We’re all dog lovers! I currently have three rescues. the last one just had her 6-month anniversary. She was a puppy mill breeder, yorkie, 7 years old. I’m insane, but she has added so much to the family. My two ‘boys’ were rivals until she came, and made them all a ‘pack’. They’re all adorable together. My pride and joy.
Check out this article regarding Mitt Romney the Bully from Psychology Today.
The picture of high schooler Mitt with a gun pointing at his throat! I have never seen that picture.
There never was and there never will be a “Bradley Effect”. Citing covert white racism as the principal reason for the Republican George Deukmejian’s defeat of the Democrat Tom Bradley is simply wrong. Attributing Bradley’s loss solely to white voters not casting their ballots for him because he was black is understandable because it allows us to construct a narrative that neatly fits into our preconceptions and experiences. This story, however, lures us away from searching for any other reasons that might better explain Bradley’s defeat.
The truth is that if the Bradley campaign and the California State Democratic Party had turned out just one-third more of the state’s registered and eligible black voters then Bradley would have won the election. Yes, some white voters in California changed their minds or lied about voting for a black candidate, but that should not excuse the failure of the Bradley campaign and the state Democratic Party to reach out to black voters and mount a serious GOTV effort in predominantly black neighborhoods in the state.
In Los Angeles County and in the City of Los Angeles alone, where Bradley had served four terms as the city’s mayor, tens of thousands of black voters and blacks eligible to vote did not go to the polls to vote. Bradley and his advisors either never saw a need to organize and mobilize black voters or they were afraid to do so for fear of alienating whites. If the latter case is true, then it might be more appropriate to label this behavior as the real Bradley Effect.
In the wake of Bradley’s loss one enterprising reporter asked a Bradley aide if the campaign could have done more to reach out to minority voters. The aide cited a television ad the campaign ran featuring Bradley in a suit standing in a grove of redwood trees talking about “diversity” as an example of the campaign’s effort to reach out to minority voters!
The fact is that Bradley simply failed to generate as much enthusiasm as might have been expected among a large swath of the black electorate in the city and the county of Los Angeles and the State of California. Many blacks may not have voted because they did not believe that Bradley would win but many others may have felt that Bradley and his campaign either took their support for granted or chose to ignore their concerns.
Let’s not forget too, for example, that Bradley had managed in the 1950s to become a lieutenant in the LAPD, which was one of the most brutal and notoriously racist police departments in the country. A black man who attained an officer’s rank in the LAPD was probably not a black man who openly challenged the department or directly confronted a political system that oppressed blacks and other minorities. In addition, the Bradley campaign probably put too much stock in the advice of too many arm-chair generals in the black community rather than organizing elements of the black electorate to walk the streets and knock on doors. Bradley’s ascension to the governor’s office might have met the legitimate aspirational concerns of the black bourgeoisie but not the needs of a broader swath of the black electorate.
If a larger percentage of black voters statewide had turned out to vote, the specter of the Bradley Effect would never have been raised despite the fact that some white voters misled pollsters as to their intentions. The Bradley Effect has now entered popular lore as a short hand way of explaining why black candidates may not do as well on election day as the polls indicated they would do. The sad reality is that covert racism was only one of several factors in Bradley’s loss and it would have been a non-factor if the Bradley campaign had done more to reach out to California’s black electorate.
I think you mean Governor, don’t you? I thought Carl Stokes was the first Mayor. I could be wrong though. Old ass brain cells don’t always work the way they should. 🙂
Carl B. Stokes – Cleveland – About.com
cleveland.about.com/od/famousclevelanders/p/carlstokes.htm
Dec 12, 2010 – Carl B. Stokes is best known for being Cleveland’s 51st mayor — the first African-American mayor of a major United States city. He was also a …
Mitt Romney’s campaign is out with a nearly 4-minute video called “A Few of the 23 million,” a spot that’s being presented as part of the response to the Bain Capital video President Obama’s team released yesterday.
This isn’t the first he has spoken about the Bradley effect. I saw him doing interviews about it a while back.
