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| Baldo | Sep 6 2012, 11:27 PM Post #271 |
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Krauthammer On Obama: "One Of The Emptiest Speeches I Have Ever Heard" CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I was stunned. This is a man who gave one of the great speeches of our time in 2004, and he gave one of the emptiest speeches I have ever heard on a national stage. Yes, it had cadence, and yes, there were deceptions in it, but that is not what is so striking about it. There was nothing in it. This is a man who believes that government can and should do a lot. There is nothing in here that tells us how he's going to go from today to tomorrow. For any of the so called goals and what government is going to do, what is he going to enact? At least Romney had a five point plan. What we heard from Obama was a vision. And he pulls numbers out of a hat. 100,000 new math and science teachers. 600,000 more people working in natural gas. Two million more trainees, and he doesn't say how we get from A to B. It's a vision. I have a vision of an America where there is no disease and everybody has a private airplane, but unless I tell you how we get there, I’ve said nothing. And what is so surprising, is that - all he had left - he can't speak about his record on the economy, and it's not a good one. As we heard, he didn't speak about achievements, the one that's liberals like, ObamaCare, stimulus and etc… they're unpopular. So, at least he would talk about the future, what he's going to to. There was nothing there. I’m amazed that he was -- it was like this is a guy who is the A student in the class turning in a paper clearly a C, and the teacher says, “How could you do this? Why did you mail it in?” I felt the Biden speech was infinitely better, because it was empathic and carried a message, but the Obama speech, I thought was flat and had no content in it. Otherwise, I loved it, really…snipped http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/09/06/krauthammer_on_obama_one_of_the_emptiest_speeches_i_have_ever_heard.html see video at site |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 7 2012, 12:09 AM Post #272 |
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/thats-it.php |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 7 2012, 12:12 AM Post #273 |
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State Dept. Again Refuses to Name Capital of Israel http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/state-dept-again-refuses-name-capital-israel_651863.html |
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| Joan Foster | Sep 7 2012, 06:17 AM Post #274 |
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I think that "I AM the President" line is going to show up in ads...and not ones Obama will like. |
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| Kerri P. | Sep 7 2012, 06:26 AM Post #275 |
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http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-obama-phantom-peace-dividend-033637499--election.html FACT CHECK: Obama and the phantom peace dividend WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama laid claim to a peace dividend that doesn't exist when he told the nation he wants to use money saved by ending wars to build highways, schools and bridges. The wars were largely financed by borrowing, so there is no ready pile of cash to be diverted to anything else. The claim was one of several by Obama in his acceptance speech Thursday at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., and by Vice President Joe Biden in earlier remarks that did not match the facts. A look at some of their assertions: OBAMA: "I'll use the money we're no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and put more people back to work — rebuilding roads and bridges, schools and runways. After two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, it's time to do some nation-building right here at home." THE FACTS: The idea of taking war savings to pay for other programs is budgetary sleight of hand, given that the wars were paid for with increased debt. Obama can essentially "pay down our debt," as he said, by borrowing less now that war is ending. But he still must borrow to do the extra "nation-building" he envisions. He made a similar statement in his State of the Union address, and it is no less misleading now than in January. And the savings appear to be based at least in part on inflated war spending estimates for future years. ___ OBAMA: "We will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we'll do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more." THE FACTS: Some of the proposals the Obama administration has floated in budget negotiations with Congress would ask Medicare beneficiaries to pay more. Among them: revamping co-payments and deductibles in ways that could raise costs for retirees and increasing premiums for certain beneficiaries. Obama even indicated a willingness to consider raising the eligibility age, currently 65, to 67. As word of some of the proposals leaked out, the president faced a backlash from fellow Democrats. He has since said he would not accept Medicare cuts as a part of a deficit reduction deal, unless it also includes higher taxes on the wealthy. Still, some level of increased costs for middle-class and upper-income Medicare recipients is likely to be part of any future deficit reduction deal. ___ OBAMA: "We can help big factories and small businesses double their exports, and if we choose this path, we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four years." THE FACTS: Obama has claimed an increase of some 500,000 manufacturing jobs over the past 29 