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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 (145719)	10/13/2012 2:35:37 PM
From: Charlie_R	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224864

Does Obama know what The State Department is doing?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/13/2012 2:35:52 PM
From: Carolyn	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224864

Gee, that sounds like Obama and Biden! Clueless about Libya.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/13/2012 2:42:46 PM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224864

That is understandable but not correct. What is not understandable is that a major marker, what the debt was when Obama took office is now unknown by Obama...or at least that is what he claimed on Letterman...markers are required in management. Apparently he is not a good manager.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/13/2012 2:50:25 PM
From: TopCat	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224864

"In other words, Ryan doesn't know what his staff is doing." They probably don't ask when they have to go to the bathroom.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/13/2012 3:06:51 PM
From: locogringo	9 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224864

Biden LIED to the American people about voting against the wars. Biden LIED to the American people about the 716 billion STOLEN from Medicare. Biden LIED to the American people about Benghazi security. Which LIE are you most proud of, being a confirmed PROVEN liar? That old man has to make you proud.............looks into the camera and the faces of the American people, and OUTRIGHT LIES to them with his drunken smile and huge teeth. Nor did the moderator care to question him about the lies. Sad but expected from your sorry ilk.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/13/2012 4:21:32 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224864

Revealed: Secret History of Obama, Big Bird Relationship by Breitbart News 11 Oct 20124 breitbart.com President Barack Obama has created controversy with an ad attacking rival Mitt Romney for his perceived animosity toward Sesame Street icon Big Bird. Though the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and fellow Democrats have advised against the tactic, the President has held firm in his defense of the substantial yellow puppet. Why would Obama choose this as the battle line for his reelection campaign? It didn't quite make sense, which led inquisitive journalists to keep digging. Unbeknownst to many, Obama's relationship with the feathered giant extends far beyond the past two weeks. From his youth to the present, the 44th president and Big Bird have carried on an intimate relationship, which has made them what anthropologists refer to as "BFFs." But what has kept this illuminating truth a secret for so long? Big Bird has been visible only to Obama as a pooka, the mythical creature made popular by the Jimmy Stewart film "Harvey." Using high-tech photo processing technology to unearth UV frequencies invisible to the human eye, Breitbart News has uncovered historical evidence of Big Bird's presence in Obama's formative years and political career.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/13/2012 4:22:32 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224864

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/13/2012 4:38:06 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224864

