Did not like the limited answers! It is rather REMARKABLE that the Democrats would even ALLOW a convict to be posted against the President... that is in itself disrespectful yet plain stupid!
The fact that DEMOCRATS were the ONLY ones allowed to vote in this election and greater than 4 out of 10 choose a CONVICT over obama perhaps tells the rest of us just how much OBAMA is disliked.... even by his own party?
Is the 'Anyone But Obama' Tactic Smart or Silly?
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If you think Mitt Romney is President Obama's only hurdle in the upcoming election, you're wrong. It's Mitt Romney, and... pretty much anyone with $2,500. In Tuesday's West Virginia Democratic primary, inmate Keith Judd trailed by just 18%. That's right, inmate. As in, behind bars. One West Virginia voter explained, "I voted against Obama ... I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again." So, he voted for Judd. Or, as he put it, "That guy out of Texas."
A little more about Judd. According to Politico, Judd has run for president in every election since 1996, and actually finished third in the 2008 Idaho Democratic primary with 1.7 percent of the vote. He's a former Hollywood musician who claims to be a "Rastafarian-Christian," and lists Richard Nixon as his favorite president because "he got us out of Vietnam, and began world peace with China and the Soviets." Sounds pretty solid. But we've got to ask: Is the "anyone but Obama" tactic a good idea?
A little more about Judd. According to Politico, Judd has run for president in every election since 1996, and actually finished third in the 2008 Idaho Democratic primary with 1.7 percent of the vote. He's a former Hollywood musician who claims to be a "Rastafarian-Christian," and lists Richard Nixon as his favorite president because "he got us out of Vietnam, and began world peace with China and the Soviets." Sounds pretty solid. But we've got to ask: Is the "anyone but Obama" tactic a good idea?
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Old Salt 2012/05/09 20:48:45
The whole "anyone but Obama" argument just says that you're uniformed and unwilling to listen to even your own side of the aisle's candidates and make an good decision based on their platforms. If you're just going to cover your ears and scream "la la la", you might as well not even vote.
CNN and other media outlets cater to Wall Street and Washington, not the American people. Media conglomerates are corporate bias, which tends to lean right than they do left.
Most democrats are not democrats mainly just because the media promotes it. Most Americans don't fall for the lies and fear-mongering of the Right. we, the people, value the collective, not just the 1 percent. The right have for years won elections with their money, but it didn't work in 2001. Americans maybe dumb, but they're not that dumb. The majority of Americans lean left in fact.Bush for example stole the election in 2001. He's an idiot and Americans knew it, that's why Gore won the popular vote.
Record-High 40% of Americans Identify as Independents in '11
http://www.gallup.com/poll/15...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news...
American CEOs earn 343 times more than typical workers. If you want to in a democracy, we can't have extreme income gaps. We can't have both.
" Socialism doesn't work either"
Who's promoting socialism?
the countries that you stupidly think are socialists (e.g. France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.) are economic powerhouses compared to the U.S. right now.
So like I said, at least 50 percent of Americans are idiots. they watch fox and voted for Bush twice, so why wouldn't they be?
I do not believe you pay very close attention to what is going on in America and quite likely you get your "news" from Fox. Haven't you read headlines say "1,000 days since the Senate pased a budget"? Obama hasn't signed a single fiscal-year budget until April 2011. what are you talking about? All the money we're spending is due to Bush budgets. get it right.
Obama has steered the nation towards recovery without any help what-so-ever from the Republican side and in fact major opposition from them..He signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act into Law immediately upon taking office. He has not spent more than two thirds of his time on vacation like his predecessor. Obama has put forth jobs bill after jobs bill to be only blocked time after time by the repubs who want a sluggish economy. Why do so many misinformed people like you blame Obama? the repubs have blocked all of Obama's jobs bills the past 2 years). Most economists and the CBO have said in 2008, a year after Obam took office, the economy will will take years to get back to normal.
The funding to Solyndra was a bipartisan effort authorized in 2005 under a GOP administration. get it right.
The 1% who largely funds and controls both halves of our ruling duopoly, lov...
I do not believe you pay very close attention to what is going on in America and quite likely you get your "news" from Fox. Haven't you read headlines say "1,000 days since the Senate pased a budget"? Obama hasn't signed a single fiscal-year budget until April 2011. what are you talking about? All the money we're spending is due to Bush budgets. get it right.
Obama has steered the nation towards recovery without any help what-so-ever from the Republican side and in fact major opposition from them..He signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act into Law immediately upon taking office. He has not spent more than two thirds of his time on vacation like his predecessor. Obama has put forth jobs bill after jobs bill to be only blocked time after time by the repubs who want a sluggish economy. Why do so many misinformed people like you blame Obama? the repubs have blocked all of Obama's jobs bills the past 2 years). Most economists and the CBO have said in 2008, a year after Obam took office, the economy will will take years to get back to normal.
