.
    - Ebogan63
      
      AG, saw some of your comments in another blog, and let me say I totally agree with you on what you stated.
      - Aquagranny911
        
        Saw your comments too & agree. I think the diarist just didn’t get it & never expected any real push back because the arguments didn’t cut it at all with me. She can take the “high ground” all she wants but that won’t win this election.
        
        I’m all about winning elections not seeing jugheads get media sound bytes for their own future advancement. I am in no way ready to “make nice” about this at all.
        
        Maybe this is mean, but for me: If you are not in it all the way with loyalty and to win, then I will kick your ass!
        
        I don’t have time for BS like Booker.
      - Ebogan63
        
        Trying to be cute by half, and conflating the Bain ads with Rev. Wright, whether it’s in line with Booker’s approach or not, is utter bullshit, and he got his face cracked on Twitter because of it. The GOP stays on message cuz they are about winning elections, and that is partly the reason why Dems have so few reelected presidents since FDR. If Booker didn’t like the message being conveyed by the campaign, there are other avenues to air those disagreements, not on MTP. Folks need to shit or git off the pot!
      - Aquagranny911
        
        EXACTLY!!!
    - JojoRaze
      
      Preach AQ! I don’t know how Dems don’t know that “house business should stay at home.” When we are in the streets, we act like errything is ok and fight when we get home. This is a election that will decide the future of the country. Rmoney is in the pocket of Paul Ryan and Grover Norquist. He will not act how he acted in MA because Ryan and Norquist have made it plain that if Rmoney is elected, he will have to do what they say. As Washington Monthly said in their series “What will happen if the repubs win?” they mean it this time. Due to the demographics, this presidential election is theirlast chance to show out and enact everything they want that will destroy the country–kill medicare/medicaid/ss/food stamps/student loans/education/the environment/health care–everything!
      
      Any Dem who doesn’t realize that is useless and needs to get out the way. And somewhere Deval Patrick is sitting in his rocking chair pointing and laughing at Cory. Deval gets it and is quietly sitting in the cut waiting for PBO to unleash him on Rmoney.
      - rikyrah
        
        As Washington Monthly said in their series “What will happen if the repubs win?” they mean it this time. Due to the demographics, this presidential election is theirlast chance to show out and enact everything they want that will destroy the country–kill medicare/medicaid/ss/food stamps/student loans/education/the environment/health care–everything!
        
        Any Dem who doesn’t realize that is useless and needs to get out the way.
        
        which is why I push back on any dumb ass who tries to even utter that Willard will do anything other than what Grover Norquist said he would do – which is to sign whatever the fuck the GOP House and Senate put forth.
        
        ANYONE, who can read, or watch a tv, should be able to see what will happen if the GOP actually wins in 2012 – what the fuck do you think they’ve been doing in the states?
- aleth
  
  Something smells…I wonder if it is Koch heat…
  
  The media and right working overtime to neutralize Bain..so we can’t talk about the alleged business experience or the economics of massachusetts …what is mitts qualification? The great white hope
- JojoRaze
  
  Co-sign. I’m kind of glad this happened and that PBO is not playing Captain-Save-A-Booker. The campaign is letting Dems know that if you betray the president, folks on Twitter and social media will have your hide and will basically send a horse head and a dead fish to you. The president is letting Cory know that he, not Booker, has the juice and he needs to kiss the ring if he wants to get anywhere. Folks in the O-bot blogosphere are heated and those are the people that Cory is gonna need if he hopes to go higher than Newark mayor. Even I was like “You’re dead to me” when I read about his idiocy when I logged on Yahoo. The pushback alone will get others Dems playing “You are not the boss of me” to shut up or get out the way. Cory better ask Maxine Waters, Artur Davis, and Charlie Rangel what happens when you mess with PBO. Ricketts and ‘em are finding out now that they don’t mess with PBO.
  
  ETA: Bain is not character assassination. It is the foundation of Rmoney saying he’s qualified to be commander-in-chief since he was a businessman who created jobs. What is dirty in showing that Rmoney didn’t create jobs, but shipped them overseas, leaving local and federal governments to pay the fired workers’ pensions, etc which diminished the country’s manufacturing base. How is it wrong to put in ads people who were fired by Rmoney and know what Bain did to downsize them?
  - Alexander2
    
    Well stated!
    
    And those folks defending Booker. Did they see this video released four days before with piggy piggy Chris Christie before Booker showed his behind on MTP today?
    
    Something is rotten.
    - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
      
      I don’t understand why folks are ignoring Booker’s relationship with Christie.
  - Alexander2
    
    Well stated!
    
    And those folks defending Booker. Did they see this video released four days before with piggy piggy Chris Christie before Booker showed his behind on MTP today?
    
