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Consumer confidence highest in nearly 5 years

By The Associated Press

This article was published November 1, 2012 at 9:48 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Americans’ confidence in the economy surged last month to the highest level in nearly five years, as many were encouraged by an improving job market.

The Conference Board said Thursday that its consumer confidence index increased in October to 72.2. That’s up from 70.3 in September and the highest reading since February 2008, two months into the Great Recession.

Consumers were more confident after seeing better job growth, the report noted. Hiring in July and August was stronger than first thought, and employers added a modest 114,000 jobs in September, the government reported last month.

The survey is watched closely because consumer spending drives nearly 70 percent of economic activity.

The reading is still below 90, a level that indicates a healthy economy. It last reached that level in December 2007. But the index is far above the all-time low of 25.3 touched in February 2009.

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Populist says... November 1, 2012 at 10:11 a.m.

I can't believe that the ADG is allowing good economic news to be published right before the election. The editors must have taken the morning off.

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KCSAP says... November 1, 2012 at 10:28 a.m.

Yeah right, considering consumer confidence is such great news. The soft bigotry of low expectations.

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Populist says... November 1, 2012 at 10:34 a.m.

Consumer confidence is what drives the economy. The Republicans chanting that the economy is bad for the past 4 years has not been helpful.

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Populist says... November 1, 2012 at 10:37 a.m.

It also doesn't hurt that housing prices are up, job growth is up, and manufacturing is expanding. Oh yes, the president will be reelected and has promised to avoid foreign wars and spend on education at home. The economy is starting to him, but the rightwingers are depressed because they would rather see that black dude lose.

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LevitiCuss says... November 1, 2012 at 10:48 a.m.

Damn that Obama and his Kenyan Muslim ways! How can the Republicans expect to scare the low-info FOX watchers into voting against their own when this kind of news keeps leaking out? Harumph, I say!

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Populist says... November 1, 2012 at 3:26 p.m.

The ADG is trying to keep all this good economic news low profile. They would rather we pay attention to a group of students traveling in New York. Also, there is no mention of Chris Christie praising Obama. If the ADG and Fox news were your only sources of information, you might think Obama is awful and Romney is a good guy.

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1soni says... November 1, 2012 at 3:44 p.m.

All this consumer excitement for the Romney win next week (the proceeding has been a paid political announcement)

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lazybar says... November 1, 2012 at 4:26 p.m.

obozo is still a king putt,pop you were patting him on the back for the great job he is doing for the sandy victims.what did he do for the texans when the fires were burning last year?whats he done for the farmers that have been feeding you during this record drought with high fuel prices?i know exactly what he was doing,he has campaigned for 6 years and played golf on our dime for the last 4.nothing wrong with a little r and r but when the nation is starving its not good for the big man to live high on the hog.seems like the french once had a queen do that and look what the people done to her.don`t guess that`s pc in todays world so i guess we can just kick him to the curve.

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Packman says... November 1, 2012 at 4:43 p.m.

Hey Populist - Can't believe you played the race card, but then again, I can. You are the epitome of the social divisiveness inflicted by BH Obama worshippers that have torn the country apart and will continue to kill the soul of America. BH may very well win next week. If so God help freedom loving Americans. His administrative orders will cripple small business; his environmentalist goofiness will cost taxpayers billions of dollars; his love of unions will send millions of jobs overseas; his incompetence on foreign policy will lead to numerous military conflicts; his social programs will send the federal debt into a rising spiral de-valuing the dollar as never seen before; his appointments to the federal judiciary will coddle criminals and attack the 2nd Amendment in criminal proportion; Obamacare will stunt small business growth and lead to unimagineable tax increase. If re-elected, BH Obama will foster upon America a sadness that will take genertions to overcome. As to consumer confidence, it is no accident it rises in correlation to Mitt Romney's rise in the polls.

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DontDrinkDatKoolAid says... November 1, 2012 at 4:51 p.m.

Good points 1soni and Packman.

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Populist says... November 1, 2012 at 5:54 p.m.

Ouch! The rightwingers are getting cranky, and the Romney campaign is getting desperate. Do you think that they will run ads accusing Obama and Christie of being lovers? It would explain why Christie gave such a bad speech at the convention and why he is being all lovey-dovey with Obama now. Just wondering...

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thankfulheart says... November 1, 2012 at 7:41 p.m.

Populist,
Your comment that "rightwingers are depressed because they would rather see that black dude lose" is very unfortunate and offensive. Could it not be that the rightwingers just don't agree with President Obama's policies and that it has nothing to do with the color of his skin?

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cliffcarson says... November 1, 2012 at 7:53 p.m.

I don't think so Thankfulheart.

I think those that voted for him last time are the least likely to let his skin color be an issue, would you agree with that?

I think those that carried the Watermelon signs, the stuffed Monkeys to the Tea Party rallies would be the most likely to let his skin color be an issue, would you agree with that?

And would you also agree that those who seem the most upset because the Economy is improving, those would be more likely to let his skin color be an issue, not those who support him, would you agree with that?

If you don't agree with these statements be sure and check your honesty badge. You will see that it is changing color. What is the Republican color?

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thankfulheart says... November 1, 2012 at 8:12 p.m.

Yes, Cliff. Anyone who carries a stuffed monkey or carries watermelon signs should be considered a racist. I am sure that those folks are voting against skin color, just like the folks that are voting for a skin color. The issue is with folks that label an entire political party by the actions of a few.

By the way, I am glad to see that the economy may be improving. I also like the way that President Obama has put storm victims above politics.

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cliffcarson says... November 1, 2012 at 8:30 p.m.

Thankfulheart

Would you go check out the Romney ad that claims that Chrysler is moving its Jeep line to China and that General Motors is moving 15,000 American jobs to China?

I think you will find after some checking that what Romney is saying is a lie, and that he knows that it is a lie. Both the CEO of Chrysler and the CEO of GM say they have no plans to move those jobs to China and they will remain in the United States where they are planning to expand existing facilities and they say Romney knows it.

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djigoo says... November 1, 2012 at 9:23 p.m.

Greenberg must be overdosing on Bromo-Seltzer after seeing his beloved FOXian newspaper report good news for America.

There's nothing more nauseating to today's Bagger than good news for America. Just look at Gretchen Carlson these days...she could curdle milk at 500 paces with that scowl. Not to mention Steve Douchey. Or that other guy, with the dead gaze of pure hatred and venom.

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T6 says... November 1, 2012 at 9:38 p.m.

CliffCarson....... According to the CEO of GM 7 out 10 vehicles are made outside of US, most are made in China

youtube. com/watch?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo

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BillSmith says... November 1, 2012 at 11:16 p.m.

All the right wing nuts hate the government until they or their state need it.
Romney wants to do away with FEMA and turn it over to the states or take it private. If it was in the private sector they would still be negotiating contracts.

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cliffcarson says... November 1, 2012 at 11:20 p.m.

T6

China is the worlds largest manufacturer of Automobiles. But that has noting to do with the Romney Ad. The Romney ad running now is claiming that Chrysler ( Jeep Production) and GM are planning to send future jobs to China. I believe the Jeep production is owned by Fiat of Italy, but the current Romney claim is a flat out lie according to Chrysler and GM CEO's. And they told him so before he ran it.

T6 why don't you go check out the Romney connection to Damon Corporation that was fined $119 Million for Medicare Fraud I believe in 2002. The Fraud took place from 1990 thru 1993 when Romney was a Board Member of Damon. He claimed he didn't know anything about it - but how would a Board Member of the Corporation not know?, the amount of theft of Medicare was $25 million. Romney made $473,000 off of the Fraud. Damon Corporation plead Guilty to the crime. Bain was also involved.

The problem T6 and the rest of you Republican faithful, is that Romney is as cooked as a sidewinder rattlesnake and just about as trustworthy.

Romney is not good for America. He has no moral soul.

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BillSmith says... November 1, 2012 at 11:54 p.m.

On Romney's prophet Joseph Smith.........
I knew Joseph was condemned by many non-Mormon politicians but not that, in addition to having himself crowned king, he fully expected to become president of the United States and had selected a special council of Mormons meant to replace the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government. I never heard Joseph’s modest claim that “if [non-Mormons] come on us to molest us, we will establish our religion by the sword. We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.”

