June 20, 2013

Tuesday Afternoon Thread: Meet Viviette Applewhite

May 8, 2012 by 140 Comments

Viviette Applewhite is 93-year-old and has voted in nearly every election for the last 60 years. She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Georgia. She has tried for years to obtain photo ID to no avail. Under Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law, Ms. Applewhite’s vote will not be counted. She is a plaintiff in our lawsuit to stop voter ID. Learn more about ACLU-PA’s challenge to Pennsylvania’s unconstitutional voter ID law here.

 

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  • Miranda

    The Washington Post notes that “More than 50 times, reporters pressed spokesman Jay Carney on President Obama’s position on gay marriage at Monday’s White House briefing.”
    ___________________________

    The media is such a joke.

  • Rhoda

    Afternoon, POU. You have to check this story out about the Keystone Pipeline and how Randy Thompson a Republican in Nebraska and the people in his state helped stop TransCanada’s pipeline. I really can not believe what I was reading; I only excerpted a small portion from the middle, it’s a long read. But worth it. We live in a globalized world where corporations have to much damn power.

    It all began in the fall of 2007, when a nice young man from a company called TransCanada got in touch with Randy about some land that Randy’s family owned up in Merrick County, about 100 miles north of Martell, where he lives. Randy’s parents had saved for years and finally bought the land in 1975. His mother was still living there at the time. Randy met the young man, who explained to him that TransCanada wanted to run a portion of the pipeline through the land, which is located for the most part on an island in the South Platte River.

    “They were going to be very accommodating,” Randy recalls. “The young man just briefly explained what they were thinking about putting this pipeline in. He said it was a Canadian company, so we were kind of, ‘What the hell, this is a foreign company. What can they do?’ They asked if they could come on the land and do a survey and I said, if you want to waste your time, go ahead, but you’re still not coming across our land.

    “That was a huge mistake. I never should have let them on the property at all.”

    From the start, Thompson was dubious about the whole thing. He asked if they could re-route the pipeline around his fields, so that there wouldn’t be any danger of sinkholes forming in the middle of his crops. If they did that, he admits today, he might have signed the paper and let them bring the pipeline through. Instead, they told him that they “couldn’t make 90-degree turns in their pipeline,” a claim Thompson didn’t quite believe. But his real concern was water.

    more at the above link

    • rikyrah

      THANKS for this find

    • Aquagranny911

      Great find & thank you!

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

    utaustinliberal breaks it down on TOD:

    BWD, I love ya but you need to stop all this freaking out over nontroversies. It is not helpful to our cause. You view this non-issue through a very narrow lens and that is the thing that should break your heart not Pres. Obama’s position on gay marriage. I think you need to read this, broaden your perspective and focus on what is important instead of getting distracted all the time about left wing and rightwing nontroversies. Develop a backbone of steel. We have an election to win for crying out loud.

    This is my take on the gay marriage issue aka the latest nontroversy du jour.

    After he comes out in favor of gay marriage then what? The media and firebaggers move the goal post again? He comes out for gay marriage and you think the goal posts won’t be moved again? I believe in gay marriage but I am not going to constantly demand that the most progressive President on LGBT issues show his bona fides time and time and time again to prove that he’s worthy of my vote. He has repealed DADT, he has asked his DOJ to stop defending DOMA, he is backing the bill in congress that supports marriage equality, he has come out against NC’s Amendment One, he wholeheartedly supported NY in their legalization of gay marriage. What more do you want? Seriously. What more do you want?

    No one gets to demand that this President come out for gay marriage. You don’t get to dictate what he should and shouldn’t do. You don’t get to demand a timeline of President Obama as to when he comes out for gay marriage or not. This President has hired over 225 LGBT professionals, Romney fired his gay adviser. This President has signed so many laws into existence for the LGBT community. This President has signed so many benefits into law for the LGBT community.

    Do we want him to bleed for us until we decide he is 100% worthy of our vote? Do we want him to be in lockstep with every issue under the sun that matters to us before we decide he is 100% worthy of our vote? This man has fought for every freaking demographic in this country and in other locations around the world yet we cannot give him time and space to come to a decision? This is a very personal decision. He might support gay marriage secretly but has looked at the political landscape and decided we need to win an election for the progress of LGBT rights to continue.

    Do you know that Amendment One in NC is likely to pass? Do you also know that we need NC to become blue again this November? Do you know that NC hasn’t been blue in decades before PBO won the state? Do you know that only about 14K votes helped PBO win in NC? Do you know that if 7K votes or more swung Romney’s way Pres. Obama would lose NC; a very crucial state in the election? Do you also know that a lot of conservative Democrats in NC back Amendment One for whatever warped reason? Do you know that a lot of the Latino vote in NC which we need to win does not support gay marriage in huge numbers? Do you know that a lot of conservative Democrats around the country do not support gay marriage and could switch to the other column in November? Do you know that gay marriage got defeated in the Liberal oasis that is California? We have an election to win. I will repeat that. WE HAVE AN ELECTION TO WIN. If PBO has looked at the landscape and decided this is too politically risky for the Democrats who are we to judge him? If he decides the political landscape is ok and he comes out for gay marriage, who are we to judge him? Do you think a Romney presidency would magically provide 100% equality for the LGBT community? Words are cheap. Actions speak louder.

    We have an election to win people. We have an election to win. Every state is crucial in this election and as much as I respect you all, you don’t get to dictate to President Obama how he goes about in laying the groundwork and winning.

    ——————————————————
    *church jogging*

    • rikyrah

      if I could….1000 LIKES

    • MsKitty

      Thanks for the repost. Good to see there’s a little pushback going on over there.

      • isonprize

        Ms Kitty, there’s LOTS of pushback. Now whether or not folks run from the discussion is another story. But basically, folks were not fallin’ in line with “tell PBO what he needs to say” opinion.

    • crazycanuck

      Great response. She knows the deal. This along with zizi’s, should be required reading everytime they even think about posting that PL nonsense.

    • GreenLadyHere

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  • Bri

    Mitt has lost his mind if he truly thinks he’s going to get away with taking credit for the auto bailout. The media is closing their eyes to his lies, but I know Obama Camp is gearing up with ads that highlight his lying on the auto bailout.

