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    Ah, Ray, bama accuses Romney of hiding docs? So hilarious after bama has hidden most of his life and docs, and now accuses Romney of personal attacks against him. It can't get more ludicrous.
    And I love how obama is bring the country together and helping out the blacks. What is this crap? 300 black kids swarming a Wal-Mart? What has Obama done to unite the country? Huh?

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    By surprise you mean another "gimmick." Like cash for clunkers or the Russia restart button.

    Yeah, we're used to those.

    He's truly an embarrassment.

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    I don't think Texas is a battleground state, yet. It would take a LOT of ILLegals to move in. Probably happening now, however.

    Obama: Texas will be a battleground state soon

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    Quote Originally Posted by barbaro
    I don't think Texas is a battleground state, yet.
    Yet being the operative word. The main population growth in Texas is via the Hispanic population. Modern republicanism is catering to mostly declining demographics (aging or elderly, white, and religious), and will surely pay at the Ballot in coming years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panty Hamster View Post
    By surprise you mean another "gimmick." Like cash for clunkers or the Russia restart button.

    Yeah, we're used to those.

    He's truly an embarrassment.
    Light-years worse than an embarrassment: All you need to know about Obama in fourteen words:

    "if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own"

    There it is man. Every last bit of effort you’ve put into yourself to get where you are today is NOT yours. It’s because some teacher taught you the multiplcation tables in second grade, and because paved roads exist between where you live and where you work. Your success is owed to everyone else. Full stop.

    Watch the video and read the smack-down at Rush ... and the conclusion is the same: COMMIE.

    "This is the kind of stuff they believe: Total collectivism. It’s all found in Marx. It’s all there, and it’s all based on the presumption that all success is illegitimate, including the success of the country. No, no, no, no. We all don’t share in the failure when the factory collapses. That’s a celebration! But according to Ms. Warren we’ve all got skin in the game, that factory owner wouldn’t be anywhere without us.
    ...
    This is exactly how Obama looks at this country, the same way she looks at factory owner is how he looks at this country and the rest of the world. And not just Obama, but all the people he surrounds himself with. The factory owner, illegitimate. The business owner, illegitimate. Nothing special about him. Nothing special about somebody who built something from nothing because he really didn’t. He couldn’t have done it without screwing a bunch of other people along the way."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    "if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own"
    Obama is a success himself, and is echoing the statements and sentiments of every other succesful man I have encountered.
    Business leaders in particular go out of their way to emphasize the shared nature of success, and the fact that it is not achieved alone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    "if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own"
    Obama is a success himself, and is echoing the statements and sentiments of every other succesful man I have encountered.
    Business leaders in particular go out of their way to emphasize the shared nature of success, and the fact that it is not achieved alone.
    Wake up and smell the coffee. Obama is 'successful'? His books were ghost-written and he's simply the product of Affirmative Action. No more, no less. What a childlike worldview he has. How simple, how wrong his outlook is which is no surprise. This Manchurian Candidate has never held a paying job that he got by his own merit and then had to work at...

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by barbaro
    I don't think Texas is a battleground state, yet.
    Yet being the operative word. The main population growth in Texas is via the Hispanic population. Modern republicanism is catering to mostly declining demographics (aging or elderly, white, and religious), and will surely pay at the Ballot in coming years.
    Very true.

    Birth rates, immigration.

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    who educated the people who work in that factory? the collective (public schools).

    who built the roads so that trucks can come and go from that factory? the collective (the DPW)

    who protects that factory from being robbed? the collective (the police department)

    who protects that factory from burning to the ground? the collective (the fire department).

    who makes sure the air is breathable, the water is drinkable, and the food is safe for the workers in that factory? the collective (EPA, FDA)

    yes, the owner of the factory should be rewarded for the hard work he/she put in and the risk he/ she took...but as the president and elizabeth warren pointed out......he/she didn't do it all on their own. they got help from the collective, and they need to pay their fair share.

    people like romney don't want to pay their fair share--that's evident from the only full tax return he's released...tens of millions of dollars in income, and what did he pay, 13%?
    show me any factory worker in the US that pays 13%.

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    Quote Originally Posted by barbaro View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by barbaro
    I don't think Texas is a battleground state, yet.
    Yet being the operative word. The main population growth in Texas is via the Hispanic population. Modern republicanism is catering to mostly declining demographics (aging or elderly, white, and religious), and will surely pay at the Ballot in coming years.
    Very true.

