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Subscribe to RSSThe early returns are in, and the winner as the Democratic convention's most ubiquitous and energetic politician so far is Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker. Seemingly everywhere you look, Booker is addressing a state delegation, speaking at a rally, or greeting his fans.
On Tuesday night as a summer storm boomed in Charlotte, Booker won thunderous applause as he addressed the convention on the platform.
"When your country is in a costly war with our soldiers sacrificing abroad, and our nation is facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare, it's patriotism," he said, arguing the need for tax increases.
John Brecher / NBC News
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, addresses the Florida delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday morning.
But the mayor’s appearance on the dais was just his highest-profile one in a series of stops this convention week. On Tuesday morning, Booker brought the Florida delegation to its feet with a rousing speech.
“We can’t make the mistake that they (the Republicans) make of thinking this country is hungry for bash and slash and trash,” he said. “This country is hungry for hope.”
He got a huge laugh with his joke about New Jersey being superior to Virginia – despite the slogan, “Virginia is for lovers.” He said, “In New Jersey we invented the drive-in movie theater,” adding that his mother told him, “You were conceived in a double feature. Sidney Poitier, ‘In the Heat of the Night’ – and ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’”
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Tuesday afternoon, Booker was the leadoff speaker at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund rally at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in downtown Charlotte. “He ran into a burning building to save a woman’s life,” actress and emcee Aisha Tyler said as she introduced Booker – a reference to his actions to save a neighbor from a fire earlier this year.
Booker told the crowd he’d made a mistake last week thinking he could do his usual late-night routine of simultaneously watching television and eating ice cream. While watching the Republican convention, he said he found that “Ben & Jerry does not mix with Mitt and Ryan ... that ice cream was curdling before I even got it to my mouth.”
Newark Mayor Cory Booker energetically outlines the new National Democratic Party platform.
He bashed New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie – although not identifying him by name – for proposing a 2010 budget that cut funding for Planned Parenthood, resulting in the reduction of clinic hours.
“They may tell us they love women, but when they do things like that, they are setting all of us back,” he said. When a woman goes to a Planned Parenthood clinic, Booker said, “This is an opportunity for them to get contraception that could prevent the abortion that you are so much against.”
On Monday, Booker was up early to address the Iowa delegation where he got a wildly enthusiastic reception during his 25-minute speech and told that his grandmother was born in Des Moines, Iowa.
"My grandma back in 1918 was born in Des Moines, Iowa ... My grandmother grew up there, my grandmother's siblings went to college there. My family is still spread out all through Iowa ... I'm proud, proud of those roots," he said.
Booker told the delegates that great-grandparents moved from Alabama to Buxton, Iowa which in the early 1900s was a big coal mining town with a large African-American population. Booker’s mention of Buxton got a big round of applause. "Some people know what I'm talking about!" he said.
John Brecher / NBC News
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, addresses the Florida delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday morning.
Related: Iowa Democrats prepare for starring role in fall campaign
It’s not clear where Booker’s relentless energy will lead the mayor electorally. Two possible opportunities await back in his home state: to run for senator if Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., decides to retire in 2014, or to run for governor next year against Christie.
“I think even he may not know yet,” said David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll and professor of political science at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “He's ambitious, but ambition in New Jersey usually runs up against various power brokers. I don't think he'd want to take on Lautenberg in a primary, so the Senate depends on what the current senator decides to do. He has, of course, insisted he will be running again.”
Redlawsk added, “Governor is also tricky, given that Christie's ratings have held up, and that right now you'd have to say he has the inside track for a second term. A loss to Christie would certainly be painful. The Senate seat is far more likely to stay in Democratic hands than Christie is to lose at this point. Thus, if Booker could somehow clear the decks for a Senate run, and Lautenberg retired, that would give him the highest probability of success.”
No matter how high he is able to climb in New Jersey politics, Booker is tirelessly building a national following here in Charlotte – and on Thursday he'll be addressing the New Hampshire delegation's breakfast.
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I won't miss his speech at all, nor him when he trails Obummer out of office after the next election, Maybe Obummer will let him be his personal valet...........................
A Meeting of Minds
Hello Mr. Republican, how are you today?
Not so well Mr. Democrat, I am worried about the Election and what will happen if Obama is elected for another 4 years.
Well, let us discuss this and see where we go.
Tell me what your man Romney offers the Country as solutions to our Economic and Social problems.
Romney has not set forth a specific platform of ideas to get people employed, and reverse the deficit.
Well it seems your man needs to let us know what specifically can be done if we are to make an informed decision.
Yes but Romney has been a successful businessman in the past. That’s experience right?
Perhaps, but would that not be like a successful Dry Cleaner expecting to walk into Wal-Mart and wanting to be the Chief Executive?
Well he did hire people and keep the business running, making money.
But, doesn’t the complexity of Wal-Mart’s many vendors, customer base, operations around the world make it more necessary that he have had some experience in dealing in these areas. Just having run one store in a specialized operation, how does that even relate to anything that Wal-Mart buys and sells in such vast amounts and with such frequency?
Well, I can see you don’t agree with me on Romney’s experience. Tell me what Obama offers.
He has already shown that he cares about people and their access to affordable healthcare by shepherding the ACA through Congress. He has accomplished many things to help people but could do so much more if Republicans in Congress had not pledged to vote down everything he sponsors.
Mr. Democrat, Romney is a pro-business leader that wants to make taxes even lower for business.
Now Mr. R., you know that when the Average Person gets in financial trouble they have to put more into paying off their bills, which is what President Obama says we must do for a while through higher taxes until we get the deficit and Social Security under control again. It is the responsible thing to do. It is the Income for America by Americans. It is the main way we make money to pay our debt.
Mr. R., a Strong Country manages its debt and protects its people, as well as friends. The World is in massive chaos now, probably the worst global financial meltdown ever. There are many countries at war over Religion, Food, and Nuclear Proliferation. What experience does Romney have in Foreign Affairs and International Law?
Mr. D, he has not been in Government except the one term as a Governor. Now you have made me even more concerned about November.
Mr. R., glad I could help!
You, sir, are racist..
Cory Booker has grand ideas and intelligence when not handcuffed. He doesn't need a teleprompter. He wasn't speaking from his heart in his own words. His talents run so much deeper than his kick off speech portrayed.
Cory Brooker speaks from his wounds, he is a loser and Christy prove that the NJ union/mafia machine was stealing the money from the people in NJ. Brooker is a crook
redvirginia, I have been a Floridian for 42 of the last 62 years. I am most likely a freak for closely following politics for 52 of the last 62 years. JFK inspired then 10 year old me to learn all I could about American history and get cold chills every time I joined others in pledging allegiance to United States of America.
The assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK left an empty hole in my young heart. Not because I agreed with all of their policies(I did not), but because the hopes of millions of American supporters were shattered by a lone assassin's bullet. What could have been, for the mightiest nation on Earth, was irrevocably changed by the lone act of a madman.