Beck, Martha (2005-03-01). Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith (p. 198). Random House, Inc..

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aimee says... November 2, 2012 at 1:53 a.m.

Republicans will just deny what doesn't "fit" their world view of the U.S. falling behind... When this President makes gains, they turn their collective heads the other way and whistle Dixie..!!!
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Thank goodness we have people who don't accept party labels and will see their denial of progress for what it is...."spoilsport" ignorance...!!!

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DontDrinkDatKoolAid says... November 2, 2012 at 4:43 a.m.

Hey cliffcarson News Flash!
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media*gm*com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2012/Sep/0922_Proving_Ground.html

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T6 says... November 2, 2012 at 9:43 a.m.

Hey BillSmith.... How about we get back to reality? By all accounts Mitt Romney is an decent and honorable man. We have as President a man who WATCHED and did NOTHING as 4 of his American countryman were murdered. He had the power to intervene but didn't. He must have felt like a god having the power of life and death in his hands. Either that or he didn't have a pair between his legs. Instead of telling the truth he had a CYA moment thinking that all his comrades would cover his lie.

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ArkansasObserver says... November 2, 2012 at 10:03 a.m.

Can't speak for Consumer Confidence in general, but mine is DEFINITELY up because I am eagerly anticipating a strong ROMNEY WIN next week! Then this nightmare called Obama will be behind us. He and those cockroaches he put into cabinet positions can crawl back into the ground for the next 8 years.

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ArkansasObserver says... November 2, 2012 at 10:06 a.m.

One more thing. Those who say it will be difficult to roll back Obamacare forget that one of the real problems of Obamacare now is that the Director of HHS has a wide leeway in what is covered, and how the program will be administered. She can, and has issued a large number of waivers for labor unions and large contributors. A Romney appointee will have the same power, and I expect will use it to gut the entire program. Barney Frank recently made it clear that Obamacare is but the first step toward the single-payer (government paid) healthcare system the DC Democrats wanted all along.

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lazybar says... November 2, 2012 at 10:09 a.m.

i see none of you koolaid drinkers denie the fact that since king putt didn`t feel the need to help the farmers,texans,or any other americans in the past 4 years but has promised the sandy victims the world a week before the election was only done to buy votes.speaking of promising the sandy victims the world,how does he plan to pay for it?it is a tragic thing to lose your home and everything you own but americans have been doing that for the last four years.
i will agree to the fact i think americans are more racist than they were 4 years ago but that is not the reason the whites are not voting for him.i think we the people are more divided all the way around than we were 4 years ago,not because of his skin but because he is a moron.

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djigoo says... November 2, 2012 at 11:08 a.m.

Can anyone decipher what lazybar is going on and on about? I got nothin'.

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cliffcarson says... November 2, 2012 at 11:32 a.m.

Thank you for the reference Obamamust go

You would have done yourself a favor if you had read further into the site information.

I'm not sure what you wanted to convey by your startling revelation of NEWS FLASH
It could be you wanted to leave it out there for people to see and wonder what it is all about.
And if you had said what it was about, then those who didn't go there would not know that your reference has absolutely nothing to do with the Romney Ad and what the Ad alleges.

For those who didn't go there:

The link is to the opening of an automobile testing tract. One that will test a myriad of auto types including the GM auto produced in China. The largest investor was China. GM invested and so did India and a couple of other auto producers who plan to use the track. By the way GM has a test track here in the US to test GM American made cars.

GM has been in business in China since 1908. So Obama is not responsible for GM starting business in China. And I believe it was Nixon ( a Republican ) who really opened up modern trade with China and as to the GM auto industry in China that was also begun in China long before Obama. The construction of the test track began in 2009. The planning began about a year before. Was Obama the President in 2008? I thought it was somebody named Bush.

But to put all this in context concerning the Romney Ad.

Romney is running an ad claiming that Chrysler is PLANNING on sending more jobs to China in the FUTURE. That Chrysler is planning to send the Jeep line to China in the FUTURE.

The CEO's of those two firms say Romney is full of it. And that they told Romney before the Ad that they had no such plans. So my take on it is that on the surface Romney is lying. However I don't trust the CEO's either. One thing I'm fairly sure of is that if Obama had taken Romney's advice and let the US auto industry die, ALL US auto production would now be located in China.

China is the worlds largest producer of automobiles. They built one million GM cars there last year. The Chinese people bought 2 million GM cars there last year. You do the math.

Obamamustgo

Your hatred of Obama diminishes your ability to clearly see the picture. And for your information OMG, check out the story where ROMNEY is currently ( thats right now as you read this ) invested personally in a Company that really is shipping jobs to China as you read this.

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lazybar says... November 2, 2012 at 12:52 p.m.

goo thats because your blinded by the koolaid.you see obama on tv in nj and think he is the greatest but drive through the real america and see all of america is suffering.you see him brag about the economy but look around the real america and ask the working class if they are better off.you see great things from obozo and i see failures from obozo.not to mention there will be alot more rascist voting for him than against him.

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ArkansasObserver says... November 2, 2012 at 1:15 p.m.

Was just about to say the same thing. Racism is more of a HELP to Obama than a hindrance.

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inquire says... November 2, 2012 at 2:21 p.m.

Romney also made over $15 million from the GM bailout (the one he rants against!) by investing in Delphi Automotive, important parts supplier to GM, then refusing to supply crucial parts to GM unless they got an inflated price. He hid the profits in one of Ann's "blind" trusts instead of reporting them. (When he debated Ted Kennedy, he called blind trusts the oldest ruse in the world.) This has broken many places on the web in the last two days, including on USA Today.
Romney continues to lie about Jeep, despite being called out by the owners. He is in Ohio cynically telling a lie on purpose to try to scare Ohio workers.
Paul Ryan faked an appearance at a soup kitchen. The person in charge said he would never have let him in if he knew what he was up to. Romney faked collecting donated food to give to storm victims in the east. He actually sent people out to buy it, but it wasn't anything a person separated from their home had any way to prepare. He was thinking about his publicity, not what the people needed.
Never, in over five decades of watching politics, have I seen anyone who told this sheer volume of lies, switching positions over and over, to suit the perceived right position to get elected that day. The man has absolutely no moral center.

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T6 says... November 2, 2012 at 6:57 p.m.

Inquire. And Obama FAKED an appearance in NJ. A photo op was all it was. Then he was off for more fundraising. He won't be back unless it's expedient for him to do so. There are people who still are without food, water, electricity, who haven't had food and water for several days. Speaking of electricity. There are crews from Alabama who went all the way up there to help restore electricity and because they were not UNION they were sent away. When people find out help was sent away because they weren't union, I would imagine it won't be pretty. Hecka of a job Obama and FEMA!!!!
Anybody blind in one eye and can't see out the other can see Obama lies when the truth would be better.
BTW.... How do you know Romney and Ryan did it for publicity? Do you have a crystal ball? Or is that what your left wing sites say about Mitt? Are you just regurgitating from them? Romney is a charitable person!. You are just mad Mitt did a good deed and YOU wish Obama had beat him to the punch but he didn't. Obama doesn't have empathy for anyone. He only looks out for himself.

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RonalFos says... November 2, 2012 at 7:26 p.m.

BS, Obama visited NJ and there is plenty of evidence that he was touched by what he saw, as anyone would be. Obama has more empathy for people in trouble than Romney does by a long shot and a good part of the Republican party to boot. Too many Republicans these days are social Darwinists who believe in the survival of the fittest only - if you have bad luck or hard time, too bad for you.

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djigoo says... November 2, 2012 at 9:13 p.m.

Again...I read lazybar's posts and all I see are strings of tenuously-related words, sadly uninterrupted by helpful linguistic tools such as punctuation, capital letters, and the like.

Ergo...blah, blah, blah, blahbedy blah blah.

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inquire says... November 2, 2012 at 9:20 p.m.

T6, you sound like a nutjob. The facts are available on line about the Romney and Ryan fake appearances. I wasn't looking for anything in particular when I found them, just checking the Google news feed. You might try actually checking the news sometime instead of just following your wingnut sites. Presidents always inspect a disaster scene, then leave. They don't stay. There is nothing fake about that.
There is just over an 80% chance that the president will win reelection, and if he does, I will be so glad to have no need to visit this site and try to get the truth out any longer. With a handful of notable, intelligent, well read exceptions, I have met some of the most hateful, ignorant, despicable, insane people on here that I have encountered in sixty years of living.

