Wintley Augustus Phipps (born January 7, 1955) was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Phipps is an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, world-renowned vocal artist, and innovative initiator of special projects such as the US Dream Academy.[1]
He also founded Songs of Freedom Publishing Company and Coral Records Recording Company. Mr. Phipps has been the featured speaker and performer at many notable occasions around the world.
Wintley Phipps, at an early age, moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He attended Kingsway College, a Seventh-day Adventist Christian Academy, and later Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama where he received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Theology. Phipps would later go on to earn a Masters of Divinity degree from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Geraldo Blasts Herman Cain spox for not denying allegations of sexual harassment
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LOVE IT!!
Exclusive: Two women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html
During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to POLITICO.
The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave them financial payouts to leave the association. The agreements also included language that bars the women from talking about their departures.
In a series of comments over the past 10 days, Cain and his campaign repeatedly declined to respond directly about whether he ever faced allegations of sexual harassment at the restaurant association. They have also declined to address questions about specific reporting confirming that there were financial settlements in two cases in which women leveled complaints.
POLITICO has confirmed the identities of the two female restaurant association employees who complained about Cain but, for privacy concerns, is not publishing their names.
Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon told POLITICO the candidate indicated to campaign officials that he was “vaguely familiar” with the charges and that the restaurant association’s general counsel had resolved the matter.
3 Chics
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Uh huh…
Gawd, did this coon try to stick his dough in a couple of ovens? LOL
Who wants to take the bet that they’re blond with blue eyes?
BWA HA HA H AH HA HA HA
Ding Ding Ding…you’re in my head, Rikyrah… You are thinking what I’m thinking.
Think Progress:
Herman Cain spox calls into Geraldo, stresses that the allegations of sexual harassment are “unsourced” but refuses to deny them
IF this turns out to be true, did he think no one was going to find out? N…. Please!
From HP commenter:
There once was a man named Cain
Who sexually harassed a girl Jane
He hushed it with money
And thought it quite funny
Until his candidacy went down the drain
Hahahahaha…..first we had the SnoHO now we got the BlackManHo!!
BWAahahahahaha!!
When you lead in the polls and you the jokester/wild card…they start search they start digging for all the dirt..to throw at cha!!
Classic GOP playbook…..let’s just sit back…eat some popcorn and watch as we
see the next series of reveleations like we did with the Palins, Bristol, Levi…
lmao…just soooo preDICtable.
They couldn’t do this to Obama…cause he told it all in Dreams from My Father.
Ain’t found nary ho yet!!!
Libya’s prime minister confirms presence of chemical weapons, says inspectors due this week
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/libyas-prime-minister-confirms-presence-of-chemical-weapons-inspectors-to-arrive-this-week/2011/10/30/gIQAM1S8WM_story.html
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s interim prime minister on Sunday confirmed the presence of chemical weapons in Libya and said foreign inspectors would arrive later this week to deal with the issue.
Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Libya has no interest in keeping such weapons.
“We would like to assure you that the new Libya will be a peaceful Libya and that it is in our interest to have no weapons in Libya,” he told reporters.
Ding Dong! Quaddafi’s dead.
another one bites the dust
Meep! Meep!….POTUS
Bush can’t answer an important question
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD7BDP3XMG0
President Obama Takes Questions at GOP House Issues Conference
Man Killed Crackhead Teen So She Wouldn’t Sleep With Black Men
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/man-killed-crackhead-teen-so-she-wouldnt-sleep-with-black-men/?omcamp=EMC-CVNL
Danny Hembree, a man from York County, South Carolina has admitted to killing 17-year-old Heather Catterton in 2009 so she wouldn’t sleep with Black men in exchange for crack cocaine.
Hembree admitted to giving Catterton crack cocaine in exchange for sex himself, and says he also dated her sister and mother. He is also charged with two other murders.
BET.com reports:
On Monday, a jury in the trial of a 49-year-old man named Danny Hembree watched a taped confession of Hembree saying he committed murder over interracial dating. Hembree, who is being tried in York County, South Carolina, is accused of killing 17-year-old Heather Catterton in 2009, a crime he told police he committed after he gave crack to Catterton in exchange for sex. Yet despite the fact that he had sex with her after giving her drugs, Hembree says he killed Catterton to keep her from having sex with Black men in order to afford crack. “I just released her from that,” he said in the video. “I wasn’t mad or nothing. She was just better off.”
Posted at 12:14 PM ET, 10/30/2011
David Axelrod goes there: GOP may be trying to destroy economy on purpose
By Greg Sargent
Here’s David Axelrod, on CNN today, pushing back on Candy Crowley’s suggestion that Obama bears some of the blame for Congress’s failure to act on the economy:
I think this is something — something different going on right now. When you have the leader — the Republican leader of the Senate say, our number one goal — in the midst of this economy, our number one goal is to defeat the president, and they’re acting like it.
They don’t want to cooperate. They don’t want to help. Even on measures to help the economy that they traditionally have supported before, like a payroll tax cut, like infrastructure, rebuilding our roads and bridges and surface transport. These — so you have to ask a question, are they willing to tear down the economy in order to tear down the president or are they going to cooperate?
And, listen, there’s a reason why the Congress is at nine percent in some polls, approval, lowest in history. Because this is different than we’ve ever seen before.
This is an argument that many Congressional Dems and surrogates, such as messaging chief Chuck Schumer, have been making for some time now. But to my knowledge Obama campaign officials have not been willing to go here in quite this way in a high profile setting (there was a fundraising email that made a similar case a few weeks ago). At the very least, this may be the first time a top Obama campaign official has linked this argument to the idea that this GOP behavior may be historically unprecedented, and that it may be a key reason for Congress’ historical unpopularity — it’s a broadening of the indictment.
As you know, Obama’s newly aggressive populism and (gasp) partisan rhetoric has sparked a good deal of handwringing and complaining from centrist columists (see Brooks, David) and leading GOP officials (see Ryan, Paul), who have been arguing that the new approach is somehow out of bounds or that it risks alienating the middle of the country. Axelrod’s amplification of the charge that the GOP may be tanking the economy on purpose suggests the Obama campaign isn’t taking these objections too seriously.
