Presidential Campaign: 2012

[roni]

Originally Posted by eccentrictinker

Join us for a wine-pairing tasting at the Alexis Bailly Vineyard in Hastings, MN. April 21st.

Put a bit of conservative gourmet chocolate between your front teeth and sip 'Isis', an ABV standout ice wine.

ABV's motto is, "Minnesota, where the grapes can suffer".

Alexis Bailly Vineyard Hastings, MN

I would love to, but I can't make it.

Maybe some other time

[eccentrictinker]

Vice President Joe Biden offered a frank assessment of his career in remarks at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night. According to a White House pool report, Biden, surrounded by the city's movers and shakers, praised former Mayor Richard M. Daley and then said: "I never had an interest in being a mayor 'cause that's a real job. You have to produce. That's why I was able to be a senator for 36 years."


Biden was elected to the Senate in November 1972, when he was 29 years old. When he took office in January 1973, he had turned 30, the minimum age set in the Constitution for membership in the Senate. Biden served in the Senate from that time until January 2009, when he became vice president.

Kinda makes you proud of our country's top leadership, don't it?

htthttp://campaign2012.washingtonexa...uce/455066p://

[STOGEY]

The next time the feds start talking about controlling bullies at school play ground. I suggest they control the bully in the White House.

[D33RHUNT3R]

Originally Posted by STOGEY

The next time the feds start talking about controlling bullies at school play ground. I suggest they control the bully in the White House.

[eccentrictinker]

Hoist on his own petard!

“The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and Lisa Jackson shot us in Washington,” Cecil Roberts, president of the powerful union, said during an interview Tuesday on the West Virginia radio show MetroNews Talkline.

Roberts blasted Jackson, the EPA administrator, over the proposed regulations, which would limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. Opponents of the regulations, including Roberts, say the new rules would be the death knell of the coal industry.

Cecil Roberts, the mine union boss, stumped heavily for 'The One'. With friends like the "Obaminator' who needs enemies?

[bearcat]

Originally Posted by eccentrictinker

Hoist on his own petard!

Cecil Roberts, the mine union boss, stumped heavily for 'The One'. With friends like the "Obaminator' who needs enemies?

Wait until Senator Manchin gets involved. He is like a pit bull on a poodle when protecting the coal industry in West Virginia.

[CalifGuy]

David Brooks: A California moderate conservative's dilemma

Nathan Fletcher was raised in Arkansas, played college baseball in California and enlisted in the Marines as a reserve in 1997. He saw combat in 2004, based in the Sunni triangle in Iraq.

On Wednesday, Fletcher said he is leaving the Republican Party.

Full story here:

[D33RHUNT3R]

Originally Posted by CalifGuy

David Brooks: A California moderate conservative's dilemma

Nathan Fletcher was raised in Arkansas, played college baseball in California and enlisted in the Marines as a reserve in 1997. He saw combat in 2004, based in the Sunni triangle in Iraq.

On Wednesday, Fletcher said he is leaving the Republican Party.

Full story here:

To become an (I)ndependant ...

He doesn't have any love for the Democrats either... imagine that..

His political career just took a nose dive, very very few (I) get anywhere... imo..

[Seakony]

HILLARYOUS

Texts from Hillary

[gingele]

Originally Posted by Seakony

HILLARYOUS

Texts from Hillary

I know, right?!?!!! I love it!!

She's such a bad ass.

[STOGEY]

Eric Holder US AG thinks he has authority to tell the Supremes what they can or cant review. Time for Holder to go.

[horizon200]

Originally Posted by gingele

I know, right?!?!!! I love it!!

She's such a bad ass.

I can identify that airplane in 1 guess!

I like how the photog caught the woman on the phone looking at Hillary...almost as if to say "Why doesn't she pick up? This is urgent!"

[melliedee]

David Brooks:

First, there was his tone. Obama cast himself as the fiscal moderate who embraced the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles approach. (Perhaps we were all asleep during the Simpson-Bowles-Obama consciousness tour.) Then he unleashed every 1980s liberal cliché in the book, calling the Republicans a bunch of trickle-down, Trojan horse-bearing social Darwinists.

Social Darwinism, by the way, was a 19th-century philosophy that held, in part, that Aryans and Northern Europeans are racially superior to brown and Mediterranean peoples.

Then Obama exaggerated the differences between his budget and the Ryan budget.

There are, indeed, real differences, but in the short term they are not a chasm. In 2013, according to Veronique de Rugy of George Mason University, the Ryan budget would be about 5 percent smaller than the Obama budget, and it would grow a percent or two more slowly each year. After 10 years, government would be smaller under Ryan, but, as Daniel Mitchell of the Cato Institute complains, it would still take up a larger share of national output than when Bill Clinton left office.

Obama exaggerated these normal-sized differences into a Manichaean chasm. Under Ryan, Obama charged, 10 million college students would get their financial aid cut by $1,000, Alzheimer’s research would be slashed, 200,000 children would lose their chance to enter Head Start.

Where did Obama get these specifics? He imagined them. He imposed some assumptions that are nowhere to be found in the Ryan budget. He compared Ryan’s reduced spending increases with proposed growth, not current levels.

Then the president turned to Ryan’s Medicare proposal. The Ryan plan, he charged, “will ultimately end Medicare as we know it.”

In 2011, when Ryan first proposed a version of this budget, Politifact, the truth-checking outfit, honored this claim with its “Lie of the Year” award. Since then, the Ryan Medicare proposal has become more moderate and much better. Obama’s charge is even more groundless.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/op...&smid=fb-share

[bearcat]

Originally Posted by melliedee

David Brooks:




http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/op...&smid=fb-share

"Manichean" chasm. I had to look that word up, never heard it before. Interesting article, just shows that any bill or budget can be broken down and manipulated to meet the viewpoint of any party. No wonder no one wants to be first to introduce legislation in DC, it is far easier to sit back and criticize the guy that goes first.

[melliedee]

Originally Posted by bearcat

"Manichean" chasm. I had to look that word up, never heard it before. Interesting article, just shows that any bill or budget can be broken down and manipulated to meet the viewpoint of any party. No wonder no one wants to be first to introduce legislation in DC, it is far easier to sit back and criticize the guy that goes first.

I like David Brooks.

Hearing "social Darwinism" in that speech startled me. If we're going to criticize the right for their misuse/abuse/misunderstanding of "socialism" then we should do the same when liberals throw out an ahistorical, misguided reference like that one.