The funding to Solyndra was a bipartisan effort authorized in 2005 under a GOP administration. get it right.
The 1% who largely funds and controls both halves of our ruling duopoly, loves it that way -- the "system" is working just as it should.
"(I forgot ACORN)."
You forget your head too. it's probably somewhere stuck up your ass.
It’s that Obama Derangement Syndrome you've got that is the problem. facts don't mean a thing to right-wingers. It's all hyper-speculation and nonsense and no facts. they really should make a pill for that to treat..
" Obama sent a message to Putin that he would do what Putin wanted when he got his second term. Did you miss that? Google IT!"
No, I didn't get the message. lt's because I'm not one of those crazy conspiracy theory believing nuts, unlike someone.
He did pass one budget so that statement goes out the window.
He has passed bills and plans wich increased spending, also he extended the Bush tax cuts so he took over the blame for the deficit they caused.
In addition to that he has used E.O.'s to increase spending as well has set up new positions and committee's in government increasing red tape and creating spending on thier own.
ALL WHITHOUT A PLAN TO PAY FOR ANY OF THEM.
Solydra:
The FBI is investigating what happened with Solyndra, a solar panel company that got a $535 million government-backed loan with the help of the Obama White House over the objections of federal budget analysts.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden got a nice photo op. They got to make speeches about being "green." But then Solyndra went bankrupt. Americans lost jobs. Taxpayers got stuck with the bill. And members of Congress are now in high dudgeon and making speeches.
Federal investigators want to know what role political fundraising played in the guarantee of the questionable loan. Washington bureaucrats warned the deal was lousy. And White House spokesmen flail desperately, like weakened victims in a cheesy vampire movie.
http://articles.chicagotribun...
Even his friends in Chicago see it for what it was, why can't...
He did pass one budget so that statement goes out the window.
He has passed bills and plans wich increased spending, also he extended the Bush tax cuts so he took over the blame for the deficit they caused.
In addition to that he has used E.O.'s to increase spending as well has set up new positions and committee's in government increasing red tape and creating spending on thier own.
ALL WHITHOUT A PLAN TO PAY FOR ANY OF THEM.
Solydra:
The FBI is investigating what happened with Solyndra, a solar panel company that got a $535 million government-backed loan with the help of the Obama White House over the objections of federal budget analysts.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden got a nice photo op. They got to make speeches about being "green." But then Solyndra went bankrupt. Americans lost jobs. Taxpayers got stuck with the bill. And members of Congress are now in high dudgeon and making speeches.
Federal investigators want to know what role political fundraising played in the guarantee of the questionable loan. Washington bureaucrats warned the deal was lousy. And White House spokesmen flail desperately, like weakened victims in a cheesy vampire movie.
http://articles.chicagotribun...
Even his friends in Chicago see it for what it was, why can't you. LOL
' I'll be more flexible after the election.'
Like you would not have hung Bush by his toe nails for a slip like that?
Why were they trying to hide his association with ACORN, and what else is Obama lying to us about? Perhaps the biggest question now is how and why they got the Social Policy article stricken from most of the world wide web in the first.place. What are they trying to hide?
http://www.wnd.com/2009/05/98...
Barack Obama during a 2004 meeting of an ACORN affiliate
He has not "passed" bills and plans (U.S. presidents don't pass any bills or plans) for the past 3 years. He signed continuing resolutions (look it up) that were passed by both chambers of Congress.
Solyndra probe of its actions finds no wrongdoing
A newly released independent report essentially clears the name of failed solar company Solyndra, the recipient of a $535 million federally backed loan whose abrupt bankruptcy led to a criminal investigation and a congressional inquiry into whether it misled the government about its financial health.
http://www.denverpost.com/bus...
McCain makes exaggerated claims of 'voter fraud.' Obama soft-pedals his connections.
Neither ACORN nor its employees have been found guilty of, or even charged with, casting fraudulent votes. What a McCain-Palin Web ad calls "voter fraud" is actually voter registration fraud. Several ACORN canvassers have been found guilty of faking registration forms and others are being investigated. But the evidence that has surfaced so far shows they faked forms to get paid for work they didn’t do, not to stuff ballot boxes.
Obama’s path has intersected with ACORN on several occasions – more often than he allowed in the final debate.
http://www.factcheck.org/tag/...
that's downright pathetic....
He has not "passed" bills and plans (U.S. presidents don't pass any bills or plans) for the past 3 years. He signed continuing resolutions (look it up) that were passed by both chambers of Congress.
Solyndra probe of its actions finds no wrongdoing
A newly released independent report essentially clears the name of failed solar company Solyndra, the recipient of a $535 million federally backed loan whose abrupt bankruptcy led to a criminal investigation and a congressional inquiry into whether it misled the government about its financial health.
http://www.denverpost.com/bus...
