COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

The Real Obama




It’s the Obama speech on race you probably haven't heard.

In June 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama told a mostly black audience of ministers that the country’s leaders "don't care about" New Orleans residents, suggesting the city was neglected in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina because of institutional racism, according to a an unedited video uncovered by The Daily Caller.

In the address, delivered during the upswing of the Democratic presidential primary season, candidate Obama specifically criticizes in outspoken terms the decision not to waive a federal law known as the Stafford Act that requires communities hit by disasters to match 10 percent of federal aid.

“When 9/11 happened in New York City, they waived the Stafford Act. … And that was the right thing to do,” he tells the crowd at Hampton University in Virginia. “When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, 'Look at this devastation. We don't expect you to come up with your own money. Here, here's the money to rebuild. We’re not going wait for you to scratch it together, because you're part of the American family.' "

Obama, echoing rapper Kanye West’s infamous anti-Bush remarks a couple years earlier, then argues that New Orleans was treated differently, suggesting the reason was that the city is mostly black.

"What's happening down in New Orleans? Where's your dollar? Where's your Stafford Act money?" Obama says. "Makes no sense. ... Tells me that somehow the people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much."

The Obama campaign didn’t response to FoxNews.com's request for comment Tuesday night about the Daily Caller report and the video, but the Associated Press reported that Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt dismissed the criticism as "a transparent attempt to change the subject" at a time when Mitt Romney is down in the polls.

Media organizations covered the speech at the time, but the Daily Caller said the video it obtained showed parts of the speech that had never been publicized. It posted what it said was the complete speech on the website.

By January 2007, nearly a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina hit, the federal government had committed $110 billion to relief efforts in areas hit by Katrina through a variety of programs, including Community Development Block Grants, funding for the Corps of Engineers and Small Business Administration loans, according to a report that May by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic and Statistics Administration.
But at the time of Obama's speech, there were still concerns about federal response to the disaster under the Stafford Act, which governs relief efforts. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was unwilling to waive the law’s 10 percent local match provision for aid, like it did after the Sept. 11 attacks and other hurricanes.
“One reason cited for FEMA’s reluctance to waive the 10 percent match in New Orleans is concern about corruption,” the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies said in a 2008 report on the relief efforts.

That report also noted that then-Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco was pushing in early 2007 for a federal law eliminating the 10 percent match. The House passed the bill, but it stalled in the Senate and President Bush had threatened to veto it.

The complete video of Obama’s 2007 speech, surfacing barely a month before the presidential election and the night before Obama’s first debate with Romney, could complicate Obama’s efforts to avoid a politically risky debate over race that partly ensnared him during the 2008 race. Four years ago, his fiery pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, became a political liability over videos that showed Wright making controversial statements.
Obama, after initially defending him, eventually was forced to condemn Wright publicly, and the controversy prompted Obama to deliver his much-heralded 2008 address on race in Philadelphia.

Wright reportedly attended the 2007 speech, and in the video obtained by the Daily Caller, Obama is heard calling Wright "my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He's a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.”

The Daily Caller also highlighted a segment in which Obama questions federal priorities in transportation spending.

"We need additional federal public transportation dollars flowing to the highest-need communities. We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. If we have people in the cities right now who want to work but have no way to get into those jobs, we've got to help connect them to the jobs that exist,” Obama said. “We should be investing in minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods, so people don’t have to travel from miles away.”

90 comments:

  1. Notice a little change in Obama’s cadence, dialect and speech? That is the most subtle thing about these outtakes as Obama talks to his people.

    A phony, a fraud and a race baiter.

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  2. God DAM America! That be my BOOUY!

    He done tell it like it is!

    He be da TOp Niggaz in de HOUSE.

    It be da BLACK house now you crackers....

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  3. Ahh, no racism at the ol' elephant bar. Nope. Shame on me for my "race baiting" ways.

    But, just for my personal edification, tell me ezzackly where it was that he was wrong.

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    1. What? Was it something I said?

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      "What's happening down in New Orleans? Where's your dollar? Where's your Stafford Act money?" Obama says. "Makes no sense. ... Tells me that somehow the people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much."

      Classic Obama (or most politicians), red meat for a specific audiance. He might be right about institutional racism but in New Orleans' case it was racism at the local level not at the federal. Some La. pols took comfort in the fact that Katrina helped solve the low income housing problems in the city.

