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Posted By RedRiverJ 8 months ago in NewsAlthough this is what has come to be expected from the anti-first amendment Left, on 7 April Fox News’ Neil Cavuto reported that Barack Obama’s group ACORN, members and readers of the far Left blog “Huffington Post” and other left-wing groups plan to infiltrate and cause chaos at scheduled tax day citizen tea parties. The tea parties—based upon the original Boston Tea Party’s taxation without representation—have barely been mentioned by the apparent Obama Administration-controlled leftist press.
Note: Any honest reporting of anti-Obama programs is considered to be taboo by the mainstream media.
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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Huffington Post
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http://www.wvwnews.net/printer.php?id=6900
“The Huffington Post wants to have citizen journalists at as many of these events as possible,” Arthur Delaney wrote for The Huffington Post on April 7. “If you think you'd be interested in attending one of the Tea Parties and reporting back to us with dispatches, photos, or video, click here to sign up. We'll contact you shortly with further instructions.”
If you sign-up, you receive an automated message from Matthew Palevsky, the Huffington Post’s associate editor of citizen journalism.
“Thanks for becoming a Tea Party Reporter,” the e-mail from Palevsky says. “This e-mail is just a quick confirmation that we have received your contact info and will email you our plans during the coming week. In the meantime, we'd love to hear your thoughts. Whether they be questions, suggestions or story ideas, share them with us at submissions+ideas@ huffingtonpost.com.” -
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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ACORN HUFFINGTON POST TO DISRUPT TEA PARTY
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hyperbola8 months ago
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It never fails to amaze how easily right-wing billionaires can lead the gullible around by the nose!
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Right-Wing 'Tea Party' Movement Was Planned Months Ago by GOP Billionaires
The latest so-called "populist" revolt against the federal government was a pre-planned PR stunt.... Populist revolt against the U.S. government is all the rage in the Republican Party, these days. As they tell the story, the public is so outraged by the recovery and reinvestment efforts of the Obama administration that Americans everywhere are turning out to overthrow the tyrannical king of the federal government by re-enacting the Boston Tea Party.
Funny thing, though: it turns out this whole "populist" movement was a planned PR stunt funded by big-money right-wing backers of the GOP who specialize in faking grassroots movements to drum up opposition to Barack Obama.
... What hasn’t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli’s “tea party” rant with some very familiar names in the Republican rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called “astroturfing”) to bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that's because it was.
What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant” was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a “Chicago Tea Party” was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.-
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BB648 months ago
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"right-wing billionaires"? I've attended everyone of our double secret probation meetings for evil billionaires and this never came up in any of my notes. In my state this kind of came out of no where. One person talking to another person and so on. I know of no major planning or organization planning this. I would have contributed if they asked.
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robocoder8 months ago
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OK, how about those of us that actually came to this conclusion all by ourselves? No, I think you can actually blame your pal Obama's fiscal irresponsibility. No rich evil republicans are telling me what to think. It's pretty clear to anyone with half a brain that our bloated, inefficient, bureaucratic, wasteful, fraud-ridden, federal government can't solve even the simplest problems it tackles, let alone something as complex as our current economic woes. You are foolish if you think the feds can do anything except exacerbate the problems we face. The best people to solve this mess we're in is us, the American people. That's what this is all about. But you'll never understand it. What makes this country great is the people, not the government.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"No rich evil republicans are telling me what to think. It's pretty clear to anyone with half a brain that our bloated, inefficient, bureaucratic, wasteful, fraud-ridden, federal government can't solve even the simplest problems it tackles, let alone something as complex as our current economic woes."
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--The problems cons can't sidestep is that you weren't this excitable when Bush and Cheney and the GOP were spending your money and you, in fact, rewarded these people for spending, spending, spending. We can't and don't now care that you're upset--just because the money isn't being spent where *you* want it to be directed. Please at least *try* to be logical and think of how lacking in credibility you are. ;-(-
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robocoder8 months ago
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Ah, you think you've got me figured but, wrong answer Hans. I'm a Libertarian, NOT a Republican. I think Bush was an idiot just like you do. I just think that Obama is a bigger idiot. He's a well spoken idiot, as long as he has his teleprompter, but an idiot none the less. I have pretty low opinions of most politicians, be they Republican or Democrat. No, my friend, I lay this firmly on the doorstep of the federal government and that includes the senate, the house, and the executive branch, doesn't matter what party. The're both a bunch of losers.
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I don't want the Feds to spend ANY money. In my opinion, it makes much more sense to concentrate power and resources locally, where you have more accountability. At the federal level your vote hardly counts at all. The feds don't even know you exist. You don't even directly elect the President. At the executive level you voice is so tiny it's for all intents and purposes, non-existent. It's a little better at the state level. But you could very possibly actually directly participate at the county and city level! I've actually ran for the city board! I could have won! It's entirely possible that I could be mayor someday. Pretty likely in fact, given the dumb asses that I would run against.
