I think if there is anywhere near the level of anger at this guy that was evident in 2010 he is sure to be a one termer....if the media can protect a guy with this poor performance we are in trouble... if he wins our taxes are going to go up and our economy is going to nose dive. Wake up your friends and neighbors....go see Obama 2016 and bring an undecided person....
If the dumbass republicans would embrace the Unions they would control the Whitehouse forever, but their greedy asses never will ! Can a republican ever stand up for a blue collar working man?
They do, time and again. Every time a Republican wins an election, it is because they have represented the interests of working people, and most of them ended up voting for the Republican.
You can't say this of unions. Unions only control about 10% of working people.... and from 30% to 50% of that group are only in the union because they are forced to join. So you end up with unions representing the interests of only about 6% or 7% of workers.
And... I don't think your idea that the Republicans would control the White House forever if they embrace the less than 10% who say "union yes" instead of the 90% who say "union no" makes any sense.
If you look at the past voting patterns, Republicans already enjoy support from blue collar workers. Which a majority nationwide are not in a union. Almost half of union households nationwide voted republican. And on another note, union membership is something like 13% nationwide, and half of that is public sector unions ( like mine). Add in what has happened in Wisconsin, after the reforms took hold, AFSCME lost 2/3rds of their membership in Wisconsin. Lastly the Obama campaign stated last spring in their correspondence that they will not actively pursue these voters. This just says to me , the unions dont hold the power they used to.
They do every time they start a business lefty !! Your union hack leaders are so left of center they truly hate business people. That is why our economy is faltering and has been since the Dems took over in 2007.
An Anon said: "Add in what has happened in Wisconsin, after the reforms took hold, AFSCME lost 2/3rds of their membership in Wisconsin."
Yes, the real conflict is between unions and workers. Indiana also recently passed pro-workers-rights reforms giving workers the choice of whether or not to be in the union. A Teamsters official said that he expected at least half of the members to quit the union.
This president really has made a change. He has changed many peoples home addresses to apartment #s. he has changed many peoples work places and pay scales. He really has changed many peoples lives for the worse! So you going to vote for this clown?
It is naive to think that a change of the Presidency would effect much of anything at all.
Legislation has been stalled because of the filibuster and brinkmanship by . . . cue drum roll please . . . the Tea Party faction of the Republican party.
Obama inherited a Depression economy from Bush economic, domestic, and foreign policies. UNFORTUNATELY, the Congress never changed those policies (continued the Bush fiscal policies, continued the wars (off budget, always worth mentioning), etc.).
Whether you liked Bush or hated Bush or liked Obama or hate him now, we still are under Bush-era policies. The Congress is hated because it cannot pass any legislation (except take away freedoms, continue to fund defense, etc.).
Obama, in my view, probably made a mistake in using his political capital to pass Romney Care on a federal level. But a conservative Supreme Court has upheld it. Only legislation THAT bad could come from two individual, both of whom are running for President, but under different party names.
You get so many facts wrong, Anon. The wars are on budget. Obama did not pass "Romneycare": his plan has only some similarities. Bush passed Obama lower unemployment and a much lower annual defecit. Obama chose to make all of it worse. We are under the policies of Obama, not Bush.
The Tea Party was not even there for Obama's first two years. And it does not engage in 'brinksmanship', but instead opposes such terrible ideas as increasing the national debt.
Nice try to pass blame for the bad results of the ill-conceived decisions of the man at the top... but it didn't work
1) Yes. The wars have been off budget and financed through emergency spending measures and supplemental bills. The $700 billion plus defense spending budget DOES NOT include wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
2) The basis for Romneycare on the federal level, a/k/a Obamacare, was Mass health insurance reform law, THAT MANDATES EVERYONE PURCHASE HEALTH CARE!
3) We are absolutely STILL under the fiscal policies of Bush. Fiscal policy includes tax and spending; we are still under the Bush tax cuts (count the debt and deficit).
1) The wars were NOT on budget under Bush. It was Obama who made them part of the budget.