      The federal government's problems with Katrina revolved around incompetance and bureaucratic drag not money. I was amazed at the time that Congress would authorize $80 billion in Katrina relief within a day or two of the hurricane before federal boots were even on the ground or any kind of cost estimates could be made. Once authorized, this money quickly became the source of much of the corruption and ineptitude that followed.

      As far as the FED sticking it to NO, remember it was the Bush administration that waived procurement rules that limited unregulated purchases to $2500. Bush upped the limit to $250,000 (thus probably adding to the endemic corruption associated with the event).

      As far as Obama claiming NO was treated unfairly on a Stafford Rule waiver as a result of racism, well...

      Remember, the cost of Katrina was $108 billion. The cost of Andrew was about a quarter of that. Likewise, Andrew was in 1992 while Katrina was in 2005. After any major disaster like those of these hurricanes, there is always a post-mortem describing things that went right and wrong. Rules have been evolving every year since Katrina.

      Frankly, NO probably made out better under federal relief for Katrina merely by the fact that the federal effort was such a disaster. They were throwing money at NO on a non-partisan basis to make up for the original FUBAR.

      That Obama would make the racism argument to a black audiance in the middle of a political campaign? No surprise.

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  4. Coulter explained how there is a whole fakeness to Obama and the use of racism in society. Yet, the president still walks around “like he’s Martin Luther King,” she said.

    ...

    “It just isn’t a part of our existence. During our entire lifetime, the only effect of being black is that you get benefits.

    Doors open for you. You are more likely to get a position in Harvard Law School.



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  5. On this day in 1836, the HMS Beagle returned to Falmouth, England, after a five-year expedition. The Beagle's most famous passenger, Charles Darwin, would use the insights he gained on the voyage to build his breakthrough Origins of Species, which wouldn't be published for another 23 years.

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  6. Here’s what Carlson is reporting over at the DC with regard to the Stafford Act:

    “At the moment he uttered those words — you are getting short-changed in the Katrina reconstruction funds — the administration, the government had pledged $110 billion to the Gulf. Two weeks before this speech, the Bush administration gave the Katrina-affected areas $7 billion with no strings attached,” Carlson explained. “He was a sitting senator. He knew that and he said this anyway to that audience and I think that’s a shocking thing to do.”

    Pols lying is not really news.

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  7. Sounds like he was playing to his 47%

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  8. .

    For those who see no harm in the governments data collection efforts under Homeland Security,

    A multibillion-dollar information-sharing program created in the aftermath of 9/11 has improperly collected information about innocent Americans and produced little valuable intelligence on terrorism, a Senate report concludes. It portrays an effort that ballooned far beyond anyone's ability to control.

    What began as an attempt to put local, state and federal officials in the same room analyzing the same intelligence has instead cost huge amounts of money for data-mining software, flat screen televisions and, in Arizona, two fully equipped Chevrolet Tahoes that are used for commuting, investigators found.

    The lengthy, bipartisan report is a scathing evaluation of what the Department of Homeland Security has held up as a crown jewel of its security efforts. The report underscores a reality of post-9/11 Washington: National security programs tend to grow, never shrink, even when their money and manpower far surpass the actual subject of terrorism. Much of this money went for ordinary local crime-fighting.

    Disagreeing with the critical conclusions of the report, Homeland Security says it is outdated, inaccurate and too focused on information produced by the program, ignoring benefits to local governments from their involvement with federal intelligence officials.

    Because of a convoluted grants process set up by Congress, Homeland Security officials don't know how much they have spent in their decade-long effort to set up so-called fusion centers in every state. Government estimates range from less than $300 million to $1.4 billion in federal money, plus much more invested by state and local governments. Federal funding is pegged at about 20 percent to 30 percent.

    Despite that, Congress is unlikely to pull the plug. That's because, whether or not it stops terrorists, the program means politically important money for state and local governments.



    And it grew like Topsy

    One reason why it is silly to argue about which of the two major candidates should win in November. This nonsense will continue under whichever guy is elected.


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  9. I'm ready for nonsense from a different guy.

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  10. Then Gary Johnson should get your vote, gag

    He's as nonsensical of any of them. Living in Texas a vote for Romney is just a waste.

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    1. vote non-sense!!

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    2. Is it Larry or Gary :-) A vote for Rosanne Barr would have the same effect.

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    3. Voting for Gary Johnson is like spitting in the wind.

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    4. and no more of a waste than voting on principle or voting with your heart.

