LEE RODGERSDEMOCRATS(!) DEMANDING DEMAGOGUE
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THE FACEBOOK FOLLIES (cont.) ...
WIN WARS OR STAY HOME
THE FACEBOOK FOLLIES (cont.) ...
WIN WARS OR STAY HOME
The Arkansas and Kentucky Democratic primary results point to another embarrassment like West Virginia, where a Texas convict got more than 40% of the Democrat votes vs. Obama.
Arkansas and the Blue Grass State look like a repeat of that jolt, with a nobody pulling over 40% in the former and "uncommitted" repeating it in the latter. Party leaders are going to have to admit major defections are taking place among their voting base and present a real danger to President Composite's re-election chances.
When four out of ten Democrats anywhere are saying they've had enough of their own man, the message should be clear. Not that party leaders will say so in public.
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It appears that many Democrats recognize the absurdity of questioning Romney's "qualifications" when they recall that their nothingburger in the White House had a background as (A) a "community organizer" and (B) evading real decisions as a legislator by voting "present."
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Fact-check. Mitt Romney's career as a Bain Capital executive ended years ago. And while the Obama campaign decries job losses at businesses Bain couldn't save, they ignore the presence of Jonathan Lavine, a long-time Bain executive and member of the board when the losses they decry actually occurred.
Perhaps it's because Mr. Lavine is one of Obama's biggest campaign contributors. He's been with Bain since 1993. Don't learn THAT from the Obama campaign ads and hype, do you?
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Musing about a potential key election factor not being discussed ...
With all the focus on the Ohio-Florida-Virginia axis being the vital elements come November, what about Pennsylvania. Is it so reliably in the Obama camp that even Obama's openly-declared war on coal, a vital part of that state's economy, could not swing it against him?
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James Robbins in the Washington Times ...
"For a while last week, it seemed like the Internet boom of the late 1990s had returned. America was seized with the kind of irrational euphoria that quickly made and lost fortunes when the dot-com bubble popped in March 2000. Headlines promised instant riches. Facebook’s IPO was spring-loaded to soar. U2’s Bono, an early investor, would be richer than the surviving Beatles. Facebook was going to be such a strong opener that it would boost the entire sagging market. So said the hype.
"Facebook was priced at the high end of its projected value, and 122 times its earnings. More established tech stocks like Microsoft, Apple and especially Google, which is seen as a direct competitor, are priced between 10 and 20 times earnings. By those standards, Facebook should be trading under $10."
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Footnote to the fallout from the Facebook stock debacle: It turns out that Morgan Stanley, the lead financial institution, warned some of its major clients just before the stock hit the market that this might not be such a great investment, after all.
(Full disclosure: I am a Morgan Stanley client, but obviously not big enough to be warned ... not that I was planning to invest in this boondoggle, anyway -- as regular readers of this column would know.)
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"All the Facebook tabulation of recent days -- whatever it may have meant to Mark Zuckerberg and his brokers -- brought to certain others in the great extended American community a certain sense of relief. It is not essential -- a matter of destiny -- some of us now know, to buy into the whole Facebook thing or for that matter even a sliver of it. We can safely ignore the whole thing. That is what we have learned by reading about Facebook." -- Bill Murchison, Townhall.com --
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Jay Leno --"Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his Harvard dorm room and in eight years built it into the most popular waste of time the world has ever seen."
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Craig Ferguson --
"Some people use Facebook to check up on ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends. That just seems creepy to me. I like it the old-fashioned way. If you want to check up on an ex, go through their trash."
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It screams "bias!" when the old (and dying) alphabet TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) virtually buried the biggest news story of the week, the lawsuit by major Catholic institutions against the Obama plot to force them to subsidize birth control and abortion-inducing drugs.
And no, I am not Catholic.
Next: How long before someone with less restraint suggests that a Catholic voting for Obama is akin to any Jews who, in the 1930's, voted for a certain prominent political figure in Europe who achieved, shall we say, notoriety.
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Marist poll: 74% of adults surveyed said that freedom of religion should take precedence over government laws, even though the poll had an admitted seven-point Democrat bias.
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Now Senate Democrats want to increase the price of airline tickets by charging a higher fee for airport "security." In other words, they want you to pay more for the privilege of being groped, insulted and otherwise abused by the TSA's hated airport Gestapo.
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Perhaps the best argument Democrats can muster in opposing the rumored replacement of Joe Biden with Hillary as a VP candidate is the concern that Obama needs a running mate who at least appears to be dumber than himself.
