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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 (132759)	5/16/2012 9:03:23 AM
From: tonto	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

That is late in life... I am beginning to understand how capitalism works under Romney.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132759)	5/16/2012 9:45:26 AM
From: TopCat	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

"I am beginning to understand how capitalism works under Romney." It works the same everywhere, Kenneth. How many jobs has Warren Buffet destroyed? How many jobs has Bill Gates destroyed. It's called creative destruction. Without it you'd be here on the Internet with your Royal typewriter.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132759)	5/16/2012 10:12:45 AM
From: locogringo	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

The latest USA Today/Gallup poll shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, it's Romney that has an edge over Obama on personal favorability. Romney's favorable/unfavorable rating is 50/41, an edge over the president's 52/46 score. decoded.nationaljournal.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132759)	5/16/2012 10:14:54 AM
From: locogringo	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224750

Obama’s inevitable shellacking This president has almost no hope for re-election Just about every objective indicator foreshadows a huge re-election defeat for President Obama. With every day that passes, Mr. Obama looks more like a loser. That’s because there is doom and gloom everywhere you look. When government mathematical fudging is stripped away, unemployment is stuck over 10 percent. Economic growth is practically nonexistent and promises to slide downhill even more in the coming months with Europe and its banks rapidly collapsing. Due to Mr. Obama’s out-of-control deficit spending, the national debt is at a heart-stopping $15.7 trillion, which erases a whole year of economic output by our entire country. With the Supreme Court poised to strike down Obamacare, his only signature legislative achievement, the president will have nothing to show for four years in office other than record misery. Polls give a glimpse of the shellacking to come in November. <more........> washingtontimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132759)	5/16/2012 10:16:15 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Rush Limbaugh ponders running CNN 'Could you imagine the excrement storm from everywhere?' by Joe Kovacs Wednesday, May 16, 2012 wnd.com PALM BEACH, Fla – No, it’s not reality, but radio giant Rush Limbaugh today pondered the possibility of taking over the management of CNN and running things the El Rushbo way. America’s top-rated host was responding to a listener’s question about how long it would take to turn the cable-news network around and make it similar to what Fox News is. “A couple of days. Just the announcement that I was going to run CNN would add a million viewers a night,” Limbaugh responded. “And then when we started making changes, it wouldn’t take long at all.” CNN’s viewership has been plunging recently, and according to Nielsen TV ratings data, it is now a distant third behind Fox News and MSNBC. For example, on Monday night, May 14, Nielsen indicates Fox News had a prime-time audience of 2.08 million viewers. MSNBC had an estimated 835,000 and CNN had only 325,000. Limbaugh spent a large portion of his show discussing the possibility of his being in charge at CNN. “If it were announced that I were going to be running CNN, could you imagine the excrement storm from everywhere if that happened?” he asked rhetorically. “But the tune-in factor would be through the roof, the curiosity tune-in factor. Do any of you doubt that you could improve it? Every one of you thinks you can improve it. Just go show by show. Segment by segment. ‘Nope, wouldn’t have done that, here’s the way to do that.’ Segment by segment you could fix CNN.” He then got into specific steps he would take at CNN, saying it would not be difficult. “Basically what I would do us have every editor there listen to this program, and then in prime time, everything we covered on this program would be treated as the news of the day, ’cause that’s what I do. I do the news of the day. They ignore the stuff that we find on this program. I just put the news on that they don’t find interesting or that they don’t think is news. This is a broad, broad overview. “Philosophically, what CNN’s gotta do is decide who they want to be and then admit it. Right now, they’ve got themselves believing that they are objective, non-partisan journalists. They believe that MSNBC is liberal, that Fox is conservative and that they are Edward R. Murrow. … “They also believe that the news should have no opinions while they’re full of opinions,” Limbaugh said with a chuckle. “The problem is they won’t own up to their opinions, they won’t admit to it. You’ve got to be competitive in the arena in which you choose to battle. And it’s very clear what cable news has become. It’s become personality-oriented opinion. Unabashed, fearless personality opinion. Anything else is pretense. And if you’re going to do personality-oriented opinion and then deny that’s what you’re doing, then you’re never gonna pull it off because people are going to realize you’re not even being honest with yourself.” Limbaugh made it very clear, though, that no one should hold their breath waiting for him to ever run CNN. “It’ll never happen. Don’t sweat it,” he said.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132759)	5/16/2012 10:34:16 AM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Obama's April fundraising drops to $43.6 million (down $10 million from previous month) By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON \| Wed May 16, 2012 8:10am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and Democratic groups affiliated with it raised $43.6 million in April, a decrease from the previous month despite the start of a robust general election campaign against Republican Mitt Romney. ... Obama's campaign and its affiliates raised more than $53 million in March. ...