Teleprompter jokes…that’s original. 

Hey, anyone else remember when Obama went to the GOP congressional pow-wow and took questions from GOP reps, and handled them so well that Faux News cut away with like 20 minutes left? No teleprompter there, methinks.

Of all the attacks on Obama these wingnuts love, this one is my favorite. Yes, when the President gives a long speech he reads it off a teleprompter.

He also breathes out CO2, which helps plants to grow.

Plenty of things done wrong by the guy. This ain’t one of them, crazy people.

“While Mitt Romney is no Babe Ruth, neither is he Eddie Gaedel, …”

Eddie’s strike zone enabled him to have the best On Base Percentage of all time !

Not too shabby.

Newt, recall January 2010 when Obama went the Republican retreat in Baltimore? No teleprompter  was used there by Obama. In his QA session he went through the GOP talking points like a Veg-O-Matic slices through vegetables.He had a big smile on his face the whole time and was enjoying himself. It looked so good for Obama or so bad for the GOP Fox cut away with no explanation. If you missed it, allow me:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vOMIN673A( the mic problem is fixed within a minute or so)

Tommy, shut up. Just shut up.

We don’t need these conservatives to realize the obvious reality. Please. I pray Newt wins the nomination.

Gingrich/Cain 2012!

The GOP Congress has nothing on Newt.

It’s done wrong when he goes off prompter and then goes uh….uhh….umm…uhhh…..

There’s video footage of this happening for seven minutes.

http://www.boortz.com/funny/obama_uh/

No one can think that’s ok for anyone. Would I rather have a bumbling idiot that made smart decisions or someone that could speak eloquently but made very bad decisions? Easy answer.

the point is he served the gop without a teleprompter or a script. So pipe down with this teleprompter nonsense. 

The President WILL wipe the floor with this two-timing two-bit “academic.”  

See publius’ comment. 

LMAO at the hypocrisy of the right wing here. Party of family values? You want a man who’s been married three times – (meeting each wife while already married) to be President? And the serial sexual harasser as a Vice President, who cannot even locate Libya on a map as VP?  LMAO!

Espec when every freaking president in the last 20 years has used one!

They won’t know hypocrisy if it slapped them in the face.

Read it and weep, Gingrophiles:  Even I was surprised that this warmonger was a DRAFT DODGER! http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm

the easiest choice in this GOP debate is Ron Paul, Newt needs to get off his high horse because he has to much baggage to try and win the presidency. Ron Paul is the best candidate either side can offer.

Your statement may be the dumbest thing you have ever typed.

WHAT IS NEWT GINGRICH’S VOTING RECORD ???

Who is Newt:
10/22/1991 – Voted
for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
03/-/1993 – Voted
for sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
11/19/1993 – Voted
for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
11/27/1994 –
Supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
08/27/1995 –
Suggested that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
04/25/1996 – Voted
for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
04/10/1995 – Supported
Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.
06/01/1996 – Helped
a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in
1996 election.
09/25/1996 –
Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing
2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
01/22/1997 –
Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
11/29/2006 – Stated
that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Called for a
“serious debate about the 1st Amendment.”
02/15/2007 –
Supported Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
09/28/2008 – Stated
if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP
bailout.
10/01/2008 – Stated
in an article that TARP was a “workout, not a bailout.”
12/08/2008 – Paid
$300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
03/31/2009 – States
we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
07/30/2010 – States
that Iraq was just step one in defeating the “Axis of Evil”.
08/03/2010 –
Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.
11/15/2010 –
Defended Romneycare
12/05/2010 – Stated
that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and
executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
01/30/2011 –
Lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
01/30/2011 –
Suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
02/13/2011 –
Criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.
02/15/2011 – Wrote
book saying he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating “a new
endowment for conservation and the environment.”
03/09/2011 – Blames
his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
03/15/2011 – Stated
that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
03/19/2011 – Shows
no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded
liability)
03/23/2011 –
Completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
03/25/2011 – Plans
to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
04/25/2011 – Became
paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
05/12/2011 – More
supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
06/09/2011 –
Campaign staff resigned en masse.
07/15/2011 – Poorly
managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.
08/01/2011 – Hired
a company to create fake Twitter accounts to make fake followers.
10/07/2011 – Stated
he’d ignore the Supreme Court and bypass the constitution and congress.

Tommy: I don’t care. Obama is awesome.

“No one can think that’s ok for anyone. Would I rather have a bumbling idiot that made smart decisions or someone that could speak eloquently but made very bad decisions? Easy answer”

so is Obama a bumbling idiot or an eloquent speaker? who are you referring to that HAS MADE smart decisions? 
i do not really get what you are saying..
i think you got caught in the gop conundrum….
you say the president speaks well and then posts where he cannot..
you say he has a socialist medical program–but you support newt and mitt who both supported mandates..
everything YOU hate about Obama you have LOVED at one time from a conservative..
so i guess the answer to your contradictory, ambiguous question would be(even though it is illogical and begins with a false premise) I would always choose the person who makes SMART DECISIONS…regardless of how they spoke~

so not the gop must decide–you want the guy who knows things who makes very bad choices or the guys who know a lot less and make very bad choices..
what is your answer…

and for a look at what the world will look like under GOP control..watch the ‘documentary’
IDIOCRACY…

Or her reply only 3 minutes before.
What a dummy.

Stick around.

Unable to maintain the high road and focus on matters of substance, Newt showed his true colors by following the path laid down by Palin, Bachmann, Cain, et al — cue the banal, petty, snarky quips about “teleprompters”.

What’s next?  Demanding to see Obama’s birth certificate?  Questioning his loyalty to the United States?  Suggesting that his middle name implicates the POTUS as a terrorist sympathizer?

He didn’t serve anything.

Anyone with commonsense knew that the event was a farce to begin with. Genius.

I would LOVE to see Newt and Barry in a Lincoln-Douglas style debate.  Barry without his TOTUS and no liberal media hack feeding him questions from the left disguised as an impartial moderator.  But rest assured, Barry’s puppet masters would never allow him to do that.   

Glad that you read it. :)

Newt’s rising. About time his wife puts a spy on his cheating arse.

That’s mean!

Don’t you know she has an advanced degree? And she works out a lot!

I bet you get yelled at for the puppet masters comment. Perhaps an edit? :) I didn’t read it that way, but I know it will be interpreted that way.

lol @ common sense from the same idiot who thought Sara Plain was going to run for and become President

Tammy is desperate for a job at PMSNBC.

I love to tweak the liberal loons. 

As I said, from my understanding, information may be coming out in the next few months to explain why this did not occur.

So yes, she was running. Genius.

Do you honestly think Obama is the FIRST President who’s ever stammered? C’mon!

Already seen that movie.  Saw 8 years of it in real life too.  Glad it finally ended in 2008.

It’s not stammering. A stammer is a legit concern that people in real life go through. His is just loss of thoughts and mispronouncing words. Many words. And many uh’s. Why do you think conservatives have one rule during an Obama speech? You only need one.

Newt, Newt, Newt….c’mon, show some creativity, man!

nah it seemed pretty legit to me. 

President Obama is articulate and a scholar but he is one of the dumbest presidents to ever hold the office.   Newt Gingrich will wipe the floor with him.

palin just strung you idiots along didn’t she? 

maybe wiping the floor will be barack’s next job cause he ain’t gona be pres…..

It was president Schwarzanegger who said “I was elected to lead. not to read” Not Rainier Wolfcastle

When you use a telepromter to talk to a room full of kids… it fits.

But he’s only articulate when he has his trusty teleprompter.  If you are firm in your convictions, you do not need every word you utter written down.  Personally, I think he relies on it so much because he’s afaid without it, he will tell us what he really thinks and wants.  If he’s not using the TOTUS, he says things like, “we need to spread the wealth around:” and “at some point, I think you’ve made enough money” or “my grandmother was a typical white woman”.  I find it sad when you are afraid to tell people what you really think because you know they will reject it. 

“Even if you grant the premise that Gingrich is President Obama’s intellectual equal, or superior,”. Tommy, please try being an actual White House Correspondent for a minute(I know I can’t believe it either) and look at this objectively.

Newt,Mitt,Huntsman,Ron Paul (who I dislike and is crazy) Bachman(yes her too) and Santorum are far superior and knowledgable to Obama on the substance of all the major issues(It’s not even close). Obama is good at certain things,NON OF WHICH IS HIS DEBATE SKILL OR DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF THE ISSUES and those certain things mixed with his identity as a urbane bi-racial liberal makes him irrestible to the media.

Obama gives an occasionally fantastic set speech in front of a big audience( although whats the last memorable one of his) and he can be a pretty damn good stump speaker when he gets revved up.His “intellect” to the extent he has one is very similar to most shallow and clever journalists, which is why along with their liberalism and lack of ethics  they love him so. He has an ability to turn a smart ass phrase and make superficial connections on issues (just like many journo’s) and like them a startling lack of depth on any of them. No deep expertise or policy knowledge.

So please stop with your faux advise in the form of a back handed compliment. Newt does in fact have a truck load of baggage and potential baggage but his intellectual superiority over the much hyped but rarely proven Obama is indisputable imho of course.;)

Not at all. I never contributed any money to her PAC. I bought her two books so at most I spent $20 which I’m fine with. :) I’m sorry if you can’t understand the fact that I still think that Palin is the best and smartest politician out there. No biggie to me if you get it or not.

Those fools who think barack is awesome need medication…demerol,valium,mayb drop some acid to clear your head and your thinking….

is so easy,they pray at the atler of bob.

Like Obama gives a shit. LOL. He took on every congressional republican and knocked it outta’ the park. It’s not like one of these toolbags is going to give him a problem.

Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann, Shrub Bush and the list goes on and on of proud representatives of the GOP who can barely form sentences. Bush wouldn’t even take questions at press conferences unless the crowd was pre-screened and sanitized for his protection.
How’s that selective history workin’ out for ya’ there, sport?  

