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Wednesday Evening Thread: ICYMI Videos

August 15, 2012 by 161 Comments

Here are a few In Case You Missed It Videos:

The Last Word: Rewriting Romney and Ryan on Tax Returns

The Last Word: Paul Ryan’s Stimulus Hypocrisy

PoliticsNation: Republicans running away from Ryan

 

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  • lamh35

    if you need any further evidence that the usual suspects who are hyperventilating over the Biden non-treversy, here is is, I think this is the “jumping shark moment” of that bullshit.

    McCain Suggests Dumping Biden

    Sen. John McCain said he thinks “it might be wise” for President Obama to replace Vice President Joe Biden on the ticket with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Politico reports.

    Said McCain: “I think it might be wise to do that. But it’s not going to happen…If I were Hillary Clinton, I’m not sure I’d want to be on that team.”

    BWHAHAHA… They’ve got nothing. This whole Biden “chains” bullshit is just trying to change the subject and it ain’t working. The Romney camp still seems unhinged and no one is fooled by their Obama is divisive B.S. The Romney camp is whining to the refs and what they look like are whiners.

    Replace Biden with Clinton…Grandpa ‘Cain needs to go back to shouting at clouds and telling kids to “get off his lawn”…

    • jds09

      Replace Biden with…..humm let’s see….the Easter Bunny! Makes about the same amount of sense. lol

      • GN

        This dude ran Palin on a national presidential ticket. A choice so poor that she’s even locked out of the GOP convention this year. Cartoon characters as running mates seem to suit him indeed.

    • Kennymack1971

      Ride or Die Joe ain’t going nowhere…sorry bitches.

    • GN

      …and what’s on those missing tax returns again? I can’t barely address these remarks, as J. McCain has no credibility when it comes to Vice Presidential selections. Hard to care that he even said this.

    • nellcote

      Palin suggested this today. I guess it’s the wingnut talking point of the day. I wonder what they’re trying to distract from now.

      • GN

        Possibly a lot of internal fighting and chaos within the GOP. The PUMAs seem to get dragged out when there’s a desperate need to see PBO and Clinton partisans fighting.

        • Aquagranny911

          Half the GOP probably been sitting in bars since Saturday trying to drown their sorrows &hoping they can survive Lying Ryan & little Mittster.

      • gc

        everything they do makes romney look worse. It is a f’ing science at this point. they are like dk, an outrage of the day.dkos lost a lot of members….

    • Aquagranny911

      I think my eyes just rolled so far back in my head I passed out. McCain trying to give advice on VP’s….BWaaaaHaaaaa!!!

    • GOVCHRIS1988

      Why the hell would we listen to VP Nomination suggestions from a person who wanted to nominate Joe Lieberman and who did nominate Moosewoman? Take a long walk off a small boat in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, John.

  • GreenLadyHere

    Good – - WEDNESDAY – -Evenin’ miranda. :>) Thank U 4 those reminders! :>) POWERFUL SUPPORT 4 MR. PRESIDENT!! :>)

    – — -4! – - -MORE! – — -YEARS! :>) – –

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — -HAH! – — -The R2 Team is in DISARRAY!! – - – — LOL – - –

    – - – Romney Adviser ‘Embarrassed’ He Doesn’t Know When Romney Would Balance Budget, But Shouldn’t Be – -

    — – -Senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie was caught off guard Wednesday when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked him how long Romney’s budget proposal would take to balance the national budget:
    – – -SNIP – -

    GILLESPIE: Uh…Wolf, I’m not sure of that myself, actually. I’ll get that to you though and I’m sure it’s on our website. I should know it and I’m embarrassed on your air that I don’t have that number at the top of my head. I didn’t know we were going to talk about that today. I apologize. I should have prepared for that question. I didn’t know you were going to ask.

    - -[BWAHAHA: Sound FAMILIAR: - --I'LL GET BACK 2 U!! - -LOL]

    Watch it:
    – - – - -SNIP — -
    Gillespie didn’t have the number on hand because, as Romney himself said in March, his budget plan “can’t be scored” and is missing key details about which deductions it would eliminate. Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan failed to answer the same question a day earlier, telling Fox News’ Brit Hume, “I don’t know exactly what the balance is. I don’t want to get wonky on you, but we haven’t run the numbers on that specific plan.”

    In sum, Romney’s plan is “mathematically impossible.”
    THERE IS MORE.

    – — -HE/THEY GOIN’ DOWN – – -B4 – -their NOMINATION!! HAH!!

    • GN

      So they supposedly want to run a “serious” “issues” campaign yet not even the VP candidate, much less Gillespie, seems to have any grasp whatsoever of one of Romney’s central issues. Glad to see that at least they were asked the question.

    • Aquagranny911

      Ryan didn’t get schooled that he was either to say: “I’ll get back to you on that” or even better “We will tell you after you (are dumb enough to) elect us”

      Lying Ryan better go back for remedial instruction.

  • GN

    …psst Miranda: typo in the title–should be *Wednesday* evening thread.

    • isonprize

      Don’t do that to me Miranda.

      It thought I missed a WHOLE DAY!! LOLOLOL

      • Aquagranny911

        Me too!

      • Miranda

        But the sad part is….when I created the post I wrote Thursday…..and said “gee the week went by really fast.” I need some sleep.

    • GreenLadyHere

      GN – - – -

      – — -HERE YA GO. GET YOUR 24 hours BACK!! LOL

  • GreenLadyHere

    LOL – -GN – - –THEY in DIS-ARRAY annnd R – —

    – – - – –SPIRALING DOWN!! – — -HAH!

    – — -WAY-ELL. This is WHAT HAPPENS 2 – — – -EXCREMENT!! – — -

    YES! FINALLY – — The QUESTION was axed! :>)

    • GN

      GLH, did you see my comment about Zimmerman in the afternoon thread? It was kind of buried in a comment about another topic. But I thought you’d like an update on that Stand Your Ground hearing press conference and the pathetic state of Zimmerman’s finances and legal defense: http://pragmaticobotsunite.com/wednesday-afternoon-thread-president-obama-on-star-102-5/#comment-620412976

      • Aquagranny911

        Zimmerman will be having a public defender by the time the trial starts. His lawyer right now is a money grubbing grifter.

