Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Sgt PSN]

Crazy lady was great, but I think the guy who said that Buddhists are taking over the country was even better. 

[ice grillin you]

if there was a god he would have long ago threw america into an ocean

[General_Failure]

He's trying, man.

[MDS]

if you watch the extra stuff that didnt make the video....at the end...the mentally challenged dude in the abercrombie shirt proves there is some microcosm of hope for young righties. if they can just leave their backwards homes and towns, they might MAYBE stop being homophobic racist hate mongering mouth breathers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6-ePaZ8148&feature=relmfu

[Rome]

Yeah it's a real shock that kid would be in favor of gay marriage.

(Sarcasms!)

[SD]

Stealing this from the EMB but these are some overwhelming numbers that Republcian policies fail:

Unemployment Rates (earliest data available is 1900. Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics & US Department of Labor)


Republican Era's
McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft (1900-12) -- 5.0 to 5.9 (+.9)
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover (1921-32) -- 5.2 to 22.9 (+17.7)
Eisenhower (1953-60) -- 3.0 to 5.5 (+2.5)
Nixon, Ford (1969-76) -- 3.6 to 7.7 (+4.1)
Reagan, Bush (1981-92) -- 7.2 to 7.5 (+.3)
Bush Jr. (2001-8) -- 4.0 to 5.8 (+1.

Net change: +27.3%

Democrat Era's
Wilson (1913-20) -- 5.9 to 5.2 (-.7)
FDR, Truman (1933-52) -- 22.9 to 3.0 (-19.9)
JFK, LBJ (1961-68) -- 5.5 to 3.6 (-1.9)
Carter (1977-80) -- 7.7 to 7.2 (-.5)
Clinton (1993-2000) -- 7.5 to 4.0 (-3.5)

Net change: -26.5%


Average Weeks Unemployed (earliest data available is 1948, latest is 2003 via same sources)


Republican Era's
Eisenhower (1953-60) -- 8.4 to 12.8 (+4.4)
Nixon, Ford (1969-76) -- 8.4 to 15.8 (+7.4)
Reagan, Bush (1981-92) -- 11.9 to 17.7 (+5.
Bush Jr. (2000-3) -- 12.6 to 19.6 (+7.0)

Net change: +24.6 weeks


Democrat Era's
Truman (1948-52) -- 8.6 to 8.4 (-.2)
JFK, LBJ (1961-68) -- 12.8 to 8.4 (-4.4)
Carter (1977-80) -- 15.8 to 11.9 (-3.9)
Clinton (1993-2000) -- 17.7 to 12.6 (-5.1)

Net change: -13.6 weeks

So much for the "welfare queen" myth, huh?


Recession Stats (National Bureau of Economic Research -- recently run by a conservative economic adviser for a number of Republican presidential candidates, Martin Feldstein)


Months of Recessions from 1900 to 2010
Republicans: 246
Democrats: 86

The statistical probability of these results happening by chance is 1 in 10,000. Adjusted per year in office, Republicans still had 2.3 times as many months of recession.


Average Length of Recessions
Republicans: 14.2
Democrats: 9.8


Number or Recessions Caused by Party
Republicans: 17
Democrats: 6


Recessions Inherited by Other Party
Republicans: 1
Democrats: 4


Months Inherited by Other Party
Republicans: 4
Democrats: 27

Recessions have historically been 3 times as frequent and 45% longer under Republicans, and led to 4 times as many years of recession as occurred during those under Democrats (20 years vs. less than 5). Republicans were 4 times as likely to pass a recession on to Democrats. When passed on, Republican recessions were harder to get out of than recessions started by Democrats.

The same source found that
during Democrat administrations, GDP grew 86% of the time vs. 66% under Republicans.


National Violent Death Rates (Age-adjusted violent deaths per 100,000 per year. Each point = 3,000 additional violent deaths proportional to our current population, for perspective. Source (originally sorted by year, not party): Holinger, Violent Deaths in the United States. The term "epidemic" was used for rates higher than the mean of 19.4)


Republican Era's
McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft -- 15.6 to 21.9 (+6.3)
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover -- 17.4 to 26.5 (+9.1)
(Stayed virtually the same under [R] Eisenhower through [D] JFK, [D] LBJ statistically considered below epidemic levels)
Nixon -- 15 to 23.2 (+8.2)
(It continued to fluctuate between 19.9 and 22.4 between [R] Reagan and [R] Bush Sr., statistically considered epidemic levels)
Bush Jr. -- 16 to 17.2 (+1.2)


Democrat Era's
Wilson -- 21.9 to 17.4 (-4.5)
FDR, Truman -- 26.5 to 15 (-11.5)
Clinton -- 21.7 to 16 (-5.7)

Democrat Jimmy Carter was the ONLY Democratic "Era" that failed to bring an epidemic level of violence to below the mean. By contrast, Republican Dwight Eisenhower was the only Republican "Era" not to bring non-epidemic violence to above the mean.

*It should be noted that even the rates under Democrat Era's were FAR higher than the rest of the industrialized world, for the most part*


Red States vs. Blue States in Violent Deaths (Source: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Public Health Services, "CDC --Injury -- WISQARS (Web-Based Injury Query and Reporting System)" Once again deaths are counted per 100,000.)