I apologize beforehand to the many good people of N.Y.C. and northern N.J. My impression of you has strongly been influenced by news reports and the entertainment media. I must admit that Alaska's Artic Circle and the western Sierra Desert would hold more promise to me as a last choice American homestead than yours.
HBO's "Sopranos" are livid in my mind. I watched several episodes. A few South Jersey Piney friends brag about visiting genuine sites broadcast on the show in North Jersey. For those unfamiliar with the show, Tony Soprano is the lead character. He is a rotund, unattractive middle aged man that rules with a loud mouth dependent on hired muscle to back him up. Does this remind you of a powerful New Jersey politician we may all know? This is clearly the case of a real life figure playing the part of a popular fictional character well known for being tough. Christie is as disgusting, immoral and socially worthless as Tony Soprano without his hired guns and fearful victims.
Christie was vacationing in my sunny Florida with his family during the worst blizzard in New Jersey history. Newark mayor, Cory Booker, left his warm bed to physically shovel snow all night long to keep his neighbors and fellow citizens from harm. Christie sent his best regards from Disney World.
"Mr. D, he has not been in Government except the one term as a Governor. Now you have made me even more concerned about November."
What's more, there's no way Mr. Romney could have won a second term as governor. When he left office in Massachusetts after four years as governor, his approval rating was only 34%. He was a failure as governor, so why would anyone expect him to do better as president, which is a far, far, far more difficult job? And what sense does it make to promote someone who failed at their first government job?
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The Dems have a party and the NATIONAL DEBT hits $$$16 TRILLION..they can not even count all the zeros in that crazy number!!...talk about a National DISASTER!!! Have Jimmy Fallon explain how many somollians, claims, bucks, dough, bread, etc that is to our baby -minded obama!! THE BABY Obama DOES NOT WANT MORE JOBS, MORE ECONOMY GROWTH!!!
obama says he would grade himself 'incomplete'...in my school that was an ..F !! You did not try, you Failed !! Again, twist the truth. Chicago MOBpolitics!!
How many" black chidder-rhen "were murdered while Rahm spoke??!! Another great leader..NOT!!
Like Eastwood said, We the people hired you, you have not done the job, now it is time to Fire you!!
Mouchweelll talked about a rusty beat -up car that Barry Soetoro drove while they were dating, and tried to make it sound OK that with high gas prices and no jobs , Americans can not drive at all!!..Her dad made the equivalent of $$300K in the 70’s and they let their daughter get in such a rust heap??.DOES NOT EQUATE!!!..Danger, /Danger Will Robinson!!!
obama had shoes too small??? He was working for a law firm in Chicago..SaY WHAT?!!! Why are both obamas disbarred?!! Lavish vacations at tax payer expense and $$500 tennis shoes!!!??talk about her big beer arms and nothing about her LARGE french-fry rear!!
She did not say what conversations she 'valued' from Barry's father, Frank M. Davis, the Marxist pornographer in Hawaii. Dreams of my father....or of Barry's brother George still living in a hut in Kenya!!
Dems take GOD out of their platform, of course, obama is the messiah, why look to a faith-filled God??
they read letters from the peasants while they feast at the tax funded, Chief prepared expensive meals..regular Americans could not afford one of those meals a year, much less nightly!! talk about how bad We the PEOPLE have it, REALLY!!.. Let them EAT cake, right?!! where does Mr. Prez get his news?? On the golf course while drinking with Biden?!! If they were to tell the truth, it should have been, people are writing to the Prez. about how he has dismantled the Middle-Class, ruined the economy, people a losing homes and jobs, HE needs to STOP what he is doing!!
it looked like the podium was a wash tub for all their dirty undies/socks/stained blue dresses, but with SWIMMING Ted Kennedy ,they made it clear that it represents the ill-gotten money the progressive-marxists are famous for looting----bootlegging, tax evasion, ballot- box stuffing (LBJ&JFK),gun running, Treasury looting, drug cartels, prostitution( ala Clinton&JFK) Mob connected jimmy Hoffa unions,the true 1%ers of the USA!!!! SOBER UP!!!
if libs care about our troops , why are they put in jail for voicing their dislike of this presidency?? why are they still in Arab countries being murdered by those they are protecting, why are more deployed every day?? Why were they not home for Christmas as obama promised!!??.Why is Defense funding being cut?!! ……why was NASA destroyed!!??
It just does NOT matter how well you give the teleprompter speech...the glaring fact is she knows it is a lie and we know it is lie...
IT IS THE ECONOMY STUPID!!!..and BozoHussan has done nothing to fix it in 4 years!!! ONLY made it much WORSE!!!
border joe needs to do his homework. All that Fox News has filled your mind with garbage that has nothing to do with reality. If you will look at the data on the debt increase, the number one factor are the Bush tax cuts. Number 2 are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush and the Republicans bear 90% of the blame for all that. TARP is next, but TARP was started by Bush, supported by McCain, and continued to be supported by Obama. It would not have mattered who was president, we would have had TARP. The Obama stimulus you can blame on Obama, but it only accounts for 15% of the increase in the national debt, and 40% of that stimulus was tax cuts the Republicans wanted. He gave them that in an attempt at compromise. Obama has actually only increased the debt by 1.2%, which is far, far less than the impact by Bush and the Republicans. Get your head out of your a$$. And the rest of your post, I didn't keep reading because it's obvious you're a . . . . well, I'm not going to say it. Others can fill in the blanks because it's too easy.
What you will miss at the dem convention is any mention of the 16 trillion $ debt unemployment gas prices and any mention of god or Jerusalem the took those words out of the platform.
good point is heaven or Jerusalem broke...they will be talking about people like you and me..tho
WTF god is doing into a political meeting?
Now this is exciting. Much better than an old has been actor talking to a empty chair and senile as heck! What we missed at the RNC was the fact that $5,000,000,000,000 of that debt or about 1/3 came from the two illegal lost wars that bush started and left without finishing! He left us the debt! and 7,200 wasted soldiers lives.
blondie, if you'll excuse me, I want nothing to do with your god of hate and blanket vilification of the least of our society. The Christ is not pleased. I would like to remind you that the Democratic Party is a party of Inclusion all are welcomed and wanted. Republican Party is Exclusive, the great unwashed need not apply.
Obama 2012
The mayor of the worst @!$%#-hole in NJ. Nuff said.
The President has no control over gas prices..To think any different is ignorant..Oh wait, you are RWNJ.. I forgot..
Blondie...you wrong. I won't miss them at all.
1. Debt...let's talk about the 2 unfunded wars (off the books), Medicare Part D (unfunded) and the Bush tax cuts (unfunded)
2. Gas Prices...according to FOX news during the Bush Administration, the President has no control over gas prices...what changed?
