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Thursday Open Thread: African Americans and Professional Bowling

October 25, 2012 by 190 Comments

Good Morning Obots!

William Howard “Billy” Oatman IV (born December 1, 1965) is a left-handed American ten-pin bowler and a member of the Professional Bowlers Association.  He has bowled 4 perfect 300 games in PBA competition. Billy Oatman has bowled over 190 perfect 300 games and over 70 800 series. His nickname is Billy O.

At eight years of age, he was bowling in three leagues. He competed on the collegiate levels at  Vincennes and Wichita State. In 2006-07 he became the first ever African American PBA Rookie of the Year.  During that season, he also became the first African American to earn a full season tour exemption. He has won over $100,000 in his brief PBA career.

PBA Spare Shots: Meet JT “Action” Jackson, trying to become the “Tiger Woods” of Bowling.

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  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    BREAKING NEWS!

    General Colin Powell Endorses President Barack Obama!

    • edp4bho

      Good morning Sepia, POU and ……..YES!!

    • crazycanuck

      HeeHee, Good Morning everyone.

    • Kennymack1971

      Now that’s what’s up! Good morning POU!

      • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

        The Morning Joke crew are not pleased, especially Chuck Todd. He said the endorsement was no big deal, and that Ross Perot endorsing Romney is a bigger deal. LOL!

        • Kennymack1971

          LOL.. Chuck, Joe and the rest of the GOP stooges know this is huge. The media has truly embarrassed themselves this week trying to salvage Mitt’s campaign.

        • Miranda

          People on twitter are cracking on poor Schmuck Todd so bad. He needs to be electro-shocked over that statement.

        • AxelFoley

          LOL, Ross Perot hasn’t been relevant since 1992.

          Fuck Cuck Todd.

        • conlakappa

          Are you serious?! Ross Freakin’ Perot, the answer to a political spoiler trivia question more than anything? Someone do a urine test on Chuckles. I think he’s huffing his whiteboard markers!

    • rikyrah

      HEE HEE HEE

    • GreenLadyHere

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  • rikyrah

    Good Morning, Everyone :)

  • rikyrah

    Harry Reid, ‘one-man wrecking crew’

    By Kent Jones
    Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:38 PM EDT

    Are the days of mild-mannered Harry Reid gone for good? Here at TRMS, we’ve had fun with this idea, but lately the Senate Majority Leader seems intent on shedding his Bruce Banner side for good.

    For instance, at a press conference Monday in Carson City, Senator Reid said he would be a “one-man wrecking crew” on the topic of Mitt Romney’s unreleased tax returns and went to on a characterize the Republican nominee as a:

    plastic man running for president who changes his position every chance he gets. He isn’t someone who should represent this country.”

    BOOM!

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/24/14669849-harry-reid-one-man-wrecking-crew?lite

  • rikyrah

    Romney stands by Mourdock despite rape comments

    By Steve Benen
    Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:21 PM EDT.

    Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) of New Hampshire was scheduled to be in Indiana today, campaigning in support of Republican Richard Mourdock’s Senate candidacy. Those plans were scrapped this morning.

    Mourdock, of course, declared last night that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape, “that’s something God intended,” which is why he’s comfortable with laws that force women impregnated by rapists to take their pregnancy to term.

    The larger question now is why Mitt Romney isn’t following Ayotte’s lead. The Republican presidential hopeful appears in a television ad on Mourdock’s behalf — Romney’s only general election ad for someone other than himself — and Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, has supported Mourdock’s campaign financially.

    Team Romney has said he “disagrees” with Mourdock’s comments, but that’s really only the first in a series of questions. Will Romney ask that his ad supporting Mourdock be taken down? So far, no. Will Romney pull his endorsement? Apparently not.

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/24/14671923-romney-stands-by-mourdock-despite-rape-comments?lite

    • conlakappa

      Gross. But glad to see it’s just a question of disagreement.

  • dannie22

    Good morning all!! President will be in town this evening. Lots to do before I go!

    • GreenLadyHere

      Ohhhh dannie22! — — ***BIG HUG*** :>)

      Yaaaa 4 U! – — -REPRESENTIN – -POU FAM♥ – -

      — — SEND US soma HIS AURA! :>) –

      Good 2 C U. :>)

      • dannie22

        Morning GLH!!! Hope all is well and that you are blessed.

        • GreenLadyHere

          dannie♥ THANK U. :>)

  • rikyrah

    Now, riddle me this, boys and girls…

    what would happen to a BLACK elected official that had been caught:
    being arrested UNDER ANOTHER NAME?

    Just askin’.

    …………………………………………………….

    When Todd Akin went by a different name

    By Steve Benen
    Wed Oct 24, 2012 2:56 PM EDT

    A few weeks ago, Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin acknowledged that he’d been arrested at an anti-abortion protest many years ago, and promised he’d release the details of his arrest soon. A week later, Akin staffers said the candidate had changed his mind: no details would be forthcoming.

    So, what’s the story? The St. Louis Post-Dispatch dug a little deeper, and uncovered a detail I hadn’t expected.

    Congressman Todd Akin was arrested at least three times in the 1980s during anti-abortion protests, not just the one time he has publicly acknowledged.

    Akin’s previously undisclosed arrests, in 1985, were for criminal trespass and resisting arrest at abortion clinic protests in St. Louis and Illinois.

    And why haven’t we heard about this sooner? That’s the interesting part — when Akin was arrested three times, he used his given name, William Akin. It’s why folks couldn’t find anything when they looked up arrest records for “Todd Akin.”

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/24/14672760-when-todd-akin-went-by-a-different-name?lite

    • Admiral_Komack

      Being thrown under the bus would be the least of his problems.

  • rikyrah

    Video of the POwell endosement:

  • rikyrah

    Charles Blow:

    Paul Ryan gave a speech on poverty and economic mobility.
    No, that’s not the beginning of one of those a-man-walks-into-a-bar jokes. It actually happened.

    Ryan delivered the speech Wednesday in Cleveland. “In this war on poverty,” he said, “poverty is winning.” What he didn’t say is that he and his budget have taken sides in that war — and not on the side of the poor.

    This is just the latest of Mitt Romney’s home-stretch attempts to kick up the dust of confusion, soften harsh rhetoric and policies, and slip into the White House.

    http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/paul-ryans-poverty-play/

    • Miranda

      For Paul Ryan to be giving, what the Romney campaign billed as a “major speech on poverty” is just downright offensive. Just insulting.