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    5. Don't waste your vote. Vote for a nonsensical man who hasn't a chance of winning.

      Rat's advice.

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  11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fv5I2rmtuU

    Time to revisit the world famous.....

    RUFUS ZOMBIE VIDEO!!!!!!

    Ghosts, skeletons, zombies and rufus

    all democrats

    ...

    I report heavy turnout in Oiho in early absentee voting.

    Don't know what this means.

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    1. Ohio "Absentee" votes are mostly Republican. Ohio "Early in Person" votes are mostly Democratic.

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    2. These were 'in person' voters, Ruf. Early voting here, just walk into the courthouse of your county.

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    3. Those tend to be Dem voters.

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  12. Send Obama back to his home country -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M7Rp_Ghv6k

    Recall folks that SuperO claimed on his early campaigns he was half Kenyan.

    KENYAN.

    Back when it was cool to be half Kenyan.

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  13. Travis, Crockett and Bowie...
    All three were pissin' in the wind.

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    1. You have to ask yourself, is taking a knife to a gun fight a matter of principle or just plain stupid?

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    2. Of the two major Party candidates, the one that will win in my State, is the most abhorent of two. I would never vote for him, even though he will carry the State.

      The other two options are both electoral losers.
      Gary Johnson the one of the two that echoes my ideological hopes for the country.

      Why vote for a winner that I belief is unpatriotic and a danger to the long term prosperity of the Republic, just cause he is popular, here?

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  14. WTI crude oil closed last week below $90 a barrel for the first time since August 2, 2012. Brent crude oil is also near its one month low, trading around $110. In a CNBC interview T.Boone Pickens stated that the low prices in oil are related to the slowdown in China’s economy. Pickens believes that Brent crude oil will be at $115 by the end of the year, and natural gas should reach $4 by the end of the year.

    Unlike many hedge fund managers, Pickens is 100% focused in his core competency, energy markets. The energy mogul also made three other bold statements about oil and gas. Pickens believed that (1) the U.S. has enough natural resources to one day stop importing OPEC crude oil, (2) there are 30 states producing oil and gas, the highest we’ve ever had, and (3) natural gas is the “alternative energy” for transportation.

    Elaborating on his first point about no longer importing OPEC crude oil, in the CNBC interview, Pickens was asked how long it would take for the U.S. to be less dependent on OPEC. Pickens broke down his methodology in layman’s terms stating of the 20 million barrels of oil we use a day, 11 million is imported. Of that 11 million imported, 4.5 million comes from OPEC, and Pickens believes we could easily cover that using oil found here in the U.S.

    Anyone with interest in the energy sector will tell you that the presidential election this year could shape the direction the U.S. will take on the energy front. Pickens pointed out in his CNBC interview that although Obama talks about energy a little bit, he has not shared a comprehensive strategy. Pickens believes Romney will win the election, and one major reason for that is his energy plan. Pickens believes that Romney has a realistic energy plan which encompasses bringing together Mexico, Canada, and the United States, to make North America energy independent.

    Seeing natural gas as the “alternative energy” for transportation seems like a pretty far-out there prediction at a glance. Pickens doesn’t believe the idea is unrealistic, though, as he pointed out that there are 13 million vehicles in the world on natural gas, and only 130,000 of them in the United States. Doug Sharp, president of GP Strategies, has an interesting view on natural gas being implemented in transportation. He predicts that “the first customers who convert to natural gas vehicles will be the return-to-base operators, and the second will be the long-haul truckers.” Return-to-base operators will fill their tanks up at their base location every morning, and have scheduled runs every day where they return back to their base after work (ex: buses and delivery services). The technology is available to transform the automotive industry from oil to gas, and gas engine automobiles are slowly becoming a larger focus on the energy scene.

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  15. In good Alinskite fashion, SuperO seems urging us to identify, isolate (no more roads), mock and attack the suburbs, man!

    Burn, baby, burn the suburbs!

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  16. Tuesday's rate of 35,500 rials against the U.S. dollar compared with 24,000 a week ago on the unofficial street trading rate, which is widely followed in Iran

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  17. Now this might be really interesting -

    Group to use 'voice analysis technology' as lie detector during first presidential debate...

    Drudge Report

    heh

    President Floppy Ears will grow a Long Nose....

    President Floppy Eared Long Nose......from.....Kenya.....

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    1. You are going to have a heart attack/break when you see the results they come up with.

