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Reid apologizes for 'no Negro dialect' comment

CaptainCourtesy said:
So, if I read YOU right, you are saying that Republicans should currently act exactly like Democrats did during those 8 years, proving that they are just as scummy, right?
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In the short time that I have been here reading your posting Cap'n, I feel pretty confident in saying that your message above of Demo's being "scummy" for the past eight years, is probably NOT how you really felt about the pejoratives hurled on a daily basis. And that although it may not have reared its ugly head here on the boards, perhaps in those dark corners of real lives you let loose with a few yourself.

Now, when it is demo's crack at the plate, you all the sudden become this high minded pillar of etiquette, and judge of the high road.

What it boils down to is that deep down you and the other libs that whine about this are aware that your saviour Obama, and his minions of thug so called leaders in the house and senate are failing big time. And that all the things GWB wasn't here at home, and around the world that liberals hypothesized and pondered, about how we should act as a nation, and what the American people want was pure BS, and is NOT working.

It is demonstrable that we are weaker in the world's eyes, that Obama has granted a stage to the worlds thugs, and reprobates, that 2,000 page plus lies packaged as bills are transparent only in the fact that Americans know that they are being fleeced, and that this bumbling administration couldn't seem to solve it way out of a wet paper bag.

You all lost Mass. for Christ sake! :doh When will it become clear to you that this country always has been, and continues to be a center right country?


It's pathetic to watch these days.


j-mac
 
j-mac said:
In the short time that I have been here reading your posting Cap'n, I feel pretty confident in saying that your message above of Demo's being "scummy" for the past eight years, is probably NOT how you really felt about the pejoratives hurled on a daily basis. And that although it may not have reared its ugly head here on the boards, perhaps in those dark corners of real lives you let loose with a few yourself.

Now, when it is demo's crack at the plate, you all the sudden become this high minded pillar of etiquette, and judge of the high road.

What it boils down to is that deep down you and the other libs that whine about this are aware that your saviour Obama, and his minions of thug so called leaders in the house and senate are failing big time. And that all the things GWB wasn't here at home, and around the world that liberals hypothesized and pondered, about how we should act as a nation, and what the American people want was pure BS, and is NOT working.

It is demonstrable that we are weaker in the world's eyes, that Obama has granted a stage to the worlds thugs, and reprobates, that 2,000 page plus lies packaged as bills are transparent only in the fact that Americans know that they are being fleeced, and that this bumbling administration couldn't seem to solve it way out of a wet paper bag.

You all lost Mass. for Christ sake! :doh When will it become clear to you that this country always has been, and continues to be a center right country?


It's pathetic to watch these days.


j-mac
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First there was nixon, then there was clinton, now there is obama. Every action has a reaction.:)
 
Dittohead not! said:
Perhaps, or was the person causing the upset not an incumbent at all, but the opponent running on the Democrat ticket?
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Perhaps all you'd like, DN, you know what this was about. This was a referendum on Obama, Republicans don't win Senate seats in Massachusetts. Again, you know what it was about, you know why a no name Repub took this Kennedy vacated seat and won by 5 points. You know why Reid and other Dem politicians who have had safe seats up til now are in trouble as well. It's obvious, it's right there in front of us....you can continue to deny all you'd like.

Maybe the people of Massachusetts aren't quite as Democratic as they are painted. They do have a Republican governor, don't they?
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So does California. Virginia where I'm from is conservative....voted for Republicans for decades, we swayed to Obama this past year. Our Governor just leaving office(McDonnell just elected Gov, the Lt. Governor and Attorney Gen all going Republican in a just recent Nov 2009 20 point win for Repubs) was Tim Kaine....the Democratic National Comm Chair. State politics much different than natinal politics, Dems have a history of Governors being elected in conservative states, Repubs have a history and precedenc eof being elected in liberal states like California. Republican Mayors get elected in liberal cities such as New York.
 
