Excerpt: "So far, the American media have not adequately refuted Romney’s lies. They seem to believe that dissembling is permissible, or that pointing out this extraordinary lying machine is itself an act of partisanship."
Portrait, Robert Reich, 08/16/09. (photo: Perian Flaherty)
Romney's Latest Lie and Why We Must Not Put Liars in the White House
31 October 12
ver the weekend, Romney debuted an ad in Ohio showing cars being crushed as a narrator says Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight for every American job."
In fact, Chrysler is retaining and expanding its Jeep production in North America, including in Ohio. Its profits have enabled it to separately consider expanding into China, the world's largest auto market.
Responding to the ad, Chrysler emphasized in a blog post that it has "no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China."
"They are inviting a false inference," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on political advertising.
This is only the most recent in a stream of lies from Romney. Remember his contention that the President planned to "rob" Medicare of $716 billion when in fact the money would come from reduced payments to providers who were overcharging - thereby extending the life of Medicare? (Ryan's plan includes the same $716 billion of savings but gets it from turning Medicare into a voucher and shifting rising health-care costs on to seniors.)
Remember Romney's claim that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law, when in fact Obama merely allowed governors to fashion harder or broader work requirements?
Recall Romney's assertion that he is not planning to give the rich a tax cut of almost $5 trillion, when in fact that's exactly what his budget plan does? Or that his budget will reduce the long-term budget deficit, when in fact his numbers don't add up?
And so on. "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers," says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster. It is not even being dictated by facts.
There are two lessons here. First, lies financed by deep pockets are hard to refute, but they must be refuted. Otherwise, there is no accountability in our democracy. So far, the American media have not adequately refuted Romney's lies. They seem to believe that dissembling is permissible, or that pointing out this extraordinary lying machine is itself an act of partisanship.
Second, anyone who tells or countenances such lies cannot be trusted to hold the highest office in our land, because he has no compunctions about feeding false information to the public. In recent memory we've had a president who told us there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, when in fact there were none. We dare not risk another George W. Bush.
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Obama has lied and the media defends him in his lies!
Our Safety is the Governments most important actions.
If this were a Republican the news media would be non stop...
BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI...
You say, "If this were a Republican [president...[" Really" We;; Romney is a Republican presidential candidate, and the news media are NOT hammering him on his proven record of prevarication, his bald-face lies and his perpetual flip-flopping.
Obama says he will take Public financing
LIE
Obama will post all bills on the Internet for 5 days before signing.
LIE
Actually his VERY FIRST BILL he signed into law broke that promise!
And that should convince an undecided voter to vote for Mitt Romney because his lies, that you don't deny, are only about jobs? Obama's "lies" were more of a change of mind due to external circumstances. He dropped the promise for public financing in order to compete with PACs funding McCain. The 5 day promise proved to be unworkable. The change was published by the White House. Changing one's mind on an issue is not in any way, shape or form the same as a bald faced lie.
If you check he did a large majority of the things he promised and the rest fell to a record number of filibusters by people who don't give a daamn about the country, only power and greed.
Twit WOULDN'T tell the truth if his children's life depended on it.
I have never assumed ANY politician would or could keep any of the promises made during a campaign. All it takes to understand why is a general understanding of how legislation is created and passed. Even the 4th grade sanitized version is sufficient know that the very design of American politic structure makes any campaign promise a moot point.
That means I decide based on the vision the candidate expresses. In Romney's case, he either has decided to not reveal his vision, or he has none. That characterizatio n is indisputable. Now in Obama's case his vision has certainly been better than his results. Case closed.
Romney now says he's for government regulation:
LIE
Romney said he's now, suddenly, a big fan of FEMA
LIE
Romney said his campaign efforts during the hurricane were a "relief effort"
LIE
Romney says he can cut taxes, raise defens spending, not cut any programs, and balance the budget.
LIE
Romney said he was a moderate, then he said he was a conservative, then he said he was a moderate, then conservative, then moderate, then conservative.
ONE OF THOSE IS A LIE
Not a single occupant of that house, not Honest Abe, not Silent Cal, not any of 'em have refrained from lying to get there or to stay there.
It's simply the nature of their chosen profession.
