“I used to be ‘with it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary.”

Abe Simpson aka Jack Cafferty

OMG !  Jack Cafferty????
JACK CAFFERTY !
I thought that silly old fool had been fired or retired years ago.
Talking ABOUT IRRELIVANT! 
Whoa !!
lol

Irrelevant. You think Jack Cafferty’s a fool and irrelevant, not irrelivant. 

I swear, I do sometimes think the Teapublican Partee is trying to replace our Republic with the Idiocracy of America. Most learnèd people seem to be reaching this same conclusion.

I know right, Jack?

When America wants brains, it turns to MSNBC’s Ed Schultz to hear him call Republicans sluts and racists.

You mean Obama?

Its a mystery to me why some of them have this allergies. 

Cafferty is right, I listened to Jon Huntsman in a few interviews lately, and guess what—the man made sense..You listen to Perry and Bachman and Palin, all you get is hate, sound bites and no real answers…It seems like Americans are so consumed with reality TV these days, that is what turns them on about politicans..People better grow up fast if we are going to turn this country around…..It’s not going to be with Moe, Larry & Curly…..

Why is Cafferty allergic to hair & mouthwash? He isn’t fit to clean the caribou dung off Super Sarah’s hunting boots.

Boy, if you like soundbites, I’ve got one for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q

So was Bush unpatriotic then, or is Obama unpatriotic now?

You decide.

You forgot to scream RACIST at somebody.

That’s what a learned person like yourself does when confronted with the failure of their chosen representatives.

Well, Jack should know.  He proves that anybody can get a cable new job, even some old fart that always looks like he’s got a bad case of hemmoroids on air.

And yet they are all in a virtual tied and in the case of Perry leading in a head to head with Barry. 

Yes, when I want to hear profundities from high intellect, I turn to that pillar of deep thought, the one an only, Obama! I still don’t know the names of those last seven states he’s talking about, nor did I know that the navy created a new rate, “corpse man”. :)

Okay, okay, look I know that the bum was never in the service, and that the teachings of Mao and the crusades a Che took precedence over American History. I’m just having fun with the little turdbucket, that’s all. :)

It takes real brain power to read twitter messages on TV.

“Hate, sounds bites, and no real answers.”  Thought you were talking about BO there for a minute.  

“Hate, sounds bites, and no real answers.”  Thought you were talking about BO there for a minute.  

Jack Cafferty is just playing from the same old liberal handbook when it comes to describing GOP presidential candidates since i was able to vote. Reagan was a senile idiot, Bush was a wimp, and the other Bush was another idiot. but look at the presidents that liberal media talking heads like Cafferty praised and admired. Carter is still widely called the worst president in our nations history, Clinton was impeached and disbarred, and now Obama is being compared to Carter by the liberal left no less. face it Jack, you and your kind have a pretty dismal record when it comes to telling the American people who they should and shouldn’t vote for.

NYT editor afraid of evangelical ‘Trojan Horse’

New York Times editor Bill Keller writes a loaded piece
today posing a strict religion test for the 2012 GOP presidential
candidates, noting that American’s are “too squeamish” about
aggressively “probing” a candidates religious beliefs.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/nyt-editor-poses-presidential-religion-test

I wonder if he’s do this if we had a Muslim candidate.  Bigot!

What’s on the bottom of her boots is the same thing that is between her ears.

Which of these 2 people would you rather have leading the country:

http://yfrog.com/kjug9afj

Why the GOP is allergic to brains?

Simply, it is because they aren’t zombies like the progressive left.

Why is the Lib media allergic to actually reporting instead of ginning up a narrative?

Why is the Lib media allergic to actually reporting instead of ginning up a narrative?

Tommy “lapdog for the left” Christopher says:

(their contempt for academia and journalism certainly enabled it),

No, we have contempt for LIBERAL journOlism and academia.  There is a difference.  Good grief you are patheric.

Americans are not allergic to brains, they’re a healthy source of protein and delicious with liver pate and fava beans.  Republicans prefer to have them with tea and then party until the next shiney bauble grabs their attention.

Cafferty was a cheerleader for Obama in 08. Look how that turned out. He should talk.

Oh that Jack, he is such a left wing intellectual, it is hard for him to understand what us common americans like and dislike.

======> But seriously, aren’t these the dumbest intellectuals you have ever seen???<======

It’s always nice to see this alcoholic spew his hate and stupidity!

Quoting Obama is tantamount to racism.

Hey, look!

Hope and Change! And more candy-coated pop culture coolness!

YES WE CAN!

All the Marys in Heaven! Learn to use the Edit feature.

I notice you asked a question (without using a question mark) about Keller and a Muslim candidate. Then you answered the question (without a question mark). Ought not Mr. Keller have answered this question.

I do think we ought to probe a bit more. Most of us don’t want a Warren Jeffs, a John Hagee, a Jeremiah Wright in the White House, do we?

This coming from someone who tried to run over and kill an innocent person and then fled the scene.  You are a real class act Jack(ass).

Since hardly anyone watches CNN, the opinion of this curmudgeon hardly matters.

Whatever!
 Point is.
 Not three people on this planet gives a shit what Jack Cafferty thinks about anything.

Not this one:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cVvIH06weZI/TlLf5ktkSBI/AAAAAAAAF7w/ykVh1LVRloU/s320/rick_perry_cheerleader.jpg 

All Hail the Teapublican Idiocracy! Close the universities! Seize the press! 

Cafferty may be cranky but he sure is correct about this.

That’s ironic coming from a Foxtard!

Jack is jealous, he has not used his in years.

Ha! Do you know who was leading the polls in September 2007, more than a year before the election? 

Fred Thompson.

Why are republicans allergic to brains Jack?  
 
Really?  What has Obama or any of his cabinet done to illustrate the overwhelming brainpower that apparently the republicans don’t have?
 
Maybe if Obama coughed up his college transcripts we can make some comparisons in-terms of Brainpower. We already know how he does without the prompter.
 
Give me break.

And Teatards like you simply hide behind euphemisms; albeit etymologically retarded:

Socialism = N-word 

Submit = Respect

Hey Lt….did mommy buy you matching Star Wars sheets yet?
 

Yes digital illiteracy is very much alive and well sadly and it shows more every day in the news, abortions seem to be the default subject when they don’t know what else to talk about.

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2011/05/digital-illiteracy-still-plagues-law.html

This jackass is so hard up to be heard he’ll do or say anything he is told to. 

The foreskin under the eyes look that Jack so proudly struts is really the cat’s meow today also.  

I like how you keep referring to Idiocracy.  Did you see the movie? 
 
 The premise was that the lazy, apathetic, parasites of society continue to procreate while the intelligent, productive ones do not..creating a world full of idiots and devoid of intelligent productive people.
 
Which party do you think has the preponderance of lazy apathetic parasites within their voter rolls?  And which party encourages these folks to procreate by providing taxpayer funded perks for every new parasite they bring into the world?
 
There is an Idiocracy forming alright, but the architects are not who you think they are.

The fact that Cafferty is unpopular with idiotic dicks like you must really keep him awake at night.

Expect some harsh criticism from Fox News. 

If I can’t Marry Mr. Met or Lawrence O’Donnell, I’m more than happy to take Jack.  It’s so obvious that we’ve become allergic to facts. If not, Nutjobs like Rick Perry – who think they can regulate morality — Sarah Palin, and Michele Bachmann wouldn’t even be used in the same sentence as the word President. We’ve turned this Presidential Race into a freak show where these mo’s think they can just throw stuff out, and then hope ppl believe it. Disgusting.

You must be addicted to the “fixed and biased” GOP propaganda outlet. 

Buried in this Cafferty soundbyte is the scary implication that Obama is a colossal failure.  So what has Cafferty’s pants in a wad is that ANY of these candidates he pokes fun at would be better than Barack Obama.

I just wish he’d be honest and actually say it … as bad as he thinks Perry, Bachmann and Palin are, Obama has less brains.

Newt Gingrich is part of the “the other end of the intellectual spectrum.”. Is he kidding?

Hmm, let’s start with global warming, then move on to understanding, as Ronald Reagan did, that cutting taxes does not lead to job growth. After that, how about believing evolution.  I can go on — let’s see — Debt Ceiling disaster – DEMS knew it would be a death knell for our economy … Keep going??? Got BinLaden, knew the right thing to do w/Libya. Quite whining. 

WHO GIVES A CRAP ABOUT A TELEPROMPTER!!!  Get over yourself.  Queen Sarah writes crap on her hands and also bitches about a teleprompter.  Our President is more adept at answering questions from reporters than GWB could ever have been. He and Sarah Palin – queen of the malapropisms.  ”GOP: Proudly putting Party over Country Since the Black Guy Got to the White House.”

The class of the left always shines thru. One sad party

You mean, like “hope and change” will take place if you vote for them?  Or no more than 8% unemployment?  You mean those nutjobs?

Jack complained just as bitterly on his radio show about FDR’s opponents back in ’32 .

Obamacrats hear the word “socialism” (definition here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) and immediately think “N-word?”

Sounds like a personal problem, Dandkenton.

But Republicans are Sluts and Racists…Why are those facts so hard to comprehend? 

I had no idea that MSNBC was a GOP outlet.

LOL!  I knew it would get to race!  That’s what’s left for liberals when they lose the intellectual battle.

I don’t recall Sarah Palin ever complaining about her impromptu teleprompter.  At least she knows how to pronounce the English language.  

We can certainly depend on Barack Obama for stellar intellectual representation.  Especially if he speaking in Austrian, reading his comments to the media “corpse”.  

Obama is the gold standard off vacuous politicians.  Nothing but empty rhetoric.  

Amen.  Even if you disagree w/ Cafferty — and that’s pretty hard to do with a guy as direct and honest as him — you gotta love his real no-b.s. commentary.

Even a twit like B_M_G should be able to follow it.  Well, except for being stupid. Or twelve.

Another dope who confuses truth with ratings.

Germany, August 1934 … if you’re smart enough to get it.

As always, you miss the point of the commenter you’re responding to.

Well socialism is like a black cloud hanging over America.

You mean like when he hit the biker and dragging his bike under his car, fled the scene of the accident with people chasing after him? You mean THAT honest guy? I just want to make sure we are talking about the same beacon of truth.

When you shake your head back and forth, doesn’t that rattling sound bother you?

Why does mediaite always have so many rw over defensive commenters.. does AOL link onto this site?

Examples? The only thing I’ve heard from any of those three recently that can even be construed as “hate” is when Perry called Bernanke’s monetizing of our debt “almost treasonous”. Which BTW has been misquoted by both left-wing and right-wing media members for weeks now. But what has Bachmann or Palin said that’s hate-filled?

BTW, your boy Huntsman reportedly has a nasty temper behind closed doors. So I wouldn’t be so quick to jump aboard that bandwagon.

Ilene, if you are not prepared to vote for Herman Cain is it because he is black or because he is Republican? Please choose one from the two I listed.

Right.  I suppose it’s hidden in the name calling (mo’s, nutjobs, etc.).  She’s saying that the names of these “nutjobs” shouldn’t be used in the same sentence as the word President.  I’m still wondering whether y’all view Obama as yet another nutjob.  Whatever your criteria for defining “nutjob”, I can guarantee you that it will apply to Obama.

