Get Shorty
Greg Sargent at the Washington Post asks why Romney would imagine that Obama would lose to him by a big margin in the coming presidential election. He scoffs at any suggestion that 2012 will be anything but a tight race. Citing author Craig Shirley, Sargent asserts there is no way that President Obama, “a vastly superior politician to Carter” at a time “that the economy is nowhere near as bad as it was in 1980,” can show poorly against Romney, who “is not even a poor imitation of Reagan.” Therefore he finds it slightly suspicious that the Romney/Ryan team should exhibit such confidence. Sargent thinks that at worst it will be a tight race:
I fully expect the race to tighten, and I’d say it’s still a toss-up, given the bad economy. But it’s interesting to ask why the Romney camp is spinning this scenario. I don’t know how heavily Romney and his advisers are banking on things unfolding this way, but the fact that they are telling folks this suggests they think they need a theory of the race that explains why they aren’t yet winning.
But in fact the question should be asked the other way. Why is it tight? Why is Barack Obama, with all the resources of the incumbent, after having spent literally hundreds of billions on political patronage, backed by the wholehearted support of the media, not streets ahead of that rich old white Mormon and his miserly running mate?
Hillary Clinton is apparently asking herself the same question. And she’s sitting it out, which is a polite way of saying she’s looked at the odds and declined to bet the farm on Barack Obama winning in 2012. Ed Klein, the author of the New York Times bestseller on Obama, The Amateur, says Hillary was invited to join him as running mate in the coming elections — and she declined.
“As recently as a couple of weeks ago, the White House was putting out feelers to see if Hillary Clinton was interested in replacing Joe Biden on the ticket,” Klein told Secrets. “Bill Clinton, I’m told, was urging his wife to accept the number two spot if it was formally offered. Bill sees the vice presidency as the perfect launching pad for Hillary to run for president in 2016.”
He made similar comments Thursday night to CNBC’s Larry Kudlow. The White House has dismissed speculation of a Clinton for Biden swap despite a string of recent gaffes by the vice president.
Klein, whose book is No. 2 on the NYT bestseller list, quoted unnamed sources who revealed that top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett put the vice presidency on the table during a lunch with the secretary of state. “The lunch was ostensibly about policy issues, but the subject of the vice presidency came up,” he said. “Hillary told Valerie Jarrett that she was not interested in running as Obama’s vice president.”
Klein said she cited two reasons: If elected, she didn’t want to be tied to Obama’s left-leaning politics in her own 2016 bid. Second, if Obama loses, she would be tarred as a loser.
So Slow Joe spoke extra crazy after Hillary said No? He has Barry over a barrel, and nailed him.
We may have shovel ready jobs next year, building prisons.
Deep inside his head, I truly wonder exactly what it was Mr. Mark Allen thought was going to happen. Was his “organizing” suddenly going to start paying the bills? Was “Shorty” going to start pulling down 100K doing leveraged real estate take overs (or whatever)?
I particularly like notion Hillary was not interested in hitching her star to another term in Saul’s White House. Maybe that’s why she’s spent so much time out of the country recently.
“Sargent asserts there is no way that President Obama, “a vastly superior politician to Carter” at a time “that the economy is nowhere near as bad as it was in 1980″
As Valley Girl Moon Zappa said in the time of Reagan “gag me with a spoon”. What unadulterated horsecrap.
I only wish the economy was anywhere near what it was under Carter. Under Carter, we had an inflationary recession that Reagan was able to turn around in a few years. Today we are in the midst of a serious Debt Bust Depression and are poised to slide over the fiscal cliff into economic and social chaos and collapse. Monumental Difference. The Democrats were at least as much a cause of the problems under Bush as anyone else, and the looming Debt Trap and most of the crap we face today are all on the Fashionable Fascist in the White House.
The Democrat’s Pinocchio noses are really getting long these days. It ‘s time to turn the tables and call them out.
I would like Romney to run a series of TV spots showing two young, black hipsters recalling all of Buraq’s disasters from his mishandling of the economy, to Fast and Furious, to his sellout to the TBTF, to his $50 Billion payoff to the UAW, to his $2 Billion Brazilian Oil Drilling payoff to George Soros, to the screwing of the Delphi Pensionser and the GM Bondholders, to his creepy, illegal executive orders, et al all the way to the lack of prosecution of his crony bundler John Corzine.
And I want the two actors to say something along the lines of :
“Last time I was really stoked about Barrack” ” We were supposed to get real positive change….not this!”
This is not what I voted for. Barrack is acting like some third world , power mad dictator…
He must think we’re really stupid. Buraq’s is insulting the intelligence of the American People. Only an imbecilic twit would believe…..( insert Buraq’s latest con)..
It’s time for Romney to shine a powerful beacon on the pathetically stupid lies of Buraq. Buraq has handed Romney a golden opportunity to slice and dice Buraq’s fashion and “cool” quotient. All he has to do is handle it right. You do that and many of Buraq supporters will run away from him like the plague. The Dems would be wiped out.
@3. Unsk: “Buraq has handed Romney a golden opportunity to slice and dice Buraq’s fashion and “cool” quotient. All he has to do is handle it right.”
I agree. Obama plays the hipster persona well. Romney should play the dad whose basement the hipster lives in.
To be clearer about my post. I did not fully express my thoughts as I unfortunately often do.
In my mind, Obama and his clique have essentially jumped the shark.
They have overplayed their hand. Their lies are now too easily recognizable to anyone with a brain, as pure, desperate bull sheet. Take advantage of this vulnerability. And I think they are most vulnerable to the hipster young kids who have been betrayed and are beginning to understand just how badly.
3. Unsk
Nice thoughts but I fear the signal to noise ratio is to low to make a difference.
0bumbler has been on his floor for a while now. 45-46 percent is as low as he will go.
That is his base plus those who are filling their rice bowl from his offerings. That leaves 55 to 56 % there for the taking.
I was hoping Mitt would break the WASP mold with his VP pick. That would show the non-WASPs that the GOP was a’changing. Ryan might be good enough. Personally, I won’t vote for Romney. Ryan is a maybe.
Dick Morris (before he dicks you) says the last minute deciders break for the challenger 80% of the time. The theory is that if they were going to vote for the incumbent, They would not be undecided going into the polling station.
Sounds good. We’ll see if he is correct.
As far as the EV’s go, I expect it to be closer then the popular vote. NY and Calipornia give the donks a huge advantage. That is 25% of the EV’s needed that the donks will get no matter what. Pa, Ohio and Fla will decide the issue. 2 of those 3 wins.
Charlie don’t surf.
I’m confused. Where does Sargent get the idea that Romney/Ryan and Co. think they have the election in the bag? What did I miss?
The other posters above covered Sargent’s other strange assertions about Carter and the economy. The MSM alternate Universe is a really strange place. It is a realm where The Strawman rules with an iron fist.
