All you rethuglicans baiters around here need to lighten up. You're coming across as desperate jingoists just like those goofy old timers running the GOP potty with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room but wearing too much past patriotism on their sleaves. Well, patriotism is being redifined. Catch up!It's not about the past anylonger. There's no under 35 year olds left hangin' around your koolaid dispensors.
The first night died. The second night looked pathetic between Lieberman and Dumbya who was too caved in to come personally. Whimp.
Here, an offering that you may have seen but is a chuckle. Even the master baiters will agree this is funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
btw, that's a truer picture than Bates will relay back. Unless like the other toe tappers there he's engaged in deeper research.
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Originally posted by FOTD
All you rethuglicans baiters around here need to lighten up. You're coming across as desperate jingoists just like those goofy old timers running the GOP potty with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room but wearing too much past patriotism on their sleaves. Well, patriotism is being redifined. Catch up!It's not about the past anylonger. There's no under 35 year olds left hangin' around your koolaid dispensors.
The first night died. The second night looked pathetic between Lieberman and Dumbya who was too caved in to come personally. Whimp.
Here, an offering that you may have seen but is a chuckle. Even the master baiters will agree this is funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
Note to file:
ADD FOTD to the Re-education Camp #301 list.
Immediate pickup after January 20.
Expedited first available transport.
No return necessary.
[}:)]
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
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Originally posted by Cubs
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
Yes, and the Democrat Convention Theme Song?
Back in the USSR.......by The Beatles.
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Originally posted by Friendly Bear
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Originally posted by Cubs
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
Yes, and the Democrat Convention Theme Song?
Back in the USSR.......by The Beatles.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/democrats-criticize-gop-convention/?nl=pol&emc=pola1
"You did not hear a single word about the economy," Mr. Obama told an audience here. "Not once did they mention the hardships that people are going through." Ignoring the economic plight of many Americans, Biden and Obama remove the gloves.
FB....that song is the McCain fight song. And like other songs, he'll get a cease letter and a law suit to boot.
The overwhelming fear sowed by the "leadership" figures and the jingoistic, flag-waving, faux "patriotism" demeaning any-and-all who dared question the "official" line on matters has shut down reasonable and responsible doubt.
I thought from the title that Fauxturd and Larry Craig had been trading magazines under the stall.
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Originally posted by FOTD
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Originally posted by Friendly Bear
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Originally posted by Cubs
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
Yes, and the Democrat Convention Theme Song?
Back in the USSR.......by The Beatles.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/democrats-criticize-gop-convention/?nl=pol&emc=pola1
"You did not hear a single word about the economy," Mr. Obama told an audience here. "Not once did they mention the hardships that people are going through." Ignoring the economic plight of many Americans, Biden and Obama remove the gloves.
............any-and-all who dared question the "official" line on matters has shut down reasonable and responsible doubt.
You're referring of course to the www.tulsanow.org Political Arena Forum?
It's been like a Central Committee of the USSR Poliboro meeting hereabouts lately......
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Originally posted by Conan71
I thought from the title that Fauxturd and Larry Craig had been trading magazines under the stall.
Good one but the little devil ain't there....neither is Larry. But MB is and does he have is sidekick with him?
LOL!
Another Moe Dowd Op Ed that you can't find in hell, err T Town.
Life of Her Party
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: September 2, 2008
ST. PAUL
"For many years, reality was out of vogue with Republicans. They ignored the reality of Iraq and Katrina, of Pakistan and Osama bin Laden.
When confronted with their colossal carelessness around the globe and here at home, their mantra was, as Rummy put it, "Stuff happens."
Now reality, in all its messy, crazy, funky glory, has flooded the party, in the comely, crackling form of Sarah Palin.
Unable to stop the onslaught of wild soap opera storylines erupting from the Palin family and the Alaska wilderness, McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt offered caterwauling reporters a new mantra: "Life happens."
Indeed, it does. Only four days into her reign as John McCain's "soul mate," or "Trophy Vice," as some bloggers are calling her, on the ticket known as "Maverick Squared," Palin, the governor of Alaska, has already accrued two gates (Troopergate and Broken-watergate), a lawyer (for Troopergate), a future son-in-law named Levi (a high school ice hockey player, described by New York magazine as "sex on skates"), and a National Enquirer headline about the "Teen Prego Crisis" with 17-year-old daughter Bristol.
It seems like a long time since Vice President Dan Quayle denounced Murphy Brown for having a baby out of wedlock, bemoaning a "poverty of values." It also seems like a long time — and another McCain ago — that Republicans supporting W. smeared the old John McCain by spreading rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate black child.
This week, the anti-abortion forces celebrated the news of Bristol's pregnancy, using it as further proof that their beloved Governor Palin — who will no more support sex education than polar bears — was committed to the cause.
Since John McCain played craps first and sent the vetters to Alaska afterward, Republicans have been defending Governor Palin by saying that, while she has no foreign policy experience — except, as Cindy McCain pointed out, that "Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia" — she has a lot of domestic policy experience as a supercharged P.T.A. and hockey mom.
As more and more titillating details spill out about the Palins, Republicans riposte by simply arguing that things like Todd's old D.U.I. arrest or Sarah's messy family vengeance story will just let them relate better to average Americans — unlike the lofty Obamas.
"If this doesn't resonate with every woman in America, I'll eat my hat," Bill Noll, an Alaska delegate whose daughter got pregnant at a young age and kept the baby, told The Times's Ashley Parker.
Even as they push Sarah Barracuda as the glamorous but tough hunting and fishing mom who can juggle it all — she's the only nominee, as Fred Thompson bragged in his convention speech, "who knows how to properly field dress a moose" — they rant at reporters who wonder how she will juggle it all and question some of her judgments.
At a Washington, Pa., rally on Saturday, as her two other daughters stood with her, Ms. Palin left Bristol baby-sitting Trig, who has Down syndrome. "Then we have our daughter Bristol," the new conservative Republican star said. "She's on the bus with the newborn. ... It's his naptime, so he is with his big sister on the bus. But we thank them for being here."
And this while Bristol was still absorbing the shocking news that she was about to turn into tabloid roadkill — and oh, yeah, she's getting married sooner rather than later.
