Palin tweeted today, “Obama’s Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies.” This woman sets women back and simply needs to shut her ignorant mouth. What a clown, racist she is. See what Hardball’s Christ Matthews had to say about Palin and Trump’s latest shamockery (made up word credit to Toni W.).
Palin, Trump continue to lead right-wing hate party against Obama.
At my count, Obama/Biden won three of the four debates. Last night was a clear win for Mr. Obama. Romney knew full well that he has no juice when it comes to foreign policy, and that’s why he agreed with everything Obama said. Romney is studying the focus groups and knows striking a more passive, less strident tone was what he needed to do last night. Romney is no longer playing the war hawk that the extreme right wing have been pushing. In fact he’s pulling out all the stops to garner votes by any means necessary. One thing I can say about Romney, the Plutocrat, he knows how to lie and successfully manipulate. This is how he has done business all these years. He simply pitches and becomes what he thinks the given audience wants.
Obama said it right last night, Romney is all over the map, but not just on foreign policy, on everything. I am not deceived by this skillful, mendacious candidate named Mitt Romney. There is no shame in Romney so don’t look for it. James Lipton said it this way today, Romney is a boss and not a President. Just because you conjure up imagery of looking presidential in order to beguile the weak minded or uninformed does not mean you are qualified to lead the United States and by extension the free world.
Regardless of these debates, it all comes down to Ohio. Obama’s street cred in that state is good, even with white men, which is not the trend. White men continue to not support this president en masse, and I expect it will be the same on November 6th. Mitt has consistently lied through his six years running for the presidency, but the white guys still really love him. Romney speaks their language. Let’s face it, we are simply not post-racial in America.
I keep thinking that folks decided in 2008 to try the black guy, but in 2009 an insidious plot was launched against Obama with all maliciousness, and because that plot had some effect, impacting economic recovery, now it’s let’s get rid of the black guy for some of those same people. Nevermind that there are numerous signs of economic recovery. The plot, by the way, is called Republican Tea Party Sedition aka just-say-no-to-the-black-guy -on-everything-he-proposes. Sick. Seditious Tea Party Republicans would rather tank the economy than see the first black president succeed. What a shock that the south overwhelmingly supports Romney–it’s a solid blood red. What a shock at the level of racist rhetoric thrown at Mr. Obama during this campaign.
I am not deterred. Here’s my prediction, Obama is going to win. The Republican propaganda money machine will have wasted all that money. Teehee. We need to move FORWARD and not allow a worst Republican than George Bush into the driver’s seat. It would be like letting the fox guard the hen house. We don’t need a boss who likes firing people and doesn’t care about 47% of the population, we need a real leader who cares about 100% of the people. The United States needs Barack Obama.
L. Jackson/10.23.2012
Letter from the First Lady
“Michelle Obama opens up to ELLE readers about the future of American women and the five ways President Obama is looking out for women like you.”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS ELECTORAL MAP
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html
The tricks of the GOP just don’t stop. What to watch out for in the swing states of Florida and Virginia. These Republicans will stop at nothing to steal this election. What disturbs me the most is that the GOP projects their own voter fraud tactics on black and hispanic voters. Follow the link below for the full story by Dan Froomkin at the Huffington Post.
“Some African American, Spanish-speaking and elderly voters in Florida and Virginia are apparently being targeted by anonymous voter-suppression groups trying to trick them or intimidate them into not voting in the November presidential election, according to election officials and voter protection organizations.”
The 2012 Presidential Debate Round 2
Check out the full debate on C-SPAN.
by Joy-Ann Reid | October 16, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Tonight’s presidential debate is being billed by the media as The Most Important Moment of President Barack Obama’s Political Life … Period. (Well, aside from a little thing called The Entire 2008 Election, in which a black guy named Barack Hussein Obama attempted to beat a war hero and become the first black president of the United States, but I digress…)
In reality, the extent to which Obama’s re-election chances hinge on tonight’s second presidential debate has more to do with the media than with the public, since something like 95 percent of voters have already made up their minds, and close to 1 in 10 people in key swing states like Florida and Ohio have already voted.
That said, the debate matters, since the media says it matters, and because what the headlines tomorrow say about the debate can tend to drive public opinion after the debate, and that has real implications for voter enthusiasm, and therefore, the outcome of the election.
Some commentators have objected to this, including MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who has suggested the debates should be completely reconfigured, allowing the candidates to bring in notes and eliminating the moderator entirely.
