The Ill-Informed Might Tend to Vote for Obama [W:118]

Kane said:

Tea Party funders are Bushs former Big Spenders

"Wrote Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone, “Suddenly, tens of thousands of Republicans who had been conspicuously silent during George Bush's gargantuan spending on behalf of defense contractors and hedge-fund gazillionaires showed up at Tea Party rallies across the nation, declaring themselves fed up with wasteful government spending. From the outset, the events were organized and financed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party, which was quietly working to co-opt the new movement and deploy it to the GOP's advantage. Taking the lead was former House majority leader Dick Armey, who as chair of a group called FreedomWorks helped coordinate Tea Party rallies across the country.”

"FreedomWorks financial backers have included several conservative foundations—including the Bradley, Scaife, Castle Rock, Earhart, and Olin foundations[12]—as well as the Koch brothers (David and Charles), who along with Rupert Murdoch have provided much of the financial backing for anti-Obama administration activism."

FreedomWorks - Profile - Right Web - Institute for Policy Studies

Scaife and Freedomworks

"The total of Scaife’s giving—to conservatives as well as many other beneficiaries—exceeds $600 million, or $1.4 billion in current dollars, much more than any previous estimate. In the world of big-time philanthropy, there are many bigger givers. The Ford Foundation gave away $491 million in 1998 alone. But by concentrating his giving on a specific ideological objective for nearly 40 years, and making most of his grants with no strings attached, Scaife’s philanthropy has had a disproportionate impact on the rise of the right, perhaps the biggest story in American politics in the last quarter of the 20th century.”

"Financing for these foundations is largely drawn from the oil, aluminum, and banking holdings of the Mellon family. Scaife is the sole donor to both the Carthage and Allegheny Foundations, which he founded and of which he serves as chairman. He also serves as chairman and head of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, a position he assumed following his mother’s death in 1965 "

"Scaife gained notoriety in the 1990s for his at times outlandish efforts to oust President Bill Clinton. Among his efforts, he funded conservative magazine The American Spectator’s “Arkansas Project,” a controversial effort to investigate President Bill Clinton’s dealings while governor of Arkansas. The stories published by Spectator reporter David Brock ranged from Clinton’s infidelity to more hyperbolic, conspiracy-minded items. Scaife also used his newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, to push the theory that the suicide of former Clinton aide Vince Foster was really a murder, and that the Clintons were covering it up."

Scaife Foundations - Profile - Right Web - Institute for Policy Studies

"With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David Koch owns virtually all of Koch Industries, a conglomerate, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, whose annual revenues are estimated to be a hundred billion dollars."

The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama : The New Yorker

Sound like grassroots ???:no:

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Kane said:

Since the Billionaires are all busy REPRESENTING YOU ...

would you mind lending me a few million there, DADDY WAR-BUCKS ???

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Conservative said:

Seems to be your approach on most issues looking for someone else to bail you out for your own poor choices. You made a poor choice in 2008 and seem to be doubling down in 2012. I see no value in loaning anyone who makes poor choices any money at all.

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" During the Clinton Administration, the energy industry faced increased scrutiny and regulation. In the mid-nineties, the Justice Department filed two lawsuits against Koch Industries, claiming that it was responsible for more than three hundred oil spills, which had released an estimated three million gallons of oil into lakes and rivers. The penalty was potentially as high as two hundred and fourteen million dollars. In a settlement, Koch Industries paid a record thirty-million-dollar civil fine, and agreed to spend five million dollars on environmental projects."

Read more The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama : The New Yorker

poor choices ???

The ill-informed will almost certainly vote Romney.

Manc Skipper said:

The ill-informed will almost certainly vote Romney.

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LOL, Looks like liberal arrogance isn't paying off

RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - General Election: Romney vs. Obama

I loved what Jimmy Kimmel did. He walked around the street asking people who they thought won the town hall debate last night........on Monday.

Tons and tons of opinions about a debate that had not yet occurred, and yes, they thought Obama won.

Erod said:

I loved what Jimmy Kimmel did. He walked around the street asking people who they thought won the town hall debate last night........on Monday.

Tons and tons of opinions about a debate that had not yet occurred, and yes, they thought Obama won.

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Obama supporters are everywhere

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Manc Skipper said:

The ill-informed will almost certainly vote Romney.

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I'm so sorry you can't cast an absentee ballot for Obama, but being a citizen of another country does have its limitations.

Kane said:

the spectrum of Right Wing talking points in the media is funded by the Ultra Rich Elites ...

The Corporate Lobbyists Behind the Tea Parties


"FreedomWorks was launched a GOP version of MoveOn. "We believe that hard work beats daddy's money," said Dick Armey at the time. Armey seems to be a bit irony challenged -- Steve Forbes is on the FreedomWorks board. As Krugman notes, their money comes from the Koch, Scaife, Bradley, Olin and other reliable funders of right wing infrastructure including Exxon Mobil."

Jane Hamsher: The Corporate Lobbyists Behind the Tea Parties

The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama : The New Yorker

Americans for Prosperity - SourceWatch

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"Fear, Inc., The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America"

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Kane said:

The elitist press won't be discussing the failure of American capitalism, hence the need to create the Tea Party sideshow, to keep the conservative Republicans diverted so that they don't notice how 35 years of GOP/Republican policy and unrestrained corruption destroyed our standard of living, perhaps permanently.

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Right winger TV and radio hosts are in such denial and its intentional. They can't discuss how carrying on Reagans decadent spending habits, continued long after he left, letting lobbyists for banking and defense run the govmnt into the ground.
:spin::hm

Kane said:

The elitist press won't be discussing the failure of American capitalism, hence the need to create the Tea Party sideshow, a faux democratic movement to destroy the push for universal healthcare, and to keep the conservative Republicans diverted so that they don't notice how 35 years of GOP/Republican policy and unrestrained corruption destroyed our standard of living, perhaps permanently.