    Birth rates, immigration.
    Texas has a tradition of populism that took a beating during and after the Civil Rights movement in the US, which the Republicans exploited as their Southern Strategy and which has now turned into what they stand for. Nonetheless, Texas populism hasn't completely died out, and could be revitalized.
    “You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think.” Dorothy Parker

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    "if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own"
    Obama is a success himself, and is echoing the statements and sentiments of every other succesful man I have encountered.
    Business leaders in particular go out of their way to emphasize the shared nature of success, and the fact that it is not achieved alone.
    Well, let's take a closer & more objective look at what constitutes 'successful' shall we? The National Federation of Independent Businesses hit the right note in an official statement:

    “His unfortunate remarks over the weekend show an utter lack of understanding and appreciation for the people who take a huge personal risk and work endless hours to start a business and create jobs."

    Indeed...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    Obama is 'successful'?
    Ex editor of the Harvard Law review, first African American to be so.
    Incumbent President of the USA, first AfroAmerkin to achieve this.
    Two best selling books published, ex-US Senator, 5th youngest US President at inaugaration.

    Yes, very successful. It seems pointless to comment further.
    But, guess what- he didn't do it alone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Yes, very successful. It seems pointless to comment further.
    Ah Grasshopper, those two books were ghostwritten. And you still haven't received the memo regarding Affirmative Action yet?

    The other salient point is Obama was barely elected (it was a small margin, recall?) due to Liberal White Guilt. To quote the man who is a pillar of success:

    "What did the current president do in the private sector? Well... let me tell you folks. He served ice cream cones at Baskin Robbins. Is it any surprise we wound up with a healthcare program nobody asked for or wanted? "

    "Contrary to what you may have heard when I was running Bain Capital I was not the president of the United States. My job was to run a business not the country. I ran an organization in which I became successful, using my own money and the investors money, not the taxpayers. I worked hard, 16 hour days, and became wealthy. I made money for the investors also. THAT WAS MY JOB, AND I'M SURE AS HELL NOT GOING TO APOLOGIZE FOR IT"

    Ok...now let's measure all the 'success' Obama has had since becoming president.

    Zero...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    The other salient point is Obama was barely elected (it was a small margin, recall?)
    9 million votes is a small margin??? What do you call the result of the 2000 election? In your book is one SCOTUS vote a landslide?

    9 million is ~triple what Bush won by in 2004 too btw...

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    Quote Originally Posted by quimbian corholla View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    The other salient point is Obama was barely elected (it was a small margin, recall?)
    9 million votes is a small margin??? What do you call the result of the 2000 election? In your book is one SCOTUS vote a landslide?

    9 million is ~triple what Bush won by in 2004 too btw...

    ^ of course it's ridiculous.

    2008
    obama 365
    mccain 173

    9.5 million more votes



    2004
    bush 286
    kerry 251

    3 million more votes


    2000
    bush 271
    gore 266

    450,000 more votes

    Historical U.S. Presidential Elections 1789-2008



    yeah, president obama was barely elected by a small margin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    Obama is 'successful'?
    Ex editor of the Harvard Law review, first African American to be so.
    Incumbent President of the USA, first AfroAmerkin to achieve this.
    Two best selling books published, ex-US Senator, 5th youngest US President at inaugaration.

    Yes, very successful. It seems pointless to comment further.
    But, guess what- he didn't do it alone.
    It's all the result of affirmative action. Totally unfair. Any white guy could have done that, given the chance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robuzo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
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    Obama is 'successful'?
    Ex editor of the Harvard Law review, first African American to be so.
    Incumbent President of the USA, first AfroAmerkin to achieve this.
    Two best selling books published, ex-US Senator, 5th youngest US President at inaugaration.

    Yes, very successful. It seems pointless to comment further.
    But, guess what- he didn't do it alone.
    It's all the result of affirmative action. Totally unfair. Any white guy could have done that, given the chance.
    Ya, gotta fill that race quota. And, erm, I don't think any white guys had George Soros backing them, but I could be wrong.

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    TOP TEN THINGS OBAMA HAS NOT RELEASED:

    10. State senate papers. In the 2008 primary, Obama criticized Hillary Clinton for not releasing papers from her eight years as First Lady--but failed to produce any papers from his eight years in Springfield. “They could have been thrown out,” he said.

    9. Academic transcripts. His supposed academic brilliance was a major selling point, but Obama (by his own admission) was a mediocre student. His GPA at Occidental was a B-plus at best, and his entering class at Columbia was weak. Can he prove his merit?

    8. Book proposal. Obama’s literary agent claimed he was “born in Kenya”--for sixteen years. His original book proposal exists--biographer David Maraniss refers to it--and seems to have embellished other key details of his life. Yet it has never been released.

    7. Medical records. In 2000, and again (briefly) in 2008, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain released thousands of pages of his medical records. Obama, who had abused drugs and continued smoking, merely provided a one-page doctor’s note.

    6. Small-dollar donors. In 2008, the McCain campaign released the names of donors who had contributed less than $200, though it was not required to do so. But the Obama campaign refused, amidst accusations it had accepted illegal foreign contributions.

