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[Presidential Election Thread] All Hail the Liberty Rooster.
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"Hey Mom, remember how you said I needed to go to college so I wouldn't be flipping burgers all my life? Well guess who just ate a burger I flipped!"
#FreeScheck#FreeSKFM
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I'm totally tired of talking about dog stories so here's another dog story
Indeed, there is a difference between empathy for the problems of people you know and understand and empathy for those you don't. Conservatives almost always have the former, and a conservative who would do a good job in government has the latter too. The problem is that the Republican party does NOT have the latter. I'm sure if you were a parishioner at Mitt Romneys church and didn't have insurance and fell and broke your leg Mitt Romney would cheer efforts to help and contribute to the community action to help you (even if it was a compulsory part of church membership) but if he didn't know you then you are on your own.
A good conservative doesn't believe in screwing over poor people, he just disagrees how is best to help society. Maybe he believes that incentives work better than taxes in shaping social and corporate behaviour.
Just under 500 RV. That's more Republican than any NH election in the last 10 years including midterms like 2010 by ~8%. Those GOP votes come from Independent primarily but is also Democratic vote was 2 percent higher in 08. In 2008, 55% of voters were between 18-49 in NH and only 14% were 65+. In the 2010 midterms it was 42% and 19%. So they think that voters in 2012 will skew considerably older than in 2010 midterms. In 04 it was 50% 18-44, 20% 60+.
Embarrassingly terrible sample.
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A weird mathematical quirk... using either 2008 and 2010 age demographics for the support Obama got on this poll has him up almost identical amounts 43/44 vs 40/41.
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I recall a South American Catholic Big-hat preaching the church's responsibility in support of 'social justice' initiatives several months ago. This was more or less the response he got in the US.
Supply-Side Jesus really is the new Jesus.
There are Buddhist groups that do this, more or less, every so often in Asia.
No one cares.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_G8
Also Camp David has a driving range and single hole course. Not sure why it's okay to dick around at David but not on a course either.
Honestly we're already seeing some of the very worst offenses I've seen in many elections of looking into polls a little bit. You can simply see them skewing the results to make the answer always come out, "Close, but Romney wins" no matter how much you need to lie to get it there. With what they're doing they may as well just be polling only republican men over 55 and saying that's the election result. I actually did this earlier today. My polling sample was one republican, one democrat and one person who was undecided. I assumed a likely voter model where 82% of voters were republicans, and 17% were democrats with the rest being undecided, based on the 2008 presidential election results in Cullman county Alabama.
Response one - I'm voting for Romney!
Response two - I'm voting for Obama!
Response three - I don't know yet, I don't really like to talk about these things too far in advance.
Obama 17% Romney 82% Undecided 1%
Romney to win every state!
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That's because the dog was strapped to the roof for several hours, 12 hours actually.
It's brought up because people are trying to say Obama is bad cause he ate dog in Indonesia when he was a child. So it's a fair comparison.
Let's Play Mass Effect - Set 6 Updated 9/8/2012
It's essentially akin to being told you're no better than someone engaged in animal abuse because you eat meat.
Sounds like something PETA would say.
The next Woodward & Bernstein isn't going to be writing for the New York Times; they're going to be writing for the Village Voice, or one of the other free weeklies. Or maybe even a blog.
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Is it worse that he's doing that or worse that he's right?
I don't expect a political leader to like everything, but don't be a dick about it.
Let's Play Mass Effect - Set 6 Updated 9/8/2012
A conservative is someone who doesn't understand that the entire point of the safety net is to help the people you don't know or like or understand.
The real take away here is that while Obama is spending his own money on family vacations, Mitt Romney is content to let the tax payer foot the bill for his.
It's not possible for Obama to only spend his own money on family vacations, for the rest of his life.
One, they only get secret service protection for ten years post leaving the white house.
Two, considering they footed almost the entire trip themselves, with secret service being the one exception, this seems like a goosey, hair-splitting complaint.
All complaints about Obama are flawed, false, or forgettable if you're a supporter.
That kind of seems like the important thing here. You can't really say "They're just trying to make me look bad. Sure, they were right, and they supported their argument with facts and verified sources, but they were also being mean".
Nice two-fer there. A straw man and a goose at the same time.
Especially as I, and numerous others, have griped many many times about Obama's flaws.
Tis a play on the Romney Standard of Truth.
Of course Obama can't only spend his own money on vacations and I don't really care if Romney spends all of his vacations at Camp David.
But if Obama had said that, this is the kind of response Mittens would send out.
I suspect that if you added up the days Obama spent outside of the U.S. and on vacation in his entire term, there's a good chance it wouldn't hit that.
So, why, exactly, are we to presume that Mitt Romney would treat the people of the U.S. as chief executive any better than he treated the people of Massachusetts as chief executive? And why is anyone giving any sort of credence to these ridiculous accusations coming from the governor-in-abstentia?
Oh, yeah, that's right: Republicans. Attack your opponent based upon your own weaknesses. If Obama John Kerrys this one, I'mma be pissed.
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That's the forgettable part: you're going to vote for him regardless. No complaint you or anyone else may have, will dissuade you from voting for Obama. They will always have some aspect that allows you to dismiss them.
Clearly, this isn't one of them.
Whoa there, hoss. I'm not the one who brought up vacations.
We've already covered this ground a couple pages back. The reason we're all voting for Obama regardless of any issues we have with him is because we aren't voting in a vacuum. Not voting for Obama is tantamount to voting for his opponent. So until he appears to be worse than Romney, there's nothing he can do to lose my vote. And since I literally believe that Romney would intentionally make my life worse for the betterment of the super-rich, that's a pretty high bar of evil for Obama to have to reach.
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