3. God? This is a political discussion...not mythology.
4. Jerusalem? Why should we discuss Jerusalem? They're still getting our aid, they're still threatening to bomb Iran...what's to discuss?
Clearly you mistake the Democratic Conversion with the Republican Conversion. A few other things you probably won't hear:
1. Someone offering a ban on abortions even in the case of the life of the mother as a platform option.
2. Anyone referring to a nation we are not at war with as the enemy or "our number one geopolitical opponent". Democrats don't like to make enemies where none exist.
3. Offer of tax cuts to the wealthy and corporation on the backs of the middle-class (not how we roll).
So yes blondie...there will be some differences.
chwyd,
How dare you say even one soldiers life was wasted. What is it with you Far Left doorknobs? These soldiers fought and died for your freedom, just so you can crawl out of your pathetic pigeon holes and chant your talking point mantra's. You make me sick to my stomach.
Blondie,
NOTHING the Republicans do can be remotely construed as “God Like” other than their “God Complex”. The “holier than thou Republicans” want to do away with health care (remember the shouts “Let him die” real Christianity there!!!), aid to the poor and starving, taxing of the middle class to pay for tax cuts for the rich, they cut education, plan to make Medicare a voucher program, they side with the wealthy and oppose the poor, they are intolerant, racist , sexist, ignorant aholes…. So in all this how the hell do you think that you are the “Party of God”… just because they invoke his name?????
yup, they took God out BLONDIE.. one day you guys will understand that when you "invoke" the founding fathers..when you ASK for America to be America again, the truth is you have no idea what you want because the FOUNDING fathers didnt want GOD mixed with government so much that many of them didnt want GOD on any documents or money. But I'm just sayin... we can Go back to this fantasy place you guys seem to know about.. No black/brown folks, gays or jews there either right? LOL
Dave D-1046643
You stated "How dare you say even one soldiers life was wasted. What is it with you Far Left doorknobs? These soldiers fought and died for your freedom, just so you can crawl out of your pathetic pigeon holes and chant your talking point mantra's. You make me sick to my stomach."
So, where is the freedom when the far right "doorknobs" seek to disenfranchise millions of AMERICANS based on a lie that it’s being done to curb voter fraud when there isn’t any voter fraud? What about those millions of Americans who fought, bled and died from the Civil War to present day to guarantee EVERY American Freedom, freedom to vote, freedom of choice, freedom of religion? If you were a TRUE patriot then you would stand opposed to this kind of circumventing of an individual’s Constitutional and federal right to vote, in other words the republicans attempt to by-pass Democracy!
What makes me sick to my stomach is Republicans, teabaggers and the right wing standing in favor of disenfranchisement, standing opposed to democracy and calling themselve "Patriots"....If you are worried about soldiers dying in vain then you should be standing opposed to your party and their attempt to rig yet another election in their whorish thirst for power and control because the day we lose our democracy will be the day that every person who laid down their life for this country will have done so in VAIN!!!
Richie Rich
IN GOD WE TRUST. OUR RIGHT ARE ENDOWED BY THE CREATOR. Our Founders didn't want any preference for any of the Christian Churches denomination because they believe in freedom of religion ( not from religion) 99 % of them where Christians, 100 % believe in God including Jefferson.
You need to go back to your history class.
have you ever though that the Governors had more to do with layoffs than President Obama check to see how many laid off that accorded to them.
Wasn't it Booker that said Attacking Bain Capitol was "nauseating"?
Thanks for reminding us.
I'm looking forward to Bill Clinton's speech when we can remind everyone when Clinton said Romney's business career was "Sterling" and crosses the Qualification threshold.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/us/politics/cory-a-booker-criticizes-obamas-bain-ad.html
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/05/clinton-romneys-business-record-sterling-124980.html
David Noah,
"I'm looking forward to Bill Clinton's speech when we can remind everyone when Clinton said Romney's business career was "Sterling" and crosses the Qualification threshold."
By the way, have you seen Romney's plan for the economy anywhere? I have been looking all over for it and can't find it anywhere. I would really appreciate it if, when you find it, you let me know!
Mickey, It is useless words and nothing of a plan. 12,000,000 jobs will be created out of the blue. Sort of like Wacko Walker creating 250,000 jobs and so far lost 23,000. That happened the same way. "Empty words!"
clwyd,
"12,000,000 jobs will be created out of the blue."
Yes, and that's the part that particularly puzzles me. Since Republicans claim the government does not create jobs; jobs are created by the private sector, how does Romney know how many jobs the private sector is going to create? Does he control the whole private sector?
Just because you say Romney doesn't have a plan doesn't make it so. Have you ever considered getting off the Left wing propaganda and get other points of View?
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2012/08/16/nobel-economists-back-mitt-romneys-plan
Wheres the 400 Prominent Economists and Five Nobel Laureates supporting Obama's plan?
David Noah,
"Wheres the 400 Prominent Economists and Five Nobel Laureates supporting Obama's plan?"
How many of those 400 prominent economists you cite predicted the collapse of the financial sector in 2008? You don't have to guess. I'll tell you. None.
You really shouldn't make decelerations.
http://www.economicpredictions.org/who-predicted-the-financial-crisis.htm
Lets throw Bush in the fray also.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/05/pelosi-caught-in-major-lie-says-bush-didnt-warn-congress-about-financial-crisis-records-show-he-warned-congress-17-in-2008-alone/
David Noah,
"You really shouldn't make decelerations."
What does making decelerations mean? I have never heard that expression before, and I can't find it in the dictionary, either. The reason I asked the question is because I have a fairly low opinion of economists and economics in general. Economics is not one of the exact sciences like mathematics or physics or chemistry or biology or astronomy. It is one of the social sciences like psychology or sociology or anthropology that had their beginnings in the 19th. century, and just as in the other social sciences there are almost as many theories of economics as there are economists. You will rarely find much agreement among economists as to what is best for the economy. And to add to the confusion there is also the fact that each economist is influenced by his own political bias, although you will rarely hear them admit it.
Is there not a GOP fan alive that is capable of writing a literate sentence? Has not a single right wing nut graduated from grade school? Are GOPers not capable of rational writing? I am so tired of poorly written rants that make no sense. You do not help your point of view when you cannot explain it in language understood by your readers. Is there anyone who can help Blondie with her words? Seriously, Blondie, give it up.
Is there anyone on the left, that is capable of responding to a persons comment from someone viewed as right, without personally attacking them, insinuating they are dumb, irrational, senseless, etc.?
Do you honestly believe you are helping your cause to convince people the Left and Liberals are the compassionate, tolerant, forgiving, understanding, etc. ones?
Sure. That will come as a priority for us after a Dem makes an intelligent statement.
From the looks of the posters on this site and Dems at this convention for the under intelegent it will not happen soon.
Your statement is so true. It also gives a clue why they are so easily fooled.