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Blatant blind-spot dep't. While Obamunists are trying to create a phony issue because Mrs. Romney likes horses, they ignore the fact that President Composite likes dogs -- to eat.
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Wonder how former Obama hatchet-man and now Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel views his former boss' much-admired "Occupy" mob now that three of their leaders have been caught in a plot to fire-bomb his (the mayor's) house?
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Why would Democrats so vehemently oppose laws requiring that voters present legal identification before casting a ballot unless they believed that the prohibition of illegal voting would jeopardize their election chances in many precincts and districts? Or perhaps they're heeding the call of all those dead people still on the voter rolls in Florida and many other places.
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New numbers from Rasmussen polling reveal that 51% of likely voters would like all U.S. troops withdrawn from Europe with only 29% disagreeing.
Understandable. Whereas the Germany-Japan-Italy axis was a clear threat to the United States in the 20th century, Americans are largely fed-up with paying for the defense of freeloading foreigners in the absence of such a threat to our own well-being and future, and even more fed-up with fighting on behalf of people whose gratitude is, at best, limited. Current example: Just what, exactly, can we realistically expect to achieve in Afghanistan? To more and more Americans, it looks as if we're spending billions of dollars we can ill afford and losing lives of our military to no real purpose.
It is clear that Obama has no will to win the war, yet is willing to see more lives lost in a pointless slow-motion withdrawal.
Stupid.
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The Washington Times views the latest Obama embarrassments ...
"President Obama is hosting two high-level international meetings in a week. He is offering his solutions to global economic and security issues. It’s doubtful the rest of the world is listening.
"Mr. Obama’s international stature has decreased markedly since the heady days when he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize after only 11 days in office.
"NATO leaders from Eastern Europe no doubt remember the incident in March when an open mic caught a private moment the U.S. president had with Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev.He said, “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.” The comments suggested that once the political season was over - once he could no longer be held accountable - he would take actions that would be more to Moscow’s liking.
"For his part, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made his implicit assessment of Mr. Obama’s impotence by skipping last weekend’s G-8 economic event. Mr. Obama’s primary message at the G-8 - that European leaders should ease back on austerity measures and open the spigots of government spending - was welcomed by socialists like France’s newly elected President Francois Hollande. But to fiscal conservatives abroad, this was unwelcome advice to increase their debt to Obama-style levels, which would only worsen their long-term economic malaise. Mr. Obama’s proposed solution to their problems is what caused their economic meltdown in the first place."
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Simple question: Did or did not Barack Hussein Obama enroll at Occidental College, Columbia University or Harvard as a foreign student? Is that impossible for the Obama machine to answer?
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"You know what Greece needs? Bain Capital." -- Ann Coulter
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Columnist Debra J. Saunders (I'm one of the few privy to what the "J" stands for!) expands on Obama's self-proclaimed role ...
"The president explained that the goal of private investment is to 'maximize profits,' whereas a president's job is to make sure that everyone has 'a fair shot' and that everyone pays his or her 'fair share' of taxes.
"That's the problem with Obama; he thinks he's the fairness czar. He didn't say that a president is supposed to create an environment that nurtures business success. He said a president is supposed to make sure that nobody walks away with too much.
"When you're president, Obama said, 'your job is to think about those workers who get laid off and how are we paying for their retraining.' Obama's war is a war on private money. He thinks his job is to create job training programs, not create an environment that creates real jobs."
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I long ago decided (in my then-role as a talk-show host) that I would not cringe at the charge by liberal demagogues that conservatives are purveyors of "hate." Much more satisfying to say, "Damned right I hate what you stand for and I will do everything within my limited capability to destroy your idiotic ideology! You are an unprincipled bunch of fools, and I refuse to concede an inch to your destructive schemes."
Try it.
Ahhh, doesn't that feel better?
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Sic transit gloria. CNN's ratings (i.e., audience size) for evening primetime have reached their lowest point in twenty years. Blatant propagandizing for the left does have a ceiling.
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A toast -- with sake, please -- to Tamae Watanabe of Japan. At age 73, the just becaome the oldest woman to climb to the top of Mt. Everest.
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Columnist Cindy Adams reports on goings-on at New York's Westside Theatre. “Old Jews Telling Jokes.” One old Jew who saw the show relayed a joke:
Sam: “I own 1,200 acres, raise horses and I call it Jolly Roger.” Moe: “I own 5,000 acres, raise cattle and I call it Big Johns. Irving: “I own two acres, but I raise nothing. I call it Times Square.”
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."