      • GreenLadyHere

        GN ♥- — THANK U sooo MUCH. I had a mini-emergency annd missed some of the afternoon. I will get back 2 it. :>) —-Thank U 4 your —KINDNESS! :>) ***HUGS**

        • GN

          Thank *you* for caring so much about Trayvon! Long story short, the lawyer conceded that his client will not even be attempting to use a SYG defense, and Zimmerman is begging for money from the public and “living like a hermit.”

          • GreenLadyHere

            GN – - -**HUG** — – -Thank U. :>) GR8 NEWS!! – - -HAH!! – –

            — -KARMA!! – — Goin’ 4 da –”W” -

            Woo. Hoo! – - -RIHEP – - -T.M. — -

            Bless U –GN.

          • GN

            It’s still going to be a long and ugly road, but keep the faith! **BIG HUGS** back to you, GLH.

          • Miranda

            I can’t wait for the day he’s sentenced.

          • GN

            Hoping and praying for justice to be done here so that Trayvon’s poor family can go about the truly hard work of having to live without that child.

          • TyrenM

            What (lil john voice?) Cracker money has dried up? The attorney taking his money and running now. On to the next one.

  • isonprize

    I have no idea who Louie Ludwig is, but HE AIN’T PLAYING with R-money & Lyin’ Ryan either!!!

    • Aquagranny911

      I don’t know him either but I sure like what he is saying.

    • rikyrah

      simple and on point

  • Alma98

    I forgot to tell you guys all of the candidates I supported won their primaries yesterday. The fake democrats the repubs put on the ballot got zip, this tells me people are paying attention.

    • Aquagranny911

      WooHoo! Great news!

    • GreenLadyHere

      Woo! Hoo! – - – -U! GO! GUURRRLL!! — -Alma98! –***BIG HUG** – –

      —– -CONGRATULATIONS!! :>) —

      Good 2 C U —alma. :>)

    • cosine

      Allright!!!!

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - -HAH! – –Apparently he WAXES MORE PHILOSOPHICALLY than MATHEMATICALLY!! — – – WOW&1/2!! – — LOL – - -

    – - -Why Paul Ryan’s Constitution Has A Lot More In Common With Ayn Rand Than With The Founding Fathers – —

    – –Last September, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan spoke at the Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center, a Washington, D.C. arm of the conservative institution that was founded under the leadership of Supreme Court spouse Virginia Thomas. The speech was delivered in commemoration of Constitution Day, and it provides a fairly substantial window into how he understands America’s most important document. Unfortunately, the speech also raises very real doubts about whether Mr. Ryan can distinguish the founders’ vision from his own. Ryan’s speech does not simply defend his laissez faire vision for the country, it suggests that this austere vision is mandated by the Constitution itself:

    – — SNIP – –
    There’s great deal of radicalism tucked away in this seemingly high-minded speech. “Sound money” is often a code word for abandoning modern monetary policy and returning to the gold standard, but Ryan later makes clear that he really means that the Federal Reserve should abandon all efforts to reduce unemployment. Currently, the Federal Reserve has a dual mandate to control inflation and ensure unemployment does not spiral out of control. Ryan, however, concludes we must “refocus the Federal Reserve on price stability,” eliminating its obligation to assist the unemployed. He does not cite a single word of the Constitution to explain why he thinks the Founders mandated this result.
    THERE IS MORE. – –

    – - – -”WHYCOME” I’m thinkin’ that he won’t survive til NOV? — I’ON’T KNOW. JUS’ a feelin/ :>)

  • Aquagranny911

    Dang! Thursday evening already? I lost a whole day. Not good, I can’t afford that at my age, lol.

    • Miranda

      I think it was my wishful thinking playing out loud! LOL

    • GreenLadyHere

      LOL Aquagranny911 – –**BIG HUG*** :>)

      – — -HERE YA GO. GET YOUR 24 hours BACK!! LOL

      – -Good 2 C U. :>)

  • gc

    Lawrence has one big mother gauntlet.

  • GN

    Shorter PBO to pearl-clutchers: have a seat.

    Obama defends Biden on ‘chains’ comment

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is defending Vice President Joe Biden against criticism of his remarks that Republicans would put voters “back in chains.”

    Obama tells People magazine the remarks need to be seen in their regulatory context and gives his running mate a vote of confidence.

    [snip]

    Obama says Biden had no other meaning in mind but that consumers won’t be protected if Wall Street reforms are repealed.

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_BIDEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

    Much ado about nothing, and far less offensive than the GOP’s constant insult of black Dems as “on the Democratic plantation.”

  • GN

    ‏@ZerlinaMaxwell
    What other black people besides Arthur Davis and Doug Wilder are outraged over Biden comments? R they A okay? Nah but outrageous? Chill son.

    This is why it disappoints me that she still f-s with Hannity. She generally does get it right.

    ETA: I read too quickly. Gotta disagree with her here. Biden’s remarks are indeed A-Okay. Not a damn thing wrong with them unless these people want to get up in arms about Santorum talking about the chains and shackles of Obamacare. The PL concedes too much to the right, and gives their arguments, many of which are disingenuous, way too much credit, as we can see here.

    • Ebogan63

      If my 75 yr old father, and 73 yr old mother, both who grew up in Jim Crow in the South, knew what the hell Crazy Unca Joe was saying, Zerlina and all of these pearl cluchin’ kneegrows can have a roomfull of seats. And please, citing Wilder and Davis as some effin’ authority does not mean shit to me, nor anyone else black.

      • GN

        Like The Toast just said, Wilder saluted the Confederate Flag??? And is now up in arms that Biden told a crowd that if Wall St. is unchained with total deregulation, we’ll be back in chains? Confederate flag is to be saluted, yet those mild remarks from the Vice President has Wilder up in arms. GTFOH. And Artur Davis can take his bitter Gumby-looking ass on somewhere with the quickness too.

      • rikyrah

        I knew what Ride -or-Die Joe was saying.

        she can sit down with that nonsense.

      • Aquagranny911

        I’ve just got to take a little issue with the “Crazy Unka Joe” I’ve got a real Crazy Tio from Yuma. At family gatherings we put him to rocking & singing to the babies because listening to him talk makes us want to amputate our ear drums! He IS crazy & senile.

        Joe Biden is a good decent man with more than all his marbles. He has compassion, he talks from the heart & he makes sense. I loves me some Joe Biden.

        No offense but I have a lot of respect for this man.

        • isonprize

          You and me both, AG. I say his “gaffes” are TRUTH, most of the time.

