posted April 26, 2012 06:36 PM            

however the continued insinuation that obama has no "experience in the world" is just more propaganda. and the insinuation that romney knows how to do anything apart from stash his money in OTHER countries while breaking up companies and unemploying people, equally rubbish.

there's a lot wrong with the obama administration, and a good deal of it is because he is forced to work with people whose NUMBER ONE PRIORITY has been, all along, to stymie his every move. yes he's a politician. politicians make deals.

posted April 26, 2012 07:43 PM            

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There would suddenly be a $500 hot dog cart rebate program to incentivize hot dog cart ownership, but the program to hand out the $500 vouchers would cost $18,000 per cart.

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posted April 27, 2012 04:31 PM            

Does she have qualifications remotely close to be acceptable as President? Well, neither does Barrack.

Let's see. Princeton and then Harvard Law. Big whoop.

Intellectual Property Associate at Sidley Austin, and then City of Chicago as assistant to Mayor. Then, a NFP for community youth development. Finally, VP for Community Affairs for University of Chicago Hospitals.

She has never been a major law firm partner (even Madame Hilary was partner at the infamous Rose Law Firm). Listen, I'm not saying Sidley Austin is not prestigious, but an Associate is not an executive position.

She has never been in a P&L making business (community affairs ain't business). She has never managed a balance sheet. Never held political office.

Contrast that to the Governor of the State of Alaska, which sits on the world's largest *proven* reserves of untapped crude oil and natural gas, an economy so critically vital to the rest of the USA that the country would tank missing one-quarter of energy resources. THAT woman you guys call unintelligent and unfit.

Another black woman in prominent office was the youngest Provost at Stanford and one of the youngest full professors ever, but you guys also called her unintelligent and even incompetent.

posted April 27, 2012 04:37 PM            

did i say i thought michelle obama was qualified? i didn't even address that question! you said she was arrogant and i asked what was arrogant about saying she wouldn't run for office or that she supports her husband while he is in office but considers other avenues AT LEAST as influential and important...

as to the other black woman you mention, not sure who you mean though i have a suspicion; you seem to consider her qualifications relevant but not ms obama's (or mr obama's for that matter) but they don't strike me as particularly "executive" either.

and yes, hilary clinton had plenty of qualifications. unfortunately (for her)hilary was NEVER going to be ALLOWED by washington to step into the oval office chair, and i was told this BEFORE the primaries by someone with an inside ear...she is TOO qualified in many ways, and too dangerous in others.

posted April 27, 2012 04:38 PM            

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Only you guys can't see the irony.

Does she have qualifications remotely close to be acceptable as President? Well, neither does Barrack.

Let's see. Princeton and then Harvard Law. Big whoop.

Intellectual Property Associate at Sidley Austin, and then City of Chicago as assistant to Mayor. Then, a NFP for community youth development. Finally, VP for Community Affairs for University of Chicago Hospitals.

She has never been a major law firm partner (even Madame Hilary was partner at the infamous Rose Law Firm). Listen, I'm not saying Sidley Austin is not prestigious, but an Associate is not an executive position.

She has never been in a P&L making business (community affairs ain't business). She has never managed a balance sheet. Never held political office.

Contrast that to the Governor of the State of Alaska, which sits on the world's largest *proven* reserves of untapped crude oil and natural gas, an economy so critically vital to the rest of the USA that the country would tank missing one-quarter of energy resources. THAT woman you guys call unintelligent and unfit.

Another black woman in prominent office was the youngest Provost at Stanford and one of the youngest full professors ever, but you guys also called her unintelligent and even incompetent.

This flipping nobody with no qualifications, you guys even dare suggest that she run for President. Real interesting, ain't it?

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posted April 27, 2012 04:48 PM            

"As the chief academic and chief budgetary officer of the University, the Provost is responsible for administering the academic program, including both instruction and research, and for the coordination of the administrative and support functions of the University with its academic purposes."

I believe that a university is in the business of educating, thus making the Provost the Chief Operating Officer, a distinctly executive position.

posted April 27, 2012 04:51 PM            

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And now, you shall answer my question.