Therefore, we of the National Optimists Party say, "Don't change politicians, change politics." In other words, don't change the personalities, change the principles. Get somebody who's got some and who doesn't really want the job of the presidency. Anybody who runs after that office, especially at a time like this, is unqualified to hold it, ipso damn facto.
Naive to say the least!
Only because Obama won't cooperate might the information come out before the election...but the LIES will come out my simple minded naive frind!
Or, if he has a brain, he is not using it very well. (I assume it's a "he," aggressive as he/she/it tends to be. But, that's another debate, isn't it.)
It's called "selective perception." Or, as Paul Simon put it in "The Boxer," a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Just wondered if he stayed home on 9/11. Can't be too careful, you know.
Brainless reply and your facts are what?
Brainless reply and your facts are what?
warning, then later changed to the vacuous excuse that they didn't know which flights were going to be hijacked! Can you comprehend that? Then Bush blamed the CIA, stonewalled the Democratic controlled Senate investigation, and resisted creating the Kean/Hamilton 9-11 Commission till families of the victims shamed him into it! Bush's little buddy Rove saw that it would hurt his reelection chances in 2004 and the midterms in 2002 so Bush caved in but told them to focus on how to prevent a similar attack in the future instead of looking into what he knew and when he knew it! Then in a predictable move Bush used the result of his criminal negligence to "justify" their long sought invasion of Iraq even though they knew he had nothing to do with 9-11 and had no WMD, and you hypocrites then reelected someone who should be in prison!
I could respond to things that happened 11 years ago but WHY?
Bush is not running, Obama IS!
Bush has been gone for 4 years and to continue to blame him is more than childish! Obama knew what he was coming into but fails to take ANY blame for anything!
He is NOT a leader, he does not even pretend to be!
He came into office with a mandate, and said time after time " ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES"
He did not ask for or even want the help of the GOP members of Congress, and he got none.
BUT after he lost in the 2010 elections he was a cry baby and only blamed the GOP and BUSH!
That is NOT a leader!
Truman had a plague on his desk that said "The Buck Stops Here"
Obama thew it away and ONLY blames others for his failures.
Hillary took the blame for Benghazi but Obama never has used those words...IMO the wrong Democrat was elected and to that there is very little doubt!
And Romney isn't telling just the part of the truth that makes him look better, and Obama look worse?
And even if Obama had asked for the Repubs help, according to Mitch (senate minority leader), they would never have given him any help at anytime. At lkeast Truman had a congress that tried to work together.
As I said earlier, you selectively percfeive what you want to propoose as legitimate arguments. I keep wondering what your game is. Most of your posts are so easily refuted, it almost seems as if you just want to provoke animosity.
So if you do not have enough security what do you do....hey how about staying home of friggin 9/11 !!
Why wasn't Obama in the these Countries with no security on 9/11 !!!
Your argument holds no water!
You have gone off the deep end. You make no sense whatsoever. This is a forum for thoughtful debate.
Start thinking instead of parroting rightwing bull.
We do not belive you. We will never believe you.
I asked a legit question, why not give an answer instead of just giving the answer of a 5 year old?
And by the way, repeating yourself ad nauseum about something that doesn't hold water and has no substance (especially repeating one word 9 times) is a good example of 5 year old behavior.
At least Robt Eagle gave a source. But you apparently refuted it.
Could you repeat these questions in English? As written they make no sense.
"IN ADDITION TO 9/11, AMERICAN EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES WERE ATTACKED 12 TIMES DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.."
When there is a local crime, the first thing the police say is: We can't comment until all the facts are known. You expected the President from thousands of miles away, and while people were dying, and events were unfolding to say exactly what was going on. That is what you got when Mitt, even before the President made a statement did. AND HE WAS WRONG and very UN-Presidential .
The whole Republican party and its zombified, FOX Bots have lost their capacity to reason and for logic.
Evidently you haven't been paying attention. Benghazi has been in the news every day suince the attack. And where's your proof that President Obama has "lied" rather than simply being fed inaccurate initial infofrmation?
Ray of hope: My son and I marched in last Saturday's Holloween parade as Pretend Politician Clowns, and laughter and claps and thumbs up abounded. The cheers came from folks of all and no political parties.
