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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 (132710)	5/15/2012 5:48:54 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224737

CHRIS MATTHEWS TO BLACK BISHOP: 'I HOPE YOU EVOLVE' by DANA LOESCH 21 hours ago breitbart.com Newsbusters caught Chris Matthews telling Bishop Harry Jackson "I hope you evolve" while talking gay marriage. He then giggled and said disingenuously, "I'm just teasing." I asked earlier when the left was going to turn on the black community for questioning the President's gay marriage remarks. They're reserving their anger not for the President who refused to make gay marriage part of the DNC platform (and whose words are meaningless lip service to avoid further lefty criticism), but for the black Christians who are trying to live their lives according to faith. It wouldn't be the first time black churches faced bully tactics: back in the 50s they faced much worse for not toeing the Democrat party line. I'm sure will see a column from Joan Walsh decrying the racist overtones of Matthews's remark, considering she thinks "food stamps" is a slur. I'm sure we'll see a boycott campaign organized by the Soros-funded Media Matters. Don't you think. /Rhetorical.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132710)	5/15/2012 10:29:41 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224737

kenytroll where are markets: blind deaf dumb mute ???????????

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132710)	5/15/2012 10:35:25 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224737

Obozo's Economic Winter: Can Adam And Steve Find Jobs? Job Creation: With just 7% of Americans considering gay marriage the top issue, the presumptive GOP nominee asks: What about the 23 million Americans who are out of work, underemployed or have simply given up? The battle of the steel ads between venture capitalist Mitt Romney and venture socialist and incumbent President Barack Obama has ended with the advantage going to Romney. The Obama spot dubbed "Steel," but which perhaps could have been labeled "Vampire," will be run once during the evening news on Wednesday in five key battleground states and then be withdrawn while people stop laughing. Such ads depend on talking-head analysis to get the word out rather than the actual ad buy, and for Team Obama the reviews have not been good. The attack ad blaming Romney and his investment firm Bain Capital for the failure of GST Steel, a Kansas City, Mo.-based company, fell flat after it became known Romney left Bain two years before the company failed in 2001. That was also a time when 17 other steel companies that Bain had nothing to do with failed as prices imploded from the dumping of foreign steel in the U.S. market. The 750 jobs lost at GST are fewer than the 1,100 employees who lost their jobs at Solyndra, the stimulus-backed manufacturer of solar panels, and certainly fewer than the job losses at the "bailed out" Government Motors, its suppliers and the workers at the closed GM dealerships. As Karl Rove recently noted, GM employed roughly 252,000 workers in 2008. Now it has 207,000, with 131,000 of them working in foreign plants. "Based on data from the National Automobile Dealers Association, I estimate that as many as 100,000 Americans lost jobs at the companies' dealerships," Rove said in a recent op-ed. In the Romney campaign's counteradvertisement, workers at Steel Dynamics Inc. issue heaping praise and gratitude to Bain for infusing capital into their company and helping create 6,000 jobs. Critics say Bain was a minor investor there, but it was still an investor, and we think credit by association should work as well as guilt by association. What the Romney campaign has pointed out and needs to do more effectively is that capitalism involves risk-taking by entrepreneurs with their own money. Sometimes the investments don't pan out. But it's the marketplace that picks winners and losers, not a government that prints money and raises taxes and for which there are no real consequences. As another Romney ad filmed in the depths of the Iowa winter points out, there are real consequences for the 23 million unemployed and underemployed Americans who constitute the body count of hope and change's venture socialism. As we've pointed out, if the millions who have dropped out of the workforce with little hope and little change in their pockets were counted, the true unemployment rate would be well into double digits, not the 8.1% praised as progress. The official rate has remained above 8% for 39 months now, the longest such streak since the Great Depression. By this point the stimulus was supposed to stop it at 8% and lower it to 6%. That hasn't happened. And yet the administration and its apologists continue to boast of a "jobs recovery." And if you want to talk about a "war on women," consider that 324,000 women left the workforce in March and April and that the number of women not in the workforce is at an all-time high. That's certainly not an accomplishment on behalf of women to crow about. We don't know how many of the 23 million are gay, lesbian or transgendered, but only in the president's mind does it matter.