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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 8:52:54 AM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224757

Today the economy is in recovery. LOL!!! Does that Koolaid taste good?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 9:05:28 AM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 9:11:52 AM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 9:59:14 AM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224757

No Conspiracy In Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Brookfield Vote Totals Posted On Election Night By AOL/Huffington Post Reporterby Media Trackers Conspiracy theorists are in full force with a Democratic congresswoman even asking the United States Attorney General to investigate the Waukesha County election returns that gave the Supreme Court race to David Prosser, but they might want to call up Arianna Huffington first. That’s because Patch, a new media site in Brookfield that Huffington oversees, reported the Brookfield election returns to the public… on election night. And they were the same returns the city is reporting now that Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus has finally added Brookfield into the countywide returns. That means there’s no big conspiracy – Nickolaus just didn’t pass the returns on to the state and Associated Press on election night as she should have done. No returns or votes “materialized” – they were reported on election night by a site overseen by one of the most prominent liberals in the country. The AP distributed the overall county tally to the rest of the news media for inclusion in state totals on election night. However, the Brookfield clerk has stated that she reported the returns to Nickolaus, who didn’t save them on her computer. The Brookfield clerk ALSO reported the returns on election night to the reporter for Brookfield Patch, the new online news site run by AOL, and ultimately overseen by liberal pundit Arianna Huffington. Patch ran a story shortly after midnight that night reporting that Prosser had commanded a sweeping margin in Brookfield. The reporter who authored the story is Brookfield Patch editor, Lisa Sink, a former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter. She reported on the returns in a story dated April 6th (two full days before Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus told the media and state officials that she had forgotten to include the Brookfield returns in the overall county tally). Sink wrote: “As expected, Brookfield city voters ran up a good turnout in the state Supreme Court race and gave incumbent Justice David Prosser nearly 11,000 votes. Unofficial, unaudited results showed 76 percent of city residents who voted picked Prosser, with 24 percent voting for challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg. That translated to a city voting turnout of about 53 percent, the city’s second-highest for a spring election since 2001, but nowhere near the 79 percent turnout for the gubernatorial race last November.” The story was headlined: Brookfield Gives Prosser Nearly 11K Votes: Incumbent State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser gets 10,859 votes from city residents or 76 percent against JoAnne Kloppenburg. (Note: The City of Brookfield website currently reports the same exact numbers.) The Patch story also included a ward-by-ward breakdown of the Brookfield election returns that included the final tally for the city for both candidates. In the comment thread under the story, reporter Sink noted a few days later: “I posted this article and chart at 12:24 a.m. on election night, using data handed to me from the City of Brookfield clerk’s office, not from Waukesha County. Lots of confusion about this. This came straight from the city ON election night. These are the results County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said today that she failed to properly save and include in the countywide total she released to AP on election night.” Arianna Huffington is Sink’s ultimate boss. Huffington moved over to head a Media Group at AOL this spring after AOL bought out her liberal political website, the Huffington Post. The move has Huffington overseeing the hyper-local Patch news sites that the company launched around the country. This year Patch launched multiple news sites in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, hiring an editor away from Journal Communications to oversee them. Most of the sites are managed by former newspaper journalists and are meant to be objective news sites. The Hollywood Reporter quotes Huffington as saying the following of Patch: “… Patch will be key to political coverage, including next year’s elections. We’re launching over 30 new patches in primary states,’ including two new ones in New York.” Each Patch consists of a professional journalist and contributors. Ironically, the wildly liberal Huffington Post updated its own story on the Waukesha election returns after receiving the information about the Brookfield Patch story. The original Huffington Post story was updated to note: “UPDATE: 11:20 p.m. — Perhaps the most convincing evidence so far that human error explains the initial omission of Brookfield’s results comes from our colleagues at the Brookfield Patch. On election night, they reported a vote total for Brookfield that exactly matches the vote total Nickolaus did not include in the County level count until Thursday.” In other words, even the extremely liberal Huffington Post can’t bring itself to join the conspiracy brigades. Not when its own news site had the returns from the start. biggovernment.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 11:51:34 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224757

ken...got your obama bat ready? Courtesy of a Democratic Party strategist, here's today's delightful example of liberal political 'civility': a call for violent bat-work against those who dare to oppose their rule. Earl Bender, a former Carter Administration official who now consults for liberal candidates and initiatives, used Friday's syndicated Ed Schultz Show to make the thuggish call. While Schultz was away, his fill-in host did nothing to challenge Bender's violent rhetoric. In fact, he agreed, as long as wooden bats were used: video of stupid democrat. youtube.com Courtesy of a Democratic Party strategist, here's today's delightful example of liberal political 'civility': a call for violent bat-work against those who dare to oppose their rule. Earl Bender, a former Carter Administration official who now consults for liberal candidates and initiatives, used Friday's syndicated Ed Schultz Show to make the thuggish call. While Schultz was away, his fill-in host did nothing to challenge Bender's violent rhetoric. In fact, he agreed, as long as wooden bats were used: EARL BENDER (DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICAL CONSULTANT) (07:47): Well, instead of a baton I think he [Obama] should pick up a baseball bat and just start bashing 'em over the head, hoping that the Republicans will gain some common sense

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 11:53:40 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224757

Enjoy Ken youtube.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 11:58:41 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224757

Born 1776, Dying 2011 Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election: . Number of States won by: Obama:19 McCain: 29 . Square miles of land won by: Obama:580,000 McCain: 2,427,000 . Population of counties won by: Obama:127million McCain: 143 million . Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the Country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years .. If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that Apathy Is The Greatest Danger To Our Freedom. How does it feel Ken, to be part of the problem and not the solution?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 4:16:12 PM
From: chartseer	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224757

