First lady Michelle Obama, Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas and host Jay Leno during a taping of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” in Burbank, Calif.
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Thank you Roberta in MN – a photo from today’s Rochester Roundtable
Thanks you Chips for possting that picture. We had a good meeting today. I can hardly wait until the 21st. We have a campaign rally, I will let you all know who will be there. I sure wished we could have seen the President today, but after looking at his schedule, new it wasn’t going to happen. I would have loved to have had a SnowCone:)
I’m so glad Gabby is being honoured there with the First Lady – I as irate when I kept seeing the other gymnasts honoured during the few Olympic roundups I saw yesterday – with no, or little, mention of Gabby – who actually won the All-Round. She deserves to be honoured.
Vilsack is on the stage in Boone, saying he studied Ryan’s budget plan, that it would absolutely shred the safety net for farmers. (and, I might add, for everyone else)
An enterprising farmer along the way posted a sign saying, “Barack, fresh sweet corn off the stalk”—–wanting him to make a corn stop obviously.
What an idiot. He said that if a kid gets on the honor roll she might have taken a bus, but she deserves credit for her grads. Ummm what about the school and teachers?
“God gave us the rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness”…oops wasn’t that the Declaration of Independence, not the word of god?
I may have to watch Jay to catch FLOTUS and Gabby. Also, for folks on twitter, please make sure you are retweeting and interesting tweets that mention Romney and taxes. We want to make sure this stays in the conversation and doesn’t get lost in the Paul Ryan VP pick.
A constitutional amendment suggested by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have barred Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) from serving as his running mate.
Speaking to supporters in Las Vegas last May, Romney told the story of a man who said the Constitution should be amended to require three years of business experience to be qualified to be president of the United States.
The amendment would say that “the president has to spend three years working in business before he becomes president of the United States,” Romney explained. “Then he or she would understand that the policies they are putting into place have to encourage small business to grow.”
BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczsynski posted the video on Monday and noted that the amendment would have disqualified Ryan.
The 12th Amendment of the Constitution states that the vice president must meet all of the same eligibility requirements as the president.
“I think this reflects how dumb Romney’s proposed constitutional amendment is, not Ryan’s fitness for the presidency,” The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein wrote. “It also reflects Romney’s tendency to take positions strategically without carefully considering their long-term impact.”
“When he made that comment, was it really so difficult for him to imagine naming a vice president without business experience? That would, for instance, disqualify career military men, like Gen. David Petraeus.”
“I’m here because Joe Biden fights for the middle class … and he’s the perfect person to get me fired up on a Monday morning.”
—Joe from Raleigh
“I brought my grandson with me today because this election is about his future.”
—Ronaldo
“Joe Biden is just awesome, plain and simple. As a college student, I know that he is fighting for me.”
—Fleming
Supporters in Durham, North Carolina gave Vice President Joe Biden a warm welcome today. At the event, a few folks shared why they look up to the Vice President, and why they’ll keep working hard for him in the final 85 days of this election.
“In Joe Biden, I see the same working class background that my father came from. I admire my father for how he works for others, and I admire Joe Biden for that same reason.”
—Rachel, a neighborhood team leader in Chapel Hill
“You don’t have to be a billionaire for Joe Biden to care about you. He is for all Americans.”
—Reba
“Joe Biden is honest, and you see every day that he is working for people like us.”
—Billie and Mozelle
“In Joe Biden, I see the values that I care about. That’s why I work so hard every day.”
—Chrissy, a neighborhood team leader
“The choice couldn’t be clearer now, and Joe Biden is the one fighting for everyday Americans.”
—Tim
Yeah, Former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer is under indictment and he’s singin’ like a canary, but he’s only tellin’ what plenty of us already know. Folks need to listen to him.
“There’s no doubt that what the Republican-led legislature in Florida and Governor Scott are trying to do is make sure the Republican Party has an advantage in this upcoming election by reducing early voting and putting roadblocks up for potential voters, Latinos, African-Americans to register and then to exercise their right to vote. There’s no doubt. I was in the room. It’s part of the strategy.”
How Obama Will Cash In on Paul Ryan: Medicare, Taxes, Education & More
By Robert Shrum
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The Ryan-Romney ticket has its answers, contrived and unconvincing. Ryan, we’re told, is making “the tough choices.” Yes, tough on ordinary people—and easy on the top 1 percent. Indeed, he’s neither a serious economist nor a genuine intellectual; the life of his mind is rooted in Ayn Rand’s idolatry of selfishness. And his plan is a fiscal trick that wouldn’t balance the budget until … 2040—when Romney would be 93 years old. Talk about change you can’t believe in.
