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Is conservative media demoralized?
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:25pm.
Iconic conservative columnist George Will has doubts about GOP chances to beat Obama.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73541.html
Is he indicative of conservatives lowering expectations for 2012?
Gandhi, Mandela, & Obama
Submitted by pilsener on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:37pm.
At an NYC fundraiser yesteray, Obama compared himself to Gandhi & Mandela.
My disgust with Obama has grown so great that it's difficult to lower my opinion any further, but this comparison does. The arrogance is breathtaking.
Even more breathtaking is the idea that while Gandhi & Mandela were seeking to overthrow authoritarian governments, Obama is seeking to establish the most authoritarian government in the the history of the the U.S.
Disgusting, indeed
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:48pm.
Obama racked up fundraiser #100 of the election season yesterday. And managed to screw up Scoobs' commute again, too.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Well, Blonde, he'll rest tomorrow.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 11:08pm.
He must be plain tuckered out, he has nothing on his schedule for March 3, 2012. I guess 100 fundraisers must be wearing on the poor guy./sarc
HIs narcissism knows no bounds
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:27pm.
Comparing himself to two men who suffered for their causes is naracissistic. This is a guy who admitted in an interview that if he has a weakness, it's that he's lazy.
What an utter disgrace.
It's a sign of his insecurity
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 4:47pm.
I see it as a sign of his increasing insecurity. Obama feels the need to compare himself with other people, great people. He has to be just like them, for, as himself, he not that great, and he knows it! Obama can;t be just Obama," he has to be Lincoln, Mandela, Gandhi, ect. in order to elevate his own feelsing of self worth. He know that, like most Presidents, he's destined to become nothing more than a chapter or two in the history book, and a portrait hanging amongst many in a hall somewhere.
I mean, really, Obama knows that the mystique of being "America's First Black President" will fade, as soon as there's a second Black President. Yes, that insecurity is all a part of his narcissism. Being the First Black Ex-President just doesn't sound impressive, does it? Just like being yet another president elect wasn't as impressive as being the first head of the Office of the President Elect, complete with his own "official seal."
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Why would it matter?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 6:16pm.
He's really not the first black president because he's not really black when he's more white(that makes him a cracker) and arabian. It's more appropriate to call him a multi-racial bogus potus.
-Jon
Release The Breitbart Obysmal Tapes!!!
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:44pm.
Let's see if the Smug-Clown-in-Chief can run from his radical roots a 2nd time.
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MmKos....
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 12:52pm.
I don't think this is the video you want, but it was shared w/me today...and is "private view" on YouTube.
It's Boy Barry during the Harvard years. Nothing earth shattering, except his looks. He's had quite a bit of work done (his nose and teeth).....not as much as Mooch, but he's as phony outside as his ever-changing accent. I would imagine the Breitbart vids are of him, basically in the same setting, doing some commie rabble rousing.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
If I heard right they are
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:32pm.
If I heard right they are going to be relaeased on Hannity's show in the next few days. Don't usually watch his show because I listen to Cam and Company.. I'll ahve to watch that night.The left is going to claim they were doctored and highly edited.
Blonde
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 9:26pm.
Interesting video. I wonder what happened to BO's ability to be a "conciliator"? Because now he's all "elections have consequences" and "I won".
His speaking uh hasn't uh improved um as far as uh I can uh tell.
Blonde, You're Still da Bomb...
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:00pm.
That's OK, I will take whatever salacious material I can get to disparage Barry Obysmal!
I may need professional therapy after this election season. So much BS coming out of the press.
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Hang in there, MMKos
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:08pm.
All is not lost. Remember when SPEAKER Pelosi predicted she'd hold the House? We broomed the ****** in 2010.
The media is merely covering for The Won right now....trying to discourage you (look what they're doing in the R primaries to dampen voter enthusiasm). And it appears to be working. Ignore them. We know the truth.
Now go watch this video, of Andrew Breitbart just a few weeks ago. And when you get discouraged, watch it again. And share it with the people who are having food fights over the eventual "nominee". We could run a monkey (oops, is that racist?) and I'd promote it and vote for it over Obama.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Dr. Blonde, Will Follow The 'Scrip..
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:13pm.
OK, I will obey, ha-ha.
I almost broke my TV watching doddering old fool Bob Schiefer baiting Christie last Sunday, and when my dog bolted the room, I figured I had lost it!
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Dear Barry, Can We See Your Harvard Transcripts??
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:08pm.
I am constantly being told how "intelligent" you are, but all I see is the following...
A guy who is despised by his wife
A guy who can't string two sentences together without the teleprompter
A guy who resorts to jive-talking whenever his audience is the middle-class variety
A guy who finds apology far more natural than leadership
A guy who only knows how to "lead from behind"
A guy who thinks the economy is his sandbox
So, this is pretty simple... Please prove your almighty intelligence.