        • Tafr

          AG, I am not trying to speak for EB but I think I know what EB is saying. I had a “crazy ” uncle as well but in reality he was not crazy my uncle spoke the truth. Speaking the truth about race and equality back in the day got you labeled as crazy. No Biden is not crazy but to folks that cannot handle the truth that is how they see him. You see when the truth is too much to handle you got to attack the source.

        • cosine

          I really like Joe Biden. He’s down to earth, can laugh at himself, with no jealousy issues with the Pres. Also about a month ago, I heard another side of him in a short radio interview. I didn’t even recognize his voice; he was intense, to the point, and . . . powerful. Plus I never thought his supportive same sex marriage was a gaffe.

        • JojoRaze

          Co-sign granny!! Joe Biden is a good case of still waters running deep. He is whip smart in foreign policy as he was the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and plus he’s an old school Irish Dem in that he can talk to the white Reagan Dems who weren’t too keen on PBO initially.

          Also, I love how he loves Dr. Jill. You can tell he just adores her. Plus, of course, he has PBO’s back. You can tell he would knock the taste of someone’s mouth if they disrespected PBO in front of him.

          • GN

            He’s the absolute business and so are his wife and kids. Good people.

        • Ebogan63

          Only meant it in jest, AG,I have mad respect for Joe Biden, he’s an honest dude.

    • GreenLadyHere

      GN: Has she commented on —that BILLBOARD —comparin’ MR. PRESIDENT 2 hitler? — orr any of the OTHER RACIST SLURS aimed at MR. PRESIDENT?? — -

      Ifff NOT — — ☻SEAT —– TAKE IT!! – —

      P.S. U don’t hafta know this . IT’S ON HER. :>)

  • Aquagranny911

    Near as I can see people are not exactly tripping over themselves to hear Lying Ryan speak but of course media are not showing crowds & they are avoiding covering protesters as much as possible.

    The MSM are really pissing me off. I sent off a bunch of faxes today & BTW Ryan’s congressional fax line was shut down! These goatfiggers think they can run & hide & lie to their hearts content because the media lets them.

    That Ann Romney is a real disgusting piece of work! I did enjoy her discomfort in the interview with Natalie Morales. Miss Ann has such a mean face there isn’t enough Botox in the world that will fix that. She did look a little better dressed this time.

    • conlakappa

      Since Presumptive Rapid Blinker became the presumptive canidate, the MSM has been using a shot so tight that one could mistake it for a money shot that Ron Jeremy would envy.

  • GN

    @TheToast2012
    Doug Wilder is the last person to chastize Joe Biden. Wilder saluted the Confederate flag flying in Richmond.

    • GreenLadyHere

      GN – - -I watch his MOUTH MOVE on wolfe “BLISTER”. – — He was BAITED annnd REELED IN – -like a – –good – -FLYIN’ –SMILIN’ —HUNGRY CATFISH! — -

      It was —DISGUSTING!! geesh!!

      • Town

        ROTF @ hungry catfish!

        • GreenLadyHere

          HEEY Town. ***BIG HUG*** :>)

          ***bows demurely** —Thank U. :>)- -

          Good 2 C U :>)

  • Miranda

    PBO to Romney: Kiss off

    President Obama: No Apologies, No Scolding for Joe Biden’s Remark

    Vice President Joe Biden may have sparked the latest war of words in the presidential campaign, but he’ll get no talking-to from the boss on this one. Just a small sigh – and a vote of confidence.

    PEOPLE sat down with President Obama one day after Biden’s remark to voters in Virginia on Tuesday – that GOP running mates Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan are “going to put y’all back in chains” – and asked the President if he’d spoken to Biden about the controversial comment.

    more here
    http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20621447,00.html

  • Miranda

    More holdover shit from the Bush administration…SMH

    Muslim group blasts judge over “sea monster” comparison

    excerpt:
    The lawsuit, jointly filed by CAIR and the American Civil Liberties Union last year in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, said the FBI sent undercover informant Craig Monteilh into Orange County mosques to collect personal information on hundreds, or possibly thousands, of Muslims.

    According to the suit, Monteilh took hundreds of hours of surreptitious video and audio recordings of religious lectures, classes, cultural events and other meetings in 2006 and 2007 as part of a counterterrorism investigation, known as “Operation Flex,” that did not produce a single conviction.

    more here
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/us-usa-mosque-lawsuit-idUSBRE87E1BX20120815

  • Miranda

    Yes, Mr. Ryan, I’m from Iowa
    The Republican V.P. rudely dismissed me when I asked him whether he planned to cut Medicare

    Attention, Congressman Ryan: I am one of the women you said must not be from Iowa or Wisconsin because we did not sit back quietly, respectfully, and smile and say nothing while you lied to us during your first solo stump speech as a vice-presidential candidate at the Iowa State Fair earlier this week. Actually, I am from Iowa. I grew up here. My parents are from here. I have taught school here, in Des Moines, for 40 years.

    more here
    http://www.salon.com/2012/08/15/ryans_policies_arent_iowa_nice/

  • rikyrah

    Blatant dishonesty matters more than who’s ‘mean’

    By Steve Benen

    Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:36 PM EDT.

    Romney in Ohio, in front of some of the coal miners he lied to about welfare.

    Following Mitt Romney’s minor breakdown yesterday, in which he complained bitterly about President Obama not being nice enough to him, there all kinds of media analyses today on the 2012 race reaching a “poisonous” level. Ben Smith speculated today on how the campaign “got so mean.”

    What these pieces overlook is any consideration of whether the candidates’ attacks and counter-attacks are accurate. The media establishment seems to care a great deal about whether the major-party candidates and their respective teams embrace provocative rhetoric, but spent almost no time whatsoever examining whether the campaigns are being honest.

    Apparently, there’s a difference between deceiving the public and being “mean.”

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/15/13301203-blatant-dishonesty-matters-more-than-whos-mean?lite

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — O.K. – –THIS is UNIQUE. – - –:>) – -

    – - – -Irish American Democrats to launch ‘McBLACKPAC’ – - -

    — – -An Irish-American political action committee will launch the McBLACKPAC super-PAC at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.

    The super-PAC aims to help young Irish and young black politicians win state and national elections, according to the Irish American Democrats political action committee.

    “Together we will work to elect Democratic candidates to Federal and State office who share our values on civil rights, immigration reform, education, workers’ rights, justice, the environment and economic progress,” the group said in an email this week. “Hope you will join us and look forward to working with you in the next Obama administration.”