Charles Martel said:
Perhaps all you'd like, DN, you know what this was about. This was a referendum on Obama, Republicans don't win Senate seats in Massachusetts. Again, you know what it was about, you know why a no name Repub took this Kennedy vacated seat and won by 5 points. You know why Reid and other Dem politicians who have had safe seats up til now are in trouble as well. It's obvious, it's right there in front of us....you can continue to deny all you'd like.
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I suppose we'll know in a few months whether the voters are so tired of the Democrats in Washington that they're ready to change parties again so soon after having booted the Republicans not so long ago.

The Republicans are hoping, of course, that seeing their party elected in an overwhelmingly Democrat state is a sign that a change of parties is imminent. Is it wishful thinking, or a real possibility? We can argue about it all we want, but the fact is, we'll know pretty soon. If 2010 sees Congress back in Republican hands, then the issue will be settled. Then, in 2012, we can expect a return to a Republican trifecta.

Unless, of course, the voters are so disgusted with their new Congress that they're ready to boot the Republicans and go back to the Democrats once again by then.

Changing from one party to another every few years is not likely to make any real changes, of course, as there isn't as much difference between them as people seem to think.

Charles Martel said:
So does California. Virginia where I'm from is conservative....voted for Republicans for decades, we swayed to Obama this past year. Our Governor just leaving office(McDonnell just elected Gov, the Lt. Governor and Attorney Gen all going Republican in a just recent Nov 2009 20 point win for Repubs) was Tim Kaine....the Democratic National Comm Chair. State politics much different than natinal politics, Dems have a history of Governors being elected in conservative states, Repubs have a history and precedenc eof being elected in liberal states like California. Republican Mayors get elected in liberal cities such as New York.
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Which proves, what? Yes, California has a Republican governor. We don't have a conservative governor, of course, and the legislature is overwhelmingly in favor of big government.

Oh. I know what it proves. Republican is not synonymous with conservative, and the governor/president is not the state/federal government.

But, we already knew that.
 
Charles Martel said:
Perhaps all you'd like, DN, you know what this was about. This was a referendum on Obama, Republicans don't win Senate seats in Massachusetts. Again, you know what it was about, you know why a no name Repub took this Kennedy vacated seat and won by 5 points. You know why Reid and other Dem politicians who have had safe seats up til now are in trouble as well. It's obvious, it's right there in front of us....you can continue to deny all you'd like.



So does California. Virginia where I'm from is conservative....voted for Republicans for decades, we swayed to Obama this past year. Our Governor just leaving office(McDonnell just elected Gov, the Lt. Governor and Attorney Gen all going Republican in a just recent Nov 2009 20 point win for Repubs) was Tim Kaine....the Democratic National Comm Chair. State politics much different than natinal politics, Dems have a history of Governors being elected in conservative states, Repubs have a history and precedenc eof being elected in liberal states like California. Republican Mayors get elected in liberal cities such as New York.
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We voted for president here in virginia, remember?

We had two consecutive democratic governors here in virgina. Hell, we even had a black democratic governor here in va. It's a healthy process. We also have government term limits (one term). After all most of the founding fathers were from virginia. W:)e are all over the place.

I recently joind the modern whig party of virginia.
 
LiberalAvenger said:
We voted for president here in virginia, remember?

We had two consecutive democratic governors here in virgina. Hell, we even had a black democratic governor here in va. It's a healthy process. We also have government term limits (one term). After all most of the founding fathers were from virginia. W:)e are all over the place.

I recently joind the modern whig party of virginia.
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good for you. Tell me, when those conservatives served your great state as gov. was Fairfax Co. mostly conservative then?


j-mac
 
LiberalAvenger said:
We voted for president here in virginia, remember?
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Yes, I remember in fact, mentioned in the post you responded to, what is your point here?:confused:

We had two consecutive democratic governors here in virgina. Hell, we even had a black democratic governor here in va. It's a healthy process. We also have government term limits (one term). After all most of the founding fathers were from virginia. W:)e are all over the place.
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We are not all over the place....Sir. Obama was the first Democrat President we'd voted for since Carter I believe...or may have been Kennedy. We have a same sex marriage amendment in our constitution, it passed easily. Even our Senators...who are both Dems...are both blue dogs. Warner...as you know was a fiscal conservative, Webb coming in with Obama isn't exactly a lib. We're a mostly conservative arena and state however, like ither states we elect different partys to office. Just like Massachusetts.
 