The whole point of a tea party is about taxation without representation. The feds tax us into oblivion and we have virtually no say over what they spend they money on. Like 100's of billions of dollars to bail out the banks that caused this mess. Come on. That's just idiotic.
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MajJohn7 months, 1 week ago
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Your remarks about a right wing conspiracy behind demonstrations concerning how our tax dollars are being wasted would be funny, if not so demented. For that matter who cares why our citizens demonstrate, that is a civil liberty, free assembly. Would you rather no right to free assembly? Who gains from this attack on our constitutional rights?
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And if you knew anything about our history you'd find that the Boston Tea Party was an orchestrated PR stint also. So what? It did effectively point out that we were being suppressed through the taxation of the British parliament. You'd make an excellent Tory.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"ACORN registers lots of lower income and/or minority voters. They operate all across the country and do a lot of things beside voter registration. What's key to understand is their method. By and large they do not rely on volunteers to register voters. They hire people -- often people with low incomes or even the unemployed. This has the dual effect of not only registering people but also providing some work and income for people who are out of work. But because a lot of these people are doing it for the money, inevitably, a few of them cut corners or even cheat. So someone will end up filling out cards for nonexistent names and some of those slip through ACORN's own efforts to catch errors. (It's important to note that in many of the recent ACORN cases that have gotten the most attention it's ACORN itself that has turned the people in who did the fake registrations.) These reports start buzzing through the right-wing media every two years and every time the anecdotal reports of 'thousands' of fraudulent registrations turns out, on closer inspection, to be either totally bogus themselves or wildly exaggerated. So thousands of phony registrations ends up being, like, twelve."
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from: The Gist of the ACORN Story
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mesodude8 months ago
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"Yesterday Media Matter for America released a well-researched report showing that conservatives have repeatedly resorted to blaming ACORN in place of substantive discussions of causes and solutions, even where the organization has little or nothing to do with the issue.
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For us at ACORN, the findings in this report come as no surprise. Since the 2008 election, when ACORN became the focus of a coordinated series of attacks from partisan operatives seeking to derail then-candidate Obama's presidential campaign, we've become something of a beast of mythic proportions, casting magic spells, mesmerizing elected officials and the
traditional media, all the while destroying the fabric of democracy one strand at a time.
from: Lies and the Lying Liars Exposed
http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/4/9/154652/6748
Specifically we've been accused of everything from causing the global financial meltdown to getting billions in Federal payouts to voter fraud to manipulation of the US Census. As I said back in January, this is all just a big bag of overheated partisan fever dreams. Media Matters took the time to cut through the right-wing bamboozlement chorus with some cold hard facts. Here are a couple of examples from the report."-
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CaptainLucid8 months ago
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"Specifically we've been accused of everything from causing the global financial meltdown to getting billions in Federal payouts to voter fraud to manipulation of the US Census. As I said back in January, this is all just a big bag of overheated partisan fever dreams. Media Matters took the time to cut through the right-wing bamboozlement chorus with some cold hard facts. Here are a couple of examples from the report."
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mesodude8 months ago
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mesodude8 months ago
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"You're saying that Acorn is an honest organization that does not commit large scale voter fraud?"
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--Yes.
"Meso no one buys those woof tickets you're selling."
--But those I support won spectacularly, those you support lost disgracefully and, miraculously, cons have not seen their alleged evidence of "massive voter fraud" result in any arrests or convictions--even though you've been harping on this pure CRAP for years, tangy. So that would suggest that which one of us is more credible? ;-P-
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tanglang8 months ago
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Uh Oh Meso, are you sure about all that? Are you sure that 4 acorn employees didnt plead guilty to felony charges of voter fraud in Kansas City? Are you sure that one Washington county alone didnt have to throw out 1762 voter registration cards due to Acorn fraud?
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/20...
That was the first link I opened on a google search that returned 350,000 results.
I guess it suggests that I am the one who is more credible Meso.
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beavith18 months ago
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further, that ACORN holds no partisan position?
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cmon. we didn't ALL fall off the turnip truck yesterday.
their clear partisanship is what frosts me the most. since when has a gov't funded group shilled for one party or the other?
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ADAGUY8 months ago
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Acorn's job is merely to register voters. Republican, democrat, independent, it does not matter.
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Since most unregistered people are lower income, they tend to register and vote the democratic ticket. THIS IS NOT THE FAULT OF ACORN!