Yet here he is.  Obama es mejor para llevar que para acá.

Thompson was leading in a general election poll? Because that’s what Michelle just cited? Stop pulling made up poll numbers from your backside.

I’m in full agreement. The number of brainless sheeple that voted for Obimbo, an obviously incompetent socialist, was astounding.
There’s a reason Cafferty doesn’t work for Fox. What a condescending oaf.

Why I want the stoner and cokehead of course. The media told me he’s brilliant. And everything that’s gone wrong in his Presidency(which is just about everything) is the fault of George W. Bush. If you disagree with me, you’re a racist.

Excellent comment by Jack Cafferty.

On the why, what do you expect than 40% of the population believe in creationism?

Almost half of the population doesn´t vote, so loons like Bachmann and Perry can
with the support of 20%-25% of the most reactionary voters be major players.

Sad, really. 

Repug history reveals that they always think as they are told, act as they are told, vote as they are told.  They run the gamut from maladjustment & alienation to insanity.   Terrified of educated people, those with advanced college degrees, educators & intelligentsia in any/all walks of life.   Highly “intellectually reclusive.”

What do you expect when 40% of the country (such as LackofCommonSense) is on Food Stamps?  Really sad.  Kudos also to PMSNBC.

I like him. He has this old school style which has almost completely vanished. 

Solid, substantive response!  Full of well-thought-out and articulate ideas!  Not just name calling and brow beating.  

The only thing that scares me more than Obama is those who voted for him.  Y te menciono a propósito que cualquier persona que vote por Obama no se dio la oportunidad de estudiar sus antecedentes, y tomó la decisión de dejar al lado su espantosa falta de experiencia.  Algo que no se repetirá en 2012.

“You forgot to scream RACIST at somebody.”

Oops.  Oversight.  Allow me.  Good Lt., you are a RACIST PIG!

And by the way, making the rank of lieutenant in your local white supremacist paramilitary group doesn’t count. 

James R, thank you for giving us the greatest example of what Jack Cafferty is talking about! James R says: “OMG !  Jack Cafferty???? JACK CAFFERTY ! I thought that silly old fool had been fired or retired years ago. Talking ABOUT IRRELIVANT!  Whoa !! lol” Then Postdogma says: “Irrelevant. You think Jack Cafferty’s a fool and irrelevant, not irrelivant”Then James R says: “Whatever! Point is. Not three people on this planet gives a shit what Jack Cafferty thinks about anything.” You make his point b/c you don’t know how to spell a word, and when someone points out that u r wrong, you tell them “whatever!” b/c the Republicans, and many in their base, don’t care if what they are saying is wrong, or what they are being told is wrong… All that matters is that is sounds good, regardless if there are no facts to back up what they are saying! I never thought America would become a country where it’s more important to say something that sounds good, rather than it being true. I never thought America would become a country where we’d believe what oil companies say, rather than what scientist say about climate change. I never thought America would have a political party that hated science and education to the point that they no longer believed in either being important to the future success of America 

James R, thank you for giving us the greatest example of what Jack Cafferty is talking about! James R says: “OMG !  Jack Cafferty???? JACK CAFFERTY ! I thought that silly old fool had been fired or retired years ago. Talking ABOUT IRRELIVANT!  Whoa !! lol” Then Postdogma says: “Irrelevant. You think Jack Cafferty’s a fool and irrelevant, not irrelivant”Then James R says: “Whatever! Point is. Not three people on this planet gives a shit what Jack Cafferty thinks about anything.” You make his point b/c you don’t know how to spell a word, and when someone points out that u r wrong, you tell them “whatever!” b/c the Republicans, and many in their base, don’t care if what they are saying is wrong, or what they are being told is wrong… All that matters is that is sounds good, regardless if there are no facts to back up what they are saying! I never thought America would become a country where it’s more important to say something that sounds good, rather than it being true. I never thought America would become a country where we’d believe what oil companies say, rather than what scientist say about climate change. I never thought America would have a political party that hated science and education to the point that they no longer believed in either being important to the future success of America 

If someone is terrified of educated people then that person certainly would not be terrified of you.

America is allergic to brains because the high school graduation rate is about equal to President Obama’s approval rating. These candidates are exactly like what we are graduating from secondary education.  We have Perry who talks about the Fed Chairman like Rick is street thug from a Wyatt Earp movie, Romney who has to be the most negative human being running for President that you can’t even think of one thing he wants to do as President except be negative, Michelle B. who works with people who are so flippin’ stupid that even Elvis doesn’t want her buying his records from Time-Life Music, Sarah Palin who has to be the dumbest woman ever to run for anything in America and you gotta throw in Donald Trump because, well let’s just throw in Donald Trump for the sake of more stupidity. 

Now if you can’t even get a high school diploma, these people are just like, well, just like the people who can’t get a high school diploma.  We in America idolize stupidity.  Because half the kids in this country can’t get a high school degree.  But bet on this?  Ask them what happened on Jersey Shore last night or what the Kardashians are doing and you’ll get an immediate answer!  And the correct one! 

Now throw in Obama who is probably smarter than all of these people combined.  And still can’t get the job done. Screw it.  Let’s put in one of these dumb rears and see what happens, right?  For some reason, no matter what the current status of this economy or anything else in America, I’m picking the smarter fool over the dummy, no contest.  I really want somebody smarter than me in charge.  Not some clown that can tell me how trashed Snookie got last night or which Kardashian married which goofy NBA player over the past weekend.

And yes, I’m insulting my own blog but most of my readers went to college so take that!!!   

Why is America allergic to brains Jack?  Because most people in America have no brains, Jack.   

It’s only CNN viewers that are elergic to brains.  That’s why they watch CNN.

Global warming? You mean climate change? They keep renaming it since now scientists are claiming the earth is cooling. Oh, and that IPCC report which was the foundation of the global warming movement has been “revised” numerous times since it was full of inaccuracies and falsehoods. Plus there’s the minor issue of those hacked e-mails revealing climate change scientists manipulating data to keep those million-dollar grants coming. So if you still believe in that scam, it’s you who might want to get checked for a brain allergy.

Reagan understood that cutting taxes didn’t lead to job growth? That’s an interesting claim since tax cuts were the very foundation of his entire economic agenda in the early 80′s. An agenda BTW which DID lead to an economic boom creating over 20 million new jobs.

Debt Ceiling disaster? It got raised by a record $2.4 trillion when all was said and done. Obama got exactly what he wanted in terms of spending. So if the Dems knew this was a death knell for the economy, why did they vote for it and why did their President sign it into law?

Obama is adept at answering questions from reporters? Are you kidding me? Have you ever sat through one of his press conferences? On those rare occasions he does get asked a tough question by a reporter(which almost never happens even almost 3 years into his Presidency), he filibusters for 10 minutes and never provides a direct answer.

And spare me the race card. If the GOP’s opposition to Obama was based on the color of his skin, then explain to me why Republicans and conservatives alike have embraced Sen. Marco Rubio, Gov. Brian Sandoval, Gov, Nikki Haley, Gov. Susana Martinez, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Rep. Allen West, Rep. Tim Scott, and Herman Cain.

Gingrich is a smart guy. He’s just a political klutz. He was never gonna be the nominee regardless, but unforced errors like throwing Paul Ryan under the bus, repeatedly endorsing Dede Scuzzy-flavor, and sitting on that couch with Nancy Pelosi seriously call into question the dude’s judgment.

Here’s a little tidbit for you. A town in North Carolina voted a while back to remove party affiliations from the ballots for local elections, as is fairly common across the nation. However Obama’s Department of Justice decided that the vote couldn’t be allowed to stand. The reason? Because if candidates aren’t labeled “Democrat” on the ballot black people won’t know who to vote for, and white people won’t vote for black candidates unless they’re listed as Democrat.

Don’t let those pesky little facts get in your way.

I will post the same question to you. If you are not prepared to vote for Herman Cain is it because he is black or because he is Republican? Please choose one from the two I listed.     

What’s “elergic,” genius? 

I guess CNN viewers aren’t as crackerjack as those homeschooled goobers over at Fox.

Todo lo que has dicho es tontería.  Yo sí estudié sus antecedentes y los consideré bien impresionantes.  Con respecto a su “espantosa falta de experiencia”, ¿Qué experiencia tenía McCain aparte de sus relaciones amigables con Wall Street?   Y al escoger a esa burra como vice-presidente fue un insulto más allá de mi capacidad de perdonar.

Actually, the number is 15%, but I guess that wasn’t meant to be a “factual statement.” Republicans aren’t too good with numbers — which is why our country has been in such bad shape for the last decade.

how much have you benefited from it?  Do you disown your friends and family who have benefited from it?

This is one of the most charming and grossly false narratives of the GOP — that Gingrich is “smart.” He’s been so wrong about so many things, and even when he gets something right — like revealing the dirty secret about the Ryan budget — he retracts. 

There are many words for Gingrich, but smart ain’t one of them. 

google Perry and evolution.  Then find the irony in the fact he promoted fossil fuels yet believes the earth is only 4000 years old.

I will put a homeschooled kid up against any public school taught kid any day of the week. We have lowered the bar so far that at this piont even zombies wouldn’t want the brains of the kids coming out of the public schools. Try watching “Waiting for Superman.”

oops

http://articles.cnn.com/2007-09-11/politics/gop.poll_1_statistical-dead-heat-new-york-times-poll-thompson?_s=PM:POLITICS

It’s probably because he’s a blathering idiot. (I guess that would make him your man, wouldn’t it?)

I thought I told you to talk to the hand yesterday.

so lets put one in the white house!

Oops we did that already.  How did that work out?

so lets put one in the white house!

Oops we did that already.  How did that work out?

Stop blaming others for your loose parts in the numbskull.

No one here is disputing any points he brought up.  They are just insulting the man.  It is entertaining. but no one addressed what he said…

LOL. I knew you couldn’t answer the question as directed. None of you Libs ever can.

Uhm.  Reagan raised taxes in his first term and then brought them back down in his second.  Your answer, though lengthy, again proves you know nothing of which you speak.

I will vote for Cain because I like Pizza

You must think people who watch WWE Monday Night Raw are the ones who opinion matters then right?
It is one of the top rated shows.

I see it’s her time of the month and watching PMSNBC again.

You do an awesome job of disrespecting the President’s desire for civility.

I think you missed the point of my post, but I’ll humor you. Have I benefited from socialism? Not really. I pay more in taxes than I get back, so I’m on the losing end of the redistribution scheme. I’ve also never applied for unemployment, so I’ve never received any form of welfare.

I don’t know the financial situations of all my friends(I’m certain at least one or two has received an unemployment check in their lives), but my family is in the same boat as myself. We’re in the producing class, not the receiving class.

PMSNBC! Got to remember that one.

Has he actually said the earth is 4000 years old? Do you have a direct quote you can link to?

BTW, is religious bigotry really going to be one of the planks of the Democrat Party platform for 2012? Insulting and mocking Christians when 3/4 of the US is made up of them is probably not the best way to win a national election.

