Margaret, once again I am going to have to call bullshit. I get that most people thought President Obama didn’t put in a stellar performance at the debate. And I understand that his not doing well was newsworthy. After all, he’s done much better in the past with much less on the line. But I can’t believe that I actually need to tell the media just how the cow ate the cabbage on this one.
It’s pretty simple really. The other guy lied.
How can the media continue to make Obama’s poor performance the top story rather than the fact that the other guy looked really, really great while he lied through his teeth?
In the primary debates, Romney is on record as saying that he would lower taxes for the wealthiest Americans because that would lead to job growth. That’s not an assumption on my part. It’s almost a direct quote. But in the debate last week, he said that he wouldn’t lower taxes on the wealthy. Now, one of the two is a lie. So shouldn’t we be focusing on which one is the lie rather than on which candidate looked more excited to be there?
Romney actually claims he will lower taxes for everyone. At the same time he will increase defense spending, not cut Medicare or Social Security, keep most of Obamacare (while simultaneously repealing it) and somehow in the end he will decrease the deficit. I don’t know what he’s smoking but I bet its illegal in the Mormon church.
How in the world can we continue to claim that Romney won the debate? He couldn’t have taken more opposing positions if he was playing a game of Twister.
Left foot yellow. During the debate, Romney claimed that Obamacare “puts in place an unelected board that’s going to tell people ultimately what kind of treatments they can have.” Another lie. But wow what energy in the delivery! The point goes to Romney on style alone. Never has talking out of both sides of one’s mouth looked so good.
Right hand red. Romney wants to repeal Dodd-Frank because the bill designates banks as “too big to fail” and therefore gives them “a blank check.” Yet another lie. But he looked very presidential while saying it so we’ll let it slide.
Right foot blue. Romney also took Obama to task on the economy’s performance over the past four years. Romney said that we have “23 million people out of work…The proof of that is that 50 percent of college graduates this year can’t find work.” In case you didn’t notice that’s a lie followed by another lie. But hey, the President was looking down at the time, so let’s hire a body language specialist and make that the lead story for the next seven days.
Right hand green. Obamacare cutting billions from Medicare was one of Romney’s favorite attack lines. Romney looked straight at the camera and said that $716 billion was cut from Medicare because of the Affordable Care Act. Yes. It was another lie. At this point his pants were literally on fire. You just couldn’t see it because of the podium. However, President Obama looks like he doesn’t want to be here so let’s focus on that and ignore the smoke coming from Romney’s magic underwear.
This country went to war twice because the media was so afraid of appearing liberal that they were too scared to report the truth. I really thought we had learned our lesson with Bush. Calling a liar a liar, even if that liar is a Republican, doesn’t mean you have a liberal bias. It means you are reporting the facts.
Well if the media won’t do it, I will…
This just in: It wasn’t clear at first, but we checked the facts and Romney was lying. He also failed his urine test and is being stripped of any debate medals. It appears now that Obama won the debate. Feel free to call me liberal. I can take it. I mean it. Really.
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Yes I like Romney.I think he’d do a good job!McCain would have us at war for four more years.I hope they derail the Straight Jacket Express and send that McCain paickng for voting for Amnesty for Illegal Aliens!
By: Einfach on December 18, 2012
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I somehow missed reading this earlier but now have and I’m laughing out loud. Magic underwear, Twister, sounds like a slumber party of teenage
Mormon girls.
By: Terry Waggle on October 26, 2012
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OK. You two are far better than mainstream media on calling bullshit. Thank you so much.
By: fresh tracks on October 19, 2012
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“And Truth, thanks for posting that message. Shows I am able to step up and admit when I am wrong, and I did so.” Anonymous on October 13, 2012 at 10:47 AM
You did admit you were wrong but blamed him for your immature outbursts as he fails to give you his total undivided attention. You then proceeded to insult him. You had to make amends as you have no other blogs where you would be accepted to spew what you fantasize as being intelligent thought.
By: Truth Teller on October 13, 2012
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BIDEN: “We went out and rescued General Motors.”
