Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Diomedes]

I don't know guys, I think he's alright.  He's gonna restore America!

[Munson]

He's gonna take our country back!


Wait....Feva doesn't read this thread right? Okay, yeah...OUR country!

[SD]

6 years old but deserves to be reposted.

Clinton kicking the crap out of Foxnews:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DI7u-TytRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L2513JFJsY&feature=relmfu

By far the greatest President we'll ever see in our lifetime.

[Eagles_Legendz]

He's worse than Bush in my opinion. I disliked Bush, he was a bumbling idiot, his policies sucked, but deep down I felt he was a decent person. With Romney I see the greedy, fake, rich guy who like you said could care less about the country he just wants the power of being in office. I made it through every w speech but I couldn't make it through Romney's RNC speech because it was so sappy and phony.

I wouldn't really care if Romney just ran on "I'm super rich, and have business experience and disagree 100% with Obama's economic policies", didn't try to hide his wealth, just admitted what he was and was up front about his lack of interest in social issues.  He can't pull off the fake empathetic I care about more than money schtick though, and by trying to, he makes himself look worse every day.

[rjs246]

I think I've said this before but the dangerous thing about Romney is the same thing that was dangerous about Bush. He's running for president on a whim. This time it's not the whim of an unintelligent son of a former president, but the whim of a hyper-rich, spoiled, sefl-centered brat. Someone who thinks that the silver spoon in his mouth entitled him to be and do whatever he wants. (Someone who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple, as someone said earlier.)

He's probably even more dangerous than Bush because he's slippery and intelligent but totally unprincipled and single-mindedly focused on becoming president. I wouldn't mind him if he were a principled centrist, but his moderate record is a product of political expediency not some deep-seeded principle of cooperation and compromise for the greater good.

Beyond that, the things he stands for could not possibly be worse for the country at this moment in time. The imbalance of wealth, which has been growing under the radar for decades, is now at a point where something needs to be done about it or we're in for real trouble. And he represents that wrong side of that conversation.

[Seabiscuit36]

His name is "Mitt" that is incredibly accurate

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=2ref=opinion&

The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001. By May 1, the Central Intelligence Agency told the White House of a report that "a group presently in the United States" was planning a terrorist operation. Weeks later, on June 22, the daily brief reported that Qaeda strikes could be "imminent," although intelligence suggested the time frame was flexible.

But some in the administration considered the warning to be just bluster. An intelligence official and a member of the Bush administration both told me in interviews that the neoconservative leaders who had recently assumed power at the Pentagon were warning the White House that the C.I.A. had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat. Intelligence officials, these sources said, protested that the idea of Bin Laden, an Islamic fundamentalist, conspiring with Mr. Hussein, an Iraqi secularist, was ridiculous, but the neoconservatives' suspicions were nevertheless carrying the day.

In response, the C.I.A. prepared an analysis that all but pleaded with the White House to accept that the danger from Bin Laden was real.

"The U.S. is not the target of a disinformation campaign by Usama Bin Laden," the daily brief of June 29 read, using the government's transliteration of Bin Laden's first name. Going on for more than a page, the document recited much of the evidence, including an interview that month with a Middle Eastern journalist in which Bin Laden aides warned of a coming attack, as well as competitive pressures that the terrorist leader was feeling, given the number of Islamists being recruited for the separatist Russian region of Chechnya.

And the C.I.A. repeated the warnings in the briefs that followed. Operatives connected to Bin Laden, one reported on June 29, expected the planned near-term attacks to have "dramatic consequences," including major casualties. On July 1, the brief stated that the operation had been delayed, but "will occur soon." Some of the briefs again reminded Mr. Bush that the attack timing was flexible, and that, despite any perceived delay, the planned assault was on track.

Yet, the White House failed to take significant action. Officials at the Counterterrorism Center of the C.I.A. grew apoplectic.

[paco]

Not safe for work, but ring tone worthy...

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Barack Obama is tired of your ****

3 years ago, I made an awesome discovery: the audiobook version of Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father.

The main draw of the audiobook is that it’s actually narrated by Obama. It’s interesting to hear him imitate the voices of some of the people that have been important in his life. Like Ray, for example.

Ray, a former high school classmate, was savvy and streetwise, with a new take on black culture and white America. Best of all, Ray had an extremely colorful manner of self-expression. In other words, he cursed. A lot.

That means the President curses. A lot.
In fact you’re about to hear the POTUS swear like a MF.

When I first posted these, about 8 months before I started Regretsy, I got over 30 million hits and a lot of hate mail. So before you decide to write me a long boring email I’ll need help to read, ask yourself one thing:

Direct MP3 links:

You Can Have My Number

Sorry a** MF

Complicated

You ain't my ****

White Folks

[Diomedes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19570254

U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, other staffers, reportedly killed by rocket attack on his car.

Motherfargers.

[ice grillin you]

it wasnt on his car.....they were in the consulate trying to help others get out...early reports say they were closed in a room and died of smoke inhilation

[ice grillin you]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mr60SiHOTQ&feature=youtu.be

[Munson]

[phattymatty]

he's slowly turning from unlikable rich guy to a disgusting human being.

Some moments show you when a candidate is ready or not to become President of the United States. I suspect last night will become one of those moments for Mitt Romney. The verdict will not be positive.

As I noted last night, when the full scale of the events in Cairo and Benghazi remained unknown, the Romney campaign let fly a crude political attack both blaming the Obama administration for the attacks and suggesting that the President actually sympathized with them. This was after it was known that an as yet-unnamed Foreign Service Officer (later identified as Sean Smith) had died.

