Speaking of Ron Paul, it's interesting how the media is totally ignoring the fact that Paul came in a very close second (like 150-250 votes or something) to Bachman in the Iowa Straw poll. The Media does NOT want him. Not to say I'd vote for him but he does have a strong and loyal following but his virtual tie with Bachman is totally ignored. Why not at least acknowledge he did well at least in Iowa.


TIS

out of everybody, i believe that ron paul is the sanest one. fox news can't back somebody like that.

Ron Paul is an example of where I don't believe in all of his ideas but I believe in the person.

Yea Bam, it seems total nutjob is an absolutely required quality in this election cycle.

Last week pundits talking and discussing Bachman's win, the Right lamented Pawlenty's poor showing dropping out but never mentioned how close Paul came in. LOL

TIS

TIS, the straw pole only drew about 17k voters and is only prepatory to the caucuses which will draw upward of a 100k. Paul received over 4k votes.

Oli,

Thanks, I had forgotten the exact number the Iowas Straw Poll drew. I know it's not the "end all" poll and really doesn't mean too much. Still the media treated it as though it was "all that." I still think they ignored Paul. Don't get me wrong, I am not a Paul supporter Just saying.....


TIS

Rick Perry may run out of rope by the Republican primaries since the Texas unemployment rate has increased to 8.4%

Why should this matter to anyone? Did the company do anything illegal? Did they distribute kiddie porn? No laws were broken? Then why should this matter?

It's pure mudslinging.

Wow Perry is a hippocrite. How unusual for a politician.

It wouldn't matter at all, unless the person that stood to benefit from the ownership stake in a store that dealt in pornography was himself a self proclaimed spokesman for family values. Is Mr. Perry such a man? If so, then it matters since it shows that he is a hypocrite.

But it was several years ago, wasn't it?? Maybe he's a different person now. Maybe he changed his mind. I'm not saying he's not a hypocrite. Maybe he thought porn was swell as long as he was making money off it, but when he became a politician he sold his shares in this video company and became holier than thou. I mean, weren't many of the politicians calling for Clinton's head over the Lewinsky scandal found to have had affairs of their own??

As DT said, it wouldn't exactly be unusual for politicians to be hypocritical.

Could he be a different man now? Of course. But whether it's pornography or not, we are still talking about corruption. It was only in 2007 that he issued a spurious executive order to force 12 year old girls to be vaccinated against the papiloma virus. Now, why would he do such a thing? The answer is corrupted morals. The vaccine was manufactured by Merck which had contributed huge amounts to his reelection campaign and which hired his chief of staff and his mother in law.

Oli, living in Texas, you know far more about him than I would. Sounds like a swell guy.

(CNN) – Karl Rove accused Sarah Palin of "thin skin" over a message from her political action committee criticizing the speculation surrounding her presidential intentions.

"It is a sign of enormous thin skin if we speculate about her, she gets upset, and I suspect if we didn't speculate about her, she'd be upset and trying to find a way to get us to speculate about her," Rove said Wednesday night of Fox News.

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2011/08/michele-bachmanns-eyes-everywhere/

OMG is that ever creepy!! LOL

On another humorous note:

The GOP...adopted a bill to rename the fault that runs under the Capital. It will now be known as Obama's Fault


TIS

Irene offers Obama a God-given chance to assert visible leadership—the lack of which is causing him such bad notices. He could announce he’s cutting his vacation short to “take command”; establish a “situation room;” have himself photographed or videoed in shirtsleeves, galvanizing his team, calling governors and mayors to offer help, getting updates from meteorologists with a weather map in the background; give periodic updates on what our government is doing to help. In other words, do the things W didn’t do during Katrina.

But did he do it? Of course not! He issued a “brief statement” from the Vineyard, advising Americans to “take precautions.” And he delegated leadership to Janet (“the system worked perfectly”) Napolitano, who probably has even less credibility than he does. He’ll stay put on the Vineyard—it’s his vacation until after Labor Day, you know. And, never mind that Irene could keep him and his entourage bottled up on the Vineyard until after it blows over, making our Commander in Chief incommunicado, and even putting him in physical danger.

ABC News' Stephanie Z. Smith reports from Martha's Vineyard:

President Obama will end his vacation tonight, one day earlier than originally planned, White House officials said.

The president thought it would “be more prudent for him to be in Washinton, D.C., and at the White House,” deputy press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.

Good move

Maybe they should run on the same ticket!





That bill will never pass because no matter what, it will always be Bush's Fault!







Or perhaps the President thought that it would be more prudent to get his ass out of there before the area was hit by the bad weather heading in that direction!


Though Martha's Vineyard was in Irene's path, Obama's decision to return to Washington Friday night, instead of Saturday as planned, was not made out of worry about his personal safety. - Associated Press



Hey, I wonder if he and the first lady will be taking TWO separate jets back to Washington...as they did when heading up to vacation at Martha's Vinyard?

He saw my post above and realized I was right.

Perhaps the time is right for:

TURNBULL IN 2012

"Turnbull is a good man!"



Works for me. If we live through the hurricane, we may have to start a "Draft Turnbull" campaign.

Signor V.

Just like every single president has traveled since Air Force One was put into place? Probably.

Hmmm, I don't doubt that it has happened in the past where on occasion the president and the first lady took separate planes to the same destinations.

But in a time where oil prices are skyrocketing, energy prices are through the roof, the economy is in the shitter, and the government is trying every which way to come up with a plan to get us back on the right track, I think that our President and his first lady could have been a bit more mindful and fiscally responsible in making the decision to travel separately to the same destination for a vacation.

Not bashing them, not saying that they are the only ones to ever do it. Just making an observation and giving my opinion as to what transpired with taxpayer money during a time when this country, our government and it's people are hurting financially.

No matter how much oil prices rise I don't think that would ever change because of security precautions and secret service procedures and so on.

Just imagine how much money got blown up with that helicopter Seal Team 6 exploded in Pakistan.

Even more money in federal bailouts to large banks who were responsible for their banks failing and dragging the economy down with them. If you took that money and split it between 311 million people everyone would get about $2250. If you distributed it to the poorest 75% of those 311 million people you get 233,250,000 people getting $3000 each. I bet that would "stimulate the economy" better than $300. Maybe 10 times better.

How much money do big corporations and the elite rich get to keep with their tax breaks instead of paying up like the rest of us?

There's more examples than I could ever think of or type out here...

Basically, as far as saving money or raising money or not wasting money there are many different examples to use instead of something that every single president does.



If you want to bash Obama you should look at the BAFTE's Fast And Furious operation and how badly that was mismanaged and the people responsible just get reassigned instead of fired like they deserve for causing the deaths of many people, including our Border Patrol officers.

And I'm sure there's tons of other things you could use to bash Obama too, but something tangible that is actually his fault goes a lot farther than something that doesn't make him any different than any other president or is out of his control.

WTF?

Should I edit it so bash says "observe" instead?

How about we save some more money and put the VP on the same plane with the POTUS?

Believe it or not blue collar, the Secret Service sorta know what they're doing sometimes.



"...and this is when the mighty paper tiger pounces on his prey! Look at him tear through that gazelle!"