2) If nothing else, read the latest article in Esquire on Romneycare. Obama's plan has more than just "some similarities" to a plan endorsed by both the Heritage people and Massachusetts business.
3) Quiz time, dmarks: do you know what percentage of GDP the national debt comprises?
4) The tea party is a storefront shill for big Republican money who will disappear after Obama wins a second term. The tea party has no plan but "no," no plan for jobs, no plan for trade policy, no plan for anything. Their plan is "Look, mommy, big numbers bad."
5) Get ready, Obama-haters: He's going to win a second term. Romney has basically ensured this. It's a great show -- although I'm not the biggest Obama man, it does my heart good to see the Koch brothers and all their puppets spend millions on Romney and the Tea Party and go down in flames.
Gee MPots thanks again for "teaching" us all you know. I believe Santelli while ranting at how the Dems/Socies were destroying the economy said we need something like a "new tea party" and it began ! I have joined myself and will work feverishly to keep the Empty Suit from a 2nd term where plans for higher taxes, more spending for illegals, blanket amnesty for illegals, huge defense cuts, and our economy sinks back into a double dip recession....but thanks for letting me know WHY I joined up with the tea party...(I am sure you are correct and my simple misunderstanding of my own financial situation and business situation are just plain wrong and I am being manipulated) Wow !! Thanks again I guess my business really is "doing just fine" as Obama told us.
I know there is influence by the wealthy - but have you never heard of Penny Pritzker and George Soros? (gazillionaires) throwing their money to your leftist Democrat causes ?
Have you ever heard of the Koch Brothers or Sheldon Adelson?
Anyway, who are the biggest donors to Mint More Money?
1) Goldman Sachs 2) Bank of America (wasn't this the Bank of Italy at one time?) 3) JPMorgan Chase 4) Morgan Stanley 5) Credit Suisse Group 6) Citigroup 7) Barclays 8) Wells Fargo
Now children, which are the biggest banks? 1) Bank of America 2) Citigroup 3) JPMorgan Chase 4) Wells Fargo
The man behind the Romney mask, or robot or whatever, is not a man at all. It is a "coalition" of banks.
This is completely irresponsible to allow this guy to destroy our institutions that pay for themselves of Social Security to finance the wealth through capital gains and dividend tax cuts of his contributors.
I know Caligula wanted to place his horse in the Senate - perhaps Romney will do that with his Olympic-athlete horse, Rafalca. I hear the horse has an astonishing "piaffe."
How much did you and Obama give to charity last year? Mitt gave more than you, all your friends and the entire Obama administration last year. Keep wallowing in your failure with your handout mentality and envy of success. But, please leave those of us alone that see through you.
Anonymous #1: Gosh there are a lot of anonymous people on this site.
Thanks for "teaching" me, well, nothing. I've watched your antics in the last few years. You let Bush have his way and saved your vitriol for the black man. Obvious. Also obvious is "Left" is anyone who disagrees with you, and this effing blog is for anyone in the 19th ward, and everyone who lives here is, guess what?, NOT in the T-Party.
Please; educate me; give me the Tea Party jobs plan. Please. Throw me a bone. Why would anyone vote for any Tea Party candidate anywhere? Or Romney, for that matter?
By the way, thanks for reading my Lefty mind. I'm voting libertarian.
at one time if you wanted to get in the stationary engs, union it cost 2,000 dollars to get a card, paid to business agent,ask around.this is not bull shit.
please blame all you want on the past . how far has that gotten us . vote for Obama IF you have a job. get of all the jerk water talking points. facts are this administration has no clue on how to get this country working. none. solar panels from china!!!! really ... vote with your wallets people
MPots and the new lefties wasting everyone's time on this blog remind me of an old explanation of an intellectual - "an intellectual is someone who has been educated beyond their intelligence". They really think they are on to something and know more than you. What they really have is warmed over socialist/communist anti captialist and anti-American propgaganda. They learned it from their "intellectual" professors in college. Obama got most of the wall street money last election cycle - and the banks are pushing people around more than ever -but because he and all the DemocRATS "say" they are for the little guy doesn't make it so... but keep posting here and just like the OWS looney tunes you are making no converts and are merely spinning their wheels. What you do not realize is that we have heard all the bs you are pushing our ENTIRE lives and reject it ! Sorry !