Cory Booker has grand ideas and intelligence when not handcuffed. He doesn't need a teleprompter. He wasn't speaking from his heart in his own words. His talents run so much deeper than his kick off speech portrayed.
gem01
Thanks for writing my thoughts.
It's about time someone told those illiterate posters to go back to school.
It would be nice to have them write literate sentences that we could all understand, even if the statements aren't true.
Republicans are intimidated by intelligent, strong willed people. That's why you saw a parade of namby-pamby liars and knock-kneed thieves performing their dog-and-pony shows in Tampa. Lies and thieves are all the GOP have. Without them they have no agenda.
President Obama by default in November! America is holding an election and the GOP isn't going to show up!
Gem01,
NO...they are the product of a defunded educational system!!!
Now now, gemo1 (#4). You know blondie's post (#2) is comprehensible. She missed a few commas and the last clause should have been a separate sentence with 'They' instead of 'the'. That's all. Gee, we have a ton of things to complain about but this nation's spelling is a lost cause and I believe you should let it go.
God help us from the republican right wing Nazi party!
clwyd-2621393
God help us from the republican right wing Nazi party!
Do not mention the name of God to speak with hate , it is offensive, as offensive is to God the pro abortion ideology, moreover the Obama ideology he support, allow the mother to kill her baby if he or she born alive in an abortion procedure. So tell me who is the Nazi.
That would be you.
A MUST READ for all. And yes, the right wing base may not understand some of the big words here, much less read it correctly. :D
http://kurteichenwald.com/2012/09/the-five-reasons-why-romneyryan-must-be-defeated-in-2012-and-why-conservatives-should-hope-they-are/
I have been a Floridian for 42 of the last 62 years. I am most likely a freak for closely following politics for 52 of the last 62 years. JFK inspired then 10 year old me to learn all I could about American history and get cold chills every time I joined others in pledging allegiance to United States of America.
The assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK left an empty hole in my young heart. Not because I agreed with all of their policies(I did not), but because the hopes of millions of American supporters were shattered by a lone assassin's bullet. What could have been, for the mightiest nation on Earth, was irrevocably changed by the lone act of a madman.
I apologize beforehand to the many good people of N.Y.C. and northern N.J. My impression of you has strongly been influenced by news reports and the entertainment media. I must admit that Alaska's Artic Circle and the western Sierra Desert would hold more promise to me as a last choice American homestead than yours.
HBO's "Sopranos" are livid in my mind. I watched several episodes. A few South Jersey Piney friends brag about visiting genuine sites broadcast on the show in North Jersey. For those unfamiliar with the show, Tony Soprano is the lead character. He is a rotund, unattractive middle aged man that rules with a loud mouth dependent on hired muscle to back him up. Does this remind you of a powerful New Jersey politician we may all know? This is clearly the case of a real life figure playing the part of a popular fictional character well known for being tough. Christie is as disgusting, immoral and socially worthless as Tony Soprano without his hired guns and fearful victims.
Christie was vacationing in my sunny Florida with his family during the worst blizzard in New Jersey history. Newark mayor, Cory Booker, left his warm bed to physically shovel snow all night long to keep his neighbors and fellow citizens from harm. Christie sent his best regards from Disney World.
K Harson - 2 things.
First, you need to check your facts on the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan.
Second, Do you thing for one minute that ONE man can undue what has been simmering up to a boiling point for 10 years in three and a half years WITH a obstructing congress that by the way are the ONLY ones that can approve and send bills to the president for signature into Law? Those like you LOVE to blame the president when you KNOW that the President doesn't have the authority nor ability to set or institute policy or laws by himself.
Then again to blame congress is to blame the republicans who have sworn to obstruct anything that Obama puts forth to congress(which is ironic because that are always asking where his plan is) which has in turn stagnated this great nation. But those on the right will NEVER admit this.
redvirginia, I mention God and the Nazi republican party because I lived thought the 1930's when the Nationals Socialists in Germany ran fake national Christian Democrats to confuse the electorate, got the German Supreme Court to allow unlimited funding for campaigns (PACS), and started to prevent masses of society from voting under the guise of calling it Communist election fraud. They took over just like the Republican Nazi Party is trying to do. The similarities are too scary not to try to get some of you to wake up!
redvirginia, You are and allt he others who let this happen and are too blind too see it coming. Just like the German people were in the 30's. By the 40's it was too late. We already know that McCain wanted to go into Libya, now Syria and Iran and even spoke those words at the RNC. We have a military out of control, just like IKE tried to warn the republican party about in the 50's.
Mr. Booker gave an awesome and terrific speech! Had me standing up in m living room cheering!
Nice delivery but enough with the "contraception movement". Please people, buy your own contraception and stop making it sound it is some profound right the government needs to support. So very childish....
victor, none of your business how my contraceptives are obtained, please be advised, that contraceptives do other things than prevent babies. I am also tired of subsidizing, through medicare, that magic little blue pill, so popular with scores of dysfunctional geezers.
Obama 2012
Be careful. We stood up and cheered in 2008 but soon found we had been dazzled by some glib rhetoric that rapidly evaporated.
Clever metaphors and rhythmical cadence are intoxicating, sure, but I've heard nothing of substance since Bobby Kennedy's incredible emotion-stirring speech in the Los Angeles hotel. Without a teleprompter, no less. You can listen to it in the documentary 'Bobby'. If only he had become president.
skyparrot,
It is my business how your contraceptives are obtained if I am paying for it. Hence, that is why the taxpayer has no business paying for your contraception. I too agree that the blue pills should not be paid for by medicare.
As I said earlier, pay for your own contracetption as it has no place as a line item in the gov't budget. And it clearly has no place in political theater. Obama cannot help himself....
free Viagra for me men..no birth control for women.on the same health care .its the R/R way of life
Way to go Blondie, David seems to think the truth hurts............
howaboutthis...you wrong. We won't miss them at all.
1. Debt...let's talk about the 2 unfunded wars (off the books), Medicare Part D (unfunded) and the Bush tax cuts (unfunded)
2. Gas Prices...according to FOX news during the Bush Administration, the President has no control over gas prices...what changed?
3. God? This is a political discussion...not mythology.
4. Jerusalem? Why should we discuss Jerusalem? They're still getting our aid, they're still threatening to bomb Iran...what's to discuss?
Clearly you mistake the Democratic Conversion with the Republican Conversion. A few other things you probably won't hear:
1. Someone offering a ban on abortions even in the case of the life of the mother as a platform option.
2. Anyone referring to a nation we are not at war with as the enemy or "our number one geopolitical opponent". Democrats don't like to make enemies where none exist.
3. Offer of tax cuts to the wealthy and corporation on the backs of the middle-class (not how we roll).
So yes blondie and howabouthis...there will be some differences.