When you make a gimmicky pick of an unknown, without proper vetting, there's bound to be a sticky press conference sooner or later. I watched it happen with Ferraro and Quayle, and I watched Mondale and Poppy Bush curdle with embarrassment but plow through.
The political unknowns, of course, want that tantalizing brass ring, so they're not always completely forthcoming about their skeletons, if they're lucky enough to be ineptly vetted. This is ironic, since the nominee who gets blindsided with these crises — Did McCain really know that this Palin reality show was about to pop and swallow his convention — is presenting them to voters as the most trustworthy people to inherit the nuclear codes.
Because Ferraro grabbed at the chance, without revealing to Mondale's incompetent vetting team how damaging some of her husband's financial imbroglios could be, she went from being a female icon to part of the reason it's taken a quarter-century for another party to take a chance on a woman.
When McCain gets in trouble, he pulls out the P.O.W. card. Now Republicans are pulling out the sexist card.
Hillary cried sexism to cover up her incompetent management of her campaign, and now Republicans have picked up that trick. But when you use sexism as an across-the-board shield for any legitimate question, you only hurt women. And that's just another splash of reality. "
John McCain (R-IDIOT) uses women.....
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Originally posted by FOTD
All you rethuglicans baiters around here need to lighten up. You're coming across as desperate jingoists just like those goofy old timers running the GOP potty with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room but wearing too much past patriotism on their sleaves. Well, patriotism is being redifined. Catch up!It's not about the past anylonger. There's no under 35 year olds left hangin' around your koolaid dispensors.
The first night died. The second night looked pathetic between Lieberman and Dumbya who was too caved in to come personally. Whimp.
Here, an offering that you may have seen but is a chuckle. Even the master baiters will agree this is funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
btw, that's a truer picture than Bates will relay back. Unless like the other toe tappers there he's engaged in deeper research.
The dems really showed their true colors at their convention. Here again is how they treated the American flag:
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/08/29/obama-convention-threw-us-flag-into-trash/
Yes the Dems showed their true colors.... unlike the whites-only colors of those in the crowd at the RNC...
There's a lesson to be learned here... don't vote for a party that wears it's patriotism on its sleeve and coddles chicken hawks, warmongers, and neocons...
Patriotism, southside Chicago style...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEdctv_bdDk
Rudy was rude, offensive, and full of the same ole jingoistic political negative campaigning.
No substance.
Palin was just pathetic. Her family intro took 15 minutes. The rest of her speech laughable. Sounded like a college kid wrote it. But we know the oil company reps put it together for her.
This constant chant of USA sounds like the Nazi crowds did back in the heil Hitler daze. The drone of war coming from this convention is sick. How they make it sound like Obama is against children, our National defense, and our country stinks of dividing our country. She laid out too many lies about Obama to list here. This negative ugly style will backfire.
FOTD is embarrassed to be called a human being after watching this travesty. A mockery of moving forward for our children and our planet.
Attacks, praise stretch truth
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check;_ylt=AhszAmPCUA4SxEMTrIQhoWSs0NUE
Account of Peggy Noonan and Former McCain Top Staffer expressing dismay at selection of Palin for VP reaches the New York Times. Normally this sort of story gets buried, but it bubbled up from the net to the NYT on the Eve of Palin's "Acceptance Speech." "It's Over," Noonan declares of the McCain Campaign.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/top-gop-pundits-fault-palin-selection/?hp
"Finally! Some Republicans with common sense! Too bad they have to speak their minds when they think they're off the record instead of facing the nation with this kind of straight talk."
Sad Sad Sad.....[xx(][xx(][xx(][8][8][8]
Landslide coming....
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Originally posted by USRufnex
Yes the Dems showed their true colors.... unlike the whites-only colors of those in the crowd at the RNC...
There's a lesson to be learned here... don't vote for a party that wears it's patriotism on its sleeve and coddles chicken hawks, warmongers, and neocons...
Patriotism, southside Chicago style...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEdctv_bdDk
There were two either token or stupid black people there,Ruf.
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Originally posted by FOTD
The drone of war coming from this convention is sick. How they make it sound like Obama is against children, our National defense, and our country stinks of dividing our country. She laid out too many lies about Obama to list here. This negative ugly style will backfire.
There they go again...
(http://www.windypundit.com/archives/2008/images/FearCard.png)
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Originally posted by Cubs
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
Watching tonight's festivities, it seems more like Repubs like to chant about the country and make up stories about Dems while Dems like to actually figure out how to improve the country. And what's with the extreme militarism and the rewriting of the history of the Georgia conflict by Guliani? (Did anyone count how many times he mentioned 9/11?)
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Originally posted by akupetsky
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Originally posted by Cubs
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
Watching tonight's festivities, it seems more like Repubs like to chant about the country and make up stories about Dems while Dems like to actually figure out how to improve the country. And what's with the extreme militarism and the rewriting of the history of the Georgia conflict by Guliani? (Did anyone count how many times he mentioned 9/11?)
The whole evening was offensive to true patriotism. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves. This is not what they envisioned!
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=183780
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Originally posted by FOTD
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Originally posted by akupetsky
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Originally posted by Cubs
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
Watching tonight's festivities, it seems more like Repubs like to chant about the country and make up stories about Dems while Dems like to actually figure out how to improve the country. And what's with the extreme militarism and the rewriting of the history of the Georgia conflict by Guliani? (Did anyone count how many times he mentioned 9/11?)
The whole evening was offensive to true patriotism. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves. This is not what they envisioned!
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=183780
Especially that part where the Founding Fathers put 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Especially considering the Pledge wasn't written until 1892.
Those Founding Fathers have longevity, dontcha know?
http://technorati.com/posts/BmgWrm5ObXfcihAVrwVDqBE5IMM0bXFX00Ieg453wtM%3D
Wow...
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Originally posted by Cubs
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
No, the reason the Repubs chanted "USA" is because they're desperate enough to resort to base jingoism. The RNC has been pathetic. The Dems don't need to stoop to such lowest common denominator tactics.
It's foreign to you libs that there's no cult of personality surrrounding McCain's campaign like there is around Obama's and that suits the thinking voter just fine.