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    2. Heh, well, I think it is a good idea, as long as it isn't a democratic voice analysis group.

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  18. Drug cartel boss caught in possession of ObamaGuns -

    http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/02/cartel-boss-captured-with-fast-furious-weapons/

    How about ObamaPhones?

    Hey, these drug cartel bosses gotta communicate....

    This shipping guns to the drug cartels is all part of the Obama Foreign Policy that Ruf points to as a reason to vote Obama! for four more long years of the same, and worse.

    Would the country survive?

    Maybe, but the odds go down, down....

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  19. Obama is right. Cars are gettin smaller (and, fewer,) and more freight will be going from truck to rail. We Don't need more roads.

    We do need light rail, and electrified rail.

    And, of course, ethanol refineries.

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    1. Fuck the burbs. Fuck whitey. Whitey lives in the burbs. Let the burbs go to hell.

      Obama Reasoning at work. Naked and unashamed.

      Guy is so fucked up he thinks the United States is responsible for colonialism in Africa. Which we didn't have anything to do with.

      His brother George I'd vote for. He thinks Kenya was better off when the British ran it, that they left too early, and would like to see them come back for a while.

      Everyone who has watched "2016" is aware of George Obama from Kenya.

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  20. I'm not sure a goofball ATF/DEA bumfuck would qualify as "foreign policy."

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    1. It wouldn't qualify as a sane foreign policy, you are right. But, it is a foreign policy, shipping guns to criminals in a foreign country.

      Just a policy that NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would ever pursue.

      And then his Attorney General lied like hell about it, and finally got a contempt of Congress over it, and a law suit.

      wunnerful, wunnerful

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    2. And the wunnerful, wunnerful idea came from the top. Even though the lying Attorney General denies knowing anything about it at all, hahahhahaha!

      EVERYBODY else knew about it, just not Holder.

      And of course, Obama was golfing through the whole thing, so he couldn't have known.

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  21. .

    The state of Colorodo indicates it is prepared to purchase 10,000 NG powered vehicles per year if the auto companies will produce them.

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    1. GM I read is going to be selling Volts to a captive customer, the US military.

      Nobody else wants the damned things.

      Actually, the military doesn't want them either.

      I call them ObamaMobiles.

      Best rigs since the Edsel.

      Collector cars, for sure.

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  22. We do have enough roads, they just need improvement. You are dead wrong about more freight moving to rails. It's too slow of a process. Light rail and electric trains can't handle the weight. Trucks will be moving freight for a long time.

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    1. "You are dead wrong"

      Rufus is a dear one, he's just never been right about anything.

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    2. I'd like to see some numbers on "Electric Rail Can't Handle the Weight." (that's something I've never run into.)

      There has to be quite a lot of potential for more freight by rail, in that the major rail lines still haven't completed double-tracking all of their lines.

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    3. How does the freight get to the consumer, Rufus? Correct, by truck.

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  23. I like old Boone, but he is getting kind of old. An example: We haven't imported 11 Million bbl of oil/day for years, now.

    We're currently importing about 8.5 Million bbl of oil/day, vs about 9 Million bbl/day a year ago.

    EIA Report

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    1. Gag is correct about the trucks, I think.

      Rufus right on ethanol from feedstocks other than corn.

      T Boone and Romney both right on American sourcing for domestic oil & gas. Though socialist Mexican oil productionfoe export ain't what it used to be.

      Which is why ethanol, @ 10% of gasoline consumption now, wiill rise with the 2nd generation distilleries

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    2. Well, I admit that trucks aren't going away. They'll be necessary for the last fifty, or hundred miles for a long time; but, I suspect that a significant amount of the "Long-Haul" will end up on the trains.

      I have my doubts about nat gas being the answer, though.

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    3. I think ole Boone knows what he's talking about. I've seen his balance sheet.

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    4. Yeah, but don't forget he got that balance sheet selling nat gas. :)

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    5. But, I don't care how big his pecker is, or how he got it; we haven't imported 11 mbpd of oil for quite a while.

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  24. Nap time. gotta be ready to suffer through the debate.

    maybe.

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  25. I've been recording stuff all week, so I DON'T have to watch it. Sons of Anarchy, Vegas, etc. read about it tomorrow.

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    1. I like the Vegas tits . . . . . er, Gals. :)

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    2. I think you and Boone are both right. We import 11 million but at the same time export a little over 2 million. Net 8.8 to 9.

