bos OBAMA: WORSE THAN BUSH. NAZIER THAN BUSH. < armchair59 > 2010-02-09 20:22:46
Obama worse than Bush (Buyers' Remorse from another leftist)
By Hawaii Tribune-Herald :: 1937 Views [Click to print]
President 'Obummer'
Dear Editor,
I personally thought President Bush was the worst to hold such a prestigious position as the president of the United States. Looking at President Obama's stimulus package, now I feel he is the worst presdent in history to conquer the Oval Office.
I say this, because his stimulus plan hardly comes close at all to a stimulus package.
His plan is to tax the working class and give those funds to contractors and developers who really don't need it.
I strongly feel a stimulus package should help the working poor and poor altogether. This is the same old "the poor getting poorer and the richer getting richer" "politricks."
I definitely have to say President Obama is certainly disappointing in his debut with his stimulus plan. If this is the real President Obama, things will get only worse economically, socially and "politrickally."
"Obummer."
Dean Nagasako
Pahala, Hawaii (From the Hawaii Tribune-Herald Feb 18, 2009)
nyc also Awsome... < box2008 > 2010-02-08 10:23:42
And now message from White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel.
ANDY SAMBERG as RAHM EMANUEL: Hello, I'm Rahm Emanuel, one-time congressman of Illinois' 5th District, and now, White House Chief of Staff-designate for President-elect Barack Obama. I believe we are at the dawn of a great new age in American politics. And I am proud and excited to be a part of it. At the same time, I understand that our country is facing great challenges, challenges that are going to require both parties to come together to find solutions.
Now, some on the right, such as minority leader John Baynor, have criticized my appointment as being hyperpartisan and have accused me of being prone to bare-knuckle tactics and profanity-laced tirades in the past. While it is true that my nickname is 'Rahmbo' and it is also true that my brother Ari is the basis for Jeremy Piven's character on Entourage, I want to assure you that I took this job for one reason only -- to support Barack Obama's message of hope and change.
Although I should say to anyone thinking about crossing me, I will f------- end you. You will never even see it coming. One day you will be here, and the next day you will f------ disappear.
And John Baynor? You seriously wanna f--- with me? You're losing seats in Congress like it's a game of f----- Musical Chairs, and you issue a press release about me, you f----- idiot? About me? You pull that s--- to my face, Baynor, and I will send you back to Ohio in a f------ box.
And that goes for Democrats as well as Republicans. You will get in f------ line or I will personally stamp your ticket. None of your f------ b---s--- on my watch, Lieberman. If it was up to me, we wouldn't just strip you of your chairmanship, we would strip you naked and make you walk your McCain-loving a-- back to Connecticut, you f------ turncoat.
You don't believe me? Ask Howard f------ Dean if I'm for real. He s---- himself when he hears me on the radio.
I'm sorry. Did you f------ say something? Are you f------ sure? Yeah, you better be f------ sure.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to address you tonight. I look forward to the coming months to setting out together on what I promise will be an incredible journey. Seriously, it's gonna be f------ amazing.
wdc 'False Profits'... < edsdesk > 2010-02-08 01:44:42
"The delicious double-entendre of Dean Baker's most recent title is enhanced by the book's cover photo of a trio of false prophets, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and Henry (Hank) Paulson, all of whom are thoroughly excoriated within the book's pages for their responsibility in feeding, prolonging, misdiagnosing and incorrectly responding to the 2007-2009 financial meltdown and associated economic collapse..."
PoliPoint Press, 2010
He who feels punctured must once have been a bubble.
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 6th century BCE
As the nation struggled to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the people who got us here are desperately working to rewrite history. The basic story of this economic collapse is very simple. The Federal Reserve Board, guided by its revered chairman, Alan Greenspan, allowed an $8 trillion housing bubble to grow unchecked.
- Dean Baker's "False Profits"
http://www.truthout.org/false-profits56731
wdc Mt Rushmore of Racists < DNC2008 > 2010-02-06 15:32:23
Harry Reid "no negro dialect"
Bill Clinton "fetchin' us coffee"
Harry Byrd KKK member
Harold Dean "only blacks are hotel workers"
dsm Then why only highlight the DNC and former gov < tallguy36 > 2010-02-06 06:44:40
Howard Dean? when you could have been equal opptrtunity and included RNC and Michael Steele? Its cuz you love the GOP. You are the disengenuous one
bos James O’Keefe, of PimpGate/Louisiana Watergate < Candidus > 2010-02-04 08:10:39
Fame, May Not Be The Best Person For Conservatives To Champion
Yes, yes, I know: I’m stating the obvious. But in light of what Breitbart and Ben Stein and others have said about the young Mr. O’Keefe (who, for those of who don’t know, was arrested with three other men for allegedly attempting to tamper with Senator Mary Landrieu’s phone lines) and considering how Chad Rogers of The Dead Pelican has dedicated a lot of precious space on his website aggregating stories defending Mr. O’Keefe, it’s probably appropriate to discover what, exactly, Mr. O’Keefe was up to prior to his sudden rise to fame. Is this just another folly of youth?