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T6 says... November 2, 2012 at 11:11 p.m.

Inquire... You wouldn't know a fact if it came up a kicked you in the a## because NONE of your left wing rags (where you get your "facts" from) know what facts are either. It's been 5 years since they've reported any facts!!!!!!! That IS why NO ONE believes the media any more. I forgot you leftist idiots believe every word coming out of the ONE's mouth.
He repeats falsehoods eventho he's shown they are incorrect. That must be a trait of the left.
Inquire... You know how God hates liars. You are gonna have a lotta splainin to do come judgement day

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inquire says... November 3, 2012 at 1:51 a.m.

Romney will have a lot more, because he believes he's "lying for the Lord." You are a hateful, hateful person. And so is he, for all that lying about the Jeep plant. Just messing with people's heads as if this were a game to those people.

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inquire says... November 3, 2012 at 2:01 a.m.

New polls out after midnight. NBC News/Wall Street Journal has the president further ahead in Ohio and pulling ahead in Florida. His numbers are still rising on the Hufpo electoral map, and his numbers have increased three times today on Nate Silver.

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inquire says... November 3, 2012 at 2:50 a.m.

Why did Romney leave Bain Capital in August 2001, and why did he claim Feb. 1999 was his separation date, even though SEC documents show he was the CEO the entire time? The period of Feb. 1999 to Aug. 2001 is when Romney and Bain Capital, and their law firm MNAT, committed bankruptcy fraud in order to plunder a company they managed.
MNAT was secretly working for Bain while working on record for their creditors, and committed perjury to do so. Controlling both sides, Bain was able to loot the assets of eToys, while falsely claiming the company was broke.
When an eToys executive liquidating the assets discovered the fraud, eToys and the attorneys tried to buy him off. Instead, he reported the corruption to the Department of Justice. Bain's secret law firm admitted to lying 35 times, but the DOJ did not investigate because in August 2001, George W. Bush nominated another MNAT partner, Colm Connolly, as Delaware US Attorney. As Bain's friend, he refused to investigate or prosecute the confessed perjury and admitted intentional crimes.
Romney was head of Bain while his team committed fraud on the court, and when they were reported to the DOJ, he "retroactively retired" to try to conceal his involvement and avoid the investigation. Bush's hiring of a lawyer from Bain's secret law firm as a U.S. Attorney kept Romney from being investigated, but it does not prevent the FEC and SEC filings from showing he profited from corruption, fraud, and racketeering and head of Bain Capital.
Court documents related to this can be viewed at scribd dot com. One of them is sixty pages by a bankruptcy judge explaining that he believed Bain and their attorneys committed fraud.
T6, let's see you try to claim a web site that exists solely to store documents on line is a left wing website! I did get the link from a left wing website; that's because left wing sites usually offer documentation, you see.

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Populist says... November 3, 2012 at 8:09 a.m.

T6,

Obama faked an appearance in NJ???Really??? What did he have an artificial Chris Christie pose with him, repeatedly, in different parts of the New Jersey shore? You are losing it.

The country is going to be fine with Obama as president again. I know that you do not like him and are worried about the deficit. Obama is going to cut into the deficit in a reasonable and prudent way. We are SLOWLY pulling out of a financial crisis. We will stop spending inordinate amounts of money on foreign wars, and we will cut back on entitlements and moderately raise taxes on the most wealthy. It will be difficult. The far right and the far left will fight Obama all the way, but he will get it accomplished because the American people realize that we must cut the deficit at the same time we keep spending on the future--investment and education. Romney would have taken us down the path to ruin.

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T6 says... November 3, 2012 at 8:33 a.m.

Inquire.... Here is 13 min. of Obama LIES
youtube. com/watch?v=Nz0ZK8yMARw
Populist...... Obama wouldn't cut spending in his first 4 years and he won't cut spending in his next 4 years. He doesn't know how to cut spending he only knows how to tax and spend!!!!!! As with all DemocRats!!!!

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T6 says... November 3, 2012 at 8:49 a.m.

Inquire.... Where are the SEC filings on actions taken against Mitt IF he committed fraud??? What? There aren't any? Nothing you've posted SHOWS any actions taken against him. So all you are doing is just what the Liar in Chief and his VP is doing, throwing stuff up against the refrigerator to see if it sticks.

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T6 says... November 3, 2012 at 8:58 a.m.

I'm certain the DemocRats on here will have no problem with this statement from Harry Reid: But you went apoplectic with Mitch McConnell's statement.

Five days before the election, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out trying to work with Mitt Romney should he win next week.

"Mitt Romney's fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' agenda is laughable," Mr. Reid said in a statement on Friday, trying to puncture Mr. Romney's closing election argument that he'll be able to deliver on the bipartisanship President Obama promised in 2008 but has struggled to live up to.

Mr. Reid, a Nevada Democrat and a Mormon, like Mr. Romney, has become the Republican presidential nominee's chief critic this campaign, at one point accusing him of failing to pay taxes — a charge that Mr. Romney has refuted.
Maybe just maybe Mr. Reid won't have to worry about it if he loses his majority seat.

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Populist says... November 3, 2012 at 9:30 a.m.

T6,

There have been freezes in effect in government hiring and raises. Obama has cut back on military spending as he draws down forces. I agree that he should not have cut spending on infrastructure and education in the middle of a financial meltdown. The Democrats had agreed to other spending cuts suggested by the Simpson-Bowles Commission, but it was Paul Ryan who walked away from the table saying that it was more important that taxes for the most wealthy not increase a dime. The Democrats should have made more cuts anyway, and I expect that they will now--with or without tax increases. I expect the Republicans will lose again in the midterm elections if they expect the poor and the middle class to bear all the brunt of the financial meltdown. ...Got to run over to Virginia to campaign...

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inquire says... November 3, 2012 at 9:53 a.m.

T6, I told you where the documents are that showed they should have been investigated by the DOJ, if Bush had not put one of their law firm in at attorney general of Delaware to stop it. You obviously did not go read those documents. They leave no doubt that Bain defrauded the federal bankruptcy court while Romney was still CEO.
You refuse to accept legitimate proof of anything, while going over the edge about things you cannot prove.

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elwoody says... November 3, 2012 at 10:30 a.m.

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
--H.L. Mencken
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Bush comes to mind.

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inquire says... November 3, 2012 at 1:36 p.m.

I guess T6 is busy trying to figure out how a sixty page document filed by a bankruptcy judge, saying why he thought Bain and their attorneys defrauded the court, is a left wing lie.

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BillSmith says... November 3, 2012 at 3:54 p.m.

thankfulheart........ you mean a policy like this?
Stimulus is now a dirty word, especially among Republicans in Congress. But it wasn’t always so. In January 2008 when the economic picture was far less dire and the unemployment rate was only 4.8 percent, 165 Republicans in the House of Representatives and 33 Republican senators voted to pass a stimulus package with an estimated cost of $152 billion. That package provided tax cuts of up to $600 for individuals or $1,200 for married couples, plus an additional $300 per child. The bill also contained a number of temporary tax breaks for businesses. And just in case you thought President George W. Bush’s stimulus bill was simply a bunch of tax cuts, it also included $40 billion in direct spending. The legislation was even called the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008.

President Bush lauded the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 for providing “a booster shot for our economy … [putting] money back into the hands of American workers and businesses.” Reps. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and John Boehner (R-OH) as well as Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) all seemed to agree, as did nearly 200 other Republican members of Congress that voted in support of the bill.

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inquire says... November 3, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.

Thanks for doing the research and bringing that up. I haven't seen one Republican on here offer any explanation for their party voting against things that they voted for when Bush was in office. I haven't even seen them acknowledge it, but is is true and is verifiable. Not just on left wing websites but in the Congressional Record. Unless they are so afraid of truth that they now consider that a left wing site.

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BillSmith says... November 3, 2012 at 4:45 p.m.