Why didn’t the stimulus help Shorty? Only our intellectual superiors in Big Gov’t (and their wholly-committed media subsidiary) could miss the reason. Shorty was in the wrong country!
The stimulus money was spread thin. Give every US tax payer $10, and it costs the gov’t $1 Billion. So the tax payer goes to Baskin Robbins and blows it all on a sundae. Profits flow back to Baskin Robbins owners — in the UK.
Or give some tens of millions of unemployed another year’s worth of unemployment benefits, and they go to Walmart to get the essentials. Walmart sends the money to China.
Shorty should have been collecting dividends in the UK, or working in a Chinese factory. He could even have done OK building Airbuses in France for United Airlines, or building Porsches in Germany for all those new Administration bigwigs in DC.
US stimulus spending does no good for US citizens when Big Intrusive Government has effectively regulated US jobs out of existence and replaced them with imported goods & services.
The administration never got around to governing. They’re still selling the sizzle, but nobody has yet glimpsed the sausage. ABC News describes the new concept of “openess” — pay to play for everyone. There is premium access.
And then there’s the seating for the groundlings. For three bucks you can enter a raffle and if your name is drawn, win a plane trip and a hotel room to the convention
A cynic might think it this was a way to process every last dime out of the rubes. Well Shorty might want to take his chances and buy access. A whole dollar more, plus the two bucks Allen gave him will buy Shorty a raffle ticket, and he can get all the access afforded by the chance to watch the tiny figures of the political gods from a distance.
Who knows, maybe he can even schmooze over complimentary cokes and potato chips in the lobby, although given the need to raise money, they’ll probably charge for that too. For those too poor to afford the potato chips and pop, hopefully there will be someone who’ll light a fire in an oil drum in the parking lot and they can all stand around and toast marshmallows and weiners while they exchange email addresses.
The marshmallows and hotdogs will be sold from styrofoam coolers by designated vendors for a reasonable fee. Power to the people. And don’t forget to bring home the packets of salt, paper and the paper napkins. The campaign hasn’t ended yet. Maybe it never will.
So can we call it “trickle down, fairy-dust stimulus” yet?
Hillary Clinton is the Great White whale of American politics despite the fact that the vaunted Clinton machine got run over by an unknown back bencher from the Southside of Chicago. Hillary is a political clod who drips insincerity. Her biggest assets is that almost everybody who wanted her just assumed that she was, like Lurlene Wallace, a vehicle to put her husband back in the seat of power. Hillary reaches the level of McNamarian incompetence. Everything shy touches from Healthcare to foreign policy ends in disaster. So to all Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, libertarians and neo-Fascists Hillary will not be seeking the Presidency in 2016. She no longer wants the job nor does anybody, except some aging boomer political pundits, even give her a second thought. The Clintons and the Bushes are old news. The Great White Whale is dead.
s @ 6 said:
“Personally, I won’t vote for Romney.”
Shut up!!
I can’t understand why you would share this with anybody, understanding as well as you do what is at stake in this election.
The sooner you realize that this is more than just R vs D, that this is a Chicago knife fight, made that way by Marxist revolutionaries like Castro and Obama, and stop harping about the spec in Romney’s eye, the sooner we can make an attempt to stop the leftward tide in the West.
Just shut up!
7. Don Rodrigo
Romney and Ryan are contesting this election and they are attacking Democratic Party policies, ideas and (as Romney said it) the Democrats’ divisiveness anger and hate. In Greg Sargent’s world Republicans are supposed to admit their sins and all around evil and spend the campaign making whimpering apologies.
Simply by contesting the election as if they have a chance of winning, to Greg Sargent, that says Romney and Ryan are overconfident.
I think that the election will remain close until R+R grind the wheels of the Democrats’ machine so thin that the air shows through their tires. If they can do that, I think big blocks of votes will shift in their direction. If R+R can’t grind Obama down then the election result will depend on the mood of the electorate when they enter the polling booth – a coin toss.
“Perhaps Allen and Shorty will still vote for him this time around, but there’s a limit to everything.”
They are disappointed in the result. I don’t know why. What did they think they were voting for? Did they honestly think their “brother” was going to help them out? Really?
Did they give him a bunch of campaign cash? If not, fuggedaboutit. It does not matter if you campaign for him extensively, unless you are coughing up the dough, you will get no attention from him later. Only those with the cash get access.
Look at all the “green” industry boondoggles. See any “brothers” there? 87% of the money went to bundlers.
These guys are down and out, because they do not know how it really works. So, they vote for a fantasy and are disappointed. They are useful idiots.
In other news, remember Little Green Footballs? He seems to be on the ‘current or former Right wingers for BigSis talking points’ bandwagon:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40765_Developing-_Anti-Government_Terrorists_Murder_Two_Louisiana_Sheriffs
k @ 8: Why didn’t the stimulus help Shorty? Only our intellectual superiors in Big Gov’t (and their wholly-committed media subsidiary) could miss the reason.
It was never meant to, he can’t turn out the votes and bundle six-figure campaign contributions, he’s not in a union, and like the socialist revolutions since the French (a good trick since socialism wasn’t invented until after, but maybe you know what I mean), the revolution was never *meant* to reach to the proletariat, at best it was a pretense, at worst it was never mentioned at all, and in reality it’s only about the immediate clique or the maximum leader.
t @11: Hillary Clinton is the Great White whale of American politics despite the fact that the vaunted Clinton machine got run over by an unknown back bencher from the Southside of Chicago. Hillary is a political clod who drips insincerity.
Good writing, and werd. And just maybe, by this time, she’s got that Dirty Harry thing down and has finally learndt her own limitations, on top of all the external reasons given.
u @ 5: In my mind, Obama and his clique have essentially jumped the shark.
That’s been the basic assumption of the Romney campaign since day one. But now, by nominating Ryan who seems a substantive candidate, they imperil their “not-Obama” campaign with actual content. Frankly, I’m happy about it, and still not much in love with Romney, but if he can chose a Ryan, maybe Romney will come through when it counts.
And I only hope America sees it that way too, and I suspect they do, and will.
nuj @ 15: In other news, remember Little Green Footballs?
Speak not to me of the dead.
Hillary is considering her future employment possibilities and opportunities. She still has ‘skin in the game’. There are consequences.
Greg Sargent sits protected by layers of creative corporate bookkeeping without ‘skin in the game’. There are no consequences.
Top fundraisers and donors are given “premier credentials” that access luxury suites and the convention floor.
I guess that’s where Corzine will be now that The Leader has dropped even the possibility of criminal charges for stealing $1+ billion in “segregated” customer funds.
I’m getting my cash out of the brokerage system because it is now officially fair game for the politically connected.
“Perhaps Allen and Shorty will still vote for him (Obama) …”
I’d guess at least two or three times …
Hillery is 60 something years old, and shows it. She doesn’t really have a need for another job, she and Bill could easily move into the roll of the super-power-couple brokers of Dems, tout up Chelsea and go out in style. They certainly don’t need the money.
