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Random Obama Whoring TWO: Re-Elected
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11/12/12 11:24 AM
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Since Election '12 is now history (thank the gods), I figure its time to revive that old thread with a new sequel thread. Jon Huntsman recently was named as a possible alternate candidate to John Kerry for Secretary of State. NPR says that Erskine Bowles (who co-chaired up the president's debt reduction commission) is a candidate to replace Geithner at Treasury. But "a more likely choice might be Jack Lew, the current White House chief of staff and formerly the president's budget director." http://www.npr.org/2012/11/12/164934...surys-geithner EDIT - and Rasmussen has the President at his highest approval rating since July '09 w/ 54%. (Knowing their recent math troubles, should we assume it's actually 56%?)
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Re: Random Obama Whoring TWO: Re-Elected
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This column was written back in October, about the President's two (obscure) successes. raising the mileage standards for American-made car and truck fleets from 27.5 miles per gallon to 54.5 m.p.g. between now and 2025 — is already spurring a wave of innovation in auto materials, engines and software. So, Race to the Top said to all 50 states, we have a $4.35 billion fund that Washington will invest in the states that come up with the best four-year education reform plans that have these components: 1) systems for data-gathering on student performance, dropout rates, graduation rates and post-graduation college and vocational school success, so schools are held accountable for what happens to their students; 2) systems for teacher and principal evaluation and support, as well as systems to reward great teachers, learn from their best practices and move out those at the bottom — essentially systems that help elevate teaching into an attractive profession; 3) systems that propose turning around failing schools by changing the management and culture; 4) systems that set college- and career-ready, internationally benchmarked standards for reading and math.
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Re: Random Obama Whoring TWO: Re-Elected
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"Santorum?" Are you allowed to use that kind of language on these boards? That's hilarious to the few that get it. To those that don't, don't ask.  I heard of that when a while back and it was a huge joke in various circles. BUT I would not have known hadn't I looked it up.  TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
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Re: Random Obama Whoring TWO: Re-Elected
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11/14/12 04:04 PM
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Report: Obama Signed Secret Cyberwar Directive In October Less than a month before Election Day, President Obama signed a secret directive that clarifies what types of actions the military is allowed to take to protect the nation from cyber threats, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Called “Presidential Policy Directive 20,” the directive is an update to a 2004 directive issued by then President Bush. The new version “explicitly makes a distinction between network defense and cyber operations,” that is, attacks or offensive actions, a first for the government, according to The Post, which proceeds to outline just how the new directive might work in practice: An example of a defensive cyber operation that once would have been considered an offensive act, for instance, might include stopping a computer attack by severing the link between an overseas server and a targeted domestic computer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nati...69c3_story.html
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Re: Random Obama Whoring TWO: Re-Elected
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11/14/12 06:31 PM
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Remember when that "47%" gaffe hurt him? Here's the sequel. Romney blames his loss on Obama "giving" people stuffObama, Romney argued, had been “very generous” to blacks, Hispanics and young voters. He cited as motivating factors to young voters the administration’s plan for partial forgiveness of college loan interest and the extension of health coverage for students on their parents’ insurance plans well into their 20s. Free contraception coverage under Obama’s healthcare plan, he added, gave an extra incentive to college-age women to back the president.
Romney argued that Obama’s healthcare plan’s promise of coverage “in perpetuity” was “highly motivational” to those voters making $25,000 to $35,000 who might not have been covered, as well as to African American and Hispanic voters. Pivoting to immigration, Romney said the Obama campaign’s efforts to paint him as “anti-immigrant” had been effective and that the administration’s promise to offer what he called “amnesty” to the children of illegal immigrants had helped turn out Hispanic voters in record numbers.
Or maybe Willard, you lost because your party's base (the same folks you catered to in the primaries) turned off those Latino voters, including a good 15-20% which once voted for Dubya in '04? Maybe those black voters refused to let the first black President be defeated for re-election? Maybe those young people, including post-graduates that on paper you should've been able to pick off but instead lost, turned out after all because of those gay marriage referendums in several states? Asshole. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-election-campaign-donors-20121114,0,5622330.story
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Re: Random Obama Whoring TWO: Re-Elected
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11/15/12 11:54 AM
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David Frum responds to Willard's "gifts" blame game. ----------------------------------------------------- All voters want "stuff," Republicans as well as Democrats. If anything, Republican voters have been more successful at obtaining "stuff" than Democrats: Medicare is more generous than Medicaid, farm programs deliver better returns than means-tested programs. The Romney-Ryan ticket did not stint on the stuff-offering itself: it promised Republican voters that all the cost of deficit reduction would be dumped on Democratic voters - voters under 55 - with Republicans gaining the additional benefit of a 20% cut in tax rates. But Mitt Romney was very wrong to see 2012 as a referendum on "stuff." It was a referendum on the question, which candidate would do a better job promoting prosperity and creating jobs. That was the referendum that Romney and the Republican party lost. We lost both because voters did not believe in the job-creating magic of upper-income tax cuts - and because voters were unpersuaded that the GOP even cared that much about job creation, as opposed to wealth preservation. That's the lesson defeated Republicans should be drawing. Governor Bobby Jindal gets it. Who else? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/mitt-still-doesn-t-get-it.html
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Re: Random Obama Whoring TWO: Re-Elected
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Report: Obama Signed Secret Cyberwar Directive In October Less than a month before Election Day, President Obama signed a secret directive that clarifies what types of actions the military is allowed to take to protect the nation from cyber threats, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Called “Presidential Policy Directive 20,” the directive is an update to a 2004 directive issued by then President Bush. The new version “explicitly makes a distinction between network defense and cyber operations,” that is, attacks or offensive actions, a first for the government, according to The Post, which proceeds to outline just how the new directive might work in practice: An example of a defensive cyber operation that once would have been considered an offensive act, for instance, might include stopping a computer attack by severing the link between an overseas server and a targeted domestic computer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nati...69c3_story.html Doesnt stop stupid generals from e mailing their girlfriends.
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