McCain makes exaggerated claims of 'voter fraud.' Obama soft-pedals his connections.
Neither ACORN nor its employees have been found guilty of, or even charged with, casting fraudulent votes. What a McCain-Palin Web ad calls "voter fraud" is actually voter registration fraud. Several ACORN canvassers have been found guilty of faking registration forms and others are being investigated. But the evidence that has surfaced so far shows they faked forms to get paid for work they didn’t do, not to stuff ballot boxes.
Obama’s path has intersected with ACORN on several occasions – more often than he allowed in the final debate.
http://www.factcheck.org/tag/...
that's downright pathetic. you make this too easy. give up already, weirdo.
Second I never even said what they were charged with because it does not matter he had connections with them and they were involved in wrong doing that is enough to hurt his reputation and cost him votes.
Third :
"He has not "passed" bills and plans (U.S. presidents don't pass any bills or plans) for the past 3 years. He signed continuing resolutions (look it up) that were passed by both chambers of Congress"
Then he has not done a thing while in office and should be removed for negligence which works just as well for me.
Solyndra has not hurt his reputation nor has it cost him votes. Your fairytale beliefs makes look stupid.
"Then he has not done a thing while in office and should be removed for negligence works just as well for me."
the job of passing a budget resolution is not the president’s, ignoramus. That responsibility falls to Congress, and even then the president doesn’t sign it. The president has no role in passing a budget. The president can cajole Congress about passing a budget and advocate for positions and funding levels, but in the end, Congress approves the budget resolution for their own purposes. All he can do propose is propose his own presidential budgets every fiscal year, which he does per law. In fact, there were two times Congress voted on the president’s budget requests, both times they were voted down. Last time: Obama has no duty to help pass a budget.
President Obama sworn into office
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President tells the American people in his Inaugural Address: “Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”
He took the responsibility.
February 17, 2009
President Signs into Law the Spending Stimulus
The stimulus adds $821 billion in new spending according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The White House promises this infusion of spending and borrowing would keep unemployment rate below 8%. As millions of Americans are painfully aware, that promise was broken.
Unemployment continues to shoot up reaching a high of 10.2 in October of 2009 (8 months later) it stays above 9% for 2 years straight.
March 11, 2009
President Signs FY2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act
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The massive spending bill includes 8,696 earmarks at a cost of $11 billion.
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The spending bill adds $19 billion in new spending above the baseline – an 8.6% spending increase.
April 29, 2009
Congressional Democrats Pass FY2010 Budget
The Congressional Democrats’ budget calls for a $2 trillion debt increase in 2010, and another 8.9% increase in non-defense discretionary spending.
The...
President Obama sworn into office
•
President tells the American people in his Inaugural Address: “Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”
He took the responsibility.
February 17, 2009
President Signs into Law the Spending Stimulus
The stimulus adds $821 billion in new spending according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The White House promises this infusion of spending and borrowing would keep unemployment rate below 8%. As millions of Americans are painfully aware, that promise was broken.
Unemployment continues to shoot up reaching a high of 10.2 in October of 2009 (8 months later) it stays above 9% for 2 years straight.
March 11, 2009
President Signs FY2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act
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The massive spending bill includes 8,696 earmarks at a cost of $11 billion.
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The spending bill adds $19 billion in new spending above the baseline – an 8.6% spending increase.
April 29, 2009
Congressional Democrats Pass FY2010 Budget
The Congressional Democrats’ budget calls for a $2 trillion debt increase in 2010, and another 8.9% increase in non-defense discretionary spending.
The reconciliation process is abused to later pave the way for health care overhaul to be jammed into law.
Of note: this is the last time Congressional Democrats will bother budgeting.
February 2, 2010
President Issues FY2011 Budget
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The President’s budget more than doubles the debt; pushes the FY2011 deficit to a new record of $1.6 trillion; drives spending to a new record of $3.8 trillion in fiscal year 2011; and raises taxes by more than $2 trillion through 2020, under the administration’s own estimates.
April 15, 2010
Congressional Democrats Decide Not to Do a Budget for FY2011
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The 1974 Budget Act requires Congress to pass a budget each year by April 15.
In an unprecedented budget failure, House Democrats not only failed to pass a budget – they opted to not even propose a budget.
February 14, 2011
President Issues FY2012 Budget
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The President’s budget yet again calls for the doubling of the debt in five years, and tripling the debt in ten years.
The President’s budget spends $47 trillion over the next decade, imposes over $1 trillion in new tax hikes, and fails to address the drivers of the debt.
With him throwing crap like that out that only increases spending and debt each year it is no wonder he cannot get any of them passed.