I think she rides this year out as SOS and then starts grooming Chelsea for congress etc.
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So I’m just casually taking my own casual poll, a casual remark here & there, in the Drs office, relatives, repair people, cable guy, So who you think you gonna vote for, huh? 7 out of 9 said, they really didn’t know, didn’t care, wouldn’t pay the mortgage, wouldn’t make any difference and a firm “no way will I vote for Obama”…Right now those are the vibes on the street..
Watch for what happens in Tampa..And I don’t mean inside any buildings…it might be ugly.
If Shorty bags the winning raffle ticket, he better have something extra stashed away for taxes on that free hotel & airfare convention package. I’m guessing the IRS bill on that comes to a few hundred bucks.
Isn’t Ryan an Irish catholic not a WASP?
“It appears there was precious little left for Shorty and Allen by the time the unions, the agencies and the politicians had got through with the stimulus funds.”
Welcome to trickle down politics. Unlike economic self-interest within the theory of trickle down economics, trickle down politics is completely inhibited by corruption. Taxes goes into the coffers. The coffers are gathered up by the politicians, and corruption keeps it from getting any further than that. We are a first world nation with a third world political class.
s @ 6 said:
“Personally, I won’t vote for Romney.”
Shut up!!
No! Censorship from the right is still censorship. I see the greatest danger to America as corruption and cronyism. The Left does not have a monopoly on those problems. Romney does nothing to address those issues. Another Bush with different cronies. From my POV there is not much of a difference between Berry and Mitt. Berry will be just like Mitt when he grows up. Berry is a little farther left then Romney but not enough to matter with a conservative Congress. What is important this cycle is taking 51 Senate seats. It would be nice to remove some Rino’s but I think LL3 has done as well as could be expected this cycle.
If the Tea party shows up in force and the Chick-A-Fil voters join them, the Donks will get hammered.
My preferred outcome is for 0bumbler to win and the GOP to take 61 Senate seats. Then we can impeach Berry and put the clown posse behind bars. If Romney wins we have at least 4 more years of socialism. Or at least liberal government.
You may see a big difference between Obama and Romney but I don’t care what race POTUS is.
Google black presidents. Obama is number 5 or 6, depending on how you measure “black”.
IIRC, Harding’s mother was 1/2 black 1/2 Indian. Taylor’s brother was sold as a slave.
Lincoln’s father twice had his farm seized because he was black and black men could not own real property in Kentucky back then. That means he was found by a court of law to be black.
The media hides those facts because it spoils the narrative.
The only advantage I see in a Romney administration is that adults will be running the show. No more clown posse. When good things happen, it won’t be by accident. No more depending on a blind squirrel to find an acorn.
What do you mean we, Kemosabe?
The only advantage I see in a Romney administration is that adults will be running the show
The other advantage of a Romney win? The economy will likely take off, even with economic storm winds from Europe and China.
9. wretchard
The administration never got around to governing. They’re still selling the sizzle,
I couldn’t agree more.
President Obama is an excellent front man – i.e. he is really good at “selling the sizzle”. But he is a crappy cook, or more specifically he is a poor manager, and people get a bad meal. Kind of a lame metaphor.
America needs more than a front man right now. Obama is just not the right guy right now. Clinton was a good front man too, but he had a fiscally responsible Congress (think Ginrich) that cut spending and pushed Clinton into things like Welfare reform. Congress today is a bizarro world.
If Obama speaks to the issues using “sizzle”, Romney/Ryan will tear him apart. If he drops the sizzle he will struggle, because Liberals never manage a logical argument – again he will be shredded by Romney/Ryan. Obama’s only hope is to find some dirt and make it stick. Personally I think he played the Romney tax return angle too early.
It will be a close election unless OPSEC “swifties” Obama.
You voted for Obama to prove you aren’t racist. Vote for Romney to prove you aren’t an idiot –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a4nvhAZ0vr0
Ryan is Irish, Catholic and Celtic, very definitely not Anglo,(not WASP) not that there’s anything wrong with that, Lol. Most Irish people I know would understand that, especially my maternal grand-mother who was born in Ireland and was a personal friend of Eamon DeValera, a great Irish patriot. I think that Americans of Irish descent don’t necessarily vote with an ethnic preference as some other ethnic groups might. But I may be wrong on that…More importantly, Ryan is an American without hyphenation whom an American of any ethnicity can embrace. His relative youth, dynamism and experience with the budget is what makes him an attractive candidate.
Not voting for Romney imho is tantamount to voting for Obama. The perfect should not be the enemy of the good. Vote for Romney and get a new skipper. Let’s get the ship of state headed in the right direction first. We know that ain’t Obama. Although I thought Romney would go for Rubio, I am still pleased with his selection of Ryan. It shows Romney is serious about the deficit and entitlements. We can’t keep bailing out the ship while the hole in its side keeps getting bigger. Obama is the hole.
“The only advantage I see in a Romney administration is that adults will be running the show”
If that isn’t enough I am going to vote against Marxism because I am not a communist. I do not give communists a light pass because I am not a pure idealist who would rent his clothes and wear hirsute to spite the world. I hated McCain but voted against Obama. If there were enough others voting the same most of this catastrophe would have been avoided. I think Romney is the right guy at the right time. He is not a lying cheating corrupt law breaking racist narcissist. That is good enough for me for now.
26. Don Rodrigo
The only advantage I see in a Romney administration is that adults will be running the show
The other advantage of a Romney win? The economy will likely take off, even with economic storm winds from Europe and China.
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Agreed. And the stock market will take off. Gold will go down. The dollar will go up. What I don’t understand is why soros and paulson are betting big on gold.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/08/billionaires-soros-paulson-bet-big-on-gold/
(soros had been shedding his gold holdings for some time.)
Of course there may be a blow off top in Gold next year or the year after. But rising US oil and gas production bakes in the next secular moves for gold (down)and the dollar (up).
s @ 25
What do you mean we, Kemosabe?
I assume from your previous posts that you also took an oath to defend the U S Constitution. No?
Are you so defeated already?
Four more years of Obama heightens the possibility of civil war here. That, in today’s world, means the end of the US Constitution and the beginning of the end of any possibility of freedom in this world.
Man up. Gird your loins…unless you are out of the fight. And if you are, you have no credibility sitting on the fence…just mindless chatter.
E- said:
Four more years of Obama heightens the possibility of civil war here. That, in today’s world, means the end of the US Constitution and the beginning of the end of any possibility of freedom in this world.
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We are are at war. The STATES are where regular folks are. Romney/Ryan are what democrats once were. Hmm.
In this upcoming election it’s not who is the perfect candidate that matters. The question is what happened to liberty and can it be restored by voting against Obama?
