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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (488455)	6/16/2009 4:24:49 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572295

RW, I'll bet if CA were more of a "swing state," Obama would have bailed us out without even thinking about it. If they were bailing them out you would say it's only because it's a Dem state. You can be cynical regardless of what he does. Meanwhile the SEIU is going to spend a million dollars on ads to prevent cutting the pay of home service workers from $12.10/hr to $10.10/hr. Yeah a measly 16.5% pay cut, why worry? What would the Republicans do if they raised taxes 16.5%? Howl like banshees.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (488455)	6/16/2009 4:38:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572295

NEW MEDIA, OLD RACISM.... Republican Party leaders have gone to great lengths to urge party activists to use tools like Twitter and Facebook to get their political message out. On the one hand, the GOP's rank-and-file have paid attention and taken the leaders' advice. On the other hand, it's the messages that have become, shall we say, problematic. Yesterday, it was a prominent South Carolina Republican who used his Facebook page to liken First Lady Michelle Obama to an escaped gorilla. (He proceeded to blame Obama for his comparison.) Today, a different prominent South Carolina Republican operative had shared this all-caps message via Twitter: Just heard Obama is going to impose a 40% tax on aspirin because it's white and it works. He later acknowledged that his comments "were hurtful, wrong and have no place in civil discourse." And making matters slightly worse, this comes the same day a Republican staffer for a Tennessee state senator emailed a "composite picture of the country's 44 presidents, which represents President Obama with only a set of eyes," in what was clearly another racist message. The staffer backpedaled, not by denouncing the racist image, but by explaining she sent the email to the wrong list of people. I suspect this isn't what Michael Steele had in mind when he vowed Republicans would go "beyond cutting edge" in using technology.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (488455)	6/16/2009 5:53:15 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1572295

I still think they should come up with a special levy on Asian-Californians. Everyone knows they all keep big stashes of cash and are big savers and are economically very conservative. Maybe they can auction fake blondes with fake tits to Arabs? No shortage of those in CA.