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    3. :) Ah, what the heck. okay.

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  26. .

    If Romney want's to win, he needs to have his eyebrows trimmed and sculpted.

    The Today Show reports that the candidate with the best looking eyebrows has won seven of the last eight presidential contests.

    Why waste money on adds when all you really need is a good barber?

    Given the quality of the candidates we get and those that actually get elected, I can almost believe it.

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    1. He needs a moustache. Americans are dying to vote for a man with a moustache again, even though you should never ever trust them.

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  27. The Turkish government, which is spearheading efforts to force Syrian President Assad from power, has faced growing public skepticism over its Syria policy, as the civil war next door has spilled increasingly across the border.

    More than 82,000 Syrians have sought refuge in Turkey, at a cost of around $300 million to the Turkish government, Ankara said Tuesday, as Turkish border towns that relied on trade with Syria have seen economic activity wither and unemployment rise.

    Turkish television has shown footage of Turks who were kidnapped in Syria and Lebanon by groups loyal to Damascus, which were targeting Turks seemingly due to Ankara's anti-Assad stance.

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  28. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/03/politico-romney-up-four-in-toss-up-states

    from Hot Air

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    1. Breitbart is full of misdirectional bullshit. Obama was +2 in that poll. The +4 number is for the subset of "independents."

      Politico

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  29. “It’s hard to believe that we would have senior citizens in this country confronted with the choice of paying the rent and purchasing the prescription drugs that they need if the powerful in the society thought that those seniors were just like their parents.”

    Obama's solution? Bump the seniors off. And, put the children that survive an abortion in a comfort room to die.

    More Obama -

    http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-in-2002-rich-americans-suppressing-powerless/

    2002

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    1. Romney's first line of the debate: "I bet you 10,000 bucks 47% of the population are too lazy to tune in."

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    2. He'd win the bet.

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  30. Quirk can't figure out why he should vote for Romney. Here is some help -

    http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/03/opinion/bennett-reasons-for-romney/index.html

    ......

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  31. Romney is of course wiping Obama off the map.

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  32. Obama is blabbing on about his grandmother, his poor grandmother. Wasn't she a banker? Living on Mercer Island? And then a banker in Hawaii?

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  33. Yes, I realize everyone in the media is telling me that the race for President is over. With 5 weeks to go, Obama has been called the winner by the DC bubble of journalists. Even the beltway GOP has gotten into the act. (My hatred of them will become clear on November 7th) An objective read of recent polling, however, shows that Obama is clearly in trouble. Obama is losing and it is his campaign that needs a boost from today's debate.

    This week, virtually every media organization has rushed forward their pre-debate polls. Every poll seems to be converging on an Obama lead of 2-4 points. The problem for Obama is that all of these polls have very ambitious assumptions about Democrat turnout this year. It will not come close to 2008 levels, putting Obama's reelection in real jeopardy.

    Tonight, National Journal released their latest poll. Among likely voters, the race is tied. Among independents, Romney has an 8-point lead. As you can probably guess, the poll assumes a 2008 turnout model and is D+7. So, if Democrats achieve the same history-making turnout they experienced in 2008, Obama and Romney are tied. In 2008, with a D+7 electorate, Obama defeated McCain by 7 points. Today, with the same electorate, Obama is tied.

    Tell me, which campaign is underperforming?

    In the past two weeks, virtually every media poll has shown a narrowing of the presidential race. Obama's lead is now beneath the Democrat skew in polls. In other words, a D+5 poll, for example, will give him a lead of 2-3 points. Another poll with a D+7 sample will show him tied. The numbers change, but his lead has never exceeded the partisan oversampling in any poll. He has never held a lead in any poll that has a more realistic turnout of the November elections.

    You poll a lot of Democrats, Obama wins. You poll based on a realistic turnout of the November elections? Obama loses.

    The media, in its waning days, can only get you so far. They have sacrificed their credibility on the altar of Obama, but it won't be enough. They tell us that Romney needs to win the debates to turn his campaign around. Yet, his campaign is steadily gaining ground against Obama. Going into the first debate, the underdog is Obama. The pressure is on him to right his own ship.



    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/02/hail-mary-losing-the-election-obama-needs-a-debate-knock-out

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  34. Did Obama CHUM before this debate?

    Obammy is about to cry.

    He's picked up a blinking tic.

    He's holding back tears.

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  35. Obama talking budgets when he hasn’t had one the whole time he has been in office.