A guy named Benjamin Constant gave a lecture to the Athenee Royal of Paris in 1819 entitled “The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns”. He discussed the differences between two concepts of liberty. In N. America arguments can be made that the U.S. went for the liberty of the ancients and Canada went for the liberty of the moderns. Constant’s essay is well worth reading and can be found and downloaded here and a recent discussion of his essay can be found here.
The National Post article at the second link says in part “In both countries, benign neglect has been replaced by the bureaucrat’s officious nudges, giving us ugly light bulbs, toilets that don’t flush and idiotic playground rules. Could one have predicted this 25 years ago? I think not. Back then I had legal scholar Cass Sunstein over for dinner. Until a few days ago he was Obama’s regulatory czar, and over dinner in 1987 he predicted how the regulatory state would expand, in the name of risk reduction. “Americans won’t stand for this,” my wife told him. They prize their freedom too much. “Ah, but we’ll change their preferences,” he replied. And he was right.”
The point is, however we blather on about liberty of whatever flavour ancient or modern, the Obama-bots are taking it away from Americans. When that happens we in Canada are more likely to lose some of our liberty because the changes in American preferences will slop across the border and give more power to our bureaucrats. If Obama is elected then we know liberty is in for continued strangling. If Romney gets elected then there is at least a chance to get some of those liberties back.
I may be wrong about the following, but I don’t think so. If anyone out there sees any holes in the math or logic, please let me know.
Interesting that folks always talk about “The Stimulus.” We forget that the very first thing that the newly ensconced Reid-Pelosi majorities in congress did in 2007 was to pass a $152B stimulus. It got a LOT of Republican votes. Bush signed it. They did it again in 2008 to the tune of $146B. The big one under Obama followed in 2009.
Funny thing about baseline budgeting since the 1974 Congressional Budget Act is that everything in succeeding years is based upon what is spent in the current year plus about a 6% increase every single year. Stimulus are essentially step function increases in the line of spending per year. If I am correct, the majority (over 95%) of the deficit is based on the new stimulus spending since 2007 plus the 6% yearly vigorish.
The reason that Harry Reid has shut everything down budget-wise in the senate is to keep the spending increases on automatic, which he has via continuing resolutions.
We haven’t had a stimulus. We’ve had 15. We had one in 2007; two in 2008, three in 2009, three in 2010, three in 2011, and three more in 2012.
There is a reason that democrats always call for stimulus: they jack up spending forever without the annual budget process / scrutiny. And the next time they – or anyone else – propose one it might be a good time to hunt for a tree and a length of rope or perhaps tar and feathers. Cheers -
31. Enscout Yes, 50 some years ago. I still hold to it.
How does the talk of civil war fit in with holding to the Constitution? Obama was elected.
He is our president. Hate him or love him, he is YOUR President. To take up arms against him is treason. Plain and simple. If he is in breech of the Constitution, then he needs to be impeached.
Politic against him, vote against him. Civil war is crazy talk. Go to YouTube and see how the US Army deals with insurrection. Look up Apache. Here, it’s so important I’ll do it for you;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvEvzr_T8RQ&feature=related
30mm chain gun shells travel at about 1 Km per sec (or so). That Apache is about 2 Km’s away. The targets cannot see or hear the Apache.
You fight the US Army, you are dead.
Vote. Vote against Obama. I just feel that won’t solve the problem. To solve the problem, you need to start putting people behind bars. Mitt has never offered more then lip service to fighting corruption. I like Palin because of the long list of politicians she has put in jail.
Re: 35 Stoich: Palin did not put anyone in jail. The corruption charges and trials here in Alaska were brought by the Do(In)J Public Integrity Section. Of the legislators they managed to jail, only one served his full time. The rest had their convictions tossed via proprietorial misconduct by the feds. And their real target was Senator Ted Stevens, whose conviction was also tossed for the same reason. Unfortunately that took place after he lost his 2008 reelection (not unlike Conrad Burns (R, MT) in 2006 who had his charges dropped after he lost his reelection bid.
Either of those two losses would have defeated the 2009 Stimulus and ObamaCare. The corruptocrats here were in Do(In)J. We look forward to future RICO prosecution of them all. Cheers -
Stoch,
I agree with you that the danger to our liberties does not merely come from the so-called Left. I see time after time groupthink, Cold War nostalgia, and worship of the Military and the State blinding so-called conservatives or at least being used by wolves in sheepdogs clothing to keep the Fox News watching sheeple in line. Not to mention the infiltration by Soros bots, trendies who think face scanning surveillance technology and drones are cool, and paid minions of Big Sis on Twitter. Thankfully there are some on the Right like John Fonte who are waking up to the Transnationalist/Globalist menace, if only because Israel as a sovereign state based on ethnicity is now uncool in a world where borders are supposed to disappear — except maybe for Switzerland where the Soroses and Strongs hide their stash. If the default position of the elites is always to use every crisis to move toward Global Governance, maybe the Birchers had a point.
Speaking of groupthink, here’s a quote that’s in reply to your recent slogan:
http://mattforney.com/2012/08/13/lock-pussy-riot-up-and-throw-away-the-key/
Eighteen months in jail after time served. Ideally their sentence should be commuted to a fine and hundreds of hours of community service at an orphanage, preferably a Church run one.
Just remember folks George Soros gave the Republican Party John ‘we are all Georgians now’ McCain. That didn’t work out so well.
Last item for BCers — I’ve now heard from reliable sources that getting .223 from domestic sources is getting very hard in Buddy Larsen country. That means Russia’s Tula works has started shipping .223 to Wal Marts in the Republic of Texastan. Wanna bet in a few months you start seeing pro-Big Sis morons on Twitter assert that the Kremlin is secretly arming the bitter clinger to fight their own government?
There’s a verb I invented for it — to Sunstein: to create cognitive dissonance among one’s political enemies and keep them fighting among each other. It’s why every single thread that dares mention Ron Paul’s name both at PJM and the Ulsterman Report immediately gets swarmed with trolls telling you the Pauls are the spawn of Satan. And of course telling you all the aggression comes from the hated Ronulans.
Stoi:
A civil war can be waged in many ways. It does not need to be hot.
The US military has also taken oath to the Constitution: not the Dems or Obama. They will not take up arms against a Constitutional insurrection. Bonzo at 32 is probably correct. We are at war. I’d rather not see it escalate. Handing over power to an extremist, marxist, sociopath would do just that. We just don’t need another Ross Perot event – not now.
Telling folks you won’t vote for the only man that stands between today & four more years of Obama does nothing for the morale of the good guys (Constitutional conservatives). That’s a tactic of the vapid left.
If you were in my unit I would have you transferred off the front lines post haste.
George Washington had slaves and wooden teeth.
Winston Churchill sucked cigars and gin bottles.
They weren’t perfect either.
How did they work out?
well, this is all fun and games, but the good ole us of a is 15 trillion in debt and it aint gonna matter who is in charge of the crash.
best stock up on bbb.
happy new year.
Shorty and Allen remind me of something I read of.