Things that make you go, hmmmmm **** Speaking of that New York Times/CBS poll, it shows Romney at 46% and Obama at 43%. But get this: It also has the president’s approval rating at 50%. (How is Obama’s job approval at 50%, but his head-to-head number is 43%?) And given that this poll was a “call-back survey” — with the respondents first interviewed back in April — it feels like we need more poll data to make sense of all the events of the past two weeks. The gay marriage announcement.
That was Obama on The View. And speaking of honest and straightforward, that is our president also. He is so truthful and admirable on The View, about the whole same sex marriage issue, about the tightness of the election. Loved when he shut Elizabeth down on her false premise. Haven’t got to the dumb pop culture stuff yet, but it looks like he is charming there too.
Hiya doin’ Admiral. I’m still mucking about in the bilges looking for trouble.
I found quite a few naughty mats down here. Some even fell on me that someone discarded down the engineering hatch instead of over the side.
Other than that, all seems to be in order. 🙂
Thank you for your report, Co-Admiral (have I just made up a ranking thingie?). Always appreciate you keeping an eye on the bilges, and relieved to hear you found some mats – bring ’em up!
He is right. I don’t put a lot of emotion into the constantly changing individual poll but instead look at the RCP average of polls. Right now it has PBO up 2.2% which can be seen as essentially tied. We can’t only pay attention or call it a “good poll” when it favors PBO or call it a bad poll when PBO is down. I see that here a lot. The campaign is constantly saying it’s going to be close and people need to pay attention to that. There are a lot of people who hate PBO and also a lot of low information voters out there. This can not be ignored.
Melanie–No one ignores it, we all think about it everyday. Nothing has ever been easy for our president. He has spent the last three years literally moving mountains to help the American people and they’re still even considering a serial liar, vulture capitalist and failed governor as an alternative. We know we can never underestimate the ignorance of a huge swath of Americans and so we work every day to do our part to have this great president re-elected. It’s appropriate to assess the quality of a poll when it seems screwy and when right wing pundits on tv use these polls to crow about how great Romney is doing. If a poll shows a dramatic drop in women’s support of the president in one week when there has been no event to justify it, it’s right to question it. But then we move on and work even harder. We’ve got unlimited funds supporting Romney and the right wing and we have voter suppression laws to overcome. None of us is complacent.
My post was succint; the ind. polls go up and down. When they go back up next week are they going to be questioned? Not sure you speak for everyone when you say none of us is complacent; I don’t really believe in absolutes. Anyway PBO is right in saying when your name is Barack Obama it’s always tight.
I’ve never heard of VIBE although it’s apparently 14 years old – which probably means I can’t get it here! Chips, you must have a huge resource library! TOD sure is a wonderful one-stop-shopping place to find new ‘stuff’ featuring our Pres! ‘Merci buckets’, ALWAYS, Ms Chips!
Morning Pamela, haven’t touched base in a while. Have a good day at work!
Whatever “achievement” a Republican politician brags about, you can be pretty sure there’s more to the story. The Daily Beast has been following Romney’s track record of being brought in to clean up a bribery scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and has found some things that indicate his own ethics leave something to be desired.
Remember this: The president promised at the beginning of his term: I will never lie to you. Believe me, I am hanging on that promise whenever he predicts the outcome of the election.
Team Obama: NYT/CBS poll used ‘biased sample’
By BYRON TAU | 5/15/12 9:53 AM EDT
The Obama campaign is pushing back hard against a New York Times/CBS poll that showed Mitt Romney with advantage with women and reported that voters overwhelmingly believed President Obama backed gay marriage last week for political reasons.
“We can’t put the methodology of that poll aside,” deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “It is a biased sample.”
“Aside from being outlier, CBS/NYT poll used weird methodology — same voters as last month, reached fewer of them, more IDed as GOP,” campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said on Twitter Monday.
At the heart of the dispute is the fact that the poll used a ‘panel-back survey’ — polling a group of voters who have already been interviewed in previous polls. In this case, the drawback is that 852 registered voters were in interviewed last month, and just 562 agreed to be reinterviewed by the pollster.