The process of getting these people registered is done by ACORN employees who are paid a commission. The higher number of registrations they turn in, the more they make. The registrations are then sorted through by ACORN staff, and then the questionable ones are thrown out. The remainder are turned over to the state or county election board where they are once more sorted through, and the bogus ones are discarded.
I really thought you were smart enough to know this, but there again, as a party line republickin', I guess it's your job to be ignorant!-
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Hhussk8 months ago
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Acorn's job is merely to register voters. Republican, democrat, independent, it does not matter.
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That's incorrect, and you have no data to substantiate your claim. As a matter of fact, ACORN is actually an umbrella of many smaller satellite companies, and you realistically wouldn't be able to poll or take a census of their numbers.
This is why many in ACORN can be indicted while the rest are safe.-
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mesodude8 months ago
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"That's incorrect, and you have no data to substantiate your claim."
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--It's actually a fact and you're wrong. This is something that's easily verifiable with the click of a mouse.
"As a matter of fact, ACORN is actually an umbrella of many smaller satellite companies..."
--No that is not a matter of fact and ACORN is a non profit--not a "company". You have no proof that they are guilty of voter fraud and you probably don't even know what that is.
"This is why many in ACORN can be indicted while the rest are safe."
--But many *haven't* been indicted and no one is "safe" from prosecution because there are built-in safeguards for identifying fraud and abuse. You absolutely don't know what you're talking about and it's frightening how dangerously uninformed you are.-
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tanglang8 months ago
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Uh Oh Meso, am I about to prove you wrong AGAIN??? Just where is that credibility you keep talking about? I guess you must have left it at home with your tin foil hat today.
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http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samg...
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cat18648 months ago
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Here in NC as in some other states ALL voter's registration cards have to be turned in. Knowing this makes it crucial that ACORN take every precaution available to make certain that their system is not abused by those they pay to do the work. It seems that ACORN was more interested in the "'thousands' (then "millions") of new voters registered by them' headlines than they were in actually making certain that they were getting valid registrations.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"further, that ACORN holds no partisan position?"
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--cons have made them partisan by attacking them and forcing them to protect their good name and their mission--which is to register poor and disadvantaged voters (regardless of party affiliation). You have no proof of "massive voter fraud" because there is none. ACORN is only one of a number of groups that perform that same function. It's not possible nor is it in the group's interest to try to rig any election. Keep dreaming.
"cmon. we didn't ALL fall off the turnip truck yesterday."
--We didn't say it happened yesterday...
"their clear partisanship is what frosts me the most. since when has a gov't funded group shilled for one party or the other?"
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antibrainwasher8 months ago
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Whats a CCW, is that another republican sex toy for closet homosexuals? No doubt I could find out by emailing your hero Larry Craig, or the closet homosexual, your master, Drug Limpboy.
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I'm sure that the cops will enjoy smashing your face to a pulp when you pull your little sex toy out of your pants, your strap on.-
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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mericans United For Change" Spokeswoman Defends Wasteful Spending In Stimulus Bill
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBOQin9lf4k
IT SEEMS ANYTHING TO DESTROY AMERICAN IS GOOD FOR THIS WOMAN.
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RedRiverJ8 months ago
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The daily kos and the huffington post is nothing but hateful sites. the hatred they spew is really astounding. what's it to them if people, both republicans and democrats, conservative and liberals are tired of HIGH TAXES and want to have a peaceful protest?
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antibrainwasher8 months ago
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What a buffoon, a faux noise brainwashed morons calling objective journalism hate. Its not hate you are not reading when you don't read facts on Huff Po or Kos, its called objectity and ridiculing the insane morons of the right as they rant and threaten like the bitter losers and burnt out lock stepping seig heliing facist wanabe sycophants to the rich.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of Fire appears on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" (with guest host Stuart Varney) to talk about the stimulus package that was passed by the Senate. While the Republicans are whining about the amount of pork projects that slipped into the final version, Mike reminds us of the $170 billion worth of projects they've added over the last 8 years for bridges to nowhere and teapot museums. "
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"Pap on Fox: Republican Pork Projects"
http://airamerica.com/ringoffire/blog/2009/feb/11/...-
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robocoder8 months ago
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When ever I hear a lib say stuff like seig heiling and fascist, I just have to laugh. As a fiscal conservative, I think it's libs like you who are the fascists, with your confiscatory tax and spend beliefs. Not to mention your insane desire for central control over virtually every aspect of our lives. My belief is that you can go off and do what ever your little heart desires. Just leave raiding my prosperity out of your plans. I happen to have actually earned the wealth that I've created. This is not the zero sum game that you Libs would like everyone to believe. Wealth is continuously being created. You just need to get off your lazy ass and do something besides whine and complain.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"Just leave raiding my prosperity out of your plans. I happen to have actually earned the wealth that I've created. "
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--After the past 8 years America has a pretty good idea what cons mean by "earning". Trust me, we're not impressed when cons tell us how "hard" they worked to get what they have (because we often find out that things are not precisely what they seem--Justice Department, anyone?).-
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robocoder8 months ago
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You guys ARE the fascists. You gin up all this class envy. It kind of reminds me of the way the Nazis ginned up hatred for the Jews. You just made my point. Thanks!