A topic about less regulations to small business by Romney, he says regulations are killing small business, this article show's less or no regulation is killing people.
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Framingham, Massachusetts (CNN) -- If Sarah Sellers' warnings had been taken seriously 10 years ago, 12 people might be alive today.
Sellers, a pharmacist and expert on the sterile compounding of drugs, testified to Congress in 2003 about non-sterile conditions she'd witnessed.
"Professional standards for sterile compounding have not been consistently applied," she told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. "The absence of federal compounding regulations has created vulnerability in our gold standard system for pharmaceutical regulation."
Nearly 10 years later, there are still no federal sterility guidelines for compounding pharmacies that make and distribute drugs all over the country.
Now, 137 cases and 14 fatalities nationwide are blamed on a rare, noncontagious form of meningitis linked to contaminated steroid injections made by the Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center.
The latest death to be connected to the outbreak was that of a 70-year-old man who died in Florida in July, prior to the discovery of the contamination

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thankfulheart says... November 3, 2012 at 5:24 p.m.

It's amazing that we live in a country where we have the opportunity to vote for the candidate that best represents our views on government. Thankful to be living in the USA!

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T6 says... November 3, 2012 at 6:51 p.m.

Inquire..... Listen up lady.... I don't care what you post about what Mitt Romney has allegedly done while he wasn't at Bain. There is no way he can come remotely close to the thuggery of Chicago politics of Barack Hussein Obama. You are worried about Mitt's past but not Obama's shady past and his rise to the Presidency. IF you aren't concerned about Obama's past then I'm not concerned with Mitt's past. At this point the skeletons in Obama's closet doesn't surprise anyone he is that corrupt.

Populist... What hiring and pay freeze?
The 2.2 million federal workers still got pay raises until Jan. 2012. Many received other pay hikes, step increases, promotions in grade, bonuses, overtime and other cash payments.
If Obama had wanted to freeze pay increases he would have froze across the board pay hikes, like Ronald Reagan did. In 2012 Obama gave a 5% pay increase for government employees.
You should know the DemocRats always promise spending cuts for tax increases. It's just the spending cuts never come to fruition but the tax increases sure do.

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inquire says... November 3, 2012 at 7:17 p.m.

You don't CARE that documents exist proving Bain deliberately committed fraud in court while Romney was CEO? Please tell where to read the documents proving anything you just said about Obama, T6.
You are part of the crowd that has no explanation for why your Republican heroes voted against things during this administration that they voted for when Bush was president. You don't even acknowledge it. You don't denounce the voter registration fraud and suppression being committed by your party's hired company.
It is in the Google news feed that in Washington state, where all voting is by mail, Republicans are going door to door trying tro trick voters into giving their ballots to THEM to turn in (not!).
The Republican party is no longer morally conservative, except for saying what the church people want to hear about gay marriage and abortion, whether they mean it or not. On all other issues, they have morphed into a totally reprobate people.

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GAITOR says... November 3, 2012 at 7:31 p.m.

These surveys were conducted after the unemployment rate "decreased" to 7.8%, but before it increased to 7.9%. Consumers are just responding to the lies and distortions they hear and read published by the "in the tank for BHO" media. They were also conducted before Sandy hit the Northeast. Let's see what happens when the truth is told if ever by the "Mainlining Media".

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T6 says... November 3, 2012 at 7:52 p.m.

Inquire... Again nothing was filed against Mitt. How many investigations have been stymied or stonewalled by Obama and his DOJ..Eric Holder? Fast and Furious, BenghaziGate, the Philadelphia voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers comes to mind? You don't CARE that Obama LIES to you and the to rest of America.. Shame on you!!!!!!!!!
You don't CARE if Obama wins another term MORE of YOUR freedoms will be taken away, MORE of your money will go to taxes.
BTW Inquire since your husband is not in good health you and ALL senior citizens might want to read what's going on in Britain.
If Obama gets another term and ObamaCare isn't repealed this will be your future.
telegraph. co.uk/health/healthnews/9644287/NHS-millions-for-controversial-care-pathway.html

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T6 says... November 3, 2012 at 8:21 p.m.

On Friday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blasted the president for refusing to produce the legally required regulatory agenda - suggesting the delay is an election ploy:

"The bottom line is that President Obama knows he can't win reelection if Americans know the truth. It's bad enough that he's hiding his second term agenda - it's even worse that he's violating the law to do it. "

Sen. Inhofe recently warned that new EPA regulations pending could cost the U.S. up to 887,000 jobs a year.

Every administration is legally required to publish a report each April and October in the Federal Register to inform Congress and the public of the administration's regulatory agenda and its potential economic impact. The requirement is part of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980.

The Obama administration has missed its second straight legal deadline for disclosing its regulatory plans and their economic impact to Congress and the American public. No previous administration has ever failed to produce the report even once.

A 350,000 member trade group shares Inhofe's concern, warning of the dangers of the Obama administration's "lack of transparency" and failure to comply with a law requiring it to disclose its plans to burden them with 4,100 new regulations in the pipeline.
IF YOU WANT TO LOSE YOUR JOB!!!!!! VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA!
I'm T6 and I approve of this message!!!!!

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Populist says... November 3, 2012 at 9:41 p.m.

T6,

There has been a 2 year federal pay freeze.

If Romney has not been active in Bain, then why did he take losses as an active investor in 2010 and why can't we see his tax returns from before that? Answer: Romney is a liar and a cheat; otherwise, he would disclose his tax returns to the American people. Just a few more days of putting up with his nonsense....

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T6 says... November 3, 2012 at 10:21 p.m.

Populist.... the hiring freeze was until Jan. 2012!!!!!!!!
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Government Accountability Institute, President Peter Schweizer investigated little-known details surrounding the Obama Administration’s auto bailout, an action President Barack Obama touts as one of his most sterling presidential achievements.

The government’s actions involving Chrysler resulted in a net loss to taxpayers of $2.9 billion, and the government is currently sitting on a $14.5 billion loss for its actions involving General Motors. But Mr. Schweizer says few Americans realize the backroom deals the Administration cut that created a flood of cash for well-connected Obama cronies.

For example, the GM bailout was handled not by automotive experts but by New York investment firm Evercore Partners. The firm is headed by Obama bundler and former Assistant Treasury Secretary Roger Altman and Obama mega fundraiser Ralph Schlosstein. GM paid Evercore $46 million in advising fees and billed the car company another $17.9 million for a “success fee,” despite the fact that Evercore never found GM a purchaser or funder.
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inquire says... November 3, 2012 at 11:20 p.m.

T6, your scare tactics won't work. I'm in contact with people from the England, Ireland, and Canada who like their health care, and think it is barbaric the way care is rationed by who has the most money in the US.

The US has to get over the idea that they are right about everything, even when they're wrong. You can't have a system that cannot be misused in some way. Capitalistic for profit medicine can be pretty mercenary. When I worked in medical records at a clinic of one hundred specialists, I overheard the doctors and nurses gossiping about the monthly list ranking the doctors according to who had done the most business in terms of dollars.
My husband used to have his monthly warfarin checks done at a clinic that pushed sleep studies as a money maker. They planned to do a sleep study on my husband as soon as he got on medicare. By then we made sure he had a new primary care doctor who would do the checks, and we dropped that first doctor. He asked leading questions, trying to get my husband to say he fell asleep in the daytime. Well, of course he does. Parkinson's causes that, as do the drugs that treat it. If he needed a sleep study, his neurologist who also does sleep studies, would recommend it. This little clinic sends 80% of their patients to sleep lab, and threats 75% of those. Those are outrageous percentages. They can make a fortune off the studies and selling C-pap machines. You can't trust a doctor who tries to sell you something.
All countries ration care in some way. We are the only industrialized nation that rations it according to who has the most money. I don't approve of the doctors getting bonuses for rationing end of life care, as in the article you cited. But we do need to start asking people to seriously evaluate whether they want to spend another $200 thousand, or even more, just to live another six months, maybe while being miserable from treatment. Oncologists need to be more honest about the cost of new drugs compared to the additional life expectancy they provide. Either Time or Newsweek had an article abut this this fall, and the figures and examples they gave are sickening.
Care is already rationed every day in this country, but it is rationed by who has money. My cousin recently had a kidney transplant. She met another woman on the transplant list who dropped out and gave up her chance at a kidney. Why? She didn't have the $3,000 a month for the anti rejection drug, and no insurance that would pay it.