I’m sure you would. As I’ve said many times on this site, stupidity is considered a virtue now in the modern Republican party. Intelligence is suspect, science is considered elitist and prayer is more important than study. Your notions of education would put our country on a bullet train to the third world. 

well, Mr. Cafferty, with all due respect, like many other Americans, after being “BRAIN WASHED” by you and your comrades, we decided it is about time we develop our own brains and abilities to decipher bull from facts and in the process activated a personal defense mechanism, somehow you refer to that as “Allergie to brains”, we however, call that self preservation accomplished by individual survival instinct which cancels all that is being delivered by you as well as the likes of you.

I won’t dignify any remarks from the lowest of the low, the slime beneath the slime and the crud at the bottom of the barrel by providing my usual witty comment.

Oops! From that same article:

“The poll also suggests Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton
would beat Thompson in a general election by 13 percentage points, 55
percent to 42 percent.”

Did you even read my post, moron? I asked specifically if there was any poll showing Thompson leading in a general election matchup against a Democrat. That’s what Michelle was talking about. Perry vs. Barry.

I would PAY GOOD MONEY to see a home schooled kid versus a public school kid in a Triganometry or Chemistry competition.

We all know what scientific and math geniuses home-school parents/kids are.

Y otra vez con los nombres … ¿burra? Me encantaría saber exactamente cuál experiencia tenía Obama que te persuadiría a votar por él. ¿Qué hizo para merecer tu voto? ¿Lo qué discursó? ¿En serio? Yo soy ex-director general de un periódico, y te puedo contar que la mayor parte de personal de editorial votó por él. Cuando les pregunté por qué, siempre respondieron algo en el contexto de una queja de Bush, y la mentada repetida “8 años de falta de gerencia”. Ese Obama no ha tenido ni una jota ni tilde de experiencia en el liderazgo de nada. Sólo ha hablado. Ni ha votado algo aparte de “presente”. ¿Qué realizó en sus 4 años como Senador para merecer tu voto? Respecto a McCain, por lo menos tenía unos años de experiencia internacional. No soy aficionado de McCain tampoco. Pero Obama ha sido una abominación. Palin por lo menos tenía experiencia ejecutiva exitosa. ¿Obama? Sólo hablaba. Y los que intentaban sus antecedentes fueron llamados racistas.

Oh, y a propósito, ¿qué opinas ya del refrán “hope and change”?

Condescending, yet YOU AGREE?

Obimbo? BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHa

SO HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL

Loser is a word for Crazy.

Stupidity a virtue? We were told how intelligent Obama was but yet his school records are sealed and we have Joe Biden for VP. Intelligence is suspect? Yes, if it is Liberal “intelligence.” Science is considered elitist? You mean like the whole global warming/global climate change thingy? Prayer helped found our nation. Why are you so afraid of it? If we had a little more prayer and less political correctness we would be a far better country.

Google Perry, NH Mom and evolution.  To be fair, he said he didn’t know, but if you do take the bible at face value, that is what it says.

So saying a religious parable isnt rooted in fact because testing and observation as proved it to be false is now bigotry? Now I am just some blow hard here, but i think you just made Cafferty’s point…

That’s a good question. We’re not a stupid people. It’s just that when it comes to politics, we are very naive and so easily led. How anyone can take seriously any Republican Presidential aspirant, except for Huntsman, is way beyond me. They are all stupid, conniving characters much worse than most of the Democrat leaders, and that’s getting pretty low.  The Republicans don’t have a clue about the economy, are prone to war, hate government, are pawns of the most backward billionaires, and can be more racist than Liberals - I wish I could think of something positive to say about rightwing people, but reactionaries have always been on the wrong side of history. It’s time for a change, don’t you think.

Of course, and nobody in the world could argue that Bachmann and Palin are intelligent, reasonable, responsible  politicians who are qualified for the highest office. They are both an emberassment for this country the world is laughing about.

no, he said Republican frontrunner. No need for name calling by the way. I haven’t with you.

What the hell are you talking about? Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act in 1981 LOWERING the rates across the board. You seem to have a serious reading comprehension problem based on a bunch of your posts in this thread. Which I guess is fitting considering the topic is America being allergic to brains. You’re exhibit A.

Its spelled embarrassment you idiot. Might want to do a little spell checking before trashing people for being stupid. My god you liberals are a joke.

Its spelled embarrassment you idiot. Might want to do a little spell checking before trashing people for being stupid. My god you liberals are a joke.

Really?

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/02/barack-obama-ronald-reagan-budget-taxes-opinions-contributors-rob-shapiro.html

that’s from a liberal newspaper right?

Really?

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/02/barack-obama-ronald-reagan-budget-taxes-opinions-contributors-rob-shapiro.html

that’s from a liberal newspaper right?

It is because he’s a teanderthal. 

How about this?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030729-503544.html

The only president to cut taxes across the board as you say, was George W Bush.

I will give you that they won’t know as much about historical gays, tansgenders and lesbians throughout our history.

Sad state of affairs when a candidate’s successful qualifications have to include his/her race.  Geraldine Ferraro was correct when she said that Obama would never have risen to become the candidate for the Democrats if he had been white.  He has accomplished nothing to deserve it.  Herman Cain is a man of accomplishment, period. 

Yeah, we can’t have a Christian in the White House!  A Christian President might ruin the country.  (Like the current Christian President, for example…)

So Perry says he doesn’t know and that equals him saying the earth is 4000 years old? BTW, last time I checked, Obama claims to be a Christian. Anyone asked him lately about his views on evolution or anything else in the Bible? Or are only Republicans mocked for their religious beliefs?

Sure, it is. Fixed it. Is that all you got?

Jack should be ranting at voters without brains. Look who they elected  3 years ago.

Last I checked he or his party didnt champion bills that would re-edit or remove sections of text books that disagreed with their religious beliefs. Why don’t we do this, lets leave religion out of politics. You know, have a separation of church and state. So people wont ask or argue about these silly questions.

Let’s face it, if it wasn’t for name calling how would we even know the liberal/democrats/progressives/ statist have any thing to say.

Again, you can’t read. I specifically asked for a poll showing Thompson leading in the general election the same way Perry is tied or leading Barry in a theoretical 2012 matchup. And you link to an article showing Thompson TRAILING Hillary by 13 points with a condescending “oops” in your post. If you’re incapable of understanding basic English, don’t respond to these posts.

dear god, why are you trying to addle that brain up there w/ multisyllabic words. have you no mercy!!!

“All that matters is that is sounds good, regardless if there are no facts to back up what they are saying!”
You mean like, “Hope,” and, “Change?”  How about “stimulus?”  

Do you know what projection is?  Because pretty much everything you wrote applies more to the Democrats than to the Republicans.  It’s not that you believe in science and we don’t – it’s that you believe pseudo-scientists with an agenda, who manipulate their findings to support their conclusions, and we believe scientists who base their opinions on facts and data.  And SCIENCE.  News bulletin:  Al Gore and his entire “global warming… climate change… AGW” movement has been discredited!  It doesn’t matter how many times you change the name to “rebrand it,” as you liberals are so fond of doing, it’s still bullshit.  

Conservatives believe in education, not liberal indoctrination.  

Jack Cafferty is an abrasive, ignorant, loudmouthed, liberal jackass.  

So let’s recap. Republicans hide their slurs through other words, no proof is offered that they do that. And then you slur them by calling them teatards? Is your glass house shattered?

so they don’t get social security?

i’m just gonna step in here & do some bible math for you, er…adam. it’s the year 2011. the bible counts back from the year Christ was born as B.C., starting w/ 0. so 2,000 + 2,000=4,000. now if you want to get all nit picky about the 11 extra years, okay, but most folks tend to round their #s when they start getting kind of big. i’m trying to speak slowly so that you will will understand the book you apparently live by but have never read.

we’re still waiting for it…

baaaaaaaahahahahaha

I’ll quote you, “Blow Hard”. “Reagan raised taxes in his first term and then brought them back down in his second.” Technically you’re not lying, but that’s more than a little disingenuous. The bill he signed into law in his first year as President was comprised almost entirely of tax CUTS. He cut the income tax rate across the board by 23% over a 3-year period. He slashed estate and business taxes as well, along with a drop in the capital gains tax rate from 28% to 20%.

So please stop trying to rewrite history by saying Reagan “raised taxes in his first term” just because he did allow for the inclusion of a few tax hikes and closing of loopholes in a bill chock full of tax cuts while you conveniently ignore the effects of said tax cuts(they INCREASED revenues to the federal government and led to a huge economic expansion).

Speaking of brains…Cafferty really ought to have singled out the nation’s political bookends.

Well according to the opinion of America as a whole the TeaBagger Cult is the least popular group in the country.

So don’t stress. It doesn’t get any lower than the TeaBagger Cult.

What points? He made NO points concerning policy, philosophy, beliefs. He just threw spiteful adjetives around.

Socialism comes in many forms.
Let’s see I’m betting that you drive to work on a road that was paid for using “socialistic” funds.
I’m betting that the bridges that you cross over daily have been rated at least safe, but are going to pot since the tax cuts that should have kept them up to par have been cut and we’ll see another I-35 soon,
I’ll bet that either your children, your family’s children, or your neighbors children went to school paid for by socialistic funds.
I’ll bet that water that you drink, wash dishes in, wash your clothes in has been treated, deemed healthy by your local water board and the EPA that was funded by socialistic funds.
I’ll be that the meat that you eat at home or the fast food restaurant of your choice has been inspected by socialistic boards and deemed safe to consume, especially free from E-Coli.
I’ll bet that the car/van/truck that you drive has been rated safe to drive by a socialistic board for sale in the US.
I’ll be that the soaps/toothpaste/shampoo/body lotion that you use has been deemed safe to use by the FDA a socialistic organization.
I’ll bet that the medicines that you take for illnesses that plague you from time to time were also deemed safe by that same FDA.

And as for Religion I can say that I am not guilty of the Sin of Sodom & Gomorrah.{which wasn’t homosexuality–if Lot knew the sin was homosexuality (a word not used until the mid 1800′s were gay, he would have offered up his future sons-in-laws, instead of his daughters} according to Ezekiel 16:49-50 they were destroyed because they didn’t care for the sick and elderly. Wouldn’t that make the Tea Party’ers Sodomites and for the righteous Christians of today to condemn and do away with the Tea Party? instead of embracing it?

you can always tell that they’re all red faced, banging away @ their computer keys, when they resort to the name calling. poor thing. next he’ll be typing all caps.

Dallas DiGiovanni: “All that matters is that is sounds good, regardless if there are no
facts to back up what they are saying! (1) I never thought America would
become a country where it’s more important to say something that sounds
good, rather than it being true.(2) I never thought America would become a
country where we’d believe what oil companies say, rather than what
scientist say about climate change.(3) I never thought America would have a
political party that hated science and education to the point that they
no longer believed in either being important to the future success of
America”(4)
1: Such as “Hope and Change”. Such as “saved or created”.etc.
2: Such as “the oceans will fall and the planet will begin to heal”?
3: Which scientists? The 2000 signatures on the IPCC report comprising of 200 actual scientists, or the 37,000 signatures on the letter opposing AGW comprised of over 18,000 actual scientists and 6,000 Phd’s?
4: see 3 above. Also, do you mean the party and president that just ended your manned space program?