I typically say that, but my variation is different; i.e., "most people are educated beyond their intelligence."
I will very briefly point out that it is ironic you simultaneously state that we are educated beyond our intelligence---this, after we are "new left," whatever that is---then also think we think that we know more than you.
You cannot have it both ways. It is not fair to me. But, more importantly, it is not fair to you.
But I cannot help myself, one more thing: I am not trying to convert you. I am trying to inform you about who Mitt Romney really is. What really started to inspired me to write on Mitt Romney is when he was characterized as a "regular guy."
My friends, Mitt Romney is absolutely no "regular guy," and he is going to asset strip the United States---its social security institutions---to payback his wealthy donors in banking/finance. Just a warning, really.
Sadly,foreign policy is lost on Americans in general and the Obamas in particular. Folks have no idea how serious the Iranian threat really is and that it is very similar to the Warsaw pact threat of a generation ago. Containment did indeed work not by policy,but by the fact that we had Nukes the Russkys could not compete with in central Europel. Saw this first hand folks,but you know our real problem may very well be that we are competing with Greece with elected ding a lings from the of well I will not mention any names. Please in November think twice.
Illinois may be lost,but the ward has hop if.......
I think if there is anywhere near the level of anger at this guy that was evident in 2010 he is sure to be a one termer....if the media can protect a guy with this poor performance we are in trouble... if he wins our taxes are going to go up and our economy is going to nose dive. Wake up your friends and neighbors....go see Obama 2016 and bring an undecided person....
ReplyDeleteTotally useless, moronic insipid boob!
ReplyDeleteIf the dumbass republicans would embrace the Unions they would control the Whitehouse forever, but their greedy asses never will ! Can a republican ever stand up for a blue collar working man?
ReplyDeleteThey do, time and again. Every time a Republican wins an election, it is because they have represented the interests of working people, and most of them ended up voting for the Republican.
DeleteYou can't say this of unions. Unions only control about 10% of working people.... and from 30% to 50% of that group are only in the union because they are forced to join. So you end up with unions representing the interests of only about 6% or 7% of workers.
And... I don't think your idea that the Republicans would control the White House forever if they embrace the less than 10% who say "union yes" instead of the 90% who say "union no" makes any sense.
If you look at the past voting patterns, Republicans already enjoy support from blue collar workers. Which a majority nationwide are not in a union. Almost half of union households nationwide voted republican. And on another note, union membership is something like 13% nationwide, and half of that is public sector unions ( like mine). Add in what has happened in Wisconsin, after the reforms took hold, AFSCME lost 2/3rds of their membership in Wisconsin. Lastly the Obama campaign stated last spring in their correspondence that they will not actively pursue these voters. This just says to me , the unions dont hold the power they used to.
DeleteThey do every time they start a business lefty !! Your union hack leaders are so left of center they truly hate business people. That is why our economy is faltering and has been since the Dems took over in 2007.
DeleteAn Anon said: "Add in what has happened in Wisconsin, after the reforms took hold, AFSCME lost 2/3rds of their membership in Wisconsin."
DeleteYes, the real conflict is between unions and workers. Indiana also recently passed pro-workers-rights reforms giving workers the choice of whether or not to be in the union. A Teamsters official said that he expected at least half of the members to quit the union.
Obama's values are not out values.
ReplyDeleteQuinn's values are not out values.
Emanuel's values are not our values.
Preckwinkle's values are not our values.
Alvarez's values are not our values.
Hurley's values are not out values.
This president really has made a change. He has changed many peoples home addresses to apartment #s. he has changed many peoples work places and pay scales. He really has changed many peoples lives for the worse! So you going to vote for this clown?
ReplyDeleteIt's not the rank and file union members, it the communist union leaders. Conservatives typically have little against collective bargaining.