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  36. Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer

    RT @robertbluey: David Gergen on @CNN: "A week ago people said this race was over. We have a horse race."

    4m
    Commentary Magazine @Commentary

    RT @sethamandel: Wolf Blitzer: "This was a pretty good night for Romney."
    Retweeted by Guy Benson
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    2m
    Daniel Doherty @danpdoherty

    Ed Schultz: "I was absolutely stunned tonight...[Obama] was off his game."

    2m
    Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer

    Ed Schultz "disappointed in the president." #denverdebate
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    4m
    Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh

    Maddow opens MSNBC coverage saying Romney talked a lot more than Obama. If CNN clock was right, Obama held a significant edge on that front
    Retweeted by Guy Benson
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    3m
    Kate Hicks @KateBHicks

    Whew! Quite the debate. I'm impressed, and cautiously confident. Romney reminded me that he is, if nothing else, confident.
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    4m
    Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer

    .@maddow is under the impression Romney "had the ball" longer than Obama. Per CNN's clock, that's not true. Romney just did more w it.

    ....

    It's unanimous then.

    Romney kicked Obammy's ass.

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  37. Dennis Miller: "Obama better hope a Kicked Ass is covered under Obamacare."

    Michael Moore: "This is what happens when you pick John Kerry as your debate coach."

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    1. :)

      Great quote by Dennis Miller.

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  38. Bill Maher:

    "I can't believe I'm tweeting this, but it looks like Obzma does need a teleprompter."

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  39. I said in the open thread that the media would strain to spin this as an Obama victory, but I assumed that he’d give them something, however small, to work with. He gave them nothing. The Hill’s post-debate headline is “Romney lands punches against subdued Obama in first debate,” but that doesn’t remotely capture it. How bad was it for Team O? Dude:

    Bill Maher



    @billmaher

    i can't believe i'm saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter
    3 Oct 12



    More reaction from Twitter below. A rare moment of bipartisan consensus for America:

    Aaron Blake @FixAaron

    Slowly the left is starting to acknowledge that Obama is losing this debate. #debates
    3 Oct 12



    mike murphy @murphymike

    There will be some first class liberal/Dem rage howling tomorrow. Painfully knocked out of the warm bubble of easy victory tonight.
    3 Oct 12



    VANITY FAIR



    @VanityFair

    Has Obama ever been this off his game?
    3 Oct 12



    Mark Hemingway @Heminator

    That wasn't a debate so much as Mitt Romney just took Obama for a cross country drive strapped to the roof of his car.
    3 Oct 12



    Piers Morgan



    @piersmorgan

    I don't have a horse in this race, but Romney's romping home a clear winner tonight. #PMTdebate
    3 Oct 12



    Peter Beinart



    @PeterBeinart

    My only hope is that the debate is so boring people won't see how bad obama is doing
    3 Oct 12



    And the coup de grace of an unspinnably terrible night for the left:

    Jonah Goldberg @JonahNRO

    MSNBC consensus seems to be Obama lost.

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  40. The polls will be tighter, possibly tied, on the next round of polling. I think we're back to the 50.5 to 49.5 race.

    The lefties are all upset that Obama let Romney get away with a lot of obfuscation, but there's a reason why Obama's there, and they're talking to microphones.

    And, Romney didn't make $250 Million by being a lousy salesman.

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  41. That's the Best Effort from the Rufus Spin Room?

    Pitiful.

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  42. As I've said before, here, the challenger has been judged the winner of the first debate 5 out of 6 (now, 6 out of 7) times.

    It's just not in the nature of one who's been President for 4 years to expect someone to stare into his eyes, and lie like a dog in front of 50 Million people. But, that's what challengers do.

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  43. Obama got his ass handed to him. He looked like a petulant juvenile. The media has suffered a mass concussion.

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  44. I would refer you back to the Bush/Kerry debate. Kerry came out like a machine gun. Everyone said he won. He jumped in the polls. BUT, he couldn't win the election.

    The Average person didn't see what the political junkies saw. They watched for ten minutes, and then went to get a beer from the fridge.

    For those that watched the whole debate, Romney won. BUT, he said a lot of things that he'll have to stand behind in the coming weeks, and debates.

    This debate made it a "horse race," again - just like it was always going to be. But, it did nothing to change the facts on the ground for the main constituencies. Most of the minds it changed were of low-information, unlikely to vote anyway, undecideds.

    I still make it a one point election win for Obammie.

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