This is a battle the Obama side will win. So is the contest over the claim that the Ryan plan would give seniors the option of staying with “traditional” Medicare. But if a bare-bones private plan could be purchased with a voucher—or as Ryan euphemistically calls it, “premium support”—and costs less than comprehensive Medicare coverage, recipients would have to pay the difference.
Romney strategists know the danger here. The morning of Ryan’s anointment, they rushed out talking points that labored to create a little distance between the two men: “Gov. Romney applauds Paul Ryan for going in the right direction … And as president, he will be putting together his own plan.” But Romney repeatedly embraced the Ryan proposal during the primaries; he’s right there on tape saying it would be “marvelous” to pass it. That tape will prove far more persuasive than any expedient and mealy mouthed evasions. If Romney tries to run or tiptoe away, he will trip over his own flip-flops.
Mr. dotster just said to me as I’m sitting here with a big grin on my face watching, “You are so in love with him.” No, I reassured, I LOVE him, I’m IN LOVE with you. (hope that worked) 🙂
Dotster, I’m going to start a petition demanding that we get to see a daily reality show type thingie featuring you and Mr Dotster – you two crack me up!!!!!!
I love me some Joey. He always tells a personal story. He always relates to the crowd. Different than Pres. Obama; he has his own style. But he’s so down to earth. So honest. I think they compliment each other very nicely.
OK, so I’ve finally gotten this thing to work. some of you probably weren’t even here when I first posted about all of this. I wrote an article on a blog site about Mitt’s pick for VP. the site belongs to #2 and she asked me to take over the blog portion. I’m trying to write to the young voter about this coming election. This is the first in a series. I lost the original article (forgot to save the draft) and had to redo it. Anyway, here it is, many hours later for your perusal: http://www.zenfulrevolutionapparel.com/blogs/news
CSPAN sabotaged pres. Obama’s speech. I kept waiting ad instead they had NBC nightly news on instead. so I thought it had been delayed and kept checking back. Only now are they showing the end where he’s working the rope line. They also did not cover Joe Biden today, but covered Ryan. And CSPAN is supposed to be a public utility?
I always feel sorry for the people 3 or 4 rows back with outstretched arms, all wanting to touch, to shake hands with this remarkable president, to connect. Some get lucky, and they turn around with a big satisfied smile, but not all.
Someone was savvy enough to have a yellow microphone to match FLOTUS’ yellow dress. HOW COOL IS THAT?
(Yes, I’m a geek like that, I notice the smallest details sometimes…) She’s so real, so down-to-earth.
For the life of me, I still can’t understand how people can NOT support Health Care for all. Have these people never gotten sick? Don’t these people know anyone who needs medical treatment more than a simple aspirin?
They do love it and they take advantage o f it. They just can’t admit it for fear they’d get run out of their teabutt social circle. They all sit around with their crazy talk pretending that they wold rather die, than take any gubmint hand outs. Then they gladly send in their insurance premium payment which includes all of the stuff they complain about. Same with welfare and food stamps. Don’t let them fool you. They put up this facade to entertain each other. It’s called cognitive dissonance. It keeps them from having to admit to a much deeper and sinister reason for their views,
I haven’t been able to get any video of VP Biden’s full speech, but I got a little 2-min snippet from a local Durham network which also focused on the issue of Romney’s tax returns and showed a Repub trying to deflect from the issue by asking the reporter why he won’t release his returns – the reporter shot back “I’m not running for President”
Remember back in the ’08 primaries where they had that First Lady “debate”. It was hosted by Maria Shriver. Well, each spouse was asked what political achievement of their hubby’s that they were the most proud of. Well, Ann Romney gave a wonderful answer about how proud she was that her husband passed a health care bill in Massachusetts. She seemed really genuine about it.
But now, she can’t even talk about it! And it’s Michelle who can go out there and talk about how proud she is for her man doing what president after president failed to do! I love it. Ann must be pissed.
My Pleasure Chips! Just one small thing..VP Biden actually starts speaking around 11 minutes into the video – (warm introductions are by the Mayor and congressman)
Romney-Ryan Economic Plans Would Increase Unemployment, Deepen Recession
By Ari Berman
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Much has been written in recent days about Paul Ryan’s plans to privatize Medicare, dismantle Social Security, massively cut taxes for the wealthy and drastically redistribute income from the bottom to the top.