Somebody check Jack’s Thermos.

I totally stole this from a commenter on Hot Air:

Why is CNN allergic to ratings?

Apparently I live by the bible. Well not so much the parts about be not like the hypocrites who pray in public only to be seen by other men. I guess the 12 years of Catholic school didn’t work out.

Re-read my posts.

By the way, which one of the two is “smarter” the one with an MBA or the one who flunked out of the seminary?

Pamranch, can you provide a direct quote of Perry saying the earth is 4000 years old? Not an insinuation that this is what he believes just because he’s a Christian or refuses to repudiate the Bible. A direct quote. Because Blow Hard can’t come up with one and apparently neither can you.

And BTW, I’m not a Christian, Pamranch. I don’t believe in the teachings of Christianity. But I also don’t treat Christians with disrespect just because they happen to believe differently than I do.

It’s BAFFLING the stupidity that comes out of TeaBagger Cult members!

With no data to back up this they will believe it on it’s face.

The only good thing about this is that ‘shit’ like this sinks to the bottom so we won’t have to worry about this ignorance for much longer.

Oh, I suppose you didn’t hear The One saying he’s bringing a gun to a knife fight.

Fairies like Graf are much less popular.

It takes two to tango, and the Dems haven’t exactly been brain surgeons when it comes to halting the slide into idiocracy. About 99% of the Dem response to the TPers has consisted of playing the race card against millions of Americans, just because they’re white. The other 1% has been not telling the whole (damaging) truth about the Kochs.

If the Dems were smart they’d drop the race-card playing and do things like show how Andrew Malcolm’s article (quoted by freeinpa) is wrong. I mean actually show how it’s wrong, not just respond with canned and misleading charts of their own.

If the Dems were smart they’d tell the TPers the full truth about their stringpullers.

And, if the Dems were smart they’d present valid, logical, persuasive arguments against the LibertarianLite arguments of the TPers.

Instead, the Dems’ top thinkers are Garofalo and Maddow. Now that’s idiocracy.

P.S. If you want to help send the TPers back to their fiery pits, see my extensive coverage going back to Feb. 2009:

24ahead.com/s/tea-parties

Graf – Proud to be a fairy

Well, that was all pretty nasty. Let’s not lead people to reasoned conclusions. Let’s insult them instead. Name calling always works, right? Insults and name calling always raise the level of discourse, right?

kinda like what we do in here huh?

Ok, so over 40 million people are on food stamps. There, that should make you feel better, not the rest of us.

Another example of TeaBagger Cult ignorance!

TeaBaggers believe in Fairies!!

HAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!! 

No they’re not retired, so they don’t get social security. Last time I checked though, that’s a system they’re forced to pay into, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for something in return when they do reach retirement age.

As for BooBoo Bear’s post, give me a break. You’re acting like any form of government funded by taxes and fees is automatically socialist in nature. My tax dollars being used in part to fund a Food & Drug Administration to regulate the safety of food, drugs, and medical devices is not socialism. What’s next? My taxes paying for a national defense makes me a socialist?

Socialism promotes taking wealth in the form of taxation from the producers and redistributing it to lower income earners. Which on the surface may seem noble and just, but when the producing class continues to shrink and the amount of people receiving benefits continues to increase(which it’s done considerably since Obama took office), eventually you reach a point where the whole system becomes financially unsustainable and threatens to collapse the entire economy. And given the record number of Americans drawing some form of assistance from the federal government coupled with the fact that nearly half of the country doesn’t pay any federal income taxes, we now find ourselves on the brink. THAT is the system that hasn’t benefited me or my family personally in any way and threatens to ruin everyone’s lives if it’s not reformed soon.

Well, RRFCL, I didn’t vote for Obama. So, your whole “Hope” and “change” arguement means nothing to me… Lets talk about “Stimulus” for a minute. B/C your parties last–and unfortunately our countries most recent former–President, who did everything that the Republican economic playbook calls for–Tax cuts, De-regulation, and a lassez-faire approach to the stock market–caused not just our country, but the entire global economy to tank w/ credit being frozen world wide for days. EVERY SINGLE JOB CREATED IN GWB’S administration was lost in less than 2 months. When President Obama came into office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month from the mess that GWB created. To stop the hemorrhaging of jobs, and instill confidence in the stock market, a Stimulis was enacted into law. The unfortunate part about the stimulis though, was that 1/3 of it was tax cuts. Now I know your party thinks tax cuts are the answer to everything, but when your trying to stimulate an economy immediately you need CASH. So, even though the stimulis was $788 billion, more than $260 billion was tax cuts. Now, every economist, except for right wingers, stated that our economy needed $1 Trillion of stimulis for it to do any good. So, we really only got half the amount that was truly needed. You can say all you want about how it failed, and make fun of jobs saved or created, but look what has happened since the stimulis ran out. Unemployment has gone up, States are having to cut budgets by billions, and our economy’s growth has stalled. Whether you like to admit it or not, all your Republican elected officals who love to rip the stimulis were the 1st in line to write letters to President Obama stating how they wanted stimulis money b/c they said IT WOULD CREATE JOBS IN THEIR DISTRICT OR STATE. Gov. Perry used 6 billion to plug a whole in his budget. If not, TX would of had a huge deficit. Michele Bachmann wrote 13 letters requestiong stimulis funds. So read a lil bit, and realize that you are supporting a bunch of hypocrites. The difference with the Dems is they actually have the guts to admit that they request government money… As far as education, and science… If you weren’t so stupid and partisan, you would know that RUSSIA WAS BEHIND THE EAST ANGLIA “SCANDAL” WHY rUSSIA? B/C THEIR FUTURE DEPENDS ON THE WORLD NOT BUYING INTO GREEN TECH.

So he was wrong to champion balancing the budget and reforming welfare in the 1990′s? Because everyone loves to give Clinton credit for it.

“…a country where it’s more important to say something that sounds good, rather than it being true”
The same could be said about liberals. Neither party would fare well under an honest, objective search for the truth. You speak as though you possess the truth but offer no evidence that you do.

“…a country where we’d believe what oil companies say, rather than what scientist say about climate change”
Is no one permitted a dose of skepticism here? Are we supposed to automatically assume oil companies are liars, lest we be considered gullible fools by the likes of you? Go read up on what it takes to get a drop of oil from a mile underneath the ground, to then turn it into gasoline and put it into a conveniently available pump down the street, for a few bucks a gallon. Get an idea how much it costs to do that on a grand scale, while dealing with unimaginably complicated government regulation, union labor, distribution, etc etc and yet remain profitable enough to stay in business. And any man who can make that miracle of modern technology happen smoothly deserves a gajillion dollars. They are the ones who made your computer, fill the tank of your car, and brought electricity to your home. Anyone who makes that happen reliably deserves to be rich.

Better yet, strip yourself naked and go to the center of Yosemite, where you will no longer be complicit with all the industry and product of industry that is killing the planet. How long before you freeze to death, starve, or fall prey to a bear?

“I never thought America would have a political party that hated science and education…”
“Hated”? Come on, drop the hyperbole. Show me a Republican who refutes proven science? Oh, you must be referring to the science of climate change. I get it. That’s not proven science. Sorry, but it’s not. Concensus != science.

“Hate” education? Well, you may have something there. The institution of education is not immune from criticism. It is not infallible. You can disagree with how it is being conducted without “hating” it. And “education” does not always mean intelligence, a love of learning, knowledge, or wisdom. it just means you went to school and didn’t fail.

Stop beating down on people who simply disagree with you. They are not stupid, uneducated, or morally flawed. Just because people don’t bother to shove your nastiness back into your face, it doesn’t mean you’re right and they’re wrong.

“…a country where it’s more important to say something that sounds good, rather than it being true”

The same could be said about liberals. Neither party would fare well
under an honest, objective search for the truth. You speak as though you
possess the truth but offer no evidence that you do.

“…a country where we’d believe what oil companies say, rather than what scientist say about climate change”

Is no one permitted a dose of skepticism here? Are we supposed to
automatically assume oil companies are liars, lest we be considered
gullible fools by the likes of you? Go read up on what it takes to get a
drop of oil from a mile underneath the ground, to then turn it into
gasoline and put it into a conveniently available pump down the street,
for a few bucks a gallon. Get an idea how much it costs to do that on a
grand scale, while dealing with unimaginably complicated government
regulation, union labor, distribution, etc etc and yet remain profitable
enough to stay in business. And any man who can make that miracle of
modern technology happen smoothly deserves a gajillion dollars. They are
the ones who made your computer, fill the tank of your car, and brought
electricity to your home. Anyone who makes that happen reliably
deserves to be rich.

Better yet, strip yourself naked and go to the center of Yosemite, where
you will no longer be complicit with all the industry and product of
industry that is killing the planet. How long before you freeze to
death, starve, or fall prey to a bear?

“I never thought America would have a political party that hated science and education…”

“Hated”? Come on, drop the hyperbole. Show me a Republican who refutes
proven science? Oh, you must be referring to the science of climate
change. I get it. That’s not proven science. Sorry, but it’s not.
Concensus != science.

“Hate” education? Well, you may have something there. The institution of
education is not immune from criticism. It is not infallible. You can
disagree with how it is being conducted without “hating” it. And
“education” does not always mean intelligence, a love of learning,
knowledge, or wisdom. it just means you went to school and didn’t fail.

Stop beating down on people who simply disagree with you. They are not stupid, uneducated, or morally flawed. Just because people don’t bother to shove your nastiness back into your face, it doesn’t mean you’re right and they’re wrong.

This is so ridiculously transparent.  The media template is that any Democrat is smart, and any conservative is dumb.  Bachmann has all kinds of credentials, real world and business experience.  I bet we could even find out how she did in college.  Obama has no real world experience, no business experience, and no real experience in politics before being elected President.  His school records are locked up tighter than any military secret, but there is no evidence of any excellent scholarship or academic achievement.

But because he believes what the media believes, he’s smart.  Because Bachmann doesn’t, she’s dumb.  You don’t have to think to be a liberal media person, you just need to follow the template and fill in the names.

Well let’s change that and see if we can come up with some solutions for the jobless. If unemployment rate was closer to 5% we wouldn’t e hearing all this crap. So let’s rise above the Cafferty junk and junk from others and discuss REAL issues that are hurting this country.

we agree

So it is retarded to want politicians to stop spending money that we don’t have?   That is the basic premise of the entire Tea Party philosophy, which also includes a small government that sticks to the present-day constitution.  So many of you just cannot come to grips with the simplicity of our wants.  Instead, we are labeled as racist, extremists, terrorists, you name it. 

Your tactics of marginalization are taken right out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook, “Rules for Radicals”.  We realize this.