Corey Booker is a fascinating man who has unlimited potential. He works with Republicans and Democrats alike. something we need from our politicians. I watched his speech and was impressed by the delivery and the content. I heard FACTS about the Dem platform, not the empty rhetoric that I heard last week. Was it filled with party enthusiasm, yes, but I also heard things that I like: Support for education, small business, controls for banks and wall street, and support of our military. I personally think that whenever we send our military into a war zone, it should be tied to an automatic tax hike to pay for that war. Mr. Booker is definitely someone to watch.
Buckaroo Banzi,
"Romney will get my vote this time because he is the most awesome person I have ever seen run for president. Hands Down!"
Have you found Romney's economic plan by any chance? I was just hoping maybe you had! I've been looking all over the place for it, and I'm just about at my wit's end. It is nowhere to be found!
bukeroo, what side, pray tell, of romney do you find awesome, the flip side or the spineless?
Obama 2012
Romney has no more spine than a slug and he has fewer scruples, to boot. If you watch closely at the videos of the Republican convention in Tampa, a guy with a mop and bucket was following Mitt around cleaning up his slime trail. At the same time a Romney aid was returning wallets Mitt had stolen from delegates as he shook their clammy hands.
Mr. Booker forgot to mention that while NJ taxpayers spend $24,500 per year to educate a child in Newark, the graduation rate has dropped to 29%!!! One would think that more young people in his community would see both he and the President as examples of successful, educated men to emulate, but after four years that hasn't been the case. While Corey Booker is the best thing to have happened to Newark, running into a burning building was probably an easier task than trying to turn the school system around.
The Dems have a party and the NATIONAL DEBT hits $$$16 TRILLION..they can not even count all the zeros in that crazy number!!...talk about a National DISASTER!!! Have Jimmy Fallon explain how many somollians, claims, bucks, dough, bread, etc that is to our baby -minded obama!! THE BABY Obama DOES NOT WANT MORE JOBS, MORE ECONOMY GROWTH!!!
obama says he would grade himself 'incomplete'...in my school that was an ..F !! You did not try, you Failed !! Again, twist the truth. Chicago MOBpolitics!!
How many" black chidder-rhen "were murdered while Rahm spoke??!! Another great leader..NOT!!
Like Eastwood said, We the people hired you, you have not done the job, now it is time to Fire you!!
Mouchweelll talked about a rusty beat -up car that Barry Soetoro drove while they were dating, and tried to make it sound OK that with high gas prices and no jobs , Americans can not drive at all!!..Her dad made the equivalent of $$300K in the 70’s and they let their daughter get in such a rust heap??.DOES NOT EQUATE!!!..Danger, /Danger Will Robinson!!!
obama had shoes too small??? He was working for a law firm in Chicago..SaY WHAT?!!! Why are both obamas disbarred?!! Lavish vacations at tax payer expense and $$500 tennis shoes!!!??talk about her big beer arms and nothing about her LARGE french-fry rear!!
She did not say what conversations she 'valued' from Barry's father, Frank M. Davis, the Marxist pornographer in Hawaii. Dreams of my father....or of Barry's brother George still living in a hut in Kenya!!
Dems take GOD out of their platform, of course, obama is the messiah, why look to a faith-filled God??
they read letters from the peasants while they feast at the tax funded, Chief prepared expensive meals..regular Americans could not afford one of those meals a year, much less nightly!! talk about how bad We the PEOPLE have it, REALLY!!.. Let them EAT cake, right?!! where does Mr. Prez get his news?? On the golf course while drinking with Biden?!! If they were to tell the truth, it should have been, people are writing to the Prez. about how he has dismantled the Middle-Class, ruined the economy, people a losing homes and jobs, HE needs to STOP what he is doing!!
it looked like the podium was a wash tub for all their dirty undies/socks/stained blue dresses, but with SWIMMING Ted Kennedy ,they made it clear that it represents the ill-gotten money the progressive-marxists are famous for looting----bootlegging, tax evasion, ballot- box stuffing (LBJ&JFK),gun running, Treasury looting, drug cartels, prostitution( ala Clinton&JFK) Mob connected jimmy Hoffa unions,the true 1%ers of the USA!!!! SOBER UP!!!
if libs care about our troops , why are they put in jail for voicing their dislike of this presidency?? why are they still in Arab countries being murdered by those they are protecting, why are more deployed every day?? Why were they not home for Christmas as obama promised!!??.Why is Defense funding being cut?!! ……why was NASA destroyed!!??
It just does NOT matter how well you give the teleprompter speech...the glaring fact is she knows it is a lie and we know it is lie...
IT IS THE ECONOMY STUPID!!!..and BozoHussan has done nothing to fix it in 4 years!!! ONLY made it much WORSE!!!
Paying one fair share mean having 100% of the working population, and not only the 47%, filing and paying positive net taxes. Trying to balance the budget by taxing the 1% is unfair and unpatriotic too.
Everybody should have to pay some income tax so they have a stake in how it's spent. That includes the 47% of households who now pay NO income tax. How is zero dollars anyone's "fair share"?
Would it pain you to mention that many of the 0% tax payers are the 1%ers?
Already a Patriot:
Yep, as soon as you find a way to get the Chinese and other 3rd world country nationals working and producing product to ship back to the US that add to the coffers of corporations that have invested there, willing and able to pay taxes to our country, we may jump on board.
How do we make that happen?
Corey Booker has a lot of nerve chastising the "1%", especially given the fact that taxpayers in Summit and Westfield NJ, many of whom work on Wall Street, pay some of the highest property taxes in the country to support not nly their own schools, but the school district in Newark. NJ taxpayers spend $24,500 PER YEAR to educate a student in Newark and the resulting high school graduation rate? 29 PER CENT!!! It is a national disgrace. The documentary series "Brick City" featured at least one of the high schools in Newark and it was state-of-the-art, but obviously the students do not see the value in getting even a high school diploma, let alone a college degree. So tell me, Mr. Booker, how is it my fault that these young people will be unemployable and when should we stop throwing good money after bad?
“We can’t make the mistake that they (the Republicans) make of thinking this country is hungry for bash and slash and trash,” he said. “This country is hungry for hope.”
Yes, give me hope, and the nightmare of leaving my children with a worthless currency and a business overrun by random incoherrent taxes. Taking my money to the Caribbean. Who needs a balanced budget in America when you're NO LONGER AN AMERICAN!!! There is an illegal immigrant willing to take on the burden of paying my taxes for me... Oh wait. They don't pay taxes... Well however this shakes out, you guys let me know. I'll be on the beach.
He also made a statement about what a huge debt this country is facing, Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm I thought he was supposed to be supporting Obummer, not running him down for bankrupting our country and leaving many generations in the future having to pay back that humungous debt.................
I'm still waiting for one of these guys to define "fair share" when it comes to paying taxes. The top 10% of households already pay over 70% of the income tax, while the bottom 47% pay none.