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I could go on though. Like how about your propensity for trying to shut up anyone who disagrees with you? If a student really wants to be a rebel and and outcast on a college campus these days, they just need to be openly conservative. You libs can't stand the idea of free speech. Unless, of course, it's YOUR speech. Conservatives on campus. The new radicals! The new free thinkers!
The truth is that I would like to see everyone prosperous. You are just the opposite. You don't want anybody to be prosperous. You have this weird idea that prosperity is somehow evil. Prosperity is neutral. It's just a state. You can't do much good in this world; you can't help people, you can't feed people, you can't provide clothing or shelter for people without prosperity. If us doers, us thinkers, us inventors, us producers decide it's not worth it anymore, then you guys are sunk. All that stuff; those ipods, and video games and other cool technology that you enjoy; It just stops working.
That's the essence of what's wrong with your philosophy. It's a Ponzi scheme that needs people to participate in order to keep it afloat. At some point we just decide we won't produce any extra for you to siphon off and everything goes to hell in a hand basket. Atlas shrugged. Hmm, maybe it's already started. Who is John Galt?
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mesodude8 months ago
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Silly cons are the only ones sobbing, rrj and the rest of America is just pointing and laughing at the right wing trainwreck. ;-(
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"Sixty-seven percent of the American people approve of how President Obama's handling his efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill, as opposed to 48% for Democrats in Congress and 31% for congressional Republicans.
In addition, the disapproval rating for Congressional Republicans remains a "staggeringly high" 58%. And the public continues to view the package as a matter of paramount concern. 51% of those polled consider the plan's passage to be "critically important," with "Only 16% say it is 'not that important."
"Poll: Obama Stimulus Effort Backed By Huge Majority"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/09/poll-obam...-
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CaptainLucid8 months ago
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WAS. Emphasis on WAS. Then the southern dems came up with some crazy idea that black people were human and deserved equal rights so the south went republican. Your party was not in power for the lynchings but as soon as the dems decided it was repulsive the republicans were more than happy to embrace it.
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Wolfie20078 months ago
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Well, since we have been forewarned it's up to us to make sure this doesn't happen. If you're at one of the demonstrations and see trouble starting try to isolate the trouble makers and don't, please don't retaliate. If you can ignore them that will be the lowest blow if no one pays them any attention. Good luck out there and be careful. I guess I'm lucky because I don't think any of the Obummer bots will show up where I'm going to be. Oh heck, I'll tell them anyway, come on down to Mtn. Home, Arkansas Obummer bots and see what kind of trouble you can get into there. lmao.
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nostalgia8 months ago
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A sterling example of "objectionable" journalism from the DailyKooks
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Is Sarah Palin's Son Actually Her Grandson
And it was posted right here on Propeller by the non-biased Aidenag
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BB648 months ago
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No one here has suggested attacking anyone. If attacked in a riot type attack, I'm sure we will defend ourselves but you will not find any of us drawing first blood.
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It's very typical of fascist supporters making accusations like this. The Nazis tried to claim Poland attacked them in 1939. Hitler claimed the Jews were the cause of all their problems. In this case I've heard rumblings that the GOP will riot and through the President out of office. You're totally wrong. We're the party of law and order. Our party didn't sponsor cross burnings, that was the southern DNC. Our party didn't lynch people, again the southern DNC.-
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nostalgia8 months ago
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You better look at more than one poll result then you won't look so foolish
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The article you posted is from February 9
2/5/09 CBS Poll: Support For Stimulus Falls
Fifty-one percent of those surveyed support the stimulus package, while 39 percent do not. An additional 10 percent don't know. Last month, 63 percent supported the package and just 24 percent opposed it.
February 4 Rasmussen poll
Do you favor or oppose the economic recovery package proposed by Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats?
Favor 37%
Oppose 43%
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BB648 months ago
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The only violence I've been able to find concerning actions of political parties was done exclusively by Democrats against Republicans. Everything from stealing sighs to slashing tires to attacking campaign head quarters, it's been only left wing front groups with DNC support. In this case if Acorn crashes Tea Parties, it's going to go badly for everyone. I'm positive the conservatives will not be armed nor draw first blood. BTW I'll be at the Tea Party in Madison so this should be interesting.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"But, of course, silly little inconvenient things like facts have never really stopped our right-wing friends from indulging in their creative writing exercises. The latest bit of nonsense comes from the wingnutosphere, where we are supposed to be gearing up to infiltrate and disrupt something called "tea parties". Adam Serwer over at the American Prospect's TAPPED blog has a quick run-down."