      • conlakappa

        Bet you dollars to doughnuts that it was NoPick and Travesty’s suggestion.

  • GreenLadyHere

    – –UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS DROPPED BY 23,000; – - – -369,000 JOBLESS CLAIMS FILED!

  • rikyrah

    Wisconsin Senate Candidate Tammy Baldwin hits back at Tommy Thompson’s incoherent and despicable 9/11 ad. And he totally deserves it.

  • rikyrah

    Wed Oct 24, 2012 at 11:25 AM PDT.

    Electoral math makes a comeback

    by Jed Lewison

    Mitt Romney is fond of saying that his goal is to win 50.1 percent of the vote, but his real goal should be 270—the number of electoral votes he would need to win in order to claim the presidency. That’s not news to anyone who reads Daily Kos—Markos has been pointing this out for months now—but Romney’s rapid gains in national polling after the first debate led to a sort of Romnesia in the beltway that resulted in too many pundits forgetting the basic electoral math. Yesterday, Charlie Cook offered a reminder that it doesn’t look as good for Mitt Romney as it does for President Obama:

    But if the national polls are looking even, that doesn’t mean that the election is an even-money contest. Although this race is very close, the road to 270 electoral votes is considerably more difficult for Romney than it is for Obama. The president starts off with undisputed leads in 16 states and the District of Columbia with 237 electoral votes, 33 short of the 270 needed to win. Romney begins with equally clear leads in 23 states with 191 electoral votes, 79 short of a victory.

    Nine states with 110 electoral votes are in the admittedly broad Toss-Up column (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin). Obama needs to win 30 percent of those Toss-Up electoral votes; Romney needs 72 percent of those votes.
    As Greg Sargent and Steve Benen note, the conventional wisdom among beltway pundits seems to be remembering the reality of the electoral math. Two perfect examples of this: Politico’s Mike Allen and ABC’s Rick Klein.

    Bottom line: Yes, this is a close race. Yes, the first debate appears to have given Romney a boost, but it wasn’t a big enough boost to put him ahead in the electoral math and there’s no evidence to suggest that he continues to have any forward momentum. Even if the national popular vote were a tossup, Obama has a real edge in the states that matter. The race is by no means over, but for Romney to win, he needs to shift the electoral map in his favor. So far, he hasn’t been able to do it.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/24/1149387/-Electoral-math-makes-a-comeback

    • Aquagranny911

      In other words, Jed: “Don’t bring a nuke to swat a fly but sometimes it helps”

  • rikyrah

    Community Organizers Unite!

    by BooMan
    Wed Oct 24th, 2012 at 10:31:37 PM EST

    I was having so much fun with the last thread that I didn’t want to create a new one. But I guess we have an election to win, so, FORWARD! I really got a boost out of reading this excellent article about Obama’s superior ground game. You know, as much as I’d like to win this election by twenty points, a small part of me would like to win it narrowly because our community organizers out-hustled the Republicans. I’m still a community organizer at heart, and I’m like anyone else. I don’t like to be disrespected.
    The following paragraph says a lot:

    Some Republicans admit that the ground game is a weakness for the party. In Colorado, one top GOP consultant who has worked on presidential campaigns told me he mentally added 2 to 4 points to Obama’s polls in the state based on superior organization. In Florida, GOP Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart said Republicans would win in other ways: “They’re very organized. They’re very, very organized, and you have to admit they’re very organized,” Diaz-Balart said of the Democrats. “However, I think Republicans are very motivated.

    The Republicans are very motivated by greed and racism. The Democrats are very organized around making this country a better place.

    I can’t wait to see the OFA do its stuff.

    http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/10/24/223137/02

    • Daltex82

      GOP Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart said Republicans would win in other ways:

      I hope folks are watching them, because their “other ways” usually means lying, cheating and stealing.

      • conlakappa

        Of the Castro Nephews, I think he’s the dumbest Diaz-Balart. If you’ve ever seen Jose do the news, you know that’s saying a lot.

        • AxelFoley

          Waitaminit! They’re Castro’s nephews?

          • conlakappa

            Through marriage, yes. Their aunt was married to Castro and, I think, has a kid or two with him. Because I know it bugs them and they try to run away from it, I like to emphasize it!

  • GreenLadyHere
  • rikyrah

    Obama’s Edge: The Ground Game That Could Put Him Over the Top
    Oct 24 2012, 10:30 AM ET

    A giant chalkboard takes up a wall in this unassuming office suite hung with Obama signs, one of more than 60 campaign offices for the president in this battleground state. On it is drawn a calendar of the final weeks before the election. Phone banks, canvasses, and campaign events are marked in color-coded chalk. And every Saturday through Nov. 6, in capital letters, is marked “DRY RUN” — a precision-timed Election Day simulation drill, where everything from data reporting to snacks is rehearsed down to the minute.

    Forget the polls, the debates, the last-minute ads and volleys of insults. This is how the Obama campaign plans to win the election.

    Four years ago, Barack Obama built the largest grassroots organization in the history of American politics. After the election, he never stopped building, and the current operation, six years in the making, makes 2008 look like “amateur ball,” in the words of Obama’s national field director Jeremy Bird. Republicans insist they, too, have come a long way in the last four years. But despite the GOP’s spin to the contrary, there’s little reason to believe Mitt Romney commands anything comparable to Obama’s ground operation.

    And this time, Obama may actually need it.

    Though he trounced John McCain organizationally four years ago, the irony was that Obama didn’t really need his sophisticated field organization. Riding a wave of voter enthusiasm and Bush fatigue, and crushing McCain with fundraising and TV ad spending, Obama almost certainly would have won the 2008 election anyway. The political operative’s rule of thumb is that organization can increase your share of the vote by two percentage points; Obama won the national popular vote by seven points. One academic study looked at Obama’s edge in field offices and concluded they probably put a couple of extra states in his column, but he would have won without them.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/obamas-edge-the-ground-game-that-could-put-him-over-the-top/264031/#

    • nellcote

      The author seems to not understand something fundamental about the “ground game”. That participating or being directly contacted by neighbors gives people a personal investment in the outcome. Playing the numbers game, how many door knocks, phone calls etc., is all well and good but the impact of a sense of participating in democracy isn’t something that can be judged by transitory numbers.