    The groups says it wants to build on the shared history of African Americans and Irish Americans, “from Frederick Douglass and Daniel O’Connell, to President John Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King, and now President Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”– –
    — -SNIP — -

    Some other NAME — -CONSIDERED – ->“The alternative is Black and Green PAC,” O’Leary said. “It might change to that.” -
    THERE IS MORE.

    – –Hmmm – — – - -4 NOW- — -

    • GN

      That’s actually really cute, and in light of the highly successful Pres. Barack Obama–V.P. Joe Biden partnership, timely and appropriate.

      • conlakappa

        Irish and black folks have had periods of getting, living and working next to each other down at the docks and being two-thirds of the prohibition “no blacks, no dogs, no Irish.” Georgetown University was founded by a priest who had a black mother and an Irish father. Or moneyed overlords did away with the relationship incrementally, fulminating distrust between the two and then finally allowing the Irish to become white and leave us behind. Or something like that.

    • Miranda

      I love this!

    • Town

      McBLACKPAC

      ——————————

      Republican hypocritical pearl clutching ensues…

      • GN

        Oh you know they’re going to have a fit.

  • aleth

    This election should not be close— period

    Damn what is wrong with white voters? Seriously!!

    • rikyrah

      clinging to that WHITENESS

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

    I see Gwen still trying to get that Romney interview

    gwen ifill ‏@pbsgwen
    I kinda get saying “chains” instead of “shackles.” But what was “y’all” about?

    • GN

      Gwen, here’s a secret: this is not helping black people. I mean, at all. Unlike people who claim that we “play the race card,” black people didn’t get up in arms when the idiot Santorum derided the shackles and chains of ObamaCare, and we’re not up in arms now when the far more benevolent VPB spoke truthfully about the consequences of extreme deregulation. Where are our black press people who actually look out for us? Seems like in many ways, Rev. Al kinda stands alone in terms of the famous ones.

      • edp4bho

        ONLY Rev Al !!

    • MsKitty

      I’m getting so tired of this bullshit. Today proved once and for all that the majority of the Black media don’t mind being played for fools. Because it bears repeating, all we have is us.

      • gc

        Please know, MsKitty, you have me and everyone in my orbit as well.

    • aleth

      Why are these black folk pretending the gop ain’t trying to put us in chains? Why the changes in voting rules and the constant racism?

      See we need to get rid of these kind of folks who become face to our community. We need to have collective backbone… this is some foolishness

      THIS CHICK could not open her mouth when they cancelled on her.

      These black journalist are a waste of space… I bet you if the GOP did have black folks enslaved, there will be folk like her trying to rationalize it..

      Heck.. why didn’t she get upset with “obama taking us to slavery” commentary “unshakle commentary”

      Waste of space.. next….

      I bet you she would be one of the people telling MLK he was causing too much trouble

      • conlakappa

        Because they get invited to R cocktail parties when convenient and their bosses are cozy with those people. Why are you trying to deny them mini-crabcakes and satay?!

    • Miranda

      SMH……..apparently “y’all” is some sort of black thing now? Yeah, I know cuz Frank Rich told me. (he had me right up until this point) – so sick of folks, I really am.
      _________________________________

      Joe Biden told supporters in Virginia yesterday that by rolling back Wall Street reforms, Romney would “put y’all back in chains.” Republicans, predictably, screamed bloody murder. How does that rank among recent Bidenisms?

      It’s certainly one of the dumber ones. It was a complete stretch, and the use of a Southern “y’all” to pander to African-American voters was embarrassing.

      http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/frank-rich-ryans-bungled-rollout.html

      • conlakappa

        He grew up in D.C., which was a Southern town. He should know better.

    • Ebogan63

      I am so sick of the triflin media star.

  • rikyrah

    Political Animal

    Blog

    August 15, 2012 4:13 PM
    The Bigger Lie

    By Ed Kilgore

    In excoriating Romney’s campaign for its disgusting, mendacious ads and attack lines claiming Obama has re-created no-strings welfare, I probably haven’t been clear enough that this is part of a much bigger picture Team Mitt is trying to paint. WaPo’s Greg Sargent nails it here:

    The original Romney theory of the race was similar to the one animating the AFP ad. We were told for months that Romney could win by making this race nothing more than a referendum on the economy and on Obama’s stewardship of it, which was such a disaster that all Romney had to do was paint him in as a nice guy in over his head and he’d win.

    more here http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_08/the_bigger_lie039255.php

  • rikyrah

    Who’s playing racial politics in this campaign? It’s Mitt Romney
    BY MICHAEL COHEN

    Yesterday, Joe Biden said something stupid. Now it’s hardly the first time those words have been spoken and likely won’t be the last. But this time Biden’s words created something of a firestorm.

    When talking about Mitt Romney’s support for repealing Dodd-Frank and other regulations on big banks, Biden said, “They’re going to put y’all back in chains.” This was a play off Republican charges that Democrats have shackled the private sector (an assertion that might come as a surprise to Dow watchers). Still, it was a dumb thing to say, and considering that half of Biden’s audience was made up of African-Americans, looks ever more foolish and insensitive.

    But what is so fascinating about the incident is not what Biden said, but the Republican reaction to it. After taking a second to unclench their hands from the pearl necklaces around their necks, Romney campaign officials quickly attacked Obama for reaching “a new low” and the candidate himself criticized the President’s campaign of “hate.” Here on the Rumble, the perennially aggrieved Derek Hunter writes that this is yet another example of “liberal racism.”

    But if you really want to talk about who is playing the race card this year, it’s worth briefly revisiting the latest attack ad from the Romney campaign on welfare:

    http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/the_rumble/2012/08/whos-playing-racial-politics-in-this-campaign-its-mitt-romney

  • rikyrah

    Romney hits Obama’s likability

    By Jonathan Easley and Justin Sink – 08/15/12 05:50 PM ET

    Mitt Romney launched an aggressive counteroffensive this week intended to cut into one of President Obama’s biggest advantages in the presidential race: Voters like him.

    Polls showing Obama with a consistent edge in “likability” over the stiffer Romney have worried Republicans.

    Romney’s aides said his comments that Obama should take his “campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago” reflect real anger with the tone of the president’s campaign, but they acknowledged the counterattack is also strategic

    They said internal campaign polling and focus groups show the GOP attacks on Obama’s rhetoric and campaign ads are lowering Obama’s favorability numbers.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/presidential-campaign/243901-romney-attacks-obamas-like-ability

    • GN

      That’s all this is. Biden is out-polling Ryan and PBO has Romney on the ropes. Yet the national media plays along as if this disingenuous bullshit is the “serious campaign” Mittens has been claiming to run.