Indeed, it’s worth asking whether we’re seeing a fundamental shift in the thinking of the Obama team and some Dems — a basic recognition that the old rules don’t apply anymore, that the unprecedented tactics being employed by the opposition require a new kind of response. As Dana Milbank notes, you can see the evidence of this in the unapologetic populism driving Elizabeth Warren’s Senate candidacy, which suggests that “Democrats will no longer play by Marquess of Queensbury rules while their opponents disembowel them.”
But this may be about something broader than just a new approach to Republicans. The Occupy Wall Street protests; our political conversation’s intense new focus on inequality and economic justice; and the extraordinary levels of voter anxiety and dissatisafaction with our institutions all seem to suggest that the political landscape is shifting in ways we can’t really appreciate yet. It looks like the Obama campaign is placing its bet on what kind of political response these big changes are demanding.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/david-axelrod-goes-there-gop-may-be-trying-to-destroy-economy-on-purpose/2011/10/30/gIQA3sv0VM_blog.html
It’s time to confront the institutional bigotry dead on…we ALL know this is the hatred of bigotry hiding it’s face behind politics…with it’s single term for THIS POTUS as their rallying call.
I am glad Plouffe is going there!
The Southern Strategy needs to be brought out into the sunlight and stomped into the earth. The white masses need to see how the power structure will choke the very life out of their daily living just to deny ONE BLACK MAN…the power they invested him with via their votes.
Dean started out telling the stars and bars crew back in 2004….glad to see Plouffe and OFA now using this.
“We are not RED America we are not BLUE America..we are the UNITED STATES of America!!”
Then- Illinois State Senator Barack Obama DNC 2004
FOUR MORE YEARS!!
Conservatives Ask, Is This All There Is?
10/28/11 at 11:25 AM
The nomination of Mitt Romney would put the Republican Party in the enviable position of running an economy-themed challenge against a sitting president during an economic crisis. It’s very hard to lose a campaign like that. And yet the taste of impending triumph is slightly bittersweet.
Former Bush staffer Jeffrey H. Anderson laments in the Weekly Standard, “So far in the presidential race, however, no candidate has eloquently, knowledgably, [sic] and thoroughly explained how Obamacare represents an attack on the core principles of limited government and liberty on which this nation was founded.” George Will’s Sunday column despairs of a potential Romney candidacy, “Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for THIS?”
The cause of their ennui is plain enough. Romney is running a purely results-based campaign against President Obama. His message is simply that things are bad and Obama hasn’t made them better. (Slogan: “Obama isn’t working.”) Romney’s theme elides why things are bad and says very little about what he intends to do to make them better, other than the fact that he, Mitt Romney, is the man to do it. He soft-peddles the hard-core anti-Keynesianism, Randian ideas that have animated the right. He can’t make a principled argument as to why the Affordable Care Act violated freedom because everybody knows he doesn’t believe it. Rather than defend the idea that rich people pay too much taxes and poor people pay too little, Romney is promising to help the middle class and ignore the rich.
His reasons for doing so are plain enough. The latest CBS/New York Times poll shows the degree to which economic class remains a liability for the GOP. The public assessment of how Obama treats different classes is highly balanced — 28 percent say he favors the rich, 23 percent say he favors the middle class, 17 percent say he favors the poor, and 21 percent say he treats all groups equally. But as for Republicans in Congress, 69 percent say they favor the rich. The poll likewise shows now-familiar support for increased measures to stimulate the economy and for higher taxes on the rich.
Romney’s campaign treats conservatism as an obstacle to his reelection. He wants to get through the primary with his ideological flexibility intact, unencumbered by unpopular commitments. He offers the right the least amount of substantive commitment, packaged in the maximum emotional packaging.
Conservatives want to win above all, but it’s not the only thing they want. They want to win a philosophically oriented campaign. They want to believe that Americans are voting for their party because they agree with it, not just because the other party was in office during an economic free fall.
To be sure, they’ll take the win either way. The Bush administration (elected after losing the popular vote) showed that power is power, and the lack of a mandate won’t stop a president from using the full extent of the leverage available to him. But the Bush administration also showed conservatives the limits of what you can accomplish by winning an election without winning an argument. George W. Bush cast himself in 2000 as a compassionate conservative, promising to lift up the working poor.
The travails of the Obama administration convinced Republicans they might strive for something more — a thorough and open ideological repudiation of the last century of government. Romney is offering them a more likely win, but a less thrilling prize.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/conservatives_ask_is_this_all.html
found this over at The Obama Diary:
Pragmatic Adult
October 30, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Welcome back Joan. I read this and had to share it.
President Obama Is Going to Win in 2012
If I had a dollar for every time I bet a Republican friend that President Obama was going to win the 2012 election, I wouldn’t be rich but I could sure go to a real nice restaurant for dinner. I have heard every reason why President Obama was not going to win. I am sticking to my guns. President Obama is going to be re-elected.
First, all of the Republican candidates have serious flaws. Former Massachusetts Governor Romney has had such a bad reputation as a flip flopper that during the last election cycle attendees at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conferece) were giving out thin, colored flip flops with his various conflicting positions written on them. They were so colorful that I made a mobile out of them.
Rick Perry comes off to the Millenial generation as a conservative who is out of touch because of his stance on a variety of social issues.
Herman Cain is the most likeable and the candidate most Republicans would like to have dinner with but his lack of government experience will trip him up.
Ron Paul will do well but not enough to get himself to the top of the ticket.
And Newt Gingrich, the smartest of all the Republicans, is going to have to raise a lot more money to get the organization he needs to snag the party’s nomination.
This is going to be my fifth presdiental campaign and one thing I have learned is that people elect the candidate that they trust and behaves in a way they can relate to. President Obama is just that person.
While the Republicans have said “no” to almost all of his legislative priorities, President Obama has offered compromise.
Just this week, Democrats offered to cut non-discrestionary spending (Social Security and Medicare) by three trillion dollars if there could be tax increases of one trillion on the country’s richest people. President Obama along with the other Democrats have offered that flexibilty. The GOP has said no.
Most people support the president and the Democrats on this. A party of no compromise does not sit well with the average American. President Obama is going to win re-election because he is a compromiser.