Our out of pocket cost for medical care and drugs was $25,000 last year and nearly $9.000 so far this year. I have worked filing insurance. I have managed a doctor's office and know how the pricing game works. Please don't think you know better than I exactly what kind of health care system would be better for us.

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NoCrossNoCrown says... November 3, 2012 at 11:31 p.m.

Can't believe that so many Christians are even considering the modern day money changer to be president. He has lies, cheated and stole his way to great wealth. It easy to do when you do it with other peoples money or with tax payer money like he has. Which is also why he can't show the people he is asking to vote for him that he has pais anywhere near his fair share of taxes. He continue to lie and make bold promises of what he could do if elected, but it is more about how much more he can siphon from the taxes he is able to avoid paying currently. Arkansas, do not be fooled by this used car salesman/con-man.
Besides, what good would it be to vote out a fox, only to vote in a wolf....in sheep clothes

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cliffcarson says... November 4, 2012 at 12:26 a.m.

Nocrossnocrown

There are those who claim to be moral while they are not. And they also want something from you, usually they want to squeeze you until they have collected your last drop of blood.

But Romney and Ryan and the Republican Party are at least honesty about how they want to get to our last drop of blood. Didn't they tell you that they want to patronize the rich on the carcases of the poor, the sick, and the elderly? Sure they did, and I can see that you have been listening.

What I don't understand are those who think that if they want your last drop of blood then that is just AOK as long as they are Republicans.

People like T6 prove it daily.

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inquire says... November 4, 2012 at 1:09 a.m.

Jim Inhofe's ranting seems to be carried by extreme right wing web sites only. The man is an oil whore. He owes his soul to big oil and puts their interests first, before the health of the people or the planet. He seriously wants to abolish the EPA. He seriously thinks global warming is a hoax. No intelligent person can take him seriously. He even wants to limit the FAA's ability to regulate pilots. Why? They made him take remedial pilot's training after he landed a plane on a runway clearly marked closed and nearly killed people.
Republicans hate regulation because it impedes the ability of their rich friends to poison us for profit.

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DontDrinkDatKoolAid says... November 4, 2012 at 1:32 a.m.

Regulations add to the cost of merchandise.

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RonalFos says... November 4, 2012 at 7:54 a.m.

So, merchandise is more important than people? You must want to move to China where industry can pretty much do as they please and people have to walk around with masks on their faces to protect themselves from the air.

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Populist says... November 4, 2012 at 9:12 a.m.

T6,

The federal pay freeze is until March 27, 2013. Obama has suggested a .5% (not five percent--but one/half or one percent pay raise) after that. The federal workers are not happy.

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cliffcarson says... November 4, 2012 at 9:41 a.m.

The problem with this election boils down to a simple fact: Obama inherited a serious economic calamity from the past Republican Administration who thought their best chance of returning to power was to stonewall any efforts Obama tried, to bring recovery, then blame Obama for the failure to recover.

They have been very successful in this ploy. Who would ever think people could be fooled so easily.

But then I got to reading some Psychology and began to understand that many people see the world as they are, not as it is. Leading to the Republican illness: It is not that the Republican Faithful don't know anything, it just that they know so many things that ain't so.

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inquire says... November 4, 2012 at 11:22 a.m.

OMG, lack of regulation causes things like several hundred cases of meningitis all over the country. Republicans think these people are just collateral damage to protect business' "right" to operate unregulated. I think it is a crime.

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T6 says... November 4, 2012 at 12:13 p.m.

NCNC..... Many of us Christians don't understand how anyone professing to be Christian could be associated with the DemocRat Party! A Christian who votes for liberals is saying that they love God but would rather follow the doctrine of Satan. Liberal Democratic policies stand in direct opposition to the Bible on virtually every point.
On Nov 7th we will see what God says! Either way my faith in my Lord will remain undaunted and everlasting.

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inquire says... November 4, 2012 at 2:07 p.m.

Christians and Democrats often disagree about some things among themselves. To become a Republican because I don't agree with everything top Democrats believe would be like burning down my house because it had chipped paint. Republicans have used gay marriage and abortion to keep uneducated church people voting for them and produced a mindset like yours T6. They have no intention of really doing anything about either one. They just say what you want to hear so you will vote for them. Romney has changed his position on these issues so many times to suit the prevailing wind that no one knows what he believes, if anything!
It was Republican supreme court justices who produced Roe vs Wade. Eight years in office and Bush made no attempt to have the court decision overturned. The Bushes, junior or senior, aren't really against abortion. Some of the most influential Republicans have always been in the Log Cabin Club, made up of rich, homosexual Republicans.
Our government is not supposed to reflect the religious beliefs of any one group of people.
I am confident that God does not approve of the way MItt made his money, by cheating other people and leaving a trail of misery in his wake. The Bible doesn't teach to promote the welfare of the rich at the expense of the poor. It doesn't teach "lying for the Lord."
I don't believe the Republicans got their widely used ideas for voter registration fraud and vote suppression from the Bible. They hit a new low everyday.
In Washington State, where all voting is by mail, Republicans have been going door to door offering to take people's ballot to the court house for them. The WA secretary of state had to issue public warnings to not believe these people.
The Bible does not teach us to hate our government as many radical right wing republicans do these days.
The attitude Romney displayed when caught on tape talking about the 47%--which includes many disable and retired people who worked and contributed all their live--is not a Biblical view.
I'm a person who is well read enough and confident enough that the ill formed opinions and pharisee like insults of people like T6 don't deter me from what I know is right.

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cliffcarson says... November 4, 2012 at 2:23 p.m.

T6

You are right in line with Americas Christian Radio. Some of their Preachers ( their claim) got together as a Panel of God's experts to decide f Democrats could enter into Heaven. They decided no.

This same bunch approved torture, mass murder (They call it defending themselves even though it was the killing of around a million people who never attacked the United States) and all along these people are calling for the invasion of Arab lands because they are mostly Muslim. They also on that Radio said that the Palestinian people out to get off God's land that was given to the Jews.

I think they believe fervently that God is on their side.

I really wonder what percent of that crowd breaks a Commandment every day.

I just posted a comment this morning that most people see the world as they are, not necessarily as it is. Just curious - how do you see the non-Conservative Christians? Or is that an oxy-moron phrase to you?

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inquire says... November 4, 2012 at 3:26 p.m.

Dictionary definitions of liberal:
"Not limited by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian views or dogmas."
"Free of bigotry."
"Favoring reform."
"Open to new ideas for progress."
"Generous."
"Having social and political views that favor progress and reform."
"Relating to an education that aims to develop cultural and intellectual abilities."
"OBSOLETE: morally unrestrained, licentious."
Need to update your language skills, T6.
So many of the things that have been done that benefit people in this country were done because the liberals took the lead, with conservatives fighting them every step of the way.
Truly immoral people are evident in both parties. Most of the high ranking Republicans that led the charge to impeach Clinton were later found to have been just as immoral, often more immoral, themselves. Serial adulterer and divorcer Gingrich is a prime example. Calista was a woman willing to have an affair with a married man. Another is Rick Santorum, whose wife had a medically necessary abortion, yet he wants take away the rights of others to make their own decisions. This wife also lived shacked up with an abortion doctor for several years.
The Obamas are quite a moral couple compared to people like that. The list of Republican transgressors is every bit as long as of Democrats. T6, spare us the Pharisee rhetoric about the morality of Republicans vs Democrats.

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RonalFos says... November 4, 2012 at 3:32 p.m.

Democrats have traditionally stood up for the downtrodden, poor and out of luck people while Republicans do their best to make sure the rich inherit everything. Now if I were trying to look at this through a religious point of view it would be easy to see which one would be more in line with the teaching of Jesus.

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GAITOR says... November 4, 2012 at 5:59 p.m.

My definition of Progressive/Liberal:
*misinformed
*emotional rather than logical
*operates on feelings rather than thought
*ends justify the means, i.e. lying is OK, if for "the cause" (evil)
*killing babies is OK, if they are not "wanted"
*4 dead Americans died needlessly in Benghazi while it was being watched live at the State Dept. (sick and evil)
*blame anyone and everyone for everthing, but he that should be
*arrogant
*ignorant to a point
*immature
*Socialistic
*in a lot of instances, Communistic
*very closed minded
*unyielding
*blind to the truth
*controls minorities by keeping them dependant on Government (evil)
*and many, many more

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cliffcarson says... November 4, 2012 at 6:36 p.m.