Keep calling us names all you want, Dandkenton.  It will not change our minds or cause us to cower in a corner and keep our mouths shut. 

let me continue on education and science… You may think you are being told the truth about climate change not being real or man made, but you would be wrong. Do you not realize the only reason your republican elected officals don’t believe in climate change is b/c Big Oil, the Koch brothers, and other donors are telling them that if they don’t get you to believe climate change is a fraud, then they won’t get anymore cash!! Just like the Dems are bought off by Wall St. so Dodd-Frank is the most worthless piece of legislation ever written. Climate change is real, and is being spead up by carbon based fuels. Look up Venus if you don’t believe me. There is no Liberal indocturnation going on. Sorry to dissapoint you. If you think evolution is a “liberal thing” then you are useless to talk to. B/c look at vaccinations. Or how virus’ EVOLVE into other virus’. Do you not realize that the only reason the Republican party hates Public Education is because their evangelical base would be lost if they supported it? In fact most of the things your party is against is b/c if they are not, they will lose 30 million dedicated, politically active, evangelical voters… I used to be a republican but they got too worried about 30 million voters and said screw you to the rest of us

Steve Wynn proposes a moratorium on campaign donations and for just cause.  A former Obama supporter finally throws in the towel in disgust after Obama’s mindless promises and failed administrative policies!  And to think – Republicans and Rush Limbaugh could have told Steve Wynn this 2 1/2 years ago.  But then some people “let it ride” and have the “gambler spirit” but the facts are Obama has been a colossal gamble since November of 2008!

Right on Jack, everyone can’t be a brilliant drunken hit and run driver like you are.

Here is the record for your hero Jack Cafferty, a two bit hit and run drunken fool, I am sure PMSNBC has an opening for him.  OH wait, CNN bailed him out and got most of the charges reduced.

http://www.google.com/#pq=jack+cafferty%2C+hit+%26+run%2C+assaulting+police+officer&hl=en&cp=22&gs_id=5e&xhr=t&q=jack+cafferty,+drunk,+hit+%26+run,+assaulting+police+officer&pf=p&sclient=psy&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=jack+cafferty,+drunk,+hit+%26+run,+assaulting+police+officer&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a1264650e6ec0d2d&biw=960&bih=459

  Nothing like the pontifications of a pompous tool for sheer entertainment value. Sarah is dumb and Barack is smart ! where is my evidence ?? I need none, for I have Moral Certitude ™ 

  These asinine kindergarten insults are all they have left, there’s no actual way to defend obam,a or attack Perry, so this is what they have. “go to hell, you’re dumb, evil, wacky blah blah blah. I just hope the rest of america is as tired of this tedium as i am.  This guy calls himself a “journalist” …laughable.
 

What a cute “Pet” Conservative they have on CNN. Rolls over on conservatives when ever they rub his belly!

An example of what I’m talking about TC

(NYP)
— Parents sending children off to college for the first time, beware:
Their “freshman orientation” is all too likely to include being herded
through a “tunnel of oppression” to learn about the evils of “white
privilege,” being lectured about how they’re part of a “rape culture” or
being forced to discuss their sexual identities with complete strangers
— before they even meet their first professor.
That’s right: For
all we hear about faculty ideological or political bias, campus
administrators are often worse when it comes to brainwashing students.
Consider
the shocking account from a student trained to be a dorm supervisor — a
resident adviser, or RA — at DePauw University in Indiana. One of her
first duties last fall was to lead her new students through a house
decorated as a “Tunnel of Oppression,” where supposedly “realistic”
demonstrations in each room taught lessons such as how religious parents
hate their gay children, Muslims would find no friends on a
predominantly non-Muslim campus and overweight women suffer from eating
disorders.
Indeed, in her training to become an RA, “We were told
that ‘human’ was not a suitable identity, but that instead we were first
‘black,’ ‘white,’ or ‘Asian’; ‘male’ or ‘female’; . . . ‘heterosexual’
or ‘queer.’ We were forced to act like bigots and spout off stereotypes
while being told that that was what we were really thinking deep down.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. must be spinning in his grave.
Unsurprisingly, she turned down the school’s offer to be an RA this year — she’d rather find another job.
DePauw
is no rare case. At least 96 colleges across the country have run
similar “tunnel of oppression” programs in the last few years.

Like it or not, the likes of Palin, Perry and Bachmann exudes ignorance. These intellectually challenged stooges have no business running for dog catcher, let alone POTUS. Only one mistake the founding fathers made in outlining the qualifications for President, the potential candidate should possess an IQ of at least three digits. This would automatically eliminate the aforementioned stooges from all possible consideration for the position of POTUS.

Ilene will have to answer for herself, but I told you exactly why I would never vote for Cain. He’s a fool.

Last time I checked, a guilty plea is an admission of guilt.  Not what anybody (rational) would call a lie.

But, let’s go ahead and compare a traffic citation with some of your heros … Rush (drugs, illegal prescriptions); “Scooter” (perjury … actual lying for you dopes out there); Tom Delay (money laundering, fraud); Ollie North (awww … poor Ollie, still getting grief even after the felony convictions were vacated); Dick Cheney (What?  He’s never been convicted of war crimes? Huh. Hard to believe ….).

But, yeah, Jack’s a lousy driver. Yawn.

I could care less about Jack Cafferty, let alone call him my “hero” thanks for the laugh though! lol… I woulda prefered you had the guts to respond to what I wrote like Eh2ZED, Grokker, and RRFCL did. They atleast took the time to read what I wrote, thought about it, and respectfully challenged my assumptions. I’m here to debate, not change the subject

There’s so much about your post that wreaks of stupidity, it almost feels like piling on to even comment. 

But your comment about prayer is the icing on the cake. The fact that you actually believe that whispering to a robed man sitting on a cloud gets you bupkis, you’re so separated from reality, it’s scary. 

Cafferty is a prime example of the typical statist “no-think-um” elite. He sits on his brains for a living while he harrumphs his juvenile, caustic remarks. Funny how liberals universally possess this delusional self-opinion that their brains were mystically touched by the finger of God at birth. Then when confronted with certifiable nincompoops that irrefutably demonstrate the opposite, like Joe (J-O-B-S) Biden, their panties knot into a bunch in a huff of, “Well what about Bush and Palin?”. 

Well, what about Palin? I would gladly – no – excitedly take Sarah Palin over Barack Obama every day of the week and twice on Sunday. When it comes to constitutional principles, self-reliance and capitalism, Sarah Palin is Einsteinian compared to the Marxist in the White House. And Cafferty might see that if he would ever pull his pants down over his eyes! 

Dude, you just made his point for him. 

It makes no one feel better. I wish it wasn’t 1 percent. But if some idiot is going to toss around made up numbers, he should expect to get slapped down. 

That is a massively broad brush you are using, to dishonestly paint a very large segment of the population as something they are not. Clearly, you are not concerned about being taken seriously, but rather wish to insult people who do not think as you do.
That is hardly the approach of a true “intellectual”. Worshiping the intelligentsia and academia as a whole indicates the personality of a follower who thinks as they are told. They are just as fallible as any other human being. Have you never had a professor that you discovered to be dead wrong? I know that I have.

Yes, it’s so obvious. At least to anyone with a tinfoil hat. 

Maybe in some parts of the world, CNN still holds some importance. But not in the U.S. anymore.

Nobody cares what Cafferty thinks.

He is an irrelevant commentator on an irrelevant network.

Everyone is for a balanced budget. (Why not be for puppies and rainbows, too!) The issue is how you get to that elusive balanced budget, and Newt’s prescriptions were all blue smoke and mirrors. It’s more of the Republican nonsense of trickle up economics, where the rich get the vast majority of tax breaks and the middle class gets thrown under the bus. No thanks. We tried that during Bush’s term and it was a DISASTER.

The truth hurts, eh!

I asked the same question in 2010.

It’s only a lie when it’s told by a “lib.” When it’s a conservative, it’s just an alternate reality.

People with critical thinking skills (which is not a political issue) see a guy like Pat Buchanan, for example, as smart. Acerbic, maybe disagreeable, but smart.

People with critical thinking skills see a guy like Newt Gingrich as smart-ish.  He has legitimate intellectual gravitas, but let’s his ideology get in the way of logic and, because he’s pretty bad at keeping track of his own b.s., steps on his tongue a lot.  But he’s smart. Sorta.

But people think Michele Bachmann is dumb, because she’s dumb.  Academic pedigree, good looks, sharp tongue … doesn’t matter.  In fact, makes it all the worse.  No excuse for this person not knowing that John Quincy Adams is NOT a “founding father.”  Yes, it makes a difference.  And if it didn’t, then why was she pitching it?

No excuse for saying “… there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.”   No excuse for saying Terry Schiavo “was healthy.”  No excuse for proposing elimination of the minimum wage to fix unemployment.  No excuse for saying there are “hundreds” of scientists, “many of them holding Nobel prizes” who believe in intelligent design.  No excuse for thinking that the U.S. has “no business” doing a census.  No excuse for ………  well, why bother.

She’s just dumb.

since we are nitpicking…

How did his budget effect the deficit?

But I’m sure there is an excuse for Obama bragging to soldiers how he recently put the Medal of Honor on another soldier … when in fact the soldier was dead?  And of course it’s so easy to say the US has 57 states.  Everyone makes that mistake, right?  Here’s a hit parade from Michelle Malkin, and this is from 2008…not that it will matter to you, everyone knows Obama is a genius:

But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, heclaimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’sharder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.*Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

Actually its the Marxocrat party that favors stifling a dissenting press. 

Very well dissected and rebutted Grooker. Broad attacks like that are just plain dishonest.

Now you’ve done it GOP. You’ve lost the angry old drunk vote.

That was the point I wanted to make. I have never seen the electorate so widely abandon critical thought as they did with Obama. For so many people to worship such an un-vetted candidate is astounding. For them to continue holding on now is inexplicable. I see some of that now, but there is no comparison to the Obama phenomenon.

Can anyone actually look at the Republican contenders and tell me that this guy is wrong?  If the Republicans had any hope of knocking off Obama, they blew it. I wouldn’t hire any of these people to manage a Seven/11, let alone run the country.

Barack Obama couldn’t manage a lemonade stand while its 7-year old owner was at lunch.

Barack Obama couldn’t manage a lemonade stand while its 7-year old owner was at lunch.

Jack’s a shill. Caring the water. But, spilling much of it.

Oh,
The Intolerant Left, boasting their Indoctrination to whatever Political Correctness rues the moment - pretty little lemmings, those Democrats!

LOL

I think Cafferty’s question is a good one. If the Democrats were to put up such kookey candidates as Bachman,, Cain, or Santorum, the candidates would be ostracized — as the Republicans do with Ron Paul.

I think the Republican Party having its own TV network combined with Reagan’s 11th Commandment is a recipe for bringing out the crazy.

Mentioning taking Sarah Palin every day of the week once and on Sunday twice combined with pulled down pants reveals lots…

And yet you can´t bring yourself to simply state  Bachmann is intelligent or smart. Almost any of the comments from the right wingers here don´t include the statement Bachmann and Palin or Perry are intelligent, smart people. Wonder why *ROFL

Exactly.

Are you able to copy and paste something that shows us how smart Michelle Bachmann is? When someone says Michelle Bachmann is dumb, the counterargument can´t possibly be, no, she´s not because there someone as dumb or even dumber.

@Dallas DiGiovanni:
Since you were so concerned about James R learning how to spell, and since you mockingly put my spelling of “stimulus” in quotes, then proceeded to misspell it “stimulis” no fewer than eight times, I thought I should help you out a little bit.  