Who owns a publicly listed corporation?

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posted April 27, 2012 04:56 PM            

and as ann romney has been at HUGE pains to point out lately, it is seriously naive to think that a woman who runs a household doesn't have any "experience" as an executive, financial advisor, and logistics expert! but unlike ann romney, michelle obama ALSO worked and helped bring home the bacon in her family, AS WELL as understanding the challenges that low income people face in the market.

posted April 27, 2012 05:12 PM            

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Ann Romney isn't seeking public office nor parading herself around like a two bit cheap Hollywood act in front of the media at every single opportunity. Neither did Laura Bush nor Barbara Bush nor Nancy Reagan.

Cindy McCain runs a multiple hundred million dollar revenue company and has an ego ten times smaller than Michelle Obama.

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posted April 27, 2012 05:29 PM            

In Mystic circles there is a saying , to taste is to know.

Take a Durian fruit. You have read about it over and over. Watched peoples faces as they have eaten it, heard it described 10 ways from Sunday. Eventually your mind believes it has authority to say it is disgusted by Durian and will have heated discourses defending your disgust with those who disagree.

To taste is to know. You have not tasted the smelly feet fruit but you will still state how much it turns your stomach to those who have tasted it. Until you Taste, you will not know how a Durian tastes or what a real life of socialism is or any other ism.

Experience it and know.

posted April 27, 2012 05:30 PM            

It's also quite interesting to see how everyone defines what is an acceptable credential different.

In the end it is just all very interesting to me.

posted April 27, 2012 06:04 PM            

i have lived many years in a country many here consider "socialist" because it has a lot of social PROGRAMS. however none of the supposed horrors listed here actually are true there. people still manage to make their fortunes...many having started them on unemployment (not filling that picture of the permanently willingly indolent benefit receiver at all) ... and wholeheartedly endorse the social programs at the same time.

i have not experienced the soviet union, but let's face it, the soviet is GONE. what is left is putin-as-king and a lot of up and coming countries who have retained SOME but not ALL of the social programs that were introduced a hundred years ago, without the dictatorship that went along with.

many so called conservatives are just reiterating what they hear rush say, calling "leftists" everything wrong with the world, etc, which is just so much more baloney. this morning i listened while rush affirmed that "leftists do this, that the other, and divide people into categories for the sake of division...conservatives don't do this, don't generalize, don't see the colour of a man's face.."

and if anyone can't see the generalization, irony and division in his description then you need a reading comprehension course asap...

just as YTA comes in here and accuses those liberals on the thread of arrogance because someone somewhere asked michelle obama if she would consider running for president; and makes many assumptions about what we do or do not think of this that or the other person.

posted April 27, 2012 06:12 PM            

in fact there are many enterprising souls out there who would love to start their own company in competition with GE but apparently any device that can serve more than a few people's power needs is held to be "STEALING ELECTRICITY" from GE. how is their interest being accommodated? do you really think this is the "will of the people"? don't you think most of us would welcome free energy with open arms if it were ALLOWED? do you think GE has asked its shareholders to vote on such a topic? unlikely.

as when mitt romney tried to equate the shareholders with the PERSONHOOD of corporations, the point is being missed(or dodged). there are, it is true, a few giant corporations currently being disciplined by their shareholders, but until this administration came in, most shareholders were chiefly interested in the value of their shares, not in the practices that were creating that value. this is changing, but slowly...

posted April 27, 2012 07:48 PM            

At any rate, socialism is against human nature. I didn't make it so.It just IS so. Animal Farm shows this in a sweet childlike way but that is always the best way.

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posted April 27, 2012 08:28 PM            

so are you saying that because bullying is a constant in human affairs we should just adjust to it? life in the land of the lord of the flies sound good to you?

and, ami anne, i caution you against generalizing (which you do repeatedly) about jews or any other group. i know many jews who think israel was and is a terrible idea and entity. my father was one of them but he was far from alone. i don't think israel is any better than any other country, it just has a better line of patter than some.

posted April 27, 2012 08:35 PM            

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just as ayn rand's individualism is better on paper than in real life, i might add.

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I second that!