Still, for a campaign that has openly professed dislike for process stories like this one, it’s an unusually aggressive pushback against a single poll — a poll that is indeed a bit of an outlier compared to other national polls.
–//
That is me, I let him know about Team Obamas reaction! Yup yup!
Listening to President Obama on The View I am reminded that I could sit and listen to him solid, without interruption, from now until 10 years from Tuesday. He is always so well-spoken, calm, knowledgeable, sensible, exactly the kind of person who you want leading the way. I cannot figure out how anyone who gives him a “fair hearing” as he has always requested, could ever find him wanting in any way.
“You are just the right amount of embarrassing.” Darling story told by PBO about that sentence on Malia’s list of why she loved her daddy at his 50th bday party.
This is what every parent of middle school children longs to hear. Nothing is worse than feeling your child cringe if you don’t act cool enough with their peers. It’s very perceptive of Malia to figure out that her statement was a big complement.
Totally agree, 57F. Romney seems to be in the minority when it comes to speaking with sincerity and deep emotion. I really don’t get how the MAJORITY of Americans can’t see what seems so blatantly obvious – Romney is a fraud!
Let me tell you a little story: through a freak accident my husband’s ‘best friend’ is a retired stockbroker, socially liberal, financially conservative because he wants to do whatever he wants on Wall St. and doesn’t want to pay any taxes. Right after the entire contraception thing blew up, my husband was sure that on this they could agree — Republicans were Neanderthals when it came to women.
The friend said, “I don’t understand why women don’t like Romney. He’s good looking, he’s successful.”
Success is their God. The poor people in TN and MS in their polyester pants from Salvation Army, no job, the only services they get are from the federal government — they believe if they support a ‘successful’ guy, success will come their way. The wealthy, of course — well what would a woman look for in a man except financial success.
Some people are so Freaking SHALLOW! willard looks like an Ugly Freaking Sociopathic Bully. Tell your husband’s friend that a woman said that about the pathological LIAR. He really is so ugly.
Just the most incredible explanation told by PBO toward the end of The View when he was asked about his plans post-presidency. He said he hadn’t thought about that because he is intent on the next years of recreating the America where if you work hard, you succeed, the fairness for one and all, that America has all the ingredients, still the most admired as he hears on his world travels, that he wants to get beyond our politics which bogs us down and instead of trying to win the next news cycle or next election, we start doing what is good and right for the next generation and our country’s future. He said it better than I am in the retelling. But it was perfect.
Just a quick note. TOD is about to hit 9.9 million hits. Sometime at the end of this week or the beginning of next the big 10 million number will pop up. Looking foward to a great celebration, as long as it doesn’t include cheese curls.
GOP: YOU’RE RUNNING AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT, NOT A SITTING U. S. SENATOR
Jindal attacks — four years too late
By Steve Benen
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Perhaps Republicans are feeling a little defensive about the fact that they’re nominating the least-experienced major-party presidential nominee in more than 70 years, and if elected, Mitt Romney would be the least experienced president in 100 years.
But defensive or not, the GOP should try to remember it’s running against a sitting president, not a sitting senator.
Greece is set to go to the polls again after days of coalition talks failed to produce agreement on a new government, says the leader of the Socialist Pasok party, Evangelos Venizelos.
A final round of talks on Tuesday morning broke up without a deal.
In elections on 6 May, a majority of Greek voters backed parties opposed to austerity plans demanded by the EU and IMF in return for two bailouts.
The Greek president will appoint a caretaker government on Wednesday.
The degree of smartness rose 100 points on Alex with Bashir and Al on either side of her and setting the record straight, forcefully correcting her naive criticisms of PBO.
I am loving Rev. Al and Marin Bashir on Now With Alex hosted by sometimes nitwit Alex Wagner. She tried to say Pres. Obama hasn’t done anything on immigration. Rev shut her down! Told her that’s a lie. That PBO’s DOJ sued Arizona for their hateful SB 1070 law and the case is being heard by the Supreme Court and just a few days ago the DOJ sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio. So yes, PBO is doing a lot regarding immigration. He’s fighting prejudiced anti-immigration laws.