  • MonieTalks

    Gen. Powell called Romney a liar in such a sophisticated but pointed way.

    And that is why Chuck Todd and his fellow Romney shills are livid. They can not dispute what is a known fact. Romney’s policies ARE a moving target. And any media outlet who is not willing to acknowledge that is aiding a campaign built on lies.

  • rikyrah

    October 24, 2012 4:59 PM
    A War of Poverty

    By Ed Kilgore

    I can’t find prepared remarks or a transcript just yet for Paul Ryan’s big “poverty” speech in Ohio today, but an account from The Hill probably tells you pretty much everything you need to know:

    [Ryan] said a Romney administration would apply the pattern set by the welfare reform to preserving and strengthening other “safety net” programs, specifically by handing more power back to the states to tailor them to the needs of their residents.

    “We will not defer to the Washington-knows-best crowd,” he promised. He described the work of several businessmen and private charities, saying he and Romney would defer to their example as they shaped public policy.

    In other words, Medicaid and food stamps will be block-granted, which in the former case will (along with the repeal of ObamaCare) eliminate health insurance for 31 to 37 million poor people, and in the latter eliminate food assistance for a mere 10 million. And since Medicaid, food stamps and the earned-income-tax-credit (extremely unlikely to survive a Romney administration attack on “tax loopholes”) were key working-poor supports underlying welfare reform, it’s unlikely welfare reform will exactly thrive, either.

    And so, the entire Romney/Ryan “poverty” strategy is basically to consign poor people to the bracing independence of relying on an unimaginable boom in jobs that will supposedly be produced by tax and spending cuts.

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_10/a_war_of_poverty040718.php

  • rikyrah

    Voter intimidation in Floridians’ mailboxes
    By Steve Benen
    Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:58 AM EDT.

    If it’s late October, that can only mean one thing: election shenanigans in Florida.

    The FBI and U.S. Postal Service agents are investigating bogus official-looking letters sent to voters in at least 28 Florida counties questioning their citizenship and their eligibility to vote, NBC News has learned.

    David Couvertier, a spokesman for the FBI in Tampa, said his office opened up an investigation into the possible attempt at voter intimidation on Wednesday after receiving reports that eligible voters throughout the state have received the letters. [...]

    The fake letters, which first started showing up last Friday, have been sent under the names of real Florida county election supervisors — with some correct contact information — informing the voters that the supervisors have received “information” about their citizenship status, “bringing into doubt your eligibility as a registered voter.”

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/25/14694255-voter-intimidation-in-floridians-mailboxes?lite#__utma=238145375.260802147.1350391880.1350996292.1351169898.6&__utmb=238145375.11.9.1351170420877&__utmc=238145375&__utmx=-&__utmz=238145375.1351169898.6.6.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=(not%20provided)&__utmv=238145375.|8=Earned%20By=cable%7Cmsnbc%7Crachel%20maddow%20show%7Crachel%20maddow%20show=1^12=Landing%20Content=Original=1^13=Landing%20Hostname=www.msnbc.msn.com=1^30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Original=1&__utmk=98847069

  • rikyrah

    The Morning Plum: Colin Powell tells Americans they can’t trust Romney
    By Greg Sargent
    Posted at 09:04 AM ET, 10/25/2012

    Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama this morning on CBS News has some obvious high points for the president. Powell strongly defended Obama’s economic record, pointing out that Obama inherited an economy in free fall, and noting that we’re “starting to gain altitude.” That’s important, since Obama has now pivoted to a stronger argument that we are in recovery (see the new minute-long ad making that case).

    Powell pointed out that Obama is winding down the wars while also remaining “very solid” in “protecting us from terrorism,” which is in keeping with the two pronged message that the Obama administration is ending Bush’s overseas adventures while descimating Al Qaeda.

    But perhaps the most interesting part of the interview came when Powell hit Romney on trust. Here’s what he said:

    “I have concerns about his views on foreign policy. The Governor, who was speaking on Monday night at the debate, was saying things that were quite different from what he said earlier. So I’m not quite sure which Governor Romney we would be getting with respect to foreign policy…
    “It’s a moving target. One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan, but then on Monday night he agrees with the withdrawal. Same thing in Iraq. On almost every issue that was discussed on Monday night, Governor Romney agreed with the President, with some nuances. But this is quite a different set of foreign policy views than he had earlier in the campaign. And my concern, which I’ve expressed previously in a public way, is that sometimes I don’t sense that he has thought through these issues as thoroughly as he should have, and he gets advice from his campaign staff that he then has to adjust to modify as he goes along.”

  • dannie22

    http://www.npr.org/2012/10/21/163273742/how-a-texas-postman-became-an-herm-s-designer This is a great story about Kermit Oliver, a black man who designs Hermes scarves. He is the only American to design for Hermes.

    • Miranda

      wow…great find!

    • sagittarius

      Enjoyed this, Dannie – thank you

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      Cool! Thanks for posting this!

      • PBomb

        For real?! I didn’t know that either.

        • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

          Check out this old pic of him. He looks like he could be Tiger Woods’ brother: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8wxnfwFjQ1rvtst8o1_500.jpg

          • PBomb

            He looks different now that he is older. I wonder what mix is he. I read somewhere it is Cameroonian and French.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WMASPEAW55IV4QJGMDNXZL6R6Y udonthave2likeme

        Whaaaa the Red bottom’s designer is a brother. YES!!!!!!

        I shall have a pair one day.

    • PBomb

      Great find!

  • rikyrah

    The Digital Leap, Social Media, and Why Pundits Get it Wrong on Minority Vote

    Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | Posted by Deaniac83 at 2:31 PM

    We already know that the President is running up unprecedented amounts of support among minority voters, particularly Hispanics. But I have been told not to bother with the minority vote, since they never come out to vote (evidently neither the 2008 national election nor the 2010 Senate election in Nevada actually took place). There are a lot of ways to gauge minority voter participation this year – the President’s extraordinarily high approval among minorities, his push for and action on immigration, the Republicans’ stern anti-immigrant, intolerant posture, etc. But I want to present a tangible reason to pay attention to the minority – especially the Latino – vote this year: technology; specifically smartphones. This may be a whole new ballgame from the one pundits are used to.