    • rikyrah

      LET.DETROIT.GO.BANKRUPT.

      folks understand that.

    • Aquagranny911

      SwissMitt Square Jeans lies so much he’s going to have to write ‘notes to self’ all over his hands & arms in order to keep track.

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

    U.S. to run first surplus since 2008: CBO
    Surplus is first of Obama’s presidency

    By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. government recorded a budget surplus of $58 billion in April, the Congressional Budget Office estimated on Monday, breaking a streak of deficits that began in 2008.

    The surplus — the first of Barack Obama’s presidency — was the result of both increased tax collection and lower government spending. Before April, the government had not run a surplus since September 2008, the month that the financial crisis struck the U.S. economy. Read CBO report.

    The CBO’s estimate is released before the Treasury Department’s monthly budget report. That report is scheduled for later this week.

    MORE: http://www.marketwatch.com/Story/Story/?guid={F92BDEEE-9873-11E1-A089-002128049AD6}

  • MonieTalks

    The media is a unabashed, straight up, don’t even care if you see their bullshit joke. Reporters asked about gay marriage 50 times in one press briefing..wow. unheard of.

    As usual, the PL and wishy washy, chicken little liberals help fan it all.

    Now, Romney hides his gay foreign policy advisor and bows to pressure to let him go, and the hoopla over that is gone in one 24 hour news cycle. This man lets his own handpicked advisor go due to pressure of non-elected officials, and yet the media who is stoking the hysteria on the left, wants to be annoying as hell with hopes of getting an answer on state level referendum from the President.

    At the point, I just wish the LGBTQ would just exit the party. Take the other 70% and go over to the GOPTEA. Grover Norquist says he supports you…make him force the radical right to sign a pledge in your favor. I just can’t take it anymore.

    • Miranda

      If there is one thing (and just one) that I can admire about the right wing..its their discipline. For all I know they may fight like the Hatfields and McCoys behind closed doors, but come camera time, they are lockstep.

      • isonprize

        A lesson to be learned if there every was one…

      • Aquagranny911

        Your comment made me laugh because it put me in mind of my brothers who could fight like scrabbling rats among themselves but out in the world they were a united FRONT. Nobody messed with them as a group or individually because they stood together. Dems really need to get some of this.

  • rikyrah

    RNC Hispanic Outreach Director: ‘I Misspoke’

    RNC’s Hispanic Outreach Director Bettina Inclan said at a pen and pad session with reporters earlier on Tuesday that she cannot comment on Mitt Romney’s position on immigration because Romney is “still deciding” on what that position is.

    Now, however, Inclan tweets that she “misspoke,” linking to Mitt Romney’s campaign website:

    http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/rnc-hispanic-outreach-director-i-misspoke

    • Worldwatcher7

      Ah ha ha ha ha ha. The rmoney campaign is a well-oiled machine, ain’t it? The Hispanic Outreach Director didn’t know where to find the candidate’s position on immigration.

      • Miranda

        LMAO…yep….that campaign is quite the operation! The Obama-Biden staff assigned to the Latinos for Obama issues are back to playing Words with Friends and downloading songs – they dont have anything to do today…Mitt’s Hispanic Outreach Director just gave them the afternoon off.

        • Aquagranny911

          LOL!

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

      Amateur.

    • Aquagranny911

      ROTFLMAO! “misspoke” These people are so figging clueless!!!

  • GOVCHRIS1988

    Ok, I’m back, y’all. I was just over there. Whatever I said must have hurt. I’m sorry if I came on strong, but thats what I was feeling about those cats. It just majorly got under my skin on how they fell for this media silly season again. And then the gall to say that he would be remembered for this as a stain on our history. I was like, are you shitting me? I really didn’t want to write that. I REALLY hesitated to write that, because I know people have fragile egos, but today was tough love day, with an emphasis on TOUGH.

    • Ebogan63

      Needed to be said.

      • crazycanuck

        Def needed to be said. I’m still in shock that was front paged.

        • GOVCHRIS1988

          Me too. Like what were they expecting by doing that, that we were gonna go along to get along without replying. SHEEEEEEEIIIITT!!!!!!!

    • rikyrah

      you rocked it

    • crazycanuck

      GOV, that post pissed me off so much I didn’t even know there were two other posts posted since.

    • dannie22

      where is yr comment?

      • GOVCHRIS1988

        Scroll on down to “A Word From BWD post. You’ll find it.

        • dannie22

          I found it. Thanks bro!! Your commentary was a history lesson every1 needed to read!

    • crazycanuck

      Oh dam, and then she says she knew when she sent it to the owner of the blog that it would be the end of her on the blog. WTF, and Chipsticks agrees with what she said, and will post something later about all of it. Again WTF

    • MonieTalks

      Planting a big cyberkiss on your cheek anotherslyfox. Loved your comment. Excellent.

      One of the things about white privilege, including when it comes to subject of SSM, is that if you are white, you can mock, overeact, criticize, pontificate and it will be considered visceral…a passing emotion or moment. And an entire race of people will not be represented by one person’s views.

      It doesn’t work for us Black people like that. PBO made a beautiful remark about Trayvon Martin, while still treading carefully about the delicate subject of race and it was still used as a divisive tool by the likes of bigots, Fox News, and Zimmerman’s own dad, who sounds like a certifiable redneck. Once PBO made that comment, it is no coincidence that the forces unleashed to make a sympathetic campaign in Zimmerman’s favor and the MSM easily followed suit. The same thing applies to SSM.

      How come others cannot see that? Because whites rarely have to be as methodical….it is just a standard they have not been burdened to live with. Being careful and showing discretion and restraint until the right moment is something they know nothing of…..most of us have ancestors of yesterday’s Jim Crow era who know it very well.

      One thing I will take from this all is that, I will never entrust the LGBT-PL community to be the last hand in a row of coalition grasping for safety when the going gets tough. Never put them out in front, lead the so called base because they are some of the most demoralizing, bitter, cynical voices I have seen. Sometimes you have to put all your might and strength into pulling into safety…screaming and yelling down the stretch weakens it all. That is the main reason why, in an emergency, a 911 operator tells you to “be calm,” you have a situation to work through…fretting and overacting creates another problem. Focus on the bigger picture…it is too close.