Sorry, villainaire rulers, we ain't as dumb and naive as you'd karlroving have us.
As a former journalist, I am amazed by what passes for news coverage these days.
They all seem afraid of something.
I never took that pill. I simply pursued and exposed the truth. Thought that was my job.
Also, with revenues down, and expected to get worse for print media, I'm wondering if the lack of enough qualified people to do the job isn't a factor as well.
No report on UAW charges....that should be News.
That is one screwed-up priority, my friend.
It would help keep people on track.
You got met there, the Ambassador is "only playing dead"!
Check your facts bub. Each and every rumor you cited is a load of BS being spread with the object of making Romney/Ryan our next ruling duo --- precisely what Doctor Reich was talking about, and thanks for underlining his point.
Let us now turn, if only briefly, to reality. In fact, the Obama administration has been a bit over-willing to insert our military into countries not on our enemies list and setting them to shooting up the joint. If they missed this one, it was not for lack of desire but lack of opportunity.
Apparently the French considered the Mormon religion to be a cult when Romney was in France. Apparently he was not really supported in his "supposed" attempt to convvice the French to change religions.
On top of that, his father, George Romney, was leading Richard Nixon by 10 points for the Repub nomination for president, when he was told that Mitt would be jailed as a draft-dodger if George didn't get out of the race. Which he did.
I haven't been able to confirm this info, but, if true, it could be part of why Romney wants the presidency bad enough to lie about everything.
Dove...you may or may not be surprised if you Google: (not a paid advertisement)m ormons and lying. It seems that from the time that Joseph Smith, founder of the "church" had to lie constantly about his polygamous ways, lying is an accepted part of LDS doctrine as long as it benefits the cause & advancement of said church. Now what benefit could possibly be gained having a revered member of the church as POTUS? Hell, Coca-Cola could be banned as well as any film not rated G. A stretch but then again???
Mitt Romney promised “complete transparency” when he took charge of the Salt Lake City Olympics, but was unwilling to share a budget with the state board responsible for spending oversight. Archivists now say most key records about the Games’ internal workings were destroyed under the supervision of a staffer shortly after the flame was extinguished at Olympic Cauldron Park.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/24/after_romney_pledged_transparent_olympics_key_documents_were_destroyed/#
At the end of his governorship, 11 of his staffers purchased the hard drives of their government-issu ed computers. the Romney administration also replaced computers and scrubbed state government servers of all the administration' s emails.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/what-is-mitt-romney-hiding
Romney, on the other hand, invoked his Etch-a-sketch. You can find him on every side of every issue. I do not trust him.
Then again, you haven't even given us a link. Where's your link robt, robt, robt?
That said, you're kind of missing the entire point of the article. Here's another one explaining it a bit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/world/middleeast/07iraq.html
You'll notice that it had nothing to do with the yellow cake that bush pretended was going to be sent to Iraq to instigate a war and steal oil.
You'll also notice that it has nothing to do with weapons.
You'll also notice that it was entire uncontroversial that it was there. There was no cover up.
It's just that you're trying to turn it into something it isn't and it never was.
Nice try though.
check out this link: http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/yellowcake.asp
Here's a snippet from it:
“The yellowcake removed from Iraq in 2008 was material that had long since been identified, documented and stored in sealed containers under the supervision of the UN. inspectors. It was NOT a “secret” cache that was recently “discovered” by the U.S., and the yellowcake had not been purchased by Iraq in the years immediately preceding the 2003 invasion. The uranium was the remnants of a decades old nuclear reactor projects that had been put out of commission many years ealier: One reactor at Al Tuwaitha was bombed by Israel in 1981, and another was bombed and disabled during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Moreover, the fact that the yellowcake had been in Iraq since before the 1991 Gul war was plainly stated in the Associated Press article cited in the example above:
‘Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF ANY YELLOWCAKE DATING FROM AFTER 1991, the official said’ ”
THAT'S WHAT SAY I.
read it.
WHAT SAY YOU?
Why couldn't YOU look that stuff up and actually do your research? Why do WE have to do it for you right-wingers? It just wastes a lot my people's time - this time, MINE.
YOU made the accusation. The least you could do is verify that it has some substance FIRST before repeating it. Just because rush limblow tells you something doesn't mean it's true. You have to check and double-check your claims - especially when they have wild implications.
