Comments on: What Obama Means When He Talks About ‘Fairness’

By: Bohemond

Bohemond — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:00:11 +0000

In related news, The Obama administration has announced that it is seizing two of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ six Super Bowl trophies. The confiscated Lombardis will be awarded to the Detroit Lions and the Cleveland Browns. “After all,” said Sports Czar Oprah Winfree, “the Lions and Browns played just as many regular-season games and spent just as much time in practice. It’s only fair.”

By: goy

goy — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:21:43 +0000

@47. E. Andrews: - Why do liberals so frequently resort to gutter language, name-calling and SHOUTING?

If memory serves, it has something to do with some Alinsky guy, a rulebook and using ridicule to beat down the opposition.

Guess he forgot to mention the bit about appeal to ridicule being a logical fallacy. And none of the supposed “college graduates” or “college graduates with postgraduate educations” seem to have noticed.

By: Jim C

Jim C — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:22:35 +0000

Oscar Wao is what’s wrong with the Democratic party..every thing is based upon fear and/or emotion and it’s all about gaining and keeping power. And when things get tough, abandon rational argument, start the name calling and try trashing a well known Republican (Bush, Cheney, Rush, Hannity, Steele, etc.)

Remember the tea party protestors? Dems didn’t like ‘em so they called them names such as tea baggers and racists. I guess the entire state of California is racist too. Not even Pelosi’s county voted for higher taxes.

By: Jim C

Jim C — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:13:59 +0000

Tomp,
His ball wasn’t stolen. He was the last one picked and they never passed him the ball. Now, he’s gonna make sure that everyone who sucks gets the ball and gets a shot or two.

By: Marie Claude

Marie Claude — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:24:45 +0000

31 Mudpie, umm you’ve attended soccer matches ! fairness isn’t in our vocabulary otherwise ! but magouilles, favoritisme …

By: E. Andrews

E. Andrews — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:58:58 +0000

to 46. Oscar Wao: “…I don’t want to interrupt your masturbatory fantasy,” … “you little pant-crapping sissies …”

Why do liberals so frequently resort to gutter language, name-calling and SHOUTING? An educated person cannot have a satisfactory conversation with people consumed with hatred for those who disagree with with them. To paraphrase an old nursery rhyme, sticks and stones can break our bones, but names can never hurt us.

FYI, I’m so disgusted with most politicians I often vote only on local or state issues after thorough research.

By: Oscar Wao

Oscar Wao — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:52:09 +0000

It is time for those that are responsible and work hard to say HELL NO NOT ANYMORE will I support this policy, and vote out the liberal socialist democrats that are infesting our federal government. Let your state make the laws and stop these federal mandates, vote for conservatives at the local state and federal levels. There is an opportunity to do just that next year, and if what happened in California in the last propositions is an indicator it might be the real start of seeing this actually happen, now they need to follow the course and get rid of most of their stupid liberal politicians starting with Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters,

Do you need a tissue to clean up? I don’t want to interrupt your masturbatory fantasy, but come 2010 local Republicans will most likely suffer even greater defeats. Almost every poll confirms that there are fewer and fewer people willing to identify as Republicans.

PRINCETON, NJ — The decline in Republican Party affiliation among Americans in recent years is well documented, but a Gallup analysis now shows that this movement away from the GOP has occurred among nearly every major demographic subgroup. Since the first year of George W. Bush’s presidency in 2001, the Republican Party has maintained its support only among frequent churchgoers, with conservatives and senior citizens showing minimal decline….

…So far in 2009, aggregated Gallup Poll data show the divide on leaned party identification is 53% Democratic and 39% Republican — a marked change from 2001, when the parties were evenly matched, according to an average of all of that year’s Gallup Polls. That represents a loss of five points for the Republicans and a gain of eight points for the Democrats….The parties were also evenly matched on basic party identification in 2001 (which does not take into account the partisan leanings of independents), with 32% identifying themselves as Republicans, 33% as Democrats, and 34% as independents. The 2009 data show the GOP losing five points since then, with identification increasing three points among both Democrats and independents….

As was shown earlier, the GOP’s loss in leaned support over this time is evident among nearly every subgroup. The losses are substantial among college graduates, which have shown a decline in GOP support of 10 points. (The losses are even greater — 13 points — among the subset of college graduates with postgraduate educations.) This may reflect in part Barack Obama’s strong appeal to educated voters, a major component of his winning coalitions in both the Democratic primaries and the general election….

Implications

The Republican Party clearly has lost a lot of support since 2001, the first year of George W. Bush’s administration. Most of the loss in support actually occurred beginning in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina and Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court — both of which created major public relations problems for the administration — and amid declining support for the Iraq war. By the end of 2008, the party had its worst positioning against the Democrats in nearly two decades.

The GOP may have stemmed those losses for now, as it does not appear to have lost any more support since Obama took office. But as the analysis presented here shows, the losses the GOP has suffered have come among nearly all demographic groups apart from some of the most ardent Republican subgroups….

Read it and weep. That’s the Gallup poll mind you, not some fringe lefty group. The truth is in the tea leaves you little pant-crapping sissies. Your fear of your own shadow, worship of mendacity and craven support of xenophobic racist wars that have resulted in the death of thousands of Americans, has come back big time. No one wants anything to do with you or your discredited philosophy. The best that you can hope for is to continue to entertain people as Michael Steele holds national meetings on what to call Democrats.

By: David

David — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:03:55 +0000

Ask Joe the plumber and Sarah Palin about fairness.
That was just a preview of what is coming .
For the people that is.
TARP was the warm up of BIG BROTHER ,just wait till they get the ball rolling.
Why the people are allowing this and some even cheering it on is wrong on so may levels.

By: ic

ic — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:46:18 +0000

40. Houdini: “The Democrats or liberals think that everybody is stupid and therefore they need somebody… to tell them how to behave themselves. The Republicans think everybody is lazy…” — Karl Hess

By: Well Educated Cad

Well Educated Cad — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:12:57 +0000

Just “Atlas Shrugged” coming true!!!!!!!