    • edp4bho

      “Romney’s aides said”…….”They said…….”

      See, now who believes them? Let’s see those polls.

  • Miranda

    Mitt! Stop Playing Our Song!

    Mitt Romney’s been engaging in illegal activity — playing the rock tune “Panic Switch” on the campaign trail without permission from the band Silversun Pickups — this according to the band which fired off a cease and desist letter to the candidate today.

    According to the band’s frontman Brian Aubert, Romney has been using their 2009 hit … even though no one ever asked them for permission, but it’s pretty clear he wouldn’t have gotten it even if he asked.

    Aubert says, “We don’t like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don’t like the Romney campaign. We’re nice, approachable people. We won’t bite. Unless you’re Mitt Romney!”

    Aubert also says Romney’s a victim of irony … because “he is inadvertently playing a song that describes his whole campaign.”
    http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/15/mitt-romney-cease-and-desist-silversun-pickups-song-panic-switch/

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

      Not again! LOL

      • conlakappa

        Someone could write a book about unauthorized use of songs and the R party, no?

  • rikyrah

    Who’s Raiding Medicare? Hint: It’s Not Obama.

    Jonathan Cohn
    August 15, 2012 | 1:49 pm

    Have you seen Mitt Romney’s new ad on Medicare? The video is below. The script goes like this:

    You paid in to Medicare for years. Every paycheck. Now, when you need it, Obama has cut $716 billion from Medicare. Why? To pay for Obamacare. So now the money you paid for your guaranteed health care is going to a massive new government program that’s not for you. The Romney-Ryan plan protects Medicare benefits for today’s seniors and strengthens the plan for the next generation.

    It’s not very subtle. And it’s not very true.

    By now, you should know all about the hypocrisy of Romney attacking Obama for cutting Medicare. Paul Ryan put the same cuts in his budget plan. And while Romney has insisted he’d restore them, his budget doesn’t have room for that. If he’s serious about his overall spending plan, then he’d surely have to cut Medicare by as much as Obama did. In fact, he’d probably have to cut it by even more. And that’s just in the first ten years.

    http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106213/obamacare-raiding-medicare-romney-ryan-donut-hole-drug-wellness

    • Miranda

      I find it fascinating that Romney is not stretching the truth or exaggerating…he straight up LYING…just LYING….freaking LYING. To watch this is simply mind-boggling.

      • rikyrah

        but he’s been straight up lying since the beginning of this campaign. the anger I have is that the MSM pretends that he doesn’t. that it’s just political lying…no, that’s not what this is.

        every time this mofo opens his mouth – HE IS LYING.

  • nellcote
    • isonprize

      Yeah, but Tweety is a bit, uh, shall we say, flip-floppy when it comes to supporting PBO. He may say something totally different tomorrow.

  • rikyrah

    Wed Aug 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM PDT.

    Romney/Ryan Medicaid cuts don’t put off pain for seniors +

    The cynicism in the Romney/Ryan campaign in thinking American senior citizens are so selfish that putting off the destruction of Medicare for a few years will keep current seniors voting Republican is monumental. But here’s what they’re not telling those seniors: They might not be affected by the Medicare cuts, but they’ll be left high and dry if they ever end up needing Medicaid. And most seniors do, because Medicaid is what pays for long-term care for millions of older Americans.

    Many middle-income Americans who may be unfamiliar with Medicaid end up relying on the program in their old age because they exhaust their assets. Medicare doesn’t cover long-term care so they turn to Medicaid, which does.
    “Most of us could end up in Medicaid whether we imagine ourselves that way or not,” Rother said.

    Two-thirds of nursing home patients are covered by Medicaid, some six million Americans. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both have plans that will slash that coverage. Romney has largely avoided providing specifics for what he’d cut, but his balanced budget proposal, including his tax cuts for the wealthy, would mean that programs like Medicaid would have to be cut drastically: 29 percent in 2016 and 59 percent in 2022. It basically means that Romney’s Medicaid cuts would be deeper than Ryan’s.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/15/1120485/-Romney-Ryan-Medicaid-cuts-don-t-put-off-pain-for-nbsp-seniors

  • rikyrah

    Wed Aug 15, 2012 at 07:33 AM PDT.

    Paul Ryan, in Congress since he was 28, pretends to be McDonald’s-working Everyman

    Only with Mitt Romney as the presidential nominee could you have a ticket in which a guy who was elected to Congress at 28 after working on the Hill for several years was tapped to play the role of the Everyman Who Understands You Commoners. Speaking in Colorado, Ryan emphasized the man part of Everyman, talking about his big truck (emphasis on big), his camping and hiking and cooking on fires. Then there’s his history of low-wage work:

    “I don’t know about you,” Ryan told the spirited crowd that filled the high school’s gymnasium, “but when I was growing up, you know, when I was flippin’ burgers at McDonald’s, when I was standing in front of that big Hobart machine washing dishes or waiting tables, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I thought to myself, I’m the American dream on a path and journey so that I can find happiness however I can find it myself.”

    That is some optimistic, forward-looking, Grade-A American Dream bullshit right there. Because again, Paul Ryan’s stints at service work came between high school and the year or two immediately out of college, and in that year or two immediately out of college, he was already working on the Hill. Stuck? He was on “a path and journey” to be in Congress by the time he was 28 years old! And before he got there, he had a year working in marketing for his family’s construction firm.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/15/1120382/-Paul-Ryan-in-Congress-since-he-was-28-pretends-to-be-McDonald-s-working-Everyman

    • Miranda

      His rags to riches story rivals Pip of Great Expectations doesn’t it??

      NOT.

    • Aquagranny911

      Gahk! If I was a cat I would have just hawked a giant fur ball!!!

  • GN

    POU has long been saying that the POTUS isn’t merely running agains the GOP; he’s running against a good slice of the national press as well. With the ridiculous reaction in some parts to Biden’s “gaffe,” this truth is on clear display. Romney has received no bounce from his Ryan selection. And the supposed “wonk” and policy wunderkind, Paul Ryan, is being exposed at a rapid clip as an emperor with no clothes: an ideologue who believes the short-sighted and mean-spirited fantasies of a hypocritical woman (Ayn Rand) should be used as a blueprint for running the US. Thus we’ve been flooded with hysterical and maniacal reportage of out of context remarks by the Vice President, remarks which are being derided by a party long known for racism and dog-whistles. The fourth estate is a major, significant component of how this country got into so much trouble. It’s nice to see the vigorous efforts to fact-check Romney’s Medicare lies, but I’d love to see a national media which refuses to credit GOP nonsense and calls bs rather than seeks false equivalences.