It's about the country, not the candidate.
Palin used the better part of her speech to introduce herself. At times it seemed trite, but at all times, it showcased a toughness, courage, sense of humor, and a drive, more than anything to make a difference. She's made substantive differences in her previous positions. She's got a record and she's proud of it. Anything questionable, she wants wide open to scruitiny.
I'd say she's one of the bolder politicians I've ever seen.
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Originally posted by Friendly Bear
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Originally posted by Cubs
haha ... you are funny
"with not a single "republican" sign or banner in the room " .... I didn't realize this was a bad thing .... maybe it means we republicans care more about our country than our party .... did you notice the republicans like to chant "USA," meanwhile all the demmies could do is chant "Obama" or "change" or "yes we can" .... it shows a different focus of the parties, the Repubs care about our country, the Dems only about their party
Yes, and the Democrat Convention Theme Song?
Back in the USSR.......by The Beatles.
Back in the USSR?... LOL.... more of your alternative universe
"Dems are pinko-commies" bull mularkey.
Gee, I guess Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp are pinko commies too?!? [:o)]
Liveblogging Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani... and Sarah Palinhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/oliverburkemanblog/2008/sep/04/uselections2008.johnmccain
8.22pm: And now they're all clapping and dancing to a song called If You're Going Through Hell, which seems... oddly chosen.8.26pm: All this music is about roughnecks and cowboys and the West, backing up the message of hard-drinking — no, hang on a second! — teetotal roughneck Mitt Romney. And yet the fact is that I am eating a chicken salad with lettuce and olives, and that you can buy lattes and espressos in the press centre here, which you certainly couldn't in Denver. The Republican convention is elitist.8.29pm: Here's Mike Huckabee, sneerily thanking "the elite media" for doing something he thought "couldn't be done" — uniting the party behind McCain/Palin. (That's a rather double-edged compliment, when you think about it.) The reporting has been "tackier than a costume change at a Madonna concert" Here's the theme song heard at the RNC tonight...
Rodney Atkins...
If You're Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows)
Well you know those times
When you feel like there's a sign there on your back
Say's I don't mind if ya kick me
Seems like everybody has
Things go from bad to worse
You'd think they can't get worse than that
And then they do
You still walk the straight and narrow
And you don't know where you are
Use the needle of your compass
To sew up your broken heart
Ask directions from a genie
In a bottle of Jim Beam
And she lies to You
That's when you learn the truth
If you're going through hell YEP... a pretty appropriate song for this year's Republican propaganda machine.
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Originally posted by Conan71
It's foreign to you libs that there's no cult of personality surrrounding McCain's campaign like there is around Obama's and that suits the thinking voter just fine.
It's about the country, not the candidate.
Palin used the better part of her speech to introduce herself. At times it seemed trite, but at all times, it showcased a toughness, courage, sense of humor, and a drive, more than anything to make a difference. She's made substantive differences in her previous positions. She's got a record and she's proud of it. Anything questionable, she wants wide open to scruitiny.
I'd say she's one of the bolder politicians I've ever seen.
I call BS, Conan. In Obama, you have a STATESMAN. You may not like his views, fine. Don't vote for him. I wouldn't expect a Global Warming denier like yourself to vote for a Dem for president anytime before I die, anyway...
"It's about the country, not the candidate"... LOL... I never got the impression from any of Obama's speeches or his worldview that it was about him...
Here's a quote for you before you start perpetuating LIES that the Obama campaign isn't about the country, it's about the candidate...
After he won Iowa caucuses...
http://www.redroom.com/blog/barack-obama/remarks-senator-barack-obama-iowa-caucus-night
"This was the moment when we finally beat back the politics of fear, and doubt, and cynicism; the politics where we tear each other down instead of lifting this country up. This was the moment."From his address to the Democratic National Convention:
"It's not about me, it's about you ... this election has never been about me; its been about you the American people."-- Barack Obama
But you Republican koolaid drinkers constantly attack people's character and WHINE about the media... and you consistently attack democrats' patriotism and love of country...
You talk of hypocrisy, Conan... yet...
I remember a certain Ronald Reagan who had his own cult-of-personality...
The cult of Reaganhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/sep/15/uselections2000.worlddispatch
The Reagan Legacy Project, which has its headquarters in Washington, states without any qualification that "Ronald Reagan was America's greatest president". Its aim is to ensure "naming something significant after President Reagan in each of the 50 states and in every county of America."(http://theodoresworld.net/Presidents/reagan5vi-vi.jpeg)
(http://www.mitzenmacher.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/reagan-presidential-library_004.jpg)
So, if John Kerry was an obvious flip-flopper, what does that make John McCain? Oh, that's right... he's a maverick.[}:)] Yeah, pull my finger... yes, pull it!!! And wasn't Palin actually FOR the bridge to nowhere before she was against it??? Did anyone ever point out that all the money earmarked for the bridge to nowhere still went to Alaska-- for other projects??? She didn't save the taxpayers a friggin' dime...
Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many AlaskansMon Sep 1, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSN3125537020080901
--National fury over the bridge caused Congress to remove the earmark designation, but Alaska was still granted an equivalent amount of transportation money to be used at its own discretion.
Last year, Palin announced she was stopping state work on the controversial project, earning her admirers from earmark critics and budget hawks from around the nation. The move also thrust her into the spotlight as a reform-minded newcomer.
The state, however, never gave back any of the money that was originally earmarked for the Gravina Island bridge, said Weinstein and Elerding.
In fact, the Palin administration has spent "tens of millions of dollars" in federal funds to start building a road on Gravina Island that is supposed to link up to the yet-to-be-built bridge, Weinstein said.
"She said 'thanks but no thanks,' but they kept the money," said Elerding about her applause line.When will FoxNews report on that???
Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds.
A post full of ad hominems, but that's to be expected. No one can seem to come up with any substance on Obama, so they keep citing his rhetoric. "It's not about me..." sure I believe that, just because he said it.
Reagan was an accomplished leader with a track record. He EARNED his rabid following only AFTER making substantive accomplishments as a leader. He didn't get a pass from the media and he failed in his first attempt at the nomination.