      • dannie22

        Excellent Monie. Another comment of the week.

      • Camille

        Spot on.

    • Daltex82

      I thought you were spot on with your comments as well as others who respectfully disagreed with her position.

    • Aquagranny911

      I read your post there it was excellent. Thank you.

    • GreenLadyHere

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    • BoomerGal

      Glad ya did, Gov! Just don’t know what “TOD” is! LOL!

      • isonprize

        TOD = The Obama Diary. A blog that is usually very supportive of Pres Obama with great!! pictures. It went off the rails today. But hopefully will recover nicely.

        • BoomerGal

          Thank you isonprize! So sweet of you to respond. I just want to see what the hoopla is about.

    • TheShyLurker

      I loved your post. No apologies necessary. In fact, I was glad to see almost all the posters rejected her letter. How Rachel Maddow of her to do so. I still don’t know what giving that a separate thread accomplished.

      Someone had to check her. Who is she to dictate how the president will be remembered for his stance on marriage? That statement offended me. And I was proud that folks pushed back.

      Plus, I can’t stand when posters threaten to leave and people beg them to stay. Just go! Damn! Save the drama, just exit.

      • Camille

        Thank you.

        I’m no sado-masochist and will not abide people inflicting their nonsense on me and then beg them to stay and give me more.

        Nah. Bye.

    • Camille

      You did good!

    • aleth

      Amazing

  • rikyrah

    Obama’s Marriage Mess; Romney’s Support For “The Homosexual Cure”
    In the aftermath of the clearest yet revelation of Obama’s exquisite non-position on marriage equality, the RNC is claiming that Romney’s position on marriage is the same as Obama’s. Weigel counters:

    Romney’s committed to a federal marriage amendment. Has Obama ever spoken about such an amendment? Yes. He was against it.

    Does Romney support North Carolina’s amendment, stripping gay couples of all rights, even in second-class domestic parnerships? Yep. David Link focuses on the candidates’ actions:

    Jim Burroway aptly notes that whatever rhetorical symmetries Obama and Romney may share on same-sex marriage, it’s clear that the President won’t pander to the lingering brackishness of prejudice, while Romney not only will, he will do so with vigor.

    That’s too weak in my view. Romney has also donated to groups that advocate “psychological cures” of gay people, and his church is arguably the most effective and well-financed religious organization dedicated to keeping gay citizens out of civil marriage, with an eliminationist organization called Evergreen which tries to cure you. That’s way worse than even the Catholic hierarchy. According to this survivor of the therapy, a third of the enrollees commit suicide:

    This is not a fringe issue for the LDS. Here’s a leading LDS Bishop speaking to the “reparative therapy” group. Ezra Klein may well sigh:

    Obama’s real pitch to the gay community: He’s not Mitt Romney.

    But, given how little power the president has on marriage, that’s enough for me. Romney is virulently anti-gay, and could not stand up to even the most rancid of homophobes in Bryan Fischer. His church, moreover, is brutal in its hostility. I have some personal experience of this. I dated an ex-Mormon several years ago. He went to BYU and as he ventured out to gay bars, the university sent out spies to track his movements. They intimidated and bullied him. When he tested positive for HIV, they disowned him. I went to his funeral. Even his family wouldn’t show up. There are many Mormons fighting this, and I’ve been honored to speak with and to them over the years. But they are fighting against an institution which enshrines eternal male-female marriage in ways other faiths don’t.

    I’m disappointed in Obama, but his leading from behind is not exactly a surprise at this point. And after the end of DADT and withdrawing from a legal defense of DOMA, he’s done a huge amount. But the idea that there is some kind of equivalence between his cynical waffling and Romney’s rank hostility to gay people’s equality is preposterous.

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/

    • MonieTalks

      I’m disappointed in Obama, but his leading from behind is not exactly a surprise at this point.

      leading from behind…typical right wing talking point. Andrew Sullivan and his minions in the PL never stray to far from their internal Republican souls…..

      • Camille

        Andrew Sullivan is dependably flaky.

        The same guy who was once besties with Donald Rumsfeld.

        Fuck them all.

    • edp4bho

      Why oh why do people think that who they imbrace in their bedrooms, is important to the survival of the rest of us? Will their accomodations lower my taxes, enlarge the workforce, decrease gun violence, feed the hungry, educate our children, cure cancer, eliminate toxic waste from poor neighborhoods, increase government revenues, protect my voting rights………? Somebody please help me here?

    • Camille

      I am so sick of this.

  • rikyrah

    Posted at 12:44 PM ET, 05/08/2012
    TheWashingtonPost

    Will unpopular Congressional GOP be Mitt Romney’s albatross?
    By Jonathan Bernstein

    Here’s something to keep an eye on: Democrats are going to be able to exploit the narrow hold that Tea Partiers, social conservatives, and antitax absolutists have on the Republican Party — including GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

    Two cases in point: First, the Republicans in the Senate just successfully filibustered the Dem proposal to extend low interest rates on student loans, even though both the provision itself, and the Dem proposal to pay for it by closing tax loopholes are both popular. And second, Dick Lugar is expected to lose his seat in a primary election today — which everyone will interpret as punishment for his lack of 100% slavish devotion to extreme conservative policies.

    The larger story here is very simple. Republican positions on public policy are increasingly constrained by intense but relatively small groups — making it easier for Democrats to gain political advantage on the mounting number of issues where Republican politicians can’t support popular measures.

    Look at the new poll by National Journal that Greg talked about below. It tests three issues before Congress: the Violence Against Women Act renewal, the student loan bill, and the Paycheck Fairness Act:

    The poll shows that Americans largely favor the Democrats’ positions on these issues: Majorities favor provisions protecting gay and lesbian victims of domestic violence and making it easier for women to sue for wage discrimination. A plurality prefers Democrats’ plans to pay for student-loan subsidies by raising taxes on some businesses, as opposed to Republicans’ plans to shift money from a preventative-health fund created as part of the 2010 health care law.
    It’s worth taking a step back to realize just how astonishing it is that a major political party has managed to get itself on the wrong side of something called the Violence Against Women Act.