This teleprompter thing is so hysterical. Not because Obama uses one but because the Republicans keep using this attack and seem to think that Obama can’t handle himself without one. They seem to forget the 28 debates he engaged in in the 2008 campaign. Remember how terribly he did in those and all the gaffes he made. Oh wait, that’s not how it went was it? Remember when he single handedly out debated a large room full of GOP congressmen on national TV? Remember how the GOP suddenly decided that they didn’t want to do those open meetings anymore after that event?
Really this comes down to one thing, they continuously underestimate the man and his intelligence. It is why they occasionally bring up the ‘we demand to see his grades’ BS. and why they occasionally throw out that Saul Alinsky supposedly wrote his book. They refuse to believe the obvious, that Barack Obama is a highly intelligent man. Whether it is because of his race, ideology, or whatever, they simply seem to reject any and all facts when it comes to Obama’s ability

Big of the Neuter to ok the teleprompter.  If I was Obama — well, if I was Obama I’d totally blow the douche off. But if it was me I’d announce that if he wants to change any of his positions in the middle of the debate, that will be OK with me.

Let’s see what happens when he doesn’t get the questions ahead of time. We’ll have to listen how doctors want to cut off legs to collect another 70k.

I see a lot of liberal rhetoric here (name calling…..personal shit…etc) but NOT ONE good argument that Newt isn’t going to rip obama’s ass off and feed it to his dogs in the debates and then in the General election.
The liberal fear smells absoutely delicious!!

Yes because he got the questions ahead of time in the previous debates. Do you really believe this idiocy you spew or are you just that delusional?

It was to the press too.. but facts don’t ever matter to you guys.   

Obama feels entitled to his own facts, something McCain was too willing to cede. Obama is uncomfortable when challenged. An Obama/Gingrich matchup by far would be the most informative. One thing Gingrich will not let happen is let the media high jack the debates.

He said a “room full of kids,” didn’t you read his post?

Yeah, be we’re just electing him to piss you off, so who cares about that crap?

Unfortunately people like her “really” believe that bull.  I find that very sad myself. 

Putting Obama in a debate with Newt would be like putting a pancake in a room with Oprah.

Michelle this is a NEW election and you need some NEW talking points.  Please these are worn out.

I guess he’s so good at answering questions thrown out at town halls that they have to rig the invites so he can weigh the results in his favor. Spends 15 to 20 minutes going around in circles with his talking points.

 Do I believe he either influences questions or is blatantly handed questions before he goes on major TV, the answer is yes, except for FOX news which he avoids like the plague.Chicago politics leaves no stone unturned.

Obama would wipe the floor with Newt.  I am not saying Newt is not smart but he speaks in riddles.  They would need a very long debate for ole Newty to get his points across.

If posting on here and tweeking libs is you idea of fun you need help.  Get a life Michelle.

^^^^^^^^^^^^ Cognitive dissonance personified

m.

Thanks for all your good work.  It is to bad these people on here CAN’T read.  :-)

I know don’t you love it??????

Pay no attention to her.  She is just rude and probably one of those kids that was a bully in school.

I think you’ve learned all you need to know about WCWI by the “best and smartest” line.

Cause he’d be way smarter dan Darky! Fer sure would’be. Gingrich couldn’t spell Cat If I spotted ‘em da “K” & da “T”

You’re a racist.

He reads… he just doesn’t comprehend.

And in exchange, President Obama will let you use a treadmill while you’re debating, Ging-grinch.

Oh so you choose to ignore the 28 debates, the event with the Congressional GOPers, the God knows how many interviews and instead choose to point out that some Town Halls have prescreened questions (like every other candidate does when they are running for President). Oh he uses a teleprompter, like every other politician in America. He must be an idiot who doesn’t know what he is talking about. Do you have any idea how dumb you sound?

You don’t like Newt? You better get used to him – after all, he’ll be your president for the next eight years, so you might as well get comfortable. It helps if you just refer to him as Uncle Newt, that way he sort of becomes just another jolly member of your family. I know you rage against him now, but I predict around year four, or even year three, you’ll forget you ever said an unkind word about your new Uncle. 

COMPARED TO NEWT OBAMA IS A MENTAL MIDGET

Newt is a walking encyclopedia of politics, religion, science, medicine and technology. Bill Clinton made Obama look like a rank amateur in the Briefing Room. When Newt debated President Clinton in the 90s he (Clinton) was visibly shaking. That should give you some perspective on what a Gingrich-Obama debate would look like.

Oh Snap!

Amusing. All we heard about for the years up to the 08 campaign was how this man was so intelligent, yet they went to every effort to ensure that no one could actually get verification of his genius.  We practically knew what George W Bush and John Kerry got in recess but Obama’s record was sealed like a drum.  If Forrest Gump’s admonition “stupid is as stupid does” is accurate then Obama is in fact the least intelligent man to occupy the White House in a long time. His genius has yet to evidence itself. Apparently it involves burning down the country to save it. Although to be accurate, every Democratic candidate for President has trouble living up to the image Democrats craft for their politicians. Whoever they nominate usually is elevated to supergenius/messiah. No one will ever live up to this and all modern Democrat politicians continue to live in the shadow of the false mythology created around JFK, who was a moral leper, incompetent as a foreign policy expert, the man who got the US into Vietnam, and beatified into something completely false by his assassination. BTW he is another who wrongly accepted kudos for his writing “Profiles in Courage” which is known was ghost written by Ted Sorenson his speechwriter.

This poster has consumed so much of the Obama Kool Aid that he can’t even get the criticisms right. Saul Alinsky couldnt have written Obama’s book since he died in 1972. It is accurately noted that Obama ( as well as H Clinton ) were influenced by Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals” which is the quintessential “How-to” for knee jerk Leftists on how to perfect the art of dirty pool in politics. There is compelling evidence however that at least one of his books was ghost written, which in and of itself is not uncommon, yet the acolytes can not let any fact intrude on their hero worship narrative of Obama.

Gingrich is singular among politicians today in that he actually can operate without a script (much like B Clinton could) whereas Obama gets notably less poetic and inspiring when thrown a question he wasnt expecting. Gingrich is no genius, though he is plenty smart enough for the job considering the folks who have occupied the Oval Office in the past, and in a debate against Obama he would likely more than hold his own.  
Personally I don’t understand the emphasis put on “debate skills” put on by the MSM and the public.  Will the POTUS ever actually be asked to debate some foreign leader? The ability to zing someone is completely unrelated to the job and if this proves anything its that the current selection process for nominees for the Presidency rarely produces the best President.  Being photogenic, politically correct, good at debate, sensitive to everyone’s pain etc, these are all traits which have nothing to do with being the leader of the free world. Give me a man or woman who believes in the goodness of this nation and is informed by actual moral principles.

The jury is out on Gingrich, his serial marrying will become a huge issue should he get the nomination.  And we know the MSM which essentially refused to vet Obama (and still does) will be digging deep and hard into Gingrich’s record.  He is more a politician than true conservative, yet like B Clinton he is smart enough to see which way the wind is blowing and is adept at placing himself in the middle of it. 

And one comment about the throwaway line by this poster about Republicans having a problem with Obama being black, that of course is hogwash. Republicans, like Democrats ultimately care about ones beliefs more than skin color.  There are numerous conservative blacks who are very highly regarded without even including Herman Cain who has had his turn at leading in the polls. This makes accusations of racism idiotic on their face.  Conversely Democrats who claim to represent the black race treat conservative blacks like runaway slaves and everything including overt racism becomes fair game when dealing with apostates.  Baboons like Jeanene Garofalo are the perfect example of this. 

Please, stick to toilet humor – it’s so sad when you lefties try to be witty.

Are you one of the CRAZIES?  A sitting President ALWAYS has more knowledge than the wannabees.
Gingrich has exceptional knowledge HISTORICALLY only!  These debates will be on the present issues, and OBAMA will Clean-his Clock on those, because he and his Administration is on them on a daily basis.

“Current GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich referenced a popular (among right-wingers) but baseless attack against President Obama…”
BASELESS?  tsk tsk tskTommy.  Your kneepads are showing. 

Funny…Obama has never had to pay out $300,000 for ETHICS VIOLATIONS!  The only people Gingrich can ‘wipe the floor with’ are those idiots he is competing against in the G.O.P. Primaries.

Michelle…STUFF IT!

i would love to see gop leaders in a room with Obama -one on one (per se) 

oh ya–that already happened…
what other president has done that? hmmm none?
so Obama will take on the entire GOP den–head on–and NOT ONE GOP leader will stand in front of ANY liberal group and take question…most will not even give an objective interview in fear of LOOKING STUPID..

Obama may be many things–but one thing is is not— A COWARD AND PHONY..
i think we will see Obama at his best this election and i just hope that the dems come out and give the GOP some of their own medicine~

he is more intellectual standing next to any conservative…

you people will be praying for John Mcain in a few moths~
hahaha

It’s not that Obama is the first and only Pres to use a teleprompter, it’s that he uses them obsessively; it’s that when he uses them he is articulate and when he does not have one, he stammers profusely.

So the author resorts to the old ad hominem “he/she’s crazy” meme. What qualifies the former Speaker of the House (or any prominent Republican) as “crazy”? Why just being a Republican supposedly makes them crazy.

This is not a persuasive argument against Gingrich, who has plenty of significant arguments to make against Obama.

The Newt’s a consigliare in the CFR

The Irrelevance of the Republican Party

http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/irrelevance-of-republican-party.html

The Real Newt Gingrich Part 1

http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/real-newt-gingrich-part-1.html

He can’t lie this time.   He can’t say  ”I will stop us from having prisoners in Guantamo” or “I will immediately withdraw from Iraq”.       Obama without his teleprompter and having to run on his proven record is a disaster for him.

Good point which I’ve been making all day.  These idiots who think Newt is brilliant have never explained why that is.  It seems to me tht Newt reputation hasn’t preceeded him.  He thinks child labor laws are stupid?  He thinks multiple wives are OK?  Does he really think he has a chance against this President?  His bloated ego is only matched by his bloated anatomy.  The baggers are clearly reaching.  The adulterer and his latest bride will never get into the Whitehouse. They can just go back to grifting after he’s crushed by Obama.  Maybe he can hand out more of those awards he bestows on strip clubs provided they pay the $5,000 dollar fee?

It is not very hard to make John Boehner look dumb.  Newt Gingrich is the real deal.

