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News & ArtsSaturday, October 6, 2012
2012 Why Obama Now
Posted by Dan Savage on Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:09 AM
The Obama campaign raised $181 million in September. Getting this video into regular rotation on television—a video created by an animator for The Simpsons and Family Guy—might be a good use of some of that money.
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Jeesus fucking christ... Liberals just do not fucking get it.
The reason the conservatives want to continue trickle down economics is because it DID work: For them.
The ad says it itself: The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class disappears.
Well, shit. Who do you think the conservatives are? They're the 1% of the 1%. The ultra wealthy. Of course they want trickle down economics. That's what makes them wealthy. Supply side economics is fantastic for the supply side.
Liberals keep trying to appeal to the conservatives hearts, "But, but, but... the poor are suffering!" You guys don't get it - conservatives don't HAVE hearts, they have bank accounts. You're not speaking their language. You're wasting your time.
The reason the conservatives want to continue trickle down economics is because it DID work: For them.
The ad says it itself: The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class disappears.
Well, shit. Who do you think the conservatives are? They're the 1% of the 1%. The ultra wealthy. Of course they want trickle down economics. That's what makes them wealthy. Supply side economics is fantastic for the supply side.
Liberals keep trying to appeal to the conservatives hearts, "But, but, but... the poor are suffering!" You guys don't get it - conservatives don't HAVE hearts, they have bank accounts. You're not speaking their language. You're wasting your time.
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One thing I'd like to add. This argument has been going on for far longer than our republic. It was the argument Julius Caesar had with the senate. When we allow the wealthiest to avoid bearing the burden that we all share, we all go down. Over and over, history repeats.
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Not all supply-side supporters are top tier, Urgutha. In fact, I'd be curious to know what percentage of the 1% actually live in red states. The votes of the 1% don't determine elections, but their money, spent to sway the electorate of lesser means certainly does.
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What #2 said.
But also what #3 said: that wasn't too long for his opening statement on Tuesday - and it would have framed the debate. Letting Romney get away with lying his ass off by pretending he wants to be the next Bill Clinton when he clearly wants to be the next George W Bush was a disastrous failure.
But also what #3 said: that wasn't too long for his opening statement on Tuesday - and it would have framed the debate. Letting Romney get away with lying his ass off by pretending he wants to be the next Bill Clinton when he clearly wants to be the next George W Bush was a disastrous failure.
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Is it too much to ask that someone should have spell-checked that sucker first. "CORPOPATE PROFITS"?? "INSURENCE"??
Still, it's a good commercial.
Still, it's a good commercial.
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The problem with a prosperity that is dependent on a growing middle class or growing anything else is that eventually things have to stabilize.
(sigh) Why couldn't Obama have been this cohesive at the debate?
(sigh) Why couldn't Obama have been this cohesive at the debate?
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@9 -- I thought the graph title misspellings might have been inherited from cited sources, but not the case - even though one of the sources is crawling with spelling errors (e.g. COMERCIAL).
In my experience, the larger the graphic, the more likely it escapes spellcheck.
In my experience, the larger the graphic, the more likely it escapes spellcheck.
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Or he could have just said that shit for free during the debate. I am starting to agree with the conservatives that Obama can't think without a teleprompter.
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Obama's plan is hardly different than Romney's. Both parties have nearly identical policies about military, corporate welfare, and constitutional rights. They only differ on social issues. Under Obama's administration taxes are lower than they have been since Reagan, essentially making Obama Republican. The idea that Obama is a socialist is a stupid joke. It doesn't matter who you vote for.
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@14, some of that is true, but your last statement doesn't follow. The next president will, for instance, be nominating some Supreme Court justices and a lot of federal justices. Obama would certainly have different criteria for that. Obama may be like an old-school Republican in some ways, but I'd rather have an old-school Republican than the new far-right nutjobs the current party puts forth any day.
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@4: Maybe the pundits and many of the GOP politicians and funders are part of that group you're talking about. But Romney is not polling at 47% on the basis of just the top 1% or even top 20%, even if you take into account that they're more likely to turn out to vote.
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If Romney gets his hands on the SCOTUS, then we are fucked for the rest of our lifetimes. That should be reason enough to send people screaming to the voting booths to vote for Obama.
And any homos out there (myself included) who vote for what they believe to be their fiscal interests over this deserve the fucking without having been first kissed that is coming their way.
Get your friends and family out to vote. Drive people to the polls. Have pizzas delivered to people standing in line. We have to take our country back from these Tea Party Lunatics.
And any homos out there (myself included) who vote for what they believe to be their fiscal interests over this deserve the fucking without having been first kissed that is coming their way.