Are you EVER going to give specifics on what Obama did for the South Side of Chicago as a community organizer, his district as a state Senator, or any legislation or leadership he showed in the U.S. Senate?
I don't think you can, because there are no specifics to list. He's charming and he organized his district on the SS, we get that.
He's running on his personality and future-speaking rhetoric because he really has no past accomplishments of any substance which would be attractive to voters.
More propaganda masquerading as conventional wisdom from you, Conan.
Of course, Obama isn't going to have the list of accomplishments of old farts like McCain and Reagan.... but I deeply respect Obama's work, many of his political views, and his accomplishments... and for anyone to play the little "Palin is more experienced" game is nothing more than a cheapshot....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4578207
What has Barack Obama ever accomplished?
"Some Say" that those who support Obama do so without a clue, and do so because of a "Svengali" effect his has on his "cult".
I say that it is unfortunate, in this age of the Internet, that folks aren't able to inform themselves, yet are able to post on a Political blog to have a say.
I have done my research on Sen. Obama, and so have many of the others who support him. Maybe that is why he is attracting the most educated progressives in this nation; maybe it is because they do their homework, and do not rely on name recognition to determine whom to vote for.
So to inform you, please note the following articles that sum up some of what Barack has "done" in his last 11 years in public office. Considering that Obama may be the Democratic Nominee, I believe that it is important for you, as a public voice, to be informed:
His bold legislative work on the Illinois Death Penalty, and how he made a difference between life and death:
http://www.icadp.org/page236.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/12/obama.death.pena... /
His sponsorship of a bill that brought health insurance to 150,000, including 70,000 uninsured Children, again, during his time serving in the Illinois Statehouse:
http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/12/14/f...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200712170003
His work on both the Immigration bill during his time in the US senate and his sponsorship of Ethics legislation (something he did both while in the State House, and in the Senate) that called for some of the most impactful reform regarding lobbyists since Watergate (as he likes to term it):
http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/12/14/f...
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/07/01/200...
Here's a chart of many of his accomplishments during his 8 years in the Illinois state house -
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/29/us/politics/30obama.GRAPHIC.gif)
and his sponsored and co sponsored Bills in the U.S. Senate.......which include worthwhile bills dealing with a wide range of issues, from Election reform bills to the Cooperative Proliferation Detection reduction Act (w/t Sen. Lugar) to Internet database transparency Act.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/271 /
http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/Novembe...
http://obama.senate.gov/press/060908-senate_passes_c /
http://thomas.loc.gov / (Select Obama's name from the Senator drop down)
This does not lists all of his accomplishments, nor does it deals with his accomplishments prior to entering elected office.
Bottomline, it is Hillary's accomplishments since her Senate tenure that are not clear. She's been there longer than Barack, and still has done underwhelming little compared to Obama's accomplishments in less years.
In addition, if the way Hillary has ran her campaign, without a Plan B, is any indication of how she will run our White House, I say, I'll pass. Obama has shown that he can produce results under enormous odds (see his campaign and what it accomplished), and that in itself speaks more to who will truly be "ready from day one".
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Originally posted by USRufnex
More propaganda masquerading as conventional wisdom from you, Conan.
Of course, Obama isn't going to have the list of accomplishments of old farts like McCain and Reagan.... but I deeply respect Obama's work, many of his political views, and his accomplishments... and for anyone to play the little "Palin is more experienced" game is nothing more than a cheapshot....
He's been a Senator since, what 1996, that's 12 years. He should have a long track record. Okay, so he's sponsored or co-sponsored bills. He's glommed on to other's work. Has he "authored" his own legislation?
I still don't see anywhere that he has.
I still don't see anything substantive of his years as a community organizer.
[quote
Rodney Atkins...
If You're Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows)
Well you know those times
When you feel like there's a sign there on your back
Say's I don't mind if ya kick me
Seems like everybody has
Things go from bad to worse
You'd think they can't get worse than that
And then they do
You still walk the straight and narrow
And you don't know where you are
Use the needle of your compass
To sew up your broken heart
Ask directions from a genie
In a bottle of Jim Beam
And she lies to You
That's when you learn the truth
If you're going through hell
YEP... a pretty appropriate song for this year's Republican propaganda machine.
[/quote]
pancakes RUFF!!!!????
Those Rethugs are stealing this devil's material. This is FOTD's terrortory.
You whiney bitter repiglicans stop stealing my material! Back in the USSR my donkey.
I guess you don't understand what it means to "Sponsor" a bill as compared to "Authoring" or "Introducing" a bill.
"Mr. Obama, will you sign off on my bill for restricting squirt-guns in schools." "Sure."
That's sponsoring.
He hasn't introduced a single bill. Not one. No original thought or legislation. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
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Originally posted by Gaspar
I guess you don't understand what it means to "Sponsor" a bill as compared to "Authoring" or "Introducing" a bill.
"Mr. Obama, will you sign off on my bill for restricting squirt-guns in schools." "Sure."
That's sponsoring.
He hasn't introduced a single bill. Not one. No original thought or legislation. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Brilliant imagery last nite during Gov. Palin's speech.
Referring to Obama:
Crowd shouted ZERO.
Exactly.
He's a Zero.
Conan, you keep acting like none of Obama's supporters have ever researched him...
Sarah Palin has NO ROOM TO CRITIQUE the responsibilities of a community organizer compared to say..... the responsibilities of the mayor of Wassila, Alaska... or the mayor of Owasso, OK.....
Here's a very lengthy article from the Chicago Reader that I read on one of my 30min commutes from Rogers Park to the Loop back in '95... I'm pretty sure that was the first time I'd heard of Obama, since his first book was published the previous summer... and some of these quotes from 1995 are remarkably consistent with his message today.... compare to John McCain's views in 1995, then 2000, then 2008???
What Makes Obama Run?
Lawyer, teacher, philanthropist, and author Barack Obama doesn't need another career. But he's entering politics to get back to his true passion--community organization.
By Hank De Zutter
December 8, 1995
http://www.chicagoreader.com/obama/951208/
......He gave up a job as a financial writer with an international consulting firm and became a $1,000-a-month community organizer.