$800 billion economic stimulus package was approved by Congress in February, 2009. The package was designed to quickly jumpstart economic growth, and save and create over 3 million jobs. The package allocated funds as follows:
$288 billion in tax cuts.
$224 billion in extended unemployment benefits, education and health care.
$275 billion for job creation using federal contracts, grants and loans.
How about you start getting your news from actual news outlets next time. you sound grossly misinformed on things that are
general knowledge.
the Stimulus Act Was a Success. By most economic indicators, the Economic Stimulus Package was a success. In March 2009, before it was launched, Q1 GDP was -6.4% (it has since been revised to -4.9%)and the Dow had slid to 6,500. By Q4 2009, GDP was 5% and the Dow had risen to 10,428. Not al...
$800 billion economic stimulus package was approved by Congress in February, 2009. The package was designed to quickly jumpstart economic growth, and save and create over 3 million jobs. The package allocated funds as follows:
$288 billion in tax cuts.
$224 billion in extended unemployment benefits, education and health care.
$275 billion for job creation using federal contracts, grants and loans.
How about you start getting your news from actual news outlets next time. you sound grossly misinformed on things that are
general knowledge.
the Stimulus Act Was a Success. By most economic indicators, the Economic Stimulus Package was a success. In March 2009, before it was launched, Q1 GDP was -6.4% (it has since been revised to -4.9%)and the Dow had slid to 6,500. By Q4 2009, GDP was 5% and the Dow had risen to 10,428. Not all of that success can be attributed to the Stimulus Package, since expansive monetary policy and strong emerging markets also helped boost the economy. However, those were all in place in March 2009. No doubt, the economic stimulus package inspired the confidence needed turn the economy around.
Jobs created:
America lost an averaged 720,000-750,000 jobs a month before the stimulus bill went into effect and only 35,000 a month in the last three months.
The bill was signed Feb. 17, 2009, and officially went into effect that day.
March: 131175 THOUSANDS jobs April 131357 THOUSANDS jobs May 131442 THOUSANDS jobs June 131626 THOUSANDS jobs
http://data.bls.gov/timeserie...
I'd be curious to know if you have an alternative theory as to why there was such a dramatic reversal in terms of private sector jobs lost/created.
The stimulus prevented unemployment from reaching 11%. Those are CBO numbers that most economists agree with.
For the umpteenth time, simpleton, the president's FY Budget proposals have to approved by Congress. are you slow? they haven't. He's signed continuing resolutions, which continued previous budget solutions signed into law (Bush's budgets).
List of continuing resolutions for the U.S. federal budget
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
not a demo rag which only showed a small slice of the unemployment problem that happened to improve.
I already showed he did pass one budget and if HE APPROVES OR FAILS TO CHANGE those previous spending amounts HE TAKES THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM.
BTW: Those people were democrats too.
So your point still goes unproven.
Silly troglodyte move out of your cave, we have wonders for you to see now!
Green energy is generally much more efficient than fossil fuels.They have point source production which reduces overall energy consumption and loss of energy from extensive power lines. Sure just wind turbines isn't the solution, there is enough wind energy to power the world but not enough rare earth minerals to build them all, like neodymium which convert kinetic energy to electrical. In the right places wind energy is great and mixed with solar and geothermal(hydro generators have the same problem as wind generators). Then there are things like using algae to produce biogasoline. Even using plastic to oil conver...
Green energy is generally much more efficient than fossil fuels.They have point source production which reduces overall energy consumption and loss of energy from extensive power lines. Sure just wind turbines isn't the solution, there is enough wind energy to power the world but not enough rare earth minerals to build them all, like neodymium which convert kinetic energy to electrical. In the right places wind energy is great and mixed with solar and geothermal(hydro generators have the same problem as wind generators). Then there are things like using algae to produce biogasoline. Even using plastic to oil converters to both clean things up and fuel you car at the same time. Hydrogen fuel cell are carbon free if the charging stations are powered using solar energy, electrolysis baby! Let alone adapting heavy traffic pedestrian/vehicle ares to piezoelectric generators. New techs like using Graphene, nanotubes and Buckyballs in combination to produce solar cells thinner than a human hair and transparent. This Tech is at least a decade away but with out proper funding it could be decades away.
Like an addict you think you can just wait until your stash is gone then just go cold turkey.. If you wait until the fossil fuels are almost gone then just, balm, switch everything over. That is asking for an industrial and economic collapse. We need time to not only rebuild the horribly ailing energy infrastructure but to switch over industry and capital to the new energy types. These changes are inevitable, it is best to start as soon as possible because the longer we wait the more it will hurt us in the long run. Realistically we are all biding our time until clean fusion power. which can replace the large scale generators. Although a more distributed point source power grid is more stable and efficient. and the so called "green" tech is jsut what we need!