The trouble is that you right-wingers are too lazy to do the work of actually looking stuff up. It's for this reason that you're so easily manipulated by people like rush and romney. All they have to do is make an unsubstantiated claim and they know you won't bother to check it or call them out on it.
You do all the leg work for them, of repeating the claim for them so much that other low-information voters will believe it (since they "heard it somewhere"). By then, the damage is done. No amount of actual FACTS can dissuade you.
Facts are nothing but liberal obstacles that get in the way of your agenda.
As you'd say, "what say you"?
Yes, Eagle must be direct descendant of that old turkey, Goebbels of the 'big lie' ....
Still waiting for your non-partisan, provable link...
robt? robt? robt?
It is too bad the slimes have found their way out from under the rocks
Quit being so childish. This is serious stuff.
I'm voting independent. Not Obama. But I have actual REAL reasons, not the crap being spewed out on the airwaves.
I am voting to keep Nazis out
Consulting NewsMax or Faux News is NOT research.
Romney may be worse, but that's no reason to foster illusions about Obama.
I tried to correct the negative rating you've got, but they keep coming in.
Labor Party 2016.
The lesser of two evils is...guess what?
We've gotten into this habit of voting that way and the only ones that suffer is us.
Sorry, Republicans and Democrats, but it is true.
You are all TeaPartiers from how you lie and distort facts.
When any of you can walk on water let us know when the gig is happening
Small mind. Please do not insult the Labor Party that is disgusting
As long as people think and vote like you, we will never get anything but "evil". I don't think we can save the planet or our children and grandchildren if we continue to vote for the "lesser of 2 evils". Haven't you heard both Obama and Romney talking up the anti Iran propaganda lies? Haven't you seen their talk trying to "drill baby drill" each other? Jill Stein got arrested yesterday for trying to take supplies to people trying to block the southern half of the tar sands pipe line. She or someone like her won't get elected this time, but I'll make a statement by voting for someone who is at least trying to save a future for our children.
Rescue work? Protest? Marched? Organized Community? Go to Local Meetings and get involved.
Buy American? I didn't think so..crawl back
Wrong!
Obama promised vigilance on Iran but not direct military action and I suspect is aware that most Americans are war-weary. He is also for a leaner-meaner military using highly trained special forces on carefully targeted points -as in Bin Laden. I don't agree with all of his policies either but still prefer him as an intelligent and thoughtful leader who is as truthful as the Beltway culture permits him to be. He is also from a multi-cultural background.
Twit on the other hand would go to war in a heartbeat without considering the consequences and inevitable blowback. He wants to use to the max' the lumbering, polluting and scatter-gun might of the Behemoth that sucks up so much of your taxes and give the military a further $2Tr IT DOESN'T EVEN WANT! His estrangement from any kind of truth or substance, amply demonstrated ignorance of the world beyond his circumscribed Mormon outlook is frightening and his agonizing twists and turns to please one day this group, one day another are dizzying at best.
No difference, eh ?
Rather than fact, you continue to belch out what could be considered mass hysteria, from one person. But I remember somthing far more dispicble related to the military, and this is more important than an overbloated military on the verge of "vomiting: Bush Jr., ordering U.S. soldiers to Iraq, really give G.I.s a real stab in the back when those who were wounded, had PTSD, etc. During that time, he cut funding for veterans' benefits. What timing. Use soldiers like cannon fodder then dump those who need help back home into the "American gutter." Explain how Obama's a disaster, if you can.
Or maybe you're the Cheshire cat.
Worse than G.W.Bush? You can't possibly believe that. To recount all the damage Bush did would take far more characters than I am allowed here.
I have family in service and ships are newr than what you are lying about, maybe you should re look.
If there are things you don't like that the President has done, (and I think he has done tons of good) we at least have a better chance to push him to do better, with Romney what you can expect is the the likes of the devil incarnates like the Cheney's to go back to their bunkers and start 1/2 dozen more wars, and a decimation of our social structure.
You mean messing with Iran's computers is the equivalent to Romney's threats to attack Iran? And I agree about Obama continuing the Bush policy as a bad thing. But blame Bush for starting them as well.