ReplyDeleteCollective bargaining is fine with me as long as each worker involved chooses to participate in it. This is rarely the case.
DeleteIt is naive to think that a change of the Presidency would effect much of anything at all.
ReplyDeleteLegislation has been stalled because of the filibuster and brinkmanship by . . . cue drum roll please . . . the Tea Party faction of the Republican party.
Obama inherited a Depression economy from Bush economic, domestic, and foreign policies. UNFORTUNATELY, the Congress never changed those policies (continued the Bush fiscal policies, continued the wars (off budget, always worth mentioning), etc.).
Whether you liked Bush or hated Bush or liked Obama or hate him now, we still are under Bush-era policies. The Congress is hated because it cannot pass any legislation (except take away freedoms, continue to fund defense, etc.).
Obama, in my view, probably made a mistake in using his political capital to pass Romney Care on a federal level. But a conservative Supreme Court has upheld it. Only legislation THAT bad could come from two individual, both of whom are running for President, but under different party names.
You get so many facts wrong, Anon. The wars are on budget. Obama did not pass "Romneycare": his plan has only some similarities. Bush passed Obama lower unemployment and a much lower annual defecit. Obama chose to make all of it worse. We are under the policies of Obama, not Bush.
ReplyDeleteThe Tea Party was not even there for Obama's first two years. And it does not engage in 'brinksmanship', but instead opposes such terrible ideas as increasing the national debt.
Nice try to pass blame for the bad results of the ill-conceived decisions of the man at the top... but it didn't work
Delete1) Yes. The wars have been off budget and financed through emergency spending measures and supplemental bills. The $700 billion plus defense spending budget DOES NOT include wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
2) The basis for Romneycare on the federal level, a/k/a Obamacare, was Mass health insurance reform law, THAT MANDATES EVERYONE PURCHASE HEALTH CARE!
3) We are absolutely STILL under the fiscal policies of Bush. Fiscal policy includes tax and spending; we are still under the Bush tax cuts (count the debt and deficit).
1) The wars were NOT on budget under Bush. It was Obama who made them part of the budget.
ReplyDelete2) If nothing else, read the latest article in Esquire on Romneycare. Obama's plan has more than just "some similarities" to a plan endorsed by both the Heritage people and Massachusetts business.
3) Quiz time, dmarks: do you know what percentage of GDP the national debt comprises?
4) The tea party is a storefront shill for big Republican money who will disappear after Obama wins a second term. The tea party has no plan but "no," no plan for jobs, no plan for trade policy, no plan for anything. Their plan is "Look, mommy, big numbers bad."
5) Get ready, Obama-haters: He's going to win a second term. Romney has basically ensured this. It's a great show -- although I'm not the biggest Obama man, it does my heart good to see the Koch brothers and all their puppets spend millions on Romney and the Tea Party and go down in flames.
Gee MPots thanks again for "teaching" us all you know. I believe Santelli while ranting at how the Dems/Socies were destroying the economy said we need something like a "new tea party" and it began ! I have joined myself and will work feverishly to keep the Empty Suit from a 2nd term where plans for higher taxes, more spending for illegals, blanket amnesty for illegals, huge defense cuts, and our economy sinks back into a double dip recession....but thanks for letting me know WHY I joined up with the tea party...(I am sure you are correct and my simple misunderstanding of my own financial situation and business situation are just plain wrong and I am being manipulated) Wow !! Thanks again I guess my business really is "doing just fine" as Obama told us.
DeleteI know there is influence by the wealthy - but have you never heard of Penny Pritzker and George Soros? (gazillionaires) throwing their money to your leftist Democrat causes ?
Have you ever heard of the Koch Brothers or Sheldon Adelson?
DeleteAnyway, who are the biggest donors to Mint More Money?
1) Goldman Sachs
2) Bank of America (wasn't this the Bank of Italy at one time?)
3) JPMorgan Chase
4) Morgan Stanley
5) Credit Suisse Group
6) Citigroup
7) Barclays
8) Wells Fargo
Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286
Now children, which are the biggest banks?
