The US Presidential election thread

[Patty Smyth]

and speaking of exploitive
http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/24/donald...ent-5-million/

[Natalka]

Can't remember where I saw this line but someone was saying they wondering how long it would take Romney, if he got in, to say "We inherited this mess" as his excuse for not doing anything.

Gee, I think Obama - or his team - has talked about the same thing regarding the administration prior to him....

Interesting tidbit. But Romney lying is not news really?


http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/24/mitt-r...-case-maureen/

I'm thinking tmz isn't exactly the most credible news source for the presidential race.

[madchives]

[madchives]

Yes Dave it's the latest in reality tv on TLC(it used to be the learning channel). I feel sorry for them because they are being exploited, laughed at, ridiculed. They will end up the way of John and Kate.

Their fvorite meal is "sketti" spaghetti with ketchup and butter as a sauce

oh good lord patty - i'm getting worried about you.



i too remember the good old days when what a channel's name referred
what it provided to us.

[Patty Smyth]

I saw her yesterday on CNN . I did not know she was being harassed for asking the question. What 's wrong with people? Her family are actually conservatives too and she was raised that way.

[Darth Penguin]

and speaking of exploitive
http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/24/donald...ent-5-million/

One caveat: the records have to be released, said Trump, “to my satisfaction.”

from here


I ran that though my universal translator and got

That ain't ever gonna happen cos donald Trump will keep moving the goal-posts

Honestly even if Jesus, Mary and the whole host of the Heavens trailed down in glory and gave Trump the paper-work he's still going to hang on to his "birther" delusions.

[Darth Penguin]

I saw her yesterday on CNN . I did not know she was being harassed for asking the question. What 's wrong with people? Her family are actually conservatives too and she was raised that way.

Good Conservative girls don't need to work, just sprog after sprog, home-schooling and Jesus and tending thier man...That's all they should aspire too....

[Patty Smyth]

I wonder how the whole birther thing began, I can't even remember now.

[Patty Smyth]

http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/10/24/vote-...bamas-records/

I guess they just are so frustrated that they cannot get anything seedy(on a personal level) on Obama.

[Patty Smyth]

I love this one, the poll at the bottom of Chris Matthews article.
What's motivating The Donald's latest stunt?



His blimp-sized ego
His political aspirations
His genuine concern
Other

Vote

[Darth Penguin]

I wonder how the whole birther thing began, I can't even remember now.

It started with a few hard-core Hillary Clinton fans (1) but only made main-stream when Obama became the Democrat canditate and some of McCain's followers took up the call....Palin has been more vocal.(2)

1)

The idea of going after Obama’s otherness dates back to the last presidential election, and to Democrats. Long before Trump started in, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, recognized this potential vulnerability in Obama and sought to exploit it.

In a March 2007 memo to Clinton (that later found its way to me), Penn wrote: “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared toward showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting it in a new light,” he wrote. “Save it for 2050. It also exposes a very strong weakness for him — his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values.”

2)

Sarah Palin declared on Thursday that the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate is "rightfully" an issue with the American public, and that it is "fair game" for politicians to question Obama's citizenship.
The comments came during an interview with conservative radio host Rusty Humphries, who asked Palin whether she planned to "make the birth certificate an issue" if she runs for president in 2012.
"I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue," Palin said. "I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers."

Then after the election, you got people like Orly Taitz taking over and keeping it bubbling under the surface. I won't link to Ms Taitz page as it frequently injects malware.

[Patty Smyth]

mwuahahahahahahahah

[Jbird]

I personally am very much so opinionated towards Mitt Romney in this whole election, and personally think that Obama would be better for America from my standpoint. I think some of the comments Romney made during the debates kind of turned me off him even moreso than I was before. The only positive I found from him in my opinion was the "approval" of the Keystone XL Pipeline into America, which Obama rejected / postponed.

[Darth Penguin]

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[Darth Penguin]

BBC Poll; Rest of world favours Obama

A BBC World Service opinion poll has found sharply higher overseas approval ratings for US President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
An average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney, in the survey of 21,797 people in 21 countries.
Only Pakistan's respondents said they would prefer to see Mr Romney win November's election.
France was the most strongly pro-Obama (72%).