People also like to vote for someone who keeps promises. President Obama has certainly done that. He said he would enact health care and he did. By 2014, we will all have access to health care.
He said he would get us out of Iraq and that is going to happen within months.
He said he would end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and working with diverse and bipartisan members of Congress he did just that.
President Obama saved the auto industry and brought it back from the brink by making loans possible.
He has helped make college more affordable.
He has extended or made seventeen small business tax cuts.
He made the tough decison to raid the Usama Bin Laden compound in Pakistan.
President Obama is going to win election because he has kept his campaign promises.
The Republicans I talk to cite the economic data; no president gets re-elected with the unemployment rate as high as it is. It may be historically true but President Obama has been honest and has fought to get people to have jobs.
Our economy has grown and that has been on his watch after he inherited the worse recession since the Great Depression.
It has become a national sport to put odds on who wins 2012. I think there is no question. President Obama wins. He has done a very good job in a very rocky time and the American people will remember next November.
This was on Fox news website BOYA!
http://theobamadiary.com/2011/10/30/joan-2/
Watch Team Obama Define and Destroy Mitt Romney In 30 Seconds
October 30, 2011
By Jason Easley
The most impressive thing about Obama adviser David Plouffe’s appearance on Meet The Press was that he was able to define and destroy Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney in 30 seconds.
Here is the video from NBC News:
Transcript from Meet The Press:
MR. GREGORY: Let’s talk about what’s happening on the Republican side. Look at the Iowa polling, it gives you a snapshot of where this race is right now. And it is Herman Cain who’s on top at 23 percent, Mitt Romney at 22 percent. Who is the Republican most likely to challenge President Obama?
MR. PLOUFFE: I don’t think we have any idea. Now, the World Series just ended Friday night, but to use a baseball term, I mean, we, we maybe are in the first inning of this. So this is going to have a lot of twists and turns. And in Iowa, which, you know, we know a little something about, you know, what matters is, can you identify your supporters, can you get them to the caucus? And so there’s–the next 60 days is obviously going to be a fascinating period in politics. But the key thing is, David, no matter who we run against, they’re offering the same economic policies that led to the great recession, that led to destruction of middle-class security in incomes. And that’s going to be the fundamental question in front of us.
MR. GREGORY: Is Herman Cain for real as a candidate?
MR. PLOUFFE: You know, I really am not an expert in Republican primary politics. He, he seems to have tapped into something. What I find interesting is that Mitt Romney continues to have 75, 80 percent of his party looking somewhere else. And so it’ll be interesting to see if he can turn that around.
MR. GREGORY: Will he be a diminished candidate if he’s the nominee?
MR. PLOUFFE: Well, here’s–we’ll see what happens in the primary. I’d make, I’d make two points about him. One is he has no core. And, you know, every day almost it seems to be we find another issue. You know, he was supportive of doing things like a cap and trade agreement, now he doesn’t think that, you know, climate change is real. He was to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights issues, now he wants to amend the Constitution to prevent gay marriage. He was an extremely pro-choice governor, now he believes that life begins at conception and would ban Roe v. Wade. So you, you look at–issue after issue after issue, he’s moved all over the place. And I can tell you one thing, working a few steps down from the president, what you need in that office is conviction, you need to have a true compass, and you’ve got to be willing to make tough calls. And you get the sense with Mitt Romney that, you know, if he thought he–it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he’d say it.
Republicans may get excited when they see Mitt Romney running close to Barack Obama in potential 2012 head to head match ups, but what Plouffe was able to quickly and effortlessly do on Meet The Press today highlighted why Romney is far from the ideal candidate to take on Obama. If John McCain was riding the Straight Talk Express, Mitt Romney is helming the Double Talk Express. Romney’s penchant of telling any audience what they want to hear is his Achilles heel. It makes Romney look like what he is, a professional candidate who will say or do anything to get elected.
Romney has been able to hang close to Obama because he hasn’t been campaigned against. His fellow Republican candidates have not really gone after him in a big way yet, and if they did, it would be nothing compared to what the Obama campaign has in store for him. The flip-flopper accusation is hard enough for a candidate to shake without having the documented record of it that Romney does.
The Obama campaign has already started to define Romney as a coreless candidate whose words can’t be trusted. Romney is a political shape shifter with no personality, but what should be most troubling to Republicans is the relative ease with which Plouffe dispatched the frontrunner.
The biggest problem with Mitt Romney is that he appears to lack toughness. Most successful Democratic and Republican presidential candidates share a certain unshakable tough-as-nails core on the campaign trail. Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush had it. Barack Obama has it. Mitt Romney doesn’t.
Romney is the Republican John Kerry, and if Team Obama can dismantle him this easily in 2011, imagine what they will do to him in the fall of 2012.
http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-destruction-romney
Yes, Romney is a flip-flopper. Yes he lacks the courage of his convictions (whatever they may be) and presents as a weathervane.
However, we can not trust that the public will see him in that manner. We have to know that it is a choice, and while his religion is his biggest chink, Obama’s chink is just as divisive as it is race. This is America..the question is out over what will win with the populace vs.the GOP primaries.
There is no doubt that Obama will eviscerate him, from a logical and rational view…but the people are swayed by emotions. Which emotion will sway/influence the more the hate of Romneys religion or the hate of race?
that is the 64million dollar question.
Further, what is Romney’s strength? That is where to hit. Erode that perception of strength whereever it may be or lie. That is how they attack Obama, on his strengths!
Not his weakness…because it is your strengths that persuade and influence..otherwise none of these GOP candidates would be standing. Let’s not underestimate Romneys strength as the white male hope!
Nancy Vosburgh:
I LOVE the GOP field……It makes me feel so good to be a Donkey lover!
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I like that…Donkey Lover! Hey Now!
Hey SG!!
I hear ya…I read a pithy remark…Democrats are sexy who ever heard of an elephant being a good piece of ass!
Oh sh*t! You’re so bad…
——————FLATLINES——————–
Marniesheia Perrymond asked:
AFTER WE GET PRESIDENT OBAMA RE-ELECTED…WHAT WE GONE DO DEN?
…Stacks on deck. Patron on ice.
We can pop bottles all night
Baby you can have whatever you like
I said you can have whatever you like.
