Steely Dan
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I hesitate to post this as the source police will no doubt dismiss it out of hand, but it echoes a thought that occurred to me; The prize for winning the election is truly a poisoned chalice, the MSM know it, the Clintons know it, so in that case why not throw Obama to the wolves so the final collapse of the economy takes place with the Republicans at the helm?
For the above speculation to hold any water I would expect a late breaking of the ranks in covering for Obama and his incompetence. Perhaps this is what we are seeing. I recommend part 1 of the link posted below as well.
http://www.gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/11/whats-real-story-part-2.html
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http://www.haaretz.c...remium-1.473859
Poll: 85% of Americans in Israel voted for Romney
It kind of focuses the mind living in a Country ten miles wide in parts and surrounded by hostile Countries, as oppose to sitting in a New York deli deciding what to have on top of your bagel.
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There's no point trying to be objective here, it's a waste of time. What is for certain is that so much mud slinging and dishonest character assassination has been directed at Romney and the Republicans that admitting one intends to vote Republican where any suspected liberals are present is akin to admitting to indulging in human sacrifice. When people are alone inside the voting booth it may well be a different story however. Time will tell. Should Obama win then he deserves it, yes he really does deserve it, though the probable majority of Americans who vote against him certainly do not deserve it.
Go on - why don't you show everyone a link to your favourite websites which show he wasn't really born in the US, is really a muslim, and is really a Kenyan citizen.
Take your pick. You know you want to...
No need, Obama's record as POTUS speaks for itself, you don't need to be a birther to see how bad that stinks.
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There's no point trying to be objective here, it's a waste of time. What is for certain is that so much mud slinging and dishonest character assassination has been directed at Romney and the Republicans that admitting one intends to vote Republican where any suspected liberals are present is akin to admitting to indulging in human sacrifice. When people are alone inside the voting booth it may well be a different story however. Time will tell. Should Obama win then he deserves it, yes he really does deserve it, though the probable majority of Americans who vote against him certainly do not deserve it.
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Even if Obama wins it will be the shortest presidency in history when everything behind the Benghazi attack is revealed
I hope you are right, but Fast 'n' furious, sundry Whitehouse leaks, plus extremist sympathizers and enablers of enemies of the U.S suggest mud will only stick when it is no longer possible to hide, and hide it they will.
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Perhaps I have found the reason for the shrill whining noise I've been hearing of late.
It’s one week until Election Day, and President Obama is nowhere near where he needs to be to walk away with a second term on November 6. The latest presidential polls show former Governor Romney tied or ahead now in several key states. An average of the national presidential polls according to Real Clear Politics show Romney ahead of Obama nationally, 48% to 47.1%.
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It could take 7-10 days to get power back on for hundreds of thousands of people in NYC. That could lead to lower voter turnout in a highly Democrat part of the state. It would be way too bizarre if Romney won New York because turnout was so low in New York City due to the storm aftermath. As much as I would love that, I still wouldn't blame the Obama campaign from complaining like crazy about it.
Can they appeal an act of God?
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As an aside the leader of the EDL Tommy Robinson is in jail on remand accused of recently entering the U.S without proper ID. I suspect the U.K authorities would love to have him extradited to the U.S on this charge, though I wonder whether he could get extradition delayed for 7 years by employing captain Hook's lawyer.
What delicious irony!
The delightful, self appointed leader of the EDL and your favourite BF, and spawn of a staunch Irish republican (aka IRA sympathiser) family, is remanded in custody till Jan 2013 for a multitude of charges ( which will just add to his already lengthy rap sheet from his street brawling activities).
Entering the US on fake papers to attend a meeting of Islamophobes, thank you ms Geller et al for such a great early Christmas present. The irony? That such a Republican sympathiser might well be extradited to New York, the city that hosted and refused for 9 years to extradite the convicted murderer of my buddy in 1980 with a US supplied M60. Not only was Doherty supported by over 100 congressmen but NYC even named a street after him. As per my earlier post on this subject, things changed for the better post 9/11, atleast in how terrorist scum were viewed by certain sections of the NYC community.
I wonder who the man with many names (Robinson, Lennon, Yaxley-Lennon to name a few) gets to share his cell in HMP Wandsworth with?
All we now need is for those who supplied the Hawk missiles to Iran that Tappin was sending the power packs for, to really face justice. To date the only person to see the inside of jail in relation to Iran-contra was the guy who stole the street sign (and held it for a ransom of $30 million, the same amount of funding sent to the Nicaraguan insurgents/terrorists), of the street named after Poindexter in his mid-west hometown!!