    5. The Khalidi tape. In 2003, Obama attended a party for his good friend, the radical Palestinian academic Rashid Khalidi. The event featured incendiary anti-Israel rhetoric. The LA Times broke the story, but has refused to release the tape--and so has Obama.

    4. The real White House guest list. Touting its transparency, the Obama White House released its guest logs--but kept many visits secret, and moved meetings with lobbyists off-site. It also refused to confirm the identities of visitors like Bertha Lewis of ACORN.

    3. Countless FOIA requests. The Obama administration has been described as “the worst” ever in complying with Freedom of Information Act requests for documents. It has also punished whistleblowers like David Walpin, who exposed cronyism in Americorps.

    2. Health reform negotiations. Candidate Obama promised that health care reform negotiations would be televised on C-SPAN. Instead, there were back-room deals woth millions with lobbyists and legislators--the details of which are only beginning to emerge.

    1. Fast and Furious documents. After months of stonewalling Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder asked President Obama to use executive privilege to conceal thousands of documents related to the deadly scandal--and Obama did just that.
    In addition to the above, Obama and his campaign have lied about many facts about his past--his membership in the New Party; his extensive connections with ACORN; and his continued relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, among other examples. Obama’s own memoir is filled with fabrications. And now he is lying about his opponent’s honorable record in business. He--and the media--have no shame.

    Well, where's the beef, eh?

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    Big-Time Hypocrisy Or What?: Reid, Pelosi, Wasserman Schultz Refuse to Release Tax Returns

    House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), have been some of the most vocal voices that have called on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns.

    In rather stunning examples of hypocrisy, though, Pelosi, Reid, and Wasserman-Schultz all refused to release their tax returns when asked by McClatchy Newspapers.

    Doesn't matter to the Democrats tho - anything to manufacture something that possibly taints their opponents is just OK with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    "if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own"
    Obama is a success himself, and is echoing the statements and sentiments of every other succesful man I have encountered.
    Business leaders in particular go out of their way to emphasize the shared nature of success, and the fact that it is not achieved alone.
    You would do good to read "History of the American People" by Paul Johnson.
    In one of a thousand vignettes, Johnson tells the story of the founding of Springfield:
    Elijah Miles, who moved to the Sangamon River country in 1823, left a record of how he founded Springfield. It was then only a stake in the ground. He marked out an 18-foot-square site for a store, went to St. Louis to buy a 25-ton stock of goods, chartered a boat, shipped his stock to the mouth of the Sangamon, and then had his boat and goods towed upriver by five men with a 300 foot tow-rope. Leaving his goods on the riverside — “As no one lived near, I had no fear of thieves” — he walked 50 miles to Springfield, hired waggons and teams, and so got his stuff to the new “town,”where his store was the first to open. It was the only one in a district later divided into fourteen counties, so “many had to come more than 80 miles to trade. Springfield grew up around him.

    Obama can try telling Americans they can’t build businesses, careers, communities and lives without his broke and broken Federal Government, but history and common sense prove him wrong every time. Ask Steve Jobs, Larry Elison, Sir Richard Branson etc.

    Amazon.com: history of the american people: Books

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    Sir Richard Branson etc.
    a perfect example of an American success story.

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    "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

    ~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006



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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    Sir Richard Branson etc.
    a perfect example of an American success story.
    I threw him in there to see if y'all were awake. Good catch there Bert!

    In the continuing discussion re American achievement that doesn't encompass collective or state-sponsored input we find more proof that for Obama Atlas Shrugged isn’t a cautionary tale, it’s a how-to manual.
    “He didn’t invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?”

    “Who?”

    “Rearden. He didn’t invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn’t have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he think it’s his? Why does he think it’s his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody else. Nobody ever invents anything.”
    She said, puzzled, “But the iron ore and all those other things were there all the time. Why didn’t anybody else make that Metal, but Mr. Rearden did?”

    We're sure that Ayn Rand is way over Obama's head...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    I threw him in there to see if y'all were awake. Good catch there Bert!
    Do you work for Investors Business Daily or something? I notice that you quote them quite frequently.

    On July 31, 2009, an editorial in IBD touted the superiority of U.S. healthcare and argued that physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the [British] National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless." As Hawking has always lived in the U.K. and receives his medical care from the NHS, the editorial was widely criticized.

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    As we know, Virginia is a crucial battleground state to watch. O and Romney are tied at the moment.

    Tied in Virginia: Romney 44, Obama 44
    7:45 AM, JUL 19, 2012
    • BY DANIEL HALPERSingle


    Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are now tied in Virginia, according to a new poll by Quinnipiac. Each candidate is receiving support from 44 percent from Virginia voters.
    Entire: Tied in Virginia: Romney 44, Obama 44 | The Weekly Standard

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