When the third party actually proves they can do something, sign me on I worked with Greens and other years ago and they are still in square one.
Thank you.
You bash 'em Barb. Every word is true! The Dems have let them get away with these lies, when they can sink the R&R ship by shining the right light on these lying bastards. I moved back to OH about a month ago and am involved in the Obama campaign here. My concern is the fact that Romney family and friends own a company that holds majority interest in the company that manufactures the voting machines that will be used in my county anyway (Hamilton County - Cincinnati). And NOBODY in the mainstream media is talking about it! The MSM is deathly afraid of the Repugnant Ones.
How are things going up there in MI?
... Don
You think he is going to change stripes...
Thank You for all that you do! I enjoy your columns. I must call you out on this one though for your partisanship. First full disclosure, I'm a GREEN, voting for JILL STEIN the only electoral party in the U.S. without corporate masters or lies.
Please do an article now in balance of this one , pointing out the numerous lies told by Obama in his campaign. I can't site them all here & now. I'm a working Mom, who also does senior care for my Dad.
However off the top of my head, please recount all of Obama's campaign promises & then illustrate his actions first weeks in office til now; droning innocents overseas, hiring Goldman Sachs (the bank that just ripped off America) in his administration, doing nothing to fix the Patriot Act or save Planned Parenthood. Hiring Arnie Duncan (public school killer) to head up the Dept of Education. Allowing banks & GM to feign bankruptcy so they could continue Union busting.
Lets be fair and tell BOTH sides of the TRUTH please. You are one of the last journalistic hopes of the American People.
Sincerely,
:DMagone
www.deborahmagone.com
You, like the other reactionary with military family which I've quit responding to as a hopeless, blinkered case, are lying to yourselves, having drunk some potion that takes reason prisoner.
Your former dim-bulb of a "selected" president took the country into two wars we are still paying for on a bunch of egregious lies and lied about "Compassionate Conservatism" (an oxymoron from a moron) and the country from a surplus into a depression we are still trying to crawl out of.
And I suspect that there is a wee bittie racism there too.
The US military is bigger than the next 14 nations combined, "Defense" is the biggest lie of all. Hell China just got it's first aircraft carrier -a junked reject from S. Korea which can't even launch aircraft yet. The so-called defense department is a lumbering, polluting, destructive, tax-sucking global tool of corporate state which knows no allegiance but profit and imperial aspiration. If you believe anything else you are delusional and I hate to think of the young people who are in it's savage maw believing they are "defending the homeland against the bad guys", most of whom were "our bad guys" at one time.
You lot must live in a comfortable cocoon of fantasy and breed lies.
I've noticed those on the right misuse left-sounding epithets, like the terms racist and sexist. As with others, they're more namecalling, because of thier negativity, than accurately using them. I'm not saying it's impossible, but you and others refuse to go beyond your potential for intelligence. Rather, you reveal the mental capacity for only namecalling and using a simple tit-for-tat argument. It's easy to go "ynah, ynah, ynah" like a first grader.
No I don't know you -perhaps just as well for both of us.
I do have a pretty diverse range of friends and associates across the socio-political and racial spectrum that I can converse broadly with but you reveal much about yourself in every reactionary word you infest RSN with*.
I wrote, and not directly AT YOU but at the overwhelming majority of scared, reactionary white men, that I SUSPECTED a wee bittie racism as part of a general statement of response. Maybe it touched a nerve -don't take it on if it doesn't fit you but even you can't deny that the majority of those who keep railing against Obama have a racist element underlying their motives; I hear it daily where I live.
If the shoe fits, wear it, otherwise let it go.
It was part of a response to your pot calling the liar black (All politicians lie for Gawd's sake), if you are going to support and vote for a liar so consummate, his own handlers can't keep up with him and he keeps tripping over his own falsehoods.
And Twit is a prominent member of a notoriously racist cult-like religion, his spray-on tan notwithstanding ; go figure.
* Can you point me to a right-leaning forum or talk show where I can post and not be screened out? No rightist has responded to this question yet.
Even reporters on MSNBC make me shake my head at times with Andrea Mitchell being one of the biggest ass kissers of all.
I put my money right here on RSN and a few other independent news sources and blogs. Then I know I'm reading truth and fact.