It is said that some farmers have discovered how to prevent wild turkeys from bothering their crops. They put a circular fence out in the woods, one that simply wraps around until it meets itself. The turkeys come along, try to walk around the fence, and follow it around and around until they eventually collapse from exhaustion.
Shorty and Allen are like that. They’ll just follow the fence to the promised stash of Obamamoney, around and around, until they collapse.
Re 25. stoicheion
Completely agree.
Earlier in the month we read that GM was sending $559M to Man. U to sew little chevy bow ties onto their jerseys…..now we a reading that GM may be heading for another bankruptcy filing…we are also reading that Corzine may not be prosecuted for losing close to a $B of customer funds…..he must have lost it right into the democrat coffers. I wonder how Martha Stewart and the Enron guys feel about the news?
If Shorty had followed the blogosphere for news (I know, no chance of that happening), he wouldn’t have been so flabbergasted at Brother Buraq’s failure to “spread the wealth”. Buraq won’t even toss a few shekels to his half-brother living in squalor, George Obama. It took one of Buraq’s hated chroniclers (Dinesh D’Souza) to help the poor guy out. Some “brother’s keeper”, eh?
On another note, regarding stoi’s refusal to vote for Romney, please allow me to lend him some support, even though I don’t often agree with his positions. I dislike the accursed, spineless Establishment Republicans even more than the National Democratic Worker’s Party. They have betrayed just about every principle I care about. At least the Dems are fairly honest about their intentions, even if they won’t come out and give it the name that most of us do. Now that he has chosen Ryan, I do believe that Romney at best will preside over an orderly decline of America. He won’t do what is necessary to turn things around, but I guess he probably won’t light everything on fire and dance on the ashes as Obama might if he gets a 2nd term. But in the end, does that matter? It’s all screwed in the end any way. I would never in good conscience vote for Buraq, but I’m wondering how I can vote for another establishment leader who looks good as the ship slips under the surface of the ocean. I live in a fairly blue state, so there’s not much chance that me voting for Romney is going to do a damn thing. I am planning to vote Libertarian, but I’ll compromise. If it looks like my state is in play in any way close to election time, I’ll vote for RR, just because of my antipathy for Buraq and everything he stands for. Flame away…
Finally, it’s funny to see Mr. X come creeping back under a new handle every once in a while. It’s like he just can’t help himself.
OT, but you might want to google what Mr. Soros has been doing with his investment portfolio recently.
Hold on to your butts…
And see if you can snag some of that fast flowing river of .223, .380, 5.62, 7.63, 9, .50, and other denominations.
Coming soon to an election near you, Mitt Romney starring as Richard Nixon with Paul Ryan starring as Hubert Humphrey. This bipartisan rollercoaster will sweep you off your feet as you try to keep up with the fast paced adoption of compassionate socialism.
Say what you will about the Clintons, they know a good thing when they see one. Apparently, they don’t see one here.
http://nplusonemag.com/pussy-riot-closing-statements
Yekaterina Samutsevich
In the closing statement, the defendant is expected to repent, express regret for her deeds, or enumerate attenuating circumstances. In my case, as in the case of my colleagues in the group, this is completely unnecessary. Instead, I want to voice some thoughts about what has happened to us
That Christ the Savior Cathedral had become a significant symbol in the political strategy of the authorities was clear to many thinking people when Vladimir Putin’s former [KGB] colleague Kirill Gundyayev took over as leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. After this happened, Christ the Savior Cathedral began to be openly used as a flashy backdrop for the politics of the security forces, which are the main source of political power in Russia.
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If an ex KGB guy now runs the Russian Orthodox Church — then that would explain the the incongruous religious tone that I’ve heard Russian apparatchik/ nomenclature/made men adapt the last couple of years.
Hmmm. It would appear that Yekaterina Samutsevich is wrong about Kirill Gundyayev’s earlier career
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_I_of_Moscow
If Allen and Shorty are in Chicago, they have already had their vote for Obama recorded, even if they do not vote. The vote count in any Democrat Controlled area has to be assumed to be rigged.
#49 Charles
Leaving aside the grain of salt any Wikipedia entry must be taken with; the Russian Orthodox Church has not been a real church [or at least an independent one] since 1917. It was not abolished by the Communists, because it was useful propaganda to have it still exist so that they could claim they had religious freedom. But it was [and is] controlled by the “coercive Organs of the State”; the KGB during the tenure of the Soviet Union, and today the Russian Federal Security Bureau. State control of the church did not end with the Soviet Union.
It is noteworthy that Patriarch Kirill was a member of Komsolmol [Young Communist League, the pre-requisite for full Communist Party membership] before he took his “holy orders” and he advanced rapidly, even during the Communist period when all promotions were through the Party. That implies state sponsorship.
Since becoming Patriarch, he has awarded the Orthodox Order of Saint Daniel to both Fidel and Raul Castro, supported the dictator Lukashenko in Byelorussia, and declared the era of Putin to be a miracle from God.
I suspect that his priorities are less of the spirit, and more towards the State. YMMV. It is not a unique claim, inside and outside Russia that Kirill is KGB/Federal Security. Granting, like with Wikipedia, that you should only believe what you can confirm; but the below is typical of what I have found.
http://petersburgcity.com/city/personalities/kirill_patriarch/
As I said, YMMV.
#8 Kinuachdrach
Why didn’t the stimulus help Shorty?
Permit me to woolgather a bit. I don’t think that there ever was any intention of helping Shorty, or anyone else not of the new Nomenklatura. The goal was to impoverish and weaken all alternative centers of power, and centralize everything in Pyongyang-on-the-Potomac.
One of the hit movies of the last year was Hunger Games. It’s appeal is largely because of the role of the heroine, Katniss Everdeen, and sympathy for her and her people. Panam, the country she lives in, is the remnant of what was the United States.
She is a sympathetic character. But I would ask our Gentle Readers here, who have seen this or read the book; to ponder the society she lives in. How it runs, and the dynamics of the society and the relationship between the Capitol City and the Districts. Am I alone in seeing a number of parallels between Panam, and what The Lightworker would like to bring to us? /woolgathering.
Subotai Bahadur
The Shortys in Chitown haven’t caught on; they’re a vote. Period. If Shorty ever left the plantation and made some serious scratch, guess who’d remember him and come calling for his fair share?
As a grateful Shorty trudges off, Allen mutters, “Where’s the stimulus for a guy like Shorty?”
Poor Allen. He doesn’t understand the difference between wealth creation and the distribution of stolen goods. Had the stimulus been business incentives for real business, i.e. not Solyndra-like houses of wealth destruction and money laundering, then those business would have grown. As they grew they would have hired more people, who would have spent their money in the local economy, which would have grown, which would have resulted in more hiring, which would have stimulated more economic growth, etc, etc, etc.
Instead, Allen just gets his cut of the take and complains about the low quality of robbery victims. “Shouldn’t they be carrying more cash” he wails?
