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By RussCrowder on 09-06-12 @ 1:37 pm
The Godless hordes are on the march…To use their favorite slogan in the old Soviet Union: “Forward”.
By GATE on 09-06-12 @ 2:48 pm
The most accurate way to sum up this Four Day Three-Ring Circus would be as follows: ‘’ We can and must write in a language which sows among the Masses hate, revulsion and scorn toward those who
disagree with us”. Soviet Dictator Valdimir Lenin (1870-1924)
By Gabby Johnson on 09-06-12 @ 3:42 pm
I hate to be the one to break the news, but the worldwide communist conspiracy collapsed abouttwo decades ago.
By GATE on 09-06-12 @ 4:40 pm
To Stuff that many Quislings into one venue reminds America of a marathon Reverend Wright anti-American tirade!
By JB on 09-06-12 @ 5:56 pm
‘...and this is how liberty and freedom dies…with thunderous applause.” Anonymous
By inthemiddle on 09-06-12 @ 11:33 pm
Just like Romney, Russ, JB and Gate are still fighting the cold war. All old relics from a bygone era.
It was a great convention with many incredible speeches, the deversity and strength of the
Democratic Party was on display for the whole world to see. I was also glad that one of our
political parties showed the thanks and gratitude to our young men and women who are in
harms way.
Also its about time that we Democrats stopped letting the republicans coop our flag and identity
as Americans, I for one will no longer allow them to act as though their ideas solely represent
what it means to be an American.
Freedom of thought and expression of ideas are American values, everyones voice matters
thats what makes our country great.The Democratic Party understands this, the republicans
through their efforts of voter suppression show that they don’t.
By JB on 09-07-12 @ 2:53 am
Meh.
By GATE on 09-07-12 @ 5:37 am
John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King would be labeled Right -Wing extremists today by this cabal of Fabian Socialists!
By RussCrowder on 09-07-12 @ 7:38 am
Sorry inthemiddle…It was a freak show…But not to worry…Remember, Obama still has the only vote that will matter; the “Zombie” vote. No doubt the dead have already risen from the bowels of
the earth; and their votes have been cast, counted and stored away in boxes in all the “swing”
States, only to be discovered during the re-count. So take heart inthemiddle. There is not a single
example in the history of world wide communism where the ruling party lost an election. Why
should the Obama regime be any different?
By hotfishmt on 09-07-12 @ 8:11 am
There is sure a lot of weird statments about this topic. No matter which party wins the election…NO MATTER….the one thing this country needs is some COMPRIMISE….plain &
simple.
The days spent bickering & bickering….is a total shame. Regular people are just plain tired of the
squabble & like the other comments list above mine….mindless jargon with one line slams &
dunks….like the endless back to back commercials for Tester & Rehberg…slamming each other
over what ??? Now we get the rush from the mad dash for being President commercials….an not
ONE WORD…ABOUT….COMPRIMISE…. a lost art & method for governing.
By Craig moore on 09-07-12 @ 11:08 am
One word describes Oblama’s “sketch,” Underwhelming!!!!!
The Washington post has the damning review:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obama-at-the-dnc-thats-it/2012/09/06/51aeb4d8-f88c-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_blog.html?hpid=z3
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Obama at the DNC: That’s it?
By Jennifer Rubin
It would have been better had he not spoken. Seriously. Like an aging rock star, President
Obama, in a downsized venue, with downsized proposal and spewing downsized rhetoric only
reminded us how far he has fallen from the heady days of 2008. The man, the agenda and the aura
are faint imitations of their 2008 incarnations. And most importantly, he put forth an agenda
that was entirely, and obviously, lacking, one that didn’t begin to match the demands of our time…
===end quote===
By mooseberryinn on 09-07-12 @ 12:09 pm
DNC - Comrade/King/community organizer the worshiped obama said the same old used car salesman platitudes. Come to think of it, that’s an insult to car salesmen. Seen on my travels in
Wa./Idaho, Montana - “Impeach Obama” signs. I still like the old ladies in Maine with the
“ANYBODY BUT OBAMA! If logic were to prevail, given Obama’s usurping unconstitutional power,
and utter failure to produce positive results, Romney/Ryan would win by a landslide. But then,
Communists aren’t logical and there are many indoctrinated Dem morons.
By jr2jr2000 on 09-07-12 @ 2:02 pm
hotfishmt said we need to compromise. Well Obama made sure there would be none of that his first day in office when he instructed Pelosi and Reid to allow ZERO participation
by the Republicans in Congress on Obamacare. They were shut out completely, not one
idea, objection, admendment, or any input was ALLOWED. Then it continued with the
stimulus plan, completely wriitten by the Dems with the door shut to any Rep. input.