    • Aquagranny911

      You & me both! I’m so pissed at the media. Maybe they are having their fun but this election is too important to the lives of so many people.

      I sent out some scorching faxes today to MSM & I will keep right on doing this.

      • GN

        He and the First Lady have sacrificed, on a personal level, so much for this country, and it’s been so thankless courtesy of the national media. What if PBO decides to prioritize what really matters in life, decides never to spend 5 days away from his wife and kids again, and leaves us to the wolves on that GOP ticket, both of whom are whores? This is real.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - – -Good POLL NEWS!! —- -

    – -Poll-itics: No bounce for Romney from Paul Ryan pick, loses ground in Florida, Colorado – –

    — – – Via the L.A. Times:

    Two more national polls out Wednesday confirm what scattered early data had suggested – Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is not seeing much of a boost in the polls as a result of his pick of a running mate.

    And a poll of battleground states also showed very limited movement, with Romney gaining a little ground in Ohio and Virginia, but losing some in Florida and Colorado. In all cases, however, the shifts were within the poll’s margin of error. [...]
    THERE IS MORE.

    – - – -Annnd – - -THIS – ->Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama

    Despite Rasmussen and Gallup Push Polling for Romney, Obama is up from 2008 on this same day with 3.7% POLL Avg. compared to 3.5% on Aug.15

    Woo! Hoo! – - — -4! —MORE! —YEARS! - – -

    • conlakappa

      In Colorado? That feels random, doesn’t it?

      • GreenLadyHere

        conlakappa – – -I KNOW -HUH! BUT – –we’ll take it. :>)

  • GN

    Adorable!

    @utaustinliberal:
    Heartwarming video of a little girl kissing her hand over and over again after touching Pres. Obama’s hand in Iowa. http://youtu.be/bgTVtMGiJRQ

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

      I love that!

  • rikyrah

    August 15, 2012 5:02 PM
    Ryan and the Latino Vote

    By Ed Kilgore

    If you wondering why the Romney/Ryan campaign has gone so medieval in classic, mendacious, and racially-tinged themes aimed transparently at non-educated white voter, maybe the answer is because they’ve painted themselves into a corner with so many other elements of the electorate. That’s certainly the case with Latinos, already a disaster area for Romney but made if possible worse by the selection of Paul Ryan, or so suggest Politico’s Emily Schultheis and Alexander Burns:

    What’s clear is that Romney’s lagging fortunes among Hispanics are unlikely to receive any boost from choosing a vice presidential candidate who has voted in Congress against the DREAM Act and supports overhauling entitlement programs that are extremely popular among Latino voters….

    Obama’s commanding lead has not diminished and may be cemented in place. Univision anchor Jorge Ramos framed the Republican dilemma in a tweet after Ryan was announced as Romney’s ticket mate: “?How can [Paul Ryan] attract the Hispanic vote? If Republicans don’t get a third of the Latino vote they won’t get the White House back….”

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_08/ryan_and_the_latino_vote039256.php

    • Miranda

      I hope the debate commission does ask the campaigns to do a debate on Univision. I would love to see Romney’s team come up with some ridiculous excuse to not do it and see how that plays out…further reducing his appeal to Latinos of every stripe.

      • rikyrah

        Governor Romney, would you like to explain how 40% of Bain startup money came from the financiers of the El Salvadorian Death Squads?

        While this story has not been covered in the White Press, the Spanish-language media has been all over it

        • Aquagranny911

          Yes it has! And check out what they had to say about Lying Ryan, too.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – -O.k. ***side eye- annnd LAFF*** time

    – — -General Election: Romney vs. Obamab – — -

    ——CAn THEY B any OBVIOUS? LOL

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — WHA’!? – – -Look at this WANCH!! – - -

    – - -Arizona Governor Tries To Thwart Obama’s Immigration Directive With Executive Order – –

    – —Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) has signed an executive order that attempts to thwart President Obama’s directive extending temporary work permits to more than a million undocumented immigrants. The Obama administration’s policy — which would grant two-year work authorizations to undocumented youth between 15 and 30 years of age who have lived in the U.S. continuously for at least five years — was announced in June and went into effect on Wednesday.

    Brewer’s order directs “state agencies to deny driver’s licenses and other public benefits to young illegal immigrants who obtain work authorizations” and “directs state agencies to start emergency rulemaking processes as necessary to implement her order.” From the document:

    – -Waitaminute – –Doesn’t FEDERAL – -EXECUTIVE ORDER – -TRUMP – - –State E.O? – - -

    Hope those ATTORNEYS R ON THIS. – - -

    • Miranda

      Her pruned ass has really lost it. Is this heifer crazy?

      • GreenLadyHere

        miranda – — LOL – — -TOTALLY. LOL — -

        Annd NO amount of BOTOX can fill out that PRUNE FACE!!– —LOL

        – - -C HER TWIN! –LOL – — Got any water? LOL

      • isonprize

        Is this heifer crazy?

        YES.

    • Aquagranny911

      Evil bitch! Okay, naughty room now.

      She can’t do this but it will make things miserable for a while. I hate these people, I do.

      • GreenLadyHere

        LOL Aquagranny911 —-Ohh NO U don’t. LOL – -

        NOT when U SPEAK TRUTH – -LIKE THAT, LOL —

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - -Mr. PRESIDENT says – –WHA’? Look at the CONTEXT. – - -

    – — -Obama: Biden remark taken out of context -

    – - –President Obama on Wednesday defended Vice President Joe Biden’s “chains” comment, saying it was not meant to “connote” anything other than the Wall Street reform he was discussing at a campaign rally.
    – –SNIP – - -.
    But an “unrattled” Obama told People Magazine the comment was taken out of context and that Biden was discussing that “consumers, the American people, will be a lot worse off it we repeal these [Wall Street reform] laws as the other side is suggesting.”

    “In no sense was he trying to connote something other than that,” Obama said. “The truth is that during the course of these campaigns, folks like to get obsessed with how something was phrased even if everybody personally understands that’s not how it was meant. Thats sort of the nature of modern campaigns and modern coverage of campaigns.