Get your friends and family out to vote. Drive people to the polls. Have pizzas delivered to people standing in line. We have to take our country back from these Tea Party Lunatics.
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Obama would certainly have different criteria for that.
Obama has been prosecuting more government whistle-blowers than all other Presidents combined, raiding more medical marijuana dispensaries than Bush, deporting more immigrants than Bush, killing and indefinitely imprisoning terror suspects without trials and arguing before the Supreme Court that people who get tickets on their bicycles need to be strip searched.
I don't think his criteria will be all that different.
Obama has been prosecuting more government whistle-blowers than all other Presidents combined, raiding more medical marijuana dispensaries than Bush, deporting more immigrants than Bush, killing and indefinitely imprisoning terror suspects without trials and arguing before the Supreme Court that people who get tickets on their bicycles need to be strip searched.
I don't think his criteria will be all that different.
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I found the "inclusion" of Native Americans at the end to be offensive. As if they were the beneficiaries of "American progrss" rather than its victims.
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Dan, I love ya. Your sex and relationship advice is dead on - practical and inventive. But no matter how many times you tell me to vote for Obama, I will not. Can you cut some of the propaganda at least?
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They are not trying to change the minds of the 1 percent - they are trying to persuade the 5 percent in the middle, the undecided, to understand their side of the argument in hopes that they will see why it is important.
And, they drag the social issues out of the proverbial closet to make sure the 20 percent of their base who ONLY care about those issues, and make sure they vote. Without them, they would lose every time. When they did have control of both houses and the Presidency for 2 years, they did not introduce one law to challenge Roe v Wade -
"They" - the 1 percent of the 1 percent - do not care a wit about abortion or gay or women's right or the drug war ----- they care about getting their representatives elected so they can get laws passed that protect their flabbergastingly enormous wealth, and increase their profits even more by funneling the "wealth" of the middle class up stream to them.
And they can't do it without the religious right and the Tea Party.
Those conservative voters are the way they make it possible to become the 1 percent of the 1 percent.
They don't know it, but they are simply pawns.
And if they don't believe in slave-labor to increase the profit, why do they seek out places that allow it to have their products made? Care about "the great unwashed" ... really?
And, they drag the social issues out of the proverbial closet to make sure the 20 percent of their base who ONLY care about those issues, and make sure they vote. Without them, they would lose every time. When they did have control of both houses and the Presidency for 2 years, they did not introduce one law to challenge Roe v Wade -
"They" - the 1 percent of the 1 percent - do not care a wit about abortion or gay or women's right or the drug war ----- they care about getting their representatives elected so they can get laws passed that protect their flabbergastingly enormous wealth, and increase their profits even more by funneling the "wealth" of the middle class up stream to them.
And they can't do it without the religious right and the Tea Party.
Those conservative voters are the way they make it possible to become the 1 percent of the 1 percent.
They don't know it, but they are simply pawns.
And if they don't believe in slave-labor to increase the profit, why do they seek out places that allow it to have their products made? Care about "the great unwashed" ... really?
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Wow. Every once and a while Obama sounds like a candidate I could vote for. Then he assassinates another U.S. citizen, expands his warrantless surveillance program, or puts SS and Medicare on the chopping board. That's when I remember: talk is cheap.
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@22 - then stay home, you useless, small-minded, myopic little bitch.
@18 - oh yes, Sotyomayor and Kagan, they're just Scalia and Kennedy with better haircuts.
Who grows whores as stupid as you people?
@18 - oh yes, Sotyomayor and Kagan, they're just Scalia and Kennedy with better haircuts.
Who grows whores as stupid as you people?
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I will vote with the most successful entrepreneurial businessmen in not only the country, but in the world -
Bill Gates, Jim Senegal ... and if he was still here, I'm sure Steve Jobs would have doubled-down on Obama over Romney ... and, oh - ya! The most successful investor in the history of the stock market ... Warren Buffet - - - just sayin'
Bill Gates, Jim Senegal ... and if he was still here, I'm sure Steve Jobs would have doubled-down on Obama over Romney ... and, oh - ya! The most successful investor in the history of the stock market ... Warren Buffet - - - just sayin'
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@14: Obama could hardly get health care reform through Congress (in spite of the fact that he was directly pandering to the way the Republicans wanted health care reform done), and you think that he could raise tax rates?
Tax *rates* may not have changed, but he's been doing a boatload of work closing tax *loopholes* this year, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in new revenue. And that's *all* coming from those wealthy enough to offshore their money.
Tax *rates* may not have changed, but he's been doing a boatload of work closing tax *loopholes* this year, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in new revenue. And that's *all* coming from those wealthy enough to offshore their money.
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