From Salon.com:
By O’Keefe’s own account, his racial troubles became acute when he entered the multicultural atmosphere of Rutgers University’s dormitory system. In an online diary that has since been scrubbed from the Web (but not before being captured on Daily Kos), he wrote that he was forced to live on an all-black dormitory floor after refusing to live with the gay roommate he was initially assigned. O’Keefe claimed his next roommate was “an Indian midget … who smelled like sh*t.” The roommate left, however, and was replaced by “a greek kid.” The new roommate complained to a residential administrator that O’Keefe had called his neighbors “n****rs,” prompting the school to expel him from the dorm. He rejected the accusation as a “complete lie,” writing, “I was lead out of the room crying and screaming at him and my situation, no friends, no one one [sic] to talk to, forced to go in front of a black man, Dean Tolbert, to defend myself and help explain that I did not call anyone any names.”
I suppose his white roommate was just lying about O’Keefe’s remarks, and it was all just one big conspiracy to get him rusticated. Riiiiight.
bos James O’Keefe, of PimpGate/Louisiana Watergate < Candidus > 2010-02-04 07:47:51
Fame, May Not Be The Best Person For Conservatives To Champion
Yes, yes, I know: I’m stating the obvious. But in light of what Breitbart and Ben Stein and others have said about the young Mr. O’Keefe (who, for those of who don’t know, was arrested with three other men for allegedly attempting to tamper with Senator Mary Landrieu’s phone lines) and considering how Chad Rogers of The Dead Pelican has dedicated a lot of precious space on his website aggregating stories defending Mr. O’Keefe, it’s probably appropriate to discover what, exactly, Mr. O’Keefe was up to prior to his sudden rise to fame. Is this just another folly of youth?
From Salon.com:
By O’Keefe’s own account, his racial troubles became acute when he entered the multicultural atmosphere of Rutgers University’s dormitory system. In an online diary that has since been scrubbed from the Web (but not before being captured on Daily Kos), he wrote that he was forced to live on an all-black dormitory floor after refusing to live with the gay roommate he was initially assigned. O’Keefe claimed his next roommate was “an Indian midget … who smelled like sh*t.” The roommate left, however, and was replaced by “a greek kid.” The new roommate complained to a residential administrator that O’Keefe had called his neighbors “n****rs,” prompting the school to expel him from the dorm. He rejected the accusation as a “complete lie,” writing, “I was lead out of the room crying and screaming at him and my situation, no friends, no one one [sic] to talk to, forced to go in front of a black man, Dean Tolbert, to defend myself and help explain that I did not call anyone any names.”
I suppose his white roommate was just lying about O’Keefe’s remarks, and it was all just one big conspiracy to get him rusticated. Riiiiight.
sbn Past editors of the Harvard Law Review < uncle_pervy > 2010-02-03 15:58:41
Interesting - Rush the blubber butt Limbaugh isn't on this list
Prominent alumni of the Harvard Law Review include:
United States Presidents
* Barack Obama, served as President of Volume 104[2]
Supreme Court Justices
* Stephen Breyer, served as Articles Editor of Volume 77[3]
* Felix Frankfurter[4] (1882-1965)
* Ruth Bader Ginsburg, served as editor for one year before transferring to Columbia Law School[5]
* John G. Roberts, Jr., served as Managing Editor for Volume 92[6]
* Antonin Scalia, served as Notes Editor for Volume 73[7]
* Edward Sanford (1865-1930)
Other Jurists
* Michael Boudin, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, served as President of Volume 77[8]
* Henry Friendly, late judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as President[9]
* Merrick Garland, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[citation needed]
* Pierre Leval, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as Notes Editor[10]
* Debra Ann Livingston, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[10]
* James L. Oakes, late judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[10]
* Richard Posner, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, served as President of Volume 75[11]
Cabinet Secretaries
* Dean Acheson, Secretary of State[12]
* Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security and former judge on United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[13]
* William Coleman, Jr., Secretary of Transportation, Brown v. Board of Education attorney, and first African-American Supreme Court clerk[14]
* Elliot Richardson, Attorney General, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Commerce, served as Law Review President (1947)[15]
sfo From economist Dean Baker < SmashRWVermin > 2010-02-02 14:26:56
"The evidence that a capital gains tax cut raises revenue is rather dubious, since most of the apparent increase is likely due to timing: investors delay selling stock when they know a tax cut is imminent. After the cut takes effect, they then declare their gains and pay taxes at the lower rate."
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=04&year=2008&base_name=the_capital_gains_tax_its_even
aus Not sure. I heard Dr. Dean Edell mention < Irony_Guy_Returns > 2010-02-02 10:40:59
it a few times on his radio show.
lax Dean Debnam, PPP's founder is a democratic < Soberania > 2010-02-01 14:19:07
pollster
lax False, Wiki provides 3 footnotes for that < Soberania > 2010-02-01 14:12:30
assertion.