    “But I tell you, when I’m traveling around Iowa, that’s not what’s on people’s minds,” Obama added.
    THERE IS MORE!

    — – -THANK U —MR. PRESIDENT. :>) – — -Movin’ – –FORWARD -

    • conlakappa

      This they’ll talk about but not non-filed tax documents?

      • GreenLadyHere

        HEEY conlakappa – — ***BIG HUG*** :>)

        Of course not. – — HE BLAH! – –BLAAAKETY! BAAAlack! – -

        BUT – — KARMA – - -GOT DIS. – - – -LOL

        Good 2 C U. :>)

  • GreenLadyHere

    mirand — -MR. PRESIDENT – -GOES – - -LITERARY – - -

    – - – Check Out One Term More: An Inspired Obama GOTV Video Set to Les Miz – –

    — –Here’s a rousing political parody entitled “One Term More” set to the music of “One Day More” from the musical Les Misérables. What’s not to love? Exceptional talent, incredible music, a message of patriotism and support for the Only Adult in the Room (that would be your President).

    Don DeMesquita says his inspiration for the musical parody was to ask, who will be strong and stand with me? “If you’re not a moneyed Republican plutocrat with a name commonly mistaken for a mattress, soft drink or sundae, don’t own a ball club in Chicago or casino in Macao or have an extra hundred-mil lying around, what do you do to make a difference? You stand up the only way you know how. I’m not an activist, lobbyist, PAC, 527 or 501(c)-anything, just a private citizen (and sometime parodist) asking “who will be strong and stand with me.”

    – - –THIS is BEAUTIFULLY – -FIERCE!! :>) – – –

  • rikyrah

    must go viral!!!

    One Term More set to music from Les Miz!!

    this rocks!!

    • gc

      LOVED this!!!!

      Sent it out to friends, thank you so much, rikyrah

      The Obama/Parks split screen started the waterworks :)

  • lamh35

    Oh no!!! I’m catching up on the last season of The Closer and OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just watched the episode with the priest’s murder. If you are waiting to watchi it, I won’t say what happened, but it was SHOCKING to me!

    • Aquagranny911

      I love The Closer! I’ve seen the last episode so I won’t spoil it for you but I thought it was great. The new spin off series looks to be good too.
      Let me know what you think.

    • MsKitty

      I have the last 6 eps piled up on the DVR to watch this weekend. I’m already spoiled for the episode you’re referring to, and I am not looking forward to seeing the end of it. I’m afraid it might hit a little too close to home, so I’ll definitely have to psych myself up first.

    • rikyrah

      This show is so good. I’m going to miss it.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda —WISH they WOULD VOTE -BUT — -Good Poll NEWS —

    — – -Poll: Obama leads among non-voters – - -

    – - – -Stay-at-home nonvoters are more likely to support President Barack Obama than Mitt Romney, according to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll out today.

    Eighty million Americans — 40 percent of the possible eligible electorate — won’t vote this Election Day. And 59 percent of them say there’s no point, since nothing ever gets done and politicians continue to make empty promises, according to the poll.

    Forty-three percent of nonvoters are Obama supporters, the survey found, while 20 percent of the nonvoters support Romney, 18 percent back a third-party candidate and 15 percent are undecided.

    “This poll is a good news-bad news story for Barack Obama,” poll director David Paleologos said in a statement. “The good news is that there is a treasure chest of voters he doesn’t even have to persuade — they already like him and dislike Mitt Romney. He just needs to unlock the chest and get them out to vote. The bad news is that these people won’t vote because they feel beaten down by empty promises, a bad economy and the negativity of both parties. Obama has lost time — and the key — to open that treasure chest.”

    – - -C’MON PEOPLE! – - GOTV-2012!!!- -

    • edp4bho

      These people’s opinions make no difference to me at all. No vote, no count. Shut up instead. Not you GLH :-)

      • rikyrah

        I’m with you. you don’t vote…sit down and shut the fuck up – permanently

      • GreenLadyHere

        edp4bho —I KNOW – - —I wish that they would CHANGE their minds. :>) – —***HUG** :>)

    • gc

      “Obama has lost time???” Well, fuck you, pundit. He was busy saving a country.

      • GreenLadyHere

        HEEY Gc. ***BIG HUG*** :>)

        – –***fist bump*** — — -Abain — Wishful hopeful thinkin’ that they would change their minds. :>)

        Good 2 C U. Gc. :>)

      • Ebogan63

        Consider the source: GOPolitico.

  • Miranda

    ICYMI from 2010

    Joe Biden’s Black Pass
    Why the vice president is “a big f***ing” deal in Delaware, especially among African Americans.

    http://www.theroot.com/views/joe-bidens-black-pass?tid=sm_tw_button_toolbar

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – –Lawrence O is sooo DISSECTING — missy ann. . LOL – — –

    Conclusion: They betta HIDE those TAX RETURNS –’cause HE WILL NOT SURVIVE their REVELATION. Oooooweee! – - -

    • goldenstar

      LOL. We both have same reaction! They can keep hiding those returns (and I’m sure they are) cuz a whole lotta folks are tryin’ and trying’ to get their hands on ‘em.

      If those hands get on ‘em, they. are. done.

      • GreenLadyHere

        HEEY goldenstar. ***BIG HUG*** :>)

        ***BIG TIME FIST BUMP*** LOL. – U don’t even need the – -PROVERBIAL FORK!

        — THEY DONE!!! LOL.

        I’m sitting here PRACTICIN’ my REACTIONS:
        - – -WHA’!!! — -Oh -NO HE DI-ENT! – - -Oooooweeeeee! — -HE A STR8 STOOPID PHOOL! – - -

        -GIT OFFF da CAMPAIGN TRAIL annnd – - -GO 2 JAIL!! – -

        Good 2 C U – goldenstar. :>)

      • JojoRaze

        I still think John Huntsman Sr and Jr were the Deep Throats on the Rmoney tax returns. He denied being Harry Reid’s source but said in the same breathe that Mitt should release more tax returns. And John Huntsman Jr has been as silent as the grave since he’s out the primary.

        • GreenLadyHere

          HEEY JojoRaze. ***BIG HUG*** :>)

          ***fist bump** – -IMMA plunk a couple of bucks down on the table 4 00the HUNTSMAN’s ALSO – — 2 – - – -annnd —PLUS! :>)

          I believe that he has a measure of integrity that might just URGE him 2 “tell on” that CORRUPT WILLARD. – –

          We will C – -eventually. :>) – - -Good 2 C U. :>)

  • goldenstar

    Oooweee. Last Word Lawrence has gone all in on Ann Romney and those tax returns. Those tax returns are TOXIC and they will pay the price for all the political hits since and they will never release those tax returns. Harry Reid is right.