Dittohead not! said:
I suppose we'll know in a few months
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Something tells me in a few months...we're gonna see a Republican win in the 2010 Congressional elections...and you'll be claiming we'll have to then wait for 2012 to decide. We know now, you're merely in denial.

The Republicans are hoping, of course, that seeing their party elected in an overwhelmingly Democrat state is a sign that a change of parties is imminent. Is it wishful thinking, or a real possibility?
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As you were around on Whistlestopper...right after Obama was elected and then inaugurated...the question coming from everyone of the libs was...would a Republican ever get elected again? Many a thread started with what the Repubs had to do to get back into the game. Today..one year later....we're talking about not only winning...but taking both houses of Congress.Our wishful thinking has already come about.....now...we're speaking to the UNTHINKABLE.

We can argue about it all we want, but the fact is, we'll know pretty soon.
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Yes, we will.

Changing from one party to another every few years is not likely to make any real changes, of course, as there isn't as much difference between them as people seem to think.
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So...there would have been no difference had Coakley been elected instead?

Yeah...whatever.

Which proves, what?
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That state and local versus Presidential elections are quite different.
 
Charles Martel said:
As you were around on Whistlestopper...right after Obama was elected and then inaugurated...the question coming from everyone of the libs was...would a Republican ever get elected again? Many a thread started with what the Repubs had to do to get back into the game.
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Yes, they were, and not just the "libs". There was quite a lot of discussion about the demise or resurgence of the Republican Party. A couple of years before that, we were saying the same thing about the Democrats. The pendulum swings.

But, as the French (danged socialists that they are:mrgreen:) say, plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. (the more things change, the more they stay the same.)

Charles Martel said:
Today..one year later....we're talking about not only winning...but taking both houses of Congress.Our wishful thinking has already come about.....now...we're speaking to the UNTHINKABLE.
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Not so unthinkable, really. The pendulum swings. We may well see the Republicans back in power soon, after which the voters will decide things aren't going so well, and vote the Democrats back into power once again, and the world will keep turning.

Plus ca change.
 
So, when is Reid going to be censured and frog marched to his favorite gulag? :lol: I believe it's Gitmo isn't it?
 
Dittohead not! said:
Yes, they were, and not just the "libs". There was quite a lot of discussion about the demise or resurgence of the Republican Party. A couple of years before that, we were saying the same thing about the Democrats. The pendulum swings.
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But, it's swung in less than a year here.

But, as the French (danged socialists that they are:mrgreen:) say, plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. (the more things change, the more they stay the same.)
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We ain't French. And this is a tad more than a pendulum swing. Health care, government rather than private sector attempts to creates, it's not the same philosophies. Claming this a pendulum swing is trying to say Obama's policies didn't have an effect. I think yer wrong.

Not so unthinkable, really.
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Really? So, when Kennedy died and his successor couldn't be named(because there was a Repub Gov), you didn't think it unthinkable that a Repub could win in Massachusetts? Please.
 
Personally I don't care, about Obama dialect. I wish he would fulfill the promises he made to the American people in order to get elected. Stop with the dialect -- let us see some action -- words do not create jobs regardless of what dialect you use.
 
But the president's "magical job machine ™" in a drawer of the oval office, does.
 
j-mac said:
In the short time that I have been here reading your posting Cap'n, I feel pretty confident in saying that your message above of Demo's being "scummy" for the past eight years, is probably NOT how you really felt about the pejoratives hurled on a daily basis. And that although it may not have reared its ugly head here on the boards, perhaps in those dark corners of real lives you let loose with a few yourself.
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Nope. Never did. I have criticized actions, never political leans... except in a sarcastic way to attack the partisan hackery of others. Feel free to check my posts prior to Obama being President. You will not find ONE post attacking former President Bush. I may have disagreed with some of his policies (others I supported), but never once did I attack him or conservatives. Here OR outside of DP. That would be hypocritical, something I am not.