It’s “argument,” not “arguement.”
“Let’s,” is the contraction for “let us,” not “lets.”
“Party’s” is the possessive form of party, not “parties.”
“Country’s” is the possessive form of country, not “countries.”
It’s “laissez-faire,” not “lassez-faire.”
Oh, yeah, and it’s “stimulus,” not “stimulis.”
“You’re” is the contraction for “you are,” not “your.”
It’s “would have had,” not “would of had.”
It’s “sped up,” not “spead up.”
It’s “indoctrination,” not “indocturnation.”
The plural of virus is “viruses,” not “virus’.”

As for evolution, as with most generalizations you spew, you are barking up the wrong tree.  I happen to believe in it, as do most people I know.  

The Bush tax cuts provably increased overall tax revenues.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, under the watchful eyes of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, and a Democrat-controlled Congress that thwarted President Bush’s attempts to reign in the loose lending practices designed by Democrats to open the housing market to unqualified buyers, had more to do with the financial crisis than any other factor you blame on Bush.  

By writing, “Every economist, except for right wingers…” you follow the same fallacious logic that you follow with global warming.  “Every scientist (except for the ones who don’t believe it) believes in man-made global warming.  The science is settled (among those who believe in it).  

In short, almost everything you wrote, from the conspiracy theories to the spelling errors, was wrong.  But thanks for playing.  Oh, and since you called me “stupid and partisan,” back at you in spades, idiot.  I’d be willing to bet that I read a hell of a lot more than you do, and you have the nerve to make condescending statements to me about how I should “read a lil bit?”  What a jerk.  

One correction, it’s was not Steve Wynn who put forth the “no donation” idea, it was the CEO of Starbucks.

Jack Cafferty, of CNN, is desperatly trying to be relevent since MSNBC hired Al Sharpton.  Jack is trying to show obama he’s a better Communist than AL!  Good luck with that one, Jack!  Jack is right about one thing and that is Conservativ’s ARE allergic to SOME brains…COMMUNIST brains, like those that infest MSNBC, CNN, PBS, Hollywood, ABC and the democrat party!  Besides, he ALWAYS looks like he just ran out of his suppositories

Thank You! I’ll be here all week.  Tip your waitress

“It’s tempting to see this as a strictly conservative problem (their contempt for academia and journalism certainly enabled it), but the media and the Democratic establishment have long played along with the modern American idea that intellect is a political liability.” What a load of B.S.  Whatever you think of them as politicians, Clinton-Gore-Kerrçy-Obama are mental giants compared to the people they ran against. So, no, Democrats don’t “play along.” The media, absolutely. But deliberately encouraging mental midgets and then running them for president — that’s a conservative problem.

And yet you hired Obama who had only been a Community Organzier and a junior Senator. Sorry, but you have no credibility in the hiring decisions category.

It is hard to take Jack “The Hack” Cafferty seriously. After all, the man is a known drunk who was arrested for hit-and-run against a cyclist in New York City, but the powers-that-be set him free.

Jack the Hack is allergic to being sober. He is such a drunk that his liver sued him for separate maintenance.

Watch the movie Idiocity. All the actors are republicans.

(except for the smart guy)

Because they are.

Google’s Bachmann accusing Obama of anti-americanism and not being a “real” American. Then backtracking of course. She’s such an airhead.

Now surely you know your claim that Perry, Bachman, and Palin have said hate is nothing more than pure bias ingorance on your part.  However, I do understand that left-wingers such as you have lost the ability for logical thought process.  If being fed up with out of control government spending is to be considered hate, then add me to that list of haters.  Also, Larry, Moe, and Curly better describes the idiot voters who put the Marxist into the  Presidency.

Why does CNN have a hard on for arrogant, ignorant old drunks?

Why does Fox News have a hard-on for arrogant, ignorant young blondes?

And you’ve used the wrong “its.” You wanted “it’s.”

Jack, you ignorant slut. Parroting lib talking points (lies) isn’t exactly brain surgery. Cheers.

He’s right.  I like this guy!  There is a pretty dangerous anti-intellectual streak in this country.  It shouldn’t be a problem to be smart, and yes, there are other forms of talent, and charisma, but I think Jack’s on to something here.

Thats right! They home school kids in India and China don’t they!

Those home schooled kids would get trounced by private school kids.  The only schools to rank consistently high across the board for the last 50 years have been Catholic schools. 

someone bought a thesaurus.

Has Cafferty run over any bike messengers lately?

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/lets-play-jeopardy_b5185

Jack seems to be more of a libertarian than a liberal. I know you can’t tell from this article/example, but if you watched him often enough you would probably see it. I don’t have any examples off hand, except to say that he advocates for term limits, for whatever that is worth.

My point is that a whole lot of conservatives are agreeing with Jack on this one. Your insults are no brain surgery.

Any comments on this page that play to any PARTY LINES are made by a person(s) who clearly stands at the back of the class and mumbles under his/her breath “yeah, like you are so smart” and seems bent on ignoring the point. THE front runners of the GOP are not smart people. The fact that the guy in office (I dont vote having had NO ONE vote for during my voting life so beware of calling me one “thing or another”) has been handed a country where people scream “where are the jobs” while watching fortune 500 companies send jobs overseas for the last two plus decades yet seem to protect the people who continue to get wealthy while WAY to many Americans find themselves losing jobs to 100 dollar a month foreign slaves -essentially- is actually sadly amusing and horrifyingly scary.
Ask yourself exactly what ANY OF THESE people can do to increase the job market pool. Seriously… I’d like to know because I watched in horror as a group of Americans stupidly applauded Bachman as she told us her emotional wish of setting gas prices as President. LOL.. yeah, because thats how gas prices work. Even George Bush let the country know, AS AN OIL MAN, that is simply not the way it works. YET, Bachman got a ton of applause because we are headed for a very scary moment where stupid people place stupid people into leadership roles.. and I have no idea what happens after that day.
Find me a single candidate that plans on either punishing or rewarding companies that bring the few million jobs BACK to this country that have been tossed overseas, and I just might consider voting. TILL THEN..I’m watching LIVE SOUTH PARK in action and it is frightening. 

Irrelevant ad hominem attacks do not advance the political discourse. Tell us where he is worng about Palin, Bachmann, and Perry.

You base your opinion on one example. If you watched Cafferty more than once, you wold know that he tends to be conservative.

You have just provided proof of what Cafferty is talking about. All you can do is repeat the propaganda that fills your tiny brain. 

And perfectly regurgitated propaganda from you, too. There is not a single syllable that does not follow the conservative line to a tee, and you avoid any comment about the subjects of the article.

Tolling for Like Points, no doubt. 

That is based on one article. Check out his other comments. He is probably center right. The candidates are wacko right. It is that simple.

But IQ was not a term back then. :-)

I suggest the first step toward “anti-intellectual[ism]” is remove personal responsibility and decision making from the citizenry?  Effectively, create “intellectual” zombies who neither care about the past or future, only the present and one’s immediate gratification and survival.

Overt religiosity has been a historical and constant culprit of inculcated dogma, thus diminished societal intellect.  So too, especially as of recent, has overt political dogma created the Leninesque, “useful idiot.”  Islam, has brought the ugly possibility of both religion and politics, combined with modern weaponry!

The absurdities promulgated by some Christian sects, such as a disdain for natural science, is a good example of diminished, even prohibited intellectual thought.

Conversely, an obsession with managing and saving everyone, to the detriment of our National economic and military security, is another good example of planned/organized, intellectual degeneration. 

Simply put, I would like Government out of my bedroom and out of my wallet or Bank account!

Purveyor

Nice to see you are still here.  All I had was COSMOS to pick on… LOL

MB has a Juris Doctorate and LLM in tax law from tough schools.  She was a competent tax litigation attorney.  She raised 5 kids and cared for 23 foster kids.  She has been elected and re-elected to state and federal office.  I don’t know her personally, nor do I know her IQ or her SAT scores.  She has clearly proven she is not dumb, because you can’t accomplish all that and be dumb.  Unless there is evidence of her degrees being given to her thru “affirmative action” (see: BHO), and her other accomplishments faked, she is clearly pretty smart.

My point, which of course you ignored, is that it doesn’t matter what credentials, degrees, SAT scores, or anything else a conservative has.  To the media, they are dumb.  And likewise for liberals, to the media they are smart.  And the saddest thing about it is you have media people with far less creds deciding who is smart or not.

There ya go.

Love it that you can´t say she´s intelligent, but she can´t be dumb. Why not? Because she has a J.D. from Oral Roberts University? Pretty good comparison in what class MB belongs with her J.D. from ORU while Barack Obama got his at one of the top universities world wide with summa cum laude.

Did you know her academic career includes being a research assistant for the book “Christianity and the Constitution”, which argues that the United States was founded as a Christian theocracy, and should become one again. (ty wiki) That´s the kind of academic training she got. Sorry, but neither an intelligent person nor one with a sense of academic integrity would have participated in such a ridiculous project.  

Intelligence isn´t defined by membership to one particular party. That´s nonsense. Huntsman or Romney aren´t regarded as airheads just to name two. What fans of Palin or Bachmann simply don´t get is the reason why both of them are regarded as dumb persons. They are regarded as dumb because they say dumb things all the time.  Things that don´t make sense, are simply wrong and a stupid thing to say. 

Can you not read?  First you whine because I didn’t say she was smart.  I made the case, and said it.  So now you whine I didn’t say she was “intelligent.”

Skipping the fact that you got your facts wrong on BHO’s degree (was magna, not summa), her LLM was from William and Mary — a “top university worldwide.”  Of course, BHO’s degree from Harvard can’t mean much, since GW Bush had degrees from both Yale and Harvard and that counted for nothing according to liberals.

Your paragraph on the book research is meaningless.  Have you read it?  Was the scholarship of the book poor?  Just because you disagree with the conclusion has nothing to do with whether she is intelligent.

And now you try to slip in the back door the argument that these conservatives are dumb because they say dumb things.  Pretending I never already made and refuted that as the cause of their being called dumb, because BHO says dumb things ALL the time and is called a genius.

Man, if you don’t have an A-game, could you at least get a B or C?

I think, when you resort to childish insults without any supporting evidence or cogent argument, it reflects poorly on you, not the subject. When a suposed “journalist” (ha ) like Cafferty basically calls two competent political figures ” doody heads” , he looks like the joke, not them. Remember, people are paying hinm presumably as lot of money for his professional analysis,  and this is what they get ? So and so is a dum dum ? Seriously ?  People just toss things out there, Sarah is dumb, Barack is really smart…but there is no actual evidence that suports either of those theories. Palin’s public and private statements seem reasoned and thoughtful and on point from what I have read and heard, while Barack Obama has shown himself through his words and actions to be clueless as far as Economic policy or even basic economic theory. The simple fact that you hate someone doesnt therefore equate to  ” they’re stupid” ,  nor does ” this person disagrees with me”  

 I am not an idealogue or a rabid partisan, I’m certainly open to any plausible argument that shows a lack of intelligence on Palin or Perry’s part…but this is not that, by a long shot, this is childish insults by someone with no credibility to make them. Stupid is, after all, as stupid does, and the gentleman from chicago has built quite the case for his own idiocy so far. Palin and Perry, not so much.  

The very fact that you unquestionably subscribe to the man-made global warming theory proves you are an idiot at the outset.
 