    The truth is that Republicans are so far down the rabbit hole that they’re unable to recognize that, say, most Americans are no longer bigots when it comes to LGBT issues and so extending protections to gays and lesbians is just common sense for most people — or, to take another example, that most voters actually support raising taxes on corporations and wealthy folks.

    All of which makes for a large gap between where Republicans are and where voters are that is relatively easy for Democrats to exploit — as they are doing with these three bills, and as they’ll no doubt continue to do as the campaign goes along. For Congressional Republicans, that’s going to produce votes (along with the House Republicans self-inflicted budget votes) that will be showing up in challenger attack adds all fall. For Romney, the question is whether there is any way to duck all this stuff, since he doesn’t want to alienate either marginal voters (by supporting GOP positions) or to provoke his party’s most vocal opinion leaders (by distancing himself from them). It’s going to take some pretty fancy footwork for him to manage it.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/will-unpopular-congressional-gop-be-mitt-romneys-albatross/2012/05/08/gIQAvPmmAU_blog.html

  • Miranda

    The Best Country for Raising Kids? Report Says It’s Not the United States

    The United States may be a wealthy, privileged, industrialized nation, but when it comes to being an ideal place to raise a family, it ranks well below several European countries. Take into account nonexistent parental leave policies, low preschool enrollment rates, and high teen-pregnancy rates and its rank falls even further, according to Save the Children, an independent organization dedicated to helping children around the world.

    In Save the Children’s 13th State of the World’s Mothers Report, released today, the United States ranks 25th out of 165 countries overall. That’s up six spots from its 31st place showing last year, largely thanks to improvements in education rates for girls, Carolyn Miles, president and CEO of Save the Children told Yahoo! Shine in an interview.

    more here
    http://shine.yahoo.com/team-mom/best-country-raising-kids-report-says-not-united-050400422.html

  • dannie22

    Im reading some of the comments at TOD and BWD says she’s leaving! And Chipsticks says if BWD leaves so will she! Did I miss something? This is what I was talking about earlier. They want to chastise the president but cant take any heat themselves! SMH

    • crazycanuck

      Exactly Dannie.They put it out there, and when people respond back in shock, they pack up and leave?

    • Bri

      Woah.

    • MsKitty

      Bon voyage!

      I don’t mean to be harsh, but I don’t have time for this. And apparently it looks like I’m not the only one (which is an encouraging sign).

      • Aquagranny911

        Exactly! IMHO, BWD can take her little marbles & leave but I hope that Chips will get a grip. She does a good job of covering PBO’s activities while providing a forum for people to share what they are doing to support & work for Obama/Biden 2012.

        BWD can get very negative, is over sensitive & even combative at times. Chips has given her way more latitude than she has provided to others for the same behavior.

        • edp4bho

          Boy, do I agree with you!!! BWD is a pants-on-fire supporter, and a bit of a purist, sorry to say. I recall her posts on her own blog. But if Chips follows her, then TOD was not for PBO, after all. I’d be disappointed in her for that.

          • Aquagranny911

            Me too & I don’t know what’s got into Chips giving a forum for this continued BS, especially by BWD who gets crazy at the drop of a hat, tolerates no disagreement & is totally addicted to drama, imo.

          • Camille

            By the time this is all over, BWD will be persona non grata. She better step away quickly with her crock while she still has any shred of self-respect left.

    • Bri

      I just read both of their posts. All the posts that disagreed with both of them, did it in an respectful manner. I don’t understand what happened.

    • Miranda

      OK, I went to the thread…and I would guess that 95% of the comments were disagreeing with BWD and not in any malicious way but well thought out, civil responses. Where did BWD threaten to leave the site? Is she upset because everyone pretty much disagreed with her except for maybe 3 or 4 people?

      • crazycanuck

        Chk the Bit n pieces post. I’m still SMDH about all of this

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

        Seriously!

        Where have we seen this before??

      • Camille

        Seriously!

        Where have we seen this before??

    • Aquagranny911

      I like TOD for the great pics & coverage of PBO’s doings that we don’t get on MSM plus there are some good people doing OFA work who post there. However if BWD & Chips want to keep getting their panties in a wad over this total non-issue of: PBO “has to speak out in support of gay marriage” I will be so finished. There are lots of other sources for what that site provides. I don’t have time or energy for ridiculous BS!

      I have LG&T friends so I am not insensitive to their issues but all my friends are total supporters of PBO & see all the good things he is doing. They put their energy to work volunteering for OFA not flapping their mouths off about media created nonsense.

    • Daltex82

      Oh well, I lurk there but websites come and go everyday, but see how easy that was.

      step 1: Find wedge issue
      step 2: Push it with the help of our bought and sold media
      step 3: Wait for supposed Obama supporters to panic
      step 4: Watch infighting ensue

      While this is going on, rethuglicans and their media sidekicks are in lock step planning their next move to help slide slimy Monmey into office. It’s gotta warm the evil souls of rethugs to know how easy some Obama supporters/Dems are.

    • Camille

      Fuck BWD.

    • Camille

      Wow!

      This is exactly what I meant about people pretending to be supporters of President Obama but using whatever medium they control to try to hold ransom the very same folks who made them and their blogs.

      Power corrupts and threatening to shut down a blog that has been built up with the support of others just because one fucking spoiler’s feelings have been hurt is bullshit.

      And for that, they can both go to hell.

  • rikyrah

    Posted at 02:32 PM ET, 05/08/2012
    TheWashingtonPost
    The amnesia candidate
    By Greg Sargent

    Mitt Romney, during his big speech today in Lansing, Michigan:


    I propose an entirely different course, a new course — unlike anything of our past. It will draw on the creativity and invention of the world’s most innovative citizenry. Government will be the partner, not the master….
    The President is trying to breathe life into the failed policies of the past. We’ve got to instead invigorate the spirit of free people and free enterprises with a new vision for the future.