I think you see the world as you are Gaitor, not as it really is. You are a Republican and see all others as lesser beings.
Inquire, Populist, and many other non Republicans did you see the six o' clock news , not sure which channel? It was about a voter fraud scam. Sending out letters to - guess who - saying that the recipients right to vote has been challenged. The letter was read on TV. The News Channel found the sender of the letters. A group headed by a quite smug Tea Party woman.
The woman says she just wants to help stop voter fraud. Never forget that Tea Party is spelled R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N. Earlier in this thread and even earlier in other threads, I said all the fraudulent activity the Republican Party has been caught doing in the last several weeks looked to me like the Republican Party is planning massive vote fraud this election.
Is there anything existing that could be called a moral, honest, Republican?

I predict that suddenly there will be a "reported" shift in the polls, will be talked about all day by CNN, FOX, you know - the "Liberal" media says Republicans, and the ballot counts will back it up with fraudulent Republican voting suppression or ballot box stuffing. The exit polls will not agree with the vote counts.

I believe it's a coming. I think it is 50/50 that we will have a criminal Government on November 5th.

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Populist says... November 4, 2012 at 7:12 p.m.

Cliff,

I think both parties cheat, but I believe the Republicans have been doing more nationally in recent years. I say this as somebody who has studied this issue on both sides and in different states. Election fraud is a serious crime which we need to eradicate.

I do believe that Obama will win on Tueday anyway. I believe that JFK won over Nixon because of fraud in Illinois and that Gore beat W. in Florida. I am very concerned about election fraud but I also am concerned about the environment, education in America, poverty, and the Iranians possessing the nuclear bomb. We've got many issues. While I believe that the Republicans are cheating more than the Democrats, I think that Obama will win anyway. Even if Romney wins, we must stay strong and keep working toward a better America.

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inquire says... November 4, 2012 at 7:19 p.m.

Gaitor, I notice you can't quote a dictionary. Democrats deal mostly in facts. Republicans deal mostly in whatever hateful invective enters their minds and spews out their mouths. Modern Republicans are a disgrace to the party of Lincoln.
Yes, Cliff, I saw the news report you mentioned. I had already read about that very same woman who got the letter, in The Atlantic, and have read some really bad, incriminating things about the organization True the Vote.
I have hope that the amount of scrutiny their illegal activities have received prior to the election this time will be sufficient to keep them from stealing a third election. The courts and the citizens have watched them closer than before, and caught them red handed as never before.
The more they claim they are God's Own Party, the more evil their actions become. Pure "doublespeak" of 1984 come to life.

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T6 says... November 4, 2012 at 10:17 p.m.

Whoo doggie... I must have struck a nerve with you "feel good" Christians!!!!!!!
Cliff...... You might be surprised by my opinion of some the TV Pastors! Probably wouldn't be what you think!

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Armed Forces Ballots Mailed From Afghanistan Are - 'Lost'
Tracking information shows their ballots are still in Bahrain, and have been sitting there since Sept. 30.

Once again, the votes of our best and brightest are suppressed, while the Obama administration tacitly encourages illegal immigrants, felons and the dead to vote Democrat.

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cliffcarson says... November 4, 2012 at 11:10 p.m.

My Great Uncle who in his time was a locally well known bootlegger told me one time as were sharing some of his latest run that people like him and his customers (included the best Christians ) would always band together when it came time to vote in wet /dry elections.
He would vote wet for his income and they would vote wet for their pleasures but in public they would decry any bootlegger especially if the preacher was in the audience.
He was a Republican, at least that is what he told me. He said that they would vote dry and that was good for his business.

But in one of those wet dry elections in our township there were 112 registered voters. The vote count was 117 Dry and 114 wet. The graveyards voted more than once.

One thing is for sure. The dead, Republican or Democrat, never complained about the vote out come.

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aimee says... November 5, 2012 at 1:38 a.m.

Gaitor:
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"*blind to the truth"
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HAH..!!!!!

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Populist says... November 5, 2012 at 7:04 a.m.

The Republicans favorite way to cheat is to have long voting lines in Democratic areas. Bomb threats, insufficient voting equipment, broken voting equipment....everything they can do to decrease the number of democratic votes. The Obama turn out the vote effort is pretty impressive. Obama volunteers are knocking on the doors of Democrats who do not always vote, and we remind them to vote. If they are not home, we leave a door hanger with their polling location and where to call for a ride. This is what is going on in Virginia, and I assume that this is going on big time in Ohio and other swing states. It's a very impressive ground game operation.

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inquire says... November 5, 2012 at 8:17 a.m.

T6, you should have read in the news that the Republican funded Sproul firm registered quite a number of dead people to vote in Florida. You really are going to have to acknowledge eventually that this is going on. I know there has been Democratic fraud, but it was largely in another era, and more local. The modern Republican party seems to thrive on it as part of their official national strategy, actually hiring a large firm to do it for them. To top it off, the candidate's family buys huge interest in the voting machine company whose machines have been proven to be easy to manipulate.
I agree, Populist, after reading the history as an adult, that JFK's father may have bought the election for him. I truly wish that it were not so.

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T6 says... November 5, 2012 at 8:19 a.m.

Populist..... Of course you have sources for those accusations?
And when you were going door to door were you able to keep your bias to yourself?
I'm sure you got SOME subtle digs in against the R's

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T6 says... November 5, 2012 at 8:46 a.m.

Hey Inquire..... Yeah sure, it's the Republicans who rigged the voting machines in six states so far , Ohio, Nevada, Kansas, North Carolina, Missouri and Colorado so that when one votes for Romney it cast a vote for Obama.
How about the NC Democrat who voted 4 times and planned to vote again, wonder how many have done that?
There's the NAACP, the UN, the AFL-CIO, and DOJ Eric Holder deploying 780 Agents to monitor voting places, yes I'm sure the Republicans will cheat(sarc). Looks like the Left is making sure Obama is going to win.

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inquire says... November 5, 2012 at 9:01 a.m.

T6, why us it that you see every instance of Democratic wrongdoing, yet are totally oblivious of, maybe supportive of, the far more prevalent and organized wrongdoing of Republicans? It is the Republicans who have hired a Sproul firm three elections is a row to commit voter registration fraud all over the country. It is the Republicans who had their president's top aide, Karl Rove, say "if you can't beat them, keep them from voting."
It is Republicans, including their current candidate, who own the companies that make the voting machines that have been proven to be easy to manipulate.
The modern Republican party has begun each of the last three elections seasons by paying for an orchestrated, nation wide attempt, to commit fraud. I'll say this, they don't monkey around with a little maverick cheating here and there, they hire a corporation to do it for them and really cheat large.

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GAITOR says... November 5, 2012 at 10:14 a.m.

Cliffie: You must be the most dense person on the face of the earth. How many times do I have to tell all that I am not a Rebuplican. I am a staunch conservative independent that does not vote party, but the person and their policies.
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I must have struck a nerve for you and Inquire. Does the truth hurt?
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Inquire: Have you ever stopped to think what a dictionary really is? A dictionary is realy no more than the published opinions of the author. Thereforre, my definition of Progressive/Liberal stands as what it is, my definition and is a lot closer to reality than the dictionary you have cut and pasted from. BTW, I apologize for asking a question I knew the answer to. I know you have never had an original thought, ever.
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Aimee: So, I guess the other descriptive phrases were on track, correct?
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ONE MORE DAY!! :-))

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inquire says... November 5, 2012 at 10:44 a.m.

Dictionaries are generally written by a group of lexicographers, not one person.

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GAITOR says... November 5, 2012 at 12:15 p.m.

Inquire: So, all I have to do is find a few like-minded thinkers to agree with my thoughts and I have a abonafied definition that you will agree is official? I'm sure I can do that very easily, because real truth is universal.

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inquire says... November 5, 2012 at 1:23 p.m.

Let us know when you become a good enough lexicographer that you have a contract from a major publishing house, Gaitor.

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GAITOR says... November 5, 2012 at 1:26 p.m.

So, you would accept my definition then?