The politico piece is the first footnote.
The following is from the 2nd footnote:
Democratic pollster Dean Debnam said a Wake County survey in early September by his Public Policy Polling company showed that 61 percent of respondents opposed current Wake policies on diversity and student reassignments, with 29 percent in favor. That meant, Debnam said, that a public outpouring of support for the diversity policy by prominent Raleigh leaders early this week may have been counterproductive.
"I would have advised them against the approach that they took," Debnam said. "It was very clear that the issue that had the juice was the neighborhood school issue. That was the thing that got most people going."
lax Finally, Dean Debnam's campaign contribution < Soberania > 2010-02-01 14:08:31
record from 2004 showing a contribution to the democrat party.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NC&last=debnam&first=dean
lax PPP founder Dean Debnam's facebook < Soberania > 2010-02-01 14:07:30
page that lists various democrat party organizations among his favorites.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dean-Debnam/100000079978363
lax Wikipedia's take < Soberania > 2010-02-01 14:05:20
Public Policy Polling (PPP) is an American, Democratic Party-affiliated polling firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1][2][3] PPP was founded in 2001 by businessman and Democratic pollster Dean Debnam, the firm's current president and chief executive officer.[1][4] The company's surveys use Interactive Voice Response (IVR), an automated questionnaire used by other polling firms such as SurveyUSA and Rasmussen Reports.[5] Following the 2008 U.S. presidential election, an analysis by The Wall Street Journal showed PPP's swing-state polling was the second most accurate projection.[5] The neutrality of PPP's surveys has been questioned since the firm's clients are exclusively Democratic-affiliated organizations, and because surveys on health care reform have included polarizing questions such as if respondents think President Barack Obama is the "Antichrist".[1][6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Polling#cite_note-politico-0
lax From Politico's Kraushaar < Soberania > 2010-02-01 14:04:36
The problem, Republicans say, is that PPP is no impartial observer. The firm makes its money by serving as the pollster to an exclusively Democratic roster of clients, ranging from members of Congress to dozens of state legislative and city council candidates. And CEO Dean Debnam has given generously to North Carolina Democratic candidates — including in races where his firm has conducted independent polling.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24062.html
bak Nice! < PoliticalHack > 2010-01-31 19:11:02
With language like that, you could work for Howard Dean.
lvg Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, < ZerobamaSucks > 2010-01-30 09:23:59
a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico . This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations.
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr..
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
See what happens when aliens breed with sheep and jackasses?
fuk Some of you will recall < YardDawg > 2010-01-30 08:06:02
that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico . This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations.
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr..
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
See what happens when aliens breed with sheep and jackasses?
bos John Dean married one of the prostitutes (madam < khandoor15 > 2010-01-29 14:54:47
actually) of the Dem slut ring... how funny
sfo Who has ever eaten at any of the following < r_u_contented > 2010-01-29 13:31:26
places:
Roy Rogers Restaurant
Waffle House
Jimmy Dean Charbroiled Burgers
Kenny Rogers Roasters
sfo I'll vote for Dean § < dr_lapin > 2010-01-28 13:33:51
bos worst pick: Kerry not Dean § < box2008 > 2010-01-28 11:46:04
hsv I'm a lib, but < sfcal82 > 2010-01-27 20:00:55
he's over his head.
I hope howard dean challenges him in 2012
wdc howard dean hates it § < p0pulist > 2010-01-27 18:49:04
sfo this time she'll lose to Dean § < dr_lapin > 2010-01-27 13:44:14
oma This is why America is doomed. < Causarius > 2010-01-27 10:31:28
OH MY FUCKING GOD, YOU PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32039.html
Fox is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday.
A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network.
Thirty-seven percent said they didn’t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded.
There was a strong partisan split among those who said they trusted Fox — with 74 percent of Republicans saying they trusted the network, while only 30 percent of Democrats said they did.
CNN was the second-most-trusted network, getting the trust of 39 percent of those polled. Forty-one percent said they didn’t trust CNN.
Each of the three major networks was trusted by less than 40 percent of those surveyed, with NBC ranking highest at 35 percent. Forty-four percent said they did not trust NBC, which was combined with its sister cable station MSNBC.
Thirty-two percent of respondents said they trusted CBS, while 31 percent trusted ABC. Both CBS and ABC were not trusted by 46 percent of those polled.
“A generation ago you would have expected Americans to place their trust in the most neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said PPP President Dean Debnam in his analysis of the poll. “But the media landscape has really changed, and now they’re turning more toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear.”
The telephone poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
sfo I'm voting for Howard Dean in 2012 § < dr_lapin > 2010-01-27 08:40:47
bos this guy gets it. < Allegory > 2010-01-26 19:16:58
“A generation ago you would have expected Americans to place their trust in the most neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said PPP President Dean Debnam in his analysis of the poll. “But the media landscape has really changed, and now they’re turning more toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear.”
fmy howard dean "obamas not left enough" § < fuckulibs > 2010-01-25 05:59:19