Here in Chicago, Obama worked as lead organizer for the Developing Communities Project, a campaign funded by south-side Catholic churches to counteract the dislocation and massive unemployment caused by the closing and downsizing of southeast Chicago steel plants.
From 1984 to '88 Obama built an organization in Roseland and the nearby Altgeld Gardens public housing complex that mobilized hundreds of citizens. Obama says the campaign experienced "modest successes" in winning residents a place at the table where a job-training facility was launched, asbestos and lead paint were negotiated out of the local schools, and community interests were guarded in the development of the area's landfills.
Obama left for Harvard in 1988, vowing to return. He excelled at Harvard Law and gave up an almost certain Supreme Court clerkship to come back as promised. Here he met and married his wife, Michelle, a fellow lawyer and activist, joined a law firm headed by Judson Miner, Mayor Washington's corporation counsel, moved into a lakefront condominium in Hyde Park, and launched a busy civic life. He sits on the boards of two foundations with long histories of backing social and political reform, including his own community work--the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation. Recently he was appointed president of the board of the Annenberg Challenge Grant, which will distribute some $50 million in grants to public-school reform efforts.
In 1992 Obama took time off to direct Project Vote, the most successful grass-roots voter-registration campaign in recent city history. Credited with helping elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the U.S. Senate, the registration drive, aimed primarily at African-Americans, added an estimated 125,000 voters to the voter rolls--even more than were registered during Harold Washington's mayoral campaigns. "It's a power thing," said the brochures and radio commercials.
Obama's work on the south side has won him the friendship and respect of many activists. One of them, Johnnie Owens, left the citywide advocacy group Friends of the Parks to join Obama at the Developing Communities Project. He later replaced Obama as its executive director.
"What I liked about Barack immediately is that he brought a certain level of sophistication and intelligence to community work," Owens says. "He had a reasonable, focused approach that I hadn't seen much of. A lot of organizers you meet these days are these self-anointed leaders with this strange, way-out approach and unrealistic, eccentric way of pursuing things from the very beginning. Not Barack. He's not about calling attention to himself. He's concerned with the work. It's as if it's his mission in life, his calling, to work for social justice.
"Anyone who knows me knows that I'm one of the most cynical people you want to see, always looking for somebody's angle or personal interest," Owens added. "I've lived in Chicago all my life. I've known some of the most ruthless and biggest bull****ters out there, but I see nothing but integrity in this guy."
Jean Rudd, executive director of the Woods Fund, is another person on guard against self-appointed, self-promoting community leaders. She admires not only Obama's intelligence but his honesty. "He is one of the most articulate people I have ever met, but he doesn't use his gift with language to promote himself. He uses it to clarify the difficult job before him and before all of us. He's not a promoter; from the very beginning, he always makes it clear what his difficulties are. His honesty is refreshing."
Woods was the first foundation to underwrite Obama's work with DCP. Now that he's on the Woods board, Rudd says, "He is among the most hard-nosed board members in wanting to see results. He wants to see our grants make change happen--not just pay salaries."
Another strong supporter of Obama's work--as an organizer, as a lawyer, and now as a candidate--is Madeline Talbott, lead organizer of the feisty ACORN community organization, a group that's a thorn in the side of most elected officials. "I can't repeat what most ACORN members think and say about politicians. But Barack has proven himself among our members. He is committed to organizing, to building a democracy. Above all else, he is a good listener, and we accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer."
Obama continues his organizing work largely through classes for future leaders identified by ACORN and the Centers for New Horizons on the south side. Conducting a session in a New Horizons classroom, Obama, tall and thin, looks very much like an Ivy League graduate student. Dressed casually prep, his tie loosened and his top shirt button unfastened, he leads eight black women from the Grand Boulevard community through a discussion of "what folks should know" about who in Chicago has power and why they have it. It's one of his favorite topics, and the class bubbles with suggestions about how "they" got to be high and mighty.
"Slow down now. You're going too fast now," says Obama. "I want to break this down. We talk 'they, they, they' but don't take the time to break it down. We don't analyze. Our thinking is sloppy. And to the degree that it is, we're not going to be able to have the impact we could have. We can't afford to go out there blind, hollering and acting the fool, and get to the table and don't know who it is we're talking to--or what we're going to ask them--whether it's someone with real power or just a third-string flak catcher."
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Compare this to the SHRILL and PETTY criticism from Sarah Palin at the RNC....
I'll take Obama's substance.... over McCain's political pandering by choosing Gov. Palin as his VP along with his pander to her right-wing evangelical activists over at the Assemblies of God Church, thank you very much...
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Originally posted by Friendly Bear
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Brilliant imagery last nite during Gov. Palin's speech.
Referring to Obama:
Crowd shouted ZERO.
Exactly.
He's a Zero.
And that makes all of you.... LIARS.
When I read the title of this threat I was certain it was referring to this video:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184084&title=the-best-fking-news-team-ever&byDate=true
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Originally posted by USRufnex
And that makes all of you.... LIARS.
Look out, MichaelC/Neptune has hacked Ruff's account.
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Originally posted by USRufnex
Conan, you keep acting like none of Obama's supporters have ever researched him...
Compare this to the SHRILL and PETTY criticism from Sarah Palin at the RNC....
I'll take Obama's substance.... over McCain's political pandering by choosing Gov. Palin as his VP along with his pander to her right-wing evangelical activists over at the Assemblies of God Church, thank you very much...
Still can't cite any legislation authored by Obama, can you?
I just want a certain amount of respect for Obama..... and a certain amount of respect for community activism.... and a certain amount of respect for... public service.
I tire of people making all sorts of backhanded accusations about Obama and his supporters... enough is enough.
Maybe after Sarah Palin participates in 23 debates, I'll have more respect for her.
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Originally posted by USRufnex
I just want a certain amount of respect for Obama..... and a certain amount of respect for community activism.... and a certain amount of respect for... public service.
I tire of people making all sorts of backhanded accusations about Obama and his supporters... enough is enough.
Maybe after Sarah Palin participates in 23 debates, I'll have more respect for her.
Oh I get it, running for office is experience. [}:)]
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Originally posted by Conan71
quote:
Originally posted by USRufnex
Conan, you keep acting like none of Obama's supporters have ever researched him...
