Senate The US Politics discussion

Hee hee that site is wonderful.

 

Watching the right wing media call this Obama's katrina is laughable. And they are gonna repeat over and over and over that he lied about keeping your policy.

1. I could have sworn in all the info I intake it was not just a flat statement that you keep what you want given that they are going to reduce your bill and increase your service. I think Obama was quote mined on this.

2. let's assume he did lie. Let's say he lied right through his teeth. According to Faux/Limabugh/Beck he lied because he is trying to kill everyone and everything and those he does not kill will live in an atheist, socialist, communist, Hitler, dystopia. Bush and Cheney lied in reality right through their teeth and took this country into a war, broke the economy, and somehow that's ok. If Obama lied what did he lie about? Tricking the bad guys so that millions of people can get affordable healthcare insurance.

That bastard!

 

Legal fees in McDonnell gift scandal.

 

maybe they can use gruns to threaten people to sign up.

 

Ted Cruz's father:
* Black people are uninformed, deceived
* Obama should go back to Kenya
* Atheism causes sexual abuse and perversion
* God supports the Death Penalty, rightly shows no mercy

Sarah Palin apologizes for calling Pope Francis a "liberal"

 

A solid, though not ironclad, general principle: If Sarah Palin criticizes you, you're probably doing a good job.

 

I think Al Sharpton gets a far worse rap than he deserves, in part because he's often lumped in with the much more vile Jesse Jackson .

 

I just imagine how hilarious it would be if lightning struck both Palin and Bachman merging theme into one being. Michera Pachman

 

I don't think that's at all fair to Al Sharpton. While the man certainly started out that way, he has subsequently used his celebrity to highlight some important issues. For instance, he was an early driver of outside media coverage in both the "Jena 6" and Trayvon Martin cases. Those were important contributions to the national dialogue, and his tone was pretty restrained and responsible.* Sarah Palin, by contrast, has own used her fame to make the national political environment more toxic than it was than when she first arrived. Even among conservatives, she is admitted to have a pretty superficial grasp of issues, with little genuine or long term engagement on anything.

*While he clearly had an opinion about how each case should come out, he called for due process before the fact and for respecting the results afterwards, without indulging conspiracy theories.

 

The problem with that analogy is that if the Democratic nominee for President tried to foist Al Sharpton on us as a candidate for Vice President, and thus, a potential President of the United States, the Democratic establishment and base wouldn't seriously ask the public to take him seriously as an intellectually formidable figure.

Apropos Sharpton in general, I'm admittedly not too familiar with his entire career, but to me he strikes me as sort of a cartoon, more or less completely insignificant figure whom the Right has turned into a boogeyman as sort of the figurehead of what they think the entire population of "black people" are concerned with in the year 2013, whereas he really seems to be the grandpa who talks endlessly while you hold the phone away from your ear.

 

I would like to do without Ted Cruz because he seems more dangerous at the moment.

 

heels1785: What do you dislike so strongly about Al Sharpton? The main thing that could jump to mind is the Tawana Brawley, but I'm not aware of any evidence he knew the girl was lying. What upsets you?

 

Sharpton hasn't really started bothering me yet.

 

Sarah Palin is an idiot and a quitter.

 

Nice t-shirt there, 1980s Sarah Palin

 

Doesn't seem like a very pro-abstinence T-shirt.
Hypocrites like her daughter and herself only preach things they don't practice.