2012 Presidential Election part 4

[saveliberty]

5h Ari Armstrong ‏@ariarmstrong

You might be a leftist if... Romney mentioning dependency on government gets you more riled up than the ongoing Islamist assaults.

 

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Mitt Romney tells donors Palestinians 'have no interest' in peace in new video

 

Mitt Romney told donors in a newly released video clip that Palestinians "have no interest" in peace with Israel and suggested that efforts at Middle East peace under his administration would languish.

 

Romney says that Palestinians are "committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel" and that the prospects for a two-state solution to Middle East peace were dim.

 

"You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it," Romney said.

[pollyannaish]

Wow. The truth really separates the wheat from the chaff doesnt it? I have been in the 53% and the 47%. I want more opportunity to be in the 53% and as high as possible. So his comments, which are also known as truth telling are refreshing...either about the US or Palestinians.

[righteousmomma]

I agree, pollyannish's about truth telling.

I AM SICK AND TIRED of the Republicans allowing themselves to be constantly on the defensive. Ignore the press 's incessant tweaking and get on and stay on OFFENSE.

STOP being intimidated and feeling like you have to respond or answer back . Stop being defensive and weak.

 

Fox is also making me totally frustrated with their continued " fair and balanced" partisan propaganda pundits.

Just heard one saying Romney has insulted low wage earners by implying they are "lazy" WHATTTT???

 

 

[Draggingtree]

September 17, 2012 — Steven Hayward

Obama’s War on Women?

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds for flagging this revealing tidbit from the Daily Beast/Newsweek feature story on women CIA analysts:

Just before the White House announcement of a new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy, Obama asked Riedel and his team to come to see him in the Oval -Office so he could thank them. Riedel’s team consisted of an Afghan specialist from the State Department and a Pakistan expert from the CIA. Riedel introduced the CIA analyst to Obama as “the best Pakistan expert I’ve ever seen.” Obama looked at the CIA officer, who was sporting stiletto heels, and said with clear amusement, “You don’t look like a Pakistan expert.”

Yuck, yuck, that Obama is so funny. Except that we have had considerable evidence before now (especially the Ron Suskind book Confidence Men) of Obama’s disdain for http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/obamas-war-on-women.php

[Valin]

Archbishop Chaput: I can’t vote for pro-abortion Obama

Whither the Catholic vote in this election? Late last week, a poll showed Obama ahead by eight among Catholic registered voters (to which I’ve lost the link), although the data didn’t come from one of the regular national pollsters such as Pew, Gallup, or Rasmussen. With Abortion-Palooza in Charlotte still ringing in the ear and the provocative HHS contraception mandate threatening religious liberty — as well as Paul Ryan’s supposedly apostate budget in the mix — the Catholic vote may end up being critical to the outcome, or at least a bellwether of it.

 

National Catholic Register asked Archbishop Charles Chaput about his own personal take on the election, Barack Obama’s support for abortion, and the Ryan budget, and Chaput declined the opportunity to tell his flock how to vote. However, he wasn’t shy about sharing his own personal view on the presidential election, and strongly rebutting the argument that there is an equivalence between abortion and cuts to government spending (via LifeNews):

 

We’re speaking on the night Barack Obama is delivering his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Let me ask flat-out: Do you believe a Catholic in good faith can vote for Obama?

 

I can only speak in terms of my own personal views. I certainly can’t vote for somebody who’s either pro-choice or pro-abortion.

 

I’m not a Republican and I’m not a Democrat. I’m registered as an independent, because I don’t think the church should be identified with one party or another. As an individual and voter I have deep personal concerns about any party that supports changing the definition of marriage, supports abortion in all circumstances, wants to restrict the traditional understanding of religious freedom. Those kinds of issues cause me a great deal of uneasiness.

(Snip)

[Valin]

I agree, pollyannish's about truth telling.