Even the attacks on Romney for paying "only" 13% of his income in income tax is a smoke screen. He is not in the 13% marginal tax bracket. To pay 13% of you total income, you need to be in the top 5-6% of all households, so he is paying significantly more than anyone in the middle class (many of whom are in the 47% who pay nothing). And he gave over $7 million to charity which reduces his taxable income.
So let's have a real definition of "fair share" and how you rationalize it. To most peple the ones who should pay more are anyone who makes more than they do. So if you want to raise taxes on those making good incomes, then call it what it is - a success tax.
Ah but what % of all the money, income, and wealth do the top 10% have? Hum, and how does that equate with the low 47%. By the way, why is the low 47% so low that they don't pay income taxes which is not true, they DO pay income taxes right out of their paychecks each month. They may not file a return because they don't owe any money because they have already paid in all they owe! If you don't owe, you don't have to file! So let us state the "facts"!
Absolutely hate to see this honest and courageous man twisting himself in a pretzel trying to appeal to Obama liberals. He had my immense respect for his cooperation with the Cristie State House touring Newark with the Republican Governor elect 2 years ago, and for taking a stand against the Obama Bain Capital and Private Equity bashing negative add campaign, one of a host of Democrat's who spoke against that tact of the Obama campaign this Spring, and doing it on NBC's Sunday news show, much to the consternation of host Dick Gregory.
You are doing fine yourself Mr. Mayor, and serving your constituents by being cooperatively bi-partisan instead of extremely partisan.
Cut government workers salaries by 10% (includes the White House on down to the municipal level). Hear that AFSCME and SEIU? Then we shall talk about the 16 trillion dollar deficit to bring it down to 3 trillion. And then we will talk about tax increases.
It was the republican congress in 1999 that raised the salary of government officials. Do your research.
Also, we talk about both, AND we talk about that military budget these right wing nutcases seem to not want to cut at all. Then we will talk about those other cuts, as the military is eating us alive, just like the soviet union in the 70s and 80s
Pete: If you are going to declare a war, fund it first! That will take down the debt. We don't have a 16trillion dollar deficit, it is a debt not deficit!
And then we'll go down to the corner of 79th Street and Racine on the south side of Chicago with the president and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel--Obama's lackey to hear them lament about the 57 murder victims in August 2012 and find out why 51 of the 57 were Black. The unfortunate problem is the only way out of the cesspool is to join the military to learn a trade so once they get out they can get a decent job to get ahead. Go figure.
People of the United States of America and MSNBC
LEAN FORWARD COMMENTATORS.
MSNBC’s AL Sharpton is a great spokesperson for
the Demcratic Parties values.
Just read below to see his excellent qualifications as a commentator on MSNBC.
The Reverend Al Sharpton RAP SHEET
TAX EVASION: In a 1988 interview, Sharpton said he
saw no reason why blacks should pay taxes. “If we do not have a justice system
that protects us, what are we paying for?” Sharpton has faced multiple
charges—and one conviction—of tax evasion.
TAWANA BRAWLY: 1987. Al Sharpton, during the
infamous Tawana Brawley case, falsely accused a former assistant district
attorney of raping and sodomizing Ms. Brawley. Young Tawana stated that white
racists abducted, raped, and sodomized her, scrawling the initials “KKK” on her
in human feces. A grand jury later found the entire incident a complete hoax.
Most likely, Ms. Brawley, afraid of punishment for staying out too late, fabricated
the entire story. This did not stop Reverend Al Sharpton, who accused Pagones
an assistant district attorney, of the crime. “We stated openly that Steven
Pagones did it. If we’re lying, sue us, so we can go into court with you and
prove you did it. Sue us—sue us right now.”
Pagones did. After receiving death threats, and
threats against his child, Pagones sued Sharpton and two others for defamation.
A jury unanimously concluded that Sharpton defamed Pagones, ordering Sharpton
to pay $65,000 to Pagones. The Reverend promptly announced his intention not to
pay. A couple years later, Sharpton’s buddies passed the hat and paid off
Sharpton’s debt, which totaled $87,000 with interest and penalties. To this
day, never having paid one penny of his own to Pagones, Sharpton refuses to
apologize, “I did what I believed….They are asking me to grovel. They want
black children to say they forced a black man coming out of the hard-core
ghetto to his knees….Once you begin bending, it’s ‘did you bend today?’ or ‘I missed
the apology, say it again.’ Once you start compromising, you lose respect for
yourself.”
CENTRAL PARK JOGGER: In 1989 “the jogger,” a young
white woman, was monstrously raped and nearly beaten to death in Central Park. Sharpton insisted—despite the defendants’
confessions—that her black attackers were innocent, modern-day Scottsboro Boys
trapped in “a fit of racial hysteria.” Sharpton charged that the jogger’s
boyfriend did it, and organized protests outside the courthouse, chanting, “The
boyfriend did it!” and denouncing the victim as “Whore!” He brought Tawana
Brawley to the trial, to show her “white justice” and arranged for her to meet
the attackers. Sharpton appealed for a psychiatrist to examine the victim,
generously saying, “It doesn’t even have to be a black psychiatrist….We’re not
endorsing the damage to the girl—if there was this damage.” (While it doesn’t
excuse his calling the victim a “whore” and denigrating any damage to her, or
his accusations against the boyfriend, the convictions of the accused were
eventually vacated, despite their taped confessions, after another man—whose
DNA matched—confessed to the rape in 2002.)
CROWN HEIGHTS/ “DIAMOND
MERCHANTS”: In 1991, Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old black child was killed in a
traffic accident in Crown Heights (in Brooklyn),
when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control. Sharpton turned it into
a racial incident. Sharpton led 400 protesters through the Jewish section of Crown Heights,
with one protester holding a sign that read, “The White Man Is the Devil.”
There were four nights of rock- and bottle-throwing, and a young Talmudic
scholar was surrounded by a mob shouting, “Kill the Jew” and stabbed to death.
A hundred others were injured. Sharpton said, “The world will tell us that [Gavin
Cato] was killed by accident….What type of city do we have that would allow
politics to rise above the blood of innocent babies?…Talk about how Oppenheimer
in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond
merchants right here in Crown Heights….All we want to say is what Jesus said:
If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise.
Pay for your deeds.” Later Sharpton said, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell
them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”
ARAFAT: When Sharpton announced a 2001 trip to the
Middle East, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach helped plan
his itinerary. Sharpton, according to the Rabbi, promised not to meet with
Yassir Arafat, yet only days later, Jewish New Yorkers opened the morning paper
to see a smiling Arafat and Sharpton, meeting and shaking hands in Israel.
Furious, Rabbi Boteach said, “Prior to our recent trip to Israel, U.S. black
leader Reverend Al Sharpton and I discussed several times that there were to be
no meetings with Arab or Palestinian leaders, not because I wished to set
preconditions for our travel, but because the express objective of our mission
was to show solidarity with Israeli victims of terror. The idea was to provide
a magnanimous gesture of friendship and solidarity with the Jewish nation that
would hopefully have strong reverberations for the relationship of the Jewish
and black communities back home.”