AN APPEAL TO ALL AMERICANS
 
When looking at the real economic numbers and the cost effect results of our foreign policy closely, one can only conclude that we have become a welfare/warfare state that has already entered into a Depression, while heading towards ever more endless wars, complete bankruptcy, and the collapse of an America which we have known for more than two centuries.
 
There are far more of us than those who represent the special interest group financed establishment which continues to benefit from all of the above at the expense of average Americans. Most of us can at least sense that something is drastically wrong yet we remain on our path to self-destruction if we allow status quo politicians with status quo policies to continue on.
 
Whether you are a member of the Tea Party, OWS, any other group, or simply a disenfranchised individual who sees little hope, please look up, learn about, and help Ron Paul become president anyway you can. The only way we lose is if we continue to remain divided.
 
Had we voted Ron Paul into office in 2008 we would at this time be well on our way to recovering the American dream. Fortunately it looks like we have one more chance to get it right. It’s probably our last chance, however, because within four years of continued status quo leadership and policies we will find ourselves in the midst of a full scale Depression and all the turmoil that it brings.
 
Even if you disagree with Ron Paul on a position or two please don’t let that stop you from supporting him. Even in such a situation consider if Ron Paul won’t get you 80% of what you want while getting the country back on track to recovery. At such time it will be easier to argue about the 20% that is missing than under present status quo leadership. If we were to all wait for a candidate that gives us 100% of what we want then we will remain divided and there will be no hope.
 
During this critical time in history let’s come together as a country to show that we as a people can overcome the special interest group financed status quo candidates to support and vote Ron Paul into office in 2012 so that we and our children have a better future. Please pass this on to everyone you know.
 
From a concerned citizen

Sure and you get to use your Koch brothers memos as cribs

What I don’t ignore is how the vetting process for this President went down.
What I don’t ignore is how the Media gave this President way too many passes.
What I don’t ignore is how devisive this President has become since the “Hope and Change”
What I don’t ignore is his putting down of American’s in general and his premonitions that if this country is attacked from within it will happen by a fellow American.
What I don’t ignore is how a party I belong to has been painted as racists and unamerican by the people who this President has working for him.
What I don’t ignore is that 75% of this country is not happy with what’s happening around them and this joker is out there campaigning.
Dumb are you lemmings who attached yourselves to something that doesn’t exist and are willing to double down while the rest of us pay the price.
 

Actually it was Newt who was served a $300,000 dollar fine.  Remember?

I think I struck a nerve.

It’s true what they say, being prone to delusions is a key component of liberalism. 

Professor of the Harvard Law Review.  Nuff said!  While Bush got into Yale courtesy of his last name.  Now there was a mouthy full of marbles if I’ve ever heard one.  The President has a slight stutter at times but, it’s not a lack of intelligence which is why he’ll win reelection.  That and the crop of idiots in the GOP clown car.

Really?  Him and which wives?  Do you actually know anything about Newt?  I’d suggest you read up on this grifter.  Obama would wipe the floor with this ignorant blimp but, he’ll never get the chance because the religious nuts who run the GOP will never give him the nod.  Tubby will be able to go back to whoring his books and tapes to the hooples who are too stupid to notice that they’re being used.

Hm?  3 wives, took millions from Fannie and Freddie after trashing them and claiming to be a Historian, shut down the government and allowed a flood of Dems to take office.  Was run out of town and forced to pay a $300,000 dollar fine, said Obama should intervene in Lybia and then said he wouldn’t have, thinks child labor laws are stupid.  I could go on but, my hand are tired.  Though, I wonder if some Liberal group will help the baggers make up their minds by showing that great ad he did with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Chang Obama, 2012.  There’s no contest!

And given the fact that OBOZO is severely mentally handicapped due to his decades of heavy drug use, newt promises to use only ONE TENTH of his brain to give OBOZO a fighting chance.

I am a racist? How is that? Oh that’s right, you just throw out random insults to make yourself feel better about the lack of any substantive response.

What’s your point? I only like Palin. :)

Obama got in because of Affirmative Action. That doesn’t mean he also didn’t have the numbers, but as someone that is currently applying to law school, any ethnicity is better than Caucasian. Sorry dear.

And I would really enjoy reading the articles he authored. Still waiting on those.

“best and smartest politician out there”

Seriously? Come on, Republicans can do better than a populist imbecile who barely manages to string together coherent sentences.

You’ve now responded to Michelle twice. One included her tweaking libs.

Might I suggest you get a hobby? It only seems fair since you stated the same.

Did you miss the President wiping the floor with the entire GOP House of Representatives as several people here have pointed out?  Clearly impressive.  It’s OK to disagree with this President but, to ignore the facts is probably how you righties get through the day.  Ignore it at your peril.  And seriously, aren’t you the least bit embarrassed by the GOP Clown Car of Candidates?  Really?

See this is exactly what I am talking about. The guy was Magna Cum Laude at Harvard Law School. What the hell else do you really need to know. 
And I meant Bill Ayers, not Alinsky, that was my bad.
And by the way the Tea Party has done more to follow Alinsky’s suggestions in Rules for Radicals then anyone else recently. See I have actually read the book and know what is says. I don’t simply repeat some tripe fed to me by talk radio.
And by the way I also think JFK was vastly overrated, but that has absolutely nothing to do with what we are talking about. Though I couldn’t help but notice you say “another who wrongly accepted kudos”. Does this mean you buy the BS about Ayers writing Obama’s book? Dope.

I myself will never forget the hysterical grin on Luke Russert’s face as he described how the GOP admitted that they’d made a mistake in inviting the President to their House Retreat and allowing it to be televised.  It was truely hilarious.  I do notice that many here are trying hard to forget.  I DON’T BLAME YOU!

pubis the sock?

Obozo?  Now, why do you suppose the majority of this country voted for him and will do so again?  Is that your comback? Obozo?  Remember that this country is very vain and want someone as President who is intelligent and a statesmen.  Not a serial adulterer who claims to be brilliant but, has proven to be anything but!  There will never be another fat President. Period!

Nominating Newt would be the single biggest gift the Republicans could give to Obama.

Don’t let his faux-intellectualism fool you.  Newt is a has-been politician with more baggage than a 747.  

The Newt hamster never shuts up.  He’s my next-door neighbor.  If the space allowed & there was an interest – I’d tell you about him. Ummmmm.

Yeah, you no doubt said the same thing in ’08.

Funny thing about the American people.  We aren’t as crazy, or stupid, as the right-wingnuts think.  At the end of the day, the guy who can shout the loudest is just … the guy who can shout the loudest.

See if you can come up with a rational candidate for ’16, ’cause ’12 ain’t going to be your year.

I have to go now.  You GOP cranks are boring me!

You’re right, Tommy. No one should listen to you, particularly when you highlight the comments of a brain-dead gasbag just to get page views in order to keep your job, 

Correction: The right-wingnut wing of the Republican Party are not “trying hard to forget.”  One, they don’t really try (work) hard at anything.  Two, they have the long-term memory of fruit flies … “forgetting” is pretty much part of their DNA.

And, BTW, wow … a debate between Gingrich and Obama.  Imagine a televised program that Fox and the Republican caucus couldn’t cut away from or edit.  The only hope that Newt would have is that Obama

would show some mercy.  Let’s hope not.

How does this STUPID attack persist? He has given several hundred speeches in the since early 2007,  probably 10,000 minutes of video tape, and the combined brain power of the entire republican party can only come up with a couple minutes where he forgot his speech.  Lest you shit for brain’s forget, that he destroyed McCain in the debates, the voters have spoken, took on the entire republican congress, to the point that Fox cut the feed. Comparatively the republicans can’t find a guy that can speak for 5 minutes on a national stage without embarrassing themselves. Cain doesn’t know what Libya is, Perry can’t remember 3 departments, Bachmann thinks a vaccine causes retardation, Romney can’t remember what his own position is, Palin writes on her hands, Boehner balls his eyes out constantly, and Gingrich has all the integrity of a snake oil salesman. So congratulations Gingrich can string 2 sentences together without looking like a total fool, you want a freaking metal.
I look forward to watching him debate Obama.

It doesn’t sound like you read my posts either.  

Correction: The right-wingnut wing of the Republican Party are not “trying hard to forget.”  One, they don’t really try (work) hard at anything.  Two, they have the long-term memory of fruit flies … “forgetting” is pretty much part of their DNA.

And, BTW, wow … a debate between Gingrich and Obama.  Imagine a televised program that Fox and the Republican caucus couldn’t cut away from or edit.  The only hope that Newt would have is that Obama would show some mercy.

But … the “lefties” here aren’t embarrassing themselves on the national stage. Newt? Let’s hope his humor wins him the nomination, so that the world gets the chance to see just how clever he really isn’t when he has to debate in front of an audience that isn’t drinking his flavor of Kool-Aid, against the guy he thinks it’s so easy to trash-talk about when he isn’t actually there.

and this is why the GOP will lose in 2012. The teabaggers aren’t interested in producing a president, but instead are seeking the ugliest insult comedian in their primaries.

He already called him a Kenyan anti-colonialist, which isn’t very far from asking for his birth certificate.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/246302/gingrich-obama-s-kenyan-anti-colonial-worldview-robert-costa

There is always a thin line of using too much ink and not using enough.  

Suggest you look at video tape of him without prompters.   Great example is his spontaneous visit the Republican House Delegation retreat in February of this year.   No notes, no prompter.   He took any and all questions from his republican opposition for an hour and shredded their talking points so deftly that Fox news cut away halfway through.   

Watch it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vOMIN673A

Anyone want to imagine the scene if any of the GOP hopefuls tried the same thing in reverse?

So was Bush and Cheney, doesn’t stop these clowns for voting for them. Daddy got Bush into the National Guard during Vietnam, and Cheney got 5 deferments.

Well, few people become president after serving as president. But he can worry about his next job after Jan. 2017 gets here.

Would love to see any videotape of any Newt v Clinton debate.  Also, can you point out the occasion where the Speaker of the House debates the President?  Neither can I. 

But please, do continue your wonderful story.

It would probably be just like the time Obama cleaned the clocks of a room full of GOP congressional leaders. All Newt will be able to do is whine about the moderator’s questions.

says the party that believes Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

Lets see – Newt has held tons of stands across his career which directly contradict his current ones?  Obama is a great debater, and the whole teleprompter thing is a GOP myth like so many other Republican truisms?  There’s 2 good arguments.