Compare this to the SHRILL and PETTY criticism from Sarah Palin at the RNC....
I'll take Obama's substance.... over McCain's political pandering by choosing Gov. Palin as his VP along with his pander to her right-wing evangelical activists over at the Assemblies of God Church, thank you very much...
Still can't cite any legislation authored by Obama, can you?
Once again, Conan... I ask you to STOP LYING.
Palin On Obamahttp://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/palin-on-obama.html
I guess we should thank Matt Scully for inserting the word "major." You can go look at Obama's State Senate legislative record here. And his US Senate record here. At last count, sponsorship of 820 laws in Illinois, and authorship of 152 bills and co-sponsorship of 427 in Washington. The 2007 Ethics Reform bill alone cannot be dismissed as simply non-existent. And since part of Palin's own claim to substance is an ethics reform bill, it seems extremely weird that she should believe that Obama's record is a total zero. At her first press conference, why not ask her why she said that Obama has never passed a single reform, when he passed the 2007 Ethics Reform, described by many as the most sweeping package of its kind since Watergate. Of course, she doesn't know. She was given this speech.
But she should be asked to respond to the question of why she said something patently untrue to the entire country. But you can see the idea here: to keep equating Palin's experience with Obama's. At one point, Rudy Giuliani claimed that after her first day as governor of Alaska, Palin had more executive experience than Joe Biden and Barack Obama combined.
So there's your standard. It's fatuous and stupid. But if you repeat it often enough, it might just work.
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Originally posted by patric
When I read the title of this threat I was certain it was referring to this video:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184084&title=the-best-fking-news-team-ever&byDate=true
That link belongs in this: "Another Nasty Bad Boy Repug" thread!
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Originally posted by guido911
quote:
Originally posted by USRufnex
I just want a certain amount of respect for Obama..... and a certain amount of respect for community activism.... and a certain amount of respect for... public service.
I tire of people making all sorts of backhanded accusations about Obama and his supporters... enough is enough.
Maybe after Sarah Palin participates in 23 debates, I'll have more respect for her.
Oh I get it, running for office is experience. [}:)]
Organizing a national campaign is experience... but this expereince and this perspective and this agenda... is why I want Obama to be president of the United States of America...
http://www.chicagoreader.com/obama/951208/
You can keep taking every possible Obama position out of context and do what republicans do best.... manipulate the socially conservative base while keeping your tax cuts for the rich while bankrupting the country.
Fool me once, shame on you......
quote:
Originally posted by USRufnex
I just want a certain amount of respect for Obama..... and a certain amount of respect for community activism.... and a certain amount of respect for... public service.
I tire of people making all sorts of backhanded accusations about Obama and his supporters... enough is enough.
Maybe after Sarah Palin participates in 23 debates, I'll have more respect for her.
Actually, I do have respect for Obama to rise to where he has. He's deserving of that much. However he's not garnered enough respect out of me to justify voting for him. He strikes me as a creation by the un-electables in the Democrat party. If I felt he had an original idea in his head, I'd give him his due.
I definitely lost some respect for the guy when he could not bring himself to refer to President Bush as "President Bush", rather than "George Bush". That's incredibly "Bush-League" for someone who wants to be Commander-In-Chief. He doesn't have to like him, nor agree with him, but to be seeking the highest office in the land and to not be able to conjure up the respect that title deserves strikes me as snipey and trite.
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Originally posted by USRufnex
But you can see the idea here: to keep equating Palin's experience with Obama's. At one point, Rudy Giuliani claimed that after her first day as governor of Alaska, Palin had more executive experience than Joe Biden and Barack Obama combined. So there's your standard. It's fatuous and stupid. But if you repeat it often enough, it might just work.
FWIW- I do agree with you there. When Rudy was posing for the reporters after his speech last night, I was thankful he did not get the nomination. His claims along those lines were pretty damn absurd.
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Originally posted by USRufnex
quote:
Originally posted by Conan71
quote:
Originally posted by USRufnex
Conan, you keep acting like none of Obama's supporters have ever researched him...
Compare this to the SHRILL and PETTY criticism from Sarah Palin at the RNC....
I'll take Obama's substance.... over McCain's political pandering by choosing Gov. Palin as his VP along with his pander to her right-wing evangelical activists over at the Assemblies of God Church, thank you very much...
Still can't cite any legislation authored by Obama, can you?
Once again, Conan... I ask you to STOP LYING.
Palin On Obama
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/palin-on-obama.html
I guess we should thank Matt Scully for inserting the word "major." You can go look at Obama's State Senate legislative record here. And his US Senate record here. At last count, sponsorship of 820 laws in Illinois, and authorship of 152 bills and co-sponsorship of 427 in Washington. The 2007 Ethics Reform bill alone cannot be dismissed as simply non-existent. And since part of Palin's own claim to substance is an ethics reform bill, it seems extremely weird that she should believe that Obama's record is a total zero.
At her first press conference, why not ask her why she said that Obama has never passed a single reform, when he passed the 2007 Ethics Reform, described by many as the most sweeping package of its kind since Watergate. Of course, she doesn't know. She was given this speech. But she should be asked to respond to the question of why she said something patently untrue to the entire country.
But you can see the idea here: to keep equating Palin's experience with Obama's. At one point, Rudy Giuliani claimed that after her first day as governor of Alaska, Palin had more executive experience than Joe Biden and Barack Obama combined. So there's your standard. It's fatuous and stupid. But if you repeat it often enough, it might just work.
How did I lie? I'll cop to being a hard-donkey, but not a liar. [;)]
You still have not cited any legislation authored by Obama. You linked to an Andrew Sullivan op-ed. All Sullivan did was link to a "fact check" on Obama's web site, he didn't cite a single piece of legislation authored by Obama. He makes the claim and offers no evidence. I'm sure the evidence might be out there somewhere if Sully is claiming it. So if Obama is proud of it, why is it such a circle-jerk quest just to find what legislation he's written?
The link Obama's own web site didn't mention authored legislation either, just "passed" or "sponsored" legislation.