    When the Internet became commonplace, the digital divide in home Internet indicated some time ago ethnic minorities suffering from an access gap. Here’s what’s changing that: smartphones. We are now experiencing a digital leap – in which the tables are turned and minorities are more likely to own smartphones than are whites. Nielson’s Mobile Inside Study gives us a look into the picture:

    http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2012/10/the-mobile-divide-social-media-and-why.html

  • rikyrah

    October 24, 2012 4:13 PM
    The Sporadics

    By Ed Kilgore

    Mark Halperin of Time sometimes epitomizes the things that make me crazy about the MSM; he was, after all, founder of The Note back when it defined the self-referential Beltway CW, and was co-author of Game Change, whose very title reflected the view that the sort of things that matter to Mark Halperin actually control the outcome of major elections.

    But Halperin is certainly big-time enough that he can get access to people inside presidential campaigns who don’t talk to many folk, and his piece on conversations with the Obama campaign has some interesting nuggets, even if you think “Chicago” felt no compunction to tell him the truth. Here’s the key segment:

    Said one senior official: “[T]he most important thing about early vote is one thing and one thing only: are you getting your sporadic voters to vote? Because if it’s just chasing people who are going to vote anyway than it’s just…a zero sum game. But all the data I see says we are getting our sporadics to vote at a higher rate than they are, which, especially for any Democratic candidate, is a bigger challenge because we have lower propensity voters. That’s exactly what we are doing and we feel great about that.”

    [Jim] Messina claims that in the battleground states, “two-thirds of those who have already voted are women, youth, African Americans or Latinos,” who are, of course, giving a large percentage of their support to the incumbent

    Sporadics, marginals, low-propensity voters: these are all terms for non-likely-voters who wind up voting. If you do an unusually good job at turning them out, it will indeed change the shape of the electorate in ways that many polls may not catch (at least until very late). And if you turn them out early, as “Chicago” is claiming is already happening, then you have a lot more tactical flexibility to deploy resources the rest of the way. To put it another way, it’s not just a matter of estimating Ds versus Rs in the early vote, it also involves which Ds and Rs turn out, and the best way to measure (if you can) that is by race, gender and age as compared to historical patterns.

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_10/the_sporadics040717.php

  • sagittarius

    Good morning, POU Fam!

    Make it a great day!

    • dannie22

      Good morning Sag!!

      • sagittarius

        Morning, Dannie – are you going to the rally with POTUS in Cleveland today? If so, have a great time!

      • Aquagranny911

        Ditto what Sag said. My experience seeing PBO in Colorado last month was totally stellar!

    • Admiral_Komack

      Morning, Sag!
      How’s it going?

      • sagittarius

        Hi, Admiral! I’m good – hope all is well with you!

      • sagittarius

        Hi, Admiral! I’m good – hope all is well with you!

      • sagittarius

        Hi, Admiral! I’m good – hope all is well with you!

    • Aquagranny911

      Hola, Sag! I hope you have a good one.

      • sagittarius

        Hola, AG! I’m hanging in there!

        • Aquagranny911

          LOL! When I was a kiddo we knew this old cowboy who would say, when things got tough,

          “You can get use to anything, even hanging if you hang long enough.”

          That always made me laugh even though I thought that “hanging” was not a good thing. I wonder what he would have thought about the modern phrase “hanging in there.”

          Oh well, just my random thoughts for the day.

  • GreenLadyHere

    POU FAM – — – SAY IT AGAIN – -MR. PRESIDENT!! – - – - -ALWAYS FIGHTIN’ – –against the RE-THUG’s — -WAR on WOMEN!! —

    – - — -Obama tells Leno: ‘Rape is rape’—

    – - – - -During an appearance on “The Tonight Show” taped Wednesday evening, President Obama slammed Richard Mourdock over the Republican Senate candidate’s controversial comments about pregnancies resulting from rape.

    Asked by host Jay Leno about Mourdock’s comments, in which the Indiana state treasurer said during a debate Tuesday evening that “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something God intended to happen,” the president said “rape is rape.”

    “I don’t know how [they] come up with these ideas … rape is rape. It is a crime,” the president said. “These various distinctions about rape … don’t make any sense to me.”
    THERE IS MORE.

  • Miranda

    *giggle* Bin Laden raid film incenses GOP as news emerges of extra Obama footageA film about the killing of Osama bin Laden which will air two nights before the US presidential election has been re-edited to feature more footage of Barack Obama, prompting accusations Hollywood is trying to swing the vote.

    Harvey Weinstein, a studio head and prominent Democrat who has contributed to the president’s campaign, tweaked the film, Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, to broaden Obama’s role.more here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/24/bin-laden-raid-film-incenses-gop-as-news-emerges-of-extra-obama-footage/

    • MsKitty

      But it’s totally okay to run Dinesh’s cinematic masterpiece on cable. We can play that game too, GOP.

      • pamelabrown53

        And not only is “Dinesh’s cinematic masterpiece” on cable, msKitty, it’s also available for instant streaming on Netflix. I seriously thought about cancelling my Netflix account. Bastards!

        • Ebogan63

          That isht is also featuring on DirecTV Cinema.

          • Tafr

            Dish network as well. I called Dish network and gave a rep there a piece of my mind. Here I am looking for the premier of walking dead only to find out that Dish took AMC off because of poor ratings???? But hey you can watch this piece of crap so called doc about the sitting president. Chile I felt so sorry for that poor rep on the line because I lost it.

          • qosine

            Right. Walking Dead is such a ratings loser next to that Dinesh POS.
            ATT carries AMC. When my contract ended with Dish, I switched to ATT, primarily to save $ by bundling with my phone & net, but cable offerings/set up much better.

          • Ebogan63

            Any outfit takin’ away my AMC or TCM we gonna haveta fight!!!

            And yes DirecTV rep got an earful from me for that nonsense.

      • jds09

        Yesterday found out the billionaire Doug Manchester who just purchased the San Diego Union Tribune is an investor in Dinesh’s masterpiece, which was promoted heavily on local TV here. These mofos have some serious nerve complaining.

        In the battle of the billionaires, I’ll take Weinstein. Trust, as far a marketing ability, the Hollywood boys are gonna take Koch and friends to the woodshed.

      • AxelFoley

        Bingo

      • Daltex82

        THIS!