FREDDY’S FASHION MART/”WHITE INTERLOPER”: 1995. A
Jewish store owner in Harlem was accused of driving a black record store owner
out of business, when the United House of Prayer, one of the largest black
landlords on 125th Street, raised the rent on the Fashion Mart owned by a Jew,
Freddy Harari, who then raised the rent on his subtenant, Sikhulu Shange, who
ran a record store. At one of many rallies meant to scare the Jewish owner
away, Sharpton said, “…There is a systematic and methodical strategy to
eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it
clear…that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that
some white interloper can expand his business.” Following a demonstration three
months later, one of the protestors, a black man, stormed Freddy’s Fashion Mart
with a pistol, screaming, “It’s on now! All blacks out!” In addition to
shooting, he set fire to the building, eventually killing himself and seven
others. Initially, Sharpton denied having spoken at any rallies. When tapes
surfaced, he said, “What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?” Eventually,
he apologized—but only for saying “white,” not “interloper.”
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: During the “Million Man March”
in Washington,
civil rights “activist” Al Sharpton thundered, “O.J. is home, but Mumia Abu
Jamal ain’t home. And we won’t stop till all of our people that need a chance
in an awkward and unbalanced criminal justice system can come home.”
OUT OF THE KING MOVEMENT: Although he was 14 when
Martin Luther King was assassinated, Sharpton claims he “came out of the King
movement.” Sharpton once explained, “I was on some show this week, and people
said, ‘Why don’t you just let it go? Why don’t y’all just get over it?’ Get
over what? Get over Dr. King dying? Get over Medger Evers dying? Get over
Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner dying? Get over those four girls in Birmingham dying? We are
never gonna get over it, and we are never gonna let you forget it!”
FBI TAPES/COCAINE: In 2002, HBO aired a
19-year-old FBI surveillance of Sharpton with self-described mobster Michael
Franzese and an undercover FBI agent posing as a Latin American businessman.
The three were discussing promoting boxing matches and musical events. HBO’s
“Real Sports” got a hold of a hidden camera video that shows undercover agent
Victor Quintana posing as a drug dealer trying to convince Sharpton to play a
middleman in a big cocaine buy.
Sharpton asks the undercover agent, “What kind of
time limit are we dealing with?”
“Coke?” the agent asks.
“Yeah.” Sharpton says.
The phony drug dealer says, “Could be about the
same time we have 4 million coming to us.”
Sharpton: “End of April?”
“End of April. Six weeks from now. Is that a good
time you think?” the agent asks.
“Probably,” Sharpton replies.
Later on, the undercover agent offers Sharpton a
finder's fee for help with the drug deal and says to Sharpton, “I can get pure
coke for about $35,000 a kilo ... Every kilogram we bring in, $3,500 to you.
How does that sound?” Sharpton nods in response.
The deal never went down, and Sharpton has said he
was just playing along because he was scared of the would-be kingpin. “And I'm
in his office. I don't know whether this man is armed. I don't know what's
going on. So I kind of say, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,’ to get out of there,” Sharpton
claimed the tape was leaked by law enforcement officials to disrupt his 2004
presidential run, and he sued HBO, its parent company AOL Time Warner, and
several individuals who worked on the story. No charges were ever brought
against Sharpton because of the tape, which was allegedly made to get Sharpton
to act as an informant for the feds into an investigation into corruption by
Don King and the boxing industry. The HBO report featured former Mafia captain
Michael Franzese saying that the FBI was on the right track when it targeted
Sharpton in a sting back in 1983 to try and root out corruption in boxing.
Sharpton admitted in 1988 that he informed for the
government in order “to get rid of drugs and election fraud” in black
neighborhoods. He denied informing on civil rights leaders and organized crime
figures.
FBI TAPES/DONATIONS: After Sharpton’s name
surfaced on wiretaps in an unrelated Philadelphia
City Hall corruption
case, the FBI launched a probe into Sharpton’s fund-raising for his failed 2004
presidential run. The FBI secretly videotaped Sharpton on May 9, 2003,
pocketing campaign donations from two “shady fund-raisers” in a NY City hotel
room, and then demanding $25,000 more. The two fund-raisers were La-Van Hawkins
and the late Ronald White. Hawkins is currently on trial in Philadelphia on corruption charges. White was
going to be indicted, but died before charges were brought. A later wiretap
recorded Hawkins telling White that they had raised more than $140,000 for
Sharpton the previous quarter, but Hawkins was concerned that Sharpton had only
reported about $50,000 to the Federal Election Commission, as required by law.
Sharpton said the allegations were a “politically motivated smokescreen” to
hide the fact the Justice Department is out to get him. He ripped the probe and
the secret videotaping, saying, “Can you imagine what would happen if it was a
white presidential candidate?”
Does the foil go on the inside or the outside of your hat?
Frank: And now on to R Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'Brian!
Frank, please old, old news please. Don't really care about Sharpton, he has his uses, for sure. I am not electing Al, I am electing Barack Obama.
Obama/Biden 2012
I guess It goes to prove the Democrates will do whatever it takes to retain power.
Al Sharpton isa weasel and President Obama is a bigger weasel!
Ditto Heads,Read up about the genesis of the deficit...
The $12 trillion misunderstanding - The Washington Post
I hope that during the Convention, the fact will be mentioned that on the day of President Obama's Inauguration, the Republican leadership held a meeting and decided to oppose anything that the President might propose- even if it was something they might otherwise support.
Mitch McConnell stated publicly that the GOP's main political goal is to make Barack Obama a one-term President.
Traitors, the lot of them.
I can't help but wonder how better off the U.S. might be if the Republicans had worked for the betterment of the country... instead of what they thought was for the betterment of their Party.
Everybody sees what the democrats are trying to pull. Smoke screens! Libbers still have their heads in their ass pointing fingers @ Bush, making every excuse to justify Obama's failure. Let's cut thru the crap and get down to business. Past political debates between money bags Kennedy and Romney is not the issue........it's not the even the race.
What is this President going to do about the national debt and JOBS? Enough drama and play acting. Voters require answers, not excuses!
We suffered through your tire, lame ass convention, guess you're going to have to suck it up and tolerate ours. Whining does not become you though sadly, that's all you do, coupled with your hate filled rants.
Isn't it interesting to note that not a word was uttered during the GOP convention of Iraq or Afghanistan. Guess the Right did not want to remind it's citizens of the debacles that Dubya created, unfunded debacles I would add.
Do me a favor pal, send me a postcard when those numbnuts draft dodgers, Dubya and Cheney find all those WMD's that we spent huge amounts of blood and treasure on. I shudder to think what you would say about Obama had it been his idea to start these wars, not pay for them, only to find out that the very thing to frightened the American people with turned out to be a myth.