Also, Newt couldn’t even beat you, an angry misguided Tea Partier in the primaries.   He has more skeletons in and out of his closet than any current national politician -  The millions made from Fannie and Freddie as a “Historian”, the ethics charges when he was Speaker, the multiple affairs, the serving the first wife divorce papers when she was in the hospital with cancer.  The speeches of personal outrage about Clinton’s infidelity while he was at that time cheating on his wife, the financial schemes… I’m getting tired typing them out.

As posted above, anyone who doubts that Obama is better off prompter than most of the GOP candidates are with one should have a look at Obama’s visit the the GOP House delegation retreat in Baltimore early this year.  He took all questions from 100+ political opponents and made them look silly and petty.  It was going so badly for the GOP that Fox suddenly needed to cut away to something urgent, like a Valentines shopping hints segment….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vOMIN673A

Actually every President since Eisenhower.  Truman refused to use one because he was near sighted.

–Cobra

See above.  Then look to the left and right of you in your house/apartment/trailer.  Both those people stand a better chance of being president than Newt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vOMIN673A

So says the Freddie Mac historian.  Hilarious.

Just more name calling and smears. Nothing of substance.
I just love the small  liberal mind…..So simple and predictable.

Ron Paul, Santorum, and Bachman are “far superior and knowledgable” to Obama…  You are as adorable as a box of kittens.  

I’d grant that Mitt and Obama are probably the same weight class intellectually, with Newt & Ron Paul reasonably intelligent but a weight class below (before you even open Newt’s storage locker of sleaze and issues) - 

Then you get to Santorum and Bachman… A gruesome twosome who doubt science, don’t understand basic economics, think that gay is something that you can catch like a cold, think the earth was made by magic 6000 years ago, that man rode Dinosaurs, and that foreign policy basically needs to be about setting the table for the Second Coming of Christ.   I think Bachman would be challenged in a debate over which of the “My Little Ponies” is her favorite.   

But by all means, lets keep pretending that these rubes could match intellect with Obama.

After he’s “crushed” by Obama? You don’t get the joke, so let me lay it out for you – Barack has done such a poor job as president that he’s already lost the election before it even starts. We can run Donald Trump’s hairpiece and your boy would lose.

You can dish out the ‘Cream of Nothing’ until you turn blue in the face, but sooner or later the country’s going to want to have something real.

Michelle, it really is time to drop a little truth into just one of the hundreds of far right delusions with which you are afflicted:

Obama, off prompter, matched against 100+ House Republicans:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vOMIN673A

Objective Reality: You’re soaking in it.

Just to be clear, you are admitting that every sitting republican house member is a fumbling moron….

Hoover was the First President to use a Teleprompter, in 1952 at the Republican National Convention, he hat not been President for 19 years at the time. Eisenhower did not become President until 1953, three years after the invention of the first Teleprompter.

Tommy is right.  Obama is so smart I bet he could debate Newt in Austrian.

TelePrompTer no TelePrompTer makes no difference obumbler is toast in any debate with Gingrich with the possible exception of what does an Indonesian house boy fear the most.

I think 2012 is going to be very hard for you. Relax, and get used to Uncle Newt – say it over and over again, until it rolls joyfully off your tongue. Try a little flourish with your hand, right at the end.

Also, it might help to take up painting now, that way by the time he’s elected you’ll be able to do some great portraits of your dear leader (on velvet of course) and even be able to knock some out for your friends. I’m so looking forward to you enjoying the coming eight years – or, the “Age of Newt” as we are already referring to it!

Nah, it’s Uncle Newt. FTW.

You have been brainwashed.

Obama has compiled a remarkable record of economic disasters in his 31 months as President. He has added $4.3 trillion to our national debt, quadrupled our budget deficit, championed an unpopular and unfunded socialized healthcare plan and rammed through an unworkable $800 billion stimulus plan. In the process, gasoline prices have skyrocketed, home sales have tanked, the dollar is being challenged as the global reserve currency and inflation is rearing its ugly head again. Our country is suffering from 9.1 percent unemployment with an underemployment rate of 16.1 percent. Under President Obama, the number of chronically unemployed people is at an all-time high, as is the number of Americans on food stamps ($45.3 million).In the midst of this economic nightmare, Obama  became the first President in U.S. history to preside over a downgrade in our credit rating from AAA to AA+.   Yep Obama has done a great job!

Obama has compiled a remarkable record of economic disasters in his 31 months as President. He has added $4.3 trillion to our national debt, quadrupled our budget deficit, championed an unpopular and unfunded socialized healthcare plan and rammed through an unworkable $800 billion stimulus plan. In the process, gasoline prices have skyrocketed, home sales have tanked, the dollar is being challenged as the global reserve currency and inflation is rearing its ugly head again. Our country is suffering from 9.1 percent unemployment with an underemployment rate of 16.1 percent. Under President Obama, the number of chronically unemployed people is at an all-time high, as is the number of Americans on food stamps ($45.3 million).In the midst of this economic nightmare, Obama  became the first President in U.S. history to preside over a downgrade in our credit rating from AAA to AA+. Gallup poll- worst president in the history of the nation? OBUMMER hahahahaha

Obamacare, fast and furious, war with Libya without congressional approval, 48 czars without congressional approval, loss of credit rating, touts green jobs and global warming, while leaving a bigger carbon foot print than any other president, stayed on vacation during a terrorist attack, doubles the deficit in two years, appoints a woman to the supreme court who has never been a judge, he has taken more money from wall street than any other president, he was never a constitutional lawyer, he had his law lic. revoked for lying on his bar exam, he refuses to open any records of his past records.
 

Stimulus funds redistributed:Granite Reliable Wind Generation: 168.9 Million. Nancy-Anne Deparle is a major owner of the company. She also happens to be Obama’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff.Bright Source Energy: 1.6 Billion. Robert Kennedy Jr. is partner and senior advisor to Bright Source. He also helped get Obama electedSolyndra 535 million. Primary investor Kaiser. Also an Obama money bundlerSolar reserve; 737 million. Major investor, Michael Froman. Froman is Obamas Deputy Assistant and major money bundler.Obama took our 750 billion in stimulas and paid off the cronies that got him elected.   Solyndra: 535 Million. Primary investor, Kaiser. Also an Obama money bundler.

Solar Reserve: 737 Million. Major investor, Michael Froman. He is Obama’s Deputy Assistant and major money bunler.Granite Reliable Wind Generation: 168.9 Million. Nancy-Anne Deparle is a major owner of the company. She also happens to be Obama’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff. The list goes on and on. IMPEACH THIS SOB!!!Solyndra: 535 Million. Primary investor, Kaiser. Also an Obama money bundler. Solar Reserve: 737 Million. Major investor, Michael Froman. He is Obama’s Deputy Assistant and major money bunler.Granite Reliable Wind Generation: 168.9 Million. Nancy-Anne Deparle is a major owner of the company. She also happens to be Obama’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff. The list goes on and on. IMPEACH THIS SOB!!!~
Solar Reserve: 737 Million. Major investor, Michael Froman. He is Obama’s Deputy Assistant and major money bunler.Granite Reliable Wind Generation: 168.9 Million. Nancy-Anne Deparle is a major owner of the company. She also happens to be Obama’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff. The list goes on and on. IMPEACH THIS SOB!!!

Palin 2012,… she’s smart!

Let me get this straight…We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people, without adding a single doctor, but provides 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairmen says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is broke!!! What the hell could possibly go wrong!?

Thank you!

That is what you are being graded by! Stay loyal, it says all we need to know about you!

Being Magna Cum Laud at Harvard Law School  is no small accomplishment, but academic honors are neither guarantees one is a “genius” nor whether they will be a good executive or not. It’s amusing also that while people will say Bush had a helping hand in getting into Yale, no one will admit a biracial student whose career at Occidental College was undistinguished, couldnt have gotten any help getting into Columbia or Harvard.  The same people who downcried Clarence Thomases record as thanks  based on affirmative action won’t do the same for Obama. There are tons of great students coming out of universities every year with high honors.  None of this makes them all suited or even qualified to be POTUS.

I think it is likely that Obama had a lot of “help” writing his books. Jack Cashill began studying and comparing the works of Obama vs the writings of Ayers and found more than passing similarities.  Both authors were then subjected to software publishing houses use to detect plagiarism and found a very high amount of commonality. Ultimately do I care if he had a ghostwriter? Not really. Does this change my opinion about the likelihood of Ayers or someone else being involved? No.
What I care about is what this purported genius has done once he got into office, which to make a long story short, is ignore what has worked most other times and made a bad situation much worse.

That would be Sarah “I use a teleprompter almost all the time while insulting the President for doing what every other politician does… and don’t ask my any ‘gotcha’ questions unless the answer is on the teleprompter I don’t want to admit I’m using” Palin.

THANK GOD FOR OBAMA!  He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine – Driving a stake thru the Heart of Hillary’s Presidential aspirations–something no Republican was ever able to do.  Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!  He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty – No more Kennedys trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home.  American women and freedom are safer tonight!  He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes! In 2009    Dennis Moore had never lost a race – quit    Evan Bayh had never lost a race – quit    Byron Dorgan – had never lost a race – quit     In 2010 dozens more democratic political careers were destroyed by Obama!  By the end of 2012 dozens more will be!  In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats.The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party.In one year Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the house, if not the senate back to the Republicans. Obama was named Gun Salesman of the Decade. He also has helped the ammunition industry so much that the factories are operating 24-7 trying to keep up with the demand.  He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are.Every generation seems to need to relearn the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge.He is bringing home the lesson very well!     Liberals tax, borrow and spend – check     Liberals won’t bring themselves to protect America – check     Liberals want to take over the economy – check     Liberals think they know what is best for everyone – check     Liberals aren’t happy till they are running YOUR life – check  He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan In three years he rejuvenated the Conservative Movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans.Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!   When the American People wake up, no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!Obama woke up these Great Americans Again I want say Thank you Obama!  