You don't know me at all, j-mac. Not in the least.

Now, when it is demo's crack at the plate, you all the sudden become this high minded pillar of etiquette, and judge of the high road.
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Not suddenly. Always have been.

What it boils down to is that deep down you and the other libs that whine about this are aware that your saviour Obama, and his minions of thug so called leaders in the house and senate are failing big time. And that all the things GWB wasn't here at home, and around the world that liberals hypothesized and pondered, about how we should act as a nation, and what the American people want was pure BS, and is NOT working.

It is demonstrable that we are weaker in the world's eyes, that Obama has granted a stage to the worlds thugs, and reprobates, that 2,000 page plus lies packaged as bills are transparent only in the fact that Americans know that they are being fleeced, and that this bumbling administration couldn't seem to solve it way out of a wet paper bag.

You all lost Mass. for Christ sake! :doh When will it become clear to you that this country always has been, and continues to be a center right country?


It's pathetic to watch these days.


j-mac
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All you are doing j-mac is demonstrating what I have always thought of you, no matter how much you deny it. You're a right wing hack. You can make all the silly accusations you like. Not only are they untrue, but you will be completely unable to find anything that supports your perception of me. It is a perception based in your OWN hackery... demonstrated by nearly every post you make.
 
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SE102 said:
But the president's "magical job machine ™" in a drawer of the oval office, does.
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Yeah, right next to the jar of magic negro fairy dust. :lol:
 
Charles Martel said:
Yes, I remember in fact, mentioned in the post you responded to, what is your point here?:confused:



We are not all over the place....Sir. Obama was the first Democrat President we'd voted for since Carter I believe...or may have been Kennedy. We have a same sex marriage amendment in our constitution, it passed easily. Even our Senators...who are both Dems...are both blue dogs. Warner...as you know was a fiscal conservative, Webb coming in with Obama isn't exactly a lib. We're a mostly conservative arena and state however, like ither states we elect different partys to office. Just like Massachusetts.
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I meant we voted for Obama for president. I left out "Obama".

I fully agree with you about it being a conservative state. Webb was a republican once. All of the dems are blue dogs and even Wilder was. We did once have a liberal governor here but it was so long ago I forget his name.

I hate labels like liberal and conservative. I think it tends to stereotype people and cloud the real issues. I think a lot of politicans would rather go that route and then they don't have to talk about the real issues. People can change ideologies overnight.

I think you may agree with one issue. "It's the economy, stupid" No insult intended.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Nope. Never did. I have criticized actions, never political leans... except in a sarcastic way to attack the partisan hackery of others. Feel free to check my posts prior to Obama being President. You will not find ONE post attacking former President Bush. I may have disagreed with some of his policies (others I supported), but never once did I attack him or conservatives. Here OR outside of DP. That would be hypocritical, something I am not.

You don't know me at all, j-mac. Not in the least.



Not suddenly. Always have been.



All you are doing j-mac is demonstrating what I have always thought of you, no matter how much you deny it. You're a right wing hack. You can make all the silly accusations you like. Not only are they untrue, but you will be completely unable to find anything that supports your perception of me. It is a perception based in your OWN hackery... demonstrated by nearly every post you make.
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Partisan? Yes. Hack? That is your little name calling. I make no bones about my political leanings, it is posted right there under my avatar. I have no need to hide it, or mask it as something I am not. Where's yours? I am almost confident that you would attempt to list yours as centrist, or moderate, but we know don't we?

In any case, I was venting, and I could really care less, but it seems to bug you, so thanks for the entertainment. I will rest comfortably knowing that your tell is exposed. :2wave:


j-mac
 
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