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"So I was interested in finding out where the rumor started. It turns out, it started on somewhere on the Internet. I don't mean that someone reported ACORN activists showing up at a tea party and wrote about it on their blog, or that some local newspaper published a story to that effect, I literally mean it started on the Internet. Michelle Malkin linked to this post on a conservative blog, which linked to this post on an online tea party Internet forum. Meanwhile, Malkin has been twittering about this for days, hyping the ACORN/Kos/Obama conspiracy axis. All because someone wrote something on the Internet. I believe this policy can be explained as "trust, but don't verify."
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antibrainwasher8 months ago
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Jesus, you right wing locksteppers watch so much faux noise, you immitate it exactly. Nothing by lies and swiftboating morons spewing paranoid nonsense.
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You morons pulled this crap out of your bowels, just like murdock's patsys throw it on the screne every day, completely making crap up out of thin air to foment your facist hatred for the country and the people in it.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"Summary: Despite its repeated insistence that its coverage is "fair and balanced" and its invitation to viewers to "say 'no' to biased media," Fox News has frequently aired segments encouraging viewers to get involved with "tea party" protests across the country, which the channel has described as primarily a response to President Obama's fiscal policies. Media Matters has compiled an analysis of Fox News' promotion of these events."
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REPORT: "Fair and balanced" Fox News aggressively promotes "tea party" protests
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k9kssr8 months ago
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I don't doubt at all that the left would absolutely revel if there was actually a confrontation. They have threads all over propeller that the right is going to get violent and try to overthrow "Obama's" government or worse michief.
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The fact that a group such as ACORN, supported by taxpayer money, would stoop so low as to attempt to disrupt a peaceful protest, obstructing U.S. citizens from their constitutional right to free speech and peaceful assembly, using intimidation tactics for political purpose is reprehensible and deserves prosecution. How anyone can look upon this organization with anything but contempt and ridicule is beyond me.....yet they are the left's ideal of "community organizing".
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stephen-johnson8 months ago
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Up until now, tea parties have drifted under the radar both of the left as well as their media allies. That isn't the case now going forward. A widespread grass root movement against the current economic policies of the government is the left's worse nighmare.
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The tea parties to date have been very orderly despite some of them having thousands of participants. Don't be surprised, along with their "reporters" that the left doesn't put in their plants acting as right wing extremists to try to discredit the tea party movement. Dan Rather is gone, but "fake but accurate" still lives.-
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Natureboy8 months ago
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"The fact that a group such as ACORN, supported by taxpayer money, would stoop so low as to attempt to disrupt a peaceful protest, obstructing U.S. citizens from their constitutional right to free speech and peaceful assembly, using intimidation tactics for political purpose is reprehensible and deserves prosecution."
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All the article has is an absolutely unsupported claim that ACORN is planning counter-demonstrations. That's not an obstruction of your first amendment rights, it's an exercise of theirs.
Buy a vowel, please!
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BB648 months ago
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We've had several warnings here in Milwaukee advising against sending any more tea to the elected officials. I guess it sets off the mail sensors and then delays all of the postal services. While it's kind of funny on the surface, you and I are paying for the overtime this causes. So don't waste the time or money sending tea to the White House.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"Haven't you realized the leaders in Washington do not care what you do."
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BB's right (for a change), Wolfie. I'd only add that *no one* cares what neocon nutjobs are getting all sweaty and frustrated over. We don't give a crap about cons. Period. ;-(
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BB648 months ago
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Again, why bother. Haven't you realized the leaders in Washington do not care what you do. They're on a mission to install as many ultra left wing projects as possible. They don't care who or how they will be paid for, it's all a game of politics for them. I expect the 2010 election to be devastating to the DNC and in 2012, Obama will find himself unemployed.
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ranchhasawhiteass8 months ago
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I just gotta feelin that many on the left are waking up and finding that they have created a monster. Lets just hope that they will realize that their freedoms are in jeopardy also and work toward the meaning of why this country was and is great.
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tchef8 months ago
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Why don't you guys do something productive and write your Republican representatives and tell them to stop grandstanding and make a real effort to effect change? If we'd stop all this us against them garbage maybe we could get something done.
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ranchhasawhiteass8 months ago
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Tchef, get off the pot and think about the future of generations to come. Now live in the now there are others to think about besides yourself. I write all the people in congress even ones that are not from my state. Why because I have a certain responsibility to others. Am I my brothers keeper? You dang right I am.