So, Lets Recap “2009″ I’ll get to 2010 and 2011 later
1. The American people inaugurate a president with a total of 142 days experience as a US Senator from the most politically corrupt state (city) in America whose governors have been ousted from office.   .   
2. The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm a black Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out represents seventeen Gitmo Terrorists.    
3.  We got the second most corrupt American woman (Pelosi is #1) as Secretary of State; bought and paid for.
4. We got a Tax Cheat for Treasury Secretary who did not properly file his own taxes for 12 years. 
5. A Commerce Secretary nominee who withdrew due to corruption charges. 
6. A Tax cheat nominee for Chief Performance Officer who withdrew under charges. 
7. A Labor Secretary nominee who withdrew under charges of unethical conduct. 
8. A Secretary HHS nominee (Daschle) who withdrew under charges of cheating on his taxes. 
8. Multiple appointments of former lobbyists after an absolute campaign statement that no lobbyists would be appointed.
America is being run by the modern-day Three Stooges; Barry, Nancy and Harry and they are still trying to define stimulus…”it’s spending!!!” 
The congress passes an $800 billion dollar pork-loaded spending bill where the government gives you a smidgen of your tax dollars ($13 per week), making you feel so good about yourself [stimulated], that you want to run out to Wal-Mart and buy a new Chinese-made HDTV! 
 

Here’s the good news though – Obama took Air Force One to Denver to sign the stimulus package, wasting as much as 10,000 gallons of fuel OR 24 JOBS FOR ONE YEAR.
 
Don’t you just love hypocrites?
Obama went to the International Olympic Committee to have them choose Chicago for a host city, he failed.
Obama went to Copenhagen to lecture them on global warming, he failed
Obama went to New Jersey to promote the Democratic candidate for governor, he failed,
Obama went to Virginia to promote the Democratic candidate for governor, he failed.
Obama went to Massachusetts to promote the Democratic candidate for senator, he failed.
 
Speaking of praying, Obama has now been president for a full year and yet he & wife (first lady) Michelle, the Christian family they claim to be, have attended church once since the inauguration.
 
Obama is the 1st president in history who did not attend any Christmas religious observance.
 
And finally, he is the 1st president to remain on vacation after a terrorist attack.
 
In these times ‘I’ll keep my God, my freedom, my gun and my money. 
Anyone that supports this insanity can keep “THE CHANGE”.

90% of the blogs I read say basically the same thing. Obama and the Dems are OUT in 2012. But there are always the last few kool-aid drinkers who refuse to see reality. Like the praisers of Hitler, they will hang on til the bitter end. To those few I say, “shame on you sheeple”!
 
 

Obama Nov. 2011 approval rating- 42%
 
Past presidents three years into their presidency
 
Bush- 52%
 
Clinton- 53%
 
George Bush- 55%
 
Reagan- 53%
 
Carter-40%
 
Nixon- 49%
 
Kennedy- 58%
 
Eisenhower- 78%

Looks like Obama is neck and neck with Carter….surprise…surprise!

You’re kidding right? So there is no pop. growth, no continued debt (whichs has grown daily for 200 years), plus he had a nice start from George, stimulus created thousands of jobs, the pres. doesn’t control gas prices, (ask George), when did home sales “first” tank(?) number of lost jobs has slowed to a lower amount (than George) preside over a down grade (please,… open your eyes) Gallup poll, (check again) I know this is what you want to believe, because you spin, want to lie or are uninformed, pick one!

Which “tea” site are you buying these half truths from? You’ve said nothing, but what both sides have done for years with party supported relationships. He has done nothing illegal and that pains you. I will grant you  Solyndra was a bad move, that started with “George” so your theory is out the window, but “yes” was a bad move!

Yeah,… we know you’ve got a lot going!

You should avoid judging on looks or appearances. It usually leads you astray.

Bellevue is calling.

I suggest that all of you who might be interested in this Google site type in: The Obama Timeline Part I  and  The Obama Timeline Part II
 
This source contains a great deal of valuable information about Barack Hussein Obama.  You are free to interpret this information any way you choose.

I’d love to see you test these theories out. The reality is, of course, that only Romney can beat Obama, and the GOP is doing everything they can to not nominate him. Which is hilarious, and highlights the stupidity and ignorance that reign within the GOP that is marginalized in most other large institutions.

As Paul Krugman wrote last week, to a stupid person Newt Gingrich sounds like a smart person.

You’re proof positive.

You struck idiocy. 

I also remember that the next year the Republican refused to permit cameras in to the room.

hey genius national debt rose under Clusterfuk Bushs 2 needless wars also…and Americans were split on the Healthcare bill,,u’ve been suking Rush Limpballs ass too much…yes unemployment is up 1 per cent more than he said it would go up to…..
WORST PRESIDENTS IN HISTORY  ( BASED ON LIFETIME APPROVAL RATINGS):

1, RICHARD NIXON
2, DUBYA
3. JIMMY CARTER

The current national debt is about $15 trillion – at the end of Goober W’s term in January 2009 the debt was $10.8 trillion with a $1.42 trillion fy 2009 budget deficit. That takes the debt to $12.3 trillion and Goober and the GOP get credit for adding $6.5 trillion to the national debt, more than all other previous administrations combined.  But that’s not all – spectacularly failed GOP fiscal policy delivered the greatest drop in tax revenue since the 30s (25% individual and 57% corporate).  Want to see a picture of the worst effing president in history? Find one of Goober W. Dumbass.  And remember, the GOP congresses he enjoyed until 2007 aided and abetted him in his ‘achievements.’ 

his high school transcripts lololol

the only tweeking is the mental IQs of the GOP rightwing nutjobs ….the one that think Newt Greenwich ( who resigned in shame) is a viable candidate

For what it’s worth, I have an advanced degree and I work out a lot.

Only difference is I am aware that I am idiot.

LOL
 
Good for Newt – got the liberal lefties panties in a wad, clearly.
 
Obama can hardly speak without his prompter…uuh uh uh, ah ah ah, IIIII, um um um.

Face it TC, the great orator is nothing without his prompters.

we need a leader, not a reader.
 
Bottom line is the RNC better well tell mainstreamers they are not going to get a chance to moderate any debate – NBC is the National Barak Channel, doesn’t openly reprimand the band for their sexist treatment of Ms. Bachman; ABC is the All Barak Channel, with Christianne, Katie, and Dianne batting their eyelashes at his name, and CBS – the complete BS network is spearheaded now by a guy who is clearly in the tank for himself.
 
 

Careful, Tommy, you don’t want to have another heart attack over Newt destroying The Bummer.

Barack is out golfing….i will let him know when he returns (if he returns)

He certainly used a teleprompter here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154&feature=player_embedded

Answer it, douche!

Looks like the birther birds are back

“Great_1 8 hours ago

The Newt hamster never shuts up.  He’s my next-door neighbor. 
If the space allowed & there was an interest – I’d tell you about
him. Ummmmm.”

THEN I HAVE A GREAT IDEA. ONCE NEWT IS ASSIGNED SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION, WALK OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE AND GO DOWN THE SIDEWALK UNTIL YOU’RE IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE. START WAVING YOUR LIBERAL SIGN THAT SAYS “NEWTS HAMSTER IS STUCK IN MY ASS”, THEN TAKE A SH IT ON HIS SIDEWALK! BRING A LIBERAL FRIEND TO FILM IT AND POST IT ON YOUTUBE!

To quote the late Tennessee Ernier Ford: now bless your little pea-pickin’ heart chile, there ain’t NO way Ahma ever let that snake oil salesman acome prez-eye-dent inna first place, so hush up now an’ wipe away them tears, stop frettin’ an’ have yo-sef some sweet potato pie dreams.

Michele or one  of the 7 dwarfs are our alternatve??  We cannot survive another term of Bush failed policies.  We have spent the last 3 years bailing of the mess left by the last republican policy makers.  By the way if you want to get into character assassination I could easilty get out the Newt list.  Obvoius people like yourself have short term memory loss.  

I guess I just don’t see it. Batack Obama has never (including his college grades) actually proven to me at all that he has any steak underneath his sizzle. He knows how to pantomime an intellectual and he’s not without any brains.

He’s the Ryan Leaf for all you NFL fans) of the intellectual world

All of your post are no more than cut and paste of a conservative blog site Freedom Pub.  They have about as much creditability as a burglar. 

What’s your excuse for being severely  mentally handicapped? Newt vs. Obama. Bring it on.

Please tell me then, how was Bushie a great president, and in the primary …who is that standout out great repub leader?  I empathize. I myself wish there was a coherent intelligent, even eloquent and attractive to boot. But this is not the case. I tire of the Obama attacks because they are usually a defense mech to avoid the fact that there is no decent alternative. Oh and Palin? (Toilet in Wisconsin 2) I want to believe that you are being brilliantly clever and sarcastic! But i bet its a sad truth that you mean it. She is and idiot.
@Yoda002:disqus 

Don’t be naive If you want to start comparing crooks who would benefit the most in a War with Iraq.  The following is true money trail unlike your innuendos