What goes around.......
I've little doubt that you would accept the entire politically motivated tissue of trumped up charges against Stephen Lennon at face value with no further investigation. To be charitable I could observe that politically active so called anti-fascists are unwittingly acting as an arm of state led suppression. Have you any idea at all what Mr Lennon was arrested for and whether his treatment is in stark contrast to that of individuals who have committed far worse crimes but who don't threaten the state sanctioned mythology? It is a strange irony that I would not sanction the export of a potato peeler to Iran yet do sympathize with the chap who was extradited seeing as he was given far less access to legal defense than the UK hating Islamists get, and his guilt is almost assured seeing as in the U.S plea bargaining results in many people who are innocent pleading guilty to avoid being banged up for life.
Hopefully you and your ilk will come to see the error of your ways before the UK does indeed lose it's last vestiges of freedom of speech.
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This is both hilarious and sad at the same time...
OBAMA ACCEPTS 'OSAMA BIN LADEN' DONATIONS
WASHINGTON – Using a Pakistani Internet Protocol and proxy server, a disposable credit card and a fake address, “Osama bin Laden” has successfully donated twice to Barack Obama’s presidential re-election campaign.The “Bin Laden” donations, actually made by WND staff, included a listed occupation of “deceased terror chief” and a stated employer of “al-Qaida.”The apparently foreign-based contributions were conducted as a test after a flurry of media reports described the ability of foreigners to donate to the Obama campaign but not to Mitt Romney’s site, which has placed safeguards against such efforts.The acceptance of foreign contributions is strictly illegal under U.S. campaign finance law.The article goes on to say that after the initial donations, the Obama Campaign has sent requests for more money.
Perhaps the money can go to the relatives of the Navy Seals who lost their lives when their helicopter was shot down, shortly after Obama had mentioned their involvement in taking out Bin Laden.
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Bush W and Cheney are like the Captain and First Mate of the Titanic, moments before it hit the iceburg. They go flying off on a retirement helicopter, while handing the wheel to Obama. "Good luck, my brown friend. And good luck with the ship's mates we hired from Goldman Sachs - to manage the lifeboats. Ha ha, chortle wheeze."
Funny you mention the Titanic. It sank over 100 years ago and I expect the Democrats will still be blaming Bush 100 years from now. To continue your analogy though Obama increased the debt (he promised to halve) more than Bush did so in effect as the Captain of the Titanic Obama on spotting the iceberg ordered full steam ahead on a collision course for it. Here is a link to clear up your obvious confusion on the issue.
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This is my concern - if only the US was affected by this election I would have no real interest, but this is a world-event, not just a US event.
The problem is that the U.S (and the U.K) is using quantitative easing or in other words money printing to artificially prop the economy up at the expense of their creditors. This can only go on for so long until the pain of creditors having their debt diluted outweighs the pain of accepting the U.S is in default and stop buying any more dollar denominated debt. This would cause the U.S to default overtly instead of the covert default by installments, which is what money printing amounts to. The frightening thing is that only strict Austrian school medicine, that's to say cold turkey for a decade, is likely to prevent collapse, but such medicine is an electoral impossibility.
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As an aside the leader of the EDL Tommy Robinson is in jail on remand accused of recently entering the U.S without proper ID. I suspect the U.K authorities would love to have him extradited to the U.S on this charge, though I wonder whether he could get extradition delayed for 7 years by employing captain Hook's lawyer.
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Where is my liberal representative? Where is my single payer health care plan? Where is my champion of banning assault weapons? etc
Un American ideas.
I am an American - and they are ideas i believe in. So your argument doesn't apply. Or you are trying to discredit my citizenship? lol America was built on having wide ranging viewpoints. Most people don't want people to own assault weapons. Unless you live in Texas...
Don't ask us where all the liberal gifts are.
Ask your man, Obama, why he didn't do something about your wish list when he had two years of a super majority in both houses of Congress.
Oh, that's right! Let's blame it on the last two years of his presidency when you can blame one half of one third of the legislative and judicial process for all the Democratic party failures.
And failing that blame Bush. Should Obama be re-elected I wonder whether Democrats will still be blaming bush for what will then probably be the irreparable collapse of a once great nation come the election after the coming one.
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According to The Hill, Madonna took her shirt off and pulled her pants down at one point to reveal that "OBAMA" was written on her lower back.