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Albmore8 months ago
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I have nothing against the tea parties. Every American should be outraged over this massive spending. I DO agree with you though that the tea parties is NOT enough. BOTh Republicans and Democrats should be writing their representatives and let them know we will not be voting for them in the comming elections.
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We ALL know that Frank and Dodd hands are anything but clean in this entire ordeal with the bail out bonuses. We KNOW that the republicans have came up with NO real alternative plan. We need new leadership. This congress both Dems and Reps were also responsible for were we are.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"I have nothing against the tea parties. Every American should be outraged over this massive spending."
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--That's what I thought when my former President dragged us into two wars and gave me crumbs while giving the wealthy tax cut after tax cut. Why weren't cons outraged then? ;-P
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hamy8 months ago
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And you are an ignorant gun-toting hillbilly. Wow! You're right! This name calling thing is fun!
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What are you going to do next? Bring out Joe the (non)Plumber to tell us how horny he is again? You going to trot Palin's daughter and grandchild out and talk about what a GILF she is? My...how astute.
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BB648 months ago
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Oh sure we get a bunch of illegal aliens protesting and they don't feel the need to arrest any of the illegals. Now you have a conservative movement protesting some the worst budget moves our government has ever done before and they're worried about pollution? I think the problem here is simple. The DNC is great at the protests and other hippy garbage but now that they're in charge they're clueless. I've never seen a group of people so good at name calling with such thin skins.
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mesodude8 months ago
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Poor ranchy. Still delusional after all these posts. ;-)
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"So far, Obama's actions have served to turn off only a rather limited number of Republicans. He began his term with a 41% approval rating among Republicans -- not outstanding but certainly healthy when juxtaposed against the largely single-digit approval ratings for George W. Bush among Democrats in the last year and a half of his presidency.
"Meanwhile, Obama's approval ratings among Democrats and independents have been highly stable. Last week's averages of 90% approval from Democrats and 60% from independents nearly match the averages for his presidency to date."
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Obama Approval Rating Stable, Polarized
http://www.gallup.com/poll/117355/Obama-Approval-R...
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Will13138 months ago
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if I were going I too would be armed... .. but I always am.. so it would just be a normal occurrence..
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Libs would most assuredly shoot himself.. or end up doing 3-5 for brandishing a weapon.. MANDATORY in FL ... fire it 5-10 .. hit someone most probably 25-life... -
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Wolfie20078 months ago
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The liberal progressives will stoop to anything to keep people shut up but it's not going to work. Remember we read Alinsky's rules too and we can make them work against the lefties. Nothing is worse than having your own ammo used against you. What out left leaning idiots! lol
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tadair9198 months ago
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"If ACORN wants to send some of their paid, pretend activists to show up - that's fine. They don't have a message that resonates with the American people or resonates with this broad coalition that's upset with this spending that's going on in Washington."
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antibrainwasher8 months ago
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Broad coalition of trailer trash joe the plumber racist white syncophant of the billionaires who feed you the hatemongering pablum you spew back on propeller like the lock stepping facist wanabes.
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This is like a Wasila hillbilly convention. This knuckel dragging herd of barking poodles are whats left of the repug party after the brains and money pulled out. -
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Natureboy8 months ago
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This is hilarious. The right is so bankrupt of ideas they are proposing to ape the left, and badly. "Whudda we gonna do, boys? I know, let's have us a protest like those hippie fellas." They're even quoting Alinsky, although their take on Alinsky is just that he made personal attacks. Pathetic!
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Yeah, you go - and those of you so profoundly stupid as to pack a firearm at a protest - don't take it to personal when I enjoy a good belly laugh as I watch the cops beat you like a circus monkey. -
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abntv8 months ago
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It says that my fellow Propeller readers consider this story controversial.
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Now who would have thought that????? ACRON and the rest of the far left loonies can attend the tea parties if they like, however if they show up at a tea party I am at and start trouble they will end up in the water with the tea.-
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mesodude8 months ago
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"ACRON and the rest of the far left loonies can attend the tea parties if they like, however if they show up at a tea party I am at and start trouble they will end up in the water with the tea."
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--You're a con who can't think for yourself and you're falling for a hoax so don't be so quick to accuse others of being "loonies." You have no proof that ACORN is going to interrupt SQUAT. In fact cons like being able to diddle themselves over fake controversies. When it turns out that you're lying, FOS, and you were duped, we'll hear no more. You'll disappear into the floorboards until FOX sprays more lies to get you running again. ROTFLMAO
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icono18 months ago
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Interesting; the 0Bama Bolsheviks, or Brown Shirts if you like, want to disrupt a political 'Tea Party'.....
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Interesting how history recreates itself, then repeats itself, under the guise of contemporary elitist intellectual thought.
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Albmore8 months ago
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What I also see is the left is making this a issue of right and left. EVERY American not matter what party they are in should be upset over this massive spending.