So lets address the rest of your babble. 
 
The debt ceiling.  If it was not raised, we would have not defaulted since we can pay the interest on our loans easily with monthly tax revenue. We would have had to cut discretionary funding or —gasp—- non discretionary funding to make up the difference  I appreciate your chicken little prediction of the economy ending as we know it, but that truth only exists in your reality.
 
Ronald Reagan—Your comment here really showed your mental ineptitude.  Reagan cut tax rates and closed tax loopholes, which increased GDP, increased tax revenue, and reduced tax avoidance.
 
 
Should I keep going?
 
Evolution:  Perry simply states Evolution for what it is.   A theory.  As soon as it moves outside of the realm of theory into a provable scientific fact…such as hot air rising…for an example.  Are you following here?
 
 
Bin Laden:  Good Job….The Seals Got Bin Laden.  Use that sound bite for the centerpiece of your campaign next year.

 The very fact that you unquestionably subscribe to the man-made global warming theory proves you are an idiot at the outset. So lets address the rest of your babble.   The debt ceiling.  If it was not raised, we would have not defaulted since we can pay the interest on our loans easily with monthly tax revenue. We would have had to cut discretionary funding or —gasp—- non discretionary funding to make up the difference  I appreciate your chicken little prediction of the economy ending as we know it, but that truth only exists in your reality. Ronald Reagan—Your comment here really showed your mental ineptitude.  Reagan cut tax rates and closed tax loopholes, which increased GDP, increased tax revenue, and reduced tax avoidance.  Should I keep going? Evolution:  Perry simply states Evolution for what it is.   A theory.  As soon as it moves outside of the realm of theory into a provable scientific fact…such as hot air rising…for an example.  Are you following here?  Bin Laden:  Good Job….The Seals Got Bin Laden.  Use that sound bite for the centerpiece of your campaign next year.

and even fewer give a damn what you think.

My mistake with summa cum laude.

I regard MB still as dumb. Dangerously dumb I´ll add.

Obama isn´t a genius imho, but smarter than her def. Hopefully Bachmann runs and they can do an I.Q.-test.

Come to think about it, maybe Bachmann does one in public and can remove any doubt about her dumbness.
Would be a great move for her campaign.

Intelligence, I will tell you again, has nothing to do with belonging to one party or another.

Most of these negative comments come from people who seem allergic to brains.

Nicely said.

Ah  true, but I suspect even back then they wouldn’t have considered the “village idiot” a viable candidate for the position of POTUS.

Off hand I’d say your lack of critical thinking would lead some to conclude you’re not the sharpest tack in the box. Intelligence is not an easy thing to define. For most humans we judge individuals by their actions. At work we have definite views as to who is smart and who is not. Some of that judgement is based on our own personal relationship with those individuals.Your bias towards Liberals clouds your opinion on how you view Obama. You imply, if not openly claim, that Obama is not intelligent enough to hold the office of President. This is primarily based on how you preceive the economy and how other Conservatives react to Obama’s  handling of the economy. Therefore because Conservatives oppose anything Obama does you accuse him of having no intelligence, in the area of the economy, whatsoever. I’m sure like most Conservatives you view the current state of the economy as completely the result of Obama’s actions and policies. Disregarding anything done prior to Obama taking office. This myopic view of the situation reinforces the preception of your lack of intelligence.  I see flaws with Obama, but for completely different reasons. I see his mishandling of the economy because he is trying to be the great appeaser. He desparately tries to find a middle ground where Conservatives and Liberals can come together and work together to fix the economy. I see this as a flaw because one, Conservatives will never compromise, I think that it is abundantly clear.  And two, I don’t believe that Conservatives want to fix the economy, their goal, as openly stated, is to defeat Obama, and they could care less how many Americans lives they have to destroy to achieve their goal. I fault Obama for not standing up to the failed Conservative policies of the past. Republicans held enough power to force the President to extend the Bush tax cuts, or they would shut down the Federal Government. I saw Obama give into these tactics and then watch as the Republicans who threaten to shut down the government turn around and say that is was Obama who extended the Bush tax cuts. Obama cared more about the people who were about to be laid off in this terrible economic time and “made a deal with the devil” to ensure these people would not be laid off. He did it again when Congress finally passed a 2011 fiscal budget. And obviously he did it again during the “debt ceiling” crisis. The Republicans are truly an obstructionist party.

But continuing on about intelligence we can only measure one’s intelligence by one’s performance. And when it comes to the area of foreign policy, Obama turns out to be very intelligent. And in hind sight George W, turns out to be not so intelligent. And just remember McCain would not have conducted foreign policy anything like Obama. So by his own admission we would probably still have Osama Bin Laden kicking around and Gaddafi would still be in “Hog Heaven” in Tripoli. Conservatives are a lot like Rick Perry, not big on thinking but much heavier on actions. Whether those actions would be right or wrong, sort of a “Shoot first, ask questions later” mentality, George W. was certainly of that mold.

“Doody heads,” “sharpest tack in the box?”  Hmm…  (Is this a “dichotomy”?) LOL

Say, did you see all the photographs of Khadaffi’s romanesque splendor?  Reminds me of our current President’s penchant for the bourgeoise, birthday parties, parties in general, vacations and travel, Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to “call the kettle black,” so top speak?

(Oh stop!  George Bush went home occasionally, he didn’t have high fashion Hollywood style soirees)

Your Chum, The Purveyor

Thanks,

The trouble is, this post is an example of a well written post that, apparently, few people saw.  I know you’ve had a few of those.  Whether long or short, you can tell when serious thought has gone into the comment, then few see it.  Ouch

I guess timing and location, plus other intangibles and poof—-”obscurity”!

Quote: “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”  Napoleon

Thanks again    

Yup. When I write a really long one, I know only one person will read it because I’m responding to someone who seems willing to think beyond the slogans and dogma. Others will (ualualy) ignore it and rush to print their own slogan, dogma, or witticism. Sometimes I do that myself, and that is when I will get a few “Likes.” Can’t say I don’t appreciate them, but it is more satisfying to get a real point across.

DS AKA дьявола икру

Somehow Jack Cafferty reminds of what would have happened if Paul Harvey and Ann Coulter conceived a child.

He’s part dramatic commentator and part cantankerous provocateur.

America is fucked either way. You can all suck bags of dicks. 

@ Adam…  why is it people like you who hate Obama are like “but when the producing class continues to shrink and the amount of
people receiving benefits continues to increase(which it’s done
considerably since Obama took office)”.  What policies can have an profound influence within a year and a half that it took 8 years for the Bush and his cronies put into place. It was Bush that set up the tax codes / credits for companies to set up over seas.. causing companies to set up operations and bleed this country dry of middle class jobs.  Bleeding jobs, reducing tax revenue from jobs lost, temporary tax cuts for wealthy (which i dont know how anyone can say it is creating jobs since they been around for how many years?)…and wars unpaid for.  Remember Bush had a surplus coming into his presidency. And since you are blaming Obama for the state of the economy (which is highly improbable), I blame Bush then for his BS and letting America A) get attacked and B) setting up the stage for todays turmoil. The day people start waking up is the day we can really start working to get this country on track.  Investing in America.. even to the people you say are getting ‘entitlements’ is by far better than nation building and funneling funds to overseas nations which have no impact on ourselves.  The simple fact is people who are less educated cant see this… they just see the +/- 3 months around them.. saying we are spending too much (but didnt say anything two + years ago) and getting taxed too much (when taxes are at some of their all time lowest) they are not educated in cognitive thinking and long term solutions or where the origin of the issues comes from.  I am not saying Obama is some god like figure that can save the economy, but he has intellect that none of the newer candidates in the media spotlight have. I am not saying he is not spending too much… (i hated the fact of the bailouts for companies that made sh*tty products and just expected because it was American made – America will buy it.  It goes against the competition theory), … the bailouts should have been invested in new types of jobs and incentives for companies to bring work back to America.

Education and investments into America should be the #1 priority for congress and the president. This will allow us to compete in the years to come. Without it, the deficit will only be the minor problem of the future.. we will not be able to compete with those who already understand this and are moving forward. 

OMG! Attack the messenger????
ATTACK THE MESSENGER !
I thought that silly old tactic had been retired years ago.
Talking ABOUT RIDICULING!
Whoa !!
Zoom !!
Dude !!
Wow !!
lol
rofl
lmao

So what is the “evolution agenda”? WHy do Republicans have an aversion to science unless it agrees with their unlearned opinions?

When ” Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Jon Huntsman as examples of “the other end of the intellectual spectrum.” you know you’re in a really bad way…

“Hated”? Come on, drop the hyperbole. Show me a Republican who refutes proven science?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

the 30 million evangelicals who say a monkey wasn’t their grandpa.

RRFCL – “…we believe scientists who base their opinions on facts and data.”

You mean like scientists from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body which includes thousands of researchers from 194 countries and is considered the leading international
organization on climate science? Because this is what they have to say:

“Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the
mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in
anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. [...] Discernible human
influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean
warming, continental-average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind
patterns.”
-http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm-understanding-and.html

How about the U.S. Global Change Research Program (http://www.globalchange.gov/), which coordinates federal research on climate?

“Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal. The
global warming observed over the past 50 years is due primarily to
human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. These emissions come
mainly from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), with
important contributions from the clearing of forests, agricultural
practices, and other activities.”

Surely not the National Academy of Sciences, the most prestigious scientific organization in the world!

“Although the scientific process is always open to new ideas and
results, the fundamental causes and consequences of climate change have
been established by many years of scientific research, are supported by
many different lines of evidence, and have stood firm in the face of
careful examination, repeated testing, and the rigorous evaluation of
alternative theories and explanations.”
-http://americasclimatechoices.org/ACC_Final_Report_Brief04.pdf

I’m sure you’re getting your information from better sources though…

Taibbi’s right.  American elections have devolved into reality shows.  Journalists cover the horse race and minor scandals and not the policy prescriptions or ideas, TV stations love it since it fills countless hours of the news day with mindless drivel and makes them rich, rich beyond their wildest dreams as a billion dollars is spent on more mindless drivel, and America’s sports/political junkies memorize the stats and follow every play-by-play.

This is no way to choose a leader and the proof is in the pudding: there are only two competent people running for the Republican nomination and only one of them is a serious contender and that’s only cause he has all the money (literally! Geesh, that dude is llloooaaaddded).  Cafferty is right that America’s system is broken by the baby boomer dunderheads who gave us dunces like Bush, Kerry, and now Perry. Not since the political machines gave us half-wits like Chester Arthur or Coolidge has the system needed reform as much as it does now.

Support publicly financed elections like functioning democracies and tell the dunderheads and the plutocrats where to stick their ill-gotten gains

I would love to see this witty comment of yours, since I have NEVER seen a witty comment from you ever.  Perhaps it was your first one and you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to re-capture the magic ever since?

Conservatives like to whine about this, but I see no proof that the 18 month job interview America put Obama through somehow resulted in an election of a stranger.  The paranoia of the Right has always viewed him as an outsider, but he told exactly how he would govern, what his aims and goals would be, and wrote two books on who he was and what he believed.

The idea that voters did not know enough about him to either like him or hate him is silly.

