I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange
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Lindasa - LOL!!
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Couldn't resist this one!
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OMG - Thanks Belinda, Linda and all. I still love celebrating this election (for it's outcome, not the process ). Obama won despite Husted's (and other's) shenanigans. Love the graphics, love the laughs. Don't forget Arizona....
Love that McCain Irony on his "not very bright" comment. McCain is losing his conundrum status and fast going to tool status. I could have sworn he was talking about investigating Iraq WMDs when he was talking about investigating the semantics (isn't that's what this is really about?) of the Benghazi tragedy. One million dead verus four. All death is tragic, but one event is about lies to get us into war, the other about semantics. Where was he with his Select Committee then?
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About Susan Rice (from Wiki):
Rice attended Stanford University, where she received a Truman Scholarship, and graduated with a B.A. in history in 1986. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, Rice attended New College, Oxford, where she earned a M.Phil. in 1988 and D.Phil. in 1990. The Chatham House-British International Studies Association honored her dissertation titled "Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-1980: Implication for International Peacekeeping" as the UK's most distinguished in international relations. -
Anybody that has "peace" associated with their resume...thars the problem!
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Welcome back Belinda - hope all is well with your family now. ADORE your cartoons - and Linda too. Just love them.
Think McCain must REALLY be missing the attention he craves - and that crack about Susan Rice, well, once again the dumbos gave Our Wonderful President a chance to step up to the plate an SHINE, watched his Presser, and he came out in DEFENSE of Susan Rice and just stomped on Lindsay Graham & McCain.
President is SO smart, well spoken, and FUNNY. Also LOVE it that he's LOVING LOVING his 2nd term - and is just THRIVING with the POWER he has...SO PROUD OF THE USA for electing him - and by such HUGE numbers. Popular and Electoral College - FIRED UP, READY TO GO.
Senator Elizabeth Warren will be fabulous too. Yes, I'm still just SO happy with her election.
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Everything Sun said.....
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Ditto.
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Everything Sun and GG said --- twice. Loved the speeches today though I only got a small amt since I was at work. M. McConnell apparently didn't like a couple of things -- ho-hum. You'll get your reward in 2014 & 16 --- hang on it's coming.
Jackie
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Does anybody remember the Republicans being outraged and screaming for investigations after the following:
June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Truck bomb kills 17.February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan
Suicide bomber kills two.December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece
A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey
Armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.March 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls’ school instead.September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured. -
RR....in a word NO
Jackie
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RR-no. I keep having this discussion with an aquaintance on facebook, and I've given him that list, but his response is always that it's different this time. He can never explain to me how it's different, but I know-It's because it's President Obama. That seems to be the only difference that I can see.
Mary
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Here is an interesting perspective on Ohio from my younger brother, who has lived there his whole life. He is a blue-collar worker in a large factory for a major food manufacturing company. He has worked in blue-collar jobs in factories in Southwesterrn Ohio his whole adult life. He didn't go to college. We spoke over the weekend, and we talked about the election. He was politically apathetic up until the Kerry-Bush contest, at which point he registered to vote for the first time and did some volunteer campaign work for the Kerry campaign (he was unemployed at the time).
He said that he voted a straight Democratic ticket and will never, EVER vote for a Republican again, no matter who they run. (He is actually squarely in the Republican demographic of angry old white guys -- except he is angry at the right people.) He said that people in his workplace were evenly divided this year between Robme and the President -- until Robme started bashing the auto bailout and running lying ads about Delphi. You see, there was a Delphi in Dayton, and everyone knows what happened and who was at fault -- and it wasn't the Obama administration at fault. They were trying to save it. And then Robme's 47% remarks came out, and even more people started getting angry. And THEN he tripled down and started lying about Jeep. That sealed it in Ohio -- my brother actually knows a number of people who CHANGED THEIR MINDS and voted for the President based on being pushed over the top about the Jeep lies. My brother said there was absolutely no doubt in his mind that Ohio would go for the President -- that he (and everyone else) knew that Husted was suppressing the vote and likely monkeying with the voting machines, but they knew that the way to overcome that was through a massive voting presence. So they did. Very, very interesting -- he said that all the people he knew just laughed when the pundits said Ohio was in question. They knew better.