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It is not a matter of left or right it is a matter of spending our next generation into a debt that NO other before them will have to try to survive in. -
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Icantwait8 months ago
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Breaking News! The President of the United States has decided that the housing problem is more important than the Americans captured by the Muslim Pirates. This has not been reported by the Hollywood Media. I have discovered that a lot of the Liberal responders to these news stories are actually
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individuals who are serving time in prison, people who are part of the terrorist movement, Communist, some Politicians, College Professors, Acorn Criminals Some brainwashed College Students but Ironically not that many Liberal Democrats. In other words impostors of the Left movement who are trying to cause Political unrest in this country. Let's face no Liberal Democrats have the mental acuity let alone the inclination to write paragraphs of utter stupidity at one time. Oh! I'm not saying they aren't stupid just to lazy to spend time typing. The true Liberal Democrats are concern about one thing only. Collecting their Government checks and enlarging their families. Some of the people to look out for are as follows: Dionys, Jelooba, Spadecaller, Hyperbola, Ratskii, HHussk, New Person, Mecormany,Fsev41,Vizion, Psychohosebeast, Sparechange, Caliqueen430, Antibrain washer, Charlson. Daylight, Omma987, Elisheva1, and Ruahanddabar. Look out for these responders they are spreading the hate. I will alert you too many more in the future. Just ignore what they say it is all Anti-American. Until we meet again.-
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djn3nunez38 months ago
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Some of the people to look out for are as follows:
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Sounds like the list I want to be on. How do I apply? Oh I think you missed the mark on HHussk, I beleive he is slightly to the right.
So how did you discover all those libby jail birds? Did you get a degree in Maroonie science or what?
The true Liberal Democrats are concern about one thing only. Collecting their Government checks and enlarging their families.
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fsev418 months ago
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I kinda like the list but am gravely offended at the inclusion of HHussk with myself and others thereon. Shows how intelligent the poster is. Also accusing us of spreading hate in a hate filled comment is fairly typical of the more rabid right wingers. .
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Icantwait8 months ago
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Everything written was the absolute truth but it is hard to really understand what is going on with your head in the sand. Tell me do you like it that so many Americans are out of work and growing, that the Captain of the ship that was captured by Muslim Terrorist Pirates may be murdered all because your President is not even responding to the situation. Why? He wants him killed. Are you content that Our National Debt will not be paid by the year 14001? Are you pleased to know that monitoring and examining out computers and cell phone is on his agenda? Do you like it when he puts our Country down to the rest of the world when we have done more to help the world in the History of the World? So, if you have a negative attitude regarding our Country and do not like was has been accomplished there are plenty of Communist Countries to go to. We, the Real Americans cherish Capitalism and what it provides. I not jealous of the Rich. Do you really think they have not earned their riches? It is the Politicians, Media, Movie Stars, and Sports that will be left to their riches. It is obvious the Obama hates America but I, for the life of me, can not understand why so many people who voted for him do not see that. So, if I include you on a list of names with others that have an agenda to fill these pages with no nonsense comments then So Be It.
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lloydm658 months ago
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tchef:How come one of the highest ranking members ot the KKK is a U S senator of the democratic party.Why did the republicans have to carry most of the water to pass the Rights for blacks,while Robert Byrd fought tooth,and nail to block it,including filibustering it.Your probably too young too know,and way to stupid to care
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drdave578 months ago
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WHEEEEEE!! Listen to the lefties squealing like little pigs!!!
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OH, NO....look at all the people jumping off of Obama's Socialist Express....... Yeah, baby, they found that all that "change" was going to cost them their very livelihoods
and they don't want any more of it
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djn3nunez38 months ago
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Squeal on this dave.
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Many on the right have grabbed on to the Pew poll’s finding that Obama’s approval rating has a 61-point partisan gap — 27% of Republicans approve, while 88% of Dems do. Pew called the numbers “the most polarized” in decades but didn’t blame Obama.
Former Bush speechwriter Peter Wehner pointed to the numbers to slam Obama as the “most polarizing” President in decades and to blast Obama’s promise of bipartisanship as “fictional.” Drudge branded Obama “President Polarize,” and many others on the right echoed the charge.
Pew associate director Dimock, however, says this is a misreading of the poll. Dimock says the divide is driven by long term trends and by the uncommonly enthusiastic reaction to Obama by members of his own party — by what he calls “the way Democrats are reacting to Obama.”
Interestingly, Dimock also said this phenomenon is partly caused by the recent tendency of Republicans to be less charitable towards new Presidents than Dems have been.