months. But this is cherry picking by the president. From the beginning of Obama's term 3 1/2 years ago, manufacturing jobs have declined by more than 500,000, according to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Manufacturing jobs have been on a steady decline for nearly two decades. Even though there has been a modest uptick in manufacturing jobs this year, unless there is a major turnaround, it seems unlikely that Obama's goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs can be reached by his target date of 2016. ___ OBAMA: "And now you have a choice: We can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here in the United States of America." BIDEN: "Gov. Romney believes that in the global economy, it doesn't much matter where American companies put their money or where they create jobs. As a matter of fact, he has a new tax proposal — the territorial tax — that experts say will create 800,000 jobs, all of them overseas." THE FACTS: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's proposal is actually aimed at encouraging investment in the U.S., not overseas. The U.S. currently has a global tax system that is filled with credits, exemptions and deductions that enable many companies to avoid U.S. taxes and provides an incentive for corporations to keep their profits in other countries. Whether Romney's plan would spur investment in the U.S. is debatable, but it's not a plan aimed at dispersing profits abroad. Experts differ on the impact of a territorial system on employment in the U.S. But Biden's implication that Romney's plan sends jobs abroad is not supported by the expert opinion he cites. Kimberly Clausing, an economics professor at Reed College in Portland, Ore., said a pure territorial tax system could increase employment in low-tax countries by 800,000. But that did not mean U.S. jobs moving overseas. Clausing later wrote: "My analysis does not speak to the effects on jobs in the United States." ___ OBAMA: "You can choose a future where we reduce our deficit without wrecking our middle class. Independent analysis shows that my plan would cut our deficits by $4 trillion." THE FACTS: Three years ago, Obama pledged to cut in half the deficit "we inherited" by the end of his first term, a mark he's set to miss by a wide margin. The deficit when he took office was $1.2 trillion, and the $800 billion stimulus bill Obama signed soon afterward increased the shortfall to over $1.4 trillion. The White House predicts this year's federal budget deficit will end up at $1.2 trillion, marking the fourth consecutive year of trillion dollar-plus red ink. Obama's new $4 trillion target over 10 years resets the goalposts with some fancy budget footwork. For one thing, it includes $1 trillion in cuts already signed into law. And it assumes that Congress will pass the administration's plan to raise the capital gains tax, boost taxes on households earning over $250,000 a year and impose a minimum 30 percent tax on incomes above $1 million. It also assumes a reduction in the amount of interest the government must pay on its debt. ___ BIDEN: "After the worst job loss since the Great Depression, we've created 4.5 million private sector jobs in the past 29 months." THE FACTS: This seems to be a favorite statistic, because many speakers at the convention cited it. But it's misleading — a figure that counts jobs from when the recession reached its trough and employment began to grow again. It excludes jobs lost earlier in Obama's term, and masks the fact that joblessness overall has risen over Obama's term so far. As well, in the same 29 months that private sector jobs grew by 4.5 million, jobs in the public sector declined by about 500,000, making the net gain in that period about 4 million. Overall, some 7.5 million jobs were lost during the recession that began in December 2007 in President George W. Bush's term and ended officially in June 2009 with Obama as president. Never since World War II has the economy been so slow to recover all the jobs lost in a downturn. ___ OBAMA: "Millions of students are paying less for college today because we finally took on a system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders." THE FACTS: "Technically it is true," said Bryan Cook, director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the American Council on Education. "How much of a savings is not clear." Large increases in federal Pell Grants, GI Bill benefits and the 2009 American Opportunity Tax Credit led to a significant increase in the amount of aid provided to students who qualify for these benefits. The current per year maximum Pell Grant is $5,550 — $900 higher than it was in 2008 for a program that serves more than 9 million students. Under the Obama administration, Congress passed legislation requiring all federal loans be issued through the Education Department; previously, they were also issued by private lenders. This will also probably mean students pay less in the long term. ___ OBAMA: "In 2014, our longest war will be over." THE FACTS: Although most U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, thousands are likely to stay and continue a U.S. presence for years. There is no telling what fighting they might be drawn into, despite the decision to end the U.S. combat role. Military leaders and administration officials have not yet said how many will stay, asserting that such decisions are far from being made. But analysts say the U.S. envisions a post-2014 force of as many as 20,000 American troops to continue training the Afghan forces, hunt terrorists and keep watch on Iran and other nations in the region. ___ BIDEN: "What they didn't tell you is that the plan they've put down on paper would immediately cut benefits