Bashir is reaming Romney out on his so called “Job Creator” tagline and his whining about Pres. Obama being unfair re- the Romney Economics ad. Bashir shut down Ben Smith’s – BuzzFeed Ben – defense of Romney’s job creation tactics and told him that Romney should not call himself a job creator. He didn’t create huge amounts of jobs, he shut down factories, he shipped jobs overseas, and he made money for his investors. That’s the bottom line.
I am not saying this because I am a supporter of President Obama, but I am not buying this bull crap about women switching to Romney. Because the whole war on women was about these anti-women policies, and Romney supported these policies. He hasn’t change his views, he still support those anti-women policies, but now all of a sudden women decided to run to Romney. Bull sh*t. And Ann Romney mess is alot of bullsh*t too.
No woman in their right mind is “switching to willard”. CORPORATEMEDIAWHORES ARE PUTTING OUT FALSE POLLS AND TELLING WOMEN THEY ARE SWITCING TO THE LIAR BECAUSE THEY WANT A HORSERACE. THEY ARE JUST LIKE ROMNEY..FREAKING LIARS.
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Hey, symmetry! Congrats!
Hi Pamela…How are you?
Very well, thank you for asking! Gorgeous day out here in Seattle! The rhododendrons are magnificent this year!
Hi, girlfriend! It’s a beautiful day here in Chicago, too!
Morning Symmetry, morning everyone 😉
Now that’s a cool picture.
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😆 Top o’ the mornin’ to ya, TrumpDog!
Okay, breakfast is over, I’m outta here! But I’ll be baaaccckkkk! 😉
See ya later Arnold 😉
Damn….
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Team vc/amk day will come. /shakes fist.
My Dog Barks at Turtles!
🙂 Which dog doesn’t ?
The ones that never see Turtles?
Acting clevah, I see.
😆 I bet your dog would bark at amk too!
She loves People, everybody is a wagging tail moment.
Very sweet!
Ah, lovely! I adore adore adore adore adore dogs!
We’re all dog lovers! I currently have three rescues. the last one just had her 6-month anniversary. She was a puppy mill breeder, yorkie, 7 years old. I’m insane, but she has added so much to the family. My two ‘boys’ were rivals until she came, and made them all a ‘pack’. They’re all adorable together. My pride and joy.
Check out this article regarding Mitt Romney the Bully from Psychology Today.
The picture of high schooler Mitt with a gun pointing at his throat! I have never seen that picture.
Research: Romney’s Anti-Gay Assault Fits Typical Pattern
Antigay behaviors common, enforce gender norms.
Published on May 14, 2012 by Karen Franklin, Ph.D. in Witness
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/witness/201205/research-romneys-anti-gay-assault-fits-typical-pattern
About to watch The View. I love when PBO does talk shows.
I can’t stand Barbara and Elizabeth…let me know how it goes!
Why only steel workers ? What about all other workers ?
These are the ones depicted in the Bain ad yesterday!
Here we go.
Americas First Black Mayor is warning this President about, wait for it…, the Bradley effect.
It’s true. He wrote an article, on Politico, of all places.
What is his problem?
who?
Wilder!
he’s the first Black GOvernor, but yeah, he needs to go somewhere and sit his ass down.
Sounds like he needs a HUG! lol
I always remember this piece from Prometheus 6:
The Bradley Effect
October 14, 2008 — ptcruiser
There never was and there never will be a “Bradley Effect”. Citing covert white racism as the principal reason for the Republican George Deukmejian’s defeat of the Democrat Tom Bradley is simply wrong. Attributing Bradley’s loss solely to white voters not casting their ballots for him because he was black is understandable because it allows us to construct a narrative that neatly fits into our preconceptions and experiences. This story, however, lures us away from searching for any other reasons that might better explain Bradley’s defeat.
The truth is that if the Bradley campaign and the California State Democratic Party had turned out just one-third more of the state’s registered and eligible black voters then Bradley would have won the election. Yes, some white voters in California changed their minds or lied about voting for a black candidate, but that should not excuse the failure of the Bradley campaign and the state Democratic Party to reach out to black voters and mount a serious GOTV effort in predominantly black neighborhoods in the state.