You want it, I got it. Go get it, I’ll buy it.
Tell them other broke niggas be quiet.
:)
Love, love, love this song…it is one of my all time FAVS.
For some reason none of the videos are coming up for me today…just dark.
We are going to celebrate. Little Richard at nine. awesome.
http://www.wimp.com/oldschool/
happy sunday SG2
Hey Now! Sooky Sooky!
Happy Sunday, Dorothy!
Pat Buchanan: Occupy Wall Street Is ‘Going To End Very, Very Badly’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/30/pat-buchanan-occupy-wall-street_n_1066143.html#comments
Pat Buchanan issued a stern warning to Occupy Wall Street this weekend.
In a round-table discussion on ‘The McLaughlin Group’, host John McLaughlin asked panelists about the future of the movement.
“It’s going to end very, very badly with these folks in the winter and they’re not going to be getting publicity and they’re going to be acting up and acting badly like the worst of the demonstrators in the 60s,” Buchanan said. “They’re going to start fighting with the cops.”
Occupy Wall Street took a violent turn this week as Oakland police unleashed tear gas on protesters and injured an Iraq war veteran.
On Saturday, scores were arrested in Denver after protesters clashed with local law enforcement. When cops began to spray Mace on the crowd, several protestors reportedly retaliated by kicking and pushing police.
October 30, 2011 9:05 AM
A Cain-Romney race in Iowa
By Steve Benen
Some polls matter more than others. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll is widely considered the gold standard for Hawkeye State polling, and therefore gets considerably more attention than other surveys in the state.
And while conditions are likely change, possibly more than once over the next nine weeks, at this point, it looks like Herman Cain and Mitt Romney are the dominant candidates.
Former business executives Herman Cain and Mitt Romney lead the Republican field in Iowa in an election cycle in which likely GOP caucusgoers favor business experience over elective experience as a qualification for the presidency.
The other contenders, despite their focus on the Hawkeye State, trail 10 percentage points or more.
The power of Cain’s likability has vaulted him to the top of The Des Moines Register’s new Iowa Poll, with 23 percent of likely caucusgoers saying he is their first choice. The durable Romney, on part two of his presidential quest, coasts in with 22 percent.
Ron Paul was a distant third with 12%, and was the only other candidate to reach double digits. Michele Bachmann, once considered the favorite in Iowa, was fourth with 8%, followed by Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich tied at 7% each. Rick Santorum was seventh with 5% support.
Of particular interest was the kind of support the top two candidates are receiving; “The former Massachusetts governor earns the support of just 10 percent of those who say they definitely plan to vote in the caucuses (Cain is at 27 percent). And Cain dominates Romney among those who identify themselves as very conservative, by more than 3 to 1.”
Given the nature of the caucus process, Cain’s more rabid supporters put him in a much better position, if it continues.
The Romney campaign’s spin overnight was that Romney hasn’t really been campaigning in Iowa, so the fact that he’s faring so well is great news. While there’s some truth to that, the spin has a key flaw: Cain has campaigned in Iowa even less than Romney, and Cain is now in the lead.
Of course, that leads to a series of other questions, most notably, is the nature of the campaign process — online activism, Fox News’ dominant role in the GOP, etc. — changing to such an extent that candidates can now excel in a state without bothering to spend a lot of time there?
It also leads one to wonder, might Cain actually win in Iowa if he made a credible effort?
Also note, Romney’s slow-but-steady strategy isn’t consolidating support — he’s actually lost a couple of points in Iowa since the mid-summer. For all the talk about inevitability and strong debate performances, Romney just hasn’t been able to expand his base of support at all.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_10/a_cainromney_race_in_iowa033171.php
some things speak for themselves. if you can tell me what GOOD HAIR is saying in this speech, God bless you. I swear, he took a handful of something before giving this speech.
Perry’s Cornerstone Speech Highlights
Scholar Rudolph Byrd Dead at 58
By: Sheryl Huggins Salomon | Posted: October 22, 2011
The black academic community has lost another beloved colleague. Rudolph Byrd, an Emory University professor whose scholarship focused on black literature, gender studies and civil rights, died yesterday in Atlanta.
According to AJC.com:
Mr. Byrd, an Emory professor for two decades, died Friday at Emory University Hospital after a long-running fight with cancer. He was 58.
He had just finished writing a series of lectures about race and sexuality to be presented at Harvard University. He was writing a biography of author Ernest Gaines, developing a monograph of the early novels of Alice Walker and collaborating with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on an anthology of African-American poetry.
“He was one of my best friends,” Mr. Gates said Friday. The two met in a graduate seminar at Yale University nearly four decades ago, and their friendship grew into a working relationship. “Of all the people who write about African-American literature and culture, there is no one that I admired more, and whose work I valued more.”
The two co-edited a new edition of the 1923 novel “Cane” by Jean Toomer. They published it this year with new research about Toomer’s race, contending that archival evidence proved he was black. The New York Times described the research as an “intellectual grenade.”
Mr. Byrd founded an institute at Emory named after the author and NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson and was chair of the department of African-American studies. He also founded Emory’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which provides financial support for undergraduates.
Byrd had also served as the head of Atlanta’s office of international affairs under the administration of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first black mayor. Just prior to his death, he was preparing to deliver a series of lectures at Harvard University, titled “Other Voices Within the Veil: The Emergence of the Black Queer Subject in 20th Century African-American Literature and Culture.” Dr. Gates, who heads Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and is editor-in-chief of The Root, said the lectures will still be delivered by former Spelman College President Johnnetta Cole.
According to AJC.com, Byrd is survived by two sisters, Meardis Wells and Andre Sloan; two brothers, Michael Byrd and Leonard Byrd; and his partner of three decades, Henry A. Leonard.
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/scholar-rudolph-byrd-dead-58?wpisrc=obnetwork
Obama deserves credit for strong growth in energy industry
By MICHAEL E. WEBBER
Updated 07:30 p.m., Friday, October 28, 2011
As Republican presidential candidates like Gov. Rick Perry tout their energy plans, they would do well to study our best energy president in decades: President Obama.