It’s odd… the 20th century “Robber Barons” built a nation; the 21st century “Robber Barons” bankrupted it. It would seem that only one group was actually robbers.
re: R&R more of the same.
I think not. Romney is a turn-around artist that breathes life back into walking corpses. What a career capstone if he succeeds here. He knows from past experience that often all that’s needed to turn-around is to disestablish the “industrial age” headquarters in lethargic and rotting companies. He lived thru the later part of the 70s and 80s private sector renewal where new, small but rapidly growing companies challenged the incumbents. These new companies were unafraid to delegate to the edges close to the customer – by using the “new” computing and network technology that made information cheap (rather than scarce and expensive which required Carnegie and Sloan command-and-control top-down organizations to succeed), and the only large companies that survived mimicked these new behaviors – including boards motivating the executive office by telling them if they’d trim their headquarters staff (and part with the perqs of 1000s of staff looking after their needs – most lived better than kings – think of AT&T’s last HQ building) they’d split the savings – and CxO salaries jumped 4-8x as HQ staffing, inertia, lethargy and costs dropped 90%.* Half of Bain’s successes were applying this recipe.
And government is little more than a service company. And service companies that execute well-documented processes are straightforwardly automated (after all, Congress hates it when anyone deviates from process – they’d rather spend a dollar than have a nickel spent incorrectly). Tremendous scale is possible if law and rules are written in a form that can be automated in a spreadsheet or checklist. And returning all that overhead to the productive (private sector) side of the ledger will be a tremendous economic boost (especially since we’re told they are all “above average” and compensated appropriately). Perhaps 10,000 non-national-security personal is all that’s needed. Half programmers. All telecommuting – (then the drivers can be let go, and most government buildings returned to the people / private sector). Organized horizontally. With a handful of people for each “department” as we currently know it (even assuming, unlike Bain, that all the programs that nobody wants, and programs that have never succeeded, are not cut out of hand).
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/08/06/a-city-on-a-shoestring/
* Malone and Brynjolfsson, among others at MIT Sloan examined at this topic in the late 80s and early 90s – attempting to answer the question of “where’s the return from all this IT investment?” – what they found was that the net economic equation of inputs and outputs were largely unchanged (the cost to build a car, say), but that the shape of industries had changed appreciably – far fewer integrated verticals – far more layer cakes of specialty companies, and that the “wealth” was far more distributed (among these specialist companies vice at the top of a few large verticals). With many interesting side effects – from resiliency to security to a broadening of “the base” (i.e. shift of work to smaller companies).
“If you were in my unit I would have you transferred off the front lines post haste.”
No you wouldn’t. Not after seeing me dust off 3 gooks with a 6 round burst millisecs after the trip flare went off. No small unit commander is going to give up an artist with an M-60.
Besides, the rest of the men knew I was a nutter and didn’t care.
I agree that if the weird does come, It won’t be bugles blaring, Flags a waving, Cannons roaring sort of war. It will be the knife in the ally, the silenced .22 behind the ear, the quivering lips of the higher level functionary as a realizes the 5 guys surrounding him are not his friends and his time is getting short.
As far as the US Army, I ask my nephew about it when he was visiting in July. He said if ordered to fire on demonstrators he would shoot over their heads. Unless they were shooting at him. Then it becomes personal and he has to think of his pregnant wife and his son.
I see any sort of domestic disturbance in the USA as being along the lines of the Irish Revolution. The IRA survived because they were fighting the Brits. The British Army is good but they don’t do insurrections. Something like 12-3. Won’t make the playoffs with that.
On the other hand, the US Army is the best in the world at counter guerilla. We would have cleaned up the Irish in 6 months at the outside.
not uncle joe ( or is that Mr. X?)
Remember “Pussy Riot” is a translation. Only one of several possible, or so I’ve been told.
My Russian neighbor says ” disorderly virgina” would be a better translation. Untamed virginia could work too. What is your translation?
That is beside the point, which is that freedom of speech, the right to assembly are the foundation of human rights. Without them you have a police state.
They are rioting in Spain and Greece. No Greece hasn’t vanished into thin air yet, despite the predictions of the doom and gloomers. The USA won’t either, no matter how high the deficit gets.
Bankers worry about deficits because there is no such thing as a free lunch and they know eventually somebody will get the bill. They should be worried. The left will break for the door and hail a cab. The bankers are to fat to run and will be left to pay the tab. That is only fair, since they ran up most of the tab in the first place.
Anyway, riots in Span and Greece are the citizens way of telling the powers that be changes are needed. If the powers that be listen, then changes will be made. If they don’t the government will fall.
By jumping on Pussy Riot with both feet, Pootie has wired down the safety valve. Never a good idea.
Celer, Silens, Mortalis.
35. He is our president. Hate him or love him, he is YOUR President. To take up arms against him is treason. Plain and simple.
“He is our king. Hate him or love him, he is your king. To take up arms against him is treason. Plain and simple.”
A lot of colonial Americans sided with that. John Adams estimated that only one-third of the population was in favor of the Revolution at any one time, one-third was opposed, and one-third was neutral. As history shows, if you win, it’s not treason.
BTW, with all the modern military means at, how’s that control of Afghanistan going? Didn’t it take the self-interests of the Iraqi people to work with the Coalition to turn the insurgency around? That in the absence of ‘consent’ of the locals control is sort of iffy.
The entire purpose of the stimulus was to reward and bailout cronies so they continue to blindly carry water for Obama.
Anyone who believes otherwise is a fool…
Hillary is many things, almost all bad, and although she’s not nearly as smart as she thinks she is, she knows Ostupid has become a Jonah, and needs to be given a wide berth.
Secretaries of State always march to their own drummers and I’m sure idiot-boy doesn’t give her much advice, so that gig was OK. But following Biteme into the VP slot? Who needs that?
Maybe she’s not as stupid as she looks. Certainly as evil, but perhaps not so stupid.
@ 6. stoicheion
News Alert: Ryan is not a WASP.
THANK YOU!!!
Shorty and Mark Allen will vote for Obama again, so they can have the only shred of pride left: there is a black man in the White House and they helped put him there. My question is this: where does Allen get the money for his community organizing “work”. exactly what is he supposed to do for his down and out neighbors? Very sad yet they still believe the narrative spewed forth by The One himself. .
“Hillary Clinton is apparently asking herself the same question. And she’s sitting it out, which is a polite way of saying she’s looked at the odds and declined to bet the farm on Barack Obama winning in 2012.”
The first smart thing Hillary Clinton has ever done. Obama is going to lose, just like Jimmy Carter did in 1980. The economy is in terrible shape, deficits are enormous, and the country is going broke paying our horrific debt. And I don’t even want to talk about how badly our foreign policy is doing, something I’ll bet Hillary doesn’t want to defend, especially now that Egypt is falling to pieces. Nope, Hillary is the canary in the coal mine and we should, for the first time, believe her. Obama is going to lose.