Joe Biden interrupted Paul Ryan 82 times in 90 minutes. The Democrats have become the rude party By Tim Stanley US politics Last updated: October 12th, 2012 blogs.telegraph.co.uk No one’s denying that Joe Biden delivered the more energetic performance in Thursday’s vice presidential debate. He interrupted Paul Ryan 82 times in 90 minutes. Yet some polls say that Ryan won and many pundits are calling it a draw. How come? Two reasons. First, deconstruct the Biden bluster and some of what he said was nonsensical. In the first 10 minutes alone, Joe insisted that the US intelligence community was wrong on Libya but trustworthy on Iran. He claimed that the staff at the Benghazi embassy didn’t want extra security when lots of sources say that they begged for it. He seemed to rule out war with Iran under any circumstances, which would remove America’s one bargaining chip. As political klutzes go, Biden is to talking what Gerald Ford was to walking. More importantly, Biden was rude. Perhaps he was trying to emulate Romney’s dominant performance from the week before. But where Romney was commanding, Biden was just insulting. The most damning moments came when the camera went split screen. On the right was Ryan trying to make a serious point about world peace. On the left was Biden laughing. The Vice President’s performance will doubtless rally the party faithful and give them a few applause lines to live off through to November. But it’s hard to imagine independents warming to these theatrics. The Democrats have made the classic mistake of thinking that what they want to see is what everyone else wants to see. This isn’t peculiar to the Obama/Biden ticket but part of a long-term evolution. Back in 2000, Al Gore huffed and puffed his way angrily through a presidential debate and possibly cost his party the election. The Democrats ought to have learned from that, but the narrative that Bush “stole” 2000 only upped their ire. After the Iraq War, the liberal Left began to regard itself as the conscience of America and to confuse reason with fury. In 2004, the Democrat base was infiltrated by a new generation of online activists – the so-called Deaniacs. Just as the internet is criticised generally for being a place where ferocious opinions are validated rather than challenged, so Howard Dean’s supporters lived in a cyberspace of their own, fuelled by disgust with Bush. They rallied around Dean because he was the most righteous and furious candidate in the race. His infamous yell at the New Hampshire primary heralded a new kind of confrontational, take-no-prisoners politics. The Dean revolution became the basis for the 2006 mid-term landslide and for the Obama campaign. Of course, during this period politics as a whole deteriorated. Tea Party folks shouted down congressmen and Republicans questioned the patriotism of their Democratic colleagues. The 2012 GOP primaries was one of the ugliest electoral cycles yet, throwing out Reagan’s commandment not to speak evil of a fellow Republican. But the difference between the two parties is that when it comes to election time, the Republicans are more disciplined (disciplined to the point of boring). Compare the two party conventions. The Tea Party and the Paulites were excluded from the GOP convention hall, both having to throw parties elsewhere. The messages from the speakers were low-key, patriotic, centrist, calm. The old conservative favourites of abortion and gay marriage were hardly mentioned at all. The Republicans seemed determined not to cause offence. By contrast, the Democratic convention felt like a circus thrown by the Frankfurt School. Speaker after speaker angrily denounced the Republicans for a “war on women” and did their best to define themselves as a populist majority. Their success or failure is a matter of taste, but what could not be doubted was that this was a partisan, ideologically liberal event with no sense of shame about it. It was the victory of the Deaniac model of Democratic activism – shout and cajole your way to victory – and a victory for those, like Dean, who long argued that the Democrats would only win by being true to themselves. And the speech that Biden delivered in Denver was identical in tone and talking points to his debate performance on Thursday – full of emotional personal stories, hard attacks on the Republicans and mockery for conservative positions. On Thursday, he even tried to define Catholicism as the crusade for social justice. For the record, he’s half right. But he needs to look up the word “subsidiarity” to see what Catholics think about big government. Anger has a good heritage in American liberalism. William Jennings Bryan was angry about the cross of gold. Roosevelt was angry about poverty. Jesse Jackson was angry about racism. But there’s a thin line between the politics of anger and the reduction of the public sphere to ugliness. Biden may have crossed it. It’ll be interesting to see over the weekend how his performance is defined – and in the next few weeks how it is remembered. It’s likely that the Democrats will endlessly recycle it on YouTube, returning to it like a necessary shot of political caffeine. But the wider public might find it a turn off. The Democrats are at risk of becoming vulgar.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/13/2012 4:41:33 PM
From: DanDerr	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224864

Is that like Obama having no clue on Current Intell and not being kept informed on Libya?? Big Diff, Kenneth. Obama has a major Foreign Policy Failure with 4 deaths to dissemble about. Ryan has to worry aboout a couple of the thousands of routine requests for Congressional Assistance. You have NO CLUE about the difference, do you. Typical dumbass Liberal...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (145719)	10/14/2012 7:57:24 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224864

kenny...joe should have checked for dem talking points from big bird. Joe Biden: “Under Law Planned Parenthood Can’t Perform Abortions” by Steven Ertelt \| Washington, DC \| LifeNews.com \| 10/12/12 lifenews.com video.... Biden Planned Parenthood youtube.com Campaigning in Wisconsin, pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden misled voters today by saying Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion business doesn’t do any abortions. “Now these guys pledge that they’re gonna de-fund Planned Parenthood, which under law cannot perform any abortions,” Biden said. The Obama campaign is already having to clean up the misstatement, saying Biden meant to say that, under law, Planned Parenthood can’t use the federal funding it gets to pay for abortions. Planned Parenthood’s own figures show it to be the biggest abortion company in the nation. Planned Parenthood did 329,445 abortions in 2010 while it provided prenatal care to only 31,098 women and referred only 841 women to adoption agencies. The number of women receiving prenatal care dropped significantly from 2009 to 2010, as the abortion business helped 40,489 women in 2009 — meaning almost 10,000 fewer women received prenatal support from Planned Parenthood last year than the year prior, or a drop of almost 25 percent. The number of women getting adoption referrals also declined — from a low 977 in 2009 to 841 last year, or a decline of 14 percent. Examined another way Planned Parenthood does 391 abortions for every adoption referral it makes and almost 11 abortions for every woman it helps with prenatal care