THE FACTS: Actually, the auto bailout of General Motors and Chrysler began under President George W. Bush.
BIDEN, when asked who would pay more taxes in Obama’s second term: “People making a million dollars or more.”
THE FACTS: Obama’s proposed tax increase reaches farther down the income ladder than millionaires. He wants to roll back Bush-era tax cuts for individuals making over $200,000 and couples making more than $250,000.
And Truth, thanks for posting that message. Shows I am able to step up and admit when I am wrong, and I did so.
By: Anonymous on October 13, 2012
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Dear Auntie Jean,
In the old days it was the quickening, the first movement of the baby. And men called their sperm seed because they thought they were planting their seeds in our wombs – as usual, they only got it half right!! The Catholic church “defined” life as beginning at conception as a CYA affair because they can’t know when the soul and body are joined. This is a matter of PHILOSOPHY not SCIENCE for petes sake, and silly me, I always thought it applied to voluntary subscribers! In point of fact, although the termination of an ectopic pregnancy is an abortion, they are an “exception” allowed by the church.
Back to the philosophy thing for a second. The free exercise of religion clause in the Constitution is meant to forestall the federal and state governments from imposing a philosophy the current persons in power like upon everyone else.
Why is that so hard for some people to understand?? Aloha
By: JC on October 13, 2012
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Auntie Jean….thank you so much for the walk through 7th grade sex-ed class It made me rhink of modern day brazil which has outlawed ALL abortion and many woman have died from tubal pregnancies which are not legally able to be treated until the fertilized egg erupts. There are many hundreds of woman in jail, due to this same law.
What most people don’t realize about this personhood amendment is how it can, and will ensnare millions of woman in our legal system…….
Think if you will of the consequences of a missing 2 year old child, maybe from the mall, maybe from your front lawn. Law enforcement would be immediately be called in and an investigation would begin, crimes scenes would be mapped out and all persons of interest would be looked into. If, god willing the child was found, the kidnapper would have his day in court and sentenced to decades in prision. If the child is found dead, the murderer would be hunted down and arrested and will be tried for this horrendous crime, receive life in prision or the death sentence.
Now the same routine would have to be used if a woman has a miscarriage, and personhood rights were the law of the land. If your Dr. confirms a pregnancy at 1, 2, or 3 weeks of gestation and the zygot is expelled or absorbed by the woman’s body, there must be an investigation and a trial. Your uterus would become a crime scene and authorities would have to determine what took the life of the “person” who is now missing. Did the woman smoke or drink? Did she eat properly? Did she lift something heavy? Did her husband cause her stress? Maybe the slip she took in the grocery store contributed to this loss of life. Between my 2nd and 3rd child I had a very early miscarriage. My Dr. at the time told me that up to 50% of all pregnancies will be lost to this phenomenon, they don’t know the cause most of the time, maybe the zygot is defective and would of been incompatible with life. He told me that millions of woman lose a pregnancy without ever knowing that they were ever pregnant, which means EVERY WOMAN AND GIRL who are menstruating could be pregnant at any time and under a personhood law would have to be monitored monthly, lest a “person” be in danger. Maybe a woman or girl would have to be watched closely in a medical situation until the birth of the “person” reached completetion if she is known to not take care of herself or is involved in a dangerous activity such as lifting weights, skiing, jogging ect.
We might hope that this personhood amendment never sees the light of day. We might believe that this personhood amendment would never see the light of day. But it might. And if it does it would affect everyone. And if the republicans take the majority this could pass within the blink of an eye.
And oh how happy and proud the fundamentalists would be, they would be doing gods work after all. Because for some reason, their god, who is omnipotent, knows all sees all, answers all prayers, watches each and everyone of us, made the universe and this planet in 6 days and all who dwell here, somehow this god needs a hand. He needs their help protecting a lump of cells, which under the right conditions will become a breathing living human. These people are nuts, they are dangerous and they are no different the The Taliban and other Islamist extremists. And this is one reason that todays republican party and political power do not belong together. Ever. Never. Ever.
By: sidney18511 on October 13, 2012
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