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inquire says... November 5, 2012 at 2:04 p.m.

NO.

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Populist says... November 5, 2012 at 2:29 p.m.

T6,

I've worked in ballot security on a few campaigns. I take an interest in the various methods by which people cheat. I've encountered some cheating firsthand and read about other cases in the newspapers. Yes, I do think that one method used by Democrats in Arkansas was copied by the Republicans in Florida during Bush v. Gore election. it is one of the most common methods and the hardest to prove an actual intent to cheat. You have people on the election commission put broken machines or not enough machines in areas where your opponent is the strongest. Long lines cause people not to vote and changes the outcome of the election. Long lines may result from unintentional errors or bad machines etc; sometimes they are deliberate attempts to change the outcome of the elections.

I did not knock on any Republican doors--just Democratic ones and reminded people to vote. I am doing the same thing again tomorrow.

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T6 says... November 5, 2012 at 4:40 p.m.

With the lack of jobs in the US you would think Hillary and Obama would be concerned with creating jobs here!
The U.S. is spending $900,000 to help women start businesses and create jobs--in Peru and El Salvador.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the new Women's Entrepreneurship Trust Fund last month on visit to the Peruvian capital of Lima.

The United States is making an initial contribution of $900,000 to launch pilot programs here in Peru and in El Salvador,” Clinton said on October 16.

“But we need more partners and more contributors to the trust fund, so I’d like to invite other governments and businesses to contribute.”

The money, according to Clinton, will be used to train rural women in Peru and in El Salvador for jobs as entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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RonalFos says... November 5, 2012 at 5:07 p.m.

Clinton said the U.S. and Peru were working together as partners to support women in rural areas who “are replacing thousands of hectares of illegal coca fields with profitable crops, like chocolate and coffee and palm oil.” Sounds like a worthwhile program to help reduce illegal drugs. This approach may work better at reducing drug use than spending billions putting people in jail for using cocaine.

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GAITOR says... November 5, 2012 at 5:55 p.m.

Inquire: Let me understand this. You believe anything that is written in a dictionary is the absolutely correct definition of any word, simply becuase a group of writers wrote it and a publisher printed it. However, if a definition were not what you wanted it to be you would not believe it to be the absolete truth, simply because you did not agree with it.
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Terribly predictable, because Inquire = Hypocrit, just as are all Progressive/Libs.

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T6 says... November 5, 2012 at 6:22 p.m.

RonalFos..... The same could be said right here in the good ole USofA. JOBS could keep people off drugs. HERE!
Jobs as entrepreneurs and small business owners, THERE!!!!!!! WHY NOT HERE?

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T6 says... November 5, 2012 at 6:31 p.m.

Philly Activist Group Shreds GOP Voter Registrations. The Community Voters Project is a "non-partisan" lefty organization whose mission is to register people to vote. Outside a CVP office in Philadelphia, they shredded and threw away numerous registration forms. A number of these were for people trying to register as a Republican.

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T6 says... November 5, 2012 at 6:46 p.m.

OOPS!!!!! Looks like NBC got ahead of themselves! NBC apparently published a test-page for Tuesday’s election results by accident, calling the election for President Barack Obama, Politico’s Dylan Byers reports.

While the “Presidential results” show GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney winning the popular vote 55-43 percent, the chart shows President Obama winning the election with 280 electoral votes to Romney’s 257

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Populist says... November 5, 2012 at 7:55 p.m.

I hope it's not a case of Dewey wins! Romney may win Florida and Virginia and then it may be up to Ohio.

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djigoo says... November 5, 2012 at 8:21 p.m.

No worries. Virtually all polls are skewing toward Obama.

Thank God.

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inquire says... November 5, 2012 at 8:27 p.m.

Gaitor, you are a unique individual. I've never encountered anyone else who wanted to argue the veracity of the dictionary. I said I wouldn't believe yours because you were just going to make it up to suit your personal view of the world. Give it a rest.

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Populist says... November 5, 2012 at 8:52 p.m.

T6,

Yes, jobs do keep people off drugs. To be an entrepreneur, you need people to have money to spend to buy what you have. In eastern Arkansas, people don't have money to spend so nobody is going to open up a business. You can turn an area like that around by investing in education. If enough people in eastern Arkansas have computer or medical skills, they have money in their pockets to burn and can go eat in restaurants and pay people to work on their homes. Next thing you know, there is a cooking school in town, a new hotel, and a restaurant with blues music. You get state or federal money to put in a bike path next to the Mississippi River and then you have bicyclists from all over the country coming to bike and spend money. Then you can have an entrepreneur selling to the tourists or selling to the medical or computer people with money. We need better education.

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GAITOR says... November 5, 2012 at 9:01 p.m.

Inquire: I've gone through this exercise to prove a point and with your help, I was able to do just that. I've exposed the Progressive/Lib mindset for what it is, pure hypocracy.
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Thank you for playing along.
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Just 3 more hours Central Time until election day 2012 and Romney's victory, but most importantly BHO's ousting.

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djigoo says... November 5, 2012 at 11:15 p.m.

Oh, this is gonna be fun...

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T6 says... November 6, 2012 at 7:02 a.m.

The Philadelphia GOP is reporting that court appointed Minority (read GOP) Inspectors are being thrown out of polling locations in several Wards.
Reports on the ground indicate the Black Panthers are at polling locations.

These Inspectors are election officials – again, court appointed — and are reportedly being thrown out by the Head Judges of Elections (these Judges are elected Democrats) .

This has happened at the following locations:

Ward 32, Div 13
Ward 43, Div 14
Ward 56, Div 1
Ward 56, Div 22
Ward 32, Div 28
Ward 32, Div 28
Ward 12, Div 17
Ward 39, Div 1
Ward 24, Div 9
Ward 18, Div 25
Ward 43, Div 14
Ward 29, Div 18
Ward 65, Div 19
Ward 20, Div 1
Ward 6, Div 11

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RonalFos says... November 6, 2012 at 7:39 a.m.

What is your source for your accusations above? I've checked about 8 news sites including Philadelphia newspapers and FoxNews and this is no where to be seen.

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inquire says... November 6, 2012 at 11:11 p.m.

Just 75 more days, Gaitor, T6, the name changer, and others who have been so hateful to me during this season. It's wonderful to no longer have to care what you think.

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aimee says... November 7, 2012 at 2:16 a.m.

Don't worry, T6 is just "loose" with his facts like Romney WAS... No need to "fact check" what is just a figment of his imagination...
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74 more days to President Obama's second term..!!!

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Populist says... November 7, 2012 at 2:24 p.m.

RonalFos,

I looked for it also and didn't find it. Could you believe that T6 would make something up? Shocking!

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cliffcarson says... November 7, 2012 at 5:07 p.m.

There is trouble in Paradise. As I usually do, this afternoon I spent some time on America's Christian Radio. The tirade that their commentator spewed out on Obama would make a sailor blush. There are 180+ of these stations around the United States. They are a Front Group for the Republican Party, funded and guided out of another Republican Group - ALEC. This country won't be safe for normal people until we see a fundamental behavioral change in the hatred of the Rank and File Republicans. We need to keep a diary on the Republican elected because they have started their hate campaign today against the non-Republicans of America.

We need to be vigilant, they will be back in 2014 like a locust swarm.

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aimee says... November 7, 2012 at 5:50 p.m.

Republicans are really facing a dilemma..!!! They KNOW that they need to attract more non-male-white-straight voters but they have this large element of their BASE that is anti-woman, racist, and homophobic.. What to do..????
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Do they alienate this base and lose more and more elections or do they "humor" them and lose more and more elections..??? What will they EVER do..???

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Populist says... November 7, 2012 at 6:51 p.m.

Aimee,

It is difficult to reason with some of the far right. The Republican Party probably will fade and be replaced with a more moderate party. They will hang on in Arkansas and the deep south for a while. I listened to Glenn Beck for five minutes today; he was talking like a madman.

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djigoo says... November 7, 2012 at 9:03 p.m.

Whaddya mean, "LIKE a madman?" Glenn Beck IS a madman. I mean, look at his fan base! Like attracts like.

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BillSmith says... November 7, 2012 at 11:24 p.m.