Recently I asked one of them "Do you believe Pres Obama was born in HI, is a Christian, and loves this country" When she said no, I replied "then I will no longer discuss anything political with you" Although she continued, I said nothing which finally stopped her babble - We were stuck at a public dinner table and came in 1 car (this will never happen again to me.)
If you take Christianity seriously, no wonder you are delusional.
It's better than appearing to take it or any other religion seriously then slaughtering so many without conscience and denying health care to millions.
Are you aware that St Matthew of Matthew Mark Luke and John said that if you show off your religious beliefs in public you're a hypocrite and don't really believe it.
It is the word of Jesus Christ and it is diametrically opposed to all conservative ideology.
Read it for a change and get back to us.
YOU brought up Christianity by replying that he doesn't "take Christianity seriously".
I find it revealing that you think the President's Christianity is an issue that you think's worth calling into question, but you don't think the Bible has anything to do with government.
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Now, about your cop-out that James II has nothing to do with government:
When you can show me that conservatives show ANY care for the poor EVER, and don't need the government to twist their arms, I'll believe that it has nothing to do with government.
When you can tell me that conservatives think religion and state should be absolutely separated I'll listen to your argument as well.
Until then, Jesus was living under the Roman Empire. Jesus was ABSOLUTELY POLITICAL. He prophesized that the Roman Empire would be destroyed at a time when saying so endangered his life.
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How can you, on one hand, take James II seriously, and on the other hand say our government needs to tell people they're on their own, and when they're starving in the streets they should have thought about that earlier when they were too busy being born in a poor neighborhood?
That entire part of the Bible is about social economic justice, and as a typical conservative, you can't admit it.
I do not think the president's religion is an issue.
I believe that Christian "social economic justice" is not imposed by government.
I believe that grace and political power are two different things.
Conservative ideology is that our brothers can go to hell if they can't "pull themselves up by their bootstraps". Conservative ideology is that it's ok to say someone else "doesn't take Christianity seriously", while not having any actions to prove that we were actually listening when we were told to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Spin it anyway you like, but the fact is that you're trying to pretend James 2 doesn't exist and that it magically doesn't apply to you. What's worse is that you claim the right to question someone else's Christianity.
As it says in James 2. Show me your faith, and I'll show you my deeds.
What do repugs think of Obama "redistributing " money away from the rich to help the poor?
His Faith is between him, his Family, and his Creator as it should be.
Only religious racists bring up another man's faith like it is trash. I make fun of others Faith since most have none and profess too much.
I need no man's writings to make me Believe in Creation.
I believe if tried today both were guilty.
OT is a diary showing how fragile we are, how paranoid. New Testament tries to bring people out of the Dark Ages of submission to State and Religion...not too many get that. Both written by men.
O' Hell I don't take myself that seriously. -Now you are making assumptions that you accused me of earlier and you couldn't be more wrong. In fact, I'm known as a bit of joker in my neck of the woods and chuckle my way through most things, from religion, to politics to personal tough times -you name it; and I'm lucky enough to have a wife who is likewise and a daughter who is heavily infected (or plagued) with her ol' man's sense of the ridiculous. In fact I try to put a li'l humor in some of my RSN posts but maybe that slipped by you.
I find most reactionaries (as opposed to reasonably rational conservatives) seriously defective in the humor department, especially the unco' religious of the species. My wife's elder brother is a good example and he is a miserable son-of-a late auto dealer (who was a great laugh).
Let me leave you with this:
"And in all their promises of Paradise
you will not hear one laugh".
Bob Dylan (America's greatest poet in my 'umble opinion)
"The Gates of Eden".
"Frau Blucher" -"Neigigigihhhh "! Heh-heh.
The best thing about Heaven is that no Republican has gotten there in the last 30 years.
We aren't in Kansas anymore.
t when it comes to jerks like that, I have found.
The system is 'rigged', or 'limited', and those now 'in control' know it very well; have learned how to take advantage of 'American Democracy's' weaknesses.
So, how do we break this gridlock, and draft another Party/Candidate ? How do we retake our Democracy?
The House is Burning!