.
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Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress calls Ryan’s budget “austerity on steroids,” while Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute dubs it “bizarro stimulus.” Explains Konczal: “These are arguments that doing things traditionally thought of as the opposite of economic stimulus will be the real stimulus and help bring unemployment down.” (Ryan’s also a fierce critic of actions taken by the Federal Reserve to reduce unemployment.)
I really hope this is the end of the wingnut GOP, and that the GOP Millennials bring back the “Rockefeller Republicans” that Mitt’s father represented.
I made the mistake of watching Morning Joe’s panel discussion on the selection of Ryan, and really wanted to throw up afterwards. Joe was absolutely orgasmic and Halperin couldn’t contain himself. Andrea Mitchell and Jon Meacheam were no better. Only Al Hunt (at the very end) said something about the discussion would sooner or later return to how we’re gonna pay for lowering taxes on the very rich. Absolutely vile discussion.
I’m taking the TOD community’s advice and quitting his show cold turkey.
The Obama Diary 
Me?
Congratulations, LL! Haven’t seen you on the podium before?
Not for a long time. LOL
Helloooooooooooooooooooo LL 😉
Wow. Stunning!
This
Ooooooooooo 😀
Ha, that woke you up! 😆
Way to go. You got THEE PHOTO OF THE DAY! Hubba, hubba.
That outfit she wore that night is one of my favorite looks for her.
Love her side swoop!
Be still my beating heart.
And all other dudes here back off. She’s MY First Lady.
Ooooh, LL, Yardarm, amk – did you hear that? Axel —-> Brave!
LOL, there’s a new sheriff in town. And his name’s AxelFoley. 😉
amk looking down at the downed eddie murphy clone – ‘Noobs’ / shh
That’s the evening FLOTUS, Malia, and Sasha were at the Nick’s Kid Award show. She was smoking “Hot” that night.
Whoa (grabs heart)…..She is absolutely stunning ❤
Congrats LL on #1! Japa and Yardarm will be envious….
Me!
You is right.
Congrats LL.
Indeed, LL. First, indeed.
Yes you!
Thanks you Chips for possting that picture. We had a good meeting today. I can hardly wait until the 21st. We have a campaign rally, I will let you all know who will be there. I sure wished we could have seen the President today, but after looking at his schedule, new it wasn’t going to happen. I would have loved to have had a SnowCone:)
I’d faint if I saw that big black bus.
I’m so glad Gabby is being honoured there with the First Lady – I as irate when I kept seeing the other gymnasts honoured during the few Olympic roundups I saw yesterday – with no, or little, mention of Gabby – who actually won the All-Round. She deserves to be honoured.
Vilsack is on the stage in Boone, saying he studied Ryan’s budget plan, that it would absolutely shred the safety net for farmers. (and, I might add, for everyone else)
An enterprising farmer along the way posted a sign saying, “Barack, fresh sweet corn off the stalk”—–wanting him to make a corn stop obviously.
Yum! I would definitely stop for some corn if I were PBO!
OMG Robme is repeating again the lie about you didn’t build it. Wish CBS would switch over to PBO early. This is gross.
What an idiot. He said that if a kid gets on the honor roll she might have taken a bus, but she deserves credit for her grads. Ummm what about the school and teachers?
“God gave us the rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness”…oops wasn’t that the Declaration of Independence, not the word of god?
I may have to watch Jay to catch FLOTUS and Gabby. Also, for folks on twitter, please make sure you are retweeting and interesting tweets that mention Romney and taxes. We want to make sure this stays in the conversation and doesn’t get lost in the Paul Ryan VP pick.
Romney’s constitutional amendment disqualifies Ryan for no business experience
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/13/romneys-constitutional-amendment-disqualifies-ryan-for-no-business-experience/
A constitutional amendment suggested by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have barred Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) from serving as his running mate.
Speaking to supporters in Las Vegas last May, Romney told the story of a man who said the Constitution should be amended to require three years of business experience to be qualified to be president of the United States.
The amendment would say that “the president has to spend three years working in business before he becomes president of the United States,” Romney explained. “Then he or she would understand that the policies they are putting into place have to encourage small business to grow.”
BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczsynski posted the video on Monday and noted that the amendment would have disqualified Ryan.
The 12th Amendment of the Constitution states that the vice president must meet all of the same eligibility requirements as the president.
“I think this reflects how dumb Romney’s proposed constitutional amendment is, not Ryan’s fitness for the presidency,” The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein wrote. “It also reflects Romney’s tendency to take positions strategically without carefully considering their long-term impact.”
“When he made that comment, was it really so difficult for him to imagine naming a vice president without business experience? That would, for instance, disqualify career military men, like Gen. David Petraeus.”
Ryan wouldn’t qualify by Robme standards then.
Durham meets Joe Biden
By Grant Fuller on August 13, 2012
http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/durham-meets-joe-biden
“I’m here because Joe Biden fights for the middle class … and he’s the perfect person to get me fired up on a Monday morning.”
—Joe from Raleigh
“I brought my grandson with me today because this election is about his future.”
—Ronaldo
“Joe Biden is just awesome, plain and simple. As a college student, I know that he is fighting for me.”
—Fleming
Supporters in Durham, North Carolina gave Vice President Joe Biden a warm welcome today. At the event, a few folks shared why they look up to the Vice President, and why they’ll keep working hard for him in the final 85 days of this election.
“In Joe Biden, I see the same working class background that my father came from. I admire my father for how he works for others, and I admire Joe Biden for that same reason.”
—Rachel, a neighborhood team leader in Chapel Hill
“You don’t have to be a billionaire for Joe Biden to care about you. He is for all Americans.”
—Reba
“Joe Biden is honest, and you see every day that he is working for people like us.”
—Billie and Mozelle
“In Joe Biden, I see the values that I care about. That’s why I work so hard every day.”
—Chrissy, a neighborhood team leader
“The choice couldn’t be clearer now, and Joe Biden is the one fighting for everyday Americans.”
—Tim
These comments are just so wonderful. I adore, admire, and respect VP Biden a lot. He is genuinely a kind and decent human being.
I’m shocked!
//NOT.
Gymnast Gabby Douglas to appear on ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter’ later this month
http://thegrio.com/2012/08/13/gabby-douglas-to-appear-on-oprahs-next-chapter-later-this-month/#48617637
He’s on live now.
Our President is already speaking!
Yeah, Former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer is under indictment and he’s singin’ like a canary, but he’s only tellin’ what plenty of us already know. Folks need to listen to him.
“There’s no doubt that what the Republican-led legislature in Florida and Governor Scott are trying to do is make sure the Republican Party has an advantage in this upcoming election by reducing early voting and putting roadblocks up for potential voters, Latinos, African-Americans to register and then to exercise their right to vote. There’s no doubt. I was in the room. It’s part of the strategy.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/13/michael-tomasky-on-how-the-gop-plans-to-block-the-black-vote.html
How Obama Will Cash In on Paul Ryan: Medicare, Taxes, Education & More
By Robert Shrum
———————————————
The Ryan-Romney ticket has its answers, contrived and unconvincing. Ryan, we’re told, is making “the tough choices.” Yes, tough on ordinary people—and easy on the top 1 percent. Indeed, he’s neither a serious economist nor a genuine intellectual; the life of his mind is rooted in Ayn Rand’s idolatry of selfishness. And his plan is a fiscal trick that wouldn’t balance the budget until … 2040—when Romney would be 93 years old. Talk about change you can’t believe in.
This is a battle the Obama side will win. So is the contest over the claim that the Ryan plan would give seniors the option of staying with “traditional” Medicare. But if a bare-bones private plan could be purchased with a voucher—or as Ryan euphemistically calls it, “premium support”—and costs less than comprehensive Medicare coverage, recipients would have to pay the difference.
Romney strategists know the danger here. The morning of Ryan’s anointment, they rushed out talking points that labored to create a little distance between the two men: “Gov. Romney applauds Paul Ryan for going in the right direction … And as president, he will be putting together his own plan.” But Romney repeatedly embraced the Ryan proposal during the primaries; he’s right there on tape saying it would be “marvelous” to pass it. That tape will prove far more persuasive than any expedient and mealy mouthed evasions. If Romney tries to run or tiptoe away, he will trip over his own flip-flops.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/13/how-obama-will-cash-in-on-paul-ryan-medicare-taxes-education-more.html
Are you ready to fight back? Please share 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ccPh3YYH4&feature=colike
ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT BACK?