ABOUT HALLIBURTON
Cheney/Halliburton Chronology
Published by CitizenWorks.org and HalliburtonWatch.org”The
good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic
regimes friendly to the United States” – Richard
Cheney1
1992Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root is
paid $9 million by the Pentagon (under Cheney’s direction as Secretary of
Defense) to produce a classified report detailing how private companies (like
itself) could provide logistical support for American troops in potential war
zones around the world. Shortly after this report, the Pentagon awards Brown
& Root a five-year contract to provide logistics for the U.S. Army Corp of
Engineers. The General Accounting Office estimates that through this contract,
Brown & Root makes overall $2.2 billion in revenue in the
Balkans.2
1995Without any previous business
experience, Cheney leaves the Department of Defense to become the CEO of
Halliburton Co., one of the biggest oil-services companies in the world. He will
be chairman of the company from 1996 to October 1998 and from February to August
2000. Under Cheney’s leadership, Halliburton moves up from 73rd to 18th on the
Pentagon’s list of top contractors. The company garners $2.3 billion in U.S.
government contracts, which almost doubles the $1.2 billion it earned from the
government previously. Most of the contracts are granted by the U.S. Army Corp
of Engineers.3 Halliburton’s overseas operations go from 51% to 68%
of its revenue. According to the Center for Public Integrity,4 under
Cheney’s leadership the company also receives $1.5 billion worth of assistance
from government-sponsored agencies such as OPIC (Overseas Private Investment
Corporation) and the Export-Import Bank, a huge increase compared to the $100
million that the company had received in federal loans and guarantees in the
five years prior to Cheney’s arrival. Years later, during the 2000 campaign in a
broadcasted vice presidential candidates’ debate with Joe Lieberman, Cheney
asserts that “the government has absolutely nothing to do” with his financial
success as chairman of Halliburton Co.5 Halliburton pleads guilty to
criminal charges of violating a U.S. ban on exports to Libya by selling Col.
Qaddafi six pulse neutron generators, devices that can be used to detonate
nuclear weapons.6 Halliburton pays a $3.8 million penalty to settle
alleged violations of the U.S. trade
ban.7
1996Halliburton subsidiary European Marine
Contractors (EMC) helps lay the offshore portion of the Yadana natural gas
pipeline in Burma. Several human rights organizations allege tremendous human
rights abuses are associated with the project, as thousands of villagers in
Burma are forced to work in support of the pipeline and related infrastructure.
Many lose their homes due to forced relocation, and there are reports of rape,
torture and killings by soldiers hired by the companies as security guards for
the pipelines.8
1997Cheney contributes to the creation
of an influential right-wing policy group called the Project for the New
American Century (PNAC). The group advocates for the removal of Saddam Hussein’s
Iraqi regime as early as January 1998, and is later revealed to be the
intellectual center of the drive to war in Iraq.9
March: The
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a U.S. government agency, helps
Halliburton by providing “political risk insurance” worth up to $200 million for
the development of natural gas in Bangladesh.10 Halliburton
subsidiary Brown & Root (now Kellogg, Brown & Root, KBR) launches a
major Caspian project for the Azerbaijan International Operating Company,
despite congressional sanctions against aid to Azerbaijan for human rights
violations.11 Indonesia Corruption Watch names Kellogg Brown &
Root (Halliburton’s engineering division) as one of 59 companies using
collusive, corrupt and nepotistic practices in business deals involving former
president Suharto’s family.12
Even with the Iran-Libya
Sanctions Act in place, Halliburton continues to operate in Iran. It pays the
Department of Commerce $15,000 to settle allegations that the company has broken
anti-boycott provisions of the U.S. Export Administration Act for an
Iran-related transaction, without admitting wrongdoing.13 Halliburton
also continues to do business in Libya throughout Cheney’s tenure.The
GAO (General Accounting Office), the auditing arm of Congress, reports that KBR
overbilled the Army for costs associated with its work in Kosovo. It is revealed
that the firm used more workers and equipment than necessary to clean offices
and provide electricity and backup power supplies to bases, and charged nearly
$86 per sheet for plywood that it bought for $14.06.14 As a result of
the GAO’s critical report, KBR’s logistics contract was not renewed by the
military, though the company was re-hired in 1999.Cheney appears in an
Arthur Andersen promotional video praising the firm’s accounting practices,
saying: “I get good advice, if you will, from their people [Arthur Andersen],
based upon how we are doing business and how we are operating, over and above
the normal, by-the-books auditing arrangement”.15 KBR is later
investigated by the SEC for accounting fraud – in a case similar to the charges
leveled against Anderson’s other client, Enron.1998Cheney
oversees Halliburton’s merger with Dresser Industries, one of the companies that
helped Saddam Hussein rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure after the First Gulf
War, despite economic sanctions against Iraq. Dresser also had faced major
liability issues concerning asbestos which prove to be onerous for the company’s
financial health.16 Halliburton uses two foreign subsidiaries to do
$23 million worth of business with
Iraq.17
1999Halliburton’s KBR division is re-hired by
the military, after being fired in 1997, for a $180 million a year contract to
supply U.S. forces in the Balkans with logistical support. The company is also
working on major contracts to build oil infrastructure in Brazil and Nigeria for
companies like Chevron, Petrobras and Shell. It has a $200 million contract with
Chevron and its partners in the enclave of Cabina (Angola), where the company
services over 330 wells in 30 fields, which provide eight percent of U.S. oil
imports; the concession is the source of 80 percent of the Angolan government’s
revenue.18
2000August: Cheney leaves his position as
Halliburton’s CEO to run as Bush’s Vice President. Halliburton announces that it
is giving Cheney a retirement package worth more than $33.7
million.19 Under public pressure, Cheney sells company stock worth
$30 million. October 5: In a broadcast debate with Joe Lieberman, Cheney asserts
that “the government has absolutely nothing to do” with his financial success as
chairman of Halliburton Co.20
Halliburton is by now the
world’s largest diversified energy services, engineering, construction and
maintenance company, with some $15 billion in revenues annually, 100,000
employees, and 7,000 customers in over 120
countries.21
2001KBR wins a $300-million exclusive
contract to supply logistics to the Navy, providing services like cooking,
construction, power generation and fuel transportation.22 One of
Cheney’s largest projects as Vice President is to coordinate the development of
a new National Energy Policy (NEPDG). According to the former climate policy
adviser in the Environmental Protection Agency, who was present at the task
force’s sessions, Cheney “continually pushed plans to increase [�] oil supplies
while paying little heed to promoting energy efficiency and clean energy
sources”.23 Casting as an inevitability that by 2020, the United
States will need to import two-thirds of its oil, mainly from the Arabic
peninsula, the NEPDG recommends “that the President make energy security a
priority of our trade and foreign policy”.24 April: After having
unsuccessfully requested information on recent secret meetings between the
Cheney-led National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG) and executives of
several energy industry companies, Representatives John Dingell and Henry Waxman
ask the GAO (General Accounting Office) to request information about those
meetings.July: GAO Comptroller General Walker requests records from Dick
Cheney providing the names of the attendees for each of the
meetings.25
November: Kellogg, Brown & Root is paid $2
million to reinforce the United States embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, under
contract with the State Department.26
December: Kellogg, Brown
& Root secures a 10-year deal with the Pentagon with no cost ceiling to
provide support services to the Army.27 The contract is known as the
Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP). This contract is a
“cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity service,” which
means that the federal government has an open-ended mandate and budget to send
Kellogg, Brown and Root anywhere in the world to run humanitarian or military
operations for profit.28
2002February: Kellogg, Brown
& Root pays out $2 million to settle a lawsuit with the Justice Department,
which alleged that the company defrauded the government in the mid- 1990s by
overbilling expenses.29 KBR was accused of inflating contract prices
for maintenance and repairs at Fort Ord, California, a now-terminated military
installation. The lawsuit, filed in Sacramento, alleged KBR submitted false
claims and made false statements in connection with 224 delivery orders between
April 1994 and September 1998. The false statements were allegedly made during
Cheney’s term as CEO.February 27: The New York Times reveals the
identity of some of the top executives from the oil and gas industry that met
with Cheney on Feb. 8, 2001.30 One of them is Robert J. Allison Jr.,
the Chairman of Anadarko Petroleum, with which Halliburton has been doing
business since 1959. The Times also reports that Cheney’s wife Lynne had been a
director and significant stockholder of Union Pacific Resources, an energy
company that had merged with Anadarko in 2000, and that she received Anadarko
stock worth $250,000 to $500,000 from the merger.March: The press
identifies the names of 22 oil and gas companies whose officials met in secret
with the NEPDG.31 Nineteen of these were among the top 25 energy
industry financial contributors to the Republican Party. Among the nineteen were
Enron, ExxonMobil, BP Amoco, Anadarko Petroleum, Shell Oil, and
Chevron.32 David M. Walker, the comptroller general of the GAO, as
well as Judicial Watch, launch lawsuits against Cheney because he refuses to
turn over to Congress documents that reveal the identities of industry
executives involved in the National Energy Strategy.33 The GAO’s
lawsuit will be abandoned in February 2003, after Republican threats to cut the
GAO’s $440 million budget.34 But Judicial Watch’s legal efforts
continue. (see below)May 22: A New York Times article alleges that
Halliburton artificially inflated its stock price between June 1999 and May 2002
and counted cost overruns on construction projects as additional
revenue.35 Following these allegations, the SEC (Securities and
Exchange Commission) launches an investigation into Halliburton’s accounting
practices.36 The company’s then-accountant was Arthur
Andersen.37 Despite the ongoing investigation and previous
revelations about cost overruns, Halliburton continues to receive government
contracts worth billions.June: Brown and Root is awarded a $22 million
deal to run support services at a military camp in Uzbekistan, a country whose
leader, Islam Karimov, is a ruthless dictator accused of human rights violations
and boiling his political opponents alive. This is the first LOGCAP contract in
the “war on terrorism”.38
June: Halliburton informs workers
its pensions will be reduced in value in order to pay for mergers and
acquisitions.July 15: Newsweek publishes the article, “Halliburton CEO
Says Cheney Knew About Firm’s Accounting Practices” revealing that Cheney was
aware that the firm was counting projected cost overrun payments as
revenues.39
July 29: A New York Times article quotes Cheney
about corporate fraud: “The American people can be certain that the government
will fully investigate and prosecute any wrongdoers”. Cheney says the reform
measure will “protect investors, bring more accountability to corporations and
toughen controls of the accounting industry”.40
July/August:
It is revealed that while Vice President Cheney was Halliburton’s CEO, the
number of its subsidiary companies in offshore tax havens increased from 9 (in
1995) to 44 (in 1999). One of these subsidiaries (Halliburton Products and
Services Ltd.), incorporated in the Caiman Islands, is used since 2000 to get
around sanctions on doing business in Iran.41 At the same time,
Halliburton’s federal taxes dropped dramatically from $302 million in 1998 to an
$85 million rebate in 1999.42
Despite these revelations, the
company continues to be awarded massive government contracts, including a new
10-year deal with the Army with no lid on potential costs. In the year 2002
alone, Brown & Root received $1.3 billion for services to the U.S.
government.43 These services include a $115 million contract to
design and construct an embassy compound in Afghanistan; $37.3 million to build
816 detention cells at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and $2 million to reinforce the
U.S. embassy in Uzbekistan.44 As the press and Democratic Party
leaders increasingly focus on Cheney’s role in alleged accounting violations at
Halliburton,45 the Bush administration turns the nation’s attention
to Iraq.August 26: Cheney delivers a speech to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars in Nashville, warning that “seated atop of ten percent of the world’s oil
reserves, Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination of the entire
Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world’s energy supplies, [�]
and subject the United States to nuclear
blackmail.”46
October: A Washington Post article describes
Cheney as the “fulcrum of foreign policy”, and that his influence for a pro-war
policy comes to the fore on the eve of a possible conflict with
Iraq.47 Cheney’s wife Lynne is a senior fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, a “right-wing think tank exercising significant influence
in Washington circles”48 which is one of the leading architects of
the Bush administration’s foreign policy and one of the leading voices pushing
the Bush administration’s plan for “regime change” through war in
Iraq.49 The AEI has received funding from the Bechtel Foundation and
ExxonMobil.50
November: Brown & Root begins a one-year
contract, estimated at $42.5 million, to cover services for troops at bases in
Bagram and Kandahar, Afghanistan.51
2003January: The
Wall Street Journal reports that Halliburton officials met informally with
representatives of Vice President Cheney’s office back in October to figure out
how best to jumpstart Iraq’s oil industry following a war.52 Cheney
and Halliburton deny it.March: Congressman Henry Waxman launches an
inquiry into the fact that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has secretly awarded
a no-bid contract to KBR to extinguish oil well fires in Iraq. The contract has
a huge cost ceiling of $7 billion, with additional fees of up to seven percent
($490 million). The mission and the contract have been “awarded without any
competition or even notice to Congress, [� and] were entered into on March 8,
but not disclosed publicly until March 24″.53 This contract is
open-ended. It is also a “cost-plus” contract, i.e. the company is guaranteed to
recover costs plus an additional percentage of those costs as its profit. It is
later revealed that the contract not only includes fighting fires, but also
operating the oil fields. The administration replies to Waxman’s questions on
the lack of competition: “To invite other contractors to compete to perform a
highly classified requirement [�] would have been a wasteful duplication of
effort. [�] Only Kellogg Brown & Root Services [�] could commence
implementing the plan on extremely short notice” and “No other contractor could
satisfy mission requirements in the time available”.54 However, CBS
reports that other qualified companies had attempted to bid on the contracts,
but were shut out of the process. Bob Grace, president of GSM Consulting, after
having contacted the Pentagon to inquire about the contracts, received a letter
from the Department of Defense dated December 30, 2002 saying that it was “too
early to speculate what might happen in the event that war breaks out in the
region”.55 This was “more than a month after the Army Corps of
Engineers began talking to Halliburton about putting out oil well fires in
Iraq”,56 and in fact one month after the Secretary of Defense had
granted such a contract to Halliburton.57 Furthermore, KBR did not
actually put the fires out itself, but subcontracted the job to other companies:
Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc., and Wild Well Control
Inc.58
Thousands of employees of Halliburton are working
alongside U.S. troops in Kuwait and Turkey under a package deal worth close to a
billion dollars. KBR is also supporting operations in Afghanistan, Djibouti,
Georgia, Jordan and Uzbekistan. The overall anticipated cost of task orders
awarded since the contract award in December 2001 (LOGCAP) is approximately $830
million.59
May 8: Halliburton admits having paid 2.4 millions
of dollars in bribes to a Nigerian official in return for tax
breaks.60
May 30: Twenty shareholder class-action lawsuits
accusing Halliburton of using deceptive accounting practices while Dick Cheney
led the company is settled for 6 million dollars. Halliburton doesn’t admit to
any wrongdoing.61
July 8: Following Judicial Watch’s attempt
to force the White House to disclose the names of nongovernmental officials who
were consulted by the task force in 2001, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit affirms a lower court judge’s order and thereby
rejects Cheney’s bid to keep all the workings of the Energy Task Force
secret.62
Sept. 14, 2003: On NBC’s Meet the Press, Cheney
said, “And since I left Halliburton to become George Bush’s vice president, I’ve
severed all my ties with the company [Halliburton], gotten rid of all my
financial interest. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and
haven’t had, now, for over three years.” But the vice president conveniently
forgot to mention that he continues to receive from the company deferred salary
of over $150,000 per year while maintaining 433,333 shares of unexercised stock
options.December 2003: The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
confirmed in a preliminary audit that Halliburton and a Kuwaiti firm, Altamnia,
had overcharged the U.S. government by at least $61 million through Sept. 2003
for the cost of gasoline imported into Iraq. Halliburton’s KBR unit had been
charging $2.64 per gallon to transport gasoline into Iraq while its competitors
were transporting gasoline for less than half that price. The DCCA formerly
asked the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate the overcharges and said
the fuel importation contract was given to Altanmia “under unusual
circumstances.”2004January: Halliburton reportedly wants to
drill on Mars at U.S. taxpayers’ expense.January 16, 2004: House
Democrat Henry Waxman (D-CA) discloses serious irregularities regarding
Halliburton Co.’s contract to transport oil into Iraq. January 17, 2004:
The Army awards Halliburton subsidiary KBR a contract worth up to $1.2 billion
to rebuild the oil industry in southern Iraq. The Army previously had awarded a
no-bid contract to KBR in March 2003 for the purpose of rebuilding Iraq’s oil
infrastructure in both the north and south of the country. But, under charges of
cronyism and favoritism leveled at Halliburton, the Army subsequently opened the
contract for competitive bidding in the Fall of 2003. The Army split the
contract into one for northern Iraq and one for southern Iraq. The northern Iraq
contract, worth up to $800 million, was given to a joint venture of
California-based Parsons Corp. and the Australian firm Worley Group Ltd.
January 23, 2004: In Paris, a French judge warns that Cheney could be
charged over allegations that Halliburton paid $180 million in bribes to build a
Nigerian gas plant.January 24, 2004: Halliburton admits two of its
employees accepted a $6 million bribe in exchange for awarding Army subcontracts
to a Kuwaiti-based company involved in rebuilding Iraq. Halliburton fired the
employees.January 25, 2004: CBS Television’s 60 Minutes program shows
how Halliburton does business with Iran even though U.S. law bans companies from
doing business with the country.January 26, 2004: New York City’s
controller accuses Halliburton of taking blood money from state sponsors of
terrorism, such as Iran and Libya. Controller William Thompson – who oversees an
$80 billion pension fund for city workers – says cops and firefighters are
outraged that their retirement portfolios include stock in U.S. firms getting
fat off contracts with rogue nations like Iran, which funds the terror groups
Hezbollah and Hamas and is suspected of giving sanctuary to Al Qaeda
leaders.January 30, 2004: New York Times columnist, Bob Herbert, details
how Halliburton evades U.S. taxes and export bans by establishing foreign
subsidiaries. Halliburton�s Wendy Hall admits the company paid only $15 million
in taxes in 2002 even though the company earned $339 million in profits from
continuing operations and $12.5 billion in total revenue.January 2004:
Halliburton discloses that a subsidiary paid a $2.4 million bribe to a Nigerian
government official’s business in exchange for favorable tax treatment.
January 2004: Halliburton admits in an internal memo that its cost
controls for government contracts are “antiquated” and “weak” and its
procurement “disorganized” and marked by “weak internal controls.” The memo,
which was leaked to the Wall Street Journal, contradicts the company’s public
statements which claim it has a “rigorous system of internal controls” for
contracts in Iraq.January 2004: Halliburton begins an advertising
campaign to improve its tarnished image with the public. A television spot
running on CNN says Halliburton supplies hot meals, laundry and telephone links
for soldiers in Iraq. The ad shows a man in desert camouflage holding a phone,
his lip trembling, and shouting, “It’s a girl!” “Halliburton: Proud to serve our
troops,” an announcer says. February: The Pentagon reports that
Halliburton Company would repay the government for overcharges estimated at
$27.4 million for meals served to American troops at five military bases in Iraq
and Kuwait last year. In one military camp in July 2003, KBR billed the
government for an average 42,000 meals a day but served only 14,000 meals.
Pentagon auditors found the overcharges during a routine audit of
Halliburton.March: As of March 1, 2004, KBR is awarded reconstruction
work in Iraq and Afghanistan worth at least $3.9 billion.