Advocates for the U.S. energy industry routinely say they wish President Obama would pursue pro-growth energy policies. Well, he has been, and not just for the likes of fallen green giants like Solyndra. Under Obama, the traditional U.S. energy sector is flourishing. The domestic energy sector is experiencing its largest growth since the halcyon days of the 1950s and 1960s. As importantly, we’re growing in the right directions.
For the first time in decades, we are seeing sustained increases in U.S. oil production and decreases in oil consumption, which means imports are dropping.
U.S. domestic oil production is up an incredible 14 percent since Obama took office. A few years ago we imported nearly two-thirds of our petroleum products. Today we import less than half. The reduction in imports means tens of billions of dollars now stay in our own economy.
But it’s not just oil: dry natural gas production is up 16 percent, natural gas liquids are up 26 percent, solar generation is up 14 percent and wind generation is up 59 percent. Even production of coal – supposedly the main target of Obama’s policies – is flat over that same time period. There are even headlines blaring that U.S. refining capacity is at the highest point in decades, exceeding levels achieved under recent Republican administrations. All of this growth produces royalties and taxes to address our budget challenges.
Despite the numbers, many in the energy industry describe Obama as if he’s intent on making us freeze in the dark. They’d have us believe Obama and his team are singlehandedly killing the American energy industry.
The facts tell a different story: This is a pro-energy president.
How did this come to be? Obama doesn’t get all the credit. The Bush administration’s second-term emphasis on domestic production and lower consumption coupled with higher prices are the key ingredients for success. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President Bush), the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (passed by a Democratic Congress and signed by President Bush), along with federal stimulus funding, legislative extensions of tax credits and other incentives for energy production during the Obama administration, all contributed to our energy success today.
Obama wasn’t a silent witness to this renaissance. As a senator, he broke with his party leaders to vote for EPACT 2005. Since becoming president, he has doubled down on key energy policies, taking stances that befuddle traditional energy stakeholders. By conventional wisdom, Democrats are supposed to dislike nuclear power, but Obama tripled the Bush-era loan guarantees from $18.5 billion to $54.5 billion.
Democrats are supposed to dislike oil and gas production, but Obama has opened up offshore production – something multiple Republican presidents and governors failed to do.
Meanwhile he has pushed for efficiency and conservation, using executive orders to achieve higher fuel economy standards on more rapid time lines. He doubled energy research investments, filling the innovation pipelines with new devices and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Despite the tired refrain that reducing energy consumption is bad for the energy sector, the energy industry has flourished. Profits are hitting record highs. Rig counts are up. “Help Wanted” signs are posted, with employment growing, and new jobs being created in the traditional sectors such as oil and gas along with the newest parts of the energy industry, like wind.
Production is flourishing in a way we haven’t seen in several decades – and the way we produce, move and use that energy is getting cleaner, too.
http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Obama-deserves-credit-for-strong-growth-in-energy-2241647.php
Psssssstttt, Heads Up, It’s Just Talk
October 30, 2011
You know how Rick Perry believes in state’s rights and how each state should be allowed to make their own rules?
Well, that’s true until it’s rules that Perry doesn’t like. He was in New Hampshire this week spouting off about his two favorite subjects – gay marriage and abortion. Now, it seems to me that the more gay marriages you allow, the fewer abortions you get, so Perry ought to love that New Hampshire legalized gay marriage in 2009. But, noooo …..
And it also seems to me that Planned Parenthood, where they distribute birth control, also would be high on Perry’s list. But, noooo …..
“Unfortunately this current administration has since provided one million dollars in federal grant money to Planned Parenthood in direct conflict with this state’s policies. And the bottom-line is this: If you want to stop Washington’s many violations of the 10th Amendment … then we must make President Obama a one-term president,” Perry said.
So, Perry will not rest until New Hampshire becomes just like Texas.
NOTE TO NEW HAMPSHIRE: Dumb down your schools, increase your teen pregnancy rate, make sure half your population has no health insurance, and have the second highest high school drop out rate in the nation. Rick Perry is coming and I know you want to make him feel at home!
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It’s Your Own Fault If Obama Disappoints You
President Obama promised changes we have yet to see. Is he the disappointment, or are we?
by Caroline Clarke Posted: September 22, 2011
Not one Democrat has consistently stood up and aggressively championed him, fought alongside him, openly honored, admired, or unabashedly supported him. Bill Clinton doesn’t break ranks, but he doesn’t bring the vintage Bill-dazzle when he speaks of the president and his lackluster demeanor is lost on no one. Hillary Clinton has already said she’s a one-termer no matter what happens come the election; she’s entitled to make her choices, but did she really have to announce them so early in the game—she, who is exceedingly clear on what the stakes are and how the game of presidential politics is played?
Condoleezza Rice used to actually beam whenever Bush was nearby. He was her guy and she wore it on her sleeve and her face. When’s the last time our current Secretary of State stood at the mic and championed her boss no less gushed like a teenaged groupie?
But, to be honest, I don’t expect much from politicians as they all serve multiple masters; the rest of us don’t have that excuse.
President Obama was elected by an enthusiastic, optimistic, relieved majority. Like my emailing friend Ann, in Oregon, most of us cried tears of joy when the last vote was counted; some of us still choke up every time he appears. But most of us also receded back into our lives after the election, dabbing our eyes as we waited for him to work miracles. And we knew it would take miracles—not only because there was a mighty contingent appalled that a Black man was president—but because the deck he was handed was stacked high against him, and against us all.
When he proved to be a mere mortal (although one could easily argue that he has held up rather well given the superhuman nature of a job that just keeps spiraling into territory unprecedented for its overwhelming challenges including from Mother Nature her mighty self) we went mute and let the liars, the haters, the extremists and opportunists take over. Do we blame him for that or do we blame ourselves?
President Obama is constantly criticized for the changes he promised that we don’t yet see. But his campaign for change clearly required that we all change; it required that we sacrifice and continue to stand with him once he was off the campaign trail and actually working to enact a new approach that he (and we) knew would be an uphill battle.
His change demanded that Americans maintain the optimism, interest, and level of engagement that led us to change ourselves enough to vote a Black man into the White House in the first place. But no sooner was he there than we changed back, tweeting our gripes, Facebooking our frustrations, bitching and moaning and doing almost nothing to help him move us forward.