This IS excellent. Thanks isonprize
whoa. great! tweeted
Tweeted.
My President is on FIRE!
FLOTUS looks lovely. She always seem to have a nice time on Jay Leno Show. And now I see Gabby Douglas is up there too. Wow!!!!!!!
Jay seems to like having FLOTUS on his show too.
Where is POTUS next stop? I wonder if he will be watching Leno tonight.
Anniebella, The President and Vice President schedules are posted at the White House website. Here is the link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Thanks isonprize. I’m heading there right now.
On the White House website, it says there is no public apperence schedule.
For August 14th.
RT.
We’ve still got so much more to do! We simply cannot go back!! FOUR MORE YEARS! PBO on fire!
What a colorful backdrop, both in the diversity of the people and the colorful shirts and blouses they had on standing behind PBO.
I LOVE THIS GUY!! We’ve got to get PBO elected president!!! WE JUST HAVE TO!!
Mr. dotster just said to me as I’m sitting here with a big grin on my face watching, “You are so in love with him.” No, I reassured, I LOVE him, I’m IN LOVE with you. (hope that worked) 🙂
Dotster, I’m going to start a petition demanding that we get to see a daily reality show type thingie featuring you and Mr Dotster – you two crack me up!!!!!!
“The Dotsters!” coming to your favorite cable channel at 8PM ET every Tuesday evening.
Yes!!!!!!! 😆
HF2, I would go one step further. . . The New Reality Show for CNN – “The Dotsters”
AHA! CNN would grab that show in a heartbeat 🙂
Pres. Obama got me all choked up with how personal he was. His vision for America is so beautiful and so progressive.
Did you all get the chance to hear VP Biden early today? He was in Durham, N.C. And I listen to him on cnn.com/live. He was great.
I love me some Joey. He always tells a personal story. He always relates to the crowd. Different than Pres. Obama; he has his own style. But he’s so down to earth. So honest. I think they compliment each other very nicely.
Oh, I Just posted a link to VP Biden’s FULL speech down thread!! The crowd is PUMPED.
OK, so I’ve finally gotten this thing to work. some of you probably weren’t even here when I first posted about all of this. I wrote an article on a blog site about Mitt’s pick for VP. the site belongs to #2 and she asked me to take over the blog portion. I’m trying to write to the young voter about this coming election. This is the first in a series. I lost the original article (forgot to save the draft) and had to redo it. Anyway, here it is, many hours later for your perusal:
http://www.zenfulrevolutionapparel.com/blogs/news
Glad you got it posted CookeMom! Worth the wait.
I like your site cookemom. I will be checking it out going forward.
Love him! Unstoppable.
CSPAN sabotaged pres. Obama’s speech. I kept waiting ad instead they had NBC nightly news on instead. so I thought it had been delayed and kept checking back. Only now are they showing the end where he’s working the rope line. They also did not cover Joe Biden today, but covered Ryan. And CSPAN is supposed to be a public utility?
I watched it on CSPAN (tv). I didn’t catch the very beginning, but I did see the majority of the speech.
They were showing his earlier speech (which they had already shown this afternoon at 12:25PM), not this current one that started around 6PM.
I always feel sorry for the people 3 or 4 rows back with outstretched arms, all wanting to touch, to shake hands with this remarkable president, to connect. Some get lucky, and they turn around with a big satisfied smile, but not all.
My, my, my. I’d give anything to be able to ride on that Beast Bus —- well Air Force One, and then the Beast Bus.
Michelle Obama is teasing Olympic champion Gabby Douglas about eating fast food to celebrate her achievements.
…. When Douglas was asked how she marked her stellar Olympic showing, the 16-year-old gymnast said she “splurged” on a McDonalds’ sandwich.
Mrs. Obama responded, “You’re setting me back, Gabby,” which drew a “Sorry!” from the athlete.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/aug/13/michelle-obama-teases-gabby-douglas-over-fast-food/
That’s so cute. Can’t wait to see the both of them on Leno tonight!
Same here hopefruit2.
Counting the hours before Leno comes on. 🙂
Someone was savvy enough to have a yellow microphone to match FLOTUS’ yellow dress. HOW COOL IS THAT?
(Yes, I’m a geek like that, I notice the smallest details sometimes…) She’s so real, so down-to-earth.
For the life of me, I still can’t understand how people can NOT support Health Care for all. Have these people never gotten sick? Don’t these people know anyone who needs medical treatment more than a simple aspirin?