How’s that for trying to get compromise. Better look at who started the divide - Obozo.
By RussCrowder on 09-07-12 @ 2:19 pm
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the formation today of President Obama’s long anticipated “Civilian National Security Force” that will be, “Just as strong; just as powerful; and
just as well funded” as the U.S. military (Obama 7/22/08). This force will initially be made up of
volunteers from the New Black Panther Party; equipped with batons, chains and baseball bats; and
tasked with manning every poling place this November to protect minority’s from intimidation by, in
the words of Holder, “angry white people”. You see inthemiddle. I told you that you have nothing to
worry about.
By bocephusj57 on 09-07-12 @ 4:48 pm
Got a link to a credible news source to support your claim, Russ? Of course you don’t.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/11/obamas-national-security-force/
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Similar claims have been circulating in right-leaning blogs and conservative Web sites ever
since July, when Obama made a single reference to a “civilian national security force” in a
campaign speech in Colorado. Obama’s detractors make much of his expansive (and exaggerated)
description of such a force as being “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as
the U.S. military. They also ignore the context.
Obama was not talking about a “security force” with guns or police powers. He was talking
specifically about expanding AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps and the USA Freedom Corps, which is
the volunteer initiative launched by the Bush administration after the attacks of 9/11, and
about increasing the number of trained Foreign Service officers who populate U.S. embassies
overseas.
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The full context of Obama’s remarks can be found at the above link.
By bocephusj57 on 09-07-12 @ 4:52 pm
Craig Moore: Jennifer Rubin is Romney’s biggest press corps lapdog. She has been hucksteringhis candidacy since day one. To know how bad things are for Romney and Lyin’ Ryan one just
needs to see how shrill Rubin is in her column. The more desparate her claims on Romney’s
behalf the more visible the flop sweat on the GOP’s collective forehead.
By GATE on 09-07-12 @ 5:11 pm
The poor City of Charlotte will be performing Exorcisms for months in an attempt to sanitize the townsfolk in what can only be described as a Four day cross between ‘Poltergeist’ and ‘One Flew over
the Cockoo’s Nest!
By Craig moore on 09-07-12 @ 7:11 pm
Bocephus, I see you can’t debate the substance so you attack the person. I guess you can onlyconcede what she wrote.
Then there is Dana Milbank who wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-lowers-the-bar-on-hope-and-change/2012/09/07/dbf3ea82-f8dc-11e1-8b93-c4f4ab1c8d13_story.html?hpid=z4
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Obama the demigod comes down to Earth
It began, like the Obama presidency itself, with the loftiest of hopes and the greatest of
expectations.
The Democratic National Convention was to have opened here Monday with a festival at the
Charlotte Motor Speedway, where, convention officials said, some 100,000 people would
participate in a Labor Day festival that demonstrated the party’s openness and inclusion.
After a couple of nights at the Time Warner Cable Arena, the convention was to have closed with
President Obama’s acceptance speech at the Bank of America Stadium, where convention officials
were planning to squeeze nearly 6,000 seats onto the field to expand the stadium’s capacity
beyond its usual 74,000.
But the speedway event was canceled — ostensibly because of logistical problems but more likely
because convention fundraising was running low. Then the Democrats canceled the stadium event in
favor of the smaller arena — ostensibly because of “severe thunderstorm” concerns but more
likely because they couldn’t be sure enough people would come to fill the stadium.
In fact, the forecast hadn’t called for severe weather, and conditions were fine Thursday night.
The change caused thousands to be turned away, and the crush of crowds at the arena led
authorities at one point to lock down the building for a second straight night – leaving some
delegates on the street while lobbyists enjoyed the proceedings inside.
It was quite a comedown from that heady night in Denver four years ago when Obama accepted the
nomination in front of about 80,000 at Invesco Field. The candidate, on a stage set resembling a
Greek temple, spoke about remaking the nation and the world.
The demigod turned out to be entirely human, and his results were disappointing. On Thursday
night, as Obama admitted to “failings,” Democrats who dreamed of the biggest and the best in
2008 were learning to accept good enough.
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By bocephusj57 on 09-07-12 @ 7:27 pm
Congrats Craig. You have successfully proven to rightwingers like mooseberry that the “elitistpress” is not in the business of doing whatever they can to make Obama look good.
I seem to recall that not so long ago you were declaring the WaPo to be nothing but another
example of the MSM and should be disregarded in toto.
So which are they, Craig? Toadies in the bag for Obama or objective critics? I guess it just
depends on who is saying something you agree with.