In Los Angeles County and in the City of Los Angeles alone, where Bradley had served four terms as the city’s mayor, tens of thousands of black voters and blacks eligible to vote did not go to the polls to vote. Bradley and his advisors either never saw a need to organize and mobilize black voters or they were afraid to do so for fear of alienating whites. If the latter case is true, then it might be more appropriate to label this behavior as the real Bradley Effect.
In the wake of Bradley’s loss one enterprising reporter asked a Bradley aide if the campaign could have done more to reach out to minority voters. The aide cited a television ad the campaign ran featuring Bradley in a suit standing in a grove of redwood trees talking about “diversity” as an example of the campaign’s effort to reach out to minority voters!
The fact is that Bradley simply failed to generate as much enthusiasm as might have been expected among a large swath of the black electorate in the city and the county of Los Angeles and the State of California. Many blacks may not have voted because they did not believe that Bradley would win but many others may have felt that Bradley and his campaign either took their support for granted or chose to ignore their concerns.
Let’s not forget too, for example, that Bradley had managed in the 1950s to become a lieutenant in the LAPD, which was one of the most brutal and notoriously racist police departments in the country. A black man who attained an officer’s rank in the LAPD was probably not a black man who openly challenged the department or directly confronted a political system that oppressed blacks and other minorities. In addition, the Bradley campaign probably put too much stock in the advice of too many arm-chair generals in the black community rather than organizing elements of the black electorate to walk the streets and knock on doors. Bradley’s ascension to the governor’s office might have met the legitimate aspirational concerns of the black bourgeoisie but not the needs of a broader swath of the black electorate.
If a larger percentage of black voters statewide had turned out to vote, the specter of the Bradley Effect would never have been raised despite the fact that some white voters misled pollsters as to their intentions. The Bradley Effect has now entered popular lore as a short hand way of explaining why black candidates may not do as well on election day as the polls indicated they would do. The sad reality is that covert racism was only one of several factors in Bradley’s loss and it would have been a non-factor if the Bradley campaign had done more to reach out to California’s black electorate.
http://www.prometheus6.org/node/22877
I think you mean Governor, don’t you? I thought Carl Stokes was the first Mayor. I could be wrong though. Old ass brain cells don’t always work the way they should. 🙂
Funny. I thought it was Willie Brown.
Not sure but I thought Carl Stokes as the Mayor of Cleveland OH in the 80’s.
Yardarm, You are absolutely right! Carl Stokes was the first black mayor of a major American city-Cleveland, Ohio. Stokes was elected in 1967.
I missed it by damn near 20 years, huh? Iknew it was back there somewhere. 🙂
Carl B. Stokes – Cleveland – About.com
cleveland.about.com/od/famousclevelanders/p/carlstokes.htm
Dec 12, 2010 – Carl B. Stokes is best known for being Cleveland’s 51st mayor — the first African-American mayor of a major United States city. He was also a …
Is it just me or does Boehner look bored out of his mind?
Boehner looks like he doesn’t want to be there.
Maybe he’s thinking about THIS!
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/15/484255/boehner-debt-limit-sequel/
Mitt Romney’s campaign is out with a nearly 4-minute video called “A Few of the 23 million,” a spot that’s being presented as part of the response to the Bain Capital video President Obama’s team released yesterday.
Omg! FAKE punt!
Great news—-love her. She is so funny, clever and entertaining. Very happy she will get the Kennedy Center honor.
This isn’t the first he has spoken about the Bradley effect. I saw him doing interviews about it a while back.
Things that make you go, hmmmmm **** Speaking of that New York Times/CBS poll, it shows Romney at 46% and Obama at 43%. But get this: It also has the president’s approval rating at 50%. (How is Obama’s job approval at 50%, but his head-to-head number is 43%?) And given that this poll was a “call-back survey” — with the respondents first interviewed back in April — it feels like we need more poll data to make sense of all the events of the past two weeks. The gay marriage announcement.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/15/11715292-first-thoughts-a-day-of-contradictions?threadId=3419103&commentId=65944732#c65944732
So the righties can pop all the champagne corks today. They will soon find it is just instant gratification.