    RNC spokesperson Alexandra Francheschi, in a recent exchange with a reporter about Romney’s approach to the economy:

    REPORTER: Now, how different is that concept from what were the policies of the Bush administration? … Is this a different program or is this that program just updated?
    FRANCHESCHI: I think it’s that program, just updated.
    This isn’t just a gotcha. It goes right to the heart of what this whole campaign is all about.

    The big danger for Obama is the possibility that swing voters will accept the basic premise of Romney’s candidacy — that his success in the private sector shows he possesses basic leadership qualities and a talent for turning around troubled enterprises that can be applied to a whole country. Obama’s rebuttal is that Romney amounts to more than whatever aura of competence he manages to project; he is offering a set of policies, priorities, and ideas about the economy that we’ve already tried and that have already failed.

    Romney’s big speech today was all about obscuring this. In addition to repeatedly proclaiming his approach is unlike anything we’ve tried before, he repeatedly claimed that Obama is the candidate who embodies the failed policies of the past — an effort to muddy the waters around what is increasingly becoming the central argument of the campaign.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-amnesia-candidate/2012/05/08/gIQARwLzAU_blog.html

  • Miranda

    ROFLMAO

    Awkward! Republicans Who Opposed Auto Bailout Stumped By Romney Claiming Credit For It

    As long as Mitt Romney publicly claims credit for the auto industry’s recovery, he’s going to put his fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill in an awkward position. Nearly all of them have attacked the Obama administration’s bailout in exceptionally harsh terms, despite the fact that the administration’s actions are widely understood to have saved the industry.

    In the Capitol on Tuesday, two Senate Republicans struggled to respond.

    more here
    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/auto-bailout-romney-republicans-bankruptcy.php

    • Aquagranny911

      LOL! I wonder just how many of those Repugs dream of smothering the Mittster while he sleeps so they can beg for a “do over.”

      • Camille

        Lol, you are so bad!

  • rikyrah

    Tue May 08, 2012 at 11:25 AM PDT.

    Mitt Romney mum in Michigan on auto industry he takes credit for saving+
    by Jed Lewison

    Mitt Romney yesterday in Ohio on how he deserved credit for saving the auto industry:

    I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So, I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back.

    Mitt Romney today in Michigan on how he deserved credit for saving the auto industry:

    No, that’s not a typo. That blockquote was intentionally left blank—because in his 2,250 word speech delivered in Michigan, the home to America’s big three auto companies, Mitt Romney didn’t say a single word about how he deserves credit for saving the auto industry. The reason is obvious: he doesn’t deserve credit, and he knows it. .

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/08/1089776/-Mitt-Romney-in-Michigan-makes-no-mention-of-auto-industry-he-takes-credit-for-saving

  • Miranda

    I saw this tweet

    Sam Youngman‏@samyoungman
    In Lansing, Romney makes point that folks can’t live off “the puny interest that comes with CDs these days.”

    So I went to find the line from Mitt’s speech:
    Moms and Dads who used to sit down for dinner with the kids are now working different hours, and the kids eat pretty much on their own. Retirees who had saved and planned for retirement can’t sell their home, and can’t begin to live off the puny interest from their CDs.

    ______________________

    Does Mitt know what 2nd and 3rd shift means? Does he understand that not every person that retires plans to sell their house they just paid off 5 years ago and by that condo in a retirement village in central Florida? I just…his whole worldview is just so limited. Does he know how most people could care less that somebody can’t live off the “puny interest” of a freaking CD? He is totally unaware…totally.

    • crazycanuck

      Nothing this man says anymore surprises me, Nothing.

    • Town

      Most people don’t even have the money to GET a puny CD.

    • Camille

      At this point, Romney is just pulling it all out of his frozen arse and hoping no one calls him on it.

      And the sorry media won’t.

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

    But the media won’t talk about this.

    Unemployment Rate Without Government Cuts: 7.1%

    By Justin Lahart

    One reason the unemployment rate may have remained persistently high: The sharp cuts in state and local government spending in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and the layoffs those cuts wrought.

    The Labor Department’s establishment survey of employers — the jobs count that it bases its payroll figures on — shows that the government has been steadily shedding workers since the crisis struck, with 586,000 fewer jobs than in December 2008. Friday’s employment report showed the cuts continued in April, with 15,000 government jobs lost.

    *snip*

    The unemployment rate would be far lower if it hadn’t been for those cuts: If there were as many people working in government as there were in December 2008, the unemployment rate in April would have been 7.1%, not 8.1%.

    MORE: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/05/08/unemployment-rate-without-government-cuts-7-1/

    Ahem…

    African Americans are 30% more likely to hold government jobs than other workers; from 2008-2010, 21.2% of black workers were employed in the public sector, compared to just 16.3% of non-black workers.

    • Ebogan63

      Yet, the sole patrol and CBC shills drone on about ‘PBO and black unemployment’

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

        But they never, ever mention the cut in public sector jobs. Never.

        • Ebogan63

          Hell, Sep, I seen y’all tweet this very thing to them, and they never acknowledge the point.

    • rikyrah

      1. WHO cut those government jobs?

      GOP GOVERNORS.

      2. Of course, it was on purpose.

      3. I have been pointing out for awhile that the Black unemployment rate was tied to the destruction of public sector jobs.

      • BoomerGal

        Exactly! Private sector jobs are reserved for white folks.

  • Miranda

    The media continues to shrill for Mitt, same ole, same ole

    Pew Study for April 30 – May 6
    http://www.journalism.org/commentary_backgrounder/pejs_election_report

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  • Miranda

    Private Jobs Increase More With Democrats in White House

    During an election-year clash over which U.S. political party has the best prescription for curing unemployment, Democrats can argue that almost two-thirds of private-sector job growth in the past five decades came with them in the White House.