  • GreenLadyHere

    POU FAM – - – -FORECLOSURES FELL in 62% of U,S, CITIES!! –

    Good HOUSING NEWS! —:>)- -THANK U – –MR. PRESIDENT!! :>)

    – -[Gotta "bounce" - - -early. MISSIN' U/CARRYIN' U - -IN MY ♥]

    – - – –THIS PHOOL [Taranto]: — -TRYNTA DEFEND the INDEFENSIBLE!! –

    – - -Wanker of the Day: James Taranto – -

    - — - You can see how blind James Taranto is to this symbiotic relationship in the following passage:

    — — FIRED UP! – –GOT-VOTE!! :>)

  • Miranda

    davidfrum ‏@davidfrum
    ABC/WaPo poll shows support for Prz among Hispanics at 75%. If true, big scary news. ____________________________________________I think the AA vote will probably defy mathematical logic and exceed 100% LOL Artur Davis and Stacey Dash don’t count.

    • jds09

      I wonder if Jeb Bush is restraining himself from saying “I told you so!”

    • AxelFoley

      ROFL!

    • Aquagranny911

      One poll I saw showed 80% for Obama in AZ. The thing that baffles me is where that 20% are hiding their heads. They must be up their asses if they would even consider voting Repug.

  • Miranda

    Why the conservatives so sad? They’ll always have Artur Davis….*snicker*

    • conlakappa

      Visions of the race draft from Chappelle’s Show dance in my head…

  • dannie22

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/24/feds-sue-mississippi-for-rights-violations-say-chi/ Justice dept suing Mississippi for violating rights of children and incarcerating them for minor infractions

  • MonieTalks

    I went to see Ezperanza Spalding last night. She and her band were AMAZING!

    Before they performed her Black Gold performance, one of her background singers began singing about the difficulties of life, self-worth and he sang about Trayvon Martin and how his life was deemed not worthy. It was beautiful. All I could say was preach brotha!

    She had a meet and greet afterwards…so nice. I got my autographed tee!

    She will be at the Apollo Theatre for two nights this weekend, for those of you in the NYC area. If you have the chance, buy tickets. Wonderful, live music. One of my best live music experiences.

    • Ebogan63

      She straight from the Rose City, Portland OR! Great that you had a good time, we are very proud of her!

    • jds09

      I love her! She had me at her hair. lol

    • Alma98

      My son is in love with her and her music.

    • Worldwatcher7

      I’m jealous; her live shows are incredible.

  • Ebogan63

    And then, we have this racist azzhole on my TL: Ben Shapiro ‏@benshapiro
    Let me be clearer. Colin Powell supports Barack Obama because Barack Obama is black. Powell didn’t support Clinton, Gore, or Kerry.
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    Keep showin’ us that white robe, fucking racist asshole!

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      Does he realize that Powell was working for Bush I and Bush II at the time, therefore he wouldn’t support his boss’ opponent???

      • Ebogan63

        No he’s too much of a racist and called Colin Powell an Affirmative Action appointment. Fucking KKK jackass!

        • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

          Mrs. Powell was so right when she wouldn’t allow her hubby to run for POTUS.

    • Daltex82

      But Shmitt has the endorsement of the great military minds of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney why are they upset about who Colin Powell chooses to supports.

    • edp4bho

      Folks kill me when they can’t accept that yes, black people do vote black, just like white people vote white. However, that’s not to suggest Powell’s reason for the endorsement. But, I’m like Steve Harvey- “is the fact that he is black the reason you can’t vote for him?”. Slavery ended long ago, and we do happen to like being black, which actually hurts some folks’ fee-fees. .

      • conlakappa

        And Wes Clark supports him, why? Because they both had stepfathers?

        • edp4bho

          Looks like you may have misunderstood me. ?? Not saying whites do not support blacks, or vice versa. Saying white people should not feel “offended” when/if blacks support blacks- does not mean we are against whites.

          • conlakappa

            To the contrary. I was joining you in being outraged in this reductive nonsense. The often unexpressed rejoinder to them making this claim is “to follow your logic, the only reason white people vote for white pols is…” Really, it’s no different from Jane Hamsher saying we are the stupidest mohfuhs ever. Suddenly everyone has an opinion on the Voting Ways of the American Negro. They’ll return to their regularly scheduled program of ignoring is in 2016.

  • Miranda

    “We arrived at the Oval Office for our 45-minute interview … on the morning of October 11th. … As we left the Oval Office, executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president. … [S]he said, ‘Tell him: You can do it.’ Obama grinned. … ‘You know, kids have good instincts,’ Obama offered. ‘They look at the other guy and say, “Well, that’s a bullsh—er, I can tell.”’” http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/10/obama-says-kids-know-romney-is-dishonest-147184.html

    • MonieTalks

      Norah O’Donnell tried to get slick about it this morning too.

      They had Douglas Brinkley (presidential historian) on and they brought up this very thing.

      Here’s Norah…there is something that PBO called Romney that we can not put on air….” Then she goes isn’t that a problem that PO does not respect Romney, isn’t that what is wrong with politics today?” Ummm, chick, were have you been?

      Brinkley was like PBO respected McCain even if he disagree with him, they worked alongside each other in the Senate. But PBO truly sees Romney as the bullshitter he is.”

      • MsKitty

        Willard implied at an official campaign appearance that PBO wasn’t American, so Norah O’Donnell can SERIOUSLY miss me with her “both sides do it” bullshit.

      • Daltex82

        Umm, can somebody get Norah some tissue so she can clean the residue off her rose colored GOP glasses.

        • Admiral_Komack

          Add a bottle of Listerine…so she can gargle.

          • Aquagranny911

            If I wasn’t giving everyone here free parole from the Naughty Lounge for the next 12 days…

            Aren’t you glad that I am self appointed door keeper?

          • conlakappa

            Please, the Admiral has a ermine-tufted chair in there.

          • Aquagranny911

            Yes, but we need his smart mouth spouting off here not sitting in that chair stuffing himself with snacks & booze.

            Just saying….

        • Alma98

          Dang it I thought you were gonna say clean her brown nose lol.

          • Daltex82

            That works too!!!

      • rikyrah

        I really want someone to ask.

        why the fuck should POTUS ‘ respect’ Mitt Romney?

        cause he’s a rich, White man?

        that’s all he is.

        period.

        they can’t point to anything character-wise that ‘ deserves’ respect

      • qosine

        Norah, do YOU respect Romney? If so, please be specific. Note: No quotes from anyone on his payroll for the past 30 years.