to more than 30 million seniors already on Medicare. What they didn't tell you is the plan they're proposing would cause Medicare to go bankrupt by 2016." THE FACTS: Biden wasn't referring to any Medicare plan of Romney or running mate Paul Ryan, but to the consequences of fully repealing Obama's health care law, which is unpopular with seniors even though it has sweetened Medicare in certain ways. A Medicare plan put forward by Ryan in Congress would have no immediate effect because it would apply only to future retirees. Obama's health care law improved Medicare benefits, adding better coverage for beneficiaries with high prescription costs as well as removing co-pays for a set of preventive benefits. If the law is repealed, those benefits would be lost unless Congress decides otherwise. Similarly, Romney's promise to restore Obama's $716 billion in Medicare cuts could have unintended consequences for the program. The cuts don't affect seniors directly, instead falling on hospitals, insurers and other service providers. Restoring the higher payments to providers would accelerate the depletion of Medicare's trust fund for inpatient care, from 2024 currently to 2016, unless Congress acts to stave that off. |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 7 2012, 06:28 AM Post #276 |
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IIRC, they used to laugh at Nixon for saying that. Plus, it's a line from a movie. |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 7 2012, 07:13 AM Post #277 |
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http://michellemalkin.com/2012/09/07/circus-of-the-vagina-gogues-vs-archbishop-timothy-cardinal-dolan/ |
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| foxglove | Sep 7 2012, 07:37 AM Post #278 |
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The people find it hard to believe that the elites don't wish for them to thrive. With the decline of Christianity and traditional religion in the public square, the leadership void is filled by those with selfish motives. There have been a lot of things that have transformed the country over time including psychological manipulation via marketing techniques and the media. The effect of some foundations such as the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations are important. The Rockefeller Foundation have been at the forefront of the abortion movement (eugenics?) and the Carnegie Foundation has been active in education for a long time, to the detriment, IMO, of true education. There have been faulty philosophies which have taken root. Keynesian economics, for one. Many people are being made stupid and pathological. They need to reject the notions and manipulations foisted upon them by well meaning or not so well meaning "experts". They need to be more selective and discriminating and less open to every sales pitch. They need, IMO, to hold on to traditions, heritage, family and faith which form their own identities. Edited by foxglove, Sep 7 2012, 07:44 AM.
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| Baldo | Sep 7 2012, 11:16 AM Post #279 |
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Clint Eastwood: “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.” http://www.pineconearchive.com/120907-1.html Edited by Baldo, Sep 7 2012, 11:17 AM.
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| kbp | Sep 7 2012, 12:49 PM Post #280 |
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| Deleted User | Sep 7 2012, 07:27 PM Post #281 |
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Hell, we could have told you that four years ago. |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 7 2012, 11:36 PM Post #282 |
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Democrats' Controversial Draft Platform Passed Unanimously in Detroit in August Democrats are pretending that flaws in their party's platform, which excluded much pro-Israel language and any reference to God, are the result of "technical oversight." The truth is that the Democrats' draft platform was the result of a meticulous process handled by Newark mayor Cory Booker, and passed unanimously on August 11th. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/06/Democrats-Draft-Platform-Passed-Unanimously-in-Detroit-in-August |
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| abb | Sep 8 2012, 06:17 AM Post #283 |
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Pigs fly!!! Hell has frozen over!!! From the WaPo's Dana Milbank: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-lowers-the-bar-on-hope-and-change/2012/09/07/dbf3ea82-f8dc-11e1-8b93-c4f4ab1c8d13_print.html Obama the demigod comes down to Earth |
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| Joan Foster | Sep 8 2012, 07:43 AM Post #284 |
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Et tu, Brute...then, hit the road, Barack. By the way, anybody else here look at the odious Sandra Fluke and think ....LEVICY! |
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| Duke parent 2004 | Sep 8 2012, 08:35 AM Post #285 |
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The only president of the past half century who came even close to delivering on his first-term promise was Reagan, and even "the Great Communicator" ultimately failed those who expected him to collar that monster, the federal bureaucracy.. Yet mainstream journalists continue writing as if campaign rhetoric and slick verbal virtuosity were once more credible than the dissimulation and bombast they were at the outset. Each time the lights in my house flicker, I say to myself, "Ah, somewhere some young journalist-in-training has just kissed an electrical outlet." |
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