posted September 03, 2012 01:06 PM            

that scorp rising seems to be stuck in *** -for-tat and vengeance. evolution is an option but it's up to you.

i did not partake of those days in GU nor did i go on a rampage of hatred for bush, but the fact is he was in charge when we were going into massive debt to china, reduced taxes during a time of war and ran the country basically on a credit card, and encouraged the banks to encourage the rest of us to do the same.

i remember being tempted to take out a loan with the "chance to win a rolls royce" - this was in england, which was going through similar trends - and i thank my conscience and "knowing" that i did not get myself into deep doodoo like a lot of people did.

people complain about all the foodstamp recipients...well in the 30s, before foodstamps, people just DIED. less unemployment and fewer survivors that time round.

i hear limbaugh talking about those who support obama as being on the take, well, without the safety nets a lot of people who have shrugged them off now would not be with us at all. which is worse, accepting govt help when you're down and out so you can grow again, or just dying nobly?

i'm heartily sick of the miserly conservatives trying to shame us all into disowning our poor. my exhusband had to depend on the govt for a year while he started what is now a multimillion-per-year business which employs some 100 people...and gives business to others too...shame on him, huh?

posted September 03, 2012 08:13 PM            

George W Bush

posted September 04, 2012 12:05 AM            

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Originally posted by AcousticGod:
Democrats are now seeking to have Betty White open for Obama at the convention.

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Just please, PLEASE don't have her talk to an "Invisible Romney."

posted September 05, 2012 04:20 PM            

Leftists ARE the apostles of hate. Hate drips out of their every pore. All I do here is highlight their hate, hateful rhetoric, hate for America, hate for free markets, hate for the rule of law, hate for Constitutional government; in fact, hate for anyone who isn't a leftist disciple as they are and if I use inflammatory rhetoric to do so...then that's TS baby.

Now here's one of your disgusting, contemptible, hate mongering ass-wipes calling Nikki Haley...Governor of South Carolina...A Nazi. You would think this idiot is some drunken loon ranting and raving down on the corner but he's not. He's the Chairman of the South Carolina demoscat party.

S.C. Dem. Chair Compares GOP Gov. to Hitler's Mistress http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/sc-dem-chair-compares-gop-gov-hitlers-mistre ss_651728.html

Oh, and yesterday, another demoscat hate mongering ass-wipe, a demoscat delegate from Kansas compared Paul Ryan to Hitler.

posted September 05, 2012 05:12 PM            

this is all YOU disgusting, contemptible, hate mongering ass-wipes
...sooo charming how could anyone argue with it?

yes there are hateful things said, and hateful people in the dems, that doesn't make them all leftists and it certainly doesn't make me one.

and it doesn't change the fact that when i first came to GU i thought it was ONLY those prostitutes who get paid to stir it up on the airwaves who talked like you. my first words to you were, if you recall, "are you SERIOUS?"

posted September 05, 2012 06:07 PM            

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Behind the scenes, Mr. Eastwood’s convention cameo was cleared by Mr. Romney’s top message mavens, Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens, who drew up talking points that Mr. Eastwood included, in his own way. They gave him a time limit and flashed a blinking red light that told him his time was up. He ignored both. The actor’s decision to use a chair as a prop was last-minute, and his own.

“The prop person probably thought he was going to sit in it,” a baffled senior aide said on Thursday night.

Mr. Eastwood’s rambling and off-color appearance just moments before the biggest speech of Mr. Romney’s life instantly became a Twitter and cable-news sensation, which drowned out much of the usual postconvention analysis that his campaign had hoped to bask in.

It also startled and unsettled Mr. Romney’s top advisers and prompted a blame game among them. “Not me,” an exasperated-looking senior adviser said when asked who was responsible for Mr. Eastwood’s speech. In interviews, aides called the speech “strange” and “weird.” One described it as “theater of the absurd.”

Ann Romney, who made the rounds of the three network morning shows, hardly pretended that she was happy as she was repeatedly asked about the speech. “I was thrilled for his support,” she said on NBC, trying to be positive. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin said on MSNBC that he “cringed” as he sat in the hall during Mr. Eastwood’s performance.

The speech was a reminder of how fleeting a successful political moment can be, and how carefully staged events can be upset by an unpredictable turn. And it suggested a slip-up inside the button-down, corporate-style headquarters of the Romney campaign in Boston

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Another adviser said that several top aides had reviewed the talking points given to Mr. Eastwood just a few hours before his appearance. They included a request to mention the millions of people who remain unemployed — something Mr. Eastwood did, though he misstated the number.

As actors sometimes do, he improvised.

Instead of reading off a teleprompter — something Mr. Eastwood is said to despise — he pretended to have a sarcasm-filled conversation with President Obama, seated by his side

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posted September 07, 2012 11:18 PM            

And you are apparently very happy with the leftist apostles of hate I've pointed out to you from time to time...including the 2 this time.

Clint Eastwood: ‘Obama Is the Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on the American People’
September 7, 2012
Madeleine Morgenstern

Clint Eastwood said he didn’t come up with the idea of using an empty chair to stand in for President Barack Obama during his remarks at the Republican National Convention until about one hour before he took the stage.

“There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down,” Eastwood told the Carmel Pine Cone in an interview published Friday. “When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.”

He said he asked a stagehand to put it out while he was being announced.

“The guy said, ‘You mean you want it at the podium?’ and I said, ‘No, just put it right there next to it,’” Eastwood said.

Calling the president “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” the 82-year-old Hollywood icon told the newspaper that “A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.”

“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,” he said.

Eastwood said he had three points he wanted to make during his speech.

“That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job,” he said. “But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.”

Eastwood said campaign officials had wanted to vet his remarks beforehand, but he told them that wasn’t possible.

“I told them, ‘You can’t do that with me, because I don’t know what I’m going to say,’” he said.

He said his appearance was meant to be a “contrast with all the scripted speeches.”

“I’m Joe Citizen,” Eastwood said. “I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.”

Eastwood said he knew as he was wrapping up that the speech had been “very unorthodox” — but that that was his intention. He said he wasn’t aware of any of the instant negative media reaction, and said both Romney and Ryan came up and thanked him afterward.

posted September 25, 2012 06:29 PM            

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"If somebody is dumb enough to ask me to go to political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get," said Eastwood in an interview Tuesday with the television show "Extra" about the convention speech that won rave reviews, puzzled looks and slacked jaws.

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Well, Clint was never shy!