    Something is rotten.
  - Miranda
    
    Questioning Rmoney’s Bain credentials is not character assassination. It is the foundation of Rmoney saying he’s qualified to be commander-in-chief since he’s arguing that his leadership of Bain shows he knows how to create jobs.
    _________________________
    
    THANK YOU!
  - rikyrah
    
    I loved everything you wrote, but this just sang to me:
    
    I’m kind of glad this happened and that PBO is not playing Captain-Save-A-Booker. The campaign is letting Dems know that if you betray the president, Dems on Twitter and social media will have your hide and will basically send a horse head and a dead fish to you.
    
    HELL MOFO’IN YES!!
  - http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
    
    THIS.
GreenLadyHere

PBOMB – - – -YA KNOW “WHYCOME” – - -he could get away with THIS?? – — – ’cause he was on – - -”CREEPY CRAWLEY’S” – -show!! — – -

SHE SR8 – -BAITS – - -RACE!! – - – - -

– - – -RNC Chairman Says Republican Proposal For $10 Million Of Race-Baiting Anti-Obama Attack Ads Is Obama’s Fault – - – -

– — – -In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley this morning, host Crowley asked RNC Chairman Reince Priebus about a widely-denounced proposal for a pro-Mitt Romney outside group to run millions of dollars in race-baiting attack ads highlighting controversial statement’s by President Obama’s former pastor.

Rather than denounce the proposal or the dangers of having a small group of rich outside donors and corporations free to spend as much as they want to influence elections, Priebus blamed Obama.

After lamenting that Romney and his party had to spend a day and a half dealing with the fallout from the Super PAC proposal, Priebus told Crowley:

I know how it works. It’s the Democrats and Barack Obama that want the story out there. He wants the story to play out in the media, because for every day that [Obama adviser] David Axelrod and this President don’t have to talk about their broken promises when it comes to jobs, the debt, and the deficit — the more time they can talk about hypotheticals that may or may not come true — is a day they want to win on. So, look, this president’s got a bigger problem and his problem is no matter what he puts out there, no matter what distractions he puts out there, he can’t change the truth and escape the reality of where we are in this American economy. And it’s no good.

Watch the video:
THERE IS MORE.

THIS RE-THUG is – — TWISTED!!! – - -BUT – –NOTHING NEW – -HERE!! geesh
GreenLadyHere

Sepia – - – -LOL. – — -His OWN “peeps” – - -R treatin’ him like – -”ELEPHANT EXCREMENT.” – -LOL – - – -

— – -Conservative donors slow to back Romney’s campaign – –

– - – -I’d guess they’re slow to join up for the same reason no one wants to be his running mate, they just don’t like the odds.

WASHINGTON — Donors who backed Republican rivals of presidential candidate Mitt Romney appear to be slow coming to his aid.

Romney raised more than $40 million last month as he solidified his chances of being the GOP nominee. Yet an Associated Press review of new financial data finds only a handful of his recent contributions came from donors to his former primary challengers.</b<

AHA!! HERE – - -COMES DA – -TRUTH!! LOL.

No WONDER – - -he annnd the wifey — –DONATED $150 thousand 2 his campaign! LOL

– –THEY JUS’ NOT INTO HIM! LOL. – - -
GreenLadyHere

PBOMB – — -CRAMER – -IZZAT U? — – - -:>) – –

– - -CNBC Analyst: Bain Capital ‘Fired A Lot Of People’ To Get ‘Prosperity For The Rich’ – –

– - — -The private equity firm co-founded by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “fired a lot of people” to get “prosperity for the rich,” CNBC analyst Jim Cramer said during an appearance on Meet The Press this morning. During a panel discussion on the effectiveness of an ad from President Obama’s campaign highlighting Romney’s past at Bain Capital, which bankrupted nearly a quarter of the companies in which it invested while making billions of dollars, Cramer said the firm’s past earned Romney a reputation as a “job destroyer, not a creator.” Watch it:

WHEW LAWD!! :>) SPEEEEEEEAK!! :>)
GreenLadyHere

PBOMB. – — – Ooooowee! The SKY has REALLY BEEN – - -SHOWIN’ OUT!

– –FIRST that — – -GIGANTIC MOON. :>) – — -NOW THIS! – - -:>)

– –‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse Tonight – - —

— – -For the first time this century, the sun will partially disappear behind the moon over the US tonight, leaving a “ring of fire” around the moon in what is known as an annular eclipse. The solar event will be best viewed from 33 national parks that will experience the full effect, the Christian Science Monitor notes, but more than 100 other parks lay in the path of the eclipse and guests will be able to view at least a partial show. But sorry, East Coast: In the US, the Eastern Seaboard will be completely unable to see the event, which starts at 8:24pm—after sunset.

Many national parks in the west are planning viewing events, but for those who can’t make one, the Guardian helpfully reminds you not to stare directly at the sun,
THERE IS MORE, — – -ENJOY! :>)
GreenLadyHere

PBOMB – —OMG! When I C MR. PRESIDENT in PIC like THAT – - -I TEAR UP! :>) – - -

HE’S OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT – - -in SUCH an INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP ROLE. – –

I’m telling U – - -HE would B ELECTED – - –PRESIDENT of the WORLD – –iff POSSIBLE. :>)

– - –Obama’s Afghanistan endgame – - – -

— – -President Barack Obama was every bit the garrulous host during the Sunday kickoff of the NATO summit in his hometown.