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia
      • Alma98

        LOL

      • AxelFoley

        LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

  • Miranda

    I didn’t know WHY the commute was so damn dreadful yesterday afternoon! Why was Paul Ryan here for fundraising? So he’s been pimped out to these red states to get dollars instead of to actually campaign in these last two weeks? Why is Paul Ryan in states that don’t matter? http://blogs.ajc.com/jamie-dupree-washington-insider/2012/10/25/why-is-paul-ryan-in-states-that-dont-matter/

    • jds09

      Gotta pay back that loan to the campaign. lol

    • Aquagranny911

      Robme desperate for $$$.

    • TyrenM

      And told when dropped off: Don’t come home broke. Cue AMG: Bitch Betta Have My Money.

  • Miranda

    GOP’s Benghazi Smoking Gun Goes Up in SmokeWhen a set of State Department emails were released Wednesday, one reporting that a local Islamist militia had claimed responsibility for the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans including the US ambassador to Libya, conservatives thought they had the smoking gun that the Obama administration had lied about what had occurred. more here: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/10/benghazi-libya-state-emails

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      Jake Tapper weeps.

    • JojoRaze

      Someone explain this to me. Why would PBO lie about what happened in Libya. The first thing I recall the administration saying was that the local Al Qaeda unit used a protest against the film to infiltrate the embassy and bomb it. That’s what happened, no? Why would the prez try to lie about Benghazi. Republicans are projecting here because Bush II knew about 9/11 for months and did nothing so they are projecting on PBO that he must have known about Benghazi.

      • AxelFoley

        They’ve been looking for anything to get PBO foreign policy-wise from jump. They thought this would be it.

        This is why I tell all them fools on the left complaining about PBO “spying” on Americans to take a seat–if any terrorist attack takes place on American soil on his watch, he WON’T get the benefit of the doubt like Bush II did after 9/11.

  • Alma98

    Morning.

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    It really pisses me off when white people try to tell Black people what we should or shouldn’t find offensive. Here’s Ari Berman trying to play Captain Save-A-Tavis:

    Ari Berman ‏@AriBerman
    @JamilSmith that’s not really fair, Tavis had me on his PBS show recently to discuss voter suppression efforts at great length

    Ari Berman ‏@AriBerman
    @JamilSmith i’m just saying, he’s had me on his tv show and radio show multiple times to discuss voter suppression

    I don’t give damn what Tavis invited him to. The fact is that Black people view Tavis’ HuffPo list as him using racist caricatures of Black folks in his attempt to throw shade at PBO, and we’re not having it. Instead of trying (and failing) to defend Tavis, STFU and LISTEN, especially we’ve known about Tavis longer than Ari.

    • MsKitty

      Tavis had me on his PBS show recently to discuss voter suppression efforts at great length

      Goody for him. Does he want a cookie?

      • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

        OK? Is that his proof that Tavis’ little list wasn’t bullshit? He needs to have a seat.

        If Tavis was REALLY concerned about encouraging Black people to vote, he would’ve had voter registration at his “poverty tour” stops.

        • conlakappa

          But that would have been work and stuff.

    • KCPrescott

      People claimed that Tavis Smiley never brings up voter supression. Ari Berman tells that he did. And your response is “He’s white, so his facts don’t count”.

      Do you realize how retarded and narrow-minded that sounds?

      • GreenLadyHere

        KCPrescott:— — A WISE SAYING:- —YOU ONLY have ONE CHANCE 2 make a GOOD FIRST – - IMPRESSION.

        —-THIS was NOT IT: —--SUP(P)RESSION!!– –

        - —Annnd I QUOTE: —Do you realize how retarded and narrow-minded that sounds?– READS?

      • Aquagranny911

        I think you stumbled into the wrong blog, chico. Por favor, to reel back to the PL red racist blog that spawned you. Can you tell how I know from what rock you crawled?

        Your words “retarded” & “narrow-minded” fits you more than any diarist or poster here. Adios!

      • PBomb

        Actually that wasn’t Sepia’s argument. Reading comprehension is not your friend.

        Instead of hurling insults, like “retarded”, why don’t try and read her comment again…slowly….

        • KCPrescott

          Why don’t you explain to me why pointing out that Tavis has in fact talked about voter suppression is Ari Berman “playing Captain Save-A-Tavis” according to the original poster. The sample tweets he/she posted shows just that.

          • PBomb

            No, you decided to jump on a random thread dig through over a hundred comments and stop at this comment. Instead of making a definitive argument about what she said, you resorted to name calling.

            I don’t know what your motive is…
            Maybe today is the day you decided to troll this blog, who knows?

            Has Tavis Smiley worked on registering voters for this election?

            Talking means nothing.

            So, try again….

          • Alexander2

            Nobody questioned whether Tavis has talked about voter suppression. Ari jumped in with his “not fair” bullshit to save Tavis and we are not having it. Now, bye!

            7h Jamil Smith Jamil Smith ‏@JamilSmith

            Hey, Black America! @TavisSmiley thinks voter confusion and suppression are hilarious. Also, you can’t read a calendar.

            7h Ari Berman Ari Berman ‏@AriBerman

            @JamilSmith that’s not really fair, Tavis had me on his PBS show recently to discuss voter suppression efforts at great length

            8:37 AM – 25 Oct 12 ·
            7h Jamil Smith Jamil Smith ‏@JamilSmith

            Tavis can run all the segments he wants, @AriBerman. He just put his name on a list that ridiculed black voters for their own suppression.

            7h Jamil Smith Jamil Smith ‏@JamilSmith

            To say nothing, @AriBerman, of Tavis’ indulgence in some pretty vile stereotypes of black people, all for more Obama haterade.

        • KCPrescott

          And speaking of reading comprehension, I said the poster’s comment was “retarded” and “narrow-minded”, not that the poster him/herself was that. I’m sure you’ve called Tavis far worse, so don’t start pearl-clutching now.

          • PBomb

            Pot meet kettle…

          • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

            The bottom line is using the word “retarded” is unacceptable. PERIOD. FULL STOP. END OF STORY.

          • AxelFoley

            Don’t matter. You come in here all Billy Badass insulting folks and then get mad when we bust your ass on it. Bounce your punkass outta here. Matter fact, get the hell off my internets.