By Craig moore on 09-07-12 @ 7:42 pm
Actually, becephus all I have done is revealed that you aren’t in the game with your nonsense.
By bocephusj57 on 09-07-12 @ 8:48 pm
Craig said: “I see you can’t debate the substance so you attack the person.”
Pot, kettle, black.
By inthemiddle on 09-07-12 @ 11:17 pm
Russ,Your right wing conspiracy theory of tens of thousands of zombie voters has been discounted by
every major study done on the subject. As a matter of fact in the period 2002 - 2007 there were
only 86 people procecuted for voter fraud by the Federal Government, this is .0007 % of the over
300 million votes cast in that time period. Out of these 86 cases most were found to be ex cons
who thought their voting rights had been restored when they came off probation but were
misinformed or mistaken. Less than 10 of these cases were found to be deliberate attempts by
people to defraud the system. Republican voter suppression laws are as what one commentator
described a “solution looking for a nonexistant problem”
The only voter fraud that is going on is that being done by republicans to suppress the voting rights
of legal American born citizens. This suppression is based on race, education and poverty. Since
all of these groups that are being suppressed tend to vote heavily Democratic, in the twisted anti
freedom mind of the GOP this is how you justify stealing elections. The Democratic party wants
as many legal registered Americans to exercise their God given rights while the Republicans want
to suppress and oppress these people. What a great bunch of patriots, our founding fathers would
be so proud.
By thinker on 09-08-12 @ 7:47 am
Inthemiddle, voting is a God given right???Those would be only life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The pursuit of happiness was
substituted because the British philiosopher John Locke, writing on democracy, originally said the
right was “property” and the Founding Fathers, to get a Constitution signed, decided it sounded too
much like validating slavery, since slaves were treated as property by the slave states.
Those who meet the requirements have a right to vote granted by government and the Constitution.
But they have a greater obligation to be informed and educated on what or whom they are voting
for, instead of blindly buying in to the stuff Joe Biden hands out, while he takes their votes for
granted. If proof of citizenship and ID was required at the DNC to buy a coffee mug, since it was a
political donation, then the same should be required to vote. No other country tolerates this
ridiculous nonsense of anonymity of the voter.
What you are actually saying here is that all minorities think alike, which means they cannot think
at all. It speaks volumes about your superior attitude.
Housing, medical care and everything else someone wants for “FREE”, are not “rights”. Voting for
something or someone does not make the promise materialize. O’bama is a case in point.
By inthemiddle on 09-08-12 @ 9:08 am
thinker,Proof of identification was required at the Democratic National Convention by the United States
Secret Service for protection of the President. I know you right wingers don’t recognize Barack
Obama as President but the majority of Americans do and will reaffirm this on November 6th.
Also the Real ID law was defeated because it was considered by most people to be an
infringement upon their rights as US citizens, but now you want to force this same form of ID onto
the poor and elderly that have no reason to have a drivers licence as they do not drive. Can you
say “doule standard”. If an ID is required prior to voting than it should be a national voter
identification ID card so that way every person is treated equally under the law and there will be no
confusion about the validity of the ID. This ID should also be issued free of charge as to not
discriminate against someone who may not be able to afford one.
One last thing thinker, we will have to differ on what we believe constitutes “God Given Rights”. As
a citizen of the United States we are granted certain unalienable rights, one of these is the freedom
of expression given to us in the First Amendment, the second is the right to vote which is clearly
defined in the Nineteeth Amendment. Since it is my belief that the Constiution was inspired by God
I have to conclude that voting is yes a ” God Given Right” to all citizens of the United States as
outlined in it.
By JB on 09-09-12 @ 9:24 am
Well, let’s see here…
A failed energy policy, a failed economic policy, a failed international policy, 3+ years of blaming
someone else, multiple high dollar family vacations and golf trips at taxpayers expense, an
unbelievable attempt to convince people he is not one of the elite, almost 5 years of MSM keeping
hush-hush about his radical past, the most non-transparent presidency in the last 200 years, a man
afraid to release his college transcripts because he knows they will prove he is a socialist, an anti-
war voter, taking credit for a plan that he had nothing to do with other than saying “go for it, get
Osama”, Jewish hating, racial dividing, Islamic apologist.
Why would anyone with a brain and a conscience vote for this man? They wouldn’t - and that is why
he will lose this November.
By mitch on 09-09-12 @ 11:10 am
I have to wonder, do republicans not know how to read, or do they just choose not to? Do they have no knowledge of research or do they honestly choose to bumble along in blindness? Do
they choose to spread their lies, or do they really believe the propaganda they’re given?
Dumb? or…...dumb??