How much is a gallon of gasoline? citizen chartseer

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 4:49:42 PM
From: chartseer	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

So where is the economy going to be in two years? In one year? citizen chartseer

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/11/2011 11:17:27 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

What I can't believe is the amount of Obamabots thinking they know something about successful people. Here are the cold hard facts about success, sometimes you fail and go bankrupt but the successful ones never give up. Seriously, you good for nothing liberals can't distinguish between reality and the rags to riches stories you love to dream up. Look at all these people who excelled and went bankrupt at one point in their lives and all you offer is an argument that Trump went bankrupt. Henry Ford Bankrupt in 1903 Donald Trump Bankrupt in 1990 Stan Lee bankrupt in 2000 Walt Disney bankrupt in 1921 Anna Nicole Smith bankrupt in 1996 H.J Hienz bankrupt in 1875 George Foreman bankrupt in 1983 Bob Guccione bankrupt in 2003 Milton Hershey bankrupt in 1880 Larry King bankrupt in 1978 Francis Ford Coppola bankrupt in 1990 And there are plenty of other millionaires out there that have gone bankrupt and overcame their situation. Donald Trump knows what it means to never give up and he has the experience to lead. Unlike Barry the con. realclearpolitics.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (102603)	4/12/2011 7:31:19 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

Newsmax Poll: Donald Trump Overwhelms Obama, GOP Field in 2012 Race Monday, 11 Apr 2011 05:18 PM By Jim Meyers An Internet poll sponsored by Newsmax.com reveals that Americans overwhelmingly favor Donald Trump as their preferred candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Online participants in the poll, which has drawn more than 550,000 responses, also support Trump by a wide margin in a head-to-head matchup with President Barack Obama. If the election were held today, Trump would beat Obama in a landslide, 68 to 13 percent. But that lead is just as sizeable when Trump faces off against the best and the brightest in the oft-mentioned field of GOP contenders for 2012. Trump takes 57 percent of the vote in a field including Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty. His closest competitor, according to the poll, is former Massachusetts Gov. Romney with 9 percent of the vote. (See full poll results below — and you can still vote in the Trump poll — Click Here Now.) The Newsmax online survey, a non-scientific poll, comes as Obama advisers launched their own attacks last weekend on Trump, who has surged in several polls over the last several weeks as he's questioned the president's resistance to making his birth certificate and other accompanying details public. The president has released a "certificate of live birth," a shorter document that carries the same legal weight as a birth certificate in Hawaii. But Obama has not released his so-called “longform” birth certificate, and this has been the source of many conspiracy theories. Appearing Sunday on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour, White House adviser David Plouffe said "a small part of the country" may believe conspiracy theories about Obama's birth, but "mainstream Americans think it's a sideshow." Plouffe suggested Trump may be a bigger problem for Republican primary candidates. "I think I saw Donald Trump kind of rising in some polls, and given his behavior and spectacle the last couple of weeks, I hope he keeps on rising because there is zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people to do this job," Plouffe said. Trump fired back on Monday: "Obviously, I hit a nerve because they're fighting me," he said on "Fox and Friends." He added: "I can tell you I'm their worst nightmare. I am not the person they want to run against. They know it, and I know it. I know it for a fact because I have a lot of people that frankly are contributors to him and they tell me, 'Donald, you are not the person they want to run against.'" The real estate tycoon has said he is seriously considering running for president next year. Already, he has even garnered some praise from some of his nominal challengers in the presidential race. Former Alaska Gov. Palin praised Trump's push on the issue of Obama's birth certificate, especially his effort to hire private investigators to go to Hawaii and get to the bottom of the president's obfuscations. On the “Judge Jeanine” show on Fox News, Palin said, "I appreciate that the Donald wants to spend his resources on something that so interests him and so many Americans, you know more power to him.” "I think that he was born in Hawaii,” Palin told Judge Jeanine, “because there was the birth announcement put in the newspaper. But obviously there is something there that the president doesn't want people to see on that birth certificate, that he sees going to great lengths to make sure it isn't shown. And that's perplexing for a lot of people." And Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a presidential run by Trump would be good for the country — particularly, the media. "I've always said the public benefits from more choice. If Donald Trump wants to run, he should run," Bloomberg told reporters at an unrelated press conference Monday afternoon. Bloomberg also noted that a run by the charismatic, totally aboveboard billionaire could have big benefits for the press. "I think that would be very good for the Fourth Estate," Bloomberg jokingly added. "You'd certainly have lots of things to write about. He'd advertise a lot so you'd be able to sell him some space and that would pay your salaries." The poll is not scientific. But Newsmax will provide the results to major media outlets. Newsmax reports have been cited on media outlets such as CNN, ABC News, Fox News, CBS, and MSNBC, as well as other major networks. Following are the poll questions and results. Percentages do not total 100 because of rounding: 1) Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Donald Trump? Favorable: 77 percent Unfavorable: 22 percent 2) If the 2012 election were held today, who would you vote for? Barack Obama: 13 percent Donald Trump: 68 percent Other: 17 percent 3) In a Republican primary, who would be your candidate for the nomination for president? Donald Trump: 57 percent Tim Pawlenty: 3 percent Mitt Romney: 9 percent Mike Huckabee: 8 percent Sarah Palin: 6 percent Mitch Daniels: 1 percent Haley Barbour: 0 percent Newt Gingrich: 6 percent Bobby Jindal: 2 percent Michele Bachmann: 4 percent 4) Is Trump right in demanding that Pres. Obama release his birth certificate? Trump is right: 82 percent Trump is wrong: 17 percent Editor's Note: It's still not too late to take our exlusive poll — Click Here Now Read more on Newsmax.com: Newsmax Poll: Trump Overwhelms Obama, GOP Field in 2012 Race Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!