NIce work.  My sincere compliments!  (Meaning all of your posts)

Purveyor

Ouch. Now that’s harsh, and you didn’t even mention the economy!

Oh no. Come on, Ron’s a basket case – ain’t going to happen.

So, this over weight serial adulterer is going to let 44 use a teleprompter?   That’s rich, considering his fat ass hasn’t won the reTHUGlican nomination. 

Teleprompter or no, Obama will be exposed in a debate if his opponent is smart enough. The President won’t be able to hide from reporters or field softball questions. Obama has rewarded his supporters with millions of dollars in gov’t grants, been associated with Project Vote and allowed unmitigated corrupt racism and voter fraud to infuse the DOJ. If this and much more is exposed to the wider public, he will be unelectable.

Once again Commy Thristopher tries impersonating a journalist; you can tell who wrote this just from the word “baseless” in the first sentence! Commy’s actually a cheerleader.

The GOP has nothing on Newt? After the two of them being strangely entangled for 37 years, at least, since some date no later than 1974, and surely far earlier than that year in which he first received a nomination to run in an election for federal political office? Given what we DO know about Newt already, you’re suggesting the GOP has “nothing” no him, as in “nothing MORE in the way of information that would irrevocably damage Newt’s reputation among national voters”? 

(I realize you mean the term to be understood in a different way, but language is versatile, this sentence you wrote can work more than one way, and I think the way I take it holds more interest for the future, your way being mostly a judgment about the past and a vague one at that.)

A month ago, I would have said there’s no way in which we’ll ever find out the answer to this meme that Rrrr fans like that Gingrich will ‘out-debate’ President Obama at the General Election level. Now I’m a little less sure, though I note that there is, to date, actually no indication that Gingrich has set up any type of a GOTV in the early primary states (which is not to say that such things do not get set up in SPITE of candidate lassitude or neglect). So, maybe we will find out after all.