The statement read as follows ...

    "I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."

This was followed shortly by another attack from one of Romney's prime surrogates, RNC Chair Reince Priebus, explicitly accusing the President of sympathizing with the attackers.

Romney's attack was not only ill-judged and ill-timed, it was actually based on what appears to be a demonstrable falsehood. Romney, or folks writing in his name at his campaign, claimed that the administration's first response to the attacks was to issue a press release condemning the anti-Islam film which had helped trigger the attack. This they picked wholesale from the right-wing blogosphere.

In fact, according to all available press reports and the account of the State Department, the press release in question came from the US Embassy in Egypt and preceded the attacks. So to claim it was a response to the attacks was simply false. So while American diplomats were dying in the field, Romney pops up with an egregious attempt to politicize the deaths with a flat out lie.

Behind the curtains a more chaotic and rash picture emerges.

The statement from the Romney campaign was initially released by Romney press secretary Andrea Saul at 10:09 PM — but under an embargo until midnight on September 12th. In other words, it was embargoed until September 11th was over.

Then a few minutes later at 10:24 PM the embargo was lifted and reporters were told they could use the statement immediately. There was no clear explanation of the change.

Bear in mind, this was all happening while attacks on US personnel abroad were ongoing. According to a statement released this morning by the White House, the President was told last night that Ambassador Chris Stevens was unaccounted for. Only this morning did he learn that Stevens had died in the attacks that were on-going last night.

The campaign also authorized Romney's top foreign policy advisor to give a blistering interview attacking the president while the attacks were continuing.

Politics is hardball. Everything is, in some sense, fair. But campaigns are also a prism into the judgment and steadiness under pressure of a person who would be president. This was amateur hour for the opposition campaign last night, reminiscent of John McCain's rash call four years ago to cancel the presidential debates and the campaign itself to deal with the unfolding economic crisis. There was nothing ignoble or dishonorable about McCain's suggestion. It just showed a certain rashness that was widely viewed as unpresidential.

Romney's moment was quite different — rash and shameful. Not worthy of a president. Crass, undignified and troubling on many levels.

[ice grillin you]

Ryan, Cantor Should be Embarrassed
Richard J. Cohen
President, Southern Poverty Law Center

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor should be embarrassed.

Why?

Because they're lending the prestige of their offices to hate groups that spread incendiary lies about the LGBT community and others.

Ryan and Cantor are among a number of high-ranking public officials slated to speak this week at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.

The summit is hosted by the Family Research Council (FRC), a group that portrays gay people as sick, evil, perverted, incestuous and a danger to the nation. It insists that gay people are "fundamentally incapable" of providing good homes for children - a myth that has been rejected by all relevant scientific authorities. One of its key leaders has actually said that homosexual behavior should be criminalized.

Perhaps the FRC's most dangerous lie is its claim that gay men molest children at a higher rate than heterosexual men do - that pedophilia is, in the words of FRC President Tony Perkins, a "homosexual problem." Here's what the American Psychological Association says: "Despite a common myth, homosexual men are not more likely to sexually abuse children than heterosexual men are."

The FRC's extremism is also illustrated by its recent hiring of retired Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin, a radical anti-Muslim propagandist and conspiracy theorist, as its executive vice president. Last year, Boykin stated that "Islam is not a religion and does not deserve First Amendment protections" - a statement that is antithetical to American ideals. In the Affordable Care Act, he literally sees a plot to create a shadow police force that he compares to Hitler's "Brownshirts." Yet, the FRC has not only hired Boykin, it has given him a prominent speaking slot at the Values Voter Summit.

One of the summit's co-sponsors, the American Family Association, has gone so far as to link homosexuality to the Holocaust. Here is what Bryan Fischer, the AFA's director of issue analysis, wrote in 2010: "Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and 6 million dead Jews." He also once said that welfare rewards black people who "rut like rabbits."

The Southern Poverty Law Center, where I work, has designated both the FRC and the AFA as hate groups.

Contrary to what the FRC has repeatedly claimed, we do not list either as a hate group because of their opposition to gay marriage or because of their religious beliefs. Instead, we list them because they engage in baseless, incendiary name-calling and spread false propaganda.

Linking the LGBT community to pedophilia is not an expression of a religious belief, as Perkins would have it. It's simply a lie - and a particularly ugly one at that. Constantly portraying gay people as sick, evil, perverted, incestuous and a danger to the nation simply adds fuel to the fire.

And it's a fire that is raging in our country.

As the FBI hate crime data shows, the LGBT community - the community that the FRC and the AFA constantly vilify - is, by far, the minority group most targeted for violent hate crimes. And the FBI statistics don't even take into account the epidemic of anti-LGBT bullying in our schools - an epidemic that has led to suicides.

And what, by the way, does Perkins say about the "It Gets Better" campaign, an initiative designed to give bullied LGBT students hope for a better tomorrow? "It's disgusting," according to Perkins, all part of a "concerted effort" to "recruit" children into the gay "lifestyle."

Just whose values are being represented at the Values Voter Summit?

Are these the values of Reps. Ryan and Cantor?

No public official - least of all prominent officials like Ryan, Cantor and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who is also speaking - should lend their good names to such a gathering. Instead, they should distance themselves from it.

That's why we and other human rights groups have sent a letter to Ryan, Cantor and others urging them not to speak at the summit. We hope they listen.

[ice grillin you]

:rjsdiobatsignal

the house just passed a five year extension of the foreign intelligence surveillance act.....which allows the NSA to legally listen in on the phonecalls americans have with those abroad