They do love it and they take advantage o f it. They just can’t admit it for fear they’d get run out of their teabutt social circle. They all sit around with their crazy talk pretending that they wold rather die, than take any gubmint hand outs. Then they gladly send in their insurance premium payment which includes all of the stuff they complain about. Same with welfare and food stamps. Don’t let them fool you. They put up this facade to entertain each other. It’s called cognitive dissonance. It keeps them from having to admit to a much deeper and sinister reason for their views,
“Heartland”.
A moniker so much better than “Fly-over country”. I’ve been there:
1986: (New York), Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, (California).
1996: (Massechussetts), (New York), … [ Canada ] …, Michigan (Upper Peninsula), Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, (Washington).
Okay Toon, I’ll bite. Why do you have some states in parentheses? “Massachusetts”
Yeah, and PBO said that he was lookin’ for campaign contributions from Mr. $3 million!! 😆 😆
That was so funny when POTUS said that.
Fabulous photo diary from IA with PBO:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/13/1119797/-PHOTOS-President-Obama-rallies-the-troops-in-Council-Bluffs-IA
Tipped and rec’d it. Thanks.
Different SS agents on this trip, or maybe just rotated to the rope line in these pics.
#ADollarADayToOFA
I haven’t been able to get any video of VP Biden’s full speech, but I got a little 2-min snippet from a local Durham network which also focused on the issue of Romney’s tax returns and showed a Repub trying to deflect from the issue by asking the reporter why he won’t release his returns – the reporter shot back “I’m not running for President”
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/politics&id=8771376
Thanks Chips. 😀
My pleeeeeeeeeeeeeasure Twitter Queen!!!
Remember back in the ’08 primaries where they had that First Lady “debate”. It was hosted by Maria Shriver. Well, each spouse was asked what political achievement of their hubby’s that they were the most proud of. Well, Ann Romney gave a wonderful answer about how proud she was that her husband passed a health care bill in Massachusetts. She seemed really genuine about it.
But now, she can’t even talk about it! And it’s Michelle who can go out there and talk about how proud she is for her man doing what president after president failed to do! I love it. Ann must be pissed.
YAY!!
I found VP Biden’s FULL 43-minute speech today in Durham, NC; here it is!! ENJOY 🙂 🙂
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/video/11421826/#/vid11421826
Queen Awesome —-> Hopefruit
Thank you Hopefruit!
My Pleasure Chips! Just one small thing..VP Biden actually starts speaking around 11 minutes into the video – (warm introductions are by the Mayor and congressman)
Romney-Ryan Economic Plans Would Increase Unemployment, Deepen Recession
By Ari Berman
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Much has been written in recent days about Paul Ryan’s plans to privatize Medicare, dismantle Social Security, massively cut taxes for the wealthy and drastically redistribute income from the bottom to the top.
.
.
Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress calls Ryan’s budget “austerity on steroids,” while Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute dubs it “bizarro stimulus.” Explains Konczal: “These are arguments that doing things traditionally thought of as the opposite of economic stimulus will be the real stimulus and help bring unemployment down.” (Ryan’s also a fierce critic of actions taken by the Federal Reserve to reduce unemployment.)
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/169373/romney-ryan-economic-plans-would-increase-unemployment-deepen-recession#
This Governor Sunoopy on Hardball is crass.
Stupunu!
Snafufu
New post everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/08/13/obamacare-its-true-i-do-care/
C-Span just announced they will be carrying Biden’s event in Virginia tomorrow at 10:15 ET. Wish they were showing today’s in their loop for tonight.
This is what Romney bought into by selecting Paul Ryan:
I really hope this is the end of the wingnut GOP, and that the GOP Millennials bring back the “Rockefeller Republicans” that Mitt’s father represented.
I made the mistake of watching Morning Joe’s panel discussion on the selection of Ryan, and really wanted to throw up afterwards. Joe was absolutely orgasmic and Halperin couldn’t contain himself. Andrea Mitchell and Jon Meacheam were no better. Only Al Hunt (at the very end) said something about the discussion would sooner or later return to how we’re gonna pay for lowering taxes on the very rich. Absolutely vile discussion.
I’m taking the TOD community’s advice and quitting his show cold turkey.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/13/michael-tomasky-on-how-the-gop-plans-to-block-the-black-vote.html
I think that Jay L loves FLOTUS……