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Rmoney's roots in Michigan smell awfully close to Chicago...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:41pm.
About 1 million people voted Tuesday in Michigan's Republican presidential primary. A day later, six Republican Party officials met and voted to give native son Mitt Romney a narrow win.
And then all hell broke loose.
"I have this crazy idea that you follow the rules," Cox said. "I'd love to give the at-large delegates to Mitt Romney, but our rules provide for strict apportionment." Cox supported Romney and even acted as a surrogate for the candidate on several occasions during the last three weeks.
He was one of two "no" votes Wednesday night -- along with attorney Eric Doster. Voting for the distribution of delegates to Romney were party Chairman Bobby Schostak, Anuzis, party Co-chairwoman Sharon Wise and party official Bill Runco.
Santorum and Romney camps. "We never thought the Romney campaign would rig the outcome of the election by changing the rules after the vote," Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley said.
...Rmoney is no better than obama, just from the other side of the tracks
UPDATE:
Here’s what happened: The state party’s 6-member credentialing committee voted last night, 4-2, to “re-interpret” the party rules on at-large delegates. But on February 4, the committee had met to set their interpretation of the rules for the upcoming primary and released a memo explaining to the RNC and the media that the at-large delegates would be awarded proportionally. MSNBC has audio of state party chairman Bobby Schostak, who sits on the credentialing committee, explaining this very plainly:
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
A about a week ago I posted
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 1:39pm.
A about a week ago I posted here that the folks in Pamlico County, NC that still had not had their homes repaired/rebuilt from Irene where going to lose the FEMA trailers. Many of us took to calling our Congressciters about this, Jones, Burr and Kagan. Pamlico County was hit very hard. many people that live in the Lowland area have yet to find their vechicles. Good news. FEMA has recinded the order to start removing the trailers next week. http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/fema-104756-units-flood.html They can stay in them until their homes are livable again. Come the last week of May, Eight Days of Hope will be bringing in thousands of people to help repair and bebuilt those homes.
if this would have been NO we'd never hear the end of how FEMA was going to take the trailers. Pamlico County is mostly white and conservative. You will never hear about their plight on the national news.
Great Read about Andrew Breitbart
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 2:39pm.
From a friend of his, Matt Labash Breitbart's Last Laugh
In it, the dinner w/Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dorn, to which Andrew referred in his CPAC 2012 speech, is explained (I was really wondering about that....it all makes perfect sense). Apparently Andrew actually said this to Ayers when eating his food, "You're the bomb, Bill". O.M.O! Titanium fortitude, that guy, baiting the guy in his own home.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Fluke Is A Virgin
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 3:07pm.
I mean, just look at her. No real man would do her. If she really does take birth control pills, she does it just in case she gets lucky.
I challenge any and all men that have had sex with her to come forward. I challenge her to prove she has had sex by naming the men she has had sex with. I challenge her to provide a doctors statement, receipts and proof of purchase of the birth control she claims to have paid for.
Furthermore, she is not interested in reproductive rights. As a liber, all she cares about is non-reproductive rights.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
obama - the "I don't" man in the White House
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 4:29pm.
Obama: 'I Don't Bluff'... (Drudge headline)
OBAMA: I don't cheat at golf... (Drudge headline)
Obama on Grim Economy: I Don't Control the Weather
Obama: ‘I Didn’t Over Promise’
President Obama: ‘I don’t watch network news or cable news’
...and I don't think you need to 'occupy' the White House anymore - Inauguration Day on Sunday, January 20, 2013 can't come soon enough
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
VRWC, you missed the take-away quote in your last link.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 4:38pm.
"So in the morning, when I’m working out with Michelle, it’s on SportsCenter. This is the one thing that she allows me ". And, this is the guy who tells us he can stare down the Iranians? He can't even gain control of the TV remote.
LOL
Submitted by GW on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 5:00pm.
That line about the remote was great.
Uh, is the Volt down on power?
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 4:21pm.
Looks like it.
NFL Saints fans- bad news
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 4:25pm.
Wow.
Barry Obysmal, Your Chevy Volt Is Ready
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 7:01pm.
You can pick it up in November.
You won't be in office then.
Even with an Obysmal Bailout which makes the actual cost for a Volt equal to $250,000, GM has to shut the line down.
Why?
The free market still works, you pinhead.
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Sandra Fluke is a 30 yo professional womens activist
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 7:07pm.
Why am I not surprised?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Anybody got a condom?
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 8:59pm.
A free one. I ain't payin' for it. Then again, I don't need it, but just askin'. Seems to be the biggest issue facing America.
Kirk Cameron was on Piers Morgan
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 10:54pm.
Great job, I can't wait to see his documentary.
I'm sure the media would love him if he was a drug addled bisexual unemployed actor.