          • GreenLadyHere

            On tryin’ 4 a 2nd IMPRESSION:–

            — - – --called -Tavis far worse, so don’t start -pearl-clutching – now. –

            – - -NON-SEQUITUR!! — - – -

      • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

        *sigh* Jesus be Hooked on Phonics.

        The conversation wasn’t about whether or not Tavis brings up voter suppression. It was about Tavis’ HuffPo article, where he uses a list of racist caricatures to explain excuses Black people would make if PBO loses. Jamil Smith and other Black people found offensive, and Ari decided to use his appearance on Tavis’ show as proof that his article wasn’t offensive.

        I CLEARLY stated this in my original comment and you know it, but you just wanted an excuse to run up here and defend Tavis & Ari’s honor, but ended up looking like a simple ass groupie.

      • AxelFoley

        So…this is the troll ya’ll were talking about, huh? Should we send the Three Billy Goats Gruff after him?

    • GreenLadyHere

      Sepia —- LOL- — -HIT DOG- –HOLLERIN’- — -LOL

  • Miranda

    Milwaukee CEO warns of ‘personal consequences’ if Obama is elected Mike White, the chairman and owner of Rite-Hite, a major Milwaukee manufacturer of industrial equipment, told employees in an email this week that all employees “should understand the personal consequences to them of having our tax rates increase dramatically if President Obama is re-elected, forcing taxpayers to fund President Obama’s future deficits and social programs (including Obamacare), which require bigger government.”

    The email stunned some employees. One employee said he felt threatened by the email. “It’s a good company, but for this to come out, it’s absurd,” the employee said.

    The employee said even supervisors were surprised by the tone of the email.more here: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/175797801.html

    • Alma98

      Did you read some of the racist ignorant teabagger comments, this is what we live with daily. How much you wanna bet those commenters are from Waukesha sorry sob’s.

      • PBomb

        I was going to comment about how deranged some of those commenters on JSonline are.

        Sheesh… they are brainwashed and dumb.

    • Admiral_Komack

      Milwaukee CEO warns of ‘personal consequences’ if Obama is elected

      -You mean, if Obama is re-elected, I’ll get my rainbow pony?
      EXCELLENT!

    • nellcote

      I wonder if the Chamber of Commerce is behind all this employer intimidation. It sounds like something they’d organize.

    • AxelFoley

      Rite-Hite? Yeah, he’s a RMoney shill.

  • Miranda

    Bitter Bitter McCain McCain: Powell ‘harmed’ his legacy by endorsing ObamaSen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped Colin Powell for endorsing President Obama again, saying the former Secretary of State had “harmed” his legacy by doing so. more here: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/264045-mccain-powell-harmed-his-legacy-by-endorsing-obama

    • Worldwatcher7

      Said the man who would have had Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency…

    • Admiral_Komack

      “McCain: Powell ‘harmed’ his legacy by endorsing Obama.”

      -WRONG.

      Powell harmed his legacy by green lighting the Iraq War.

      You harmed your legacy by endorsing the Wasilla Whore.

      Toodles.

    • Aquagranny911

      Miranda, OT: I saw your posts from yesterday & have joined the prayer circle for your Mom, sending her healing light.

      • jds09

        I’ve joined the circle as well.

    • conlakappa

      Do you even listen to yourself, The Mack Daddy? Talk about legacy ruining, such that yours is. But I guess that’ll justify you having a place on your bestie Schieffer’s show on Sunday.

      • Aquagranny911

        McCain has to either retire or run for his Senate seat here in 2014. I believe either way he is going DOWN!

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    In today’s “Grumpy Old Men” headlines…

    John McCain Lashes Out At Colin Powell After Obama Endorsement
    Benjy Sarlin October 25, 2012, 11:50 AM 1803

    John McCain bitterly denounced former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday for supporting President Obama for a second straight election.

    “General Powell, you disappoint us and you have harmed your legacy even further by defending what is clearly the most feckless foreign policy in my lifetime,” McCain told Brian Kilmeade on his radio program.

    MORE: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/john-mccain-lashes-out-at-colin-powell-after-obama-endorsement.php

  • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

    BREAKING NEWS!!!

    Court allows testimony by Mitt Romney in Stemberg divorce case to be unsealed
    10/25/2012 12:04 PM

    By Callum Borchers, Globe Correspondent

    CANTON, Mass. – Mitt Romney’s sworn testimony in a post-divorce lawsuit against Staples founder Tom Stemberg was unsealed on Thursday at Norfolk Probate and Family Court.

    The suit was filed in 1990 by Stemberg’s ex-wife, Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, who sought to amend the couple’s financial agreement after Staples went public in 1989 and began trading at 10 times the stock value she had received in the divorce a year earlier. Romney testified during the lawsuit in June 1991; the nature of his testimony was not immediately clear.

    The Globe filed a motion on Oct. 15 to unseal Romney’s testimony, which was impounded along with all other case files from the Stembergs’ 10-year legal battle. Parties in the case also signed a confidentiality agreement that Gloria Allred, the attorney for Sullivan Stemberg, called “the most comprehensive gag order I have ever seen in my 36 years of practicing law.”

    MORE: http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/10/25/court-allows-testimony-mitt-romney-stemberg-divorce-case-unsealed/PYQi6CxYTGOKRhtahY83DI/story.html

  • PBomb

    Our President is awesome…

    Obama to Leno: Issue with Trump ‘dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya

    While a Panda ticked off a Tiger on a field in San Francisco Thursday night, a circus of a different variety was being played out, triggered by Donald Trump’s YouTube video.

    Trump’s offer—$5 million to the charity of the president’s choice in exchange for the release of Obama’s college and passport applications—was mocked mercilessly on Twitter.

    On “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” President Barack Obama laughed it off, joking to Leno that the bad blood between him and the real estate mogul turned “birther” conspiracy theorist “dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya.”

    Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-leno-trump-kenya-video-130707760–election.html

    • Alma98

      I saw the video and fell out, POTUS can cut with the best of ‘em. LOL!

    • Aquagranny911

      I think our POTUS could do stand up comedy if he wants to after 2016. I would love to see him totally “unleashed” with nothing to lose. He does have a wicked sense of humor.

    • Daltex82

      That was so good! I don’t know who was more tickled me or Jay Leno!