2000
Red States (Republican): 5.7 homicides, 13.0 suicides
Blue States (Democrat): 4.23 homicides, 10.0 suicides

p value = .064 for homicides*, .001 for suicides, both taken together have a p value of .000

*A p value of .064 is not statistically significant, but it's damn close. Statistical significance requires an overlap of less than 5%. Suicides certainly made the mark of statistical significance here as did both taken together with ease.


2004
Red States (Republican): 5.70 homicides, 13.9 suicides
Blue States (Democrat): 4.01 homicides, 10.2 suicides

p value = .021 for homocides, .000 for suicides, both taken together have a p value of .000

Strong statistical significance on all comparisons this time.



In other words: Economic Conservatism Fails

[Rome]

Let me begin with a shout out to all of our neighbors in the Northeast who are reeling from Hurricane Sandy and its immense impact. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

So, it's good to be here with you today–and it will be great to feel the power of your votes and voices tomorrow.

I'm here today for Wisconsin, America, and for President Obama. For the last 30 years I've been writing in my music about the distance between the American dream and American reality. I've seen it from inside and outside: as a blue collar kid from a working class home in New Jersey–where my parents struggled, often unsuccessfully–to make ends meet–to my adult life, visiting the 9th Ward in New Orleans after Katrina, or meeting folks from food pantries from all around the United States, who work daily to help our struggling citizens through the hard times we've been suffering

The American Dream and an American Reality: Our vote tomorrow is the one undeniable way we get to determine the distance in that equation. Tomorrow, we get a personal hand in shaping the kind of America we want our kids to grow up in.

I'm a husband and a dad, my lovely wife Patti is here with me. We've got three kids growing up and on their way out into the world, I'm 63 (Patti is much younger)... but we have both lived through some galvanizing moments in American history: the Civil Rights struggle, the Peace Movement, the Woman's Movement, we played in East Berlin one year before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and we were with Amnesty International a year before the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid. These were days when you could feel the winds of change moving and the world shifting beneath your feet.

And... we both remember another galvanizing moment, the night that President Obama was elected.

It was an unbelievable evening, when the hope of your heart felt fulfilled, when you could feel the locked doors of the past being blown open to new and previously unimaginable possibilities– to fresh Hope and Change.

Today we have another battle. Now we are charged with the hard daily struggle to make those possibilities, those changes real and enduring in a world that challenges your hopefulness, a world that is often brutally resistant to change. We've lived through that struggle over these past four years when the forces of opposition have been tireless.

I stood with President Obama four years ago and I'm proud to be standing with him today. Because...

I'm thankful for the historic advances in healthcare.

I'm thankful for a more regulated Wall Street that will begin to protect our citizens from the blind greed of those who over reach.

My father worked on a Ford assembly line when I was a child and I'm thankful that we have a President that had faith in the American automobile industry and that General Motors is today making cars. What else would I write about.

I'm thankful that we have a decisive President working hard to keep America safe... and I'm appreciative of the fact that, as promised, he has ended the war in Iraq and is bringing the war in Afghanistan to a close.

I'm here today because I'm concerned about Women's Rights and health issues both at home and around the World. I don't have to tell you about the dangers to Roe versus Wade under our opponents policies.

I'm also troubled by thirty years of an increasing disparity in wealth between our best off citizens and everyday Americans. That is a disparity that threatens to divide us into two distinct and separate nations. We have to be better than that.

Finally I'm here today because I've lived long enough to know that the future is rarely a tide rushing in. Its often a slow march, inch by inch, day after long day. We are in the midst of one of those long days right now. I believe that President Obama feels those long days in his bones for all 100 per cent of us. He will live those days with us.

President Obama ran last time as a man of hope and change. You hear a lot of talk about how things are different now. Things aren't any different–they're just realer. Its crunch time. The President's job, our job–yours and mine– whether your Republican, Democrat, Independent, rich, poor, black, brown, white, gay, straight, soldier, civilian–is to keep that hope alive, to combat cynicism and apathy, and to believe in our power, to change our lives and the world we live in. So, lets go to work tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that.. Lets re-elect President Barack Obama to carry our standard forward towards the America that awaits us.

I'd vote for this motherfarger right now.

[Rome]

A win would be nice today, but regardless, at least the idiocy will be over for a while.

[Don Ho]

Afargingmen to that!

[PhillyPhreak54]

I cannot wait until the results come in so these right wing nutjobs will shut the farg up

[rjs246]

What on earth would make you think that something as insignificant as an election would get them to shut up?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Nutjobs never shut up, regardless of their wing affiliation.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Good point. At least the TV ads will stop. Seven in a row came on last night while watching the news.

http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machine-turns-vote-for-obama-into-one-for-romney/

Meanwhile....

[General_Failure]

I signed up for something online related to voter registration, and since then Obama has been sending me these uncomfortably casual emails. Lately they've been getting into that "creepy uncle who still uses AOL" phase, where he's asking me to forward shtein to people.

I don't know who's actually responsible for these emails, but nobody should be getting anything from the POTUS signed with:

-B

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

He wants you to know he's hip, he's cool, he's DTF. Bitch.

-A