Any President that receives a 50% job approval rating will not lose the White House.
That was Obama on The View. And speaking of honest and straightforward, that is our president also. He is so truthful and admirable on The View, about the whole same sex marriage issue, about the tightness of the election. Loved when he shut Elizabeth down on her false premise. Haven’t got to the dumb pop culture stuff yet, but it looks like he is charming there too.
Liz that a piece of work for ya. Talk about a household gadget. 😦
Helloooooooooooooooooooo Shipmate 😉
Hiya doin’ Admiral. I’m still mucking about in the bilges looking for trouble.
I found quite a few naughty mats down here. Some even fell on me that someone discarded down the engineering hatch instead of over the side.
Other than that, all seems to be in order. 🙂
Thank you for your report, Co-Admiral (have I just made up a ranking thingie?). Always appreciate you keeping an eye on the bilges, and relieved to hear you found some mats – bring ’em up!
Aye, aye Admiral. They will have to be hung on the top rail until they’re dry. Some of them are a bit damp. 😀
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Destination for Obots!
Awwwwwwww! AWESOME for Moneygall!!
He is right. I don’t put a lot of emotion into the constantly changing individual poll but instead look at the RCP average of polls. Right now it has PBO up 2.2% which can be seen as essentially tied. We can’t only pay attention or call it a “good poll” when it favors PBO or call it a bad poll when PBO is down. I see that here a lot. The campaign is constantly saying it’s going to be close and people need to pay attention to that. There are a lot of people who hate PBO and also a lot of low information voters out there. This can not be ignored.
Melanie–No one ignores it, we all think about it everyday. Nothing has ever been easy for our president. He has spent the last three years literally moving mountains to help the American people and they’re still even considering a serial liar, vulture capitalist and failed governor as an alternative. We know we can never underestimate the ignorance of a huge swath of Americans and so we work every day to do our part to have this great president re-elected. It’s appropriate to assess the quality of a poll when it seems screwy and when right wing pundits on tv use these polls to crow about how great Romney is doing. If a poll shows a dramatic drop in women’s support of the president in one week when there has been no event to justify it, it’s right to question it. But then we move on and work even harder. We’ve got unlimited funds supporting Romney and the right wing and we have voter suppression laws to overcome. None of us is complacent.
My post was succint; the ind. polls go up and down. When they go back up next week are they going to be questioned? Not sure you speak for everyone when you say none of us is complacent; I don’t really believe in absolutes. Anyway PBO is right in saying when your name is Barack Obama it’s always tight.
I’ve never heard of VIBE although it’s apparently 14 years old – which probably means I can’t get it here! Chips, you must have a huge resource library! TOD sure is a wonderful one-stop-shopping place to find new ‘stuff’ featuring our Pres! ‘Merci buckets’, ALWAYS, Ms Chips!
Morning Pamela, haven’t touched base in a while. Have a good day at work!
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/romneys-olympic-record-does-he-even-h
Whatever “achievement” a Republican politician brags about, you can be pretty sure there’s more to the story. The Daily Beast has been following Romney’s track record of being brought in to clean up a bribery scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and has found some things that indicate his own ethics leave something to be desired.
Remember this: The president promised at the beginning of his term: I will never lie to you. Believe me, I am hanging on that promise whenever he predicts the outcome of the election.
POTUS is killing on the VIew. He just shut Elizabeth down on gay rights. I wish BW, Sherrie, and Elizabeth weren’t there. Love Joy and Whoopi.
Team Obama: NYT/CBS poll used ‘biased sample’
By BYRON TAU | 5/15/12 9:53 AM EDT
The Obama campaign is pushing back hard against a New York Times/CBS poll that showed Mitt Romney with advantage with women and reported that voters overwhelmingly believed President Obama backed gay marriage last week for political reasons.
“We can’t put the methodology of that poll aside,” deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “It is a biased sample.”