    The BGOV Barometer shows that since Democrat John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, non-government payrolls in the U.S. swelled by almost 42 million jobs under Democrats, compared with 24 million for Republican presidents, according to Labor Department figures
    Democrats hold the edge though they occupied the Oval Office for 23 years since Kennedy’s inauguration, compared with 28 for the Republicans. Through April, Democratic presidents accounted for an average of 150,000 additional private-sector paychecks per month over that period, more than double the 71,000 average for Republicans.

    more here
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-08/private-jobs-increase-more-with-democrats-in-white-house.html

  • crazycanuck

    OT: I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. I need a career change. I’m just not sure wth Iwant to do. I like computers. Should I do something with computers, that will take at least 4yrs of my life lol. I don’t know. Should I do something in my field but on a management level? Don’t know. I’m so confused lol.

    • Camille

      Go for the Management level in your field, but do it with a twist and zest!

      Take as many certificate courses as you can find, that way you keep moving on up while learning and growing on the side.

      Go get them!

  • Miranda

    I hate linking to huffho but thats the only place I saw this…truly despicable people.

    Repeal Of Protections For Abused Immigrants Tied To Mail-Order Bride Company

    A top official at anti-domestic violence advocacy group that has been encouraging the House GOP to roll back protections for immigrant victims in the Violence Against Women Act (or VAWA) has founded a controversial international matchmaking company, domestic violence workers warned lawmakers on Monday night.

    The advocacy group, SAVE Services, has been lobbying the House of Representatives to include a “reform to curb VAWA immigration fraud” in its version of the bill. The GOP version of the bill does that by removing confidentiality protections for immigrant victims of abuse and forcing them to tell their alleged abusive husbands that they’re applying for protected immigrant status. It also removes an avenue through whih immigrant victims can achieve permanent citizenship.

    An official of SAVE Services has a major financial interest in reducing immigrant protections: Its treasurer, Natasha Spivack, started international “marriage service” Encounters International in 1993 with the aim of arranging marriages between U.S. men and Russian women. “The Woman Of Your Dreams Just May have a Russian Accent,” states the company’s website.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/violence-against-women-act_n_1500693.html?ref=mostpopular

  • Miranda

    O’Reilly sure is doing his damdest to try and create a firestorm. He really really wants there to be a “black mobs roving beating up innocent pure white people!” uproar…it aint happening. The editor of the paper pretty much said his reporter’s mouth wrote a check his ass couldn’t cash..end of story.

    O’Reilly Producer Confronts Editor Of Virginia Paper About Covering Up ‘Racially Motivated’ Assault
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oreilly-producer-confronts-editor-of-virginia-paper-about-covering-up-racially-motivated-assault/

  • isonprize

    Hey POU,

    Anybody else notice that Ms. Viviette Applewhite is wearing a hoody??

    HHHmmmmm

    • Miranda

      Ha! I just noticed!

    • Aquagranny911

      LOL! Thanks, I had to go back & look but yes she is!

  • rikyrah

    GOP slams Obama for agreeing with the GOP (again)
    By Steve Benen – Tue May 8, 2012 4:30 PM EDT.

    The Republican National Committee hosted a teleconference call with reporters earlier, and clearly the big news from the discussion was the Republicans’ Hispanic Outreach Director, Bettina Inclan, saying that Mitt Romney is “still deciding what his position on immigration is.”

    I think it was meant to be some kind of complement.

    But there was something else in the same teleconference that struck me as interesting.


    [Inclan] did slam Obama on immigration, saying Latinos were “incredibly disappointed” with his immigration policy and his failure to persuade Congress to enact immigration reform.

    “He talked about uniting families and all he’s done is deport more immigrants than any president in American history,” she said. “It’s another example of how he’s failed the Hispanic community.”

    [Inclan] did slam Obama on immigration, saying Latinos were “incredibly disappointed” with his immigration policy and his failure to persuade Congress to enact immigration reform.

    “He talked about uniting families and all he’s done is deport more immigrants than any president in American history,” she said. “It’s another example of how he’s failed the Hispanic community.”

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/08/11602529-gop-slams-obama-for-agreeing-with-the-gop-again?lite

  • rikyrah

    A Word from Tally: A response to BWD

    First I want to thank BWD for her amazing, heartfelt piece on Marriage Equality. Everyone should have that experience, and feel that way. I really feel if more people cared about the happiness and well being of others, this would be a much better world. Perhaps that is all it will take – personal experience.

    Alas, we are not there today. In fact I feel that if we’re not careful, and don’t recognize RightWing PropagandaBait when it’s thrown at us (thanks to our GOPWHOREMEDIA™®), we’re going to give this election to the crazies.

    I am just about at the end of my rope regarding the shortsightedness of the Left.

    I am straight. I never woke up and made a decision that I was going to like men. I just do. It was never a choice.

    I was born and raised in Southern California. I grew up in Theatre, and in the Entertainment Industry. It’s hard to avoid if you live here. I have countless friends who are gay. Most of them are in more stable, long-term relationships than my straight friends. Many of them married during the brief window of legality, only to have forces of hate from across the country send in millions of dollars – including donations from Mitt Romney – to fund taking away the rights of other humans they disagree with.

    Yes. Marriage (and complete) Equality should be a no-brainer. No one’s marriage has any affect whatsoever on another’s. But what we’ve witnessed during the Prop 8 fight here in California has shown that there are not only a majority on the Right who disagree vehemently with this, and feel the government should be given jurisdiction over who can love and marry whom, there are many on the Left, that for whatever reason, religious or otherwise, also (unfortunately still) feel the same.

    Yet today, there is a new groundswell for President Obama to come out before the biggest, most important, and what maybe the most contentious election in my lifetime, in support for repealing DOMA. Of course many Liberal Bloggers who didn’t get their Progressive Pony due to all the GOP and BlueDog obstruction are once again putting their PL EmoProg hats on and whining about every problem President Obama didn’t instantly fix with his Magic Harry Potter Wand™, and have jumped on the End DOMA Yesterday bandwagon, because life wouldn’t be complete without something to complain about.

    Take The Nation’s Richard Kim who whines that President Obama has “evolved rightward” on his position on Marriage Equality (subscribe for free for access).

    Dear EmoProgs,

    Seriously? This is your line in the sand for the most Progressive President in the last 50 years who has done more for LGBT rights than any other President? You want to force him to say more than he already has, and mock him for his stance on it?