As African Americans, once again, we have a vital role to play at a critical moment in history—and there’s not a moment to spare. In a twist on the president’s own line, this is not rocket science; it’s right. When it comes to opening the door to real change, he can turn the lock, but we hold the key.
http://www.blackenterprise.com/2011/09/22/its-your-own-fault-if-obama-disappoints-you/2/?obref=obnetwork&ref=beoutbrain
Folks didn’t get the original memo; CHANGE COMES FROM WITHIN
oh my…
the new meme on Willard is that he’s the GOP’S DUKAKIS?
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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October 30, 2011 11:20 AM
‘The courage of his absence of convictions’
Perhaps the most talked-about column of the day is George Will’s piece on Mitt Romney, and for good reason. There’s quite a bit to chew on here.
Putting aside a couple of needlessly cheap shots at President Obama — the ATM joke was dumb six months ago, George, when Rush Limbaugh was the one pushing it — Will gives voice to conservatives who marvel at Romney’s vacuity, but aren’t sure what to do about it.
The driving anecdote is Romney’s inability “enunciate a defensible, or even decipherable, ethanol policy.” As is generally the case, the former governor has taken a wide variety of positions, most of them contradictory, and none of them compelling from any perspective. Will argues, persuasively, that if Romney can’t even select a coherent position on ethanol — one of the easier issues to understand — no one can have any confidence in his ability to address far more complex challenges.
“A straddle is not a political philosophy,” Will explains, “it is what you do when you do not have one.” From there, Will notes Romney trying to take both sides — and oddly enough, neither side — of a few too many arguments, including the auto industry rescue and the ridiculous handling of Ohio’s ballot measures this week.
Romney, Will concludes, seems to “lack the courage of his absence of convictions.”
Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate. Republican successes down the ticket will depend on the energies of the Tea Party and other conservatives, who will be deflated by a nominee whose blurry profile in caution communicates only calculated trimming.
Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from “data” (although there is precious little to support Romney’s idea that in-state college tuition for children of illegal immigrants is a powerful magnet for such immigrants) and who believes elections should be about (in Dukakis’s words) “competence,” not “ideology.” But what would President Romney competently do when not pondering ethanol subsidies that he forthrightly says should stop sometime before “forever”? Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for this?
I’d imagine the Romney campaign isn’t fond of Dukakis comparisons, though there are some parallels — socially-awkward Massachusetts governors, who aren’t especially well-liked, even by their own party.
But the larger point is more important. Will just doesn’t want the right to settle for the flip-flopping empty suit with an allergy to convictions and principles, simply because of some sense of “electability.”
And by all appearances, Will isn’t the only one. Indeed, it’s probably why Romney can have it all — the most money, the most endorsements, the most time on the campaign trail, the most name recognition — and still struggle to get above 23% in the polls. It’s very likely much of the party is asking the same question that anchored Will’s column: do conservative have to “settle … for this”?
Jon Chait had a good look at the causes for the right’s ennui.
Romney is running a purely results-based campaign against President Obama. His message is simply that things are bad and Obama hasn’t made them better. (Slogan: “Obama isn’t working.”) Romney’s theme elides why things are bad and says very little about what he intends to do to make them better, other than the fact that he, Mitt Romney, is the man to do it. […]
He wants to get through the primary with his ideological flexibility intact, unencumbered by unpopular commitments. He offers the right the least amount of substantive commitment, packaged in the maximum emotional packaging.
Conservatives want to win above all, but it’s not the only thing they want. They want to win a philosophically oriented campaign. They want to believe that Americans are voting for their party because they agree with it, not just because the other party was in office during an economic free fall.
Romney offers the party no such opportunity, but he’s leading a cover-your-eyes awful field that lack a more credible alternative.
Over the next two or three months, the question will the GOP will have to ask itself is whether their Dukakis is good enough.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_10/the_courage_of_his_absence_of033173.php
LOL And we all know how it turned out for Dukakis.
WHITE FRIGHT!
Dear lord, DELIVER US FROM EVIL. AMEN!
Dear lord, DELIVER US FROM EVIL. AMEN!
In Jesus Name! AMEN!
Rick Perry flip-flops on debates
By REID J. EPSTEIN | 10/30/11 7:09 AM EDT
That was quick.
Three days after suggesting Rick Perry might skip some of the upcoming GOP presidential debates, his campaign confirmed he’ll attend at least five more, a sign that the campaign may have recognized Perry had as much to lose as gain from a debate-dodging strategy.
Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan told the Associated Press Saturday that the Texas governor will attend the four events currently scheduled in November as well as a December debate.
Just by floating the idea that he might avoid debates, the Perry campaign raised hackles among activists in the states slated to host the upcoming events. But even setting aside the question of ruffled feathers, there was always a strategic reason to show up: In no other way can a candidate — especially one like Perry who is trailing front-runners Mitt Romney and Herman Cain in national and early-state polls — reframe the campaign discussion as Perry did last week in Las Vegas.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner touched off the debate debate Wednesday when he told POLITICO the campaign wouldn’t commit to participating in any forums after the one Nov. 9 in Michigan. Officially, that’s also the position of Mitt Romney’s campaign despite his string of strong performances.
But the universe of debates Perry or any other candidate might have logically skipped was small. After the Michigan debate that both Perry and Romney committed to attend, all but two of the nine scheduled debates before Florida’s Jan. 31 primary are in early-nominating states. Candidates who skip a debate in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Florida do so at their own risk.
“If they skip the one here, they’re going to have a problem with South Carolina,” South Carolina GOP Chairman Chad Connelly told POLITICO. “If somebody were to skip this, this is a CBS national network debate, I just don’t think it would be a good idea for them to skip it. A debate in D.C. or a debate elsewhere, maybe. But not here.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67150.html#ixzz1cHZsblSM
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White House adviser: Romney ‘moved all over the place’ on issues, has ‘no core’
By Ben Geman – 10/30/11 11:49 AM ET
White House senior adviser David Plouffe sought to portray GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as unfit for the nation’s top office Sunday.
Plouffe, on NBC’s Meet the Press, repeated Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod’s assertion that the former Massachusetts governor has “no core,” and then laid into him further.