“Take My Country Back” is the Tea Party and right wing slogan. Take it back to where, I ask.
They say take it back to what the founding fathers envisioned. We are losing our freedom and liberties; I say what liberties have you lost?
Let’s look a little closer at where they want to take this country back to:
Remember we are talking about losing our freedom and liberties, below was the status of freedom and liberties of certain groups of people at different time in history.
The Constitution of the United States was drafted in 1787, and included several provisions regarding slavery. Section 9 of Article I allowed the continued "importation" of slaves. By prohibiting changes for two decades to regulation of the slave trade, Article V effectively protected the trade until 1808, giving the States then existing 20 years to resolve this issue. During that time, planters in states of the Lower South imported tens of thousands of slaves, more than during any previous two decades in colonial/US history.[28]
As further protection for slavery, the delegates approved Section 2 of Article IV, which prohibited citizens from providing assistance to escaping slaves and required the return of chattel property to owners.
In a section negotiated by James Madison of Virginia, Section 2 of Article I designated "other persons" (slaves) to be added to the total of the state's free population, at the rate of three-fifths of their total number, to establish the state's official population for the purposes of apportionment of Congressional representation and federal taxation.[29] This increased the power of southern states in Congress for decades, affecting national policies and legislation. They were represented primarily by men of their planter elite, who also dominated the presidency for nearly 50 years.
The Virginia Slave codes of 1705 further defined as slaves those people imported from nations that were not Christian, as well as Native Americans who were sold to colonists by other Native Americans. This established the basis for the legal enslavement of any non-Christian foreigner.
1790-When the Constitution was written, only white male property owners (about 10 to 16 percent of the nation's population) had the vote.

1855-Connecticut adopts the nation's first literacy test for voting. Massachusetts follows suit in 1857. The tests were implemented to discriminate against Irish-Catholic immigrants.

1890-Mississippi adopts a literacy test to keep African Americans from voting. Numerous other states—not just in the south—also establish literacy tests. However, the tests also exclude many whites from voting.

I’ll bet you thought that voter suppression was something new, like cutting early voting days in Ohio and Florida. Give me one valid reason for cutting early voting days other than trying to suppress the vote of a certain electorate. I ask, how many of you want to go back to the above?

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Populist says... November 8, 2012 at 9:32 a.m.

Dijgoo,

Of course, Beck and Limbaugh are deranged. It is disturbing that so many people believe what they say. Fortunately, Obama was reelected, and there is a great push toward cooperation. Any politician, left or right, who fails to start cooperating in dealing with the deficit needs to get axed.

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T6 says... November 8, 2012 at 2:50 p.m.

This is why you Obamanoids know nothing. Your dear leader treats you like mushrooms.

Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf last week, CNN has learned.

The incident raises fresh concerns within the Obama administration about Iranian military aggression in crucial Gulf oil shipping lanes.

The drone was in international airspace east of Kuwait, U.S. officials said, adding it was engaged in routine maritime surveillance.

The Obama administration did not disclose the incident, which occurred just days before the presidential election on November 1, but three senior officials confirmed the details to CNN.

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GAITOR says... November 8, 2012 at 3:28 p.m.

Populist: You better be careful of what you wish for. BHO has a history of being very close minded on most issues, especially economic. Would you say "any politician, left or right, who fails to start cooperating in dealing with the deficit needs to get axed" appiles even if BHO doesn't cooperate? Or does your definition of cooperate only mean agree with BHO?

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T6 says... November 8, 2012 at 5:25 p.m.

Hey Populist.... There's something definitely wrong with our education system!!!!
Oh my Lord don't know whether to laugh or cry on this one. But We are doomed as a nation when idiots like this vote...
youtube. com/watch?v=xhblsFPVRys

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Populist says... November 8, 2012 at 7:52 p.m.

Gaitor and T6,

You should read the emails going up and down the blue states. Some of the people in the blue states seriously would like the United States to split between the blue and the red. The red votes for the robber barons and complain about high taxes when it is the professionals in the blue states paying most of the taxes. The blue states simply are subsidizing the red states, and the red states are complaining about it. The economy does not come to a standstill when people invest in good schools. It is a little much to take when the rednecks are complaining that the educated people in the blue states are working hard and sending them money, and then the hillbillies complain that the people in blue states are ignorant and we are going to all become communists. Some of us don't mind high taxes in return for great schools and low crime. It is horrifying reading the ADG and the crime wave across Little Rock. If the schools were decent, there would not be so much crime.

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djigoo says... November 8, 2012 at 8:04 p.m.

Screw it. I'd LOVE it if the Red States seceded. We'd finally have a country where the typical family tree ISN'T a wreath that meets up with itself before too long.

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GAITOR says... November 9, 2012 at 9:21 a.m.

Populist: I responed to your earlier post with thoughtful and reasonable question. Are you gnoring my question or do you not have an answer?

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T6 says... November 10, 2012 at 8:43 a.m.

Hey how about all those companies laying off and closing? I hope all those getting the axe voted for Obama. Elections have consequences...... You were warned about ObamaCare!!!!

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T6 says... November 10, 2012 at 8:43 a.m.

Hey how about all those companies closing and laying off because of ObamaCare? Whew!!!!! Good thing Obama was reelected. Hope all those people receiving pink slips voted for Obama!!
And look 1 in 5 Americans are now on Food Stamps 70.4 MILLION PEOPLE

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Populist says... November 10, 2012 at 1:29 p.m.

Sorry gaitor I've been busy. Yes, Obama and the democrats need to make cuts and cooperate. If the Dems and the republicans don't make some progress, we will have to elect an Angus king or Michael Bloomberg next time for president.

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Packman says... November 10, 2012 at 3 p.m.

Hey Populist - You preach the importance of education, and I agree, but you do so ignoring the elephant in the room while spewing typical liberal talking points about spending (more, more, more). Liberal policies have created a large and growing population of people who believe more in government than themselves. Everyone agrees the single most important factor to a child's success in the classroom is parental support. In a culture/home where receipt of a government check is more important than receipt of a quailty education the check will always have emphasis. Taxpayers only owe our young people an opportunity to excel with outcomes predicated on individual performance. As to high school dropouts and minimal performers, that's not problem. These kids will be bus boys, ditch diggers, valets, yard workers, and work at other jobs that may be menial but nevertheless necessary in society. Public education in America is NOT about outcomes. It's about opportunity. But if it makes you feel better to say otherwise, knock yourself out.

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Populist says... November 11, 2012 at 7:13 a.m.

Packman,

I've often posted that I am against unlimited welfare which creates cycles of poverty. I believe in workfare not welfare.

In parts of the country where education levels are high, the demand for unskilled labor is higher and they are able to live well. In places where the levels of education are low, there are not enough highly skilled, highly paid workers who can afford to pay for cooks, babysitters, and landscapers to give the unskilled full employment.

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GAITOR says... November 11, 2012 at 7:42 a.m.

Populist: I have to admit I am shocked that your definition of cooperation is not the typical and hypocritical (must agree with BHO) defnition most closed minded Progressive/Libs adhere to.

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Populist says... November 11, 2012 at 8:46 a.m.

I have been described as a hodge lodge of conservative and liberal views. When I was a Republican, I was one of the most liberal members. At Democratic gatherings, I am one of the more conservative except when it comes to education spending. I will be writing my representatives and ask for moderate spending cuts. I am a pragmatist and populist, not really a liberal. I believe in enabling people to achieve--not giving them handouts.

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T6 says... November 11, 2012 at 3:31 p.m.

TO OUR VETERANS!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND YOUR SACRIFICE!!!!!!

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BillSmith says... November 11, 2012 at 6:33 p.m.

To all young people, look what one young girl has done.
www(dot)cnn(dot)com/2012/11/09/opinion/brown-pakistan-malala/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

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cliffcarson says... November 11, 2012 at 9:42 p.m.

My father was injured in WWII. He went to war before I started 2nd Grade and he got out of the Hospital a year after I graduated from High School. Every Uncle I had served in Europe and about half of them got injured , but none killed. Also had an Aunt that was a Pilot and an Aunt who was a Medic.

My Mother and Grandmother raised me, my three brothers, Three girl cousins our age, and two boy cousins our age.

Before I was a Teen my brother and I used to play Taps at Military Funerals.

Veterans had a hard time after the war but they were our greatest generation.

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