I AM SICK AND TIRED of the Republicans allowing themselves to be constantly on the defensive. Ignore the press 's incessant tweaking and get on and stay on OFFENSE.

STOP being intimidated and feeling like you have to respond or answer back . Stop being defensive and weak.

 

 

 

A couple of thoughts

A. When your opponent is down..kick him...hard....several times.

B. If politics is a war of ideas....bouncing the rubble is a good thing.

C. I really think we need to reach across the aisle...and smack the Democrats up side the head.

D. I am more than will to call a truce and work with the Left...just as soon as they admit that their ideas are wrong. I submit the last 3 1/2 years in evidence.

E. There is a right way and a wrong way to do the above. Unfortunately to many on our side choose the wrong way...I submit Michael Savage as evidence of the wrong way, and Hugh Hewitt as the right way.

 

 

We are not called the Stupid Party for nothing.

 

 

IF Romney loses, it is time for some....readjustments in the Party.

[Draggingtree]

Obamacare Increases Tax Prep Burden

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff

 

September 18, 2012 11:37 am

 

Obamacare will take Americans 79,229,503 hours to comply with its regulations, the House Committee on Ways and Means has estimated.

Americans for Tax Reform issued a statement highlighting the committee’s estimate.

To put this [number] in perspective, according to Ways and Means, it is the equivalent of the Empire State Building being constructed 11 times, a building which took 7 million man-hours to build.

tax compliance for Obamacare will fall on small businesses.

[Draggingtree]

Conservatives Agree: Romney’s Right

 

 

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 18th at 11:00 AM | 38

I stand second to none in being critical of Mitt Romney’s campaign. Hell, on MSNBC yesterday, Bay Buchanan lit into me as having never been with them and finding things to criticize. So pay attention here. Michael Warren is engaged in some beltway thinking that I think has plagued the Romney camp and which has always been a chief concern. For once, we see Mitt

Well hello I even agree

[Rheo]

New Mitt ad

There is a prairie fire of debt sweeping across our nation. Every day that we fail to act, it gets closer to the homes and the children we love. We need a president who will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.

[Casino67]

Tammy Bruce just played that clip of the woman who said 'Obama is going to pay my rent, buy my gas.......' The 47% Mitt was referring to.

[Draggingtree]

“I Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear to preserve, protect and defend Islam from the Consitution of the United States” [Reader Post]

 

By: DrJohn

 

 

June 4, 2009

“I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

Not Catholicism. Not Judaism. Only Islam.

[Rheo]

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[Valin]

 

Of course you know that W and his evil cabal are the ones who run You Tube.

[SrWoodchuck]

OK smart guy........why isn't it W-tube? [/sarc]

[Valin]

[Valin]

OK smart guy........why isn't it W-tube? [/sarc]

 

It's all part of the PLOT!

[Valin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QslAvJVqAXE

[Rheo]

[Rheo]

Romney: I'll deliver recovery, not dependency

 

Since our founding, America has promoted personal responsibility, the dignity of work and the value of education. Those values made our nation the hope of the earth and our economy the envy of the world.

 

Efforts that promote hard work and personal responsibility over government dependency make America strong. When the economy is growing and Americans are working, everyone involved has a shared sense of achievement, not to mention the basic sense of pride that comes with the paycheck they earn.

 

However, over the past four years, those kinds of opportunities have been in short supply. We're experiencing the worst recovery since the Great Depression. Unemployment has been above 8% for 43 straight months; 47 million Americans are on food stamps. Nearly one in six Americans now live in poverty.

 

Under President Obama, we have a stagnant economy that fosters government dependency. My policies will create a growing economy that fosters upward mobility.

Government has a role to play here. Right now, our nation's citizens do need help from government. But it is a very different kind of help than what President Obama wants to provide.

 

My experience has taught me that government works best when it creates the space for individuals and families to pursue success and achieve great things. Economic freedom is the only force that has consistently succeeded in creating sustained prosperity and lifting people out of poverty. It is why our economy rose to rival those of the world's leading powers -- and has long since surpassed them all.