@ #27 dla
I can’t help but think (hope?) that maybe Romney is rope-a-doping Obumble on the tax returns, only to level a haymaker at a propitious time–say, a couple of nights before the presidential debate. The tax returns will show that Romney made a lot of money but that he gave massive amounts to charity and his tithe. They will be squeaky clean and Romney will use them to batter Obama senseless–and perhaps to suggest that in contrast to McCain, Obama never released any of his health or college records.
It’s hard to imagine why Romney would have allowed all the tax records idiocy to continue unless he had a fight strategy that included using it to his advantage at the most opportune time.
#61 “Nope, Hillary is the canary in the coal mine and we should, for the first time, believe her.”
I have to believe that many Democrat members of Congress must be VERY angry about how the zerO has denigrated and blamed Congress, has assumed powers not constitutionally available to him, and has cranked up the racial tension in this country by several orders of magnitude. I would not be surprised if many old-school Democrats chose to sit this election out, or even, possibly, vote for the Republican. Another 4 years of the wOn and Congress and the Supreme court will be meaningless and powerless anyway.
Glad someone remembers the real Hillary. Hope no one forgets Vince Foster, Hillary’s healthcare, the Rose law firm papers, her court appearance in which she “did not recall” anything. The list goes on. The woman is corrupt.
It is precisely because of the tightness of the polls that I believe the election will be a blowout for Romney.
October 1979, Ronald Reagan
Favorable 38 %
Unfavorable 39%
January 10, 1980 Gallup Poll
Carter 63%
Reagan 32%
March 1980 Harris Poll
Reagan 40%
Carter 58%
Note that Carter was in the 60 percentile range at the beginning wherein Obama was in the Fortieth Percentile for the same period.
While Carter started out soaring in the atmosphere, Obama started in a ditch. Both have numbers that headed down!
#62 PD Quig,
I have roughly the same thought about Romney and his tax returns. It seems extremely unlikely that there is any dirt buried there, and I can only assume that Obama et al are highlighting them as part of their class warfare strategy.
Baked into that is the assumption that Romney is too dumb or too intimidated to attempt to turn that back upon them, and (say) refuse to release until there is a fever pitch of speculation as to why- and then casually offer to unwrap everything as long as Obama releases his school transcripts, etc.
Either Obama will be forced to release potentially embarrassing or criminal information or he will be forced to refuse to release what he has demanded from Romney, for no good reason at all- assuming he has nothing to hide.
I’ve always figured that Romney was a lousy politician who won the GOP nomination mainly because the other choices proved themselves worse.
Considering that Romney seems to have quickly found effective responses to challenges of the sort that utterly befuddled prior GOP nominees I’m wondering if I should revise that opinion. If he is actually withholding his tax returns as a plan to embarrass Obama as I’ve described I certainly will.
Most of the meoney went to state and local governments & the unions, vote buying, shoring up the base, useless as it is & as always, corrupt.
Romney no Reagan? Hmmm, in 1980, Reagan was no Reagan, at least as far as the D.C. establishment was concerned, who all thought the GOP had thrown away an opportunity against a weak Carter by nominating an unelectable candidate. I haven’t heard anyone call Romney an affable dunce so far.
But then fantasy worlds usually have manufactured histories, and the people, like Sargent, who live in them are therefore clueless about real history. I a continually suprised by the dispatches from those fantasy worlds we increasingly see from the Obamahacks. It’s like some prankster gave them the script to the wrong play and they’re up on stage earnestly delivering lines that make no sense given what’s going on around them.
What color is the scenery on your set, dude?
Arai Tai: Romney is a turn-around… He knows from past experience that often all that’s needed to turn-around is to disestablish the “industrial age” headquarters in lethargic and rotting companies…
“Turn-around” artists typically have to do two and only two things – 1) clean house at the upper levels, replacing the incumbent apparatchiks with new faces who have new objectives, and 2) empower those new managers to clean house at lower levels, getting rid of deadwood and those who work as sabateurs to undermine the turnaround in the hopes the old ways they are invested in will persist. Both are easier said then done, any large organization has lots of institutional resistance to that sort of change. A company that has reached the point of needing a turnaround is a company where the parasites have been busy building defenses against being evicted. A successful turnaround executive needs to be awfully strong-willed and aggressive to see the turnaround through.
Bush utterly failed to do this. He was constantly undercut by his own State Dept. Reagan did it a little bit, but there’s been three decades of encrusted growth since then. My greatest hope for Romney is that he will have the strength and willpower to gut the layers of institutionalized kleptocracy in D.C. Someone eventually has to, and having the President do it will be a lot more peaceful than the other alternatives.
Oh, regarding Hillary Clinton…
She’s still Secrertary of State, right? I mean, seeing her referenced as a replacement for Gaff-O-matic Joe kinda reminded me of her existence. Considering what’s going on in the world, the Arab Sprung, er I mean Spring, China’s turmoil, the slow motion EU crackup, Putin’s resurfacing, I’d have figured the Secretary of State might have been a little more prominent.
Someone could be excused for thinking maybe she’d retired last year or something, and Obama was still looking for a replacement.
#62 and #66 – I have thought the same – that Romney was setting Obama and the Dems up. Then this past week Romney volunteered his tax rate was about 13% and if you add in charitable donations closer to 20%… I think Romney has paid his taxes and took advantage of any and all tax laws as a businessman who is worth his paycheck would; nonetheless, perception is 9/10 of the vote. The irony in calling out Romney on not releasing his tax records vs. any records of Obama is current Dem playbook – always accuse others of what you are doing yourself. Romney is smart and he does know how to make hard decisions. I do not understand anyone sitting out this election. The likelihood of ballot fraud is high, if not a given. By not voting, you are voting for Obama.
@ 54 Stoicheion….What in hell was the Irish Revolution? No such thing.
In 1916, The Easter Rising was the attempt to overthrow the rule of the English foreigners who controlled Ireland. That’s not a revolution. Or are you referring to the more recent Troubles in Northern Ireland, the six counties that England held onto after the Anglo Irish War in 1924. That was a sectarian/political fight between the Provisional IRA on one side and the armed Unionist Groups and the English Spec. Forces and secret intelligence units that directed kidnappings and murders.
Your suggestion that Americans would ever fight a people trying to throw off foreign oppressors makes me sick. Stick your real or imaginary M60 where the sun don’t shine.
Don, RA12594541, US Army Infantry.