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Yeah Jackie and Mary, me neither. The only difference I see is the president happens to be a Democrat, and oh yeah...black.
HL, interesting it seemed similar here in Michigan. Some people had forgiven Romney for his position on the auto loans, but then when he lied about Jeep it seemed to swing back to Obama. I never sensed that Obama was down in Michigan but his lead from what it seemed here grew after the Jeep lies.
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Yeah, my dad had Robme pegged. Told me he was a shemonito and not to worry because Obama would win.
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One more reason I am thanking the dear Lord that Romney lost......I have no doubt he would have overturned Roe vs. Wade. The story below is soooo sad.
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Sunflowers, Congrats on Senator Elizabeth Warren's victory! Glad intelligence triumphed over "low info!"
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"A week after losing the election to President Obama, Mitt Romney blamed his overwhelming electoral loss on what he said were big “gifts” that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies, including young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/romney-blames-loss-on-obamas-gifts-to-minorities-and-young-voters/
First, Robme didn't offer "huge gifts" to his constituency of robber barons and exploiters? Eliminating the taxes on capital gains? REALLY?
They simply cannot step up and take responsibility for the fact that they lost because A MAJORITY OF VOTERS DIDN'T WANT THEM OR THEIR IDEAS! They lost because voters didn't like them. Voters didn't like what they were peddling. Grow up and move on!
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Ok, where's the gift? I was out, freezing my hands off knocking on doors, and no gift? No phone?
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I was robbed! No gift on my front porch. I think I need to track down the UPS/FEDEX guys!
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HappyLibby, was Romney wearing this tee-shirt when he was playing the blame game?
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Just read this article. I've always been a fan of Fran Visco's and her organization.
"Fresh off a crusade to get President Obama reelected, Bill Clinton is turning to a new campaign—breast cancer."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/13/bill-clinton-s-new-gig-ending-breast-cancer.html
"The former president is joining the National Breast Cancer Coalition, a group of hundreds of cancer-fighting organizations, as honorary chairman of its campaign to end the disease by 2020, the group said Tuesday. The coalition has successfully lobbied for nearly $3 billion in federal funds since its start two decades ago. Its president, Fran Visco, is known for focusing heavily on research, saying mammograms and pink ribbons won’t get the job done."
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OMG -- too funny. Romney lost because he didn't care about US and he didn't mind showing it with his totally unempathetic little insider smirk. He and all of his cohorts on the famous Fox ( double gag ) network. All out of touch.....then, on election night, and very much right now. You came, you saw. you got your butt whipped good. Take your ideas about why you lost ( which are in fact quite wrong ) , and tell them to someone who gives a care. it is not us.
Everybody has someboday to blame for it --- no matter how stupid. Your all out of touch and just about anyone who keeps their nose on the Fox T.V. screen is deranged and therefore hopelessly out of touch and not to be paid one bit of attention.
Jackie
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HL - what a moving story from your brother. I can imagine how furious people in Ohio have to have been over the auto lies Romney told if the rest of us were already hopping mad - I mean, what does Mitt take people for - total brain-dead vegetables? I bet a lot of blue collar voters with a GOP history saw clearly how they were being lied to.
Hey, I predicted an Obama win many, many pages (months) ago.
We are the ISY thread, the Best Political Team on BCO. :-) (Not that we have much competition.
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I took a little peek next door, but starting laughing so hard coke was coming out of my nose over something being said to the effect that our President needed Romney's advice. Chortle-Chortle-Chortle.
Jackie
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Sorry that's so big.
Mary
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Yes, by all means people, THINK.
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But thinking iz haaaaarrrddd! My thinker iz broke! Interwebz iz always riiiight! I seed it on the Republikkant page, so of course iz riiiiiight!
(eyeroll) You can lead an idiot to facts but you can't make it understand them.
Belinda, I LOVE that tee-shirt!
L
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