Everything posted by ReddFoxx
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Unsung
Vesta appeared on the Monique Show shortly before she passed and talked about how the sort of heartbreak in the song Congratulations actually ended up happening to her. When she was singing the song, she was trying to cry and looked as if she was in a very sad place. For those interested, you can watch many of the Unsung episodes on soultracks.com
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Unsung
Millie Jackson, her story didn't really include any drama, but it was interesting because she is so real. Her commentary was hilarious.
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The Politics Thread
That just adds more of a compelling argument for gun control. There are so many gun owners who are looking for any excuse to kill somebody.
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The Politics Thread
Inouye wanted Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, but that would have opened up her House seat and because of Hawaii's all party special election system, Republicans could have picked it up with a plurality. Besides that, Inouye encouraged another candidate to run for Governor in 2010 rather than back Abercrombie, which ticked off Abercrombie. The last thing he was going to do was appoint who Inouye wanted. Schatz is qualified, though, having served multiple terms in the legislature and having been Lt. Governor for the past couple of years. In the case of Tim Scott, he was elected to one state House term before he ran for Congress and before that had only served one city council term. If he wasn't black, he'd have never been on the list at all.
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The Politics Thread
Brown's first win was a fluke, because Martha Coakley didn't campaign. This time around, he's already lost once and would lose again to a credible candidate. He's also shown himself to be as nasty as any other politician, he ran a borderline racist campaign against Elizabeth Warren questioning her Native American heritage.
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The Politics Thread
I wasn't talking about any of that, but of course you segue into something completely different in typical right-wing fashion. You posted about Obama mispronouncing names and that was what I was responding to, you know that. There was no cover up in Libya and I don't subscribe to the theory that Obama set that whole thing up, because that is just insanity. After the entire hilarious screed about how all the polls were lying and Obama was really down double digits, I wouldn't accuse anyone of having their head buried in the sand, but that's water under the bridge. Unemployment is headed downward and will continue to go that way, this recovery was never going to be an easy one, but it is happening. I didn't call you a racist and honestly I don't care if you are one or not. It seems like many right-wingers like to holler "I'm not racist" or accuse the left of calling them racist even in situations when there have been no accusations of such. Whatever you are, plenty in your party do have racial hangups and that can't be disputed. Romney lost, Obama won. The world is not going to freaking end because of that.
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The Politics Thread
Obama is President for four more years, so some people are going to have to get over their anger and learn to accept it, because complaining about everything little thing is not going to change that. 332-206 hurts really bad, but it is reality, so it's time for these right-wingers to get over.
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The Politics Thread
Apparently, Petraeus kept pursuing the woman after she broke off the affair, he sent her thousands of emails. That calls into question good judgment overall. Affairs are looked at as a problem with officials with high security clearance.
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The Politics Thread
Romney completely underestimated the electorate, his campaign was counting on it being more white than 2008, but that didn't happen. Obama's campaign was anticipating this and allocated resources to getting out the minority vote.
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The Politics Thread
Reminds me of this <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/d-udmPLzDmg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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The Politics Thread
This crap about sampling is a completely non-factor, yet the right-wing loves to push it, because they need a reason to dismiss the polls and because they are completely crazy with fear that Romney could lose. Party ID is fluid, which means polls should not weighted by it and are not weighted by it (except the ultra-Republican Rasmussen, which gives 2% weighting to Republicans in their polls). A whole lot of extremist Republican who don't believe the Republican Party is far right enough have switched to independent, which makes the sample of independents fairly right leaning. Not all independents are swing voters and they certainly aren't all moderates. A different set of independents tends to show up every election. Plus, the state polls are consistent with a +2% Obama lead nationally. At this point, Obama is in the driver's seat.
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The Politics Thread
I've been working for a congressional campaign and a state senate campaign for months, and right now it's all about getting out the vote. When I phone banked today, it was about checking in with people to see if they had mailed in their ballot yet and if they didn't, inform them to walk it into the polling station on Tuesday.
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The Politics Thread
Romney staged a "relief" event for Hurricane Sandy. Can he get any more fake?
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The Politics Thread
A new Washington Post poll has Obama up 4 in Virginia. If that holds and it certainly could hold up with a only a week to go, Romney's chances of reaching 270 are infinitesimal.
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The Politics Thread
Romney was out of his element on foreign policy, everything he said was generic and devoid of substance. It was clear that he was not comfortable discussing foreign policy when he tried to shift the discussion to the economy.
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The Politics Thread
When his opponent does well, Mitt Romney falters, it happened in the primary debates and it happened last night. I don't recall any Presidential candidate ever getting fact checked real time by the moderator. Obama showed up in force last night and that is what he needed to do. He more than redeemed himself from that last debate.
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The Politics Thread
Rosie Perez blasts Romney <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EVIrNxba0ls" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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The Politics Thread
Like Ted Kennedy said all those years ago when he ran against Romney for Senate, Romney is multiple choice. Romney changes positions to fit whatever he's running for.
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The Politics Thread
The next debate is a town hall, which is better for Obama, since it's at least partially interactive with people. What happened is that Obama tried to just get through the debate without screwing up by playing it low key, but that doesn't always work and clearly it did not work.
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The Politics Thread
The only people I've seen question it are right-wingers who want to win the election, that hardly constitutes everyone. It doesn't see like the right-wing gets how crazy some of their insinuations are? That is a scary thing.
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The Politics Thread
This surrounds a congressional race in Florida involving a really corrupt member of Congress, David Rivera. It's a long story, but this blurb sounded so much like a soap opera, that I had to post it. This woman was one of his helpers in a scheme to rig the Democratic primary. http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/25/4214177/nudity-politics-gunfire-and-a.html
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The Politics Thread
Why don't windows on airplanes roll down? http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/24/899441/romney-plane-windows/
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The Politics Thread
Bin Laden is dead, something George Bush didn't accomplish. Troops from the surge just left Afghanistan, plus the Iraq War was ended awhile back. Allies that were alienated under Bush came back into the fold. That's good foreign policy. No President has a perfectly flawless term when it comes to anything, but there has been plenty of success. But, apparently, the none of that counts because of rabid partisanship. Give credit to where it is do, had there not been a change in policy, Bin Laden would still be alive and troops would still be in Iraq.
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The Politics Thread
It shows which states have the most non-taxpayers and they are mostly Republican states, governed by Republicans for the most part. Republicans are supposed to create jobs, yet they haven't improved the jobs situation in the poorest states that they run. Plenty of those non-taxpayers vote Republican, because poor white Southerners break heavily toward the Republican party.It's not a black and white situation. Again, Obama won middle class counties all over the country, it's highly unlikely that most of his voters aren't paying any taxes. And for the record, there is such a thing as the working poor, many of these people pay zero taxes because they don't make enough to pay taxes, but yet take no federal subsidy. Again, it's not a black and white situation. At the end of the day, Romney is accountable for what he says, no one forced him to make these particular comments and people are entitled not to like them. You can't broad brush people with a total disregard for facts.
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The Politics Thread
Exactly, the Daily Caller is much more activist that Media Matters is, Media Matters specializes in pointing out biases or falsehoods in press. The Daily Caller just obsesses about Democrats 24/7. Hypocrisy is a ridiculous thing.