“What you need in that office is conviction, you need to have a true compass, and you have got to be willing to make tough calls,” Plouffe said. “You get the sense with Mitt Romney that if he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he would say it.”
Plouffe said that on “issue after issue after issue, he has moved all over the place.”
“[Romney] was supportive of doing things like a cap-and-trade agreement, now he doesn’t think that climate change was real. He was to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights issues, now he wants to amend the constitution to prohibit gay marriage. He was an extremely pro-choice governor, now he believes that life begins at conception and would ban Roe v. Wade,” Plouffe said.
Herman Cain and Romney are sitting atop the GOP field, though Romney is seen as more likely to get the nomination on the strength of his political and fundraising organization.
Still, Plouffe said it’s too early to say who in the GOP field that Obama is most likely to face in the general election.
“This is going to have a lot of twists and turns,” he said, comparing the state of the GOP primary nomination fight to the first inning of a baseball game.
All the GOP hopefuls, he said, are “offering the same economic policies that lead to the great recession.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/190601-white-house-adviser-romney-moved-all-over-the-place-on-issues-has-no-core
Ron Paul: ‘Time will tell’ if Romney is the next Dukakis
By Ben Geman – 10/30/11 10:22 AM ET
GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul on Sunday offered a less than full-throated defense of rival Mitt Romney following a prominent conservative pundit’s claim that Romney is the next Michael Dukakis, the Democratic Massachusetts governor who was soundly beaten in the 1988 White House contest.
“Time will tell,” Paul said on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked about conservative pundit George Will’s Romney-Dukakis comparison in an Oct. 28 column.
“There is obviously times when Mitt has changed his position, you know, and he has had to answer to it. But he is pretty smooth at answering this,” Paul said of Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.
Asked if Romney is unelectable, Paul replied, “I don’t think so. It gives him a challenge.”
Paul instead touted his own bona fides.
“You know they have challenges, all the candidates. They haven’t challenged me for flip-flopping, so I am very proud of that,” Paul said.
Romney and Herman Cain are running atop the GOP field in recent polling.
But Romney has faced challenges explaining his enactment of healthcare reform legislation containing an individual insurance mandate in Massachusetts while opposing Obama’s healthcare law, and has faced accusations of flips-flops on climate change and other issues.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/190593-ron-paul-time-will-tell-if-romney-is-the-next-dukakis
Pelosi, in pitch to donors, sees ‘turning point’ for Dems in 2012 House races
By Ben Geman – 10/29/11 03:42 PM ET
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is seeking a surge of Democratic campaign donations before the next Federal Election Commission fundraising deadline, claiming that Democrats can reach a “turning point” in their bid to reclaim the majority.
“If we continue to stand together, I believe this moment will mark the turning point on the road to a Democratic victory in 2012,” Pelosi writes in a new Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraising email.
Democrats will face an uphill battle reclaiming the majority after their 2010 election night drubbing that swept Republicans into control of the House.
But in the email pitch, Pelosi argues that Republicans have provided an opening, alleging that “the American people are rejecting the Tea Party Republican agenda that puts tax breaks for the wealthiest people in our country ahead of creating jobs.”
“Now, it is up to us to seize this moment,” she writes. “That’s why the looming October 31st FEC fundraising deadline is so critical. This is the last fundraising deadline before the one year out to Election Day marker and House Democrats must have a strong showing.”
Pelosi, in the email pitch, says a muscular showing in this fundraising cycle will be critical in shaping the narrative of the Democrats’ prospects.
“Our results will be closely scrutinized by the media and political pundits as an indication of our strength and determination to take the fight to the Republicans,” she writes.
The email urges donations of $3 or more for the DCCC’s “Million Dollar Match” campaign in which donations will be matched by a group of House Democrats.
“With just 25 seats standing between us and a new Democratic Majority, we can’t wait for tomorrow,” Pelosi writes.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/190569-pelosi-in-pitch-to-donors-sees-turning-point-in-2012-race
Dan Poignon:
Cain: My Administration Would Support Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Law
Sweet Jesus! I can’t. I just can’t…
Poll: Cain, Romney share lead in Iowa
By Jamie Klatell – 10/30/11 06:32 AM ET
Businessman Herman Cain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are the front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination in Iowa, according to a Des Moines Register poll released Saturday night.
Cain, who has shot to the top of national polls as well, earned 23 percent support of likely caucusgoers, and Romney has 22 percent support, the Register poll found.
With little more than two months before Iowa holds the first vote of the presidential contest, the rest of the GOP field trails by at least 10 percentage-points in the state. Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) scored 12 percent support in the poll.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, who won the Ames Straw Poll in June and was the co-leader in the Register’s poll at the time, has dropped to 8 percent.
After making a big splash in the Republican race by announcing his candidacy the same weekend as the straw poll, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has the support of only 7 percent of likely caucusgoers, the Register poll found. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has the same level of support in Iowa.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/190581-poll-cain-romney-share-lead-in-iowa-
Axelrod is takin the switch to CARBO CANDY CROWLEY’S fat AZZ this mornining! LOL
October 30, 2011 11:20 AM
‘The courage of his absence of convictions’
Perhaps the most talked-about column of the day is George Will’s piece on Mitt Romney, and for good reason. There’s quite a bit to chew on here.
Putting aside a couple of needlessly cheap shots at President Obama — the ATM joke was dumb six months ago, George, when Rush Limbaugh was the one pushing it — Will gives voice to conservatives who marvel at Romney’s vacuity, but aren’t sure what to do about it.
The driving anecdote is Romney’s inability “enunciate a defensible, or even decipherable, ethanol policy.” As is generally the case, the former governor has taken a wide variety of positions, most of them contradictory, and none of them compelling from any perspective. Will argues, persuasively, that if Romney can’t even select a coherent position on ethanol — one of the easier issues to understand — no one can have any confidence in his ability to address far more complex challenges.
“A straddle is not a political philosophy,” Will explains, “it is what you do when you do not have one.” From there, Will notes Romney trying to take both sides — and oddly enough, neither side — of a few too many arguments, including the auto industry rescue and the ridiculous handling of Ohio’s ballot measures this week.
Romney, Will concludes, seems to “lack the courage of his absence of convictions.”
Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate. Republican successes down the ticket will depend on the energies of the Tea Party and other conservatives, who will be deflated by a nominee whose blurry
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
Bachmann: I Wouldn’t Do ‘Anything’ To Help Children Of Undocumented Immigrants
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/30/michele-bachmann-immigration-citizenship_n_1065981.html#comments
Michelle Bachmann said Saturday she would not help children of immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally.
At a campaign stop in Iowa, a Latino college student asked the presidential hopeful what she would do to the children of undocumented immigrants. Bachmann reiterated her hard-line stance that the federal government should not grant them citizenship and said she “would not do anything” for them.
“Their parents are the ones who brought them here … they did not have the legal right to come to the United States,” she said. “We do not owe people who broke our laws to come into the country. We don’t owe them anything.”
Is this Christ like? Hell to the No. Bachmann has no idea about Christian values and she will answer to God for all the wicked things she has touted in Christ’ name.
They are not Christians. plain and simple.
eBay Buying Patterns Show That U.S. Is Still A Racist Society
October 29, 2011
By Wendy Gittleson
Racism can be a tough thing to study. In situations where all things appear even, they might not be even at all. For example, in situations where employers are refusing to hire minority candidates, the argument could sometimes be made (although maybe not successfully) that there are extenuating circumstances. A truly successful study of race should be made in a laboratory of sorts. The only difference between two people should be skin color.
Well, thanks to the internet, the great equalizer, we do have such a situation, eBay. Three Yale and Harvard researchers conducted a study called, “Race Effects on Ebay.” The results? Americans are racist.
Even when selling the exact same items, buyers responded more favorably to white people than to black. From Good Technology:
The researchers auctioned off moderately priced baseball cards, which were photographed held in either a dark black hand or a white hand. Though the cards themselves were the same, cards held in a black hand sold for about 20 percent less than cards held in a white hand. What’s more, “the race effect was more pronounced in sales of minority player cards.”
The eBay study mimics a similar one from 2010. While that experiment, from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, focused on iPods sold via general online classified ads, the results were sadly the same: Black sellers received fewer responses and fewer cash offers than white sellers, and the cash offers they did receive were significantly lower. Beyond that, buyers corresponding with black sellers “exhibited lower trust,” according to the researchers. In other words, they were far less likely to accept delivery by mail (44 percent) and far more likely to object to the idea of making a long-distance payment (56 percent).
The 2010 study also found that there were regional discrepancies. The Northeast part of the U.S. was the worst, where black people received 32% fewer offers. The Midwest had a 23% gap and the South, 15%. There was virtually no difference in the West.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/29/ebay-buying-patterns-show-that-u-s-is-still-a-racist-society/
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Hospital to Michael Moore: Don’t try to visit Scott Olsen-GTFOH & SIT YO FAT AZZ DOWN SOMEWHERE; JUST NOT HERE! LMBAO
Saturday, October 29, 2011
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Scott Olsen, the 25-year-old Iraq war veteran who was injured by a projectile during Tuesday’s “Occupy Oakland” demonstration, remains in fair condition.
On Saturday, a spokesperson for Highland Hospital told ABC7 News that Olsen, at the request of his insurance carrier, had been transferred to another undisclosed hospital.
The spokesperson also said documentary filmmaker Michael Moore tried to visit Olsen on Saturday. The hospital said the family has asked for Olsen’s privacy and asked Moore not to try to visit Olsen and the hospital again.
“We have a very, very polite message to Mr. Moore: Mr. Olsen is not here,” the hospital spokesperson said, “and if you do find out where he is, the Olsen family doesn’t want you to come there either.”
Moore briefly visited the “Occupy San Francisco” camp at Justin Herman Plaza on Saturday, one day after speaking in front of a large crowd of Occupy supporers at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland.
Olsen was injured by a flying projectile when police clashed with Occupy demonstrators Tuesday evening. Oakland police have said they weren’t responsible for the projectile that was thrown in Olsen’s direction
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=8411243#&cmp=twi-kgo-article-8411243
Hospital to Michael Moore: Don’t try to visit Scott Olsen-GTFOH & SIT YO FAT AZZ DOWN SOMEWHERE; JUST NOT HERE! LMBAO
***dead***
so glad his family to him to GO AWAY
This is how these mofos like Moore does. They show their asses, by inserting themselves into every cause, because the cameras will spotlight them. Nothing but GRIFTERS. Moore makes his living off the plight of the vulnerable.
David Plouffe smacked down every GOP taling point David Gregory regurgitated this morning on MTP.
GO PLOUFFE! Can we please get the video when available? Thanks!
Here is the first clip of Plouffe on Meet The Press
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Seriously, SG2, Tim Russert must be performing somersault on the regular with these GOP hacks posing as journalist. David Gregory is an amatuer and a CARD -CARRYING WATER-CARRIER for the GOP.
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Thanks for these videos. Love David Plouffe.; LOATHE David Gregory…
House Democrats Upset With Supercommittee Negotiations
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/164243/house-democrats-upset-supercommittee-negotiations
Representative Maxine Waters of California has introduced a bill to repeal the supercommittee, and the $1.2 trillion in cuts it’s mandated to make. She believes the committee is “illegitimate” and “borders on unconstitutional.”
At a breakfast meeting with progressive reporters and bloggers today, Waters said she knows her bill probably doesn’t have the support to pass right now, but she wants it on the table if the supercommittee deadlocks. “Of course its’s a long shot. But right now people are getting more and more agitated, frustrated and concerned about this supercommittee and not happy that there are those who are saying, including the president, they want even bigger cuts,” Waters said. “So it may fall apart. If it falls apart my bill is there to say ‘kill it.’ ” She added that she’s spoken to several Republicans who are equally unhappy with the supercommittee’s power.
Waters’s frustration is shared by many Democrats in the House, who feel not only shut out from the process by colleagues in the Senate—Baucus is reportedly acting with guidance from Senate majority leader Harry Reid, leaving House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on the sidelines—but are also shocked at the level of cuts to Medicare and Social Security being proposed.
Representative Henry Waxman told Politico today that he has “no stake” in the committee and called it an “outrageous process” that is “not open and transparent.” He said the “things put forward by Democrats…I would never vote for.”
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