“Aside from being outlier, CBS/NYT poll used weird methodology — same voters as last month, reached fewer of them, more IDed as GOP,” campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said on Twitter Monday.
At the heart of the dispute is the fact that the poll used a ‘panel-back survey’ — polling a group of voters who have already been interviewed in previous polls. In this case, the drawback is that 852 registered voters were in interviewed last month, and just 562 agreed to be reinterviewed by the pollster.
Still, for a campaign that has openly professed dislike for process stories like this one, it’s an unusually aggressive pushback against a single poll — a poll that is indeed a bit of an outlier compared to other national polls.
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That is me, I let him know about Team Obamas reaction! Yup yup!
Jovie, you LEGEND!!!!!! Good on ya 😉
Jovie, maybe you should just pull up a chair at Politico. They sure could use you.
Amen to THAT!
Listening to President Obama on The View I am reminded that I could sit and listen to him solid, without interruption, from now until 10 years from Tuesday. He is always so well-spoken, calm, knowledgeable, sensible, exactly the kind of person who you want leading the way. I cannot figure out how anyone who gives him a “fair hearing” as he has always requested, could ever find him wanting in any way.
Now he does very good in these interviews!
Definitely in His element.
“You are just the right amount of embarrassing.” Darling story told by PBO about that sentence on Malia’s list of why she loved her daddy at his 50th bday party.
OMG, that is hysterical!! Those two beautiful young girls are going to be so incredibly smart and witty.
This is what every parent of middle school children longs to hear. Nothing is worse than feeling your child cringe if you don’t act cool enough with their peers. It’s very perceptive of Malia to figure out that her statement was a big complement.
Jennifer Granholm highlighting Willard’s war on logic
Here’s another good one from Jennifer…….
Jennifer Granholm Takes Mitt Romney to Task for Claim of Saving Detroit
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/jennifer-granholm-takes-mitt-romney-task-c
Yes, I saw this one last week and liked her calm denouncement. I don’t watch TV so I thought the clip was a refreshing change to the naysayers.
And yet the depth of her emotion was palpable. She was wonderful.
Totally agree, 57F. Romney seems to be in the minority when it comes to speaking with sincerity and deep emotion. I really don’t get how the MAJORITY of Americans can’t see what seems so blatantly obvious – Romney is a fraud!
Let me tell you a little story: through a freak accident my husband’s ‘best friend’ is a retired stockbroker, socially liberal, financially conservative because he wants to do whatever he wants on Wall St. and doesn’t want to pay any taxes. Right after the entire contraception thing blew up, my husband was sure that on this they could agree — Republicans were Neanderthals when it came to women.
The friend said, “I don’t understand why women don’t like Romney. He’s good looking, he’s successful.”
Success is their God. The poor people in TN and MS in their polyester pants from Salvation Army, no job, the only services they get are from the federal government — they believe if they support a ‘successful’ guy, success will come their way. The wealthy, of course — well what would a woman look for in a man except financial success.
It was an eye opener for me.
Some people are so Freaking SHALLOW! willard looks like an Ugly Freaking Sociopathic Bully. Tell your husband’s friend that a woman said that about the pathological LIAR. He really is so ugly.
Just the most incredible explanation told by PBO toward the end of The View when he was asked about his plans post-presidency. He said he hadn’t thought about that because he is intent on the next years of recreating the America where if you work hard, you succeed, the fairness for one and all, that America has all the ingredients, still the most admired as he hears on his world travels, that he wants to get beyond our politics which bogs us down and instead of trying to win the next news cycle or next election, we start doing what is good and right for the next generation and our country’s future. He said it better than I am in the retelling. But it was perfect.
Here are a few clips Dotster, I’ll try to get the full video soon:
Just a quick note. TOD is about to hit 9.9 million hits. Sometime at the end of this week or the beginning of next the big 10 million number will pop up. Looking foward to a great celebration, as long as it doesn’t include cheese curls.
😆 Okay Japa, no cheese curls this time!