    • rikyrah

      I know…I was LOL during that segment

  • Kennymack1971

    Remember when the pundits swore Ann Romney was Mitt’s secret weapon? Looks they got that wrong too lol.

    • itgurl_29

      Oh, yes. And Ann was supposed to have poor Michelle quaking in her boots. Ha!

    • Miranda

      I’ve read some comments and those comment sections that are from Facebook? Those are middle class white women that can’t stand her. LOL – to them, Ann Romney is the “meanie mom” that looks down on them because they dont drive a Benz.

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - – THIS is — BEYOND ADORABLE:♥ – - – –[4-give the source] – -

    – - – -Michelle & Barack Obama Show Some Major PDA In Iowa (PHOTOS) – –

    – - – -President & Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail on Wednesday, getting off the presidential bus in Dubuque to stump together. As in, they gave a joint speech, trading lines like a sitcom.

    Mrs. O was even wearing a red dress. Hold up. Is it Valentine’s Day already?

    Nope, it’s August, evidenced by the fact that the 2012 presidential campaigns are heating up to the point where the president and the first lady are tag teaming it to bring home some more votes. And words weren’t the only thing flying onstage — the pair didn’t get caught on the Kiss Cam this time; rather, they held hands and leaned in for kisses before, during and after their joint speech to Iowans.

    Not only are the pics of these two giving their speech SO CUTE — and Mrs. Obama’s red dress and blue belt combo adorable — but the speech itself is a masterpiece of married political couple flirtation. A sample:
    THERE IS MUCH MORE♥

    TRUE BLACK♥ – -Annnd BRAINS. :>)

  • GN

    Another thank you to PBO for refusing to be sidetracked by the media’s obsession with Biden’s chains remarks (meanwhile, they have nothing to say about Santorum using the same imagery to describe ObamaCare, Mittens himself using “shackles” to describe PBO’s govt programs, or the GOP mainstay of “black voters on the Democratic plantation”).

    The GOP wants time to make their lies about PBO’s Medicare savings to stick. Keep hitting the WATB and liar Romney about (a) his total misrepresentation of hundreds of billions of dollars in savings which have not decreased Medicare benefits one iota; and (b) both his and his Ayn Rand runningmate’s radical plans to completely decimate Medicare as we know it. The media are stenographers. They need drama and repetition. Let’s give it to them or they will toss the election to these lunatics. Yes we can!

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – - -VIDEOS FROM IOWA:♥ – – -

    – - – -☻ -IOWA practicing

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda – — On The Ed Show: – - — Toe EXPERTS on the “romneycare” – –annnd it’s SUCESSFUL.- – – -JUST LIKE the – –AFFORDABLE CARE ACT!!- – - – -similar HUH?/ – -LOL

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda —TWEET! – –TWEET! –:>) – — Some R FUN – –

    - – -☻ Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama
    @MittRomney_News Voter ID and Rasmussen won’t save you from an ELECTORAL COLLEGE ROUT Mitt!     [ LOL]

    – — ☻Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama
    Fight The GOP Jim Crow Voter Poll Taxes. $$ Free birth certificate & VOTER ID in Pennsylvania.http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/voter_id/20978 … #OBAMA2012 #p2     [Good]

    – - -☻Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama
    Purple Strategies is another Rasmussen. Its a GOP Media company with suspect polling run by Republican Alex Castellanos #POLLS #OBAMA     [Good 2 KNOW]

    – - -☻JG Dodge ‏@JG_Dodge
    #AnnRomney is like any other American mother. 5 homes, couple Cadillacs, Swiss bank accounts, Dressage horse and 20 Housekeepers. @Lawrence     LOL

    – - -☻Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama
    Artur Davis now stumping for Stalin and Adi Amin….funny what $$$$$ loyalty buys you?     –[Ooooowwweee]

    More L8R. :>)

  • isonprize

    To any POU fam who are still up this evening. I say goodnight with a song written by Howard Hewitt.

    “Say Amen”

  • GreenLadyHere

    miranda —- THIS is a GOOD READ — -on LYIN’-RYAN- –

    – - -A Timeline of the GOP’s Love-Hate Relationship with Paul Ryan – -

    – - – –There’s an old saying that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But when it comes to Paul Ryan and his radical GOP budget, Republicans would prefer to campaign in silence and then govern with an axe. While the Grand Old Party would love to enact Ryan’s massive tax cut windfall for the wealthy, shredding of the social safety net, gutting of Medicaid and privatization of Medicare, Republicans hate having to talk about policies that are about as popular as the ebola virus. And as the history of Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future” shows, that Republican discomfort increases as Election Day approaches.

    — Mitt Romney’s own unease has been on display since the moment he first announced the House Budget Chairman from Wisconsin as his running mate. Romney has been quick to claim that he is running on his own budget, only to acknowledge “I’m sure there are places that my budget is different than his, but we’re on the same page.”

    But as Politico and The Hill each reported Tuesday, among Republican strategists and GOP members of Congress that heartburn is approaching panic. “Away from the cameras,” Politico noted, “there is an unmistakable consensus among Republican operatives in Washington: Romney has taken a risk with Ryan that has only a modest chance of going right — and a huge chance of going horribly wrong.” As The Hill explained:

    Republicans strategists are worried that Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) addition to the presidential ticket will cost their party House and Senate seats this fall.
    THERE IS MORE – –

    – — – -The RE-THUGS R sayin —BU- BYEEEEE! —LOL

  • GreenLadyHere

    – –Dear POU FAM.♥—G’NIGHT. :>) – -MAY U HAVE BLESSED SWEET DREAMS -♥ – -♥ -:>) – - -

    - — – -CONTINUE 2 PRAY 4: – - – -MR. PRESIDENT/FIRST LADY.♥; – - -VP Biden/DR. JILL♥; – – -VICTIMS of the DROUGHT/SHOOTINGS; – - -the ECONOMY/the PEOPLE; —the Deferred Action Program; –REV.AL’s OCCUPY the CORNERS Program; – – -VOTER REGISTRATION – -EACH OTHER♥ –AMEN. :>)

    - – - – –AIN T STOPPIN US NOW – - -

    – - -UNTIL THE MORNING LIGHT♥ :>) – - – -