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Oh really? Try again. The following link shows you a good bit of waste that we tax payers doled out, just recently. This is a disgrace.

Enjoy the music.

Where in the World is Michelle Obama? - YouTube

bicycleman said:

Oh really? Try again. The following link shows you a good bit of waste that we tax payers doled out, just recently. This is a disgrace.

Enjoy the music.

Where in the World is Michelle Obama? - YouTube

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What liberals want to ignore is that only 53% of income earners are paying the debt service on the U.S. debt therefore until all Americans share in that debt not all Americans will care about the debt being generated.

Kane said:

You and zimmer with all these weasel words ... discussions completely bereft of actual policy changes you know Romney will never implement. I thought you hardcore Rightys regarded Romney as you did McCain ... as just another RINO?


I am not a supporter, never voted for him and I'm glad. You've never read anything I've said apparently.

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Weasel words? Alinsky? Socialist? Four years?
ROTFLOL...

policy changes you know Romney will never implement

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They said the same thing about Reagan ... Reagan accomplished all but one of his goals.

Romney will do the same. He knows we are in deep trouble nationally and internationally. He's a doer and will undo a lot of the Socialist gunk heaped on by Lib-Socialists... so we can prosper again. At the moment we have Jimmy Carter II. Luckily we have a guy who has done what he said he would do his entire life. He walks the walk. A guy that seems Reaganesque.

I know... it's crap if you're a Democrat, a member of the Socialists of Amerika Partei (SAPs). A Spread the Wealth Arounder. A product of the culture of envy.

My advice to you SAPs... Get over it. Grow up. Take responsibility for your lives. Don't look to government to steal for you. Don't accept their PONZI-MADOFF schemes that bankrupt the country... and every country.

One thing you should have learned by now... NEVER look to government to solve your problems. Look at Europe. Communist countries (existing and former). These places are in trouble, and not because of limited government and maximum liberty.

America has taken not pages, but chapters of Euro Socialist idiocy and this has done great damage... not just financially but morally. It actually has people believing government should steal money from people and give it to others (them) who have done nothing for it. People have come to actually expect it!!! Just listen to you Libs when someone wants to cut something... even a faux cut in a Baseline Budgeted program.

Government is the problem said one wise philosopher. And it is.

Kane said:

What no answer Republican man ???

Can't admit the Tea Party is a just a front - another Lamestream Media Circus to dystract the masses while the Pentagram and Haliburton rape you for ANOTHER TRILLION?

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Get some new material mate you're boring!

Kane said:

In fascism, the TV media has to put up the Tea Party corporate front as a sideshow to distract the country and to keep the press from reporting on real news.

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Jetboogieman said:

Yeah as much as I detest Conservative and his blowhard "I know everything, I'm so great, I'm so successful, look at me and how great I am" bull**** I'm not interested in your weird version of reality laced with conspiracy theories.

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Kane said:

You are a neophyte who still thinks -

Afghanistan wasn't planned before 9/11

2 more wars in Libya and Syria weren't planned ahead of time by America

The "Arab Spring" regime changes planned by America, were spontaneous uprisings by the Arabs.


I love you ........................-no, I love you, kiss, kiss

You sir, are naive !!!

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Obama Fact Sheet. Bush, Obama, Same Old Drama! Chronological listing of Obama's dealings

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What no answer Republican man ???

Can't admit the Tea Party is a just a front - another Lamestream Media Circus to distract the masses while the Pentagram and Haliburton rape you for ANOTHER TRILLION?

Mr.Nick said:

Via the same economic ideas the New Deal was founded, just directly through the taxpayer.

The New Deal was a failure tho....

In theory Reagan corrected our economic problems, but here we're again after we took ourselves off the gold standard for the fourth or fifth time.

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Right winger TV and radio hosts are in such denial and its intentional. They can't discuss how carrying on Reagans decadent spending habits, continued long after he left, letting lobbyists for banking and defense run the govmnt into the ground.

Kane said:

Right winger TV and radio hosts are in such denial and its intentional. They can't discuss how carrying on Reagans decadent spending habits, continued long after he left, letting lobbyists for banking and defense run the govmnt into the ground.

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Phuck government. I can take care of myself and my family without "government." I suppose people have only been doing that for 200,000 years....

Loki97 said:

States that are among those considered firmly in Romney's column: W. Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama. Not exactly a whos who of culture and intellectual achievement. The GOP today consists of the Odd Couple alliance between silver spoon wannabe aristocrats and Bible thumping rednecks.

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Don't forget Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Alaska, Texas, Kansas.....are they all bible thumoing rednecks too?

Kane said:

Right winger TV and radio hosts are in such denial and its intentional. They can't discuss how carrying on Reagans decadent spending habits, continued long after he left, letting lobbyists for banking and defense run the govmnt into the ground.

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Mr.Nick said:

Phuck government. I can take care of myself and my family without "government." I suppose people have only been doing that for 200,000 years....

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It was Reagans deregulation and a lack of oversight and accountability that led to over spending and big government that followed in subsequent administrations that led to our present situation.

Can anyone here give me an example of a more un-Presidential President than Obama. He is a total embarrassment to the office. Further we have a divided country today so which candidate, Obama or Romney, has the best opportunity to close the divide and why?

Kane said:

It was Reagans deregulation and a lack of oversight and accountability that led to over spending and big government that followed in subsequent administrations that led to our present situation.

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Clinton had 8 years to fix that deregulation and lack of oversight and accountability. But I guess he was too busy doing other things than to worry about all that.