George W. Bush just endorsed Mitt Romney LMAO
Quite an endorsement too—-as the elevator doors were closing on him—LOL
Well stop the presses.
Bloody hell, Francois Hollande’s plane hit by lightning on way to Germany, had to turn back. Scary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18078845
Chips,
I hope he’ll be O-kay. What’s even scarer is had he gone to the WH it would be 2 socialist in the WH. Ha Ha
What ‘s so beautiful about our Presidnt is he speaks straight from his heart.
GOP: YOU’RE RUNNING AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT, NOT A SITTING U. S. SENATOR
Jindal attacks — four years too late
By Steve Benen
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Perhaps Republicans are feeling a little defensive about the fact that they’re nominating the least-experienced major-party presidential nominee in more than 70 years, and if elected, Mitt Romney would be the least experienced president in 100 years.
But defensive or not, the GOP should try to remember it’s running against a sitting president, not a sitting senator.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/15/11716946-jindal-attacks-four-years-too-late?lite
Oh great! Bush 43 just endorsed Robney.
This is good news for John McCain!
indeed! hopefully Bush will stump for him so people can be reminded of his failures.
They can both wear ” I’m with stupid t-shirts” and propeller beanies when they campaign together.
What fun…
It’s almost jackals time – 12:30 PM EDT: Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
Greece is set to go to the polls again after days of coalition talks failed to produce agreement on a new government, says the leader of the Socialist Pasok party, Evangelos Venizelos.
A final round of talks on Tuesday morning broke up without a deal.
In elections on 6 May, a majority of Greek voters backed parties opposed to austerity plans demanded by the EU and IMF in return for two bailouts.
The Greek president will appoint a caretaker government on Wednesday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18076757
They will be out of Euro and Dow will probably drop 500 when they do.
Just saying!
The degree of smartness rose 100 points on Alex with Bashir and Al on either side of her and setting the record straight, forcefully correcting her naive criticisms of PBO.
I am loving Rev. Al and Marin Bashir on Now With Alex hosted by sometimes nitwit Alex Wagner. She tried to say Pres. Obama hasn’t done anything on immigration. Rev shut her down! Told her that’s a lie. That PBO’s DOJ sued Arizona for their hateful SB 1070 law and the case is being heard by the Supreme Court and just a few days ago the DOJ sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio. So yes, PBO is doing a lot regarding immigration. He’s fighting prejudiced anti-immigration laws.
Bashir is reaming Romney out on his so called “Job Creator” tagline and his whining about Pres. Obama being unfair re- the Romney Economics ad. Bashir shut down Ben Smith’s – BuzzFeed Ben – defense of Romney’s job creation tactics and told him that Romney should not call himself a job creator. He didn’t create huge amounts of jobs, he shut down factories, he shipped jobs overseas, and he made money for his investors. That’s the bottom line.
anyone have the video?
LOL! Now hear this? CNN is asking it’s panel what is driving the switch to Robney of Women?
The answer? Miss Ann!
Are we back on Miss Ann? CNN loves Miss Ann, thinks she is Wonder Women.
Meh!
I am not saying this because I am a supporter of President Obama, but I am not buying this bull crap about women switching to Romney. Because the whole war on women was about these anti-women policies, and Romney supported these policies. He hasn’t change his views, he still support those anti-women policies, but now all of a sudden women decided to run to Romney. Bull sh*t. And Ann Romney mess is alot of bullsh*t too.
No woman in their right mind is “switching to willard”. CORPORATEMEDIAWHORES ARE PUTTING OUT FALSE POLLS AND TELLING WOMEN THEY ARE SWITCING TO THE LIAR BECAUSE THEY WANT A HORSERACE. THEY ARE JUST LIKE ROMNEY..FREAKING LIARS.
The Obama Effect http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/15/484307/the-obama-effect-major-political-figures-who-have-come-out-for-marriage-equality-this-week/?mobile=nc
This Roger Simon guy thinks he’s never wrong, but his tweet reminded me of Knoller & Toad
And Clinton would have done what the right wing wanted him to. Like he always did.
New post everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/05/15/just-the-right-amount-of-embarrassing/