Others, like statistical modeling guru Nate Silver of the New York Times‘ FiveThirtyEight blog have suggested making the media take a 24-hour timeout after any debate before weighing in, thus allowing public opinion to form on its own before the press weighs in.
Those are good ideas, but in the meantime, how can the average voter watch the debates without losing their mind? Here are five suggestions:
1. Watch by yourself (or with someone really quiet).
In this age of ego-reinforcing media that tends to tell you exactly what you already believe, and since most people tune out all sources that don’t, having a bunch of like-minded, potentially inebriated people in a bar or in your living room, yelling at the TV along with you will only further bias your reaction to the debate, and possibly give you a headache. Instead, retire to a quiet room in your home (or as Mitt Romney would say, your “apartment”) and consult your own conscience as to how things went. Of course, once you’ve given yourself a few minutes to reflect, turn on MSNBC immediately. (Or Fox, if you’re a conservative. Or CNN if you really don’t care one way or the other.) That way, you’ll still have your sanity, but at least you’ll know what everyone else is talking about around the water cooler tomorrow.
2. Keep Twitter handy (or Facebook, if you prefer).
It’s more fun and less stressful to get the snarky reactions to what’s happening on the TV screen directly from @BillMaher or @SamuelLJackson in real time, instead of having to wait to find out what they thought on Real Time later in the week. Also, not everyone can afford HBO.
3. Don’t believe the snap polls.
For one thing, they’re almost always of relatively low quality compared to a normal poll. For instance, the CNN instant poll taken after the first presidential debate significantly oversampled white southerners, which of course produced a big win for Mitt Romney. And because the sample sizes in the polls are small, and the samples often self-selected rather than scientifically chosen, they tend to have a “lean.” Ignore them entirely, and wait for the first set of real poll numbers to come out about three days after the debate, since those will take into account at least three full days of viewer/voter reactions.
4. Remember that debates are like NFL playoff games — most people watching are rooting for one team.
One thing that all of the polls have in common is that they show very few “undecided” voters. The American electorate is as partisan as it has been, well, ever. That means that something like 90 percent of Democrats and Republicans are voting their party line, and the vast majority of debate viewers are tuning in to see their guy wallop the competition, not to have their minds swayed. So understand that no matter who the majority of people and reporters believe wins the debate, the performance of either candidate is unlikely to change many votes.
5. Don’t blame the moderator.
No moderator can help or hurt a candidate during a debate. They are part facilitator, part theatrical prop. If your candidate loses, it’s their fault, not Martha Raddatz’s, or Candy Crowley’s, or poor, poor Jim Lehrer’s. Still, critiquing the moderator’s performance is a time-honored debate tradition, and will definitely make the experience more fun for you, the viewer. So snark away, at everything from their passiveness or aggressiveness to their interruptions or lack thereof.
But please, be polite. Tweeting ugly things to a moderator during or after the debate is just rude, and makes you a bad person. So if you don’t have anything nice to say, say it on MySpace. That way nobody but your lamest friends will know.
Follow Joy Reid on Twitter at @thereidreport
Joe Biden gave us a clinic on how to debate last night. Know your facts: Biden was on top of the data and had real substance to refute the lies of the Romney/Ryan campaign. Be passionate: Biden displayed his passion repeatedly for the Middle Class. Amplify your opponents weakness: Biden hit on all the mendacity and weaknesses of the RR ticket, e.g., Romney’s 47% comments, the 20% tax cut that the RR campaign will not detail how they’ll pay for it (unidentified tax loopholes and deductions) and most importantly, Medicare. Ryan’s plan turns Medicare into a voucher program. Yes, Mr. Vice President we trust the President with Medicare. Lastly, throw the occasional curve ball: Biden revealed that Ryan requested stimulus money not once, but twice because he said he needed to create jobs in Wisconsin. Ryan’s a hypocrite. Last night was a win for Biden, Democrats and the country. Of course, Republicans are dervishing about Ryan’s performance, but Biden clearly proved that he is the Vice President and should keep the job.
Jonathan Capehart’s Opinion Post in the Washington Post
“This race began as a toss up. It is now a toss up,” my colleague calmly writes. “Barring some unforeseen event, it will remain a toss up until the end. Which it was always going to be from the start.”
See my latest post under Salient Points.
What Romney and other plutocrats like him want is cheap labor and a permanent underclass
with concentrated wealth in the hands of a chosen few.
speakingthosethings 