HAHAHAHA, you read “hot air.” 

Hey, Mitch, her New Yorker profile by Ryan Lizza didn’t show her to be a “competent tax attorney.”  She worked there all of 2-3 years and spent most of the time out on maternity leave.  None of her colleagues knew whether she was competent or not.

And, her Oral Roberts JD is not difficult, although I’m sure her LLM at William and Mary required some scholarship.

Michelle might be smart; she might be dumb.  The one thing she is good at is grifting and playing the victim.  She is A genius at those two things

People mis-speak?  Michelle makes a mistakes and, much like Palin, refuses to acknowledge it.  her John Quincy Adams mistake is a perfect example. Instead of just saying “well, many of the Founding generation came to regret compromises on slavery and that’s what I meant” (which would be defensible), she lies about J. Q. Adams and then keeps spinning in to an argument.  At any time, she could have backed off and let it go, but she would not.  Shows poor judgement and it shows contempt for the audience (“they don’t know the difference between John Adams and John Quincy Adams” she seems to be thinking).

It would be akin to Obama claiming he did NOT mis-speak about 57 states and instead claimed at one point there were 57, but we whittled them down.

See the difference?

Obama’s experience as a professor and a lawyer is not experience enough for you.  Michelle has been decrying the government almost as long as she has been taking tax payer money for her various schemes, errrrr businesses.  That’s the “experience” you respect?  Grifting and praying the gay away?

ut there is no evidence of any excellent scholarship or academic achievement.

This is just such a piece of right wing garbage.  First, he went to Columbia, a freaking Ivy League school and he did it on his credentials, since he wasn’t a legacy, nor were his parents rich. He then got into Harvard Law School, for God’s sakes, one of the Top 5 schools in the country, which accepts some of the top 1-2% of law applicants per year (not of their applicants, but of all applicants). He then became the Editor of the Law Review.  Here’s a hint from someone who went to Law School:  students with average grades or above average grades are NOT invited to write for the Law Review!  

This right wing trope that Obama must have been a bad student is as stupid as the first one (he must not be a citizen).  Mitch, I think you write well ont hese pages, and, although I disagree with your politics, you do not seem like a dolt.  Step outside the Limbaugh/Malkin world and breathe the air for a moment.  you don’t have to like Obama’s policies. Hell, you may one of the 35% of Americans who just don’t like the guy, but, geez, the evidence for his qualifications for the job are in front of you.  If America was willing to choose a C Business school student over a C journalism student in 2000, then having a Harvard Law grad who taught Con Law at the 3rd best law school in country in his spare time means he is certainly not on Bachman’s level. 

The secret about being President is that intelligence is less important than judgment and the ability to analyze data.  Woodrow Wilson was smart; he was also a dogmatic ass who didn’t care about the law.  Carter was so smart he was willing to tell everyone he was smarter than them and watched his Presidency collapse due to it.  Nixon was brilliant in own way, but he was a terrible president (and person).  Bachamn, Perry, et al don’t have to be smart to be decent Presidents, they just have to show they can lead, exercise judgement, and analyze data.

That would be a cute criticism from the Right if it were true.  Cafferty is not supposed to be a conservative.  He’s supposed to be a grandfatherly curmudgeon.  Still, what would Fox be without their well-heeled “Democrats”

Uh, what has Palin ever done, save conning old Republican men out of money, that makes you think she was qualified to be governor of Alaska, a job she didn’t even like doing, let alone President?

Except the only thing people heard on MSNBC about the slut comment was an apology.  

You can be Christian and not be stupid.

Perry is attacked for being or feigning stupid not for being Christian.

I’d take any one of the 3 stooges over Obama any day of the week.

Sounds like ole Jack needs to be “off to see the Wizard”…

Sounds like ole Jack needs to be “off to see the Wizard”…

 First, he went to Columbia, a freaking Ivy League school and he did it on his credentials, since he wasn’t a legacy, nor were his parents rich.

Really?  You know this?  You know it wasn’t affirmative action?

He then got into Harvard Law School,… He then became the Editor of the Law Review.  Here’s a hint from someone who went to Law School:  students with average grades or above average grades are NOT invited to write for the Law Review!

Once again, if getting into Harvard really means what you say, GW Bush was a genius, too.  And to my knowledge, he never wrote anything for the Law Review.

 If America was willing to choose a C Business school student over a C journalism student in 2000, then having a Harvard Law grad who taught Con Law at the 3rd best law school in country in his spare time means he is certainly not on Bachman’s level.

First, I didn’t vote for either of those losers.  Second, we have nothing to indicate BHO was not also a C student.  Third, the fact that a politically correct liberal school has a ConLaw teacher that believes the Constitution means whatever he wants it to mean says nothing good about the school or the teacher.

The secret about being President is that intelligence is less important than judgment and the ability to analyze data.

Exactly.  But the left is trying to make it about some perceived notion of intelligence based on a double standard on misstatements, and repeating the mantra of “reason” and “science” while they use neither, nor do they use logic.

Frankly I did not follow all the permutations of her spinning (which I would agree is bad) … if BHO was being called on every misstatement he made, and the media was trying to trip him up at every turn, we would have a basis for comparison.  Since the media lets all his gaffes pass, and just calls him a genius, we don’t know that he wouldn’t spin the same way.

I’ve certainly never seen his direct apology for his gaffes, some of which were extremely offensive.

Grifting?  In Feb the White House assured us that the SocSec trust fund was totally independent and assured of paying out its funds.  In Jul, BHO said if more money wasn’t borrowed, SocSec checks were in danger.  The biggest fraud in the history of the world has been pulled off by Dems (and complicit Republicans), because they spent that money (trillions) buying votes and have no way to repay it.  And the biggest Ponzi scheme in history is still going on, and BHO, the Dems, and many GOPers want to expand it.  That is a real issue we should be talking about.  But liberals/media don’t want to talk about it, because they can’t follow logic, and they are happy with the theft.  And anyone who tries to talk seriously about issues will get called stupid, unless they agree with liberals.

I never said he was stupid. I “attacked” him for being a pandering politician.

I would ask the same question of all CNN viewers.

Why do you think it would be affirmative action, Mitch?  Why do you automatically reach for that?

No, don’t answer.  I’m disappointed and disgusted enough.  Clarence Thomas must have been right about his hatred of his Yale diploma, since he said it was worthless, because white people would always be convinced he didn’t earn it.  Who knew he could predict a certain sort of white person’s mind?

PS First, Bush didn’t go to Harvard Law.  Secondly, as I noted, you have to have exceptional grades to write for the Law Review.  And, again, for the 50th time to the 50th conservative, the editor does NOT write for the Review, he/she edits EVERY article, which means checking every fact and case. It’s sort of an important job and a bit more time consuming than writing one article.

Lastly, “politically correct liberal school” is not the University of Chicago Law School.  I’ll forgive you this, since you just assume anywhere smart people gather must be liberal, but outside of Pepperdine and various kook schools (like the one Bachman went to), U of C is the most conservative school in the country. It is also the top-rated conservative school. 

That’s smart!  Perry isn’t qualified to work the register at McDonald’s, Bachmann would think every order was a message from GOD, Palin would whine that every order was a GOTCHA question

Cafferty made these comments in light of our affirmative action president who didn’t even know that the country he was campaigning for had 50 states.   

Rick Perry prints when autographing for his followers.  Prints!  Very carefull about it also. Takes his time. “R’s” are hard for him. Does this bother anyone? “ Stupid is, as stupid does” comes to mind. I love Jack Cafferty because he does become so annoyed.  I know that I often feel the same way. 

Roger,  Perry “Prints” when he signs an autograph!  Very carefully at that.  “R’s” are hard.  Take this info and run with it

I agree with you Jack. This is how you act when you
have a boss telling you what to do and how to do it to get the results HE want
because he doesn’t have the guts to ruin his own name by doing it His Self.
This is why the Tea Party sounds Loco most of the time. Billionaires are
dictating to them as to the results they want so the need to act like a bunch
of nincompoops, hoping to get their bosses results, brings out the worst in
them. Watching these kind of people perform makes you smile, shake your head
but don’t pat your belly at the same time cause your may end up joining them.

@RRFCL Thank you for taking the time to check my spelling, and my grammer as well!!! I haven’t had anyone go over my spelling and grammer like that since my English Lit class in college. I recieved a B-. So, spelling and grammer has never been my strong suite…. Anyway, lets get back to the matter at hand… Science and Education in the Republican party. My main thought about James R. was not that he didn’t know how to spell a word. It was the way he handled the critique of his mis-spelling being called out. In that he didn’t care. I think he said “whatever!!” Jack Cafferty was asking why we elect people with no brains. Mainly the field of Republican Presidential Candidates. I said it’s simple… The Republican party would rather say things that sound good, instead of saying things that are true. James R gave a great example b/c it was pointed out he was wrong, and he didn’t care. I believe he said “whatever!!” Me on the other hand, when it was pointed out that I was wrong on my spelling, I said thank you. I appriciate being told if something I spelled, or said, is wrong. Why? because facts matter! The truth matters! And on the Republican side of the isle all that matters, it seems to me atleast, is does it sound good? Michele Bachmann says if she’s elected she’ll make sure gas goes back to $2 a gallon, and the crowd goes wild! Doesn’t matter if it’s true…it sounds good! Rick Perry says Ben Bernanke is a traitor guilty of treason, and the crowd goes wild! Doesn’t matter if its true…it sounds good! Republican members of congress say they are banning earmarks b/c they’re a waste of money, and they vote on a bill banning earmarks, and the Republican base goes wild! Doesn’t matter that its not true b/c they still funnel federal dollars to their districts by calling earmarks something else. So, it doesn’t matter if what they said is not true…it sounds really good to you guys! And Climate change/global warming falls into the same area. Say a bunch of things about how climate change is a fraud. Doesn’t matter if it’s not true…it sounds good. I would go into more detail about climate change, but I don’t have to. 2 post above this one, ConcernedCitizen did a great job at listing why you are wrong. Please read it! As far as evolution goes, you might believe in it and people you know might believe in it, but a large majority of your parties Presidential candidates do not believe in evolution, and as long as the Evangelical Religous right controls your party, you will not have a presidential candidate who publicly states the he/she believes in evolution. Look at Jon Huntsman. He believes in evolution and climate change, and he has been laughed at by the republican base just for stating what is proven scientifically

I wouldn’t. Not that I like Obama, but Ron Paul is the only candidate up there that will put America back on the path to PEACE Liberty and Freedom.

I wouldn’t. Not that I like Obama, but Ron Paul is the only candidate up there that will put America back on the path to PEACE Liberty and Freedom.

WWHHHHAAATTTTTT??????? Not to sure about Newt, but Ron Paul has forgotten more than Lee will ever know.

Super Smarts is what Ron Paul has. Didn’t see Lee Searles predicting the economic collapse facing us today six years before it happened. 

WWHHHHAAATTTTTT??????? Not to sure about Newt, but Ron Paul has forgotten more than Lee will ever know.

Super Smarts is what Ron Paul has. Didn’t see Lee Searles predicting the economic collapse facing us today six years before it happened. 

Vote Ron Paul in and see how fu$#ed we are. We might actually start doing some of the Fu34king.