 

The dreamers and the entrepreneurs, not government, built this economy, and they can once again make it strong.

My course for the American economy will encourage private investment and personal freedom. Instead of creating a web of dependency, I will pursue policies that grow our economy and lift Americans out of poverty.

 

My five-point plan will deliver the economic recovery we've all been waiting for and the jobs millions of Americans still need. This can be more than our hope; it can be our future. And it can start this November with your vote.

[Rheo]

Sununu: 'David Brooks Ought to Be Ashamed of Himself for Recategorizing What Romney Said'

 

Former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu on Tuesday took New York Times columnist David Brooks to task for his Romney-bashing piece "Thurston Howell Romney."

In the middle of a heated debate with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell about the Republican presidential nominee's comments regarding the 47 percent of Americans that don't pay taxes, Sununu asserted, "David Brooks ought to be ashamed of himself for recategorizing what Mitt Romney said" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

SUNUNU: No, it wasn't there, and that word “freeloader” is David Brooks's word, and the fact is that's not what the Governor put out on the table, and David Brooks ought to be ashamed of himself for recategorizing what Mitt Romney said that way.

 

Let's put this in context. You have an Obama administration that flaunts a website, applauding cradle to grave dependency with Julia. You have an Obama website that encourages people to understand that what he is for is an expansion of government so government can take care of them. Mitt Romney puts numbers on that and says we have a campaign in which those that support big government are on one side and those that support a private sector approach are on the other side. That's the big issue we ought to be debating. And you fall for this idea that by quantifying it as a 47/47 divide to start with, now you got to start parsing all these things. The polls are 47/47. That's where the starting point is. And they're battling over the 6 percent in the middle.

 

Indeed.

 

The reality is that though potentially inartful, what Romney said does accurately reflect the current state of America and its politics.

Yet the Obama-loving media once again smell blood in the water, and are portraying the Republican presidential nominee's words as an attack on half the nation.

This is by no means the case, and it's fortunate that there are people like Sununu out there willing to call the press on their obvious advocacy.

[Rheo]

Letterman Tells Obama 'You Haven't Seen Me Naked,' Prez Responds 'We're Gonna Keep it That Way'

 

CBS Late Show host David Letterman actually told the President of the United States Tuesday, "You haven't seen me naked."

During the much-anticipated interview, Barack Obama responded, "We're gonna keep it that way" (video follows with transcript and commentary).

After telling the President he looked great, Letterman began his interview with the most powerful man on the planet with a real hardball question: “How much do you weigh?”

Obama responded, “About 180.”

“180 looks good on you,” replied Letterman. “That’s just about where I am, and I don’t look so good at 180.”

“You know, you look sharp,” objected the President.

“You haven’t seen me naked,” disagreed Letterman.

“We’re gonna keep it that way,” replied the President.

After some laughter, the pair fist-bumped with Letterman saying, “That’s fair enough. Alright, I like that. We'll keep it that way.”

And that’s how Letterman’s interview with the President began.

Heady stuff, huh?

 

[Rheo]

Obama Tells GOP He'll 'Walk the Dog' or 'Wash Their Car' to Reduce Deficit

 

President Barack Obama said Monday that, if Republicans wanted him to “walk the dog” or “wash their car” to help reduce the country’s debt, he would be “happy to do it” in the spirit of bipartisanship.

 

"I’ve said if the Republicans need more love, if they want me to walk the dog or wash their car, I’m happy to do it," Obama said at a campaign event in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Obama, who is trying to run against a “Republican Congress,” said Republicans were trying to “bluff their way through until November.”

 

“You know, I genuinely believe that most Americans, Democrats or Republicans, they just want us to solve problems,” Obama said. “So I’m ready and willing to work. But I refuse to ask middle-class families to pay over $2,000 more so that millionaires and billionaires can pay less.”

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barf bag needed.

[Rheo]