– -But nothing he said mattered as much as these words: “The Afghan war, as we understand, it is over” with the withdrawal of ground forces at the end of 2014, he told journalists.

“Combat will end at the stroke of midnight,” on Dec. 31, 2014, added retired Gen. Douglas Lute, Obama’s deputy national security adviser — when a reporter asked whether the president had meant it.

– -Obama — who is usually allergic to any pronouncement that could be remotely interpreted as “Mission Accomplished” — has never said anything quite as strong as any war will be “over.”

– - -That signaled, aides said, a determination to cut off even the slightest suggestion that he could be talked into a longer commitment. It was also a brushback pitch against GOP presidential opponent Mitt Romney, who has criticized virtually every strategic announcement Obama has made on Afghanistan, although he has not produced a detailed alternative yet.

“This should be a good issue for us,” a Democratic strategist said. “If anyone was paying attention.”
THERE IS MORE.

– — – - -O.K. – - -Since he said it MORE THAN ONCE. – - –

I’ll do IT: — – - -SLAMS BALL IN THE – -ENDZONE!!! – - -LOL

— – -THANK U – - -MR. PRESIDENT. :>) – - -
- Scopedog
  
  Yeah, but he should have snapped his fingers and pulled out the troops THIS YEAR, and that he’s a warmonger who’s worse than Bush…
  
  Of course, that’s what I’m expecting from the EmoProgs. After all, their view, _nothing_ this man does is good enough for them. The goalposts must be moved!
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    HEEY Scopedog. ***BIG HUG*** :>)
    
    LOL – —YEAH. Annd he has INCREASED the DEFENSE BUDGET on the BACKS of the “middle class” taxpayers. LOL.
    
    R we doin’ – - -EmoProg-SPEAK!? — LOL
    
    – - — “>YA MEAN – —LIKE THIS? – — LOL
    
    Good 2 C U. :>)
Admiral_Komack

WILLARD ROMNEY, THE BAIN OF YOUR EXISTENCE:

He’s got a pink slip with YOUR name on it…and don’t bother cleaning out your desk, just walk out with the nice security guard; he’s here to help you…leave.

OOPS…I just gave Cory Booker a sad. :’-)
Admiral_Komack

President Obama:

“Mr. Booker, you do realize that…uh, that prime time slot at the Democratic National Convention…has disappeared…but I’m sure Chris Christie has some tickets to Tampa for you…so, it’s all good.”
- JojoRaze
  
  Exactly! Booker ain’t gonna get that prime DNC spot which he’s gonna need to springboard nationally.
- GN
  
  I know you’re being facetious, but I hope that shit is true. I can’t stand fake moderates. He articulated why he’s the common, classic politician, a snore, who no one would go hard in the paint for.
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    HEEY GN ***BIG HUG** :>)
    
    cory B- —IS NOW —-”persona non grata”. – - -
    
    He’s been tryin’ out different ways of finding a place in the Dem. Party. – -
    
    WAY-ELL – — THIS was SOO NOT the RIGHT 1. Annnd it was sooo EGREGIOUS that it was UNREDEEMABLE!!
    
    Now he can go and C iff he can —PLAY IN WYT WORLD. —’cause IMHO – –A DOOR has BEEN CLOSED!!
    
    Good 2 C U – -GN. :>)
GreenLadyHere

LOL dannie22. – — YES! IT IT!! – - – -LOL. He di-ent deserve U. :>)
- crazycanuck
  
  Dannie22 really needs to rein in her exes lol.
  - GreenLadyHere
    
    HEEY crazycanuck. —**BIG HUG** :>)
    
    – - – -LOL.. – - — I’m thinkin’ that the “exes” need 2 RESPECT dannie enuff 2 NOT act a PHOOL! :>)
    
    – –Otherwise –THEY needta – –GET – - -GONE!! – - -
    
    –cory – -WHO!?? :>)
    
    Good 2 C U crazycanuck. :>)
GreenLadyHere

– –G’NIGHT POU FAM. :>) – - -WISHING U –BLESSED SWEET DREAMS!! ♥- -♥ :>) – - -

– — -CUNTINUE 2 PRAY 4: – - -OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT/FIRST LADY; – -OUR BELOVED DIVAS[Houston/Summers]; — – –RIHEP -T.M. – -Martin FAMILY; – - -The ECONOMY/PEOPLE; – - -EACH OTHER♥

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— – — – - -UNTIL THE MORNING LIGHT♥ :>) – - — -
http://styxsongs.com/song/Crystal-Ball/8548305 Crystal Ball

nice videos.

GOOD NIGHT