In contrast to the 27% of GOPers approving of Obama now, more than a third of Dems (36%) approved of George W. Bush at a comparable time in 2001. Before that, only 26% of Republicans approved of Bill Clinton at the same time in his presidency, while 41% of Dems approved of both George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan at comparable times.
Dimock, who said that the sheer scale of Obama’s agenda could be hurting Obama among GOPers, claimed that the willingness to give the incoming President the benefit of the doubt hasn’t been “as prevalent among Republicans.”
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Georgia508 months ago
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drdave,
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We have yet to hear from the blacks and hispanics who are going to bear the brunt of obama's policies.
Citizenship for illegal aliens? OTAY. Move over, blacks. As the hispanics age and draw socical security and medicare, it's YOUR demographic that will pay the most and benefit the least in this system. That is because blacks are the smallest percentage of those who max out of social security, and blacks have the lowest life expectancy of all ethnic groups. Even a blind pig stumbling across an ACORN should know this.
Hispanics? Welcome to your new home in jobless America, where Obama is waging war on the very economic productivity that drew you here in the first place. So you get citizenship. Then what? Obama and the black congressional caucus want your vote. And just as the black inner city communities have voted themselves into poverty and despair under Democrats for over 30 yeas, they now invite you to share their misery. Do you honestly think they will give hispanics the lion's share of the spoils? Forget it. A few symbolic appointments here and there, but by and large, you're on your own and can only end up in the same poverty and despair that blacks have labored so hard as Democrats to bestow on their children and grandchildren.
Obama as Pied Piper. How priceless.
"Change we can bereave in."
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cat18648 months ago
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The Tea Parties aren't about left or right, republican or democrat. They are about being tired of every small fee becoming big fees. They are about taxes increasing on everyone and everything. (Your income tax may not be going up, but taxes on everything that you need to survive such as energy and food are.) They are about our elected officals no longer representing us but instead the businesses that are "too big to fail", special interest groups, their own agendas and their own wallets.
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It isn't only about the federal government and its taxes, but state and local taxes also. Regulations down to the community level are strangling individuals who want to succeed in their job and home lives.
Look at what you do in a week and what it costs you. How much of that cost is due to paying for government mandates, taxes, fees, regulatory charges, etc.? Admittedly most of those are pennies. BUT pennies add up.
Yes, the problem with taxes, etc. is not new, however, keep the old adage in mind about the straw that broke the camel's back. One small increase in taxes isn't much, however, like the weight of the straw it adds up as each new one is added.
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Calypso5618 months ago
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These Tea Parties are supposed to be NON-POLITICAL, there are not supposed to be any signs. This is not to be about Obama or anyone else. This is about being over-taxed by D.C. WE THE PEOPLE ARE TEA'D OFF.(Taxed Enough Already). GET IT? It's not about a political party, it's about WE THE PEOPLE.
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aceofspades18 months ago
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cowboygrandpa had the best answer to Ican - so I am reposting it - I apo;ogize to grandpa for doing so without asking him first but I think everyone deserves to see it - Bravo Grandpa!
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"When was the last time you bled for your country, when was the last time you woke up screaming from the memories, when was the last time you got spit on coming home from doing your duty, when was the last time you held your best friend as he bled out, when was the last time you pulled leeches from your body, when was the last time you lived with death daily , when was the last time you wanted to kill all the enemy so you could just go home and sleep, how many times have you smelled the rotting corpses of our enenmies ????"
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coolslow8 months ago
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When citizen protests spring up across the country, its news. Or should be. Its a reflection of a collective opinion and an American right. The tea parties are not reported on by any of the networks, MSNBC, or any of the major newspapers.
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djn3nunez38 months ago
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Libertarians have been holding Tax protests on April 15th at post offices for years and years and years. After 8 years of decreased taxes for the richest amoung us and the promise to increase their tax to pre-bush levels, they want all you Joe the Plumbers(you remember him, Joe the liar) out there to join the libertartians. All I can say is hahahahahaha, you've been duped again.
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fauxnewschannel8 months ago
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FOX NEWS ALERT: A on anchor Fox News anchor accidently said something positive about President Obama late yesterday. Fortunately it did not air, due to Fox's 7 second delay. The unnamed reporter has been detained at an undisclosed location.
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RedRiverJ7 months, 4 weeks ago
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That is a flat out lie. I hear a lot of fox news people give Obama compliments. Bill O'Reilly is more than fair to Obama, far more fair than the drive by media has been to him and Fox news.
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All you are doing is parroting what you read/hear on your far left socialist blogs Faux? People who live in glass house should not throw stones.
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Commodore17 months, 3 weeks ago
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That's typical of the far left loons. To use nazi tactics on something that is completely legal in this country. Yes, the far left wing is no better than the KKK or the nazis. The only thing the far left psychos have over the KKK or the nazis is their appalling arrogance
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