    • qosine

      You can tell ALOT about a person by his/her sense of humor. And the Pres. is FUNNY. (Unlike 99.999% of the emo/prog/media salesforce)

  • Aquagranny911

    Hola POU! I’m taking it a bit easy today but may go canvass tonight with my little pal, the nursing student. Yesterday was exhausting. One poor woman was in tears about her ballot. She’s a new citizen and this is her first time voting & she takes it seriously. I got her sorted out but I was wilted after.

    I was so tired last night I went to bed at 7:30.

    • goldenstar

      Thank you for what you do. Every voter matters. I have been phonebanking Asian American households in the Tammy Duckworth-Joe Walsh election. Many folks are sporadic voters so the conversations are important.

      • Aquagranny911

        Bless you! Walsh has to go down! Just a dumb question but I thought that Asian-Americans always voted? I hardly ever hear anyone say that voting bloc doesn’t vote. I have had limited contact with that demographic here so I can’t really speak to how often they turn out.

        I do know one Vietnamese. He doesn’t vote. I doubt he’s a citizen & I’m not even sure he has a green card but he’s a really sweet guy & a great cook. I give him stuff from my gardens & he always cooks us food in thanks.

        • nellcote

          It may have to do more with being a new immigrant than the particular demographic. This has been a very confusing year for even long time voters, it must be more so for new voters.

          • Aquagranny911

            It totally is. I’ve run into that more than once especially with first time voters even if they aren’t new citizens.

            There is also a lot of misinformation floating around here. Our ballots come in Spanish & English. One man told me he “heard” that if you use the Spanish side your vote won’t be counted.

            So much to do, so little time to do it!

            Thank you for your dedicated work. No retreat, no surrender! We got this! GOTV!

        • goldenstar

          The model minority myth is just that: myth. Asian Americans can be sporadic voters. Asian American Action Fund – Greater Chicago chapter is working hard talking to voters. We have Chinese, Korean, and Tagalog speakers so we can converse with voters. Getting folks to understand that this race is important will be a breakthrough on so many fronts.

          • Aquagranny911

            Having native speakers & those who understand the culture & can speak to the needs of the people is crucial.

            This is why boots on the ground & one on one is so important. In some places, speak to a few people & you have spoken to 50 because they will share with family & friends what you have said.

          • goldenstar

            Aquagranny, you are so on it. One of our volunteers ran a cultural social service agency that served Chinese, Vietnamese and others. She knows the terrain of Southeast Asia. Her call sheets included an entire Hmong family — about 20 persons — so she saved those calls for an English speaker since Hmong speak English and all we need is to speak to one family member and the message is transmitted.

            Forward!

    • Alma98

      You take it easy now AG and get naps in where you can. Oh and I left you an answer in yesterday’s thread about you tube.

      • Aquagranny911

        I did see that this morning. Just admit it. You are way quicker & more tech savvy than me. I can take it, lol. I love the graphics you share here. They make me laugh.

        • Alma98

          LOL! Thank you AG. There’s still lots I don’t know, if I don’t know it I seek it out. My son also helps me a lot if I can’t figure something out. He is truly tech savvy most of his college courses deal with tech stuff. Now I can repair my own pc I learned from my hubby.

    • qosine

      AG, you are just a star! By the way, you said you’re going to be a poll observer? I am too. I’m going to the training this Monday. Any tips? I want to get this right.

      • Aquagranny911

        I don’t know where you live but they will tell you what to expect & do. “Observer” is the operating word. You are there to watch & only to report or intervene if there is a violation of someone’s voting rights or if someone or a group show up to intimidate voters.

        They will probably give you phone numbers for the speed dial on your cell phone to keep handy if you need that. Make sure you also have your local OFA office on there too.

        They want us to have camera phones which I don’t have so I am borrowing one & learning how to use it just in case.

        Here’s hoping that for you & me both, everything will be orderly & fair so we can just be wall paper. Good luck & let us know how it is going where you are.

  • PBomb

    The people commenting on this article are sad and delusional.

    REUTERS POLL: Obama Is Going To Trounce Mitt Romney In A Landslide

    With two weeks to go before Election Day, a new Reuters/Ipsos forecast released today predicts an Electoral College landslide for President Barack Obama over Republican rival Mitt Romney.

    Obama leads Romney by a point in the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll, 47-46. But results from Ipsos’ tracking in key swing states leads to a projection of a much bigger Electoral College victory. The Ipsos projection has Obama winning the big three swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia.

    Ipsos’ final Electoral College score: 332-206.

    Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-romney-electoral-college-map-reuters-poll-ipsos-2012-10#ixzz2AKbTIu9m

  • PBomb

    So apparently the Washington Post has just endorsed, The Kenyan Usurper, AKA Donald Trump’s playmate.

    Washington Post endorsement: Four more years for President Obama

    By Editorial Board, Updated: Thursday, October 25, 11:02 AM

    MUCH OF THE 2012 presidential campaign has dwelt on the past, but the key questions are who could better lead the country during the next four years — and, most urgently, who is likelier to put the government on a sounder financial footing.

    That second question will come rushing at the winner as soon as the votes are tallied. Absent any action, a series of tax hikes and spending cuts will take effect Jan. 1 that might well knock the country back into recession. This will be a moment of peril but also of opportunity. How the president-elect navigates it will go a long way toward determining the success of his presidency and the health of the nation.

    President Barack Obama is better positioned to be that navigator than is his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

    Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washington-post-endorsement-four-more-years-for-president-obama/2012/10/25/6ca309a2-1965-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html?hpid=z2

    • conlakappa

      While just this week calling the President the underdog and Mittens the frontrunner. The paper needs help.

      • Aquagranny911

        It’s called “Romnesia” I heard there is a cure for that.

        VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN on November 6!

        • conlakappa

          Nah, it’s called being manipulated by Rove. It’s spooky the effect he has on grown-assed people.

    • nellcote

      This actually surprised me. Gosh Rmoney must really suck LOL

      • Admiral_Komack

        A Romney spokesman reported that Ann Romney had no comment.

    • http://pragmaticobotsunite.blogspot.com/ Sepia

      Jennifer Rubin weeps.

  • GreenLadyHere

    POU FAM- —– LOL- – - -TRAMPIN’ – - -on TRUMP!! —-

    - —Cartoon of the Day- Trump’s Triumph- – -

    - — —THIS DESPICABLE- – - -RACIST!!- –

    He betta —BACK- — DA FLIP UP!! — -geesh!