FWIW- it was Obama who said the reform bill was the biggest one since Watergate- his own words, not that of any political analyst.
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Originally posted by USRufnex
quote:
Originally posted by Friendly Bear
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Brilliant imagery last nite during Gov. Palin's speech.
Referring to Obama:
Crowd shouted ZERO.
Exactly.
He's a Zero.
And that makes all of you.... LIARS.
Don't cry. He'll write a bill someday. He's jut not ready yet. Let him do it on his own time.
Another lie, gaspar.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080218135929AASpb1P
http://mediamatters.org/items/200809040007
Kinda like the claim that you're some sort of libertarian or independant when you are obviously in the tank for the Republican smear machine... [:D]
There are some reasonable Republicans who can see through all this crap....
http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/1917
http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/1943
BTW, presidents don't actually WRITE legislation... so concentrating solely on authorship is inappropriate based on the job description...... thanks though, for showing how deceptive you are...
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Holy crap, it only took till the last paragraph of the media matters article to see "introduced". The Media Matters story is a total spin job.
Still doesn't say "authored" just "sponsored" and "co-sponsored".
The media keeps trying to distort the record by thinking we are all too stupid to get the difference between sponsoring, co-sponsoring, introducing, or just flat writing legislation.
I dropped the gauntlet this morning. As of 4:40 no one has named three things Obama has authored in the Ill or U.S. Senate, nor three things accomplished as the community organizer.
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Originally posted by Conan71
Holy crap, it only took till the last paragraph of the media matters article to see "introduced". The Media Matters story is a total spin job.
Still doesn't say "authored" just "sponsored" and "co-sponsored".
The media keeps trying to distort the record by thinking we are all too stupid to get the difference between sponsoring, co-sponsoring, introducing, or just flat writing legislation.
I dropped the gauntlet this morning. As of 4:40 no one has named three things Obama has authored in the Ill or U.S. Senate, nor three things accomplished as the community organizer.
I will pick up the gauntlet since Ruf, FOTD and the other sand-blowers will not. Lets see what will I use as a source? How about Library of Congress.
Mr. Obama was instremental in the passage of 3 steaming pieces of legislation as a sponsor.1. S.RES.133 : A resolution celebrating the life of Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson.
2. S.RES.268 : A resolution designating July 12, 2007, as "National Summer Learning Day".
3. S.RES.600 : A resolution commemorating the 44th anniversary of the deaths of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while working in the name of American democracy to register voters and secure civil rights during the summer of 1964, which has become known as "Freedom Summer".
He signed on as sponsor for the following amendments:1. S.AMDT.41 to S.1 To require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the aggregate amount of the contributions collected or arranged.
2. S.AMDT.338 to S.4 To require consideration of high-risk qualifying criteria in allocating funds under the State Homeland Security Grant Program.
3. S.AMDT.524 to S.CON.RES.21 To provide $100 million for the Summer Term Education Program supporting summer learning opportunities for low-income students in the early grades to lessen summer learning losses that contribute to the achievement gaps separating low-income students from their middle-class peers.
4. S.AMDT.599 to S.CON.RES.21 To add $200 million for Function 270 (Energy) for the demonstration and monitoring of carbon capture and sequestration technology by the Department of Energy.
5. S.AMDT.905 to S.761 To require the Director of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education to establish a program to recruit and provide mentors for women and underrepresented minorities who are interested in careers in mathematics, science, and engineering.
6. S.AMDT.923 to S.761 To expand the pipeline of individuals entering the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields to support United States innovation and competitiveness.
7. S.AMDT.924 to S.761 To establish summer term education programs.
8. S.AMDT.1041 to S.1082 To improve the safety and efficacy of genetic tests.
9. S.AMDT.1202 to S.1348 To provide a date on which the authority of the section relating to the increasing of American competitiveness through a merit-based evaluation system for immigrants shall be terminated.
10. S.AMDT.2519 to H.R.2638 To provide that one of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5 million or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the contractor or grantee owes no past due Federal tax liability.
11. S.AMDT.2588 to H.R.976 To provide certain employment protections for family members who are caring for members of the Armed Forces recovering from illnesses and injuries incurred on active duty.
12. S.AMDT.2658 to H.R.2642 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
13. S.AMDT.2692 to H.R.2764 To require a comprehensive nuclear threat reduction and security plan.
14. S.AMDT.3073 to H.R.1585 To provide for transparency and accountability in military and security contracting.
15. S.AMDT.3078 to H.R.1585 Relating to administrative separations of members of the Armed Forces for personality disorder.
16. S.AMDT.4113 to S.2663 To clarify and expand requirements with respect to information in recall notices.
17. S.AMDT.4114 to S.2663 To require the Comptroller General of the United States conduct a study and report on the effectiveness of authorities relating to the safety of imported consumer products.
18. S.AMDT.4330 to S.CON.RES.70 To provide an additional $5 million to the military departments' respective Boards for Correction of Military Records to expedite review of cases in which service members with combat-related psychological injuries (such as PTSD) or closed head injuries (such as TBIs) were administered discharges for personality disorders or other discharges resulting in a loss of benefits or care and seek a correction of records or upgraded discharge.
There are 129 individual amendments, resolutions, and bills that carry a sponsorship from Mr. Obama. These are the only ones that passed.That's it. Sorry Ruf. Give him time, he's young and inexperienced. Someday he will be an important member of the Senate.
Holy Crap, Conan, can you not read...... please post where you asked for "three" because all you're doing is casting aspersions... wait, no Conan... here's what you're doing...
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http://obama.senate.gov/press/070111-lugar-obama_non/
Date: January 11, 2007
Lugar-Obama Nonproliferation Legislation Signed into Law by the President
WASHINGTON – President Bush today signed the Lugar-Obama proliferation and threat reduction initiative into law.
Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the Lugar-Obama initiative expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department's ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.