First off I’ll say, great article. Second I’ll say, I’m basically horrified as I’m sure everyone is here, of the thought of Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016….it literally gives me bone shattering chills all over my body. And the reason it’s so scary is because of Barry. The reason being, when Barry was elected, it showed that the country would be ignorant, moronic, or misguided enough to vote for a president, based on nothing more than the color of his skin. Of course in that case it was because he was black and not white. Truly disturbing yet typical of a country where the population would call someone racist at the drop of hat, for saying something as benign as “that result that was given was black magic being performed!”. I actually saw someone call the other person a racist after he posted that, after he said a result was like black magic being performed. Or you have the incredibly sad and retarded instance that I read about here, I think it was here, where the government official used the word “niggardly”, and some other black government official said he was a racist…………the absolutely moronic stupidity and the disgusting trickle down effects of being “politically correct” shown in that award winning moron’s take on the word “niggardly”, well, it fills me with madness and rage that our country is this messed up because of spineless cowards, white guilt, and the mother of it all, “political correctness”.
So yeah, I went off on a tangent there, I apologize if I put you into a tedium-induced coma just no now. But my point of why it was so scary to me, in regards to Hillary and that one of, if not the only reason Barry was elected was because he was black. The evident point to most here that I’m making is, how is it even remotely possible that Clinton would not win if she ran, do solely to the fact that she doesn’t have a penis between her legs, by the backward @ss population? I’m sure there might even be a large population of conservative women who would secretly vote for her, you know, so they can let us horrible, chauvinistic, raping, domestic abusing by “words” and not physical contact perpetuating, idiotic, child-like, portrayed as idiotic morons on television and commercials….know that women just won’t stand for how truly stupid and evil we are, and they will show us by electing the first woman into office, regardless of whether she would try to annihilate America like Barry Obama is doing, or really just regardless of anything, and just because she is woman. It really makes me want to vomit indefinitely and cry until my tear ducts explode, knowing our great nation can be so abused and destroyed because people think of nothing more than themselves and only wanting to further their hate-filled personal agenda’s.
* As a side note – did PJMedia remove the ability in the comments section, to reply directly to another persons comment? Is that true, or am I just imagining that at the bottom of of a person’s comment it used to have a button that read “Reply To Post”? All I see on my Android tablet as I view ths site’s comments is a “Link To This Post” button, the “Reply” button is completely gone for me. Is this just a problem with my tablet and the website here, or does anyone else notice that we can no longer directly reply to posts? I’m really interested to see if it’s just myself experiencing this issue with the site, and if I’m not the only one, well why was this function removed from comments?
Some further background on Hillary Rodham Clinton
J.Orlin Grabbe (d. 2008), Wharton School of Business, was an iconoclast financial programmer who had a personal website which included fascinating analyses of the Clintons and their activities in the hinterlands of Arkansas – their years of festering rustication. (You may be familiar with Grabbe in relation to the PROMIS financial software.)
He pointed out that the Bank of Commerce and Credit International, which had for years been widely acknowledged to have served as an exuberant and equal-opportunity money laundering service to international arms dealers, drug cartels and various clandestine activities of otherwise legitimate U.S. government branches – chose the chief executive of the state of Arkansas to approach to arrange a charter to do business in the U.S.
According to Mr. Grabbe, it was the combination of the casual banking regulation of this “third world” region AND the personal venality of its first couple that beckoned.
Remember this was during the time of James Earl Carter in the White House, and his Director of the Office of Management and the Budget, Bert Lance. It was evidently Lance who directed BCCI to then-Governor Clinton, and the legal documents that initiated BCCI’s US activities were drafted and signed by certain principals of the ROSE LAW FIRM.
It’s also helpful to recall that while attending Yale Law School, Hillary RODHAM volunteered to sit in court in to monitor the trial of Bobby Seale, when he’d been charged with ordering the murder of police informant Alex Rackley. When Seale came to speak at a Yale black repertory theater group, he was thought to have used the occasion to visit the New Haven branch of the Black Panthers, who were then engaged in torturing Rackley, and give the order to “off him.” Rodham had volunteered (along with Bill Lann Lee, who would later be given a “plum” appointment by Hillary’s hubbie to the top U.S. civil rights enforcement post) to act in behalf of the ACLU, looking for anything they might be able to portray as government mis-conduct.
In other words, Hillary has been working tirelessly with her pus-bag of a husband to screw this country into the ground since her undergrad college years.
Yay, rah and huzzah for tolerance.
I wish the journos would make up their minds about Hillary. Maybe it is a futile wish. But you read one set of (conservative) media persons and you’ll hear that she is spending so much of her time out-of-country in this fraught election cycle because she doesn’t wish to be seen herself tarred by the Obama brand of politics. Their reasoning seems to be that she has ambitions for 2016 and whether Obama wins or loses, she’s better off by being far off.
Then you read another set of media persons who hold a quite different opinion. They say it is Obama himself who has been sending her off to foreign lands to dance with the natives, because he fears the Clinton brand. They say Obama may have put one over the Clintons once but doesn’t hope to do it twice. Remember, for Obama, it’s not just about winning a second term. It’s about transforming America so fundamentally that no future President, Clinton or not, will ever be able to undo his legacy.
Actually, I’m pretty sure he’s just a dedicated, intelligent, sincere Exceptional American-type guy.
What the Obama Administration is doing to America, is like the reverse of what Reagan spending did to exhaust the Soviet Union.
Obama just pointed the effort at his own country and the goal is to drive us over a cliff.
Payback for what we did to the Soviets.
Can’t you see? We’ve got it coming.
This comment was supposed to link to number 23, in reference to Mr. Paul Ryan.
John Stossel – When People Don’t Matter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuvtEXMG_Wk
77. big sky mudflaps
Tiered responses don’t work on this board.
You just have to reference the post to which your comment refers.
6. stoicheion
I was hoping Mitt would break the WASP mold with his VP pick. That would show the non-WASPs that the GOP was a’changing. Ryan might be good enough. Personally, I won’t vote for Romney. Ryan is a maybe.
This is really a confusing post. You don’t want a WASP, but Ryan is OK?
Does that mean P as in Protestant? Romney is a Mormon – he is absolutely not a WASP. Ryan is a Catholic. By definition, he is neither a WASP. But by their actions in the public square, they certainly fit the WASP stereotype. Maybe that’s your point – that you just don’t like people of faith?
Is it perhaps that you see them as too “goody two shoes” for your taste? That you’d really like someone who swore, drank hard liquor, chased women, and who occasionally got into a bar fight?
Hey! I got just the guy for you! How ’bout a constitutional amendment to let Bill Clinton run again for a third, fourth or maybe a fifth term…after all, he’s a real scallywag. You’d like him.
Now, if you said “Atheist” rather than a WASP, that would make sense to me because an Atheist is certainly not a WASP, but neither does he care much about the decency that most folk who believe in God worry about. Can an Atheist be a moral person – absolutely. But why should he be?
A friend of mine just sent this to me. Dependents on a Marine Corps base “somewhere.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhkMwAhIOcU&sns=em
This is the definition of respect. It is not “I pledge allegiance to the President…” It is respect for the Flag and the Constitution it represents.
Semper Fi to my Marine Brothers and Sisters – you taught you kiddiewinkies well.