The Best Of Bill Clinton’s DNC Speech, In One Infographic
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Disillusioned Obama Supporter In Romney Ad Is Actually GOP Staffer — I’m shocked! (Not!)
Not at all surprising. All the money in the world can’t make you smart or honest.
Disillusioned Obama Supporter In Romney Ad Is Actually GOP Staffer | TPM2012
Republicans debuted a new ad Thursday in which a frustrated former Obama supporter expresses her disappointment with the president. The only problem: The woman in the video is actually an RNC staffer.
The new ad features Republican National Committee Director of Hispanic Outreach Bettina Inclan, who in the ad purports to be an average woman voter who supported Obama in 2008. She describes her disillusionment with the president in the ad as a romantic relationship gone awry.
“You’re just not he person I thought you were,” Inclan says in the ad, addressing a cardboard cutout of Obama. Inclan lists out-of-control spending and Obama’s penchant for hanging out with Hollywood celebrities as reasons for the break-up. “It’s not me, it’s you. I think we should just be friends.”
The ad asks people to share why they’re “breaking up” with Obama.
Disillusioned Obama Supporter In Romney Ad Is Actually GOP Staffer | TPM2012
“We simply cannot afford to give the reins of government to someone who will double-down on trickle-down.” — Bill Clinton
Clinton nailed it. [hat tip to Rebecca Lasley]
Since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private- sector jobs. So what’s the job score? Republicans: twenty-four million. Democrats: forty-two. …
Unfortunately, the faction that now dominates the Republican Party doesn’t see it that way. They think government is always the enemy, they’re always right, and compromise is weakness. Just in the last couple of elections, they defeated two distinguished Republican senators because they dared to cooperate with Democrats on issues important to the future of the country, even national security.
They beat a Republican congressman with almost 100 percent voting record on every conservative score because he said he realized he did not have to hate the president to disagree with him. Boy, that was a non-starter, and they threw him out. …
In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president’s re- election was actually pretty simple, pretty snappy. It went something like this: “We left him a total mess. He hasn’t cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.” …
I like the argument for President Obama’s re-election a lot better. Here it is. He inherited a deeply damaged economy. He put a floor under the crash. He began the long, hard road to recovery and laid the foundation for a modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good, new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for innovators. …
In 2010, as the president’s recovery program kicked in, the job losses stopped and things began to turn around. The Recovery Act saved or created millions of jobs and cut taxes — let me say this again — cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people.
And in the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4.5 million private-sector jobs.
We could have done better, but last year the Republicans blocked the president’s job plan, costing the economy more than a million new jobs. So here’s another job score. President Obama: plus 4.5 million. Congressional Republicans: zero. …
During this period — during this period, more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been created under President Obama. That’s the first time manufacturing jobs have increased since the 1990s.
And I’ll tell you something else. The auto industry restructuring worked. It saved more than a million jobs, and not just at G.M., Chrysler, and their dealerships, but in auto parts manufacturing all over the country. That’s why even the automakers who weren’t part of the deal supported it. They needed to save those parts suppliers, too. Like I said, we’re all in this together.
So what’s happened? There are now 250,000 more people working in the auto industry than on the day the companies were restructured.
So — now, we all know that Governor Romney opposed the plan to save G.M. and Chrysler. So here’s another job score. Are you listening in Michigan and Ohio and across the country?
Here — here’s another job score. Obama: 250,000. Romney: zero. …
[I]n spite of all the rhetoric, they’ll just do what they’ve been doing for more than 30 years. They’ll go and cut the taxes way more than they cut spending, especially with that big defense increase, and they’ll just explode the debt and weaken the economy, and they’ll destroy the federal government’s ability to help you by letting interest gobble up all your tax payments.
Don’t you ever forget, when you hear them talking about this, that Republican economic policies quadrupled the national debt before I took office, in the 12 years before I took office and doubled the debt in the eight years after I left, because it defied arithmetic. …
We simply cannot afford to give the reins of government to someone who will double-down on trickle-down. …
If you want a winner-take- all, you’re-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket. But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a we’re-all-in-this-together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
“The system is rigged. Look around.” — Elizabeth Warren
She’s a contender for 2016. Give ‘em hell, Liz!
Elizabeth Warren speech at DNC targets Wall Street, Mitt Romney
“People feel like the system is rigged against them," Warren, of Massachusetts, said last night. "And here’s the painful part: They’re right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in profits. Billionaires pay lower tax rates than secretaries." Warren, who helped President Barack Obama create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, drew repeated contrasts between the president and Republicans. Mitt Romney would help billionaires and big corporations and perpetuate the problems that allow companies to have too much influence, she said.
"Republicans say they don’t believe in government," she said. "Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends."
Elizabeth Warren speech at DNC targets Wall Street, Mitt Romney
Limbaugh is a bloviating idiot
I hope 70,000 people surround the convention center and yell “fuck you, Lush!”
Limbaugh: That ‘joke’ Obama can’t fill ‘Black Panther Stadium’
Radio provocateur Rush Limbaugh didn’t just wonder. He asserted Wednesday that the stadium cancellation surely revealed that the president is in some sort of dire political straits. Along with Obama’s inability to draw a crowd, he also imagined what a crippling psychological blow this must be.
“When you have the ego Obama has, trust me folks,” Limbaugh said, “I know where of which I speak –you’re used to filling auditoriums and you don’t fill them any more—that’s big. It is not new. He has not been filling arenas of 18 or 20,000.”
This is because Obama has become a “joke,” and “people laugh at him." Per his standard shtick, Limbaugh couldn’t let the topic go without a racially-charged provocation.
“Now he can’t fill up this 73,000 Black Panther Stadium,” Limbaugh offered. “This does not make for a healthy environment and, I’m telling you, when the crowds no longer show up, when you’re no longer drawing crowds, that is a sobering day, that is a tough reality to face.”
Spike the roadrunner
mjhinton posted a photo:
I’ve read this position is for cooling. I’ve never seen this, but often seen the warming posture (wings and neck are not spread as far).
Breakthrough study overturns theory of ‘junk DNA’ in genome — duh!
Not at all a surprise. The surprise is that any real scientist thought it was junk in the first place — what arrogance.
Breakthrough study overturns theory of ‘junk DNA’ in genome | Science | The Guardian
Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, an international team of scientists said on Wednesday .
Breakthrough study overturns theory of ‘junk DNA’ in genome | Science | The Guardian