This is a huge dilemma - but it seems that this election won't address it. I agree that the USA is cooked if Romney is President - and even worse if the Senate and Congress are Repub. What to do? Vote Dem this time. Then work like mad to grow the Greens from local on up. Unless you have that organization, you won't stand a chance. It will be slow and hard work.
BTW, the same kind of work we need to do in Canada to get rid of Emperor Harper.
Many of the Third Parties, smack of snobbism. They have their agendas..guess what so does the two that need to go.
Everyone has an agenda, try to work up a list, work on them...but no let's go get money from Lobbyists. I know that Dems and Thugs once were good parties, now they are just fat, lazy.
Romney by himself is almost useless, devoid of ideas, reason or plans. He is a tool, no more, but one ready to do what he is told including veto endlessly. He doesn't appear to really want the job of President, just the title.
The real problem is having the House of Reps in the hands of the Kochs, Wall Street, et al., and the Senate in endless fillibuster mode. Romney merely makes their takeover complete.
We mush retake Congress.
They both involve water.
Wake up, America. Romney is a liar who is backed by big money that has no regard for the truth or the people!
Romney's lies are their own lies, and they're not going to call attention to that.
Does the GOP presidential pretender actually realize his doublespeak? Or does he know and in turn think most U.S. citizens are stupid?
I hope the U.S. citizenry understands that old saying, which Bush Jr. screwed up one time: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Or is the last part W's ".uh...you don't get fooled again?"
to the Tea-Party
Everyone is suddenly angry.
Angry in concert.
They’ve identified the bad guys —
the corporations, the insurance companies and banks,
the venal
superrich, their vain wives and over-indulged children,
those errant
gas-guzzling
husbands who’d been cheating all along.
They all say they didn’t know.
They say they were
innocent, victims
of slick hotshots, those
self-absorbed moneymaking high fliers.
They,
they’re just the poor populace, the taxpayers, the American people,
innocent.
They don’t say,
how years ago they voted; how they cheered
the stunned deer president they let
be swept right up into a lie of office,
they don’t say how they jeered
the claims
of torture, the doubts of any questioners, the opposition
caged,
far from self-congratula tory conventions.
They don’t say,
how they
chose
not to see
the flimflam sleight
of hand,
the sneer of cunning.
Divisiveness breeds conflict
Camaraderie yields sooth
Barack works for everyone
Mitt fights that nail and tooth
Red despises everyone
Especially the Blue
If you’ve got no money
Red doesn’t care ‘bout you.
And should you be a female
Your healthcare just won’t be
According to the “Red-Coats”
There's no equality
Wall Street rapes America
Following their creed:
Financial domination,
Driven by raw Greed
So go on there watching
Fabrications on Faux News
Or mental wrecks of Glen Becks’
On America’s subterfuge
If supporting Romney/Ryan
Is how your time is spent
On future days you’ll wonder:
Where your country went
a study showed that Fox News viewers were less informed of facts than those who never watch the news.
And,ironically, Fox is not allowed in Canada because Canada requires news to be factual and they have been officially deemed to not telling the truth and so ineligible for a icense there.
Apparently "lemmings" are people who care about their families.
And still, the American electorate is so stoopid and brainwashed that they will vote massively for either Obama or Romney.
What an effing waste!
Please join us in the
Crusade to have Osama bin Laden laid to rest in
Arlington National Cemetery.
Osama fought for freedom, liberty and for the American way of life.
After all, nothing is more American than killing people! (No Right is more honored than The Right to Bare Arms). Osama may not have killed as many Americans as Former Vice-President Dick Chaney, but, hey, Dick Chaney had a head start. And like Dick Chaney, Osama embraced all of the Republican Party policies: Reduction of taxes for rich people (Osama came from a rich family), Reduce education for women, Reduce American Spending, Reduce Health Care, Reduce People, etc. Like Chaney, Osama tried to have his missionaries, in as many countries as possible, to apostolate the American way of life. This Saint (Osama, not Dick Chaney) was a very devote, religious man, trying to help men and women meet their Maker and to ease the path to Heaven. Osama may not have been as efficient as Vice-President Dick Chaney and President George W. Bush in his efforts to bring America to its knees, but that in no reason not to honor him.
…And, while you are at it, please pay tribute to Mitt Romney who has the same principles and will do his best to fulfill Osama's ideals.

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