But not in the forum that Gingrich is talking about in his stump speeches. There is in fact an orderly process set up to handle presidential debates in national general elections, and they are mostly the same – 3 for the P level, 1 for the VP level – and have been for a half century or more. That’s good for all of us, because it means candidates cannot easily weasel out of debating their main opponent, and good for all also in that frequently one of the candidates is the incumbent president so has duties in his day job to attend to (In fact, this will be 10th time since WWII that a sitting president, with a job to do, which many argue quite convincingly is the most difficult job on the world to do, will have to take time out the doing of that job he’s sworn to do, in order to accommodate debates.). As I understand, Gingrich in an early stump speech suggested he be more-or-less ‘haunting’ President Obama to engage in some process Gingrich alls a “Lincoln-Douglas debate” (a really quite unpromising name for whatever Gingrich might thinks could come from it, as it’s difficult to see how anyone would reasonably cast Gingrich in the Lincoln part, given the incumbent is a former senator from Illinois, whereas in the original BOTH debaters were from Illinois and BOTH at some point represented the state of Illinois in Washington DC; also, although it’s pretty clear Gingrich means the term to connote “values”, in fact the ONLY value up for debate in the original was slavery; and finally there were 7 debates in total mainly because there was no online, cable, tv or even radio to convey the respective positions to the the people). 

Moreover the places, dates and times for the 2012 presidential-vp ticket debates have already been negotiated and agreed to between the DNC for the White House and the RNC, and whoever accepts the RNC nomination is thereby bound by that agreement.

Finally, to the extent Tommy has played ‘bookie’ by fixing President Obama as the ‘early favorite’, he has certainly done so soundly based on the only actual true ‘debate moment’ that we’ve seen from Gingrich in the 33 years since he was first elected to the House (I’m sure video-tape will be found of at least some debating from some of his 12 House contests, presumably the later and winning ones from the 1990s when the World Wide Web was up and running), being where Willard Romney, another former elected pol who’s been out of work for 5 plus years with nothing else to do, swatted him aside without much effort.

Gosh, that wasn’t the impression that the PRESS or the PUBLIC got from that event. Can you help us out as to the evidence you have in support of it being judged a “farce” by any but the losers and their suppoters? An article in POLITICO, or the WSJ, or the WaPo, or even the NY Times will suffice. 

Really? REALLY? I had no idea this WCinW12 was so … so incredibly stupid.

WCinW12 bought her books; both of them. 

My heavens. I read some of the first on line, free, but it was all so incredibly turgid and boringly predictable, like a child’s rhyme or something else we all grow out of unless we suffer delayed development or illness. The part I read was. so. incredibly. bad., it forced me outside for a long walk to clear my head; I was really grateful for that walk, I really needed it after that very very bad extract.

But WCinW12 bought her books; BOTH of them.

My heavens.

Reading the story of that, there’s some confusion in mind over whether he was foregiven THAT fine or another fine related to an IRS charge that got overturned. Can anyone here still recall who that went?

“Barack has done such a poor job as president that he’s already lost the election before it even starts” 
I was not aware the two of you were on a first name basis.

Anyway – compared to what and who? Isn’t who good or poorly you do a job greatly a function of what context you’re doing it?

If you’re in Egypt by the Nile & you’re asked to weave a basket from reeds, it would seem to me your basket would have to be pretty darn good to stand out.

But if you’re sat on a polluted sandbar with no vegetation & handed a bag of rocks & told to weave a basket, while a bunch of overfed white guys with really bad toupes & comb-overs yell at you constantly, I should think just coming up with even the most rudimentary basket would be regarded a pretty darned GREAT job.

So here’s what you have to do: you have to pose the name of a president who YOU proposed did a BETTER job under the circumstances and we can then, ahem, debate it.

It should be a VERY interesting debate. So, we’re waiting for your selection.

“The reality is, of course, that only Romney can beat Obama”

But CAN he actually, really?

See, I think we progs and libs and other Ds make a basic mistake here: WE look at Romney and say to ourselves, Whoa, that’s a very bad bunch in the GOP context, this guy Romney is by FAR the best, and I can see how he might be quite formidable. 

But there’s a couple of missing pieces here.

First, that doesn’t mean any progs, libs or other Ds would vote for Romney. See that? We’re making a judgment about an OPPONENT, not a president.

Second, I very much doubt this is at all the way the consensus of GOP base voters view Romney; after all, to THINK like them, we would probably have to BE them, and we’re simply not (At moments like this, I am often nearly overcome by thanks, so much so it’s tempting to take on religion just for a little while ….). 

And certainly Romney cannot ‘beat Obama’ if he doesn’t get the GOP nomination.

But even assuming he does that, WE’RE still not going to vote for him, and indy voters are very like to do what they’ve always done in p elections with incumbents, and that’s to vote for the incumbent, and so … what’s his path to victory, when 75% in his own party range from disliking him intensely to not trusting him as far as they could throw his giant lawn mowers?

So … CAN he … actually … really?

How?

Sock how? You have to explain.

Oh, I VERY much doubt THAT!

Newt will have the Bat Eared Bolsheviek sweating like Mike Tyson on Jeopardy in a real debate.

In fairness, if we’re assuming Romney will get the Rrrrr nod, Romney got thru a combined Harvard Law and Harvard MBA program in 3 years, with a sum laude (top 25%) in the law part and a Baker Award (top 20%) in the MBA part, which is pretty darned impressive in terms of focus and brain tools. Obama did better at the law part (top 10%) and also did the head of the Harvard Law Review thing (not a “Professor of the Harvard Law Review, the student chief of the Harvard Law Review and later a law lecturer professor at U of Chicago Law, a very good law school, not Harvard but arguably the best Law school program in Illinois, though you’d get an argument from Northwestern at least), but didn’t take the full MBA load. So it’s a little tough to tell who did ‘better’, except ….

in my experience, the ability to get through an MBA is mostly hard work, organization and focus, and really not a super intellect. Business schools can be very tough and academic but that’s not the Harvard way: the demand is mainly the load of material, which you can handle through getting in a group to share the load — which is actually also the best LAW school approach, except that if you to as well as possible without actually being suited to or gifted as a lawyer, you flatten out at sum laude. It’s the really gifted ones that go on to lead the Review and to teach. 

So it looks like Romney, as a mature student, was really good at goal setting, self-organization, sticking to  commitments and projects and getting stuff down on time and routinely well.

Whereas Obama as a mature student was also good at all that PLUS gifted at law.

This means their both smart, but there are differences in HOW smart.

Just saying. 

Michele and the 7 dwarfs want to revisit the Bush policies.  We had a balanced budget and a surplus.  When Bush was elected (with some help) he gave a tax cut to the richest Americans and started 2 wars without the funding to pay for them.  That is where our current problems got there start.

100 to 1 this was written by a Clinton supporter.  Seriously.

Speaking of scolding people, shaking his fingers at the audience, telling people what they can and should do, and generally coming off as a total fool who knows it all …  Does Gingrich really think he has a chance at the Presidency?  Because frankly, none of those things appeal to the public, and people are actually hearing about him doing all of those things.

 I’m honestly not sure how serious his bid for the nomination is at this point.  I’m seriously starting to wonder if he has another book coming out soon!  Maybe I’m just betting cynical in my old age?

If Xenu is against Newt Gingrich, does that mean that Scientologists are for him?

Not addressing Gingrich and only acting like Romney is inevitable is a “no-brainer”? Ah! That would explain the tack, Presbo’s team is taking. Re-elect the Scarecrow! I’m guessing that’s why we aren’t allowed to see his diploma……

I’ve never been a birther, but I am interested in researching the events in which the President of the United States has been involved during his tenure in office. 

I again suggest that you Google: The Obama Timeline Part I  and  The Obama Timeline Part II
 
These sources contain a great deal of valuable information about Barack Hussein Obama. 

I’ll predict Gingrich will never have the opportunity to debate this has-been, but should he make the losers circle and meet the president in a debate, he will go down harder than McCain. Gingrich is so full of himself, if he were a Macy’s parade balloon, he would explode with all the hot air he spews.(Sorry – I stole that from a Sunday paper cartoon)

He could use LEGO people.  Liberals like LEGO people.  They like to take something innocent and pervert it.
look what they have done to the bible.
http://themorningspew.com/2011/11/27/nasty-lego-bible-is-pulled-from-sams-club-shelves/

I have read both and question the legitmacy of some of the so go “facts”.  This site is affliated to Townhall.com a Right wingnut conservative site who objective it appears is to attempt to character assassinate Obama as their political ploy. 

If you really want to read somthing of interest as it relates to conservate greed, read about the history of Dick Cheney’s  affiliation to Halliburton http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/chronology.htmlI I never understood the Iraq War, but this would make me qustion the real motives of Bush and Cheney.I feel Newt and Perry come from the same kind of mindset.   Bachmann is a misinformed mouth piece for some the extreme Tea party crowd, Romney we are all trying to figure him out, Ron Paul although right on many points would get killed in the Political arena.   Huntsman gets no respect in the polls because he is seen as too liberal for Republican

I suggest that all of you Google: The Obama Timeline Part I  and  The Obama Timeline Part II
 
These sources contain a great deal of valuable information about Barack Hussein Obama. 
This is only a suggestion.  You are free to interpret it in anyway you want.  I will try the source you suggested.  I will be free to interpret that material anyway I want.  Fair enough?

depends on who is doing the questioning. 

You loose motherf’er, I’m a Obama supporter.  Hil-Rod is cool, but I liked 44′s ideas a little bit better

The “Bat Eared Bolshevik“?!?!  Excellent description for the gaffe-o-matic clown defiling the Oval Office today…

I suggest that all of you Google: The Obama Timeline Part I  and  The Obama Timeline Part II
 
These sources contain a great deal of valuable information about Barack Hussein Obama. 

I suggest that all of you Google: The Obama Timeline Part I  and  The Obama Timeline Part II
 
These sources contain a great deal of valuable information about Barack Hussein Obama. 

Liberal or conservative doesn’t matter what about what the Mormons did to the bible?  You are mixing political ideas with religion. 

It can’t be done and have it make sense.

Gingrich is a “big thinker.”

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Obahma is competent at reading. Saying is one thing doing is another. If Obahma wants another 4 years he needs to do something. 53% of Americans pay taxes. If Obahma wants to win he needs to attract at least 4%. So far he is only attracting those who use the system rather than contribute.

Sort your links out.