C'mon Reid..................answer the fuking question about Romney not paying his taxes. You pussy!
Wow, first time one of my comments has been collapsed.
Did I hit a nerve?
Bali, haven't a clue how all these comments are getting collapsed, know anything, I don't agree with most of them but that is besides the point. I agreed with yours as I usually do, wow.
@sky,
Thanks for your support. Dunno what's up with the collapsing thing...
Bali Bob and skyparrot,
Have you guys seen the first page of comments on that other article about the Democrats trying to excite the base? Every single comment, bar none, on that page has been collapsed. I've never seen anything like it in the two years I have been posting on Newsvine! Whoever is doing all the collapsing, they have worked themselves into a frenzy!
Bali, Salamat Malam, good evening Bahassa Indonesian, Salaam Hormat, with respect, Skyparrot I have never seen this either, strange.
Obama 2012
Selamat pagi. Just take a look at the first page of comments on that other article. I agree. It's insane!
@sky,
Ah, you've been to Bali, haven't you?
@Mickey,
Is it morning where you are?
Bali Bob,
"Is it morning where you are?"
No, it's 5:30 PM where I am.
@Mickey,
Just wondering. "Selamat Pagi" means "Good Morning".
Jakarta, Yogja, Solo, Cepu, husband was with Well Control, the Indonesian Government hired his firm for Oil Well control, fires, maintenance etc., we, kids and me were fortunate enough to live in Jakarta and travel to the other cities, lived there for 8 months, loved every minute of it. Wonderful, Cinta Indonesia.
salaam hormat, SP
Bali Bob,
"Just wondering. "Selamat Pagi" means "Good Morning"."
My mistake. I thought it just meant "Good day".
@sky,
Well met. I reckon that having seen a bit of the rest of the world gives one a broader perspective.
I'll have to brush up on my Bahasa...
Bali, Another, Mickey,
Would go back in a heartbeat, but older now and the health issues preclude that option, we were there in 2000 and 2001. Exquisite and fascinating country, the people wonderful, never had a problem,even after 9/11 went back late September for a short visit. And yes........
Cinta Obama
The Dems have a party and the NATIONAL DEBT hits $$$16 TRILLION..they can not even count all the zeros in that crazy number!!...talk about a National DISASTER!!! Have Jimmy Fallon explain how many somollians, claims, bucks, dough, bread, etc that is to our baby -minded obama!! THE BABY Obama DOES NOT WANT MORE JOBS, MORE ECONOMY GROWTH!!!
obama says he would grade himself 'incomplete'...in my school that was an ..F !! You did not try, you Failed !! Again, twist the truth. Chicago MOBpolitics!!
How many" black chidder-rhen "were murdered while Rahm spoke??!! Another great leader..NOT!!
Like Eastwood said, We the people hired you, you have not done the job, now it is time to Fire you!!
Mouchweelll talked about a rusty beat -up car that Barry Soetoro drove while they were dating, and tried to make it sound OK that with high gas prices and no jobs , Americans can not drive at all!!..Her dad made the equivalent of $$300K in the 70’s and they let their daughter get in such a rust heap??.DOES NOT EQUATE!!!..Danger, /Danger Will Robinson!!!
obama had shoes too small??? He was working for a law firm in Chicago..SaY WHAT?!!! Why are both obamas disbarred?!! Lavish vacations at tax payer expense and $$500 tennis shoes!!!??talk about her big beer arms and nothing about her LARGE french-fry rear!!
She did not say what conversations she 'valued' from Barry's father, Frank M. Davis, the Marxist pornographer in Hawaii. Dreams of my father....or of Barry's brother George still living in a hut in Kenya!!
Dems take GOD out of their platform, of course, obama is the messiah, why look to a faith-filled God??
they read letters from the peasants while they feast at the tax funded, Chief prepared expensive meals..regular Americans could not afford one of those meals a year, much less nightly!! talk about how bad We the PEOPLE have it, REALLY!!.. Let them EAT cake, right?!! where does Mr. Prez get his news?? On the golf course while drinking with Biden?!! If they were to tell the truth, it should have been, people are writing to the Prez. about how he has dismantled the Middle-Class, ruined the economy, people a losing homes and jobs, HE needs to STOP what he is doing!!
it looked like the podium was a wash tub for all their dirty undies/socks/stained blue dresses, but with SWIMMING Ted Kennedy ,they made it clear that it represents the ill-gotten money the progressive-marxists are famous for looting----bootlegging, tax evasion, ballot- box stuffing (LBJ&JFK),gun running, Treasury looting, drug cartels, prostitution( ala Clinton&JFK) Mob connected jimmy Hoffa unions,the true 1%ers of the USA!!!! SOBER UP!!!
if libs care about our troops , why are they put in jail for voicing their dislike of this presidency?? why are they still in Arab countries being murdered by those they are protecting, why are more deployed every day?? Why were they not home for Christmas as obama promised!!??.Why is Defense funding being cut?!! ……why was NASA destroyed!!??
It just does NOT matter how well you give the teleprompter speech...the glaring fact is she knows it is a lie and we know it is lie...
IT IS THE ECONOMY STUPID!!!..and BozoHussan has done nothing to fix it in 4 years!!! ONLY made it much WORSE!!!
Before either side (right or left) spouts off with debt #'s like any ONE person or President is responsible for it in it's entireity, I highly suggest educating yourself by viewing a non-partisan website that simply reports the facts relative to the national debt & how it compares from Presidency to Presidency.
It is obvious the continual increase of the national debt has been a pandemic that has plagued this country for decades & spanned Presidencies, some obviously worse than others, & the proof is in the #'s.
So before anyone posts blame on any one President going forward, take a little time & educate yourself before regurgitating someone else's talking point from your political party's platform.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh look how the dumbos can't stand to hear the truth............Too bad cuz it's gonna smack upside the head, maybe then you'll wake up
How, that was so clever, I bet your mom is so proud of her little precious putz.
Obama 2012
Buckaroo Banzi, you are kidding, right?
Cory: Well said
Yep. How many will argue that point, and who are they?
And my previous comment doesn't go to those large corporations or wealthy entreprenuers that realize the fact that was put forth was correct. Most are willing to do their share. It's the talking heads that get their rehtoric from some portion of an America that isn't America, that will take the point to task.
It goes to the groverists and those that simply don't understand what this country is about. Think you can have your tea and drink it too?
And then we'll go down to the corner of 79th Street and Racine on the south side of Chicago with President Obama and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel--Obama's lackey to hear them lament about the 57 murder victims in August 2012 and find out why 51 of the 57 were Black. The unfortunate problem this will never happen because the President is just looking for photo ops. The only way out of the cesspool for Blacks is to join the military to learn a trade so once they get out they can get a decent job to get ahead. Go figure. Sometimes we have to look in the mirror to find who's at fault and humble ourselves to find our way back. Romney is my man until my President gets some sense in him.