1) Bank of America
2) Citigroup
3) JPMorgan Chase
4) Wells Fargo
The man behind the Romney mask, or robot or whatever, is not a man at all. It is a "coalition" of banks.
This is completely irresponsible to allow this guy to destroy our institutions that pay for themselves of Social Security to finance the wealth through capital gains and dividend tax cuts of his contributors.
I know Caligula wanted to place his horse in the Senate - perhaps Romney will do that with his Olympic-athlete horse, Rafalca. I hear the horse has an astonishing "piaffe."
How much did you and Obama give to charity last year? Mitt gave more than you, all your friends and the entire Obama administration last year. Keep wallowing in your failure with your handout mentality and envy of success. But, please leave those of us alone that see through you.
DeleteAnonymous #1: Gosh there are a lot of anonymous people on this site.
DeleteThanks for "teaching" me, well, nothing. I've watched your antics in the last few years. You let Bush have his way and saved your vitriol for the black man. Obvious. Also obvious is "Left" is anyone who disagrees with you, and this effing blog is for anyone in the 19th ward, and everyone who lives here is, guess what?, NOT in the T-Party.
Please; educate me; give me the Tea Party jobs plan. Please. Throw me a bone. Why would anyone vote for any Tea Party candidate anywhere? Or Romney, for that matter?
By the way, thanks for reading my Lefty mind. I'm voting libertarian.
at one time if you wanted to get in the stationary engs, union it cost 2,000 dollars to get a card, paid to business agent,ask around.this is not bull shit.
ReplyDeleteplease blame all you want on the past . how far has that gotten us . vote for Obama IF you have a job. get of all the jerk water talking points. facts are this administration has no clue on how to get this country working. none. solar panels from china!!!! really ... vote with your wallets people
ReplyDeleteMPots and the new lefties wasting everyone's time on this blog remind me of an old explanation of an intellectual - "an intellectual is someone who has been educated beyond their intelligence". They really think they are on to something and know more than you. What they really have is warmed over socialist/communist anti captialist and anti-American propgaganda. They learned it from their "intellectual" professors in college. Obama got most of the wall street money last election cycle - and the banks are pushing people around more than ever -but because he and all the DemocRATS "say" they are for the little guy doesn't make it so... but keep posting here and just like the OWS looney tunes you are making no converts and are merely spinning their wheels. What you do not realize is that we have heard all the bs you are pushing our ENTIRE lives and reject it ! Sorry !
ReplyDeleteI typically say that, but my variation is different; i.e., "most people are educated beyond their intelligence."
DeleteI will very briefly point out that it is ironic you simultaneously state that we are educated beyond our intelligence---this, after we are "new left," whatever that is---then also think we think that we know more than you.
You cannot have it both ways. It is not fair to me. But, more importantly, it is not fair to you.
But I cannot help myself, one more thing: I am not trying to convert you. I am trying to inform you about who Mitt Romney really is. What really started to inspired me to write on Mitt Romney is when he was characterized as a "regular guy."
My friends, Mitt Romney is absolutely no "regular guy," and he is going to asset strip the United States---its social security institutions---to payback his wealthy donors in banking/finance. Just a warning, really.
Anonymous -- As is common with your ilk, you don't argue points, you use tired labels in place of argument. It's a waste of space.
DeleteSadly,foreign policy is lost on Americans in general and the Obamas in particular. Folks have no idea how serious the Iranian threat really is and that it is very similar to the Warsaw pact threat of a generation ago. Containment did indeed work not by policy,but by the fact that we had Nukes the Russkys could not compete with in central Europel. Saw this first hand folks,but you know our real problem may very well be that we are competing with Greece with elected ding a lings from the of well I will not mention any names. Please in November think twice.
ReplyDeleteIllinois may be lost,but the ward has hop if.......
I'll try anonymous this time
I'm sorry, but all this ranting about Obama comes down to one thing: "He's black, and he's coming for my stuff."
ReplyDelete