    Why, exactly? What do you hope you’ll gain? That he’ll come out and say YES, I’m all for getting rid of DOMA before the election? Because……. you think that the LGBT people who will vote for him outnumber the crazies on the Right, and the religious on the Left who disagree? Really? You really think that President Obama will win in a landslide if he does that?

    If you honestly believe that, you’re dreaming. If it didn’t work in California for Prop H8te, then it’s not going to work on a National level, and we’ll end up with President Romney who will repeal every single supportive law for LGBT people including DADT, AND then some!

    http://theobamadiary.com/2012/05/08/a-word-from-tally-a-response-to-bwd/

    • crazycanuck

      Isn’t that what everyone has been saying? Is it somehow better coming from Tally? Anyway moving on.

      ok that sounded kind of bitchy lol. Didn’t mean too

      • Aquagranny911

        That’s okay, great minds & all that…I was thinking the same thing. I will hope this all blows over soon…hohum.

        I really like TOD for the great coverage of what PBO is doing & for posts from people doing OFA work & Tweeters slamming the GOP & media.

        However, I really could do without the occasional drama that seems to erupt. Some of these people need to get a real firm grip in the coming months or they will be unglued & wasting energy. This is going to be a nasty hard fought campaign & not for the faint of heart.

        • lamh35

          Amen.

      • lamh35

        It’ is exactly what everyone else has said, but I think Chips realized she may have erred by posting BWD’s statement and she opened up a can of worms and elevated another one of BWD” (an a few others) elevated fake non-treversy of the day/week/month.

        So she posted Tally’s as a rebuttal and the majority of TOD commenters agree with Tally and not BWD. And now BWD is saying that she knew she was not long for TOD. and somehow got Chips to fall for her latest.

        It’s getting VERY tiring.

    • Aquagranny911

      I replied to Tally with this:

      If BWD is so very passionate on this particular issue why didn’t she use her own blog for this screed rather than igniting a shit storm at TOD?

      Just asking…..

      I’m tired of this BS. Looks like media & PL halfwits successfully grabbed some people’s attention from what they should be doing & THAT IS:

      Getting PBO re-elected & Dem butts in the seats of Congress!

      • lamh35

        BWD was definitely treated horribly by the faux-gressive blogosphere, but her blog has been closed for at least a year right? It’s time to stop with the victimhood act.

        I like GN really do appreciate what BWD tried to do with her blog. It’s what led Chips and TOD to become what it is now. But this is her MO. If those who constantly defend her because she is a supporter of POTUS (which I do believe she it) would go back and see the tenor of the post on the last days of BWD’s blog, it became clear that it wasn’t just the faux-gressives BS which led to BWD ending her own blog, but they’s also admit that her post at the end had a serious emo-prog feel to them.

        Anyway, like I said on the previous thread, this is NOT the first time and it will NOT be the last time this happens with BWD or TOD. It’s become a steady thing.

        • crazycanuck

          She was absouletely treated horribly, yet she still goes to that site and post links to that site.

          She was wrong, and so was Chipsticks for front paging it. Sorry not giving either a pass, much as I like them both. You are right this will happen again, it’s her MO. I don’t think this is for BWD at all. She is too thin skinned. And you are right this ‘victimhood’ is getting very tiring

        • Camille

          Sorry. Never thought much of her.

          Sure, I appreciated the support for President Obama, but it seems to come at too high a price.

          My support and yours are no less valuable.

          In fact I would contend that my support, your support is actually more valuable because it is never predicated on the President meeting some demand or another or any one of us depressing or chipping away at less solid support by spouting off PL/Emoprog talking points and sentiments that have no basis in truth or fact.

      • Camille

        Amen! Amen! Amen!

    • lamh35

      BWD was definitely treated horribly by the faux-gressive blogosphere. I like GN really do appreciate what BWD tried to do with her blog. It’s what led Chips and TOD to become what it is now. But this is her MO. If those who constantly defend her because she is a supporter of POTUS (which I do believe she it) would go back and see the tenor of the post on the last days of BWD’s blog, it became clear that it wasn’t just the faux-gressives BS which led to BWD ending her own blog, but they’s also admit that her post at the end had a serious emo-prog feel to them.

      Anyway, like I said on the previous thread, this is NOT the first time and it will NOT be the last time this happens with BWD or TOD. It’s become a steady thing.

      Now BWD is saying that she knew that with that post she may not be long for TOD and somehow Chips fell for the latest act of victimhood.

      • Aquagranny911

        IMHO, BWD courts drama, needs constant attention & can’t tolerate any disagreement with her POV. It was shameful how she was treated at Kos but she did not help herself by her own attitudes & behavior. She had a lot of loyal supporters who followed her when she made her own blog. But she started to struggle there anytime she got anything but worshipful attendance on her opinions. She closed up shop because she could not stay the course, imo. I’ve lost respect for her.

      • Camille

        Sorry, but unlike some of my family here, I revoked her perpetual free pass card ages ago.

        At this point she is a distraction and in my opinion full of shit.

        I’m done and do not wish to even think about her any longer.

  • rikyrah

    Mitt Romney Versus Reality: Auto Recovery Edition

  • Miranda

    Leonard Pitts: Race and criminality

    I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.Granted, it was gratifying to read recently in The Miami Herald about his crude animus toward Mexicans (“soft ass wanna be thugs”) and his reference to a former girlfriend as an “ex-hoe.” Given the way white supremacists and other Zimmerman supporters have exaggerated and manufactured evidence to paint Zimmerman’s unarmed 17-year-old victim, Trayvon Martin, as a thug who somehow deserved shooting, this unflattering portrait offers the same satisfaction one feels any time the goose is basted with sauce that was prepared for the gander.

    But ultimately, Zimmerman’s online profile is as irrelevant as Trayvon’s to any real understanding of the social dynamics that were at play the night the boy was shot to death. Worse, our fixation on this ephemera, the need on the one hand to make Trayvon some dark gangsta straight from Central Casting and on the other to find a Klan hood in the back of Zimmerman’s closet, suggests a shallow, even naive, understanding of the role race seems to have played in this tragedy.

    Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2012/05/05/2036959/leonard-pitts-race-and-criminality.html#storylink=cpy

  • Miranda

    U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is receiving extra security after a comment at a recent Tea Party rally that has been construed as a potential threat.

    At an event Thursday in Springfield, Mo., Scott Boston, a St. Louis area activist who has been involved with the Tea Party, told the crowd “we have to get Claire McCaskill out.”

    “We have to kill the Claire Bear ladies and gentlemen,” Boston said. “She walks around like she’s some sort of Rainbow Brite Care Bear or something but really she’s an evil monster.”

    The comment was seen as ominous enough to prompt the U.S. Capitol Police to seek extra protection for the Missouri Democrat.

    Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/mccaskill-receiving-extra-security-after-kill-the-claire-bear-comment/article_73cfd08a-993f-11e1-9c4a-0019bb30f31a.html#ixzz1uJhISDr1

    • Aquagranny911

      Sweet Blushing Baby Jesus! This guy is the real “evil monster” In his world view if you disagree with someone just “kill” them?!?

      Dear Lord, save us from people like this!

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

    Obama leads Romney, helped by independents

    By Deborah Charles

    WASHINGTON | Tue May 8, 2012 3:12pm EDT

    (Reuters) – President Barack Obama extended his lead over Republican Mitt Romney to seven percentage points because of increased support from independent voters and some optimism over the economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.

    Obama was backed by 49 percent of registered voters in a telephone poll conducted from May 3-7, compared to 42 percent who supported his likely rival in November’s presidential election. In April, the poll showed Obama leading Romney 47 percent to 43 percent.

    Obama’s overall approval rating among the 1,131 adults surveyed was 50 percent, up one point from last month, while 47 percent said they disapproved of how he handles his presidency.

    MORE: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/08/us-usa-campaign-poll-idUSBRE84714W20120508

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  • lamh35

    Evening POU. I’ve been at work, but I caught up alittle at about noon and read the BS at TOD by BWD. I’ve said my piece in comments here, so I won’t add anymore, but good to see POU commenters “Shooting down firebaggers & teabaggers one truth at a time…” (add chicken-little Obama supporters) no matter what.

    Now if we could just get rikyrah to get her own twitter account…lol

  • Aquagranny911

    Okay, somone at TOD tried to shoot me down for saying that BWD should have posted her diary at her own blog instead of TOD. It seems that while SOME people are entitled to their opinions I am not included in that group.

    BWD wrote her little piece of caca because she was getting shot down in the comment section prior to that & Chips gave her a wider forum where she mostly got shot down again & then whined about taking her marbles, such as they are and leaving because she requires total agreement & worship.

    I’m sick of this BS. We have real work to do while people get caught up in petty caca.

    Sorry for the rant…I’m done with that now.

    • crazycanuck

      I actually think you have a point. Why didn’t she use her own blog for this?Why put the blog owner of TOD in the position to have to defend that nonsense.

      • lamh35

        I suspect that Chips either agrees with her a little bit, or it’s like I said, BWD in some ways in the blog “god-father” to TOD. So I get why Chips is so much lenient with BWD than other commenters.

    • Camille

      Aquagranny, you speak for so many of us.

      BWD needs to just go away and stay away with her sorry self. She has succeeded in taking up so much time and energy and detracting from the serious work at hand.

      If she has anything to say, she needs to go start up her blog and do it over there where people like me do not ever have to see or hear from her ever again.

  • crazycanuck

    Someone give me the rundown on this Lugar guy. Why doesn’t anyone seem to choked up that he lost? He’s a Dem right?

    • Camille

      Republican who seemed like a sensible grandpa kind and had worked well with then Senator Obama on Nuclear proliferation, but went completely partisan sadly once President Obama was elected. Karma.

    • vulcan_girl

      He voted against the DREAM Act when he supported it prevously. He also hasn’t had a residence in the state since selling their house the 1970s, but was still registered to vote at said house.

      This does put the seat within the reach of the Dems, AND while creepy Mike Pence is running for governor there is no incumbent, so I’d be surprised if OFA has not already begun expanding the campaign.

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

    Anyone watching the Twitter exchange between Jamil Smith (http://twitter.com/#!/JamilSmith) and Dr. Jason Johnson (http://twitter.com/#!/DrJasonJohnson)? Apparently, Smith does not approve of Dr. Johnson’s op-ed about Naomi Schafer Riley: http://politic365.com/2012/05/08/white-feminist-racism-where-the-wild-things-are/

    • dannie22

      I dont have a problem with what Dr Johnson wrote. Is Jamil just concern trolling? Jamil puts up with Maddows racism, so I guess hes ok with it

    • Miranda

      What the hell was Jamil’s point?

  • rikyrah

    Balloon Juice went crazy with this thread. …it’s hilarious

    it just kept going on and on with what Willard has done…it’s at 300 replies and growing.

    ………………..

    These two former presidential candidates are thinking: “I never got away with that”
    By Kay May 8th, 2012

    Rare bipartisan agreement on Mitt Romney taking credit for the rescue of the auto industry:


    “Romney said that he was responsible for the auto bailout?” asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in disbelief, unaware that Romney had told a local affiliate in Ohio he should be credited for having saved the industry. “I’d have to look at the context of his remarks. I know that if the auto companies had gone into bankruptcy like thousands of small businesses had to do across America, they could’ve emerged without the sweetheart deal for the unions like was orchestrated by the Obama administration.”

    Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) laughed at Mitt Romney’s claim to “a lot of credit” for the auto bailout.
    “I just – he cannot be serious,” Kerry told TPM in the Capitol Tuesday.

    http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/05/08/these-two-former-presidential-candidates-are-thinking-i-never-got-away-with-that/

    • Ebogan63

      That was almost as funny as #corybookerstories.
      Good ones.

    • crazycanuck

      LOL

      Next Romney will deny that he ever was a Mormon and that he was raises a poor black child, just like Obama.

  • rikyrah

    they’ve already called the Indiana Senate Primary – Lugar is OUT.

    • Miranda

      teeheehee

  • Miranda

    Evening thread is up!