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Date: January 30, 2007
Obama Offers Plan to Stop Escalation of Iraq War, Begin Phased Redeployment of Troops
Goal to Redeploy All Combat Brigades out of Iraq by March 31, 2008
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today introduced binding and comprehensive legislation that not only reverses the President's dangerous and ill-conceived escalation of the Iraq war, but also sets a new course for U.S. policy that can bring a responsible end to the war and bring our troops home.
http://you.presscue.com/node/442
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:s.3694:
As the author of the Fuel Economy Reform Act, Senator Obama has worked to gain bipartisan support for an innovative approach to raising automobile fuel efficiency standards (also known as "CAFE" standards) and break two decades of inaction and deadlock on reforming fuel economy laws. This proposal has attracted cosponsors from both parties – maintaining support from long-time champions of improving fuel economy standards while attracting support from traditional opponents. The bill would establish regular, continual, and incremental progress in miles per gallon fuel efficiency by an increase of four percent annually, and preserve flexibility by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to vary the rate of improvement and how best to technologically achieve those fuel economy targets. President Bush endorsed a similar approach in his State of the Union speech in January 2007.
In May 2007, Senator Obama, along with Senator Harkin, authored the National Low Carbon Fuel Standard Act (S. 1324), which requires a 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the national transportation fuel pool by 2020, a reduction of about 180 million metric tons of emissions in 2020 – the equivalent of taking over 30 million cars off the road. The Obama-Harkin fuel standard embraces the growth of the renewable fuels market, including corn-based ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and biodiesel as a key component of fighting climate change, while creating incentives for lower carbon emissions in their production.
Obama's Success:
S.AMDT.1041 to S.1082 To improve the safety and efficacy of genetic tests.
S.AMDT.3073 to H.R.1585 To provide for transparency and accountability in military and security contracting.
S.AMDT.3078 to H.R.1585 Relating to administrative separations of members of the Armed Forces for personality disorder.
S.AMDT.41 to S.1 To require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the aggregate amount of the contributions collected or arranged.
S.AMDT.524 to S.CON.RES.21 To provide $100 million for the Summer Term Education Program supporting summer learning opportunities for low-income students in the early grades to lessen summer learning losses that contribute to the achievement gaps separating low-income students from their middle-class peers.
S.AMDT.599 to S.CON.RES.21 To add $200 million for Function 270 (Energy) for the demonstration and monitoring of carbon capture and sequestration technology by the Department of Energy.
S.AMDT.905 to S.761 To require the Director of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education to establish a program to recruit and provide mentors for women and underrepresented minorities who are interested in careers in mathematics, science, and engineering.
S.AMDT.923 to S.761 To expand the pipeline of individuals entering the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields to support United States innovation and competitiveness.
S.AMDT.924 to S.761 To establish summer term education programs.
S.AMDT.2519 to H.R.2638 To provide that one of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5 million or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the contractor or grantee owes no past due Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.2588 to H.R.976 To provide certain employment protections for family members who are caring for members of the Armed Forces recovering from illnesses and injuries incurred on active duty.
S.AMDT.2658 to H.R.2642 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.2692 to H.R.2764 To require a comprehensive nuclear threat reduction and security plan.
S.AMDT.2799 to H.R.3074 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.3137 to H.R.3222 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.3234 to H.R.3093 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.3331 to H.R.3043 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
Senate Resolutions Passed:
S.RES.133 : A resolution celebrating the life of Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson.
S.RES.268 : A resolution designating July 12, 2007, as "National Summer Learning Day".
CONAN will start complaining about my post in 3 - 2 - 1........
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Originally posted by Gaspar
quote:
Originally posted by Conan71
Holy crap, it only took till the last paragraph of the media matters article to see "introduced". The Media Matters story is a total spin job.
Still doesn't say "authored" just "sponsored" and "co-sponsored".
The media keeps trying to distort the record by thinking we are all too stupid to get the difference between sponsoring, co-sponsoring, introducing, or just flat writing legislation.
I dropped the gauntlet this morning. As of 4:40 no one has named three things Obama has authored in the Ill or U.S. Senate, nor three things accomplished as the community organizer.
I will pick up the gauntlet since Ruf, FOTD and the other sand-blowers will not. Lets see what will I use as a source? How about Library of Congress.
Here's a thought.
How 'bout you stop acting like the entire world revolves around ANYTHING and EVERYTHING you and other rabid Republicans consider to be Obama's inexperience...
I am proud to vote for a statesman who will finally take this country into the right direction from the spend-and-spend Republican Party...
51% of Republican delegates at this year's convention have a networth of over $500,000...
So, it's no surprise that they would have a disdain for anyone working as a community activist... after all, they're just dumb, lazy black-folk, aren't they?!?
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Originally posted by USRufnex
Another lie, gaspar.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080218135929AASpb1P
http://mediamatters.org/items/200809040007
Kinda like the claim that you're some sort of libertarian or independant when you are obviously in the tank for the Republican smear machine... [:D]
There are some reasonable Republicans who can see through all this crap....
http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/1917
http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/1943
BTW, presidents don't actually WRITE legislation... so concentrating solely on authorship is inappropriate based on the job description...... thanks though, for showing how deceptive you are...
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Your BFF,
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Ruf
You criticize me about Newsbusters and you cite to Media Matters? Oh, sorry, I thought this was the hypocrisy thread.
Do you think the messenger should be shot, Gaspar? You seem to have a constant problem with links to blogs when it's the message that matters. Right wing blogs are much more prone to lies as we have seen strong support for her speech last night laden with lies and distortions.
Are right wing blogs supporting her new rule of not meeting with the media? She should at least go on Meet The Depressed, don't you think?
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Originally posted by guido911
QuoteYou criticize me about Newsbusters and you cite to Media Matters? Oh, sorry, I thought this was the hypocrisy thread.
Ummm. Those were facts-- thought you might want to be acquainted with a few because Newsbusters is a bunch of right-wing hacks........
Guido hypocritically berates my choice of ONE LINK compared to his consistent links to right-wing hacks//// in...... 3 - 2 - 1.....
Potty's over.......yawn.
McCain's speech put me to sleep.
"But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence
O' beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king"
Don Henley (Cain's 9-05-08)
The devil dug this up.....interesting![:)]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX06URJvCew&NR=1
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Originally posted by FOTD
The devil dug this up.....interesting![:)]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX06URJvCew&NR=1
[:D][:D]"When all the people leave and the stadium lights are out...WE'LL BE LAYING SOME PIPE!"