Should have been written a tad lower if you ask me.
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That's not the sort of ruthless CEO Americans want to run their country.
It is if he stands up to countries that are cheating and improves the economy. Maybe he can "manipulate" the democratic senate into finally passing a budget after all this time.
I would be more sympathetic to the USA standing up to other countries if the USA didn't have equally nasty trade barriers. Need some examples? Peanuts. US consumers are stuck with only US grown varieties and cannot access some of the higher quality peanuts from other countries.
US consumers are deprived of "higher quality" peanuts from other countries. What a shame. Of course it is because of Mitt Romney and those pesky Republicans. I don't know where Mitt is hiding them as I've traveled a lot and don't remember running into any "higher quality" peanuts anywhere. If this is becoming an issue. election day must be coming soon.
I thought it was Carter who started the peanut protection racket,
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The pro Obama ad targeted at young women that is driving "conservatives" bait sheit:
BTW, if you don't know this brilliant actress, she's the star of Girls, must watch intelligent American t.v.
Yet another cynical attempt to divide America seeing as married women are projected to vote heavily in favour of Romney.
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I am not a fan of Trump, but I think this is great - mostly because of the silly demands by Obama's surrogates that Romney release more of his tax records than he is required to release legally.
What is interesting is how when Romney is pressured to produce his tax records Romney gets all the attention focused on him, whereas when Obama is pressured to release documents by Trump it is Trump who is the focus of attention more than Obama. Perhaps this double standard and the free pass Obama so often gets from scrutiny is the point Trump was trying to make.
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When you run a cynical petty campaign centered around not being the other guy in lieu of any achievements to point out or policies to go forward with the end game will always be ugly. Let's hope we see an end to Chicago politics.
Excellent post. (Not sure whose campaign you were describing but it was an excellent description and arguably applies to both, though to my mind one more than the other).
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Thanks for the compliment, I too can be obtuse.
Hypothetically accepting your premise, what does strike me as ironic is the rancor involved fighting for what amounts to a poisoned chalice. True Obama inherited a bad situation, but he has done nothing to arrest it, but has actually made matters worse to the tune of trillions of dollars, and at a faster rate than anyone has managed before. Obama promised to halve the deficit, he not only failed but increased it. You can play the equivalence game and argue all politicians lie, but this multi-trillion lie is of far more substance than binders, 47% or any other lie or P.R blunder made by Romney. Obama should be booted out on this issue alone, though there are plenty more epic blunders and broken promises to add to the ledger.-
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Des Moines Register dings Obama with dramatic front page contrast
And it's being called "revenge" (by consrvatives) for the recent difficulties with the White House. Not to say that aren't genuine (or even correct) in their criticism, but one can question their motives and objectivity.
Revenge, or not, it is a pretty accurate comment on why Obama's campaign is stalling.
When you run a cynical petty campaign centered around not being the other guy in lieu of any achievements to point out or policies to go forward with the end game will always be ugly. Let's hope we see an end to Chicago politics.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-star-falls-over-chicago.html
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Odd that the man doesn't have a name or photo in the UK media even?
The UK media can engage in news blackout rivaling some totalitarian regimes on occasion. The key here is finding out why the name has not been released, the reason should prove interesting.
He's not a Muslim. Disappointed?
Could you kindly point out where I insinuated anything of the sort, except perhaps in your fevered imagination?
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So the Beeb is taking action over the cover up as the Newsnight editor steps down. Lets hope we get to see the results of the independent inquiry as oppose to the Balen report, where the BBC refused to publish the results and spent a fortune in licence payers money to fight against it's publication.
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This may be all just a misunderstanding. After all, Obama's Sec of Treasury (which oversees the IRS) Timothy Geithner couldn't figure out how to use TurboTax, hence failed to pay his taxes. These guys just aren't good with financials - which has become painfully obvious as we watch our economy tank.
Obama campaign accepted foreign Web donation -- and may be hiding moreChris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens.“When I did Romney’s, the payment got rejected on the grounds that the address on the card did not match the address that I entered,” he said. “Romney’s Web site wanted the code from the back of card. Barack Obama’s didn’t.”Some of Obama's campaign funds in 2008 came from as far off as the Gaza strip, I doubt many are surprised.
Obama Likely To Win Another Presidential Term: Gallup Poll
in World News - Discussion
Sorry for waking you up, go back to sleep again unless events unexpectedly lead to a last minute swing to Romney that puts him in power.