JB, I have no interest in disecting your piece of propaganda. I would be so embarrassed if I
were to lay it out there for the rest of the posters just how uninformed I really was.
Seriously???
By GATE on 09-09-12 @ 12:26 pm
‘’ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored”. Aldous Huxley.
By JB on 09-09-12 @ 6:48 pm
Mitch, all you have to do is prove I’m lying…but you won’t do that, because you know I’m right. Your comment feigning disbelief only proves your ignorance - GATE is absolutely right!!!
By RussCrowder on 09-10-12 @ 7:33 am
bocephusj57…I’m pretty sure that Chris Mathews made the Holder announcement. In fact, I understand it caused him to experience a “tingle” running up his other leg. You must have just missed
it.
By reggie on 09-10-12 @ 11:22 am
There is no way foward at the present time; it has been blocked just as the Repubs said it would be when Obama was elected and again when they gained the house.
Hopefully, these obstructionists will get the retirement they so justly deserve for organized
opposition to EVERY attempt to reverse the Bush disaster.
By GATE on 09-10-12 @ 11:34 am
MYTH:....’’ A traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation…...”
By cs1 on 09-10-12 @ 1:12 pm
“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious
bodily fluids.”
Col Jack D. Ripper
Dr. Strangelove
By RussCrowder on 09-10-12 @ 3:44 pm
Now don’t tell me you didn’t hear about this, bocephusj57…Obama’s Homeland Security Chiefette, Janet Napolitano, just announced a program to employ millions of new Democrat voters, in the past,
often mistakenly referred to as “illegal aliens”, in our war against terrorists. They are to be assigned
to our southern border where their task will be to ensure the end of “profiling” by racist elements in
our border States such as State Governors and Representatives. The Chiefette Babe explained: “I
got this idea to protect America when looking at a map of the U.S./Mexico border”. The new
Homeland Security operation will be code named: “Project White-Out”.
By dsrobins on 09-11-12 @ 4:53 pm
Quite often, gates become unhinged.
By GATE on 09-11-12 @ 5:10 pm
GATE: Noun. An Impenetrable Barrier used to keep hissy old Heffers from soiling the purity of truth beyond it’s emplacement.
By montanaeasy56 on 09-11-12 @ 9:45 pm
Russ….the reason why Obama will win is becasue the publicans HAVE NO CANDIDATE…Romney belongs to a religion that for tens of decades has been thought of as a
cult from the christian fundamentalists…what are THEY going to do on election day…support a
guy who belongs to a cult? and then there is his running mate you belongs to the biggest
organized pedophile group in the world…who are the law and justice crowd going to vote for? A
cult member and organized pedophile member…look at YOUR choice!!!!
By montanaeasy56 on 09-11-12 @ 9:47 pm
jr2jr2…if the publicans were shut out of the Affordable Health care Law why is it that the bill has 140 publican amendments….the individual mandate was a publican idea…know what you are
talking about BEFORE you show your ignorance.
By RussCrowder on 09-12-12 @ 7:09 am
Today, we begin to witness the success of the Middle East foreign policy directed by America’s first Muslim President….FORWARD !
By GATE on 09-12-12 @ 7:59 am
The only absolute that can be surmised out of this Pagan Hoax and Chains love fest is that the Prince of Darkness has finally found a Political Party!
By RussCrowder on 09-12-12 @ 8:54 am
For awhile there we were wondering when the head Kook was going to show up on this blog…Good to have you back Hankie.
By GATE on 09-13-12 @ 8:08 am
America will be forever grateful to the heroic Navy Seals for removing one of the biggest threats to our Nation. In November, the American voter will have the opportunity to remove the other!
By bocephusj57 on 09-13-12 @ 8:26 pm
America will be forever grateful to a Commander-in-Chief who gave the order to those heroicSEALS to remove OBL. (SEALS he thanked profusely and primarily, but the leader still gets to
claim some credit.) Remember, it wasn’t that many years before that his predecessor stated that
he neither know nor cared where OBL was. Given Mitt-a-Sketch’s ham-handed, and smirking
response to the unrest in the Middle East (in response to an internet movie made by a convicted
check-kiter that even rightwingnut media is taking Rmoney to task for).
I’ll go with a proven leader rather than a goof interested only in his own monetary well-being
and egotistical sense of entitlement.
By Gabby Johnson on 09-14-12 @ 12:09 pm
It’s really hard to conduct cowboy diplomacy on a dressage horse.
By RussCrowder on 09-14-12 @ 1:01 pm
There is nothing like “proven leadership”. How’s that “Obama Spring” working out in the middle east?
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